The manager saw that the person coming was a hairless eunuch, so he clasped his fists and said, "The noble man in the middle."

The eunuch didn't look at him directly, but just nodded in response.

The manager then said, "Caomin will go and get some gold granules for the guests, but if the government knows that I don't need to trade today, then it will be a big deal. If you blame me, what should I do? Caomin really can't afford it."

The little eunuch just said lightly: "It's okay, if someone from the government comes to ask, you will teach you how to be the godson of Huang Changshi Huangmen Huang Gouer in the palace. Liang and the others dare not make things difficult for you anymore. This matter is probably turned a blind eye and closed the other one."

The manager smiled and said, "I would like to thank you for being a noble man." He immediately prepared to exchange for eighty gold particles of Shu brocade.

Wang Shen and others also clasped their fists and said, "I would like to thank the nobles of Zhong. They didn't want to be harmed by the harvest of the hundred-month money, but if they had not helped this nobles of Zhong, they would probably have reluctantly accepted the ten-month money, just like the ancestors of Emperor Wu, who were "harmed".

The straight 15-zhu coin cast by Liu Bei has four Chinese characters cast on the front, with "Zhi Bai" on the top and bottom, "Wu Zhu" on the left and right, and there is no text on the back.

This small coin has played a very important role in the past few years.

It not only helped Liu Bei a lot and helped him overcome difficulties, but also made Liu Bei, who had tasted the sweetness, enjoyed it and continued to cast a large amount of money, which caused great harm to the Eastern Wu and Cao Wei, and had a profound impact on the historical trend at that time.

The so-called "100-odd coins" are actually a kind of large-value coins. At that time, the Wuzhu coins used in Chengdu were nearly half smaller than those of the Wuzhu coins during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, weighing only about 2 grams and a diameter of about 21 mm. They were called "Shu Wuzhu", which means the Wuzhu coins circulating in Shu.

Liu Ba suggested that Liu Bei minting a hundred coins, one of which is equivalent to 100 Shu Wuzhu, which can be regarded as "bright robbery", which has defeated the reputation of "benevolence and righteousness" accumulated for decades.

Some people may think that is equivalent to the fact that we are now issuing a banknote with a denomination of 100 yuan based on the one-yuan banknote? This will make it more convenient for people to trade and carry, and there seems to be nothing wrong with it!

In fact, these are two different concepts. We are now using paper currency, which is almost worthless. Whether it is one yuan or one hundred yuan, the government guarantees its reputation and belongs to credit currency.

Although it has nothing to do with the size of the face value, the total issuance of paper money must match the total amount of social wealth, otherwise it will easily cause inflation and the currency will depreciate.

There is a difference between copper coins used in ancient times and paper money because copper coins themselves are valuable. The key to the problem here is that although the face value of the straight 100-times Wuzhu coins cast by Liu Bei is one hundred times that of Shu Wuzhu, its actual weight is less than one hundred times, only more than three times, weighing about 6.4 grams and a diameter of about 25 mm.

This means that Liu Bei, with the force he possessed, used the 15-bah coin to forcefully buy and sell in the market he controlled, and used 6.4 grams of copper to exchange for the original 200 grams of copper in the hands of the people, which was equivalent to exchange for more than 30 to 40 times the amount of materials and labor among the people.

No wonder it is recorded that after Liu Bei issued the 155zhu coins, the treasury was enriched in several months, and the military supplies problem was solved at once. This allowed Liu Bei to taste the benefits of casting large amounts of money for the first time.

Speaking of the big 100 coins, the frontal 1000 coins has a major feature, that is, the four characters "Zhibai" are different in style. The two characters "Zhibai" written vertically are official script, while the horizontal 1000 coins are small seal script. What's going on? Why do two different fonts appear on the same coin?

In fact, this is because Liu Bei hastily decided to mint the straight 15-zhu coins. Because time is tight, he can only make shoddy products. He picked a relatively heavy one from the old Wuzhu coins circulating in Shu before, engraved the words "Zhibai" on it and started minting the coins.

Therefore, the original Wuzhu two characters that were arranged on the left and right sides of the penetration were still in the original small seal script, while the newly engraved straight hundred and halves of the penetration were the popular official script style at that time. This caused two different styles of calligraphy to appear on the same coin, but it set a precedent for official script to be used in the history of Chinese currency.

In addition, using two fonts on a coin at the same time starts with the straight 15-zhu coin minted by Liu Bei, which is also a precedent.

In addition to the different fonts, there is another characteristic of the zip 55zhu coins, that is, the colors are diverse, and the colors are different, which means that their copper content is different.

In the 19th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei, at the suggestion of Liu Ba, solved the problem of insufficient funds by minting 155 Zhu coins. Liu Bei, who tasted the sweetness, did not stop when he saw the good, but increased the scale and quantity of minting a few years later.

This time, I was to attack Wu and avenge my two brothers. After all, all the money that was shoddy before was issued has been distributed.

The military expenditure was almost the same after fighting with Cao Cao for Hanzhong. It would take several years to accumulate farmland like Cao Wei, but Liu Bei couldn't wait for revenge! He could only use this quick way to make money. This trick is really useful.

The war required funds, so Liu Bei naturally thought of the top 100 money that helped him overcome the difficulties last time, so he started to cast on a large scale again.

Zhuge Liang, who accepted Liu Bei's entrustment, then used this trick helplessly. After all, it took some time to accumulate this urgently needed military expenditure.

While sending people to make peace with the Eastern Wu, he personally led a large army to cross the Lu River to quell the rebellion and stabilize the rear.

However, at this time, the Shu Kingdom had already exhausted its financial resources. How could it solve the cost of the Southern Expedition? The helpless Zhuge Liang could only learn from Liu Bei and cast it as a hundred dollars again.

Zhuge Liang's minting of coins this time is two different from the 100-yuan coins that Liu Bei minted for Sun Quan in the Eastern Expedition.

First, the diameter is about 27 mm and weighs 7 grams, and the size and weight are thicker and slightly larger; the diameter of Liu Bei cast is about 25 mm and weighs about 6.4 grams; this may be because Zhuge Liang believed that this was used in Shu Kingdom and should be different from the money used to deal with Wu Kingdom. Second, on the back of the coins, a seal script "We" was added to indicate that it was cast in "Jianwei", which is different from the one hundred coins that Liu Bei had previously cast.

After the Battle of Yiling, Zhuge Liang took the initiative to make peace, although he eased his relationship with Eastern Wu, the Wu and Shu seemed to have returned to the previous situation of forming alliances with each other and jointly fighting against the powerful enemy Cao Wei in the north.

However, the imaginary currency issued by Liu Bei in large quantities in order to raise military expenses actually triggered a currency depreciation competition between the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu. Its tragic and lethality were no less than the Battle of Yiling, which burned the camps, or the Battle of Chibi, which burned the chains.

Chen Guangqin also said, "This is used as a hundred coins to fool the people in Shu. If we have some excellent copper or copper coins in the future, we can also use it to cast this as a hundred coins."
Chapter completed!