Zhu Biao laughed a few times and walked into the courtyard, no wonder the emperors of the Qing Dynasty liked to go down to the south of the Yangtze River, this is really too comfortable, even Zhu Biao thought about whether to live for half a month longer, and there is no major incident in the court now.

Zhu Biao walked around the courtyard, and the Chen Governor went to the side and instructed the maid to wait attentively, these are the sons of the Chen family, and they have been slaves and maids of the Chen Mansion for several generations, so they are naturally credible.

After Governor Chen's order, he found Liu Jin again, and politely asked about the prince's preferences and taboos, and then he arranged it, Liu Jin was naturally very satisfied, the officials on the coast just didn't have the officials in Jiangnan to do things.

Governor Chen saw that it was almost over, so he walked up to Zhu Biao and bowed down and said, "Your Highness will rest for a while all the way, and wait for the dinner when the ministers are coming to invite." ”

Zhu Biao nodded and said, "Then it's troublesome to Governor Chen." ”

Governor Chen didn't dare to quit, Zhu Biao was indeed a little tired, a group of maids came to serve, all of them were extremely delicate and lovely, especially with the graceful and gentle temperament of a woman in the water town.

After carefully serving Zhu Biao to bathe, Zhu Biao waved them away, and sighed comfortably while lying on the bed, camping in the wild for the night is by no means a comfortable thing.

Liu Jin stepped forward and knelt beside the bed, he couldn't look down at the prince at any time, and gently tucked the corner of the quilt for his Royal Highness, took out a piece of ticket paper and said, "Governor Chen stuffed a ticket number of five hundred taels into the slave maid. ”

Zhu Biao squinted his eyes and said, "What a big deal, five hundred taels is enough to buy a marquis's mansion in Kyoto." ”

Zhu Biao reached out and picked up the ticket paper, the material should be mulberry paper, with complex patterns on it, these patterns are usually printed by dyes of various colors, and each silver ticket has a line of small characters on it, the content of the words is not the point, the point is that these words are very small, so small that they are almost unrecognizable.

The silver ticket originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was issued by the government in the Yuan Dynasty, establishing the world's earliest complete paper money circulation system, and was the first dynasty in Chinese history to completely use paper money as the currency in circulation, but unfortunately in the end it also caused inflation due to the indiscriminate issuance of paper money.

The silver ticket issued by the large private households themselves is a kind of deposit and withdrawal voucher, not currency, and the large denomination of the silver ticket given to Liu Jin by the Chen Governor is obviously specially prepared, presumably in order to combine good karma with the personal eunuch next to the prince.

Zhu Biao casually threw the silver ticket to Liu Jin, he was not afraid of eunuchs collecting money, in the end he was a slave, his net worth and life were originally in a thought, and putting them in his hands was no different from putting them in his own hands.

Zhu Biao instructed: "Let Quan Xu go and check." ”

Liu Jin bowed and retreated, and went out after a few explanations to Xu Yungong who was guarding the door, Quan Xu's people were still in the front yard, Xu Yungong was resting in front of the door, and Chang Mao was leading people to guard in front of the courtyard gate.

Zhu Biao turned over and began to sleep, the matter of the silver ticket reminded him, he had to find some professionals in this area, although the Ming Dynasty has not used paper money in recent years, but it is always good to have a preparation in advance, and you can also delve into the work of anti-counterfeiting.

After all, this matter can only be done by him, Lao Zhu is indeed not a talent in this area, and Lao Zhu issued paper money not to promote economic prosperity, he was to solve financial difficulties, through the issuance of paper money that had been used in the history of the Song and Yuan dynasties, to collect money.

At that time, although there were three forms of currency recognized by the state: silver, yuan banknotes and copper coins, copper coins accounted for the largest share in actual circulation, and Hongwu Tongbao was the only currency officially issued by the government at that time.

However, as a metal currency, copper coins, like silver, are made of heavy material and are not convenient to carry in actual commercial trade. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the minting of copper coins not only lacked raw materials and cost the people money, but also in the early Ming Dynasty, the country's financial and monetary reserves were small, coupled with years of war, resulting in an empty treasury, and the reserves of gold and silver and other metal currencies were insufficient.

This reminded Comrade Lao Zhu of the good thing of paper money, at the beginning it was to alleviate the dilemma of currency shortage, and also to give some money to officials, but the more Lao Zhu used it, the more comfortable it became, and whoever printed the joy of printing money knew it.

At the beginning of the issuance of the Ming treasure banknote, the currency value was relatively stable, as recorded in the historical books: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the banknote was very popular." However, since then, with the rapid increase in the number of treasure banknotes issued and spent, the treasure banknotes have continued to depreciate sharply, and the situation has gradually deteriorated, and gradually collapsed.

In fact, in the end, it is inflation, there are too many treasure banknotes, but there is only that point of goods, which is naturally the price of continuous rise, and finally the treasure banknotes are reduced to the point that they are not as good as copper coins, and they have lost all their purchasing power.

As early as the Song and Yuan dynasties, China had developed a fairly systematic paper money system, but in the Ming Dynasty, not only did not make significant progress, but regressed.

For example, the "Zhongtong Banknote" issued at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty established a fairly systematic reserve system, that is, the "silk and silver standard" system, but the Ming Dynasty issued the Ming Dynasty did not establish a systematic reserve system.

Comrade Lao Zhu directly printed a piece of paper and insisted that this is fucking money, and the officials and people across the country looked at the 30-meter machete in Lao Zhu's hand, thinking that this was the emperor who reopened the sun and the moon and the new sky, and finally accepted it, and the treasure money was so popular in the Hongwu years.

However, I have to admit that Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a ruthless person, although the value of treasure money is unstable in the Hongwu Dynasty, it can indeed be used as money, you don't admire that a person's authority can violate the laws of economy.

But not in the future, Zhu Di likes to fight, what to do if there is no money in the war, learn to print with his father, so the Ming economy has embarked on a road of no return, a large number of indiscriminate issuance of currency, which will inevitably make the paper money in people's hands depreciate, the purchasing power will fall, causing prices to rise and inflation, and the chaos of the economy has also made the people lose trust in the Ming treasure banknotes.

So this kind of thing must be handled by him personally, otherwise he really has no eyes, Zhu Biao turned over again, forced himself to go to bed quickly, let's talk about this matter back in Beijing.

After sleeping for more than an hour, Zhu Biao woke up when he felt someone enter the house, and after a while, Liu Jin, who sat up and walked into the house, handed over a warm and fragrant handkerchief, Zhu Biao took it and touched his face and got up.

The maid outside walked into the house to serve and dress, and the process was silent, and the rules and manners were very natural, even Liu Jin felt very good, that is, she could directly serve the nobles after studying in the palace for a few days at most.

After they withdrew, Liu Jin said: "Governor Chen's reputation in Hangzhou is good, and the children of the family are also very well-behaved. ”

Zhu Biao nodded after hearing this, it is indeed very good that the family can have such a reputation, and Zhu Biao can use such a person more comfortably, and after a while, Governor Chen came to invite him personally, and Zhu Biao sat down and asked Liu Jin to invite him in.

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