Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 9 Daqin Pills!

On a summer morning, before the full view of the sun, the four-door archery tower of Xianyang Palace has already revealed its figure in the twilight morning light, like a tireless warrior guarding the endless palaces and pavilions behind him.

Towering on the ridges of different shapes, all kinds of turtles, lins, sparrows, snakes, gods, animals, and birds look down on the Xianyang City below, casting shadows of various shapes on the ground.

When the first light dawned, Xianyang City had already woken up from its deep sleep.

When the last sound of cock crowing had not dissipated, the avenue in the city was already full of traffic, shoulder to shoulder.

Officials rushed to the government offices in chariots and horses; farmers and workers who worked at sunrise rushed to the workshops, to the city, and to the farmland in the outskirts of the city.

The government offices, clubs, workshops, shops, restaurants, and private houses on both sides of the long street have already opened their doors early, and people of all colors, regardless of master or servant, are cleaning the courtyard, running around the house, doing various tasks, and starting a new day.

A moment later, the morning market on Changyang Street opened.

This is a long street in the south of Xianyang City.Beikou and Wangcheng face each other across a forest. It is about three miles long from north to south, and more than ten feet wide from east to west. The two sides are connected with shops and workshops. It used to be a big city with the most concentrated merchants in the state of Qin.

To the east of Changyang Street, separated by a row of official residences, is the world-famous Shangshangfang market.

The two cities are adjacent to each other. The Office of Internal History named Changyang Street Guoshi, and Shangshangfang, where merchants from Shandong gathered, was named Outer City. Even though the world had been unified at this time, the names had not been changed.

About an hour after the opening of the market, a young man wearing a black straight train and deep clothes, a long crown on his head, and a beautiful jade sword hanging from his waist walked into the bustling market.

However, this is not why people wait and see him.

What attracted the attention of the young man was that he was shaking a cloth-covered folding fan with four weird big characters written on it, "I'm so handsome", which made everyone puzzled.

"Dian, son, go slowly..." Li Cheng chased up with a few strong Tie Ying warriors, squeezed away the Qianshou and merchants around the young man with his body, and then lowered his voice and said:
"As the saying goes, a gentleman does not build a dangerous wall..."

"Noisy!" Fu Su closed the folding fan with a snap.

...This guy is also a student of Confucianism... He has used several Confucian allusions in the past two days... Fusu cast a sideways glance at Li Cheng, and then looked at everything in front of him curiously.

This is a living market more than 2000 years ago!I thought the market during this period would be very depressed!Slapped in the face! Slapped in the face!That's right, after the unification of the first emperor, more than 60 local tyrants moved to Xianyang, plus the aborigines, as well as the royal clan, the current permanent population of Xianyang City will not be less than [-]!
In the same period, let alone the same period, that is London after the industrial revolution, how many people are there?No wonder Qin Fahui stipulates that it is not allowed to take out garbage at will! ... Fusu walked forward, looking left and right with great interest.

Gradually, he began to feel that something was wrong.

Needless to say, grain, salt and iron, and some commodities were run by Zhisu Nei historians. This was a rule set by Shang Yang during Xiaogong's period.

Therefore, most of the commodities used for trading in the market are handmade products or by-products of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry.

However, what made him feel wrong was that in most of the transactions, although the prices were clearly marked, the main means of transaction was barter!

With money, that is, the transactions carried out by Qin Banliang are very few.

Fu Su took out one and a half taels, and when he was trading with a kiwi fruit vendor, all the people around were secretly watching him with the eyes of a fool.

The peach seller looked him up and down, and asked with some doubts: "Master, are you here to buy for the family?"

"No, I'll just buy a few to try something new, what's the matter?" Fusu was a little different, thinking that you clearly wrote three catties and one yuan, what do you want to blackmail me?

"You can buy more than half of my baskets for 1 money..."

Reverse false mark, really have you!Although Qin Law requires that the price must be clearly marked, but?It doesn't make sense! ... Fusu frowned slightly, so he bought a big basket of fresh kiwi fruit from the peach seller with two and a half taels.

Immediately, in the eyes of the people around Fa Sheep, he quickly disappeared into the market.

A moment later, surrounded by a team of cavaliers, Fusu's four-horse chariot stopped at Zhisu Neishi's mansion.

After the pass by the waiter at the gate, the current Zhisu Neishi, the former capital of Zheng Guo, hurried out, and with him, Feng Chang Hu Wujing and Taishi Ling Dong Tang appeared.

"I don't know that His Highness the Crown Prince is coming, but I am far away from welcoming you..."

In a short time, the Pingzhunling, Taishiling and their bureaucrats sent the files over the years to Fusu like a stream.

Fusu picked up the key volumes and read them again, combined with what he saw today, he came to a conclusion:

Daqin Pills!

After the first emperor unified the six kingdoms, the cars were in the same track, the books were in the same text, the weights and measures were unified, and the currency was naturally included in the unification.

In other words, the only option left for the coins in circulation in the six countries is to remake them.

The law of Qin mandated that all people in the world must use Qin's half taels.

The main reason behind this is that the Qin State has been fighting for years and the financial burden is too heavy.

This move is similar to a certain currency manipulator in later generations.

When the fiscal deficit runs out, the currency will be issued crazily immediately, and the people of other countries will pay for it.

In this regard, it can be seen from the weight comparison between currencies of various countries.

For example, the knife coins of Yan and Qi contain 30 grams of copper, and the cloth coins of Sanjin also contain about 20 grams of copper. Although the ant nose coins of Chu State are lighter, only about 3 grams, but Chu coins have gold currency "Ying Yuan". Reserved for hard money!
What about Qin's half and two coins?
As the name suggests, the average copper content is only 8 grams!
What does it mean when the state of Qin enforces the promotion of half taels all over the world, rigidly stipulating that half taels circulate at the same value as the old coins of the six countries?
Robbery!

With the large inflow of Qin Banliang, the value of the currency fell, and inflation, what did the first emperor do?
Simple, accept the soldiers of the world, cast them as the twelve golden men!
This is because the weapons of this period were mainly casted from bronze. After receiving the soldiers of the world, on the one hand, it reduced the ability of the survivors of the six countries to resist tyranny; currency!

When the currency circulation is stable, the currency value is naturally preserved.

What followed was the relocation of rich families from all over the world, as well as the construction of the Great Wall, Chidao, Lingqu, and Imperial Mausoleum, etc. Dagongji projects!
It not only shows its prestige, but also relies on government means to forcibly stimulate the growth of Jidifu.

In this way, the currency value of half taels has been rapidly increased. In order to preserve their wealth, more than [-] wealthy households who moved to Xianyang had to sell a large amount of land and real estate in their hometowns and exchange them for half taels, plus the inherent savings of the Chinese people. Habits have caused half taels to become scarce "goods" on the market, which in turn stimulated the purchasing power of half taels again.

then,

This creates an extremely serious problem when the halves are worth money, but the goods are not.

Currency credit crisis!

(End of this chapter)