"From now on, anyone who buys goods at the Sansi store will not deliver goods at least 20 cents. If you really need to deliver goods, you will collect cash depending on the distance. If you have more than 20 cents of money, you will still be delivered to your household and you will receive cash and you will not be allowed to use other goods to pay. ... Due to inconvenience to carry cash, in order to facilitate the convenience of people in Beijing to buy goods at the store, the Sansi issued paper coupons according to the imperial edict. Paper coupons are only used in the Sansi store, and those who use it for other purposes will not be held responsible. ... The list is indicated to the public and the people."

Outside the shop in front of the Zhouqiao, a student of the Imperial College was shaking his head and reading the list of the three-silicon shop rhythmically. A large group of idle people gathered around him, discussing a lot.

A businessman-like outspoken man said: "It's only been so many days, why don't you deliver goods in the shop? It costs a lot of money to hire donkeys and cars in the city, so it's inconvenient!"

A person next to him said, "Isn't it still a gift for twenty cents? Your huge staff member, every time you go in, you just need to buy enough goods worth twenty cents. A small household like us, you only spend two cents when you go in. You can take it and leave after taking it yourself. You never need the servant in the shop to send it."

The merchant shook his head repeatedly: "Twenty guan, you said it so lightly! I get up early and go to the dark, and do my best to make 20 guan? Besides, if you don't deliver goods, you have to bring cash to the shop in the future. Who will bring more than ten guan of copper coins on your body when you go out? You can't even take that money, right?"

The people around were stunned and suddenly woke up: "I know you outsiders can't get cash, so Sansi got some paper coupons for you to change! Let's go and see what the paper coupon looks like."

Someone asked the Imperial College student who was shaking his head and reading the list: "This scholar, how dare you ask where to change the paper coupon?"

"There is a note on the list that paper coupons will be exchanged by the three silo gold and silver shop next to the shop. If they are exchanged from other places, the three silo real and fake are not responsible. Also, the paper coupons must be sealed by the three silo, the Treasury Department and Kaifeng Prefecture. If one missing seal is considered a fake."

"It's so inconvenient! Besides, this is something that the official has issued, so who dares to make a false statement!"

"Hehe, this coupon can be used as money in Sansi Shop. Why is there no one who fakes real money and silver? Let me tell you that all those who make fake paper coupons will be based on the theory of stealing copper coins, and they will lose their heads!"

The most deficient thing in the capital is the idle people who join in the fun. In just a short while, the news spread half of the Tokyo city. Those who had a few spare money and liked to join in the fun, called their friends to the gold and silver shop next to the store, and exchanged a few paper coupons in their hands. They either used this to buy goods, or simply curiously got two in their hands, and showed off in front of them.

Under the shed of a tea shop opposite the store, Xu Ping, Guo Zi and Liu Ying occupied a table, drinking tea while watching the movements on the other side. This was the first day of issuing shopping coupons, and the three of them were unsure of what the situation was.

After a while, a public official from the Salt and Iron Department hurried over from the opposite side, came to the three of them, and saluted: "Deputy envoy, two judges, although there were many people entering the gold and silver shop, they watched the excitement, but the paper coupons were not exchanged for much."

"I understand, you still go back and wait. Every half an hour comes to report how many paper coupons you exchange for."

The public official agreed and turned around and headed to the opposite side.

Liu Ying said: "It seems that it is not easy to use this paper coupon."

Xu Ping drank tea and said in a deep voice: "This is natural. If you exchange the cash in your hand for a few pieces of paper, ordinary people naturally have doubts in their hearts. They are reluctant to believe it at the beginning. It must have been a while since they got familiar with the letters of the Sansi, and the buyers have indeed seen the convenience of paper coupons, so they can slowly use it."

Guo Zi said on the side: "There is only 10,000 yuan in the first month, no matter how hard it is, you don't need to worry."

"What's there to be urgent? When the end of the month is the end of the month, how many have not been replaced? I'll go and change it together!" Xu Ping smiled, "But our purpose is not to exchange this ten thousand yuan, but to make people get used to using paper coupons. It's two things."

After hearing Xu Ping's words, Liu Han and Guo Zi laughed together. But it was not difficult for the deputy envoy to change ten thousand yuan for the family. Xu Ping went to cover the bottom of the day by himself.

This paper coupon will not lose money when exchanged in hand, and it is beneficial to calculate it in detail. Copper coins are difficult to carry. Correspondingly, except for general use on the market, many occasions require a handling fee. The flying money business under the Sansi Department only charges twenty-money transactions for one thousand documents, which is the lowest. The private gold and silver shops charge even more high.

The flow of funds has costs. The less developed the finance, the higher the cost of funds. At the beginning, I couldn’t realize that as long as these industries in Sansi continued to develop normally, business people would gradually find that paper coupons would reduce their costs.

Xu Ping's true confidence in paper coupons is not to exchange them with cash, but is connected with the issuance of paper coupons and other exchange services of gold and silver shops. He can directly exchange common light goods such as gold and silver and cloth in the gold and silver shops without charging additional handling fees. This is very beneficial to merchants from other places, and they can save money and purchase goods directly from Sansi shops.

As long as you walk away in this first step, the advantage of easy carrying of paper coupons will be revealed, especially when the shop in Sansi is opened to the outer road capital, this advantage will become more obvious.

Two months ago, Xu Ping had already started planning to open a branch in Luoyang, Xijing. Last month, Yang Gao replaced Wang Yong as the transfer envoy of Quanjing West Road. In addition, Fang Kai, who was a branch officer of Xiangzhou, assisted the new tea law with the transfer judge, has already met the conditions for Jingxi Road.

The east and west capitals, with many wealthy families, are the most developed places in the world at this time. As long as you make a move in these two places, especially if you can expand to Xiangzhou, the Sansi will control the business in the heart of the world.

Based on this, the chain connected by agriculture, industry and commerce is full.

Half an hour later, the public official guarding the gold and silver shop came to report again, but the situation still did not improve.

Xu Ping and the other two looked at each other and shook their heads slightly. It seemed that this was the only way. At the beginning, they created public opinion and let the people in the capital know that there was such a thing. If they had to wait a few days to popularize it, they would have to wait for a while to take their time.

Suddenly, the public official who had just left had quickly turned back, arrived at the table, bowed, stood there for a while, and then breathed out: "Deputy envoy, the remaining paper coupons in the gold and silver shop were replaced by someone!"

"What?!" Xu Ping and the other two were shocked and stood up together.

Seeing that the public official still had a look of dissatisfaction, Xu Ping forced himself to calm down and said to him: "Don't be anxious, just say slowly, how many people changed it? Are those people together?"

“It’s just one.”

“Which one?”

"The Eight Kings' families went to the shop to exchange paper coupons for their paper coupons. They used cloth, incense, medicine, pearls, etc., not cash. And after exchanging the paper coupons for the gold and silver shop, his family still had some treasures left, and they were all sent to the shop."

It turned out to be their family, that's a big wonder. Ten thousand guan is not a particularly large amount for the Eight Kings families, and it's nothing to take it out. And they all use treasures, which obviously take advantage of Sansi. Anyway, he is not afraid that Sansi will dare to swallow his money and refuse to accept the paper coupons. No matter how he calculates, he will not suffer any loss.

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Chapter completed!