Almighty System Great Master Qin

Chapter 254 Promotion of New Currency

After Xiao Hong successfully survived the thunder calamity, Qin Shihuang and all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief, and the patrol team did not delay at the foot of Songshan Mountain, and immediately set off to return to Xianyang.

In five days, Qin Shihuang's tour team returned to Xianyang, and Xiao Hong returned to his mansion after saying goodbye to Qin Shihuang in Xianyang Palace.

"Wang Chen"

"Your Majesty" Wang Chen said with a bow.

"Find some craftsmen." Xiao Hong was about to start pressing canola oil.

"Here" Wang Chen bowed to accept the order.

Within two days, Wang Chen recruited a group of craftsmen from other places. These craftsmen were all from Hanzhong County. After all, all the craftsmen in Xianyang were under the Ministry of Household Affairs.

"Follow me." Xiao Hong led the group of craftsmen to one of his properties and said, "Can you make these things?"

Xiao Hong handed over some blueprints to these craftsmen.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is not difficult to make these things," the leading craftsman bowed and replied after reading Xiao Hong's drawings.

"Then how many days do you need?"

"It will take about seven days," the lead craftsman thought for a while and said.

"Okay, then you will make these tools here for the next seven days. I will be responsible for your food and drink. After the production is completed, I will pay you your wages." Xiao Hong nodded.

"Wang Chen"

"Your Majesty" Wang Chen bowed forward.

"Take good care of these craftsmen in the past few days. No matter what they need, I will provide them unconditionally. After they make my things, you can come to the academy to find me." It is impossible for Xiao Hong to be here at other times.

"Here, the old slave knows." Wang Chen bowed and accepted the order.

……

"Chen Ping sees Mr. Wu An." Xiao Hong came to the newspaper office in a carriage. The last issue was the last issue of Fengshen Yanyi. Today Xiao Hong came to publish a new novel.

"Get up, how's the sales volume of the newspaper recently?" Xiao Hong and Chen Ping walked into the newspaper office.

"My lord, because of the serialization of the Romance of the Gods, the sales volume of the newspaper has always been very good. The last issue was already the last issue of the Romance of the Gods," Chen Ping said with a bow.

"Well, this gentleman is here today for this matter, let me take you to read this book." Xiao Hong handed Chen Ping his modified "Tian Long Ba Bu".

"Please wait a moment, Your Majesty." After Chen Ping asked Mr. Wu An to sit down, he opened the novel called Tianlong Babu and began to read it.

"Your Majesty, are all the things in this novel true?" Chen Ping looked up for half an hour before raising his head and asking.

"Not really, these are some things that happened in my hometown. What do you think of it after I revised it?" Although Xiao Hong is full of confidence in the novel Tian Long Ba Bu, he is not a real ancient after all. When the time comes, the people of Qin feel that it is not good-looking, so it will be embarrassing.

"Your Majesty, although this novel is not as fantastic as Fengshen Yanyi, it is very beautiful, the story is compact, and the blood of the reader is excited." Chen Ping closed the book and said excitedly.

Xiao Hong was very satisfied with Chen Ping's reaction, which shows that real masterpieces will be sought after at any time.

"Since you think it's good, the next newspaper will start publishing this novel. I've allocated a chapter for each issue, so you can just publish it. But this book is here for you. Just take a look for yourself, don't spread the word," Xiao Hong thought for a while and said.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, Ping knows." Chen Ping bowed to accept the order.

"One more thing. Starting from this issue of the newspaper, there will be a total of fifty issues. Each issue will publish articles about popular science and explaining the new currency. As for these articles about the new currency, if you can't write them here, Go to the Daqin Central Bank to find Shen Kuo and ask him to help you." Xiao Hong came to the newspaper office today to publish a new novel is secondary, mainly for the promotion of new currency.

"Your Majesty, at present, the main sales of newspapers are from powerful families, official families and some aristocratic families. As for ordinary people, because the literacy rate is too low, they will hardly buy newspapers. Ping is worried that if they only rely on newspapers to promote new coins, , the effect may not be very good." Chen Ping has been the editor-in-chief of a newspaper for so long, so naturally he is very clear about everything in the newspaper.

Regardless of the fact that the current sales volume of newspapers is indeed uncertain, there are merchants who specialize in selling newspapers in every county of Daqin, but in fact the main consumers of newspapers are indeed Daqin aristocratic families, and ordinary people hardly buy newspapers.

Illiteracy is another aspect. Even people who can read and write feel that two cents a newspaper is too expensive. At present, the number of newspapers purchased by ordinary people is less than one percent.

"Well, you're talking about this question, I know." The newspaper was made by Xiao Hong, how could he not know who is currently the main consumer of Daqin newspapers, otherwise, in order to maintain sales, Xiao Hong would not publish novels.

"The promotion of the new currency depends on the Daqin Central Bank's own efforts, and the newspaper must contribute. At present, almost every issue of the newspaper will publish some articles about the interpretation of the imperial court's policies, and many of these articles are related to business laws, and merchants also buy them. Newspapers are the main force, and merchants use coins most frequently, and only when they recognize the new currency can the promotion of the new currency really start,” Xiao Hong explained.

Some people here may think that it is not easy to let the world use the new currency. It only needs an imperial edict from Qin Shihuang. It is true that an imperial edict from Qin Shihuang can abolish the old currency, but doing so is very likely to cause complaints from the people.

First of all, the common people are not literate, and they will not be able to use the new currency proficiently in a short period of time, not to mention that in some places in Daqin, things are still bartered.

Once the common people do not recognize the new currency and thus all implement the barter-for-things model, then merchants will inevitably trade in the form of bartering for convenience. It will also affect the business of the Great Qin Central Bank, which Xiao Hong does not want to see, otherwise Xiao Hong would not have informed Qin Shihuang that it would take a year or even longer to replace the old coins with the new ones, in order to avoid such a situation being discovered.

"Your Majesty's thinking is really far-reaching, Ping understands," Chen Ping said with a bow.

"After the newspaper started to promote the new currency, the newspaper office had to arrange some people to go to the villages near Xianyang to educate the people about the new currency, and at the same time inform all the taverns that started the newspaper business, so that their people must have two hours a day for it. Popular science new currency, otherwise this newspaper won’t let them use it.”

At present, dozens of restaurants in Xianyang have arranged for people to read newspaper articles, relying on this method to attract new customers.If Xiao Hong did not allow them to use newspapers, at least half of these wine shops would go bankrupt.

"Well, Chen Ping understands." Chen Ping bowed to accept the order.

"Well, after this newspaper starts to promote the new currency, you have to pay close attention. If you have any problems, you should report to me in time. If you have any questions about the new currency, you can go to Shen Kuo. I don't want to see the kind of news that day again. Do you understand what happened again?" Xiao Hong looked at Chen Ping and said.

"Please don't worry, Your Majesty, Ping will be careful." Chen Ping naturally knew that what Xiao Hong said was because of a questionable article published in the newspaper that day, which caused the restlessness of all schools of thought.

If it hadn't been for Lord Wu'an's efforts to keep the books of the Baijia against all opinions, the current Chen Ping would have been killed by the enraged disciples of the Baijia.

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