1840Indian rebirth

"What a great idea!" This proposal was approved by many people. "I think we should also mint some of our own silver coins and copper coins!"

The vertical wolf hesitated for a moment: "Gold coins are okay, but as for silver coins and copper coins... we don't have silver or copper mines."

Du Tiao blurted out: "Then melt the white people's silver and copper coins and change them into our own!"

Ma Shao smiled and said: "This is a loss-making business. Minting coins also has costs. On this issue, we should deal with it the same as we treat the calendar, focusing first on convenience."

"We will turn the gold produced here into gold ingots or gold bars, and then send them to Mianxiong City to use as Mianxiong City's financial revenue."

Du Tiao: "Although gold ingots can also be used, they are somewhat inconvenient... I think it is better to mint them into gold coins, and you can also print your head on them, the great chief."

"No, we will gradually use paper money in the future." Ma Shao said, this is the reason why he doesn't want to mint gold and silver coins.

"Banknotes?" Du Wang was stunned, "Don't we always accept banknotes?"

Ma Shao said slowly: "We just don't accept existing American banknotes. Those US dollar banknotes are issued by private banks, and the level of anti-counterfeiting is also worrying. Of course they have no value."

"But with the development of technology and social systems, the design of banknotes will become more and more mature. It will eventually become something issued and guaranteed by the state, and will have excellent anti-counterfeiting functions."

People seem to understand, but they can't help but wonder: "But... what value can something made of paper have?"

The horse whistle held a piece of gold and said with a smile: "Does gold have 'value'? It can neither be eaten nor worn. It can neither cure diseases nor carry knowledge."

Of course gold has practical value and is very high, but that is in the future industrial society.

For today's humans, the most important use of gold is probably to show off.

"Gold has no value either. Its value comes from people's trust. And as long as it gets the same trust, paper money will have the same value as gold."

"I actually mentioned to you in class that in the final analysis, the wealth of society is the 'productivity', which is the living space, natural resources and the power to transform the world we have, not gold, silver or any form of money."

Ma Shao gradually began to lecture without getting tired of it.

The Donggu logging camp was gradually improved, and the logging and gold mining work was carried out in an orderly manner.

By August it looked like a proper settlement, with walls and a few wooden houses.

There were three hundred people in the westward marching team.

For logging and gold mining, three hundred people is obviously too much.

So after the initial construction here, Mashao left here with more than a hundred people and set off to the southwest, with the goal of course being Sacramento, which is dozens of kilometers away.

It took them four days to complete the distance of dozens of kilometers.

The main reason is that there are dense forests here, there are no easy roads to walk, and wild animals sometimes appear, so there are inevitably many delays on the way.

In addition, they also carried several carts of wood.

So it took four days for Ma Shao and others to arrive in Sacramento on horseback.

In other words, the future city of Sacramento.

Ma Shao had naturally never been to Sacramento in his previous life. In fact, he had almost never been abroad, but he was basically certain that this would be the future city of Sacramento.

Because if he was asked to build a city nearby, this would be his choice. He believed that the gold diggers who founded Sacramento in history would have made the same choice as him.

"We will build a new city here." Mashao pointed to an open space in front of him and said.

People immediately set up tents here, unloaded the wood, and began to build a new city, or new village.

In the following period, in addition to the East Valley Lumber Camp, the Apaches here were also busy, and even busier.

After all, the Donggu Lumber Camp is just a logging camp, and what is about to be built here is a formal settlement, a city.

Every day, in addition to hunting and fishing nearby to collect food, Ma Shao led the people to build houses and walls.

Fortunately, there is plenty of material to build the new city, and the lumberyard will send a batch of wood every few days.

Compared with the sufficient supply of wood, manpower is somewhat insufficient, mainly because there are relatively few professional construction craftsmen, and most people's construction efficiency is not high.

Until that day, a group of unexpected visitors visited the yet-to-be-formed Apache New City.

"We are the nearby Maidu people. My name is Big Er." A middle-aged man in his thirties or forties appeared in front of the horse whistle with some tribesmen and asked politely, "You seem to be outsiders?"

Nonsense acted as a translator for both parties, translating these words into Apache and informing the horse whistle.

Although he often talks nonsense, he is quite competent as a translator. At least Ma Shao feels that the length of his translation is about the same as what Big Er said.

The horse whistle said: "Yes, we come from the east and are Apaches."

"Apache?" Big Er was stunned for a moment, then seemed to remember something and looked up and down at the horse whistle.

"You are... a child of the sky?!"