After negotiating well with Huang Yuqiu, Chen Yiyang no longer continued to follow up on acting as an intermediary for advertising between the 'Goodbye Lover' production team and Luzon Food Group.

He handed over the subsequent contract management and related miscellaneous tasks to Yang Yu.

As for the business at Shabby House Pawnshop, Yang Yu had already recruited an old manager from Jin City Pawnshop to take charge.

She herself wasn't too busy recently.

Chen Yiyang was short-handed, so he simply called her over to help him handle these miscellaneous tasks.

Then, he hurried to Incheon, South Korea, because the finals of the Extreme Path Team were about to begin.

This could determine whether he could get tens of millions in championship prize money shares.

Today's intel, Wang Mang's One Knife Worth Five Thousand: Inside the art store located at 294 Shinpo Market, Jung District, Incheon, there's a Golden Inlaid Knife from the Wang Mang era on sale. Purchase it for less than ten thousand yuan to score a bargain.

The relevant address and photos are attached in the second page.

One Knife Worth Five Thousand?

Awakening in the hotel bed in Incheon, Chen Yiyang glanced at today's intel.

He casually looked it up.

One Knife Worth Five Thousand is a type of currency minted during the Wang Mang era. After ascending the throne and establishing a new dynasty, Wang Mang carried out currency reform and issued three new types of currencies: Daquan Fifty, Qi Knives Five Hundred, and One Knife Worth Five Thousand.

Among them, One Knife Worth Five Thousand was not the popular copper coins or five-zhu coins in circulation at the time.

But it was modeled after ancient knife coins.

The knife coins, resembling a large key, were minted by various countries during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period.

Golden Inlaid Knife is a type of knife coin. The term 'Golden Inlaid' means applying gold to it.

So Golden Inlaid Knife is a type of knife coin gilded with gold.

This thing is valuable, but how did something from the Wang Mang era end up in South Korea?

This should be bought back.

So Chen Yiyang hurriedly got up.

In the suite's living room, the little accountant lay comfortably on the sofa watching videos.

"Don't you have any urge to go sightseeing?" Chen Yiyang curiously asked the little accountant.

"I do, but I want to wait for mealtime. That's a perfect time to go out and have something delicious." The little accountant asked Chen Yiyang, "Boss, will you join us later?"

"I have things to do in the afternoon." Chen Yiyang checked his phone and reminded the little accountant, "Don't miss tonight's match."

"Don't worry, I'll arrive at the venue early and call you then, boss." The little accountant made an OK gesture.

Incheon is South Korea's third largest city and second largest port, an important transportation hub for South Korea.

For Chinese people, the most significant knowledge of Incheon might come from history books about the US military's landing in Incheon.

Unlike Gwangju, a place Chen Yiyang had visited before, even though it's a tourist city as well, the English proficiency in Incheon is relatively high, allowing smooth communication in English with local shops.

In South Korea, especially in major cities, the rising English proficiency is evident even in current Korean pop songs.

Originally, Korean pop songs were either purely in Korean or had bits of English mixed in.

In recent years, they have basically become English songs with a few Korean lyrics sprinkled in.

Chen Yiyang easily hailed a cab with his fairly fluent English and arrived at the location mentioned in the intel.

Chen Yiyang expected the shop selling Golden Inlaid Knives to mainly focus on various countries' antiques.

However, upon arrival, he discovered the shop primarily sells modern artworks.

As Chen Yiyang walked to the location given in the intel.

He found two groups of people already arguing in front of the glass case displaying the Golden Inlaid Knife.

"This design is clearly from our Huaxia ancient currency, definitely not something invented by your Korean artists!"

"No, no, no, you've read too much fake news. Your country's ancient currency indeed learned from our Korean round shaped currency. This key-shaped currency is invented by our artists."

Chen Yiyang stood aside and listened to the content of the argument between these two groups for a while.

He understood some of the background.

It turned out one group was Chinese, while the other group was local Koreans.

The Chinese believed the Golden Inlaid Knife on display was a form of ancient Huaxia currency.

However, the opposing Koreans claimed that Huaxia's ancient currency when learned from Korea was round-shaped and did not have currencies of this kind of shape.

Chen Yiyang then glanced at the label on the glass case containing the Golden Inlaid Knife.

The label was written in three languages: Chinese, English, and Korean.

The meaning was the same in all three, stating that this item was a gilded artwork by modern Korean artists priced at around five thousand RMB.

Now Chen Yiyang understood why the two groups could argue like that.

Apparently, even the Chinese did not recognize that this Golden Inlaid Knife was actually an antique made during the Xin Dynasty, but believed the label in front of it wrongly claimed an ancient Huaxia currency as a contemporary artist's creation.

Yet the Koreans in front seemingly didn't think so. Maybe they've secretly watched too many domestic costume dramas, causing them to believe Huaxia's ancient currency was either gold and silver ingots or round coins.

The currency used in ancient Korea was also round.

How coincidental.

So they must have concluded that ancient Huaxians copied the currency invented by Koreans.

Turn the world upside down.

After hearing the Koreans' claims, the phrase automatically popped up in Chen Yiyang's mind.

Korea started minting currency quite late.

Due to the iron shortage on the Korean Peninsula, in ancient times, Koreans generally used iron as currency for trade.

It wasn't until the end of the tenth century that people on the Korean Peninsula began learning to mint coins like Huaxia.

However, they didn't use copper coins; sticking to the convention of using iron for trade, they minted iron coins.

These iron coins and the copper coins used by Huaxia at the time had similar shapes, being round with a hole in the middle.

Even the characters printed on the coins were Chinese.

But because iron coins inherently had low value, for the undeveloped commodity economy in Korea, especially in rural areas, using iron coins for trade seemed deceiving.

So in rural areas, bartering remained prevalent.

Later, they introduced cloth or small silver bottles as currency supplements into the trade system.

Chen Yiyang wanted to explain to these Koreans, but their argument was giving him a headache.

So he could only go to the staff to express his wish to buy that Golden Inlaid Knife.

"Alright sir, this modern artwork by Korean artists is priced at one million Korean won. May I ask which currency you will use for settlement? We support multi-currency payment here."

"US Dollar, please." Chen Yiyang took out his Li Qiao Bank card.

There were still quite a few US Dollars left in this card.

After Huang Zaihao's new game launches, he'll receive quite a few more US Dollars deposited into this card.

After swiping the card, the staff went to retrieve the item for Chen Yiyang.

One Knife Worth Five Thousand from Xin Dynasty.

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