The spring breeze in February is like scissors.

The snow in the north has not completely melted, and news has come from the south to invite Yan Yu to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the Soviet Union to inspect the work.

That's what was planned. Without waiting for the emperor to issue the imperial system, Yan Yu asked for his life early, in order to arrive before the completion date of the Jiangning International Free Trade Zone, because the ribbon-cutting had been agreed to two years ago.

The Jiangning International Free Trade Zone covers an area of 30,000 acres, which was a sky-high level in those days. Of course, these are designed according to Yanyu's requirements.

It is divided into several categories, on the one hand, it is mostly a porcelain area, pottery area, silk area, silk fabric area, wine area, candy area, etc., the military area covers a small area, but compared with the civilian area, it is only open to foreign high-end purchasing groups, individual combat equipment area, mechanized area, artillery area, combat vehicle area and air force equipment area, naval warship area and so on. There are separate demonstration areas, test areas and delivery areas outside each area, which is very neat.

Of course, as the main weapons and equipment of the Tang Army, these equipment are actually divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the most core technology will naturally not be leaked, besides, they all belong to the export foreign trade type, just like the United States may sell you F15, but F22 or F35 You don't think about it, that is the core military secret of others, how can you sell it. But he'll think that the F15 is already very advanced as a defensive weapon, and you buy so much for nothing, unless you want to expand, you want to attack. Here, Yan Yu naturally thought of it, so these things are impossible, a real all-Tang army chariot, the entire body is made of metal, equipped with sixteen poplar tires, with ten strong crossbows, five crossbows, five rapid-fire artillery, basically the latest technology that can be used at that time is used, although it is very powerful, but Yan Yu is not very satisfied, the tank should not be like this, however, now these scientific and technological equipment materials, to the greatest possibility, can only create such a thing. It's okay, as long as you keep improving, it's still quite possible to become a real tank.

Of course, once these cross-firepower came in handy in the event of war, the Ma army and the army could only stand aside. Because in such an era of cold weapons, it is indeed unrealistic to cut tanks with big swords, especially when the members of the purchasing groups of various countries sit inside the chariot and feel his unusual sense of heaviness, this feeling of tallness is particularly prominent, when the cavalry team outside uses the big sword to slash at the chariot, they all feel that the majestic warriors outside are like children playing at home, and this practice does not have any lethality to the chariot and the people in the chariot.

However, the value of these equipment is extremely high, and the general high-end visiting group can only equip some sporadically, and if they want to purchase it in large quantities, they will need a large amount of gold and silver, which will inevitably become a hard inflation such as the outflow of silver.

But all in all, the price of 200,000 taels of silver for an army tactical combat vehicle is really expensive, and these trading areas are all traded in cash, so when a large amount of silver flows into the Central Plains from the outside, it is only in Yan Yu's opinion that it is a great stimulus to the financial matter.

In addition, this free trade zone also has a high-tech exhibition area, which is only to display some high-tech equipment of the Central Plains Dynasty. For example, high-end compasses, nautical instruments, and aerospace equipment that can be accurately counted. Naturally, these equipment have not yet been mass-produced and are not sold, it is just a display area, showing the technology and technology that Datang can master in all aspects that are ahead of the world.

To promote the prestige of our country, we must first sharpen our weapons.

Yan Yu participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the entire park and published a signed article titled Casting the New Era of Datang National Strategy...... cough cough cough ...... It's eye-catching.

Of course, when the missions, interview groups, and purchasing groups of more than 20 countries squandered a large amount of gold and silver here, the transaction volume in just ten days was as high as 20,000 taels of silver.

Ten days?

That's right!

In this way, once such a scene appeared, he had to turn his attention to another thing that he considered extremely important.

Paper money was the first to appear in the Song Dynasty. Of course, the scope of use of paper money at that time was still very narrow, and it could not really achieve the monetary value that paper money should have.

Now, Yanyu has arranged to carry out monetary and financial transformation in Datang, and all banknotes will be issued for circulation, of course, the gold and silver on the market must be offset with the issued banknotes. Yan Yu was less worried about the outflow of silver after the issuance of paper money.

This is because all foreign trade must be traded in paper money, which creates a phenomenon. That is, when these foreign purchasing groups wanted to buy silk or weapons and equipment here, he had to go to the local bank first and exchange the large amount of currency he brought with him for the Tang Tongbao banknotes, which the Song Dynasty people called their own currency treasure banknotes, and called Tang Bao in terms of jade.

The denomination of the currency issued is actually very simple, that is, one or two denominations of Tang Bao, ten taels of denominations, and one hundred taels of denominations. Those who want to issue five hundred taels of denominations find that the scope of its use is too narrow, and it is unlikely that ordinary people will save currency of this denomination, so the maximum is one hundred taels.

Naturally, it is printed with a portrait of Li Yu of the Tang Empire, and the back is with a square Tang character "Tang".

It's beautiful, and Yan Yu thinks it's good.

But anti-counterfeiting technology has high requirements, although Yanyu comes from modern times, but there is no need to worry, because in that era there were very few regions and countries that could really make paper, and the company that could make such a beautiful picture paper had also been purchased by the official Yamen, because in the list of the first batch of state-owned enterprises, there were only two printing companies in Datang, and they were used to make them. You can't imitate yourself, and foreigners can't imitate it.

Yanyu stored the equivalent of gold and silver in the Datang Central Bank, so the issuance went smoothly.

First Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, then Liangguang, then Liangjiang, then Shaanxi and Gansu, and finally all regions in the north have been used.

This is what happened under the vigorous promotion of the government. It's fine to have a few taels of silver on you, but when you're going out on a long trip, it's at least much more convenient to carry a Tang Bao than a heavy but equivalent currency.

History always moves in the direction of the advanced.

This will happen if it doesn't happen now, and it will happen in a few hundred years.

In fact, there was already a large amount of such monetary demand in the society at that time, and Yan Yu was just adding fuel to the fire. Of course, this credit naturally still has to be counted on Yan Yu's head. After all, he is a virtuous and capable king in the eyes of the world.

Since I have Li Yanyu in Datang, it can really be said that Guotai Min'an, Haiqing Heyan, mighty Siyi, invincible......

At the celebration banquet, Yan Yu raised his wine glass and drank all the high-purity barley wine that Tuguhun tributed, everyone cheered and drank together, and everyone was drunk if the wine was not drunk.

But this currency reform seemed impossible in the eyes of the courtiers, and now it is not only completely solved, but also the whole country, this Tang Bao has entered the homes of ordinary people.

The current Yanyu was given a more resounding name by the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu, the father of Datang Finance...... cough cough cough ......

Today, Yan Yu is very happy, and the courtiers are also very happy, there is no situation where anyone wants to oppose Yan Yu, but Li Yu is very unhappy.

Your Majesty, you?

Your Majesty, he painted yesterday and was not very satisfied with the painting all night, so he is in a very bad mood today, and you don't need to worry, just because of the painting.

Oh!

This art emperor is indeed angry, although Yan Yu and everyone have not seen it much, but he has seen situations where he is not very interested.

Because everyone has never seen this artist emperor lose his temper.

Drink!

The king and the minister are drunk together!

I said Aiqing, you said that the portrait of me on this Tang Bao is very good.

Okay, that's a way to draw it......

That's good!

Oh! By the way, Lord Han, who did you say painted the portrait of His Majesty Tang Bao?

Well, this was actually painted by His Majesty himself!

Well?

Well! Well drawn, well drawn!

I draw myself, and I print myself on the banknote, I'm afraid there is no one. Very good! Very good!

Everyone must drink it, there are still many barley wines, plus the five hundred cars of wine that Tuyuhun paid tribute to last month, there are now seven hundred cars, and we have released one hundred cars to the market, who knows that once it is put on the market, it will be sold out in less than two hours, and everyone is still waiting for the court to release these wines next time.

I have to say that the lives of ordinary people have made a qualitative leap compared to together.

Everyone has money in their pockets, and you have good goods, how can you not make a deal, this is the market.

Oh! That's right! I heard yesterday that there is already a war in the countries of Europe, do you know?

Europe? War? Does it have anything to do with my Datang?