At night, Guo Song carefully admired the silver ticket printed by the household in the study, of course, this is only a sample, the exchange system has not yet started, the reason why this silver ticket can be issued, the key lies in the papermaking technology and special gold thread sewing, in addition to special symbols, this is the number invented by the Tianzhu people, that is, today's Arabic numerals, which have been introduced to the Tang Dynasty with Buddhism decades ago, but they are not valued by the Tang Dynasty.

Guo Song discovered these numbers in the engraving society not long ago, and he considered applying them, and this time the numbering of the silver ticket was applied for the first time.

Of course, there is a spear and a shield, the existence of this special paper, will soon attract the research and development and imitation of other large papermakers, and there will be people with excellent embroidery skills to embroider better gold threads, which does not matter, and can be limited by legislation.

In addition, it is also necessary to use the real-name system, just as the transfer of checks needs to prepare a book, the transfer of silver tickets also needs to be endorsed with a seal on the back, if it is a counterfeit silver ticket, it is easy to trace it back to the counterfeiter through the endorser.

At this time, the voice of his son Guo Jincheng came from outside the door, "Father! ”

Guo Song nodded, "Come in!" ”

After a while, his son Guo Jincheng walked in, knelt down and saluted: "The child sees his father!" ”

"Get up!"

Guo Song really loves and cares about his eldest son, he works in the newspaper, Guo Song always pays attention to his son's movements, his son has changed a lot in the past six months, needless to say, he has grown a lot taller, his height has surpassed Guo Weiwei, second only to himself in the family.

More importantly, Guo Jincheng's long-term dealings with the people at the bottom have made him deeply aware of the people's suffering, and he is no longer as introverted as before, which makes Guo Song really gratified.

Guo Song took out two newspapers, he had already folded the people's livelihood column, he pushed the newspaper in front of his son and asked with a smile: "This is the newspaper on the 13th and 14th of this month, the prices of the nine kinds of grain on it are exactly the same, and not a penny has changed, is it a coincidence, or did you not investigate?" ”

Guo Jincheng blushed and said: "This is an omission by the child, when I sent it to spelling, I took the wrong manuscript, and the manuscript on the thirteenth was used twice." ”

"Is it your responsibility? You tell me the truth! ”

Guo Jincheng was silent for a moment and said: "In fact, the contributor made a mistake, but he is old and young, if he is determined to be responsible, he will lose this errand, which will have a great impact on his family, so the child will take this responsibility for him." ”

Guo Song nodded, "You can take responsibility for him once, but you can't take responsibility for him all the time, I just want to know, have you checked out why you made this mistake?" How can you avoid making similar mistakes in the future? ”

"The reason is indeed that he was careless, the format of the two manuscripts is exactly the same, just put together, he was in too much hurry, did not look carefully, and now in order to prevent the same mistake from happening, we put a red wooden box on the table, and the manuscript of the day is placed in the wooden box, no longer let the submitter find it on the table, this is the child's suggestion, the newspaper has adopted."

Guo Song no longer mentioned the newspaper, but handed the silver ticket to his son, "Look at this again!" ”

Guo Jincheng took the silver ticket and looked at it, he suddenly became interested, and asked, "Does this represent a hundred taels of silver?" ”

Guo Song explained with a smile: "This is called a silver ticket, similar to the flying money of the cabinet, made by the household, with special paper and gold wire to prevent counterfeiting, if the household issues a silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver, there must be a corresponding 10,000 taels of silver in the warehouse, this special warehouse is called the exchange warehouse, but the silver or money in the exchange library is actually not from us, it is taken out by the merchants, and it will be exchanged in the future."

It seems simple, but the silver ticket is greatly convenient for businessmen, they do not need to carry a large amount of silver money, as long as they bring a stack of silver tickets can go far away, more importantly, to solve the current market copper money shortage of big problem. ”

Guo Jincheng thought for a while and asked, "Is there only silver?" Don't have a copper coin? The child thinks that in addition to silver slots, real silver is rare in the market, mainly copper coins, and I am afraid that many merchants need money tickets more. ”

Guo Song nodded, "There are silver tickets, money tickets are also available, this is just a sample, there will be a consistent in the future, Wuguan This kind of small money ticket can be directly taken to the restaurant to drink and eat, you can buy things, and after a certain time, the imperial court will gradually take them back and issue new money tickets, but that's another thing, I am talking about large silver tickets or money tickets." ”

Guo Jincheng touched the back of his head and said, "The child still doesn't understand, what should I do?" ”

Guo Song took out a piece of paper, took a pen and wrote down the process on the paper, and explained: "In fact, it is the same as flying money, but it is issued by the household department, and all cabinets are common, for example, the household department issues a silver ticket of one million taels of silver, and hands it over to each cabinet shop."

A merchant wanted to go to Guangzhou to buy goods for 10,000 taels of silver, so he took out 10,000 taels of silver to buy 100 silver tickets from the cabinet, and the cabinet handed over the 10,000 taels of silver to the imperial court exchange warehouse.

The merchant went to Guangzhou with the silver ticket, and after he got the goods, the other party could use the silver ticket to go to any cabinet to exchange for silver, or he could use the silver ticket to continue to Suzhou to buy silk, and when the silver ticket was exchanged in the cabinet, the head office of the cabinet in charge of the final exchange would apply to the imperial court exchange warehouse to get back 10,000 taels of silver. ”

"Will there be a counter that thinks the silver ticket is fake and refuses to exchange it?" Guo Jincheng asked.

Guo Song shook his head, "Our requirement is that as long as it is not obviously fake, the cabinet must be exchanged, and then it will be checked by a special inspection agency, what is the problem?" ”

Guo Song put down his pen and said with a smile: "I'm thinking about transforming the internal guard into an inspection agency in the future." ”

Guo Jincheng pondered for a moment and said: "Speaking of which, this kind of large amount of silver or money bills, the imperial court does not need to prepare silver and copper coins, in fact, they are all merchants' money, and the imperial court only uses credibility as a guarantee to guarantee payment, right?" ”

"You're right, this is actually the same as flying money, just use the imperial court to guarantee it, alleviate the inconvenience of bulk goods trading, before several cabinet shops were ready to jointly issue a kind of flying money that everyone recognized, but I vetoed it, this kind of thing can only be done by the imperial court, it happened that Wang Yu found this kind of paper that can be difficult to imitate in Xuanzhou, which prompted me to make up my mind."

"What does a father need his child to do?"

Guo Song took out an article and handed it to his son and said with a smile: "This is an article of mine about silver tickets and money tickets, you take it to the newspaper and print it in the newspaper the day after tomorrow, in addition, you tell the newspaper Deacon Li that you may ask the newspaper to open a column about money tickets, I hope he is ready." ”

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On this day, both the "Chang'an Express" and the "Tianxia Xinbao" published an article at the same time, entitled "On the Activation of Silver Tickets and Money Tickets", which immediately sparked heated discussions in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, especially businessmen who were particularly sensitive to this, and they immediately realized that this would be a far-reaching event.

However, ordinary people do not feel much about this, after all, the large silver and money tickets are far away from them.

At dusk, the restaurants on the streets outside the gate of Xi'an were full of guests, business was booming, and almost all the diners were discussing the matter of silver tickets and money tickets, although the news of the assassination of Yao Guangping in Quanzhou was published in the newspaper at the same time, but no one cared.

A few days ago, the newspaper also published the news that Liu Shining was killed, which only made everyone sigh that the tiger father gave birth to a dog, and everyone was already numb to the expansion of the imperial court's territory.

On the second floor of the Pearl Restaurant, there are two officials sitting by the window, one is Miao Ji, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, and the other is Du Siye, Du Siye, who served as the governor of Shang for four years, and then transferred back to the imperial court to serve as the Langzhong of the Household Department, and the issuance of silver coins is his jurisdiction.

Of course, the Shaofu Temple is responsible for minting silver coins, but it is up to the household department to decide how much money needs to be minted each year, how many silver slots to issue, and how much silver to issue.

Miao Ji and Du Siye's father Du Zongwu was a friend of the same class when he was a teenager, although Du Zongwu was five years older than Miao Ji, but it did not affect the friendship between the two, the two participated in the imperial examination in the same year, Miao Ji had the shadow of his father, and went to Bashu as an official, but Du Zongwu had no chance to get ahead.

But Du Zongwu's son Du Siye was very courageous, and after he failed in the imperial examination, he led a group of scholars to Hexi to write from Rong, and soon stood out and became the second secretary of Guo Song to join the army.

More than ten years have passed, Miao Ji is still the Langzhong of the Ministry of Works, but Du Siye, who is ten years younger than him, is already the Langzhong of the Ministry of Households, and Miao Ji's official position has reached its peak, but Du Siye has a bright future.

"Why should the virtuous nephew object to money votes? I think this is a good thing, can greatly promote the development of commerce, don't you know that in the past from Bashu to transport thousands of copper coins to Chang'an was very laborious, now with silver or money tickets, the imperial court stipulates unconditional payment, isn't it a great convenience for merchants? ”

Du Siye shook his head and said: "What I am against is not the large amount of money, but the small amount of money bills mentioned later in the article, as a substitute for copper money, it has always been used to eat and buy things, this kind of thing can be printed without restrictions, if there is a mortgage of gold and silver, I am afraid that the court will taste the sweetness and start printing in large quantities, what is the difference between this and the copper plate that was issued as ten coins before?" They are all exploiting the wealth of the people. ”

"Your opposition is completely pinned on something that may happen in the future, such opposition is meaningless, I guess neither the King of Jin nor the imperial court will accept it!"

"I'm not the only one who opposes it, after the newspaper came out at noon today, the entire household department was fried, and most people were against it, including our Shangshu!"

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