Chapter 253: Imperial Coins
“…… I want to ask you about the budget, what is the budget method? It's education, it's military spending, it's government spending...... There are so many names that I am confused. All this money has not been spent yet, how do I know what you are going to do in the future, and how much money should be spent? The old man Hongfu opened his mouth, but he still didn't think about how to call Hong Tao appropriately, so he simply removed the title and got down to business. In the past, Jinhewan was reimbursed, and the old man Bofu was in charge of all the income of Jinhewan, but he didn't care about the plan, he just watched the money and didn't let others spend it indiscriminately, and no one wanted to move without the approval of the board of directors, and there was no budget at all. Now Hong Tao asked him to make next year's budget, which is indeed a bit confusing.
"This one...... Actually, I don't quite understand, I think you should live like a big family, you used to catch fish, sell money, don't you have to plan for the next half a year, which money to buy rice, which money to repair fishing gear, which money to save to buy a new boat. Now it's about the same, you can just calculate the amount of money we need to spend in the next year, and you don't need to be too exact. Before you can do that, you'll have to ask all the departments for a year after that...... Forget it, let's start with half a year, budget every six months, and then calculate a year when we are proficient. You ask them what they are going to do in the second half of the year, ask them to write a report to you, and then you calculate whether they are spending the money accurately or not, what should be done and what should not be done, and then submit it to the council for review. "Old man Bo Fu's question is really difficult for Hong Tao, he now regrets a little bit about the Jinhe Empire, he originally thought it wasn't so troublesome, but it's really fucking difficult to do! There are a lot of things I don't understand. How do you teach others? I knew it was like this. It's time to get some government officials from the Great Song Dynasty and Europe to come back and work on these things together. After all, people are professionals. Fortunately, Jinhewan has a small population and few things, so it can still operate if it makes do, and if it is a big country, it must let itself fall apart. The eyes are high, and the paper is talking about yourself, so let's do less of this kind of thing in the future, it will damage brain cells too much.
"Yes, yes, yes, it's not an account. It's not bad, it's not bad, what's so difficult about this, it's difficult on my side. Prime Minister, you said you were going to pay the workers' wages, but what should I do? How much is appropriate? You've got to give me a score. We have only been striking iron for most of our lives, and Xiao Qi can only build ships, so I haven't counted this, so I really can't calculate it. Before the old man could fully understand it, Qi Zu couldn't wait, he felt that the job that Hong Tao threw at him was too difficult. Let him do his work, and being a minister is a bit hanging.
"Shut up! Don't talk about the shipyard. Your Uncle Qi is old, you can't learn new things, and you can't learn either! I'll send you five graduates of the school, and you take them all to solve these things, otherwise you will leave the shipyard alone. What do you say, Wember, I'll teach him some new techniques, he wants to be lazy! As soon as Qi Zu finished speaking, Wen Xiaoqi on the side wanted to open his mouth again, and Hong Tao didn't need to listen to it to know what he wanted to say, and it was definitely exactly the same as Qi Zu. Don't talk about it, don't find a way to complain to yourself, you're still a fart as the prime minister, and the whole government will play by yourself, prime minister!
"Learn! You have to learn something to eat, and I watched him learn it together! As soon as Wen Lao Er heard that Hong Tao was going to teach his old son to learn new things, he didn't even ask what it was, his eyes widened, and he directly held back all Wen Xiaoqi's nonsense.
"I said, old and young masters, you don't have to be so nervous, whoever is born will be an official, don't they all learn slowly. Others can learn, and we are not less than half a head than them, so why can't we learn? The main reason why I chose you to take up these positions is to trust you, which is also an affirmation of your past work. Although it is said that we Jinhewan do not pay attention to being an official and being a prestige, but being an official is definitely better than not being an official, let your children go out, my father is a minister, it is better than saying that my father is a farmer with a good face! In a few years, this official will not be able to be an official if he wants to, he will have to be assessed and meritocracy, and as soon as those little cubs in the school graduate, you won't be able to be a person if you want to. Who would dare to say that they know more than they know in terms of knowledge? Who would dare to say that they are more powerful than them? In terms of motivation, who dares to say that they are rushing? So, while they are still young in the past few years, everyone has to make full use of their time advantages and work hard to take on this errand. "It's not a long-term solution to forcibly suppress just a father like Wen Laoer, Hong Tao has to tell these new officials about the importance of being officials, and they must let themselves have motivation, so that this matter can be done well, otherwise they will really have to play themselves.
"Okay, let's get serious. I have already figured out the issue of wages, and I will take the three-fold increase in the wage level of Guangnan East Road and Lin'an in Dasong as the benchmark, and then increase a certain amount for different positions and different levels. By the way, when it comes to this, you have to get a set of internal rating system for me when you go back, which must be scientific and fair. It's not just wages, it's also about prices. Many of our daily necessities are trafficked from the Great Song Dynasty and surrounding countries, and after adding freight, it may be a little more expensive than the place of origin, which is also very understandable, and the sailors of the merchant ship also have to make money, and people have to drink the northwest wind without freight. These things are just a trial, and if they are not suitable, they will be fed back to me immediately, and we will change them together, there is nothing difficult about it. Seeing that no one was fighting for difficulties anymore, Hong Tao began to take out the results of his month's boiling of the lamp and wax, everything was difficult at the beginning, in fact, now he is playing his own alone, and those who can work harder.
"If you want to pay your salary, you have to have money, and we used to use copper coins from the Great Song Dynasty. Since it is a country, it is very important to have the currency of our own country. So, I've got a set of our Golden River Empire's own coins here, let's see how it goes. After distributing the materials, Hong Tao took out a handful of metal coins from his pocket and threw them on the table with a clatter.
"This ...... What's written on this? Huang Hai was the closest, grabbed a silver coin, took out his glasses, put them on and looked at them, he didn't understand, he was the least learning person in Quanjinhewan, and he didn't know as much as his daughter-in-law until now.
"Brother Huang, what kind of eyes are you, look at what is written on it, fifty dollars! On the back is the head of our emperor, hey, hey, hey, hey...... "Qi Zu was not happy to hear it, these coins were all washed out by him for Hong Tao with a water press, all of them were exquisite and abnormal, Huang Hai actually didn't praise twice, he felt very shameless, and immediately stood up and lay on the table and began to explain.
"I said Uncle Qi, I'm the emperor, you still dare to joke about the emperor, right? Come on, push him out and cut him down! "There is no avatar of Hong Tao on the back of the coin, but a mouse's head, grinning with teeth. This is designed by Hong Tao, there are avatars on the back of several coins, and the avatar of the smallest currency value is himself, and he also replaced it with a mouse head. Here he is a little selfish, he is afraid that if he is hated in the future, others will poke his face with silver coins and curse himself, so he resolutely refuses to agree to get his avatar on the coin, and if he wants to get it, he will have to wait until he dies, and he will not be able to live.
"A hundred bucks...... Well, the color is sufficient, and it is also regular, good money! Is this your honor? He took another silver coin, turned it over and looked at it, rubbed it vigorously with his fingers, and picked up another same silver coin and knocked it on each other, and sent it to his ear to listen to the sound, and then made a professional evaluation. When I turned it over again, there was an old man's head behind the silver coin, and after a few careful glances, I immediately recognized who the avatar was.
"Well, Rong Weng Weng is the first generation of our Jinhewan territorial sea people, and he has made the greatest contribution to Jinhewan, and most of the Tan family members were called by him, as well as the Li family. Print the portrait of his old man on a silver coin, so that future generations will always remember his contribution to Jinhewan. Hong Tao has always regretted not seeing the last face of the old man Rong, that old man is more proficient in the wisdom of life than himself, if you can listen to his last advice before leaving, it will also be a great gain for himself. That's the essence of the old man's life, it's a pity.
"Okay, our Tan family never forgets their roots! Well done this, should, should! This time, the old man Bo Fu didn't say anything about Hong Tao, and even the people present nodded in agreement.
"Good fellow, it's made of gold...... How nice it would be if I was on the back, it's a broken whale, it's not good-looking! "As a woman, Bo Zhu is naturally sensitive to Huang Cancan's things, and what she caught in her hand was a gold coin. After seeing that the back was not his own avatar but a big whale, he pouted and began to coquettish Hong Tao, forgetting her identity as the queen, and thinking that it was the outspoken Tanjia girl on the fishing boat.
"Hey, hey, if you want to go up, you have to wait for your son to get you up, don't think about it in this life, I didn't look at me, the emperor, to mix up a mouse head!" Hong Tao bent his fingers to give his daughter-in-law a small brain, and by the way, the tone was also set, it is impossible for a living person to be on a statue, and he will talk about it when he is dead.
"Good whale, this is the foundation of our Jinhe Bay, without it, where can we find our current life? Why are there only three kinds of them? Don't have a penny? Bo Fu also heard that something was wrong with his daughter's words, and immediately changed the topic.
"Let's not be different for a penny, since these countries around us are now using the Great Song Dynasty, it is not appropriate to suddenly change all of them, it will cause currency chaos, and it will also make the Great Song Dynasty dissatisfied. It's better to stimulate them less, those people are too small-minded, and if they don't deal with it, they think we want to grab their place. Besides, we are rich people in Jinheguo, who wants to run around with a bag of copper coins, and in the future, we will use Song money as soon as we make a move, and we will use Song money for change, and there is no such thing in the warehouse, it is not enough for us to rebuild, how many and how much! "Hong Tao's set of coins of the Jinhe Empire is actually incomplete, but there are only three relatively large denominations, lacking small denominations, and the most basic unit is still a piece of Song money.
(To be continued.) )