Prince Qing waved his hand and said, "Then let's print more commercial notes, and we'll have more money, won't we?"
The officials from the Ministry of Finance shook their heads repeatedly: "No, no. If too much is printed, the local government offices won't be able to redeem the silver, and wouldn't that be a disgrace to the imperial court?"
Prince Qing didn't take it seriously: "Then just issue more commercial notes, issue a Flying Dragon Letter directly, and let everyone use the official commercial notes as silver, wouldn't that solve the problem?"
That way, there won't be any trouble exchanging for cash.
The person in charge of finance shook his head: "No, no, the development of commerce and trade is predetermined, and money cannot be manipulated. If too many official commercial notes flood in, it will disrupt the market and drive up prices, which will be of no benefit to the country."
The Ministry of Finance scoffed: "Just don't print too many, isn't that enough? I think His Highness is absolutely right. If commercial notes could be used directly as cash, the national treasury would be overflowing!"
A minor official from the granary department, who had been listening in but unable to get a word in edgewise, finally spoke up timidly: "But if commercial notes are indeed officially minted, how can we ensure that they are not counterfeited and that the people can distinguish between genuine and fake ones?"
This is printed on paper, unlike the real gold and silver of the past. Real gold and silver are either real or fake.
There's so much we can do with this paper.
This person was none other than Zhang Wushan, who was the third-ranked scholar in the same examination as Qin Yuxiu.
He has an exceptional grasp of numbers and has now been transferred from the Hanlin Academy to the Ministry of Revenue, where he works in the Granary Department.
Only then did Prince Qing ask Gu Yaoniang and Lu Zhaoan, who had been acting as invisible figures, "How do you prevent others from forging your commercial drafts?"
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