Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 196 Currency Reform
After bidding farewell to the little girl, Qingji and Fan Li started walking on the street again.

"Your Majesty, just now you reported the name of your superior, it is really embarrassing."

Fan Li had a bitter smile on his face, and said: "I don't know that the words of three people can become a tiger. If the people of the country know that I, Fan Li, bought a nun in the market, they don't know how to arrange it, and they may fall into injustice. "

It turned out that what Fan Li was afraid of was that he would be entangled in "Peach Blossom News"!
It is also true that people's words are formidable, and Fan Li, as one of the Nine Ministers of the Wu Kingdom, governed the internal history of millet, and his deeds must have attracted much attention.

As a senior official, it is nothing to buy a few beautiful women, but it is very likely that others will catch Fan Li's "weak spot", just like the world thinks that Wu Wang Qingji is a good wife.

Fan Li himself didn't have that kind of need, but his words make money, and he couldn't wash it off even if he jumped into the Yellow River!
"Hahahaha, young uncle, if you don't flirt, you are wasting a young man! You are in your prime, and you are already at the age where you should start a family. Even if you don't marry a wife temporarily, it would be nice to have a few more servants to serve you."

Qing Ji joked with great interest.

Fan Li quickly waved his hands and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the reason why I don't marry a wife is because I haven't met the girl I like. As for servants and maidservants, there is no shortage of servants in the residence."

"If the girl came to look for it just now, how will the king let the minister deal with it?"

"Just accept it."

"This……"

Qing Ji narrowly said: "That girl is very beautiful, she is very beautiful. Wouldn't it be beautiful to be your concubine?"

"The king was joking."

"Uncle Shao, if the girl comes, you can just accept it. After all, it cost five hundred yuan, so don't reject it for nothing."

Hearing this, Fan Li couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth, with an ominous premonition in his heart, and asked, "Your Majesty, my minister's five hundred coins..."

"Didn't you spend five hundred dollars to buy that girl?"

Qingji made a joke.

Fan Li suddenly felt ashamed!

The king of feelings is trying to play a rogue, so he doesn't accept this account!
After all, he is the rich and powerful king of a country, how can he do such a thing?
Fan Li was very helpless.

Fortunately, the treatment of courtiers and officials in the State of Wu was extremely generous. Fan Li was one of the nine ministers, and his salary was quite high. Five hundred yuan was not a huge sum of money for Fan Li.

It's just that being tricked by Qing Ji like this made Fan Li very depressed!

At noon, Qingji and Fan Li came to a wine shop in the east of the city together.

There is a lot of people here, and there are traffickers and pawns passing by, as well as some scholars and merchants who are quite shy in their pockets.

Real nobles rarely go to this kind of wine shop to drink and have fun!

Since Qingji was visiting privately in microservices, if he wanted to understand the people's sentiments, he had to learn about the real situation of some people from the outside world.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Just when Qingji and Fan Li were about to get up, pay the bill and leave, they saw a waiter at a restaurant not far away from the table, arguing with some men with a Cao Chu accent!
"Is this ant nose money not money? How can your restaurant not accept it?"

The leading man said angrily.

The man took out a bundle of copper coins, oval in shape, protruding on the front and smooth on the back, shaped like a shell but smaller in size.

This is the common currency of Chu State - ant nose money.

Ant nose money is the currency of Chu State in the Jianghuai River Basin, which was transformed from imitation shells.

Since the economy and culture of Chu State were backward compared with those of the countries in the Central Plains, and the use of irons, knives, and spinning wheels was also later, the copper coins continued to use the shape of imitation shells.

The territory of Chu State was not very large at the beginning. Later, the territory gradually expanded, and the scope of circulation of ant nose money and ghost face money also expanded accordingly, and an independent currency system was gradually formed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

"This is the rule set by the villain's boss!"

The servant said insistently: "This shop does not accept ant nose money at all! All other knife coins and cloth coins are accepted!"

"What's the point?"

"The villain doesn't know. However, this shop does not accept any coins from Chu State!"

Hearing this, how could the people present not understand?
It is obvious that the shop owner has a deep hatred with Chu people, so he bears hatred for Chu State, even the ant-nosed money of Chu State is disliked!
The man from Chu State who was arguing with the boy knew the inside story in his heart, so he was resentful, and based on the principle that more things are worse than less things, he could only ask people to go back and take cloth coins or knife coins to settle the bill.

Seeing this scene, Qingji couldn't help frowning.

According to him, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many types of currency minted and the currency system was chaotic.

As the power of the Zhou royal family gradually weakened, all countries were independent and their economies formed their own systems, so countries minted their own currencies and circulated with each other, forming a special situation in which the multi-currency system and multi-currency types coexisted and used for a long time.

The current state of Wu also has many kinds of currencies that are used together. After Qingji implemented the new law and catered to the world's merchants to enter Wu's business, this situation was particularly serious.

"Uncle Shao, can you see the deep meaning in it?"

Qing Ji put a meaningful look on Fan Li again.

As the internal historian of the Wu State and the minister in charge of the country's grain, food, money and goods, Fan Li naturally understood this situation very well.

"My lord, it has been a long time since all the countries in the world minted coins. Now there are roughly three types of coins in circulation in the countries, cloth coins, knife coins, and ant nose coins!"

Fan Li replied: "Cloth coins circulate in the Central Plains, mainly in Zhou Wangji, Jin, Song, Wei and other countries. According to the shape of cloth coins, they can be divided into two categories: empty head cloth and flat head cloth."

"Dao coins are mainly circulated in Qi, Yan and other places in the east. There are many kinds of Dao coins, including Qi Dao, Jimo Dao, Anyang Dao, Zhenshou Dao, Jianshou Dao, Yuanshou Dao and Ming Dao."

"Ant nose money is the common currency of Chu, and it is popular in Chu and its affiliated countries."

"However, no matter what kind of currency it is, all countries recognize it, but the equivalent value is different. Every time there are disputes between merchants, it is because of this very different currency."

Hearing this, Qingji nodded slightly.

"The currency system in my country of Wu is also very chaotic?"

"Exactly."

Fan Li made a bow and said, "Your Majesty, I'm telling you the truth. Ever since Wu introduced a new law to cater to merchants from all over the world, there have been constant disputes over the currency system."

"There are different opinions. Even the officials in charge of the trial can hardly judge the equivalent value of various currency systems, let alone Li Shu?"

The chaotic situation of Wu's currency system must be reformed!
Such an idea had already appeared in Qingji's mind.

Unifying the currency of a country is still a great initiative in this era!
The real hard currency is gold, jade, silk, cloth, silk and other precious things, but coins are also essential.

You can't let the ordinary Li Shu be like the ancestors of the ancient times, bartering things, right?
Therefore, Qingji decided to withdraw from the exclusive currency belonging to the Wu Kingdom, and took the opportunity to promote it to the world to enhance the influence of the Wu Kingdom!

The coins that circulate in the country of Wu can only be the coins of the country of Wu, and the rest of the coins will not be accepted!
(End of this chapter)