Chapter 23 Sending Money
He glanced at Ge Lin beside him, Ge Dan picked up the teacup and took a sip, then gently kicked his feet, and his body swayed gently on the rocking chair. Ge Dan wanted to say that the rocking chair was a good thing.
Ge Lin stood up, looked at Ge Wu who was standing stupidly, and said angrily: "Don't stand stupidly, come with it!" Then he walked forward.
As Master Ge Dan, Ge Lin naturally had to understand what Ge Dan meant. The Qian family sent a housekeeper, how could Ge Dan go there in person? The third-rank official in front of the prime minister, what is your Qian family? Why did the dignified magistrate give you the face of the housekeeper of the Qian family? In fact, what Ge Dan was waiting for was not the Qian family, but Chen Xuanbin's people.
Now it seems that the Chen family doesn’t want to come, so they just asked the Qian family to send someone.
Ge Dan was sitting in the rocking chair behind him, while Ge Lin came to the front. When he saw Ge Lin coming, Qian Fu quickly stood up from the chair.
"Shi Ye Ge!" Qian Fu said with a flattering smile on his face.
Ge Lin remained silent, just nodded, then nodded, and after sitting on the chair, Ge Lin then said, "Sit down and talk!" After that, he said to Ge Wu who was following him, "Go to tea!"
"Yes, Master!" Ge Wu agreed, but he was complaining in his heart, you are quite good at it.
In Ge Lin's opinion, the Qian family's butler is just a poor character. He must not give them too much shame. Of course, this also expresses Ge Dan's attitude. We are not close yet. We want to get close, so we can show some sincerity?
Qian Fu was frustrated. When the master was still alive, how many times had he been with the state government office? Which time wasn’t he powerful? When did he get this angry? But Qian Fu also knew that it was different from the past, and he still came to ask for help. Let’s bear this tone!
In fact, Qian Fu was wrong. Ge Dan was not the original Hezhou governor Li Lian. Even if Qian Yu was alive, Ge Dan had the same attitude.
"What's wrong with Mr. Qian coming today?" Ge Lin said slowly: "The funeral at the mansion has not been completed yet?"
The meaning is very obvious. Your family is still holding a funeral. If you have something to do, you should talk quickly, looking impatient.
"Yes, yes!" Qian Fu hurriedly said, "This is the thing. When our eldest son heard that the magistrate was promoting education, the Qian family, as a member of Hezhou, could not sit idly by. Moreover, our eldest son is still a last-year-old, and he also wanted to ask the magistrate for help. Our eldest son said that our Qian family was willing to invest in the construction of a college and do some of their meager strength for the magistrate to promote education."
Ge Lin raised his eyelids and looked at Qian Fu, and immediately smiled: "Build a college? Your eldest son is really a big deal!"
"It's not, it's not!" Qian Fu smiled on his face, but he was cursing in his heart. Are you happy when you hear Qian? You can only say this in your heart. Qian Fu said, "My eldest son just wants to do his best to his hometown and to do his best to the hometown. The magistrate promotes education. This is good governance. The Qian family has poor family resources, so naturally he also wants to repay the hometown and ask the magistrate to give the Qian family a chance to do his best."
"Butler Qian is here today for this?" Grin immediately sat upright, with a bright smile on his face: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say. I'll report to the State Lord when I go back. As for whether it can be done, I have to know that the State Lord will make an idea."
"That's nature, that's nature!" Qian Fu said, put a piece of paper on the table and said with a smile: "I'll ask for more beautiful words from the master!" As he said that, he stood up: "Such a villain will take his leave!" After that, he turned around and walked out.
Gelin stood up and walked over, reached out and picked up the paper on the table. After taking a look, Gelin tskated: "It's really a big deal!"
The backyard of the magistrate's yamen.
When Ge Dan saw Ge Lin walking in from outside, holding a piece of paper in his hand, he smiled immediately: "What's the good thing about Uncle Lin?"
"Young Master, take a look!" As he said that, Ge Lin handed the paper to Ge Dan.
After taking the paper, Ge Dan sat up from the chair, and was shocked. After looking through it for a long time, Ge Dan said in disbelief: "Is this a silver bill? Are there any silver bills now?"
Ge Dan only watched the silver notes in film and television dramas in his previous life. He really never saw it. Besides, the Ming Dynasty has silver notes now? Ge Dan knew that the Ming Dynasty had treasure notes, but that thing was worthless at all. Looking back and forth, this thing was really silver notes! This is similar to the silver notes that Ge Dan imagined!
"Silver notes?" Ge Lin looked at Ge Dan and said with a smile: "Young Master's statement is not bad, but this is not a silver notes, this is Jiaozi."
"Jiaozi?" Ge Dan looked at Ge Lin and asked inexplicably.
Ge Lin smiled and explained to Ge Dan: "Paper banknotes have been used since the Song Dynasty. They are roughly divided into two types. One is Jiaozi and the other is Huizi. Jiaozi was originally a form of withdrawal order. If you deposit the money, Jiaozi shop will give you a Jiaozi. You can withdraw money with this Jiaozi. Later, because the shopkeepers adhere to their trust and take it as they come, Jiaozi gradually won a high reputation."
"In order to avoid the trouble of coin transfer, merchants have more and more people directly used Jiaozi to pay for the goods. Later, Jiaozi shops found in their business that using only part of the deposit would not endanger Jiaozi's credibility, so they began to print Jiaozi with a unified denomination and format."
Ge Dan listened very seriously and nodded. The so-called Jiaozi was originally a deposit certificate, stored in another place, which avoided the trouble of transportation of copper coins and also reduced losses. Later, it was anonymous and gradually turned into paper money, but this was not issued by the state, but was issued by merchants, which was similar to the silver notes in later generations.
"Later, some businessmen saw that it was profitable, so they started doing it, but not everyone was trustworthy. The court arrested many illegal businessmen."
Ge Lin continued: "In the Southern Song Dynasty, the court came out to issue it, imitating Jiaozi's example, this kind of money was made into Huizi, just like our Ming Dynasty treasure banknote. However, there were many places in the Southern Song Dynasty that used money, so the court began to issue Huizi in large quantities."
Hearing this, Ge Dan understood that this is the so-called excessive issuance. The depreciation of paper money must have brought about inflation. In the end, the people returned to silver and copper coins, and paper money collapsed directly. The same is true for the treasure money of the Ming Dynasty. Those in power think that it is nothing to issue a little, especially when wars are needed or disaster relief is needed. It is urgent. Drinking poison to quench thirst is necessary. In fact, the better way to deal with it is to deal with the government bonds rather than excessive currency.
Chapter completed!