"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 with a dejected look.
His real name is Ding Xian, and he joined the Jinyiwei through impersonation. After so many years of service, he has completely replaced Jin Yichuan's identity.
Originally, he was living a good life with more and more hope, but recently he was discovered by his fellow disciple Ding Xiu, who has been using this as a threat to entangle and blackmail him.
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. He is not an opponent at all. But once his affairs are revealed by Ding Xiu, everything he has now will be lost.
lose.
Jin Yichuan could only endure his displeasure and handed over his salary and savings to Ding Xiu, hoping that his senior brother could keep the secret, but Ding Xiu's appetite grew bigger and bigger, and he also claimed that he would use this secret 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 he attacked him sneakily, he was still no match for Ding Xiu.
Ding Xiu was attacked and killed by Jin Yichuan, but he still had no intention of killing him, 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 an ordinary general of the seventh rank of Jinyiwei, but in fact he is a person with a name in Heibingtai, and he also served as the No. 5 secret agent.
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 spy No. 5 was assigned, Shen Lian was always on tenterhooks.
Everyone in the entire department revolves around No. 1. In order to ensure the safety of No. 1, they will 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, No. 1 completed his mission and returned as soon as the transfer order was approved.
The "Di" department has also made great contributions, and many people have been promoted. Only Shen Lian has not received any credit because he has been transferred, and his previous contributions will not be counted.
Later, during a mission, Shen Lian let a girl go because of a soft heart. He thought he had done it perfectly, but he was discovered anyway, which angered Jia Xu.
The rank of an official is overwhelming, not to mention that Jia Xu's rank is higher than that of Shen Lian's immediate boss.
Jia Xu did not cause trouble for Shen Lian. After all, that would undermine his status. He directly reprimanded Shen Lian's immediate boss. Then could Shen Lian still have a good life? He was immediately put on the bench.
Others tend to get bigger and bigger as their official positions get higher and higher. Shen Lian is better, but his official positions get smaller and smaller as he gets higher and higher.
From the fourth rank town governor, he was demoted to a thousand households, then to a hundred households, and now it has become a small seventh rank general banner.
Regarding this, Shen Lian himself was also very depressed, but his life was still there, and mediocrity also had its benefits.
If his career had gone smoothly and soared into the sky, he would not have met Lu Jianxing and Jin Yichuan, two sworn brothers who had saved his life and could share life and death together.
Shen Lian noticed that something was wrong with Jin Yichuan recently, and he didn't tell him when he asked him, 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 when he saw that Jin Yichuan was beaten so badly, he couldn't continue to watch, so he took action and killed Jin Yichuan.
Shen Lian originally wanted to teach Ding Xiu a lesson and warn him not to pester Jin Yichuan again, 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 the newly launched currency of Da Qin.
Before that, both the Han Dynasty and the Pre-Qin Dynasty had always used copper as their 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.
However, with the rapid economic development of the Qin Dynasty, people began to gradually become richer, prices began to rise, and consumption levels improved, so copper coins naturally could not keep up with the times.
Just imagine, one stone of food costs 500 yuan, and one hundred stones is 50,000 yuan.
The common people sold hundreds of kilograms of grain from their harvest to the government, and the government had to pay 50,000 five-baht coins to the common people. The 50,000 copper coins weighed several hundred kilograms, and the common people had to use ox carts to haul them away.
This is very inconvenient.
There are countless similar cases
After Ying Hao realized this situation and the economy of Daqin had reached a new level, he ordered the Ministry of Accounts to promote currency reform, cancel the original copper system, switch to a silver system, and use silver as Daqin's currency. common currency.
The reason why the gold-based system is not directly implemented is naturally because the current economic size of Da Qin is far from being able to transition to a gold-based system. For now, the silver-based system is sufficient.
Currency reform is not a trivial matter. The country must have sufficient silver and gold reserves to ensure the smooth completion of the currency reform. Once something goes wrong, the entire country's finances will be in turmoil.
A year ago, Daqin was in dire straits, and it was obviously impossible to complete currency reform.
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. system.
Therefore, 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, with silver coins as the main currency.
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, Da Qin Yongchang" are printed on the reverse.
Da Qin's new currency is not an all-gold or all-silver currency, but an alloy made of three metals: gold, silver, and copper, mixed with other metals. However, the proportion of other metals is not high, and it only accounts for the measurement range at most.
In this case, one pound of gold and silver can be minted into 12 gold and silver coins, and the value of each gold and silver coin is equivalent to one tael of gold and silver.
This is equivalent to increasing Da Qin's gold and silver reserves by 20% out of thin air, which invisibly increases the wealth of the entire country.
As for the exchange ratios between gold coins, silver coins and copper coins, they are: 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 500 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.
This currency reform of Great Qin greatly promoted the circulation of wealth and allowed Great 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. Next, he will set up banks to collect the world's wealth and issue banknotes to make the circulation of wealth more convenient.
Ying Hao also thought about skipping these steps and directly producing banknotes. After all, banknotes would definitely be more convenient to circulate, but after thinking about it, he decided that it was not the right time yet.
Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes, and the same is true for currency reform.
Credit currency comes from the endorsement of national credit, and paper has not been popularized for less than ten years. If paper, which originally had no purchasing power, is used as currency, Daqin, which has not yet been unified, obviously does not have such high credibility.
In addition, the Qin Dynasty had just transitioned to a bank-based system, and the introduction of paper money so quickly was obviously a waste of time and could easily lead to financial turmoil and chaos.
At least until the world is unified, when the silver-based system of the Qin Dynasty matures and can smoothly transition to the gold-based system, it will be suitable to implement the birth of paper money, and this will take at least a hundred years of transition time.
For the current Great Qin, stable development is more important than anything else, so banknotes and the like are simply not suitable to appear in this era.
Shen Lian gave Ding Xiu fifty silver coins, which is equivalent to giving him fifty taels of silver. This is not a small number, it is enough for ten households for a year.
An ordinary Jin Yiwei would definitely not be able to come up with so much money, but Shen Lian was different. He was still registered in Heibingtai and received two salaries per person, so he was able to come up with so much money at once.
"Yichuan, until the issue of your identity is completely resolved, Ding Xiu will still come to find you, and he will keep this secret from you for the rest of your life." Shen Lian said solemnly.
There were many opponents he encountered when he was local number five who were 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.
After Shen Lian was silent for a while, he said: "This matter can be big or small. If someone vouch for you, it will probably 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 adopted brother was killed, and the only person in Shen Lian's network who could solve this problem was Zhang Rang.
"Really second brother?"
Jin Yichuan looked surprised. He didn't expect his second brother to have such a relationship.
However, his second brother is indeed mysterious. He is obviously only half a rank higher than him, the general banner from the seventh rank Xiaoqi, but even hundreds 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 were wearing 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 Qinglong Street."
Jin Yichuan's face showed excitement, turmoil meant meritorious service.
"Let's go over 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 to be furious on the spot. Not only did they fail to take down the two aliens, but they were even beaten by the other side.
"This is a master-level powerhouse."
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 grandmasters dared to fight against the Jinyi Guards of Great Qin in Luoyang City. Did they not want their lives?
Da Qin has more than a dozen great masters who are worshiped by all the major sects in the world. They are as powerful as the eight major sects. When they came to Da Qin, they did not dare to be presumptuous and behaved 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 strong masters in the city, or even the grand 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 had kicked the bucket this time, and he felt regretful in his heart. If he had known that these two aliens were so powerful, how could he deliberately make things difficult for them?
Also, with such 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 and couldn't get off. 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 only because he offended the commander. He was much stronger than him, so he hurriedly asked Shen Lian. Call for help.
"Shen Lian, why are you still standing there? Come on, come on quickly." Ji Ying shouted.
When Shen Lian heard this, he just wanted to kick Ji Ying to death and let him deal with two grandmasters alone? You really want to watch me die.
However, Ji Ying is a Qianhu, and he is only the commander-in-chief. Ji Ying is two levels higher than him, so he has to obey the orders of his superiors.
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."
With that said, Shen Lian pulled out his Xiuchundao and rushed forward bravely. This time he was not planning 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 were forced to defend themselves if they didn't want to be captured. However, they obviously also knew the right measures and understood that once they killed someone, they could never take it back, so He only hurt people but didn't kill them.