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And some memories are shared by many people, so that when they recall it many years later, people who don't know each other because of this memory can drink a sip of wine and talk about the past.

For example, in July of the 34th year of the Chinese calendar, a rule required that all Taobei should go to Yucheng or Xiacheng to exchange for copper coins within half a year, and if they were not exchanged within the time limit, they would be deemed invalid.

The bulky pottery gradually faded out of people's lives, and the light and beautiful copper coins entered people's pockets, and in turn there was something sewn with cloth called a blanket, which jingled and sounded to prove the wealth of the owner.

The concept of taubé was embraced early on, with the city government as the backbone of credibility and the tightly controlled system of workshops as the basis for currency distribution, and the light copper coins quickly became popular.

For the people in the Yucheng Xiacheng system, monetary reform is like a wind in the spring and a rain in the summer, which is ordinary and does not fluctuate without any fluctuations.

Because public property still sells all kinds of necessities at fixed prices and buys necessities at all prices, the few private exchanges in the market are nothing more than the forced conversion of physical goods into money.

The same currency can buy more things in the rest of the cities, but almost everyone has their own business, and it is difficult to leave the city to see the outside world, even if you know that the same copper coin can buy more things in the rest of the cities, it is impossible to give up everything here to spend in the rest of the cities.

With the production of iron farming tools, the use of bronze decreased, and it stands to reason that the price would decrease.

However, because of the large number of copper coins minted, the price of bronze was more expensive than before, and some cast-iron spearheads that were inferior to bronze in disguise became a bulk commodity, and copper coins were always higher than bronze spears of the same weight.

The sand coinage method saves a lot of processes, even if the rest of the cities that can smelt copper want to imitate, it is difficult to make much profit, and the currency issued by the rest of the cities is difficult to compete with the Xiacheng copper coins, because they do not have workshops and various supplies to support, and people do not trust the strange currency of the rest of the cities, only believe in the Xiacheng copper coins painted with yin and yang fish and wheat ears.

This thing can be bought in any desired thing as long as it is in the shop opened by the Xia Cheng people, while the Xia Cheng people do not accept other currencies at all, and they also resolutely resist bartering small trade.

From the purchase and sale of bulk commodities, to the merchants who walked the streets of nearby towns, and the new profession called merchants that evolved from the shopping malls of Xia E's trade, the money was constantly being collected and spilled outward.

The number of people coming and going to Yucheng gradually increased, and on the land on the other side of Yucheng, a new unwalled city gradually took on the scale of the rest of the city for those who lived here and bought goods.

There are liquor shops, inns, and even places where you can relax with copper coins, and government-run brothels, where the women are well-dressed and tasteful, and if you are willing to spend more copper coins, there are even more beautiful ones who can even sing and dance.

Every ten years, boats pass through the surrounding towns, and a simple road that can be driven has been formed, so the small town opposite Yucheng is very lively.

The people who work there...... Most of them were women who had fled here from outside, sold here, or came "voluntarily", and a new type of human trade began to grow around Yucheng with evil in the surrounding area.

And most of the industries there are the public property of Xia Cheng, and the people who manage them are also selected from the people of the city, and nominally everyone can sign up, but the qualifications for the selection must be eliminated in the first round.

It is required to be able to read, count, add, subtract, multiply and divide, this is a hard and fast rule, no one can change it, and the leader personally assesses it.

Life there is very comfortable, the work is easy, and there is not much jurisdiction. Many people know that their life may be unlikely, but they are still hopeful, because their children are still in school.

The reason for all these changes was the existence of a currency that could be used in the surrounding cities, and there was no longer a need to barter with a large pile of grain and furs.

Currency, for many people, this change of rules is only a major event that happened in July 34, but for those who know the inside story, they know that this rule may be traced back to a long time ago, when the pottery was bound to grain for stone, and the pewter mother coin carved by the "bud" department.

What really made all this change happen was when the leaders of the two cities of Ewei went to Yucheng in March to discuss important matters.

The people of Xiacheng proudly took the curious and surprised people of the two cities to visit the workshops and farms, and let them watch a competition between oxen and man, which made a great impression on them.

At the end of March, after watching the spring ploughing, Eyue Weihe and the others, as well as a group of people who held power in their city, came to the largest house in Yucheng, where they were waiting for the ordinary members of the Xia City Council and the heads of the various workshop divisions.

From March 27 to April 13, there were quarrels and discussions in the house every morning for half a month, but these quarrels and discussions calmed down on the afternoon of April 13.

The powerful figures of Xia, E, and Wei Sancheng negotiated for half a month in the newly built Yucheng Government Hall and reached a series of agreements.

The main content of the agreement revolves around currency and technology.

Xia Cheng and the Acropolis provided a total of 2,000 slaves, which were used to be responsible for smelting copper coins, mining the copper mines of Xia City, etc., and the amount of coins minted was determined by Xia Cheng, and the minted copper coins accounted for 60% of Xia Cheng, and the other two cities occupied 40%, as the common currency within the Grass River Alliance.

Copper coins are common in the Caohe League, the other two cities are not allowed to imitate, Xia Cheng can not be minted more, copper coins and workshop products are bound, and Xia Cheng must take back all the pottery and copper shells.

Within two years, Xia Cheng will lend 300,000 copper coins and a number of gold coins to the families of the leaders of Wei and E in the form of loans.

At the same time, the government lent 1 million copper coins to the two cities of Wei and E, and these copper coins could only be used to purchase various goods in Xia City, and any goods in the cities of E and Wei had priority over the rest of the cities.

In addition, a part of the iron farm tools will be paid for assistance, which will also be counted in the loan.

The loans were repaid over a period of eight years in kind, mainly in the form of agricultural products, silk, linen, pottery and some of the planned low-grade workshop supplies.

The above content is secured by the ownership of the coinage of the two cities, if the summer city cannot be repaid within eight years, the coinage will be directly taken back from the coinage, and the minting workshop must be established in the summer city.

Xiacheng will set up a money bank that can borrow money with collateral, and at the same time, the bank will also be responsible for registering all kinds of new tools and technologies.

For example, silk technology, black pottery, cocoon wheels, spinning wheels, etc., once registered, the rest of the people are not allowed to imitate without permission, such as the imitation needs to provide a sum of money or take out 20% of the profits, depending on the requirements of the inventor.

In addition, the Xia City government provided technology to help the families of the two leaders establish new farms and small workshops, provided free assistance to the leaders of the family, and at the same time helped the two leaders train private soldiers, and even provided a batch of weapons to arm these private soldiers.

No restrictions were lifted between the three cities, and people were allowed to come and go freely, but they were not allowed to open mines, dig salt, or harvest in the rest of the cities without permission, but they could do business, open workshops, etc.

At the same time, at the cost of half of the mineral income within five years, the two cities asked Xia Cheng to help find ore on the land of the two cities, and after five years, Xia Cheng's income was no longer half reduced to one percent.

It is forbidden to build or construct between the three cities a city or fortress in which any of them is an imaginary enemy; The uniforms between the three cities are uniformly black, and no hatred is allowed to instill any hatred for one of the imaginary enemies.

If any city is attacked by a fourth party, the other two cities are automatically deemed to be at war with the fourth party, and they swear not to make peace with the fourth party alone.

The two cities recognized Xia Cheng's status as the elder brother, and Xia Cheng vowed not to interfere in the internal affairs of the two cities, and absolutely supported the future choice of the two people on the issue of the heir of the two cities.

And so on and so forth......

Unlike the previous verbal oaths, this time the matters discussed were all written on the cloth and in triplicate.

Except for the secret covenant between some of the chieftain's families, the rest of the content is all public, and the Xia Cheng monks will explain the content of the treaty in the two cities. (To be continued.) )