While everyone was happy, Wang Yuyou raised another question: "This lottery ticket is equivalent to a good way for the government to collect silver, and it is no different from opening a casino." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but this lottery is to be accepted, it will take time. By the time the money is raised, most of the victims will starve to death. ”

"As for this, Mr. Wang, please rest assured! The money for disaster relief can be paid by Nanyang Company first, and the money paid to the disaster relief auxiliaries and Minzhuang can be used with the issued banknotes. Just to guarantee the credit of our banknotes, which do not depreciate for a period of time, banknotes can be exchanged for silver. Because our banknotes have a high enough credit, it is impossible for the auxiliary soldiers and the people to exchange the banknotes for cash, and even if they do, they are not so fast. We can take advantage of this time difference to issue lottery tickets in Jiangnan and earn back the money we have spent in advance. Wang Yu explained to Wang Yuyou.

If it is about arranging troops and formulating tactics, Wang Yuyou is indeed quite a powerful figure. However, in terms of economy, although Wang Xinyu from later generations is just an ordinary person in finance, he is far more than people of this era.

Early the next morning, almost overnight, the streets and alleys of Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities were plastered with notices from the government, which read: Northern Expedition lottery, benefit the country and the people, buy two copper dollars, you can get a return of 10,000 silver dollars! Do you want to make a fortune overnight? As long as you spend two copper dollars, there is hope! At the bottom of the announcement, there are also various awards, one special prize, and 10,000 silver dollars; Two first prizes will receive 5,000 silver dollars; Three second prizes will receive 3,000 silver dollars; 30 third prizes, 300 silver dollars; 300 fourth prizes, 30 silver dollars; 3,000 fifth prizes, three silver dollars; The final prize is 10,000 yuan, and one silver dollar will be awarded.

Because the Beijing-Shanghai Railway has been opened to traffic, the speed of news transmission in Jiangnan is quite fast, and the speed of transmission of documents and announcements is also fast.

Although the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway was not opened to traffic, there was a fast boat to deliver the news, and the Hangzhou prefect's yamen soon issued a document, and the prefect immediately asked people to print the announcement and post it everywhere.

The announcement of the government is posted in the most eye-catching place in the streets and alleys, the most prosperous Nanyang Bank branch in the south of the Yangtze River, you can see the extra-large bulletin board when you walk to the gate, which is written with the content of the lottery ticket, which is the announcement of each bank copied the government in large font, put it in the most eye-catching position of the bank, remind everyone to pay attention.

"What the hell is going on? How can there be a grand prize of 10,000 silver dollars? Seeing the 10,000 yuan award, the people were moved. The family was very wealthy, but it was very rich in those years, one dollar of silver dollars was equal to one thousand copper dollars, according to the purchasing power of that year, one thousand copper dollars exceeded the later thousand yuan of yuan, ten thousand silver dollars, but entered the ranks of the rich.

Subsequently, the yamen's officials, white servants and local people went out to publicize the Northern Expedition lottery everywhere, and the common people understood that because the Qing army dug the Yellow River embankment, the people in the north suffered. In order to rescue the people and make the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains as soon as possible, the government adopted the method of lottery to raise money.

This is the first phase of the Northern Expedition lottery, and in the future, there will be various lotteries such as the Nanyang lottery, the railway lottery, the shipping lottery, and the immigration lottery.

The lottery is just building momentum, and not many people have bought it at first, which needs to be guided slowly. Before the disaster relief funds were collected, Nanyang Bank first funded the advance. Fortunately, because of the issuance of paper money, it has become much easier to advance disaster relief funds, in fact, there is no need for Nanyang Bank to pay real money, only need to take out paper money, you can pay the military salary to the disaster relief auxiliaries and people, anyway, the military pay auxiliaries and people will not be so quick to exchange for cash or buy food.

Of course, the grain that is ready to be transported to the disaster area from the Huguang area is a real thing, and the role of grain is as important as real money, and even more important than real money. During the Chongzhen period, the price of grain rose, and the value of silver and gold depreciated, after all, gold and silver could not be eaten.

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In Wuchang, Zhou Zhaonan, the governor of Huguang, received an order from Nanjing only two days later.

Although there is a distance of 2,000 miles from Nanjing to Wuchang, the efficiency of the catamaran is amazingly high, and now the Qiongzhou army already has 24 such fast communication ships, and almost every important riverside and seaside city has one, so that the speed of communication can be greatly improved.

When the relief order for Nanking was issued, the messenger took the order to Wuchang on a catamaran clipper. The order issued from Nanjing took only two days to reach Wuchang, which was unimaginable before.

After receiving the disaster relief order from Nanjing, Zhou Zhaonan immediately urgently recruited 5,000 people, together with 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, 1,000 officers and soldiers of the naval division, 200 white soldiers, plus 1,000 dock workers and 2,000 boatmen, and ordered to take 5,000 stone of grain to set off the next day.

The grain from the disaster relief was loaded onto a boat at the Wuchang wharf and sailed up the Han River. The fleet will dock in Xiangyang, after which the grain will be loaded onto the emergency dispatch carts, wheelbarrows and other vehicles in the Xiangyang area, and sent to Luoyang, where they will be reloaded and loaded onto ships, and will be taken over by Wu Jun's naval division, and sent down the Yellow River to Kaifeng. After arriving in Kaifeng, after crossing the pontoon bridge, the grain can be sent to the Wu army camp.

However, 5,000 stone of grain is of course far from enough to rescue more than one million victims, and it is still necessary to collect grain from all over Huguang, and after collecting enough food, it still needs manpower to transport it.

At present, it is the season of green and yellow, and the peasants in Huguang do not have much grain in their hands, most of the grain is in the grain stores run by the Nanyang Company, and some of the grain is in the hands of small grain merchants and gentry. The Nanyang Company could advance a part of the grain, and the rest of the grain was issued by the Governor of Huguang, the Yamen, to let the officials at all levels buy grain everywhere.

The banknotes issued by the Nanyang Company were exchanged for bags of rice and white noodles. It is also because of the high credibility of the banknotes issued by the Nanyang Company, and the common people and merchants believe in this kind of banknotes, so the thin paper can be exchanged for heavy grain.

While collecting grain, Zhou Zhaonan also began to recruit a large number of people. In all parts of Huguang, government announcements were posted on the streets and alleys and city gates, which said that in order to support the Northern Expedition and for disaster relief, temporary Minzhuang was urgently recruited in various places. Each Minzhuang can get a military salary of one and a half silver dollars every month, and Minzhuang will serve temporarily for five months, and after five months, he can go home to continue farming.

The military salary of one and a half silver dollars per month is still very attractive to ordinary people. After the announcement was posted, young and middle-aged people from all over the country enthusiastically signed up to participate.

The Qiongzhou Army itself also has a high degree of creditworthiness and has never been in arrears of military salaries. Although the military salary has now been changed from cash to banknotes, the banknotes of the Nanyang Company are equivalent to cash silver, and the common people do not resist the banknotes.