"Folks, fathers and elders, please get up quickly! King Rong Ben will explain to you about this banknote! Liu Hong gradually took the loudspeaker from the hand of the bull mallet, stood on the carriage and shouted loudly to the people who knelt down around him.

It was Liu Hongji's idea to graft all the personnel of the Fuming money village system, including the shops, into the imperial court, because the three-month preparation time for the imperial court was simply not able to quickly establish a huge central bank system, and as early as more than two years ago, when the Fuming money village was first established, it was born for this purpose.

Of course, it was impossible for Liu Hongjian to hand over to the imperial court the Fuming Money Estate, which had cost such a huge amount of capital, manpower, and material resources as the Xishan Shanghe, and in fact, as soon as the new head of the household department, Qin Wenmian, directly spent nearly one-third of the silver taels of the state treasury, totaling 46 million taels of silver.

The Imperial Bank is headquartered in the back of Xishan, in charge of the gold and silver reserves of the Ming Dynasty, the printing and distribution of paper money and coinage, and the coordination of the silver exchange business of the branches of the Ming Dynasty.

This title was imposed on him by Zhu Cihong, and the change of courtiers and the planning of the army staff headquarters have made Zhu Cihong busy like an ant in a hot pot, and Liu Hong, who had just stepped down as the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, was gradually pulled by Zhu Cihong again.

The construction of the Imperial Bank Headquarters Building is being intensified, and Liu Hongjian plans to build the Daimyo First Reinforced Concrete Building in two years.

At the same time, the whole Xishan will be used as the place with the highest military defense specifications in addition to the capital, where there is not only the scientific research center of the Ming Dynasty, the Ordnance Institute, but also the first military academy of the Ming Dynasty, and the first science and technology of the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, the gold and silver of the Ming Dynasty will be stored here as the cornerstone of the monetary system, and it is conceivable that in a few decades, the underground of Xishan will become the richest place in the world.

At the same time, the Ming Imperial Bank as a separate administrative agency from the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Household only as a household registration statistics, tax collection, financial balance of the yamen, the balance of the tax into the Imperial Bank, disaster relief and other expenditures need to be reported to the Ministry of Households, under the emperor's approval, the Imperial Bank can approve.

This is equivalent to weakening some of the rights of the courtiers and the cabinet, and firmly controlling the military and financial power in the hands of the emperor.

However, after Liu Hong's statement was gradually sparse, the courtiers unanimously agreed on this, and the fiercest palace struggle seemed to be as smooth as flowing water.

Liu Hong gradually knew that the exchange of silver money would cause dissatisfaction among the people, so it was Jin Yiwei who came to report the news on Zhengyang Street almost a quarter of an hour, and saw that he couldn't come forward, so he went out at the most critical moment.

Liu Hongjian raised his hands and motioned for the people to get up, and in order to let the people from farther away hear, dozens of Han generals climbed onto the roofs of the houses on Zhengyang Street, each holding an inferior loudspeaker to repeat Liu Hongji's words.

"In the past few years, Your Majesty's hard work, the painstaking management of the imperial court, and the king's running around, so that the rise of the Ming Dynasty has stood proudly in the world since then, so that the foreign vassals dare not touch the tiger beard of the Ming Dynasty, so that you can thrive in a peaceful environment.

I believe you can see and feel this, think about what you were like six years ago! What are you doing now? Do you want to rebel? Liu Hong's voice was loud and sonorous.

"As the saying goes, it's better to be a peaceful dog than a troubled world, have you forgotten it?

Your Majesty also said to me last night, it is difficult to embarrass the people, what has Your Majesty worked day and night for the past few years? Is my Han family so ungrateful? ”

Liu Hong gradually spoke, Zhengyang Street fell into a short silence, just now the old man who was like beating chicken blood blushed like a monkey's buttocks, he found a bamboo hat on his head from somewhere and pressed it down, in order to hide the hot shame.

"Now the king tells you that the exchange of paper money is the method that your majesty thinks of because of the inconvenience of your transactions and the repeated deception of fake copper coins, and if you do not believe it, you can only take a part of the surplus money in your family to exchange, and the court allows you to keep the excess silver taels.

But! Liu Hong gradually said this, and the front suddenly became sharp.

"After three days, no one shall trade in gold, silver, or copper, and no one shall accept gold, silver, or copper coins, nor shall any new version of paper money or coinage be accepted in any shop.

Violators will be fined 10 taels for the first time, 100 taels for repeat offenders, and the shop will be closed for the third time.

Those who believe in the king of this book will go to their homes to exchange the silver, otherwise, they will not be able to buy food after three days, no wonder the king did not remind him.

Come on, move these silver ingots in, and this king will exchange 800,000 taels of banknotes and 200,000 taels of coins! After Liu Hong finished speaking, he opened the wooden box at the back of the carriage and showed a large silver ingot.

Moved with affection, understood with reason, and showed authority, Liu Hong gradually finished speaking, and then ignored tens of thousands of people, and walked straight to the branch.

Since the Beijing branch had prepared a large number of banknotes and coins a few days earlier, it didn't take long for one million taels of silver to be exchanged for the corresponding new currency.

It didn't take long for the nominal boss of Xishan Shanghe, British Gongzhang Weixian, to come first, and there were as many as 20 carriages accompanying him, in addition to Zhang Weixian, there were several big businessmen and shop owners in the capital, British Gongzhang Wei went to the door of the branch and said loudly:

"In response to the call of the imperial court, Xishan Shanghe came to exchange the new version of the banknote for three million taels, this is the first batch of exchange, and there will be a second batch five days later, five million taels!" Zhang Wei first arched his hand to Liu Hong, and then deliberately raised his tone.

"In response to the call of the imperial court, the Zuixian Restaurant exchanged 600,000 taels of new banknotes!"

"In response to the call of the imperial court, Chen's cloth village exchanged 260,000 taels of new banknotes!"

After reporting the numbers, these merchants in the capital arched their hands to Liu Hongjian and the gathered people, and then entered the branch one after another.

It is obvious that these merchants have been notified before, and it is these merchants who have benefited the most from the imperial court in recent years, although the imperial court has levied commercial taxes, but under the leadership of Liu Hongji, the imperial court has opened up more business opportunities for the merchants, and they are happy to support the imperial court's policies.

At this time, there were already three or three taels of people who began to try to exchange, but out of prudence, these people's basic knowledge was only one or two taels of silver.

After another half an hour, the Beijing branch ushered in a more solemn delegation-the courtiers who had just come down from the early dynasty came together, and more than two hundred came.

I don't know if these courtiers are skipping work, anyway, they are carrying packages of different weights in their hands, and they look like silver taels when they are bulging, and they consciously line up because of the large number of people.

Liu Hong gradually saw all this in his eyes, and the representatives of merchants and officials were naturally arranged in advance, just to let the people see that the imperial court was not deceiving them, from the king of Qin to the hundred officials to the merchant group, the entire upper class of the Ming Dynasty was actively responding.

According to Liu Hongji's plan, he will take the lead by example, if the people still don't buy it, it doesn't matter, he won't be angry.

The representatives of the merchant group continued to keep up, if it didn't work, he was still not angry, and the official class joined again, if he still didn't give face, he was embarrassed, Liu Hong was going to get angry, he wouldn't get used to this group of people, and besides, it wouldn't harm them.

Liu Hong gradually became angry, and the consequences would be very serious.

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