Game of Thrones' opening sold the gods

Chapter 153 152. Imperial Bank

Three days later, an explosive news appeared in the imperial capital, which triggered heated discussions among citizens.

That is, in the future, metal currency will not be used, and the Golden Dragon will not be a currency, but will become an expensive metal.

The banks in the center of the imperial capital began to gather the golden dragons of the people, and citizens needed to exchange the metal currency in their hands for Chang Xialun.

A golden dragon is equal to one hundred yuan long Xialun, that is, ten thousand yuan. The denominations issued by the empire are 1 lun, 5 lun, 10 lun, 20 lun, 50 lun and 100 lun respectively.

If you have a lot of wealth, you can exchange it for Imperial stocks, or if it is in a bank, the bank will give you a 0.3% return every year. Of course, you can also borrow money from the bank and only charge you 5% interest per year.

After the news was sent out, only about one-fifth of the citizens converted the metal currency in their hands into paper money. Most of the citizens turned a deaf ear and pretended not to hear the empire's call.

But in the next week, they will rush to exchange the Golden Dragon into Chang Xialun, because the Empire then ordered all imperial industries to settle in Chang Xialun.

In other words, first of all, merchants must exchange the golden dragon in their hands for Chang Xialun before they can purchase goods from the empire. The merchants and nobles have started to use Chang Xialun, so they naturally have to settle the takeaway items in Chang Xialun.

Otherwise, going back and forth to exchange banks will increase labor costs. I heard that the Empire will open a channel for Chang Xialun to exchange banknotes in a year, which made them feel a little relieved.

However, most merchants still hid some of the golden dragons to prevent any accidents in the future. They basically understood the operating mode of the bank, and naturally they were worried that the empire would randomly print such strange banknotes in the future, which would lead to a market crash.

Fortunately, a sucker came to the door at this time, which was much more effective than the Empire's personal advertisement.

The recovered golden dragon and silver coins have begun to be rebuilt and purified, and cast into gold bars to preserve. As for copper coins, the number of them collected is the largest, which is also one of the main purposes of Theon.

But it can greatly affect the direction of a war. After all, a qualified archer needs at least two and a half years to get started.

The most active person in exchange for Chang Xialun was Anmika. This guy couldn't wait to move the three thousand flintlock rifles home.

In just half a month, Imperial Bank branches appeared in various parts of Azenia, and Chang Xialun began to circulate on a large scale, while some people with bad intentions have begun to try to imitate such banknotes.

At that time, the Golden Dragon was still the most purchasing currency.

Now Chang Xialun is the currency recognized by the empire, and the gold dragon, silver coins and copper coins have become rare metals, not circulating currencies.

Moreover, many well-informed and visionary merchants have purchased a batch of state bonds, which is the new thing called stocks launched by the Empire.

However, Chang Xialun's production materials are very complex, and many of them are control materials. Not to mention whether they can be imitated, these materials are still worthless.

From the beginning of resistance, the citizens of the empire gradually began to adapt to the convenience of using paper money. After all, no matter whether they sell food to the empire or buy things from the empire factory, they can only use Chang Xialun.

To be honest, the Empire's pricing for this was a bit vague at the beginning. After all, the Empire clearly knew that the cost of guns and ammunition was only a little bit, and the profit of a hundred times made the Empire worried that it would not be sold at the beginning.

Copper bullets have superior performance, but the consumption of copper is very large. After all, the empire is about to enter the era of bolt-action rifles, and new granular gunpowder can only be used to make copper bullets with copper.

This price is purely a sucker. The cost of a flintlock rifle is about one thousand lunar month, which is 10 silver coins. The Empire's future plan is 10 golden dragons, which is 100,000 lunar month per gun and 100 bullets per round.

A flintlock can almost completely replace this archer. The only difference is that the range and stability are not very good, but the quantity can completely make up for this.

Because Theon started preparing for the project three years ago and has been preparing for it for two and a half years, and the personnel trained for this are very skilled in various businesses, so this monetary reform has not suffered much resistance.

In the end, Anmika bought three thousand flintlock guns and 300,000 bullets as she wished, spending a total of 1.53 billion Chang Xialun. (1CXL≈1RMB purchasing power).

At the beginning, the Empire was worried that the selling price would be expensive, which would lead to other forces not buying and arming. For this reason, Theon planned to personally participate in the exhibition to show the role of the flintlock rifle to other forces.

But the sucker Anmika reminded the empire, that although the flintlock rifle cannot completely replace spears, bows, arrows, armor and other things.

And then Theon plans to send a flintlock rifle to Junlin, and then let Tyrion urge Junlin and the West to practice against the Tedel family.

The discovery of the new weapon on the river bay where it occupied must be in vain. After all, they have taken away the current nominal King of Land, and the matter of poisoning Joffrey has been exposed.

At that time, if the Western border and military forces are freed, we will definitely clean up the wealthy High Court. Not only can we take revenge, but we can also gain a lot of wealth from the High Court.

After changing business lines, there will be no night shifts in the future. They are all 9-6, and they are on double breaks.

(End of this chapter)