The fourth day of June, the first day of dog days.

This day is the second day of the allied army's victory in the Shimen Waterway, and two more days will be the solar term and the summer heat, and the allied army's bath day. The coalition is paid!

The General Staff Department not only paid the allowances to the officers and men of the first and third battalions on time, but also paid the allowances to the ordinary people who participated in the war and the civilian staff headquarters who supported the front according to the uniform standard.

The people of Jiuyuan, who got the round piece money, were puzzled, what did the coalition army want?

If you don't reward everyone with spoils of war if you win a battle, what's the use of handing out a few discs? - The rules on the grassland, there is nothing to say about bringing your own food and blades in battle, but the spoils of victory are everyone's reward.

The soldiers of the first and third battalions were also very confused, Jiuyuan did not have a lot of shops in Longxingchang, what was the use of asking for round money?

The mystery is soon revealed.

The General Staff put a part of the small booty seized in the Shimen Waterway in the East Barrier City in front of Shimen, and put a bunch of landmarks to bid for it, and took the money for it in exchange for what it liked.

On the fifth day of June, the coalition forces paid tribute to the bereaved families of the martyrs and rewarded the meritorious soldiers.

This time, the General Staff paid a large sum of money to the relatives of the martyrs. In addition to the promotion of meritorious service, different meritorious soldiers can also get different amounts of disc money as rewards.

On this day, the loot piled up in the East Barrier City was even more abundant, as small as a pair of horse bridles, as large as a carriage, which filled the entire barrier city, and all the prices were marked.

The people understood that the coalition army was distributing discs on merit, and freely exchanging discs for the spoils they wanted. The common people immediately thought that this was good, and in the past, wars often caused conflicts because of the private possession of war spoils and unfair distribution, and the spoils they received were often not what they wanted. Now according to the size of the merit, take the disc yourself to exchange, fair and affordable.

This is a good thing that Sun Yi personally planned to kill two birds with one stone. A large number of coins were sent out from the left hand, and in a blink of an eye the coins were returned to the right hand, which not only established the prestige of the round money, but also reconciled the contradictions in the distribution of the spoils.

On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the rest day of the coalition army, the West Barrier City in front of Shimen Gate spontaneously became a bazaar.

In order to distinguish it from the staff loot market in the East Barrier City, the people called the spontaneous market in the West Barrier City the West Market or the People's Market, and the Staff Trophy Market in the East Barrier City was the East Market or the Official Market.

The prices in the East Market were all set by the guys in the General Staff, and the prices of many of the loot were much lower than those in the West Market. Moreover, the staff released a word that all the loot was sold on the sixth day of the sixth month of June, and the price was lowered every half hour.

Many people have long taken a fancy to the loot in the East Market, but they don't have the round piece money in their hands, or the round piece money is not enough, so they bring their own cattle and sheep and products to the West Market to trade, hoping to exchange for some round piece money, and then go to the East Market to pick up bargains.

The price of the East Market loot is lowered every half hour, which is quite exciting.

Take horses, for example. Although the horses captured by the coalition forces were the military horses of the armored soldiers of Manchukuo, they were ordinary animals in the eyes of the steppe people, not only were they not qualified to serve in the army, but they would make people laugh if they were war horses. So the General Staff decided not to leave all the horses behind. However, these horses have different ages, different fat and thin, and some are injured, so they can't be priced uniformly.

Sun Yi's loss move was a Dutch-style auction. A group of horses were put into the stables, regardless of whether they were good or not, and a high price was set first, and then the price was lowered every half an hour, and the people entered the stables themselves to lead the horses when they felt that the price was right.

When it was time to adjust the price, the people stood at the door of the stable with wide eyes. As soon as the staff officer lit up the sign with the new price, he immediately rushed into the stable and grabbed the horse he was looking for. At that time, as long as you hesitate, you may be left empty-handed.

As a result, the people suddenly pushed up the price of the round money. Originally, the coalition forces stipulated that one round piece of money could be exchanged for one pound of millet after the autumn, but now the soldiers with round pieces of money can exchange one yuan for two or three catties of cash grain in the West Market. Because the supply of disc money exceeds demand, the price is still going up.

Sun Yi secretly complained. Because some economists in later generations pointed out that the fundamental reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty was that the imperial court did not have silver, so Sun Yi painstakingly introduced round money to use it as legal tender in the future.

Later economists pointed out that the legal tender of the Ming Dynasty was copper coins, but the quality of copper coins minted by the imperial court continued to decline, and the private private casting of fake copper coins was rampant, and finally led to the inability to distinguish between real and fake copper coins, so everyone gradually disregarded copper coins and adopted silver as the circulating currency. Even the Ming court itself couldn't believe the copper coins it issued, and the taxes were settled in silver.

In the early Ming Dynasty, because of the newly discovered silver mines in the Americas, foreign trade silver was continuously imported to China, and the Ming Dynasty's economy was thriving; However, in the late Ming Dynasty, silver mining in the Americas ran out, silver imports decreased, and silver was in short supply in China.

At this time, most of the silver was controlled in the hands of a few wealthy people, and the tightening of the silver led to their preference to cast the silver into big lumps and hide them in the cellar to wait for appreciation rather than throw them into the market circulation, and the silver of the Ming Dynasty was even more tight.

The imperial court only recognized silver when collecting taxes, and the peasants had to exchange grain for silver to pay taxes, which led to the fact that the peasants in the northwest who were plagued by natural disasters could only exchange their limited grain for the silver that the rich were waiting to sell. Although the imperial court did not increase the taxes of the peasants too much, the actual burden of the peasants continued to increase year after year, so that the people called Emperor Chongzhen "the emperor of heavy levy", which finally provoked the popular rebellion in the northwest.

On the other hand, due to the tightening of the monetary base, the Ming court could not collect enough silver to meet the huge army expenses, resulting in the inability to pay military salaries, the morale of the army was low, and even the peasant army could not be defeated, forming a vicious circle.

Therefore, later economists believed that the shortage of currency could not adapt to the circulation scale of the huge economy of the Ming Dynasty, which eventually led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Sun Yi did not understand economics, since later generations of local economists said so, he could no longer foolishly use silver as currency. In doing so, not only will the hard-earned fruits of the federal people be exploited by the rich people of the Ming Dynasty in vain, but in the end, the federal government will be subject to the rich people of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the price of round money was inflated on the first day of circulation in Jiuyuan, and Sun Yi thought that it was definitely not a good thing for it to skyrocket as a currency.

What to do? Ruthless, Sun Yi decided to take action to stabilize the price.

The staff officers of the General Staff Department were ordered to carry money bags to the West Market to buy any grain commodities, and gradually, the price of grain in the West Market dropped to about one pound.

As soon as Sun Yi took a breath, the loot market, which lowered the price every half an hour in the East Market, actually increased in price!

It turned out that the people who had exchanged for round money in the West Market excitedly took the money to the East Market to buy things, but it turned out that the loot was cheap and cheap, but the quantity was not much. Everyone wants it, and someone starts to raise the price, so why not the staff officer in charge? As a result, prices in the East Market have risen overall.

When Chief of Staff Sun Dingliao received the news, he immediately believed that such an increase in prices in Dongshi would damage the image of the General Staff. Sun Dingliao proposed that the established policy of lowering prices in the East Market every half an hour must be seriously maintained, and Sun Dingliao proposed two countermeasures for the people who took the disc money to buy the spoils of war:

First, the purchase is restricted, and all personnel who have not participated in the war are not allowed to enter the East Market to buy and sell;

The second is called the lottery, and all the people who look at the same trophy in the Middle East City will use the lottery or lottery to determine the lucky winner.

Zhu Junshi of the Second Staff Department immediately jumped to his feet to oppose it. We, the ordinary people in Jiuyuan County who did not participate in the war, have already suffered a loss once by exchanging grain for round money, how can we still let them suffer a second loss? Chief of Staff, if you do this, can the disc money still be called money?

Sun Yi let out a cold sweat when he heard this. Purchase limit, lottery, these words Sun is familiar again. Zhu Junshi said, "Can this money still be called money?" The essence of the problem was revealed at once.

These administrative means of interfering in the market are in fact plundering the wealth that the people have worked hard to accumulate in disguise, and the result is that money is no longer money: the people no longer believe in money, and no longer believe in the authority of the institutions that issue it; In the end, the round money of the Federation will end up with the copper money of the Ming Dynasty, and the people will turn to believe in the silver abroad, and the wealth accumulated in the country will cheapen the red hair of the mines in the Americas.

Sun Yi immediately called back the staff who was buying heavily in the West Market to stabilize prices, and allowed the price of the East Market to rise.

The Dutch auction in the East Market became a normal auction. Faced with the same trophy, the people carrying the round piece of money quoted the price from the low to the high, and the one with the highest price in the end got it.

As the day approached, prices in the East Market skyrocketed. For the same thing, if you use a pound of millet after the autumn as the unit of pricing, the price of the east market has exceeded that of the west market, but the price is still rising.

The reason is very simple, the people think that there are not many loot in the East Market, and the disc money in their hands will be useless in the future, so they can just spend it for something.

Fortunately, the caravan's flowery cabinet appeared in time to save Sun Yi from this currency crisis.

This time, the caravan was ordered to go to Dabansheng City to "collect" materials, and along the way, Huatou Cabinet pondered the difference between "collecting" and "trading" for a few days.

It would be undesirable to let the Flower Cabinet carry a knife to "collect" supplies, and Mo Rigen, who was sitting in the big bansheng, would never let the caravan do so.

After thinking about it, Huatou Cabinet came up with a bad move: there was about to be a war on the grassland, and the caravan could "keep" the supplies for people.

For example, if a wealthy family has 100 head of cattle, if they are handed over to the caravan for safekeeping before the war, the caravan guarantees that the caravan will return the 90 cattle after the war, and only charge the storage fee for the 10 cows, and the 90 cattle returned are not guaranteed to be the original 90 heads.

The wealthy households, merchants, and refugees who fled from the board still broke through the threshold of the caravan to send supplies to the caravan, knowing that this was a loan that did not pay interest and had to be discounted.

The reason is very simple, if you hand it over to the caravan, you may only lose 10% of your property, and once the fighting on the grassland spreads to Dabansheng, 10% of your property will inevitably be lost.

The worst result was the defeat of the Iron Country, and the caravan lost all the property in its custody. Things really got to that point, even the Iron Kingdom was defeated, and the property could not be handed over to the caravan, and there was a nominal contract that could be claimed by the caravan in the future.

With such a wish, the caravan "collected" a large amount of supplies. When Hua Toujiao learned of the great victory of the coalition forces in Jiuyuan and the indiscriminate killing of Manchukuo in Kuku and Tun at the same time, he immediately returned to Jiuyuan with personnel and materials.

The caravan leader of the Huatou Cabinet arrived at Jiuyuan after the sixth day of the first month, and Sun Yi seemed to have seen a savior, and immediately asked the caravan to find a way to save the crisis of round money.

As soon as the flower head cabinet heard the situation, this was obviously a good opportunity to make money, how could it be a crisis.

The West Market immediately erected the name of Long Xingchang.

On the one hand, Longxingchang's shop sells the "safekeeping" materials of the caravan, and on the other hand, it buys local bargains and prepares to transport them to Longxingchang in Qingshanzui Township to make another profit.

Longxingchang's shop promises to open in the West Market for a long time, and Longxingchang's shop only recognizes round money. After learning about the amount of materials brought by Long Xingchang, the people stopped taking the round money one after another, and the prices in the east and west markets quickly calmed down.

Huatou Cabinet secretly rejoiced, the caravan not only made money, but also got a permanent shop in the feng shui treasure of Shimen Waterway West Market.

Sun Yi secretly vowed that he would never interfere in the market again and completely cancel the so-called official market.