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Chapter 4679 4682 [Year of the Scorpion]

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

Isn’t worthless money just “paper money”?

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

However, because it is guaranteed by the national credit, paper money has gained everyone's recognition and has become the currency in circulation throughout the country.

Therefore, Xiang Nan subsequently began to prepare paper money to be used as circulating currency and promoted it with the help of the power of the state.

The harvest season is approaching, and it is also the annual tax collection season, so this batch of banknotes will come in handy.

It was easy for him to prepare banknotes. He already had a lot of banknotes in his hand, and he changed the patterns on the banknotes through the Transfiguration Spell.

For example, Lincoln's head portrait was changed to Xiang Nan's own head portrait; 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 the master version is made, Xiang Nan uses the replication spell to copy it in large quantities.

In this way, even the printing costs and anti-counterfeiting measures are saved. After all, without a master plate, ink, printing press, or printers, even a genius cannot print counterfeit banknotes.

Moreover, the things created by the copy spell are originally worthless, which is 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 paper money as soon as possible.

For this purpose, Xiang Nan specially set up coin 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, gold and silver coins had been used for many years. Now, if they rashly exchanged them for paper money, everyone would be skeptical.

But Xiang Nan had another trick up his sleeve: the harvest season was coming, and people would have to pay taxes to Pharaoh. So Xiang Nan issued a decree that all taxes would only be paid in cash, and only in paper currency.

For a time, people had no choice but to exchange banknotes. After all, resisting taxation was a serious crime in Egypt.

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Soon, harvest time arrived.

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

Before, the yield per mu of land was only 100-200 kg at most. But now, the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is over 1,000 kg, which has increased dozens of times.

Such an amazing yield is truly astonishing. Therefore, all the princes and nobles thanked Xiang Nan for bestowing the divine seeds, which allowed them to obtain such an amazing harvest.

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

Ancient Egypt divided the year into three seasons: the flood season, the planting season, and the harvest season.

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

Every July, when Sirius and the sun rise from the east together, it marks the beginning of the year and the time when the water level of the Nile River begins to rise.

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

This is completely different from the Middle-earth culture which regards the first day of the first lunar month as the beginning of the new year.

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When the harvest season came, people exchanged their banknotes 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 biggest ones. In the past, they were collected in kind, such as grain, vegetables, leather, cloth, etc., but this year it changed from kind to paper money.

The people had to first sell their physical objects, exchange them for gold, silver and copper coins, and then convert them into paper money to pay taxes.

As a result, the burden on the people has actually become heavier.

After all, during the harvest season, when grains are put on the market in large quantities, the price of grains will be low and farmers will suffer. Many merchants took the opportunity to lower the price, causing the people to be unable to sell their grains at all.

However, taxes still had to be paid, so the people had to bear much more taxes than before, which naturally made them miserable.

Xiang Nan also realized this problem, so he transformed himself into the God of Wealth and gave money all over the world, which in turn attracted countless believers.

"Am I trying to have the best of both worlds?" Xiang Nan felt a little embarrassed.

It was clearly he who caused the suffering of the people, but in the end not only was he fine, he even 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.

On the one hand, paper money is easy to carry. It is a small stack that can be put into your pocket, which is light and convenient. It is not like gold, silver or copper coins, which are so heavy and make a lot of noise when you put them in your pocket, which is very inconvenient.

On the one hand, paper money has good anti-counterfeiting properties, while gold, silver and copper coins are inevitably counterfeited, especially by profiteers.

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

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

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

Of course, this is something.

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

Once Xiang Nan gains control of this brave and fearless army of death, it will be much easier for him to unify the world.

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

They are tireless, hungry, thirsty, brave in battle and not afraid of sacrifice. The key is that they will not die unless you hit their heads.

This makes them invincible and unbeatable.

Therefore, at the beginning of the new year, the Year of the Scorpion, Xiang Nan was ready to challenge the Scorpion King.

To this end, he opened the box containing the Bracelet of Death, and put the scorpion-shaped golden bracelet on his wrist.

After putting the bracelet on her hand, she immediately hugged his hand tightly, and then a force ran through Xiang Nan's body, followed by a ray of light popping 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 Menshiche.

Xiang Nan immediately flew over and arrived at the top of the Pyramid of Khufu. Then he saw a light emitting from the bracelet. It was the Karnak Temple in Thebes.

Xiang Nan then came to the Karnak Temple, and the bracelet immediately responded again, emitting a beam of light again, revealing the Abu Simbel Temple...

Xiang Nan followed the trail all the way and soon arrived in Sudan from Egypt. He found an oasis hidden among the mountains - Amshe in the heart of the deep valley.