In the afternoon, Qu'a, the southeast side of the city, where the two Yundus, north and west, meet, are bustling on the pier.

Among the crowd, Hu Wei, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, was chatting with street vendors. Because he was a Qua, he spoke in his local dialect and was able to chat with vendors who also spoke Qua dialect.

"Jiankang wants to make a 100-yuan tuition, called Tai'an Tongbao, and the face value is Yimo. Do you all know?"

Hu Wei asked, and the middle-aged vendor who was talking to him nodded: "I know, the Taxation Department has been talking for more than a month."

"Does the relatives in the country know?"

"I know, the peddlers often talk about it. Now, everyone knows that when we arrive in Jiankang, Mo is Zumo. If you are not careful, you will suffer a loss."

The vendor sells straw mats. Because Hu Wei bought most of them at once, and he is from his hometown, the vendor talks a lot and almost answers questions.

Hu Wei said with some concern: "This is not good. In autumn, merchants receive goods and grain, but they have to calculate money by short-term money and settle the bill."

"We all take eighty as a street here, and a lot of food is to be transported to Jiankang. Once we enter and exit, we lose twenty cents."

"The merchants will not suffer this loss. If they can only bear it honestly."

"This year's season is good, and the food cannot be sold at a price, and if you lose 40 or 50 cents per stone, the villagers who farmed will not be able to live."

When the middle-aged vendor heard this, he sighed: "Who said it was not? I was afraid that the grain would be confiscated in the year of disaster, so I hoped for a good harvest."

"However, there is a harvest in the good year, but I am afraid that the food will be sold at a low price. I can't even pay back the debt after working hard for a year."

"But the market under the Taxation Administration is said to purchase grain, cloth, silk, and hemp according to the old rules, and it is given a direct hundred yuan."

Hu Wei asked deliberately: "Do you dare to use it with a hundred dollars?"

Several vendors around joined in the fun: "Whoever uses this money is a fool!"

"That's right, whoever uses a hundred dollars is a fool!" The middle-aged vendor smiled and saw his rotten teeth.

"Everyone said that in the autumn, I went to the Taxation Bureau market to sell grain, and the treasure I got... It's a hundred yuan, and it will be immediately replaced with five-zhu coins."

"Don't say that overnight, it won't last half an hour!"

The credit of the imperial court, especially the coins, is not the same among the people, and it was like this many years ago.

Therefore, for the people, "that's what treasure" is equivalent to the infamous "big money" of all generations. It is a weapon for the government to deceive the people's hard-earned money. It's not enough to take it for a while.

"Then what treasure" is 15 zhu, so it is only worth three cents, not the nominal Yimo (one hundred cents).

Hu Wei chatted for a while and slowly left. The follower carried a few rolls of straw mats and followed behind.

The emperor and civil and military officials went to Qua to worship the imperial tomb, so Qua City was much more lively and more people were much more popular than before.

On the way back to the city, there were people everywhere, and although they were not as crowded as they were, they were also crowded.

Hu Wei looked at the bustling bustling in front of him and remembered a passage that Mr. Pengcheng said: "The world is bustling, all for profit, and all for profit."

Its source comes from the biographies of merchants in "Records of the Grand Historian".

When a businessman seeks profit, he wants to make a fortune in business. The trick is to find the hiding place of "profit".

Hu Wei could not do business, or in other words, he would not make a lot of money. Later, he managed the industry for Pengcheng Gong and slowly honed it.

From a novice to an "old man", even after more than ten years of experience, he still couldn't keep up with Peng Chenggong's idea of ​​"pursuing profits".

In other words, few people can keep up with Peng Chenggong's ideas.

He is now an official in the General Taxation Department, responsible for tax supervision, and is busy with the ambition of Pengcheng Gong.

And Qu'a is a very critical place and needs to be well arranged.

But after a series of preparations and operation, can we obtain the expected "harvest"?

Hu Wei was not sure, so he took out a Tai'an Tongbao and looked at it.

Tai'an Tongbao, weighing fifteen zhu, round holes.

The money is red in size and is about the same as the Wuzhu coins, so the thickness is more than twice that of the former.

Therefore, some new anti-counterfeiting measures were taken, such as "edge teeth".

The edge teeth are vertical lines (troughs) at the edge of the coin, but the vertical lines are interlaced with lengths.

On the front, there are four characters "Tai'an Tongbao". The font is white and forms a color difference with the reddish money body.

On the back, there is a beautiful circle of circular grape patterns. This circle of patterns is also whiter and forms a color difference with the reddish money body.

Hu Wei probably knew that the "edge teeth" of this mechanism currency were "squeezed" out of the machine.

The characters and ring-shaped patterns are actually metals "pressed" into the money body by the machine. The materials of the money body are different, so the colors are different.

The production principle is similar to the production principle of "Du Jing" in Mrs. Pengcheng.

Color aberration and edge teeth are Tai'an Tongbao's anti-counterfeiting methods. It is not impossible to imitate, but if you want to imitate it, the cost of counterfeiting may exceed one hundred texts.

Therefore, in the short term, there will be no large number of counterfeit coins.

Hu Wei believes that Tai'an Tongbao itself is a beautiful handicraft and has good anti-counterfeiting methods, but unfortunately, no one recognizes the credit of "big money".

Pengcheng Gong knew that is to issue a 100-yuan Tongbao, a direct 100-yuan Tongbao, will affect people's lives within a certain period of time, so Tai'an Tongbao is only forcibly used in Jiankang, Poyang, Hanshan and the future Huaiyinhang. Take your time in other places.

To this end, many preventive measures have been introduced to ensure that during the autumn harvest, the people in the surrounding areas of Jiankang will not be affected too much due to changes in the currency system.

One of the measures is to mobilize the forces that can be mobilized to promote a fact that will soon become a fact to the people of Jiankang area and even the Sanwu area: in Jiankang City, transactions are implemented as "Zumo".

During transactions, the payment of coins, whether it is Guan or Mo, must be achieved by Tai'an Tongbao, which has a face value of Yimo.

One Mo (one hundred texts) means one Tai'an Tongbao; one Guan, one is ten Tai'an Tongbao.

The newly opened tax bureau markets and markets around Jiankang and Sanwu areas, commercial locations and county governments, undertake the exchange of Tai'an Tongbao and Tai'an Wuzhu.

The news has been widely publicized, and Hu Wei confirmed this through the chat with the vendor just now.

Next, we can only wait and see what the consequences will be caused by price fluctuations caused by currency changes.

Hu Wei thought about it, but was still a little worried.

Can the "tactics" built on Tai'an Tongbao really have the expected effect?

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In the late summer, Hu Wei, who came to Qu'a again, looked at the shuttle boats that were coming and going on the suburbs of the south of the city, and said nothing.

It has been a while since Tai'an Wuzhu and Tai'an Tongbao settled in Jiankang. After the new currency gained a foothold, it was like a stone falling into a lake, causing ripples on the water.

Now, the goods traveling between Sanwu and Jiankang through Qua have increased by 30% year-on-year, and the increase is significant and is still increasing.

The statistical results of Fangshanjin Taxation Customs also confirm this situation.

Among them, 60% of the goods from Sanwu to Jiankang accounted for, and 40% of the goods from Jiankang to Sanwu accounted for.

So, what happened?

The tax office clerk introduced the investigation results to Hu Wei.

Let’s talk about the facts first: After Jiankang implemented the “Zumo” transaction, compared with the Sanwu area, the same Wuzhu coins depreciated in Jiankang.

Because it costs 80 cents, it can be regarded as a hundred vernacular flower in the Sanwu area of ​​Short Mo (eighty verses are Yimo), but in Jiankang City, eighty verses are only eighty verses.

Although it has returned to the accurate currency value, in Jiankang City, the copper coins in Zumo depreciated compared to the copper coins in other shortmo areas.

When money depreciates, prices will naturally rise, which means "money is cheap and expensive".

The use of Tai'an Tongbao also led to the rise in prices in Jiankang City.

Because the costs brought by taxation cannot be shared by the reduction of "strange" and will naturally be added to the price. How can prices not rise?

Jiankang is obviously "money is cheap and valuable". In comparison, surrounding areas are of course "money is expensive and valuable".

As a result, the price difference emerged and the merchants became active.

After telling the facts, the clerk analyzed the reasons for the significant increase in the circulation of goods in Qu'a:

First, when the money is clearly distinguished in two adjacent areas, money will run to places where money is "expensive".

Second, when the value of things is clearly distinguished in two adjacent areas, things must go to places where things are "highly expensive".

As a result, a large amount of copper coins flocked to the Sanwu area and were used by merchants to purchase a large amount of local local products and transported them to Jiankang for sale.

Therefore, the supplies transported from Sanwu to Jiankang (mainly agricultural products) increased a lot compared with last year.

Not only that, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Jiang, Ying, Jing, Xiang and other places, due to the serious short-distance phenomenon, more materials flowed to Jiankang year-on-year compared with last year.

The large number of handicraft products produced by Jiankang in the past one or two years have been extremely special because of the reasons for Jiankang Zumo and Sanwu Paomo.

The official gave an example: "There is a product in the Jiankang workshop, and the price is 100 cents. If the people in the city want to buy it, they have to spend 100 cents because it is Zumo."

"The same products are shipped to Kuaiji in Sanwu. Not to mention the cost and price increase of long-distance transportation, just talk about the original price. Local people can buy them for 80 cents because the local area is a short road, and 80 cents are used as a hundred cents."

"So, because Jiankang's money is cheap and the goods are expensive, and the Sanwu Kuaiji's money is cheap and the sales of Jiankang's handicraft products will increase in Kuaiji, because in fact, the price of this product has been reduced in Kuaiji."

"So, the number of goods sent to Sanwu increased by Jiankang, most of which were handicraft products, which resulted in a significant increase in the number of goods circulation here in Qu'a."

Hearing this, Hu Wei's heart moved and remembered what Mr. Peng Cheng said:

Appropriate depreciation of the currency will help expand exports and be beneficial to the manufacturing industry.

He kept silent and continued to listen, and the officer continued to speak.

Because Jiankang is cheap and expensive compared to other places, merchants from all over the country keep traveling back and forth between the two places to make money.
To be continued...