Today's copper coins, even the best gold-backed copper coins, can only be exchanged for one or two silver, and the ordinary ones are already three thousand or even five thousand for one or two silver, and basically not many people are willing to ask for them.

If one or two silver are exchanged for one thousand hardware back copper coins, one tael of silver is worth two hundred copper dollars, and one copper dollar is already worth seven and a half copper coins. The copper yuan of two and five wen is only a little larger than the copper dollar of one wen, and it is not twice as heavy as five times.

Forty five-dollar copper dollars are worth one tael of silver, which can be exchanged for 1,500 gold-backed copper coins, and one is worth thirty-seven and a half.

He suddenly thought, isn't this the ten and twenty copper coins often issued by previous dynasties?

"Will this work? Can the people accept it? ”

"Of course, as long as this copper coin can be exchanged for one silver dollar for one hundred copper dollars at any time, it's fine."

Lu Weizhang can imagine how much profit will be if this new copper dollar can be implemented. After all, in ordinary circulation, this small amount of copper coins is used in large quantities. Even if it is minted tens of millions or billions a year, there is a demand, and you can have as many as you want. But when this is ten or twenty or even thirty or forty, can the people accept it?

There is such a big profit, how can those private casters let it go.

"Intensify the anti-smuggling efforts, and at the same time vigorously promote our small silver dollar coupons, well, we can issue another set of copper dollar coupons, according to the denomination of copper yuan also issued five yuan, two yuan and one yuan."

Liu Jun's ambition is very big, he wants to establish a new monetary system, if this system is completed, then the Sihai Bank, which holds the right to issue, will really hold a cash cow, and even control the country's economic lifeline.

"We've got to find a way to get the money flowing, so that all the money that's buried deep in the cellar goes into our coffers. Turn them into silver dollars, copper dollars, silver dollars, copper dollars, silver tickets. ”

Lu Weizhang was amazed by Liu Jun's idea.

"I'm about to set up a team to be the bank's security department, which will be responsible for guarding bank branches around the world. Protect counters, silver vaults, mints, and printing factories, and be responsible for escorting coupons, and will also undertake the investigation of illegal minting. ”

The banks are getting bigger and bigger, and they are fine in the two lakes, but in other provinces, security is a big problem. Especially now that he will face a serious situation of privately minting counterfeit money, Liu Jun can't count on the local government, he has to establish a bank security organization, which is specifically responsible for this part.

"No problem." Lu Weizhang also agreed with this move, "The bank is not too worried, no one dares to openly rob our bank and the silver truck, but there is nothing wrong with being cautious." ”

The bank is generally developing smoothly, but Jiangnan Qianzhuang has some troubles.

"Our ticket sales have fallen badly."

He told Liu Jun that after the issuance of his own scholarship and subsidy tickets. Jiangnan Qianzhuang, which was responsible for the issuance, established several kinds of lottery tickets according to Liu Jun's instructions, and the way of drawing was different, but all of them were to stimulate sales. For a period of time, it was really popular, Jiangnan Qianzhuang opened outlets all over the country, and the lottery tickets were confused. One by one, the jackpots were opened, and countless people became rich overnight, attracting countless people to buy lottery tickets.

Jiangnan Money's lottery tickets have also increased from the original two silver each. Added a lot of new tickets that can be bought for only one penny or two. In the hottest months of Jiangnan Qianzhuang's lottery ticket sales, the total income in January exceeded 500,000 taels. Among them, the taxes paid to the imperial court reached 300,000 taels. This was the most glorious time for the Jiangnan Money Lottery, and the largest jackpot was 500,000 silver dollars.

But the glory passed quickly, and now the lottery ticket sales of Jiangnan Qianzhuang have declined rapidly, and the last month, the national lottery ticket sales profit was only 200,000 yuan.

"There are a lot of new tickets coming out of the country right now, and there are all kinds of them. It is all the collusion between officials and businessmen, behind them are all those lords, nobles, relatives, gentry and wealthy families, all provinces, prefectures, prefectures and counties, large and small lottery tickets are sold like explosions, and these people have the support of local officials. Not only did they steal a lot of our share, but they also always found us trouble, and now we are almost out of place except for Huguang and Guangzhou. ”

Lu Weizhang said angrily. If it is fair competition, Jiangnan Qianzhuang will not be afraid of those new lottery tickets that will be opened later, but these people always have countless tricks.

"Well, sooner or later, there will be this day."

Liu Jun was not very angry, the lottery ticket is indeed like a gamble, and it doesn't cost anything, but it is a huge profit. This kind of business, of course, is the favorite of those powerful and powerful, relying on relationships, colluding with local officials, you can quickly get a few votes. And Liu Jun can imagine that so many people are pouring into this industry, and with the greed of those people, they will definitely engage in some cheating methods such as winning the lottery internally.

It was originally a lottery ticket with a public welfare nature, but as soon as these people stepped in, it was about to become a black smoke barrier. Now this lottery ticket is really a gamble -- Bo.

Anyway, the nine-headed bird also ate the first soup and made a lot of money.

"In the future, I will do a good job in the market of Huguang and Guangzhou provinces with peace of mind, by the way, separate the color newspaper and set up a newspaper." Liu Jun confessed.

Although the popularity of Jiangnan Qianzhuang lottery tickets has passed, the by-product of the original lottery tickets has a lot of influence. At the beginning, the color newspaper that specialized in printing and publishing lottery results has now become a small influential newspaper instead of only publishing lottery numbers, but also publishing various news and current affairs, and even advertising and commercial information.

It is issued every five days, and the circulation remains above 10,000 copies. It is not only sold in Lianghu, but also in Liangjing and other provinces.

The lottery has passed the limelight, but the lottery has risen and become more and more influential.

"The color newspaper changed its name to the Times, and a special newspaper was set up to make this newspaper bigger and stronger, so that the world's current affairs, regardless of national events or business information, we can know it for the first time, so that the people of Daming can stay at home, and they can also know it for the first time."

The role of newspapers is huge, and Liu Jun knows better than everyone else that with a newspaper, he can control a powerful position of public opinion.

If the Times wants to have more influence, it must no longer be an accessory to the lottery, nor can it be managed by Jiangnan Qianzhuang. A group of businessmen will definitely not be able to run a good newspaper.

Especially in this era, there is no newspaper like the Times that Liu Jun wants to run.

He needed to find the right person for the Times, but who to do was a problem.

The literati he was familiar with were basically either officials of the imperial court or scholars like Li Chunjiang. But if you want to hand over the newspaper to them, Liu Jun is not at ease. To put it bluntly, their philosophy is fundamentally the same, especially for the Fusha, which is completely different from their philosophical pursuit.

If you hand over the Times to them, you will definitely have to do it crookedly in the end, and if you don't get it right, it will become Donglin's public opinion position, and Liu Jun will never do such a stupid thing.

And it is even more inappropriate to let Liu Jun hand over the Times to a businessman like Lu Weizhang.

Liu Jun went to see Li Chunjiang, told him about the matter, and asked him if he had a suitable candidate.

"Times, good idea." After listening to Liu Jun's concept of running a newspaper, Li Chunjiang greatly agreed. If he hadn't been in an official position, he would have wanted to come to this newspaper in person.

However, Li Chunjiang also has some opinions on this newspaper. He felt that Liu Jun's Times was too sidelined, especially that it should not publish too much commercial information, let alone advertise. The Times should be a little higher, publishing current affairs of the government and the opposition, discussing the state and the DPRK, serving the country's advisers, and even supervising the impeachment of corrupt and incompetent officials, and so on.

Speaking of excitement, Li Chunjiang even danced with his hands, which made Liu Jun feel a little strange.

What he said is exactly what the Restoration Society likes to do the most, scholars discuss politics and evaluate state affairs. And in the final analysis, in fact, it is just indiscriminately attacking the officials in charge of the imperial court, scolding this and scolding that, just knowing to find faults, but there is no real solution.

Of course, this kind of discussion is not all bad, but Liu Jun thinks that in the current situation, scolding his mother below every day is useless. And what he can't accept the most is that these people scold and scold, and in the end they become the same party and fight against differences, and their own people don't scold, they only scold their opponents, and even regardless of right and wrong, they oppose what their opponents support, and oppose for the sake of opposition.

"The Times, the first newspaper of this form, you have to be careful when you cross the river by feeling the stones. And to make the people accept, we can't always talk about those things that are high, but we have to publish things that are closely related to the lives of the people. As for commercial advertising, it is also to maintain the newspaper, after all, there is advertising and there is revenue, so that we can reduce the price of the newspaper as much as possible, so that more people can buy it, and we can also have the money to recruit more reporters and editors to make the content of the newspaper better. ”

"Is Jiye still short of money? What's more, how much money can be needed for a newspaper, you can raise it casually. ”

Liu Jun smiled, this is Li Chunjiang's style of acting. Just like when he ran a nine-headed bird, he spent a lot of money. And this is not Liu Jun's style, if you follow Li Chunjiang's model, how can the nine-headed bird quickly expand to today's scale.

Liu Jun has money, but he doesn't want to run a newspaper that relies purely on investment. He wants to run a newspaper that he can support and make a profit. It's not that he lacks money, but that this is a healthy development model.

"I do know of a man who will certainly meet your requirements, and it would be nice to have this person come and report your times. But what does this person say, a very talented person, but in the eyes of many people, he is a waste, a loser, a stupid talent, and a sleepy man. ”

"Less for the gentleman, love prosperity. Good fine house food, good beautiful maids, good fresh clothes and horses, good lights and fireworks, good pear orchard advocacy, good antiques, good flowers and birds! ”

Liu Jun frowned when he heard the good prostitute and beautiful maid, such a description can be described as the extravagant hedonistic habits of the children of the gentleman and the decadent style of the late Ming Dynasty celebrities and literati who indulged in cynicism, this person is suitable?

However, he knows Li Chunjiang well and knows that since he says it is appropriate, he must have something extraordinary.

"Can you bring it over for me?" (To be continued......)