After Xu Chen explained, everyone understood more clearly and nodded to express that it was indeed the case.
Just like animal skins, it is relatively easy to hunt wild beasts in spring and autumn, and the quantity is large. Everyone wants to exchange animal skins for more linen or pottery and copperware, so the value is low. But in winter, soft and thick animal skins are very expensive, and
The best boar skin and cowhide can be used to make armor. They have been in high demand in recent years, and the trade is very popular. Naturally, you can exchange for more things.
But no matter what season or time, copper coins can always be used to exchange and trade any items, and they will not rot or go bad when stored in the tribe. On the contrary, they are the best wealth.
After thinking about this matter, everyone became excited and said that the method invented by Xu Chen to exchange any property with copper coins was indeed convenient, simple and very practical.
Xu Chen arranged for someone to bring over a rough wooden box, in which were placed strings of brand-new yellow copper coins tied with hemp ropes.
Xu Chen mentioned a string for everyone to see clearly and then said with a smile:
"These are the copper coins you exchanged for this time. Each string is fifty coins. There are twenty strings in total, totaling one thousand cents. You can freely dispose and distribute these coins. You can now exchange them for part of the grain and copper coins."
We will arrange a carriage to help send it back, or you can take it back first and save it for exchange at any time."
This time, senior Uzbek officials came as a whole to seek a solution to the food crisis.
However, they got such a surprise, so they all seemed more excited and started discussing what to do.
In fact, the Uzbek people are not yet completely short of food and can still hold on for about a month. However, because they were afraid of being hungry before, they came to Xu Chen to solve the problem in advance and could not delay it until there was really no food.
It's too late to think of a solution.
However, at present, the food crisis in the entire Bam League has been completely solved by the Ba people. Therefore, if you want to buy food, basically only the Ba people can provide it. But with copper coins, you can not only buy wheat and beans, but also can buy food.
Purchase cereals such as fish and plant roots.
In particular, yams and some starch-rich rhizomes have actually always been the most consumed food by various tribes. On the contrary, wheat and beans, two types of grains that are now grown on a large scale, were supplementary grains in the past and were only eaten for a few months in autumn.
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These root grains are relatively cheaper than wheat, beans and fish, because it only takes more time and manpower to dig them up the mountain, but they are available everywhere. If you eat these foods with wheat, beans and some fish, you will most likely save money.
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Although a group of primitive people are not very good at settling accounts, they all have rich life experience and know what to eat to make them full.
It is difficult to obtain fish meat, so it must be more expensive. A big fish costs a penny, which is only enough for one person to barely fill his stomach. But if you replace it with wheat and beans, it can feed one person for five days. If you replace it with wild rhizome grains such as yams, it will be enough to eat.
It will take longer, and a lot of copper money can be saved to buy bronzes or salt and other scarce items from the Ba people.
Of course, during their discussions, Xu Chen would also help with a lot of ideas, guiding them to treat copper coins as real currency and understand the convenient and simple transaction methods brought by this universal trading item.
The little witch sister also kept comparing the exchange standards on the animal skins to help her sister with some transaction guidance.
She watched Xu Chen slowly work out the copper coins and trading standards. Xu Chen had already explained the details to her in detail. Therefore, for Sister Dawu, she knew more about the role of copper coins than her younger sister and
Everyone knows it.
Of course, she was also deeply impressed by Xu Chen's magical and brain-burning creativity.
A group of people were discussing and laughing lively over the box of copper coins. The young witch of the Pi tribe sat nearby and was a little at a loss.
Although she has been in the Ba tribe for more than half a month and is very familiar with everything about the Ba tribe. She has also learned some Ba tribe languages and characters and can start some simple communications, but she cannot understand such complicated things at all.
I don't understand it even more, it's like listening to a book from heaven.
Therefore, the feeling of inferiority becomes stronger.
Compared with the two twin witches of the Ba and Wu tribes, although she is older, she looks like a fool.
She has only scratched the surface of everything about the Ba people, and she is still far from fully understanding it.
At least in her own opinion, she must learn all the words in the Witch King's dictionary, and then be able to keep a diary like the Great Witch, and learn to use numbers to calculate the various wealth of the tribe.
At the moment, she can't even count the people in the tribe, and other tribesmen have no concept of counting.
Under the guidance of Xu Chen, the little witch and a group of clan leaders decided to buy two thousand kilograms of grain for storage first, then bought some salt, and ordered a batch of knives, axes, copper saws, copper hammers, copper drills and other tools.
, take the remaining money back and use it to buy other food.
After making the decision, Xu Chen asked the little witch sisters and Ye to calculate and count the copper coins. After the settlement was completed, they wrote the transaction vouchers on animal skins, and then arranged for people to start preparing food and salt, because tools such as knives, axes, copper saws still needed to be made slowly, Xu Chen asked them
Just arrange for someone to pick it up after ten days.
Soon, the prepared grain and salt were loaded onto the carriages in rattan baskets and animal skin bags. It took less than an hour. After everything was ready, the two carriages set off, pulling the goods and following the little witch and a group of Uzbek people.
leave.
After seeing the Uzbek people leaving, Xu Chen let out a long breath and felt much more relaxed.
This time the Uzbek tribe sent a thousand kilograms of copper, which cost about 500 yuan. However, according to the speed and output of copper smelting by the Uzbek tribe, the copper coins on hand may soon be insufficient, and another batch will need to be minted.
With the promotion of currency, as long as tribes find it convenient and easy to use, they will use it more and more in future transactions, and the demand will naturally increase.
However, the more copper coins, the better. The current anchor is Uzbek copper, but food is the core commodity. As long as the circulation quantity is relatively satisfactory, otherwise too much will cause price depreciation.
According to Xu Chen's calculations, in the next year, only two-thirds of the Uzbek copper output needs to be minted, which is roughly enough. The most important thing is to speed up the circulation of copper coins among the tribes and not let these coins
All is stored as wealth, so how to promote the expansion of transaction scale is the core issue.
Seeing that their family's food supply was missing by a large amount, Muba and Amu became a little uneasy. After discussing for a while, they began to arrange for the tribe to prepare for another round of burning wasteland and reclaiming land.
At present, most of the riverbanks in the valley have become farmland, but there are still hundreds of acres that can be cultivated on both sides of the valley entrance, but it is more troublesome to travel to and from the valley to manage farming and harvesting.
However, given that the Uzbek people and even other tribes are short of food, the Uzbek people may come to buy more food in the future, and the Ba people are not allowed to increase the amount of farmland and plant more food.
They don’t fully understand the role of money. They only know that copper coins can buy anything. But their simple life experience tells them that no matter what copper coins can buy, food has always been the most important wealth, because copper coins cannot be eaten, only food can.
Full stomach.
So what if the Wu people have copper? They still have to obediently send the copper to the Ba people and exchange it for copper coins, and then use the copper coins to trade the Ba people's grain.
As Xu Chen said, once all ethnic groups are short of food, I am afraid that the Uzbek people will not be able to buy food even if they have money, and they will still have to go hungry.
Therefore, cultivating the fields well is the top priority.
Besides, the money is all forged by the Ba people, so you won’t be able to get as much money as you want.
Ba people are not short of money!
In the next period of time, Xu Chen focused on the foundry, trying to cast this batch of copper into various tools and coins as soon as possible.
In the midst of my busy schedule, November has arrived in a blink of an eye.
Various forged tools were also continuously sent to the Gonghuo Basin and tribes such as the Muya Tribe, the Ji Tribe and the Cang Tribe who were building roads.
These tools are not given away for free, they can only be temporarily borrowed and must be returned after the road is built. Of course, if you want to keep them, you can buy them at a discount, and some will be directly rewarded to some tribes based on the progress of the project.
With the strong support of the Ba people, the enthusiasm of various tribes for road construction continues to rise, and the progress of road construction is also accelerating.
According to reports from hunters, most of the road between the Ji and Cang tribes has been connected, leaving only the rocky valley section that is difficult to crack. It has only been excavated more than half way, but according to the progress, it should be completed before spring sowing.
The road between the Ji tribe and the Muya tribe has been mostly built, the road from the Muya tribe to Maogong Ridge has been built, and the Muya tribe's new gathering place at the foot of Maogong Ridge has been built more than half.
The road from the Uzbek people to Maogong Ling is relatively far, nearly forty miles long. Basically, it can only be built by the Uzbek people. It is already more than half completed and should be completed within a month.
With the emergence of horses, communication between tribes has become very convenient and fast. Moreover, road construction is related to the future development of each tribe, so communication with each other is still very frequent. Every now and then, there are hunters on horseback constantly inspecting and supervising. This made Xu Chen very interested in road construction.
The progress is still relatively clear.
Although it seems that the Ba people have been working hard at the moment, this dedication will definitely pay off in the future. At least after the completion of this road, the Ba people will greatly strengthen their control over various tribes.
After these once poor, earth-eating tribes gradually get rid of poverty, the Ba people can use the popularity and reputation accumulated in the early stage to start harvesting wealth, and finally complete Xu Chen's dream of King Tu hegemony.