In Fang Chongyong's impression, Li Linfu likes to fight against differences in the party, and there are many mediocre talents under his command. Therefore, Fang Chongyong actually has a contemptuous attitude towards the so-called "talents" recommended by Li Linfu.

It's just Li Linfu, just a honey-bellied sword!

That's what he originally thought.

Fang Chongyong even thought about offering a "reward" to select outstanding talents in the Tang bureaucratic system. Whether it's self-nomination or recommendation, once hired, there will be a great reward.

Of course, before that, we still have to meet the people recommended by Li Linfu, and then make a judgment.

The next day, in a box on the second floor of Xinghua Building, Fang Chongyong met a middle-aged man and two young people, both of whom were recommended by Li Linfu for an "interview".

However, it was not Li Linfu himself who brought them, but Li Xiu, the eldest son of the right minister of the Tang Dynasty.

According to Li Xiu, he was appointed by the imperial court to be a supervisor, and was assigned by his father Li Linfu to be responsible for the archiving and improvement of Jiaozi engraving-related technologies!

Fang Chongyong didn't consider that Li Linfu would send cronies or heirs to participate in the issuance of Jiaozi. But the direct control of the printing technology still surprised him.

The person who can be the right minister of the Tang Dynasty is really not a fool!

Fang Chongyong was relieved when he thought about it.

Compared with copper coins, the threshold for Jiaozi imitation is not the material limitation, but the papermaking and printing technology.

As long as the technology of printing Jiaozi and the production method of special paper are controlled, then the maximum threshold of issuing Jiaozi has been crossed.

It can be said to control the core technology!

"Down here is Taifu Qing Yang Shenjin."

"Liu Yan, a member of the subordinate department."

"In the lower household department, the fifth Qi of the outer lang."

The three of them saluted Fang Chongyong respectively.

"Below is Fang Chongyong, the envoy of the Hexi Jiedu who is also the ambassador of the Western Regions, and I am fortunate to meet him."

Fang Chongyong returned the salute to the three people in front of him.

Yang Shenjin knew that this was Brother Ji's cronies, who were in charge of Brother Ji's small treasury.

The remaining two, one from the Ministry of Officials and one from the Ministry of Households, are estimated to be in charge of personnel and government affairs. I have to say that Li Linfu is indeed a prime minister who is dedicated to doing things, and this clearly means that he wants to establish a new department.

"Fang Jieshuai, this is an orange sent from my hometown, a worthless souvenir."

Liu Yan took out a bag of oranges from behind him, smiled, and handed it directly to Fang Chongyong.

"Okay, okay, Liu Yuanwai is polite, polite."

Fang Chongyong took the orange with a smile and weighed it in his hand quietly.

It looks like the weight of ordinary oranges! You won't really send oranges, will you?

Fang Chongyong muttered in his heart, with a professional smile on his face.

"Back then, Fang Jieshuai proposed to Zheng Shuqing to set up a checkpoint in Kuimen to collect taxes, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty wrote to oppose it, but only Liu Yuanwai wrote to agree, and was demoted to a county order."

Li Xiu said quietly in Fang Chongyong's ear.

Looking at the flattering smile on Liu Yan's face, Fang Chongyong understood that this time was different from the past, and now he was already a big bureaucrat who would inevitably be scolded by others.

No wonder so many people like to be a dog for Keigo.

Fang Chongyong nodded with emotion.

Li Xiu pointed to the fifth Qi again and said: "When Wei Jian served as a transfer envoy, he was a cadre under Wei Jian. Later, Wei Jian was implicated because of Li Heng's rebellion, and the fifth Qi worked under my father. ”

Fang Chongyong nodded again, Wei Jian was not like he directly married Li Linfu in the history books of his previous life, and the two of them are still cousins. Therefore, it is also common for Li Linfu to collect Wei Jian's old ministry for his own use.

"Mrs. Yang's Mansion doesn't need to be introduced."

Li Xiu said with a smile.

The relationship between Yang Shenjin and Li Linfu is very delicate, but he is a person trusted by Brother Ji, and he was also sent by Brother Ji to check and balance Li Linfu, so he really doesn't need to be introduced by Li Xiu.

Fang Chongyong immediately understood that all this was arranged by Brother Ji, and he was also under Brother Ji's surveillance.

After retiring from the guys in Xinghualou and the servants of the four people in front of him, Fang Chongyong put his hands in his cuffs and asked slowly: "Everyone, if you have any questions to ask, please feel free to be restrained." ”

"Fang Jieshuai, there is something unknown to the lower officials.

My Datang has a vast territory, how to issue this Jiaozi?

If they are all issued in Chang'an, then Jiaozi will inevitably only circulate around Chang'an. ”

Fifth Qi, who had worked in government affairs under the transfer envoy, asked a very critical question as soon as he asked.

"Jiaozi can only be printed in Chang'an, and for the sake of safety, the printing engraving must not leave Chang'an.

After the printing is completed, it will be transported to the prefecture-level big city, and a special warehouse will be set up to stock up on Jiaozi.

Centered on the prefecture, it spread to neighboring states. The state capital of each state has opened a Jiaozi bank. ”

Fang Chongyong said lightly, this kind of problem is probably just a "small test", Fifth Qi, as an old fritter who has been a bureaucrat for many years, is not to say that he doesn't even know how to solve such a problem.

This is the fifth Qi testing him.

Fang Chongyong didn't mind this kind of thing, anyway, the three people in front of him didn't do anything under him, so he didn't care!

"Fang Jieshuai really has a comprehensive plan.

However, Xia Guan wants to know, in addition to circling around the big city at the provincial level, can this Jiaozi also circulate across regions?

For example, if someone brings it to Chang'an, can it be used without hindrance? ”

Fifth Qi looked at Fang Chongyong with sharp eyes, and asked a question that was not easy to answer.

The Datang region is more than 10,000 miles, from the west to the Green Mountains and the south to Guangzhou. It is understandable to print Jiaozi in Chang'an, after all, if the same Jiaozi is printed elsewhere, it is easy to cause the outflow of Jiaozi printing technology!

In case of "genuine counterfeit money", then the fun will be great!

However, Jiaozi is always to be circulated in local areas, whether the Jiaozi circulating between various regions can be interchanged, or whether there is a version of Jiaozi circulating in Datang China, which is not only very important, but also related to the success or failure of Jiaozi's operation!

Sub-regional circulation, cross-regional can not be exchanged, which of course strictly restricts the promotion of Jiaozi.

But at the same time, an extra "firewall" has been added, and if something happens in the future, Jiaozi will only be rotten!

The security is much higher than that of a unified currency that circulates nationwide.

If the issuance of Jiaozi is not partitioned, then once there is a problem in a certain link, the other places where Jiaozi is operating normally will also be dragged to death by the place where the problem occurs!

Then the fun will be great! It can even be said that you can't eat and walk around!

"It can be done in two steps.

The first step is to divide Datang into six districts: Guanzhong, Henan, Lianghuai, Jiangnan, Lingnan, and Shudi. Each district issues a different version of Jiaozi, and if different Jiaozi between regions want to be exchanged, they can only be exchanged according to the Jiaozi money village at the provincial level.

After a few years of orderly operation, the old version will be recycled and a new version will be issued nationwide, once and for all. ”

Fang Chongyong gave an intermediate step, first trial operation for a few years.

He didn't say this in great detail, but he touched on a lot of concepts.

There are concepts such as exchange rates, regional currencies, economic regionalization, etc.

Except for Li Xiu, who didn't know much about it, the other three people were all "professionals" who dealt with money all day long. After listening to Fang Chongyong's words, they all lowered their heads and thought quietly, weighing the pros and cons in their hearts.

If Fang Chongyong still lived in his previous life and did not have so many years of life experience in Datang, then he would definitely think that it was a very normal thing for a country to have one kind of banknote.

However, in the era when technology has not advanced by leaps and bounds, regionalized currencies have a natural "firewall" function, which is actually the normal operation of currencies.

Even in modern times, it is easy for the unified currency of different regions to go wrong.

For example, in the European Union, some of these countries, such as Greece and some countries in Eastern Europe, have lost their coinage rights after abandoning their local currencies and switching to euros, and they are unable to alleviate their economic crises through inflation.

This also allows the economically developed regions to plunder the wealth of the economically backward regions through currency!

Fang Chongyong has seen many similar cases.

With such a big game of chess as Datang, the regional economic development itself is extremely unbalanced.

If you use the same jiaozi as currency from south to north and from east to west, it will eventually evolve into a very terrible thing!

Sure enough, Yang Shenjin nodded and said, "Fang Jieshuai's method is indeed very safe. Let Jiaozi operate locally, and it is better for all places not to communicate with each other first. ”

The other two also nodded slightly in agreement. The ancients just didn't know enough, and the others were no more stupid than the modern ones.

Hearing this, Fang Chongyong couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

"Fang Jieshuai, how to determine the currency value of Jiaozi? It is written with ten silks, and it may not be possible to exchange for ten silk silks. ”

Liu Yan asked with a slight frown.

"If you receive a silk silk from the people, you will issue a silk handover, which is a reserve system.

It is only necessary to replace the silk silk with Jiaozi when making peace, and at the same time collect a large number of silk silk from the big families and merchants as a reserve. In the future, the officials' salaries will be handed over, and the imperial court will also be issued for road and bridge repairs, and Jiaozi will be allowed to freely exchange silk silk in the money village.

Then it is not difficult to implement this law to the whole country. ”

Fang Chongyong said with confidence.

Seeing that the crowd was still not very convinced, he added:

"Each Jiaozi has an issue date, and it can only be exchanged for silk silk a month or even a few months after it is issued at the earliest. In this way, Jiaozi Qian Zhuang in various places will be enough to deal with it.

Besides, silk silk is not popular among the people, and now there are friends who are not afraid of wear and tear, is it not easy to promote? ”

"Yes, the Jiaozi invented by Fang Jieshuai is indeed very powerful."

Liu Yan, who had a round face and a smile, couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said.

"However, as long as Jiaozi is circulated smoothly in the future, some people will definitely be blushing, and how to prevent others from counterfeiting is the first thing."

Fifth Qi interjected and said that he was a square person, and he had offended many people on weekdays. If you weren't very talented, you don't know how many times you have died.

Several people present knew that in fact, Jiaozi's hard wound was in the "counterfeit banknotes".

As long as the papermaking technology and printing technology are broken through, printing counterfeit banknotes is basically a business without capital, which is much happier than robbing the king of the mountain!

Fifth Qi's question can be described as hitting the nail on the head!

"That's right, when designing Jiaozi, there were a total of five layers of anti-counterfeiting."

Fang Chongyong explained how the Jiaozi issued in Hexi was anti-counterfeiting, from paper to ink to embossing and other technologies, all of which were laid out without the slightest reservation.

Of course, he just said a rough idea, anyway, even if he didn't say it, as long as he compared a few Jiaozi issued in Hexi, he could see the clues.

It's better to be refreshing, it's not interesting to hide it.

Even if Fang Chongyong said roughly, the specific details of banknote anti-counterfeiting technology could not be truly understood by the few people in front of him. On the other hand, keeping the technical details of anti-counterfeiting secret is not a kind of economic protection.

After all, the technical details of Chang'an Jiaozi, these technocrats in front of him would not inform Fang Chongyong.

If you don't say it, I won't say it, it's equivalent to us leveling up.

This is equivalent to "mutual secrecy".

When he made a political deal with Li Linfu yesterday, Fang Chongyong had already touched the bottom line of the right minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Couldn't Li Linfu take back the coinage right over there?

No, it is easy for Li Linfu to stir up Huang Fang's big plan. It's just that it's hurting others and not benefiting oneself.

Power and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. Giving up the right to mint money in Hexi means that Datang will not be dragged down by the economic black hole in the northwest.

As long as Hexi Jiaozi is rotten, Chang'an can immediately stop the communication between Chang'an Jiaozi and Hexi Jiaozi!

In other words, no matter how the Jiaozi in Hexi tosses, Chang'an can control the risk at any time.

Cut off the exchange, and it will be done once and for all.

Give Fang Chongyong the right to issue Hexi Jiaozi, so that he can not only get the support of the Hexi military leaders, but also avoid the financial risks in Hexi from spilling over to Chang'an.

With such a good deal, why not do it?

Li Linfu's mind was thinking very clearly, in his guess, Fang Chongyong would definitely take advantage of the opportunity of the expedition to the Western Regions, frantically print Jiaozi, and plunder the goods of the Western Regions!

So after getting the goods, what will this ambassador of the Western Regions Economic Strategy do?

The answer is to use it as a reward for the border army, and at the same time to buy military rations, pass through the Western Regions, resist Tibet, etc., a lot of things need money.

If the Jiaozi on both sides can be exchanged with each other, then Fang Chongyong will print money frantically, and then privately send people to circulate these Jiaozi in Chang'an, and then buy military supplies in Chang'an, Li Linfu will not be able to stop these "demon people"!

can do the right phase of the Tang Dynasty, how can he be a fool!

Seeing that Yang Shenjin, Liu Yan, Fifth Qi and others in front of him were in high spirits, discussing the details of the issuance of Jiaozi while drinking, Fang Chongyong felt a burst of emotion in his heart.

It's a shame that I didn't want to take the people in front of me for fools. Among the people who do things for the right minister, there are really a lot of talents.

Fang Chongyong just heard Liu Yan saying that he would also synchronize with the "Silk Jiaozi" and issue a small denomination of "Copper Coin Jiaozi", and suddenly felt that this person was really a financial mind, not to be underestimated!

This move Fang Chongyong was originally in the making, and after returning to Hexi, he planned to get a batch of Jiaozi of three denominations of "Ten Wen", "Fifty Wen" and "One Hundred Wen" as a supplement to "Silk Jiaozi".

I didn't expect someone to draw inferences, and before he proposed it, someone was already considering simultaneous release in Chang'an.

The center of the Tang Dynasty, from Ji Ge to Li Linfu, the right minister, and then to the bureaucrats at all levels.

If you want to say that they are so bad that they blew pus, that would be more appropriate. But there are not many fools among these people who can fool around!

This meal was very enjoyable, and Fang Chongyong almost taught him the knowledge of currency in his previous life, and said everything he could say.

Especially the principle of inflation, he broke it down and explained it to Yang Shenjin.

It's just that these people seem to understand, but they don't think that inflation is a problem at all.

Instead, Liu Yan asked Fang Chongyong a question that he couldn't answer for the time being:

Datang's silk silk originally existed as currency, and nine times out of ten, the people in the hands of it could not use it. Now that Jiaozi has replaced the silk silk in circulation, the price of silk is bound to plummet!

Because silk silk has degenerated from physical money to general necessities, the quantity is still so large!

What to do with these silks?

The silk silk plummeted, which is actually equivalent to the collapse of Jiaozi! The two are two sides of the same coin!

After eating, it was already the beginning of the lanterns, Fang Chongyong took the escort Ah Duan, and staggered towards Yongjiafang, where his house was located, and what he was thinking about was the question that Liu Yan asked inadvertently.

Fang Chongyong was fooled at that time, but he didn't think of a suitable solution. If this problem is not solved, the "stock crisis" of silk silk will inevitably break out, which will lead to a sharp decline in the natural value of Jiaozi! It is not until these surplus silk silks on the market are digested to a normal level that the value of Jiaozi will slowly return to a reasonable state.

Fang Chongyong, who had drunk the wine, was in a daze, thinking about it while walking. Suddenly, a man in a coarse cloth coat ran wildly a few meters away beside him, covered the mouth and nose of a man in a brocade robe in front of him, and stabbed the other party in the abdomen several times in a row!

Then throw down the knife and turn around and run!

Fang Chongyong was suddenly frightened, he pointed to the thief who had escaped, and said to Ah Duan: "Go after it, don't shoot arrows!" ”

(End of chapter)