In the official room, Guo Song listened to the reports of Pan Liao and Li Weijin. He thought for a while and said: "Manage them as Grade A officials and craftsmen, place them in Xianyang County, and give their family a large house in Xianyang. As for the shop, Xishi
Or Xi'anmenwai Street, they can choose any place and rent it to them at the official price."
Since the Taiyuan era, the official craftsmen of the Jin State have been divided into two levels: A and B. Among them, level A belongs to the top official craftsmen, mastering the highest secret technologies, such as gunpowder craftsmen, firearms craftsmen, knife craftsmen, crossbow craftsmen, and metallurgists.
Wait, they are well-paid, and the government provides housing and children's education. On the other hand, they are not very free, they cannot go out at will, cannot communicate with other craftsmen at will, etc.
Li Weijin added: "I have asked about it in my humble position. The rice paper was developed by the head of the family for twenty years. It is also the top secret of their family. Only two people know the formula. Including eight craftsmen, there are only ten people involved in making this kind of paper."
Xuan paper, they gave all three hundred kilograms of rice paper to the court, and the cost was ten guans per kilogram."
Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "The imperial court must get the formula, so be it! Xi'an Menwai Street gave them a shop along the street, and then gave them a two-acre yard in Chang'an as compensation for the formula and three hundred kilograms of paper.
, if they want to solve the problem of housing for the tribe, they can provide official rental housing in Xianyang, or Chang'an Ju'anfang provides official rental housing, they can choose by themselves."
"Your Highness, is the papermaking workshop also located in Xifengfang, Xianyang?" Li Weijin asked.
Xifengfang was the location of the imperial weapons supervisory workshop. The shells of the imperial heavy crossbows, mo knives and iron fire thunders were all made there. Thousands of top craftsmen lived there.
Guo Song nodded, "The rice paper can be placed in Xifengfang, while other rice papers from their family will be placed elsewhere. If the quality is good, the court can also purchase it for a long time."
"Wei Chen understands. Xifengfang happens to have an open space next to the river. I will take him to the site tomorrow to have a look."
Li Weijin hesitated and then said: "In addition, their family owner also made a request, hoping that the official name of this kind of paper should be named after their hometown."
Guo Song smiled slightly and said: "This request is not too much. What is the name of their hometown?"
"Wei Chen asked, and their hometown is Dulongshan Village, Changqing Township, Xuancheng County."
Guo Song laughed and said, "Dulongzhi, this name is not nice, but the town name is okay, then call it Changqing paper, this name is good, tell him! The official name can be called Changqing paper."
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One month later, large-denomination money notes and silver notes were officially issued, and were operated by Chang'an Eight Counter Shops. There were three sizes of silver notes, one for one hundred taels, one for five hundred taels and one for one thousand taels. The same was true for money notes.
There are three types: one hundred guan, five hundred guan and one thousand guan. Merchants can exchange them as needed and can transfer them. However, the transfer requires both parties to sign and seal on the back of the bill, but the transfer cannot exceed five times at most. Each counter will redeem the bill upon seeing it, and it will be paid by the household department.
The Zuozang Administration conducted unified liquidation.
At the same time, the Invoice Inspection Office was also established, and King Guo Song of Jin also signed legal provisions on money and goods notes, and formulated extremely severe punishment measures for counterfeiters and counterfeiters.
It can be said that the introduction of silver notes and money notes has adapted to the needs of the market and has been greatly welcomed by merchants. Especially the unconditional payment clause has relieved businessmen from their worries. As soon as silver notes and money notes were introduced, they were immediately popular.
sought after.
Of course, the Accounts Department also made a lot of detailed preparations, and released hundreds of sets of samples alone and sent them to the branches of major counters. They could refer to them when making payments. As long as the paper is consistent and the gold pattern is the same, there will be no problem.
In addition, the Ministry of Accounts also gave each counter a set of number books. Each banknote and money check corresponds to a nine-digit number and issuance date. In other words, the counterfeiter must obtain a real check before he can clone it.
, otherwise if you create a counterfeit bill of one hundred taels of silver and randomly assign a number, it is very likely that the number does not exist, or the number corresponds to a banknote of five hundred taels of silver, and the secret will be exposed immediately.
In an old house in Guangdefang, Chang'an, close to the West Market, several men with different expressions sat together. On the table between them was a five hundred taels of silver note. They all stared at the banknote.
There were expressions of disbelief in everyone's eyes.
These people are all the leading figures in the gold and silver black market in Chang'an. They almost control the exchange of gold and silver in the black market. In the middle is a gray-haired old man in his early sixties. His name is Jin De. Everyone calls him Lord Jin. In Chang'an,
The gold and silver black market has been at the forefront for twenty years.
Because the government acquiesces to the existence of the gold and silver black market, these gold and silver brokers live a very prosperous life.
"With just this piece of paper, you can exchange it for five hundred taels of silver at any counter?" Jin De asked in disbelief.
The owner of the silver note was a middle-aged man. He said respectfully: "Master Jin, I took it to Baosheng's counter today. The counter said it can be withdrawn at any time. I have another one hundred taels of silver note.
It was paid normally."
Another younger man frowned and said, "What is the court doing? Just print a piece of paper and it can be redeemed. Then I will print his tens of thousands of taels of silver notes. Will it be redeemed?"
"It will definitely be exchanged, but only if you can print it. This paper is very special. I have never seen it before. There is also gold thread embroidery on it. It is not something ordinary people can embroider. The court is not a fool. Let you
You can fake it as you like."
Jin De picked up the banknote and looked at it carefully and said: "Indeed, this paper is rare and the gold thread is exquisitely embroidered. It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to imitate it, but there are still masters in the world. If you are really serious, it is not difficult to imitate it, but
The question we face now is not whether to counterfeit or not..."
Jin De put down the banknotes and looked at everyone solemnly, "Don't you realize? This trick the court did is to dig into our roots. With money and banknotes, who will ask us to exchange gold and silver in the future?"
Already?"
Jin De's words struck a chord with everyone. Their profits depended on the difference in exchange for gold and silver. They exchanged one tael for one thousand one hundred cents, and they exchanged one thousand two hundred cents for one tael for silver.
, one tael of silver earns one hundred wen.
Merchants have always been big users of gold and silver exchange. Because copper coins are inconvenient to carry, and flying money is sometimes inconvenient, merchants like to exchange them for gold and silver that are easy to carry. Because they use gold and silver to buy goods, the other party will also give them a profit.
, so the exchange loss is not large.
Now that money notes are available, they can be exchanged at any of the top ten counters. Merchants no longer need to exchange gold and silver. At the same time, because of the issuance of banknotes, there is less silver circulating in the market. Silver is used to exchange money.
The number of people will also be greatly reduced. When the two ends are squeezed, their interests will be seriously affected.
After thinking about this, everyone fell silent. The younger man said bitterly: "If we don't give him a way to survive, we won't make it easy for him. We'll hire some experts to make a batch of fake bank notes and money notes. We'll
Go to Hangzhou and Guangzhou and exchange a large amount of gold and silver to make up for our losses!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
Jin De suddenly became angry, "When you are tired of the work, go do it yourself and don't involve us!"
The young man was too frightened to say anything. Jin De waved his hand, "Everyone, go back! We will talk about the future later. Some things cannot be changed by us."
Everyone got up and said goodbye and left.
Jin De returned to the back house. He picked up the silver note of one hundred taels and looked at it for a long time. He paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. Although this banknote was indeed difficult to make, he did not need to actually withdraw the silver, so he did not
It needs to be made so lifelike. As long as merchants distrust this kind of banknote, many merchants will return to their previous trading methods.
Currently, he still has almost 200,000 taels of silver in his hand, which he obtained in exchange for 1,100 taels of silver. If these silvers cannot be exchanged, but are exchanged for money at the official price, this will come and go.
It was a loss of 40,000 yuan, a loss he could not afford.
Thinking of this, he said to the eldest son next to him: "Go and find Bian Laoliu for me!"
Bian Laoliu was a master at forging famous calligraphy and paintings. His eldest son understood immediately and was startled. He whispered in a low voice: "Didn't my father scold Zhang Hong just now? Why did my father also want to..."
Jin De said calmly: "I scolded him because he was stupid. Doing such a thing would be easy to get discovered and would implicate us. It doesn't mean I won't do it. Of course we have to do it, and it can only be done by me."