Wang Quan, who was so hungry that he was feeling uncomfortable because of a hangover, asked for a duck blood vermicelli soup and a soup dumpling.

After a while, the waiter brought the food: "Customer, you have all the things you want."

After eating the steaming duck blood vermicelli soup, I felt my stomach suddenly become hot, and my whole body was indescribable. Wang Quan held up the bowl and drank it in big mouthfuls. He quickly drank the full bowl of soup, and there were still fans, dried tofu, duck blood and duck mixed in the bowl. He shouted: "Waiter, can you add soup?"

"Customer, of course it's OK. Add soup for free. You want a few bowls to add. I'll add soup for you now." The waiter walked up.

After a while, the waiter came up with a full bowl of soup and placed it on Wang Quan's table: "Please use it slowly if it is not enough, call me and I will add soup to you."

Wang Quan quickly finished the soup for another night, ordered the third bowl, and then started to eat the duck blood vermicelli soup and pour the soup into Xiaolongbao. The wind stormed the scattered clouds and eliminated the Xiaolongbao and the duck blood vermicelli soup. Wang Quan shouted: "Waiter!"

"Customer, come on!" The waiter walked up, "I wonder what the waiter has to give?"

Wang Quan took out the small bag from his arms, opened it and asked, "Waiter, I don't carry cash silver or copper plates. I wonder if these small silver notes can be used?"

The waiter replied: "This young man dares not make decisions, so he should ask our shopkeeper. Please wait a moment, please wait."

After a while, the shopkeeper came. He picked up a small one-yuan silver note handed over by Wang Quan. The silver note was exquisitely crafted and the words "The Ming Dynasty Royal Business" were written on it. But he was not sure whether such small silver note could be used, so he said to the waiter: "Xiao Wang, go and call Aunt Zhang from the silk shop next door to come and have a look."

The waiter responded and turned around and went out. After a while, the waiter walked into the store with a middle-aged woman in her forties.

The middle-aged woman picked up the silver notes, looked at the patterns carefully, and then picked up the silver notes to face the bright side of the door. She saw a watermark with exquisite workmanship and clear patterns inside the notes.

"This is a real silver note, but this kind of silver note with a denomination of only one tael has never seen it. But Manager Liu, this kind of silver note should be used with confidence. Didn't you read the Nanjing Daily yesterday? You said that this year's military pay has been changed to silver note, and you don't find silver. Since you came to the store to pay the bill directly with a small amount of silver note, you must be the military master. This thing is difficult to forge, and it's not even if you were issued yesterday, it's impossible for you to have fake ones today." Aunt Zhang carefully looked at the silver note and said.

The shopkeeper nodded and said to the waiter: "Please take the silver notes, a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup, a small bun, a total of four-civilian copper coins, look for him six copper coins, and the others look for 50 cents silver coins and copper coins."

The waiter asked Wang Quan for money, and found a total of 50 cents silver dollars, four cents silver and copper coins, one cents copper coins, two two cents copper coins and six copper coins.

The shopkeeper put the banknotes away, but handed them to Aunt Zhang: "Aunt Zhang, I am a small business and basically don't go to the bank account to exchange for cash. You can see when it's convenient for you, just go to the bank account and help me exchange it for cash. If you are from the neighbors and villages, please do a favor."

Aunt Zhang smiled and said, "Of course it's OK. I used to help people exchange cash cash, but I had to charge errands for one tael of silver. One tael of silver is charged for one ounce of copper. For the sake of how familiar we are, Boss Liu, I won't charge you."

Originally, Manager Liu thought that this matter would end today, but who knew that many soldiers came in one after another. After dinner, they paid small silver notes. Within one day, he received fifty-three small silver notes of one yuan and spent all the change in the store. He had no choice but to use a silver notation to exchange change and copper coins for Aunt Zhang next door.

Not only the duck blood vermicelli soup shop, but today countless merchants in Nanjing have received small silver notes, ranging from small silver notes of one yuan to ten yuan notes.

That night, because it was the New Year's Eve, the brothel business on the banks of the Qinhuai River was extremely popular in the major restaurants in Nanjing.

Because the military pay was paid yesterday, every soldier's purse was full today. Not to mention the Nanjing New Army and Nanjing Jinyiwei, which were already high in military pay, even Gao Jie and Huang Degong and the soldiers who were sent to train had received double pay yesterday. According to the military pay of a soldier in the Ming Dynasty for 2 taels and 5 cents and 2 silver per month, each soldier of Gao Jie and Huang Degong could receive at least 5 taels of silver yesterday. In addition, some soldiers who performed well in training had a bonus of 2 taels to 5 taels.

So today, even Huang Degong and Gao Jie's guest soldiers were full of wallets. They were rich in their bags and were not panicked. The big-headed soldiers had money in their bags, and today it was a holiday again, and the major restaurants naturally had a prosperous business.

The military pay received by some officers from the Nanjing New Army and the Jinyiwei were even higher. One hundred households or a total monthly salary of six taels, and the double salary was twelve taels. In addition to bonuses, each officer could get about twenty taels of silver. Each person had twenty taels, and a few people gathered together, which was enough to go to the mid-range brothels in the Qinhuai River to have fun all night.

The military discipline of the Nanjing New Army and the Jinyi New Army is that you cannot drink in the military camp on weekdays. Today is a holiday, and no one cares about drinking outside. Moreover, Zhao Peng did not object to the officers and soldiers going to play in brothels or visiting kilns. This is conducive to promoting economic development. Since the government does not prohibit it, it will naturally not prohibit it in the army.

However, Zhao Peng is absolutely forbidden to gambling. Whether it is weekdays or holidays, as long as soldiers participate in gambling, they will be severely punished. The lightest one is to receive twenty military sticks, keep them in close contact for another ten days, and sweep the toilet for a month after coming out. The gamblers who have been taught repeatedly and have been beheaded directly without mercy.

In fact, Zhao Peng himself does not know how to bet, but is a master of gambling. Because he is a master of gambling, he is very clear about the principle of losing nine out of ten gambling. Once he gets addicted to gambling, he loses all his relatives, and he can do anything that is despicable.

Therefore, Zhao Peng opposed gambling, but did not opposed soldiers visiting kilns and going to brothels. After all, young people are full of energy and have normal needs.

The lively New Year's Eve naturally brought about small silver notes in the major restaurants and brothels in Nanjing. Most of the bosses happily accepted these paper pieces, and a few unsightly bosses refused to accept them, but they were taught a lesson by the Jinyiwei.

In the Forbidden City, Zhao Peng, Zhu Cilang and Zhu Mai Yu sat together to enjoy a family dinner.

"Your Majesty, the military pay was distributed yesterday evening. There were more than 15,000 new Nanjing troops, more than 2,000 Jinyiwei, and more than 6,000 foreign soldiers who came to train. All the more than 23,000 people paid military pay, and all the ones handed over were small silver notes. All day today, the Ming Dynasty Royal Silver Crown was crowded, and more than 23,000 people came to exchange for silver. Think about it, this Ming Dynasty Royal Silver Crown can only be exchanged for cash silver for up to 2,000 people a day, that is, at least 21,000 people failed to exchange for cash silver. But today is the Little New Year, and it is the military camp holiday. Those soldiers took small silver Crown directly to consume. "Zhao Peng smiled and reported this good news to Zhu Cixuan.

Zhu Cixuan smiled happily: "If private businesses gradually accept the direct circulation of our small amount of silver notes, then wouldn't we be able to exchange things by printing paper money in the future?"

"The opponent will gradually recover precious metals such as gold, silver and copper in the future and issue paper money directly." Zhao Peng nodded and said.

But Zhu Cixuan then became worried: "But after the cancellation of gold coins and silver dollars, the banknotes will not depreciate, right? They finally became waste paper like the treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Please rest assured, because our banknotes are actually a small amount of silver bills that can be directly exchanged for gold and silver. So how much gold and silver we have on hand, and then issue more banknotes according to the amount of gold and silver. Because these banknotes can be directly exchanged for gold and silver, it is not easy to depreciate. When the economy develops in the future, banknotes and silver are decoupled. At that time, we can find other items to replace gold and silver, and issue them according to how many materials there are on the market, so that it will not be easy to depreciate."

In fact, Zhao Peng also has a plan that is ill-intentioned: the issuance of paper money can launch an economic war against the Qing Dynasty in the future!
Chapter completed!