The palace of the Ming Dynasty had a wine and vinegar noodle bureau and a royal wine room.
The Wine and Vinegar Noodle Department is in charge of the wine vinegar, grain sauce, noodles and beans consumed by the palace, and the wine consumed by the people in the palace. The wine brewed by the Royal Wine Room is exclusively for the emperor and his family, and is mainly nourishing and health-preserving wine, such as Bamboo Leaf Green and Five Flavor Soup. , Zhenzhuhong, Changchun wine, Mandianxiang, etc.
Zhu Yunwen plans to make alcohol, but this thing cannot be distilled with tonic wine, and there must be a limit to the waste of natural resources. Zhu Yunwen couldn't bear to misappropriate the wine for the wine and vinegar meal, so he had to entrust Zhu Zhi and Zhu Geng to purchase it outside the palace.
Because they were still in their resting period, Zhu Zhi and Zhu Geng went directly to the harem, paid a visit to the Queen Mother, and then transferred to Kunning Palace. They reported to Zhu Yunwen about Qiulu Baijiu, and took a small jar of wine for Zhu Yunwen to taste.
Zhu Yunzhen tasted it and estimated that the temperature should be around 25 degrees.
Qiulubai is close to white wine. Of course, the white here is just close to transparent in color, but still a little yellowish.
The ancients often did not talk about drinking, but eating.
The wines before the Tang and Song Dynasties were mostly simple fermented wines, which were actually fermented wines with insufficient craftsmanship, low alcohol content, impure filtration, and many wine tanks mixed in.
And these wine troughs need to be eaten...
Therefore, drink wine.
Lu You's "Don't laugh at the muddy cured wine at the farmer's house. In a good year, the guests will have enough chicken and dolphin". This is to tell the guests, don't laugh at my family's muddy wine, but my family's vegetables will have a good harvest.
The wines in the Song and Yuan Dynasties were mostly low-alcohol rice wines.
During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, distilled shochu gradually developed. By the Ming Dynasty, shochu had begun to take shape, and the alcohol content had also improved to a certain extent. However, during the reign of Emperor Jianwen, the alcohol content was still relatively low.
From a wine with more than 20 degrees of alcohol, it takes a lot of effort to get alcohol with 70 degrees of alcohol.
Zhu Yunwen values Qiu Lubai more. Since it can be supplied from outside and the cost is not high, it is still acceptable.
Seeing that he had completed his task, Zhu Zhi relaxed and reported, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing that I don't know whether to talk about or not."
Zhu Yunwen said with a smile: "The two uncles have worked hard. If you have anything, just ask."
Zhu Zhi took out two guans of treasure notes and one tael of broken silver, put them together, and said: "Your Majesty, I have investigated and found that most of the current merchants exchange two guans of treasure notes for one tael of silver, and some merchants, A regular treasure banknote can only be exchanged for three hundred coins. This matter must be carefully investigated."
Zhu Yunwen looked down at the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, with a bitter taste in the corner of his mouth.
Paper money was not Zhu Yuanzhang's invention.
The "White Deer Skin Coin" was issued in the Western Han Dynasty, which can be regarded as the earliest attempt to make banknotes.
In the late Tang Dynasty, "flying money" with the nature of a money order appeared.
Of course, real banknotes were produced in the Northern Song Dynasty and were named Jiaozi. Jiaozi was later renamed Qianyin and was also called Xingzai Huizi in the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the first year of Zhongtong in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhongtong Yuanbao banknotes were issued. The royal court's revenue and expenditure and commercial transactions were all based on Zhongtong banknotes. At this time, the banknotes were "based on silver" and were a type of credit exchange coupons.
Later, the Yuan Dynasty began to implement a pure paper currency circulation system, prohibiting the circulation of gold, silver, and copper coins, and credit currency became non-convertible banknotes.
From the perspective of studying historical currencies, the Yuan Dynasty is definitely a dynasty worthy of great attention. It was also the first country in the world to fully use paper money.
It is recorded in "The Travels of Marco Polo": "Wherever the merchants in the Great Khanate went, they used this banknote to pay fees and purchase goods, and to get the price of the goods, which was no different from pure gold." And these banknotes were , and to some extent, provided support for the development of Western capitalist markets.
The paper money policy of the Yuan Dynasty can be said to be very successful, but it could not stand up to the greed of the court. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the court saw that it had no money, so it just slapped its thigh and printed money when there was no money. It was not easy.
The indiscriminate issuance of banknotes without capital led to rapid depreciation of banknotes. Seeing that banknotes were useless, they turned to gold, silver and copper coins. Businessmen who were accustomed to banknotes were not used to using these heavy copper coins. In addition, the manufacturing level of copper coins in the late Yuan Dynasty was too poor and bumpy. Two times, hey, it broke...
Eventually it degenerated into the ancient market for barter.
Zhu Yuanzhang drove the Mongols to Mobei for grazing. He set up the Baoyuan Bureau in Nanjing and planned to mint money. However, when he was making money, he found that there was no copper, so he had to plunder people's utensils and smelt them to make money, which caused public resentment.
Lao Zhu saw that this situation was wrong. After thinking about it, it was quite good to use banknotes before the Yuan Dynasty. Its existence was reasonable, and it would be okay to use it himself. So he changed the money method to the banknote method and set up a treasure banknote lifting department. During the Ming Dynasty, That’s how Tongxing Baochao was born.
The banknote material of the Ming Dynasty's popular banknotes is mulberry paper, which is easy to preserve and is blue-gray in color.
Banknotes are "one foot high and six inches wide." If you don't feel this standard, you might as well find an A4 paper and take a look. Yes, the Ming Dynasty banknotes are so big. If Lao Zhu is still around, apply for Guinness for the largest banknotes. A world record and a solid first place.
The face of the note has a complex pattern, with dragon patterns printed around it. The top of the note reads "Daming Tongbao Banknote", and the denomination "One Guan" is written in the middle. Below there is a statement from the printing department's household department: "Forgers will be killed, and those who accuse will be rewarded." Two hundred and fifty taels of silver."
It should be noted that there are only six denominations of the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes: 100 Wen, 200 Wen, 300 Wen, 400 Wen, and 500 Wen.
Wen, Yi Guan.
Yiguan is the maximum face value.
If someone readily takes out thousands of taels or tens of thousands of taels of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, then you should give them away, capture them, send them to the officials, and receive the reward.
Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there was no more than a consistent amount of treasure money. Those with big money could only exist in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and would never appear in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunwen understands the importance of currency and the irrationality of Lao Zhu's banknote policy. It's okay now. The value of Yiguanbao banknotes has depreciated by one-third to half. If there is no rectification, the value of Yiguanbao banknotes will continue to decline. By then, the original banknotes will be devalued. Money that has always been equivalent to a thousand penny can in the end only be equivalent to one penny, or even one-tenth of a penny!
"Let's put aside the issue of treasure money for now. If you want to change this problem, you need a lot of funds as support. Now your task is to learn the knowledge of doing business. Businessmen pursue profits and cannot act hastily. Let's take what happened today. Come to think of it, the store has already given you two yuan per jar, why did you increase it to three yuan?"
"Do you know that because you are so proud, ten thousand jars of wine will cost you one thousand taels of silver, and that one hundred thousand jars is only ten thousand taels of silver. And this silver is not only your share, but also the queen's. Share, you are rich and wealthy, so you shouldn’t harm the Queen’s interests.”
Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhu Zhi and Zhu Geng with a depressed look on his face.
Zhu Zhi opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain, and touched Zhu Geng with his arm. Zhu Geng made a bitter face and said something that made Zhu Zhi jump: "Then the two of us can make up for these ten thousand taels..."
Zhu Zhi really wanted to beat Zhu Geng, why are you so clueless? In business, how can you have your own business?
What's more, that's ten thousand taels!
The prince's annual salary is only 10,000 taels. According to the highest conversion, it is only 10,000 taels. At the lower conversion, it is only 5,000 or 6,000 taels. You give away so much at once, and I and the whole family are going to drink the northwest wind?
Zhu Yunwen laughed and said: "The first batch of 10,000 jars will be calculated as three yuan per jar. But in the future, you will renegotiate with the merchant. In addition, tell the merchant that half of the jar will be returned and you can deduct part of it. money, negotiate a new price, and then sign the contract, remember, you can’t bully others, use business methods, and do business.”
Zhu Zhi and Zhu Geng's faces were a little burning. After leaving the palace, they still couldn't make up their minds. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to go to the merchant to negotiate the price?
"Snapped!"
"what you do?"
"Brother Fifteen, my face hurts..."
Zhu Geng wanted to cry but had no tears. Doing business is not a good job.
