The Mongols are about to usher in a catastrophic war, but the Ming Jingshi is becoming more and more stable and peaceful.

Li Xiao walked in the market of the overpass, and from time to time selected some noodle people, sugar people or something to throw to Junzi. Junko has become a humanoid storage box, covered with all kinds of knick-knacks, and holds a grass stick in his hand, which is full of noodle candy people.

It's rare for Tokugawa Chihime to come out and visit the market, and the little maid Apricot next to her is also a jumpy personality. The boring life in the Li Mansion has long given them a heart to fly.

It is said that the combat effectiveness of women shopping is amazing, and now Li Xiao knows that he has two fighters among women at home.

No way, since you promised Tokugawa Chiki to go out for a day, you have to go shopping for a day. A man's big husband has to count when he speaks!

Finally, when the two women were tired, the group found a tea stall and sat down. There is tofu brain here, which is rare. Li Xiao asked for a bowl of tofu brain, and Tokugawa Chihime asked for a bowl when she saw it fresh. In the end, everyone had a bowl of tofu brain to drink, and Xing'er held two large bowls and slashed like a marmot.

The puff pastry that has just come out of the pot is also on the fire, and the mouth is a little hot when you bite into the hot sugar. Tokugawa Chihime opened her small mouth into an O-shape, spitting out hot air vigorously, and her white teeth and red tongue looked like eggs and scrambled tomatoes.

Women are fickle, and when Tokugawa Chiki and Kyoko saw the noodles, they immediately threw down the tofu brain, and each of them had a bowl of sesame sauce noodles!

The wisdom of the working people is endless, and after the potato and sweet potato things were tinkered with, they soon encountered a new problem, that is, no one likes to eat these two things for a long time.

If you eat potatoes and sweet potatoes for a long time, you will naturally have stomach acid. In the past, there was nothing to eat, but now corn is planted everywhere, and potatoes and sweet potatoes have naturally fallen from staple foods to non-staple foods. Now, except for the places where there is nothing to eat after the disaster, everyone eats potatoes and sweet potatoes as vegetables.

At the stall over there, there are roasted sweet potatoes for sale. Farther away, there are people who set up oil pots to sell fried sweet potatoes. A layer of white sugar is sprinkled on it, and the name is Snow Falling on a Thousand Mountains. Junko likes to eat that thing, and this kid can't see sweets. Every time I see it, I eat stomach acid. It may be related to the lack of sweets when I was a child.

Vermicelli was quickly developed, and it is impossible to verify who was the first to make it, and there is no such thing as a patent right in those years. Anyway, now the vermicelli is sold everywhere in the capital, and the sweet potato vermicelli and potato vermicelli are carefully separated.

In winter, it is stewed in cabbage and put some pork belly on it, which tastes smooth and refreshing, and goes well with rice.

Some people eat this thing as noodles, mixed with sesame sauce and put some cucumber shreds. There are also some leek sauces in the mouth, anyway, there are many kinds of mixed vegetables to add at will, and people show their own creativity and strive to satisfy the taste buds of the vast number of gluttonous people.

"Man! Account! Li Xiao casually took out a silver coin of one or two silver from his pocket and threw it on the table.

"Yo ......! The Great Wall. The man took the silver coin in his hand and played with it, and threw it directly into the cash box. On the silver coin minted by Ai Husheng, the peony flower pattern is on the front, and the Great Wall is on the back. Therefore, one tael of silver coins is also called the Great Wall.

Li Xiao was looking at the juggling over there, and suddenly there were a few more pieces of paper in front of him.

"What is this?" Li Xiao looked at the pieces of paper in his hand, and a feeling of being fooled arose.

"Yo ......! You don't even know about this, so you don't buy things often. Now this is used in the capital, if you want to go directly to the bank to exchange, you can redeem it with a ticket, you can't be wrong! The guy saw Li Xiao wearing a Liao army uniform, and patiently explained.

Li Xiao picked up the paper in his hand, this is the silver ticket issued by the money bank. From one article to ten hundred articles!

"Man! How can you use silver tickets directly, why don't you use newly minted copper brothers? Li Xiao was a little puzzled, Da Ming often issued banknotes called treasure banknotes. Since there was no reserve for the treasure banknotes, the government issued them wantonly. In the end, the people generally distrust this thing, why are the people now directly trading with silver tickets?

"This lord! At first glance, you don't often go to the streets, although the current silver dollars are all set in weight, one or two is one tael, and a big son is a big son. But it can't sink to go to the street with so much money!

As a result, the big guys gradually began to use the bank's silver bills. Anyway, the silver ticket is in the bank, and it can be redeemed with the ticket! If you want Brother Tong, you can go to the bank on the corner to exchange it, if the bank doesn't give you the exchange, the old man, my head will be screwed off and you will kick it as a ball. Seeing Li Xiao stopping the guy to ask questions, the chubby shopkeeper walked out of the shop and explained to Li Xiao.

I rub! This silver ticket turned directly into paper money, and it was eight streets away than Li Xiao expected.

A cool breath rushed up the back of Li Xiao's back, and the silver ticket was paper. In these years, there is no watermark laser anti-counterfeiting, so it is not too simple to forge. At least Li Xiao has these cards in his hand, and Li Xiao thinks that it is very easy to forge them.

Once there is a large number of counterfeit silver tickets, it is an absolute disaster. So what the hell is how much is printed, and who knows which one is real and which one is fake?

Leaving behind his wife, who was shopping spree, Li Xiao took two guards and galloped to the household yamen.

Ai Husheng was shocked when he heard that Li Xiao had arrived, although the two of them were both Shangshu at the same level. But everyone knows that Li Xiao, the secretary of the military department, is actually the head of the Ming Dynasty.

"Dashuai, why did you suddenly come to the Yamen? If there is an order, just go to the house. Ai Husheng personally poured a cup of tea for Li Xiao and put it on the coffee table, and stood beside Li Xiao with solemn hands.

"Silver tickets have begun to circulate in the capital, are there any fake silver tickets now?" Li Xiao asked very urgently.

"Not yet, because the silver tickets are all secured. These deposits are printed at the time of issuance, and the deposits vary from bank to bank. The most important thing is that there is a very thin rubber strip sandwiched between the silver ticket, on which is the number of this silver ticket.

You know, there's not a lot of rubber. There are only two processes and machines that can fix rubber to paper. Both machines were on death row, and the people involved in the printing were death row inmates.

There is also this silver ticket paper, which is also specially made by the fisherman on Changxing Island. Not only shiny, but also strong. As soon as the ink falls, it immediately soaks the back of the paper and cannot be changed. Therefore, even if someone wants to forge it, they can't get the raw materials and processes. If you look into the sun, you can see thin strips of rubber with a number. Yes, there is! ”

Ai Husheng pointed to the side of the silver ticket in Li Xiao's hand, and Li Xiao touched it with his hand, and it was slightly raised. Looking at the sunlight, there are not only shadows, but also numerical codes on the shadows.

Li Xiao relaxed slightly, it seemed that Ai Husheng was still on guard.

"It's best to find a way to stop the circulation of silver tickets like coins, and although your method is theoretically safe, it doesn't really prevent people from forging them. If there is a forger of silver tickets, and he succeeds. The consequences should be clear to you, it will be a disaster for the new coin. ”

"When we first started, no one thought that people would actually use silver tickets. After all, the imperial court issued too many treasure money in the past, and the people instinctively distrusted paper money. Can ...... now The people also hated the heavy carrying of new coins. These new coins are made according to the value of the currency, one tael of silver is one tael, ten taels is ten taels of ......! "Ai Husheng has no better way, when people appreciate the convenience of silver tickets, no one wants to carry a money bag weighing more than a pound.

"You have to figure out a way to do this." Li Xiao knew that there would be problems with the bank, and the little financial knowledge in his head was simply not enough to solve the current problem. Professional things should still be left to professional people, or let these pioneers in the banking industry settle this matter.

"No! The subordinates must come up with a way to prevent the circulation of silver bills as currency as soon as possible. ”