The meeting has been held for more than three hours, although basically Huang Shi is alone over there to speak, but most of the people who listened to the lecture in the audience were a little dizzy, because in addition to talking about the history of "Zheng He went to the West" in the middle, everyone can still mention the spirit, the more the spirit is getting worse in the future, except for the frequent nodding of the head of the head, the eyes are straight, and many things are not understood.

In fact, even Huang Shi himself muttered in his heart, how much would the people below listen to what he said.

At this time, the bell rang outside, and when Huang Shi looked at his watch, it was already 12 o'clock at noon, and he knew that the canteen had already opened, so he said, "The morning meeting will be held here first, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, we will talk about the salary grade here." We will now adjourn. ”

When Huangshi walked out, the rest of the people "coaxed" like a vegetable market, stretching their waists and legs one by one, yawning and talking over there.

Qu'er sat next to An Ruyi and saw that she was sorting out the contents of her notebook.

This kind of notebook is specially configured by the chief, and everyone who has a management position is a copy of it, it has two books long, one book wide, and one inch thick, and the leather cover, which is a dark yellow page with horizontal stripes, and some grapevine lace in the corners, which looks particularly comfortable.

At the same time, the chief also equipped everyone with a special pen, although the chief said that this notebook was used for memorization, but she was reluctant to use it at first. In addition, although she also knew a few words before, there were not many opportunities to practice pen, and after changing the pen, the words were written like "dog crawling" described by the chief. If it weren't for the fact that when she had a meeting before, she saw everyone "brushing and brushing" in the notebook, and she didn't want her pen and ink to stain this big book that seemed to be valuable.

Fortunately, in the past few months, she has held more meetings, and her handwriting has also improved a lot, from "dog crawling" to "one stroke at a time", although it is not very good-looking, it is always decent. But compared with An Ruyi, Qu'er is a little ashamed, Ruyi's font is not only beautifully written, but also the outline of the meeting transcripts, according to the chief, it is a template that can be made into meeting minutes.

"Ruyi, why did you say that the chief didn't issue copper coins, but issued this 'RMB'?" When Qu Er had a meeting just now, she understood why this "banknote" is "money", but things in the world are like this, and listening to it is not the same as understanding or agreeing, in her heart, these things similar to "treasure money" are not as reassuring as copper coins after all.

"Well." An Ruyi actually didn't know very well, she could only flip her notes forward, and turned to the first paragraph she saw when the chief explained the reason for issuing the "banknotes", and the chief originally said so.

"Although there are some brocade workshops in the Songhu area of the Ming Dynasty now, there is a trace of capitalism in the budding state, but in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, it is still at the peak of feudal society, and it is still a society dominated by natural economy, and it is far from reaching the point where the commodity economy is dominant."

Although An Ruyi was puzzled when she saw the words "capitalism", "feudal society", "natural economy" and "commodity economy" written by the chief on the blackboard, and it was the first time she had heard of these terms, so she could only extract them one by one, but fortunately, later, the chief explained the content of "natural economy" and "commodity economy", and she understood it.

It turns out that the "natural economy" is simply a self-sufficient economy, with little commodity exchange. Production is only for the direct satisfaction of the needs of the individual producer or economic unit, not for the economic form of exchange.

On the other hand, the "commodity economy" is a form of economy that directly aims at market exchange, including commodity production and commodity circulation. Although this commodity economy developed to a certain extent in the Ming society, which was dominated by the natural economy, it was still only in a subordinate position.

In explaining these two terms, the chief cited the Chiang family as an example, and most of the things produced by the tenants and servants of the Chiang family were only for the Chiang family to consume, rather than to be traded in the market. At the same time, the tenants paid rent to the Jiang family, or the Jiang family paid grain to the yamen, and they also used grain.

Because at this time, it is at least a few decades before the "one whip law" is released. The content of the "One Whip Law" is that not only all the errand servants have been changed to silver, but also except for a few areas such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, which still levy physical goods for the royal family's consumption, the rest have also been changed to be converted into colored silver.

Therefore, whether it is the Jiang family or the tenants, they all live a life of self-production and self-sale, and only a very few things will be sold in the shops in the towns. And the servants of the Jiang family are even more so, although the Jiang family also pays some monthly money, but more remuneration is still paid with other things, so they have money and no place to use it.

In the Jiang family, the big girl's monthly money is less than 1 tael of silver, the little girl's is less than a few hundred dollars, and as for the aunt's wife, it seems to be only 2 taels. Therefore, girls like An Ruyi and Qu'er have not seen silver a few times, and the copper coins they have accumulated have also been confiscated when the Jiang family was breached.

"Here, it's all written." An Ruyi slowly looked below, and finally saw the chief's statement, in which the chief talked about why he didn't use gold and silver as "money" because the purchasing power of gold and silver was too high.

A long time ago, Huangshi had learned from everyone about the price level at this time, and at this time, 1 tael of silver could buy 2 stones of rice, which is now 377. 6 catties, which is equivalent to 1 RMB. 75 yuan/catty. Silver 1 yuan and six cents can buy 8 catties of high-quality pork, which is equivalent to 13 yuan. 2 yuan/catty. 8 catties of high-quality mutton is sold for 1 yuan and 2 cents of silver, which is 9 yuan. 5 yuan/catty.

Seven and a half cents of silver, you can buy five catties of beef, which is 9 yuan. 9 yuan/catty. A live fat chicken only costs 4 cents of silver, which is equivalent to 26 yuan. 4 yuan/piece. Four pieces of white cloth and 8 pieces of silver, equivalent to 132 yuan. 2 yuan/horse. The price of one pound of cotton is 6 cents of silver, which is 39 yuan. 6 yuan/catty.

It's just that the salary level of the Ming Dynasty at that time was not high, taking the county officials of the Ming Dynasty as an example, the monthly salary of Zhengqipin was only 7. 5 stones, or a year's salary, is only 45 taels of silver. At the current RMB conversion, the actual monthly income is 7. 5*188。 8*1。 75 = 2,478 yuan, so it is only about 30,000 yuan per year.

As for other incomes, such as 4 firewood and 1 groom, the wages of these 5 people are paid by the state. Winter and summer official uniforms and pen and ink fees are subsidized by the state. When a new official takes office, he can also get 40 taels of repair fees first. In this way, the annual silver of Qipin county officials is only 50 taels, which is really very low, and in all dynasties, the salary income of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty is very small.

Of course, the housing, travel, soap personnel, food and clothing expenses of county officials and canons are basically paid and subsidized by the state, so the annual income is basically net income, and the pen and ink expenses are fixed and allocated by the state, and there is some excess.

The salaries of the other people under the county officials are even lower, so if the price of goods is combined with low wages, if the main currency such as silver dollars or gold coins is issued, then Huangshi will have to issue some copper coins as auxiliary coins.

"If we also issue copper coins, then there will be a consequence, that is, if we want to gain credibility, our copper coins will have to be better made than others, but once we put these good copper coins on the market, then these copper coins will be used by people in other places, and we will have to make new copper coins in a steady stream. So we can only use the 'RMB' in this way of plastic money, so that it is useless for people in other places to take them elsewhere, because this 'RMB' can only be circulated and used in our territory. ”

Huangshi is only one aspect of the above, in fact, there is another law in the market, that is, "bad money drives out good money", China has private money in all dynasties, although it is said that the coins minted by private individuals, they are generally of poor quality, there are names such as "sand money", "gray money", etc., which are usually depreciated and circulated, but it is the way to make money, and a flat coin may be cast into several private coins by them.

If Huangshi wants to make the copper material at that time into coins, it must melt and purify the copper materials, and then press them to become copper coins, which have costs, and perhaps these costs are more expensive than the value represented by the copper coin itself, that is, the more he makes, the more he loses, and the benefits may be taken away by those private money dealers, and the more crazy they will become.

This point has long been pointed out in Marx's "Capital", "If there is a 10% profit, capital is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With 20% of the profits, capital is active; With 50% of the profits, capital is desperate; For the sake of 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, capital dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging his head. ”

In addition, these people who make private money, in case they mix some impurities with copper materials and imitate them as copper coins minted by themselves, after all, it is not difficult to imitate these coins on the surface, so for them, it is several times, or even more than ten times the profit, because they can use it to buy all kinds of goods on their own territory, but they are afraid that for a while, their own territory is likely to be swallowed up by the bad coins that pour around, so the best way is to cut off the possibility of their private minting from the material of the coins.

"What do you mean by that, Chief?" Although Qu'er listened to An Ruyi for the second time, there were still some vague ones.

An Ruyi thought about it, although she didn't understand it before, but now she reviewed the notes she had just copied, and thought back to what the chief said before and after, and replied, "The chief means that this money should only be used on the island, not for people outside the island, otherwise no matter how much money is used to make it, it will not be enough, so the chief will use these 'RMB' as money, in this way, then it will be useless for people outside the island to take this money in the future, and they will not take this money away." ”

"Oh, I see." Qu'er heard An Ruyi's explanation, and she understood, but she immediately had a doubt, so she asked, "Ruyi, what ......about it?" How much will we be paid? The meeting has been held for more than three hours, although basically Huangshi is alone over there to speak, but most of the people who listen to the lecture in the audience are a little dizzy, because in addition to the middle of the history of "Zheng He went to the West", everyone can still mention the spirit, the more the spirit is getting worse, in addition to sitting in a dangerous position and nodding frequently, they are all straight-eyed, and find that many things are not understood.

In fact, even Huang Shi himself muttered in his heart, how much would the people below listen to what he said.

At this time, the bell rang outside, and when Huang Shi looked at his watch, it was already 12 o'clock at noon, and he knew that the canteen had already opened, so he said, "The morning meeting will be held here first, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, we will talk about the salary grade here." We will now adjourn. ”

When Huangshi walked out, the rest of the people "coaxed" like a vegetable market, stretching their waists and legs one by one, yawning and talking over there.

Qu'er sat next to An Ruyi and saw that she was sorting out the contents of her notebook.

This kind of notebook is specially configured by the chief, and everyone who has a management position is a copy of it, it has two books long, one book wide, and one inch thick, and the leather cover, which is a dark yellow page with horizontal stripes, and some grapevine lace in the corners, which looks particularly comfortable.

At the same time, the chief also equipped everyone with a special pen, although the chief said that this notebook was used for memorization, but she was reluctant to use it at first. In addition, although she also knew a few words before, there were not many opportunities to practice pen, and after changing the pen, the words were written like "dog crawling" described by the chief. If it weren't for the fact that when she had a meeting before, she saw everyone "brushing and brushing" in the notebook, and she didn't want her pen and ink to stain this big book that seemed to be valuable.

Fortunately, in the past few months, she has held more meetings, and her handwriting has also improved a lot, from "dog crawling" to "one stroke at a time", although it is not very good-looking, it is always decent. But compared with An Ruyi, Qu'er is a little ashamed, Ruyi's font is not only beautifully written, but also the outline of the meeting transcripts, according to the chief, it is a template that can be made into meeting minutes.

"Ruyi, why did you say that the chief didn't issue copper coins, but issued this 'RMB'?" When Qu Er had a meeting just now, she understood why this "banknote" is "money", but things in the world are like this, and listening to it is not the same as understanding or agreeing, in her heart, these things similar to "treasure money" are not as reassuring as copper coins after all.

"Well." An Ruyi actually didn't know very well, she could only flip her notes forward, and turned to the first paragraph she saw when the chief explained the reason for issuing the "banknotes", and the chief originally said so.

"Although there are some brocade workshops in the Songhu area of the Ming Dynasty now, there is a trace of capitalism in the budding state, but in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, it is still at the peak of feudal society, and it is still a society dominated by natural economy, and it is far from reaching the point where the commodity economy is dominant."

Although An Ruyi was puzzled when she saw the words "capitalism", "feudal society", "natural economy" and "commodity economy" written by the chief on the blackboard, and it was the first time she had heard of these terms, so she could only extract them one by one, but fortunately, later, the chief explained the content of "natural economy" and "commodity economy", and she understood it.

It turns out that the "natural economy" is simply a self-sufficient economy, with little commodity exchange. Production is only for the direct satisfaction of the needs of the individual producer or economic unit, not for the economic form of exchange.

On the other hand, the "commodity economy" is a form of economy that directly aims at market exchange, including commodity production and commodity circulation. Although this commodity economy developed to a certain extent in the Ming society, which was dominated by the natural economy, it was still only in a subordinate position.

In explaining these two terms, the chief cited the Chiang family as an example, and most of the things produced by the tenants and servants of the Chiang family were only for the Chiang family to consume, rather than to be traded in the market. At the same time, the tenants paid rent to the Jiang family, or the Jiang family paid grain to the yamen, and they also used grain.

Because at this time, it is at least a few decades before the "one whip law" is released. The content of the "One Whip Law" is that not only all the errand servants have been changed to silver, but also except for a few areas such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, which still levy physical goods for the royal family's consumption, the rest have also been changed to be converted into colored silver.

Therefore, whether it is the Jiang family or the tenants, they all live a life of self-production and self-sale, and only a very few things will be sold in the shops in the towns. And the servants of the Jiang family are even more so, although the Jiang family also pays some monthly money, but more remuneration is still paid with other things, so they have money and no place to use it.

In the Jiang family, the big girl's monthly money is less than 1 tael of silver, the little girl's is less than a few hundred dollars, and as for the aunt's wife, it seems to be only 2 taels. Therefore, girls like An Ruyi and Qu'er have not seen silver a few times, and the copper coins they have accumulated have also been confiscated when the Jiang family was breached.

"Here, it's all written." An Ruyi slowly looked below, and finally saw the chief's statement, in which the chief talked about why he didn't use gold and silver as "money" because the purchasing power of gold and silver was too high.

A long time ago, Huangshi had learned from everyone about the price level at this time, and at this time, 1 tael of silver could buy 2 stones of rice, which is now 377. 6 catties, which is equivalent to 1 RMB. 75 yuan/catty. Silver 1 yuan and six cents can buy 8 catties of high-quality pork, which is equivalent to 13 yuan. 2 yuan/catty. 8 catties of high-quality mutton is sold for 1 yuan and 2 cents of silver, which is 9 yuan. 5 yuan/catty.

Seven and a half cents of silver, you can buy five catties of beef, which is 9 yuan. 9 yuan/catty. A live fat chicken only costs 4 cents of silver, which is equivalent to 26 yuan. 4 yuan/piece. Four pieces of white cloth and 8 pieces of silver, equivalent to 132 yuan. 2 yuan/horse. The price of one pound of cotton is 6 cents of silver, which is 39 yuan. 6 yuan/catty.

It's just that the salary level of the Ming Dynasty at that time was not high, taking the county officials of the Ming Dynasty as an example, the monthly salary of Zhengqipin was only 7. 5 stones, or a year's salary, is only 45 taels of silver. At the current RMB conversion, the actual monthly income is 7. 5*188。 8*1。 75 = 2,478 yuan, so it is only about 30,000 yuan per year.

As for other incomes, such as 4 firewood and 1 groom, the wages of these 5 people are paid by the state. Winter and summer official uniforms and pen and ink fees are subsidized by the state. When a new official takes office, he can also get 40 taels of repair fees first. In this way, the annual silver of Qipin county officials is only 50 taels, which is really very low, and in all dynasties, the salary income of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty is very small.

Of course, the housing, travel, soap personnel, food and clothing expenses of county officials and canons are basically paid and subsidized by the state, so the annual income is basically net income, and the pen and ink expenses are fixed and allocated by the state, and there is some excess.

The salaries of the other people under the county officials are even lower, so if the price of goods is combined with low wages, if the main currency such as silver dollars or gold coins is issued, then Huangshi will have to issue some copper coins as auxiliary coins.

"If we also issue copper coins, then there will be a consequence, that is, if we want to gain credibility, our copper coins will have to be better made than others, but once we put these good copper coins on the market, then these copper coins will be used by people in other places, and we will have to make new copper coins in a steady stream. So we can only use the 'RMB' in this way of plastic money, so that it is useless for people in other places to take them elsewhere, because this 'RMB' can only be circulated and used in our territory. ”

Huangshi is only one aspect of the above, in fact, there is another law in the market, that is, "bad money drives out good money", China has private money in all dynasties, although it is said that the coins minted by private individuals, they are generally of poor quality, there are names such as "sand money", "gray money", etc., which are usually depreciated and circulated, but it is the way to make money, and a flat coin may be cast into several private coins by them.

If Huangshi wants to make the copper material at that time into coins, it must melt and purify the copper materials, and then press them to become copper coins, which have costs, and perhaps these costs are more expensive than the value represented by the copper coin itself, that is, the more he makes, the more he loses, and the benefits may be taken away by those private money dealers, and the more crazy they will become.

This point has long been pointed out in Marx's "Capital", "If there is a 10% profit, capital is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With 20% of the profits, capital is active; With 50% of the profits, capital is desperate; For the sake of 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, capital dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging his head. ”

In addition, these people who make private money, in case they mix some impurities with copper materials and imitate them as copper coins minted by themselves, after all, it is not difficult to imitate these coins on the surface, so for them, it is several times, or even more than ten times the profit, because they can use it to buy all kinds of goods on their own territory, but they are afraid that for a while, their own territory is likely to be swallowed up by the bad coins that pour around, so the best way is to cut off the possibility of their private minting from the material of the coins.

"What do you mean by that, Chief?" Although Qu'er listened to An Ruyi for the second time, there were still some vague ones.

An Ruyi thought about it, although she didn't understand it before, but now she reviewed the notes she had just copied, and thought back to what the chief said before and after, and replied, "The chief means that this money should only be used on the island, not for people outside the island, otherwise no matter how much money is used to make it, it will not be enough, so the chief will use these 'RMB' as money, in this way, then it will be useless for people outside the island to take this money in the future, and they will not take this money away." ”

"Oh, I see." Qu'er heard An Ruyi's explanation, and she understood, but she immediately had a doubt, so she asked, "Ruyi, what ......about it?" How much will we be paid? The meeting has been held for more than three hours, although basically Huangshi is alone over there to speak, but most of the people who listen to the lecture in the audience are a little dizzy, because in addition to the middle of the history of "Zheng He went to the West", everyone can still mention the spirit, the more the spirit is getting worse, in addition to sitting in a dangerous position and nodding frequently, they are all straight-eyed, and find that many things are not understood.

In fact, even Huang Shi himself muttered in his heart, how much would the people below listen to what he said.

At this time, the bell rang outside, and when Huang Shi looked at his watch, it was already 12 o'clock at noon, and he knew that the canteen had already opened, so he said, "The morning meeting will be held here first, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, we will talk about the salary grade here." We will now adjourn. ”

When Huangshi walked out, the rest of the people "coaxed" like a vegetable market, stretching their waists and legs one by one, yawning and talking over there.

Qu'er sat next to An Ruyi and saw that she was sorting out the contents of her notebook.

This kind of notebook is specially configured by the chief, and everyone who has a management position is a copy of it, it has two books long, one book wide, and one inch thick, and the leather cover, which is a dark yellow page with horizontal stripes, and some grapevine lace in the corners, which looks particularly comfortable.

At the same time, the chief also equipped everyone with a special pen, although the chief said that this notebook was used for memorization, but she was reluctant to use it at first. In addition, although she also knew a few words before, there were not many opportunities to practice pen, and after changing the pen, the words were written like "dog crawling" described by the chief. If it weren't for the fact that when she had a meeting before, she saw everyone "brushing and brushing" in the notebook, and she didn't want her pen and ink to stain this big book that seemed to be valuable.

Fortunately, in the past few months, she has held more meetings, and her handwriting has also improved a lot, from "dog crawling" to "one stroke at a time", although it is not very good-looking, it is always decent. But compared with An Ruyi, Qu'er is a little ashamed, Ruyi's font is not only beautifully written, but also the outline of the meeting transcripts, according to the chief, it is a template that can be made into meeting minutes.

"Ruyi, why did you say that the chief didn't issue copper coins, but issued this 'RMB'?" When Qu Er had a meeting just now, she understood why this "banknote" is "money", but things in the world are like this, and listening to it is not the same as understanding or agreeing, in her heart, these things similar to "treasure money" are not as reassuring as copper coins after all.

"Well." An Ruyi actually didn't know very well, she could only flip her notes forward, and turned to the first paragraph she saw when the chief explained the reason for issuing the "banknotes", and the chief originally said so.

"Although there are some brocade workshops in the Songhu area of the Ming Dynasty now, there is a trace of capitalism in the budding state, but in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, it is still at the peak of feudal society, and it is still a society dominated by natural economy, and it is far from reaching the point where the commodity economy is dominant."

Although An Ruyi was puzzled when she saw the words "capitalism", "feudal society", "natural economy" and "commodity economy" written by the chief on the blackboard, and it was the first time she had heard of these terms, so she could only extract them one by one, but fortunately, later, the chief explained the content of "natural economy" and "commodity economy", and she understood it.

It turns out that the "natural economy" is simply a self-sufficient economy, with little commodity exchange. Production is only for the direct satisfaction of the needs of the individual producer or economic unit, not for the economic form of exchange.

On the other hand, the "commodity economy" is a form of economy that directly aims at market exchange, including commodity production and commodity circulation. Although this commodity economy developed to a certain extent in the Ming society, which was dominated by the natural economy, it was still only in a subordinate position.

In explaining these two terms, the chief cited the Chiang family as an example, and most of the things produced by the tenants and servants of the Chiang family were only for the Chiang family to consume, rather than to be traded in the market. At the same time, the tenants paid rent to the Jiang family, or the Jiang family paid grain to the yamen, and they also used grain.

Because at this time, it is at least a few decades before the "one whip law" is released. The content of the "One Whip Law" is that not only all the errand servants have been changed to silver, but also except for a few areas such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, which still levy physical goods for the royal family's consumption, the rest have also been changed to be converted into colored silver.

Therefore, whether it is the Jiang family or the tenants, they all live a life of self-production and self-sale, and only a very few things will be sold in the shops in the towns. And the servants of the Jiang family are even more so, although the Jiang family also pays some monthly money, but more remuneration is still paid with other things, so they have money and no place to use it.

In the Jiang family, the big girl's monthly money is less than 1 tael of silver, the little girl's is less than a few hundred dollars, and as for the aunt's wife, it seems to be only 2 taels. Therefore, girls like An Ruyi and Qu'er have not seen silver a few times, and the copper coins they have accumulated have also been confiscated when the Jiang family was breached.

"Here, it's all written." An Ruyi slowly looked below, and finally saw the chief's statement, in which the chief talked about why he didn't use gold and silver as "money" because the purchasing power of gold and silver was too high.

A long time ago, Huangshi had learned from everyone about the price level at this time, and at this time, 1 tael of silver could buy 2 stones of rice, which is now 377. 6 catties, which is equivalent to 1 RMB. 75 yuan/catty. Silver 1 yuan and six cents can buy 8 catties of high-quality pork, which is equivalent to 13 yuan. 2 yuan/catty. 8 catties of high-quality mutton is sold for 1 yuan and 2 cents of silver, which is 9 yuan. 5 yuan/catty.

Seven and a half cents of silver, you can buy five catties of beef, which is 9 yuan. 9 yuan/catty. A live fat chicken only costs 4 cents of silver, which is equivalent to 26 yuan. 4 yuan/piece. Four pieces of white cloth and 8 pieces of silver, equivalent to 132 yuan. 2 yuan/horse. The price of one pound of cotton is 6 cents of silver, which is 39 yuan. 6 yuan/catty.

It's just that the salary level of the Ming Dynasty at that time was not high, taking the county officials of the Ming Dynasty as an example, the monthly salary of Zhengqipin was only 7. 5 stones, or a year's salary, is only 45 taels of silver. At the current RMB conversion, the actual monthly income is 7. 5*188。 8*1。 75 = 2,478 yuan, so it is only about 30,000 yuan per year.

As for other incomes, such as 4 firewood and 1 groom, the wages of these 5 people are paid by the state. Winter and summer official uniforms and pen and ink fees are subsidized by the state. When a new official takes office, he can also get 40 taels of repair fees first. In this way, the annual silver of Qipin county officials is only 50 taels, which is really very low, and in all dynasties, the salary income of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty is very small.

Of course, the housing, travel, soap personnel, food and clothing expenses of county officials and canons are basically paid and subsidized by the state, so the annual income is basically net income, and the pen and ink expenses are fixed and allocated by the state, and there is some excess.

The salaries of the other people under the county officials are even lower, so if the price of goods is combined with low wages, if the main currency such as silver dollars or gold coins is issued, then Huangshi will have to issue some copper coins as auxiliary coins.

"If we also issue copper coins, then there will be a consequence, that is, if we want to gain credibility, our copper coins will have to be better made than others, but once we put these good copper coins on the market, then these copper coins will be used by people in other places, and we will have to make new copper coins in a steady stream. So we can only use the 'RMB' in this way of plastic money, so that it is useless for people in other places to take them elsewhere, because this 'RMB' can only be circulated and used in our territory. ”

Huangshi is only one aspect of the above, in fact, there is another law in the market, that is, "bad money drives out good money", China has private money in all dynasties, although it is said that the coins minted by private individuals, they are generally of poor quality, there are names such as "sand money", "gray money", etc., which are usually depreciated and circulated, but it is the way to make money, and a flat coin may be cast into several private coins by them.

If Huangshi wants to make the copper material at that time into coins, it must melt and purify the copper materials, and then press them to become copper coins, which have costs, and perhaps these costs are more expensive than the value represented by the copper coin itself, that is, the more he makes, the more he loses, and the benefits may be taken away by those private money dealers, and the more crazy they will become.

This point has long been pointed out in Marx's "Capital", "If there is a 10% profit, capital is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With 20% of the profits, capital is active; With 50% of the profits, capital is desperate; For the sake of 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, capital dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging his head. ”

In addition, these people who make private money, in case they mix some impurities with copper materials and imitate them as copper coins minted by themselves, after all, it is not difficult to imitate these coins on the surface, so for them, it is several times, or even more than ten times the profit, because they can use it to buy all kinds of goods on their own territory, but they are afraid that for a while, their own territory is likely to be swallowed up by the bad coins that pour around, so the best way is to cut off the possibility of their private minting from the material of the coins.

"What do you mean by that, Chief?" Although Qu'er listened to An Ruyi for the second time, there were still some vague ones.

An Ruyi thought about it, although she didn't understand it before, but now she reviewed the notes she had just copied, and thought back to what the chief said before and after, and replied, "The chief means that this money should only be used on the island, not for people outside the island, otherwise no matter how much money is used to make it, it will not be enough, so the chief will use these 'RMB' as money, in this way, then it will be useless for people outside the island to take this money in the future, and they will not take this money away." ”

"Oh, I see." Qu'er heard An Ruyi's explanation, and she understood, but she immediately had a doubt, so she asked, "Ruyi, what ......about it?" How much will we be paid? ”