Zhang Yuan stood behind the coin exchange counter.

There was a large scale and a bunch of weights.

The weight was called power in the Han Dynasty, and power was equivalent to balance, and if power was out of control, the balance would completely fall to the other side.

Then there were five baht in two large wooden boxes and a box of horseshoe gold.

There's nothing to say, just two words.

Rich!

There are more and more people who have poured in, and there are also people who recognize Zhang Yuan.

Those who dare to come in to see the excitement are either regulars in the store, or their status is not too low.

The young man surnamed Sun found out that there were more counters and walked over to Zhang Yuan.

His companion should have recognized Zhang Yuan, grabbed him and whispered a few words.

The young man surnamed Sun immediately changed his face a few times.

Since ancient times, the high-ranking and powerful people have basically had to open up with the merchants.

Although many of the nobles of the Han Dynasty have business, they are all run by retainers.

Every family has a merchant who is in charge of the business.

Just like some second and third generations in later generations, how can the little salary in their family make the people in their family squander consumption.

Not all of them have shares in various private enterprises and state-owned enterprises, but people do not show up, and the dividends they receive every year are enough for them to squander.

In this way, officials will have their own legitimate income, and they will also be able to curb corruption.

Like Zhang Yuan, a boss who is standing at the counter and looking at the customers in the store with a smile, not to mention that there are no ancients before and no one after him, it is also a very rare existence.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Princess Pingyang handed over her property to Ben Hou to take care of.

Ben Hou is a pure-hearted and approachable person, so he changed the name of the store to Qingpingfang.

It was still a literati business, but now it was also mixed with the smell of copper, and the counter here was used to exchange coins.

The exchange ratio is on the wooden board in front of the counter, so please take a look at it, and the price of paper in the store is 10/20 of what it used to be.

As for who is standing behind the store, you also know that Ben Hou said that he is pure-hearted and has few desires, so he will not talk nonsense, and in the future, Ben Hou will take out the dividends in the store to give back to your distinguished customers. ”

The exchange ratio that Zhang Yuan said to Lao Zhao before had been written on the wooden board.

Zhang Yuan introduced it slightly, and then stopped talking.

The people who entered the store were obviously not interested in exchanging coins, and their minds were all on the paper.

The price is one-twentieth of what it used to be!

The price reduction has been reduced to this extent, and Zhang Yuan can be said to have created another history.

Everyone just glanced at the contents of the board, and then rushed to the other side.

After deciding to mint money, the size of the paper mill was more than fivefold, and it was doing its best to make paper for a period of time without being able to do it for a while.

Yesterday paper was a luxury, but today it has become a commodity that is cheaper than bamboo slips.

Zhang Yuan has long known that there will be such a hot phenomenon, because he is the only one who sells paper, and Zhang Yuan can sell it as much as he wants, of course, on the basis of not harming the interests of Liu Che and Princess Pingyang.

Although paper is a consumable, the rate of consumption is basically fixed.

Today's Qingpingfang sold the amount of the previous year, so the person who buys today may not come to Qingpingfang in the next year.

The next thing to do in Chang'an Qingpingfang is the business of those who could not afford paper in the past, and the business of exchanging coins.

A day passed, just as Zhang Yuan thought, there was no one to exchange coins.

The news of the paper price reduction has been spreading since the opening of the day.

There are people who rushed from Du County to buy paper, and the place where Zhang Yuan is in charge of reducing the price is currently only limited to Chang'an City.

Two thousand years later, it's called a pilot.

After dark, even though there were still a lot of people, Zhang Yuan still forced the door shut.

The way to calculate the accounts in front of you is to use the calculation chip, and each bamboo stick can be accurately calculated.

Seeing that the account offices in Qingpingfang were holding bamboo sticks to calculate today's income, Zhang Yuan suddenly had an idea in his heart to get the abacus out.

The abacus would not be invented until hundreds of years later, but in fact, it has already taken shape.

Ancient inventions didn't pop out of a stone.

It's just the accumulation of the ancestors from generation to generation, and then when the accumulation reaches its peak, it can come into being.

The invention of ancient China was a gathering of the wisdom of the majority, which happened to prove the importance of national cohesion.

The abacus is actually not a difficult thing to come up with, as long as you know how to add and subtract and see the real thing, as well as the rules of rounding, children can also make it.

After making up his mind, Zhang Yuan thought about bringing the abacus to this world in advance.

Once the abacus is implemented, it will also give a boost to the economy, and it can greatly improve the efficiency of Zhang Yuan's current business.

"Master Hou, today's income has been calculated."

After an hour's hard work in the eight accounting offices, all the money collected was finally calculated.

"How many are there?"

"Three thousand five hundred and sixty-three gold, half two coins of sixteen million five hundred and eighty thousand."

Liu Che had already ordered the three baht and half a tael.

Private coins may be prevalent in other places, and there are many private coins in Chang'an City.

But the biggest proprietor of Qingpingfang is Liu Che, and everyone knows that half of the money will be transported to the inner treasury, so everyone comes here to spend either gold or half a tael.

used privately minted copper coins to fool the emperor, even if he thought his life was too long.

"The gold was brought back to the warehouse, and the copper coins were transported to the East Market for smelting.

Settle with the Pingyang Hou Mansion on a monthly basis. ”

"Whoa."

There is no one to exchange coins, and there is only so much to do in Qingpingfang today.

Zhang Yuan didn't expect it to be so difficult to promote a new coin.

On the way home, Zhang Yuan thought a lot, but he didn't think of the doorway.

When they arrived at the Xin'an Hou Mansion, the guard outside the door suddenly spoke.

"Master Hou, Madame came to Chang'an City today and is now in the mansion."

Zhang Yuan frowned, he didn't expect Zhuo Wenjun to come back.

The frowning brows did not mean that Zhang Yuan was unhappy, but he was worried that the news would cause a storm in Chang'an City.

The Han atmosphere is quite open, but it attaches great importance to the class.

The aristocrats of the Zhou Dynasty thousands of years ago are still nobles, even if the family is poor, they are respected when they go out.

This happened to be a critical period for the new aristocracy to replace the old one.

It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the new aristocracy completely suppressed the old aristocracy and became the ruler of the country.

A large part of the reason for the fall of the Qin Dynasty was that it did not deal with the old aristocracy well, and did not give the old and new nobles a little buffer in the slightest.

But considering Qin Shi Huang's domineering, he would certainly not pretend to be a color to his enemies.

Zhuo Wenjun's family has money, but his status is low, and there is no way to get rid of it.

If Zhang Yuan has a wife and Xin'an Hou Mansion has a housewife, then Zhuo Wenjun will not have a problem.

But Zhang Yuan doesn't have a wife, and at Zhang Yuan's current age, outsiders will definitely gossip, but they won't talk about Zhang Yuan.

They will only talk about Zhuo Wenjun's demagogy of Zhang Yuan. One eight

Therefore, Zhang Yuancai didn't want Zhuo Wenjun to come to Chang'an, so as not to provoke criticism.

But it's all here, Zhang Yuan still has to put on a smiling face, and he can't show his worries.

"Wen Jun, I knew that you came to Chang'an today, and you should have come with me yesterday."

Zhuo Wenjun saw that Zhang Yuan was back, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold Zhang Yuan's arm.

"Today they came home and pulled paper, and that's when I knew what you were going to do.

Staying at the foot of Lantian Mountain all day long won't help you, I hope coming to Chang'an City can help you solve some troubles.

You don't blame me for making it my own mind, do you? ”

"Why, when you come, I have someone to talk to."

Zhang Yuan took Zhuo Wenjun's hand and sat on the bed, maybe she told Zhuo Wenjun what she couldn't figure out, and she could think of it.

In terms of business, Zhang Yuan is really not as good as Zhuo Wenjun.

Zhang Yuan may be a good product manager, but certainly not a good sales manager.

So Zhang Yuan told Zhuo Wenjun about the things he was worried about.

"Ah Yuan, you're thinking in the wrong direction.

If you want to implement the five-baht coin, it is definitely not possible to rely on exchange alone.

You have to treat the five-baht coin as a commodity, not as a coin.

You have to show people that the five baht coin is much stronger than all the copper coins in circulation.

And it is necessary to rely on the commodity trade to promote the circulation of the five-baht coin.

Today's transactions in Qingpingfang are estimated to be whole numbers, and there has never been a change, right? ”

As soon as Zhuo Wenjun explained slightly, Zhang Yuan understood.

He had to stuff the copper coins into the hands of those people first, and of course it was impossible to stuff them for free.

The most appropriate way to do this is to make change!

But when it comes to large transactions, those customers use gold, and they all buy paper worth one gold, and they don't need to change at all.

It is even worse to buy it with copper coins, and there is no copper coin in circulation that is worth more than Zhang Yuan's five-baht coin.

Zhang Yuan can't adjust the exchange ratio in order to promote the five-baht coin.

If he did, he would be bankrupt and would have given the big man a more unstable market economy.

How to make change suddenly became a big problem.

Because of the exchange ratio between gold and copper coins, and the reason why the quality of copper coins is not satisfactory now.

As long as the transaction amount does not reach one gold or more than one gold is not an integer, everyone will choose to trade with copper coins.

No one wants to spend their gold and have someone else find a bunch of copper coins to come back.

"You help me figure out a way, my head hurts when I think about it."

"No, when you sold iron pots, you could have thought of a way to open a restaurant.

Why are you so struggling today? ”

Zhang Yuan suddenly felt tired, these are two different things.

"Maybe I've been studying for too long, and my business mind is gone."

"Actually, I can't think of a very good way, this kind of thing is too difficult unless His Majesty issues a decree."

Zhang Yuan was speechless, even Zhuo Wenjun couldn't think of a way, so Zhang Yuan didn't even have the mind to put the abacus together.

Simply Zhang Yuan lay on the bed and closed his eyes all of a sudden, Zhuo Wenjun saw that Zhang Yuan was worried to such a point, so he went to bed and rubbed Zhang Yuan's temples.

With so many cases in the long history, Zhang Yuan began to work hard to evoke his own memories.

He must have seen this in history, but he just couldn't remember it for a while.

Zhang Yuan thought of the current gold price, silver price, and copper price.

Although gold has always been more expensive than silver, in fact, the gold reserves of the Han Dynasty are much higher than that of silver.

This is also the reason why Liu Che positioned silver as a treasure and set gold as currency when he reformed the currency system.

However, the gold and silver soldiers did not assume the role of a handicraft, while bronze had to be made into various utensils, and after the introduction of the five-baht coin, the proportion of copper coins to gold was not as outrageous as that of later generations.

The Han Dynasty did not have the habit of using gold to make utensils, but once the bronze artifacts were made, each piece had to use hundreds of catties of copper.

And whenever those who write write about the monetary phenomenon of the Western Han Dynasty according to historical facts, they always have to be sprayed, and they are more accustomed to accepting the gold, silver and copper exchange ratio of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China, which are relatively close to them.

As everyone knows, the Ming and Qing dynasties experienced two major influxes and outflows of precious metals.

This precious metal is, of course, silver.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan pondered the reason for the large influx of silver.

That's because the goods of Ming and Qing China were dumped overseas in large quantities through maritime trade, thus absorbing large quantities of silver.

This is exactly the same as Zhang Yuan's current situation, Zhang Yuan has sucked in a large amount of copper coins by selling paper, but now all the copper coins are flowing into him, which is not a normal phenomenon.

On the contrary, if Zhang Yuan wants to let his five baht money outflow, then it should be the same as at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Dumping goods at Zhang Yuan through outsiders caused the outflow of five baht coins.

But Zhang Yuan didn't need to buy anything at all.

Herein lies the crux of the matter.

What does Zhang Yuan need now, buy a large number of dollars and then pay for the goods with five baht money, so that the five baht money will flow out.

Wait a minute!

Zhang Yuan suddenly thought of another reason for the outflow at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

War reparations!

This is a shame for the Chinese people, but now it has given Zhang Yuan an inspiration.

Zhang Yuan can stuff the five baht money into the hands of the people in another way.

Reparations are not good for oneself.

But there's another way.

It is self-interest and detrimental to others, and it will be criticized.

Lending!

The most direct way to get money to circulate directly in the market.

Loans in Dahan are not something difficult to see.

At the beginning, Emperor Xiaojing wanted to fight a war and borrowed money from the people of the whole world.

Tian Wei's first pot of gold was to lend money to Emperor Xiaojing to fight, and then Emperor Xiaojing won the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, and the princes of Wu were so rich that Tian Wei also profited.

War is the most profitable and the most expensive, winning makes money, loses and goes bankrupt.

The emperor took out loans, and the phenomenon of private borrowing money was more common.

Zhang Yuan didn't plan to start this business on his own, because the stigma of lending was too heavy.

The most famous loan shark in the world was the Wuyan clan, and their most successful business was, of course, to lend money to Emperor Xiaojing.

However, they are even crazier than half of them, they gave all their net worth to Emperor Xiaojing, not only won, but also climbed to the royal family.

It's a lot more important than making money.

If Zhang Yuan wants to release all the five baht money in his hand at the moment, looking for the cooperation of the Wuyan clan is the best choice.

Thinking about it, with Zhuo Wenjun massaging by his side, Zhang Yuan fell asleep unconsciously.