There are three roads from outside the customs to inside the customs. One is from Datong, Shanxi, out of the Great Wall, and enters Northeast China through Inner Mongolia. The other is along the railway out of Shanhaiguan and into the outside of the customs. The other is by sea to enter Kanto Prefecture, the Japanese concession at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.

From Guandong Prefecture, take the train of the South Manchuria Railway into Northeast China.

Ishihara Wanji naturally set off from Kanto Prefecture to Fengtian. When he got on the train with a group of Japanese officers, he saw that there were only a few people in the carriage, which made Ishihara Wanji very surprised. An officer immediately explained: "All the Chinese are here

Get on the bus outside Kanto Prefecture, Ishihara-kun can be seen later."

Sure enough, as the officer said, the train stopped at a small station after leaving Guandong Prefecture, and the platform of this small railway station was full of people. When the train entered the station, the crowd looked at the train and stood there one after another.

Get up.

Looking at the situation, people were about to rush towards the train. A group of people in uniforms on the platform immediately began to maintain order. Seeing these people, ordinary Chinese people carrying large and small bags and bringing their families lined up to board the train.

Queue, Ishihara Wanji was surprised at first, but he laughed out loud.

Under the surprised gazes of the Japanese officers, Ishihara pointed at the men in uniform and asked, "Are they police?"

Colonel Sato was a little surprised, "How can Mr. Ishihara be sure that they are police officers?"

Ishihara smiled and said: "The uniforms of these people are a bit like the British police, and their class insignia are not military-style."

Seeing that Ishihara Wanji was quite observant, Colonel Sato nodded, "They are the armed police formed by He Jun. They carry pistols when they are on duty. They are mainly responsible for the order of Chinese immigrants and will also set off with the car."

While they were talking, the train had stopped. Just as Osato Sato said, the police directed the immigrants to board the train and sit down in their seats. The Chinese immigrants in the customs looked at the Japanese officers with curiosity, and they paid more attention to them.

Settle yourself and your family in. The platform soon became empty. When the train started to move, a new group of Chinese immigrants boarded the platform under the command of armed police.

Ishihara smiled and turned to look at those people, and asked with some confusion: "How many trains are there from Kanto Prefecture every day now?"

Osaka Sato sighed slightly, "There are only one or two trips from Kanto Prefecture. He Jun organized his own trains to pull these immigrants. Most of those cars are trucks, which can pull more people."

Ishihara Wanji looked at the few Chinese people boarding the train from Kanto Prefecture, and asked in confusion: "Why not get on the train from Kanto Prefecture?"

An officer next to him replied sarcastically: "Because He Jun said that these people are not passengers and can only be regarded as goods. So the money he gave them was very small."

Hearing this, some officers couldn't help laughing. Ishihara couldn't help but smile, but when he looked at Colonel Sato opposite, he saw that Sato's expression was quite serious, so he asked: "Senior Sato, now

How many immigrants came to Manchuria?”

Colonel Sato couldn't help but sigh slightly, "As far as we know, more than a million immigrants have arrived in Manchuria in the past year, and He Jun has given them a good settlement. If this continues, the population of Manchuria and Mongolia will exceed three in five years at most.

Ten million."

Several Japanese officers who went to Europe to watch the war were shocked by this number, and Ishihara Wanji's expression became solemn. After annexing North Korea, the Japanese population was only 50 million in full. The Manchuria and Mongolia regions have a population of 30 million, that is

Sixty percent of Japan's population. And these 30 million people are under the rule of He Rui. Just thinking of this comparison, you can understand how powerful this will be.

As Kanji Ishihara expected, the Northeastern government not only absorbs immigrants, but also makes every effort to incorporate immigrants into the government management system.

Xu Jia, Director of the Statistics Department, is reading the statistical summary of the first quarter. Heilongjiang has 411 townships, towns, and 5,174 administrative villages. Jilin has 369 townships, towns, and 5,228 administrative villages. Jilin has 428 townships, towns, and 6,931 administrative villages.

village.

All towns and administrative villages have established government organizations. The administrative villages have three rotating village chiefs, three rotating militia captains, five militiamen, and a primary school. The townships include administration, taxation, education, public security, and militia teams.

Administrative system including mobile court locations.

The figures below show that the number of personnel and employees in the Northeast government system exceeds 300,000, and together with the 120,000 troops, the total number is approximately 500,000.

Assuming that an average person earns 20 yuan a year and 300 kilograms of grain, that is 10 million yuan and 150 million kilograms of grain.

Putting down the quarterly summary, Xu Jia looked at another report, which was about the issuance of banknotes in the Northeast. Two departments, the Fengtian Bank Head Office and the Department of Finance, were established in the Northeast. The Fengtian Bank Head Office was responsible for issuing banknotes in the Northeast. In the banknotes

Not long after it was released, it already had the title of "Bong Piao".

The collateral for the vote was grain and coal, so Xu Jia frowned more and more, and finally put down the report and picked up the phone. The operator connected He Rui's office, and the voice of He Rui's secretary Song Danshan sounded on the other end of the phone.

"Director Xu, oh, Director Xu, what's the matter?"

"I want to give a report to the chairman today." Xu Jia said, feeling a little headache, so he picked up a wooden bracelet and pinched it. When the bracelet was turned on the fingertips, it really reduced a lot of stress in his heart.

"Director Xu, are you sure you can make a report today?" Song Danshan's worry can still be heard in the slight noise caused by the current.

"Chairman, do you have anything else to do?" Xu Jia pretended not to understand Song Danshan's concerns. Data aggregation work is a very troublesome task, and it is easy to make mistakes. For example, when the clerk copied the data several times before, he made a mistake and the calculation results appeared.

What made a big joke was a big joke that He Rui saw directly.

"The chairman will receive some people tomorrow." Song Danshan replied.

"Then let's arrange it until today." Xu Jia directly finalized the appointment. It was confirmed that he would report at two o'clock this afternoon. Seeing that it was 11 o'clock and there were still three hours left, Xu Jia made two more phone calls, asking Han Haitao, director of the Bureau of Price Supervision, and

Tang Guidu, director of the Measurement Division of the Department of Finance, invited me to have lunch.

Lunch was a working meal, and the three of them didn't speak during the meal. When they returned to Xu Jia's office, Xu Jia took out the report on Northeast banknotes and asked Tang Gui, pointing to a series of calculations below, "Director Tang, what's going on?

Calculated?"

Tang Gui picked up the report and looked at it. It was indeed the work he was responsible for, and then he replied: "This is the labor productivity report given to us by your department under Director Xu. We calculated it based on the report."

Xu Jia was stunned. He had to read too many reports every day, and he had almost no memory of the labor productivity report.

However, Xu Jia was not worried about Tang Gui's prevarication, so he asked, "Be specific."

Tang Gui knew that he couldn't explain clearly by talking, so he picked up the document and walked to the blackboard in the office, writing while talking. Based on the data provided by the Statistics Department, the Industry Department, the Agriculture Department and other production departments, he selected the ones that could be regarded as '

Monetary collateral's commodities include grain, coal, and some cloth, which is the so-called "one black and two white". The pricing power of these commodities is in the hands of the government. As currency collateral, the amount of currency issuance can be determined.

To put it more bluntly, it is the amount of the 'votes' issued by the Fengtian Bank Head Office.

Since some commodities are produced by enterprises directly affiliated to the government, the government determines the sales price of some commodities based on the amount of labor.

This part of the commodity also plays a certain role as monetary collateral, but it cannot be priced according to the price of necessities such as grain, cloth, and coal, so the price is multiplied by a 'weight' and included in the currency issuance.

Even though Tang Gui had given the simplest description, Xu Jia felt a little dizzy. Tang Gui saw that Xu Jia seemed to understand, so he stopped talking and sat back across from Xu Jia.

Xu Jia picked up the bracelet and turned it around again, reading the documents while turning it. As the pressure decreased, Xu Jia began to think along the lines of Tang Gui's explanation. After reading the summary of the report, she finally understood.

"Director Tang, do you mean that these currencies are completely equivalent to the goods? Does it mean that if you give out one dollar, there will be goods outside that you can buy for one dollar?"

Tang Gui, who has now transferred from the Land Reform Department to the Measurement Division of the Ministry of Finance, thought about it and replied: "Yes or no."

Xu Jia was stunned, wondering what Tang Gui's ambiguous but obviously not ambiguous words meant.

"How?" Xu Jia asked.

Tang Gui sighed, "It's not that one dollar corresponds to one dollar of goods. It would be great if it could be so perfectly matched. That's why I said it's wrong. When the chairman formulated the policy, he said that the currency issuance is divided into three parts.

It is wage expenditure. For example, workers in mines produce coal and iron. Workers are paid after working. This is indispensable. The other part is the funds needed to make the current industry operate normally, such as our factories buying coal, iron ore, and

You have to buy equipment, and you have to have the money. Another aspect is industrial development, that is, these enterprises need to increase their output, or they need to add more workers, or they need to improve production equipment, or they need to increase the number of equipment, or they need to add more workers, and then more

New equipment. In short, there is a lot of content in it. You can think of it as a big pot. I think it is how big the pot is and how much rice can be cooked. But I have heard of these and have implemented them. As for what it looks like, I

I don’t know either.”

After finishing speaking, Tang Gui sighed again and looked at Xu Jia with a look of helplessness.

Xu Jia has also heard what Tang Gui said, but Tang Gui, the executor, does not know the operation situation, and Xu Jia has no idea. While the big eyes are staring at the small eyes, the former teahouse owner who has been silent

, Han Haitao, who was temporarily transferred to work in the Price Supervision Bureau, spoke up, "Director Xu, I think the operating rules of this plan are that workers are paid for work, and borrowed money must be paid back."

Having said this, Han Haitao looked at Xu Jia and Tang Gui, whose qualifications and status were much higher than his. Seeing that they did not look unhappy, he continued: "This is what is taught in the training of our Price Management Bureau."

The Price Administration Bureau is responsible for checking market prices and prohibiting hoarding. It is a purely executive department. The basic operational level is too low for Xu Jia and Tang Gui. However, when Xu Jia found that he could not understand the core of monetary policy, he could only follow the specific operations.

Although the currency is issued in large quantities, it cannot be used casually. It is easy to understand that people are paid for work. The Northeast region is very strict about wage theft, and the bad guys who oppressed the people have been eliminated.

As for borrowing money and repaying it, it is equally easy to understand. When a company engages in production, the money to purchase raw materials is not the company's own money, but borrowed from the bank. After the goods are sold, the loan must be repaid according to the loan regulations.

This involves the issue of production efficiency. Companies with high production efficiency will make more money after selling the same goods. Factory personnel are also paid better.

But the thing is not that simple. There are many twists and turns in it. Xu Jia felt that he had received the minimum expectation of inviting the two of them here. He was sure that he could not understand these things. Since he could not understand, in

You don't need to mention these contents when giving a report to He Rui. If He Rui asks, Xu Jia can just tell him that he doesn't understand.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Jia met He Rui with a relatively relaxed mood. As expected, He Rui did not ask about banking and currency matters, but focused on the construction of the administrative management system.

After Xu Jia finished his report, he couldn't help but asked: "Chairman, the current grain output in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia is about 3 billion jins. We collected grain taxes and received 900 million jins, of which 100 million jins were collected.

Fifty million jin was spent on government personnel expenditures. Now we earn a lot of money from exporting grain, what will happen in the future?"

He Rui chuckled, "This problem will be solved by not exporting food in the future."

Xu Jia was stunned. Most of the equipment imported from the Northeast was purchased with money from the sale of grain. A large part of the dividends paid to foreign businessmen was also paid for by the money from the sale of grain. If grain was not exported, this income would

It was gone. Although He Rui's words sounded light, they had a great impact. Xu Jia wanted to know He Rui's plan and asked, "If we don't export food, what will we do next?"

He Rui smiled and said: "If we don't export grain, we can export industrial products. We can also do other businesses and make some money by selling it. Grain is actually not profitable. We are just forced to export grain now."

Even though he was born in a military academy, Xu Jia knew that exporting industrial products was a symbol of an industrialized country. Although Xu Jia strongly agreed with He Rui's plan, after working in statistics for almost three years, Xu Jia was no longer blindly optimistic. Xu Jia asked:

"Chairman, what does the statistics department need to do?"

He Rui replied decisively: "The inspection team you sent out recently must strengthen the inspection of compulsory education. How many years did Xu Jia graduate from primary school?"

"Five years." Xu Jia answered immediately. At the same time, he gently turned the bracelet to relieve the pressure in his heart.

"How effective is the bracelet?" He Rui asked.

"Chairman, it's really useful to turn around when I'm thinking about the problem." Xu Jia replied. This is He Rui's advice to everyone. It is naturally best to be able to deal with stress at work. If you can't do that, find an object.

Relief. Xu Jia tried several types and found that the bracelet is most suitable for him.

He Rui nodded, "If compulsory education is implemented very strictly, in four years at most, everyone under the age of 18 in the Northeast will have graduated from primary school. After three years, we will have a large number of junior high school students. I am

Having been in Japan for several years, I can tell you clearly that by then the number of junior high school students in Japan will be similar to ours. Junior high school students will have the opportunity to become technicians and engineers. Xu Jia, do you think we Chinese are inferior to the Japanese in terms of intelligence?

What?"

Xu Jia's eyes brightened, and he unconsciously stopped turning the bracelet around, and replied loudly: "Of course not!"

"Indeed not. Moreover, we also have adult literacy and a post-graduation vocational training system. In a short period of time, we can make Northeast China catch up with Japan in terms of educational attainment in compulsory education. This requires a large number of people who can perform work

Government officials. Nowadays, many people think that there are many people who eat from the financial system, and they are right. We charge 30% tax on 3 billion jins of grain, which is 900 million jins. 150 million jins accounts for one-sixth. We want

What we do is to make good use of the remaining five-sixths, rather than hiding the remaining five-sixths like a miser. For modern industrialized countries, this view is beyond foolishness."
Chapter completed!