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Chapter 233 The common people from outside the city

"These three guys."

When Fang Nan shook his head speechlessly when he learned that Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin went to the People's Bank of China to exchange 5,000 taels of silver for each of them.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin were originally a group of people standing on the upper level of Guangdong. The background can reach the capital directly, with a large number of industries, and their power and wealth are amazing.

When the People's Army besieged Guangzhou City, the three of them took the initiative to surrender to the People's Army and made contributions when the People's Army broke through the city.

With the status of Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin, it is almost impossible to bully the people. However, the subordinates of the three have done a lot of bullying the people. Under normal circumstances, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin will be implicated. Even if they are not executed directly, their homes will be confiscated and demoted to cool labor.

Because of the three of them, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin escaped. After paying a huge price, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin were considered ordinary people protected by the People's Army.

However, Fang Nan had a bad impression of the three, so he ordered people to pay attention to Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin. If there was a problem with these three, they would be punished directly.

However, a year and a half passed. Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin were all cautious and Yan Shu's subordinates did not dare to make any mistakes. In the cement factory and the exchange of equal coins, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin were even more actively involved.

In fact, Fang Nan has long stopped paying attention to Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin, but their names occasionally appear in front of Fang Nan. Fang Nan feels that if this continues, the wealth of the three of them will increase, and the People's Army is developing and the People's Army will have more and more opportunities to make money under the rule of the People's Army.

As the sun sets, the People's Bank of China closed, the first day of issuance of Equal Coins was over, and the situation in various regions in Guangzhou City was reported, but there were no problems.

In order to issue equal coins, the People's Army minted a large number of equal coins in advance. During the first day of issuance, about one-fifth of the equal coins in Guangzhou alone were exchanged. The silver exchanged back would be sent to the mint to mint it.

There are many people going to exchange equal coins in the morning, but there are fewer people going to exchange equal coins in the afternoon. After the exchange of equal coins, most people will collect them, but a small number of people use equal coins directly.

Equal coins are very convenient to use, and the weight is determined. Even if they are damaged a little, they can be used normally.

This is the first time some shops have received equal coins. They know that the People's Army's government orders do not allow them to refuse equal coins. After receiving equal coins, many people still habitually take out the scale to weigh it. It is almost no different from the amount and weight. As the number of times they receive equal coins increases, they will give up weighing.

Some merchants do not like equal coins and plan to spend equal coins faster, while others do not have much feeling about equal coins and plan to use them normally.

The current exchange and use of equal currency seems pretty good in Fang Nan. After all, equal currency is made of real silver. Some people can guess that there are other components in equal currency and are still hesitant about equal currency.

After the equal equal coins are gradually circulating, everyone will understand the convenience of equal coins, so they will give up using silver and only use equal coins. When equal equal coins almost replace silver, copper coins can also be issued, completely abandoning the silver and copper coins system.

No words all night.

When the People's Money House opened again, there were many people gathered in front of the People's Money House. The scale was much smaller than yesterday, and there were almost no signs of gentry and merchants. The gentry and merchants who wanted to exchange equal coins had already exchanged yesterday, and the gentry and merchants who did not want to exchange equal coins would not come to exchange for a short period of time.

Originally, Fang Nan thought that there would be fewer people who came to exchange Equal Coins on the second day of issuance of Equal Coins than the next day. However, as time passed, Fang Nan found that his judgment was wrong. The number of people who came to exchange Equal Coins today was less than yesterday, but there would definitely not be too few. Today, many ordinary people outside the city came to the people's money house to exchange Equal Coins.

This situation surprised Fang Nan. He asked officials to go outside the city to promote it. The main purpose was to let the people know about the equal coins. In the future, they would not have doubts or even think that they had been cheated when they received the equal coins. Unexpectedly, after the equal coins began to be issued, many ordinary people from outside the city came to exchange for equal coins.

They need to walk half a day or even half a day to reach Guangzhou City. Most people only have a few dollars to exchange for equal coins. They also hold a large amount of copper coins in their hands to exchange for equal coins. The silver and copper coins they carry are basically all the money in their family.

Their thoughts are very simple. The People's Army divides the land for them, drives away the government, defeats the landlords, and destroys the bandits. With their own fields, they can finally make a living by relying on their own efforts. All of this is brought by the People's Army, and they are willing to support the People's Army with everything they have.

I heard that the People's Army must support what equal coins were launched. The people formed a group to bring all the money from their families to the city, to the People's Money House, and exchanged them for equal coins.

So there was a scene where a large number of people outside the city exchanged equal coins today. Even though they exchanged not many equal coins, they helped the circulation of equal coins, and even made many gentry and merchants have the idea of ​​exchanging some equal coins.

Fang Nan was a little moved by the people's actions. The people knew that the People's Army was good to them, and they were willing to support the People's Army with their own practical actions.

Water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. Without the support of the people, even if the People's Army overthrew the Ming court, it would not be able to sit firmly in the world.

On the first day of June, people's money shops in various places under the rule of the People's Army jointly launched equal coins. The exchange of equal coins in other cities was almost the same as in Guangzhou City. There were more people coming to exchange equal coins on the first day, mainly people living in the city, and gentry and merchants also needed some equal coins. In other cities, there were also people who exchanged 1,000 taels of silver at once, and at most, the county town was a few hundred taels.

On the second day, only a few people came to the People's Bank of China to exchange equal coins, and more were ordinary people outside the city. They used all their savings in their homes to exchange equal coins, even if they could only exchange a few cents of equal coins.

Even ordinary people who were half a day away from the city came to exchange for equal coins. They brought their own dry food. They didn't plan to go back today, nor did they have the luxury of staying in the inn. They planned to pay one night in a corner and set off home after dawn.

After learning about this situation, basically the county magistrate and mayor of the People's Army made similar decisions and arranged for ordinary people who entered the city but had no place to live to go to the aid home to rest for one night, and the aid home provided some simple meals.

Fang Nan considered that he could send a working group to the countryside with equal coins to provide convenience for the people to exchange equal coins.
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