In the regulations editing office, Xu Ping and Yan Su stood quietly, watching the people in front of them concentrating on painting. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Standing a little later was Cai Xiang, while Gao Cheng was busy preparing all kinds of things needed.

Painting is Dali Temple Cheng Zhang Zonggu, good at painting landscapes, wood and stone, most of the wood and stone of its painting have frozen color and snow embellishment, hanging in the room in summer has the feeling of cold air attacking people, for this time Danqing world of a great master.

Yan Su is also good at painting landscapes, but he prefers literati painting, paying attention to artistic conception, which is not suitable. Xu Ping found the shopping coupon that Yansu Painting Sansi was about to issue, and he recommended Zhang Zonggulai.

After finishing the last stroke, Zhang Zonggu put down the pen, wiped the sweat beads oozing from his forehead, turned around and said: "To be made, I don't know if this painting is still satisfied?" ”

Xu Ping didn't know much about painting, so he leaned over and looked at it, only thinking that it was quite vivid, so he looked at Yan Su beside him.

Yan Su looked down for a long time, straightened up and said: "If this painting is to be reproduced on the copper plate, the lines cannot be complicated, but it must have a special charm, which is really not easy." In my opinion, it's rare to paint like this. ”

Xu Ping nodded and said: "Yan Beizhi has a point, and there will be two more troubles when the copper plate is reproduced later." ”

After speaking, he turned to Cai Xiang who was standing on the side and said, "Jun Mo, this one is a good one." ”

Cai Xiang bowed his hand, walked to the table, dipped himself in ink, and wrote the denomination on Zhang Zonggu's painting.

After writing, Xu Ping stepped forward to look at it and nodded again and again. Calligraphy and painting are all famous artists, and ordinary people can't copy them. The most fearful thing about using paper coupons is that there are artificial fakes, and it is impossible to make people unable to do it at all, so they can only do everything possible to increase the difficulty of counterfeiting. One is to increase the cost of counterfeit coupons, and the other is to narrow down the target group of people with this ability.

There are also paintings in engraving printing, but it depends on craftsmen, who are born with a kind of craftsmanship, and people who are traveling with them are easy to imitate. The four roads of the Sichuan Gorge are used for two-color printing, special printing, and there are also drawings of house characters on it. Because of the geographical restrictions on distribution, counterfeiting is not serious, but it is by no means impossible.

The best way to prevent counterfeiting is to demarcate the boundary, the more limited the anti-counterfeiting ability, the fewer the years of each realm, and the stronger the anti-counterfeiting ability, the longer the time of each realm. This is also the method adopted by Jiaozi now, which is a boundary every three years, and must be replaced when it expires, and cannot be used across borders. In Xu Ping's previous life, it was the variety of currency, and every few decades, the old version of the currency would be abolished, but the main purpose of doing so was no longer anti-counterfeiting, but more for economic and technical reasons.

Because the shopping coupons of the three divisions are mainly used in the capital, and they have the nature of experiments, the number of years in the first realm is very short, only two years. The time of use is May of the first year of Jingyu, and it will be abolished after two years, or it will be replaced with a new coupon or exchanged for money, depending on the use of the first paper coupon.

After writing and painting, Gao Cheng ordered the miscellaneous officials to bring tea and water, and several people sat down to rest.

Yan Su took a sip of tea and said to Xu Ping: "Xu waits, once the shop of the third division uses this coupon, won't the copper coins in the capital enter the third division more?" Other shops in the market are not doing well. ”

"This kind of thing is indeed possible, but the various expenses of officials and officials will be slowly abolished, and the copper coins will not be left in the treasury of the third division. Money is only useful if it is poured from your hand to my hand, and it is constantly bought and sold. Therefore, whether a place is prosperous or not, we cannot only look at how many copper coins there are on the market, but also how many times these copper coins are exchanged. The copper coins of the people were received in the three divisions, not to collect money, but to make the money flow faster. ”

After listening to Xu Ping's words, Yan Su smiled and said: "What Xu Beizhi said makes sense, the old man just asked casually, and these things are naturally best known to you in the third division." ”

At this moment, Gao Chengduan came in with two printed paper coupons and handed them to Xu Ping: "Deputy envoy, this is the fifty paper coupons made two days ago, and the sample has been printed, please take a look at it." ”

The landscape painting printed by the copperplate is a bit tough, and the ink is specially prepared ink, not black, but the rare blue and daisy color now, which is also an anti-counterfeiting measure.

Xu Ping saw it and saw that there was no flaw, so he handed it to Yan Su and let him look at it.

Yan Su saw it, sighed and said, "In the end, it is printed, and there is always less charm." ”

When the others heard this, they laughed together: "The paper coupon is a printed product, how can there be charm on it!" ”

Yan Su said: "No matter how you paint, there is always less style in printing, but Cai Junmo's words are extremely expressive, although there is less spirit, but you can still see at a glance that it is from his handwriting." ”

Cai Xiang arched his hand: "Yan is too much to be made, and the words are written on it, but it is actually mostly craftsmanship." ”

asked Cai Xiang to write the words on the paper coupon, at first he refused, and he didn't do it no matter how much he gave him, this is a matter of principle. In his heart, his words are works of art, they are windy, how can they be printed on Ah Du! Not to mention the third division, when the Empress Dowager Liu was there, he refused to ask him to inscribe the screen in the palace, and he couldn't drag it around.

In the end, Xu Ping reluctantly invited him in the name of official business and told him countless national financial truths. Despite the agreement, he asked to write only and not write his name on it.

In the end, the paper coupon reached Zhang Zonggu's hand, he looked left and right, and finally sighed: "No matter how I look at this painting, I can't recognize that I painted it." I've been learning to paint for decades, but I've never painted like this. ”

Everyone laughed together, and Yan Su said: "Naturally, it's not like your usual paintings, the one in your hand is only fifty wen, how can you buy one of your paintings?" ”

Zhang Zonggu took the paper coupon and flipped it in his hand, and suddenly asked: "If I accept this paper coupon, can I go to the shop of the third division to buy fifty wen goods in a few days?" ”

Gao Chengduan said: "Naturally, no, if it is sent out, it will be printed." There are not only the seals of the three divisions, but also the seals of the Treasury Department and Kaifeng Mansion, all of which are indispensable. Cover them all, and it will take nearly ten seals! ”

"That's a pity!" Zhang Zonggu shook his head.

Xu Ping said: "It's a pity, when the day of the coupon is issued, everyone here, the three divisions will each give fifty pieces of paper coupons, and you can go to the shop to buy what you like." ”

Zhang Zonggu arched his hand: "So thank you to the deputy envoy." ”

Yan Su and Cai Xiang just smiled slightly, obviously not very interested in these fifty times. Yan Su is a high-ranking official, and he has amazing painting skills, and any painting can be sold for a hundred and ten times, and of course fifty times is not in his eyes. Cai Xiang is from a big family, and his own words are also extremely valuable, and more importantly, he doesn't pay much attention to money at all. (To be continued.) )