Chapter 18 Issuance of Silver Tickets

Zheng Shichang rolled his eyes, he was almost not angry, I am working for you for a long time, you are the shopkeeper, angry, he didn't dare to say this, he had to frown bitterly and said: "Fourteenth master, although I have been operating a silver number for many years, it is the first time that I can issue silver tickets, besides, although the previous dynasty also issued silver tickets, but they were all issued by the government, and they did not consider the problem of recycling at all, and there was no experience to learn from." ”

"Borrowing from others, just knowing and borrowing? Can't you innovate yourself? Yinzhen complained angrily.

Zheng Shichang didn't dare to make a sound, but he muttered secretly in his heart, innovation, it is light, you should create a new look.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yinzhen didn't come up with a proper way, but it was imperative to issue silver tickets, and he sighed before he said: "Shopkeeper Zheng, I don't have a proper way to deal with this problem for the time being, so I can only start from the system." ”

"System?" Zheng Shichang listened to it.

"It is the store rules, one, which stipulates that all silver bills cannot be exchanged across provinces. Second, the recovered silver tickets and meeting tickets must be stamped by the treasurer, the account room, and the treasury before the silver can be redeemed. Third, the above three parties are regularly dispersed and rotated. Fourth, regularly and irregularly audit the accounts and count the treasury silver. Fifth, all the guys of the 'Four Constants' and miscellaneous servants can report it at any time, and they will be rewarded for their truth. I'll think of these five now, you have always had some experience in running the silver number for so many years, and you can improve the reading pavilion for the rest. ”

Zheng Shichang nodded when he listened, he is now more and more unable to understand this fourteenth master, although these five are nothing new, but they are the old veterans of the silver number, and they can't get to the point in a hurry, let alone be so comprehensive and thorough. Bayi Chinese ~ especially the article that silver tickets cannot be exchanged across provinces not only ensures the profit of the ticket number, but also greatly strengthens the supervision.

At noon on the sixth day of the first month of September, the silver ticket of the 'Four Great Heng' spread in the capital.

Officials, officials, porters, eunuchs, and businessmen all love to play with silver tickets, and everyone is very curious, just with this small piece of paper, can they go to the 'Four Hengs' to exchange silver?

With the increasing number of silver tickets, the whole capital has become a sensation, all the wine shops, teahouses, green buildings, merchants, downtowns, docks, streets and alleys, as long as the crowd is concentrated, are talking about the silver tickets of the 'Four Heng'.

"Can this piece of paper really go to the 'Four Great Hengs' to exchange for silver?"

"How can there be such a cheap thing in the world? Isn't that like silver falling from the sky? ”

"I don't know don't talk nonsense, the 'Four Hengs' is a gold-lettered signboard, how can there be a reason to smash your own signboard?"

"I said, what are you fighting for? Go to the 'Four Constants' and try it, and you'll know. ”

"You haven't heard of it, it will be changed the day after tomorrow, that is, on the ninth day of September."

"Hey, snapshot photo, I heard that there is a five-pointed star in the paper."

With the release of a large number of silver tickets on the seventh and eighth days of the Lunar New Year, the entire city of Beijing went crazy.

For three whole days, the only topic in the entire capital was the silver ticket of the 'Four Hengs'.

In all the discussions, Zheng Shichang is a well-deserved protagonist, and even his wearing open crotch pants and playing with mud has been blown up superbly, of course, there are many people who say that he is crazy.

But what is really going crazy is which silver number shopkeepers in the capital, who have studied the silver tickets of the 'Four Great Heng' over and over again for a long time, and they are all frustrated, secret, they can plagiarize, but the watermark inside will not be able to be made out for a while, not to mention the issuance of silver tickets, that is, to engage in tickets, I am afraid that it will be too late.

The 'Four Hengs' were originally a monopoly in the capital, and now the tickets and silver tickets are on together, and in the future, where will they have a place to stand in the silver.

On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the Double Ninth Festival, in the morning, the 'Four Great Hengs' opened at the same time in the five branches of the capital, and the people who came to exchange silver tickets for silver formed a long queue.

Whether it is the general number or the semicolon, there are different amounts of silver tickets and meeting tickets posted in conspicuous places in the store, and what is even more shocking is that the semicolons are densely arranged all over the country.

Although the shopkeepers of the silver numbers who came to congratulate them expected that the 'Four Great Hengs' would open the ticket business, they were all changed for fear when they saw the two rows of dense semicolon place names.

This 'Four Heng' is so big, it is blooming everywhere, and in one fell swoop it has seized the entire rich land in the southeast.

Seeing that the semicolons of the 'Four Constants' are so wide, many customers who came to watch were amazed by the abundant funds of the 'Four Constants', and at the same time, they also had extreme trust in the 'Four Constants'. Originally, they had a wait-and-see attitude, and they sent people back to get the silver, and began to exchange silver tickets tentatively.

The common people are not interested in silver tickets, and they still feel that the silver with copper coins and white flowers is more solid, but the officials and businessmen can feel that the silver tickets are good, and tens of thousands of them are carried on their bodies, and they are not obvious, and it is convenient to trade, reward, and bribe.

However, in a few days, silver tickets have become the most fashionable thing in the capital, whether it is officials or businessmen, especially those who love to pay attention to identity and face, if they don't have a few silver tickets on their bodies, they don't dare to go out at all.

The various taverns and teahouses in the capital, the Qinglou Theater, the big and small businesses just started a few days and ran to exchange, changed a few times and found that the loss was big, the silver for the silver ticket is to be charged, a few days later, the 'four Heng' only saw the silver ticket out, and rarely able to recover the silver ticket.

In just a few days, more than one million silver tickets were exchanged, and Zheng Shichangle was snickering when he slept.

Seeing that the issuance of silver tickets in the capital was smooth, Yinzhen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately asked Zheng Shichang to send people to Tianjin, Lushun, Baoding and other surrounding places to issue small amounts of silver tickets, and slowly expand outward.

On September 17, Kangxi returned to Rehe, and on the same day, he issued an edict that Nian Qianyao was the governor of Sichuan.

This edict was issued, the fourth Yinzhen and Nian Qianyao were happy, the old nine and ten were depressed, mixed with a little admiration for Yinzhen, and the old eight Yinzhen was extremely shocked, in the past five months, he has been serving by Kangxi's side, in five months, Kangxi's edicts have been frequent, and the appointment and removal of the senior members is completely a Sacred Heart dictatorship, why did the old fourteen dare to be sure that Nian Qianyao would be the governor of Sichuan half a year ago?

Yin Xi is puzzled, like this kind of transfer and appointment of first-class and second-grade officials, Kangxi could not have revealed the news half a year ago, how did the old fourteen know? Is it to figure out the intention? Or did he see through Huang Ama's strategy of employing people?

Yinzhen didn't expect that Kangxi was issuing the appointment of Nian Qianyao in Rehe, and he also felt a little headache, in case the brothers asked, it was really a little difficult to justify himself.

On September 23, Kangxi returned to the capital.

On the 24th, after the court meeting, Yinzhen was named by Kangxi to stay.

After seeing the ceremony, Kangxi split his head and asked, "What about your recommendation ticket?" Where did they go? It's also very hard to plug the outside of the clouds, so many days to get five votes! How can you bear it? ”