Chapter 52: Currency Wars

For the time being, only official shops are open in the new area – in the words of RPGs, players are not allowed to set up stalls. Of course, the exchange of all kinds of silver, gold and renminbi is also open, but there is a daily limit. The consideration of the limit was due to the fact that there was a run on the business when it was first opened, so it was changed to queue up for the limit exchange. Of course, the new district also knew that ninety percent of the gold and silver coins exchanged were contributed by merchants. Anyway, let's send it back to China for smelting.

Of course, some big businessmen can directly swagger into the five-story office building in the middle of the new city to discuss the exchange, not because they have money, nor because they have a large trade route, but because they actually cooperate with the work of the new district. For example, a few wagons of soda and a big businessman with an escort just took away today. He had been here twice before, once to bring a map of the city of Shield City, and the second time to bring half of Elta's tax book left in the palace! God knows how this tall, skinny, bearded businessman got this kind of thing? Come on, come on, you see, inside the VIP room, please.

The new district doesn't know or want to know that a bottle of glass bottle soda with a domestic guide retail price of five yuan can be half of the property of a middle-class family in Hilqiding, and it doesn't want to know that the bimonthly Archbishop Elta who returned to China directly wrapped a box, of course, it was a white strip. Don't say anything, just empty the magic drink in this bottle, wash it and put it in the jewelry store, that is, a crystal bottle made in heaven, which can be openly placed on the shelves.

Oh, by the way, the new district doesn't serve glass bottles, only plastic bottles. These plastic bottles are secretly purchased by merchants, and colorful fruit candy, large bundles of rolling paper, small wooden sticks that can be burned by rubbing, and sewing needles that will not rust after being placed in the air for several months to multiply the profits in other areas.

Of course, the profits of luxury goods are not low. The straight glass is also a best-selling product, and this thing is proudly placed on the shelves of stores in the new district, and the price is deliberately inflated, and it is still not for sale. How high is it? When Dr. Wei went to a meeting with the seed students, the students looked at him an order of magnitude less than the vacuum glass teacup in his hand. Judging from the volume of merchants' shipments, it is not surprising that the banquets on the main island of Lancas were filled with "crystal cups, crystal plates, crystal knives and crystal bowls".

Silk fabrics and ready-to-wear, elastic socks and underwear, these chemical fiber artifacts were also openly displayed in color printed books for merchants to browse, and distributed free of charge. If you think that a certain lady does not know whether she will like it, you can take this booklet to her to take a good look at it, and the merchants who touch the gold and silver may not know the goods, but the ladies and ladies must know the goods. There is also a back cover with a small piece of fabric attached to the back of the booklet, so you can touch it even if you can't see it.

In addition, all kinds of seasonings with perfect packaging are gradually opening up sales. From Tao Obi's old godmother to Wang Oyi's thirteen incense, they were all replaced with glass bottles without labels and extra explanatory paper. It's not for anything, "buy and return the pearls". The seasoning is very good, but the glass bottle with a beautiful non-slip pattern may make people feel even better. Glass bottles may teach Elta and Lancas what crystal clear fashion is, and a wide variety of condiments will continue to teach them culinary arts lessons.

There are too many things to sell, too little money to get to buy these things, and even more sad is not the relational household. Since there was no sufficient outlet for open exchanges, black market and off-the-table exchanges began to appear. From the shield city to the new city all the way out, as long as it is a decent town, you take out a big red piece of paper, someone will definitely know the goods. It's just that no one dares to change the big red paper, and most people have never even seen it. Generally speaking, all you need to do is take out a small piece of yellow paper and you will be able to calm the scene. In most cases, this kind of exchange in the taverns of the new city, on the outskirts of the new city, and in some town markets is based on a five-corner piece. Of course, the most common is the wandering buying vendors who squatted in the corner of the new city and waited for the tide to get off work, asking one by one whether they would sell for a piece of five cents. Most of the petty thieves are also targeted by businessmen, but the chances of them being able to get out safely are really low.

The money changers who held the coins would then sell them to merchants who went to the new city to buy them at a higher price. For them, the coins of Xincheng are too easy to identify, the fineness is the same, the letters are always clear and will not be easily worn, there is no oxidation, no skew, no pattern depth problem, ten look the same, a hundred look the same. The skills used to identify the authenticity and falsity are no longer required, so the workload of the money changers has been greatly reduced. It was easy to make money, and money changers became happy to take on this kind of work. Merchants don't care how difficult it is to buy these coins, how much they can receive is what they earn, and if they can be sold as commodities, they must be profitable - and so on, why worry about not being able to get rid of them? It's just that I'm worried that the scale is not big enough. Who can say that they don't even have a carriage? A carriage with food guards to send a cart of grain to the imperial capital at most to earn half of the price of grain net profits, now selling half a cart of "Chinese goods" with a few more Doniva certified guards, all the way to eat big meat and sit in the car, drink wine and sing songs to Garcia, to Hirzi, at least four or five times the capital.

Gradually, merchants in other central towns were willing to accept the easily convertible coins, which they could collect and sell to merchants for higher profits. Although there are still very few people who do this, there are still one or two. In addition, merchants are gradually buying coins and small tickets at higher prices, and for a time the black market exchange ratio between the two has been much higher than the open exchange rate in the new area.

It seems that the new district did not interfere in such trade, and most of them let these merchants pack and take away, leaving a bowl of soup for the new district. But in fact, those who know the inside story will find that whether it is the silver coin of the suspension bridge or the bimonthly gold coin, the gold, silver and precious metals are gradually falling into the pockets of the new area and are being replaced by nickel dime and five cents and one yuan. In fact, the exchange of cheap industrial products for precious metals is one aspect, and the high-quality renminbi will gradually let the gold and silver coins fall into the pockets of the new area, and at the same time, it will also occupy the market. I hope that Lancas and Biyue will continue to work hard, find out that their money is insufficient, and start a new minting plan as soon as possible - this bottomless pit is not something you can fill, come on, let's toast with soda in a glass together!