"Banknotes!"

Pang Yukun was a little surprised when he heard this, in history, the Great Yu Kingdom has been using vouchers like silver tickets, and the theory of paper money has never been there. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xiao Ming had a premonition of Pang Yukun's reaction, and he directly used the technology crystal to tell Pang Yukun what kind of banknote it was.

"There is no doubt that industry will enrich the goods, and at the same time the money that represents the flow of goods will also increase, so that the imperial court will need to issue money according to the quantity of private goods to maintain the trade between goods."

"In that case, how much should be issued?" Pang Yukun was a little puzzled.

"The number of issuances can not be nonsense, simply put, paper and pen are just equivalent to the previous copper coins, too much issuance will lead to the depreciation of copper coins, originally a copper coin can buy a bury head, but now it is necessary to buy a steamed bun with ten copper coins, which will cause turmoil in the country for a long time, so the issuance of paper money should be equal to the current total industrial and agricultural production of the country, and at the same time in order to ensure the value of the currency itself, the currency needs to be linked to gold and silver." Xiao Ming said with a deep groan.

Although the country has a tendency to surpass the West in terms of firearms, there are still many imperfections in the social system of the country.

Especially in the financial area, he lagged too far behind, so after expelling the barbarians and basically stabilizing the country in Dayu, he decided to make up for the lack of this area.

And he has a great ambition, which is to establish an international monetary system dominated by the Great Chongqing State and construct financial hegemony.

Although this ideal is still some way off, it is necessary to start preparations now, and this issuance of banknotes is what needs to be done now.

Pang Yukun gradually comprehended under Xiao Ming's explanation, and he said: "If this is the case, Lao Chen suggested that the current Dayu State adopt the silver standard currency, after all, gold is too scarce, and silver is the currency that has been circulating in the Dayu Kingdom. ”

Xiao Ming nodded, he once wanted to establish a gold standard monetary system, but now the conditions are not met.

"That's what I mean, but I can also mix gold and silver, and establish a system for the exchange of gold and silver." Xiao Ming said that he was burying the gold standard so that he could use it directly in the future.

Pang Yukun thought for a while, and raised his last concern, he said: "Your Majesty, there are many people who imitate silver tickets, if paper money is issued, how to put an end to it?" ”

If you don't have a diamond, you won't be able to do porcelain work, Xiao Ming dares to issue banknotes, and it is natural that Dayu can achieve banknote printing technology, so he said: "You don't have to worry about this, I have my own way to solve it." ”

Pang Yukun nodded, "Since this is the case, the old minister will go back and dispose of the Cao family's money village first." ”

With that, Pang Yukun saluted and turned to leave.

Seeing Pang Yukun leave, Xiao Ming called up the information in the science and technology spar, issuing banknotes is not a simple matter, and he naturally does not dare to come nonsense.

The reason why it is now on the agenda is that on the one hand, Cao's money bank has been uprooted, and on the other hand, he is confident that the quality of the banknotes issued is hard enough.

Generally speaking, paper money has high requirements for paper, and ordinary paper must not be used, after all, this kind of paper is easily soaked in water.

Therefore, the paper that is really used for banknotes is banknote paper, which is made of cotton linters.

This kind of cotton linters is also called cottonseed lint, which is the residual short fiber on the cotton seed after ginning, and these short fibers are peeled off with a stripping machine, which is cotton linter.

Because of the complexity of the collection process, short lint can be much more valuable than ordinary papermaking raw materials.

Having the material is only the first step, the second thing to master is the raw material formula of this paper, which is produced in strict proportions.

In this way, the paper made is smooth and delicate, tough and foldable, and it shakes in the air with this kind of banknote paper in both hands, or pulls loosely and tightly at both ends of the banknote in both hands, or flicks the surface of the paper with your fingers, it will make a clear and crisp sound.

Relatively speaking, most of the raw materials of ordinary printing paper are straw, wheat stalks, etc., the texture of this kind of paper is soft and rough, the toughness and tension are insufficient, it is easy to break, and the sound will be muffled if it shakes in the air.

Therefore, it is just that the manufacturing level of this banknote paper cannot be imitated by the merchants of the Chongqing Kingdom, after all, the cost of imitation will be very high.

In addition, he also has an anti-counterfeiting magic weapon is watermark.

Watermark is an ancient anti-counterfeiting method, and his country was the first country to master the watermark pressing technology in ancient times.

At that time, the paper curtain was woven into a texture or pattern to highlight the curtain surface, and the density difference of the pulp here when the paper was copied was made, and the pattern between the bright appearances was seen through the light, so that the watermark was formed.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a "Yanbo Paper" watermark paper, and in the late Qing Dynasty, it was a watermark paper with the words "Wang Liuji". In Europe, the Saxon banknotes issued by Prussia in 1772 used watermarks, and since then the use of watermarks has become more and more common.

In addition to these two items, the third banknote printing technique that was also possible in the Great Chongqing Kingdom was letterpress printing, which used raised patterns.

In this way, the surface of the banknote becomes convex and concave, and this last thing is the printing pigment, the mineral pigment.

Compared with plant pigments, the colors of various paintings painted with mineral pigments remain unchanged for thousands of years without fading.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu: "Now go to the printing workshop with me." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Qian Dafu answered and went out to prepare.

At this time, Xiao Ming picked up the pen to record the key technologies, and then he was going to transfer the technical backbone to establish a banknote workshop.

This workshop will be a high-level secret of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and the method of printing banknotes will be a secret within a secret.

After writing, Xiao Ming got up and went to the printing workshop, which had always been in charge of the newspaper, and he directly asked Fan Zeng to extract some people with clean backgrounds from it.

At the same time, he was instructed to set up a workshop from paper to printing in accordance with the printing procedures of the newspaper.

And he gathered the selected people to Qingzhou University.

Because of the importance of this issuance of banknotes, Xiao Ming asked the government to prepare a confidentiality agreement for each of them, and signed an agreement that they would strictly keep the secrets of the banknote printing workshop, and if they violated it, they would violate the Dayu State Secrecy Act.

The craftsmen selected by Fan Zeng are all ordinary people who have lived in Qingzhou City for generations, and the information of several generations is very clear, and the entire family also lives in Qingzhou City.

Such craftsmen are very safe for Xiao Ming, because they have a lot of scruples, and the probability of being bought is also very low.

In the next few days, Xiao Ming handed over the core technology of printing money to them, of course, the procedures were separated, and each craftsman could only master part of it.

At the same time, he also instructed the Instruments Division to manufacture a sawtooth stripping machine, which was not a problem with the current industrial capacity.