A run seems inevitable. In the age of paper money, this seemed to be inevitable. After all, people's confidence in paper cannot be compared with real money and copper coins.

Therefore, as soon as there is a stir, the banknote issuing bank will be run on by people.

Now, our Chen Dasheng is going to worry about money for a while. And at the same time, on the other side of the world, his old friend Wen Tianxiang didn't have to worry about money.

Because the Mingzhou Continent is very poor, so poor, so poor that there is only money left!

The Great Champion and 8,000 Indian Bannermen, armed with shields, spears, and longbows, had arrived near a small city called Mayapan. It was the ruling center of the Mayan civilization and was ruled by the Cocomb family. Unlike the many military city-states in the Mexica Valley, founded by the Chichimec people, the Mayan civilization was long and long, as if an old rich man had passed the age of irritability and aggressiveness, and had entered the years of leisure and enjoyment.

Nearly 300 years ago, this once splendid Mayan civilization was even conquered by the Toltecs centered on the Mexica Valley, and established the Toltec-Mayan kingdom with Chichen Itza as its capital. However, Chichen Itza's rule completely collapsed when Toltec headquarters fell to the Chichmeks. Mayan kingship passed to the Kokom family, who were also unable to build a strong and unified empire, but rather a union of dozens of Mayan city-states. Each Mayan city-state was ruled by one or more families. And the Kocombs are their elected "kings", or should it be translated as something else......

Mayapan, of the Cocombe family, is a small and crowded city. Surrounded by a low, circular defensive stone wall. The city was lined with houses, temples and pyramids, and was built in a humble state. It seems that everywhere shows the crampedness of national power.

However, the business activity in this small town is extremely prosperous. Not only are there a large number of shops and workshops in the city, but also outside the city walls. There are also countless simple houses made of wood, most of which are shops and workshops, and they are also private houses. Farther out from the city, there were vast fields of Mayan rice or anything else - land, sweet potatoes, peppers, cocoa, tobacco, coca and all sorts of other crops, but Wen Tianxiang knew only one Mayan rice (corn).

At least to Wen Tianxiang, who has traveled around the Mexica Valley, Mayapan is the most prosperous and Chinese-like city he has ever seen.

The crampedness of cities, temples, and palaces contrasts sharply with the prosperity of commerce, agriculture, and handicrafts outside the city. If Wen Zhuangyuan had read the sociology of later generations, he would have come to the conclusion that slavery in the Mayan civilization had declined or collapsed.

Because there is not enough free labor. The cost of construction has become prohibitive. In ancient times, when the productive forces were not developed enough, even wealthy dynasties could not afford to build too many religious buildings that were too splendid and rich, but not very practical. Take a look at the medieval architecture of Europe and the glorious architecture of the Roman Republic and the Egyptian Pharaohs.

And after the collapse of slavery, it was not only the construction industry that was weakened, but also the Mayapan's military power, far less than the Chichimec in the Mexica Valley.

The city-states of the Chichmec were all new military states with a strong military aristocracy. And the Mayans were a theocratic civilization a long time ago, and they only pretended to be gods. The military class is not strong, and even less so now. They can't even beat the Toltecs, let alone the Chichimeks who knocked the Toltecs down, and now they are encountering some "Shenzhou" who knocked the Chichmecks overturned. That sounds amazing. It looks even more powerful. Seven or eight thousand people wore the same clothes, the same strange hairstyles, and formed a formation like a city wall. The spear in his hand was shining, and he didn't know what it was made of? Anyway, it exudes a terrifying murderous aura! It will definitely not be beaten.

So the Kocomb family wisely chose "Union". If you can't fight, you will unite, this is the political wisdom of the Mayans. Just as their ancestors "united" with the Toltecs three hundred years ago.

Thereupon. Several strange-shaped Mayan nobles came to Wen Tianxiang's palanquin. They wore brightly colored cotton clothes, and wore the most popular turkey feather hats in the Mingzhou continent, and the shape of their heads was very strange - there were triangular ones, long ones, and large flat heads, and I don't know how they were long? And all of them are cross-eyed, and their faces and arms are tattooed with complex patterns.

"Great High Priest of the Protoss," one of the Mayan nobles, who seemed to have failed plastic surgery, spoke Nava, first bent deeply, and then said respectfully, "I am the priest of Mayapan, the rain priest of the Kokom family, and I extend my most respectful greetings to your gods on behalf of the great rain god." ”

It turned out to be a god stick! Wen Tianxiang frowned, he had long been tired of the various divine sticks on the Mingzhou Continent. This territory is a place where gods walk everywhere and priests are as many as dogs. As long as people with a little status like to pretend to be gods and ghosts, and they also like to engage in blood sacrifices and human sacrifices, and it is said that there are many fools who are proud to be sacrifices...... How can you do it if you don't educate well!?

"Poop!" Wen Tianxiang looked at this rain priest and made a request, he was here to collect the stool - the stool of the gods. "God's! Any idea what it is? ”

Priest Maya Yu nodded, took out a gold ornament from his arms, and held it high in both hands. Wen Tianxiang's disciple Shark took the ornament before going to the sea, and then put it in his mouth and bit it, it was soft. Then he nodded at Wen Tianxiang.

"Not enough!" Wen Tianxiang felt more and more like the king of the mountain, but in order to leave this ghost place full of gods and sticks as soon as possible, he still had to complete the things that he had to explain. "I want a lot of stool, God's stool, all of them!"

"Yes, yes, yes." The Mayan priests breathed a sigh of relief, it was not easy to say anything else, the god's poop they had is, the Mayan civilization had been wide for thousands of years. But there is no shortage of this glittering "stool".

"To show Mayapan's sincerity, we are willing to offer all the stool of the gods." The priest hurriedly said respectfully.

Gold was associated with the gods and various rituals in the Mayan civilization, and the Mayans also had many jade and silver sacrificial vessels. In addition, gold was not a currency in the Maya and did not symbolize wealth. The currency of the Mayans, like the Mexica Valley, was cocoa beans and cloth.

Because it was associated with sacrifices, a large number of gold products were preserved in Mayapan, the center of the Mayan civilization. Soon, piles of yellow objects were carried out by the slightly more normal-looking Mayans, piled on thousands of wheelbarrows—a city in the middle of a rainforest with no roads for carts to pass around, only dirt lanes for wheelbarrows. As a result, the army that followed Wen Tianxiang's actions carried more than 2,000 wheelbarrows.

"We need a city by the sea!" Wen Tianxiang put forward the second condition.

"A city by the sea?" The Mayan priest was stunned.

"That's right, I'm going to go from there and look on the other side of the sea!" Wen Tianxiang replied solemnly, "Maya seems to have such a city, right?" ”

"It's Zama City."

"Okay, I'm going to Zama!" Wen Tianxiang paused, "Cedion Zama to me, Mayapan can continue to maintain his current position, otherwise, ......" he pointed to the military formation behind him, "can only be destroyed!" ”

When he said this, Wen Tianxiang felt as if he had become an unreasonable Mongolian. It seems that these days in the Mingzhou Continent always practice the art of kingship, a little bad heart. When you have laid down Zama, you must have a good self-cultivation there......

"But...... Zama isn't the city of the Kocomb family. The priest hesitated. Zama has its own rulers. ”

"It's okay, my army will conquer Zama!" Wen Tianxiang put away his thoughts on self-cultivation and said coldly, "You can hand over God's stool and sign a document to cede Zama." ”

……

"Open! Must be open! ”

Zhoushan Island, Dinghai Tiandao Temple, the place where the great tomorrow is stationed.

The run on Tiandaozhuang has started as scheduled. In front of the four Tiandaozhuang branches in Changguo County and Shenjiamen City, there have been crowds of people running for days. At the beginning, it was not a big household that was running, but a small household that had always been consistent. Some are Tiandao tickets with a consistent face value, and some are small-value certificates of deposit. But within a few days, all kinds of rumors against Tiandaozhuang spread again.

Some say that Tiandaozhuang paid a huge amount of money for the Central Plains War, and now it has been hollowed out. In some cases, there was a large loss of money from Tiandaozhuang to the maritime merchants, and tens of millions of dollars were lost! In short, it all means that Tiandaozhuang is an empty shelf.

Under the dual effect of these rumors and crowds. The queue in front of Tiandaozhuang has obviously been getting longer and longer these days, and the gold, silver and copper exchanged are also more than one day by day.

"Sage, you must not stop redeeming it now, otherwise the credibility of the Heavenly Dao Ticket will fall, and the Heavenly Dao Village will be finished!"

Qu Huajie was summoned to the front of the palace again. The army that crusaded against Jiangnan was coming by boat, but the military expenses were not settled. As a result, some generals who accompanied the expedition put forward the idea of suspending the exchange - first use the gold, silver and bronze in Tiandao Village to support the war, and then conquer Jiangnan, wouldn't there be everything?

Although Qu Huajie was resolutely opposed, Chen Dexing was a little tempted. Compared with the destruction of the Song Dynasty and swallowing the south of the Yangtze River, Tiandaozhuang is not a matter at all! Now that it is wartime, it is natural that war should come first in everything.

Just when Chen Dexing was about to give Qu Huajie an order to implement "gold, silver and copper control" on Zhoushan Island, footsteps sounded, and it was the secretary Xu Ziyuan who entered.

"Sage, Liang Chongru asks to see."

"Oh, he's back to Zhoushan." Chen Dexing nodded, and did not say that he wanted to see him.

Xu Ziyuan said again: "Liang Chongru has a policy to collect Jiangnan, and ask the sage to delay the suspension of the redemption of heavenly tickets. (To be continued......)