On the first day of June, early in the morning, the People's Money Village, located in the central area of Guangzhou, gathered a lot of people at the door, as the opening time approached, more and more people gathered, in order to prevent chaos, a team of People's Army soldiers came here to control the order.

Among the gathered crowd were ordinary people, servants and maids of large families, as well as wealthy gentry and merchants.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin also came, each of them followed by more than a dozen family members, two or two family members carrying a box containing a large amount of silver.

The gentry and businessmen who knew Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin were very surprised, and they could see that Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin came over with a large amount of silver, and wanted to exchange them for equal coins in the People's Bank, is this a bit too early?

Soon, the time for the opening of the People's Money Village came, and several People's Army soldiers stood at the door, letting the people outside line up to enter the Money Village to prevent chaos.

The layout inside the People's Money Village is similar to the layout in the Money Village in this era, in fact, the house occupied by the People's Money Village was the largest money village in Guangzhou before.

The first customer walked into the bank, he was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties, of medium height, thin body, wearing relatively ordinary clothes, and was a resident of Guangzhou.

He cautiously walked to the counter, and at this time, the young staff member of the bank behind the counter took the lead and said, "Hello guest, do you want to exchange equal coins?" ”

"Yes, I want to exchange this silver for Equality Coins." The middle-aged man nodded hurriedly and said, taking out a small pocket made of cloth from his clothes as he spoke.

"Guest, please drop the silver here, and I'll weigh it for you." At that time, the staff pushed a rectangular wooden plate in front of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man opened the small cloth bag and poured all the silver in the small cloth bag on the wooden plate, accompanied by the "clanging" sound, a few pieces of broken silver smashed on the wooden plate, which seemed to be only a little more than one or two silver.

The staff took out a scale, weighed a few pieces of broken silver, and in the process of weighing, as close as possible to the middle-aged man, so that he could see the weighing process clearly.

"Guest, your silver weighs a total of one tael, three coins and six cents, and a total of one triangular equal coin plus seventy-two copper coins can be exchanged, do you want to exchange them all?" (Originally, one tael of silver was equal to one thousand copper coins, and the copper coins depreciated, and the current one tael of silver was exchanged for 1,200 copper coins)

"One tael, three cents and six cents of silver, well, I want to exchange them all." The middle-aged man muttered for a while, and then replied in the affirmative, he had already weighed the weight of the silver in his hand before, that is, it weighed one or two or three coins and six cents, yes, you can rest assured that you can exchange it for equal coins.

"Guest, please wait a moment, the Equality Coin you exchanged will be delivered immediately."

Then another staff member came up and carried away the wooden plate containing the silver, on which there was a piece of paper with the weight of the silver written on it.

The staff brought the silver to the background, and immediately another staff member used a scale to weigh the silver again, and after determining that the silver weighed one or two or three dollars and six cents, another staff member used tools to verify the slight destruction of the silver, and simply judged the authenticity of the silver.

The easiest way to check the authenticity of silver is to bite it with your teeth, but the silver is not clean, so you can use tools instead of teeth to check it.

After a series of steps, the staff used a wooden tray to bring the one-dollar triangular equal coin and 72 copper coins to the counter.

"Guest, this is the equal coin and copper coin you want to exchange, please count it."

The middle-aged man first picked up a one-dollar silver coin and three one-dime silver coins, gently checked them, felt that they were about the same weight as the previous silver, put the four silver coins into a small cloth bag, and then began to count the copper coins.

There were a total of seventy-two copper coins, and the middle-aged man counted ten or ten coins, and after counting seven times, the number of copper coins was determined, and all of them were put into a small cloth bag.

At this time, the middle-aged man wanted to leave, but he didn't know what to say, he was a little embarrassed, and the staff seemed to see the middle-aged man's situation, and asked: "Guest, the coins have been counted, do you need any help?" ”

"No... No, I'm leaving. ”

"Guests are welcome to come back next time."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man walked towards the door, there were quite a few people in the bank, but it was not crowded, the middle-aged man gave up his position, and the person behind him immediately stepped forward, holding the silver to be exchanged for equal coins.

One after another in the money village to exchange silver into equal currency, as little as a few dollars of silver, more than a few taels of silver, this is for ordinary people, ordinary people can take out a few taels of silver are very much, out of a hundred people more than ten taels of silver, this is still in Guangzhou City.

People who exchange a small amount of equal coins can line up directly in front of the counter, like Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin, who each brought five thousand taels of silver over, which is a big customer, and there is a special person to serve for a while.

It's not that they are treated differently because of money, but that five thousand taels of silver are too much, weighing more than three hundred pounds, and the counter can't be put down, and it will hinder other people, and it is the best choice to be led to the compartment by a special person to serve it.

Five thousand taels of silver, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin all chose to exchange three thousand one-yuan silver coins, two thousand five-jiao silver coins, and five thousand one-dime silver coins, and one person exchanged five thousand taels of silver for ten thousand silver coins.

Five thousand taels of silver are relatively simple to weigh, and it is not troublesome to count 10,000 silver coins.

Carrying 5,000 taels of silver and leaving, many wealthy gentry and businessmen were amazed by Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin's generosity, and exchanged 5,000 taels of silver at once when they could not be sure whether the equal coins could be widely used, and few people under the rule of the People's Army would do so.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin were only the first batch, and soon other merchants came over with large sums of silver to exchange for equal coins, although there were not as many as Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin, at least one thousand taels of silver.

The Equality Coin must have been made of silver, and perhaps it would be mixed with a little other material, but the value would certainly not be much worse than the same quality silver, and more importantly, exchanging a large amount of silver for the Equality Coin would leave a good impression on the People's Army, which was chosen by the merchants who cooperated with the People's Army to build cement factories.

Even merchants who had not established cement factories also exchanged some equal coins in large quantities, ranging from a few hundred taels to a thousand taels, which was not too much for the wealthy.

However, more gentry and businessmen only exchange a few dozen taels of silver, wait and see first, if the equal currency is really good, everyone will use it, and then exchange it in large quantities, there is no need to worry.