In the spring of 1658, the public banks of the Northwest Government began to issue the first tranche of patriotic bonds to all parts of the country, and the interest on the bonds was one percentage point higher than the interest on bank deposits.At the same time, Qi Tingji's China Securities Regulatory Commission approved the establishment of new treasury bond trading platforms by various securities operating companies.The issuance of treasury bonds went very smoothly, and in just over a month, 100 million bonds were sold out.The people under the governance of the northwest government were much richer than in the pre-Ming and Manchu dynasties.The government's policy is biased towards the active development of industry and commerce, and agricultural tax revenue is no longer the main revenue of the government, but the main income of the government comes from commercial trade and industrial production.During the pre-Ming and Manchu Qing dynasties, the people were able to eat bran and vegetables throughout the year to live, and if they did not starve, they could live happily.Nowadays, most of the people can eat the grain produced in the fields all year round, and they no longer worry about starvation.Even the wealthier ones can have extra money to buy their own four-wheeled carriages, and it is not a new thing to use them as a substitute for transportation.When the government has economic acumen, the people will naturally have it.The interest rate on buying treasury bonds is higher than depositing them in the bank, and of course everyone is willing to buy treasury bonds.At the beginning, Liang Min was also worried that the bonds would not be sold, so he asked the Propaganda Department to organize art troupes to perform in various places, arrange new plays, and publicize the significance and benefits of buying treasury bonds.Before the art troupe was organized, the bonds had already been sold.The government is so good to the people, and of course the people love their government.I heard that the general wanted to liberate the suffering compatriots under the rule of the Manchus outside the Guanwai, but there was no money to send troops, and some people, even large and private merchants, just did not want interest, not even the principal, and they were willing to donate.Without the government led by the general, there would be no happy life for them today, the general is in difficulty, we don't help anyone to help Wang Shuo moved, tears flowed.Liang Min's government finally has money, and the salary of the official ape no longer has to be owed, and Liang Min's little face is also happy.In any case, the night was not in vain, and the general's idea was really good.I didn't be happy for three days, and the ministers under my command came.Why are you here, you still need to ask for money.Li Tianyu, Minister of Industry, is waiting for money to build a new shipbuilding base, and if he wants to build a real ironclad warship, the technical conditions are now ripe, but he is short of money.It turned out that Li Tianyu had a headache when he heard that Wang Shuo wanted him to build a large base, but now he didn't need Wang Shuo to urge, he took the initiative to ask for it to be built.That's why he's got a good taste.To engage the government in the economy, of course, it must develop foreign trade.There are many people under Zheng Chenggong who started out of this, how could Wang Shuo let them go After strict political study, many of these people were brought to his Ministry of Commerce by Wang Shuo.Sino-Ocean Company was established to sell the country's tea, ceramics, textiles, textiles, and various daily necessities produced by various modern chemical factories to all over the world.These things, due to the use of industrial production, the cost is very low, but they are fresh and precious treasures abroad.The ocean-going fleet of the Ministry of Commerce exchanged these things for a large amount of gold and silver, as well as ivory, rhinoceros horn, rubber, quinine, and other items needed by the country, and made a fortune.Then what does this have to do with Li Tianyu's desire to build an ironclad battleship, of course it has something to do with it.The products produced by the factories under the leadership of Li Tianyu were also brought abroad by these merchant ships to sell, and he also made a lot of profits.In addition, the caravans of private trading companies also followed the public ocean-going fleets to go to sea, and used the bases established by the public fleets around the world to replenish and make a fortune.In this way, the state also earns money, and individuals also earn money, which has played a huge role in the prosperity of the country.If it weren't for these ocean-going trading companies, Wang Shuo's method in Jiangnan would have been unable to sustain the country.Now, the fleet of the Ministry of Commerce has reached South Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and if the financial resources are sufficient, they will not let go even of Europe.It's not so simple for the fleet to go out, there are pirates in the sea to loot not to mention, just the European maritime powers, Spain, the Netherlands, the British Empire, and France, you come out to rob their business, can they do Zheng Chenggong His father Zheng Zhilong was hired by the Dutch East India Company to rob caravans from other countries.Later, he became more powerful, and he also became big by driving out Dutch merchant ships, occupying the South China Sea and the East China Sea, and engaging in trade monopoly.People are doing a good job of trade monopoly there, you can stick a stick in the cold, then people can do it, then there must be warships to escort the caravan, talking with steel and artillery.At that time, it was an era of robbers, and whoever had a hard fist had to listen to whom.Wang Shuo's six ironclad warships were all escorted by the fleet sent to the Ministry of Commerce.At first, the Western powers were not convinced, and came out to rob Wang Shuo's caravan.But you also have to see whose fleet it is, as far as your broken wood ships that beat iron pills, you still fight with Wang Shuo's warships, but you can't fight, you can't run, and you let Wang Shuo's ironclad ships overturn more than a dozen warships one after another, and the Netherlands is the first to serve.You play yours, I can't afford to mess with you, I won't mess with you, let's not provoke anyone, Cheng Wang Shuo agreed, but you come to my territory, dock at the dock, sell your goods, and yours will pay taxes for me.I pay taxes, I pay taxes, but you come to my territory, you also have to pay taxes, where is your territory, Ryukyu or the East Indies, that's your territory, isn't this nonsense, I will definitely pay taxes when I go to your Netherlands, and if you don't pay taxes in those places, don't accept it, I will give you your red city to bombard, believe it or not, the Dutch pondered, don't say it, we really can't afford to provoke, his artillery is powerful, and the main island of Ryukyu Taiwan is close to his mainland, he really wants to send troops over, plus that scary cannon, it really doesn't take much trouble to flatten us.Gotta open and close your eyes, you can do whatever you like, as long as you don't fight with me.Wang Shuo has long wanted to take back Taiwan, but Jiangnan has not been able to calm down, and now he is short of money, so he has to endure it for the time being.The Dutch obeyed, the Spaniards did not.You come to my Philippines, come to my Indonesia, no, I have the final say here, you can only hand over the goods to me, I will set the price, and then you can go back.As for how much I sell your goods for, that's my business, and you don't care.You pay back the price, let you taste the cannon first, this time it was Wang Shuo's warship that fired first, sinking four or five of the Spanish warships parked in the port of Manila.The Spaniards were stupid.It turned out that the Chinese would only shout blindly and could be slaughtered at will.It turns out that the Chinese government is so powerful, this weapon is too advanced, and we are not at the same level, people are lions, we, hehe, we are not even wolves compared to others, we are directly lambs to be slaughtered The Spaniards are also honest, watching the Chinese caravan build ports and bases on the shore, and the marines take experts to the depths of the land to find coal resources, they dare not care.Cannons, muskets with a very long range, this is not vegetarian.The Chinese in these archipelago rejoiced, the country did not forget about them, and finally came: