177 Silver note from the Royal Bank of Daming
Sure enough, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were just thinking about this when they heard Emperor Chongzhen say loudly: "I am here today to pay you military pay and rewards. Come on, carry it up!"
Hearing this, the soldiers of the emperor's powerful brigade couldn't help but be even more happy, especially those soldiers from the Feiyongwei Camp, who had not touched what the silver was for many years. At this time, when he heard that many people even turned their eyes, they wanted to see the spectacular scene of carrying the boxes of silver up. After all, there was an emperor here personally, who would dare to deduct the silver, it would be real. Then, the silver would probably be hundreds of thousands of taels.
Indeed, the military pay of the ordinary soldiers of this emperor's brigade is two taels of silver per month, which is higher than any other army. The higher the military position and the different military branches, they will increase the money on this basis. In addition, the rewards made by the land during this battle for the King are also very rewarded.
However, to the school soldiers a little surprised that with the emperor's decree, the Jinyiwei carried several boxes to the front of the army. The number of these boxes was much lower than what they thought, and the box was not big, how could it be able to hold such silver?
But they were so strange that they just looked at it. Could it be that this box was a bottomless pit that could generate enough silver? With the emperor here, who dared to float without money?
Emperor Chongzhen naturally knew what they were thinking, so he asked the Jinyiwei to open the box, walked up, took out the things from it, and then showed it to the soldiers in the schoolyard. At the same time, he said: "It is extremely inconvenient to distribute silver, and it is also inconvenient to carry it. Therefore, I specially opened a Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which is a banknote. The banknotes are all in the banknotes. This is a banknote, which is issued by the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty. I know that it is the first time I use this banknote, and everyone may feel a little worried. For this reason, I have specifically told the bank that as long as you go to exchange silver, there will be a special exchange location for you to exchange, and there is no need to queue with others."
"In addition, not only you, but others, but also others, are required to repay immediately, and do not make excuses to delay." Emperor Chongzhen glanced at everyone's eyes in the scene and continued to shout, "If such a situation occurs, when I come to the military camp, Zhuner and others will tell me directly, who's the problem? I want his head!"
If Emperor Chongzhen had said from the beginning that this kind of banknote was the Ming Baochao, even if these Ming soldiers were so enthusiastic about the emperor, they would have a break in their hearts. After all, the reputation of the Ming Baochao was too bad. Everyone knows that the thing is not only worth the face value, but is even far lower than the face value.
However, Emperor Chongzhen has not yet made the right steps and issued paper notes directly, but only silver notes. Although they are all paper, there are differences among them.
If paper money is used for market circulation, the currency cannot be large, and even the face value of copper coins is required. This has the precedent of the Ming Dynasty Baochao, and its reputation is very bad. Even if you change the name, you are not fools. Can't you recognize that Zhang San changed his name to Li Si and was not Zhang San?
Although silver notes are paper, their face value is generally relatively large, and they are generally based on silver. In the daily life of ordinary people, silver notes cannot be used for buying and selling, and are generally bulk transactions. Moreover, in this era, silver notes are already very popular and everyone knows them. In other words, silver notes should have a certain credibility foundation under the operation of others.
Others don’t know that Emperor Chongzhen’s fundamental purpose is actually not silver notes, but paper money; however, he did not think that he would get it done in one step, but started with silver notes, so that the rich people in society would get used to the silver notes issued by the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty and then gradually launch paper money, so that the resistance would be smaller.
At this time, when he said this, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were a little surprised. They did not expect that the emperor actually opened a money shop and even made such a strange name. But thinking about it, how could the emperor open a money shop at the same level as those money shops opened by ordinary people? Naturally, even the names must be different!
Based on their fanaticism towards Emperor Chongzhen, although they were surprised or some people were still confused, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty had already guaranteed that these silver notes could be exchanged in front of so many people. Even if someone below made things difficult for them, they could directly sue the emperor. In this way, most of the soldiers accepted the bank notes opened by the emperor in their hearts.
Subsequently, officials under the Imperial Horse Supervision Office, together with Chen Baoting and other eunuchs, began to distribute military pay and rewards according to the roster in multiple places. The emperor sat on the general stage and watched it himself, and did not leave without caring about it.
This made the Ming soldiers feel much more at ease. When they heard their names one by one, they went up to collect the money. When they got the banknotes from the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, they couldn't help but be very surprised.
Although most of them have never owned silver notes, at least they have seen silver notes.
In the past, or the silver notes from other bank banks, whether they are paper or printed, you can tell at a glance that they feel shoddy.
But now, the silver notes they have received are exquisite paper and exquisitely printed, just like paintings. What's even more exaggerated is that the paintings on the silver notes have a concave and convex feeling, which is really strange.
Of course they didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen had issued an order to find talents in printing from the very beginning, but it was also thanks to the other party's reputation. He happened to be in the capital and was founded by him. He was a famous calligrapher, painter and seal engraver and publisher in the late Ming Dynasty. The one with a concave and convex feeling was Gonghua printing, which was his own creation. This person was Hu Zhengyan, who was nearly fifty years old at this time, and it happened to be the peak of his craftsmanship.
In the original history, Hu Zhengyan was also appointed to the Hanlin Academy, but before he took office, the Qing Dynasty invaded the capital; but this time, under the butterfly effect, he was able to enter the court as an official in advance and did what he was best at.
In the current Ming Dynasty, this method of printing "Kanghua" did not appear. In the original history, Hu Zhengyan was still publishing the "Shizhuzhai Calligraphy and Painting Book", which was also very good, and used the watermark color matching technology. When the printing work of "Shizhuzhai Calligraphy and Painting Book" was about to be completed, he began to engrave the "Kanghua" until the 16th year of Chongzhen. The printing of this "Kanghua" was first adopted for the "Kanghua" printing.
In addition, the papers of the silver bills are all tributes offered and are exclusive to the palace. Once these two aspects are combined, Emperor Chongzhen has the confidence to be able to prevent counterfeiting without secret seals. This is the most fundamental guarantee that silver bills can be used as paper money in the future.
For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen also specifically explained this anti-counterfeiting matter to Hu Zhengyan and gave him suggestions. First, paper tributes must be strictly investigated and private circulation is strictly prohibited; second, his ink formula required for color printing is also confidential; third, this printing technology, including watermark color cover and arch flower technology, is also confidential, and no relevant craftsmen are allowed to go out.
Although all literati like to be officials, Hu Zhengyan is nearly fifty years old and has experienced too many things in the world. Now he is valued by the emperor and engaged in things that he is most interested in. This matter can be known to the world and left to future generations. Naturally, he has devoted all his efforts to this matter and constantly demanded that he continue to improve the silver bill printing technology of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty.
It has to be said that the cost of this silver bill is actually very high. Although the cost will be much lower after large-scale printing. However, if the face value is only a few cents, it will probably be a loss. If the bill is not printed more than before establishing sufficient credibility, the cost is real.
Fortunately, the income from the house search is still quite large. The printing of the silver notes is mainly large, and the smallest unit is one tael of silver. After these silver notes are circulated for a period of time, Emperor Chongzhen would only launch a face value of one, two, and five cents when the time is ripe. This is equivalent to the fifty, one hundred, and two hundred and fifty in later generations, which is still a bit large, but things always have to be done step by step.
The Ming soldiers on the school ground, even those generals and deputy generals, were very surprised after getting the bank notes from the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty. At this time, they didn't have to try to exchange the bank, but the bank notes themselves gave them confidence.
Many people took the silver notes, looked left, right, looked over, looked over, looked over, looked over, looked over, looked rare, absolutely rare!
The characters on this are beautiful and beautiful, and they are also colorful. What's even more strange is how this concave and convex feel comes from? It's so strange!
The silver bills are different according to the face value, but they are all those that Hu Zhengyan is good at, such as plum, chrysanthemum, bamboo, etc.; and he is good at various fonts. Therefore, the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty is a font, the amount number is another font, and the year is another font. This silver bill that has devoted Hu Zhengyan's efforts can be regarded as a work of art.
The distribution process is very long. After all, to check the list, different amounts of money must be paid according to the size of the credit and the size of the official position. Even so, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were waiting one by one, without any delay.
What surprised them was that Emperor Chongzhen was always sitting on the stage and was always with them. You know, this was the Emperor of Ming Dynasty who was busy with a lot of trouble, and he actually took time to stay here all the time, which made these Ming soldiers fanatic about the emperor and always maintained that enthusiasm.
After all this, Emperor Chongzhen walked to the generals again and said loudly to the Ming army soldiers: "You should be familiar with the military camp first. I am preparing new weapons, armor, etc. for you. At least if you fight against Jianlu in the future, you will never lose to Jianlu in terms of equipment. This is my promise to you!"
Hearing this, the soldiers who had suffered great losses in the equipment and weapons were so excited that they were all excited. If this is true, they were afraid that they would be able to get a bird for Jianlu!
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the soldiers below, looking at their excitement, and finally added: "When you all settle down and everything goes to normal, everyone will be transferred according to the team's organization to guard the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty."
When they heard this, the Ming army soldiers were a little surprised, but when they looked back, it was no wonder that there must be millions of taels of silver in the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the emperor would not have asked them to protect them. Thinking of this, their hearts became more at ease.
After Emperor Chongzhen finished talking about this, he gave Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the imperial horses, the opportunity to let him, the chief official, step forward.
However, Emperor Chongzhen had already made his debut today. What else could he say in front of the emperor? He could only order his disbandment.
These three battalions of troops cannot be released at the moment, and they must be familiar with the situation before they can be released in turn. In this way, the outside world does not know that the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty has made a silver note. Emperor Chongzhen was waiting, and the Shanxi merchants mobilized to cause trouble.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen did not leave, but went to the Imperial Horse Supervision Office. Now this place is his real one-acre and three-point land.
Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting had never spoken. In fact, there was no chance for them to speak, and they just watched all this by the side. When they saw that the rewards were made of silver notes, but the soldiers were not dissatisfied with any dissatisfaction, they knew how heavy the emperor was in this army. However, all this was not beyond their expectations.
When Emperor Chongzhen completed the rewards of military generals and ordinary soldiers and brought them to the yamen to discuss matters, they vaguely felt that they might have an explanation for the merits and demerits of the three of them.
Although they have not been to court these days and have been busy with the work of serving the royal army, it does not mean that they have not heard the news. When the censors and censors are attacking them, they are somewhat worried about this. After all, the impeachment of those civil servants is not aimless and randomly made up.
However, looking back at the emperor's wise performance during this period, the three of them felt a lot more relieved. The intuition told them that the emperor would never punish them, or even though they were punished, they were still the emperor's confidants. Otherwise, the emperor would not be complacent about them, and the source of the connected silver would be carefully explained to them.
After arriving at the Imperial Horse Supervision Office, there were only three of them in the hall and Wang Chengen accompanied him.
Not only did Wang Chengen have the understanding brought by later generations, but also based on Emperor Chongzhen's observation, this person had no thoughts, otherwise he would not have paid much dirty silver without any thoughts in it. In addition, during the period when he was sent to serve the king, he was enough to prove that he was trustworthy by eavesdropping seeds.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen began to train him and brought him by his side when discussing matters, but Cao Huachun was not qualified yet.
At this time, it was almost evening, and Emperor Chongzhen did not waste time and said to the three of them straight to the point: "Now the matter of serving the king's army has come to an end. There should be an explanation for Qing and the other three." m.
Chapter completed!