Take the mall to Datang

Chapter 986 Collecting Coins

East and west markets, as well as the shops in the square, as long as someone spends with money tickets, there is no failure.

When they exchanged a piece of "paper" for a handful of copper coins, they found that it was really easy to use money tickets. The store that received the money knew more about the authenticity of the money tickets than the ones who spent it, and they tried their best The use of bills for settlement is highly recommended.

The merchants who got the consistent money were very happy. They were all going to collect the first batch of consistent money. I don’t know who started it first, but they actually bought it at a high price. It exceeds its own value by more than ten times, and even has a tendency to reach one hundred.

All the courtiers had different consumption methods, and the military generals had a lot of time to get together, and they also put together all the money and bills. They ate, drank and had fun all afternoon, and even made appointments to continue at the mansion if they didn't enjoy themselves.

Civil servants are relatively low-key and basically act alone. When they go to the market, they buy some inconspicuous things. Most of them buy pendants and decorations, and they also buy various wine utensils. There are not many people like Xuan Ling who buy women's jewelry. Not only did they not get change, but they also added a lot.

Yuan Shan, who was beeping bitterly, was not so leisurely. He was trying to promote money tickets, and the distribution center was still under construction. The coins were brought, of course, with the help of the women in the backyard to print them, and then the people from the money bank came to collect them for registration.

Yuan Shan drank a lot of wine yesterday, fifty small cups of alcohol, even if it was low-alcohol, he was dizzy, and fell asleep when he got home. As for what happened in the court, he didn't know at all. too tired.

I got up early in the morning to find out about the Crown Prince and King Wei, and as punishment they were grounded by Li Shimin, but Quan Wanji from the Eastern Palace came early in the morning to talk about the promotion of money tickets.

"Lan Guogong, what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince means is that the industries under the Crown Prince's name will fully support the settlement of bills. In order to play a role in promoting it, I hope that a large amount of bills can be exchanged from the money bank, so that they can be communicated by means of payment for goods. You See if it's feasible." Quan Wanji said.

Yuan Shan naturally knew what they meant. Direct application, settlement, and change were used to circulate paper money from His Royal Highness's property. The method was relatively reliable, but it was absolutely impossible for Li Chengqian to come up with this idea. It was all for circulation. , but in this way, the prince will become one of the people with a large amount of banknotes. On this basis, his industrial income will definitely increase his income, so it is a good means.

But they may not know that the current production of coins is very limited, and it is actually irrelevant to let the prince promote it. If they are exchanged directly from the money bank, there are actually some disadvantages. Many people may keep all the exchanged coins out of curiosity. In the hands, this is not conducive to the circulation of coins.

Just now I heard that someone outside began to collect the first batch of coins with a denomination of [-] coins. The purchase price was higher than the denomination itself. Production is not enough to meet such a large demand.

"Of course, I wonder how much banknotes His Royal Highness can exchange?" Yuan Shan asked tentatively.

He feels that Li Chengqian can't be too rich. The bearing workshop is profitable, but it has become his father's property before he got it. The existing one is a gravel factory, and there is also a bicycle factory with Zheng Qi. As for the paraglider? It would be good if the cost can be recovered. The expenditure on the first floor of Datang is also huge, there are not so many benefits, and there are some coal mines and boiler factory industries.

Quan Wanji stretched out five fingers with one hand and said: "In order to promote coins, the prince is going to spend all his existing savings, 500 million coins."

"Shrimp? 500 million guan?" Chu Xuan was a little confused. Where did the money come from? Why is there so much money? Li Chengqian wouldn't sell the East Palace. If he still had iron ore, he could still believe it, but now, he has some doubts up.

"His Royal Highness has so much money, can't it be borrowed?" Yuan Shan continued to ask tentatively.

Quan Wanji's face was a little moved, his expression immediately indicated that he seemed to have guessed right, and he said: "That's right, the children of the Li family clan dismantled about 100 million coins, and they all wanted to help promote the circulation of coins, so His Royal Highness allowed it." , Wouldn’t it be easier to circulate coins like this?”

Yuan Shan understood that the Li family clan, a group of dudes big and small, either flattered their beards or wanted to stand behind the prince to reap benefits. After thinking about it, there is actually nothing wrong with circulating them, but will they keep the banknotes they exchanged for? It's not in circulation yet.

"Haha, so much money is converted into banknotes, but do you want me to print it until the sea is dry?" Yuan Shan half-jokingly asked.

Quan Wanji didn't understand the coin printing process, he didn't know that the current production capacity was insufficient, and they couldn't meet their needs in the short term, so he thought Yuan Shan was really joking.

In fact, even if the 500 million coins are exchanged for a face value of [-] coins, [-] copies will be printed, and now only a few thousand copies have been printed in his backyard for almost a month, and it is impossible to print tens of thousands of copies. It's okay for a few months.

"It's good for His Royal Highness to help with the circulation. I can only guarantee that I will try my best to exchange as much as I can. I'm not sure how much I can get. You have to be mentally prepared." Yuan Shan explained.

"Well, okay, I will explain this matter to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Quan Wanji said.

After discussing for a while, Quan Wanji left.

Yuan Shan came to the backyard and saw that the table in the pavilion was full of banknotes, one hundred guan, fifty guan, ten guan, and one guan. Among them, ten guan and one guan were printed the most. It was registered overnight and delivered to the palace in the morning, and now there are ten more boxes in the yard.

Dugu Ruolan, Du Qianyu, Sister Yuwen, Qin Si, Lan Lan and others are all in charge of a team, and all of them are maids and workers from the house. The efficiency of working in groups is much faster, and the efficiency has increased by ten times. To be tired is to worry, and you need to be cautious. Printing numbers, registering numbers, checking numbers, and sorting out coins are all assigned to each division of labor, and there is no one less person.

As a result of this, the price of clothing in Yuanjia Mall has soared. Because of insufficient production, they have not delivered goods to the mall for several days. In order to prevent the shelves of the mall from being empty, the person in charge can only increase the price of clothing according to the emergency plan. But fortunately, there was no price increase. The price increase actually drove a wave of small consumption peaks.

The sudden situation was unexpected, so the Yuan family had to assign some female workers to continue making clothes. The output could not keep up, and the price could not drop, but they made some money instead. This may only happen in the Yuan family shops. Kind of a miracle.

If the Cotton Chamber of Commerce does this, I am afraid that it will not make money but directly lose money.

Chapter 987 I Was Laughed Out Of Anger

Yuan Shan personally helped. Now in the backyard of the Duke’s Mansion, there are printed coins piled up in the wing room. The numbered coins are dried and packed directly into boxes. In order to improve the speed, Yuan Shan specially asked Yuan’s Workshop to make a manual code. For the engraving tool, the number starts with a fixed letter combination to represent the batch number, which can not be replaced for at least a few years, and the number behind it can be adjusted manually, and the mechanism will fluctuate every time it is printed.

The simple explanation is that the movable type printing has been changed into a round structure, which is very convenient to change a number after printing, which greatly increases the printing speed.

Now there are people in charge of printing numbers in the backyard, and Yuanjia Workshop is still in the process of manufacturing. The principle is not complicated, but there are a lot of craftsmen needed. Locksmiths and mechanism craftsmen are all involved, which is much more precise than locks. Yes, the accessories are also quite cumbersome.

But Yang Wu's task is even heavier. Waterproof dyes are not the end. He is now ordered to study quick-drying technology, so the concept of air-cooled dryers emerged.

The most troublesome part of code printing is drying. It takes time to wait. If it is less, the ink will stick. Can choose to air dry.

Therefore, the problem of continuous wind power is realized by using the steam flywheel to drive the fan to seal the box. Too many boxes are used in blacksmith workshops, and the technology is very mature. It is automatically stored, so it requires very delicate gear technology.

In Yuan Shan's view, it is not difficult, but it is far from meeting the requirements to complete the original technology in Datang, but it is possible to replace the concept through complex mechanism techniques, in other words, use Datang's existing technology to carry out manufacture.

"Master, the people from Qianhang are here again." Caiyi walked in and said.

"Why are you here again? Didn't you come here yesterday afternoon?" Yuan Shan was speechless. He is the largest shareholder of Qianhang, and now he is being chased by people from Qianhang for "money" every day. It feels really bad.

"They said that all the coins they took yesterday were exchanged," Caiyi said.

"All the money worth tens of thousands of guan was exchanged in one day. This job is really impossible." Yuan Shan handed the coder in his hand to the people around him to continue, and he followed Caiyi directly to the outer courtyard .

"Lan Guogong, we are here to ask for money." The ones in charge of transporting coins are court guards who specialize in complex coin transport. They are all soldiers transferred by Li Shimin to the money bank. It doesn't matter, they are all good at fighting, and their fighting power is no worse than that of Qianniuwei's people, and they have no fighting power to transport money to and from the various state capitals.

"Captain Wei came here in person, there are not many coins printed just now, you take the ten boxes back first, and the Communist Party of China will go to the money bank with you." Yuan Shan said.

"Yes, the last general will definitely protect you." The guard said immediately.

Just like his name, he has a straightforward personality, but he is a person who makes people feel at ease.

Yuan Shan went directly to the money bank with the newly printed coins in a carriage. After arriving, the staff of the money bank was responsible for registration, and Yuan Shan called all the managers and managers of the money bank together for a meeting.

"The preparations for the issuance center must be speeded up. There are two money banks in Chang'an. First, turn one into a distribution center and recruit people to start printing. Otherwise, relying on the people in my house will not be able to meet the demand for banknotes. I give You have three days to get everything done, otherwise all the existing managers will be downgraded and let competent people come forward, that's all I have to say, what else do you have to say." Yuan Shan said with a cold face Said to everyone.

A group of people from the money bank were not talking. They could see that their major shareholder and chief executive was very angry today, and they would not choose to be in trouble at this time.

Yuan Shan was a little relaxed when he came out of the money business, thinking that he should have done this a long time ago, I am spending money, not printing money for you.

As soon as Yuan Shan left the money shop, the people in the money shop started to act, and decided to temporarily handle the business of the money shop in the west market, so the guards quickly mobilized a guard team of 500 people. All the items in the money shop in the west market were moved to the money shop in the east market, and they quickly moved into action.

The hirer directly called the craftsmen and went to the gate of Qianhang in West City to wait. Everyone in Qianhang started to move things and lock the cabinets. Anyone who dares to get close to shoot and kill, this is where Qian Xing's guards are against cattle. Who dares to openly draw their swords in Chang'an City, Qian Xing's guards.

In one afternoon, Qian Xingguang transported coins from Xicheng more than ten times, each time with more than 20 large vehicles. After the entire underground money bank was emptied, there was a large space. If you don’t know, look at the underground money bank They are all like an underground palace. If it is renovated, it will not be inferior to the upstairs building. The reinforced concrete and stone structure, the prefabricated slabs for the roof are as thick as five floors, and they are still covered with iron plates, which cannot be exploded with explosives. , can be said to be as solid as a rock.

The next day after dinner in Chang’an was the money transported from the West Market. Some people said it was comparable to the national treasury reserves. .

It’s no wonder that the transportation of more than 200 cars of coins is not amazing. Even the court was shaken. Many people guessed what Yuanshan was going to do. At this time, the civil servants discovered that although the money bank was not above the court, But the influence and role played are great.

It can be said that the collection of the Datang treasury is the taxation of the people of the Tang Dynasty, which can maintain the continuous operation of the Tang Dynasty, but the money line is the collection of the money of the people of the Datang, which supports the operation of the economy of the people of the Tang Dynasty. Well, even if the savings of the money bank are not as much as the tax revenue of the national treasury, but in the future, it will be hard to say when all the state capitals will open money banks.

The civil servants are most worried that the status of the treasury will be affected by the money bank, but it seems that the interests involved in different businesses do not conflict.

Now that Qianxing is so ostentatious, the ministers saw an opportunity, so in the next few days, Li Shimin received a lot of anonymous memorials, which generally meant to let the treasury pay for the purchase of Qianhang.

Li Shimin laughed when he saw this idea, and he was annoyed. Others don't know, but he knows the situation of the money bank. Every year, his small treasury can still receive dividends. Can you not understand.