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The vest ran to the office of the Ministry of Finance, but saw that Tang Yuan, the financial commissar, was blocked in the office by Shao Shude, the leader of the coal working group, and had nowhere to run, so he could only listen to Shao Shude's noise with a bitter face.

"Tangyuan, you have to allocate money to me this time." Shao Shude slapped the table angrily and said, "For no other reason, I want to build a ship." It's the kind of flat-bottomed boats that are used for inland rivers, and soon after the new immigrants bring it to me, they will start mining coal, and then they will have to transport coal, people and supplies, and building materials, and the volume of transportation will increase greatly. The existing six small boats are simply not usable, and at least six more will have to be built. Also, Zhenhaibao's salary this month should be opened, and I have to prepare it. ”

"The salary is for you, yes." Tang Yuan said with a bitter face, "But you said that you still have to allocate money to build ships, how is this possible?" Don't we still have a batch of dry ship materials? Yes, the pine ones. Okay, Lao Shao, it's just a river flat-bottomed boat, and it's made of pine wood, so it's going to be a minute. Don't tell me that you are going to import teak from Southeast Asia to build these inland river transport ships, and as for the salary of Zhenhai Fort this month, I will give you a slip and go directly to the mint to receive the money. Grandma's, now the money is spent like running water, the mint is too late to work 24 hours a day, and the money is taken directly from the mint before it enters the treasury. If it goes on like this, how can I get it? ”

"Yo, the old soup is very lively." Ma Jia joked after entering the door.

Tang Yuan's face changed when he saw the vest come in, and he directly brushed a few strokes to write a note to Shao Shude, then got up and prepared to go out, and said as he walked: "Ouch, I forgot, I'm going to send Xiao Xu to Colonia by boat in a while." Hey, let me go, I'm going out. Hey, vest, what are you pulling me for? ”

"Give me 1,000 yuan and let you go. The research group of the machine textile factory should develop a cotton gin, a national key project, hurry up and pay for it. The vest didn't talk nonsense, and said directly by pulling the sleeve of the rice ball.

"Vest, I'll be honest with you. It's not that I won't help you, but it's that the treasury is now strained, and it has reached a critical level, and I can't wait to break a penny in half to spend it now. Tang Yuan sighed and said, "That's it, since you personally blocked the door, it's not good to send you away casually today." Give you three hundred yuan, it really can't be more, this money is enough to build several cotton gins, enough for them to toss for a while. I'll give you more when the financial situation eases a bit. As you know, I now have to save at least 20,000~25,000 yuan in cash every month to set aside for next year's immigration expenses. The current situation of foreign trade is not very good. Yesterday, Xiao Xu Gang of the Ministry of Trade told me that at present, our foreign trade is completely unbalanced, with only imports and no exports, and the foreign trade deficit exceeds 10,000 yuan per month. What else is going on? Tens of thousands of dollars in the treasury are only enough to last for 3 months, and what about after 3 months? Drink the northwest wind to go? Then there are immigrants, two castles under construction, the navy has to build warships, new projects to be launched, and infrastructure construction is needed, which does not require a lot of money? We need to open up sources and reduce expenditures. Ma Jia, you are a member of the industrial committee, and now the first thing to improve the economic situation is the factories you manage, you tell me, your factories are not profitable, what do you want me to do? ”

"This ......" Ma Jia was a little speechless, and said with a depressed face after a long time: "After buying back some graphite from Colonia a while ago, the graphite crucibles in the steel mill have recovered to 20, and the steel output is expected to reach the 30-ton mark this month." After the recovery of steel production, the workshops of the downstream arsenal can also be in full swing. At that time, armor, sabers, muskets, cannons, and hardware can be produced in a steady stream, but now we have no market. A while ago, everyone in the world knew that we were at war with the Spaniards, and the old customers in Europe were hiding farther than the other, and now the production of cannons and armor is piled up in the warehouse. This...... The goods produced can't be sold, and there is no trick to go. However, this situation is temporary, and now Europe is in shambles, even Brazil is at war, and the demand for arms is strong. Rest assured, it's been almost four months since the war ended, and the well-informed businessman may be on his way to the port of the East at the moment. Soon, our income will usher in an explosive growth. ”

"Snort..." Tang Yuan smiled contemptuously, but he was not in a hurry to leave, only to see him say slowly: "I just went to the Joint Staff Headquarters yesterday, and their arsenal currently has a total of 650 flintlock rifles, 2,000 sabers, 500 spears, 300 pairs of armor, and 22 artillery pieces of various types; These are stockpiles of weapons just in case and cannot be moved. Ma Jia, you know best about the factories you manage yourself, tell me, if there are enough manpower and the monthly steel output is stable above the 30-ton mark, how much output value can your arsenal create per month? How much profit and tax can be paid to the state? ”

"In principle, artillery over 8 pounds cannot be sold, if the production of 8 pounds and below artillery is fully produced, plus other military products, assuming that all of them can be sold, according to the 25 percent tax rate, almost 4,000-5,000 yuan of profits and taxes can be paid." The vest just silently calculated and came up with an approximation.

"Well, even if it's 5,000 yuan. Coupled with some miscellaneous income, the monthly income of the state treasury will not exceed 6,000 yuan, what about the current expenditure? Tang Yuan snapped his fingers and said, "Last month, I bought 500 cows and spent 5,000 yuan; Pay 2,500 yuan for the construction of ships in the naval shipyard; pay 2,500 yuan for the maintenance of the army of the Joint Staff Headquarters; Pay all kinds of wages and office expenses of 2,500 yuan; 1,000 yuan for scattered trade and expenditure; The total expenditure is 13,500 yuan. Well, if there are no exports, it won't last for three months, and the government will go bankrupt. So, I said two, it's not easy for everyone now, so you have to be considerate. The next year's statement is going to be made next month, and according to the current situation, it is impossible to do it at all, it is all holes. ”

Tang Yuan then flickered again, and then the two of them were barely fooled, and then went straight to the dock, preparing to give Xiao Baitu, the proposed representative of the East Coast Republic of China to Colonia, a secret opportunity before leaving, and asked him to find a way to get some benefits from Colonia to the treasury.

……

Shao Shude walked into the captain's room of the Galician Exocet, where Captain Julien de Eblore was directing the sailors to hoist the sails and prepare to set sail back to Zhenhai Fort. In addition to a few tools and a small amount of supplies, the ship was loaded with more than 500 migrants—more than 500 Tatars, to be exact, almost half men and half women.

It's actually a joke that's not funny. A merchant from Venice heard that a group of "Tatars" had established a state on the east coast, so he was driven by profit, so he approached the Russians, bought some Tatar slaves from the Russians at a large price, and then loaded them on ships to the port of Vostochny, hoping to sell them for a large price.

But to his disappointment, the nobles in power in the port of Orient did not seem to be Tatars at all, and they only looked at the poor Venetian merchant with pity and amusement, and then gave him ten thousand dollars in cash to pay for the expenses. Of course, the shrewd merchant was not stupid enough to take the money and walk away, but exchanged it for more than 1,000 fine furs, more than 300 wool blankets, and some sabers that were stocked in the warehouses of the traversals, especially furs, which were in great demand in Europe, and which somewhat soothed his "wounded" heart—so that he could earn some money.

On the morning of November 29, when the "Galician Exocet" docked at the port of Zhenhaibao, which was now beginning to take shape, more than 500 Tatars rested for a while, and then were sent to Ping'an Fort in batches by flat-bottomed boats. Of course, Fort Ping'an was not their final destination, and upon arrival, they would be transported to a coal mine in the upper reaches of the Kay River.

These Tatars would henceforth mine coal above the coalfields, and they would be the first coal miners under the Executive Committee. Thanks to the help of the Guarani people near the mine, the construction team under the Coal Working Group has already built a number of brick and wood houses near the mine, which will not be a problem to accommodate more than 500 people. In addition to the Guarani tribe, the coal mine is surrounded by vast expanses of mountains and primeval forests. For their safety, the security team of the Fort of Peace equipped them with 50 spears as weapons for self-defense, and at the same time, a platoon of army soldiers was stationed with them, not only to protect them, but also to surveillance.

After the first batch of about 100 Tatars arrived in the coal mining area, the Ping'an Fort, as the superior unit of the coal mine, sent a 10-member security team to the mining area to assist the garrison army in managing the new Tatars, who may not be too stable in their hearts. As the leader of this small security force, Anda XV was honored to be appointed as a sergeant in the Army Reserve, and he would lead a group of his fellow Japanese to be stationed here for a period of time as overseers.

This almost isolated place had no output other than coal for a short time, so every morning and evening, two ships would bring them the day's supplies from Ping'an Fort, and on their return some of the excavated coal. All in all, they need to feed themselves.

On December 7, the Tatars in the mining area, under the command of the technical personnel, selected a site and began the excavation operation. In the afternoon, they excavated the first coal. Since then, the East Coast Republic of China has ended its history of zero coal output.

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