For a person like Li Tianyang, who didn't even finish college in his previous life, saying that he knew a little bit of economics would be a big thing to put gold on his face.

However, this did not prevent Li Tianyang from now starting to rectify the monetary system in Bengang camp, and even to establish a series of simple financial systems.

It's really because of the fate of the moment, I have to do it!

Today's Bengang is no longer the uninhabited land it was at the beginning of the wilderness. As a large port with a permanent population of more than 20,000 people, it is well deserved to say that it is a small city. Therefore, Li Tianyang imagined that he could no longer meet the daily economic activities of this camp by implementing the plan of bartering or substituting work for endowment as he did at the beginning.

In the past, due to the lack of food, cloth and other living materials, the natives could exchange the equivalent value of food, cloth and other materials they urgently needed from the camp treasury after finishing their coolies in the camp.

But as Li Tianyang gradually taught various techniques and methods related to planting to these natives, they were not stupid, of course, they would bring these methods back to the tribe, slowly promote the practice among the tribes, and began to open up land around the tribes, dig and cultivate.

This, although there are some risks, is much more cost-effective than working in Bengang all day long, and the food grown belongs to others Bengang.

Although, Bengang Camp has reservations in cultivating seedlings, manure matching, as well as plant mixing, land rotation and other advanced places. However, there are still those clever and intelligent natives who have begun to quietly experiment with the planting techniques they have learned in Bengang in their own tribes.

As the saying goes, there is a reward for paying, and hard work will inevitably bring returns, and after more than half a year, there are finally indigenous people who are willing to practice, and they begin to harvest countless times more abundant food from their own land than that hunting.

Although the harvest is several percent less than that of the same area of Bengang land, all of this grain belongs to their own tribe and does not need to be given to anyone, so you can imagine how important and meaningful it is for these people who eat crabs first.

Moreover, species like sweet potatoes and potatoes, the biggest advantage is that they have high yields, short maturity periods, and do not need to take care of them, and the land requirements are not high, so they have a certain amount of food income, which is suitable for novice cultivation like the natives, as long as there is no natural disaster, there will be no grain harvest.

What's more, these indigenous tribes on Dayuan Island lack everything, but there is exactly one thing that is not lacking, that is, land!

Therefore, since the tribe ate the first crab and profited, the members of the Bengang Alliance have also followed suit, and within the sphere of influence of their own tribes, they have wantonly opened up wasteland, and even the hunting grounds that were treasured in the past are gone, and they have directly opened up patches of neat land and planted a large number of crops.

As a result, many natives in Bengang who are not qualified for land allocation have rushed back to their tribes, wanting to seize the opportunity to get a few acres of land to grow food!

For a time, there was a shortage of manpower in the Bengang camp, and the employment increased several times, and no one applied.

This is also the case in Li Tianyang's camp, and after the beginning of spring, the thousands of acres of land outside the camp that belong to their camp need more than one or two. The vacancy of hundreds of manpower made Yumo, who was really unable to recruit manpower, lose his temper at Li Tianyang, and finally Li Tianyang had to mobilize all the team members in the camp and the Hongtang soldiers, and it took more than ten days to plant food on these lands.

The reason why we can't recruit enough people is that in addition to the fact that many natives have begun to return to their own tribes to clear the wasteland, there is also a problem with the mechanism of camp recruitment.

As mentioned earlier, when recruiting people in the past, when it comes to final settlement, most of them are settled based on the materials needed by the recruited. However, as the natives became more and more affluent, the food and cloth that they had valued in the past gradually became attracted to luxury items such as jewels and colorful silk and satin.

This is not an isolated case, it should be because the route taken by Li Tianyang to the patriarchs, leaders and other high-level leaders of various tribes is the corrosive route, and all kinds of strange and colorful jewels and silks are the most gifts received by the upper echelons of these tribes from Bengang. It is not incomprehensible that the natives are influenced by the upper echelons of the tribe and pursue all kinds of luxuries.

But the problem is that the price of luxury things such as jewelry and silk is not comparable to that of daily necessities such as grain and cloth in the past, and even if the natives work as coolies for three or two months in a row, they may not be able to replace a beautiful silk horse.

Anyone who has worked knows that if you work hard for three or five months without getting paid, there will always be an uncontrollable inertia in the hearts of those who work hard, and even an aversion to work.

But if he is asked to replace some food and other materials that are not in short supply at home every month, he will feel that he is very unworthy, and it is better to feel comfortable doing nothing.

Therefore, Yumo and the others had mentioned to Li Tianyang a long time ago that they wanted to change the rules for recruiting labor, but Li Tianyang and the others had been busy with other things some time ago, so they were delayed.

It was only now that Li Tianyang was able to free up his hands and discuss with Yumo and the others how to modify the recruitment.

In fact, to say that it is a modification is nothing more than to convert the previous remuneration from materials to money. However, it is not easy to promote this alternative to silver money among the natives who have no concept of silver money at all.

The children of the Ming Dynasty who were recruited by Li Tianyang from the inland can be said that Li Tianyang does not need to educate them at all, and everyone knows the purpose of this money. It's just that these indigenous folks, if they want to make them believe, can buy all kinds of materials with this little white thing, but it really took Li Tian a lot of effort to raise them.

Fortunately, today's Bengang is not the period when it was still in the "planned economy" a year or two ago, and with the increasing population, Li Tianyang and them can no longer be as they were at the beginning, and all the living materials are distributed according to the number of people and families.

The people who came first, as their families followed Li Tianyang to roam left and right, crisscrossing the world, the monthly salary, and the rewards for meritorious service, the value they saved became more and more abundant. But if these real money and silver are placed in this wilderness far away from the mainland, if they cannot be spent, their value is limited compared to the stones on the side of the road.

Therefore, if there is demand, there will naturally be trading, and Li Tianyang can't always suppress these natural daily economic activities. In the camp, all kinds of tea houses, restaurants, and theaters to pass the time came into being, and began to fill every corner of the camp's residential areas.

And as Li Tianyang began to open the Bengang camp, allowing many forces with good relations with Bengang to enter and leave the camp, there were merchants who were extremely sensitive to business opportunities, and they were eyeing the rich and undeveloped market of Bengang.

Shopkeepers like Defuxuan Lu Bingyan opened their mouths and asked Li Tianyang for a request to open a small shop in Bengang camp, no matter what, Li Tianyang needs to be cautious, so he can consider the requirements of others!

Therefore, in just two months, several small grocery stores have opened in the residential area of Bengang Camp selling all kinds of miscellaneous items.

Li Tianyang knows very well that if he wants to completely prevent other businesses from stopping in Bengang, it must be wishful thinking, and it is also something that must not be done. With the development and growth of Bengang, if you want to take a step forward in development, Bengang can no longer be as closed as before.

It's just that what followed was a variety of coins commonly used in the Ming Dynasty, flooding the small market of Bengang.

The Ming Dynasty is now circulating in the market, with the amount of silver as the largest, it can be said that at least seven or eight out of ten economic activities are used as silver as currency, and the remaining two or three transactions, most of them are settled in copper coins, and basically all of them are very small transactions, only a very small number of transactions, with gold as currency.

It can be said that gold, as the most valuable, the most valuable, and the most trustworthy metal in later generations, has appeared more in the form of a luxury in this era. On the contrary, in later generations, silver, which had withdrawn from the money market, was at the peak of economic and financial transactions in this era, and all aspects of economic life were inseparable from it.

As for the copper coin, it is in a very embarrassing situation in this era, and it is only used as a supplement to the currency of very small transactions in daily life, and few people use it.

For thousands of years in China, bronze ware has been the most important thing in the sacrificial ritual vessels. However, brass, as the main raw material of bronze, has always had very little production and origin in China. By the 47th year of Wanli, most of the copper coins in circulation in the Ming Dynasty were minted from brass mined from the Yunnan frontier. The rest is mined in private mines scattered all over the country.

With the advent of the Shenwei General Cannon, the importance of brass as the most suitable tool for casting this sharp weapon at present has once again thinned out a large amount of brass resources that are not enough to circulate in the market.

Therefore, in order to reduce the cost of money and reduce the content of brass in copper coins, more and more copper coins on the market are mixed with other metals such as iron, tin and other metals, which further reduces the monetary attributes of copper coins themselves, and greatly reduces their service life.

Driven by profits, a large number of other metals are mixed in copper coins, making the monetary attributes of copper coins, which itself represent equivalent exchange greatly discredited, and people have to accept less or refuse to accept copper coins, and instead use a large amount of silver.

However, although the silver production was large in the Ming Dynasty, and there was a silver-rich Wa country on the side, it could not stand the private coin factories controlled by the various families who were now flooded and knew the taste of copper coins. Under the control of these unscrupulous merchants, all kinds of silver with insufficient fineness and adulterated impurities circulate in the market, from more than ninety percent to less than sixty percent of fineness, different kinds of silver are mixed in the trading market, making the entire currency market a chaotic situation, and many merchants and people are unbearable and complaining about it.

Even in the Bengang camp, every time you trade all kinds of silver, you need to hire a sharp-eyed master or hand it over to a silver shopkeeper to keep an eye on, so as not to cause losses in your own business because of the lack of fineness of the silver.

Moreover, with the gradual loss of control of copper coins, more and more people and businessmen have used silver, and the standard government-run silver ingots of five taels per ingot will always be twisted into one tael, a few cents, and a few cents of broken silver by the common people, so as to cope with the simple and small expenses of daily life, which is very inconvenient for weighing, calculating and keeping between firms, and it is a headache.

In this way, it was Li Tianyang's determination to mint a batch of special currency belonging to their own camp in Bengang, a paradise that belonged to them, instead of using silver ingots and copper plates that were common in the Ming Dynasty and were rampant with rotten coins.

Of course, the "Sweet Cake" (that is, the silver coins minted and used by foreigners) is actually a good choice, and it is rare to rush in terms of fineness, but the weighing method of foreign currency is very different from that of the Ming Dynasty, and the merchants and people who have long been accustomed to the weight calculation method of the Ming Dynasty want to change their habits for a while, which is really difficult, so it is better to redesign a set of circulating currency in accordance with the weighing method of the Ming Dynasty!

This is the origin of this set of currencies in Li Tianyang's hands.

This set of currencies named "Yinyang" by Li Tianyang and Dong Qirui, on the one hand, affirmed that these currencies were intended to imitate the foreigners' "sweet cakes", and on the other hand, they were designed in full accordance with the weighing method of the Ming Dynasty, which was extremely suitable for small-scale daily transactions.

The whole set of "silver oceans" consists of silver coins of one tael, five cents, three cents and one cent, as well as copper coins of one hundred, fifty, thirty, ten and one cent.

Among them, the fineness of the silver coin, the whole body is snow-white, and the silver content is at least ninety percent, which is the silver with the highest silver content on the market, comparable to the official silver of the Ming Dynasty. It's just that on copper coins, because of the lack of copper resources, Li Tianyang mixed them with a lot of tin elements, it may be more appropriate to call them bronze coins, but it also ensures that the content of copper elements is at least seventy percent or more, and in the current era of copper coin market, it is already a very conscientious and sincere private copper coin.

The circulation of this set of currency, as soon as it entered the Bengang market, won the affirmation of all the villagers and various merchants, which was enough to meet the daily circulation of the entire Bengang.

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