Chapter 233: Ordinary people from outside the city
These three guys. ”
Knowing that Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin went to the People's Bank to exchange five thousand taels of silver for equal coins each, Fang Nan shook his head speechlessly.
Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin were originally a group of people standing in the upper echelons of Guangdong, with a background that could go directly to the capital, with a large number of industries and amazing power and wealth.
When the People's Army besieged the city of Guangzhou, the three took the initiative to join the People's Army and made contributions when the People's Army broke through the city.
With the status of Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin, it is almost impossible to do things to bully the people, but the subordinates of the three have done a lot of things to bully the people.
Because of the merits of the three of them, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin escaped with their lives, and after paying a huge price, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin were ordinary people protected by the People's Army.
However, Fang Nan had a bad impression of the three of them, so he ordered people to pay attention to Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin, and if something happened to these three people, they would be punished directly.
However, a year and a half has passed, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin are all cautious, strictly restraining their subordinates, and dare not make the slightest mistake.
In fact, Fang Nan has long been unconcerned about Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin, but the names of the three of them occasionally appear in front of Fang Nan, Fang Nan feels that if this continues, the wealth of the three of them will increase, the People's Army is developing, and there are more and more opportunities to make money under the rule of the People's Army.
As the sun set, the People's Money Village closed, the first day of the issuance of the Equality Coin was over, and the situation in various regions of Guangzhou City was reported, and there was no problem.
In order to issue equal coins, the People's Army minted a large number of equal coins in advance, and on the first day of issuance, about one-fifteenth of the equal coins were exchanged in Guangzhou City alone, and the silver exchanged would soon be sent to the mint to mint to mint equal coins.
In the morning, there are many people who go to exchange equal coins, and in the afternoon there are fewer people who exchange equal coins, and after exchanging equal coins, most people collect them, but there are also a small number of people who directly use equal coins.
Equal coins are easy to use, the weight is determined, and even a small amount of damage can be used normally.
Some shops are still receiving equal coins for the first time, they know that the People's Army's decree is not allowed to refuse equal coins, after receiving equal coins, many people still habitually take out the scales to weigh it, and the weight of the quota is almost no different, as the number of times they receive equal coins increases, they will give up weighing.
There are merchants who don't like the Equality Coin and plan to spend the Equality Coin faster, and there are also merchants who don't have much feeling about the Equality Coin and plan to use it normally.
At present, the exchange and use of the Equality Coin is okay in Fang Nan's opinion, after all, the Equality Coin is made of real silver, and some people can guess that there are other ingredients in the Equality Coin and are still hesitant about the Equality Coins.
After the equality coin gradually circulated, everyone will understand the convenience of the equality coin, and they will abandon the use of silver and only use the equality coin, and when the equality coin almost replaces the silver, the copper coin can also be issued, completely abandoning the silver and copper coin system.
Nothing was said all night.
It's time for the People's Money Village to open again, there are a lot of people gathered in front of the People's Money Village, the scale is much smaller than yesterday, and there is almost no figure of the gentry merchants, the gentry merchants who want to exchange the equal coins have already exchanged it yesterday, and the gentry merchants who don't want to exchange the equal coins will not come to exchange it in a short time.
Originally, Fang Nan thought that there would be a lot fewer people to exchange for equal coins on the second day of the issuance of the equal coins than the next day, but as time passed, Fang Nan found that his judgment was wrong, the number of people who came to exchange equal coins today was less than yesterday, but it was definitely not too much less, and today there were many ordinary people outside the city who came to the people's money village to exchange equal coins.
This situation made Fang Nan a little surprised, before letting the officials go outside the city to publicize, the main purpose is to let the people know about the equality coin, and when they receive the equality currency in the future, they will not have doubts or even think that they have been deceived, but I didn't expect that after the equality currency began to be issued, many ordinary people from outside the city came to exchange the equality coin.
They need to walk for half a day or even most of the day to reach the city of Guangzhou, most of the people use to exchange the silver of the equal currency is only a few coins, they also have a large number of copper coins in their hands to exchange for the equal coin, the silver and copper coins they carry are basically all the money in their family.
The idea in their hearts is very simple, it is the People's Army that divides the land for them, drives out the government, overthrows the landlords, and exterminates the bandits and bandits, and with their own land, they can finally rely on their own efforts to eat enough, all of which are brought by the People's Army, and they are willing to use everything they have to support the People's Army.
I heard that the People's Army had launched some equality coins and had to support them, so the common people came to the city with all the money in their families, came to the people's money bank, and exchanged it for equality coins.
So there is a scene where a large number of ordinary people outside the city come to exchange equal coins today, even if they exchange not many equal coins, but they play a great role in the circulation of equal coins, and even make many gentry and businessmen have the idea of exchanging some equal coins.
Fang Nan was a little moved by the actions of the common people, who knew that the People's Army was good to them, and they were willing to support the People's Army with their own practical actions.
Without the support of the people, even if the People's Army overthrows the Ming Court, it will not be able to sit firmly in the world.
On the first day of June, under the rule of the People's Army, the people's money village in various places launched the equal currency together, and the exchange of the equal currency in other cities is almost the same as that of Guangzhou City, and there are more people who come to exchange the equal currency on the first day, mainly the people who live in the city, and they also want the gentry and merchants to exchange some equal currency, and there are also people who exchange 1,000 taels of silver at once in other prefectures and cities, and the county seat is a few hundred taels at most.
On the second day, only a few residents in the city came to the People's Bank to exchange equal coins, and more people outside the city used all their family savings to exchange equal coins, even if they could only exchange a few dimes of equal coins.
There are even ordinary people who are more than half a day's journey from the city to exchange equal coins, they bring their own dry food, they do not plan to embark on the return journey today, nor do they have the luxury of going to the guest house, they plan to pay for one night in a corner, and leave home when it is dawn.
Upon learning of this situation, the county magistrates and mayors of the People's Army basically made a similar decision, arranging for ordinary people who had gone to the city but had no place to live to rest in the almshouse for a night's rest, and the almshouse provided some simple meals.
Fang Nan considered that a working group could be sent to the countryside with equality coins to facilitate the exchange of equality coins for ordinary people.