Chapter 1065: 23 Financial Street (I.)
Roland also noticed that when he expressed his support for Maynard, Lloyd, Zinovi and Zahar all looked a little strange, and after the initial surprise, they showed a sudden realization. It is not difficult to guess the thoughts of the trio, who believe that Maynard and Roland had a private exchange of interests, and Maynard supported Roland's agricultural reform in exchange for Roland's support for his tax reform.
This logic seems to make sense, and in fact Roland did communicate privately with Maynard before the cabinet meeting, but he did not see such legitimate exchanges as an exchange of interests or political alliances. He supported Maynard only because his proposal was beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood, just as he believed that Maynard also stood up for his proposal after fully understanding the necessity of agricultural reform.
The three bosses of the Awakened faction may think that Maynard's "rebellious" behavior today is just an accident, and they will still stand on the same side as them in the future, after all, Maynard is also a minister from the Awakened Club. Roland was unimpressed by their wishful thinking of partisanship, and sooner or later Lloyd, Zinovi and Zahar would find that Maynard was so far removed in thought and concept that the Minister of Justice was the only "leftist" in the Far Eastern cabinet, and how could he pee with them.
By mid-October, the autumn winds whistling through the streets of Krasbourg had cooled significantly, and frost had begun to fall in the vast area north of the White Hart River. As winter approached, the pilgrimage to the city was clearly at a low ebb, but Roland's work schedule became more and more intense as the temperature dropped.
From the victory of the revolution in the Far East to the establishment of the Kingdom of Kolas, it has been less than two months, and it is only an infant in the infancy of a new regime, but the cabinet has introduced many policies covering military and national defense, culture and education, and even national economic construction with great efficiency.
The not-so-good news is that there is very little gold and silver reserves left in the treasury, and the current fiscal revenues are obviously not enough to implement the "five-year plan" formulated by Roland, and the budget shortfall is as high as 20 million gold dugs per year. With the current economic aggregate of the Far East, it will be difficult to make up for such a huge budget gap even if it is scraped from the ground, and the issuance of government bonds to raise funds has become a top priority in fiscal work.
Roland had already boasted in front of his father and cabinet ministers, and the heavy responsibility of issuing treasury bonds was unshirkable. However, he was not in a hurry to go into battle, and before that, he had to set up the central banking system of the Kingdom of Kolas and prepare for the issuance of government bonds.
Colasburg's "10 Independence Boulevard" is the seat of the Cabinet Office, and a parallel street not far from it is called "Financial Street", and most of the magnificent shops on both sides of the street are engaged in the financial industry, such as deposits and loans, bill exchange, pawn auctions, securities trading and insurance business, although the scale is not as large as Baiougang, but there are more than 200 financial institutions of all sizes operating here, and the headquarters of the Far Eastern First National Bank in Zahar is located here.
At nine a.m. on October 21, Roland walked into his new office for the first time. The new five-storey building is located at "23 Financial Street", originally built by Archbishop Philippe for the Far Eastern branch of the "Perot Foundation". Soon after the building was completed, a revolution broke out in the Far East, the regime changed hands, and the expansion plans of the "Perot Foundation" in the Far East were put on hold.
In order to show the independence of the central bank, Roland did not want to set up the central bank's headquarters at "No. 10 Independence Avenue" to co-locate with other government departments, and when he was looking for a new location, he was interested in hearing Lloyd's say that there was such an idle building, and he went in to inspect it, and found that it was built in accordance with the specifications of the bank headquarters, with underground vaults and everything, and there were multiple magical enchantments to strengthen security measures, which made him very satisfied.
After the visit, Roland used his magic to divinate a "zodiac auspicious day" to complete the relocation, and the Central Bank of the Kingdom of Kolas was established.
In order to enrich the various departments of the central bank, Roland swept the official residences of various ministries at No. 10 Independence Avenue in a bandit style, screened all public officials with experience in accounting and financial business, and selected more than 200 elites to be transferred to the central bank. Among the worst affected were the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce, with Zahar and Yevgenia almost crying.
Roland didn't want to dig into a corner, but he really couldn't think of any other way to get the central bank up and running as quickly as possible. The more than 200 people were not enough, so he wrote to Liu Bofu again, asking her to distribute recruitment advertisements at Dolphin Bay Business School, and coax those recent college graduates to come to the central bank to do chores in the name of internships. Although the salary is not high, he is busy like a dog every day and does not pay overtime, after all, he is an intern of a central bank of a country, and he has more face when he says it, right?
Don't say it, he's quite clever with this trick. Two weeks later, an airship from the North Bay landed in Krasbourg, and nearly 100 boys and girls set foot on this strange land with great anticipation.
Roland personally went to greet this group of lively and innocent newcomers, and also detained the two old birds who were responsible for fooling and escorting the newcomers, Eurome and Antron, which added a bit of youth to No. 23 Financial Street.
The next day, Roland received a letter from Lyubov, blaming him for being too ugly, how to detain Eurome and Antron as well, Katya was very dissatisfied with this, and she finally trained the two to become right-hand men, and now it is cheaper for Roland.
In his reply, Roland explained to Lyubov the bank's lack of manpower, and invited her to come to Krasbourg in early November to discuss the underwriting of government bonds, and that it would be better to entrust the work to Victoria and other trusted assistants before leaving, and perhaps she would need to stay in Krasbourg for a while longer, and to take on the title of chief economist of the central bank to help with the business.
After receiving Roland's reply, Lyubov touched his nose and pondered for a while, waking up to the fact that the trip to Colasburg might be more auspicious! Roland, the kid, was clearly not at ease, and tried to repeat his old tricks and detain her as a coolie.
The more she thought about it, the more she found the trip as if it were an "elopement" very attractive, and her heart fluttered, but she had to face the reality. After the reorganization of the Bend League into the "North Sea Federation", she became the de facto queen, which attracted the jealousy of the ruling families of the city-states, and was reluctant to surrender the power of the states to the federal parliament, and she could not leave the North Bay for long until the centralization of power and the foundation of her rule were solidified. But Roland does need a financial expert to help deal with the daily affairs of the central bank, after all, Roland is not only the governor of the central bank, but also the assistant to the prime minister, and there are too many things to worry about.