Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 939
"All the folks and elders please get up quickly! Let the king explain to you about the banknotes!" Liu Hongjian took the loudspeaker from Niu Dazhuai, stood on the carriage and shouted to the kneeling people around him. road.

It was Liu Hongjian's idea to graft all the personnel of the Fuming Bank system, including the shops, into the imperial court, because the imperial court could not quickly establish a huge central bank system within three months of preparation time, and as early as more than two years ago , Fuming Bank was born for this when it was first established.

Of course, it was impossible for Liu Hongjian to hand over to the imperial court the Fuming Bank, which had consumed so much money, manpower, and material resources from Xishan Shanghe. In fact, Qin Wenmian, the new Minister of Household Affairs, directly spent nearly one-third of the national treasury as soon as he took office. Silver taels, a total of 600 million taels of silver.

The Imperial Bank is headquartered in the back of the Western Hills. It is in charge of the gold and silver reserves of the entire Ming Dynasty, the printing and distribution of banknotes and minted coins, and coordinates the silver-money exchange business of branches in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. The first president of the Imperial Bank was Liu Hongjian, King Qin of the Ming Empire.

This title was imposed on him by Zhu Cihong. The change of courtiers and the planning of the army staff headquarters had already made Zhu Cihong busy. Liu Hongjian, who had just stepped down as Marshal of the Army and Horses, was recruited by Zhu Cihong again.

The Imperial Bank Headquarters Building is under intensive construction, and Liu Hongjian plans to spend two years building the No. [-] reinforced concrete building in the name.

At the same time, the entire Xishan Mountain will be the place with the highest military defense standards besides the capital city. There is not only the Ordnance Institute of the scientific research center of the Ming Dynasty, but also the lecture hall of the First Military Academy of the Ming Dynasty, and the first engineering institute of the Holy Land of the Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, all the gold and silver of the Ming Dynasty will be stored here as the cornerstone of the currency system. It is conceivable that in a few decades, the underground of Xishan will become the richest place in the world.

At the same time, the Imperial Bank of Ming Dynasty was separated from the Ministry of Accounts as a separate administrative agency. The Ministry of Accounts was only used as a government office for household registration statistics, tax collection, and financial balance. With the approval of the Emperor, the Imperial Bank can allocate funds.

This is equivalent to weakening some of the powers of the courtiers and the cabinet, and firmly controlling military and financial power in the hands of the emperor.

However, according to Liu Hongjian's statement in the memorial, the courtiers agreed on this, and the most intense court struggles were as smooth as clouds and water.

Liu Hongjian knew that the exchange of money would cause dissatisfaction among the people, so Jin Yiwei came to report the news on Zhengyang Street in almost a quarter of an hour.

Liu Hongjian raised his hands to signal the people to stand up. In order to let the people farther away hear him, dozens of Han generals climbed up to the roof of the buildings on Zhengyang Street, each with a low-quality loudspeaker repeating Liu Hongjian’s speech. Gradually.

"In the past few years, Your Majesty has worked hard, the court has worked hard, and the king has traveled here and there, so that the Ming Dynasty can rise and stand proudly in the world since then, so that the foreign vassals dare not touch the tiger's whiskers of the Ming Dynasty, and so that you can live in a peaceful environment. thrive in.

I believe you can all see and feel this point. Think about what you were like six years ago!What are you doing now?Want to rebel? "Liu Hongjian's voice was loud and his words were sonorous.

"As the saying goes, you would rather be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times, have you all forgotten?

Your Majesty also said to me last night that it is difficult not to embarrass the people. In the past few years, Your Majesty has worked day and night for what?Is my Han family so ungrateful? "

After Liu Hongjian finished speaking, Zhengyang Street fell into a brief silence. The old man who was as bloody as a chicken just now blushed like a monkey's butt. He found a bamboo hat from nowhere and put it on his head to hide his burning shame. .

"Now this king is telling you that exchanging banknotes is just the way His Majesty sympathized with the inconvenience of your transactions and was repeatedly deceived by fake copper coins. If you don't believe me, you can just take part of the money left at home to exchange. The imperial court allows you to keep it. Extra silver taels.

but! "Liu Hongjian suddenly became sharp when he said this.

"After three days, no one is allowed to trade with gold, silver, or copper, and all shops are not allowed to accept gold, silver, or copper coins, and are not allowed to reject new banknotes or coins.

Those who violate the order will be fined ten taels for the first time, and 100 taels for the second offense, and the shop will be closed for the third time.

King Xinben, go home to get silver to exchange, otherwise, you won’t be able to buy food after three days, so it’s no wonder that the king didn’t remind you.

Come on, move these silver ingots in, and the king will exchange 80 taels of banknotes and 20 taels of coins! After Liu Hongjian finished speaking, he opened the wooden box at the back of the carriage, revealing a large silver ingot gleaming with silver.

Motivated with emotion, understood with reason, and shown with prestige, after Liu Hongjian finished speaking, he ignored the tens of thousands of people and walked straight to the branch.

Since the Beijing branch had prepared a large amount of banknotes and coins a few days ago, it didn't take long for the 100 million taels of silver to be exchanged into the corresponding new currency.

Not long after, the titular owner of Xishan Commercial Co., Ltd., the British Gong Zhang Weixian, came, accompanied by as many as twenty carriages. In addition to Zhang Weixian, there were several big businessmen and shop owners in the capital. Go to the branch door and say loudly:

"In response to the imperial court's call, Xishan Shanghe specially came to exchange the new banknotes of 300 million taels. This is the first batch of exchange, and there will be a second batch of 500 million taels in five days!" Zhang Wei first bowed his hands to Liu Hongjian, and then deliberately raised the tone.

"In response to the imperial court's call, the Zuixian Restaurant will exchange 60 taels of banknotes for the new version!"

"In response to the imperial court's call, Chen's cloth shop exchanged 26 taels of banknotes for the new version!"

After reporting the numbers, these businessmen in the capital bowed their hands to Liu Hongjian and the gathered people before entering the branch one after another.

Obviously, these merchants have been notified before, and these merchants have received the most favor from the imperial court in the past few years. Although the imperial court has collected commercial taxes, under the leadership of Liu Hongjian, the imperial court has opened up more business opportunities for merchants. They are happy to support the policies of the imperial court.

At this time, some people in twos and threes have already begun to try to exchange, but out of prudence, these people have basic knowledge of how much money they can exchange, and the most are only one or two taels.

Another half an hour later, the Beijing branch welcomed a more solemn delegation—the courtiers who had just left the morning court not long ago came together, and there were more than 200 people.

I don't know if these courtiers are skipping work. Anyway, they are carrying packages of different weights in their hands. The bulging bags inside look like silver taels. Due to the large number of people, they consciously line up.

Liu Hongjian saw all this in his eyes, and the merchant representatives and official representatives were naturally arranged in advance to let the common people see that the court was not trying to deceive them. The upper classes are responding positively.

According to Liu Hongjian's plan, move with emotion, understand with reason, and show with prestige, he will set an example. If the people still don't buy it, it doesn't matter, he won't be angry.

The representative of the business group continued to keep up. If it didn’t work, he still wouldn’t be angry, and the officials would join in. If he still didn’t give face, I’m sorry, Liu Hongjian will get angry, and he won’t spoil the common people. It's not about harming them.

If Liu Hongjian got angry, the consequences would be very serious.

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