You Haibo's question made everyone shocked, although everyone knew Zhang Qiang's ambitions, but Zhang Qiang still respected Longwu very much before, on the surface Longwu is the imperial court, they are officials of the imperial court, but everyone knows that in fact, they have become a warlord who listens to propaganda and does not listen to the transfer of real power, this is something that everyone understands.

Everyone understands in their hearts, but they never say it, everyone has a kind of thinking in their hearts from the dragon's work, and they all feel that Zhang Qiang's future is to ascend to the throne in the future, and they will become the founding fathers of the new imperial court, which is something that everyone tacitly knows.

At this time, Zhang Qiang suddenly said such a thing, which was obviously disrespectful or precautionary to the imperial court, and this kind of behavior was already obvious disobedience.

Everyone knows that the Longwu Imperial Court was supported by the Jinhua Righteous Army under Zhang Qiang, and at this time, Zhang emphasized that the two troops were already demolished from the Longwu Imperial Court.

Without the support of Zhang Qiang's troops, it was a question whether the Longwu Imperial Court could withstand the counteroffensive of Li Chengdong, Fan Shaozu and others who lived in Jiangxi.

Seeing the expressions of everyone exchanging glances, Zhang Qiang knew that everyone had misunderstood what he meant.

Knocking on the table, when everyone refocused their eyes on themselves, Zhang Qiang said: "We are kind enough to protect them, but they may not appreciate it, after the development of the past few months, they already have an army of 50,000, and we will be stationed there again, it will be a bit of an eyesore, I mean withdraw our troops in batches, shrink our strength, and gradually return to our territory, and then we will bury our heads in development, regardless of the things outside the territory, unless Longwu comes to us again, we are going out, understand?" ”

Everyone nodded whether they understood it or not.

Zhang Qiang looked at everyone as if we understood, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, everyone still felt that they were making conspiracy, but everyone didn't know, they really wanted to develop with peace of mind, as for Longwu them, those Ming officials could at least hold on for a while, they had changed history, or when they came, history had changed a lot, many people who should have died did not die, and the forces that should have perished have not perished, and the Ming Dynasty is not the same as the Ming Dynasty in history.

He can't follow his next path with the foresight of history like other traversers, but Zhang Qiang knows one thing that the development of firearms, the development of the economy, and the strength of the territory, as long as the strength is strong, then all the enemies are paper tigers, which is a tried-and-true historical experience.

What do these people know about these things?

After the meeting ended, Zhang Qiang asked Zhou Congee to find people to start recruiting, craftsmen with painting skills, engraving skills, ink and ink configuration craftsmen, papermaking craftsmen, and even François and Sebastian, as well as their lathe manufacturing craftsmen, to start the work of developing food stamps.

Zhou Congee organized a working group and transferred five people from Zhang Qiang's personal secretary, plus Sebastian and François, two Spaniards and Portuguese, as well as some more experienced craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty.

After a week of research, they came up with a sample.

Zhang Qiang is not very satisfied, is this kind of food stamp for the people?

Sixteen open such a large piece of paper, on which the ghost is drawn, there are so many drawings that I don't know how to draw, and the paper is relatively rotten, just like the worst toilet paper to wipe the buttocks, yellow is not yellow, white is not white, and it is not even as good.

More than half a month has passed, and they have come up with a total of seven samples.

The paper changed from 16 to 32 to 64, and the paper changed from ordinary straw paper to expensive rice paper.

The pictures ranged from landscape paintings to Taoist temples, temples, imperial palaces, paddy fields, and old cows, and Zhang Qiang was speechless.

Can't these people's heads turn around?

Get your own avatar on it?

And these banknotes are of different sizes, is this a banknote?

It's not to tell the fake, you come to fake, let's wait?

A month has passed.

Under Zhang Qiang's repeated guidance, he finally created a new grain stamp the size of banknotes in later generations.

All the grain stamps are one size, and the pattern of the text is an old cow painted in ink, a farmer plowing the field, and a picture of hoeing the day of noon.

The blank space on the front is written in capital letters, and below it is the third year of Longwu, as well as the number of Arabic numerals.

The north side is the scene of a full warehouse of grain, and below it is written that the Jinhua Righteous Army Governor's Office made a few big characters, which are represented by Arabic numerals, 1 text.

Cancel the tickets of the two texts and the three texts, and go directly to the five texts, the five texts are the front of the peasants to pay the public grain, crowded at the entrance of the yamen bustling, smiling, the back is the businessmen buying grain, the price is fair, the farmers queue up to receive the grain tickets of the harmonious picture, at the same time in traditional Chinese horizontal writing, "help each other, everyone get rich, Jinhua Righteous Army, my good friend." ”

Ten texts and one dime, the front of one dime is a picture of a reader reading hard all night, his head hanging from a beam, and a cone piercing, and the back is the appearance of the title of the gold list.

As the governor of the Longwu Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhang Qiang did not dare to offend the Longwu Court, in a word, this is the current political correctness, everyone is still the concept of the emperor of the feudal dynasty as the master of the house, you can't leapfrog development, get a republic out, at the same time Zhang Qiang also doesn't like the atmosphere of the republic, it's too bitter, and the thinking is too chaotic.

One yuan, on the front is the Wenchen military generals, sitting on both sides of a large round table, Zhang Qiang is listening to everyone's speeches on the main seat, and the north is a picture of farmers, merchants, officials, workers, soldiers, looking at the enthusiastic picture of the fluttering banner of the Jinhua Righteous Army with a red background and a gold star, and at the same time writing vertically, "We are all a family, and the Ming Dynasty is my family." ”

Above the ten yuan, the front is Zhang Qiang's head, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are below, and the back is a panoramic view of the Governor's Palace.

The front of the 100 yuan is Zhang Qiang's portrait, the following are several characteristic scenic spots in Jinhua Mansion, and the back is a map of the territory from Kazakhstan, to Vladivostok, from the Ural Mountains to Australia.

From the picture is very good-looking, from the workmanship, quite exquisite, the average person can not draw such a good-looking picture, the use of high-quality ceramic white rice paper, very elegant, from the point of view of being imitated, if you imitate it in this way below ten yuan, the cost is much higher, the gain outweighs the loss, because the paper and workmanship, the painting, the value is much higher than that of a text, and even a yuan of labor and materials can not imitate such a beautiful thing.

So such food stamps are almost circulating.

But Zhang Qiang is still not at ease, directly on the double-layer superposition manufacturing process, the two pieces of rice paper are superimposed together, when the rice paper is manufactured, a kind of fish grease in the sea is also added to the ink, fish glue is added to the ink, spices are added, and even steel seals are added, resulting in a convex and concave feeling, plus secret marks, hollowing and other methods, in terms of current skills, it is difficult for anyone to imitate it.

Rice paper bleached with flax and sawdust and soda ash is not available on the market.

The whole development process used about 500 craftsmen, developed separately, and finally about 50 craftsmen made the prototype by hand, Zhang Qiang saw it, was very satisfied, and ordered to start mass manufacturing, starting to manufacture in the amount of 4 million.

Because his grain and the silver taels available were only four million, he made only four million food stamps.

In this way, it was supposed to start issuing and exchanging money in the early part of the month, but as a result, the wind has been blowing for a month, and everyone knows that they are going to exchange banknotes, but it has been a month, and the Governor's Palace has not moved.

And Zhang Qiang thinks that there is no drama this month, raw materials need to be reserved, machines need to be manufactured, workers need to be strictly reviewed, and centralized management, set up a factory in the original racecourse in the governor's palace, and mobilize loyal troops to guard, strict rules and regulations, and then start formal propaganda, set up grain bureau branches in various places, part of which is responsible for the storage and collection of grain, buying and selling, and part of the financial institutions equivalent to money banks, and the establishment of corresponding institutions in the governor's palace, which cannot be completed in a month.

It was not until a month and a half later that the corresponding preparations and publicity were completed.

In the past month, the tide of refugees joining the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army began to slow down gradually, and in the end, no one came to the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

Because everyone is afraid that the money in their hands will become a pile of waste paper, as long as they are a scholar and almost know about the Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty, everyone thinks that this is the governor robbing the money in their hands in disguise.

The squires and wealthy families also fled Zhang Qiang's Jinhua rebel territory one after another.

Originally, with the addition of Wenzhou, Quzhou, Jianning, and Zhangqiang's territory, the population had reached 2.3 million, but after two and a half months of propaganda, the population plummeted to 1.8 million.

At this time in Europe, people were still using gold coins and silver coins, and even the Portuguese and Dutch were not optimistic about Zhang Qiang's move.

All kinds of circumstances converged, and the atmosphere in Zhang Qiang's governor's palace became depressing.

Zhang Qiang didn't care about those things, and announced forcefully that in the future, gold and silver will not be allowed to circulate in the territory of Jinhua Mansion, and only grain stamps will be used, otherwise he will be punished as treason.

For a time, the merchants walked thirty percent away, and another 100,000 people fled, and many lands were abandoned as soon as they were reclaimed.

Some of the wealthy families and squires who stayed on the sidelines also fled, even the militia and new recruits, and by the end of the three months, Zhang Qiang's four million food stamps were ready, and the population of the territory had dropped to 1.6 million people.

More than 10,000 militiamen ran away, more than 3,000 recruits ran away, and some regular soldiers in Zhang Qiang's army also applied to leave, and several hundred left.

You Haibo has met Zhang Qiang several times and persuaded him bitterly, but Zhang Qiang just insisted on his own opinion, and even He Jinlai persuaded him not to change his mind.

Even Longwu sent a eunuch to ask Zhang Qiang, but he only asked, and the relationship between the Longwu court and Zhang Qiang was only the duty to protect and be protected.

Zhang Qiang's 10,000 militia had about 6,000 people running into the army of the Longwu court, Longwu organized these people into a battalion, a battalion of the Ming Dynasty was not the same as a battalion in Zhang Qiang's army, one of their battalions, maybe only a few hundred people, maybe tens of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, represented a military group, or a force, led by a new Ming general.

Zhang Qiang stated his hardships to Longwu, and Longwu didn't say anything more, and then allocated 200,000 taels of silver to Zhang Qiang.

embarrassed Zhang Qiang, Longwu is still good to himself at this point.

After three months of preparation, Zhang Qiang began to impose the currency of food stamps.