The twentieth year of the Word is a year worth writing about, and too many things are crowded into this year.

In September of this year, in the hall of the National History Museum in Longmen District, Tokyo, the noise was like a wave, almost tearing down the roof, and Zheng Xie, the executive scholar in charge of the museum, could no longer bear it, and roared like a hungry tiger: "Come one by one! Voting begins! ”

Even the editors, reviewers, and scholars in the National History Museum who retain the Confucian heritage have been baked by the history of the 20 years of the Holy Dao. These people are responsible for compiling national history, and in addition to compiling the outline of national history according to time, they also have to investigate and write more detailed historical materials according to events and fields. In addition to the regular "topics" divided into economic, military, and criminal law fields, every major event is also a topic.

Receiving the subject means a matter of fame and fortune, the subject has funds, the written historical materials have also laid the academic foundation, and it is the basis for the court's decision-making.

Seeing that the 20 years of the Holy Dao were about to pass, the Political Affairs Hall allocated a large amount of funds to summarize the relevant history as soon as possible, and the National History Museum suddenly became a battlefield. There are too many major events in the National Politics Return, the North-South Treaty, the Western War, the Beiting War, and the Western Regions, but there are also a lot of people in the National History Museum.

Zheng Xie came up with a workaround, each project was accepted for registration first, and the competitors presented their strengths at the museum-wide conference, and then voted by a jury composed of standing project groups and leaders.

Although this means countless personal contacts and secret operations, after all, it is a duel under the nose of the whole museum, and the responsibility does not fall on the leadership of the National History Museum, and in theory, it also gives talented people and backward newcomers a certain opportunity, so Zheng Xie's plan has been unanimously approved by the scholars of the National History Museum.

First of all, the return of national government to the prime minister and the reform of the government hall are too broad and deep to be undertaken by people who are old in government affairs. Several old guys who retired from Zhongshu Province made a group appearance. Dao has many advantages, such as a close friendship with the first and second generations of first and second generations of first assistants, and is well versed in the changes in the internal political pattern from the Tianwangfu era to the present, and competitors no longer have the confidence to come to power. There is no disputing this subject.

The second item is the trend of the north and the south, the three factions from the three colleges of Baicheng, Huangpu and Longmen are in contention, the Longmen faction has the advantage of connecting the north and the south, the Baicheng faction has a good relationship with the Tongshiguan, and the Huangpu faction says that this matter has to pay more attention to the private consortium, and it just so happens that they have a close relationship with the Chaoshan consortium.

The final result of the vote was the victory of the White City faction. The Huangpu faction was not convinced, and accused the Baicheng faction of bribing the "judge" Zheng Xie, so that the Huangpu faction had nothing to say in one sentence: "People are Chen Run's classmates......"

Writing history in the National History Museum is not only a simple clerical work, but also interviews with the parties involved in related events. Although this matter is a national task, and the parties concerned will not ignore it, having a personal relationship and not having a personal relationship are two different things after all. Many parties have high power and personal relationships, and people will not be perfunctory.

So to the third, fourth, and fifth topics. During the Xi'an assassination case, the Third Ceylon Naval Battle and the march into the Western Regions, there was no suspense about the winner, and the National History Museum was with Liu Xingchun, the governor of the Western Regions. Even the two Buddha and Demon giants of the Western Regions and the Western Metropolis are very few people who can make friends, and the military side still has to deal with the Military History Department of the Privy Council, if it is not someone familiar with Su Wencai, the cardinal minister, it will be difficult to do things. Whoever has these resources is the winner.

Prime Minister Xue Xue took the lead and led 34 banks, 347 bankers and 662 private loan companies to form the Anglo-Chinese Financial Association. The General Assembly is under the joint supervision of the Government Council, the East and West Houses and the Anglo-Chinese Bank. It operates independently and coordinates all financial affairs in the country except for the issuance of treasury bonds. This includes the issuance of British fiat currency, currency exchange and the control of loan interest rates. Basically, the financial power that had been scattered in the past between the Emperor, the Jisi, the Western Yuan, and the Yinghua Bank was transferred to the Financial Council.

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This is the first major policy that Xue Xue is determined to complete during his tenure as prime minister, and the core essence is to push the monetary credit system and financial control tasks that were undertaken by the government alone in the past to the commercial system of the whole society. All the government needs to do is to synthesize the public opinion of the two houses and the expert opinions of the Anglo-Chinese Bank, and carry out macroeconomic regulation and control through laws and regulations.

The whole picture is too complicated. From the monetary side alone, when the financial association runs smoothly, the past joint bills will become real legal tender, and Yinghua will enter the era of credit money with the gold and silver reset system. The understanding of the general Chinese people is that Yinghua wants to fully return to the paper money system of the Song Yuanming Dynasty, so the hearts of the people in the country are in turmoil.

The government affairs hall is mobilizing public opinion to carry out extensive publicity, paper money is a product of commercial development to a certain extent, and people should treat it with the mentality of promoting profit and eliminating harm. In the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, why paper money harms people is because of the problem of the issuance mechanism. How much to send, how to exchange gold and silver, are all the government's empty words, supply and demand are asymmetrical, there is no constraint, and the relevant management technology is not mature, of course, there will be problems.

The Yinghua banknote issuance mechanism is to hand over the power to the financial federation representing the entire commercial system, how much to issue, how to exchange, the government does not count, it depends on the needs of the whole society. What the East and West Houses and the government need to do is to control the financial federation and minimize the harm.

Financial experts in the country reminded that once the establishment of the financial association is completed and the joint bill is converted into legal tender, Anglo-Chinese will usher in fierce inflation. At present, the production in the country is too prosperous, and the market development is insufficient, so it is necessary to issue enough "British and two" to balance production and sales. At the same time, after paper money becomes the main currency, silver will be pressed into the field of small money, and the money supply of society will be greatly increased.

After the completion of the credit currency reform, the Anglo-Chinese country can truly enter a new era of capital-based country, breaking free from the agricultural foundation of the old Confucian society. And to complete this reform, it is necessary to survive this violent inflation. But the harm of inflation is also obvious, the cost of food, labor and raw materials has skyrocketed, if there is no enough cheap external raw materials, and a wide enough external market, not only is it difficult to complete the reform, but Yinghua itself will enter the danger of social collapse.

Looking from the inside and outside, at this time, many people of insight in the country can understand why the emperor insisted on a decisive battle with the Britons in Tianzhu, and why the emperor turned to the west instead of the northern expedition in the face of surging public opinion.

The use of Tianzhu is not clear, but the northern Central Plains ...... I'm sorry, let's continue to dedicate to Yinghua crossing this threshold for the time being. Just like Jiangnan back then, only with today's suffering can we get the joy of the future.

Not everyone can understand this kind of thinking, so the matter of the financial federation and fiat currency has become a major event of the greatest concern in the hearts of the Chinese people in the second half of the 20th year of the Holy Dao. Although this matter has just begun, the National History Museum must also follow up. Considering that this matter is related to the century-old foundation of Yinghua, regardless of whether there are resources or not, whether they are familiar with finance or not, the scholars of the National History Museum have to fight hard.

The competition for this topic lasted for most of the day, and then some of the topics became chicken ribs, and the scholars who had failed in the previous competition for the big topic picked and chosen, and began their work with half a belly of grumbling and half a belly of novelty.

Dinghai, the headquarters of the Ocean Fleet, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Vice Admiral Meng Songhai was very happy, and the editors of the visiting National History Museum also had a style of responding to the story, and everyone chatted while eating, without the solemn atmosphere of writing the national history at all.

"As the name suggests, the ocean fleet has the largest area under its jurisdiction in the Four Oceans Fleet, but, as you know, the fleet size is the smallest. If Commander Xiao hadn't assigned East Java to our oceanic fleet, the fleet wouldn't have been able to divide the cruisers, and even the artillery wouldn't have to be installed. Why? There are no enemies......"

Meng Songhai raised his glass and raised his neck, drank it all in one gulp, spit out the smell of wine, and said quietly: "The Ocean Fleet is the expedition company of the navy!" ”

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Meng Songhai, who is close to his age, is still out of character, and he is also a hero in the eyes of the Chinese people. Ten years ago, in the Great War with Yongzheng in the north and south, he was an empty commander-in-chief of the Yangtze River Fleet, and he actually pulled up a combatable naval division in just three months, cutting off the Yangtze River waterway of the Manchu Qing Dynasty...... Second, General Xie Dingbei Xie is the number one hero in people's minds.

Up to now, Meng Songhai has been in charge of the Ocean Fleet for ten years, as Meng Songhai said, it was not Xiao Sheng who assigned the barren sea area of East Java to the Ocean Fleet, and the royal atrium also handed over the sea area vigilance task of Hangzhou Bay to the Ocean Fleet, and this fleet did not need to exist at all. The four cruisers are all first-generation Sea shark ships, and the remaining thirty or so "patrol ships" are not even frigates, and in order to save costs, these small boats are purchased according to civilian standards, to put it bluntly, they are the kind of two-masted sailing clippers used by various colonial companies.

But after all, the Ocean Fleet has placed the emperor's centennial expectations, in addition to continuing to contact Dongzhou, but also shouldering the task of exploring the entire ocean area, Meng Songhai said that the Ocean Fleet is the navy's exploration company, which is not false at all. Most of the members of the Ocean Fleet are recruited from private exploration companies, and even some of the tasks of charting and sea exploration in certain sea areas are outsourced to private ......

In the twenty years of the Holy Dao, the Ocean Fleet has also gained the biggest gain, that is, the central route from the mainland to Dongzhou has finally gained a foothold.

"There are several large islands, the largest of which is at least 10,000 miles in circumference! The sky and sea are blue, the beach is white and the island is green......"

Speaking of the new discoveries in the middle of the year, Meng Songhai, who was a little depressed, finally became excited, and his mouth was like a river.

The editor interrupted: "Aren't all the islands in the ocean like this? ”

Meng Songhai said disdainfully: "It's not worth talking about just like this......"

Recalling his previous experience, Meng Songhai was immersed again, with a sense of shock on his face facing the vicissitudes of nature: "There is a volcano on the big island!" There is more than one, and sometimes you can smell a faint smell of sulfur, which the natives of the island say is the breath of the 'volcano goddess'. (To be continued)