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Section 36 Road Repair

Deng Ming did not know much about the scope of the central bank's work. He tried his best to recall and finally set rules, and temporarily allowed to lend to veterans in need. Moreover, the increase in volume must be strictly controlled to avoid inflation. Others were a little confused about Deng Ming's idea, thinking that this was just a matter of changing the IOU from the left hand to the right hand. Anyway, the bank was opened by the yamen, and thousands of yamen were collected by the yamen. Deng Ming could not think of any good reason to explain the people's confusion, so he told them that he still had some ways to make money in the future, but he couldn't use it for a while, and now he was carrying out some preparations.

After hearing Deng Ming's words, everyone immediately had no doubts. Everyone knew that Deng Ming had the best business in the world. Since he said he would use this to make money in the future, there would be no problem. In addition to the bank's problems, Deng Ming also introduced a commercial bank system, which was also his imitation of the future company system. The commercial bank system stipulates that everything in Chengdu is sold by the government, whether it is flying in the sky or swimming in the water, it is required to capture or sell it. At present, Deng Ming has no man and does not intend to care about whether the people are fishing, but he first seizes this monopoly right. However, as long as any commercial bank pays a certain IOU, it will no longer be subject to the IOU. This right to produce and sell is granted to the commercial bank rather than to individuals.

Deng Ming also did not know the specific reason for this, but since all countries adopted the company system in his previous life, he believed that this system must be advanced. His subordinates accepted Deng Ming's arrangement, and Ren Tang and others felt that Deng Ming's rule seemed to have a profound meaning, and secretly guessed that this was the way Admiral Deng was laying the foundation for the future means of making money.

"There is another question that many people have asked me, that is, where should I go to judge if I encounter disputes." Through analyzing the information, Deng Ming found that many people had similar concerns. These auxiliary soldiers naturally had superiors responsible for dealing with conflicts in the army. But now that they have been discharged from the army, they are no longer subject to military law: "If there are water, land, quarrels, and people who are injured but not too seriously injured, what should I do?"

If serious injury incidents occur, these people can naturally go to the Criminal Office to file a complaint, but if it is just a trivial matter, many people feel that it is not a good deal to go to the city specifically for this. Many of these retired soldiers were refugees from Sichuan, without relatives, and when they first left the army, many of them felt lonely and afraid.

"In the past, small matters were usually judged by the villagers." Ren Tang muttered and did not continue. Now there are no clans or respected villagers near Chengdu. Moreover, due to Deng Ming's low-tax policy, farmers are distributed on the vast land. It is indeed impossible for all minor disputes to go to the city, but if they ignore them, there will be a phenomenon of honest people being angry and domineering people benefiting.

"If we don't care, there will be others who will come forward to control it. It would be fine if a fair person is born, but I think it will most likely turn into a bully." Deng Ming believes that anyone will make up for any vacuum of power, which is the same in the East and the West. The West is the king's authority in the local area is challenged by the lord; while China is the local tyrant, and the gentry controls the judicial power at the grassroots level.

Deng Ming did not realize this problem before, and it was not until this interview. He believed that this problem may not be lacking among the people near Chengdu now, and those potential tyrants may be forming. It was just that the time was short, so they had not yet formed control over the people. The future tyrants did not realize their power at this time. Now they may still be the same as ordinary farmers, but they are more prestige and are willing to listen to what they say. This root must be cut off as soon as possible, and Deng Ming threw out another solution: "I plan to set up a group of town pavilions."

Under Liu Yao and others, there were some elderly and weak soldiers, or poor people who were disabled for various reasons. After losing their labor, they could only beg for life in the army. Deng Ming had already asked the military for these soldiers who were infertile and asked the military to agree to their retirement.

The military did not object to this at all. Like all the troops of this era, there was a relationship between the generals and soldiers of the Ming army similar to the Shan Dawang and the Minions. It was this feeling that the military was willing to continue to support these disabled people and elderly soldiers, and could not bear to see them starve to death. However, they just didn't starve to death. The amount of living supplies they could get was definitely not comparable to labor.

Since Deng Ming announced that these people would be supported by the government office after that, the military also happily handed over these people to Deng Ming, with a total of more than 200 people. These people were just unable to be competent for heavy agricultural production, but they were not completely incapable of working.

"How many pavilions can be built? I plan to ask a few scholars to teach them how to read and read, and pick out the pavilion chief from the first group of people who learned. The others are pavilions." Deng Ming plans to establish a police station, fire station and post office in the future, so as to penetrate the government's rights to the grassroots of society, and not give clan power or the living space of the powerful. However, there are not so many jobs now, so this pavilion can serve as the above-mentioned jobs: "The pavilion chief and pavilion must learn the law. If there are disputes in the local area, the pavilion and pavilion will come forward to resolve the matter. As long as there is no serious crimes such as murder, robbery, theft, and serious injury, the pavilion can be resolved. If the scholar is not satisfied with the pavilion's solution, you can report to the Excusei Office."

Although it is unlikely that there will be major mistakes in the short term, Deng Ming will further split the rights of the Ting in the future, but he is still afraid that his Tingshi will become a vicious official who oppresses the people: "Tell these people that although this job cannot be hereditary, as long as they do not commit crimes, they will be for life. When they really can't do it in the future, the Tingshi and Tingshi can retire, and I will give them pensions to support them. But as long as they commit crimes and are sued by their fellow scholars to the Ex-Sheng Office and convicted, then they will make their own way to make a living."

During the days when Deng Ming studied the interview materials, the five thousand retired people still lived in the military camp. Those who planned to farm took advantage of this time to look at the terrain and select land for themselves. Soon the Chengdu Yamen began to distribute rations and seed grains, formed a team of them, and lend each team some tools for building a house, so that they could help each other build a new home.

The number of veterans living in the barracks decreased day by day, and in the end there were only mixed auxiliary soldiers like Lu Huan. These more than 100 people were the last group of people in the barracks.

Together with more than 40 other companions, Lu Huan was brought to Deng Ming again.

Today, Deng Ming did not speak one-on-one, but put out more than forty chairs. After everyone sat down, Deng Ming said to them: "You were all soldiers who were engaged in salt making before, and you had never been exposed to farm work or had almost never done it. Now you can become salt merchants who are not restricted by salt monopoly; if you don't want to, you can still choose land."

When they heard that they could become salt merchants, the audience immediately whispered excitedly. After their discussion gradually subsided, Deng Ming continued: "But you will definitely owe me a large amount of debt. If you cannot repay it in the future, it will be a waste of hard work. Don't blame me for not telling you earlier."

After warning these people, Deng Ming took out his business system and tried his best to introduce the system to these people: "This salt production and salt trading license is for the business. First of all, if the business cannot continue to operate in the future and goes bankrupt, you don't have to bear these debts and can still go farming; secondly, you don't have to give me an IOU. A business can have many people, and each business bank gives me two hundred yuan to have a license to make and sell salt."

Deng Ming suggested that these people discuss it themselves and see how to form a business that can produce salt smoothly: "I don't care in the future. You can recruit more workers, but now, no one business is allowed to have more than ten people. I will build a street shop in the Dufu. I can rent the shops to you or sell them to you, and I will collect IOUs."

This regulation was formulated by Deng Ming to avoid monopoly, and someone immediately suggested that they did not have so many IOUs in their hands. After hearing this question, Deng Ming pointed to Xiong Lan next to him and said, "This is President Xiong. He will lend you IOUs and only charge half a percent of the profit a year."

After thinking for a long time, Deng Ming finally decided to let Xiong Lan take charge of the bank first. Although Xiong Lan looks good with administrative mind, Deng Ming is still unwilling to give him such great power at once, and he is also worried that his subordinates are dissatisfied. Deng Ming has talked with Xiong Lan several times in the past few days and handed over the new bank to him, hoping that Xiong Lan can use this tool to help talented people build private industry and commerce in Chengdu as soon as possible.

Deng Ming didn't know how to run a bank, so he gave Xiong Lan two death orders. The most important thing was not to issue IOUs indiscriminately. Xiong Lan's bank president was only responsible to Deng Ming and did not have to ask about the balance of income and expenditure in the capital government office. Secondly, Deng Ming also told Xiong Lan that he would keep a close eye on the rice price in Chengdu, and the rice price could fluctuate, but if the transaction price of a stone of rice exceeded 120 yuan, or was lower than 80 yuan, then Xiong Lan would only ask.

In addition to Lu Huan's salt-making batch, there were pigs, cattle, and mining, and Deng Ming also handled it accordingly. Before Lu Huan and others left, they also asked Deng Ming whether their tax-free certificates needed to be refunded - anyway, they didn't plan to farm now, so it was useless.

"Don't return it to me," Deng Ming said to them: "If you don't farm and have no protection fees to be reduced, you can use this to get an IOU every year to go to the yamen to get a 200 yuan IOU."

Deng Ming had reached an agreement with Di Sanxi. The other party agreed to take all the two thousand soldiers and prisoners to Jianchang and then return them to Deng Ming's 1,500 men he designated. If Deng Ming wanted a woman, then the two women would be converted into one male. Di Sanxi thought this transaction was quite cost-effective. Most of the two thousand soldiers were strong. After he brought back Jianchang, he would definitely change more than one. If he used them to exchange female soldiers in the hands of other generals, he would naturally be able to exchange more. Of course, Di Sanxi did not intend to monopolize the profits of this population x transaction, and he would definitely share some of the Xiying generals who sent troops to Chengdu. Feng Shuangli would definitely pay a tribute. x

Deng Ming knew that Di Sanxi could probably make a lot of money, but this was also a matter of course. After all, Di Sanxi worked hard to come to Chengdu to support him. If Deng Ming did not express his gratitude to this, how could he expect Jianchang to continue to act as his backing in the future?

Before Di Sanxi took the group of people away, Deng Ming finally used them once and asked these people to demolish a house in Chengdu City and renovate a wide avenue. This avenue is 30 meters wide, five times wider than the avenue in front of the Chengdu Yamen before. After seeing this new avenue, both Liu Yao and Di Sanxi praised, saying that they had never imagined such a wide avenue.

At the closest place to the city gate of this avenue, Deng Ming asked the prisoners to build a number of shops on both sides. These shops were not large in size and looked very inconspicuous compared to the wide avenue.

"If I could gain a foothold in the Dufu and restore agriculture, animal husbandry, industry and commerce, there would be various shops here in the future, including food, groceries, meat, and even a large number of horses and weapons transactions." Deng Ming looked at the dozen newly built small shops, which would rent them to those newly born businesses at very low prices: "When that time, I should be able to sell the land on both sides of this avenue for a lot of money."

While Deng Ming was looking forward to the future, many subordinates such as Liu Yao, Yang Youcai, Liu Jinge, Yuan Xiang rushed to him, yelling to ask Deng Ming to give the name to the street.

"Well, let me think about it." Deng Ming thought for a moment, and the first thought that came to his mind was: Sen Weilu.

"Ten Horse Street!" Li Xinghan first helped out with his ideas. This avenue was so wide that ten horses were probably still rich.

Zhou Kaihuang is the second one: "No, it's obviously Twenty Horse Street."

"Denggong Street." Xiong Lan in the distance hid behind the crowd and shouted.

Many people nodded and agreed, and even if the other suggestions were different from Xiong Lan, they still had similar ideas.

"Admiral Street." The new shouts were more corresponding. The officials present almost immediately realized the inappropriateness of Xiong Lan's proposal. Deng Ming clearly did not have the surname Deng, and how could he be a public official? Since this street was built by His Highness on the appointment of the Admiral of Sichuan, it would be better to commemorate this.

"Shuwang Street." This is Liu Yao's.

It was immediately opposed by Zhao Tianba: "Zhongxing Street!"

"Hongguang Street." Ren Tang also shouted intriguingly.

But Deng Ming finally chose another name: "Just call it Chunxilu."

Since Deng Ming made the decision, the others of course shouted OK.

"The Jianchunxi Road was a batch of slave labor, and the first money that supported me to revitalize Chengdu's industry and commerce was also the income from population trading." Although Deng Ming knew that no one thought that his move was inappropriate, Deng Ming felt a little strange in his heart: "I don't know how later generations in this world will evaluate me hundreds of years later."

...

Four hundred years later, with the continuous observation of parallel universes, there are endless voices of questioning that the two universes have no information exchange. Some even boldly asserted that there are scientific madmen in this universe that have exerted influence on the backward parallel universes.

Although these hypotheses cannot be proved, and some theories are even completely untenable, they still have a considerable market, because there are some coincidences that are indeed puzzling. For example, Chunxi Road in Chengdu is an example: Although the direction and location of the two universes are completely different, they do share the same name. After studying the history of parallel universes, scientists discovered that Chunxi Road in the universe was built by Yang Sen, General Sen of the Beiyang Government of China. It was originally named Senwei Road, but when Yang Sen was driven out of Chengdu, the road name eventually became the same as the original universe.

Recently, a new theory has been proposed, that is, information from more advanced universes will spread to the lower universe in some mysterious way, and will be spontaneously generated without human interference, just like the influence of higher civilizations on lower civilizations. Since this parallel universe is too much behind this universe, there will be obvious influences such as Chunxi Road. Even if the original name is Senwei Road, it will eventually be interfered and modified to be consistent with the name of the higher universe.

The scientific community's evaluation of this theory is: it is more of a cosmic discriminatory psychology than a physics theory.

However, since the scientific community still cannot explain this coincidence, they cannot eliminate the influence of similar hypotheses.

...

I heard that Li Muyang invited everyone to watch the show today, and many neighbors rushed to the stage to gather. The performance class tonight will not receive tickets to the audience's role. All of them were given by Li Muyang.

When everyone was satisfied, Li Muyang jumped onto the stage: "Brothers, I want to ask everyone for help."

"Are you borrowing IOU again?" Many people had this idea in their minds. Since IOU could be replaced by IOUs in the yamen, IOUs, which were originally regarded as suspicious of value, suddenly became popular. Thousands of Yunnan people who moved to Chengdu from Jianchang to Chengdu, almost everyone still had their families working as hard laborers in Jianchang. They always wanted to redeem their relatives from the military camp.

The official yamen said that it would be okay if he could not pay 5,000 yuan in the first place. Xiong Lan's bank could lend it to them first. However, as soon as the people settled the accounts, the profit of the redemption was so high that it was so high. If all 5,000 yuan was borrowed from the bank, he would have to pay back 10,000 yuan in ten years. If he only borrowed 3,000 yuan, he would have to pay back 6,000 yuan in ten years. Since that is the case, of course, it would be better to pay it out immediately.

However, the 5,000 yuan IOU means that the military had collected 50 stones of grain before, which took four or five farmers to collect it. Therefore, Yunnan people who were eager to redeem their relatives borrowed IOUs from their neighbors. Although they could use grain to exchange IOUs from the yamen, not many people are willing to exchange life-saving food for a piece of paper, so they could only ask the neighbors for help. If the family is not enough, they would borrow several companies. Some people borrowed one hundred yuan, and which one can borrow several thousand yuan from more than a dozen neighbors.

However, people who are familiar with Li Muyang are a little surprised. This guy is from Sichuan and was a shepherd from Liu Yao's subordinate before, so there is no need to redeem people.

Last year, when Liu Jinge first established the Ex-Punishment Office, the Chengdu military decided to release a group of auxiliary soldiers to respond to Deng Ming's call. It was then that Li Muyang was able to leave the army and become a commoner. This time, when he was fame and honoring the fellow scholars, he asked everyone to give him a big name. Li Muyang gave himself this name based on his previous profession.

"Brothers, before I escaped to the capital, I used to be a thief." Li Muyang said to everyone in the audience: "Sickles, hoes, axes, nothing I wouldn't do..."

Li Muyang only came into contact with farm work after fleeing to Chengdu. Because he was not good at arable land, he was sent to herd sheep. It was also because of this reason that he was released from the army. Although Li Muyang has been diligent this year, the harvest is not very good. After hearing about Deng Ming's new policy, Li Muyang was moved and wanted to return to his old career.

For this reason, Li Muyang had already traveled to the bank and wanted to open a blacksmith shop with IOU. Now there are farm tools everywhere around Chengdu. Li Muyang felt that the business would be good. He even had contacted two iron ore merchants in preparation to buy their raw materials. But Xiong Lan's hands and feet were tied up by Deng Ming. Deng Ming said that this loan plan was for veterans, and IOUs should not be issued indiscriminately. The rent of the store, the purchase of tools, equipment and iron deposits may all be tens of thousands.

After carefully asking Li Muyang, Xiong Lan felt that this might be a good business, and Li Muyang should be able to repay the loan and pay considerable business tax to the yamen. Therefore, Liu Jinge and Xiong Lan told Li Muyang that if he could borrow half of it, the remaining banks could lend it to Li Muyang.

"I will give back the IOU that you lend me today in full within a year, and I will give you 30% of the profit!" Li Muyang shouted vigorously: "Brothers, buy guys from me, and I will also give you discounts to my brothers, how about it?"
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