The emperor sat on the dragon throne for a long time and finally put aside his thoughts and thoughts, calmed down and started to do some of his job.

The emperor read many historical books and journals to find records about issuing "paper notes".

"Suo Zizhi Tongjian" says that in the early Northern Song Dynasty, iron mints could only be circulated in Sichuan, and the weight of iron coins was heavier than copper coins. A merchant went to Sichuan to shop and saw "a piece of money is 20,000 yuan." According to the weight of iron coins circulated on the market at that time, the 20,000 iron coins weighed about 120 kilograms. The 20,000 iron coins could not buy many items, but their own weight could exhaust the people they carried to death.

Later, 16 wealthy businessmen in Sichuan jointly initiated it and printed and issued a kind of "Jiaozi" and opened a "Jiaozi Shop". At that time, the "Jiaozi" shop was similar to today's local banks. It specifically preserved cash for merchants and collected a certain storage fee. "Jiaozi" was like a bank check today. People took "Jiaozi" to exchange cash at "Jiaozi Shop" or cash at "Jiaozi Shop" to exchange cash. This is the prototype of the origin of the earliest banknotes in the world.

Finally, the right to print and issue paper money was nationalized by the court. However, during the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty, current affairs were corrupt, the court was corrupt, fiscal deficit, and the national treasury was empty. The right to issue paper money was not based on the corresponding gold and silver as the currency reserve. Every time the new and old courts replaced the banknotes, the banknotes were changed again and again, and only new banknotes were printed and never recovered. The evil consequences of indiscriminate issuance of paper money directly caused the rapid depreciation of paper money, resulting in serious inflation, and the banknotes in the hands of countless poor people were instantly depreciated into a pile of waste paper.

During the Yuan Dynasty and the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the ruling class also issued many versions of paper money, but they all failed to establish an effective currency corresponding management mechanism. The final result was that paper money was completely fouled and quit the stage of history.

There is a very interesting saying: the last Emperor Chongzhen of the late Ming Dynasty wanted to deal with Li Zicheng who rebelled, but he had no military pay. The emperor printed a large stack of exquisite paper money overnight, but no one was willing to ask for it. Chongzhen sat in the pile of waste money and was worried and ran to the Coal Mountain (Wanshou Mountain). There was no ladder at that time, Chongzhen put the useless paper money under his feet and finally reached the rope cover. The banknotes used by the emperor were later set on fire by the eunuch to Chongzhen. Since then, the use of paper money in the underworld has become popular in hell.

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The emperor studied the various types of paper for a while.

Su Yi of the Northern Song Dynasty abbreviated the "Paper Book", which records that people from Zhejiang used wheat and rice stalks to make paper pulp and mixed with a single oil vine to make paper. There are also many related records in the "Paper Book" written by Fei in the Yuan Dynasty and Wang Zongmu in the Ming Dynasty. Especially in the 13th volume of "The Completed Bright" written by Song Yingxing in the Ming Dynasty, the introduction of bamboo paper and velvet paper is very detailed.

"...Climb the mountain before and after the grass seeds, cut the bamboo, cut it off five feet and seven feet long, soak it in the pond water for 100 days, and after processing and washing, remove the thick shell and green skin. Then use the lime juice to apply pulp, steam it in the bucket for eight days and nights, and take off the fire for one day. Take out the bamboo material and rinse it with clean water, and then slurry it with wood ash (wood ash water) and then put it in the kettle to steam it and soak it with ash water. This way, it will naturally smell bad after more than ten days. Take it out and pound it into a mud surface, and then pulp and make paper..."

Xiao Han reads intently and devotedly, and couldn't help but exclaim in his heart:

It turned out that there had been lime at that time. The ancients were really smart. We came from modern times and only knew a3 paper and a4 paper. The ones who printed photos were photographic paper, and the ones who printed picture albums were called coated paper.... How to make paper? It really opened the six orifices.

The emperor was busy identifying various colored wax papers, cold gold, mud gold, ribbed, mud gold and silver paintings, floral paper, etc.

Suddenly the little eunuch held the tray and tiptoed in.

The emperor glanced impatiently: Who is going to cause trouble again? I am having a lot of trouble and am so annoyed!

It turned out that Shuangxi came in to add tea. The emperor looked up and watched him remove the tea cup that had long been cold and replace it with a cup of hot tea.

The emperor thought that he was quite serious in studying and forgot to drink tea. The emperor drank three cups of tea in a row to relieve his thirst.

In fact, it was also a fault of the emperor himself. According to the usual rules, there were always a small eunuch around the emperor. Regardless of whether the emperor wanted to drink tea or not, someone came up every half a minute and replaced the cold tea with warm hot tea (slightly warm in summer and slightly hot in winter, in short, it was kept at the most comfortable temperature). However, the emperor insisted on staying alone in the study, and did not say anything about the eunuchs entering the house to add tea. As a result, all the timid eunuchs were guarding outside the door and did not dare to say a word. Finally, when General Gu finished his work, many internal affairs in the Qianqing Palace came back to check the post. He glanced at him and knew that the market was wrong. He immediately gave a look and asked his apprentice to go into the house to add tea.

After reading for a long time, the emperor was indeed a little tired, so he simply took a break and adjusted his state.

The emperor called Shuangxi: "Shuangxi, let me talk to you."

Shuangxi was overjoyed when she heard this. This was a good start to become the emperor's confidant. The little guy knelt down happily and moved to the emperor's leg.

The emperor was also happy. This little slave was flexible and his legs were very quick. But you just knelt down and listened to me. What if I talked for two hours, you wouldn't have to break your legs?

The emperor knew that this nature of being a slave and the strict rules of the palace in the inner court could not be corrected in a short while. There was a difference between the monarch and the minister, and the master and slave were in the clear place, and the emperor was not in the mood to care about the common etiquette at all times. The emperor stood up and walked directly to the couch to lie down, and asked Shuangxi to hold a small stool to sit next to the couch, and first beat the emperor's legs.

Shuangxi is a competent slave. She feels just right, and she is both pounding lightly and heavy, and is comfortable.

The emperor enjoyed it for a while and finally asked:

"Shuangxi, how old did you enter the palace? What's the reason for coming in?"

Shuangxi answered honestly:

"When I go back to the emperor, I entered the palace in the 12th year of Kangxi. At that time, my hometown was flooded, and my parents and sisters were all drowned. I followed my uncle to flee to the capital. Later, my uncle died of illness. I was so poor that I had no food to eat, so I put on grass and entered the palace by myself."

The emperor sighed secretly that every eunuch and palace maid in the palace was a miserable life experience.

The emperor asked about double joy again:

"Then where is your hometown? What season is the flood? What is the specific situation?"

Shuangxi replied:

"Mucai's hometown is from Gujia Village, Yifeng, Henan, and is right by the Yellow River. That year, the Yellow River broke its dam at the end of summer, and the entire village was flooded in the blink of an eye. That day, my uncle took Miaozi to the county town to go to the market and escaped, but there was no one else in the family and the land was flooded..."

Shuangxi said when she was sad, her voice was slightly choked and she barely held back: But you must not cry in front of the emperor.

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I came up in the morning and saw the dream. It seemed that I had 20 votes and smiled. Is this the legendary daily upward trend?

I like this picture the most. I roughly converted it. My current salary is converted into silver. In ancient times, I was many times higher than the annual salary of a first-class prime minister. Unfortunately, the actual purchasing ability was really far apart. When was I really dreaming, I exchanged all my salary for gold and silver to bring back to the Qing Dynasty, and I could buy at least a few hundred acres of fertile land to take a small manor. I would find a way to build a courtyard house within the Third Ring Road...

Where is life? Why are they all realistic?
Chapter completed!