On the first day of June, early in the morning, a lot of people gathered at the door of the People's Bank of China in the central area of ​​Guangzhou City. As the opening time approached, more and more people gathered. In order to prevent chaos, a team of People's Army soldiers came here to control order.

Among the gathering crowd were ordinary people, servants, maids from wealthy families, and wealthy gentry and merchants.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin also came, and each of them was followed by more than a dozen servants, two servants carrying a box containing a large amount of silver.

The gentry and merchants who met Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin were all very surprised. They saw that Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin came with a large amount of silver and wanted to exchange it for equal coins in the People's Money House. Isn't it a bit too early?

Soon, the time for the People's Bank of China to open the door came, and several People's Army soldiers stood at the door, letting people outside line up to enter the money house to prevent chaos.

The layout of the People's Money House is similar to that of the money house of this era. In fact, the house occupied by the People's Money House was the largest money house in Guangzhou before.

The first customer walked into the money shop. He was a middle-aged man in his thirties, medium-tall, thin, and ordinary clothes. He was a resident of Guangzhou City.

He walked carefully to the counter, and the young money shop staff behind the counter was the first to speak: "Hello, guest, do you want to exchange for equal coins?"

"Yes, I want to exchange this silver for equal coins." The middle-aged man nodded quickly and said, taking out a small bag made of cloth from his clothes while saying that.

"Guest, please put the silver here and I will weigh it for you." At that time, the staff pushed a rectangular wooden plate in front of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man opened the small cloth bag and poured all the silver inside the cloth bag on the wooden plate. With the "ding bell" sound, a few pieces of broken silver hit the wooden plate, which seemed to be only one or two taels of silver.

The staff took out a scale and weighed several pieces of broken silver. During the weighing process, they should be as close to middle-aged people as possible to let them see the weighing process clearly.

"Guest, your silver weighs one, three cents and six cents in total. You can exchange it for one yuan, triangular equal coins and seventy-two copper coins. Do you want to exchange it all?" (Originally one tael of silver is equal to one thousand copper coins, and the copper coins are depreciated. It is set to exchange it for one tael of silver for 1,200 copper coins at present)

"One or three cents of silver, yes, I want to exchange them all." The middle-aged man muttered and then gave a positive answer. He had weighed the weight of the silver in his hand before, which was one or three cents of six cents. Yes, he could exchange it for equal coins with confidence.

"Guests please wait for a moment, and the equal coins you exchanged will be delivered immediately."

Then another staff member came over and took away the wooden plate with silver. In addition to the silver, there was also a piece of paper on the wooden plate with the weight of the silver written on it.

The staff brought the silver to the backstage, and immediately another staff member weighed the silver with a scale. After confirming that the silver weighed one, two, three cents and six cents, a staff member used tools to slight damage to the silver to simply determine whether the silver was authentic or not.

The easiest way to detect the authenticity of silver is to bite it with your teeth, but the silver is not clean, so you use tools instead of teeth for inspection.

After one step after another, the staff used a wooden plate to bring one-yuan triangular equal coins and seventy-two copper coins to the counter.

"Guest, this is the equal coins and copper coins you want to exchange for, please count them."

The middle-aged man first picked up a one-yuan silver coin and three one-cent silver coins, and gently weighed it. After feeling that it was about the same weight as the previous silver, he put four silver coins into a small cloth bag and then began to count the copper coins.

There were 72 copper coins in total, and the middle-aged man counted ten or ten. After counting seven times, the number of copper coins was determined and all of them were put in a small cloth bag.

At this time, the middle-aged man wanted to leave, but he didn't know what to say. He was a little embarrassed. The staff seemed to see the situation of the middle-aged man and asked, "Customer, the coins have been counted. Do you need any help?"

"No...no, I'm leaving."

"Welcome to come again next time."

As he said that, the middle-aged man walked out of the door. There were a lot of people in the money shop, but it was not crowded. The middle-aged man gave up his position, and the person behind him immediately moved forward and took the silver to exchange it for equal coins.

One person after another exchanges silver into equal coins in the money shop, ranging from a few coins to a few taels of silver. This is all for ordinary people. For ordinary people, there are a lot of silver that ordinary people can take out. None of the people who take out more than ten taels of silver, and this is still in Guangzhou City.

Those who exchange a small amount of equal coins can queue up directly at the counter. For example, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin each brought 5,000 taels of silver to the market, which is a big customer and has dedicated personnel to serve for the duration of the year.

It is not because of money that is treated differently, but because 5,000 taels of silver is too much, weighing more than 300 pounds, and it cannot be put down at the counter, and it will hinder others. It is the best choice to lead a special person to the compartment to serve them.

Five thousand taels of silver, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin all chose to exchange 3,000 yuan silver coins, two thousand five cent silver coins, five thousand cent silver coins, and one person exchanged 5,000 yuan silver coins for 10,000 yuan silver coins.

It is relatively simple to weigh five thousand taels of silver, and it is not troublesome to count ten thousand silver coins. The three silver coins in the People's Bank of China are placed in units of one hundred, and one hundred silver coins can be stacked in groups.

He brought five thousand taels of silver and left with five thousand taels of equal coins. Many gentry and merchants were amazed by Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin, and exchanged five thousand taels of silver at once when it was impossible to determine whether the equal coins could be widely used. Few people under the rule of the People's Army would do this.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin were just the first batch. Soon other merchants came to exchange for equal coins with large sums of silver. Although there were not as many Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin, at least one thousand taels of silver.

The equal currency is definitely made of silver, and there may be some other materials mixed in it, but the value will definitely not be as far away as the same quality of silver. More importantly, taking out a large amount of silver to exchange for equal currency can leave a good impression on the People's Army. This is the case for merchants who cooperate with the People's Army to establish cement factories.

There are even merchants who have not established cement factories that exchange some equal coins in large quantities, ranging from a few hundred taels to a large amount of 1,000 taels. For rich people, 1,000 taels of silver is not a big deal.

However, more gentry merchants only exchange dozens of taels of silver, and watch first. If the equal coins are really good, everyone will use them and then exchange them in large quantities. There is no need to worry about this.
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