Chapter 638 Next Plan
There is a consensus among businessmen that the most important indicator to see whether a businessman has a future is whether he cares about the news about Weissenburg City.
Some people describe that if a butterfly in Weissenburg flaps its wings, it will be treated like a tornado.
In the late spring of 1037, a financial breeze blew up in Weissenburg City, which immediately attracted the attention of countless businessmen, scholars, and rulers. For a time, the business volume of the telegraph office skyrocketed.
These days, savings still have no interest or even charge custodial fees, but bonds are different from savings, with high and low interest rates. This is the first time I have seen a bond with zero interest rate and no additional conditions.
If this zero-interest bond was created by someone else, everyone would just think he had drunk too much.
But this bond was created by Archduke Wesson, and everyone agreed that there must be a deep meaning in it.
In the main store of Ghazi Barbecue Restaurant, Olive, like many businessmen, is seriously learning how to identify genuine and fake "Wesson Vouchers".
The denomination units of Wesson coupons are "gold shield" and "fen" used by the ancient empire. The fixed exchange rate of 1 gold shield is 0.175 grams of gold. Calculated in gold, 20 gold shields are now exchanged for 1 florin gold coin. , 1 gold shield is exchanged for 1 Kreuz silver coin.
The auxiliary currency is "fen", and 1 gold shield is fixedly exchanged for 100 fen. Currently, 1 fen is equal to one copper plate in the market.
There are currently 14 denominations of Wesson coupons on the market: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 100, 200 gold shields and 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 fen. Gold shields and fen denominations are listed in descending order. Printed in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, the sizes are also different and easy to distinguish.
On the front of the Wesson coupon is a photo of Frederick, on the back of the gold shield are the images of a hot air balloon, a man getting an injection, a flying tulip, a train, a tractor, a van and a bearing, and on the back of the Finn Motifs of livestock, crops and steamed bread.
The first batch of Wesson coupons were spent through the salaries of officials at the county level and above in the Principality of Wesson government, the bank management staff of the Frederick Holding Large Factory Chamber of Commerce, and internal bulk material purchases, and soon appeared in the market circulate up.
In the ten days after circulation, nearly 70% of the Wesson bonds returned to Wesson Bank. The bank fully converted them into precious metal currencies on the spot, and about 20% flowed into the hands of merchants, who used them to pay taxes. The fees will be collected by the relevant departments without error.
Newspapers and radio carried out extensive and cautious propaganda, just telling everyone that this was the case.
Time passes quickly and summer arrives.
Wesson coupons were gradually accepted by the market, and some people began to take the initiative to exchange them at banks.
At this time, Frederick was so shocked by the news that he almost vomited blood.
"What the hell is 'Wei Datou'!" Frederick jumped up from the sofa, "Did you do it?!"
Psyche said innocently: "With I have nothing to do with it, you have to believe in the wisdom of the people.”
After sitting down, Frederick patted his thigh and said: "It's unlucky!"
In the past, metal currencies were not without faces, but their area was definitely much smaller than banknotes. Even Finn's Wesson coupons had Frederick's on them. The face is also bigger than a coin.
As a result, Weisen coupons were simply called "Wei Datou" among the people.
Psyche smiled and said: "Your kidneys should be good, and you won't get uremia."
Frederick waved his hand, stopped mentioning this matter, and changed the subject. Said: "Things in Bohemia have been arranged and can be launched in the next two days."
"This time Maria and I are going to go to the next step."
Psyche said with some worry: "The Bohemia area has been destroyed, although a blank piece of paper is easy to draw on. , but you also need to invest a lot of resources and the payback cycle is long.”
"If you issue banknotes at this time, if you don't control it well, you can buy a piece of bread with half a million Wei."
The Principality of Wesson makes a lot of money, but there are also many places to spend money. , she was a little worried that Frederick couldn't control it.
Frederick was silent for a moment and said: "I think I can still control it, but I don't know if others can."
Psyche raised her eyebrows and asked: "What do you mean?"
Frederick leaned on the back of the sofa and said: "The money coming in from running the printing press is so fast, there must be someone who can't help it." Psyche shook his head and said: "With the political and economic structure and scale of other countries, the danger of excessive currency issuance is I’m afraid the harm is not as serious as you think. The worst is to return to the age of precious metal currency and barter.”
Frederick nodded. No country can now centralize power enough to force its use. The extent of paper money is just that the landowners, big and small, don’t recognize it.
“There is a place where we can.” He smiled, “I wonder if they can keep calm this time.”
Psyche asked: "Venice?"
Frederick nodded.
The business empire that the Venetians built over hundreds of years starting from making and selling salt on the seaside is getting in his way, and it is time to exit.
Psyche said: "Don't underestimate the Venetians. You didn't take them to play with the railway last year. Now they plan to connect the city of Bern through the waterway and are making their own river boats using tractors."
"According to information from the Steamed Bun Bureau, they are also studying steam sea ships."
Frederick nodded. After reading this information, it was no wonder that the Venetians had not found him and Mary since last year, and the original plan had come to nothing.
In terms of bulk cargo transportation, the cost of water transportation is lower than that of railway. The rivers in the northern part of the Kingdom of Sardinia will not freeze in winter. If the Venetians can do a good job of transshipment, the railway can catch up with the trend even if it does not reach the city.
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From this point of view, it can be seen that the Venetian people have real ability to develop to this point and should not be underestimated.
Frederick smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, they are profit-seeking businessmen. This is the biggest difference from me."
"Although I am well-known in the business field now, in the future my name will be followed by titles such as politician, military strategist, inventor, etc. in the history books."
Psyche said seriously: "When the time comes I will burn the history book to you.”
Frederick curled his lips, believing that she could do it.
"It is difficult for businessmen to brake in the face of huge profits." Frederick continued the topic, "I am looking forward to their performance, and I am more willing to acquire and use it."
Psyche reads He was so confident that he poured cold water on him: "Aren't you afraid that they will flip the table and default on your debt?"
Frederick shrugged and said, "It's no problem for me to get money with arms."
"Besides, if you can run away, the priest can't run away from the church. They don't dare to burn the city wall. When the time comes, I will send a street to You are a charterer."
"Actually, the most valuable thing for Venetians is their reputation, which can be destroyed with just one or two tons of gold. It’s worth it to build their credibility and establish my credibility.”
Psyche nodded and said with satisfaction: “You are now a mature politician.”
Frederick smiled bitterly and said: "I am walking a tightrope across an abyss, and I don't know when I will fall."
"Oh, never mind. Anyway, I will earn one more day in my life."
"Back to the Bohemian area, I have to trouble you to write a few more articles. I'll go here. Not many people go there. ”
You can’t throw money at Bohemia for no reason, there must be a reasonable reason.
According to Frederick's plan, find someone to publish some articles about the scenery there in newspapers and other places. Then Maria said she would go there for vacation, and then went there for a trip.
With this starting point, the next thing will be much easier to handle.
Psyche looked like she was thinking hard, and suddenly said: "By the way, I remember there is a river where gold sand can be found, about two hundred kilometers away from here."
(End of Chapter)