Since Qin Shihuang unified the six countries and unified the currency, as the only official designated product, currency, as a circulating metal that exchanges substances for substances, has not actually undergone essential changes in material over the years. Copper, as the third metal ranked behind gold and silver, plays an irreplaceable important role.

After the square hole and round coins were revealed, they became the most popular currency in the hearts of ordinary people because of their unique feel. Copper was the main material for this square hole and round coins. At that time, its denomination usually refers to only one penny. Because the price was not very high at that time, a penny could buy a lot of things. For example, a monk in the world said: "Money is like honey, and a drop is sweet." The "drop" of money mentioned here is a penny, which is naturally useful and very useful.

The so-called "one qian weighs hills and a pound of millet and dirt is light on dirt", you can't buy a loss or be deceived by a penny. You can buy two crabs in Nanenzhou, the coastal areas of Guangdong; you can buy a handful of shrimps by the water in Lingnan; you can drink a cup of tea for a penny in high-end singing and dancing clubs like Hangzhou; you can buy a piece of malt sugar called "元元" in Suzhou; you can buy a piece of malt sugar for a penny; you can buy a piece of patent medicine for cough treatment for one penny, or you can scrub a bath in a not-too-high-end public bathhouse. The penny here refers to the Song and Yuan Tongbao during the Taizu period.

Before the founding of the Wei Dynasty, the world was full of copper content, and it became the most expensive copper coins at present. The unworthy descendants of the latter did not do a good job in family planning, and the population expanded rapidly. The commercial development of copper could not keep up. The copper coins of nine or even eight cents were less and less. More and more people called it lead coins and the products of iron coins. Although the coins that came out later were also called Tongbao, they gradually depreciated. Often, they could only be used as the original one before two papers, and merchants were entering.

When trading, the inherent value is no longer measured by the face value, but the age, material, and the feel of copper coins. The corresponding small flat money appeared - a penny at that time, and two cents were called "danger" - its value is equivalent to two cents. Even the large-denomination banknotes "Jiazi" sold in Shu in recent years has become "money yin" with only half its value. This is a tragedy and satire of the government, and it is also a misfortune of the people.

As the annual monies of the Great Liao Dynasty and the annual gifts of the Western Yi, the people of the Wei Dynasty did not mind delivering silk silver to the other party and would never give the other party a copper coin, because as silver that only serves as a storage function, compared with the most popular currency in society, the latter's audience determines its importance. What's more, there are even less copper coins in the Wei Dynasty now. Compared with the increasing population, salt banknotes, tea indices and monks and Taoist certificates are also exercising monetary functions.

The more you don't allow this kind of copper coins to be exported, the more the surrounding countries try to get this kind of Tongbao through various channels. Later, the civil servants thought of a way to use those iron coins to cast defective copper coins to exchange for more valuable copper, silver and other items around them to alleviate the crisis of insufficient copper within the Wei Dynasty.

Later, the Wei dynasties who were exiled to the Western Yi and Liao dynasties revealed this secret. The angry Da Liao and Western Yi realized that they had been fooled. However, when Tongbao's unstoppable copper coins were popular in their own country, the Western Yi and Liao people had to spend more copper or gold and silver to exchange copper coins from the Wei dynasty to fill the pit.

That mysterious man was Xiao Zhijun, the beloved daughter of the king Chopard who came from the Western Yi. This time he really came to exchange copper coins with Yue Ling'er, Yue Fei and others.

After the war between the Western Yi and the Wei Dynasty, the trade between the two sides was completely cut off like the Wei Dynasty in Tubo and Qingtang City. Now the original iron coins of the Wei Dynasty in the Western Yi were stretched out. They urgently needed to fill the vacancy with new Tongbao, because the merchants of the Western Yi only recognized the Tongbao money of the Wei Dynasty. The evil consequences they had laid in the first place must not be killed to solve them. This way, the Western Yi will be over. What's more, it's still a life of worsening. In the end, Xiao Zhijun proposed to go to Tubo's Gangchai in person. I heard that it has become the hometown of Tongbao of Tubo. Whether it will succeed depends on this time.

Friendship is about friendship, business is about business. Yue Ling'er, Yue Fei, Zhou Xun and others understood very well. Hongxiu knew the lady's temper and had to return the precious gift Xiao Zhijun gave her.

When the two groups of people sat at the negotiating table tensely, the atmosphere at the scene became very subtle. Yue Fei, as the agent general, exercised the decision-making power of the entire negotiation process. He said nothing, and looked coldly at Xiao Zhijun, Xiao Qiang and others opposite him.

At this moment, two soldiers showed up in front of everyone with a full basket of Tongbao coins. They walked slowly, and the copper coins in the box seemed to be very heavy. The two of them almost used all their strength to pour the basket of money on the negotiating table.

The Westerners on the opposite side had a rich expression. When they saw these Tongbao coins, they were even more excited than seeing a naked woman. They couldn't put them down when touching the copper coins. When the officials of the Ministry of Revenue looked at the Tongbao with at least five cents of copper, their tears were almost falling. In recent years, those Wei Chao officials who had been cheating themselves miserably. If these things were transported back to the country, they would definitely be very popular.

Xiao Zhijun coughed lightly several times to calm her people down, but now this is completely useless. These people are like possessed and have completely lost their minds since they saw this pile of Tongbao.

The clever Yue Fei called on the two soldiers just now to take away all the copper coins, which brought the negotiations back to normal again.

"This is our sincerity. If you can offer enough conditions to make us excited, there are no less than 200 baskets of copper coins like this here."

"What about this after this?" Xiao Zhijun seemed to have grown a lot in just over a year. Compared with her father Chopard, who was drunk all day long, she is the real master of this country now.

"You can come to us every six months to exchange copper coins, and I guarantee you can get what you want."

"How to change it?"

"Three or seven points."

“It’s fair.”

"You can only exchange for 30 such copper plates with a silver ingot."

"You guys are too much."

"That's 28 points."

Xiao Zhijun was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but he never dared to raise any doubts anymore. She was afraid that Yue Fei would lower the exchange ratio, which was already the lowest bottom line that Xiao Zhijun could bear.

The subsequent signing and exchange ceremony was completed smoothly. When the Western Foreign Ministry of Revenue officials transported the copper coins to the car with a smile, they were afraid that Yue Fei and others would regret it, so they left without time to count it. Later, they found that except for the five-cent copper coins on the surface, the ones below were still iron coins or lead coins.

Those officials are not worried but happy. If they put five cents of copper coins into the market in large quantities, there will be problems. Only by slowly letting five cents of copper coins replace those iron and lead coins is the wisest choice. I am worried that those people have helped themselves solve such a bad problem.

Yue Fei smiled brightly at the empty copper coins, but the problem of handing over copper coins every six months has become the biggest problem. Now the merchants who buy salt basically do not use copper coins, but use silver ingots or gold directly. This is a boast. As for how to solve it, I believe that Wu Yonglin who comes back will solve it. As the saying goes, you don’t make money, you are a bastard.
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