Chapter 504: Currency Wars (1)

Human beings are born with a sense of fear of things that are beyond their ability to comprehend.

What Hua Xia Guo has shown is too much beyond the scope of what they can understand.

In such a situation, it only takes someone you know and has a certain status, and if you explain it a little, they will think that it is the truth.

Between the most knowledgeable local families and those strangers in fancy costumes, more people still choose to believe in the families.

So, the more these working groups show something that is ahead of the times, the more likely they are to be plagued by rumors.

In the case that there are already rumors preconceived, Huaxiaguo's working group seems to be a little passive.

Li Yan's brows furrowed, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the places marked on the screen.

To others, he had fallen into deep thought.

In fact, he is communicating spiritually with Wei Minsheng through that mysterious shared space.

The change in the situation here also surprised Wei Minsheng.

Those big families used the influence they had accumulated over the years and used rumors to get the people to take the initiative to avoid the members of the working group, so that Huaxia Kingdom hit a soft nail that was not too big or small.

Wei Minsheng knew about the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Dispatch to the surrounding areas.

Wei Minsheng's request not to start a war lightly was also put forward, but these big families used rumors to coerce the innocent people in the local area, and put on a posture of non-violence and non-cooperation, which made Wei Minsheng's plan completely come to naught.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large part of the members of the Huaxia Kingdom have gathered by word of mouth.

Of course, the once-in-a-decade drought also played a crucial role, and with the ulterior motives of Wei, it unexpectedly injected hundreds of thousands of laborers into the newly established Huaxia State.

Such an achievement also made the relevant departments of Huaxia Kingdom a little too optimistic, thinking that as long as the people of Huaxia Kingdom arrived, they would be supported by all the people.

But the first task force they sent out, reality gave them a resounding slap in the face.

The centuries-old foundations of those great families are not so easy to shake if they do not use violence.

After listening to Li Yan's suggestion, Wei Minsheng's mind raced and he thought of some things he encountered in real life.

At that time, the higher-level departments set up an information system and were ready to incorporate some basic personal information in order to raise the level of informatization of social management.

Although Wei Minsheng has a lot of complaints about this practice of building an information system in a separate position, for the relevant departments at the higher level, it is innovation, it is to keep pace with the times, and it is the work that must be completed.

However, those grassroots workers went to thousands of homes and entered thousands of households, but they often encountered situations where the parties did not cooperate, and some people were even not allowed to enter the door, and the related work was once in trouble.

In the end, it was a grassroots worker who proposed to integrate this information collection work into social management work. Xingchen small 〓 said net 〓.

When the masses come to do things, take the collection of information as a precondition, and let them take the initiative to improve the information.

When information collection and social management form a whole, the work efficiency has been significantly improved.

The scene that happened outside Xiangyang City was very similar to that kind of situation.

Just know what these people need to do, and then gather these needs and let them take the initiative to contact us.

At that time, the rumors will naturally be self-defeating, and the work efficiency can be effectively improved.

So, at the behest of Wei Minsheng, Li Yan took ten members of the Huaxia Self-Defense Force and more than 1,000 soldiers of the Wei State to the door of a container mobile house.

Li Yan opened the security door and went in alone for a while.

When he came out, Li Yan carried more than a dozen strings of different copper coins in his hands, and asked the members of the Huaxia Self-Defense Force to give each Wei soldier one copper coin, one old and new.

A string of copper coins is not as many as everyone thinks, because the value of copper coins is determined by the weight of copper.

In ancient times, the units of weight were catties, taels, coins, baht, etc.

The old system has about 596.8 grams per catty, one catty is equal to sixteen taels, and one tael is equal to ten coins.

So, money is a smaller unit of weight, and one coin is about 3.73 grams in the real world.

The conversion relationship between two and baht is one to twenty-four, and one baht is about 1.55 grams, so five baht is about 8 grams.

However, due to the serious private minting in the Han Dynasty, under the effect of bad money driving out good money, the five baht coins became lighter and lighter, and the good ones could reach four grams, which was roughly close to the weight of one coin.

Although the weight of the copper coin is not five baht, most people cannot tell the difference in the absence of precision measuring tools and the proliferation of false five-baht coins.

Therefore, the ruling class simply minted "five baht" on one copper coin, which sounds like a lot of weight, but in fact saves more than half of the material.

For the sake of counting and carrying, copper coins are generally worn.

Each one hundred and sixty pieces are threaded into a string with hemp rope, and eighty pieces are placed on each side when wearing, and one is added to the bottom cover, which is actually one hundred and sixty-two pieces, so it is also called a string, a hanging, and consistent.

Why not call it a pound? Because they don't weigh more than a pound at all.

Copper is a precious metal in ancient times, in order to save the use of copper, the amount of coinage in successive dynasties has been reduced more and more, and the weight of each coin can reach three grams is already very good.

For example, the small money minted by Dong Zhuo is not even a gram, and the weight is only one-quarter to one-sixth of Qin's five baht, which is ridiculed by the world as "unwritten money".

In order to break one penny into two pennies for use, the broad masses of the people have creatively invented many ways to "save money."

Filing, edging, and chiseling are the most important ways to "save money".

The file is to thin the side of the copper coin without words, and generally speaking, the weight of the copper coin after this treatment will be reduced by about a quarter.

However, due to the fact that the copper coin is cast with words on it, it is necessary to prevent damage to the handwriting when polishing, and it cannot be operated in batches, so it is far less popular than edging and cutting and chiseling.

Edging money is better, it is to use a square wooden stick or metal stick to string the copper coin, and then use the rotation to grind the copper of the outer ring of the copper coin.

After such processing, the weight of the five-baht coin itself will be reduced by about one-third.

However, in general, it does not affect the face of the coin, and the edges of the coin are relatively smooth.

The purpose of edging is to take copper, which is used as a raw material for casting new coins, so the weight of the five-baht coin is greatly reduced and depreciated.

The trimming money has more contours than the edging money, and the inner and outer edges must be cut and chiseled when batch processing.

Due to defects in the process, most of the coin's face text may be subtracted, resulting in incomplete numismatic text.

Judging from the edge of the coin, the trimmed coin is not as smooth and neat as the edging coin, and the diameter of the coin also varies greatly.

The weight of the trimmed five-baht coin is mostly reduced by two-fifths or more.

These processed copper coins, if viewed individually, are not much unusual compared to those coins that have been in circulation for too long.

But if you compare it with the normal five-baht coin, there will be a clear difference.