"Go on!" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand and gestured to Li Wei.

Li Wei bowed slightly, and continued: "In addition to the higher quality paper, this new banknote also uses embossing technology, you can touch it with your hands, and the patterns on the surface of the banknote are concave and convex. ”

As he said, the ministers rubbed the new treasure banknote with their fingers, and found that as Li Wei said, these patterns are like three-dimensional, making the banknotes look thicker and rougher to the touch.

Everyone couldn't help but be amazed, although this Master Li was very annoying, the things he made were indeed rare and strange things.

"There's also watermark technology, so you can pick up the banknote and look at the blank space on the left in the direction of the light."

Li Wei said, holding up the treasure money and facing the door, and gave them a demonstration.

Everyone looked at him like him, and saw that the original blank position showed a flower pattern under the light source, and there were words indicating the denomination of the treasure banknote below, and they were all amazed.

"How is this done?" Xu Hui asked in shock.

Li Wei glanced at him and ignored him, joke, can I tell you this?

"Master Li is really a skilled craftsman, and this treasure is made of money, which makes this official admire!"

Ruan Xuan, who has always been a low-key official, put down the treasure money and praised.

However, his words were both explicit and disparagement, in fact, he was satirizing Li Wei as just a craftsman.

Li Wei was not sensitive to class identity and did not hear this voice, but Xue Xiang understood it, and immediately continued: "Lord Li is not just a skilled craftsman, the things he said about banks before are also very important to the imperial court!" ”

Ruan Jian smiled: "Hehe, Xue Shangshu is right. ”

After Li Wei and others read the watermark, he continued to introduce: "In addition to these, the text pattern on this is also printed with ink, which will not fade easily, even if the old one enters the water, it is still clear and recognizable when it is cold and dry." ”

Saying that, Li Wei glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang immediately understood and ordered: "Xu Shou, go get a basin of water." ”

"Obey, slave and maid will go."

Xu Shou bowed and hurried away, and after a while, he brought a basin of water.

Li Wei motioned for him to put it on the ground, and then when he put it away, Li Wei took out a piece of paper money from the water and soaked it in the water, and when it was soaked, he took it out and pinched it into a ball.

When everyone saw the water flowing from his palm, they couldn't help but surround him curiously.

Li Wei unfolded the soaked banknote again: "Let's take a look." ”

Xu Hui snatched it anxiously, and when he saw that it was still very clear and there were no blurred words and patterns on it, his face suddenly became even more ugly, Li Wei's new banknote was really good, so good that it was worth collecting even if it was not a banknote.

Xue Xiang next to him didn't care about his depressed appearance, happily snatched the soaked treasure note from his hand, took it in his hand and looked at it, only to see that the treasure note was not affected except for some wrinkles, the text pattern on it was not affected, and the paper was not damaged and soft.

"Your Majesty, what Master Li said is true, the text pattern on this banknote is really not afraid of water!"

Xue Xiang opened his mouth to invite merit for Li Wei.

"Show me!"

Zhu Yuanzhang urged in a deep voice.

He listened to Li Wei for a long time, and he was actually very surprised, if what Li Wei said was true, then this treasure is simply a treasure!

Xu Shou stepped forward to take the wet banknote in Xue Xiang's hand and presented it to Zhu Yuanzhang, and the ministers around Li Wei saw this, and couldn't help but cast dissatisfied glances at Xue Xiang, but they hadn't seen it yet, this old man hurriedly handed it over to His Majesty, it was really unreasonable!

Zhu Yuanzhang took the wet banknote and looked at it, and sure enough, as Li Wei said, the text on it was still clear, and he was immediately overjoyed: "Okay, good!" Such a treasure is worthy of our Daming! ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, with this treasure banknote, you will definitely make the Ming Dynasty prosperous and strong, and the people will be rich and happy!"

Xue Xiang congratulated loudly.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty......"

Although the others did not want to admit Li Wei's merits in their hearts, they could only congratulate him when they saw His Majesty's great joy.

"Your Majesty, with this kind of treasure banknote, not only can solve the problem of easy damage to the old banknote, but also have paper, embossing, watermark and ink and other multiple anti-counterfeiting, but also basically eliminate the possibility of being forged, as long as the issuance method is appropriate, the minister believes that this treasure banknote will be able to replace gold and silver, become the main currency in circulation of the world, then the Ming Dynasty will be able to prestige the world, all nations to the dynasty!"

Li Wei saw that he was happy, and hurriedly painted him a cake and reminded him not to forget to promote the treasure banknote to the outside world.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and nodded again and again.

Seeing this situation, Xu Hui knew that the general trend had gone, and his heart was quite uncomfortable, and he said a little sourly: "Hmph, Master Li is too conceited, what you can make others can naturally make, and it is too arrogant to say that this puts an end to forgery!" ”

"Oh, why don't Xu Shangshu try to fake it?" Li Wei said disdainfully.

The corners of Xu Hui's mouth twitched, although he knew that the banknote bureau of the household department would definitely not be able to do it, but the loser would not lose the battle, and said stiffly: "Try it." ”

Li Wei sneered and shook his head slightly, not taking him seriously at all.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were slightly condensed, and he said softly: "Well, it's okay to let the household department try it, in this way, Xu Huiling will try to imitate it, if it can be made nine points similar, let's put this Minghuang Bank under the management of your household department." ”

Xu Hui was overjoyed when he heard this, he was just stiff-mouthed, but he didn't expect to get such a rare opportunity, although he felt that the banknote and paper bureau should not be able to do it, but in case, those craftsmen are also good at papermaking and printing, not necessarily worse than Li Wei!

"Your Majesty, the minister must do his best to create the same treasure banknote!" Xu Hui hurriedly expressed his determination.

"Hmm." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded lightly, and then said: "But if you can't make it, you don't have to be a scholar!" ”

"Huh?" Xu Hui was dumbfounded: "Your Majesty, Minister, Minister......"

"What? Is there a problem? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him coldly.

Xu Hui's heart trembled, so he had to respectfully agree: "No, no problem, the minister obeys the order!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang retracted his gaze and hung him aside.

Xu Hui couldn't wait to give himself a big mouth at this time, and blamed him for being too talkative, what can he do! It was originally a good book, but it's over.

Everyone else also cast sympathetic glances at him, as far as Li Wei's treasure banknote, not to mention any ink and watermark, just the most basic acid-free paper, they all heard of it for the first time, just with the tenacity that is still not rotten when it is kneaded with water, and what Li Wei said is not easy to turn yellow or something, this paper is not something that ordinary people can make.

(End of chapter)