Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

The emperor laughed, waved his hand, and signaled to the eunuchs on the side to give the new coins to the civil and military circles present.

"This coin, looking at the world, who can imitate it?"

The emperor was full of high spirits and couldn't hide his agitation.

The ministers circulated the banknotes one by one, and they couldn't hide their shock. Although everyone had expected the emperor's plan, it was obvious that such fine banknotes would not be produced in a short time.

Layout, at least for a long time.

The emperor's next sentence also solved the doubts of the people present.

"This is the result of nearly ten years of research and improvement by the Banknote Division."

"Among them, papermaking ink and printing plate technology have reached the peak at that time."

"Every item is the result of nearly ten years of research by hundreds of craftsmen and students."

"Whoever wants to imitate it needs a research background such as Daheng Institute of Technology. It needs to gather hundreds of craftsmen in papermaking, ink, and printing plates. It costs tens of thousands of taels of silver and nearly ten years of research and development! "

"It is necessary to use such a large force without being discovered by the court, so that it is possible to prevent success."

"As for the Paper Banknote Department, what it pursues is to issue a generation of currency and study a generation of currency!"

"Nowadays, the updated version of the banknote technology is still being developed and improved!"

"What do you think, who can imitate?"

With such a far-reaching layout, how could the officials have anything to refute the advice? Even if they don't understand these crafts, they are important officials of the court anyway, and they are well-informed.

From the texture of the paper and the printed pattern, whoever has the pattern can fully see how high the technical content is, and imitation may be difficult to reach the sky!

"Your Majesty is wise!"

The ministers paid homage and shouted.

The emperor laughed: "The paper currency policy is hereby decided. The bank side will draw up a plan to promote paper money, and the court side will also prepare."

"The next court meeting, no matter how easy it is to discuss and arrange..."

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5 Chapter [-] begins

It is obvious that the paper currency policy was decided, and the emperor's idea of ​​patrolling the world had to be shelved again.

The Son of Heaven is very forgetful, and he doesn't care whether he puts it on hold or not. After all, the country's stability is the most important thing. Once the country is stable, he can inspect it at any time in the future.

But in this harem, it is obviously completely different.

The Son of Heaven had already let out rumors, and in the harem, because of this rumor, there had already been an uproar of contention.

Fighting openly and secretly, the harem, which was already somewhat smoky, became even more lively after the news spread.

But this tour of the world has not yet started.

The emperor doesn't care, so it's impossible for the concubines and nobles in the harem not to care.

Although the princes are still young, the children of the royal family can never be judged by their age.

The innocence of children, in this palace, lasts for too short a time, and it will be wiped out by the rights and interests of the royal family.

This is almost unstoppable.

No Royal Love!

The same is true between brothers and between father and son.

No matter how young the prince is, as long as he is a little bit of a director, under the influence of various aspects, he will not have much family affection when facing the emperor, only a deep sense of awe and estrangement.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally difficult for the emperor to have too much affection for his heirs. On the contrary, the emperors, daughters and princesses do not have too many interests, and the emperor loves them a little more.

Of course, no matter how much he likes it, the emperor's mind is not in the harem.

After all, with too many heirs, state affairs are too important.

The emperor's only concern for the harem is on the prince's education.

For the rest, the Son of Heaven has always been out of sight.

In the seventh year of Zhaowu, the promotion of banknotes and the implementation of another major policy seemed to add a bit of cumbersomeness to the already extremely busy state affairs.

However, the only good thing is that Daheng today, under the rule of the founding emperor, does not have so many twists and turns, especially now that the power of the central government is becoming more and more centralized, and it is becoming easier and easier to implement a policy.

Just like the banknote policy, after this court meeting to decide the policy, in less than a month, Daheng Bank submitted a complete and data-supported pilot plan for banknotes.

After deliberation by the court, and about three months of overall planning by all parties, to check for omissions and fill in gaps, in mid-July of the seventh year of Zhaowu, this banknote policy, which is destined to have far-reaching effects, was officially implemented in the capital as a pilot.

According to the plan drawn up by the imperial court, the promotion of banknotes will be like the tax department. If the pilot is correct, it will be rolled out to the whole country immediately.

In this regard, compared with the implementation of the tax department system, which requires the overall planning of local interests, the full implementation of banknotes is obviously much easier.

After all, the most important thing in the promotion of banknotes is circulation, and the existence of Daheng Bank is the greatest reliance.

According to the latest summary statistics of banks, Daheng Bank has spread all over every prefecture and county in Daheng, and the total number of banks in Daheng has reached more than 3000!

Almost all the currency circulation of Daheng Commercial also goes through Daheng Bank.

However, today’s money houses are not like later generations, where deposits have to be paid interest. Nowadays, money houses are in the nature of custody, and it is inconvenient for merchants to travel around with large amounts of money. Deposited in the bank, a thin bank note, avoiding many problems.

Therefore, nowadays, depositing silver in a bank requires a custody fee.

The profit that the bank turns over to internal funds every year is also an extremely considerable amount.

With such a huge bank, it is easy to spread banknotes to the whole country.

Of course, the premise of this comprehensive implementation is that the trial implementation of banknotes in the capital can be successful.

As a matter of fact, once the trial implementation of banknotes was launched in the capital, it had the endorsement of the Daheng court, but its credibility showed two extremes.

According to Chaoyi's expectation, it was the wealthy merchants who were enthusiastic about promoting banknotes, but in fact, most merchants and wealthy merchants were extremely wary of banknotes.

On the contrary, ordinary people have a lot of trust in banknotes.

Such a contrast is really hard to believe.

When the news reached the emperor's ears, the emperor couldn't hide his surprise.

After some investigation, the result seemed obvious again.

Merchants and wealthy merchants care about the pros and cons, and they also understand the history. They are afraid that the imperial court will reap them, so most of them wait and see and resist.

As for ordinary people, from the troubled times of the Ming Dynasty to the great rule of the present, for so many years, under a series of measures to benefit the people, the court has established a very high majesty in the hearts of the people. The name of the Son of Heaven, in the North, Among the people at the bottom, there are already people of the sage king.

Good and bad, in the minds of ordinary people, have their own measure.

In this way, the common people almost unconditionally believe in the imperial court, know the truth, rich and powerful merchants, but hesitant.

When the results of the investigation were presented on the emperor's desk, the emperor's demeanor seemed much gloomy.

This situation seems to remind the emperor of something extremely bad.

Those who give most resources are unreliable at critical times.

On the contrary, the common people, who only offered small favors, had unparalleled trust in the imperial court and in him, the emperor.

This is not without irony.

But soon, without waiting for the emperor to vent his anger, these gentry and wealthy businessmen seemed to react.

The original wait and see immediately turned into enthusiasm for banknotes.

Obviously, the emperor's layout of business is still of great use in many cases.

After there was no obstacle, the banknotes with excellent workmanship and exquisite patterns seemed to have become the mainstream currency in the capital in less than a month.

And with the exchange of north-south trade in the capital, it slowly spread outside the capital.

But this spread is extremely slow. Obviously, as the main body of circulation, merchants and gentry still retain due vigilance against paper money.

After all, in the past dynasties, paper money seems to have never ended well.

The most important thing is that banknotes are just a piece of paper, so there is no real money to make people feel at ease.

Therefore, the existence of banknotes is only for circulation. Depositing silver is still depositing silver, and few of them will exchange their family property for banknotes.

All the phenomena are also summarized on the emperor's table through the statistics of various functional departments of the imperial court and banks and commercial banks.

Every court meeting is also for the further circulation of banknotes.

The emperor is not in a hurry to make paper money the mainstream at once, and prohibits gold, silver and copper from being used as currency.

The implementation of banknotes must be a subtle process.

This process will inevitably last for a long time.

The banknotes were trialed in the capital for about two months. By October of the seventh year of Zhaowu, after everything had been gathered and discussed by the court, the full promotion of banknotes was fully launched following the emperor's will...

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Chapter 661 Circulation Cycle

It is worth mentioning that after the imperial court decided to implement the policy of promoting banknotes, many courtiers proposed to set up banknote printing factories in the north and south of the country in order to better supply the circulation of banknotes.

But it was rejected by the emperor without hesitation. The emperor could not trust the place. After all, no matter how corrupt officials are, they must have money to be greedy. But banknotes are different. Collusion, opening up the interests of the banknote printing factory, wouldn't it be possible to print as much as you want?

The emperor never wanted to overestimate the lower limit of officials. There could only be one banknote printing factory, which was set up at the foot of the palace, guarded by the Imperial Army, and supervised by officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, Metropolitan Procuratorate, Daheng Bank, and Jinyiwei.

In this way, the emperor can rest assured.

Even the emperor strictly stipulated the process of destroying banknotes, with layers of supervision and checks and balances.

The emperor would rather go through the process of a political matter slowly at all levels of departments than to make big problems in order to simplify the process and speed up the efficiency.

During this cold winter, the convoy from the capital, loaded with boxes of banknotes covered with various seals, was escorted by the guards who were waiting in full force, and headed towards all parts of the world.

Money touches people's hearts, and this box of banknotes is obviously more touching. Whether it is peeping from the outside or ulterior motives from the inside, it is all within the strict system and norms.

In the territory of Daheng, if outside peeps can break through the guards of hundreds of Jinyiwei, it is undoubtedly a big joke.

Internal ulterior motives are a serious crime.

There was a mistake in the banknotes, and the Jinyiwei who escorted them, from top to bottom, were all guilty of sitting together. This crime also brought harm to the family!

Boxes of banknotes, under this strict care, either travel along the river, or along the official road, towards the banks all over the world.

The most important thing about coins is circulation, and the biggest circulation of coins lies in commerce.

Daheng's biggest business is nothing more than the many state-owned monopoly firms, as well as the Daheng Bank, which dominates the world's money industry.

As for private business, its main body lies in Daheng Wuxun.

The promotion of coins is naturally inseparable from these people.

After setting the national strategic policy of paper currency promotion, on the first day of November in the seventh year of Zhaowu, all state-owned commercial banks in Daheng announced to the public that all commercial settlements will be settled by paper currency.

Immediately afterwards, in late November, private commercial firms in various places in Daheng also successively announced to the outside world that all commercial transactions will be settled in banknotes.

Under the continuous efforts of the business groups that are the main body of currency circulation, Daheng Zhaowu's new currency has spread rapidly to all parts of the country centered on banks in various places in just a few months.

Then, the Jinyiwei Wenxuan Department, which has been established for many years and can be said to be the mouthpiece of the emperor, also began to exert its strength to guide the direction of public opinion in the world.

This set of procedures is already familiar to the Cultural Propaganda Department.

After all, in the past, every time the imperial court made a major policy, the Jinyiwei Culture and Propaganda Department had to guide the public opinion, and this time, it was the same.

With one order, there was an upsurge of banknotes all over the world, and banknotes with excellent workmanship and exquisite patterns were popularized to the lower levels very quickly under the condition of rapid circulation of the main body.

Especially in the north, the place where the emperor's hegemony is based, and the half of the world where the policy of benefiting the people is most thoroughly implemented. Under the support and trust of the emperor, the gates of the money houses in various places have been open almost day and night since the introduction of banknotes. There is a long queue.

Of course, apart from the contribution of the Wen Xuan Department under Jin Yi, the most important reason is the awe of the emperor.

After all, in these years, in this world, if there is any place that has the deepest feeling for the authority of the emperor, it is the people in the north.

After all, in many cases, the political struggles in the court do not affect the people at the bottom, and at most they are just chatting after dinner.

But in this Daheng dynasty, a land reform, the cleansing of the landlords and gentry who are closest to the common people, seemed to thoroughly demonstrate the authority of the emperor in front of the common people.

After experiencing and facing many things, it is natural to have fear.

Everyone knows that the will of the Son of Heaven cannot be violated, and those who obey will prosper and those who oppose will perish.

In this way, under the general trend of promoting banknotes today, I am afraid that no one is not worried that the emperor's decree directly abolished the circulation of gold, silver and copper coins.

Everyone understands this truth, but the people at the bottom obviously understand it more deeply. After all, they have no room to resist in the face of anything.

Whether the policy is good for them or bad for them, they can only accept it.

Under these several measures, the Zhaowu new coin has become a hot spot in the world in the second half of the seventh year of Zhaowu.