The people of Zhangjia Village quickly inquired about the silver coins, after all, more than 10,000 policemen had at least ten silver coins in their hands, although it would reduce Chen Zijian's reserve of more than 100,000 silver coins, but so many people got the silver coins to use, and the other people all showed puzzled expressions when they saw it, and they inquired about the silver coins from the police, only to know that this was something that the chief had done.

Silver coins belong to a large denomination of currency, a silver coin is worth a thousand copper coins, ordinary people buy daily necessities, but the vegetable market to buy vegetables, certainly not use such a large denomination of silver coins, and copper coins equivalent to the currency of the coin came into being.

The face value of the coin is relatively low, there are coins with a face value of one copper coin, five copper coins, and ten copper coins, the coin material is similar to the coins of later generations, of course, some metal materials Zhangjiacun can not be self-sufficient, Chen Zijian bought from the time and space trading center, such as metal aluminum, the value of aluminum in later generations is not very high, Chen Zijian is not able to buy on a large scale, but there is no problem in buying dozens of tons of aluminum as a material for making coins.

The use of aluminum to make silver coins, the most sophisticated counterfeiting experts of this era have no way to make it, because aluminum is not a material that people of this era can produce at all, Chen Zijian used cheap aluminum stamping to produce cheap value coins instead of copper coins, and people who want to counterfeit money to impact the fragile economy of Zhangjia Village can't do it.

As for the original copper coins, Chan Tsz-kin recycled them and re-smelted them for other purposes.

It was another sunny day, Wu Xiaoer was eating breakfast in a bowl, this was a breakfast for ordinary people in Zhangjia Village, but such a thing could only have a chance during the New Year in the past, but now it has become an ordinary breakfast, isn't it, Wu Xiaoer's breakfast is two large pieces of fish and meat the size of a palm, and a big bowl of porridge. Even if I eat this fish for more than a month, I don't feel greasy. Those who have not suffered from hunger do not understand.

Don't look at Wu Xiaoer is only nineteen, people of this age in later generations are still studying in high school, but he has his own wife, and he has two children in the first two years, but his family background is average, the general here is different from the general in later generations, how poor is the future generation, there is no problem with eating a good meal at two ends in three days, Wu Xiaoer's family background is average, and he is even poorer, this is not a problem of eating meat, and whether he can eat enough.

Wu Xiaoer's child fell ill and died soon after he was born, and he couldn't do anything about it, not because he didn't want to save the child's life, he asked the doctor to see it, he needed valuable medicinal materials to save his life, and Wu Xiaoer, who had a problem with eating enough, could only watch the child die.

Wu Xiaoer is less than twenty years old, and has experienced the pain of the death of his relatives, but with the emergence of the volunteers, a lifetime of suffering seems to be over, at the beginning he was arrested by the volunteers, thinking that he would be tortured, and his wife is different from life and death, after all, the volunteers are violent, they will be arrested when they see people, and those who dare to resist will be knocked to the ground and howl in pain, and they will be slapped when they meet, who dares to expect them to be good people in such a style of doing things.

It's just that he didn't expect that after arriving in Zhangjia Village, after a period of time, living the life of Zhangjia Village, the volunteers were reluctant to let him leave. Some time ago, when the second phase of the house was sold, Wu Xiaoer made a little money and bought a house of his own in installments, which is the kind of house that does not leak rain on rainy days.

Wu Xiaoer: "Mother-in-law, go and take out all the silver, and wait to exchange it for silver coins, otherwise the silver will not be used." ”

Zhang Yan is Wu Xiaoer's wife, originally Zhang Yan did not have a name, after coming to Zhangjia Village, the lord here asked everyone to have their own name, and Zhang had his new name after he arrived at the management office.

Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, he looked at Wu Xiaoer for some reason, and after buying the house in installments, there were less than thirty taels of silver left, and Wu Xiaoer wanted to take all the silver, worried about what would happen.

Wu Xiaoer explained, "Listen to the lord above, in the future, Zhangjiacun can't buy things with silver, copper coins can't be used, you have to use the new coins here, you see, this is a money, I heard that it is called a coin, there is a "1" on it for a penny, there is a "10" for ten pennies, and there is a silver coin worth one tael, I heard that silver coins have eight cents of silver, and they don't suffer a loss in exchange. ”

Wu Xiaoer explained to his wife the new regulations in Zhangjia Village, otherwise his wife would be worried in vain. Yesterday, Wu Xiaoer saw the silver coin from the police, and that kind of silver glittering silver coin is really much better than black silver.

With Wu Xiaoer's explanation, Zhang Yan was relieved, "If you are in charge, you should exchange it for ten taels of silver first, and the rest of the silver will be collected first, I'm afraid!" ”

Wu Xiaoer knew what Zhang Yan was worried about, but he didn't think as much as Zhang Yan, if the chief wanted to take back the silver, could the people of Zhangjia Village refuse, the people of the chief who did great things would not look back at their little money. However, Zhang Yan's worries are not unreasonable, it is better to exchange ten taels of silver first, and if there is a real need to change it in the future, it will be fine.

"Okay, then let's exchange it for ten taels of silver first. I heard there's something new and good in the store, so I'll go buy some later. ”

Wu Xiaoer went out and came to the Zhangjia Village Government Building, which is a place to exchange silver, when he came, there were people who kept exchanging silver coins, there were quite a lot of people, and there were many policemen at the scene to maintain safety, and now the people who came over more or less carried more than ten taels of silver, if someone stretched out a third hand and stole the people's silver, then the matter would be big. The police can not only maintain order here, but also deter people with ulterior motives.

Soon Wu Xiaoer exchanged the silver coins, the exchange process was not too troublesome, weighing, exchanging money, as for whether anyone would take the fake silver to exchange, uh, think too much, almost all the silver of the people in Zhangjia Village came out of the hands of the volunteers, and the ordinary people have not yet mastered the metal of making similar silver, and the cost of counterfeiting is too high, and no one will do it.

Wu Xiaoer hasn't been to the store for more than a month, the store in front of him has expanded a lot compared to the store at the beginning, people keep coming in and out of the store, it looks very lively, there are people outside the store who are setting up stalls to buy things, sighing and entering the store.

There are a lot of good things in the store, but Wu Xiaoer knows that he can't buy much with ten silver coins on his body, and he can't look at other goods, who doesn't let himself have a little more silver coins. For example, there are ten solar electric lamps in one store, this kind of good thing Wu Xiaoer wants to think that if he can have one in his home, the night can be like day. This kind of electric lamp costs two hundred silver, which is a noble commodity, and it is not something that Wu Xiaoer can buy for the time being.

What Wu Xiaoer wants to buy is also a night lighting thing, which is a candle.

Candles are the waste of whale oil after making soap, used as long as the candle is considered a waste use, in fact, whale oil can make a lot of good things, but the current technology is backward, can only make a small number of goods.

After Wu Xiaoer saw the candle, he exclaimed, "It's a good thing, I can't afford electric lights, and it's a good thing to buy this back." ”

There is a candle burning next to it as a sample, for the people to see, so that everyone knows what the candle burns like, so that they can buy it with confidence.

The candle is cylindrical, twenty centimeters high, four centimeters in diameter, and the wick is a 0.5 centimeter hemp rope, and a candle can last for two hours.

Speaking of the reason why Wu Xiaoer bought candles, it is related to Zhangjia Village, originally in ancient times, ordinary people basically slept when it was dark, and they couldn't do anything without light when it was dark. There's no entertainment either. But at night in Zhangjiacun Square, ten solar electric lamps are lit.

Electric lamp this rare thing people have seen there before, every dark, the people of Zhangjia Village come to the square after dinner, in addition to watching the electric light is rare, you can also come out to relax, work hard during the day, come out to chat and relax at night, such a change makes the sleep after dark has changed, no one will leave at less than ten o'clock at night.

The people of Zhangjia Village began to form a unique night culture, there is a demand for lighting tools, solar lamps are not used by many people, after the appearance of candles, it has become the pursuit of most people, who does not have a candle at night, are embarrassed to greet others.

A candle costs twenty yuan, which is not very expensive, Wu Xiaoer bought ten and went back.

If this kind of candle is sold in the Jiangnan area, the price is not a hundred dollars, don't ask the price, there are many rich people in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the rich Jiangnan area, where more than 60% of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty is concentrated, and the candle array in Zhangjia Village is cheap, or Chen Zijian sells it at a low price. He never expected to squeeze silver from the people, and if he wanted to make money, it was more convenient and faster to go directly to other places to raid his house, and there was no cost.

With the beginning of currency exchange, Chen Zijian began to unify the currency, what is the deep meaning of it Chen Zijian doesn't know too much, he only knows that it is right to do this, and what is the meaning of letting others think about it in the future.