According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", the people of the time lamented that the current imperial court income is only millions of taels of silver, and the rich people in a state are also rich enough to rival the country!

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However, there are too many fish that slip through the net. The landlord's house is full of silver winter melons, ghosts are worried, tm, the country has something to do, and they don't take the silver out.

Okay, good, then change the currency.

In the future, the silver will only be a handicraft, either you take it out and exchange it for Lao Tzu's Daming RMB, or you will save it worthless at home.

Zhu Zilong looked at the salt standard schedule sorted out by a large number of modern professionals in the past ten days.

In my heart, Mezziz thought!

Even if a foreigner brings gold and silver to Daming to buy goods, it must be mandatory and required. Their gold and silver were first exchanged for Ming yuan, and then they could buy goods and take them away.

Hmph, hum!

Overseas silver is concentrated in the hands of a small number of officials and businessmen, and the vast majority of it will become a cellar, without forming new purchasing power, creating new markets, or bringing any innovation...... This is not the worst-case scenario.

To make matters worse, the Ming Empire did not have a real domestic market, and land became the best source of investment in an agrarian society with very limited access to investment.

During the years of Longqing and Wanli, the price of land rose by about 15 times, and the price of real estate in the capital was particularly outrageous. A set of mansions of Shangshu and Zhilang is worth about seven taels of silver, but the annual income of the common people is only about twenty taels of silver.

Finally, on the issue of anti-counterfeiting of banknotes, Zhu Zilong is most proud.

I am afraid that when the time comes, the Daming RMB will be the most unlikely to produce fakes among all currencies.

With the level of science and technology on the side of the Ming Dynasty, is it possible to create counterfeit coins in the modern 21st century?

A few days later, Zhu Zilong's order in Hyundai was in place.

At the same time, there are a large number of printing presses and inks, as well as a large number of finished products that have been printed.

"Daming Renminbi"

Why is Zhu Zilong not afraid of what modern people will discover?

The reason is very simple, just to explain, this is a pattern coin, which is used to practice counting money. Don't you see, bank personnel often have banknotes in their hands that are exactly the same as real RMB, but there are more words on them?

Besides, the materials used by Zhu Zilong are not the same as the real RMB.

Therefore, I am not afraid of the relevant departments to investigate. The relationship between the upper and lower levels, he has taken care of it.

So, take these things with you.

Zhu Zilong returned to Daming in a hurry, and with his master and staff team, he held a meeting in the mansion for a whole week.

Then a copy of the joint signature of the hundred officials to carry out the currency reform went up to the emperor.

The cabinet was almost full of Zhu Zilong's people, and the emperor was himself.

Therefore, this recital passed without any hindrance.

For a time, starting from Shandong, the canal was the secondary, and the road was opened along the province, and various new currency exchange points began to appear.

At the same time, in the special printing workshop in Shandong Province, a large number of technical Ming workers who graduated from New Oriental College, with Zhu Zilong's order, worked overtime 24 hours a day and printed money.

These banknotes, with the five big characters of "Daming RMB" on them, are clearly distinguished.

On the obverse is the figure of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and on the reverse is the pattern of the Great Wall and the Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynasty. The place of issuance is written by the People's Bank of Shandong, supervised by the State Government.

They are, one dollar, two yuan, five yuan, ten yuan, twenty yuan, fifty yuan, and one hundred yuan denominations.

History is known as the first generation of RMB in the Ming Dynasty!

However, the exchange in the market has been mediocre. The rich do not want the silver to expire when they die, and the common people can only observe. However, in Shandong and the canal provinces, more than half of the people believed in Zhu Zilong and exchanged copper coins and silver in advance.

It is as if the military is the first, and the remnants are either semi-compulsory or voluntary.

Considering that the Daming RMB is not a complete blank check after all, it can be exchanged for refined salt. And salt is also one of the necessities of life, so after some people were disgusted at first, according to the fact that most of the materials are now controlled by the Zhu family, you can't buy many good things without this banknote.

As a result, the number of people who exchanged it began to increase day by day.

In terms of silver, in case it is too coercive at the beginning and causes local disadvantage, silver and banknotes, as well as copper coins, can be used by peers. Of course, only in the provinces. If you want to do business and live in the provinces controlled by Zhu Zilong, (accounting for most of the provinces of the Ming Dynasty), you must only use the Ming yuan.

In this case, even those who do not lack salt at home, such as wealthy families, and landlords' families.

I often try to exchange a little bit of new currency. Take it back and watch and play!

No, even in many brothels, some have been redeemed.

As soon as the benefactors saw that the ladies liked it (not if they didn't like it, modern cosmetics could only be purchased with this banknote), they exchanged them to curry favor with the prostitutes.

“…… Is this the emperor's newly issued Ming RMB? Tsk, it's really different! Looking at the characters and pictures on it, it's so clear! It doesn't look like it's painted, but what can be printed like that? It smells of ink! Everyone couldn't help but whisper and discuss.

There are also some people who are surprised: "The material is also quite strange, not paper, not wood, and even more non-metal, I really don't know what this thing is......"

The improvement of papermaking technology is conducive to the development of education, but it is inevitable that after a few years, there will be a fear that there will be a fake Ming yuan.

Therefore, Zhu Zilong was not afraid of water-soaked plastic flakes to make the "banknotes" of the Ming Dynasty!

This is the only way to feel that the banknotes in your hands are not paper, wood, and metal.

This is Zhu Zilong's only one, and there is no need to change the materials for decades, and there is no need to worry about artificial fakes.

The way to detect counterfeit banknotes is also very simple - just throw them in the water and soak them!

The metal material sinks directly to the bottom, and the paper is directly wet, but the real Ming RMB will float up, not afraid of water. Hahaha!

Even illiterate people can easily know what real money is and distinguish which one is fake.

The value of one yuan is equivalent to the market price of a pound of refined salt, and this purchasing power, to be honest, in the Ming Dynasty, when the price of salt was higher than the price of grain, it was simply a big concession from the state to the people.

Zhu Zilong believes that it won't be long before everyone will accept it, except for the local tyrants, who are fools.

The use of salt as the standard is actually not Zhu Zilong's first invention.

There have been more people who have engaged in "salt standard" banknotes throughout the ages. For example, during the Northern Song Dynasty in China, "salt banknotes" were issued. During the Anti-Japanese War, the base area of the Eighth Route Army also issued "Beihai coins" with Haiyan as capital, and the currency value was quite strong.

Besides, whether it is the gold standard or the salt standard, isn't the subtext all about selling national credit and guarantees?

Now this Da Ming, is there a more credible existence than Zhu Zilong?

Without it, Lao Tzu has a gun in his hand!

Whoever hits, who lies down. Invincible!

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