Vol 2 Chapter 2407: Daqin currency reform
Chapter 2407 Great Qin Currency Reform
Chapter 2403: Great Qin Currency Reform
“Second brother, thank you very much. If it weren’t for you, third brother, I would have been in trouble this time.”
Jin Yichuan said dejectedly.
He was an imposter and just joined Jin Yiwei. After so many years of working, he has completely become Jin Yichuan.
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Jin Yichuan is a Jin Yiwei, and he is obviously not a weak person, but his senior brother Ding Xiu is far stronger than him. If he kills him, he will not be able to defeat him. Once he is stabbed by Ding Xiu, everything he has now will be lost. .
Jin Yichuan could only endure his dissatisfaction and handed all his salary to Ding Xiu, hoping that his senior brother could keep it a secret, but Ding Xiu's appetite was getting bigger and bigger, and he wanted to use this to blackmail him for the rest of his life.
Jin Yichuan couldn't bear it anymore, so he invited Ding Xiu to a place with few people and planned to kill him in a sneak attack. However, he still underestimated Ding Xiu. Even if it was a sneak attack, he was still no match for Ding Xiu.
Ding Xiu had no intention of pretending to be Jin Yichuan, but a severe beating was obviously indispensable.
Just when Jin Yichuan was beaten to death, Shen Lian appeared in time and rescued Jin Yichuan.
Shen Lian's identity is not simple. On the surface, he is just an ordinary seventh-level general bannerman of Jinyiwei, but in fact, he is a person with a name in Heibingtai, and he also served as the No. 5 secret agent of Dizi.
According to Shen Lian's qualifications, even if he cannot be a fourth-grade Jinyiwei town governor, he is fully qualified to be a fifth-grade Qianhu, but his vision and luck are not very good.
When Local Number 5 was the secret agent, Shen Lian was always on tenterhooks. Everyone in the entire department was focused on Number 1. In order to ensure the safety of Number 1, he would not hesitate to abandon the entire department.
Shen Lian felt that being a secret agent was too dangerous, so after being seriously injured, he applied for a job and left the Dizi Department. As a result, he completed his mission and returned as soon as the transfer order was approved.
The "Di" character department also made great achievements because of this, and many people were promoted. Only Shen Lian did not get any credit because he had been transferred, and his previous achievements were not counted.
Later on a mission, Shen Lian let a girl go because of a soft heart. He thought he had done it perfectly, but he was still discovered, which angered Jia Xu.
The first level of official rank is overwhelming, not to mention that Jia Xu's rank is higher than Shen Lian's immediate boss.
Jia Xu did not cause trouble for Shen Lian. After all, that would be detrimental to his status. He directly reprimanded Shen Lian's immediate boss. How could Shen Lian still have a good life? He was immediately benched.
Others are getting bigger and bigger as their official positions get bigger, but Shen Lian is better off. However, he gets smaller and smaller as his official positions get smaller and smaller. He was demoted from the fourth-grade town governor to a thousand households, then to a hundred households, and now he has become a small general banner. .
In this regard, Shen Lian himself was also very depressed, but he was still alive, and mediocrity also had its benefits.
If his career soared smoothly, he would not have met Lu Jianxing and Jin Yichuan, two sworn brothers who had saved his life and could share life and death.
Shen Lian noticed that something was wrong with Jin Yichuan recently, and he didn't tell him anything when asked, so he followed him. As a result, he happened to see Jin Yichuan sneak attack on Ding Xiu, but was pushed to the ground and beaten violently by Ding Xiu.
Shen Lian saw that Ding Xiu had no murderous intention, but seeing that Jin Yichuan was beaten so badly, he couldn't continue to watch like this, so he took action and killed Jin Yichuan.
Shen Lian originally wanted to teach Ding Xiu a lesson and tell him not to pester Jin Yichuan anymore, but he did not expect that Ding Xiu was not weaker than him, and the fight ended in no contest.
In order to let Ding Xiu keep the secret, Shen Lian gave him fifty silver coins, which temporarily stabilized him.
Silver coins are a new currency introduced by Da Qin.
Before this, both the Han Dynasty and the Pre-Qin Dynasty had always used copper as the common currency.
The Qin Dynasty inherited the Han Dynasty and also adopted the five-baht coin as its currency.
Although rare precious metals such as gold and silver can also be used as currency, they are only circulated among nobles and gentry and are certainly not used by ordinary people.
But with the rapid economic development of Qin Dynasty and the people gradually becoming richer, copper coins naturally could not keep up with the times.
Just imagine, one stone of food costs 500 yuan, and one hundred shi is 50,000 yuan.
The people sold hundreds of shi of grain from their harvest to the government. The government paid 50,000 five-baht coins to the people, and the people had to use carts to take them away.
This is very inconvenient, and there are countless similar arguments.
After Ying Hao realized this situation, he made a prompt decision and ordered the Ministry of Accounts to prepare to promote currency reform, cancel the original copper system, switch to a silver system, and use silver as the common currency of the Qin Dynasty.
The reason why the gold-based system is not implemented is because the current economic size of Da Qin is far from being able to transition to a gold-based system, and the silver-based system is sufficient.
Currency reform is not a trivial matter. If something goes wrong, even the country will be in turmoil.
The country must have sufficient silver and gold reserves to ensure the smooth completion of currency reform.
The Great Qin a year ago would definitely not have been able to complete it. After all, the Great Qin at that time was too poor.
After a year of cultivation, coupled with the huge profits from the voyages to the West, and the continuous shipment of gold and silver from the Japanese islands, Daqin already has enough silver and gold reserves to support the country's transition from a copper-based system to a silver-based system. .
So, one month before the attack on Tokyo, Ying Hao ordered Wang Meng and Xun Yu to lead the currency reform and introduced three currencies: gold, silver and copper.
The new currency launched by Da Qin this time has the portrait of the founding emperor Ying Hao printed on the front, and the words "Shenwu Tongbao" printed on the reverse.
The currency of the Qin Dynasty contains a lot of precious metals. One pound of gold can be minted into 10 gold coins.
One pound of silver can also be minted into 10 silver coins.
So, each gold and silver coin is equivalent to one tael of gold and silver.
The exchange ratios between gold coins, silver coins and copper coins are respectively: 1:5:1500;
In other words, 1 gold coin can be exchanged for 5 silver coins and 1,500 copper coins.
One silver coin can be exchanged for 300 copper coins.
One hundred stones of grain can be sold for 50,000 copper coins. People need to use a cart to carry it away, but if it is converted into silver coins, it is only a hundred pieces. It can be carried away with one hand, which is much more convenient than before.
The currency reform of Da Qin greatly promoted the circulation of wealth and allowed Da Qin's business to develop more rapidly.
The transition from the copper standard to the silver standard is only the first step of Ying Hao’s plan. He will also set up banks next.
Ying Hao originally wanted to produce banknotes and even banknotes. After all, banknotes are definitely more convenient to circulate than metal coins, but now is obviously not the time. Even paper has been popularized for less than ten years, and the Qin Dynasty has just transitioned to a silver-based system. Implementing paper money so quickly is obviously a waste of time and can easily breed unrest. For the current Qin Dynasty, stability is more important than anything else.
At least it will take until after the world is unified and the silver system of Qin Dynasty matures that it will be suitable to introduce paper money.
Shen Lian gave Ding Xiu fifty silver coins, which was equivalent to giving him fifty taels of silver. This was not a small number, enough to support ten households for a year.
If the general Jin Yiwei would definitely not be able to pay so much money, but Shen Lian was different. He was still famous on the black ice table, but one person took two sources, so he could take out so much money at one time.
"Yichuan, until the issue of your identity is completely resolved, Ding Xiu will come to find you. He will keep this secret from you for the rest of his life." Shen Lian said solemnly.
The opponents he encountered when he was No. 5 were many stronger than Ding Xiu, but this was the first time he encountered such a rogue and difficult opponent as Ding Xiu.
"But second brother, you also know my situation. Impersonating Jin Yiwei is a capital crime." Jin Yichuan said bitterly.
Shen Lian was silent for a moment and then said: "This matter can be big or small. If someone guarantees it for you, it will most likely become a trivial matter."
“Second brother, although there are many dignitaries in Luoyang City, we brothers don’t know them, and we don’t have any connections.”
"Second brother knows a noble man. If he opens his mouth, he will definitely save your life."
The person Shen Lian was talking about was naturally his old boss, the first No. 1 secret agent, Zhang Rang.
Shen Lian is one of the few people who knows that Zhang Rang is still alive and hiding in Heibingtai.
Shen Lian didn’t want to have any interaction with Zhang Rang, not because he despised Zhang Rang’s actions, but because he had too many secrets, and the more he knew, the more dangerous his situation became.
But this time his sworn brother was killed, Zhang Rang was the only person in Shen Lian's network who could solve this problem.
“The real second brother?”
Jin Yichuan looked surprised. He didn't expect that his second brother would have such a relationship.
However, his second brother is indeed mysterious. He is obviously only half a rank higher than him, the general banner of the seventh-grade Xiaoqi, but even hundreds of thousands of households are extremely polite to him.
“Second brother, what on earth are you...”
Before Jin Yichuan finished speaking, he was interrupted by Shen Lian.
"Yichuan, don't ask too much. Knowing too much about your second brother will not do you any good."
“Oh, I got it, second brother.”
“Let’s go, after patrolling the streets, my second brother will treat you to a drink.”
"Um."
The two brothers wore flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives at their waists. Passers-by gave way to them wherever they passed.
Obviously, Jin Yiwei's reputation among the people is not good.
“Second brother, look, there seems to be a commotion over there on Qinglong Street.”
Jin Yichuan looked excited, turmoil meant meritorious service.
“Let’s go and have a look.”
As soon as the two arrived at Qinglong Street, they saw a scene that shocked them.
Dozens of Jinyi guards were forming a flying fish formation, surrounding the two foreigners.
With such a lineup, not to mention first-class experts, even super-first-class experts would have been stunned on the spot. Not only did they fail to take down the two aliens, but they were beaten by the other side.
“This is a master-level expert.”
After all, Shen Lian was a person who had been a secret agent. Although his strength was not too strong, his knowledge was not low. He could tell at a glance that Gawain and Lancelot were both master-level warriors, but there was more in his heart. Still confused.
These two masters dared to fight with the Jinyi Guards of Great Qin in Luoyang City. Do they want their lives?
Da Qin has more than a dozen great masters who are worshiped by all the sects in the world. They are as powerful as the eight sects. When they come to Da Qin, they don’t dare to be presumptuous and behave obediently with their tail between their legs.
But these two aliens not only attacked in the city, but also injured so many people. Aren't they afraid of drawing out the powerful masters in the city, or even the great masters?
You know, there is more than one great master in Luoyang City, or do they not know this at all?
While Shen Lian was thinking, he suddenly heard someone calling him, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was Ji Ying.
Ji Ying also realized that he was kicking the iron this time, and he felt regretful in his heart. If he had known that these two aliens were so strong, how could he deliberately embarrass them?
Also, with such a strong strength, what can't you do? Do you have to make money through performing arts?
Ji Ying really couldn't understand the brain circuits of the aliens, but he was already riding a tiger. So many people had been injured. If he couldn't take down these two people, he would definitely be punished.
Seeing Shen Lian coming, Ji Ying seemed to have seen a savior. He knew that Shen Lian was a super master. He was demoted to the general banner because he offended the commander. He was much stronger than him, so he hurried to Shen Lian. Lian calls for help.
"Shen Lian, what are you doing standing still? Come on, come on quickly." Ji Ying shouted.
When Shen Lian heard this, he really wanted to kick Ji Ying to death and let him deal with two grandmasters alone? You really want to see me die.
However, Ji Ying is a Qianhu, and he is only the general flag. Ji Ying is two levels higher than him, so he has to obey the orders of the superior.
In addition, Shen Lian also noticed that these two aliens had no murderous intentions, otherwise these dozens of Jinyi guards would not just be lying on the ground.
“Yichuan, you go protect Mr. Ji, and the second brother goes to deal with these two thieves.”
Speaking, Shen Lian pulled out the Xiuchun knife and rushed forward. This time he was not prepared to take action, but wanted to convince people with reason.
Lancelot and Gawain didn't want to cause trouble, but in the face of Ji Ying's aggressiveness, they didn't want to be captured without mercy, so they had to defend themselves. But they obviously also knew the appropriateness and understood that once they killed someone, they could never take it back, so He just hurt people but didn't kill them.
(End of this chapter)