"It's still too troublesome to travel and use cloth to make things happen."

On the third day after coming to Qinying to work as a clerk, Chen Ping took the squad leader of the "Cooking Team" to buy vegetables and meat. After he came back, he told Heifu his opinion. As long as they talked slowly, the two could have a brief communication.

"Cloth can only be suitable for bulk trade, otherwise it will be inconvenient for both buyers and sellers, and there is not much cloth in the camp. It is still necessary to use money to make things a long-term method."

Heifu nodded. Most of the cloth in their hands were seized from outside Huang. These spoils did not need to be returned to the public. Yang Xiong distributed some to each village chief. Heifu did not want to embezzle it. After making clothes for the soldiers who lacked Xia Shang, there was not much left now.

On the contrary, Chen Liu and the two foreign wars rewarded by Huang, there were still several thousand left.

So he said to Chen Ping: "I already have an idea, just ask a native of the village to check for my omissions."

As he said that, the black husband asked Chen Ping, Zhong Ming, Li Xian and others to enter, and put another half tael of Qin, a "金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金金

"Chen Ping, tell me what kind of shape these coins are."

As a local, Chen Ping certainly knew that after he agreed, he began to talk freely.

It turns out that this Wei State currency system was formulated by Li Kui during the reign of Wei Wenhou and completed by Bai Gui, a great merchant during the reign of King Hui of Wei. It is more complicated in type and form than that of Qin.

The most common one is the squid coin, which is a flat-shoulder, empty-head cloth coin with a three-class currency system of "two squids, one squids, and half squids". One squid in the Wei State is about 30 grams of later generations. About one hundred squids can be converted into a larger weighing unit "六". For example, the squid coin on the table is cast from a beam, and the front is written with the word Wei, "六文" which means that this is a squid worth of one squid, and one hundred squids are equivalent to a piece of copper.

The most obvious sign of Wei's coins is that the characters on the front are written in the front, and there is also the character "liang" on the back, which is an inverted book, probably for the purpose of preventing counterfeiting.

But in Heifu's opinion, although the anti-counterfeiting measures are of good intention, they are actually useless. Because unlike Qin, which strictly prohibits private minting, private minting of Wei's currency is rampant, so the money on the market is not complete. Some empty head cloth is obviously a two-barrel, but in fact it is as thin as paper, and the real weight cannot even reach a half-barrel...

Chen Ping said helplessly: "Some bad money is not privately minted in the local area. Although the Wei Kingdom is rich, the princes of the Wei princes are extravagant. They spend a lot of money to celebrate the birthday of the Qin king every year. The inner treasury is exhausted several times, so Daliang often minted bad money for profit."

All these inside stories were told by Chen Ping. In addition to Heifu, Li Xian felt a little incredible, because in Qin, he had to be sentenced to be a city dan, so the government would not be able to take the lead in minting bad money, because that would greatly damage credit.

It can be seen from this that the economy of Wei State was on the verge of collapse.

Chen Ping also said that in addition to the hollow head cloth, Wei State also has a kind of coin, which is another coin on the table: a round coin. It looks like a half liang, but the space is round and perforated, quite similar to a round coin.

"The round coins are specially used for trade with Qin. The weight indicated is roughly half a tael, or one tael, but it is not..."

As soon as Chen Ping said, everyone realized that not only are the most bad coins, but also the same is true for round coins. The round coins minted in the early years were not bad. In recent years, the round coins on the market have become larger and larger in the past, which also means that the weight is getting lighter and lighter.

"In other words, one and a half liang of round coins could be exchanged for one and a half liang of Qin, but in fact, two round coins weigh only one and a half liang of coins."

After Chen Ping explained this, the next work would be easier. Heifu had long planned to take out a exchange ratio between Qin and Wei coins, so that Qin coins could also be bought in the township market, reducing the troubles of local garrisons and vendors.

However, when the Qin people took out half a liang of coins, the local vendor insisted on exchanging according to the unit above the coins, one half tael for one round coins, or four half taels for one heavy flat-shouldered tart cloth.

In this way, the vendors made a profit, didn’t Qin Zuo lose?

"How about using half taels for two rounds of coins, and half taels for one tart cloth?" Heifu said that this exchange ratio would be of great benefit to the Qin army and could save a lot of money during their garrison.

Chen Ping quickly dissuaded: "Don't do this."

"Western money has different weights. If it is exchanged according to this method regardless of the severity, it will be a big blow to local vendors. I am afraid that the market will complain and it will be unfavorable for travel."

Although he was helping the Qin army, he was a native of the village. Whenever he encountered something that harmed the interests of the local people, Chen Ping would of course argue with reason.

"What do you think?" Li Xian was a little dissatisfied with Chen Ping's "trashing the inside".

"The villain has an idea." Chen Ping thought for a moment and bowed to Heifu: "It can prevent the Qin army and the hometown from being damaged. It can be traded fairly during the garrison, and it can benefit later generations..."

...

The next morning, at the bustling city gate of Huwuyu Township, a wooden board was nailed to the city gate. When the literate person squeezed over and saw that it was written with beautiful Wei characters. The general meaning was that after discussion by the three officials in the township, half a tael of Qin will be circulated in parallel with Wei coins on the market and will be used as a standard official currency, and vendors are not allowed to refuse!

Common items on the market, such as vegetables, meat, grain, cloth, etc., are given a standard price according to half a liang of money, and the fluctuation must not exceed one tenth!

The vendors in the township did not complain too much. Although they could not make more money by doing so, they did not harm them.

This was decided by Heifu visited Zhang Zhai yesterday, and according to Chen Ping's idea, he discussed with the Zhang brothers.

Zhang Bo was not willing to agree, but was frightened by Haefu's words.

"This matter has been implemented by Chenliu, and it will be sooner or later for Huwan Township. For the sake of the two lords working with me for a long time, I will secretly inform you. In a few years, not only will Qin coins be sold to Wei, but even local Wei coins will be banned!"

"I advise the two lords to exchange all the Wei coins in their family for Qin when Daliang City is broken and the land of Wei is stable as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late to regret it!"

...

After offering advice to help Heifu solve the problem of buying and selling, Chen Ping also began to do his job: writing some announcements for Qin Jun that needed to be translated into Wei characters. The announcement in the township yesterday was written by him.

But first of all, Chen Ping had to master the word Qin first, but fortunately he was smart and learned very quickly.

Speaking of which, since King Ping moved east, the world began to enter into a division of more than 500 years. The war that lasted for hundreds of years not only brought about the separatist situation of the princes, but even the culture began to "dominate independently."

The coins that caused great trouble for the Qin people in their local life a few days ago are one of the examples. In addition, the alien shape of the text is also a major obstacle to lagging behind the exchanges between countries.

The cultures of various countries develop relatively independently, bringing strong local colors. The text has strong local colors, which will inevitably make the abnormal shape of the characters between regions prominent, thus forming different characters.

The simplicity of writing and the wide application of characters also led to the simplification and hasty writing of characters, thus forming characters that are simplified and sloppy. The knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation, but they are copied by pens and bamboo slips, so it is inevitable that the characters are written incorrectly and falsely, which leads to falsely.

This is the reason why the differences in the seven kingdoms of characters are found.

Chen Ping was not as good as Zhang Cang's family conditions. Until he started learning the character Wei at the age of ten. During his study tour in neighboring counties, he came into contact with several scholars from Han and Zhao, and saw the character Zhao and Han.

The characters of the three kingdoms are actually not much different, because Zhao, Wei and Han did not separate until two hundred years ago, and they both belonged to the Jin State before.

But in addition to the Three Jin characters, there are four writing systems: Qin, Qi, Yan and Chu. These four countries are far away from the Central Plains and are located in corners. They are relatively independent in terms of regions and have very different cultures. Although the source is the bronze seal script of the Zhou Dynasty, according to different regional cultures, there have been clues of gradually moving away.

The characters Qi and Yan were still recognized by people in the Central Plains, but they could only open their eyes and do nothing to do.

However, in Chen Ping's eyes, the character Qin is very special. Perhaps it is because the Qin State inherited the old place of the Zhou Dynasty and absorbed a large amount of Zhou culture. Perhaps it is because the Qin people are conservative and old-fashioned. For hundreds of years, they have actually adhered to the shape of the orthodox characters of the Zhou Dynasty. They have only gradually become regular and symmetrical in writing style, and have transitioned to small seal scripts.

So it is not difficult to understand the word Qin.

Heifu would sometimes come to inspect his work and ask Chen Ping how it was going. When Chen Ping heard that he only took two or three days to learn the Qin character, which is different from the Wei character, and he couldn't help but look surprised.

"Why is it so fast?"

Chen Ping bowed and said, "It's not surprising that Youzi is actually not very different. Among the 100 characters, about half of the strokes are basically the same, but the shapes of the characters are different, and a quarter of the strokes are different, but the shapes are similar. You can tell it carefully by distinguishing them carefully. Only one quarter of the characters are completely different, and only one-quarter of them are very different characters, which need to be studied more."

"I see."

The black man nodded, but heard Chen Ping sigh again: "The princes are not in charge of their power and politics, and they hate rituals and music to harm themselves, but they all remove their classics... The clothes are different, the words are different, and the words are different. After these days, we know that coins, words, words, weights and measures can actually build such a big ravine obstacle to the exchanges and trade between the two countries, and simply build such a big ravine obstacle."

"Don't worry."

But Heifu laughed and predicted to Chen Ping: "Just like the territory of the seven countries in the world, the people will be unified with Qin. Whether it is coins, weights and measures, words, or the above, they will be combined into one in the future."

The unification of these things was not something that the Qin Dynasty center thought of when they slapped their heads. It was not only Huwu Township where they were, in Yangwu County, Chenliu, Waihuang, and in the Qin army occupied areas, they were all doing similar work to a greater or lesser extent. Because people all hope to do whatever they want, when political barriers no longer exist, these different things lose their meaning of existence.

Heifu guessed that in Xianyang City, while the King of Qin was preparing to unify the Liuhe, he was probably preparing the same car and the same text as Li Si and others...

He continued to say to Chen Ping, who was a little stunned, "The countries will no longer divide the borders, and there will be no obstacles to exchanges among scholars from all over the country!"

"The car is the same track, the book is the same text, and the same friendship!"

"This is not the fantasy and expectation of the ancestors, but the future that is just around the corner!"
Chapter completed!