There is no need to mint new coins, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan once created Kaiyuan Tongbao in order to abolish Sui money. It is only necessary to carry forward the Kaiyuan Tongbao and spread all over the country, and squeeze out the Sui five baht and all the messy coins. In terms of unifying the currency, it is not difficult to have the full support of Comrade Lao Li. After reaching an agreement with Wei Hong, Comrade Lao Li ordered the whole country to promote Kaiyuan Tongbao and abolish the Sui five baht the next day. Take the lead in letting the merchants in the capital exchange coins, hand over the Sui five baht and other coins in their hands to the imperial court, and then exchange them for Kaiyuan Tongbao according to the value of the original coins. Although the capital is large, under the regulations of Comrade Lao Li's hard surname, it will soon be almost redeemed. When most of the merchants and people in the capital had Kaiyuan Tongbao, they began to implement the bank.

CCB first has a concept, and then the concept comes the entity. Now that Wei Hong has an idea, he has to start building the first bank in the capital as soon as possible. Since he is doing things for Comrade Lao Li, he doesn't need to pay for it himself, so Wei Hong is also very happy. Under the banner of Comrade Lao Li, he wantonly recruited local people to serve as workers. Subsequently, in an important area of the capital, a large restaurant was purchased, but because the walls of the restaurant were not strong and the safety of the structure was not good, it could not be used continuously. Therefore, Wei Hong led the craftsmen, and even transferred a city truck from the military department, and it only took a few hours to destroy the huge restaurant, and then arranged for workers to clear the scene and clean up the ruins.

After the clean-up, there is a vacant land with sufficient area in the same place, which is particularly eye-catching in the busy area. Wei Hong gave Zhou Dali full authority to manage the construction site outside the city, while Wei Hong personally arranged for 100 craftsmen to start the construction at full capacity. The foundation alone is three meters deep, and the main material of the bank is granite, which is indestructible and six feet thick.

After a month of round-the-clock work, the bank grew from scratch and finally rose from the ground to become a physical object. The bank covers an area of 600 square meters and is divided into four parts. Directly opposite the gate is the reception hall, which, like the banks of later generations, is mainly open for business. Next to the reception hall was a fifty-square-meter security room, in which were stationed well-equipped right guards, numbering twenty people, to take care of the security of the bank. Behind the reception room and security room is the bank's cash bank, covering an area of 200 square meters, because it is the core facility of the bank, so Wei Hong focuses on taking care of it. The perimeter of the walls and ceiling is made of granite, the interior is covered with a layer of iron plate five centimeters thick, and the floor is poured directly with molten iron. There is only one door to enter the vault, and this door is made of pure iron, two meters and eight meters high, twenty centimeters thick, and weighs six tons. There are two iron balls the size of a bull's eye under each of the two doors to avoid direct contact between the iron doors and the ground, reducing friction. Rao is like this, if you want to open the iron door, you still need four adult men to do it. In addition, the iron lock that locks the door is also made by Wei Hong himself, and the idea is made according to the three-ring lock used by later generations, with a volume of about the mouth of the bowl and two locks. When the bank is in operation, the keys to the two locks will be handed over to the president of the bank and the head of the account department respectively. If you want to move money out of the bank, you have to get the consent of these two people to make sure that nothing goes wrong.

After the bank was built, it was time to recruit staff. Due to the low level of supervision and bribery in these years, all staff members must be court henchmen. After half a month of consideration, the staff finally determined sixty, and the president was Xiao Yu, the left servant of Song Guogong's Shangshu.

In order to make the bank acceptable to the general public, Wei Hong received 3,000 taels of silver from Comrade Lao Li in the first 10 days of its opening, and hired as many as 6,000 idlers throughout the capital. This has been effective, and at least in recent days, the conversation has revolved around banks.

On the day of the opening of the bank, a large number of people rushed to the door of the bank. Since the bank is an institution opened by the highest administrative power, it did not ask Wei Hong what it meant, and directly transferred twenty right guards to guard outside the door, with the intention of maintaining order, but it unexpectedly shocked the people and discouraged them.

For this reason, Wei Hong hurriedly found Xiao Yu, the Duke of Song Guo, and asked Xiao Yu to withdraw all the right guards to the security room. At first, Xiao Yu didn't understand, but Wei Hong had to explain to him that although the bank is half an administrative agency, the main thing is to serve the people. If you guard the door with the right power of the fierce gods, how can the cowardly and fearful people dare to come?

After the right guard was withdrawn, the people still stopped. First, because of the fear of the imperial court, and secondly, because the bank is too novel, I don't know if it is reliable, what if you save your savings in the bank and lose it? To put it bluntly, people are worried that their money will be kept by others, and they always feel that they have given it to others.

In order to dispel the worries of the people, and also to let the bank start to get on the right track as soon as possible. Wei Hong immediately asked Comrade Lao Li for 2,000 taels of silver, hired 500 people, and distributed 2,000 taels of silver to these 500 people in equal parts. Let them pretend to go into the bank to deposit money and stir up the atmosphere. With the addition of these 500 sailors, the people who had been holding a wait-and-see attitude began to move.

Wei Hong struck while the iron was hot, ready to continue to stir up the interest of the people. Wei Hong stood on top of the wooden platform, a simple megaphone made of wooden boards, and shouted at the onlookers: "Everyone knows that Tianyou Bank is run by the Holy One, and both reputation and safety are absolutely guaranteed. If you keep your money at home and hide it, even if it's in a rat hole, if someone wants to steal your money with pure intentions, they will steal it in a different way. But once it is deposited in the bank, there is a saint to keep it for you, no matter how powerful the Jiangyang thief is, he will not be able to move a penny! In addition, there are many benefits of depositing in the bank, not to mention anything else, just one interest. In order to give you a better understanding, I said it in layman's terms. Keep your money in the bank and you can use it to make money! ”

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ps: Let's not stop, go on?

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