After clearing out the spies, Di Renjie quickly found people to fill the vacancy.
Li Zhi wrote down the production steps in detail with a brush and explained them to the ten most skilled craftsmen as much as possible.
He explained for more than two hours. Sometimes, he even had to teach them step by step. After a morning of practice, these people finally learned how to make high-strength and high-thickness kraft paper.
It had to be said that this technology was too advanced. Even though these papermakers were highly skilled, it still took Li a lot of effort to cure them.
Of course, hard work paid off.
After these ten learned it, they could immediately teach it to the other 290-plus craftsmen.
Three days later, the first piece of kraft paper was finally produced.
After seeing the finished product, Li Zhi was very satisfied.
Then, he, also known as Di Renjie, recruited some craftsmen who were good at engraving printing and taught them the techniques of movable type printing and steel printing.
These techniques were very advanced. When the craftsmen heard this, their eyes and ears were instantly refreshed, and they scratched their ears and cheeks excitedly.
Only as professionals, they knew how much progress these technologies had made and how much effort they had saved.
Up until now, the entire mint was guarded by 600 Dragon Guards and 100 Brocade Guards. No one was allowed to take more than half a step forward.
Entering the Mint without permission, the Dragon Guards and the Embroidered Uniform Guards have the right to kill them without asking for permission from anyone.
The craftsmen inside were also not allowed to go out. They were not allowed to go out for anything.
Anyone who went out would be killed!
Li Zhi settled the families of these craftsmen in the same area nearby. Then, he sent out 100 Dragon Guards and 1000 Ministry of Justice soldiers to jointly defend.
More than half of the 3,000 soldiers from the Ministry of Justice had died, and the rest had all been exiled to labor camps. The Ministry of Justice was empty.
These new Ministry of Justice soldiers were all newly recruited from the local troops.
They had not been influenced by the trusted aides of the eighth empress, so they could be considered a reliable force.
In these three days, Fan Kuai and Dian Wei had trained the 4500 newly recruited Dragon Guards to be disciplined and solemn.
Even if they didn't consume Body Tempering Liquid, they were still a resounding iron army.
Li Zhi took out another forty-five Body Tempering Pills. He had Fan Kuai and Dian Wei dissolve the pills in a big pot like last time and give them to each soldier.
This Body Tempering Liquid could not only strengthen the soldiers 'bodies, but it could also make their wills tougher. At the same time, their loyalty would be greatly increased.
A swaying person whose loyalty was only 50%, once he consumed the Body Tempering Liquid, his loyalty could directly soar to 99%.
Li Zhi had chosen people who were loyal to him. Their loyalty was around 80%.
Once one consumed the Body Tempering Liquid, it was inevitable that one's loyalty would reach 100%.
After consuming the Body Refinement Pills, these soldiers were instantly ecstatic. They felt that their muscles had expanded to a terrifying extent in a short period of time, and their strength had increased exponentially.
The injuries that had been caused by years of training had disappeared in an instant.
He was refreshed and extremely strong. His body was as agile as an ape and his movements were as swift as a cheetah.
Everyone was like a dragon, each competing with a tiger.
This was a roaring iron army, a force of tigers and wolves.
Fan Kuai and Dian Wei's eyes shone brightly.
They weren't blind, so they naturally saw the changes in the soldiers.
Of course, they had already experienced it once, so they were naturally not too shocked. However, they still sighed at the extraordinary effect of the pill in Li Zhi's hand.
From the Dragon Guards to 5500 men, their combat power was comparable to an army of 50,000.
With this trump card in Li Zhi's hands, he naturally had more confidence.
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The next day, in the court.
"Long live our emperor!"
"Empress, a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years!"
The ministers had finished kneeling.
"Today, I plan to introduce a new coin. All my beloved ministers can taste it!”Li Zhi said with a smile. Then, he waved his sleeve and asked Wang An to print out the banknotes and distribute them to the officials.
Wang An walked to the main hall and handed out stacks of yellow notes to all the officials.
"Hmm? What kind of material was this? It's like paper but not paper, like skin but not skin!" A minister rubbed the vellum in his hand and said in surprise.
"Yeah, the flexibility of this thing doesn't seem to be inferior to light leather at all!”
"Why are the serial numbers different? How many engravings would it take to print it?”One of the ministers suddenly saw the serial number at the bottom of the banknote and was instantly amazed.
This was because the serial number of each note was different and continuous.
This was basically impossible for the Great Tang, which only had the rigid method of engraving and printing.
After all, the cost was ridiculously high.
"Hiss ~ How did you get the carvings on it? Aiyaya, it was simply miraculous!”
"Yeah, I really can't figure it out no matter how hard I think!”
The ministers discussed animatedly and soon discovered several extraordinary craftsmanship on these banknotes.
Kraft paper, movable type printing, steel seal.
When Lu Shizhi, Lu Ze, and the others heard that Li Zhi wanted money, they almost laughed themselves to death.
After all, other currencies needed to be forged at a high cost, such as copper, iron, or gold and silver. However, the amount of gold and silver in privately forged coins was much lower than that in officially forged coins.
However, the cost was still very high.
Now that it was converted into paper money, the price was terrifyingly low. Wu Sansi and Lu Ze were ecstatic. They thought that if they were to make money privately, their profits would increase by ten to twenty times, or even more.
However, when the two of them received the notes from the other officials, they were instantly dumbfounded.
"What kind of technology is this? This is simply unheard of!" Lu Ze lowered his voice and exclaimed.
"That's right. Just this paper alone is probably difficult to create, let alone other aspects.”Lü Shizhi was extremely sad.
After seeing the first batch of paper money, the officials were very confident in the paper money and expressed their support.
Lu Ze, Lu Shizhi, and the others had already been reported for privately minting coins. If they were to object to this kind of paper money now, it would definitely attract more attacks and trouble. Therefore, the two of them also expressed their support with bitter faces!
Li Zhi immediately announced that he would give the Ministry of Revenue five million taels of silver notes and let them go to various places to open silver banks and exchange them for real gold and silver.
Five million notes were exchanged for five million taels of gold and silver.
Guo Wenliang, the Minister of Revenue, was dumbfounded.
The eighth empress was also petrified.
He thought to himself, Why doesn't this kid go and rob?
Five million pieces of paper were exchanged for five million taels of silver. How could there be such a good thing in the world?
Then, Li Zhi turned his gaze to Lu Ze and Lu Shizhi.
He said with a smile," The two of you have been in the coin industry for a long time and are quite proficient in it. Naturally, the new coins will be given to you. Come on, give the two Lords Lu five million taels of silver and let them exchange it for you."”
" Ah! Your Majesty!" The two of them were instantly dumbfounded. Their faces were as ugly as if their parents had died.
"What's wrong? Aren't you two willing to share my worries?”Li Zhi's face instantly turned stern as he looked at the two of them.
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