The operation of the Huangzhou General Administration to search for the private coin furnaces was concluded. The coins cast by Daye Supervisor were successfully circulated on the market. The government also prevented the confiscation of inferior coins in various prefectures and cities, and strictly prohibited those strange-shaped edge-cutting coins from continuing to be used.

Huangzhou General Manager Yuwen Wen reflected his credit in this matter: if you want to behead your head if you mint coins, you will beheaded if you want to behead your dog!

This action also reminds people of the New Year's Eve four years ago, and recalls the fierce other side of Yuwen Wen. Not to mention the rest, there are no traces of private furnaces in the Huangzhou General Administration.

At least in recent times, no one dares to mint coins privately.

But even so, for businessmen who do business, there is no change in things before and after. They still have to face old problems, and this problem still seems unsolvable.

The business sells goods, and the purchase uses copper coins, but once the transaction amount exceeds a certain level, the copper coins will be difficult to use: because it is too heavy and it is inconvenient to carry.

Yizhengquan weighs about four to five kilograms, and a minimum-grade Huangzhou cloth weighs about ten cents, which means that Yizhengquan can buy about ten such cloth. However, when a merchant sells goods, he has to buy thousands of pieces at a time, so the amount and weight of copper coins required is very considerable.

Not to mention better Huangzhou fine cloth or those dyed fine cloth, the price ranges from two or three hundred to seven or eight hundred, or even more than one thousand, according to the grade. If you want to buy these cloths in large quantities, it is even more inconvenient to use copper coins.

There are thousands or tens of thousands of kilograms of copper coins, not to mention whether they can make up enough quantities, transportation alone is a problem. It is easy for merchants in Shannan Prefecture and County. Huangzhou is downstream, so it is convenient to transport money by boat, but what should merchants in northern China do?

According to the old rules, it is to use both money and silk. Copper coins can be bought, and cloth can also be used as currency to buy things. The court pays salary, and the money is also paid for rice and cloth. The circulation of copper coins in the Yangtze River Basin is fine. The northern region, especially in Hebei, basically doing business is to barter.dudu1;

The ones that assume the function of money in these places are cloth. Copper coins are made of roads, and cloth is made of rulers, segments, and pieces. Since ancient times, money and silk have been done in both business, copper coins are used for small transactions, and cloth is used for large transactions.

Therefore, the quality of copper coins is not a key problem for wealthy merchants who do big business. What they have a headache about is how to transport copper coins themselves once the other party does not collect cloth in bulk transactions.

Because among the hot-selling goods in Huangzhou, cloth is the first one. How can we exchange things that others already have?

If you use copper coins, it will be really troublesome. If you go south from Yecheng to Huangzhou to buy cloth and book dealers, if you use a car to pull tens of thousands of kilograms of copper coins, the journey of more than 2,000 miles is really painful.

Of course, using other things such as silk and hemp is also fine. It is really a considerable expense to transport bulk items from a long distance, which directly increases costs and affects profits.

Gold, silver or jewelry can also be used as payment for goods. These things are valuable and easy to carry, but not all customers can provide a large amount of jewelry. What's more, for wealthy merchants, the glass mirrors in Huangzhou are of great value, and they may not be able to buy them with jewelry.

The things that one wants are a variety of things, and cannot be solved by just gold, silver, jewelry.

On the eastern outskirts of Xiyang City, a carriage came from Bakou Port and walked slowly towards the east gate on the official road. Inside the carriage, Cen Chong was looking at the scenery outside through the window.

On the left side of the official road is the river defense embankment, and there is a beacon tower every distance. One is to serve as a beacon to communicate with the beacon smoke, the other is to protect the river embankment, and on the right is a large area of ​​farmland, and of course a huge military camp.dudu2;

The Hulin Army of Huangzhou, the general manager of Zhu Guogong Yuwen Wen, was famous in the southern part of Shannan. Yuwen Huangzhou fought everywhere with this army and stationed in Huangzhou by the way to scare the little kids.

The Hulin Army barracks are located on the edge of the official road from Bakou to Xiyang City. As Huangzhou becomes more and more popular, more and more people come and go on this official road, and the Hulin Army no longer prohibits people passing by to look at the military barracks.

Anyway, the situation inside cannot be seen, even if Chen Guoshi carefully looked at the appearance of the military camp, it would be useless: Chen Jun cannot defeat him.

Cen Chong was a little distracted, not for the magnificent river breaking embankment, nor for the Hulin Army camp that he had seen countless times. He traveled back and forth between Jingzhou and Huangzhou to do business, but this time was a little different from the past.

Carefully took out a flat wooden box from his arms, and after opening it, it took out a piece of paper with exquisite patterns. This piece of paper is light, but also heavy, and cannot withstand any twists and turns.

All the coins of thousands of coins are on this piece of paper.

No, it cannot be called paper, it should be called bill of exchange. This is the bill of exchange of Ruixing, which saves the trouble of long-distance transportation of copper coins. It is just not to cause any trouble when cashing out.

Cen Chong is the old customer of Ruixing. The money he does is worth tens of thousands of yuan, but it is really troublesome to transport copper coins. Even if it is water transportation, it is not worry-free. The newly launched bill of exchange for Ruixing has helped a lot.

Ruixing has a semicolon in Rangcheng, the capital of Jingzhou. Cen Chong delivered copper coins and precious medicinal materials in his semicolon. After the inventory was completed, the two sides agreed that the total price was 10,000 yuan, and then the other party issued a bill of exchange.dudu3;

I took this bill to Xiyang City, Huangzhou and went directly to the main account of Ruixing to cash out, and I had 10,000 guan in my hand. This saved me the trouble of carrying a lot of money and traveling.

It looks very convenient, but the risk is also very high. Once the other party refuses to admit it, then this is a piece of waste paper and the money will be gone. If someone else had dared not act like this, but Ruixing would be different.

Because this is the industry of Yu Wenwen, Duke of Zhu, and his credit is very good.

As the second son of Yuwen Liang, a major businessman in Shannan Road (adopted and nominally considered his nephew), Yuwen Wen can be said to be in Shannan and no one cares about him, but this person has always had a good credit, especially when doing business.

It is very convenient to use bills of exchange, as long as there is credit, a piece of paper is not worth much, and the other party guarantees that the paper can be cashed in 10,000 trump cards in the Huangzhou general account, and credit is the most important thing.

With Yuwen Wen's status, if he disobeys the bill of exchange and insists that it is fake, then Cen Chong and his boss are really helpless. However, Yuwen Erlang's usual performance is "integrity", so Cen Chong's boss decided to take a risk.

If this is smooth, it will save much trouble in the future. I signed a bill of exchange in Rangcheng and went to Huangzhou to purchase goods with a light paper. It is as convenient as possible.

Even when you set out, you don’t even need to prepare a cargo ship. You can make a cargo ship in Huangzhou. Anyway, this kind of cargo ship that is almost thrown away once is cheap. After transporting the cargo back to Jingzhou, you can recover a lot of money. After all, it can be cheaper than organizing your own fleet.
Chapter completed!