When Li Weiguo and his entourage crossed the river and arrived at the county seat of Shanghai, they saw a large white Gothic building more than 30 meters high from a distance, with a huge plaque hanging on the roof, on which were written six large Chinese characters of "Asian Investment Bank", and the red font was particularly eye-catching against the white exterior wall.

The AIIB building has been completed for many days, and as the tallest building in Shanghai, it can be seen from anywhere in the county. Coupled with the Gothic decoration style of the exterior, it stands out among the surrounding Chinese-style house complexes, making this building the focus of discussion in Shanghai County, and everyone knows about it.

This is exactly what Li Weiguo wanted, and he persuaded the members of the AIIB board of directors to build this headquarters building, so that all the people in Shanghai would remember this building and remember the six words of the Asian Investment Bank. Even if outsiders enter Shanghai, no matter where they stand, they can see the AIIB building as soon as they look up.

This is a kind of advertising effect, no need to spend money, because whether it is the appearance or height of the AIIB building, it will become a landmark in Shanghai, and it is widely remembered by people, and the first thing that comes to mind when looking for a bank to deposit money, withdraw money, borrow money and repay money in the future must be the AIIB.

Executive Director George has been busy these days, but also happy, since the AIIB was officially opened, many people come to the lobby counter every day to consult business, and more and more people, forcing George to recruit a large number of people to cope.

This is because the AIIB has just been established and urgently needs to open up its popularity, so under the establishment of Li Weiguo, the board of directors passed an epoch-making resolution, that is, the AIIB implements a series of policies such as free handling fees for deposits and withdrawals, interest on deposits, low loan thresholds, and low repayment interest, which immediately alarmed people from all walks of life in Shanghai County, making them come to consult and negotiate business.

When Li Weiguo and his entourage came to the door of the AIIB, they saw more than a dozen salesmen wearing AIIB uniforms talking endlessly, and everyone was surrounded by a dozen or even dozens of guests who came to consult, and they were all listening attentively.

One of the salesmen said: "Generally speaking, our AIIB is a money bank, but it is much bigger and more powerful than a money bank. ”

Someone sighed: "It turns out that the bank is the money bank!" This building is so tall, I heard that it is worth millions of taels of silver, and it is indeed much larger than any other bank! ”

Some people were also skeptical: "I just don't know how the strength is?" How does it compare to the Shen family money village? ”

I only heard the salesman explain: "How is the strength, everyone will know it." For example, there is no handling fee for depositing and withdrawing money in our AIIB, and there is still interest to earn when depositing money in the AIIB, which is not comparable to the Shen family's money village, do you dare to do this? ”

"What? No fees for depositing and withdrawing money? Wouldn't that be a free bank? ”

"Yes, it's not only a free bank, but also a money bank that loses money, who sees the money deposited in the past, and the money bank also pays interest?"

"This- how is this possible? I've been to dozens of banks, and no one has ever dared to do that! ”

At this time, a few businessmen walked out of the business hall of the AIIB, they had already consulted, and now they had just finished handling the deposit business, one of them smiled and said: "You don't know, it is said that the largest and most powerful Shen family money bank, in their deposit of one or two silver will cost one penny of silver to deposit silver fees, take one tael of silver will also cost one penny of silver to go to the silver fee, and deposit one or two silver for more than a year, and you have to charge another penny of silver for the custody fee, inside and outside the calculation, I want to deposit one or two silver in the Shen family bank, After a year, when he took it out, he was left with seven pieces of silver. ”

"That's right!" Another businessman added: "I didn't believe it at first, but I just went in and tried it, and sure enough, if you save one or two silver in another bank, you will lose three dollars of silver a year, and if you save one or two silver in the AIIB, not only will you not lose money but you can also earn a dollar of silver after a year, which is really a great thing!" ”

"Humph! How can such a pie-in-the-sky good thing happen? And the money bank that loses money to customers? I don't believe it, what if the people who cheated us out of money ran away? "The most serious question is raised.

At this time, the salesman smiled and said: "This brother doesn't have to worry, the boss of our AIIB is an official of the Qing Dynasty, and he will be transferred to Shanghai as a county magistrate after a while, and there is a guarantee from the government that he will never be a liar." Besides, everyone has also seen that this building is worth millions of taels of silver, and if everyone robs this building in order to deceive everyone of a few taels of silver, it is not a loss for death. ”

Everyone immediately burst into laughter, this building is placed here, and the monk can't run the temple, not to mention the bank opened by the official, so he doesn't have to worry about being deceived.

"Since there is such a good thing, what are you waiting for, hurry up and deposit the rest of the family's money in the bank, so that you can earn an interest, and it is not safe to save it in your own home, and you can't make money, if you let the thief steal it that day, wouldn't you cry to death?"

"That's right! Let's go in and save the money! ”

Someone took the lead, and the people around followed suit.

Li Weiguo stood next to him and whispered to George, the executive director of the AIIB next to him: "How many nurseries are there?" ”

George said with a smile: "In the first few days of opening, almost all of them were childcare that we paid for, but since then, as people from all walks of life have gradually understood our business, we don't have to spend money to hire people in recent days, many people are spontaneously publicized, relatives and friends tell each other, our salesman level is getting higher and higher, it is estimated that there will be no need for childcare in the future." ”

The two walked into the hall while talking, and saw a long queue in front of more than a dozen service windows in the hall, which was full of people and lively.

Li Weiguo nodded, this beginning is very good, he is very satisfied.

The two then came to the president's office on the eighth floor, and Li Weiguo sat in his place, looking at the table full of thick papers, which were all business items waiting for his approval.

At this time, George asked: "Your Excellency, at present, the bank's currency settlement is still gold, silver and copper money, and the daily transaction volume is only tens of thousands of taels of silver, this is only the early stage of the business, people from all walks of life in Shanghai will not deposit a large amount of funds in our AIIB, and many people will deposit today and withdraw tomorrow." When our AIIB becomes famous, the business volume will increase dramatically, and we must replace the corresponding AIIB banknotes according to the plan, otherwise if we trade millions of taels of silver every day, our salesmen's fingers will have to be broken. ”

The AIIB issued banknotes, which was the plan agreed by all shareholders at the beginning, and now the first batch of equipment and raw materials purchased from overseas have arrived, and the previous package also gave Li Weiguo the related equipment of the banknote printing machine, so the time is ripe for printing and issuing the AIIB's exclusive currency.

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Don't worry, I came here this time to focus on this matter." If you look at it, how are these banknotes, how do they compare to the pounds of your British Empire? ”

As he spoke, Li Weiguo took out a leather bag, took out a set of model banknote patterns from it, and handed it to George.

This set of model banknotes, which Li Weiguo has only recently successfully engraved, is specially used as a banknote issued by the AIIB to replace the huge gold, silver and copper money transactions and facilitate settlement.

As an expert in counterfeit banknotes in later generations, Li Weiguo can easily imitate the banknotes of various countries, such as the British pound, the euro, the US dollar, the yuan, etc., and the simulation degree of the banknotes such as the yen and the Korean won is 99%, almost with the fake, forcing the later generations of Japan and South Korea to replace the electric board and reissue the banknotes every two years.

Now Li Weiguo showed George the fifth set of RMB ticket samples, because this set of RMB Li Weiguo is the most familiar with, and it has achieved a superb result of 95% simulation. Li Weiguo is quite familiar with this set of renminbi in terms of paper size and material, as well as the pattern of the electric board and the hidden watermark, etc., and it is very easy to make zuò at his fingertips.

If it weren't for the poor level of mechanical tools in this era, and the quality and accuracy of printing presses were far from reaching the high-definition digital level of later generations, Li Weiguo could have perfectly copied the fifth set of renminbi as the AIIB's banknote issuance standard.

Therefore, the set of banknotes that George saw was ultimately just a castrated and condensed version of the fifth set of renminbi, and Li Weiguo made some changes to it.

Considering the high cost of paper money production in this era, Li Weiguo set the main color of banknotes to be red in line with the principle of saving money, and the length and width of the ticket were greatly reduced.

Taking the hundred-yen bill as an example, the length was reduced to 100, the width was reduced to 40, and the grandfather in the front picture was replaced with a selfie portrait of Li Weiguo, the left side did not move, and it was still an oval floral pattern. The "National Emblem" pattern in the upper left of the ticket has been castrated and replaced with the AIIB's symbol nameplate dominating the earth, and the Braille denomination mark at the bottom right has been removed, because the braille has not yet reached China. The main scene on the back changes the pattern of the garden pillars in the Great Hall of the People to the pattern of the AIIB headquarters building, and the upper right side of the ticket is "Asian Investment Bank", written in Chinese and English.

As for the original fifth set of anti-counterfeiting technology of RMB, in addition to the portrait watermark, panda incense hand-carved image and hidden denomination number were retained by Li Weiguo, other more than ten kinds of anti-counterfeiting technologies such as red, basket-colored fiber, magnetic text and so on were all castrated, after all, the cost is too high, and this era does not need this anti-counterfeiting technology.

The amount of the banknote sample has not changed, like the fifth set of renminbi, the larger the denomination, the more complex the pattern, at least in Li Weiguo's view, no one can forge it except him in this era.

Looking at this set of banknotes, George's hands trembled, he couldn't believe that there were such exquisite banknotes in this world, and couldn't help asking: "I don't know who the governor asked to make this set of banknotes?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled and didn't answer, George suddenly understood, this is a secret, naturally he won't tell him, so he apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm just too surprised, there are such exquisite banknotes in this world, a hundred times more exquisite than the banknotes of our British Empire, especially the painters and carvers who made this set of banknotes, they are all too great." ”

"It's okay, it's human!" Li Weiguo said with a smile: "I plan to use this set of renminbi as the representative currency of the AIIB, what do you think?" ”

"Of course it's fine!" George said excitedly, but then asked, "You call it RMB?" ”

"What? Is there a problem? Li Weiguo asked rhetorically.

George replied, "No, it's just the first time I've heard the name, it's kind of weird!" ”

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "My favorite is the RMB, I love it to death!" ”