In the official room, Guo Song listened to Pan Liao and Li Weijin's reports, he thought for a while and said: "Manage them according to the first-class official craftsmen, put them in Xianyang County, and give their family a big mansion in Xianyang, as for the shop, Xishi or Xi'an Menwai Street, they can choose any one and rent it to them according to the official price." ”

Since the Taiyuan era, the official craftsmen of the Jin Kingdom have been divided into two grades, A and B, of which the first grade belongs to the top official craftsmen, mastering the highest secret technology, such as gunpowder craftsmen, firearms craftsmen, Mo knife makers, crossbow makers, metallurgists, etc., they are well paid, the government solves the residence and children study, on the other hand, they are not very free, can not go out at will, can not communicate with other craftsmen at will, etc.

Li Weijin said again: "I have asked, the Xuanpi paper was developed by their family master in 20 years, and it is also the top secret of their family, the formula is only known to two people, plus eight craftsmen, a total of only ten people participated in making this kind of Xuanpi paper, and they gave all three hundred catties of Xuanpi paper to the imperial court, and the capital is ten yuan a catty." ”

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said, "The formula court must get it, so be it!" Xi'an Menwai Street gave them a shop along the street, and then gave them another two-acre yard in Chang'an, as compensation for the formula and three hundred catties of paper, if they want to solve the housing of the clansmen, they can provide official rental housing in Xianyang, or Chang'an Ju'anfang provides official rental housing, they choose by themselves. ”

"Your Highness, is the paper workshop also located in Xianyang Xifengfang?" Li Weijin asked.

Xifengfang is the location of the Imperial Court's Ordnance Supervision Workshop, where the Imperial Court's heavy crossbows, Mo knives, and iron fire and thunder shells are made, and thousands of top craftsmen live there.

Guo Song nodded, "The xuan paper can be placed in Xifengfang, and the other rice paper of their family can be placed elsewhere, if the quality is good, the imperial court can also purchase it for a long time." ”

"Weichen understands, there is a vacant land by the river in Xifengfang, and he will take him to the scene tomorrow to take a look."

Li Weijin hesitated for a moment and said, "In addition, the head of their family also made a request, hoping that the official name of this paper should be named after their hometown. ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "This request is not excessive, what is their hometown called?" ”

"Weichen has asked, their hometown is in Dulongshan Village, Changqing Township, Xuancheng County."

Guo Song laughed, "Dulong paper, this name is not good, the name of the township is okay, then it is called Changqing paper, this name is good, tell him!" The official name can be called Changqing Paper. ”

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A month later, large money tickets and silver tickets were officially issued, operated by Chang'an eight large cabinets, silver tickets have three specifications, one hundred and two, five hundred and two and one and one thousand two, the money ticket is the same, divided into three kinds, five hundred and one thousand, the merchant needs to exchange according to the need, can be transferred, but the transfer needs both parties to sign on the back of the bill, but the transfer can not exceed five times, each cabinet is cashed at the sight of the ticket, and the Household Department of the Left Collection Department carries out unified liquidation.

At the same time, the Ticket Inspection Office was established, and the Jin Dynasty King Guo Song signed a legal letter on money and goods, imposing extremely severe penalties for counterfeiters and counterfeiters.

The introduction of silver tickets and money tickets can be said to meet the needs of the market and has been greatly welcomed by businessmen, especially the unconditional payment, which has relieved the worries of businessmen.

Of course, the household department has also made a lot of meticulous preparations, and hundreds of sets of samples have been launched and sent to the branches of major cabinet shops, and they will be referred to when cashing, as long as the paper is consistent and the gold pattern is consistent, there is no problem.

In addition, the household department also gave each cabinet a set of number books, each silver ticket and money ticket correspond to the nine-digit number and the date of issue, that is to say, the counterfeiter must get a real ticket in order to clone and counterfeit, otherwise make a fake ticket of one hundred taels of silver, and make up a number at will, it is likely that this number does not exist, or the number corresponds to a silver ticket of five hundred taels of silver, and it will be immediately exposed.

In an old mansion close to the West Market in Guangdefang, Chang'an, several men with different expressions sat together, and on the table between them was a silver ticket of five hundred taels of silver, and several people were staring at the silver ticket, and their eyes showed disbelief.

These people are the leaders of the Chang'an gold and silver black market, they almost control the exchange of gold and silver in the black market, and in the middle is an old man with gray hair, in his early sixties, his name is Jinde, everyone calls him Jin Ye, and he has been calling for wind and rain in the Chang'an gold and silver black market for 20 years.

Due to the government's acquiescence to the existence of the black market in gold and silver, these gold and silver brokers lived a very nourishing life.

"With this piece of paper, you can exchange it for five hundred taels of silver at any cabinet?" Kinder asked, a little incredulous.

The owner of the silver ticket was a middle-aged man, and he said respectfully: "Master Jin, I took it to Baosheng Cabinet Shop today, and the Cabinet Shop said that it can be withdrawn at any time, and my other silver ticket of one hundred taels of silver will be paid normally." ”

Another slightly younger man frowned and said, "What is the imperial court doing?" You can exchange it by printing a piece of paper, so if I print his silver ticket for tens of thousands of taels of silver, will it be redeemed? ”

"It will definitely be exchanged, but the premise is that you can print it, this paper is very special, I have never seen it, and the gold thread embroidery on it is not something that ordinary people can embroider, and the court is not a fool, so you can fake it casually."

Jinde picked up the silver ticket and looked at it carefully: "Indeed, this paper is rare, the gold thread is also delicately embroidered, it is indeed difficult for ordinary people to imitate, but there are still masters in the world, there is really a heart, it is not difficult to imitate it, but now the problem we are facing is not whether to counterfeit ........"

Jinde put down the silver ticket and looked at everyone with a solemn gaze, "Don't you realize? This trick of the imperial court is digging up our roots, and with money tickets and silver tickets, who will exchange gold and silver for us in the future? ”

Jinde's words hit the key point of everyone, their profit is the difference between the exchange of gold and silver, they receive silver is one or two to one thousand one hundred wen, they are one thousand two hundred wen to exchange for silver, one tael of silver to earn one hundred wen.

Merchants have always been a big exchange of gold and silver, because copper coins are inconvenient to carry, and it is sometimes inconvenient to use flying money, so merchants like to exchange for easy to carry gold and silver, because they use gold and silver to buy goods, the other party will also make profits, so the exchange loss is not large.

Now that there are money tickets, any of the top ten cabinets can be exchanged, and there is no need for merchants to exchange gold and silver, and at the same time, because of the issuance of silver tickets, there is less silver circulating in the market, and the number of people who exchange silver for money will be greatly reduced.

After figuring out this truth, everyone was silent, and the slightly younger man said hatefully: "If we don't give us a way to live, we won't make him feel better, we will hire some masters, make a batch of fake silver tickets and money tickets, and we will go to Hangzhou and Guangzhou to exchange a large amount of gold and silver to make up for our losses!" ”

"What nonsense!"

Jinde suddenly became angry, "You are tired of doing it yourself, don't bother us!" ”

The young man was too frightened to speak, and Jinde waved his hand, "Let's go back!" Later, there are things that we can't change. ”

The people got up and took their leave.

Jin De returned to the back house, he picked up the silver ticket of one hundred taels of silver and looked at it for a long time, pacing back and forth in the room with his hands in his hand, although this silver ticket is indeed difficult to make, but he does not need to really extract the silver, so there is no need to make it so vividly, as long as the merchants have distrust of this kind of silver ticket, then many merchants will return to the previous way of trade.

At present, he still has almost 200,000 taels of silver in his hand, all of which he exchanged for 1,100 yuan, and if these silver cannot be exchanged, but are exchanged for money at the official price, this coming and going is a loss of 40,000 yuan, and he cannot afford this loss.

Thinking of this, he said to the eldest son next to him: "You go and find Bian Lao Liu for me!" ”

Bian Lao Liu is a master of forging famous calligraphy and paintings, his eldest son immediately understood, was immediately startled, and hurriedly whispered: "Didn't my father scold Zhang Hong just now?" Why does my father want to ...... too?"

Jinde said lightly: "I scolded him because he was stupid, doing this kind of thing is easy to be discovered, it will affect us, it doesn't mean that I don't do it, of course we have to do it, and I can only do it." ”