Chapter 634 Military Ticket 3
“Yes, we also need to consider the difficulty in allocating various materials and whether it is fair.”
Catherine also added: “I want to be divided The soldiers who received the apples would feel that they were being treated unfairly compared to the soldiers who were assigned the salt, because the salt is easier to preserve its value. "You see," Paul said with a smile: "Use the supplies directly. As a means of paying military salaries, there will be many problems in the specific operation. "
"In the ancient times of ignorance, people's trading method was barter, but as the scale of trade expanded and became more complex. With the increase of the times, it was too inconvenient to directly exchange items. The so-called coins appeared. As a medium for transaction valuation, coins connected all trade goods together, and only then was real commerce born, and only then did we have the prosperous world we have today."
"So..." Paul finally said the immature thoughts he mentioned at the beginning.
“We can create a new type of trading medium that does not rely on scarce gold, silver, copper and other metals, but still has the properties of money. This trading medium is only for internal use of the army. It can be called [ Military Ticket]. "
"You must know that the shops under the control of the royal family are all over the country of Aldo. As long as the king issues a decree, the holders of the military ticket will have the same effect when buying goods in the royal family's shops. Metal coins of the same face value. Then using military stamps to pay soldiers is not equivalent to paying them metal coins. This will get rid of the current lack of money for the royal government. ”
Catherine thought for a while, "This is indeed a good idea. But what should this kind of military coupons be made of? According to what you said, since it still has the properties of money, its raw materials need to be scarce but not It’s too rare. Use diamonds? This is very expensive!”
Paul shook his head and replied: “Use paper to print complex patterns on it. Just like the gold and silver coins currently circulating in the kingdom, such as the portrait of His Majesty the King and the face value of the corresponding coin, a military stamp with the same effect as the coin is made. ”
Paul's words surprised Catherine, and then she frowned, "This seems to be easy to copy. I can immediately think of the scene of fake military tickets flying all over the sky."
Paul nodded, "Well, I can almost do it. Of course, fake military stamps will definitely appear, but we can reduce the risk of counterfeiting by increasing the difficulty of production. We might as well make the pattern on the military stamps more complicated to make it difficult to draw. Ask a skilled seal engraving master to do it. The masters who engrave and print military stamps often have unique skills to prevent counterfeiting. "
Catherine nodded, the royal family does support them. With such carving talents, when the king issues an edict, he will stamp it with a seal that represents the royal power. The pattern on the stamp will naturally have a way to identify the authenticity, otherwise the king's edict will be everywhere.
Paul continued to suggest: "The engraved master plate should be kept strictly confidential. In addition, severe penalties can be imposed on those who forge military stamps, such as a direct sentence of death, to deter potential lawbreakers. In addition, we can also use the texture of the material to prevent counterfeiting. "
"Use parchment? Parchment is not easy to make."
"No, although parchment paper is not easy to make, the production technology is known to everyone around the world, so I use the kind of paper made from plant fiber produced in the northwest bay."
"Are you kidding me?" Catherine Unable to bear it any longer, Paul said with confidence, "The paper you invented is all over the streets and is not scarce at all. And I heard that some underground workshops that are unwilling to pay patent fees have already copied it." The paper from the Northwest Bay is still of the best quality, and we can change the formula, add something else, such as cotton lint, and develop a paper specifically used to make military stamps, so that its texture is the same as that of ordinary paper. The paper is different, more wear-resistant, more resistant to folding, and does not break into pieces like other papers. Because it is specially used for military tickets, we artificially control its output, artificially make it scarce, and prohibit civilians from buying it. Get this kind of paper.”
“There is another advantage to using paper to make military stamps. Paper is still paper after all. It is not as easy to store as gold and silver. Paper will decay. So it won't be stored for generations, so it will be spent in time within a certain time frame."
Catherine thought of a new question, "Will members of the army accept it?"
Paul replied, "Of course it is impossible to accept it all at once. To gradually promote military stamps in the army, we must first target the soldiers at the bottom. Soldiers at the bottom and their families have little need for material life. As long as they can Purchasing enough daily necessities - food, salt, cloth, wine - can basically satisfy their lives, and these can be easily purchased in the shops opened by the royal family with military coupons."
< br>"It is not easy to face officers. Officers need a high-quality life and social interaction. Some of the luxuries they need cannot be redeemed anytime and anywhere with military tickets-after all, at the beginning we could only let them The royal family’s shops accept military coupons.”
“Even for soldiers, I don’t recommend forcing them to accept military coupons. We can reach an agreement with them and those who are willing to accept military coupons can receive them. One and a half or even twice the salary, or paying soldiers half metal coins and half military stamps. We should target those soldiers who come from poor families. Many soldiers have never even touched coins since they were young. In other words, as long as the required supplies can be purchased, it makes no difference whether the money is made of paper or metal."
"As long as the supply capacity of the royal family's shops can meet the demand for purchasing various daily necessities with military stamps. , military tickets can establish a strong credibility among lower-level soldiers.”
“Once credibility is established, the acceptance of military tickets will gradually spread to the officer class.”
When Paul was talking, Catherine kept nodding. She even felt that Paul's ideas were quite mature.
“In addition, of course, military coupons cannot completely replace coins in the initial stage, so I suggest that the Royal Government prepare a fund so that soldiers and their families can use coins when they have special needs. Use military coupons to exchange for coins of equal value. "
"Please note that all the above content is based on sufficient material supply. If the soldiers cannot exchange the military coupons for what they want. All promises are meaningless if we need supplies.”
Irene suddenly became happy and suggested eagerly: “In that case, why limit the use of military stamps only to the army? Can’t it be promoted to the whole society? ”
(End of this chapter)