178 As a spirit, it is natural that the Governor of Venice (Milan) should be hanged on Saturday
Whether before or after time travel, An Ning came to Milan for the first time.
In the past, his only knowledge of this city came from two things. One was the city derby between AC Milan and Inter Milan, and the other was his favorite Hayao Miyazaki movie "Porco Rosso". In it, Porco Rosso's plane broke down and he had to fly. Shipped to Milan for repair.
In the movie, An Ning's impression of Milan was that there were many canals and bridges, and things produced by the factories along the river could go directly down the canals.
After An Ning watched the movie, she always wanted to fly a seaplane in Milan. When taking off, she had to go through many bridge holes.
Because of the movie "Porco Rosso", An Ning has always wanted to go to Milan. Unfortunately, after graduating from college, she joined a company and was busy with internal affairs every day. If she slacked off even one day, she would be overtaken by others, let alone travel for a month.
Going on a casual trip is something that people with free wealth can do. Social animals can only hope that Ubisoft's next Assassin's Creed will use the places they want to go as the game stage.
Now, An Ning stands on the hillside outside Milan under the soft morning light of Northern Italy.
The city of Mira seemed to be at his feet.
But there is no river visible from this angle.
Strange, is the Milan in Porco Rosso fake? It is also said that most of the canals were dug out for transportation after the Industrial Revolution?
An Ning couldn't help but ask the Corsican next to him: "Shouldn't there be many rivers in Milan?"
Napoleon replied: "There are indeed many rivers."
An Ning pointed at Milan in front of her: "Then why can't I see it?"
"Having a river doesn't mean there is water everywhere like Venice." Napoleon shrugged, "Most of the rivers in Milan are canals dug out to transport goods. The water is deep enough for boats, but not very wide. You are outside the city. You can’t see it from a high slope.”
A peaceful cry.
Berthier asked doubtfully: "Are you familiar with Milan? Can I ask you to negotiate with the gentry in the city? Our supply line is a bit too long. It is best to find some supplementary channels in Milan."
An Ning couldn't help but glance at Berthier: Just a supplementary approach? Chief of Staff, do you have any misunderstanding about the purpose of my coming to Milan?
I came to Milan to complete the primitive accumulation of capitalism.
But Milan is not only rich, but also has a large number of engineers and scientists.
The industrial level of Italians in this era was pretty good. In order to launch the industrial revolution in France, Milanese craftsmen were precious resources.
An Ning had already thought about it. First, he would launch a revolution like the French Revolution in Milan and let Italians decide matters in Italy.
The method used once before in Diego to promote independent bonds cannot be used here, and a more formal method must be used.
An Ning plans to issue currency directly in Milan as the liberator of Milan.
As the first step in issuing currency, he first wanted to establish the Italians' own country in Milan, and then he prepared to ban the currency merchants in Milan.
This is a kind of businessman who specializes in various currency exchange businesses, and most of them are Jewish.
After eliminating the currency merchants, you can hold the currency exchange rights in your hands and open an officially endorsed currency exchange business.
Then this firm will issue a coupon representing a certain weight of gold and silver, and stipulate that the coupon can be exchanged for silver coins or gold coins of corresponding value.
Because tickets are easier to carry than gold and silver coins, and there is no need for a complicated valuation and exchange process. As long as the circulation of tickets is controlled and the printing of counterfeit coins is strictly controlled, in a trading city like Milan, tickets will soon be available.
will become popular.
After the coupons become popular, you can secretly print some coupons and use them for shopping.
As long as there is no concentrated run, the printed tickets can be used as money!
An Ning learned this method of cutting leeks from a teacher in the United States of America, and he planned to practice it in Milan.
In fact, Tranquility is used in France, but the French are inherently resistant to paper and pen. There was a paper currency reform in the Kingdom before, and the results were very bad, which led to the French people's impression of paper money being unreliable.
Coupled with the fact that the National Assembly is now playing tricks on fingerprint coupons, the French people's impression of banknotes is over.
The French gradually accepted paper money after the Industrial Revolution was completely completed in France.
At that time, domestic commodity transactions were too frequent, and it was too troublesome to use gold coins, so everyone accepted paper money because they couldn't bear it.
Italy is different. First of all, the banking industry in Italy is well developed, and there is a tradition of using bank deposits as currency.
Secondly, Italy was originally a place where various commercial republics gathered together, and commercial activities were frequent, so it originally needed a paper currency that could be trusted.
It's just that Italy has been fragmented for a long time, either ruled by the HRE or divided into pieces of commercial republics and kingdoms.
The scattered republics and kingdoms themselves did not have sufficient credibility to support the promotion of a unified paper currency.
Even if you are accepted in your own country, others will not recognize you outside your country.
In fact, if HRE is willing to issue a banknote in Italy, with the size and prestige of HRE, it can support the banknote to be accepted by various countries.
But HRE is a feudal country after all. Although it has become an enlightened feudal system after Queen Theresa's reforms, no matter how enlightened the feudal system is, it will still be a feudal system.
The result is that there is no unified banknote in Italy, which makes the exchange of various currencies very troublesome during transactions.
It is precisely because of this that there is a living space for Jewish currency merchants.
Even in this disorganized state, the Italians have come up with many alternative means to replace the cumbersome currency transaction process with commercial contracts.
Tranquility's idea was that I, the herald of the French Revolution and the protector of Italian independence, would introduce a paper currency in Italy that would be accepted by everyone.
With France and Italy independently endorsing it, this banknote must be highly leveraged.
It doesn't matter if only Milan accepts it at first. Anyway, when the opportunity comes in the future, Tranquil will include the Kingdom of Sardinia, Venice and the Papal States into this paper currency system.
It's just that he needs a little time.
No matter what, it all starts in Milan.
First, he will go to the center of Milan and deliver a speech, calling on all Italians to stand up.
Then he will control all the printing presses in Italy, print the slogan of Italian independence all over the streets, and tell the Italians that when the French liberators come, Italian independence will come!
Immediately afterwards, he wanted to hang the HRE governor in Milan.
An Ning said to Napoleon: "Let's go into the city and let the Italians see how powerful and majestic the revolutionary citizens' army is!"