It was noon, and the Silver Exchange Square was crowded, and everyone's eyes were on the shiny silver bars behind the iron fence not far away. These silver ingots were neatly tidied, flashing dazzling white light in the sun, dazzling.

Silver from Japan arrived in Central Plains by sea. All the silver sold on the Guangling Silver Exchange was remelted and made into silver bars of the same size, and displayed on the exchange, waiting for the buyer to take it away.

Each silver bar weighs ten taels and has the word "Guangling" on it. It is a group of ten taels, totaling one hundred taels, which is exactly worth one hundred coins of copper coins, or gold and silver.

Each buyer can only buy 100 taels of silver (ten silver bars) at a time. As for the purchase qualification, it has to be obtained by drawing a number.

The reason for such a regulation is that people's demand for silver is endless, and the silver that can be sold on exchanges is limited.

There are too many monks and too little porridge, so in order to show fairness as much as possible, the purchase qualification needs to be obtained by drawing numbers.

The total amount of silver sold on the exchange is 200,000 taels, sold in units of 100 taels, with a total of 2,000 spots, all of which must be drawn today.

The system of lottery draw as fair as possible requires a fair process to ensure that fair results are finally obtained. Before starting the lottery draw, the official who served as the host first reiterated the lottery draw rules, and then select a few people from the buyers present to check whether there is any problem with the lottery draw Liucheng.

The so-called number drawing is actually to draw lots. On white paper of the same size, there are numbers (numbers) representing different buyers. Then, after folding them in half, put them in the carton, take out one and open it. Whoever has the number on it is qualified to buy silver.

The rules for drawing numbers are very simple, but because they are of great importance, they are easily considered to be "shady".

After all, there are always people who are worried that the notes of their number are not put into the wooden box, or they are worried that there is a problem with the number, such as "re-number", to increase the chance of being drawn.

Or they are worried that there is a mechanism in the wooden box, and some people paste paper with specific numbers in the wooden box in advance to make fraud.

What's more, they are worried that the silver sold on the silver exchange will be adulterated and have insufficient quality.

In order to dispel buyers' doubts as much as possible, the exchange must allow the relevant items to be inspected in public by the buyers before drawing numbers. The first thing is to check the quality of the silver bars.

Ten people selected randomly from the on-site buyers. First, check the scales provided by the exchange to see if these scales are accurate. The "standard weight" they use is Mingde Tongbao Money.

The weight of a Mingde Tongbao is two zhu and four silks, and one hundred pieces weighs exactly two hundred and forty zhu. One liang is equal to twenty-four zhu. The weight of a hundred Mingde Tongbao is exactly ten liang, which is the same as the weight of a silver bar.

After checking all the scales, no problems were found. Then the host started the next process: check the quality of the silver bars.

Ten people who were re-selected went to the other side of the iron fence, and each person randomly selected three silver bars to check the quality, including using a scale to measure the weight, and finally chopped each silver bar into several sections with a guillotine in public, and asked the other ten people to come up to check to see if there were lead pellets hidden in the silver block.

After inspection, there was no problem with the thirty silver bars selected, and the number of silver bars with thirty silver bars was prepared for reference, so it would not affect the number of silver bars officially sold (a total of 20,000).

The host then selected fifty people to check the notes with the numbers. The fifty people compared the list to verify whether the number of the note and the names of the people on the list were one by one.

Then check the wooden box with the number drawn. The lid of the wooden box can be opened so that people can see if there are any pieces of paper stuck in the box.

The entire inspection process took more than half an hour. After confirming that it was correct and no one had any objections, the number drawing was officially started.

In order to avoid cheating, all the people who go on stage to draw numbers are volunteers selected from the on-site buyers. Each volunteer draws five places and then replaces them, ensuring fairness as much as possible.

However, there are too many buyers participating in the lottery. The speed of drawing lots by just one wooden box is too slow, so there are twenty wooden boxes with numbers written in equal parts. At the same time, twenty volunteers draw lots in public, and the exchange officials sang and registered.

The volunteers shook the wooden box, and the paper sheets in the wooden box made a "rattle" sound, which made all the buyers on the scene nervous (actually representatives).

Silver is usually sold for every ounce (one thousand words), but this price is actually priceless. If someone really wants to buy silver, the price of silver is mostly above one thousand two thousand words. Even so, it is not something you can buy just by wanting to buy.

Silver maintains its value, but is not a common currency. Generally speaking, even if someone has silver in his home, no one will take it out as money unless it is an emergency. Therefore, silver on the market usually appears in the form of jewelry.

The price of silver jewelry is more expensive than jewelry making costs and premiums, so the selling price is higher than that of weight (two).

Under normal circumstances, there are not many opportunities to buy silver on the market. Now, being able to buy silver on the Guangling Silver Exchange is of course a rare and good opportunity for those with strong financial resources.

The silver price on the silver exchange is one tael of silver for one or two cents of money, and the amount of silver sold for each buyer is set at one hundred taels, and the price is one hundred cents of copper coins, or gold and silver.

One hundred coins of copper coins are wealth that ordinary families cannot save in their entire lives, but in the eyes of rich people, this is nothing.

Many wealthy families spend more than one person on a meal. In addition to three meals a day, there are also midnight snacks from time to time. After a month, the expenses spent on eating are nearly 100% so this amount of money is nothing to them.

There is a rare opportunity to buy silver, so there are many buyers who come to Guangling to buy silver. Today, a total of 23,583 people were present to draw numbers. These more than 20,000 people crowded the vast silver exchange compound.

The purchase quota of silver is 2,000, and the ratio exceeds 10 to 10, which means that the winning rate is less than 10%.

However, for this opportunity, many people are willing to compete for their luck. After all, it is rumored that the exchange plans to sell a total of one million taels of silver this year. So as long as they win once, they will have one hundred taels of silver on hand.

Silver can maintain value more than copper coins. When it is urgent, it can be taken out for emergency treatment. One hundred taels of silver can be valuable than one hundred taels of copper coins, and it is lighter and easier to carry.

It is precisely because the temptation of silver is too great that even if everyone knows that this is a clear plan, they are willing to be deceived.

The gold and silver coins issued and promoted by the imperial court have a face value of Yimo (one hundred documents). In fact, most people don’t want to use this kind of “as a hundred coins”. It can be imagined that this kind of exquisitely crafted two-color coins will not last long.

But the court tried different ways to extend Jin Yinmo's life, and the means used were very direct and powerful, that is, to make Jin Yinmo directly linked to the transaction of silver.

Taking this silver sale as an example, 200,000 taels of silver are limited to purchase 100 taels per person, so two thousand places were set, and gold and silver must be bought, but it is impossible that only 2,000 buyers "buy with coins".

As expected, more than 20,000 buyers gathered on the exchange today. In order to obtain the qualification to draw numbers, these more than 20,000 people held the gold and silver roads and registered. Invisibly, the court promoted more than 20,000 guan of gold and silver roads instead of 2,000 guan.

Similarly, the imperial court sold 1 million taels of silver every year, equivalent to 10,000 guan of gold and silver. In fact, due to the fierce competition, the majority of buyers exchanged gold and silver for buying silver, even in a ratio of one to ten, there were 100,000 guan.

With the regularization and normalization of silver trading, the private holdings of gold and silver mo will only increase, and everyone's feelings about gold and silver mo will also change.

If gold and silver can buy silver, it means that gold and silver have a connection in a sense. Then everyone will have trust in gold and silver without realizing it. Only when a currency is recognized by the people will it be truly circulated.

It is not difficult to see through the methods of the court, but the court does not hesitate to use silver as bait, so everyone still smiles and admits.

The one-many gold and silver are equal to one hundred coins of copper coins. This is nothing to rich people, and they come (or send people to) Guangling, not just to buy silver.

The North-South Ocean Trading Company has made the sea trade prosperous. Guangling, located at the intersection of north-south, is originally a prosperous place, but now it has become a nest of gold and silver with the east wind of sea trade.

With the help of reliable and convenient remittance business, loose business environment and conditions, countless merchants arrive in Yangzhou with light bills of exchange and easily start a wealth journey of making money and profiting.
Chapter completed!