First Minister of Ming Dynasty

The word "also" is full of bitterness.

Li Shan was a step late, so naturally he couldn't surpass Zhang Ximeng, and he had some bad habits that were hard to change, and Lao Zhu couldn't be completely relieved.

However, Li Shanchang can still understand clearly that the potential of Lao Zhu's team is really too great. It only takes a long time to have a solid base area and hundreds of thousands of dedicated people.

Just give it a few more years to fully develop and sweep the world, not just empty words!

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's words to Peng Zaozhu were not aimless.

His pattern has been placed there.

Is sure to be the founding hero, is it ranked first or second, and what is the difference?

It's just that a little kid has taken the limelight, and Li is a little unconvinced.

Li Shanchang still wants to say goodbye to Zhang Ximeng, but it is not a vicious fight, but to let Lao Zhu know that he Li Shanchang also has the ability that Zhang Ximeng can't do.

In a word, Lao Li wants to roll up with Zhang Ximeng!

Undoubtedly, this is a great thing for the entire Zhu Family.

Zhang Ximeng is not even in Li Shanchang's competition. You have the ability to take over all the work and do a good job. I am happy to take it easy.

It's just that there are still some things that Lao Li can't do, such as this market ticket.

In addition to spamming, the biggest enemy of any kind of banknotes is fraud.

So the first thing to be solved is how to prevent counterfeiting.

Zhang Ximeng got some Yuan Ting's treasures, and the moment he bought it, he shook his head.

This thing is too crude.

In fact, the treasures of the Yuan Dynasty used to have such a reliable period, and due to sufficient reserves, the currency value was fairly stable. But it’s a pity that, like the Yuan Dynasty, it can only last for a short period of time. After that, banknotes were issued indiscriminately and shoddy, especially for the purpose of repairing the Yellow River. At the same time, the currency system completely collapsed, causing many places to simply retreat to the level of bartering.

These things had already been learned when Zhang Ximeng had just crossed over.

It is easy to destroy a thing, but it is very difficult to build a new one.

Grain must be used as a guarantee, and there must be no counterfeit banknotes, which will facilitate the people and benefit the people... After studying for some time, Zhang Ximeng finally came up with the anti-counterfeiting methods of the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

The first is the selection of materials. The bark must be rare, and it is not allowed to be used by the people. Usually, the bark is used.

It's a pity that with the loss of Yuan Ting's control, it is no longer able to use the husks, and the folks have also embezzled them in large quantities. Therefore, the current treasures, paper, are hard to say, and it is not much better than the straw paper that wipes the bottom.

In a mere Chuzhou area, a special kind of paper was produced. Obviously, this is not realistic.

Secondly, the graphics and text on the banknotes must be complicated and not easy to imitate.

Third, multi-color overprinting such as red, black, and blue is also used.

Finally, the official seal is stamped.

In addition, there are some special methods. In the market, we have to arrange special personnel to distinguish between true and false... After the whole set is completed, Song Yuan's Jiaozi and Baochao can only be said to be unsatisfactory.

Zhang Ximeng is very worried now, the materials can not be solved, and the technology of multi-color overprinting is not available in Chuzhou. He can design some numbers, but he may not be able to do it!

Anyway, it doesn't matter whether it works or not, just try it!

Zhang Ximeng asked someone to make a batch of sample money, and was wondering whether to hand it over to Lao Zhu. It happened that Li Wenzhong and Zhu Ying were here.

"Big Brother Zhang, why did you bring the treasures we played with?"

Zhang Ximeng was taken aback, "What did you do?"

Zhu Ying smiled and said, "My seatmate, his house is in the bookstore. He can copy books, draw illustrations, and is literate. He drew a lot of treasures and gave us flowers."

"What?" Zhang Ximeng was surprised, "Your classmate still has this kind of talent?"

Zhu Ying nodded, "That is! Our Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is much better than yours." Zhu Ying also looked at Li Wenzhong provocatively.

Li Wenzhong just touched his head with his hand.

"You are still young, and how old you are, you will come here. Will you still look down on the elementary school then?"

Zhu Ying rolled her small black eyes, and stopped talking. Instead, she picked up the treasure in front of Zhang Ximeng's eyes, looked and looked at it, and then disgusted and said, "Big brother, how can this be drawn better than I am at the same table?"

Zhang Ximeng frowned, "I am made by several skilled craftsmen."

Zhu Ying is not convinced, no matter how many skilled craftsmen, they can't do it!

After flipping through his pocket for a long time, he really found a crumpled coin and patted it in front of Zhang Ximeng.

"Look!"

Zhang Ximeng took it in his hand and didn't care about it at first. He just thought that he had done it in his previous life when a child was drawing paper money. What's strange... But when he picked it up, he took a closer look, it was incredible!

This treasure banknote is painted so lifelike, compared with Yuan Ting's treasure banknote, it is not exactly the same, but the blue is better than blue!

Paper, lines, colors...Even Dayin is impeccable.

"Your classmate opened a bookstore at home? How old is he?"

"It should be twelve or three. Brother, you were all selected students from the military last time. Can you choose some young folks in the future? My classmate is really good! Don't waste talent!"

Zhang Ximeng can only smile wryly, when is someone who can draw fake banknotes is not a talent!

"Well, you go call him, and I will talk to him."

Zhu Ying promised that in the evening, he brought a handsome young man. He was wearing a slightly faded gown, his head down, a little panic.

After coming in, he saluted Zhang Ximeng.

"You don't need to be polite, I'm not much older than you."

Zhang Ximeng asked him to sit down, brought him some fruit personally, and asked about his studies. The teenagers answered honestly.

Then Zhang Ximeng took out paper and pen, and also a ruler and various colors of paint. Valley

Finally, he took out a market ticket he got and handed it to the boy.

"You draw one according to it."

The boy looked at it, and then concentrated again. After a while, his eyes were clearly focused, as if everything outside was not on his mind.

He slowly lifted the pen and painted on the blank paper, the whole process in one go.

After only half an hour, he put down the pen.

"I'm done."

Zhang Ximeng took a look and was speechless.

It is estimated that his banknote plan will be ruined.

"That...what's your name?"

"My name is Lu Zhou."

Zhang Ximeng nodded, "Um...do you think this thing is difficult?"

Without thinking about it, Lu Zhou said, "It's not difficult. In fact, compared with the good treasures of the past, it's quite crude."

Zhang Ximeng asked again: "Then let you say, is there a way to imitate it on a large scale?"

"Is it printing?"

"Yeah!" Zhang Ximeng nodded.

Lu Zhou thought for a while, and said slowly: "Printing and engraving is not difficult, you can find it in Yangzhou, maybe it's also OK for celebration. After all, our family only printed books and never got treasures, so I'm not so familiar with it. Give me It may take ten days and a half to get it out." The young man said to Zhang Ximeng earnestly.

Zhang Ximeng feels that the whole person is not good.

He pondered hard, found several skilled craftsmen, and spent more than ten days to get it out. This kid can get it out in ten and a half months by himself, so what else is he playing with?

"Now it seems that if you can produce a banknote that can be counterfeited in a short period of time, 80% of it won't work. Maybe you won't have a chance until you win the celebration."

Zhang Ximeng thought again and again that this kid Lu Zhou is a talent and must stay by his side. In case he ran out in the future and hid in a corner to study how to draw counterfeit banknotes, that would be a bad thing.

As for now?

Zhang Ximeng thought and thought, just use a dumb way!

Get a food bank!

People who deposit grain in the grain bank can get a passbook that says how much grain they have deposited.

If ordinary people want to buy something, they can take their passbook to the market and exchange the corresponding tickets... For example, if you want to buy pork, one catty of pork requires five catties of grain.

If five catties of food are crossed out here, you can get one catty of meat ticket and go to the market to buy meat.

But pay attention, this meat ticket has a time limit. If you don't buy it for three days, it will be invalid.

After all, not everyone can draw a meat ticket like Lu Zhou.

In three days, it was very difficult to commit fraud.

And this thing is for a designated purpose. You can't buy cloth with a ticket, and you can't buy a porcelain with a ticket. The possibility of fraud is reduced to a minimum.

But at the same time, transactions have become very troublesome.

Not only people who buy things, they need to exchange all kinds of tickets. The hawkers who sell things, after a busy day, also exchange the tickets they earn into grain and deposit them in their passbooks.

To be honest, it is better than bartering, and the strength is very limited. There is no need to carry heavy grains, and there is no need to worry about the quality of the grains, nothing more.

In order to attract the people to save grain, Zhang Ximeng even proposed the concept of saving grain with interest. For example, if one hundred catties of grain is deposited, one hundred and ten catties are included in the passbook.

Zhang Ximeng also wants to make one step in place to get banknotes acceptable to everyone... But the conditions do not allow it. Yuan Ting's indiscriminately issuing and changing banknotes ~www.novelmt.com~ has made banknotes notorious. The confidence of the people is gone.

Now Lao Zhu doesn't have so much gold, silver and copper in his hands, and he can't issue metal currency.

But I still want to arouse the enthusiasm of the people, concentrate financial and material resources, and develop production. Is there any other way besides being a food-based one?

This method can only be an excessive method. Use it for one or two years, or three to five years. When the situation improves, it will not be too late to abolish it.

Zhang Ximeng thought it over, finally made up his mind and went to Lao Zhu.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang is not there.

Guo Ying told Zhang Xi that it was Mr. Li and Mr. Yang who had invited the superior to pray for rain!

Pray for rain!

Zhang Ximeng realized that he had forgotten that after the summer harvest, it seemed that it didn't rain much in Chuzhou, which did affect the planting... But does asking for rain work?

Don't Li Shanchang and Yang Yuangao bewitching Lao Zhu, right?

Zhang Ximeng went to the Dragon Temple in Fengshan, southwest of Chuzhou, with a strategy in mind.

When Zhang Ximeng arrived, Zhu Yuanzhang had a word.

"If this is the case, let us ask for rain for the people. The God of Erlong relies on the people here for worship. How can he not show sympathy for the people? Within three days, the rain will fall from the sky. If there is no rain... I must destroy this ancestral hall and smash the golden body!"

After Lao Zhu finished speaking, he even took off the big bow from his back and shot three arrows according to the dragon god!

Whoosh whoosh!

After the shot, he came out in a hurry, and frightened both Li Shanchang and Yang Yuangao...Which way is this to pray for rain, it is clearly to intimidate the Dragon God!

Zhang Ximeng was also dumbfounded when he witnessed all this.

Lao Zhu, I really have you!

Zhang Ximeng raised his head and looked at the Dragon God Siyu who was standing there, hoping to be a little bit stubborn, and within three days, it would not rain. Being intimidated by a mortal, if you bow your head, what kind of dragon **** is it?

Remember, don't bow your head, the crown will fall!