The annual salary of the officials from the seventh grade is 200 stones, and the banknotes are 60 yuan.

On average, every month, I also have to receive thousands of catties of rice.

After receiving the Yulu, Ji Gang was speechless for a while.

The first time he received Lu, he somehow moved Lumi home.

Mr. Zhao is kind and helps him get it.

The warehouse has handymen who specialize in helping people transport rice to their homes.

Zhao Zongqi paid them to hire them and send the two of them to their homes together.

"Brother Ji, I'll help you deliver Lumi, and you invite me to listen to music at Fuller House in the evening, okay?"

"Good!"

Ji Gang should take a bite.

Zhao Zongqi is his direct boss, so kind, he should treat him.

Watch the leader leave.

Ji Gang held a few Daming treasure banknotes in his hand, and he was worried for a while.

The treasure banknote is made of mulberry as the material, one foot high, six inches wide, cyan, and the outside is the dragon flower column.

On the top is written "Daming Pass Treasure Bank", and there are eight seal characters on both sides "Daming Treasure Banknote, the world passes".

In the middle is written the denomination, and several strings of copper coins are drawn under the denomination.

A few lines were written below: "The household department is allowed to print and make Daming treasure banknotes, which are used in common with copper coins, and those who forge them are beheaded, and those who accuse them will be rewarded with twenty-five taels of silver, and they will still give the prisoner property." ”

This is to prevent counterfeit banknotes from being made by the people.

As for why the reward is twenty-five taels of silver, not five taels or ten taels.

Ji Gang didn't know.

He only knew that twenty-five taels was a lot of money!

It's almost a month's worth for him!

Maybe it's to stimulate the public's enthusiasm for reporting?

"If you can catch a few counterfeit banknotes, then the small day will be moisturized!"

It's a pity that, as far as Ji Gang knows, almost no fake Daming treasure banknotes are made.

Just out of the Taicang silver vault.

Ji Gang saw groups of capable men gathered next to the gate.

Whenever they saw an official come out, they would surround them in groups and keep selling something.

When Ji Gang passed, he also surrounded a group of people.

One of them said in a low voice: "Official, do you want to sell the treasure money?" ”

Treasure money is money, how to sell it?

Ji Gang felt that he was and ignored him.

The man trotted to catch up: "Official, you have always exchanged the treasure money for one hundred and fifty copper plates, and you can't get out?" ”

Ji Gang glared: "Lao Tzu took out the flowers, and he can always exchange one hundred and sixty texts, one hundred and fifty texts for you?" Are you stupid? ”

The man laughed and said, "Don't say that it is one hundred and fifty wen collection, that is, one hundred and forty wen collection, and there are also a large number of sales!" ”

One hundred and forty wen? Is there really a fool to sell?

Ji Gang stopped: "I have always exchanged the treasure money for one hundred and forty copper plates, then you can bring me some!" ”

I thought that this scalper would be scared and run away.

The man asked, "How much do you want?" ”

Oops, the little scalper is still dead and the duck has a hard mouth!

Ji Gang raised his head and said: "How much do you have, how much Lao Tzu wants!" ”

One hundred and forty copper plates per treasure banknote, and one hundred and sixty wen were sold in the market.

A wave of buying and selling, you can earn 20 Wen!

With such a high profit, if you invest tens of thousands of taels of silver, won't it be distributed?

Of course, Ji Gang doesn't believe in such a good thing.

felt that the little scalper was fooling him for the sake of face.

"Seriously? I've got a thousand here! "There was a light in the scalper's eyes, and he felt like he had encountered a big deal.

Seeing his serious look, Ji Gang frowned slightly: "See clearly, Lao Tzu is Jinyiwei!" ”

He shook off his clothes, revealing half of his waist card again.

The scalper nodded, disapproving: "I know, I know!" When are we going to trade? ”

This guy really has so many big Ming treasure banknotes to sell?

Ji Gang wanted to find out, but when he thought that he only had so much money in his pocket, he couldn't help but lose his momentum.

He glared at the scalper: "Inexplicable! ”

After that, he left.

The scalper was not angry at all, and followed up again: "Official, I still have a debt business, and the principal and interest are preferred!" ”

Ji Gang ignored him and kept moving forward.

The scalper was still not discouraged, and shouted behind him: "Official, this opportunity is rare!" ”

Although Ji Gang was angry, he endured it because he had no money.

It is an eternal truth that men are only extra confident when they have power or money.

Now Ji Gang has no power or money, and in the face of harassment by scalpers, he can only endure it silently.

After all, just now, he bragged.

The scalper followed Ji Gang for a long time and sold all the way.

Seeing that Ji Gang really didn't react, he scolded and left, and returned to the door of the Taicang Silver Treasury again, looking for the next customer.

Ji Gang returned to his residence.

In Jingshi, he lived in a small dilapidated house with two points of land.

It's far from where I work.

He had to get up in the middle of the night every day and rush to the Yamen of the Jinyi Guard.

Looking at the pile of rice in front of him, Ji Gang's mood became heavier and heavier.

"Why don't you go and get rich?"

Buying and selling treasure money, buying at a low price, and selling at a high price, is a way to make a fortune.

Ji Gang thought about this all the way and decided to give it a try.

......

East Palace.

There is a Ming treasure banknote on Zhu Yunxi's table.

Regarding the matter of treasure money, the whole court is now having a headache.

Since Lao Zhu has discovered the problem, he is determined to solve it.

As the grandson of the emperor, you need to deal with it in advance.

Li Zhigang of Zhan Shifu, as a staff member of the emperor's grandson, was summoned as soon as possible.

"The treasure banknote was issued by the treasure banknote lifting department, which originally belonged to the Zhongshu Province and is now under the management of the Ministry of Households."

Li Zhigang made preparations, and he gave Zhu Yunxi a detailed science popularization of the economic situation of the Ming Dynasty and the origin of the Ming treasure banknotes.

A few years before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, copper coins were used as the legal tender of the Ming Dynasty.

But the war consumed so much copper that there was a serious shortage of raw materials to make copper coins.

The lack of copper is a headache for all dynasties in China.

This is a great challenge for a new dynasty!

In this case.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty established the Treasure Banknote Lifting Division, and ordered Zhongshu Province to print the Ming Treasure Banknote.

This was made by Hu Weiyong.

As China's last prime minister, Hu Weiyong's ability is still very strong.

The Daming treasure banknote absorbs the advantages of the Song and Yuan banknotes, and takes its essence to remove its dross.

Paper money is convenient for circulation, so that the economy of the Ming Dynasty can run at a high speed.

In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Prime Minister Hu Weiyong and took the opportunity to abolish the sixth department of Zhongshu Province.

Since then, the banknote making belongs to the household department, and the coinage belongs to the Ministry of Industry.

Money is an indispensable foundation for the development of business.

Now the monetary system of the Ming Dynasty is: large numbers use money, small numbers use money, and money is used at the same time.

Zhu Yunxi sighed: "It's a pity, a good hand of cards is broken!" ”

Li Zhigang said: "The minister thinks that the main reason is that there are too many treasure banknotes. ”

Zhu Yunxi nodded and asked, "Gu Rang Ling went to check, how much money does the household department print every year?" ”

Li Zhigang did not speak.

"You didn't check?" Zhu Yunxi frowned.

This guy is not active in doing things after he is promoted?

It shouldn't be!

"I checked, but the minister didn't know what to say." Li Zhigang said.

The amount of money printed by the household department every year, he was afraid that he would scare the emperor's grandson by saying it.

Zhu Yunxi took a sip of tea and said, "Say it directly!" ”

Li Zhigang saw that the imperial grandson was mentally prepared, so he said: "The household department printed 70 million Ming treasure banknotes last year. ”

"So much?"

Zhu Yunxi almost squirted out a sip of tea.

It is always equivalent to a tael of silver.

In other words, the money printing machine of the household department prints more than 70 million taels of money every year!

Zhu Yunxi asked: "How much was the tax revenue of the national treasury last year?" ”

Li Zhigang took out a small notebook from his sleeve and flipped through it:

"In the summer tax, the whole country collected more than 4,717,000 stones of rice and wheat, more than 39,000 ingots of money, and more than 288,000 horses of silk."

"Autumn grain, more than 24,729,000 stones of rice, and more than 5,000 ingots of money."

In other words, the annual tax of the Ming Dynasty is 30 million stone rice and wheat, plus silk and money.

Converted into silver, it is worth about eleven million taels.

The annual income of the state treasury is only 10 million taels.

And the household department printed 70 million taels a year?

Zhu Yunxi's face turned black all of a sudden.

The operation of the household department has caught up with the old United States to print money and harvest the world!