Chapter 771: Huaxia Coins
Sure enough, this month has just passed, and when the next month is coming as the "Liaodong Daily" said, Liaodong Qianzhuang decisively released banknotes.
As Zhao Feng said before, banknotes are divided into: 1 money, 2 money, 5 money, 10 money, 20 money, 50 money, 100 money, and 1000 money.
Each denomination of the banknote has a beautiful pattern. Take the 1 Qian banknote as an example: at the head of the row are the four big characters of Dahan Bank, and on the left and right sides are the capitalized "Yi Qian" and the Arabic numeral "1 Qian", and there is the seal of the guarantor Zhao Feng below.
The paper used for banknotes is specially designed by Zhao Feng, and many kinds of fibers are added to the materials, and the paper is thick and wear-resistant. Since only Zhao Feng knows all the varieties and proportions of these fibers, this kind of paper cannot be imitated at all.
The patterns on the banknotes are very intricate, meticulously drawn by professional painters, and then engraved into a metal plate.
The pattern in the center of the banknote is a soaring dragon, and the back is a landscape map of various places, Zhao Feng did not paint someone's head on it like that for later generations, first, he is not dead, but he doesn't want to be painted on the banknote, and secondly, outside of him, it seems that no one really paints it!
What's more, if Zhao Feng is painted instead of the little emperor, someone with a heart will definitely find fault and say that Zhao Feng does not respect His Majesty and wants to be above His Majesty! If the little emperor is painted instead of Zhao Feng, then all the people and officials under Liaodong should not be willing; If both are painted, then it is another problem just now, Zhao Feng wants to be on an equal footing with His Majesty, in other words, Zhao Feng wants to usurp power!
So in desperation, Zhao Feng could only replace the human head with a giant dragon.
As for the printing ink, it is a special ink, and the color registration technology has also been introduced, and even the printing of the "Liaodong Daily" is black and white, but these banknotes are several sets of colors. This, in turn, eliminates the possibility of counterfeiting in printing technology.
The banknote paper is manufactured and printed in a factory supervised by Jin Yiwei himself, and security measures are extremely tight. Of course, at this stage, only Zhao Feng's factory can undertake this task. Because only Zhao Feng mastered the most advanced papermaking and printing technology of this era. Thanks to the various technical guarantees that were ahead of this era, the possibility of paper money being counterfeited was almost zero.
Zhao Feng called this kind of paper money that he carefully designed Huaxia coin. When choosing the name, Zhao Feng made another difficulty, when Zhao Feng just proposed to call the big Han coin, Jia Xu and other strategists spoke up to oppose it, their reason is very simple, since it was issued by the Liaodong Bank, why should it be called the big Han coin? In their opinion, it is better to take a new name of the dynasty, anyway, Zhao Feng will definitely reign in the world later, will he still be called a great man at that time?
In fact, Zhao Feng also understood the thoughts of Jia Xu and others, so Zhao Feng had a compromise solution, since ancient times, the people have been called the sons and daughters of Huaxia, so Zhao Feng named this banknote Huaxia coin, and in the future, if it is the king of the world, Zhao Feng does not want to take any new country name, just call Huaxia directly!
Aside from anything else, in Zhao Feng's view, this Huaxia currency will definitely become a world currency in the future, and its position is more stable than that of the rice dollar, euro, and pound sterling in later generations.
However, although Huaxia coins have been promoted for a long time, they are still poorly promoted. Because of taking this flower paper head to buy things, most merchants are reluctant to accept it. They still believe in copper coins.
Zhao Feng had to take the initiative to release Huaxia coins to the officials of the imperial court to promote paper money. This is a bitter matter for the officials of the imperial court, they have no choice, everyone and their families have to take on the duties of paper money promoters. Because if you don't promote it, you won't be able to spend it.
Since they were officials, many merchants had to accept and believe that the Bank of Liaodong could exchange Huaxia coins for copper coins at any time. However, although it was spent, most of the merchants hurried to the bank to exchange the Huaxia coins in their hands for copper coins. As a result, the banknote went around in a circle outside and returned to the bank.
After getting the news, Zhao Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly.
So, Zhao Feng had no choice but to come up with an idea, he ordered that anyone who takes copper coins to the bank for deposits and withdrawals must be charged storage fees, but if you use Huaxia coins to deposit and withdraw, you don't need to. Because banknotes are easy to store and count. If you exchange paper money for copper coins, more than 1,000 yuan, you will also be charged a certain handling fee, because it takes time and labor for the bank to count the copper coins.
As soon as Zhao Feng's order was issued, it caused quite a stir. At first, everyone hurried to exchange Huaxia coins for copper coins, even if they had to charge a handling fee. However, after a long time, especially those merchants, the copper coins were collected too much, and the storage and management were inconvenient, so they had to be deposited in the bank again. However, there is a handling fee for depositing banknotes, but not for depositing banknotes in the bank, which makes merchants feel that the gains outweigh the losses.
Gradually, merchants were no longer resistant to receiving Huaxia coins, and they no longer immediately exchanged Huaxia coins for copper coins, but began to try to use Huaxia coins to buy goods. At first, it was not easy to use, because the seller was unwilling to accept it, so the buyer and seller had to go to a nearby bank and deposit Huaxia coins into the seller's account. In this way, there are no fees or exchange fees, and both parties benefit.
When the seller tried to see that Huaxia coins could also be deposited into their own accounts and become a part of their wealth, they were finally relieved. Gradually, Huaxia coins began to become popular in the market.
There is no charge for exchanging copper coins for Huaxia coins, and ordinary people are free of charge for exchanging 1,000 copper coins with Huaxia coins every time. Instead, they began to believe in the credibility of Huaxia coins.
Gradually, the people also began to use Huaxia coins. As a result, there are more and more copper coins, and Huaxia coins are gradually insufficient.
So, under Zhao Feng's order, Liaodong Bank issued the second batch of Huaxia coins again, which fully alleviated the market tension!
However, looking at the mountain of copper coins, Zhao Feng was in trouble for a while, how to deal with it? Although now under his own rule, this Huaxia coin is promoted, but under the rule of Cao Cao and Sun Quan, they still don't recognize this thing, so a part of the copper coin is bound to be reserved for trade with the two, but how much is left? Zhao Feng has no score in his heart!
In the end, Zhao Feng decided to deal with these copper coins slowly, anyway, now the steel and copper in Liaodong are enough, Zhao Feng only took out a part of the copper coins to cast cannons, and Zhao Feng ordered to keep the rest first, and sent merchants to use these copper coins to trade with Sun Quan and Cao Cao!
(End of chapter)