"Hee-hee, I didn't expect that there is also a horse race in Seris, and it is much more lively than the Roman racecourse!"

Finally arrived at the exciting horse race, Sophia's little face in the box was full of excitement, and a few girlfriends who had just met were shouting.

"What? The Romans also loved horse racing? Princess Qinghe looked surprised and said, "I don't know what sports the Romans like?" ”

"O Rome...... The most popular sport should be gladiatorial fighting! ”

"Gladiatorial fighting?"

"That's right, it's to find two strong slaves to fight each other, and sometimes even have people duel with fierce beasts such as lions and tigers. In short, every time it was time for the gladiators to perform, the whole of Rome, from the nobility to the common citizens, would fall into madness. ”

"Ahh

Sophia's account frightened the ladies in attendance, and they could not have imagined that the most popular sport in Rome could be so bloody. Seeing Sophia as a matter of course, Pei Yinger and other smart people suddenly understood why their husband wanted to do everything possible to introduce Rome to Liaodong.

Rome was too violent, and the Great Jin was too gentle, the two merged with each other, and absorbing the strengths of the two is the king.

It didn't take long for the official horse races to finally begin, and the first ten riders led their mounts into the racetrack, with a large number written on the back of each rider and on the saddle cloth of each horse.

The participants in the box have chosen their horses early and then handed over the number of the representative to the place in charge of betting at the racecourse, along with the chips they have placed. When the contest is over, they can go to the counter to redeem different prizes depending on the result.

For a while, there were a lot of people outside the racecourse, and there were no more than 10,000 people at a cursory glance, and seeing so many people coming, Wang Dan, the director of the tax Cao, almost smiled crookedly.

"Haha, the lord still has an idea, there are so many people in the racecourse, and this tax will definitely be indispensable in the future!"

"My lord, although the promotion of horse racing has increased financial revenue, will it lead to a frenzy of people participating in gambling?"

"It depends on how to say it, if there is no racetrack, there is no gambling? It can be seen that there is no necessary connection between horse racing and gambling, on the contrary, I think that running a horse race is just the right thing to attract ordinary people from casinos to horse racing. The risk of horse racing is much smaller than that of casinos, and it is still good for ordinary people. ”

"Of course, this is not to support the development of gambling in Liaodong, and it is still necessary to intensify the crackdown on some illegal casinos in the future! Only a reasonable and orderly gambling business is supported by Liaodong. ”

"The Lord is reasonable, as the saying goes: it is better to be blocked than to be sparse! Since it is completely impossible to eradicate the development of gambling, it is better to incorporate it into the management according to the advice of the lord and make it available to me. ”

"Hahaha, everyone, we are here for fun today, and we will talk about it later. The game is about to start, why don't you wait to place your bets? It's too late to make it to the first game! ”

Just when everyone was busy placing bets, they saw Mo Han coming to Wei Shuo with a plate. Seeing Mo Han's mysterious look, everyone couldn't help but show a little curiosity in their eyes.

"My lord, before the game starts, I have a happy event for you here. The matter of minting silver and gold coins that you ordered before has already been seen, this is the silver and gold coins that Gong Cao just minted, please take a look. ”

"Oh? Cast a sample so quickly? Wei Shuo didn't expect Mo Han's movements to be so fast.

"Hehe, what the lord personally ordered, how dare the minister delay. Besides, some technologies are ready-made, and Liaodong began to reserve technologies a few years ago. Therefore, as soon as the minister accepted the task, he hurriedly asked Gongcao and Qian Zhuang to prepare samples. It took less than five days for the sample to be cast. ”

Saying that, Mo Han lifted the silk covering the plate, and everyone's eyes were attracted to the plate, only to see rows of silver and gold coins neatly placed on the plate, which were glowing with attractive silver and gold light.

Mo Han smiled and picked up one of the silver coins and introduced: "This is a silver dollar minted by the money bank: it weighs seven coins and two cents, contains eight percent silver, and one percent two copper!" From now on, the circulation of specifications such as gold and silver nuggets and ingots will be abolished in the Liaodong market, and all transactions in the future must be traded with gold coins and silver dollars, which is the so-called "abolishing the two yuan" policy. ”

"Dare to ask Mo Changshi, how to exchange copper coins with silver dollars and gold coins?"

"Back to you, after the full implementation of the 'abolition of the two yuan', the silver dollar will be used as the standard currency of Liaodong, and the gold coin and the five-baht coin can only be used as auxiliary currency. The exchange rate set by the imperial court was that one silver dollar could be exchanged for one hundred five-baht coins, while one gold coin could be exchanged for ten silver dollars and one thousand five-baht coins. ”

While listening to Mo Han's introduction, everyone below took the silver dollar in their hands and observed it carefully. The silver dollar and gold coin are different from the traditional five-baht coin, with no square hole in the middle, and the words "One Yuan" are engraved on the upper part of the obverse, and the reverse is engraved with the words "Imperial Coin", the coiling dragon motif and the year of issue.

"Shirong, how are your anti-counterfeiting measures for silver dollars and gold coins?"

Seeing Wei Shuo ask, Mo Han smiled and picked up a silver dollar, blew hard at the edge of it with his mouth, and then quickly put the silver dollar to his ear, the unique humming sound of the silver coin sounded very pleasant.

The others looked at Mo Han with a look of enjoyment and followed suit. After a while, everyone was stunned by Yinyuan's performance, and many people looked at Mo Han with shocked faces, unable to figure out what the reason was.

"Hahaha, don't you think it's amazing? To be honest, I don't know what is going on, but I only know that as long as it is a real silver dollar, it will be able to blow it, and if it is fake, it will not be able to blow. In the future, no professional skills are required, and even ordinary people can quickly identify the authenticity of silver dollars. ”

"Really? That's great! ”

Everyone couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard this, to be honest, the most important thing in issuing currency was to worry about someone counterfeiting, but they didn't expect that the upcoming silver dollar would have such a killer feature.

Just as everyone was holding the silver dollar to admire, they saw Pei Wei stand up and question the issuance of the silver dollar, "The lord, and Lord Mo, is it feasible to use the silver dollar in the way of five baht coins?" I haven't issued a silver dollar in my dynasty or even in the previous dynasty? There is no such precedent in the entire history of China! ”

"In my opinion, that's not a problem! No metal is money in the first place, and neither is gold and silver. In the past, there was no status of gold and silver in the Chinese currency, which was not unrelated to the small reserves of gold and silver. ”

"Now the situation is different, with the influx of gold and silver from the outside world, the gold and silver reserves in Liaodong have far exceeded those of previous dynasties, and the time is ripe for the issuance of silver dollar gold coins. In addition, the Western Roman Empire has begun to use silver coins as the standard currency, and even gold coins. ”

"Later, with the increasing trade between Liaodong and Rome, it was the general trend for silver taels to circulate in the form of silver coins. If Liaodong sticks to the rules, it will definitely suffer a big loss in future transactions. ”

"Liaodong must know how to keep pace with the times, and can't stick to any ancestral family law! It cannot be denied that many of the things left by the ancestors are treasures, but we cannot take the ancestors as the criterion for everything. ”

Wei Shuo knew very well that if Liaodong could not launch silver dollars and gold coins in time, the merchants of Liaodong would find that in the event of a large transaction with Rome, the use of whole pieces of gold and silver would bring great trouble, and it would be easy to suffer.

"Shirong, I don't know how much gold and silver the money has reserved so far?"

"Back to the lord, since the second year of Jianxing, according to your arrangement, the money village has begun to reserve gold and silver on a large scale. By last year, that is, the fifth year of Jianxing, after four consecutive years of hard work, Qianzhuang had reserved nearly 10 million taels of silver, 3 million taels of gold, and about 10 million silver dollars and 3 million gold coins. ”

"In addition, according to the reserve rate of gold and silver, it is expected that an additional 3 million silver dollars and 500,000 gold coins can be issued every year, which can basically meet the market demand."

"In order to ensure silver and gold reserves, Qian Zhuang intends to increase the mining of gold and silver mines in an all-round way, coupled with the natural inflow brought about by the increase in trade in the future, which can definitely meet the issuance of silver dollars and gold coins."

While everyone was discussing the silver dollars and gold coins, the wonderful horse racing competition had begun, and in an instant, huge cheers poured into the box from all directions. Today's sound insulation effect is certainly not comparable to modern times, for a time the box was full of noise, there was no way to communicate, everyone had to put aside other thoughts for a while, concentrate on enjoying its horse racing. (To be continued.) )