Chapter 858: Strict Procedures

Every department has already calculated and reported all their production capacities; the number of notes to be printed will follow this standard, but the plates are still being carved, and once carved, they must pass Baifeng's review before the next step can be taken.

Because this can basically be considered printing currency, Baifeng manages the entire printing process very strictly and set sufficient standards from the very beginning.

The factory used for printing is a temporarily cleared-out warehouse, as this printing is not continuous—it only happens once or twice a year, and many notes can even be recycled, so they are not printed that frequently.

How much paper to use and how much ink to use are all fixed; if there is more or less, the loss must be noted, including where the loss occurred, and even the paper scraps from trimming must be swept up and weighed.

During the printing period, no casual entry or exit is allowed, and before printing begins, Workers must change into work uniforms without any pockets or linings; after coming out, they must undergo a body search, because for things like Grain Coupons, if a single 100-jin Grain Coupon gets out, the National Treasury will lose 100 jin of grain. If someone were to sneak out a few extra during the entire printing period? The loss would be much greater than the natural loss.

For Cloth Coupons and Meat Tickets, if one extra is taken, the impact is even more obvious; when that happens, who should be held responsible? The factory's? Therefore, these systems must be established well from the very beginning.

But printing is still quite fast; however, now is not the time to issue the notes, as an important figure of Huaxia has not yet returned. Such matters must have his participation, and the restructuring of the departments has not yet been carried out; everything must be straightened out before starting.

Ever since Xiong took over the Chishe, the team has become even larger, but after the Chishe suffered a beating from Huaxia, they were clearly much more obedient than other tribes. Plus, with people like Fu telling the tribesmen every day about what Huaxia had done along the way and how powerful and wealthy they were, the Chishe tribesmen were filled with anticipation for Huaxia.

The cooling of the weather is gradual, and because they are constantly moving east and south, the pace of the cold air moving south is still behind them. Of course, this is assuming the cold air hasn't exerted its power; the current cooling is mainly caused by the movement of the sun. If the real cold air were to strike, it could reach Huaxia City in two or three days, and Xiong and his team would only be left eating the snow foam behind it.

Along this journey, they have been moving along smoothly; the tree stumps cut down by Huaxia on the way here have now become good places for them to camp, and the Huaxia Soldiers can even find time to cut down some more to expand the area of this flat land, which can also provide them with enough firewood.

If this continues for many years, there will be many such cleared spaces along this route; with a simple cleanup, they can be used for camping. This is a bit like the stations established on the way to Xiao Town; although this road has no well-developed, easy-to-travel paths and no houses, at least on such a long road, there is a place to set up camp quickly.

Food has not changed due to the addition of the Chishe; the Chishe have their own stored grain, but their stored grain is only enough for themselves to eat, and without continuing to hunt, it can only last until they successfully return to Huaxia. To survive the Winter, they usually have to go out and hunt; tribes that do not go out in Winter for fear of the cold have long since perished.

Therefore, although the Chishe cannot provide food for the team, they will not occupy the team's limited rations, which makes Xiong quite relieved; at least they are not a burden. As soon as the Chishe people arrived, Xiong immediately tossed them a bag of salt, telling them to eat as much as they wanted.

This is also an important reason why the Chishe people can follow Huaxia wholeheartedly; after all, a tribe that can be so generous and give such good salt must be very powerful. These salts alone are already worth a fortune, enough to let a medium-sized tribe wipe out the Chishe.

Xiong gives them salt, firstly to win them over, and secondly to reduce the burden on his own people. Don't look at the Chishe people as if they are carrying all sorts of messy things, but they have many people; let alone one bag of salt, even if they were given a few more sacks of salt, they would find a way to carry them.

This large bag of salt must weigh nearly thirty jin, and Xiong still feels very sorry for his own cattle. Although the cattle are still very strong, they have only been eating Grass along the way and haven't seen much feed, causing them to gradually lose weight, which makes Xiong feel very distressed.

The cattle cannot eat good feed on the road, but on their backs, they carry good feed for the horses. Horses are far more precious than cattle in Huaxia; although it has always been advocated that people are the foundation and people are more precious than anything, in Xiong's view, between a horse and a Soldier, the horse seems more valuable. Of course, this comparison is still difficult; if it really came to a desperate situation where even the cattle couldn't be slaughtered and only the horses could be, he would definitely choose to save the people rather than the horses.

But if it were an ordinary person, that would be another matter.

On the Huaxia side, Lu has already received orders and set off. He is leading a heavy-duty team forward, and the backs of the cattle are all loaded with grain. They are not afraid of running out of time; as long as they keep moving forward and there are no problems with the grain, they don't need to go too far, as they will definitely be able to meet Xiong halfway.

Shaoyin has been in the military for some time, but even though his father is the head of the Ministry of War, he currently holds no official position or rank. Compared to others, he just has one extra surname. Before his father dies, he won't even have any Nobility, unless he accomplishes some great feat himself to earn a different Nobility; this is allowed in Huaxia, it just depends on whether Shaoyin has the ability.

And the current Shaoyin cannot even be considered a veteran; he can only be said to no longer be a raw recruit. The missions he has carried out are ones his comrades have basically all done, so they don't count as bonus points; they just allow him not to fall behind in the competition.

He requested this mission himself, mainly because his father is in the team. This mission has no difficulty, which means there is no merit to be earned. Without mandatory requirements, those Soldiers would not think of volunteering unless their families were in difficult circumstances and they wanted to go on this mission to earn more subsidies for their families. The rest of the people would rather wait for their rotation and go home to have a good rest during this Winter.