Chapter 4679 4682 [Year of the Scorpion]

Seeing this "opportunity to become a god", Xiang Nan's eyes lit up, and he felt that this was tailor-made for him.

Worthless coins, aren't they just "paper money"?

Unlike the circulating gold, silver, and copper coins, paper money itself is worthless, just a thin piece of paper.

However, because it is guaranteed by the national credit, paper money has been recognized by everyone and has become a currency circulating throughout the country.

Therefore, Xiang Nan then began to prepare paper money for use as circulating currency, and promoted it with the help of the country's power.

It just so happened that the harvest season was about to come, and it was also the annual tax collection season, and this batch of paper money could come in handy.

It was easy for him to prepare paper money. He already had a lot of paper money in his hand, and he changed the pattern on the paper money through the transformation spell.

For example, Lincoln's head was changed to Xiang Nan's own head; the pattern behind was changed from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pyramid of Khufu; all the English letters on it were changed to hieroglyphics...

Xiang Nan launched a total of three banknotes with different patterns and colors, one yellow, one white, and one green, corresponding to gold, silver, and copper coins respectively.

After making the master plate, Xiang Nan used the copy spell to copy a large number of them.

In this way, even the printing cost and anti-counterfeiting measures were saved. After all, without a master plate, no ink, no printing press, and no printing workers, even a genius could not print counterfeit banknotes.

Moreover, the things created by the copy spell were originally worthless, and they were more in line with Xiang Nan's opportunity to become a god.

Afterwards, Xiang Nan issued an oracle, requiring the gradual abolition of the circulation of gold, silver, and copper coins, and requiring people to exchange the gold, silver, and copper coins in their hands for banknotes as soon as possible.

For this reason, Xiang Nan also set up currency exchange points in various cities in Egypt, stipulating that one gold coin could be exchanged for one yellow coin, one silver coin for one white coin, and one copper coin for one green coin.

People were naturally reluctant to exchange paper money at first, after all, people had used gold and silver coins for many years. Now, if they rashly exchanged them for paper money, everyone would be suspicious.

But Xiang Nan still had a trick, that is, the harvest season was coming, and at that time, people had to pay taxes to the Pharaoh. Therefore, Xiang Nan specially issued an order that all taxes would only be collected in cash, and only in paper money.

For a time, people had to exchange paper money. After all, resisting taxes is a big crime in Egypt.

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Soon, the harvest season arrived.

This season, because of the planting of high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, people had a good harvest.

Before, the yield of one acre of land was at most one or two hundred kilograms. But now, the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is more than a thousand kilograms, which has increased dozens of times.

Such an amazing yield, how can it not be amazing, and therefore all the princes and nobles thanked Xiang Nan for the divine seeds that allowed them to obtain such an amazing harvest.

Therefore, the harvest festival at the end of the year was very grand and lively.

Ancient Egypt divided the year into three seasons, namely the flood season, the sowing season and the harvest season.

The flood season is generally from July to October, the sowing season is from November to February of the following year, and the harvest season is from March to June.

In July every year, when Sirius and the sun rise from the east together, it is the beginning of the year and the time when the water of the Nile River begins to rise.

It will bring abundant water and fertile silt to the downstream, representing the new hope of the year, so this day is also called the beginning of the new year.

This is completely different from the Middle Earth taking the first day of the first lunar month as the beginning of the new year.

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After the harvest season arrived, people exchanged paper money to pay taxes.

At that time, Egypt had five main taxes, namely grain tax, land tax, head tax, commodity tax and tariff.

Among them, grain tax and land tax were the big ones. In the past, they collected physical objects, such as grain, vegetables, leather, cloth, etc., but this year it has changed from physical objects to paper money.

The people must first sell the physical goods, exchange them for gold, silver and copper coins, and then exchange them for paper money to pay taxes.

In this way, the burden on the people is actually heavier.

After all, during the harvest season, grains are put on the market in large quantities, which will "hurt farmers when grains are cheap". Many merchants took the opportunity to lower prices, resulting in the people's grains not being able to sell at all.

But taxes still have to be paid, so the people have to bear much more taxes than before, which is naturally unbearable.

Xiang Nan also realized this problem, and for this reason he turned into a god of wealth and gave money all over the world. In this way, he attracted countless believers.

"Am I eating from both ends?" Xiang Nan felt a little embarrassed.

It was obviously he who caused the suffering of the people, but in the end he was not only fine, but also gained more benefits.

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As taxes were paid, people gradually accepted the new thing of paper money and soon realized its advantages.

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On the one hand, paper money is easy to carry. It is a small stack that can be put into your arms. It is light and convenient. Unlike gold, silver and copper coins, which are so heavy and make a clanging sound when carried on your body, it is very inconvenient.

On the other hand, paper money has good anti-counterfeiting properties. Gold, silver and copper coins are inevitably counterfeited, especially they are inevitably smeared.

Many people will deliberately cut off a little bit of the edge of gold, silver and copper coins. In this way, a small amount can accumulate to a large amount, and a large piece of oil can be smeared. Therefore, there were few complete gold, silver and copper coins at that time, and many were incomplete.

It also caused the value of these gold, silver and copper coins to be inconsistent with the face value, and many people could only suffer in silence. However, if a piece of paper money is cut off, it is useless at all, and it cannot be melted into new coins, so the anti-counterfeiting property of paper money is greatly enhanced.

Therefore, this originally worthless paper money was eventually accepted by everyone and became a liquid currency in a broad sense.

Of course, this is a later story.

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In the new year, in addition to celebrating with everyone, Xiang Nan went to the Amshe Oasis to challenge the Scorpion King, so as to gain the recognition of the Bracelet of the God of Death and gain control of the Army of Death.

Once he mastered this brave and fearless army of the God of Death, it would be much easier for Xiang Nan to unify the world.

After all, in the era of cold weapons, this army of the God of Death was almost invincible.

They knew no fatigue, no hunger, no thirst, no fear of sacrifice, and the key was that they would not die unless they were hit on the head.

This made them invincible and invincible.

Therefore, Xiang Nan was ready to challenge the Scorpion King in the new year, the year of the Scorpion.

For this reason, he opened the box where the Bracelet of the God of Death was stored, and the scorpion-shaped gold bracelet was worn on his wrist.

After putting the bracelet on his hand, he immediately hugged his hand tightly, and then a force penetrated Xiang Nan's body, and then a light popped out from the bracelet.

Some scenes appeared in the light, which were the clues to the Amshe Oasis.

Xiang Nan recognized that the first location was the Pyramid of Khufu in Menshis

Xiang Nan immediately flew there and came to the top of the Pyramid of Khufu, and then saw a light pop out from the bracelet, which was the Karnak Temple in Thebes.

After Xiang Nan came to the Karnak Temple, the bracelet immediately responded again, and a light popped out again, showing the Abu Simbel Temple...

Xiang Nan followed all the way and soon came to Sudan from Egypt, and found an oasis hidden in the mountains in the heart of the deep valley with continuous mountains - Amshe.