However, dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. When Peter discovered that he had a small reserve and could probably try his hand at changing from the silver standard to the gold standard, he found that he was stumped by a problem.
Anti-counterfeiting technology for banknote production.
This is extremely important, so important that the East once relied on other countries to print money, just to prevent the proliferation of counterfeit money.
In old China, many banknotes were printed by British and American banknote printing plants. When New China came, in addition to printing its own banknotes, it also commissioned the Soviet Union to print RMB on its behalf during the Sino-Soviet honeymoon period.
Especially the second set of RMB ten-yuan notes, the design is very similar to the banknotes from the Tsarist Russia period.
This shows how important the anti-counterfeiting technology of banknotes is.
Moreover, if Peter wants to print banknotes, he will never print Peter I on it. Even if Peter I is known as Peter the Great in the hearts of Russians, he can only use Peter the Great to deal with the grievances of future generations.
Because there's something wrong with the Russians.
In later generations, Russian rubles had denominations of 100 rubles, 500 rubles, 1,000 rubles, and 5,000 rubles.
The 100 rubles are printed with the name of Russian Tsar Catherine II. Given Catherine's achievements, this is understandable.
The name printed on the 500 rubles is Peter I. It is understandable considering that Peter I defeated the powerful Sweden at the time, seized the Baltic Sea outlet, and began to promote Russia to learn from the West and transform the backward Tsarist Russia.
The obverse of the 1,000 rubles is printed with the monument to Grand Duke Yaroslav I of Kiev "The Wise". The background is the chapel outside the Kremlin in Yaroslavl. The emblem of the Central Bank of Russia is in the upper left corner, and the city of Yaroslavl is in the upper right corner.
The emblem is the bear holding an axe.
Printed on the back is St. John the Baptist Church in Yaroslavl, with the denomination and decoration.
Yaroslav I introduced Orthodox Christianity in 988 and led his subjects to be baptized and converted, which promoted the development of Orthodox culture in Russia.
This is related to Russian culture, and there is nothing wrong with it.
But the person on the highest denomination note is extremely shameful.
The front of the note shows a man with his hands on his chest.
He was Nikolai Muravyov Amursky, the governor-general of Siberia during the tsarist era.
Why a governor can surpass Peter the Great and the figure who introduced Orthodox Christianity is because it has something to do with the loss of the Outer Northeast.
After Kangxi drove the Russians out of the Heilongjiang Basin, Russia once again set foot in the Heilongjiang Basin after a 170-year hiatus.
On May 28, 1858, when the Qing government was caught up in the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War and had no time to visit the north, Amursky, then governor of Siberia, forced Heilongjiang General Yishan to sign the Treaty of Aihun.
This treaty not only ceded 600,000 square kilometers of land north of Heilongjiang and south of the Xing'an Mountains to Russia, but also stipulated that 400,000 square kilometers of land east of the Ussuri River, including Sakhalin Island, be jointly managed by the two countries.
Engels said on this matter: Russia seized from China a territory the size of France and Germany and a river as long as the Danube without firing a shot.
In recognition of Amursky's achievements, Tsar Alexander II named him Count Amursky, which in dialect can be understood as King of Heilongjiang.
Some people have always believed that it was Tsarist Russia, not Russia, who invaded and occupied the Northeast. But Tsarist Russia is a dynasty in Russian history, and they are of the same origin. Otherwise, why would Russia print this bandit on 5,000 rubles?
In 1891, Khabarovsk, Russia, built a bronze statue of Amursky in commemoration of his achievements.
In 1929, the bronze statue was torn down and replaced by a statue of Lenin.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the bronze statue of Amursky was re-erected.
In 2006, the Central Bank of Russia used this bronze statue as the main image on the front of the 5,000 rubles, and the Khabarovsk Bridge across Heilongjiang was printed on the back.
From a Russian perspective, Amursky has made great contributions to the expansion of Russia's territory and is known as an outstanding statesman and military strategist. He deserves to be printed on banknotes.
But from an Eastern perspective, this kind of behavior is nakedly piercing the heart and poking at the sore spot.
And this is not the only thing that is wrong with the Russians. It likes to make obvious historical events that poke the pain of other countries.
The 200 rubles are printed on two monuments on the Crimean Peninsula. This is Turkey’s old pain and Ulan’s new pain.
The 500 rubles are printed with the Baltic Sea fortress and the Russian Tsar and his fleet, which made the Swedes unbearable.
Printed on the 2000 rubles are Russia's newly built space base on the north bank of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok Russky Island Bridge.
What made Peter even more angry was that when Russia was celebrating the 160th anniversary of the founding of Vladivostok, it actually ordered the embassy to tweet in Chinese, and also emphasized that Vladivostok's Russian name "Vladivostok" means "Ruling the East"!
Rule your uncle, look where he is ruling now?
Peter thought a little more profoundly from a monetary perspective.
Currency, especially banknotes, represents the cultural condensation of a country.
A series of Russian currencies show that this is a country that regards territorial expansion as its highest glory.
But even so, compared with the West, Russia is just a fire-breathing dragon, while the West is a real evil dragon.
The evil of dragons lies in their beliefs.
The East talks about morality, tolerance, and the idea that a prodigal son will never exchange for gold when he returns home. No matter whether it is Taoism, Confucianism, or law, it does not say that a person who burns, kills, loots, and commits all kinds of evil is still a good person.
But the West can.
Whether it was the Crusades or various wars, as long as they prayed after burning, killing and looting, these things would not leave a shadow in their eyes.
Because they only believe in God, even though they have done these things, as long as they repent to God, they are convinced that they can enter heaven after death, and then continue to kill and rob.
Peter believes that the most fundamental thing is cultural conflict, and it is difficult to reconcile.
And the reason why he won't print Peter the Great on banknotes is because he can't punish people who haven't been born yet, so he can only vent his anger on Peter the Great.
But Queen Elizabeth wants it printed. Queen Elizabeth likes luxury. Other than that, there seems to be no shortcomings.
Even before the co-emperorship was announced, Bestudev was not interested in government affairs and relied on the Privy Council for everything. Sometimes Bestudev could not see the empress for several months.
He still likes his aunt.
Then Peter sighed, which company has better banknote anti-counterfeiting technology?
No matter which country you are in, counterfeiting banknotes is a serious crime, and the punishment is severe, which can make the counterfeiter fearful and stop at the cliff.
However, counterfeiting cannot be eliminated. In the face of huge temptation, even losing one's head cannot completely prevent counterfeiters from making counterfeit banknotes.
Anti-counterfeiting technology simply starts with paper and printing.
The earliest banknotes in the world were Jiaozi from the Eastern Song Dynasty. The paper used by the court to print Jiaozi at that time was Sichuan paper, a specialty of Sichuan. This kind of paper was exclusively used for banknotes and was not allowed to be purchased by the private sector.