King's Landing in France

Chapter 310 It's Polina Time Now
An Ning knew that to master the right to issue coins, two necessary conditions were required. One was to have a very high reputation, and the other was to have a large number of commodities in hand.

Not to mention prestige, this is the basis of currency issuance, and commodities are mainly used to ensure that the currency issued is useful.

Otherwise, if the banknotes are sent out, nothing can be bought, and the currency will soon become a beautifully printed piece of paper.

The thing that An Ning released in Italy attracted guarantees from several big chambers of commerce in Milan. The transactions of these chambers of commerce will use this equivalent coupon, so it was successfully promoted in Milan.

This is particularly important in the environment of France, because France has a tradition of anti-paper money. The paper money produced by the king's reforms before the Great Revolution directly caused the French people to generally distrust paper money.

The indiscriminate issuance of coupons after the Great Revolution made ordinary French people's favor for banknotes drop to a freezing point.

In order to fight against this deep-rooted negative emotion, An Ning must have a large number of circulating commodities.

So An Ning urged the National Assembly to pass a bill to impose high tariffs on cloth from Britain.

In this way, the prices of all the fabrics from the UK rose sharply, and the products of the steam spinning factory that An Ning established in the south occupied the market on a large scale.

In addition, An Ning also took advantage of his huge reputation in the southern countryside to establish a chamber of commerce for the unified purchase and sale of southern agricultural products.

These preliminary preparations are now fully completed.

And the printing of banknotes had already started. An Ning commissioned a committee composed entirely of painters to design the first banknotes of the Republic—referring to coupons that were something from the kingdom era, not counting.

The printing of banknotes was entrusted to the largest and most technologically advanced Berryman Printing House in Paris.

When the factory heard that this was a job entrusted by General Frost, they immediately dispatched their best engravers to carefully craft the printed master.

In July 1793, Anning's notes went offline.

On this day, An Ning went to the printing factory in person, and was the first to pick up the finished product that had just been printed.

"Oh, really good." An Ning looked at Mr. Voltaire printed on the banknotes, "The details are very clear!"

The director of the printing factory said respectfully: "I can assure you that only we can print such clear finished products!"

An Ning: "This is the effect I want."

In this era, it is impossible to provide so many anti-counterfeiting measures on banknotes. There are no anti-counterfeiting methods that are very common in later generations.

Therefore, in order to prevent counterfeiting, we can only make a fuss about the printing accuracy. Such a high printing accuracy must be the work of a large printing factory with skilled workers. It is easier to detect counterfeit banknotes printed by such factories.

An Ning looked at the banknotes and imagined the future happily: Now I am the chairman of the Federal Reserve of France, Greenspan of France.

As the one who holds the right to issue coins, my financial resources are unlimited. In the future, whether it is to promote rapid industrialization or refit the troops in batches, I will have a financial foundation!

As for An Ning Zhengmei, Napoleon's younger sister Paulina came over and said, "Who is the big head printed on this banknote?"

An Ning woke up suddenly from her imagination and glanced at Polina. The little girl looked curious and her big eyes flickered.

An Ning: "This is Mr. Voltaire. All denominations of banknotes are printed with the masters of enlightenment thought..."

"Oh!" Paulina interrupted An Ning, "I know this man, the one you rescued from the Bastille!"

An Ning choked for a moment and coughed several times before recovering.

"Uh, this..."

"That's what everyone says!" Paulina said enthusiastically. "Everyone also said that you are the illegitimate son of Voltaire, which is why you can make the revolution so good!"

An Ning scratched her head, wondering how the rumors were still evolutionary, and I suddenly became Voltaire's illegitimate child?
An Ning: "Uh, no, um, Mr. Voltaire was indeed imprisoned in the Bastille, but...uh, anyway, the reason is quite complicated, anyway, I am not his illegitimate child, no."

Paulina: "Then whose bastard are you?"

"I'm not an illegitimate child! I'm the son of a cobbler. Some people think it's shameful for a cobbler's son to ride on their head, so they make up various backgrounds for me.

"In the kingdom period, they said that I was the illegitimate son of a great nobleman. After the revolution, the nobles were worthless, so they began to say that I was the illegitimate son of Voltaire."

Paulina smiled happily: "My brother is right, as expected, you will be anxious when you question your background as a cobbler."

An Ning: "This Napoleon, is this something you can tell your sister?"

Paulina asked a new question: "By the way, why do you want to print Voltaire on banknotes? Isn't it more acceptable for everyone to print your face?"

An Ning: "I'm not a great person. As the first currency of the republic, it should naturally be printed on those great men who gave birth to the republic. Voltaire is printed on 100 yuan, Rousseau is on 50 yuan, etc..."

Paulina: "Why is Rousseau worth 50 yuan? Is he inferior to Voltaire?"

An Ning: "Of course not, he is also a very important Enlightenment thinker, on par with Voltaire..."

"Then why did he go for 50 yuan?"

"It has nothing to do with the face value. We just print the portraits of every enlightenment thinker on the money. One person is responsible for a face value, and there is no distinction between high and low."

Paulina: "But that's what people think. I really think they're indistinguishable, so they're printed together on the banknote, four people in a row."

An Ning: "That won't work, I will have a sense of déjà vu when there are four people in a row."

I think of Huo Yingshan, or the prototype of the US President Hill, or a certain version of the renminbi.

Paulina began pestering An Ning again to ask what "déjà vu" is.

While the two of them interacted like this, the owner of the printing factory and the Parisian dignitaries who came to attend the ceremony of rolling out the new banknotes were all watching.

Someone could not help but whisper a few words: "What is this, leave us alone and date a girl?"

As soon as the man finished mumbling, different people elbowed him in the side, stomped on his feet and patted him on the back.

The man who poked his side said, "Be careful, Frost hasn't come out to kill people by himself recently, but he was a big murderer in the south back then, and the nobles in southern France were basically sent to the street by him— —there was no guillotine then.”

The person who stepped on the foot said: "You don't know, that little girl is Frost's new love, the younger sister of his hero Napoleon, and he has a good relationship with the little girl to make Napoleon give up on him."

The person who patted the back said: "Her brother was the one who bombarded the Tuileries Palace, and now he has won a great victory against the rebels in Cordini. It is said that he used [-] national troops to attack [-] to [-] rebels. And win big.

"If there is no accident, he should become Frost's second.

"If Frost hadn't taken a fancy to his sister, people who were waiting to ask this little girl might line up three times around Paris."

The person who muttered at the beginning was stunned: "Really, I thought this little girl was the lady from the Parisian family that Frost had a crush on.

"It's incredible."

"Yeah," someone immediately replied, "If the war continues like this, the era of soldiers will come."

"What? I thought it was by now."

(End of this chapter)