Chapter 203 Large amount of silver business
Jiang Guomao was the first to enter the Royal Silver Case of the Ming Dynasty. This time he brought 200,000 taels of silver to save money. The silver was placed on the car outside, which was filled with silver boxes and filled with silver ingots.
Two hundred thousand taels of silver are not a small amount, it is 12,500 kilograms, and it is filled with ten large cars. The car was parked outside the door of the Royal Silver House of the Ming Dynasty, and several special caravan guards were guarded by them.
Jiang Guomao walked into the hall and saw Zhao Peng wearing a purple flying fish suit and a wingless black gauze hat at first glance.
"Brother!" Jiang Guomao quickly saluted, "Why are you personally welcomed the grass people in the hall?"
Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Jiang is the first customer of my Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty. We are old partners again. Since you are here, I have to put down my figure and greet him in person to show sincerity. Since you are a big depositor and a customer, please come in there."
"What?" Jiang Guomao was stunned.
"Well, that's the English language of Thai European, which means the most honorable customer." Zhao Peng said, while invited Jiang Guomao to a room with the "" sign hanging on it.
When he walked into the room, there was a tea table, tea tray, tea set and charcoal stove inside. There was a large wooden barrel beside the wall. There was a switch on the wooden barrel. Zhao Peng picked up the teapot and placed it under the switch. Turned on the switch, and the water in the wooden barrel flowed into the teapot automatically. He said to Jiang Guomao: "The water here is not ordinary water. It is the Hupaoquan spring water transported from Hangzhou. The Hupaoquan spring water is paired with Hangzhou Longjing, which is authentic."
Jiang Guomao heard the movement outside and knew that someone was queuing in front of the counter outside, so he asked in confusion: "Why are others waiting in line outside while I can sit in and make tea?"
Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Customer, so you don't have to queue outside like other people. You can come inside and I, the third shopkeeper of the silver number, personally receive you, while other customers, only ordinary tellers can receive you."
"My uncle is still the third shopkeeper, who is the second shopkeeper?" Jiang Guomao asked.
"Since it is called the Royal Silver Number, then the big shopkeeper is naturally His Majesty. His Majesty is busy with all kinds of things, so of course it is impossible for him to come in person. On weekdays, Eunuch Han Zanzhou will take over His Majesty; the second shopkeeper is His Highness the Princess, so I can only be the third shopkeeper." Zhao Peng said with a smile.
Jiang Guomao asked: "I heard that your interest rate is 8%. Although it is much lower than the private interest rate, it is safe to make a profit. Today I came here to deposit the money. May I ask my uncle, when can I deposit my money?"
Zhao Peng replied: "Let's do it, I'll accompany you, let's go outside, let the Jinyiwei take your people to pull the car into the courtyard, and then count the silver in public. After counting the silver, we will come back to make tea."
After saying that, Zhao Peng stood up, Jiang Guomao also stood up quickly, and the two walked out the door.
Outside the door, there were ten large cars with the banner of "Kangshantang". A man in black stood beside each car. These men looked very fierce, each of them was extremely strong, with a raised temple. You could tell at a glance that they were people with high martial arts skills.
Jiang Guomao shouted to the big men: "My uncle is here and is ready to drive the car into the yard."
Zhao Peng also shouted to the Jinyiwei who was responsible for the security work outside the door: "Go and open the door and bring Jiang Zhanggui's convoy into the courtyard."
The Jinyiwei outside walked to the gate of the courtyard and shouted at a guard post at the door: "Open the door!"
"Wait card!" shouted the sentry.
The Jinyiwei took out the waist card and handed it to the sentry. After the sentry looked at the waist card, he opened the door.
Ten large chariots filled with silver slowly entered the courtyard, and then the sentry closed the door.
In the courtyard, a group of Jinyiwei surrounded the cart. Zhao Peng turned around and Jiang Guomao said, "Shopkeeper Jiang, can you start counting the money?"
Jiang Guomao nodded and ordered the big men who were escorting the car: "Unbox and check the silver!"
The men in black moved the boxes from the car and opened them. They saw that they were neatly filled with silver ingots.
Zhao Peng shouted to an Jinyiwei: "Call the elder brother-in-law Wang and Miss Liu."
The Jinyiwei said "Nuo" and turned around and walked into the back door of the Silver Barrier's storefront. After a while, the Jinyiwei walked out with a little eunuch and a palace maid. However, today neither of them wore the clothes of the palace, but were wearing special silver staff uniforms. The little eunuch was wearing a neat black silk long cannon, while the palace maid was wearing a white dress and holding a book in his hand.
The men in black began to count the silver. They handed over the ordered silver to the Jinyiwei. The Jinyiwei took the silver and continued to count it. At the same time, specialists also identified the quality of the silver.
After counting how much money was spent, the palace maid recorded the numbers on the notebook, and then the eunuch took out the seal from his sleeve and stamped a seal on the notebook where the palace maid wrote.
It is not easy to count the quantity, firm quality and weigh it. The Jinyiwei, the staff of the Jinqiu, the eunuchs and palace maids in the inner warehouse for a whole morning, and it was almost noon before the inventory was completed.
Finally, the palace maid added the numbers on each piece of paper, then obtained the numbers of 190,000,9935 taels, and then recorded the numbers on one piece of paper and signed them. The eunuch took out the seal and stamped a seal on it. After that, the palace maid handed the paper to Zhao Peng again.
Zhao Peng took the paper and handed it to Jiang Guomao: "Shopkeeper Jiang, this is the amount of silver counting, please check it out."
Jiang Guomao took it and saw that he had no objection to the number above. The 200,000 taels of silver he brought was not that accurate, not to mention the quality of the problem. These were also discounted when depositing them into the silver number. He turned to the men in black and shouted: "You go to the teahouse opposite to wait for me."
Then Jiang Guomao followed Zhao Peng with a piece of paper recording the numbers and entered through the back door of the business building. Entering the building, Jiang Guomao saw that the business hall was full of people, but the way of queuing was quite novel. It was not that they were standing in front of the counter, but that everyone was waiting in a chair, waiting to call the number, and those who called the number would go to the counter to handle it.
Everyone who came in from the outside gate would receive a piece of paper with numbers written from the Jinyiwei at the door, and then they could sit in a chair in the business hall to wait. When they called the numbers on the paper, they could go to the counter to handle the paper.
In the client's room, he started making tea and talking about business.
After sitting down, Zhao Peng shouted outside: "Chen Xinyuan!"
A young man walked into the room and Zhao Peng said to him: "Go and call a teller over."
Chen Xinyuan walked out with a "nuo" and walked out. After a while, he walked in with a woman in a white dress. The woman walked into the door and said to Zhao Pengfu: "Minister girl sees Master!"
"I have said so many times that I have to do business in the bank account. Except for seeing His Majesty the Emperor, I don't have to perform this great gift when I meet anyone else, including Eunuch Han and His Highness the Princess." Zhao Peng said.
Afterwards, Zhao Peng asked Jiang Guomao to hand over the paper in his hand to the woman.
"Xiao Zeng went to issue a silver note of 200,000 to Manager Jiang." Zhao Peng said to the woman.
The woman walked out with paper. Not long after, she came back with a silver note with the words "20,000 taels of silver" written on it. She respectfully presented the silver note to Jiang Guomao: "Shopkeeper Jiang, this is your silver note. You need to stamp your own seal on it, and then we will stamp another seal next to your seal."
Jiang Guomao took the silver note and saw that the silver note was very exquisitely made and complex patterns were printed on it. This was the silver note printed from the woodblock, with exquisite patterns on it and the number of the silver note.
Zhao Peng said: "There are watermarks on silver notes, which are difficult for others to imitate our silver notes. In addition, there is a secret password that Boss Jiang himself knows. If there is one thing that doesn't match, you can't get the money."
The so-called secret password is the password of that year. In fact, the money bank had a password at that time. The watermark was not a high-tech thing, but in fact, this thing had been there for a long time.
The silver note must also be stamped with Jiang Guomao's own private seal. When going to the silver note to get the silver note, Jiang Guomao also has to bring a private seal. Only when the private seal on his body matches the seal on the silver note and then matches the secret password, can the silver appear.
Secret seals are written on the silver note, but the words on it are different from those representing. Most people see those words as if they are reading a heavenly book. Only the owner of the silver note and the teller of the silver note know the meaning of those words.
After handling the business of depositing 200,000 taels of silver for Jiang Guomao, Zhao Peng told Jiang Guomao: "Our Royal Silver Case of the Ming Dynasty not only has storefront stores in Nanjing, but also stores in Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huai'an and Xuzhou. In the future, there will also be storefront stores in Wuchang, Changsha and Guangzhou. If you take the silver notes and go to any place, you can get the silver out. However, if you collect the silver in another place, we will charge a freight of one thousand."
One thousandth, 200,000 taels are two hundred taels, but for a businessman, this amount of money is nothing, it is much more cost-effective than carrying 200,000 taels of cash with you.
Finally, Zhao Peng said another thing: "In fact, when you withdraw 200,000 taels of silver bills, you don't have to withdraw all of them. For example, if you can withdraw 20,000 taels, then the counter will exchange you for a 180,000 taels of silver bill, which is much more convenient than other money houses."
Chapter completed!