Chapter 505: Currency Wars (2)

The five-baht money that Li Yan issued to these soldiers was square inside and round on the outside, and it was well-made, and the two words "five baht" were clearly drawn.

But if you look closely, you feel that it is a little different from the five-baht coins in circulation in the market.

The inner and outer edges of this five-baht coin are actually engraved with dense, uniform size and evenly distributed lines.

With the presence of these lines, anyone can easily identify them if someone wants to perform edging or chiseling operations.

These patterns are obviously not possible with the current coinage technology, and the possibility of imitating and altering copper is technically realized.

In addition, the back of the money is also cast with the word "Huaxia", and the technology of two-sided casting has not yet appeared in this era.

Moreover, because there are casting words on both sides, and there are exquisite patterns in the blank space of the casting words, such marks completely eliminate the possibility of taking copper from the file.

Li Yan raised the five-baht coin in his hand and said: "Due to the chaos of the current five-baht coin system, coupled with the existence of illegal means such as filing, edging, and cutting and chiseling, most of the coins weigh less than five baht.

The five baht money that everyone receives when selling things will be charged by the government according to the standard weight when they are converted into taxes.

Therefore, these coins weighing less than five baht have seriously damaged everyone's interests and affected the fairness and justice of the market.

Your Excellency the President of China, in order to understand the suffering of the people, he spent 10,000 catties of refined copper and minted five baht coins worth of China.

This coin has words on both sides and fine lines on the inner and outer edges, which can effectively prevent the copper from being taken from the coin by means of filing, edging, cutting and chiseling. ”

These soldiers carefully looked at the beautifully made "Huaxia Five Baht Coin" in their hands and thought it was true.

Li Yan paused so that everyone had time to take a closer look at the difference between the two five-baht coins.

Seeing that everyone had a plan in their hearts, Li Yan continued: "Because the refined copper is soft, it is easy to be damaged by manpower.

Therefore, His Excellency the President of the Chinese People's Republic of China did not hesitate to use stainless steel as the bone and brass as the skin, and cast the Chinese five-baht coin with the power of ten thousand jun.

In other words, the five baht coins in everyone's hands look like brass on the surface, but in fact they are refined steel inside.

As a result, it is difficult to damage it with ordinary knives and axes. ”

"Steel for bone, brass for skin?"

The soldiers below couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamations.

During this period, the price of refined iron has far exceeded the value of refined copper several times, and how much should this hundred refined steel be worth!

At Li Yan's suggestion, a member of the Huaxia Self-Defense Force brandished a kitchen knife in his right hand and easily cut out a thin piece of iron sheet held in his left hand.

Then, with all his might, he swung his knife and slashed at a five-baht coin that was fixed with a nail on a wooden table.

A crisp sound came, and everyone took a closer look, and the five-baht coin was intact, but there were only a small trace on the surface.

And the kitchen knife that "sharpens iron like clay" has been broken out of a gap.

Of course, this kitchen knife that can sharpen iron, as long as you master the skills, there is no problem in cutting some ordinary thin iron sheets.

But generally speaking, the sharper the blade, the worse its own strength, which is why kitchen knives are divided into machetes and cutters.

In the real world, when making knives, in order to facilitate everyone's use, kitchen knives were invented to cut before and then chop.

When you need to cut, use the front half of the knife, and if you want to deal with some hard objects such as poultry bones, use the back half of the knife.

In this way, you can get the advantages of two knives on one knife, avoid frequent knife changes, and greatly facilitate daily use.

Using the cutting edge of the front half of this knife against a steel-tired coin is simply to use its own shortness and length to hit it, and it is not surprising that there will be a gap.

But the catty in this, those Wei soldiers are not clear.

But in the real world, steel still belongs to the category of steel at the very least, because they have already mastered the fire technology of how to improve the hardness of steel.

In another world, where smelting technology is very backward, this kind of "five-baht coin", which is mainly cast from steel, has greatly surpassed the price of five-baht copper by the value of the material itself.

Moreover, because of the anti-theft copper markings used on this coin, it is impossible for other countries to imitate it at this stage.

No one else can do anything with this coin, because any means will destroy the fine lines on the coin.

Besides, the "five-baht coin" that Li Yan took out was produced through a set of coinage equipment purchased in the Special District of Tuvalu in accordance with modern coinage technology.

These are nominally five baht coins for film and television props at the time of production, in addition to being coated with a thin layer of copper on the surface, they are some ordinary steel hammers, and you can't take much copper.

Although they could smelt the copper, the amount of copper plated on the surface of the coin was insignificant compared to the amount of labor they had to expend.

Because when they smelt it in this way, they will find that the steel in the coin is very difficult to melt.

Moreover, if you lose the copper color of the coin, will you still think that it is a coin?

For another world, it can only be regarded as a very good steel.

Of course, these steel hammers, which are very common in the real world, are also very valuable metals in the other world.

Because, before the smelting technology reached that level, it was extremely difficult to obtain steel with such a high degree of hardness.

The melting point of steel is nearly 500 degrees Celsius higher than that of copper, and to form a perfect martensitic, the temperature must be mastered with great precision, a chasm that cannot be crossed by existing smelting technologies in another world.

Therefore, using this kind of coin to replace the five-baht coins with uneven values on the market, from the perspective of these Wei soldiers, is worth the price.

At least, if you put these two currencies together and let people from other worlds choose, anyone with basic judgment will choose this "Huaxia five-baht coin" minted by Huaxia Kingdom.

Li Yan was very satisfied with the look of surprise on the faces of those Wei soldiers, and continued: "Although our Huaxia Kingdom has minted a super-value 'Huaxia Five Baht', we are not obliged to distribute it to other countries for free.

Therefore, our Huaxia Kingdom organized a caravan and prepared to replace those inferior 'five-baht coins' according to their weight through the circulation of materials.

Since it's called 'five baht coins', even if it is not made of steel, it should at least be five baht in weight, which is the same as our coins.

Your task is to protect the people of these caravans from any interference in the trade of goods.

If the task is completed well, in addition to three meals a day, each person can also get ten pieces of this 'Huaxia Five Baht Coins' every day. ”

"Can you still get money if you are full of three meals a day?"

"The treatment of this Huaxia country is really good!"

……