It is said that the climate in Beijing is not pleasant. In spring, the wind and sand are blowing constantly, and it is chilly. People's ears, necks, and even the stove are filled with sand, which makes people miserable. In summer, Beijing is extremely hot, no less than the stuffy Huguang; in winter, Beijing is extremely cold, and if nothing is important, it is rare to see people going out.

Only in autumn, the wind is sunny, neither hot nor cold, which is very suitable.

However, the autumn of the eleventh year of Chongzhen seemed a bit strange. First, Yang Sichang did not show up for more than a month, and he didn't know what he was messing with. Just as the officials were about to put Yang Sichang on the idleness of his administration, four Yuanfeng Money Houses were suddenly added to the capital.

Of course, the officials knew that Yuanfeng Money House was opened by Fan Yongdou, a Shanxi merchant, and they were talking for a while: One semicolon is enough, why do we have to open four more? Is the capital so easy to make money?

Just when they were confused, the court suddenly changed drastically. Zhu Youjian suddenly agreed to the resignation of the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Cheng Guoxiang and immediately appointed Chen Qiyu as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

The officials of the court were dumbfounded, wondering what Zhu Youjian had done, and wanted Chen Qiyu to replace Cheng Guoxiang to master the imperial financial plan.

Although he was puzzled, he did not strongly oppose it. After all, although the emperor did not have the power to directly appoint the ministers of the cabinet, the power of appointing ministers of various departments was still tightly held in his hands. The officials of the court could not find a reason to oppose it, and only a few people opposed Chen Qiyu's past revenge and failed to cause any storm.

What's more, in their minds, Chen Qiyu is indeed a tactful person, because as soon as he came to power, he immediately announced that he would pay his salary on time on September 15th, and make up for all the previous arrears.

Once this order was announced, the court was full of praise and even gave Chen Qiyu the title of "the wealth minister of the Ming Dynasty".

On September 15th, officials excitedly received their salary: colorful papers!

The officials were stunned and some impatient people started to curse?

?? "Dog Damn Chen Qiyu actually took pieces of waste paper to fool us? Shame! Shame!"

The angry officials almost overturned the table. When the trouble was so big, the minor official who paid the salary shouted loudly: "This is not waste paper, it is called silver notes, it is the same thing as gold notes. If you don't want to hold silver notes, you can go to Yuanfeng Money House to exchange it for a big round with the same denomination!"

Most officials didn't believe it at all and were about to continue making trouble. Unexpectedly, some poor officials who had already heard the news rushed out with silver notes and rushed straight to Yuanfeng Money House.

The officials who were about to cause trouble thought about it and thought that they would try to exchange it first. If they could not exchange it, they would come to find Chen Qiyu's bad luck.

As a result, the vast majority of officials flocked to Yuanfeng Money House. On the way, they suddenly found wave after wave of people appeared on the street, holding gongs, shouting loudly: "Silver notes can be used to pay taxes and purchase goods. No one can refuse to accept them. Otherwise, the first warning will be made, and the second time it will be put into prison..."

When these officials rushed to Yuanfeng Money House, they found that there were several friends standing at the door, holding silver notes and loudly explaining the silver notes.

Gold tickets in the capital are already very common, and it is easy for officials and the people to know what silver tickets are. However, they don’t care who made them and what is behind them.

The only thing they care about is whether silver notes can be exchanged for Dayuan at Yuanfeng Money House!

What made the officials breathe a sigh of relief was that Yuanfeng Money House would not refuse anyone. As long as you want to exchange it, you would exchange it quickly and quickly into Dayuan and copper coins.

On September 15th, the capital was spent in such a hustle and bustle. At night, the guys from Yuanfeng Money House intensively checked the accounts and handed the final data to Yang Sichang.

Yang Sichang took the data and looked at it, and smiled and said, "A total of 35,620 yuan silver notes were issued, and the exchange was 34,510 yuan, and only 1,010 yuan had not been exchanged yet!"

Fan Yongdou stroked his forehead, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "The start is good, I thought all the silver notes would be recycled!"

Yang Sichang's eyes shining with light, and he said, "It's still a long time, but it depends on what tomorrow is..."

The next morning, the palace gate had just opened, and the minor officials who delivered memorials from the Tongzhengsi and the eunuchs who went out of the palace to buy were like two distinct torrents, each traveling through their own paths, forming a unique landscape.

When the memorial was placed on Zhu Youjian's desk, Zhu Youjian saw that it was full of memorials that scolded Yang Sichang and Chen Qiyu. Some criticized Chen Qiyu for being useless and wasted money, while others criticized Yang Sichang for being arbitrary. Such an important issue of money involving national economy and people's livelihood was not subject to court discussions, which caught everyone in the world off guard...

Zhu Youjian left all the impeachment seals and ignored them.

At the same time, the eunuch who bought the purchase held the silver notes in his hand and rushed to the shop he had known for a long time to buy what he needed in the palace. When they paid, they took out the silver notes without exception. The merchants were willing to refuse, but in front of the eunuch who was like a wolf and a tiger, they could not say a word, so they had to accept the silver notes.

After the eunuchs left, most merchants immediately ordered their friends to go to Yuanfeng Money House to exchange the silver notes on hand for the big circle. Some even exchanged the silver notes on the big circle and then went to Bangtai Money House to exchange for gold notes or bills.

This is also reasonable. The gold bills and bills of Bangtai Money House have been operating for many years and have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Its credibility is beyond the price of Yuanfeng Money House or the silver bills of the imperial court.

There are also some sinister merchants who take silver notes to their competitors to buy goods, preparing to go to the government to report and plot against their opponents after their competitors refuse.

No one who is not smart in business can immediately see through the opponent's tricks, accept the silver notes quickly and quickly, and then immediately go to the money house to exchange them.

In recent days, all kinds of people gathered around the silver notes and staged various stories. Although they were a little confused, the people in the capital knew that there were silver notes issued by the imperial court on the market, which could be exchanged into a great circle of real gold and real silver at Yuanfeng Money House.

Yang Sichang's sudden attack caught the presiding official off guard, avoided the complicated discussion, and even possibly concealed Jingzhou's eyes and ears and forced the issuance of money.

Moreover, Yang Sichang and Chen Qiyu's governance level was extraordinary. With the help of experts such as Fan Yongdou and Li Duoyi, they first piloted it in the capital, and there was almost no storm, so the people in the capital accepted the existence of silver notes.

No matter from any angle, it can be considered a first victory!

After Yang Sichang solicited the opinions of Fan Yongdou and Li Duoyi, he was preparing to rely on Yuanfeng Money House to promote the payment of salary and court procurement to Shandong. In the north and Shanxi, Fan Yongdou suddenly reported: Zhiyuanfeng Money House has exchanged the Dayuan to silver notes. In just three days, the issuance of silver notes actually exceeded 2 million yuan, which is only a few hundred thousand yuan away from the issuance target of 2.5 million yuan this year!

Yang Sichang was shocked and immediately pointed his suspicious target at Lin Chunhong; "Is it Lin Chunhong a traitor?"

Chen Qiyu and Li Duoyi also had this view. Li Duoyi was a little lacking in confidence. Thinking of this festival, his face turned gray and sighed: "If Lin Chunhong takes action, the prospects will be worrying!"

Fan Yongdou frowned into the word "Chuan" and pondered for a while, before saying, "If Lin Chunhong was really a traitor, why did he exchange so many silver notes? Will it affect us?"

Li Duoyi curled his lips and said, "This is not simple. He tried his best to exchange silver notes to tempt us to lower the principal rate and issue additional silver notes. After the additional issuance reaches a certain level, he suddenly caused a run. We can't bring out so much real gold and silver. Wouldn't the silver notes be stinky?"

Fan Yongdou breathed a sigh of relief and said with a sigh: "The key point is to induce us to lower the principal rate! As long as we keep 80%, Lin Chunhong will exchange it for more, what can he do to me?"

Fan Yongdou pointed out the key points, Yang Sichang and Chen Qiyu nodded frequently and said, "This statement makes sense. As long as we are not in a hurry to achieve success, no one can do anything to us!"

Li Duoyi said: "We can imagine that Lin Chunhong has issued gold tickets for many years, so how can he not think of this? Does he have other intentions?"

Fan Yongdou said slowly: "I don't know if there is any other intention. Please be careful and let me investigate the identity of the exchanger and the flow of the silver notes before talking about it!"

Fan Yongdou was mature and steadfast, and was approved by Yang Sichang and Chen Qiyu. Fan Yongdou then concentrated on elite soldiers and generals to investigate the flow of silver notes. This investigation revealed that the person who exchanged silver notes had nothing to do with Lin Chunhong at all, and was purely spontaneous among the people.

The reason why there are so many exchangers is nothing more, businessmen are speculating!

Merchants are always the most flexible and are also the easiest to accept new things. These merchants have watched the gold tickets circulate for many years and have long known about the twists and turns in the issuance of money.

When they saw that Yuanfeng Money House refused to exchange silver notes, they judged that the court must have sufficient principal, and they immediately discovered a new business opportunity: transporting the Great Yuan!

They are not the first in this business. Yang Yiren had used Bangtai Money House to do this business before, and was appreciated by Lin Chunhong.

It's very simple: the north has always been unstable, the power of Bangtai Money House has not penetrated into the north, and the bill business coverage of Yuanfeng Money House is not too wide. Many factors have led to the transportation of copper coins in the north and the transportation of copper coins is a very labor-intensive task.

Now that there are silver notes, you can exchange them at any Yuanfeng Money House. These merchants naturally learned from Yang Yiren and did a business that was almost guaranteed to make money.

After understanding the reasons, Yang Sichang and others were overjoyed and laughed.

Yang Sichang once again emphasized: "No matter what, you can only issue up to 2.5 million this year, and you must maintain the bottom line of the eight-cost gold rate!"

This has been unanimously agreed by everyone.
Chapter completed!