The small amount is mainly money tickets, there are no silver tickets, because the small amount of silver itself is not troublesome, but even if it is a money ticket, there are too many aspects involved, one is to prevent counterfeiting, this is not like a large amount of silver tickets, must be counterfeited by professional people, the audience is small, the circulation is small, and there are very few people who counterfeit.

After the paper is used, ordinary people will not carefully distinguish the difference on the paper, which will make many people take risks to make fake money, so the risk of promoting small money tickets is very great.

The second is whether the general public can accept it, the general public shopping, it is enough to bring a few hundred dollars, and it is not troublesome, if you want to buy large items, you must go to the street and hire an ox cart to pull money, more than 100 years have been like this, and suddenly you have to exchange copper money for paper money, whether the majority of people accept it, whether it trusts, it is really a big test.

Guo Song didn't know if he could succeed, but he still wanted to give it a try, so he put the paper money pilot in Chang'an, named it Jiaozi, and large money tickets, silver bills distinguished, even if Jiaozi failed, it could not affect the issuance of money and silver tickets.

At the beginning of July, the government hall voted again, and this time there were no negative votes, and with four votes in favor and three abstentions, the resolution to issue Jiaozi was passed.

There are only three kinds of Jiaozi, five hundred wen, consistent money and five guan money, in order to make all kinds of preparations carefully and steadfastly, I have been preparing for a month and a half in the autumn, and I have warmed up and publicized it in the newspaper every day.

From July 20 to the fourth day of the first month of August, every day of the "Chang'an Express" will have a supplementary edition, on which are willing to accept Jiaozi's various wine customers, inns, shops, etc., there are more than 300, including all the cabinets in Chang'an, all of which promise to unconditionally exchange or transfer into copper coins.

The fifth day of the first month of each month is the day when the officials make money, and on the fourth day of the eighth month, the seven prime ministers are gathered in the official office of the king of Jin, and there are two stacks of Jiaozi on Guo Song's table.

"Your Highness, the situation is not optimistic!"

Du You said calmly: "We commissioned the newspaper to conduct a poll, and none of the eight adults accepted Jiaozi, although we will try our best to promote, but we must be prepared for failure." ”

Zhang Qianyi also said: "As the head of the household, Weichen has implemented the resolution of the political hall and His Royal Highness's decree to the letter, but Weichen still has reservations, and now the implementation of Jiaozi is not as natural as silver tickets and money tickets, but a kind of forcible implementation, just as Du Xiangguo's worries, Weichen also hopes that His Royal Highness can be prepared for failure!" ”

Guo Song sighed and said to everyone: "The issuance of Jiaozi is not that I am hot-headed, everyone knows that the copper coins in the market are far from enough, in Bashu, in Hebei, I have seen with my own eyes that there are still many places to barter, and the output of gold and silver is too low, we have not found large gold and silver mines, and the Western Regions are still unknown."

So I thought about it repeatedly, I want to use the credit of the imperial court as a guarantee to issue Jiaozi, and copper coins in parallel, but everyone is also reasonable, we can't let the people use Jiaozi wishful thinking, I don't want the people to think that we are implementing Jiaozi to exploit them, which will affect the credibility of the imperial court, so I am also ready to take back Jiaozi in my heart. ”

These Xiangguo are not so easy to fool, Du You asked again: "What is the bottom line for His Highness to take back Jiaozi?" ”

"Up to three months!"

Guo Song said slowly to everyone: "If the people of Chang'an still can't accept Jiaozi in March, then I will withdraw Jiaozi and no longer consider issuing paper money." ”

King Jin's statement was accepted by everyone, Zhang Qianyi said: "Your Highness is right, if you don't give it a try, I don't know if it will work, if not, we will correct it in time, so that the people will not suffer losses, and it will not damage the credibility of the imperial court." ”

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The next morning, the officials finally received the money issued in Jiaozi. The major cabinets also put out big signs for exchanging Jiaozi.

In order to promote Jiaozi, the price of official goods has also been reduced, and salt can be purchased at 120 wen per bucket using Jiaozi, and the price of coarse noodles and coarse cloth is also given preferential treatment for the use of Jiaozi.

At noon, Jiaozi appeared one after another in the shops of Xishi, Dongshi and Xi'anmenwai Street.

In order to understand the reaction to Jiaozi in the market, all the ministers of the political hall went to various places in Chang'an to learn about the situation of Jiaozi on the spot, and even the internal guards were also dispatched, and they pretended to be ordinary people to listen to the opinions of the people in various restaurants and teahouses.

In the morning, Guo Song took a carriage to Xi'an Menwai Street, he was wearing ordinary clothes, a gauze hat, a white fine linen gown, a leather belt around his waist, and a piece of jade around his waist.

Zhang Lei and Li An were not in Chang'an, and the two of them went to Mingzhou to collect sea ships together, otherwise they could ask them.

However, with Guo Ping here, he can still learn some information from the eldest sister Guo Ping, in fact, Guo Song also asked Guo Ping before, she did not object, she just didn't understand, she had never been in contact with this situation, she also said that she could give it a try.

Guo Song's carriage stopped in front of the Meishou liquor shop, Guo Song stepped out of the carriage, and at a glance saw a big sign hanging in front of the liquor shop, which read, 'This store accepts Jiaozi'.

But in fact, among the people queuing up to buy wine, none of them used Jiaozi, they were still mainly copper coins, and they basically carried the usual copper coins, which was to buy a small bottle of Meishou wine.

Guo Song walked into the store, the shopkeeper knew him, and hurriedly said: "The proprietor is inside, and the proprietor Li is also there!" ”

Guo Song was stunned for a moment, which Li owner, he walked into the back room, and saw the eldest sister Guo Ping chatting with Li Wenyu, the two have become in-laws and have a very close relationship.

It turned out to be this Li Dongzhu, Guo Song smiled: "I didn't bother you to chat!" ”

Guo Ping hadn't seen her brother for a long time, so she quickly got up and smiled: "Come in and sit, we're talking about you?" ”

Guo Song walked into the room and said with a smile: "Let me guess, are you talking about Jiaozi?" ”

In fact, there is no need to guess, there is a Jiaozi on the small table in front of them!

Guo Ping brought a chair and asked him to sit down, Guo Song sat down, picked up Jiaozi and asked, "Where did this come from?" ”

Guo Ping pointed at Li Wenyu, "It was brought by your senior sister, and it hasn't appeared in my store yet?" ”

Since Guo Ping took over Meishou wine, Zhang Lei and Li Wenyu have changed to wine wholesale business, they are the largest wine wholesalers in Chang'an, almost all restaurants have to go to them to get goods, Guo Ping also makes high-end Meishou wine, but she is retail, and Zhang Lei and his wife do not conflict.

In addition, these two people each have other businesses, such as Zhang Lei opened a restaurant and a cabinet shop, and now toss overseas trade, Li Wenyu used to do cotton business, but after the Guanlong nobles intervened in the cotton business, she gave up the cotton business, she now changed to the tea business, the imperial court has spared no effort to promote tea in the past two years, and there are more and more people drinking tea in the north, Li Wenyu's century-old tea shop has been the largest tea shop in Chang'an.

Li Wenyu pursed her lips and smiled: "Just an hour ago, someone took ten yuan to buy tea, and it was the first time I saw this kind of paper money, so I came to discuss it with my eldest sister." ”

"What do you think?"

Guo Song smiled and asked: "Do you feel that Jiaozi can be promoted?" ”

Guo Ping pondered for a long time and said: "Little brother, I'm not dampening your enthusiasm, I'm just telling the truth, judging from my personal experience and feelings, I don't think the prospects will be too good." ”

"Why do you say that, can you tell me more about it?"

Guo Ping nodded, "Actually, it's just a sentence, this Jiaozi has no sense of security!" ”

"A sense of security?"

Guo Song remembered that he had taught this word to his eldest sister, but he didn't expect her to say it casually.

"That's right! If you don't have a sense of security, it may not matter how many cards a big family has, but ordinary people won't accept it easily, but I think the most unacceptable is the people at the bottom, a dozen yuan may be all their savings, will they change it to a dozen pieces of paper? It is absolutely impossible, even if the copper money is gone, everyone uses this kind of jiaozi, they will not accept it, they will exchange it for cloth and grain and the like to store it, to put it mildly, this kind of jiaozi is not as good as ten coins, or when ten coins or large copper coins, this is a piece of paper. ”

"But the eldest sister didn't object like this before?" Guo Song said again.

"At that time, there was no objection because I had never seen what paper money looked like, and I couldn't imagine it at all, so I couldn't answer exactly, and now this paper money appeared alive in front of my eyes, and I knew what it was.

Little brother, when I used to sell tofu in Yongxian County, I stored the money in a jar and buried it under the bed, and I felt solid in my heart, because it was money, even if it was melted, it could be made into jewelry, but imagine that the copper money in the jar was gone, only a few pieces of paper, and I really couldn't sleep. ”

Guo Song was really a little helpless, and his eyes turned to Li Wenyu again, "What about Senior Sister's opinion?" ”

Li Wenyu said with a smile: "Actually, I agree with what your eldest sister said, but she is not comprehensive, the real problem is not in Chang'an, but in the prefectures and counties below, the people of Chang'an can still believe in the credibility of the junior brother and the imperial court, after a few years, everyone can smoothly exchange copper coins, and over time, everyone will slowly accept it."

But the state and county may not necessarily accept it, and there will definitely be chaos, even fake copper coins can be made, is there no one to do fake paper money? No matter how fake it is, as long as fake money appears on the street, and the government does not eliminate the fake money in time, everyone will not believe Jiaozi. ”

"How can the government let the fake money run rampant?"

Li Wenyu shook his head and said: "If it is a ruffian who makes fake money, I also believe that the government will definitely stop it in time, but if it is the brother-in-law of the county order, or a relative of the assassin Shi, do you think the state officials and county officials will be so active in cracking down?"

Even if he is afraid that the court will come to investigate, the government will eventually stop it, but a long time has passed during this period, the interests of the counterfeiters have been fully reaped, and the reputation of Jiaozi has long been gone. ”