Of course, Wu Song and Han Shizhong couldn't feel the great changes in the world.

This dramatic change only exists in Weishan Lake.

The commissioning of Weishanhu Iron and Steel Plant allowed steel to be produced like a flood, which completely liberated Qin Mu's hands and feet.

I have food in my hand, and I don't panic in my heart. Qin Mu now not only has grain - the Xiahetao area has a bumper harvest, but also a steady stream of steel.

With so much steel, Qin Mu encountered a new problem.

The devouring of raw materials by industry is huge, although Qin Mu has been hoarding raw materials for so long, but according to the current consumption calculation, the blast furnace will run out of grain in half a year.

The problem of raw materials should be put on the table and solved first. In this way, the coal mine iron ore needs to start digging deeper.

The premise of expanding production is to have new mining equipment, transportation equipment, etc., which requires a lot of steel.

The expansion of the Guards Regiment must also begin immediately, so that guns and cannons will be built. Building a series of new factories also requires a lot of steel.

And what about the power source? What about transporters? In fact, many, many places need a lot of steel.

Which one to prioritize?

Qin Mu thought about it and decided to build an enamel factory first - to produce all kinds of pot-shaped enamel goods of different sizes.

This is a shift from heavy industry to light industry. Qin Mu decided to walk on two legs in light and heavy industry, and he couldn't be biased.

Light industry is related to the lives of every family of the people. This is a change that the people have really felt.

They won't feel happy holding a steel ingot, but they will definitely be satisfied with using an enamel basin!

Qin Mu is not only to meet the daily life of the people, his main purpose is to establish a real base.

The current Weishan Lake has completely become the top priority of Qin Mu. It can be said that even if there is no Wujiazhuang now, Qin Mu is not worried.

The foundation of heavy industry has been laid, and even if there is no equipment support from future generations, he is confident that he will turn this world upside down - the technical data of the twenty-first century have been collected by Qin Mu in the computer.

In this case, Weishan Lake can no longer be touched by anyone, not Zhao Ji. Whoever dares to touch it, Qin Mu will turn his face.

Building base areas is not a matter of defending the territory, but also a more important one, that is, the people's support.

The people of this land must go to the Guards.

And to achieve this, to be honest, Qin Mu also needs to greatly improve the living standards of the people - they can't let the people not even have a washbasin at home.

Engage in enamel factory!

This technique is off-the-shelf. Not to mention that Qin Mu has technical support from the 21st century, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have it.

Qin Mu had already thought clearly when he sent enamel products to the delegates before, and the enamel technology could be solved in this time and space. What's more, there are now high-end processes and processes to support it.

The enamel factory was built at a rapid pace – the Weishanhu industrial center had produced a large number of real workers.

There are people, there is steel, and there is technology, and it is not difficult to build an enamel factory.

Enamel pots, enamel bowls, enamel basins, enamel cups, everything Qin Mu can think of, all enamelized!

As a result, the place of Weishan Lake suddenly became a world of enamel.

Once the power of industrial production is unleashed, it is absolutely unstoppable!

Although enamel products are so easy to use – far better than wooden washbasins and porcelain cups – they are not expensive at all and are in good supply.

Anyone can buy it, just spend some money.

But now when the people of Weishan Lake go to the convenience store to buy various products, they encounter a huge problem.

The shops do not accept copper coins, nor silver or gold, but only paper money.

This kind of banknote is not the Jiaozi of the Great Song Dynasty! This is the first version of the New World Coin of Qin Mu's hairstyle!

The construction of a new monetary system is an indispensable foundation for the development of the base area.

Using paper money as currency has endless benefits.

The value of money is something that almost no one in this time and space can really understand.

Although the Great Song Dynasty also issued paper money-Jiaozi, Zhao Ji only used this as a weapon for the white wolf with empty gloves, giving you a piece of paper in exchange for a donkey.

As for the consequences of having too many Jiaozi, Zhao Ji doesn't care - after I die, who cares about the flood!

Now the banknotes of the Great Song Dynasty have begun to flood, and the market is seriously inflated.

Zhao Ji can't be blamed entirely for this situation. Because the price of selling the city in the Jin Kingdom is very high now, and Zhao Ji wants to complete the great feats that surpass his ancestors, he must buy those cities back.

It costs money to buy a city, and the people of Jin Guo don't want to pay their children. So Zhao Ji could only take advantage of it, issue a large number of jiaozi, and get real money from the market.

If Qin Mu hadn't been giving copper coins to workers in his own territory, this place would have been affected long ago.

In order to avoid being affected by the over-development of the Great Song Dynasty, Qin Mu decided to completely cut off his economic system from the Great Song Dynasty.

As long as its own currency is issued, then the Great Song Dynasty and itself are two economic entities.

And by doing this, on the surface, he can still temporarily hide from the court.

The Jiaozi of the Great Song Dynasty are not only issued by the imperial court, in fact, many large merchants also distribute themselves - they are rich and rival the country, and they have this capital and demand.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Sichuan used iron money, the weight value was small, 1000 big coins weighed 25 catties, and it took 90 catties to hundreds of catties of iron money to buy 1 horse of silk. Inconvenient circulation. As a result, merchants issued a type of paper money, called Jiaozi, which was circulated in place of iron money.

30 dollars must be deducted for each cash. 16 wealthy businessmen in Chengdu opened Jiaozi shops for the purpose of printing, issuing and operating the exchange business of copper coins and Jiaozi, which opened a pioneer in private finance. Every year when the silkworms, rice, and wheat are about to ripen, they use the same color of paper to print jiaozi.

In the first case, Qin Mu was not too worried about the imperial court finding out. And now, it doesn't matter if you find it or not.

The first version of New World Coin was an exact replica of the value of later coins.

One cent, two cents, five cents, one cent, two cents, five cents, one dollar, two dollars, five dollars, ten dollars.

Ten dollars is the end.

The level of productivity determines the type and quantity of goods, and the essence of money is a general equivalent, which is specially used to make transactions and buy things.

If the most expensive product is only a few dollars, what is the use of making a 100 yuan bill?

The issuance of a new currency was carried out without fanfare. Zhe Meiluan led the work.

She explained to the workers in advance that she wanted paper money or copper coins, and she listened to them. Give what you want.

However, the workers found that the convenience stores no longer accept copper coins, and can only buy things with paper money.

There have been several convenience stores in Weishan Lake, and now there are more goods than before.

Kerosene lamps, glasses, cigarettes, matches, and so on.

There are also a large number of enamel products on the market.

Who looks at the enamel cup and is not moved? This life is so needed.

Not to mention how convenient it is to bring an enamel cup to work to drink water - you can't always bring a porcelain cup, right?

It's the washbasin at home, and the basin, all kinds of basins, from wooden to enamel, it's simply a change from the earth to the sky - it's also so useful. It is also light and does not leak.

Even if the men don't want to buy it, the women don't do it! What's more, men also want to buy.

If you want to buy these, you have to use paper money! It's not the banknotes of the imperial court, it's the banknotes of Young Master Qin.

So the vast majority of people have chosen to ask for paper money, only a few have a lot of thoughts, feel that paper money is too unsafe, no copper money is practical, so they still choose to ask for copper money.

This made the workers who got the paper money can't help but laugh at those who received the copper coins.

Can Young Master Qin's banknotes be the same as the court's Jiaozi?

Look at our banknotes - the workers have integrated themselves with the factory, how beautiful and strong!

Of course. Qin Mu took the issue of paper money into account when he built a printing factory in Weishan Lake. That printing house has the ability and technology to print banknotes!

(I can't write this in detail, it's troublesome to write too much, so I hope readers understand that writing too much can't pass the review.) ）

Qin Mu's banknotes are not much worse than those of later generations, at least equivalent to the level of the best counterfeit money on the market!

This level is enough to crush the Jiaozi of this time and space!

The banknotes were quickly handed from the workers to the salesmen in the store, and then returned to Zhemeiluan's hands again.

At the same time, thousands of enamel goods flowed into thousands of households.

"Official, your method is so good!" Zhe Meiluan suddenly smiled.

It turned out that he had to toss a large amount of copper coins every month, which was a huge amount of work, but it was a job that Zhi Meiluan had to spend his energy on taking care of himself. It's much easier to switch to paper money now – at least not as heavy.

And Zhe Meiluan is aware of the fact that she is actually exchanging paper for the labor of workers.

This made Zhe Meiluan feel an extreme pleasure!

Paper money, even if it is beautifully printed, is worthless in the eyes of Zhe Meiluan. Because she didn't need to exchange those goods like the workers, there was no demand for paper money.

Subconsciously, or at her own level of understanding, she still thinks that paper money is not money, just paper.

This view made Qin Mu feel very headache.

If Zhe Meiluan has such a wrong view, it will be extremely detrimental to his future career, and it will even be a big hindrance!

Zhe Meiluan did not recognize the true meaning of paper money at all.

"Meiluan," Qin Mu had to teach Zhe Meiluan a lesson: "Do you think we are cheating the labor force of the workers?" ”

"Yes!" In front of Qin Mu, Zhe Meiluan naturally wouldn't hide anything. If she has something to say, she will speak directly, and she really admires the good ideas that her man has come up with.

Our goods, only with our banknotes. The cheap can't be taken away by Zhao Ji, we take it ourselves!

It's really not to blame Zhe Meiluan, because that's what Zhao Ji printed Jiaozi did!

Qin Mu suddenly felt that his head was big!

co-authored himself to do so many things, and finally became a large Zhao Ji! This really made Qin Mu speechless.

But it's not okay not to speak.

"Meiluan, our banknotes, and the court's Jiaozi are not the same thing at all." Qin Mu Zhengse said: "Money, its essence is a general equivalent. Do you understand what this means? ”

Meiluan couldn't help but shake her head.

"The general equivalent, that is, it exists only for the exchange of goods. Without commodities, money is meaningless. ”

"What does that mean?" Zhe Meiluan still doesn't understand.

"For example, copper coins, which are traditional currencies, can I use copper coins to buy houses, land, clothes, shoes and socks. But if there are no more of these in the world, will copper coins be useless? Of course not, copper itself is a metal, and I can make copper directly from it. ”

"Oh!" Zhe Meiluan seems to understand something.

"Paper money is different. If there are no more goods, the banknotes are worthless. So the meaning of paper money is the general equivalent, which exists only for the exchange of goods. ”

"And what is a general equivalent?"

"It all started in ancient times." Qin Mu wanted to thoroughly explain the true meaning of currency to Meiluan: "In ancient times, there was no money, but there was also commodity exchange. For example, a sheep herder wants to buy a piece of cloth. He drove two sheep to the cloth shop to buy three zhang of cloth. But according to the situation at that time, it was a sheep for two zhang cloth, so his two sheep could be exchanged for four zhang cloth, and there were only three zhang cloth in the store, how to change this? ”

"Let the shepherd divide a sheep in half, and take back the three zhang cloth and half a sheep himself." Zhe Meiluan immediately gave a solution.

Qin Mu didn't expect her to give herself this answer. Not to mention, this would solve the problem, but it would be too bloody! What a girl from a warlord's family!

"What if you can't slaughter a sheep? Or the shepherd is a small child, too small to carry half a sheep home. ”

"It's ...... like this," there is no good way to fold Meiluan.

"So that's where the general equivalents need to be introduced. 200 yuan for one sheep and 400 yuan for two sheep. 100 yuan for one zhang cloth, 300 yuan for three zhang cloth. If the shepherd wants to buy three zhang cloth, he has to take out three hundred yuan. We are the only institution that issues banknotes. As long as the shepherd gives us the sheep in exchange for 400 yuan, and then gives 300 to the cloth shop, he can go back with the remaining 100 yuan and the three-zhang cloth. So that the deal is successfully completed. ”

"But what did we get?" Zhe Meiluan is most concerned about this issue.

"In the process, on the face of it, we didn't get anything!" Qin Mu said to Zhen Meiluan seriously: "But in fact, we got the whole world!" ”