An Ning knew that to have the right to issue coins, two necessary conditions were needed, one was to have a very high reputation, and the other was to have a large amount of goods in hand.
Not to mention reputation, it is the basis for issuing currency, while commodities are mainly used to ensure that the currency issued is useful.
Otherwise, if you send out banknotes, you won't be able to buy anything, and the currency will soon turn into beautifully printed pieces of paper.
The thing that An Ning launched in Italy was secured by several large chambers of commerce in Milan. These chambers of commerce would use this equivalent coupon for their transactions, so it was successfully promoted in Milan.
This is particularly important in an environment like France, because France has a tradition of being anti-paper money. The paper money produced by the king during the reforms before the Revolution directly caused the French people to have a general distrust of paper money.
The indiscriminate issuance of banknotes after the Great Revolution brought the French common people's affection for banknotes to a freezing point.
In order to combat this deep-rooted negative emotion, An Ning must master a large number of circulating commodities.
So An Ning urged the National Assembly to pass a law to impose high tariffs on cloth from Britain.
In this way, the prices of all fabrics from Britain increased significantly, and the products of the steam textile factory established by Anning in the south occupied the market on a large scale.
In addition, Anning also used his huge reputation in the southern rural areas to establish a chamber of commerce to purchase and sell southern agricultural products.
These preliminary preparations have now been completed.
The printing of banknotes had also begun long ago. An Ning commissioned a committee composed entirely of painters to design the Republic's first banknotes - finger coupons, which were from the Kingdom era, not counting.
The printing of banknotes was handed over to the largest and most technologically advanced Printing House in Paris, Berryman.
As soon as the factory heard that this was a job entrusted by General Frost, they immediately sent out their best engraver to carefully produce the printing motherboard.
In July 1793, Anning's banknotes were discontinued.
That day An Ning went to the printing factory in person and was the first to pick up the newly printed finished product.
"Oh, that's really good." An Ning looked at Mr. Voltaire printed on the banknotes, "The details are very clear!"
The director of the printing factory said respectfully: "I can assure you that only we can print such clear finished products!"
An Ning: "This is the effect I want."
It is impossible to put so many anti-counterfeiting measures on banknotes in this era, and none of the anti-counterfeiting methods that will be very common in later generations are not available in this era.
Therefore, in order to prevent counterfeiting, we can only make a fuss about printing accuracy. Such high printing accuracy must be the work of a large printing factory with skilled workers. It is easier to detect counterfeit banknotes printed by such factories.
An Ning looked at the banknotes and imagined the future happily: Now I am the chairman of the French Federal Reserve, the French Greenspan.
I have unlimited financial resources as I have the right to issue currency. In the future, whether it is promoting rapid industrialization or re-equiping troops in batches, I have a financial foundation!
Where An Ning Zhengmei was, Napoleon's sister Polina came over and asked, "Who is the big head printed on this banknote?"
An Ning suddenly woke up from her reverie and glanced at Polina. The little girl had a curious look on her face and her big eyes flickered.
An Ning: "This is Mr. Voltaire. The various denominations of banknotes are printed with the leading figures of Enlightenment thought..."
"Oh!" Polina interrupted An Ning, "I know this person is the one you rescued from the Bastille!"
An Ning choked and coughed several times before he recovered.
"Uh, this..."
"Everyone says so!" Polina said enthusiastically, "Everyone also says that you are Voltaire's illegitimate son, that's why you can do such a good job in the revolution!"
An Ning scratched his head, wondering why the rumor was that there was evolution, and I suddenly became Voltaire's illegitimate son?
An Ning: "Uh, no, well, Mr. Voltaire was indeed imprisoned in the Bastille, but... uh, anyway, the reason is quite complicated. Anyway, I am not his illegitimate son, no."
Polina: "Then whose illegitimate child are you?"
"I'm not an illegitimate child! I'm just the son of a cobbler. Some people think it's embarrassing to have a cobbler's son riding on their head, so they arrange my origin in various ways.
"In the Kingdom Era, they said I was the illegitimate son of a certain great noble. After the revolution, the nobles became worthless, so they started saying I was the illegitimate son of Voltaire."
Polina smiled happily: "My brother is right. As expected, you will become anxious when your background as a cobbler is questioned."
An Ning: "This Napoleon, is this something you can tell your sister?"
Polina asked a new question: "By the way, why should Voltaire be printed on banknotes? Wouldn't it be more acceptable to everyone if your face is printed on it?"
An Ning: "I'm not a great person. As the first currency of the Republic, it should naturally be printed with those great men who gave birth to the Republic. One hundred pieces should be printed with Voltaire, fifty pieces with Rousseau, etc..."
Polina: "Why is Rousseau worth 50 yuan? Is he worse than Voltaire?"
An Ning: "Of course not, he is also a very important Enlightenment thinker, indistinguishable from Voltaire..."
"Then why did he go to fifty dollars?"
"This has nothing to do with the face value. We just printed the portraits of each Enlightenment thinker on the money. One person is responsible for one face value. There is no distinction between high and low."
Polina: "But people just think like this. They really think they are indistinguishable, so they print them together on the banknotes, four in a row."
An Ning: "That won't work. There will be a sense of déjà vu if there are four people printed in a row."
I think of Hokage Mountain, or the prototype of the US Presidential Mountain, or a certain version of the RMB.
Polina began to pester An Ning again and asked what "déjà vu" meant.
While the two of them were interacting like this, the owner of the printing house and the Parisian dignitaries who came to attend the roll-off ceremony of the new banknotes were watching.
Some people will inevitably complain in a low voice: "What the hell is this, just leaving us alone and dating a girl?"
As soon as the man finished begging, different people poked him in the side with their elbows, stepped on his feet and patted him on the back.
The man who poked the side said: "Be careful, Frost has stopped killing people on his own recently, but back then he was a murderous demon in the south, and basically all the nobles in Southern France were thrown into the street by him -
—There was no guillotine in those days.”
The person who stepped on the foot said: "You don't know, that little girl is Frost's new love, the sister of his powerful general Napoleon. He has a good relationship with the little girl in order to make Napoleon devoted to him."
The person patting the back said: "Her brother was the one who bombarded the Tuileries Palace, and now he has achieved a great victory against the rebels in Cordini. It is said that he used 5,000 national troops to attack 20,000 to 30,000 rebels.
And won a great victory.
"If nothing happens, he should become Frost's second.
"If Frost hadn't fallen in love with his sister, the people waiting to date this little girl might have queued up to circle Paris three times."
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At first, those who were all stunned were stunned: "Really or not, I thought this little girl was some Parisian girl that Frost was interested in."
"It's incredible."
"Yes," someone immediately responded, "If the war continues like this, the era of soldiers is coming."