People in ancient times worked day and night, even the emperors and their grandsons did the same. Zhu Zhanji took over the job and started working immediately. Zhu Zhanzhen was dragged away without any time to rest, so he and several households brought by Xia Yuanji
Ministry officials held a small meeting.
"Ma Xiang, the head of the Banknote Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Household Affairs, is responsible for the printing of precious banknotes. I pay a courtesy visit to His Majesty the Grandson, the Fifth Highness."
"I am in charge of the promotion of treasure banknotes in the household department, Wang An, who is in charge of the issuance of treasure banknotes. I pay a courtesy visit to His Majesty the Grandson, His Highness the Fifth Prince."
"The lower official household department Zhaomo Office (responsible for verifying official documents, supervising and standardizing regulations) inspects Wang Botong, who is responsible for checking official documents, and meets with the Grand Sun, His Highness the Fifth Prince."
The three officials sent by Xia Yuanji have all arrived. They all have the same appearance except for their height. They are all officials between 25 and 30 years old. They are the main force in the officialdom.
These were also the officials that Xia Yuanji was optimistic about. If the food stamps were successful, he would give them promotions to Zhu Zhanzhen and let them be responsible for the subsequent issuance of food stamps, becoming the backbone of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
"Ma Xiang, please bring the original style of the banknote and the seal."
Ma Xiang put the things on Zhu Zhanji's desk. Since it was already night, Sun Ruowei brought two bowls of health soup to Zhu Zhanji, who was still high-spirited, and Zhu Zhanyi, who was drowsy.
Chu'er saw that her young master could hardly open his eyes and sighed helplessly. The young master was smart, but in terms of diligence, he was far different from Zhu Zhanji.
Zhu Zhanji was studying the style of food stamps and the form of stamping with them, and basically decided to use the original model.
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"Lao Wu."
When Chu'er heard his grandson calling Zhu Zhanxi, he pushed the drowsy Zhu Zhanxian. Zhu Zhanxian stood up and said, "Brother, what's the matter?"
"We have formulated the format of the first edition of food stamps. Take a look."
Zhu Zhanchen was speechless when he looked at the food stamp that his elder brother picked up, which was about 20 centimeters long and wide. It was so big and inconvenient to carry.
Observe carefully, the seals used by people in the Ministry of Household Affairs are very complicated. The purpose of such complicated seals is to prevent counterfeiting.
However, seals are anti-counterfeiting. As long as the seal is a seal, it is always possible to be imitated.
"Brother, these food stamps are too big. To be circulated, the food stamps must be made smaller and easier to carry, and the paper should be thickened to avoid wear and tear."
Zhu Zhanyi's two casual comments were that they did not expect that they only thought about what should be written on the food stamps, how to use the seal, and what the format was, while Zhu Zhanyi cared about its convenience and practicality when circulating in the market.
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This is the difference between officials and civilians. These scholars who studied hard from humble beginnings have been studying to become officials. Their starting point is good, but at the same time, many scholars are not down to earth, let alone the emperor's grandson.
Everyone has different starting points when thinking about things.
Wang Botong, the inspector of Zhaomo Institute, asked: "But Your Highness, if the paper is made smaller and the seal cannot be made complicated, private counterfeiting will become easier." As someone who is often dragged into cracking down on counterfeiting, Wang Botong is very knowledgeable about forged treasure banknotes.
Some of his experiences were almost the same if he were asked to forge current treasure banknotes.
“Preventing the counterfeiting of banknotes requires more than just working on seals. Have you ever thought about setting up banknote serial numbers and multi-level seals?”
"The serial number of the banknote and the multi-level seal?" Everyone, including Zhu Zhanji, was confused. Several officials originally had no hope for His Highness the Fifth Prince, who was sleeping soundly beside him, but as soon as they opened their mouths, they were beyond words.
something they know.
But when he thought about the serial number, Zhu Zhanzhen got a headache again. If the current Chinese character numbers were used, it would be more complicated, and the current printing process was not good. Adding a Chinese character number and reducing the area of the food stamps would make the food stamps more complicated.
The font space is very crowded, and the printing success rate is reduced.
Simple must be simple. He thought of Arabic numerals. The Arabic numerals 123456 are also simple to print. Even the order of printing 0 and 1 is enough to meet the current anti-counterfeiting needs of food stamp printing.
But Zhu Zhanji and others did not know Arabic numerals, so they had to be taught them first.
Zhu Zhanzhen wrote 012345678910 on the paper: "These numbers were met by an old man named Ala when I went to Master Zheng He's house. I saw what he wrote on the ground. After asking, I found out that he invented zero one and two.
The abbreviation for three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety is very convenient and can be called Arabic numerals."
Everyone saw that it was very simple. Zhu Zhanzhi said it over and over again and remembered it.
"Your Highness, how should I use it?"
"When we print the denomination, for example, the denomination of this food stamp is one stone of rice, there can be a number below it, such as 10,000, something like this. The country is divided into multiple regions, and each region has a different serial number."
Seeing that several people were confused, Zhu Zhanzhen continued: "The serial number plus multi-level seals can make a simple classification of the food stamps distributed in various places."
For example, the food stamps issued to Yingtianfu this month are numbered 10001, and Beipingfu is 20001. The 10 at the beginning is Yingtianfu. The number 20 is Beipingfu, and 001 is the batch number. Any food stamp starting with 10 is from Yingtianfu.
Sent out.
The lower part is set with three seals. The first chapter is the seal for the Ministry of Revenue to print money, the second chapter is the seal for the Yingtian Mansion Grain Depot, and the third chapter is the seal for the subordinate regions to distribute food stamps to the warehouses of the people.
Wang An, who raised the treasure banknotes, was the first to react, with a happy face: "In this case, if the serial number starts with 20 but is stamped with Yingtianfu's seal, it will be clear at a glance that it is a fake food stamp. This method is very good."
Zhu Zhanji also responded: "In this case, if someone wants to imitate food stamps, they need to imitate three seals, and they also need to understand our Arabic numerals. As long as we change the sequence printing multiple times, it will be difficult for them to imitate.
You need to prepare some standard food stamps in the distribution warehouse for comparison so that you can easily distinguish between genuine and fake ones."
"Big brother is still smart." Zhu Zhanchen flattered him a little, then yawned and felt sleepy again.
Arabic numerals are well known to everyone in modern times, but in this era they can also be used as passwords.
Just these serial numbers and the three-level seal are enough for those who want to make fake food stamps to think about for a year and a half, and then they can make some improvements.
Today's manufacturing technology is poor, and the counterfeiting technology is poor, but the torture is not bad. Once caught forging fake food stamps, it is basically a severe torture and death penalty. When the difficulty and risk of production are far higher than the chance of success, the counterfeiting is done.
It will definitely become less.
Zhu Zhanzhen solved their very troublesome anti-counterfeiting problem with a few words and 10 numbers invented by an old man named Ala, which boosted the confidence of several people.
Zhu Zhanji decided on the final style of the two pieces: "The two sides of the paper were thickened and distributed into three denominations: one stone, five dou, and one dou. One stone was the largest and one dou was the smallest. When printing, the palace was divided into two styles.
, one has a serial number starting with 10, and one has a serial number starting with 20."
"How much does His Highness Taisun print at one time? How much is the total amount? How much are the three denominations?"
A problem arose. Following Zhu Zhanji's gaze, several people looked at Zhu Zhanyi.
Zhu Zhanchen was helpless. It seemed that he would not want to sleep tonight.
"Chu'er, rub your temples for me."
"Master, are you feeling unwell? I'll call the imperial doctor for you."