Seeing that the New Year is coming, the festive atmosphere of Wanghai City is getting stronger and stronger.

The whole Wanghai City has been cleaned again, any dead corners are particularly clean, not to mention the common people's residences, clean it again or twice, and then carefully paste the red cloth or red paper around, the paper is a big red coarse paper, now it is not precious in Wanghai City, after the whole city is pasted, it is very festive to see everywhere.

On the doors of each house, the portrait of the dragon god is posted on the eaves, and the two sides of the door are pasted with fish tails, and some fish tails are large enough to cover the entire door, because the dragon god has said that this is called more than every year.

In addition, as long as there is a strong labor family at home, a few baskets will be put at the door during the day, which are filled with dried fish, fish floss and vegetable rice wine and the like that can be eaten casually, children are guarding the door, stealing a mouthful from time to time, if someone passes by, they will greet warmly, let passers-by come to taste, whose food can get the most praise, the owner will feel light on his face.

As for the common people who have just been brought to Wanghai City by the Zhen family, An Zhongzhi has also been busy in the past few days, and they have gone to inquire about the New Year's goods are still a lot less, if they are less, they will make up for them, fish, meat, rice and grain, these are definitely enough, compared to the war in the Central Plains and the mediocrity of the officials, here, they can feel the greatest warmth, I don't know how many people and the common people secretly kowtowed to Lin Bei, hoping that Lord Longshen can live a long time.

In the morning, Lin Bei walked around Wanghai City, and when he came back, his stomach was full, and the common people were too enthusiastic.

"There are few people, but now is the best time." Lin Bei sighed with satisfaction, now the people of Wanghai are almost all simple, and they rarely have crooked thoughts, and Wanghai City has done it, but Lin Bei knows. With more and more people, this best era will pass slowly, which Lin Bei cannot stop, because people's desires are endless.

Just as he was sighing, Bian Ji trotted into the City Lord's Mansion and shouted from afar: "My lord." My lord, come and see how this paper is. ”

Running in front of Lin Bei, Bian Ji put a thick piece of paper in his hand in front of Lin Bei's eyes and said, "My lord, what do you think of using this paper to make dragon god coins?" ”

This thick paper is thicker than the coins of later generations, and it is also very textured, and the color is a little yellowish, because the pure white paper can't be made in Wanghai City now, and after rubbing it with the tail a few times, Lin Bei is quite satisfied. It's a bit like a banknote in the future, and I was about to nod, when I suddenly pouted, lowered my head, and tried to look at the thick paper, "What is that?" It looks like it's glowing. ”

Bian Jile hehe: "Your Excellency sees it?" ”

Bian Ji covered the thick piece of paper with his hand, and sure enough, as the light dimmed. The edges of this thick piece of paper are indeed glowing, and they are luminous.

"How?" Lin Bei was curious and happy. The craftsmen actually came up with the anti-counterfeiting mark without a teacher?

"It is a craftsman who scrapes a kind of fish surface to make it, called Yingfen, very rare, that kind of fish is also very small, and the Yingfen scraped out by a fish can only make more than ten pieces of such thick paper."

"What fish?" Lin Bei asked in surprise.

Bian Ji described, comparing the tips of his little fingers: "It's so small." There are also many whiskers-like ones that can spread very much in the water, and they shrink back as soon as they are scooped up. ”

Lin Bei really couldn't think of it, so he finally asked the sergeant to fetch a fish and come back, and wait to see it in front of him. Lin Beixin said that it turned out to be this, this is a jellyfish, a plankton in the ocean.

"This is a jellyfish, not a fish, and this glow is made by scraping the powder on their whiskers?"

"Oh, so it's a jellyfish? Yes, exactly. ”

"Very little, huh?"

"Very little." Bian Ji affirmed: "And it's not easy to fish." ”

Lin Bei and Bian Ji went out of the room, let Bian Ji pick up the thick paper and put it in front of his eyes, looking at the sky, the more Lin Bei looked at it, the more happy he became, this luminescence was in the thick paper, if you didn't look at the sun, you could see a little, if you looked at the sun again, the color of the luminescence was like seven colors, it was very gorgeous.

"Jellyfish are rarely very small, there are certainly fewer jellyfish with this unique powder, adding this powder to the coin, it is an excellent anti-counterfeiting mark, as far as the current technology is concerned, this anti-counterfeiting mark can be regarded as quite good."

The material and thickness of the thick paper can also be combined, and Lin Bei immediately decided to use this paper to make coins, that is, dragon god coins.

The currency of the dragon god coin Lin Bei and An Zhongzhi have already said, just like the modern RMB species, from one point to one hundred, the pattern of the dragon god coin is also similar to RMB, but of course there are other differences, that is, the avatar and the manufacturer, now there is no bank in Wanghai City, so the issuer is the Dawei Dragon King Sect, the front is Lin Bei's body, the reverse is Lin Bei's side, and there are numbers and everything, but they are all unified, and there is only one number.

In addition, the production method of the dragon god coin is very cumbersome, you have to first let the carpenter carve the size and appearance of the coin on a wooden board, make a wooden mold, and then let the blacksmith use molten steel to reduce the mold, and finally use the printing method to print the dragon god coin on the steel mold, the advantage of this is that the dragon god coin will be very clear, as long as the paper is qualified, the dragon god coin is also qualified, it is extremely difficult to be forged, plus there is a luminescent anti-counterfeiting, the probability of being forged is minimized, after all, there are not many people along the coast now, It's not easy to catch jellyfish and scrape off the powder.

The manufacture of dragon god coins is absolutely important, Lin Bei called the wood, and instructed the wood to select a few skilled craftsmen, requiring this kind of craftsman's carver to at least carve a wonderful human shape on the rice grain, wood and stone craftsmen are the most types of craftsmen, but there are quite few such carvings, and finally selected for a long time, only to pick out the two, but Huang Yueying said that she also has this craft, so this made up the three.

The blacksmith created a special carving needle for Huang Yueying and the three of them, and then immediately rushed to work, when the three of them were carving, Lin Bei remembered something: "Only those who are more than ten yuan can carve the shape of this adult, and those who carve a city under ten yuan will carve the appearance of Haicheng." ”

Although Huang Yueying's carving skills are exquisite, it will take at least ten days to carve all the coin molds of the Dragon God Coins, and if you are a Qiē Shun lì, the first batch of Dragon God Coins in Wanghai City should be produced after the Lantern Festival.

After inquiring about Lin Bei, An Zhongzhi drew the appearance of the dragon god coin, and with an explanation and how to identify and preserve it, etc., he spread it in Wanghai City in the afternoon, and sent someone to Linjiang City to do a good job of propaganda work first.

It is not surprising that Lord Ryujin wants to come up with a new currency, because it is very normal, and some surprises are that this new currency is actually paper money, not iron money.

From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present, although the appearance of the currency has changed, but the iron coin will always be the mainstream, people have been accustomed to this currency, although the iron money will also decay, but in people's consciousness, it is always much better than paper coins to preserve, and now the dragon god is going to launch a paper currency, although the people will not rebel, but there are also some doubts, can this paper money really replace iron money?

Lin Bei's prestige at this time showed its effect, even if the common people had doubts, but no one dared to ask Lin Bei, Lord Longshen said yes, then it must be done, if it doesn't work, the common people just need to accept this point of view, besides, the issuance of a currency is a heavy event, how can one or two common people doubt it?

No matter what the common people thought in their hearts, that afternoon, Lin Bei gathered some of the principals of Wanghai City, Bian Ji, An Zhongzhi and Cui Lan were certainly there, as well as other principals of Wanghai City, in addition, Lin Bei also selected ten old people to come to the City Lord's Mansion to discuss the price of goods after the issuance of the Dragon God Coin.

That's right, it is to negotiate prices, that is, the Great Dragon King Sect will determine the prices, rather than letting the market determine the prices.

Modern people must not understand this way, Lin Bei also wants to determine the price by the market economy, but at least at the beginning Lin Bei can't do this, these people must set the price, but except for Lin Bei, everyone takes it for granted, because in this era, the market generally has the position of the market, and the market is in charge of the price of goods in the market.

Waiting for everyone to sit down, Lin Bei said: "Waiting for the Dragon God Coin to be issued, Wanghai, Linjiang, and the three cities along the river will set up a market, so today I summoned everyone to discuss the price of goods in the market, what price should be set, everyone spoke freely, and came up with a charter." ”

Everyone was silent, not knowing where to start.

Lin Bei smiled: "In this case, then the lord will throw bricks and lead the jade, let's start with the price of rice, good jade, brown rice, rice these three, you can combine the price of rice grain in the former Han Dynasty, and then according to the output of rice grain in Wanghai City, set a general range, and then discuss, and finally the pricing of these items must be listed in the whole city, so that everyone knows." ”

Lin Bei put forward the direction, and everyone began to discuss, Lin Bei didn't speak for most of the time, only when it was finally decided, Lin Bei would ask these people first and then let people write down the price, although the price was calculated, but this was not the final decision, and after announcing the whole city, see how the people reflected how to make a decision.

This matter is more cumbersome than making dragon god coins, not to mention half a day, it is quite fast to finalize the price in a month or two, because not only the price, but also the relationship between the price of the item must be considered, and finally the pricing of all items becomes reasonable.

It has been discussed until eight o'clock in the evening, and the price of the items set down is only more than ten kinds, and tomorrow is the New Year, Lin Bei naturally can't exploit the rest time of these people, so he will dismiss the meeting first and go back to his own home.

The participants are all gone, even the sergeants have gone home to prepare for the New Year, there is no one in the city lord's mansion, Lin Bei looked at the empty city lord's mansion, and smiled bitterly in his heart, he has no home in this world.

"I'm going to be lonely all my life." (To be continued......)

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