People lined up to walk into the vault, and saw that the vault was divided into warehouses. The warehouse was filled with boxes. The lid was opened, and under the light, it flashed with silver and white light, blinding people's titanium alloy dog ​​eyes. In each of the ten sub-warehouses, there were at least one hundred boxes in each room, about 80% of the boxes were filled with silver, and the remaining 20% ​​were filled with gold. At least there were iron fences outside the sub-warehouse blocking them, so people could not enter.

In the vault, there are chandeliers hanging on the roof. The chandeliers are all chandeliers with transparent glazed lampshades. The wicks burn with flames, which are extremely bright. When the flames burn, they emit a light. Dozens of chandeliers are on at the same time, making the warehouse lights brightly. Although it is a dark underground, it is as bright as outside.

Except for the shareholders of the silver number, outsiders don’t know what kind of lamp it is. In fact, this is a whale oil lamp, which burns and smells of whale oil. These transparent glass whale oil lamps have consumed a lot of silver to exchange for it from the Thais. In fact, transparent glass is glass. If Li Guodong had not been able to burn glass himself yet, there would be no need to waste the silver to buy it from foreigners.

"Wow, so much silver! There is so much gold!"

"It's so much, so much money is there?"

"I guess tens of millions of taels should be there? And those golds are probably less than one million taels!"

People were surprised to talk about it. Although many of them were rich Jiangnan, few people had seen so much gold, silver, tens of millions of taels of silver. What's the concept? What's more, there were no less than one million taels of gold! In today's Ming Dynasty, only Zheng Zhilong could get so much cash.

"These gold and silver are not fake, are they?" Someone in the crowd said something inappropriate.

"How could it be fake?" Shi Fu's face turned red and his neck was swelling, "It's not an insult to our Zheng family? This silver account has a member of our Zheng family!"

A handsome and handsome young man next to him quickly pulled Shi Fu: "My father, those people don't know the situation. Dad calm down and don't worry about them."

"Who is this person?" someone asked.

"Deputy General Shi Fu is from the Zheng family." A well-informed gentleman replied.

"So it's a member of the Zheng family. I'm just blaming the Caomin for not knowing Mount Tai!" The man who just said that it might be fake hurriedly bowed with compliments. Who doesn't know that the Zheng family is the richest businessman in the world? Since the Jiangnan Silver House also has a member of the Zheng family, it must be fake.

Zheng Zhilong also bought a stake. Shi Fu was the person he sent to Jiangnan Silver to take over to the board of directors to perform his position as a director. The handsome young man who just persuaded Shi Fu was his son, General Shi Lang, the famous general Shi Lang in history. However, in this time and space, Shi Lang was probably destined to be a businessman. Li Guodong had already arranged Shi Lang's place to go. Of course, it was impossible for Shi Lang to replace Shi Fu as a director of the bank in the future. Instead, he would arrange Shi Lang to expand his territory and build a country overseas.

In terms of emotional terms, Li Guodong did not like Shi Lang. It was this traitor who led the Qing army to destroy the Ming and Zheng and the last mantle of the Han people. However, in this time and space, Shi Lang had no chance to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. First of all, Zheng Zhilong could not surrender to the Qing Dynasty. You must know that Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in order to get goods from Jiangnan to sell overseas. Therefore, after the Qing army occupied Jiangnan, Zheng Zhilong chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

But in this time and space, as long as Li Guodong is present, Jiangnan will not be able to fall into the opponent. As long as Jiangnan is still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong will not be able to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

"You can come and see if these gold and silver are real or fake." Li Guodong greeted the gentry of Jiangnan who came to visit the treasury and asked them to walk into an office in the treasury.

In the office, there was a box placed on the ground, and Li Guodong asked someone to open the box.

As soon as the box was opened, under the light, silver-white and golden light shone out inside, making people almost unable to open their eyes.

Li Guodong took out a handful of coins and placed them on the table: "Everyone, you can pick them up and see if they are real money. But after reading them, remember to return them. If they steal and are caught by our people, they will be severely punished."

A gentry squeezed in front couldn't wait to pick up a golden gold coin and put it in his hand for a long time. He saw the two words "Shiyuan" written on the front of the gold coin, and there were beautiful patterns on the edges. There was a 10-character written on the back of the gold coin. The gentry was quite knowledgeable and recognized what the word was.

Someone next to him asked, "What's that word?"

"The big food number means Shi Yuan, this is how the big food number is written." The gentry replied.

"What does Yuan mean?" someone asked again.

The gentry replied: "Yuan is the unit of silver for the Thais. One yuan is close to our one or two taels. They all minted silver coins. Our goods were sold to the Thais, and the silver coins they exchanged were melted again, and they were minted into silver ingots."

Li Guodong smiled and said, "In fact, the unit of the Taixi Yuan is much more convenient than that of our Ming Dynasty. They have gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins. When they go to buy things or go to restaurants, they spend a lot of silver coins and gold coins, and the merchants will return the coins to them. And when we spend a lot of silver coins and gold coins, the merchants will weigh it. After weighing it, they will take out the broken silver and find it. Sometimes the broken silver is too heavy and needs to be cut. Only if the amount is not enough, the copper plate will be supplemented. The Thais don't have so many troubles, they just need to find money."

At this time, there were already currency units such as pounds, francs, and Dutch guilds in various European countries, which were very convenient when buying and selling goods. However, the Ming Dynasty still paid by weight.

Someone asked: "It is convenient to mint coins and trade them in coins, but if you get counterfeit coins, isn't that a loss?"

"This requires merchants to know how to identify the authenticity of coins. If they find counterfeit coins, they can report to the officials immediately. The Thais will punish those who minted counterfeit coins. The most severe ones can be beheaded and hanged. Our Ming Dynasty also punished counterfeit coins. Didn't someone mint a fake copper plate? If they caught them, wouldn't they beheaded and searched the house?" Li Guodong explained with a smile.

"How do you distinguish between true and false?" asked one person.

A gentry beside him smiled: "You can't even tell whether you are real or fake. If you know how to recognize the authenticity of gold and silver, you can't be wrong with the authenticity of the coins."

Li Guodong continued: "But we are not planning to mint coins for the time being. After all, we are used to weight trading in the Ming Dynasty, so we first issue bank notes. In addition to large-scale silver notes, we also plan to issue small-scale silver notes of one, ten, and hundreds of taels. Those who have these silver notes can come to our bank account to exchange for silver at any time. Moreover, these silver notes can also be traded directly, so there is no need to cut the silver. Merchants can retrieve the silver notes, and if there are small amounts, they can retrieve the copper plate. This way, it will be much more convenient to trade."

"But there is another problem!" A gentleman stood up, "I will ask you to exchange large amounts of silver bills directly, of course you know the truth or falsehood. If small amounts of silver bills replace direct transactions, how could merchants recognize the truth or falsehood of silver bills?"

"As for this problem, we have a way to solve it. The small silver notes we made can make people unable to imitate at all! The authenticity is clear at a glance, and there are also paper, concave and convex feelings. As long as you get used to it and touch more people, you can feel the authenticity of the small silver notes when you hold them in your hands." Li Guodong replied.

In fact, the issuance of this small amount of silver bill is to issue paper money, but this kind of banknote is different from the Daming Baochao. The Daming Baochao does not have gold and silver reserves as a guarantee, which means that the Daming Baochao can depreciate indefinitely and eventually become a pile of waste paper. The small amount of silver bills on the Jiangnan Silver can be exchanged for real gold and silver at any time.

Of course, in the distant future, Li Guodong can announce at any time that the decoupling of paper money from gold and silver is a matter of the distant future.
Chapter completed!