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The first set of RMB engraved by Li Weiguo was soon unveiled at the board of directors, attracting the high attention of all shareholders of the board of directors. They all exclaimed that this is the most exquisite banknote in the world, with extremely complex patterns, clear watermark avatars, hidden anti-counterfeiting engraving patterns and denominations. No matter which item, it is the world's leading position, throwing banknotes from Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Russia and other countries out of several streets.

"I can actually print the photos of our AIIB on paper money, which looks more intuitive. I can recognize it at a glance that this is our AIIB's banknote."

"It seems that no one can imitate the banknotes issued by our Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank."

"Once this set of banknotes is officially issued, it will be enough to shock the whole world!"

"When compared the banknotes of other countries with the banknotes of our Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, they are simply weak, just a pile of toilet paper!"

"When will this set of notes be officially issued? I can't wait to buy them!"

"I seem to have seen the spectacular sight of our AIIB dominating the world's currency market!"

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The shareholders of the board of directors were very excited, and each of them was full of confidence in the future development of the AIIB.

If these shareholders were still complaining that Li Weiguo was making a fuss to take advantage of them at the beginning, they have shut up now, and they all know that following Li Weiguo will get greater benefits. Those shareholders who always obstruct Li Weiguo's orders or disobey Li Weiguo now are smiling, as if they have never opposed Li Weiguo.

The shareholders' expressions all fell into Li Weiguo's eyes. He smiled faintly, everything was in his control. Now he was waiting for the official issuance of the RMB. At that time, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will make a splash and let everyone in the world remember it.

It can be said that this set of RMB will become the face of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and its core interests.

Looking at the banknotes of various countries in this era, the patterns are very simple, just like an envelope, write a lot of words on it, make a simple pattern, and then stamp it with a stamp. For example, the 100 pounds issued in 1850 was a pile of English letters, but these letters were artistically processed and changed to printed, round, palace cursive and Caroline lowercase, etc., to form a pattern composed entirely of letters and numbers. Compared with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building pattern on the RMB carved by Li Weiguo, one is a monotonous envelope and the other is a beautiful photo of the scenery, which is a right and right.

If the RMB and the pound are placed on the market at the same time for everyone to choose, it is obvious that everyone will choose the picturesque RMB. This is the subconscious behavior of human beings to pursue perfection, and it is understandable.

Next, Li Weiguo presided over the board of directors and discussed the specific matters of issuing RMB with shareholders. The shareholders fully agreed with Li Weiguo's various proposals, and no one stood up to oppose or mess around.

Li Weiguo knew that from this moment on, he truly took control of the board of directors and won the complete support of shareholders.

The issuance conditions for the RMB are now complete, and all the money printing equipment is in place. As long as the power-up board is installed, the money printing machine can be started to print the RMB on a large scale.

However, before the final issuance, Li Weiguo had to do one thing, that is, digital coding anti-counterfeiting. Although it is difficult for RMB to be forged at present, Li Weiguo is very clear that in this era when the strong prey on the weak, all powerful countries will secretly issue counterfeit money against hostile countries, which can not only attack the economy of hostile countries, but also earn huge amounts of money, killing two birds with one stone.

China is the fat in the eyes of the great powers, and I wish I could divide China immediately, so Li Weiguo had to be careful.

This set of digital encoding anti-counterfeiting is not aimed at external, but is aimed at internal AIIB. After all, the printing of RMB is within the AIIB and is completed by the workers of the AIIB. In addition to the necessary confidentiality work, the senior management of the AIIB must also prevent the custody and stealing themselves. After all, they are all foreigners, and Li Weiguo cannot trust them, so he formulated a digital encoding system to prevent it.

Based on his experience, Li Weiguo will encode each note with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and 18-digit numbers.

The heavenly stems are Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui, and the earthly branches are Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.

If only one group is selected for the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, it represents the year, and it will be reincarnated in sixty years. This is obviously not enough for the RMB with a sharp increase in circulation in the future. Therefore, Li Weiguo directly selected four groups from the beginning, namely the so-called eight characters, which will have more than 8 billion combinations. The eighteen digits behind are the real issuance banknote codes, which are used to record how many banknotes were issued in total.

However, Li Weiguo is very smart. Each of the eighteen digits has ten digits from 0 to 9. Li Weiguo will specify the number of numbers on each digit. For example, any number 0 to 9 is allowed to appear in the single digit, no number 5 is allowed to appear in the ten digits, no number 8 is allowed to appear in the hundred digits, no number 2 and 4 are allowed to appear in the thousand digits, and so on. There are numbers that are not allowed to appear in each digit. Once a number that is not allowed to appear in the actual issuance is found, it must be fake.

In this way, 4 groups are drawn as the head of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, plus the eighteen digits below. The two are combined. The encoding security is far beyond the later RMB encodings. Even supercomputers have to calculate for hundreds of years before decoding.

Li Weiguo took charge of this codebook so that people within the AIIB could not issue RMB privately because RMB without code cannot be circulated.

The shareholders of the AIIB fully agree with Li Weiguo's approach, because this can prevent the AIIB from issuing paper money indiscriminately and causing currency depreciation.

Half a month later, everything was ready and the RMB was officially issued by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The RMB is directly linked to gold. 1 yuan can be directly exchanged for two cents of gold (10 grams) and 4 taels of kuanping silver, which is equivalent to one pound.

In order to facilitate ordinary people to use RMB, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank issues small denomination RMB, namely 10 points, 20 points, 50 points, 100 points, 200 points, 500 points, and 1,000 points, which is 1 yuan.

Li Weiguo considered that the circulation of silver coins and copper coins was chaotic and there were all kinds of shortages, so the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank implemented a floating exchange mechanism for silver coins and copper coins, and adjusted the exchange rate at any time according to market conditions.

Although the RMB at this time was only the currency used by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for its own financial settlement, it was not the official currency of the Qing government, and it was only used as private banknotes, and Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries were also in a wait-and-see attitude, but for people from all walks of life in Shanghai, they were happy because they finally had their own banknotes.

As we all know, since the Ming Dynasty, gold and silver coins from European and American countries began to be circulated in China, and they occupied a large market share. By the Qing Dynasty, silver coins from European and American countries entered China on a large scale. The Qing government once issued Qing currency notes to stop them, but soon, because the Qing government issued currency notes indiscriminately, the currency notes depreciated significantly. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the market value of one thousand taels was only twenty taels, and almost no one was subscribing.

However, with the establishment of trade ports in the late Qing Dynasty, the trade volume increased sharply. Merchants carried hundreds of kilograms of gold, silver and copper coins to trade, which was too tiring and troublesome. They wanted to settle the bills from Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries, but the Qing government did not allow it. Once it was found out, it would be a serious crime. Therefore, merchants could only trade with gold, silver and copper coins, and a few bold people secretly traded foreign banknotes.

Now Li Weiguo's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank issues RMB, which belongs to the Qing Dynasty's own currency (declared to the court as a silver note), and has received secret support from hundreds of shareholders from Europe and the United States. Merchants from all over the Shanghai Concession all recognize the RMB and allow Chinese merchants to use RMB for trade settlement. In this way, merchants from all walks of life in Shanghai came to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to exchange RMB.

With businessmen from all walks of life in Shanghai taking the lead in subscribing to RMB, ordinary people also found that RMB was exquisitely made, just like real paintings, so they also began to exchange it on a small scale.

The people are very careful. They dare not believe it easily. They often exchange silver coins or copper coins for RMB today, and tomorrow they will hurry to the AIIB to exchange RMB for silver coins or copper coins.

Li Weiguo knew very well about this mentality that it would take time for the people to recognize the RMB, but he believed that as long as the people recognized the RMB, they would fully support it in the future and completely abandon the Qing Dynasty copper coins and foreign currencies.

However, Li Weiguo also understood that if the RMB wants to dominate China, he would eventually need to gain government recognition. Only by changing the Qing government's fiscal settlement from Kuping Silver to RMB and replacing Kuping Silver as the official legal currency can he completely control China's financial currency market.

This was a long and difficult road, but when Li Weiguo thought that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was about to give a heavy blow to the Qing court, the Second Raven War broke out, and then Li Weiguo only needed to pinch the Shanghai canal transportation and cut off the southern fiscal tax revenue, which would force the Qing government to compromise and make the RMB an official currency.

When Li Weiguo thought of that moment coming, he couldn't help but be excited and excited.

Just as Li Weiguo was looking forward to the future, Zhang Xiaoliu led a thousand Li family troops back to Chongming. When he passed through Shanghai, he learned that Li Weiguo was here and hurried to report the situation.

"Bastard, why are you back by yourself? Where is your madam?"

When Li Weiguo learned that Zhang Xiaoliu was back and did not bring Fu Shanxiang back, he was furious.

"Young Master!" Zhang Xiaoliu hurriedly explained: "First, the war is really too inspiring. Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops surrounded and suppressed the Taiping Army from all directions. The Taiping Army fled every day. We could not get close to the Taiping Army and could not pick up the wife. Secondly, the Taiping Army also had concerns. Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing were not worried about the young master, nor were they willing to hand over the hostages unilaterally, and asked both of us to exchange hostages at the same time."

Li Weiguo said calmly: "It seems that Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing feel uncomfortable after suffering this young master's loss, and want to make things difficult for me."

Zhang Xiaoliu asked, "Young Master, what should we do?"

Li Weiguo thought about it, suddenly snorted coldly and ordered: "Since they felt that they were not suffering enough, I will disgust them for a while. You will send someone to Jinling to send a letter to Miss Shen later. Isn't the Taiping Army still worth millions of taels of silver in the Shen Family Money House? I will deduct it to him first. Is it because I am anxious or Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and the others are anxious?"

So Li Weiguo wrote a letter to Chen Ziyan, and then Zhang Xiaoliu sent people to send them to Jinling.
Chapter completed!