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Chapter 92: The Mother's Money Leaked in Advance (Part 1)

Chapter 92: Mother Money Leaked Early (Part 1)

Chen Gongchuan found it difficult to answer Su Shi's question - he did not answer.

Indeed, as Su Shi said, if such a large amount of fake money appears on the market, it cannot be an individual act, it must be a national act.

In fact, the Song Dynasty did not prohibit foreign coins from circulating locally, which is also a common feature of precious metal currencies. As long as it is sufficient, the people are willing to use this foreign currency as daily currency. Unfortunately, due to the strong economy of the Song Dynasty, although the Liao and Xixia also minted coins themselves and these coins were also circulated within the Song Dynasty, the proportion of Song coins circulating in other countries was higher, which was almost an overwhelming majority.

The Song Dynasty had never encountered the act of dumping money from other countries on its own, which made the Song Dynasty a little helpless and a little frustrated. From Su Shi's attitude, the anger of the court officials can be seen.

Chen Gongchuan seemed to be questioned by Su Shi, and he seemed a little helpless and turned his eyes to Zhao Xing frequently. Seeing Chen Gongchuan's embarrassment, Su Shi sighed: "In fact, Yue is the country that is the least likely to mint this coin. Because only Yue, the middle of the coin is solid, and it has an extra piece of copper. - minting coins always pursues interest in money. If Yue is minting coins, it will not be wasted like this..."

With money, one extra piece of copper... Zhao Xing keenly captured the effective information in Su Shi's words, and he relieved Chen Gongchuan with a faint expression: "Teacher, we just said that this batch of money contains a lot of copper. You just said that there is still a piece of copper in Yue's money... Do I prohibit private money from the Song Dynasty?"

Su Shi smiled bitterly: "Although my Song Dynasty prohibits private money, the law is not strictly enforced. There are 26 coins in the world. Some coins simply cast blessing coins for the people, and some illegal people purchase copper ware and privately cast copper coins. These private money is called 'side furnace small coins'. If they are sufficient, the government will also acquiesce to circulate them."

"Since private money is allowed to circulate... then is this private money flowing in good or bad for me, Da Song?" Zhao Xing's questions one after another: "The teacher just talked about 'money interest' - if I Da Song used this money to transform it into Song money, how much money interest?"

This question came to the point. Su Shi spread the coins one by one on the table, with the comparison Song coins placed next to them. He pointed to the real and fake coins and continued: "I lack copper in the Song Dynasty. Every year, I have to buy a large amount of copper from Japan, Goryeo and Yue countries to cast copper coins. This batch of copper coins has a high copper content. For example, this batch of Yue countries' copper coins are simply made of red copper.

This batch of copper coins melted directly, and then some lead and tin was added to make Song coins. I can get 14% of the interest on the Song Dynasty for free. Don’t underestimate this 14% of the interest on the money. This is for nothing. If I pick copper by myself, I have to hire many workers and set up many officials, and I also need the Hunan Army to supervise the copper yard. If I use these copper coins to cast coins, I don’t need anything, which is equivalent to giving it to the money supervisors directly, and the money supervisors in various places will get 14% of the interest on the money supervisors.

This is a great wealth, I can't figure it out, how could there be such a stupid person in the world who is willing to give this great wealth to local money supervisors for free?"

Chen Gongchuan understood that the inflow of this batch of money was the most popular among local money supervisors because local money supervisors recognized the existence of this batch of money and vigorously acquired it to make profits from it, so that this batch of money quickly gained a circulation status.

This wealth fell into the hands of money supervisors everywhere, which made the central government very uncomfortable, so the court ministers were angry. Because of the anger, they wanted to find out the truth.

Things in the world cannot get up early without profit.

It was Zhao Xing who interrupted: "Teacher, since the inflow of this batch of money is not harmful to my Song Dynasty, officials from all over the country can get a free interest. Why do we care about who minted the money? Isn't this kind of money the better?"

The reason is this, but Su Dongpo looked a little embarrassed. He fiddled with the coins and picked up two of them to show: "That's right, but...you see, these are two Yuanyou Tongbao. The new emperor ascended the throne, and not many Yuanyou coins were minted, and now there are only two versions.

This one is the seal script "Yuanyou Tongbao" written by Sima Xianggong (Sima Guang). This one is the running script "Yuanyou Tongbao" written by me. Among them, the one I wrote... I will give you real money to see... Look, here, see what's the difference?"

Chen Gongchuan took the two copper coins and did not go to look at Qian Wen, but only glanced at Zhao Xing with his eyes. This forced Zhao Xing to take the two copper coins and examine them carefully.

Zhao Xing only glanced at it and found the difference: "Well, I'm sure, these two coins are both handwriting by the teacher, and they were definitely written by the teacher. The slight difference is that the size of the two coins is slightly different, but this surprise is too small to be seen.

But this doesn't mean anything. There are 26 coins in the world, among which 17 coins are cast. The size of the coins in each coins are slightly different, which is understandable." Speaking of this, Zhao Xing signaled Chen Gongchuan with his eyes: "Did you think so?"

What could Chen Gongchuan do? He just nodded.

Su Shi's expression became even more uncomfortable. He frowned and said with a wry smile: "This is the problem - Xianggong Sima passed away last year, and I am the only one who writes money in the world today. Now it is the second year of Yuanyou, and the running script "Yuanyou Tongbao" I wrote... It has not been released yet. The running script "Yuanyou Tongbao" you see now is just mother money.

The money I wrote has not been minted yet. The Great Yue Kingdom has actually started circulating this type of pattern since last year. Tell me, the ministers in the court know, how should I say to me?"

"It happened to be just a coincidence," Zhao Xing murmured, paused for a moment, and immediately asked curiously: "Teacher, will I publish the 'Yuanyou Tongbao' you wrote?"

Su Shi's face was wrinkled into a ball: "Why didn't it be issued? How could it not be issued? The mother money of this kind of money was sent to local money jails at the beginning of the year. Now, the money minted by the money jails has reached 600,000 guan. If it is not issued, the 600,000 guan will be dissolved..."

After pausing for a moment, Su Shi continued: "This Jiaozhi copper coin was discovered six or seven days ago. Although the hole in the middle of this money is solid, except for this solid square hole, the other shapes are exactly the same as the "Yuanyou Tongbao" written by me. After the court discovered it, it was like a bolt from the blue - how could the mother money of this kind of money be spread outside?

This is a big problem. From casting coin molds to melting copper juice to casting copper coins, then polishing, and transporting them to various places in batches, it takes at least three months. Three months ago, I didn’t write down the four words “Yuanyou Tongbao” at all. Who can predict such an uncertainty?
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