Chapter 835

"Paper money!"

Pang Yukun was a little surprised when he heard that in the history of Dayu state, certificates such as banknotes had been used all the time, and the theory of banknotes never existed.

Xiao Ming has a premonition about Pang Yukun's reaction. He directly uses the technology crystal to tell Pang Yukun what the paper money is.

"There is no doubt that industry will enrich the products, and the money representing the flow of the products will also increase. In this way, the court will need to issue money according to the number of private products to maintain the transaction between goods."

"In that case, how much should be issued?" Pang Yukun had some doubts.

"Of course, the amount of money issued can't be fooled. In short, paper and pen are only equivalent to copper money in the past. If too much money is issued, it will lead to the devaluation of copper money. Originally, one copper money can buy one bun, but now ten copper money will buy one steamed bun. For a long time, it will cause national unrest. Therefore, the issue of paper money should be equal to the total amount of industrial and agricultural production in Dayu In order to guarantee the value of money itself, money needs to be linked to gold and silver. " Xiao Ming pondered.

In spite of the trend of surpassing the west, there are still many imperfections in the social system of Dayu.

Especially in finance, he fell behind too much, so after expelling the barbarians and basically stabilizing the country, he decided to make up for the lack of this area.

Moreover, he has a great ambition, that is, to establish an international monetary system dominated by Dayu and to construct financial hegemony.

Although there is still some distance to this ideal, we need to start preparations now. This is what we need to do at present.

Pang Yukun gradually understood it under Xiao Ming's explanation. He said: "if so, Laochen suggested that the current state of Dayu adopt silver standard currency. After all, gold is too scarce, and silver is the currency in circulation in Dayu."

Xiao Ming nodded. He once wanted to establish a gold standard monetary system, but now the conditions are not met.

"That's what I mean, but I can also mix gold and silver, and formulate a system of proportional exchange of gold and silver. "Xiao Ming said that he was laying the groundwork for the gold standard to be used directly in the future.

Pang Yukun thought for a moment and raised his last worry. He said, "emperor, there are many people who copy bank notes. If they issue bank notes, how can we stop them?"

Without diamond, he won't be able to do porcelain work. Xiao Ming's daring to issue paper money naturally means that Dayu can realize the technology of printing money. So he said, "you don't have to worry about this. I have my own way to solve it."

Pang Yukun nodded, "in this case, I will go back to deal with the Cao family bank first."

After that, Pang Yukun saluted and turned to leave.

Seeing Pang Yukun leave, Xiao Ming calls up the information in the crystal of science and technology. It's not a simple matter for him to issue paper money. Naturally, he doesn't dare to fool around.

On the one hand, Cao's Bank has been uprooted; on the other hand, he is confident that the quality of the notes issued is hard enough.

Generally speaking, paper money has a high demand for paper, so ordinary paper must not be used. After all, this kind of paper is easy to be soaked in water.

Therefore, the real paper used for banknotes is banknote paper, which is made of cotton linter.

This kind of cotton linter is also called cottonseed linter. It is a kind of cotton linter that the short fibers are still left on the cotton seeds after ginning. The short fibers are peeled off by a stripping machine.

Because of the complexity of the collection process, short lint is much more valuable than ordinary paper-making materials.

With the material is only the first step, the second is to master the raw material formula of this paper, in accordance with the strict proportion of production.

In this way, the paper made is smooth and delicate, tough and folding resistant. If you hold the banknote in your hands and shake it in the air, or you hold both ends of the banknote in your hands and pull it loose and tight, or you flick the surface of the paper with your fingers, it will make a clear and crisp sound.

Relatively speaking, the raw materials of ordinary printing paper are mostly straw, straw and so on. The texture of this kind of paper is soft and rough, the toughness and tension are insufficient, and it is very easy to break. If it shakes in the air, the sound will be dull.

So it's just the manufacturing level of the banknote paper that the businessmen in Chongqing can't copy. After all, the cost of copying will be very high.

In addition, he has another anti-counterfeiting magic weapon is watermark.

Watermark is an ancient anti-counterfeiting method. His country is the first one to master the watermark squeezing technology in ancient times.

At that time, the texture or pattern woven with thread on the paper curtain protrudes from the curtain surface. When the paper is copied, the density difference of the pulp here has bright and alternate patterns in front of the light, thus forming a watermark.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was "yanbojian" watermark paper, and in the late Qing Dynasty, there was "Wang Liuji" watermark paper. In Europe, the Saxony banknotes issued in Prussia in 1772 were watermarked, and the use of watermarks has become more and more common since then.

In addition to these two items, the third banknote printing technology that Dayu can realize is relief printing, which uses raised patterns.

In this way, it will become concave and convex on the surface of the note, and the last thing is the printing pigment, mineral pigment.

Compared with plant pigments, the colors of various paintings painted by mineral pigments can last for thousands of years without fading.Thinking of this, Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu, "now come with me to the printing workshop."

"Yes, Emperor." Qian Dafu went out to prepare.

At this time, Xiao Ming picked up a pen to record the key technology. Next, he will transfer the technical backbone to establish a paper money workshop.

This workshop will be a top secret of the state of Dayu, and the method of printing banknotes will be a secret among the secrets.

After writing, Xiao Ming gets up and goes to the printing workshop, which has been run by the newspaper. He directly asks fan Zeng to select some people with clean backgrounds from the workshop.

At the same time, he was instructed to set up a set of workshops from papermaking to printing according to the printing procedures of the newspaper.

And he concentrated the selected people in Qingzhou University.

Because the issue of banknotes is very important, Xiao Ming asked the government to prepare a confidentiality agreement for each of them, and signed the agreement. They will strictly keep the secrets of the banknote printing workshop. If they violate the confidentiality act of Dayu state, they will violate the confidentiality act of Dayu state.

The craftsmen selected by fan Zeng are all people who have lived in Qingzhou City for generations. The information of generations is very clear, and the whole family also lives in Qingzhou City.

Such craftsmen are very safe for Xiao Ming, because they have a lot of scruples and the probability of being bribed is very low.

In the next few days, Xiao Ming gave them the core technology of banknote printing. Of course, the procedures are separate, and each craftsman can only master part of it.

At the same time, he also ordered the equipment department to manufacture serrated stripping machine. With the current industrial capacity, this kind of machine is not a problem.

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