There are still a few hours to be put on the shelves, and the results will depend on the report card after months of hard work and months of preparation. I'm so nervous! Everyone, you must enjoy a face, hold a scene, vote for the month, give a first order, of course, it is best to book all! Please, please!

In addition, Da Luo Luo is ready to explode ten watches tomorrow, and eight watches the day after tomorrow, if the monthly pass can exceed 100, the day after tomorrow will continue to be eight watches! Everyone, let your monthly pass come more violently!

After patting his chest, Luo Li did not mean to leave Zhu Jishi's study, but took out a few shiny foreign coins from his pocket and showed them to Zhu Jishi.

"Sir, please see, this is a silver dollar minted by our Spanish Empire, according to your Chinese weighing standards, it is equal to seven coins and two cents of Kuping, containing about 90% of silver, and the silver content of each silver dollar is six coins and five cents, but in the Chinese market, it can be used as one or two Ku plain silver."

"Oh?" Zhu Jishi picked up a silver dollar and looked at it for a moment, thoughtful. Although he was a businessman, he did a lot of business of hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, and he didn't have to count the money himself, and he had his own staff of the World Bank to do it for him. Therefore, there was no contact with the currency of the Qing Dynasty - silver or copper coins. So I didn't think of having to mint my own silver dollars to get the difference.

"You're suggesting that I mint silver dollars for profit?" Zhu Jishi still has this business acumen, he played with foreign money, smiled and said, "This idea is good, Ricardo, I think you don't want to be an official in the Qing Dynasty, just come to Jishixing to do a big class." ”

Rod Haha smiled, touched his beard and said, "Sir, where is the money you have here to make money from the Qing Dynasty?" I haven't been an official of the Qing Dynasty yet, and I've earned more than 100,000 taels of silver! So I decline your invitation. But I'm going to use that money to work with you to start a bank that issues silver dollars. ”

"Open a bank? And send silver dollars? Zhu Jishi frowned, he was the Bill of this era. Gatsga Jobs, playing mainly high-tech, is really unfamiliar with the banking business.

"Sir, have you never thought of opening a bank? It's a very lucrative business, but only the most powerful foreign firms are likely to enter the banking industry. I think the World Bank is the only ocean bank in Hong Kong that has this kind of strength. ”

Zhu Jishi smiled slightly, expressing his pleasure at Rodley's praise. However, the business of opening a bank is too big, and Zhu Jishi can't say anything, but he found Andrew the big class of Jishi Bank. Jones discussed.

"Ricardo is right!" Andrew. Jones nodded approvingly to Rodley, "It is indeed possible to mint silver dollars - for the World Bank, the difficulty of minting silver dollars does not exist, so I will write to Besemai and ask him to send someone to Singapore and Batavia to recruit mintmen, and the machines for minting can be designed by engineers in the ironworks and arsenals, and the parts needed can be purchased in India." However, it is a question of selling the silver dollars we have minted, first of all, in whose name will they be minted? Is it a counterfeit of the Spanish silver dollar and the Mexican eagle? ”

The Spanish silver dollar and the Mexican eagle are the two most widely circulated silver dollars in the Qing market, and all the money banks, firms and government governments recognize these two silver dollars, a Spanish silver dollar or a Mexican eagle ocean, all of which are equivalent to one tael of silver.

"We will mint our own silver dollars, and not counterfeit others." Zhu Jishi pondered, "However, in the name of Jishixing, I am afraid that it will be difficult for this silver dollar to circulate in the Qing Kingdom......"

Andrew. Jones nodded, "That's right, it's hard for us to trade directly with the merchants of the Qing Kingdom now, and they're all afraid to get involved with us. ”

Zhu Jishi said with a smile: "Then make another name, as Ricardo said, open a bank, just call ...... HSBC! ”

The genuine HSBC has not yet opened, so Zhu Jishi used this name.

"It's better not to use the name of a British businessman." Rodley reminded, "Now that the Qing Dynasty government is pro-French and hateful to the British, Bai Siwen takes care of me and claims to be a French businessman. ”

"In the name of France." Zhu Jishi said, "I'll give it to Maria. Clementina wrote to her and asked her to take a stake in HSBC, open an HSBC branch in France, and send me some bankers...... In the future, I would like to be able to carry out exchange business between China and Europe. Well, the share capital of HSBC is set at 10 million francs (400,000 pounds, about 1,200,000 silver), and I personally contribute 60% of the shares, let Maria contribute 30%, and Ricard will pay for the rest of the work. ”

In the last century, there was a stock crisis in Britain, called the "South China Sea Crisis", which dealt a heavy blow to the banking industry, and then the British Parliament passed an "Anti-Bubble Company Act" that overturned a boatload of people with a stick, which severely restricted the development of the British financial market. So now that the financial center of Europe is in France, it would be better to ask experts who run banks to go to France as well.

Therefore, in this time and space, there will be no HSBC Bank in the United Kingdom, only HSBC in France. The first chief executive of the Hong Kong branch of the French HSBC Bank invited the French chief executive of the Segur wine store, Henri . Castel served. Of course, this is only a temporary name, and until the French bankers sent by Maria arrive in Hong Kong, HSBC's business will be under the direct control of Zhu Jishi and his henchmen.

"After the silver dollar is minted, the problem of issuance is wrapped up in me, and a silver dollar can be counted as nine coins of silver." The opening of the bank was finalized, and Rodley raised the issue of the issuance of silver dollars. "But the profit of this money and silver is not taken by me, but given to Bai Siwen. He is the customs superintendent, in charge of the treasury silver of the customs, and the thirteen lines have to give him face. ”

"Nine coins of silver are fine, but they can't be discounted anymore." Zhu Jishi knew that Rodli would definitely profit from it, but he didn't break it. "As for the pattern of the silver dollar, you go and ask Bai Siwen what it is better to use, as long as this ocean of money can circulate unhindered on the ground of the Qing Kingdom, even if it is to engrave the head of Emperor Daoguang."

Zhu Jishi has already calculated in his heart that the profits of minting foreign money are extremely rich. Six and a half pieces of silver, mixed with copper and lead, can be sold for nine pieces of silver, deduct all the costs, mint a silver dollar, how can you have a profit of one and a half to two dollars. If all the silver circulating in the Qing Dynasty can be exchanged for silver dollars, there will be at least hundreds of millions of profits in it! Who cares what is engraved on the silver dollar?

……

"The pattern of the silver dollar...... Well, the French know the rules. ”

Nanguan, Guangzhou, Bai Siwen's outer house. Mr. Bai Siwenbai, who had just been awarded the title of the third grade for his meritorious work in purchasing 20,000 foreign guns, and was also promoted to the assistant minister of foreign affairs, and who was also the superintendent of the Guangdong Customs, listened to the report of the French HSBC Bank and prepared to mint silver dollars for the Qing Dynasty, and was of course very happy.

Now a dollar of silver can be exchanged for one or two pieces of silver in the market, and the rebate given by HSBC to Bai Siwen is four cents of silver per silver dollar! This is a huge amount of money, if HSBC passes Bai Siwen's way, it can send out 10 million silver dollars every year, and Bai Siwen can collect 400,000 silver dollars in huge profits.

But what made Bai Swen even happier was that the French HSBC bank also very respectfully asked him for the question of the silver dollar pattern.

"The pattern of the new money can refer to the Spanish silver dollar and the Mexican eagle ocean, but the emblem in the middle should be replaced with the word 'Qing', and the year name cannot be used in the Western Gregorian calendar, but in our Daoguang year of the Qing Dynasty." Bai Siwen pondered, "When the sample of this new money is ready, send me some, and I will send someone to Beijing to take a look at the Lord of Long Life, and let him know that France and our Qing Dynasty are good friends." ”

"Haode, the lower official will go and tell HSBC to do it." Rodry said with a smile.

"Well, so be it." Bai Siwen smiled again and said, "The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lin Zexu Lin, will be coming soon, and he has sent a letter from his family to my customs yamen, saying that he wants to see you, a foreigner, if it is available, it will be like the emperor will give you the title of Taoist." You go back and prepare some gifts, change into a long shirt and a horse coat, and come with me to the Yamen of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in three days. ”