Chapter 4 A Wad of Ghost Money
In many people's impression, the money burned to the dead is called the dark money or the dark money. In fact, there is another type of money, which is generally called ghost money. The biggest difference between the dark money and ghost money is that the one who burns the dead with fake money is called the dark money, and the one who burns the dead with real money is called ghost money.
The underworld can only be used in the Yin Cao Underworld, while the ghost money can also be circulated in the human world.
The story I want to tell today was told by an elder of my grandfather. The story took place in a bit of an era, and it was about during the Republic of China:
If you still know a little history, you should know that during the Republic of China, the national government and the abusive printing of fiat currency caused the banknotes in the Kuomintang-controlled areas to depreciate and prices soared. According to the elder, you go to get a haircut and sit down, the price is still more than 2,000 fiat currency. After finishing, the price is more than 3,000 fiat currency. In the end, it is said that the money for buying straw paper is much thicker than the straw paper you bought! In this context, many residents are too lazy to buy dark money or tin foil to fold ingots when worshiping ancestors and graves, and they just burn fiat currency.
This approach was very peaceful at first, but later, the issuance of fiat currency in the Republic of China almost collapsed, so the new currency "golden round coupon" was issued to replace fiat currency. The exchange rate was: three million fiat currency exchanged for one gold round coupon. At this time, trouble came. When public grievances arose, ghost grievances also followed!
Exchange of old coins to new coins is a difficult and long process: ordinary people have to carry a sack of old coins to the bank and queue up to exchange them. In that era, the number of online stores of banks was not as numerous as that of now, and there were only a few, and they did not have modern banknote detectors, and they all needed to be counted manually. You can imagine how long it took to count the sack of old coins to be counted. This also caused a run and a black market.
It is easy to understand that the bank run is easy to understand. It would be strange if there are too many people and few outlets. What about the black market? If you are unwilling to run, then you can go to the black market. 3.5 million French currency is exchanged for one gold coupon. The black market is to make a difference. Don’t look at the price of the black market that is nearly 20 points higher than the bank, but the exchange business is quite prosperous. Ma Zuolin is a small leader in the black market control. Don’t look at it just a small leader, many zheng
The important officials of the fu agency have to ask him to do things, why is this happening? The main reason is that Ma Zuolin is very loyal and will do what he promises you. Don’t look at the booming black market business, "making batters", fraud, and black people are there. You have to exchange 100 gold coupons and give them 350 million legal tenders. What’s the result? They were cheated and robbed. Therefore, Ma Zuolin is very popular with people, especially those in the agency because of his good reputation.
One night, Ma Zuolin finished washing up and just fell asleep. Suddenly, a sudden knock on the door woke him up. Ma Zuolin asked him to take the fat wolf and open the door. After a while, Fat wolf came in with a stack of French coins and handed it to Ma Zuolin. Ma Zuolin took the stack of French coins and asked what happened to Feilang? Feilang also said in confusion: "I can't change it either. I opened the door, and there was not even a figure. Just because there was a stack of French coins placed at the door, there was a piece of paper under it." Ma Zuolin followed Feilang's description and saw that there was indeed a piece of paper under the stack of French coins. So Ma Zuolin opened the paper and wrote on it, "Help me exchange it for gold coupons, Mingri comes to pick it up at this time." Ma Zuolin smiled bitterly and said to himself: "It turns out that it's a request for trouble."
." The fat wolf next to him also saw the words on the note, then looked at the stack of fiat coins, sneered, and said, "Brother Ma, this person is too poor? It is estimated that this fiat currency is 200,000, which is good. How much can it be exchanged?" Ma Zuolin felt that this matter would not be so simple, so he asked Feilang to carefully count the stack of fiat coins, no more than no, no more than 188,000 yuan. According to market value, it can be exchanged at most 0.07 yuan gold coupons. Ma Zuolin explained to Feilang: "I feel that this matter is not that simple. Leave a little trouble. Prepare a one-yuan gold coupon for him tomorrow at this time, don't forget!" After the explanation, Feilong left, and then Ma Zuolin collected the 188,000 yuan fiat coins and the note!
Mingri came over, and the fat wolf followed Ma Zuolin's instructions and put the one-yuan gold coupon at the door at about the same time. Not long after, the one-yuan gold coupon was gone. This matter was not a big deal for Ma Zuolin, so he didn't take it seriously. However, since the first time, people knocked on the door almost every night. Then there was a stack of French coins and a note at the door, which stated the words that would come to pick up tomorrow or two days later. Ma Zuolin could still do it, although that stack of methods was
The currency was not enough to exchange for one yuan gold coupon, but Ma Zuolin was given one yuan per yuan. Later, it became a few knocks in a night, and several stacks of fiat coins were required to be exchanged. Ma Zuolin was completely angry and thought that someone was playing a prank. So Ma Zuolin began to ignore the fiat coins, but in this way, Ma Zuolin became even more miserable. The frequency of knocking on the door increased greatly every night, and almost as long as the door was closed, the knocking sounds followed one after another. The knocker had never seen even a shadow.
Ma Zuolin was also stubborn: Aren’t you going to knock on the door and disturb me? Then I won’t close the door. The door was open, I took a lounge chair, and sat in the yard facing the door. Several of my men under me took turns to follow Ma Zuolin on duty in the yard to see what kind of people were doing pranks!
At the beginning of the first two days, it was indeed much quieter, and no one came to disturb him! Just as Ma Zuolin relaxed his guard and was about to remove the "preparation", a strange scene happened: That night, a sedan chair came to Ma Zuolin's gate, and two people were carrying it, but these two people were very strange. It has been more than 30 years of the Republic of China, and the two still had the braids of the previous dynasty and dressed as a sedan chairman in the Qing Dynasty. What is even more incredible is that the two sedan chairmen carried the sedan chair straight into Ma Zuolin's yard. Strictly
In a sense, the two sedan chairmen cannot be considered to be leaving, but they are in the air, because their feet are always off the ground! Ma Zuolin and his maids were shocked! Before he came to his senses, the sedan chairman in front lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and said to the sedan chair: "Wang Ernainai, the Ma family is here." At this time, a woman dressed in the Qing Dynasty walked out of the sedan chair. Although she was called "Wang Ernainai" by the sedan chair, she was obviously not very old. She looked about forty years old, and she still had charm!
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Afterwards, Ma Zuolin and his mascots became scared, especially when they thought of the tragic phenomenon of the whole family being hanged, they didn't dare to stop. Ma Zuolin said to his subordinates: "This matter is too strange tonight, no one is allowed to tell it, do you know?" Ma Zuolin was also afraid that the ghosts would find him, so they all patted their chests and never said it out. Ma Zuolin just said blindly: "Do your business with Wang Ernainai, change the land quickly. Never stay."
In the second half of the night that night, there was another knock on the door at Ma Zuolin's door. Ma Zuolin and his men knew that it was Wang Ernainai's servant who sent the fiat currency. Ma Zuolin personally brought his subordinates to the door: Sure enough, there was a thick bag of fiat currency. After counting, it was more than one billion.
Yiri, Ma Zuolin and his men buried the redeemed gold coupon under the rainwater tank. According to Wang Ernainai's instructions, he must be buried below three feet under the rainwater tank. Ma Zuolin and his men were not vague. They moved the water tank and held a shovel. They dug more than three feet in a while. At this time, Ma Zuolin, who was still digging the soil, felt something strange, and quickly pulled open the soil with his hands. They saw that the water tank was buried with ancient gold and silver utensils, which could fill two washbasins. At this time, Ma Zuolin realized that Wang Er Nainai's affirmation of his integrity at this time.
Chapter completed!