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A bright moon rose in the night sky of Dongfang Harbor, Du Yande looked up at the bright moon outside the window, took a long breath and said, "Okay, now let's have a small meeting." As he spoke, he tapped lightly on the table, and the place where they were now was in the No. 1 complex of Yuanlao New Village under Bunker Mountain in Oriental Harbor. The No. 1 complex is the largest building in the old new village, four stories high, more than 100 meters long, 70 meters wide, basically built in accordance with the old world's four-story factory building standards, a large number of steel and concrete, according to Xie Mingfang's words, this is a fortress in this time and space, as long as the outer wall is reinforced, it is basically impossible for any army in this time and space to attack it, and nearby is Bunker Hill, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff is located, if you encounter wartime, It can be used as horns with Bunker Hill when the enemy is approaching, making it difficult for the attacking enemy to take care of in the first place. However, at this moment, Complex No. 1 does not have the air of sword-fighting, because it is occupied by the main functional departments of the Senate, and it is divided into large offices one by one by brick walls, and decorated with floor-to-ceiling glass windows with excellent lighting, which does not look threatening at all from the outside, but only makes people feel the majesty of the building that it is full of. The place where the participants are located is the main conference hall on the fourth floor of the No. 1 complex building, which is mostly decorated with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on all sides, with good lighting and good scenery, and is simply an important target for the various departments of the Senate at the beginning, so it is directly assigned to the main conference hall in the end, and no one can compete for it.

"The content of today's meeting, please take a look at the outline of the meeting." Cao Xiang said as he placed a thin document on the table of the participants. Shui Wangtai picked it up and flipped through it casually, nodded and put it on the table, and then waited for everyone to finish reading, Du Yande said, "The main reason why I invite you to this meeting today is because this may be the first major event we have to face since the founding of the country, issuing currency for other countries and forces. ”

None of the people present spoke, Shui Wangtai leaned back in his chair, sighed and said, "Issuing currency is a good thing, and it is also a profitable thing, we only need to make currency, and we can exchange it for the services and materials we need as we like, just like the Americans in the old world, as long as they print American knives at home, they can purchase what they want all over the world." ”

"Yes," Cheng Jun nodded, "Our state of war with the Medenor people in the previous stage has caused the total amount of materials we procure through the sea route to plummet, and most of the factories in the Eastern Port are basically unable to work normally, so we can only reduce the number of production shifts, if we can establish a RMB economic system, then we can use this to threaten the monopoly of the Medeno people on the sea." ”

"Let's not talk so far," Shui Wangtai interrupted Cheng Jun's words with a wave of his hand, "How do we make currency for them?" Is it to design and manufacture according to their requirements or let us help them design and manufacture? Or just the issuance of our currency? ”

Du Yande shook his head and almost laughed, "Party A, you really want to come up with this term, okay, Party A means that you only need to provide them with currency so that they can use it as a general equivalent in commodity trading, and let us decide for ourselves what kind of style." ”

"That's good!" Zhang Yuan laughed out loud on the side, but he twitched the position of his ribs before, and he took two breaths before he continued, "In these places in the old world, Vietnam and even the Indonesian islands did not have much currency before, so they basically used the copper coins of the Ming and Qing dynasties at that time. The ancient coinage means are low, especially when smelting, the proportion of copper seven lead three is not good, so there are often several batches of copper coins with extremely high lead content, and even there are money dealers who specialize in counterfeiting private copper coins, so copper six lead four or five or five copper coins are popular everywhere, and the common people of the Ming and Qing dynasties do not like to use these. However, these lead flakes are very popular in those countries and regions that lack currency, so many merchants who travel between China and Indonesia directly ship boatloads of copper or lead money to those countries, and they are absolutely sure to make a profit. ”

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it," Shui Wangtai waved his hand and said, "Since it is up to us to decide what currency to issue, what is the attitude of the Executive Committee?" ”

"The Executive Committee?" Du Yande was a little surprised, "The executive committee has no attitude, this matter was raised suddenly, since it is a matter of the financial sector, then it is up to you to discuss and decide." ”

"Well, okay, then I'll give you my opinion." Shui Wangtai nodded and said, "According to my personal opinion, this matter of issuing currency can be ignored directly, we can just take our 'yuan' and go over to buy things, the Pacific islands are small in size, and there are not many people on it, so it is very good to have a common language, so there is no need to expect a unified language." If you want to come up with a currency that is acceptable to all the natives of the Pacific Islands, it's really hard for the strong, so just take our currency, and if they don't have any objections, we'll at most make some changes to the pattern to suit their culture, and use the words and numbers on it. ”

"That's good!" Jiang Yan hurriedly agreed, she didn't need to come to the meeting, just accompanied her husband out for a walk, halfway Li Zhe received the information to come to the meeting by the way, she said a little excitedly, "Money is a symbol of a country's culture, whether it is Chinese or numbers, it is all our Chinese themselves, if they often use this money, they will change their minds subtly, let their hearts be more towards us, if we can export education now, In the future, it will be easier to open up colonies on these islands or expand the territory directly. ”

"Mmmmmm, okay, Comrade Jiang Yan, what you said is right," Du Yande hurriedly interrupted Jiang Yan's speech, "But at this stage, we should discuss the currency matter first, and talk about the export of education later." Jiang Yan nodded, her face was hard to hide from her excitement, "Okay, then I'll make a proposal document when I go back," she thought for a moment and stood up, "By the way, I'm not here for a meeting anyway, then I'll go back first and try to hand it over to the executive committee tomorrow morning." Saying that, he kissed Li Zhe on the face and then hurriedly went out, leaving a room of stammering veterans and Li Zhe with a dog food posture, and the conference hall was silent for a while.

"Comrade Shui Wangtai, you go on." Cao Xiang saw that everyone was no longer talking, and hurriedly said to Shui Wangtai while quickly taking minutes of the meeting, Shui Wangtai sat up straight like a dream, "Where did I just go?" By the way, just use our currency directly with them, and there is no need to issue a new currency separately. The advantage of this is that there is no need to delay manpower and material resources for design in the first place, whether it is a banknote plate or a stamping die, redesign and manufacturing is a troublesome thing. The advantage of using our currency directly is that there is no need to modify the production process of the mint, and there is no need to reserve the materials for production, and it can be withdrawn directly from the market or even directly from the bank. Another advantage of using the same currency is that if we need to sail within the boundaries of this currency circle in the future, whether it is to purchase supplies or dock supplies, it will be unimpeded. In addition, with the same currency, then our Senate financial department has a total amount of money circulating in the market, which is very advantageous for large-scale development and investment in the future. ”

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"Well, you decide this," Du Yande was interrupted by Cheng Jun before he could finish speaking, "what material are you going to use for the money you plan to give to the natives?" ”

"What material? What else is the material of money? Shui Wangtai couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but in a blink of an eye, he understood what he said, "You mean the metal carrier that issues currency, right?" ”

"Return the metal!" Cheng Jun couldn't help but knock on the table with some indignation, making everyone in the conference room look at him, "All of you are dispatching metal in the general warehouse, now I will hand over the bottom first, the inventory of copper ingots has bottomed out, and I can't take out the copper again." ”

"No more copper?" Zhang Yuan couldn't help but be stunned, and just as he was about to speak, he saw Cheng Jun standing up, and suddenly said like a bullied sister-in-law of Xianglin, "Of course not!" We in Oriental Harbor are a city where electricity is the main mode of production, and we need to use electricity ......," he said, pointing to the mercury lamp that was glowing above his head, "We must use wires, but wires have another name in our world called copper wires!" Comrades, especially your industrial sector, some time ago, I was turning over copper ingots in the warehouse every day, and I would have been hollowed out a long time ago! ”

"Aren't we still going to issue silver coins? You don't have to use all copper! Cheng Jun said with a bitter and bitter look, "Look! You need copper to make auxiliary coins, the military industry also needs copper to make bullet shells, and the industrial sector needs copper to make wires and motors, and our copper import channels are too few! In addition to the recovery of copper coins from the smelting Wu Dynasty, there is only the copper ore that was purchased from the outside before the military conflict with the Medeno people! With the commercial severance between the two sides after the conflict, almost all import channels have been cut off, and there is not much to transport by land without train transportation! If you want copper, go directly to the smelter, don't come to me, there are no copper ingots in the warehouse, see if they have anything there. ”

"Our current currency is made up of copper, silver and paper money," Mr. Zhang said, "I don't know what the total amount of money is issued, but in terms of face value alone, silver coins are only issued at this stage for one and two yuan." Although the volume is much larger than that of ordinary coins, the total amount of issuance is far behind copper coins. In fact, silver is far more useful than copper in industrial production, for example, if silver is used to make wires, its line wear is much lower than that of copper wire. ”

Shui Wangtai couldn't help but sneer, "Say so, do you dare to use it?" Silver was legal tender in the Wu Dynasty. ”

"That's not right!" Li Zhe hurriedly added beside him, "Silver has not been the legal tender of old China since ancient times, and China implemented a single currency during the Qin and Han dynasties, that is, money, such as knife coins, five-baht coins, etc. In the Tang Dynasty, money and silk were used together, and coins were 'Kaiyuan Tongbao', etc., and silk fabrics such as 'silk' and 'silk' were used in bulk transactions. There are many examples mentioned in Bai Juyi's poems, such as 'half a horse of red silk and a zhang of silk, which is tied to the cow's head with charcoal', 'Wuling is young and struggling with his head, and a song of red silk is not counted'. The currency of the two Song Dynasty was also based on money, and paper money was added in the middle and later periods, namely Jiaozi, Huizi and Guanzi, but the settlement unit was still 'Guan', that is, about 1,000 coins. The Yuan Dynasty minted a small number of copper coins, but the circulation of money mainly relied on paper money......"

"Alright, alright! I know! Shui Wangtai hurriedly interrupted Li Zhe's speech, Li Zhe was still unsatisfied, and added there, "The banknote law of the Yuan Dynasty has gone through three stages: Zhongtong banknotes, Zhiyuan banknotes, and Zhengzheng banknotes......

"Okay, we got it!" Du Yande hurriedly interrupted Li Zhe again, and Li Zhe said a little aggrieved, "Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang also specially issued Daming treasure banknotes to collect the people's silver after seizing power, and later the money on the market was really not enough, so I had to open up the silver in the eighth year of Jiajing and allow it to trade directly." ”

"That's what I mean," Cheng Jun hurriedly said, "You see, the silver of your Financial Commission will not be placed in the warehouse of our Senate, but copper is also a currency carrier, but it has to be shared with the industrial sector and other departments, in fact, the total amount of silver is removed from the reserves and the currency in circulation, there should be a lot of surplus, anyway, you will not take it out to make wires, why not just use silver to issue auxiliary coins?" At least make the most of it. ”

"Okay," Shui Wangtai nodded, "Silver coins are not a problem, they just need to be adjusted on the production line, but this time it will not issue twenty cents, that is, two cents, and twenty-five cents will be issued instead." ”

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"Why is that? Do you practice the numeracy skills of naturalized and indigenous peoples? Zhang Yuan couldn't help but hurriedly asked.

"Cost, for cost reasons." Li Zhe's voice sounded again, making several elders next to him can't help but reach out and hold their foreheads. "The difference between the size of two cents and two cents is very small, but four two cents and five is a piece, which only needs to account for about 70 percent of the weight of a coin, and the weight of five cents and two cents will reach the cost of more than one piece, so it is said that two cents and five cents are more cost-saving than two cents."

Du Yande glanced at Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan nodded slightly, and he said to Cao Xiang, "Well, then let's decide, you record it, and we will directly issue two cents and five coins, and all the auxiliary coins will be replaced with silver except for cents." Cao Xiang nodded, and the nib of the pen crossed over the record book like a dragon.

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