With the surrender of Kebul, the three cities outside the fortress, which had been besieged for several days, finally opened their gates early the next morning.

Zhang Shiping stood at the head of the greeting team, but Xi Zhicai did not show up. Zhang Shiping's identity as the lord of a city, showing his face in the three cities outside the Saiwai, showing his face when the army is victorious, can not only stabilize people's hearts, but also enhance prestige. In comparison, Xi Zhicai has just come to Saiwai, although he has established a very high prestige among the management of the three cities outside the Saiwai in just a few days, but in the eyes of ordinary people, Zhang Shiping, who has lived outside the Saiwai for a long time and is very good at being a person, is more popular, at least his face is familiar. Therefore, Xi Zhicai did not come to steal Zhang Shiping's limelight, but presided over the overall situation in the city, which won Zhang Shiping's great favor.

Now that the forces of all parties have gathered in the three cities outside the city, and the number of Xianbei troops outside the city has reached nearly 30,000, it is impossible to be too cautious when the wind and clouds meet. Xi Zhicai stood at the head of the city, commanding the officers and petty officials in the city, strengthening the vigilance, and stabilizing the order inside and outside the three cities, which was also discussed in advance.

When Guo Bin rode through the city gate hole, he looked up and looked at Xi Zhicai, and after exchanging a reassuring look with each other, he entered the city with peace of mind.

This time they entered the city, compared to the first time they came from the Central Plains, I don't know how much more magnificent. It was their hard work and efforts on the front line that enabled them to preserve the three cities outside the Saiwai and make them regain a stable life as they were once exiles and then captives.

Including the 10,000 soldiers who are now stationed in the Thang Long Valley, the soldiers who participated in the defense of the three cities outside the Saiwai will be granted the status of free residents of the three cities outside the Saiwai after the war. In accordance with Guo Bin's agreement before the war, they will become the first batch of residents in the three cities outside the city to have the status of free people, own the ownership of the houses they live in, and own the ownership of 50 acres of land outside the city.

A total of 20,000 soldiers who had gone to the Thang Long Valley to participate in the ambush and company battles, plus 5,000 people who carried supplies and built fortresses, will also be granted the status of free people. The difference is that all the soldiers who participated in the battle will not only be rewarded according to the merit of beheading, but also enjoy a very rich financial reward along with the about 20,000 people who participated in the defense of the three cities.

They will become the first landlords in the three cities, and they will own their own land and housing, and many will also have a considerable amount of vouchers as a reward for killing enemies on the battlefield. At the same time, they will also receive exclusive titles in the three cities outside the Cyprus due to the number of beheadings. Although these titles are currently only used in the three cities outside the Saiwai, they are enough to make them the most prominent Han people outside the Saiwai.

It can be said that they are the middle class of the three cities created by Guo Bin, and they are no longer the destitute poor. Therefore, they who have gained great benefits will also follow closely behind Guo Bin and become his most solid supporters. And as the strength of the three cities outside the Saiwai takes off and expands in scale, their economic and political strength will also snowball with the almost blind worship and support for Guo Bin. In turn, as these middle classes spread and take root outside the Saiwai, Guo Bin's influence outside the Saiwai will be further consolidated and expanded.

And the most important thing, and what most people in this era have not realized, is the issue of issuing vouchers in the three cities outside the Saiwai.

Relying on the abundant materials of the three cities outside the Saiwai Dynasty, backed by the powerful force of Guo Bin's interest group, and made of the most advanced printing technology of this era, this kind of goods with extremely high value similar to the banknotes of later generations became more and more popular. The system of using vouchers as the settlement currency has aroused great interest in this valuable "paper money" from top to bottom in the three cities outside the Seychelles.

And its strict official registration system made it impossible for the bandits to loot them and exchange them for a penny. Therefore, in addition to the soldiers with military merits who hold a large number of vouchers in their hands, this kind of easy-to-carry, safe and highly secure "banknotes" have also been sought after by wealthy merchants in the Central Plains.

In today's world, thieves are swarming in the Central Plains, and in long-distance transportation, the risks and high costs generated in the transportation process often account for the majority of the transaction compared to the value of the property itself. In the Central Plains, which is full of bandits and bandits, the cost of transporting goods is high and the risk is extremely high, so many merchants choose to return to the Central Plains with vouchers after making a profit in the three cities outside the Saiwai, and exchange them for the corresponding amount of goods or five baht in the chamber of commerce in Luoyang or Yingchuan. Of course, this is not completely free, because the distance is long, and the prices in the Central Plains and outside the Saiwai are obviously very different.

It is this extremely wide scale of use and high recognition that makes the vouchers of the three cities outside the Saiwai become the second popular currency after the five baht coins officially issued by the Han Dynasty for a considerable period of time. This extremely clever and covert means of operation made Guo Bin a powerful force that could manipulate the economic lifeline of the entire Han Dynasty except for the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Here's an example.

Merchants in the Central Plains spent five baht in the Central Plains to buy a large number of silk, wine and other luxury goods, and then took great pains to transport them to the three cities outside the Saiwai. They would first negotiate a price with the Xianbei people, and then exchange the equivalent goods that were easy to calculate, and exchange the remaining goods for vouchers to buy felt, cattle, sheep, horses and other goods transported and sold by the Xianbei people in the three cities outside the Saiwai to replenish the goods, and then transport these goods back to the Central Plains for sale. Or pay for storage, accommodation, and entertainment in the three cities outside the Seychelles.

The various departments of the grassland transported the felt, cattle, sheep, horses and other goods produced in the ministry to the three cities outside the Saiwai, sold them at the price agreed by the two sides, and then exchanged the remaining goods for vouchers. Because the three cities outside the Saiwai are not too far from most of their tribes, the use of vouchers is not in a hurry. Most of them will use vouchers to buy salt and other materials when they need them, rather than having to buy them all at once and ship them back, thus forming the phenomenon of using vouchers as currency to store wealth. There was no currency among the Xianbei people outside the Saiwai, so they were exploited by the three cities outside the Saiwai.

In this way, neither party suffered, and the transaction was reasonable and legal.

However, there will always be people who have exchanged most of the goods in their hands and still have some of the vouchers in their hands that cannot be spent. With the gradual establishment of credit in the three cities, the value of these vouchers has become more and more recognized, and some merchants will choose to exchange all the goods for vouchers and bring them back to the Central Plains for use in order to reduce the risk of transportation.

Therefore, they would buy silk and other goods at the price prevailing in the Central Plains in the chamber of commerce jointly established by Guo Bin and the major wealthy families in Yingchuan County, and then sell them to the grassland. In this way, the wealth accumulated by their back-and-forth trade can only be settled in vouchers, that is, the rich A million, and the vouchers in their hands are also vouchers. Theoretically speaking, Guo Bin can print as many of these vouchers as he wants. Therefore, in a sense, the businessmen of all ethnic groups in the world are busy and bustling, just to create wealth for the Yingchuan interest group headed by Guo Bin.

Even among the extremely economically backward Xianbei tribes, when they saw that the vouchers could really buy fine wine, silk and other exquisite goods, many people would hide them as property, just like today's paper money. And when it became popular outside the country, the voucher became Guo Bin's last resort to contain the ministries, because he could turn the "wealth" accumulated in the hands of the ministries into a pile of waste paper at any time.

This is very similar to the economic system in which the United States strove to build an economic system pegged to the dollar and oil in the last century. Because oil is by far the world's most mainstream source of energy, its important role needs not be repeated. If you want to buy oil, you have to settle it in dollars, that is, if you want to buy oil, you have to buy it with dollars. As a result, the U.S. dollar has become a "wealth" that countries compete to store.

At that point, the U.S. government will be able to issue Treasury bonds to countries around the world. Governments around the world take real money in exchange for dollars, and then use the hoarded dollars to buy the necessary oil, which has formed the US government to print paper money in exchange for the wealth obtained by the labor of the people of the world, and then convert this wealth into warships, missiles, tanks, guns, etc., which will continue to be used to maintain its hegemony in the world. Therefore, the American people can maintain their position as world hegemony without having to work, because the people of the world have to give their hands to the fruits of their labor.

Looking at the current trade war between China and the United States, China's purpose in pegging the renminbi to oil is to fundamentally cut off the economic resources of the United States. Once all the countries in the world abandon the dollar and switch to the renminbi as a means of settlement, then the system on which the United States relies for its survival by issuing government bonds to maintain the huge spending of the government and the military will collapse in an instant.

The diplomatic ability of the Chinese government is beyond doubt, and the diligence and wisdom of the Chinese people are also endless; as long as the world economic order dominated by the US dollar after World War II is broken through various means, it can be regarded as breaking the cover door of the United States, and the seemingly powerful US government will immediately fall into an extremely difficult situation.

As a great man said, "All reactionaries are paper tigers." "Doesn't that make perfect sense?

Guo Bin thinks he is a little clever, and he also has a very immature understanding of the world financial system, however, when he proposed the voucher system, he was regarded as a heavenly man by Zhang Shiping, Su Shuang and others. This kind of system is too cheating, but it is also too easy to use!

However, in the early days of the establishment of the three cities, everything was not yet fully on track, and the promotion of vouchers was crucial. Only by letting more and more people recognize the voucher and let more and more people recognize its value, can the series of measures behind it be gradually realized, otherwise everything is a joke.

Today, these more than 40,000 soldiers who have made meritorious contributions are the first batch of targets for promotion. Because they have vouchers in their hands, they have to use them to buy goods, and only when they are constantly circulating will the value of vouchers be more and more recognized. If nothing else, in five years' time, with the arrival of the appointed date, more and more inhabitants of the three cities will be granted freeman status, and they will have wealth at their disposal, and this wealth, in the form of land and houses, will be vouchers.

Because humans are social animals, very few people can live alone from society. In the era of men and women weaving, if you wanted to obtain the necessary rakes for cultivating the fields, kitchen knives, iron pots and other things used in daily life, and salt necessary for survival, you had to exchange, and in this exchange, in addition to physical goods, was money.

Of course, this is only a choice for people under natural conditions, and at that time, Guo Bin will naturally guide the people to use vouchers through a series of economic or political means.

Guo Bin couldn't help but sigh, the most profitable business is really to set up his own country and print money by himself!