Beijing enters the height of summer, and the scorching sun spreads on the glazed tiles of the Forbidden City, reflecting the golden glow and making the vermilion wall more solemn. But it is this wall that has imprisoned generations of emperors in it, so that they cannot hear thunder, cannot see magnificence, and can only understand the country and the world from the twists and turns. This is a tragedy that must not be continued! Therefore, after seizing the power of the state, Yang Qiu resolutely prohibited all the use of royal buildings and gardens for the government.

Yang Qiu walked through the Forbidden City, which had been closed and protected for 20 years, and walking beside him were Finance Minister Xu Xiujun, Speaker of the Republic of China Hu Weide, and Vice Speaker Wang Zhaoming. The four of them took the opportunity of the Parliament's lunch break to inspect the world's largest national museum that was about to open to the world, and saw that the protection measures were very perfect, Hu Weide laughed: "As soon as the newspaper said that the museum was going to open, many people called me to ask for the specific time, and it seems that the Forbidden City is still very attractive." ”

"People are always curious, and they used to be scared when they looked at them from afar, but now they don't break their heads when they have the opportunity to come in." Xu Xiujun also smiled: "Although I dare not say that the country is safe and secure, but the national income has increased significantly in recent years, and I estimate that after the opening, it will receive at least one million tourists every year, which will be of great benefit to Beijing's economic drive." ”

"You, now everything loves to be related to the economy."

"That's no way, who told me to keep my money bag in charge now. There are too many places where the country spends money, and the amount of capital we have to catch up with Europe and the United States is too large, so I am counting on the gold bricks falling from the sky now. Xu Xiujun spread out his hands and showed helplessness. Although it is a joke, it also shows the real situation of the development of the Republic of China, even though it is already the world's largest economy, but it is even inferior to its neighbor Japan when apportioned per capita. Especially after Yang Qiu came to power, major projects have been started, and the accumulated financial deficit has reached tens of billions! Chinese people are very afraid of borrowing money, and always feel that it is best to have more than enough every year, but now he has spent all the financial income in a few years at once, which shows how worried he is, and he always feels like a mountain in his chest.

Hu Weide was also well aware of the pressure from the Ministry of Finance, looked at Yang Qiu and asked, "President, can devaluing the currency really solve such a large fiscal deficit problem?" ”

Yang Qiu came to Congress today to attend a discussion on the "Currency Reform Act," which was mainly proposed in response to Roosevelt's New Deal, which bundled gold and devalued the currency. According to Gu Yuwen's prediction, if the renminbi cannot be devalued as soon as possible, American goods will continue to pour into the domestic market, so this matter cannot be delayed. Therefore, after he said Gu Yuwen's prediction, he looked at Wang Zhaoming: "Currency depreciation is the trend of the times, although China is not a major exporter of industrial products, but the export volume is also increasing year by year. Moreover, China is currently the largest importer of industrial commodities after the Soviet Union, especially heavy industry, although it has made great achievements, it still lacks some foundation compared with Europe and the United States, so it is more necessary to depreciate and increase exports to guard against dumping and impact by the United States. ”

Seeing that Yang Qiu had been staring at him when he spoke, Wang Zhaoming felt nervous for no reason, and secretly laughed at himself for being really scared by him all these years. But since it is an opposition party, he still has to ask clearly, saying: "We all know about the protection of industry and exports, but is it too much to depreciate by 40% all at once?" Will it cause market chaos due to soaring prices? ”

After Yang Qiu came to power, he abolished the National Development and Reform Commission, withdrew the power to reduce the size of the government, handed over the power of government financial supervision and budget approval to the Congress, and arranged for Wang Zhaoming, chairman of the Democratic Party, to be the vice speaker and chairman of the National Assembly's Finance Committee. This has caused a lot of opposition within the national community, because it will create a lot of financial constraints on the government. Fortunately, at present, the national society is dominant, and there will be no big problem in passing the budget, and in the future, Yang Qiu also hopes to establish a sound and supervised and controlled financial system. Of course, another purpose of taking the initiative to let the opponent supervise his own finances is also to show everyone the determination that the national system of the Republic of China will not change again.

Wang Zhaoming did a good job in this position, but he was not as good as Gu Yuwen and others in terms of the relationship between the economy and currency, so Xu Xiujun interjected to introduce him: "Depreciation is actually an additional issuance of currency, which is equivalent to an additional 136 billion yuan according to last year's output value." Of course, the market will not increase so much at once, because the fiscal deficit owed in previous years will first be smoothed out, and the rest will gradually become circulating money by raising grain purchase prices, increasing government projects, and easing loans. So the president's biggest fear now is not devaluation, but the workers! Unlike Europe and the United States, China's factory welfare system has only been established for ten years, so it is necessary for Congress to strengthen legislation and constantly adjust the minimum wage standards for workers in various provinces, so that money can really circulate in the hands of the people and cannot be crushed to death. ”

Wang Zhaoming opened his mouth, this trick is amazing! It is equivalent to printing a large amount of money first, and then using the method of supporting industry and commerce to increase government investment and raise grain purchase prices and wage standards to make it flow into the hands of ordinary people. In this way, it seems that ordinary families have a lot of income, but in fact, because of the increase in currency, the depreciation of commodities is actually the same, and it is industry and commerce and the government that really benefit. Industry and commerce can use easy loans to increase investment in the process of circulation, and the government can even use the extra money out of thin air to smooth out the deficit of tens of billions of yuan, and can also start a large number of welfare construction projects.

After thinking about it, he smiled bitterly in his heart, before it was military politics, and now it is economic, when will the Kuomintang come out? Although Wang Zhaoming thought so in his heart, he did not dare to delay such an important currency reform bill in action, so the next day, after discussion, the National Assembly unanimously passed the currency reform bill submitted by the presidential office.

Since Wang Zhengting was on a foreign visit, Yang Qiu personally made arrangements for the implementation of the bill. According to this bill, the Republic of China not only became the second country in the world after the United States to significantly devalue its currency, but also immediately raised the purchase price of grain for that year, and set a new minimum wage standard for industrial workers in accordance with the scale and speed of economic development of various provinces and cities. Finally, in order to supervise the implementation of the provinces and cities, Zhang Wenjing, Xu Xiujun and others were also asked to lead the central supervision group to the provincial legislatures to explain the importance of the bill and supervise the implementation of the bill on the spot.

Pei Zuyi also immediately took action to drastically reduce the central bank's benchmark lending rate and bank reserves, and promote the proportion of loans issued by banks across the country.

The promulgation of the "Monetary Reform Act" poured another basin of hot oil on the already hot economy of the Republic of China, and the central government in Beijing not only took this opportunity to wipe out the deficit of tens of billions in one fell swoop, but also placed a large number of state orders, and gradually began to increase the reserves of raw materials such as tungsten, manganese, and copper. Although the amount of absorption is far from reaching the standard of war reserves, it shows that Yang Qiu has gradually prepared under the cover of the economy.

Because the amount was not large, the outside world did not notice the hoarding of strategic materials, but the military was extremely sensitive to it, and when it was learned that the bill had passed through the central bank and began to spend a large amount of money, the navy and army immediately quarreled, and the officers even came up with plans for expansion and redressing.

The purpose is simple, to increase military spending.

The most positive is of course the navy, although Japan said that it would build two treaty battleships to replace the Ise class, but this kind of small trick can only deceive foreigners, and the navy will not think that Japan will really eliminate the Ise class. What's more, there is already accurate information that the Japanese Navy will build four super battleships with a caliber of 460 mm and four heavy cruisers, so that the gap that has just been narrowed by the delivery of all four Beijing-class ships has widened again, so Chen Shaokuan dragged Bingwen to the presidential palace early in the morning, hoping to use the relationship between Bingwen and Yang Qiu to persuade the Navy to increase military spending again.

But as soon as he entered the door, he found that Qin Zhangshu and Zhang Xiaozhun were actually earlier than him, and he immediately twitched the corners of his mouth. When Qin Zhangshu saw him, he even jokingly shouted: "Yo, isn't this Houfu, it's so early." ”

"Commander Qin, Chief of Staff Zhang, you are also early." Chen Shaokuan didn't expect to meet these two. However, he also knew in his heart that the biggest impact of the 620 Mutiny was the Republic of China, not to mention that this time the Japanese military department was also preparing to expand the army and increase the garrisons of Korea and South Sakhalin, so Qin Zhangshu and Zhang Xiaozhun were so anxious for the first time.

Chen Shaokuan didn't want to mention the matter of military spending for the time being, so he took Bingwen to sit down face to face after looking at his watch, and asked, "Runong, which green onion is this Tojo Hideki?" What is the ability to replace Nagata Tetsuyama? ”

The fact that Hideki Tojo replaced Nagata Tetsuyama as the chief of military affairs of the Japanese Army surprised everyone, because according to the establishment of the Japanese Army, the chief of military affairs is already a very high position, so everyone has always thought that even if Nagata Tetsuyama dies, he should be taken over by himself by Okamura Ninji, Suzuki Sadachi or Itatsuro Seisishiro, but they didn't expect a little-known figure to suddenly appear.

Zhang Xiaozhun had some impressions of Tojo Hideki, and said: "The intelligence says that Tojo Hideki and Okamura Ninji and others are very close, and Nagata Tetsuyama has a high opinion of him, and even the president has asked people to pay special attention to this person before. ”

"Oh? Has the president taken care of it? When Chen Shaokuan was secretly concerned, Bingwen, who was sitting next to him, also wrote down this person and asked, "Chief of Staff, what about Yongtian Tieshan?" ”

"Hirohito now wants to learn from Meiji to interfere in politics, and Nagata Tetsuyama was seriously injured this time, so he used the excuse to drive him to the East Timorese garrison commander, and said that the environment there is better and more suitable for recuperation."

"Hypocrisy!" Bingwen snorted in his heart.

Chen Shaokuan didn't want to mention the matter of military spending for the time being, but Qin Zhangshu didn't let him go, and said with a smile: "Houfu, isn't the tonnage of your navy already full?" Do you also have to learn from Japan's withdrawal from the treaty, if you don't withdraw, where will you get the tonnage to continue building ships? Knowing that he was reminding himself that the navy should not grab too much military spending, Chen Shaokuan did not fight back, but showed a trace of embarrassment on his face. Because this time, the navy really can't come up with much to deal with Japan's shipbuilding plan, unless it really withdraws from the treaty.

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