Zhang Ke's heart moved. When Penglai was first established, Xu Qingzhi had discussed this issue with him.
A unified currency facilitates transactions and can also promote circulation between regions, which is a benefit.
But equally, there are advantages and disadvantages, and various differences between different regions will cause businessmen to quickly make profits and dominate the market.
If you want to use the same currency uniformly, you will need a special institution to balance the differences in various prices, interest rates, etc.
For thousands of years, because of the existence of the 'money tree', the three types of talisman money have become the main currency in the spiritual world.
In the secular world, the Azure World has always used gold bars, silver taels, and copper coins as currency.
Although the currencies between states are not unified and there will be a lot of troubles in large-scale transactions, Zhang Ke never dared to touch this.
However, Zhang Ke once discussed with Xu Qingzhi the idea of replacing metal currency with banknotes.
After all, gold, silver, and copper are relatively important resources. If they can be replaced by banknotes, these saved metals can be used in other places.
This is a major event that will affect the future of the blue world. The size of the ‘Innate Yiqi Southern Sect’ is too small. Even if it has great benefits, it does not dare to touch it at all.
At this moment, when he heard the woman say the word "copper yuan", he immediately understood that it must have been written by Xu Qingzhi.
Zhang Ke's heart sank. If it were to go as he expected, the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' might be in big trouble.
The woman was followed by two strong men, each pushing a small cart.
At this time, the woman opened the canvas on one of the small cars, and inside was a pile of delicate red copper coins.
The copper coins are not made from pure copper, and there is no telling what kind of substances are mixed in them. Each one shimmers with light, dazzling people's eyes.
The woman held a handful of "copper coins" and scattered them casually. In the crisp sound of "crash", she smiled and said:
"Everyone is here for the first time, so everyone is given eleven copper coins as a gift."
Out of the instinct to take advantage, not only the people who were originally next to her gathered around her, but also some people around her came over curiously.
"Are you really going to give us free money?"
"Although eleven cents is not worth much, there are hundreds of people here.
This person must be a fool, I have never heard of anyone giving away money for free."
"That's right! But this little girl looks cunning and smart, and she doesn't look like a fool. Is there any deceit in this?"
"Tch~~! No matter what she wants to do, get the free money first."
"That's it! That's it!"
"..."
People have a herd mentality, and once someone gathers, more people will naturally gather.
In just a quarter of an hour, hundreds of people gathered around the woman.
Some people looked at the small car, which was only three feet high, and probably estimated the number of copper coins in it.
People with outstanding calculation skills quickly calculated that the loading capacity of two small cars was simply unable to meet the requirements of 11 copper dollars per person for the hundreds of people around them.
As a result, the people standing behind could not help but eager to squeeze in front of the woman.
Naturally, the people in the front were worried about being pushed to the back and not being able to get a share of the money, so they moved closer to the woman.
During the pushing and shoving, the situation became a bit chaotic.
The woman shouted loudly:
"Don't crowd! Don't crowd! Everyone has something, everyone has something!"
But the more chaotic people are, the more worried they are about not being able to get their money, and some grumpy people are already shouting and swearing.
There were also some people with small children desperately trying to prevent people around them from pushing towards their children.
The woman shouted a few words, but no one listened to her.
Seeing that some children were frightened to the point of crying, they became very anxious and stretched out their hands to blow the whistle with runes on their necks.
"Xululu~~! Xunlulu~~!"
A slight tremor quickly spread from the air.
A few seconds later, a golden light flashed from a pattern of armored soldiers on the wall next to it.
A tall, white-armored god seven feet tall will jump out from the screen wall.
Wearing silver armor with fish scales and a cold iron-gray faceplate, his eyes are dark gold, which seems to be flashing with curse patterns. In his left hand, he is holding an eight-foot thick dark gold stick with goose eggs.
Seeing the chaotic and noisy scene, the white-armored god general struck the long stick in his hand on the ground.
"boom!"
"quiet!"
A muffled sound like a heavy drum followed by a majestic deep voice resounded in everyone's ears.
Almost instantly, hundreds of people fell silent, and no one dared to push or crowd anymore.
The pretty woman breathed a sigh of relief.
Today's move to disperse money was a strategy she came up with without telling her family. If it really caused a commotion, it would be troublesome.
The woman cupped her hands and spoke to the white-armored god general:
"Please ask God to maintain order here."
The white-armored god general clenched his fists with his hands, and a deep voice came from under his face armor.
"Here!"
Turning around to face the hundreds of people around him, he grabbed a handful of dark golden sand from his waist with his right hand and waved it outward.
"brush--!"
A cloud of golden sand flew up and fell from the air, forming vertical lines of golden sand that fell to the ground. The distance of two feet between each other was enough to block everyone.
"To avoid confusion, please stand within the golden sand line at your feet."
Many people talked in low voices, and moved their bodies one by one to stand within the two golden threads.
After dozens of rows of people stood neatly, the woman motioned to the two people next to her to push their carts and follow her to the front of the crowd.
Each of the three people used a bamboo basket to fill the cart with copper coins and distributed them separately to everyone.
Zhang Ke also stood at the front with great interest. The woman picked up a copper coin and handed it to Zhang Ke, saying:
"your!"
As he said this, he looked at Zhang Ke with a slightly surprised look.
'You are so young and don't look for work, but you are here waiting for money, huh! These foreigners are really lazy.'
Zhang Ke held the copper coin in his hand and looked back and forth.
The purple-red copper coin is only the size of a dragon's eye, slightly smaller than the one-yuan coin in the dream, but has the same thickness. There are several tiny fonts embedded in the arc on the outer edge.
The copper coin is about the size of a dragon's eye and has two characters engraved on the front.
‘One article’
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! On the back is an engraved pattern with undulating patterns, exactly like the two islands of Penglai and Penglai.
With the power of his spiritual thoughts, Zhang Ke could naturally see that this pattern was completely a Penglai that had been shrunk countless times.
Even the ‘Longmen Bridge’ connecting each other is subtly revealed in the pattern.
Zhang Ke glanced around slightly and saw that the person next to him had exactly the same copper coin as his own, and a thought flashed through his mind.
'Mechanical stamping!'
Obviously, there have been countless inventions and creations in Penglai and Penglai over the past few decades.
Suddenly I heard someone talking quietly next to me.
"Hey! Didn't you say that each person was given eleven copper coins? Why is there only one coin now?"
"Yes! Could it be that this little girl doesn't keep her words?"
"..."
The low-pitched discussion quickly reached the woman's ears, but she turned a deaf ear to the words and quickly gave each person a copper dollar.
Then the woman came to the crowd and said loudly:
"Has everyone seen the copper dollar?
On it is written the word "一文", which is the smallest coin unit in Penglai.
This copper yuan can buy five chicken eggs on Penglai Island, and five copper yuan can buy a bushel of corn."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone started talking again.
"Oh! In my hometown, it takes three coppers to buy a chicken egg, and a bucket of rice costs a hundred coppers!"
"This copper coin is so exquisite. I have never seen such a beautiful copper coin."
"Yes, I feel that the value of this copper coin itself is far more valuable than that value."
"Indeed, this copper coin is so beautiful and it is still shining."
"..."
The woman walked to another car and suddenly opened the canvas on the car.
On the criss-crossed wooden grids, various types of copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins were neatly stacked in rows.
Dazzling golden light, sparkling silver light, and purple-red shimmer overlap and complement each other.
At this moment, this little car was like a cornucopia, reflecting light that was several feet high.
"Wow--!"
"Oh my God! That's a lot of money!"
"..."
Listening to everyone's amazed voices and tones, the woman took out three different specifications of purple-red copper coins and said with a smile:
"There are five types of copper coins and silver coins, and the numerical value engraved on them represents its value.
The numerical values of copper coins are 'one coin', 'five coins', 'ten coins', 'twenty coins', and 'fifty coins'.
The numerical value of the silver dollar is similar to this, according to 'one dollar', 'five dollars' and so on.
On the basis of these five values, the gold dollar also adds the value of "one hundred yuan".
Penglai coins adopt a hundred-base system, one hundred copper dollars is equivalent to one silver dollar, and one hundred silver dollars is equivalent to one gold dollar."
Having said this, the woman called to the other two people to fill their baskets with "ten coins" of copper coins, and distributed one more to everyone present.
The 'Ten Wen' copper coin is slightly larger than the 'One Wen' copper coin. In addition to the numerical value, the pattern on the back has also changed.
The five fingers of Zhang Ke's right hand flexed and stretched, and two copper coins, one large and one small, jumped between the palms of his fingers like naughty elves.
Different amounts of coins can save a lot of materials for refining coins. This method has been used since ancient times.
It's just that the Penglai coins are more refined, giving people the impression that the value of "one copper coin" itself exceeds the amount.
Zhang Ke scanned the car with his mind and found that no matter what type of coins they were, they were made of different alloys made of different materials.
Each of the sixteen patterns on the back of the coin is completely different, including thousands of boats pulling on reefs, three dragons crossing the sky, whirlpools supporting islands, etc.
A total of sixteen very representative events that occurred on the southward migration journey of the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Nanzong’ were selected as symbols.
Zhang Ke was thinking about the woman's intention of handing out the coins.
If you want to explain Penglai coins, you don't need to give them away for free. Just choose one of each to explain clearly.
The purchasing power of Penglai coins is very strong. The coins issued by hundreds of people add up to dozens of silver dollars, which is no longer a small number.
After the woman distributed coins to everyone, she stood in front of hundreds of people again.
"Next I will show you around.
This is the most prosperous place in Qingshui County, with various delicacies from various islands.
Anyway, you can try whatever you want with the eleven copper coins you got for free.
There are also many precious items that are only found in the nine counties of Penglai.
Here, only Penglai coins can be used, so if you see something you like but don’t have enough coins, you can come to me to exchange it at any time.
Of course, if you exchange more coins, you can exchange the remaining coins back when you leave here."
Everyone couldn't help but nodded. Penglai's big money would basically be useless after leaving here. Since it was in vain, it was better to use it.
"Alas! Just now I saw a kind of southern rice cake that seemed very delicious. You can buy five of it for just one copper dollar. I just want to try it."
"Hey, I think the rice cake is good too. By the way, there are some fruits I haven't seen before and I don't know what they taste like. Let's go together."
"Niuniu, let's go, daddy will buy you that headband that you just took a fancy to."
"Really? Wow! Daddy, you are so kind."
"..."
Listening to the enthusiastic discussions among the people around him, Zhang Ke finally understood the woman's intention of giving away the money for free.
'Inspiring consumption!'
This scene is very similar to some scenes in dreams.
There is inertia in consumption, just like in some tourist places. If you don't consume all the time, you may be able to control your desires.
But once the hole for spending money is opened, it will be difficult to share it again.
Zhang Ke had already learned something while on board the Feiyu.
In order to recruit enough people to work, 'Qingshui County' has been implementing a strategy over the years.
As long as you are willing to come to Qingshui County, mountain boats can transport you for free. Of course, this is only for those who come here for the first time.
Nowadays, the majority of these hundreds of people are unwilling to consume.
However, after they have spent the eleven free copper dollars and see something they like, they will naturally exchange it for purchase.
After Zhang Ke thought about all this, he couldn't help but look at the woman in front of him with admiration.
Not everyone has the courage and can think of such a way to stimulate consumption.
After looking at the woman slightly, Zhang Ke left quietly.