After making this year's planting plan, Ye Qing began to plan how to issue copper coins.

For copper coins, Ye Qing naturally adopts the style of roundness on the outside and squareness on the inside.

There are eight words engraved on both sides of the copper coin: Taihao Tongbao, as a penny for money.

This is a penny.

Ye Qing was originally planning to cast copper coins worth ten cents, but after thinking about it, he gave up again.

He felt that there was no need at the moment.

In addition, minting currencies with different denominations can easily cause loopholes.

The material of the cast copper coins, bronze, is valuable in itself, unlike paper money that has no value, and the face value can be printed at will.

Copper coins won't work.

If you want to issue a copper coins with a face value of ten cents, then the material value must be equivalent to a copper coins with a face value of ten cents.

The specific manifestation is weight.

Ten pieces per 10 pieces and ten pieces per 10 pieces shall have the same weight.

In this way, it would be meaningless to issue copper coins with a face value of ten cents.

Is it easy to carry?

The weight of the two is the same, not much convenient.

Change the copper-tin ratio to distinguish face value?

Yes, it's OK, but it's hard to distinguish for the tribe members.

They are all golden colors, and they can tell the difference.

If the weight of the two is different, speculation will inevitably occur in the future.

Is the copper coins with a face value light in weight?

Well, melt ten pieces per penny and cast ten pieces, and then you can add some of the raw materials.

If it is carried out in large quantities, you can get copper coins that exceed the original total face value.

The opposite is true.

Such things cannot be prevented.

No matter how strict the law is, as long as it is profitable, there will be people taking risks no matter what era it is.

Therefore, Ye Qing simply casts only a single-sided copper coin.

This loophole is too obvious, so it is better to avoid it.

The first step in this is to release it first in this tribe.

Currency, such a thing, has never been seen by the tribe, and basically no concept of currency.

Of course, there are also some tribe members who have a vague general concept of equivalents, but they just have a vague consciousness in use, so that they can't say that it's out of the way.

People like Wu, as well as some smart tribe members, often use cloth or valley to measure the value of other items of varying value in daily transactions.

They were also the first place to feel the inconvenience of Buhegu.

The value of cloth is too high, and many items with low value cannot be measured at all.

If you want to have a valley, it is also very inconvenient. It is too scattered. During the transaction process, there will often be many disputes due to accuracy.

In addition, there are also differences between good and bad valleys and dry tides, which will cause many differences when measuring value.

Before issuing copper coins, the first thing to do is to determine the value of copper coins, that is, to link copper coins with something of actual value that is generally accepted by the public.

After thinking about it, Ye Qing chose rice.

In this era, the concept of eating a full stomach is the mainstream concept in society, and rice is considered a hard currency.

Ye Qing mandated that a copper coin is worth a pound of rice.

The tribe members who hold copper coins can trade from the tribe to the corresponding amount of rice with copper coins at any time.

Ye Qing used the tribe's granary as a guarantee.

The first step in the official issuance of copper coins, Ye Qing built a shopping mall.

In this mall, all the goods sold to the outside world are marked with copper coins.

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The first person who felt the deepest about the newly issued copper coins was Wu.

After his transaction with those noble ladies, the copper coins were issued, and they became copper coins, no longer the cloth they used to be.

The noble ladies said that the wages paid by the tribe are no longer cloth or specific materials such as food, but copper coins.

As for what the use of copper coins is, Qing said, if a copper coins are exchanged for a pound of rice, anyone, at any time, can exchange the corresponding amount of rice from the shopping mall opened by the tribe, and other things they need.

At the beginning, Wu was not very willing to accept copper coins.

I can’t eat or wear copper coins. I can’t change them to a lot of them in my hands. What’s the use?

But he dared not refuse to accept it.

Because this is what Qing said.

Furthermore, the copper coins are made of the same material as the magic tool, which somewhat makes him less resistant.

With a try-and-see attitude, he brought a string of copper coins to the tribe's shopping mall.

He still praised the copper coins made by Qing very much.

The casting of copper coins is indeed beautiful.

Round and smooth without any burrs.

There are also beautiful and mysterious patterns.

The ladies said, this is the text.

He also doesn't know what words are.

But looking at the patterns on it, he felt a mysterious and solemn feeling.

In addition, the design of the copper coins is also very considerate, with a round outline and a square hole in the middle.

It is extremely convenient to carry. You can easily carry a lot of them by holding a string of ropes.

This is much more convenient than the previous cloth and rice.

The mall is located in the center of the tribe.

The mall is very large.

Looking at the dazzling array of goods, he stood there, not knowing how to act for a moment.

At this time, there were no customers in the mall. At the entrance of the mall, some people gathered to look around, but they didn't dare to come in.

A tribe member standing behind the counter greeted him and he couldn't help but walk over.

"What do you want to buy?"

“Can you buy anything?”

Here he saw something that he had never seen before, and even something that could only be allocated according to the fixed quota of the population.

For example, salt.

In his tribe, salt was not allowed to be traded in unlimited quantities.

Instead, it is distributed according to the population.

There are only three people in his family, and the annual limit is three bowls. This is the portion of the year and it is gone after eating.

Now, he saw a lot of salt here.

The tribe members behind the counter said with a smile:

"Trading can naturally be traded, but everything here can only be exchanged with copper coins. Have you brought copper coins?"

"Take it, bring it!"

"That's fine! Ten copper coins per kilogram of salt."

"oh!"

Wu quickly took out the copper coins, counted ten coins, and handed them to the tribe members behind the counter.

The tribe member also moved very quickly and immediately used a bowl of salt to scoop a bowl of salt.

"What kind of apparel are you using?"

Wu was in a little trouble, and he didn't think about buying salt, so he didn't bring a container for salt.

But he was smart after all, so he immediately took out his wallet.

"Let's fall here!"

After the transaction was over, he looked at the salt piled up in the huge wooden container behind the counter and couldn't help asking again:

“Can I buy it again?”

"sure!"

Now, he was overjoyed.

Salt is very precious. It was something I wanted to buy before, but I could not buy it here.

"Then I'll buy it!"

As he said that, he counted ten more copper coins and placed them one by one on the counter.
Chapter completed!