Tang Yu found Liu Juntao and said, "Mr. Lian, there is something I think is very inappropriate!" ”

Liu Juntao said with a smile when he heard this: "Are you worried that the silver tickets we issue will be counterfeited by those who plot against you?" ”

"Exactly!"

Tang Yu didn't expect his worries to be guessed by Liu Juntao, obviously Liu Juntao had already thought of this, so he put his mind at ease and said; "Mr. Lian, how are you going to deal with the problem of anti-counterfeiting of silver tickets?"

In fact, Tang Yu is worried about the problem of anti-counterfeiting of silver tickets, and the Shanxi ticket number has been solved in later generations, and it is very effective and effective.

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "First, the Ministry of Commerce immediately released the news that all thieves who forge my Yushan ticket number and silver ticket, no matter who kills it, and anyone who reports it, my Yushan Town will reward him with one-tenth of the amount of silver for the counterfeit silver ticket!" ”

"Second, maybe you have also discovered that all the silver tickets issued by our Yushan ticket number use Sichuan paper! Sichuan paper is bright and white, durable and complex, ordinary people can't afford to use it, and it's not easy to buy, so it's difficult to forge our silver tickets. Therefore, from now on, the "楥皮" Sichuan paper is the special paper for printing silver tickets with our Yushan ticket number. ”

"Third, the patterns printed by our Yushan silver stamps are very complex, printed with fine patterns, mostly houses, flowers and birds, people, or the use of famous calligraphy and paintings; The external pattern sidebar is not easy to imitate because of the complex graphics; And for the sake of security and anti-counterfeiting, the silver ticket I designed also uses red, blue, black and other colors, and uses two-color and multi-color overprinting, which is not available to ordinary people. ”

"Fourth, I specially designed two miniature carving chapters, the content of the miniature carving is the complete article of Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", which is 3450 words, and the carving is very fine, and it takes a very high level of carving to carve out. Especially when the craftsman is carving, I also deliberately let the craftsman carve a few wrong words, so that it is more difficult for people who want to imitate, and those who can make this seal are afraid that there are very few in the world, even the craftsman himself is difficult to reproduce, which makes many counterfeiters of silver tickets discouraged. ”

"Fifth, there is the secret law."

As he spoke, Liu Juntao took out a piece of paper with some poems written on it: "Beware of fake tickets, don't forget to look closely at the book", "Laughing at the thin world, the way of heaven is the fairest, the ambiguity is for self-interest, conspiracies to harm others, good and evil are always rewarded, and they will be clear in the end", "Zhao's Lianchengbi, the origin of the world" and "National treasure circulation".

If these irrelevant sentences are put together, it will make outsiders very confused, and even Tang Yu can't see any connection between these irrelevant poems after watching them for a long time.

In fact, these sentences are a set of "Morse ciphers" summarized by Liu Juntao by drawing on the practice of Shanxi ticket numbers in later generations, which constitutes the earliest bank secret system in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the cryptography that uses Chinese characters to represent numbers.

Looking at Tang Yu's puzzled expression, Liu Juntao said with a smile: "You look at the first sentence of the poem, there are a total of twelve words, which correspond to the twelve months of each year. The second verse of the poem, which has a total of 30 words, corresponds to the 30 days of each month. The third sentence of the poem, a total of ten characters, corresponds to the specific number of silver taels. The last sentence of the poem corresponds to the numerical unit of silver taels, "ten thousand, one thousand, one hundred, and two". ”

Hearing this, Tang Yu immediately understood, his eyes were shining, and he said in surprise: "Practicing this method is really unprecedented and unprecedented, shocking the ancient and modern!" For outsiders, this kind of secret detention method is undoubtedly like a book from heaven, and if you can't understand it, you can't fake it or imitate it. What's more, these secrets are not static, they can be changed after a period of time, and it is even more difficult if someone wants to decipher or forge them. In this way, it is even more difficult for outsiders to imitate the silver ticket number of our Yushan ticket number than to ascend to the sky! ”

Liu Juntao also said with a smile: "Moreover, this method can also be used in the transmission of information from the escort team and the exploration department, even if the transmitted news is intercepted by the enemy, they don't know what we are writing!" ”

Hearing this, Tang Yu admired Liu Juntao even more, but he didn't expect that this method that Liu Juntao came up with could still be used in the army, it was a miracle!

At this time, Liu Juntao said to Tang Yu: "You immediately dispatched capable generals from the Ministry of Commerce, and all of them gathered in Yushan Town to train the anti-counterfeiting technologies I mentioned." Remember, it must be kept strictly confidential, all the business guys who come to the training must sign a life and death contract, and anyone who leaks the secret will be killed! ”

Tang Yu also nodded solemnly when he heard this, and said, "Don't worry, I can do it!" ”

"Who are you going to put in charge of the Yushan ticket number?"

Now Tang Yu was asked, now the three directors of the Ministry of Commerce, Cui Ning, Ma Lijun, and Xu Ping, are all in charge of their own stalls, and they don't have the extra energy to take charge of the Yushan ticket number, Tang Yu really can't think of a suitable candidate for a while.

At this time, Tang Yu slapped his thigh and said, "Mr. Lian, let me personally manage this Yushan ticket number, I really don't feel at ease when I hand it over to others." ”

Liu Juntao nodded with a smile when he heard this, and said, "That's the best!" ”

The two of them said some details about the preparation of the Yushan ticket number, and Tang Yu suddenly said: "Mr. Lian, I have a feeling that the establishment of this Yushan ticket number should not only be as simple as absorbing silver, you must have other considerations." ”

"Oh?"

Liu Juntao smiled and asked, "Why do you have such an idea?" ”

"Lian always does things, he has always been a rabbit with grass, how can he make such a big move just to solve a problem?"

Liu Juntao also laughed when he heard this, and said to Tang Yu: "Throughout the ages, our Chinese merchants and merchants and ordinary people used silver money to trade, but once the road is far away, there will be the problem of inconvenience in carrying silver money, which restricts mutual trade between different places, and to put it mildly, it will affect the circulation of silver money within our Huaxia!" ”

"The flow of money?"

Tang Yu muttered, as if he had a hint of understanding in his heart, but he couldn't grasp the point.

Liu Juntao continued: "Now is just the beginning, I not only want to open our Yushan ticket number all over Shandong, but also all over Daming!" When the time comes, the merchants of Liaodong will go to Sichuan to do business, and the merchants of Hami will come to our Shandong business, and they will no longer need to hire a dart master to escort the silver, as long as they bring the silver ticket of our Yushan ticket number! In this way, the goods and silver coins from all over the world can flow like great rivers, and finally converge into a monstrous torrent, rushing to the prosperous world with the Ming Dynasty! ”

Tang Yu listened to Liu Juntao's words, and a scene of prosperous businessmen and prosperous people seemed to emerge in front of him, and he said excitedly: "Mr. Lian! When the time comes, not only can businessmen from all over the world make a lot of money, but the people everywhere can also become rich. Moreover, the imperial court can also collect a large amount of commercial taxes from it, which is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people! ”

"That's right!"

Liu Juntao said proudly: "This is what I want to do: connect the world!" ”

It didn't take long for the news of Liu Juntao's establishment of the Yushan ticket number to sweep across Shandong like a hurricane, and then swept towards the surrounding provinces.

Especially after Ren Chengwei and the Confucian Mansion in Qufu County deposited hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, merchants, Haoqiang, and gentry from all over the country followed suit.

Even the government of Dongping Prefecture, Dong'e County, Ningyang County and other places also came to join in the fun, deposited the tax money and grain in the city into the Yushan ticket number in the city, and then directly sent people to take out the silver in the newly opened Yushan ticket number semicolon in Jinan Prefecture, which is convenient and fast and saves labor!

In this regard, the governor of Shandong praised it greatly, and specially inscribed a plaque to Liu Juntao: Righteous people and wealthy businessmen!

In November of the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, the semicolon of the Yushan ticket number was opened in Xuzhou City, and the Haoqiang, merchants, and gentry from all over Xuzhou came to deposit silver, and even Xuzhou officials such as the Wolf Mountain garrison also came to deposit money; Some businessmen and people who are short of money are rushing to borrow money, after all, the interest rate of the Yushan ticket number is far lower than that of the usury of private loans, and the reputation is good, why not?

Seeing that the business of Yushan Town was booming, Xu Zhaohui and Ye Zongliu, the heads of the Xu family, couldn't sit still, both of them understood that in the face of the strength of Yushan Town, they could only temporarily take the defensive, and they must not compete with it!

So, Xu Zhaohui, the head of the Xu family, hurriedly found Ye Zongliu, and the two began to discuss the future.