He picked up one first, only to see that the dark blue banknote was about the length and size of a hand, with auspicious clouds and golden dragons painted all over it, and on one side was written horizontally in regular script "Wu Shi Yuan", and vertically wrote "Daqing Bank" Four words, this is Chinese characters, and there is Mongolian and Tibetan Manchu on the side, "This is fifty yuan?" How many copper plates can be exchanged? ”

"If you go back to Zhongtang," Hu Xueyan said, "today's new coins are calculated according to ten copper plates and one yuan, so this Wu Shiyuan can be exchanged for five hundred copper plates," he pointed to another purple piece of paper, "This one is one hundred, and there are also five kinds of banknotes of twenty, ten, and five five, all of which are different in size and color, and the red banknote of one hundred is the largest." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhang Zhiwan looked at the banknote, "Lord Hu, the pattern on it is good," he carefully looked at it with crystal glasses for a while, "Xiangyun Golden Dragon, it looks very festive, and the color is also good, but apart from this, there seems to be nothing special." ”

Hu Xueyan said with a smile, "Zhang Zhongtang, you can turn over this fifty yuan and see the characteristics." ”

Zhang Zhiwan flipped over the fifty banknote to take a look, then sighed, and quickly took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, the blue lake above was rippling, the flowers were very detailed, this scenery was not seen by Zhang Zhiwan, "It doesn't look like a lake in the capital, what is it on it?" ”

"This is the scenery of Beihai," Hu Xueyan patiently explained, "The bank's meaning is to paint the image of the Queen Mother on the new currency according to the example of the British pound, but the Queen Mother thinks that it is better to use something that can represent our China to paint the icon, so the lower officials thought about it again, so they chose a landscape painting of Beihai." ”

Erle Hebu was born as the governor of Beihai, he really missed the scenery of Beiyang, he hurriedly grabbed a blue fifty yuan bill, looked at it carefully, the corners of his eyes were a little moist, and quickly nodded, "Yes, it's the appearance of Beihai, I didn't expect this Beihai to be seen for so many years, but I saw it on the new coin!" It's really detailed. ”

"It's a Western method, outlined with a thin line, and there is an image of our new army soldiers pulling horses on the side, have you seen it? It's in this place," Hu Xueyan said, "although it doesn't have the artistic conception of our oriental ink painting, it's the most realistic." ”

"What about the rest, what is it?" Sun Yuwen hurriedly said, "Is it all scenery everywhere?" ”

"No," Hu Xueyan said with a smile, picking up a green twenty-yuan bill, "This is the Xianfeng Dictionary." ”

On the front of the twenty yuan is painted a thick booklet, the booklet is marked with the four words "Xianfeng Dictionary", the background is the Wenyuan Pavilion and peony flowers in the Old Summer Palace, Zhang Zhiwan is from Hanlin, and he is very satisfied with the new currency for culture and education, and the color of this fifty yuan banknote is very elegant, the book is full of energy, and he nodded again and again, "Very good, very good, culture, education and martial arts have always been equally important, "Dictionary" is indeed a sign of prosperity after the "Siku Quanshu", this new coin is doing well. ”

"And these ten yuan," Hu Xueyan took out a cyan ten-yuan note and showed it to the Minister of Military Aircraft, "This is the first railway in our Qing Dynasty, the first train on the railway from Beijing to Tianjin." ”

Dong Yuanol picked up the earthy yellow five-yuan bill and looked at it, "Ouch," he exclaimed, "Is this Dingyuan on it?" ”

"Exactly, because Tongbao is still in use now, it will be gradually eliminated in the future, and then there will be paper money from Zhenyuan to Yuanjingyuan, which is placed on the top of two yuan, one yuan, and half yuan, which is just right."

"Why do you still have half a dollar?" Xu Geng said strangely.

"Yes, it's not just half a yuan, but also five corners, one corner, etc., oh, a corner is a copper plate."

The exchange ratio of copper coins and silver in the Qing Dynasty has been constantly floating, but in general, it is one or two silver for a thousand copper plates, Xu Gengshen nodded, "In this way, one hundred yuan is worth a thousand copper plates, one or two silver, this is not too outrageous, I was afraid that you would come up with some tens of taels of silver tickets, and I was afraid that there would be no enough copper plates and silver dollars." ”

"The matter of the silver ticket can also be dealt with this time," Hu Xueyan's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile, "But this is not in a hurry, let's take a look at the pattern on this one hundred yuan first." ”

He took out the red one hundred yuan banknote and took it out preciously, turned it over and let the big guy look at the front, and the ministers of military aircraft surrounded it.

The Taihe Hall is very majestic and magnificent, majestic against the backdrop of the white marble pedestal, painted on the banknotes, other banknotes are the same color, but there are faint other colors in the red painting of this one hundred yuan, "Well," Xu Gengshen looked carefully, "The purple gas comes from the east, and the Taihe Hall uses purple, which is the most appropriate, but this ......"

Or Sun Yuwen said what Xu Gengshen didn't want to say, "Nothing else, but the Taihe Hall above this one hundred yuan, use this picture," he said thoughtfully, "I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right?" ”

The Taihe Hall is a symbol of imperial power, and it is also the tallest building in the Central Heavenly Kingdom, nothing else, but this Taihe Palace, the political symbolism is too important, not to mention the painting on the banknotes, the Taihe Hall is not used many times throughout the year, in addition to the emperor's accession to the throne, the congratulatory court meeting on the first day of the new year every year, the court meeting is only occasionally placed in the Taihe Hall when the vassals of various countries have arrived, if it is their own domestic ministers, they are only in the Qianqing Palace to congratulate, and the last special use is only to reward the meritorious ministers of the Southern Expedition to defeat France, But this is also six years ago, if you want to use it again, it will only be on New Year's Day, the pro-government ceremony has been set to be placed in the Qianqing Palace, so this Taihe Palace, used in the most expensive currency, no problem, but this internal meaning, the ministers of military aircraft have to think more.

"It doesn't matter," Hu Xueyan said with a smile, "Weichen asked to use the Great Wall or use the Taihe Palace, the Queen Mother means that it is better to use the Taihe Palace, after all, the Great Wall has nothing to do with this dynasty." ”

Sun Yuwen nodded, "Since it is a big sum of one hundred yuan, then it is natural to use noble things to put it on top to withstand it, and I look at it well in the Taihe Palace." ”

The things on these painted banknotes are very well chosen, and the patterns and patterns are also very exquisite, even Yan Jingming, who is very picky about Hu Xueyan, can't find anything wrong, only praise. (To be continued.) )