Chapter 250

Xinye county.

Early in the morning, the Jimin bank in the west of the city had just opened for business. Countless people lined up outside, including vendors in the city and more people in shiliba village.

No doubt these people came to exchange treasure money. There was no way. Although the price of salt and grain in Jimin firm next door was the same as that in other shops, they were much better in quality. In addition, they could take a look at those expensive ladies and pretty servant girls, so everyone wanted to go shopping in the shop.

However, the firm has been open for several days. People come in an endless stream every day, but none of the items have been sold.

It's not that no one buys it or doesn't sell it, but commercial banks only accept treasure bills, not to mention silver and gold, but banks have not been established. Where did you get treasure bills?

It has to be said that this preheating routine was very popular in ancient times.

This is not true. People who have been fired before the treasure note has been officially sold are well known, which has aroused everyone's curiosity.

This branch is a two-story building with a courtyard on the main street. It used to be a restaurant, but it is the property of the big family who was copied in the city.

The first floor is used as a business place and the second floor is occupied by people. Because there is no time to repair the vault, the ingots and notes are placed in the shopkeeper's room and locked with boxes.

At the moment, in the hall on the first floor, four servant girls are busy. They work in groups of two. One receives silver and copper and the other changes treasure notes.

Madam, the shopkeeper is sitting in the position of the former restaurant shopkeeper, holding the account book to record.

Although there are many tables, chairs and benches on both sides, few people are willing to sit there and wait. They are lined up in the back.

If not as like as two peas outside, the four characters of the bank are replaced by the plaque. The decoration on the first floor has hardly moved. It is exactly the same as the restaurant.

Fortunately, the local county captain sent 20 soldiers to maintain order, so there was no molestation. The lady stole the servant girl and robbed the silver and copper money.

At the beginning, several local ruffians smiled and slandered the shopkeeper's wife, making the 30-year-old woman blush and ashamed.

As a result, they were pulled out by several Chinese soldiers. They punched and kicked for a while and almost didn't spit blood. This made everyone understand that although the wife is beautiful and the servant girls are also pretty, she can't be provoked or touched.

Qin Huan had been on guard for a long time. These ladies were his treasures. If they were molested by local ruffians, or touched them twice and killed themselves in shame, they would really want to cry without tears. Therefore, the commercial banks and banks were next to each other. Of the 500 garrisons in each county, 100 were stationed next to the two banks for protection, and the rest 400 were stationed outside the city.

Perhaps in order to brush the sense of existence, the magistrate of Xinye county also sent constables to help. It has to be said that after the existence of these ladies, the civil servants became active and dared not idle away their work any more.

After they exchanged the treasure notes and knew how to distinguish them, they killed the business next door at the first time.

In just one morning, a large basket of copper money was fully recovered, with uneven ages and rusty ones.

There are only dozens of taels of silver, which are exchanged by the people of shiliba village. Naturally, the silver is borrowed from the local mayor's wife, so ordinary people have great respect for these wives.

As long as the quality of copper money is not too poor, it will be exchanged if there is no shortage of corners. Silver depends on the quality and weight. It's very troublesome. Fortunately, the little servant girls are very patient. Their attitude is not comparable to that of the waiter in other stores. It makes everyone feel novel and comfortable at the same time.

In the afternoon, the business of the firm became hot again. The accumulated salt and all kinds of coarse and fine grains sold most of them in one afternoon. As for jewelry, no one cares about it, cloth, cotton and so on, Huajun will not sell them.

No way, the goods circulating in the market in the Ming Dynasty were very limited, and almost all of them were produced in Jiangnan.

After the Chinese army occupied Nanyang, many businessmen watched in Xiangyang and did not dare to go north easily. When Yang Sichang returned to Xiangyang with his troops, he blocked both water and land routes and strictly prohibited businessmen from crossing the river and going north. Violators will be punished for collaborating with the enemy.

As a result, Nanyang counties have been sitting idle for more than a month. Although businesses dare not raise prices for fear of being investigated by the Chinese army for finding an excuse to drive up prices, they can choose to close their doors and hoard first.

Fortunately, people in troubled times will hoard some food and salt.

Now Jimin firm has opened and sells grain and salt. The price is not expensive. It is undoubtedly a timely help.

It was night. The Wu family's mansion, the largest family in Xinye, was full of friends, and almost all the owners in the city came.

"Brother Wu, what do you think of this treasure note?"

"This article is printed in two and five languages. It's rough, and the paper is ordinary. It's easy to print, but even if it's five languages, I'm afraid I'll lose money!"

Old man Wu, over half a hundred years old, looked at three kinds of paper money the size of a child's palm in his hand, pinched it with his hand, looked carefully, shook his head and said.

"What about these ten, twenty and fifty?" A member of the staff took out three larger treasure bills and handed them to him.

"Well, although these three kinds are much better, they are not difficult, but even if there is less printing of 50 characters, it is estimated that they can't earn much. If they are printed too much, they are easy to be detected."

Wu Yuanwai looked at it for a while and still shook his head. He thought that the risk was not proportional to the return.

"It seems that we can only work hard on the last three kinds. Brother Wu, what do you think?"

The member next to him said, took out three treasure bills the size of an adult's palm and handed them to him again.

"If you can invite an old master to carve, you can still do it. It's a little difficult to do 200. You have to be a master. As for the 500, the paper can catch up with the ticket number in Shanxi, and the workmanship is not bad. We can't do it with our current ability."

"Yes, I've tried the five hundred words. It still doesn't fade after soaking in water and drying. The portrait of the thief's head on it is also carved like a mold. It's seven points similar. I don't know which master wrote it."

Naturally, they don't know. It's from the guy who paints a picture of Yan beauty.

They were disappointed when they heard that 500 words could not be copied. After all, plus the handling fee for exchanging Yuanbao, the printing of 100 words and 200 words was less, and it was estimated that they could not make much money. It was not cost-effective to gamble at the risk of the lives of the whole family, young and old.

"Ladies and gentlemen, although the bank is too risky and difficult to do for the time being, the firm has great potential!"

Wu felt his beard and smiled.

We are not fools. Naturally, we can see the huge loopholes of the firm at a glance. After all, there is no reason to buy things and break the law in this world.

Even if the thief doesn't make sense, you can take the initiative to open the door and do business. If they buy it, they can't copy their family and ask for guilt! So today is to unify our views.

Finally, in order to be safe, they decided to send people to exchange treasure notes in turn, and then hire local ruffians to buy food and salt in the business. After the imperial court exterminates the anti thieves, they sell them at a high price.