After a while, two clerks came out, one in front of them holding a large stack of number plates with a series of numbers written in order, starting with the person who was first in line.

The other took a piece of paper and a charcoal penil, and asked each person in turn how many new dollars to change, and the money and accounts were counted and accounted for now, so as not to be crowded and messy.

Everyone is happy, ICBC is different from the others, and it is very thoughtful. So they all reported the number they wanted to exchange.

At this time, a few more clerks came out and took away the passbooks and all kinds of old coins brought by each person according to the records, and immediately counted them and marked them on the back of the number plate, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

Under the anxious expectation of everyone, finally, the baby's table bell rang, the door of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China opened, and without waiting for everyone to enter, a team of newly formed policemen rushed out of the door, took out a red cloth strip, and divided the road from the gate to the counter into two parts, half only allowed to enter, and the other half only allowed to go out, so that there was no chaos at all.

Everyone praised in their hearts, it was really the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the Metropolitan Governor, no matter how many people there were, they could cope with it!

Everyone lined up to enter the bank, took the number plate in their hands to the counter to receive the new currency, and they could get their hands immediately.

The first one to get was the shopkeeper Fan of the cloth line, he wanted to exchange one hundred and thirty taels of new coins to go to Suzhou to purchase, and another one hundred wen yuan pocket money (one or two hundred wen), and he got a stack of banknotes and dozens of steel coins, which was convenient enough, but he was still shocked when he saw this little thing in his hand. However, the incredible delicacy of the new coin immediately attracted him, and he quickly took out a note and looked at it carefully, and was amazed.

The people in the back of the line saw the banknotes in the hands of the shopkeeper Fan. Immediately let out an exclamation! The new coins are really extraordinary! What a beautiful money! It doesn't matter if it's new or not. Just this piece of paper. I believe that there will be many people who will spend money to buy one and go back to see the novelty.

Shopkeeper Liu, who opened the inn, lined up very far, and in a hurry, he stretched out his hand to Shopkeeper Fan and said, "Brother Fan, you go home and take a look slowly, let me take a look first." ”

Shopkeeper Fan laughed and said, "Brother Liu, you will also change it in a while, what a hurry." "That being said, I'd better hand the money to Shopkeeper Liu.

Shopkeeper Liu and the people next to him picked up the banknotes and steel coins one by one and looked at them. I couldn't help but exclaim: "The Metropolitan Governor is really amazing! How did such money come about? The dragon on it is just like the real thing! The dragon's whiskers and scales on the steel coin can be seen clearly! ”

The shopkeeper Fan said: "Yes, I was still a little worried about it, but now my doubts are gone, and most of the governors said that with this money, I can go to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to redeem the silver taels at any time!" I'm 6 out of 50 this year, I've never seen anything so exquisite, and if someone painted such a picture, I'd definitely buy it! ”

Everyone nodded their heads again and again, and there was a lot of discussion.

"The Metropolitan Governor is indeed safe and thoughtful. It's much stronger than the imperial court, and now I know. This kind of money is called money! There's no reason why the new dollar can't be successful! ”

"Yes, yes, in this way, it will be very convenient for us to do business, tens of thousands of taels of silver are carried with us, do we still need a dart game?"

"Hehe, I see less than 30% of the business of the dart game!"

"More than thirty percent, the bandits in various places have been exterminated by the Metropolitan Governor's troops, how many are left? Now that you work to earn more money, what's the point of being a robber with your head in your head? Even the bandits in Guangxi have become soldiers, ready to follow the Dadu Governor to make contributions to the south and earn a fortune. In the past six months or so, who have you heard of being robbed? The dart board is not much different from the mule and horse shop now, and I have heard that some dart masters simply join the army, intending to mix up their backgrounds. ”

"Haha, this is good, the thief and the dart master are all in the ranks, won't they blush and fight when they meet again?"

"Che, do you think it's somewhere else? That's in the army of the Grand Duke! Who would dare to disobey military orders? Are you making trouble? ”

"To say that since the Metropolitan Governor has been in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, the military masters everywhere have indeed been much more honest. Guangxi used to kill good and meritorious deeds are too numerous to mention, most of the governors sent Lu Shi Meng Lu to go, killing more than 2,000 soldiers and generals who were greedy for military merits in a year, and the people and the Yi people were applauding. The local military generals in Guangxi were not satisfied, and they sued the two saints, threatening that the imperial army was already unstable and that there might be a mutiny. As a result, the Metropolitan Governor said lightly, 'All mutinies will be beheaded, and the three clans will be punished!' 'Scared the armies of Guangxi to the point of, please sin one after another! Hehe, the soldiers in Guangxi are famous for their arrogance, and they have given the court a headache over the years, and they have always turned a blind eye to their killing and exploitation, so as not to cause trouble for them. It's good now, the Metropolitan Governor only has one sentence, not only do they obediently obey orders, but they are also training desperately under Lord Lu, but I am afraid that the Metropolitan Governor will be unhappy and slaughter them all when he goes south, haha. ”

"The key is that no one in the army dares to withhold military rations and falsely report heads. Half a month ago, the Metropolitan Governor ordered Wen Shangshu to start an inventory of the world's troops, return the stolen goods within a time limit, and make up the arrears. Now that group of corrupt officials, big and small, are secretly selling their property and want to plug this hole. To tell you the truth, the army is shocked! Hmph, it's okay to scare the court with a mutiny, but you want to scare the governor? Haha, how many elite soldiers and fierce generals under the Metropolitan Governor are waiting next to them to look for opportunities to make meritorious contributions! ”

"Lord Ling Zhenling, the capital of Guangdong, led a group of Guangdong civil and military officers to Lin'an to meet the governor, after receiving the order of the governor, even the two saints and the official family did not have time to pay homage, and went directly to Suzhou after a night's rest.

"Guangdong bows its head, Guangxi obeys orders, Fujian has long been under his command, not to mention the special zone and the surroundings of Lin'an, the metropolitan governor has now controlled the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the northern Mongols are intimidated by the metropolitan governor, so they can start to change the law. The so-called plan and then act, most of the governors have deep samadhi. ”

"The key is that everyone is not afraid of changing the law, but they all want to change the law. Look at Suzhou and Shanghai, who doesn't want to be like there? It is really a good move for the Metropolitan Governor to make a special zone first, so that everyone can see what the change will become, so that no one will be afraid, and officials in various places will know what to do. ”

"The most powerful thing is the cultural and martial arts of the Dadu Governor, and the people believe in the Dadu Governor, and the change of the law will be smooth. Take the current issuance of new currency as an example, if you change it to someone else, it will definitely become a pot of porridge, but with the governor in charge, we will believe it, and we don't have to worry about running out of money to use, let alone worrying about issuing new money indiscriminately, but they all come to exchange for new money. ”

"Alas~ That's right. The Empress Dowager is the mother of the Grand Governor, Kublai Khan is the father-in-law of the Grand Governor, and the Metropolitan Governor himself is rich in the world, with heavy troops, and the people who followed the Grand Governor have made a fortune, such a person can no longer be trusted, who can believe it? The Metropolitan Governor still has the ambition of the bird, and what will happen in the future, hehe, it's hard to say. ”

"You mean the Governor is going to expand his territory, right? It is said that the Metropolitan Governor wanted to expand his territory to Japan and the south, especially in the southern countries, and it was said that the land was fertile, but the local people did not know how to farm. No, the war has not yet been fought, and many people in various places have already moved their minds. Do you know the Duan family in Yangzhou? I heard that he had united more than 30 wealthy families in Yangzhou and accumulated countless money and grain, which he would offer when the metropolitan governor went south, and maybe he would be able to get a large piece of land by then. This is public, there are so many in secret, my neighbor Aunt Wang's family of sixteen also works day and night to save money, and when I ask her what she does, she only says that she wants to buy land, but she doesn't go to see the land, don't you say it's strange? ”

"Come on, I'll be honest with you, there was a news from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion a few days ago. The Governor of Dadu asked his generals to discuss matters with Wen Shangshu and Lord Yang, saying that after the completion of Wen Shangshu's army, the Governor of Dadu would expand the armament and war, and all the soldiers who accompanied the Governor of the Southern Expedition could each be assigned a piece of land according to their military merits. ”

"Wouldn't it? How could such a confidential thing come out? ”

"This is not a secret, I have heard about it, it must be the news deliberately released by the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the layout of the Metropolitan Governor is far-reaching."

"Yes, there are more than a dozen people in our street who have moved their minds to get a piece of land, whether it is planted or not, it is their own industry, and it is okay not to sell it and collect rent."

"That's a war, it's going to die!"

"How's it going to be a war? Will the Metropolitan still lose? No pain, no gain! If you can make great contributions, you will definitely be reused by the metropolitan governor, and then you will be developed. With the presence of the metropolitan governor, no one dares to risk military exploits. ”

"Yes, now joining the army is different from before, the army eats well, lives well, manages strictly, and must read and write, and there are many rewards for military merits, and the military uniforms worn are spirited, which is not the same."

"Haha, you wait and see, when recruiting troops, Lin'an doesn't say anything, Liangguang can recruit 100,000 people casually!"

"That's less. Alas, it's your turn, hurry up and exchange money! ”

"Oh, yes!"

Countless old coins were recycled, burned or recast by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the market order became more orderly, everyone was proud of the use of new coins, and the ability of the people of the Song Dynasty to accept new things made Cheng Yue somewhat unexpected.

Because the Great Song Dynasty was the center of the world's value, the new currency was able to spread rapidly, and the neighboring Sichuan, Shandong, Henan, Huguang and other places soon appeared traces of the new currency, because the new currency is too exquisite, and the treasure money issued by Kublai Khan is constantly depreciating, making it more popular than the Great Song Dynasty!

Although the Yuan Dynasty government did not immediately admit it, but a small number of people have begun to use the new currency of the Great Song Dynasty, commonly known as "dragon money", even if Cheng Yue's Industrial and Commercial Bank did not open to the Yuan Dynasty, the paper money issued by Cheng Yue still began to be used for trading in the Yuan Dynasty merchants who could travel between the north and the south, and it was called "dragon ticket" or "dragon banknote", and many people even collected it as a gift, and receiving dragon money was a very face-saving thing. (To be continued......)