"The new head of the household department, the new Anbo Liu Ximing? This is not Liu Bodhisattva, what he does must be no harm to the people. ”

As soon as he heard Liu Ximing's name, Zhang San's eyes lit up.

After many obscure propaganda by the Central Plains Daily, at present, Liu Ximing's three words can almost be said to be synonymous with credit, and the people of Daming do not know such a good official who cares about the people.

Even Zhang San couldn't twist his mother-in-law to enshrine an immortal tablet of Liu Ximing at home.

As soon as he heard that the imperial court issued a new coin related to him, Zhang San immediately trusted this new coin a lot.

Hearing the follow-up content, Zhang San was even more excited, doing what they do is to discover fresh news, and business opportunities may be hidden in it.

"Is there any news about this newspaper?" Zhang San looked at Na Xiucai with a concerned face.

"Yes, yes, third master, look, there is a pattern of the new imperial court coin on it."

Before the words fell, Zhang Sanyi grabbed the newspaper in his hand, glanced at it a few times, and immediately stuffed it into his arms and went straight to the Chase Money Village outside Chongwenmen.

This Chase Bank is different from the money banks that Zhang San has seen before, and it can be summed up in one word, magnanimous.

The entire Qian Zhuang occupies more than a dozen large bays just by the front door, which looks like a grand one from the outside.

There are ten men in strong suits and holding water and fire sticks standing at the door all year round, giving people a full sense of security.

Zhang San heard that when he deposited or withdrew a large amount of money in Chase Bank, the bank would also appoint bodyguards to protect him at home.

Of course, the most extraordinary thing is that the profit of Chase Bank is as low as one percent per annum, compared to the level of four or five percent per year in other banks, which can be regarded as a conscience price.

If you don't understand it, you may wonder why Chase Money has a lower interest rate, so why can it still be called a conscience.

This is because the money is not paid by the banker to the customer, but by the customer to the banker.

Nowadays, in this year, there is chaos everywhere, and doing business is also precarious, so it is difficult for money banks to survive by lending, so in order to provide foreign exchange business, it is natural to charge customers high handling fees.

Although Liu Ximing clearly knew the means of the bank in the later generations to make bad money, he could not stand the current economic laws, so he had to follow the customs of the villagers to collect profits.

However, his goal is to be more ambitious than other banks, and making money now is still secondary, and laying a good foundation for controlling the country's finances in the future is the key, so the profit of Chase Bank is much lower than that of other places.

It is precisely for this reason, coupled with the fact that Chase Bank has always been laid down with Han Yuan Firm and other firms, in order to save money and facilitate transactions, Chase Bank's customers are constantly increasing.

"Man", rushed into Youdatong Money Bank, Zhang San took a breath and raised the Zhongyuan News in his hand to the money bank guy behind the counter.

"The Central Plains newspaper said that you will issue new coins for the imperial court, is this true?"

The guy behind the counter had a smiling face all the year round, and smiled directly at Zhang San: "What the Central Plains News said, of course it's true, guest officer, you calculated it by coincidence, and now my Chase Bank still has a discount on this new currency." ”

"Oh, what's the offer?" , Zhang San's eyes suddenly became brighter.

"The new currency is exchanged for one piece according to the ten-dollar system, but now that this business is newly opened, in order to promote the new currency, my Chase Money Bank has decided that customers can exchange nine coins for one new currency."

After the guy finished speaking, he winked at Zhang San, "Although the exchange is nine yuan for one yuan, but in these shops of the Han Yuan firm, one yuan can still buy goods for ten yuan." ”

Zhang San's eyes were about to widen all of a sudden, this is too fucking tyrant, isn't that equivalent to giving away a profit for nothing!

"You, you wait, Lao Tzu will go home and get the money now."

Zhang San threw down such a sentence, and ran home without looking back.

Rushed into his ancestral dilapidated courtyard, rummaged through the cabinets to find all the thirty-two families in the family, and in the crying and scolding of his daughter-in-law, Zhang San called a few little brothers from his neighbors and ran back to the Chase Money Village again.

"Quick, give me all new coins!"

Zhang San's voice fell, and a voice immediately sounded behind him, "I want to change it too." ”

At the gate of Chase Bank, dozens of people poured in at once, covering more than a dozen counters, and Zhang San was frightened.

Fortunately, the guy who handled the business for Zhang San was quite nimble, and almost replaced the silver taels with copper dollars with his hands and feet.

Thirty taels of silver can be exchanged for 45,000 coins at the market price, and 5,000 yuan in copper dollars, adding up to a total of 200 catties.

Zhang San couldn't help but be glad that he had brains, and called a few brothers to help in time.

As soon as the money arrived, he immediately tilted his head to a few brothers, "Let's go, let's go to the Hanyuan business to have a look." ”

A few people came to the door of the Han Yuan business not far from the same street with a few bags of marijuana, Zhang San looked inside the same magnificent Han Yuan business, motioned to the brothers to watch for himself, and entered the store with a few copper dollars on his own.

"That man, can you sell here with this new copper dollar?"

"Guest officer, you are well-informed, that's right, we will accept this copper dollar, and one is ten coins."

A flash of joy flashed in the corner of Zhang San's eyes, and he pretended to shout loudly to the people who were buying goods on the side: "Oh, there is really such a thing, one piece is really worth ten yuan." ”

His words successfully attracted the attention of the people in the shop, and without waiting for others to ask, Zhang San hurriedly waved his hand and motioned for several brothers to resist a few sacks of copper yuan.

"The old and young masters came to see it, the newly baked copper dollar, one yuan can be exchanged for ten yuan, and the Han Yuan firm buys the goods directly, now I change it here, forty-nine yuan can be exchanged for five yuan, everyone come and see."

This Zhang San turned out to be directly engaged in the shop of the Han Yuan firm, and the eyes of a group of shopkeepers in the Han Yuan firm widened.

One of the tall and thin guys put the goods in his hand away, and even wanted to drive Zhang San and the others out.

Who knew that the shopkeeper of this shop stopped him directly as soon as he stretched out his hand, and looked at Zhang San and the others with a smile: "Don't get in the way, as mentioned above, as long as it doesn't hinder the circulation of new coins, the rest is up to them." ”

Although it is said that forty-nine pennies can save a penny, but the current people of the Ming Dynasty are all poor and afraid, and they can save a penny without effort, who is not willing to do it.

At that moment, dozens of people immediately surrounded Zhang San and his group of brothers.

There are also many people who want to inquire about the origin of this copper yuan, but they are all vaguely supported by Zhang San.

The shopkeeper and the guys in the Han Yuan firm were also very cooperative, and they waited until all the copper dollars of Zhang Sanyi and his group were exchanged, and then they took the Central Plains newspaper office to advertise that they could go to Chase Money Village to exchange new coins.

At this moment, the people of Beijing quickly reacted, and there were many people who ran into the Chase Money Village to exchange copper dollars for a while.

The newly issued copper dollar of the household department is of exquisite quality, and at first glance it is full of copper content, and with the cooperation of merchants such as Datong Qianzhuang and Hanyuan Firm, it only took more than ten days of hard work to become popular in Beijing.

Even the court officials, who have always been high-minded, now know all these things that Liu Ximing has done, and there are even many people who specially exchange some copper dollars.

At the court meeting on the first day of November, Liu Ximing played directly in front of the Manchu civil and military forces:

"Your Majesty, the household department has made a great deal of money, and in just one month, the Baoquan Bureau has made copper dollars worth 180,000 taels of silver, with a total profit of 50,000 taels, all of which have been sent to the treasury, and your Majesty is also invited to know it."

At this time, Li Zhiwen also stood up at the right time and said: "What Xin Amber played is true, and the minister has ordered someone to take over this money." ”

"Hahaha, okay, Xin Amber has done a meritorious job, and he ordered to give a python robe and jade belt, and gave his mother Liu Chen a second-grade wife."

"Wow"

Chongzhen and the cabinet and other ministers were okay, they had already learned the news in advance, but the other court ministers were in an uproar.

If you make a profit of 50,000 taels in a month, wouldn't that be 600,000 taels in that year!

Thinking of the catastrophe that had just happened in Liaodong, Huang Daozhou, the imperial historian of the Imperial Procuratorate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, couldn't help but sigh in a low voice, "If it is really to save Situ Shiye, how can Xin Amber care." ”

An unintentional sentence spread throughout the court in an instant, and Liu Ximing's reputation of "saving Situ" spread.