I have to say that Li Er's action of beating the side drum this time was still very successful, and Zhang Nan, the two old thieves Wang Mozhi and Zheng Rong, didn't know, but from Comrade Li Er's happy expression in the past two days and the almost no opposition in the court, something could still be seen.

Although the intimidation has come out, life still has to go on.

One night, Zhang Nan entered the palace in a carriage with a black box, and Comrade Li Er also received Zhang Nan in his own heart palace.

"Qingquan, this is the paper money you are talking about?" Comrade Li Er picked up a banknote with his portrait printed on it and looked at it under the lamp, the banknote was written with the words "Ten Money", the words Datang Bank, and the rest were some patterns and Comrade Li Er's portrait.

"That's right, the emperor, what you are holding in your hand now is ten yuan of money." Zhang Nan said with a smile.

"Why don't I look at this avatar so much like me? It feels a little sluggish, unlike your banknote, which has a lifelike avatar on it. Li Er was also a little unhappy at this time.

Comparing the avatar on this note, it doesn't show his wisdom at all. Of course, this is just Comrade Li Er's personal thoughts.

In the face of Comrade Li Er's dissatisfaction, Zhang Nan was also helpless, after all, the process of paper money in later generations was much more complicated than the current one, that is, Zhang Nan exchanged a set of things that could produce paper money, and it could not be made, after all, these things were not made in a day.

"Your Majesty, this is the portrait that Yan Liben Yan has been painting for nearly a month, if you are still not satisfied, then let Lord Yan paint it for another month, and if you are not satisfied, you will draw it again, anyway, I have heard that after drawing this avatar, Lord Yan's hands are trembling and he can't even hold the pen." Zhang Nan shrugged.

Anyway, this original painting was not painted by him, of course Zhang Nan didn't care, and Li Er could only go to Yan Liben if he was not satisfied.

Of course, Zhang Nan didn't lie, Yan Liben did lock himself in the house and paint his avatar for a month, Zhang Nan estimated that according to Yan Liben's speed, how could he not draw a dozen or more avatars a day, and this was not fake, Yan Liben didn't dare even if he wanted to fool him, after all, this was for the whole Tang Dynasty.

Although it is the avatar of Comrade Li Er, his reputation is also in it, so Yan Liben does not dare to be sloppy at all.

As for the fact that he couldn't hold the brush after painting, it was also true, and Yan Liben not only couldn't hold the brush after painting, but directly broke the brush, and then his hand kept shaking as if he had Parkinson's.

Painting is a combination of mood and brushwork, like this kind of boring and constant repetitive work, Yan Liben didn't want to do it at first, but after all, this is a portrait of Comrade Li Er.

Yan Liben just didn't want to do it.

So after painting the portrait for a month, Yan Liben finally broke the pen, and said that he would recuperate for at least three months, and he would never pick up a paintbrush to draw a painting again in these three months.

After Li Er listened to Zhang Nan's words, he stopped talking, and after thinking about it for a while, Li Er said, "Okay, then this is it." ”

Li Er also knew that if he continued to ask, Zhang Nan would definitely talk about process problems and so on, so Li Er simply didn't give Zhang Nan a chance to say this.

"Well, it will be released in two days." Zhang Nan said with a smile.

"I'll take a look." After Li Er finished speaking, he picked up a five-piece banknote again, which was painted with the head of Empress Changsun, who originally didn't want to use her head as the head on the banknote.

Although Empress Eldest Sun still thought about it in her heart, she was afraid that she would have an adverse impact on Li Er by doing so, after all, she was just a woman, and this thing was closely related to the entire Tang Dynasty.

But Li Er demanded that the head of Empress Changsun be printed, so Empress Changsun also appeared on the first batch of banknotes in the Tang Dynasty.

At first, Zhang Nan didn't think of Comrade Li Yuan, and almost forgot the real founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but after Li Yuan appeared in front of Zhang Nan again and again, and didn't give Zhang Nan any good look, Zhang Nan finally remembered Li Yuan, a lonely old man.

Originally, Zhang Nan wanted to put Li Yuan directly on top of the 100 guan, but considering that this is the national currency after all, and Li Er didn't seem to want to put Li Yuan so high, Zhang Nan could only change the things printed on the 100 guan.

What is printed on the 100 yuan is the dragon flag of Datang and the national emblem of Datang. Consistently, the money is printed with the landscape of the Tang Dynasty, and the 500 text is printed on the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty.

The face value of Zhang Nan's banknote was also decided after consultation with Cui Shao. The highest face value is 100 guan, followed by 50 guan, 10 guan, 500 guan, consistent, 500 wen, 100 wen.

At least 100 Wen.

Of course, for the face value of this hundred texts, Zhang Nan originally wanted to print himself, but considering his own life safety, Zhang Nan did not do it in the end. Although Zhang Nan really wanted to experience what it was like to be printed on a banknote and liked by everyone.

In the end, Zhang Nan thought about it, and still chose the peony to be printed on the face value of 100 Wen. After all, the entire Li Tang royal family is very fond of peony flowers, although this flower was basically characterized as the national flower after Wu Zetian came to power.

Legend has it that Wu Zetian had a whim one day to see the flowers in the winter, and said that if he couldn't see the flowers the next day, he would waste the garden and kill all the courtiers. The god of the land knew, heard that the garden was going to be destroyed, and hurriedly went to the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor heard that the Tang Emperor wanted to enjoy the flowers, agreed to meet her, and immediately sent it: the spring is known quickly, and the flowers must be sent overnight.

The next day, all the flowers in the garden bloomed, only one branch did not open, it was the peony, Wu Zetian was very angry, felt that this peony was too arrogant, so he ordered the flower garden to be burned, and the peony was demoted to Luoyang, who knows, these flower branches that have been burned into scorched wood actually bloomed gorgeous flowers.

Later, in order to commemorate the proud spirit of peony and not tending to be inflammatory, it was known as the national flower of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, this must be fake, but it is true that the Tang nobles like peonies, so there is actually no problem for Zhang Nan to use peonies as a seal with a face value of 100 Wen.

"Okay, let's use these, I'm quite satisfied, and when the time comes to start exchanging banknotes, I'll go in person, and you can arrange it then." Li Er commanded.

"Got it." Zhang Nan nodded and said.