King's Landing in France

Chapter 179 As a Jingluo, the Governor of Venice (Milan) should be hanged on Saturday
No matter before or after time travel, An Ning came to Milan for the first time.

In the past, his only knowledge of this city came from two points. One was the city derby between AC Milan and Inter Milan, and the other was his favorite Hayao Miyazaki movie "Porco Rosso", in which Porco Rosso's plane broke down. Shipped to Milan for repairs.

In the movie, An Ning's impression of Milan is that there are many canals and bridges, and the things produced by the factories by the river can go directly into the canals.

After An Ning watched the movie, she always wanted to fly a seaplane in Milan. When taking off, she had to go through many bridge holes.

Because of the movie "Porco Rosso", An Ning has always wanted to go to Milan to see it. Unfortunately, after graduating from university, she joined the company and was busy with introversion every day. If she slacked off every day, she would be severely surpassed by others, let alone travel for a month.

Taking a walk-and-go trip is something only people with wealth and freedom can do. Social animals can only expect Ubisoft's next Assassin's Creed to take the place they want to go as the game stage.

Now, An Ning was standing on the hillside outside Milan under the soft morning light of northern Italy.

The city of Mira seemed to lie beneath his feet.

But there is no river to be seen from this angle.

Strange, is the Milan in the red pig fake?Also said that most of the canals were excavated after the industrial revolution for transportation?

An Ning couldn't help asking the Corsican next to him: "Shouldn't there be many rivers in Milan?"

Napoleon replied: "There are indeed many rivers."

An Ning pointed at Milan in front of him: "Then why can't I see it?"

"Having a river doesn't mean it's full of water like Venice." Napoleon shrugged, "Most of Milan's rivers are canals dug to transport goods. The water is deep enough for boats, but not very wide. You are outside the city. You can’t see it from a high slope.”

An Ning let out a cry.

Berthier asked suspiciously: "Are you familiar with Milan? Can I ask you to negotiate with the gentry in the city? Our supply line is a bit too long. It is best to find some supplementary channels in Milan."

An Ning couldn't help but glanced at Berthier: It's just a supplementary way?Chief of Staff, have you misunderstood my purpose of coming to Milan?
I came to Milan to complete the primitive accumulation of capitalism.

But Milan is not only rich, but also has a large number of engineers and scientists.

The industrial level of the Italians in this era is good. In order to launch the industrial revolution in France, the craftsmen in Milan are precious resources.

An Ning has already figured it out. First of all, he wants to start a revolution like the French Revolution in Milan, and let the Italians decide the affairs of Italy.

The method of selling independent bonds that was used once in Diego can no longer be used here, and a more formal method must be used.

An Ning is going to use the identity of the liberator of Milan to issue currency directly in Milan.

As the first part of issuing currency, he first wanted to establish the Italians' own country in Milan, and then he planned to ban the currency merchants in Milan.

This is a type of merchant who specializes in various currency exchanges, mostly Jewish.

After the money merchant is settled, you can hold the currency exchange right in your hands and open an officially endorsed currency exchange firm.

Then the firm will issue a ticket that represents a certain weight of gold and silver, and stipulates that the ticket can be exchanged for silver or gold coins of the corresponding value.

Because tickets are more convenient to carry than gold and silver coins, and there is no need for a set of complicated valuation and exchange procedures, as long as the circulation of tickets is controlled and the printing of counterfeit coins is strictly suppressed, tickets will soon be sold in a trading city like Milan. will catch on.

After tickets become popular, some tickets can be quietly printed for shopping.

As long as there is no centralized run, the printed tickets can be used as money!
An Ning learned this method of cutting leeks from a teacher from the United States of America, and he plans to practice it in Milan.

In fact, An Ning is like using it in France, but the French are against paper and pen. There was a reform of paper currency in the kingdom era before, and the result was very bad, which led to the French impression that paper currency is unreliable.

Coupled with the fact that the National Assembly is now desperate for printing and printing coupons, the impression of the French on banknotes is over.

The French gradually accepted banknotes after the industrial revolution was completely completed in France.

At that time, domestic commodity transactions were too frequent, and it was too troublesome to use gold coins. People couldn't stand it before accepting banknotes.

Italy is different. First of all, the banking industry in Italy is developed, and there is a tradition of using bank deposit checks as currency circulation.

Second, Italy was originally a place where various commercial republics gathered together, and commercial activities were frequent, so a trustworthy banknote was originally needed.

It's just that Italy has been torn apart for a long time, either being ruled by Shinra, or split into piece by piece commercial republics and kingdoms.

Dispersed republics and kingdoms themselves do not have enough credit to support the promotion of a unified paper currency.

Even if it is acceptable in one's own country, it will not be recognized by others outside the country.

In fact, if Shinra is willing to issue a banknote in Italy, with the size and prestige of Shinra, it can support the banknote to be accepted by all countries.

But Shinra is a feudal country after all. Although it has become an enlightened feudal system after the reform of Queen Teresa, no matter how enlightened the feudal system is, it is still a feudal system.

The result is that there is no unified banknote in Italy until now, which makes it very troublesome to exchange various currencies in the transaction process.

It is precisely because of this that there is room for Jewish currency merchants to survive.

Even in this state of disunity, the Italians have come up with many alternatives, using commercial contracts to replace the cumbersome currency transaction process.

An Ning's idea is that I, the envoy of the French Revolution and the protector of Italian independence, will introduce a paper currency accepted by all in Italy.

With the independent endorsement of France and Italy, this banknote must be leveraged.

It doesn't matter if only Milan accepts it at the beginning. Anyway, when the opportunity comes later, Anning will include the Kingdom of Sardinia, Venice, and the Papacy into the paper money system.

It's just that he needs a little time.

In any case, it all starts in Milan.

First, he was going to the center of Milan to deliver a speech calling on all Italians to stand up.

Then he wants to control all the printing presses in Italy, print the slogans of Italian independence all over the street, and tell the Italians that the French liberators are coming, and Italian independence will come!
Immediately afterwards, he wanted to hang Shinra's governor in Milan.

An Ning said to Napoleon: "Come on, let's go into the city and let the Italians see how mighty and majestic the revolutionary and citizen army is!"

(End of this chapter)