Urban Sims

Chapter 540 Shanzhai Dazhou, latecomer advantage

The wave of banknotes has swept across the Wancheng Kingdom, and hundreds of thousands of banknotes are dazzling.

Due to differences in face value, purchasing power, and guarantee issuing institutions, it is foreseeable that considerable confusion will arise in the mutual exchange and circulation of these hundreds of banknotes.

Can't even communicate with each other.

The best way is to issue only one set of banknotes in Wancheng domestically, and share one set of banknotes across the country.

This can bring a lot of convenience.

Zhou Ming thought this way at the beginning. Before issuing the gold circle coupons, he sought the cooperation of the country, hoping to jointly issue banknotes, and he would own a certain share in it.

banknotes?

When those money bank officials heard this term, their reaction was the same as that of Bai Xutang, thinking that this is a fantasy, a joke, and it is impossible to succeed.

A few months later, these officials were naturally slapped in the face and regretted it unceasingly, but the countries that have lost their opportunities can only issue banknotes with the widest circulation and the most trustworthy guarantors. Hundreds of banknotes popping up.

Because of the benefits of paper currency, other cities have discovered that as long as they control the power to issue paper currency, the wealth of the entire city can be gathered in the hands of the currency issuer.

As long as your reputation does not collapse, endless wealth can be controlled through the money printing machine.

Smart people who discover such benefits will certainly not let go of the power of currency issuance.

Of course, the high level of the country wants to take back the currency issuance rights just like taking back the armies of the cities, but it is too late. If it is taken back forcefully, it will cause all cities to rebound and unanimously oppose it.

The helpless high-level officials of the country had no choice but to call in those money bank officials, cursed them as "idiots and idiots", and then fired them.

Therefore, for many years, Wancheng maintained a chaotic situation in which hundreds of sets of banknotes were circulated at the same time in the currency field.

As the inventor of banknotes, Zhou Ming can only express his helplessness.

It's not that he hasn't fought for it, but if those officials don't believe it, there's nothing he can do about it.

However, in less than a year, when Zhou Ming learned from the intelligence that Dongyuanzhou was also vigorously promoting the use of banknotes, he was immediately taken aback.

Dongyuanzhou is also promoting banknotes, how is this possible?

How can it be so fast?

Zhou Ming's exclamation, if Jiang Ruyue heard it, she might reply indifferently: Sorry, we are so fast.

In fact, Jiang Ruyue also controls an intelligence collection agency, and she attaches great importance to the situation of Wancheng Country.

Normally, whenever something important or news happened to Wan Chengguo, after about a week, all kinds of intelligence would appear on her desk.

Of course, the wave of banknotes initiated by Wan Chengguo also attracted her attention.

And from many news reports, we can see the strategic significance and long-term value of banknotes.

Even when most of the initial reports were negative and mocking about the emergence of banknotes, her eyes lit up.

Then he increased his attention and ordered the intelligence personnel to find a way to get some banknotes from the Wancheng Kingdom.

What impressed her deeply was the "Golden Yuan Coupon" issued by Xuan Qingcheng of Wancheng Country.

These golden round coupons are made of beautiful materials, beautiful patterns, unique feel, and multiple anti-counterfeiting marks, which are even more amazing.

Especially the 1000 face value of the gold round coupons, the whole body is golden red and the color is festive, giving people a sense of grandeur, holding it in your hand, you can't put it down.

When she learned that the designer of these golden round coupons was Bai Feiyang, the inventor of the banknotes, Jiang Ruyue was even more amazed, with love and talent shining in her eyes.

He murmured, "Why wasn't a genius like Mr. Bai born in Dongyuanzhou? If such a genius can be used by me, why worry that Dongyuanzhou is not strong?"

Jiang Ruyue knew about Bai Feiyang's great reputation.

First of all, she is a genius, a peerless genius in cultivation. She paid close attention to the news that he defeated the world's heroes in order to marry Fairy Mu. Complete the challenge and successfully marry Fairy Mu.

After he succeeded in the challenge, Jiang Ruyue was so excited that she almost jumped up, and there was a lot of envy in her heart, the envy of the Fairy Mu.

The second is also an inventor.

Genius inventor.

Successively invented the Lingyuan cable telegraph, Lingyuan typewriter, movies, etc., which are of great help and promotion to the military, office, and entertainment.

For these three inventions, Jiang Ruyue has experimental products or smuggled finished products, which are very useful, especially movies, which she likes the most, for example, the movie "Seven Swords Down the Mountain Fighting Demons" also directed by Bai Feiyang, she I watched it no less than ten times.

Now, he showed himself the epoch-making invention of "paper money".

The thinking in Jiang Ruyue's mind was opened, and the idea of ​​learning to imitate and promoting the issuance of banknotes in Dongyuanzhou quickly came into being.

And take action immediately.

It's just that with Dongyuanzhou's technology and talent reserves, it is impossible to print banknotes with perfect anti-counterfeiting functions and invent a banknote printing machine with high printing efficiency in a short period of time.

It will take at least 20 years for people to conduct research on paper, ink, watermark, etc.

Jiang Ruyue couldn't wait that long.

It can only be smuggled and imported from Wancheng country through the intelligence organization.

So after spending hundreds of millions of Lingcoins and waiting for several months, I finally got a money printing machine and corresponding supporting equipment, and after a lot of effort, they were transported to Dongyuanzhou.

A group of experts were ordered to install and debug for a few months, imitating the style of Xuanqing City's golden round coupons, and printed the first batch of banknotes belonging to Dongyuanzhou.

This kind of banknote was named "Xiaoyao Coin" by Jiang Ruyue.

Some people may ask here: In the Wancheng Kingdom, where the folks have huge reserves of spiritual coins, and the purchasing power of spiritual coins has depreciated to the point that it is inconvenient to carry, it is understandable that the promotion of banknotes has been successful. If it is copied to Dongyuan, where the purchasing power of spiritual coins is not so low Zhou, does this work?

Totally possible.

Why do you say that?

There are three main reasons.

One, there are many spiritual stone mines buried underground in Dongyuanzhou, and there are many super spiritual stone mines with a mining value of more than ten trillion or one billion spiritual coins. After tens of millions of years of continuous mining, the amount of folk spiritual coins It is also very large, it can be said to be more than the four continents of Central, South, West and North combined.

Therefore, the purchasing power of Dongyuanzhou spirit coins is not as exaggerated as the depreciation of Wancheng Kingdom, but it is not particularly high.

Two, the commercial exchanges between the cities in Dongyuan Continent are extremely active and frequent, especially for bulk commodity transactions. It is still very troublesome to settle with spiritual coins, and the quantity carried is too large, which even affects the quantity of goods carried.

If you promote light and easy-to-carry banknotes, they will definitely be welcomed by merchants.

Especially big businessmen are welcome.

Three, within Dongyuanzhou, there is also inflation.

Inflation caused by the import of spiritual currency averages around 3% per year, and exceeds 5% and 8% in some cities.

Why did this happen to Dongyuanzhou?

Foreign trade export.

Dongyuanzhou's annual export volume exceeds 3 trillion Lingcoins, which is about twice that of Wancheng Kingdom.

Why is Dongyuanzhou's foreign trade export so much better than Wanchengguo?

The reason is that in the past 30 to [-] years, the cities of Dongyuanzhou have built a large number of Lingyuan factories or hydraulic factories, vigorously promoted industrialization, and produced a large number of industrial products.

The people in Dongyuanzhou are generally hardworking and smart. They saw that Wancheng’s domestic products were valuable, so they bought them for research and reverse imitation. Then, relying on the advantage of low labor costs, they made great achievements in agriculture, textiles, and primary industrial products. Great results have been achieved. Although the quality of the products produced is average, but with the advantage of low prices, they have defeated similar products in Wancheng Kingdom in other continents.

Facing the attack of Dongyuanzhou's flood of low-priced commodities, the profits of Wanchengguo's many types of primary commodities dropped sharply, and they even chose not to export any more when they saw no profit.

Many businessmen and factory owners in Wancheng Kingdom have a very bad impression of Dongyuanzhou. These actions of Dongyuanzhou make them very angry.

However, he had no choice but to ask the Wancheng Kingdom officials to increase the technical blockade of Dongyuanzhou.

In this way, Dongyuanzhou, which became rich with the "cottage", has earned a lot of money that belonged to the merchants of Wancheng Kingdom in terms of foreign trade.

Among them is Jiang Ruyue's "credit". For the development of Dongyuanzhou, she has always encouraged the introduction of advanced and mature technical experience from other continents, and advocated local digestion and absorption.

Of course, she also found a solution to the problem of imported inflation caused by the wave of banknotes in Wan Chengguo.

In Dongyuanzhou, banknotes are also promoted.

But as soon as she made this decision, she was immediately questioned and opposed by the nine heads of state, who thought it was unreliable, how could a piece of broken paper be used as real money?

Jiang Ruyue did not refute, but just made a bet with them with a smile: the "Xiaoyao Coin" she issued will be issued in the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Xiaoyao Palace first. If the public accepts it, it will be promoted to the whole continent. , then she cancels this reform, abolishes paper money, and she will bear all the losses.

The nine heads of state agreed to the bet, all feeling that the paper currency reform would not succeed.

They didn't see Jiang Ruyue's deep smile and confident expression.

A month later.

Xiaoyao Coin successfully slapped the nine heads of state with its circulation performance that was warmly welcomed by merchants and people and widely admired.

The nine heads of state also realized the importance of the right to issue banknotes, did not abide by the bet, and soon issued their own banknotes.

However, the market popularity of the nine banknotes that have lost their first-mover advantage is not comparable to that of Xiaoyao coins.

Moreover, the nine banknotes are issued in a hurry, the printing technology is rough, and the anti-counterfeiting technology is even more backward, which is easy to be counterfeited and counterfeited, which is not as good as Xiaoyao currency.

He was cheated a few times, and after paying the tuition, he was quickly abandoned by the merchants and common people.

In Dongyuanzhou's market, the only paper currency that is widely recognized, has strong credit, and is willing to be used by people is the "Xiaoyao currency".

Xiaoyao Palace, which controlled the financial lifeline of Dongyuanzhou, greatly enhanced its control over Dongyuanzhou.

Zhou Ming sighed:

"Competition at the country-to-country level, one step ahead must not be complacent, and the advantage of being behind the chaser is sometimes really worrying."

"Jiang Ruyue, you look like a father."

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