Ferdin's sentence "Fifty percent of the banknotes are folded!" Speaking of which, the temperature in the Yali of Wanping County this morning was a little lower. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info already a little cooler in autumn, and the atmosphere in the county government is even more cold.

It is different from the salary payment of military generals. The soldiers of the Guards Regiment have basically opened accounts in Hengxin Commercial Bank, and the monthly salaries are paid on time, and there is no arrears, and there is no corruption and misappropriation by middlemen.

But civil servants are different.

Before Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, he never interfered in the civil official system of the Beijing Division, that is, after he ascended the throne, he also fought in the south and the north, and there was no free time. In this way, the salary payment of the civil officials of the Beijing division is still the old way.

So what's the old way?

For example, Wu Yingke, Wanping County Order, from the official of the sixth grade. 8 stone grains in January. Besides, it's gone. One stone of grain is sixty catties, and four hundred and eighty catties of grain a month seems to be enough to eat.

But the financial system of the Ming Dynasty has never been so good as it is now, and it is customary to have 96 stone of grain in a year, but in the end, there is not so much.

Wu Yingke remembers that last year, he received a total of 14 stone rice, 30 taels of silver, 400 banknotes and a team of rags.

It is said that this year's summer tax is coming, and the imperial court should also distribute all the grain and rice. In particular, there are saintly weddings and successive victories, which can give an extra year. This is a holy reward, and everyone is looking forward to it.

Therefore, this time, when he saw that Fei Ding received the Wanping County Ya Lu from the household department, Wu Yingke was also full of expectations.

But as soon as he heard that fifty percent of the bill had been folded, Wu Yingke suddenly became depressed.

"Originally, it was an extra year's worth of money, but now it has to be discounted by 50% of the bill, and this dare has not changed." At this time, Lin Peng, the chief of the Dongcheng Police Station, couldn't help but sigh.

Although the police station is a violent institution, it is a local civilian organization in terms of structure. No, Lin Peng also serves as the history of Wanping County.

"If you want to say that it hasn't changed at all, it's not ......" Fei Ding said quietly: "It's good that there are a bunch of Ming pass treasure money." ”

Saying that, the people in the house also brought out this year's Yulu.

There are quite a lot of them, full of hundreds of big bags. Seeing that Yu Lu was coming, everyone saluted Wu Yingke one after another. As a prefectural magistrate, he naturally has priority.

It was still the same as in previous years, a total of fourteen stone rice and thirty taels of silver. If you want to say that the only thing is different, maybe it is in this silver tael and that treasure banknote.

Wu Yingke waved his hand and asked the family of the back office to carry the grain back, but when he saw the silver, he couldn't help but exclaim: "What fine workmanship." ”

When everyone heard this, they all came over to see.

"It's not a silver ingot." Ferdin, too, exclaimed.

Wu Yingke had a box of thirty taels of silver in his hand. But this silver is not a five-tael ingot, but a round small silver cake.

The silver cake is finely worked, quite round, one side is engraved with an open one yuan, and the other side is written with the Ming Dynasty 267 years, as well as a sun and moon dragon pattern.

Wu Yingke took it out and looked at it carefully, touched it with his tentacles, and sighed: "This is made by skilled craftsmen." If you take out this silver cake and exchange it, you can exchange it for some more silver. ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately took out their share of the money. As soon as the box was opened, the sounds of surprise came out.

Fei Ding, Lin Peng and others were all surprised: "Our Yulu this year is all this silver cake!" ”

Lin Peng sighed with emotion: "Such a fine silver cake, even if the color is poor, take it out and change it, and you can raise the water by 30%. ”

On the other side, Ferdin's eyes were much more active, and he smiled, "Not necessarily. Although my Wanping County Ya relies on the Beijing Shi Yulu to send it early every year, maybe the silver issued by the Beijing officials this time is this silver cake. If there are both, this will not refer to a three-percent premium. ”

The premium is an additional premium, and scarcity is expensive, if everyone has it, then the premium is not much.

Wu Yingke slowly bowed his head: "That's the reason, but then again, unless it's really tight." Otherwise, there will be few places where this silver cake will be taken out and used. There are a few common ones on the market that are good money. ”

Unlike later generations, everyone used RMB coins to use, and paper money is said to be money. This year, there are more money in the word. It is considered money, except for the Ming Dynasty banknotes that have long been worthless on the bad street, the most important thing is silver and copper coins. The silver that is circulating in the market is not the neatly white silver ingots in the TV series, but all kinds of silver.

Some people even use scissors to cut open and weigh the silver, not to mention the various kinds of silver of different colors. It is that the quality of copper coins is very poor and scarce, so there are even iron coins on the market. More developed areas may accept reputable silver bills, while remote and isolated places can only be bartered.

Even if there is occasionally silver in good condition and good condition that can appear on the market, what you want to do after you start it is carefully stored and used at a critical time. And this is the bad money driving out the good money.

"Either way, it's a happy event." Wu Yingke put an end to this topic because he had discovered a more interesting thing: "This treasure banknote is different." ”

As he spoke, Wu Yingke took out a stack of treasure banknotes, shook it inadvertently, and made a crisp loud sound.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were attracted to the past.

Meanwhile.

In the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, Xu Huanwujin presented a stack of banknotes.

This is the new Ming Dynasty treasure banknote. The treasure banknotes are colorful and look very bright. Zhu Cihong took out one from the bottom and looked at it carefully.

The style of the treasure banknote is much smaller than before, larger than Zhu Cihong's palm, longer and narrower, and looks much slimmer. The obverse of the banknote is first written with the Ming Dynasty Treasure Bank, which was printed by the Imperial Central Bank. Next to it was written a huge inscription: Ten silver dollars. Under this line of words, you can still see the words ten silver dollars in tax silver.

On the back of the banknote is a painting depicting the Battle of Zunhua. On the painting, there is a scene of soldiers charging. Their enemies, the murderous Jiannu, fled in strange shapes. At the bottom, there is a line of quite clear and written in red characters, "Ming 276 system".

This is the largest denomination of the banknote issued this time. The remaining denominations are also five silver dollars, two silver dollars, and one silver dollar. Maybe it's lazy, except for the small size, the design is all the same. As for the face value, they are all exchanged one by one compared to the small silver cakes. One silver dollar can be exchanged for one or two small silver cakes, which is the literal meaning of silver dollars.

Of course, there are more small-denomination banknotes in Zhu's plan, which is a good measure for promotion. Smaller denominations are the ones that can promote circulation. It's just that it is not easy for Xu Huanwu to launch four large banknotes in such a short period of time, and the small ones can only be put back first.

Holding the treasure banknote, Zhu Cihong shook slightly and made a crisp loud sound.

At this time, Xu Huanwu said: "Saint, the paper used for treasure banknotes is a completely different and unusual paper. Ordinary paper is wood and grass, but the treasure money is made of cotton and flax. Therefore, this is the crisp sound, and the touch is very different, and it is very classy. ”

Zhu Cihong touched the treasure money and bowed slightly. Indeed, the bumps are different to the touch, and the workmanship appears very fine. It can be seen that Xu Huanwu obviously put a lot of thought into it after taking office.

After a while, Zhu Cihong raised it again, and under the sunlight outside the window, a sun and moon dragon pattern appeared.

"This is the watermark of the saint's confession, thanks to the help of skilled craftsmen in the craftsman compound, otherwise, this time I am afraid it will be difficult. This watermark is not added the day after tomorrow, but it is prepared at the beginning of the papermaking, which can be said to be two sheets of paper sandwiched with a watermark paper. Xu Huanwu continued to explain.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong put away the stack of treasure banknotes again: "Not bad." This time, the first tranche of the banknotes was able to achieve this level in a short period of time, and the work of the central bank was very recognized. You must continue to work hard to maximize the production of silver dollars, and at the same time, the issuance of this treasure must not be slow. A million dollar worth of treasure notes, I want to see at the end of the month. How do you deploy the rest of the manpower and material resources, the court will fully support it. ”

Xu Huanwu was puzzled in his heart, and he didn't know why His Majesty the Emperor was so concerned about the issuance of treasure banknotes, but he still bowed down and responded: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

Immediately afterwards, after thinking about it slightly, Xu Huanwu still expressed the doubts in his heart: "Shengshang, if the treasure banknote with a face value of one million yuan can be borrowed from the Jingshi Ordnance Workshop on the Yongding River, Weichen is confident that he can complete the holy order." However, at present, there is only one hydraulic workshop, and if it is used for treasure money, it will be difficult to continue the expansion of the production of silver dollars. ”

Xu Huanwu said it quite implicitly, but Zhu Cihong still heard at a glance that Xu Huanwu was not confident in the treasure banknote. In fact, almost no one takes this treasure seriously until now. This time, in order to let Xu Huanwu take charge of the central bank to produce treasure banknotes, Zhu Cihong spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to expand production.

The tens of thousands of taels of silver used on treasure banknotes can almost be said to be wasted. If it weren't for the production of other silver dollars that made Xu Huanwu smell the key, Xu Huanwu would have suspected that His Majesty the Emperor would be overjoyed.

A silver dollar with a face value of one dollar is relatively thick, about the size of four coins in later generations, and it weighs one or two. But the silver in it is not of forty-nine pure silver. Here, with the help of the skilled craftsmen of the Jingshi Ordnance Workshop, the fineness was successfully reduced to seventy percent by adding various impurities. And the remaining thirty percent is naturally made up by imperial credit and excellent workmanship, so that it can be exchanged for one or two silver.

In this way, a profit of 30% can be made for every silver dollar printed, which is the beauty of seigniorage. And the value of the silver dollar Xu Huanwu can be recognized, in fact, he also believes that for such a well-made silver dollar, the market must also recognize. In this way, it is natural that it is most important to spend valuable production capacity on silver dollars.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong just smiled and said, "Just print the treasure money with all your might, and you will witness the next thing." Presumably, you've received it too, right? I have my own plan. ”

As soon as he thought of the thirty new-style treasure banknotes with a total denomination of one hundred and fifty yuan that he had obtained from the household department, the expression on Xu Huanwu's face suddenly became strange.

It's just that when he thought of His Majesty the Emperor's smiling expression, Xu Huanwu instinctively told him that it would be of great use to carefully store these treasure notes. At least, you can't just take it and wipe your ass like the old janitor. What else to say...... The straw paper in the palace is also called treasure banknotes.

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At this time, in the Yali of Wanping County, everyone also noticed the treasure money on Wu Yingke's hand.

Above, there is a stack of treasure money. It's just that this treasure note is obviously a big change, it is colorful and green, and the printing is even more surprising than the best pictorials. In particular, the tentacles are uneven, and there are watermarks in the air. This scene made everyone curious.

It's just that after being curious, everyone doesn't care.

"Compared with last year's total of 400 yuan, there are still fewer than 120 yuan...... Hey, I don't shout anymore. Now it's called Yuan. It's the same as the silver bread. It's just that this thing can only be used to prepare for a day when it will be taken out to see what is fresh. It's not even good to go to the toilet, ......" Wu Yingke was curious, and he was happy, no one cared about this worthless thing.

It's just that Lin Peng suddenly said with a strange expression on his face: "Everyone, I recently received a new order from the Criminal Department. It is required to convey everywhere that the treasure money should not be damaged, but that the treasure money should be cherished......"

"Oh? In this way, even if you want to go to the toilet, you can't do it. You have to give orders to your subordinates, and you can't mess around. It's just that, can you say what happens if you get caught? As far as I know, the old Xu Ke in the official room has this habit. Fedin was curious.

"It's also strange, and I don't say how." Lin Peng said: "Xu is the boss has other preparations." At the very least, it has to be put to rest. You can't go to other people's pits to check. ”

"Okay, okay, the more you talk about it, the more biased it becomes." Wu Yingke hurriedly stopped: "This year's Yulu has been issued." Today I instructed the kitchen to entertain everyone to a good meal. However, the autumn grain is coming, and the big guys have to think well. This time, the saint's wedding is another big reward, and the autumn grain is not good, and the big guys can't eat good fruits. ”

"Whoa!" Everyone straightened their faces one after another to show solemnity.

And the crowd dispersed. Lin Peng also went back to the police station, and when he saw that Xi Jinwen happened to be there, he said, "Have you received the nearest Yulu?" I remember correctly, recently the Criminal Department circulated a message to the yamen of various departments asking to take care of the Daming treasure banknotes, but don't forget, you presided over the propaganda matters and posted notices at the political points in each city. ”

"Got it, Director." Xi Jinwen responded and said, "I'll order another meal, and I'll leave." ”

Not long after, Xi Jinwen went home for lunch.

Xi Jinwen's house was full of excitement, which was caused by Xi Bin's recent marriage. A big hobby is not lively. So recently, Xi Dacai has also been running diligently.

As soon as Xi Jinwen entered the house, he saw Xi Dacai with a sneaky face, still carrying something in his hand, and said, "Uncle Jiu, I have to entrust you with something!" (To be continued.) )