Chapter 93: Mother Money Leaked Early (Part 2)

"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?

I know they are prophets, but do the ministers of the court believe it? How could they believe that someone wrote these words in advance than me? Even if I made a profit from this batch of private money in the Song Dynasty, this is related to my reputation, how can I not figure it out?"

Su Shi seemed a little anxious. Others might be at a loss when they encounter this. But it was like a pediatrician when they met Zhao Xing. He had already thought about the reason after only a few breaths.

"Teacher... The teacher was once given a letter by Shen Kuo, and was even exiled to Huangzhou. Well, the teacher can send a letter to someone recently. The word "Yuanyou" in the correspondence?"

Zhao Xing reminded that Su Shi was also a smart person. He immediately realized: "No, I have passed letters with more than 100 people recently... From last year to this year, there are still 700 letters."

Zhao Xing rolled his eyes angrily, why did you say you were fine and write so many letters?

However, Zhao Xing still underestimated Su Shi's right and wrong. Modern people collected about 3,000 letters from Su Shi at this time. On average, Su Shi wrote ten letters every day - in this sense, Su Shi deserves his title of "prolific writer".

"Seven hundred letters... One of them must have a letter, the word "Yuanyou" was detained and used for minting... Is there any draft? The teacher can flip through the draft and list a table. I'll check it out for you." Zhao Xing's enthusiastic suggestion.

Su Shi was a little confused. He stood up unconsciously and walked out of the door. He seemed to have listened to Zhao Xing's words and planned to list a list of 700 people.

In fact, what he needs to make is a big list of 3,000 people.

After Su Shi walked out of the study room, Chen Gongchuan personally sent him out of Su Dongpo's study room with admiration. He stood at the door and witnessed Su Dongpo's back disappearing in the courtyard. He sighed a long time and said in a daze: "Let the thief go to check on the thief, alas..."

Zhao Xing seemed not to hear the other party's words. He watched his teacher leave with a solemn face. Chen Gongchuan waited until there was silence around him. He turned around and walked to the pile of copper coins, picked up the solid "Kong Fang money" that appeared in Yue Kingdom. After looking at it for a long time, he asked curiously: "Why is the middle solid? Isn't this giving someone a piece of copper for free?"

Zhao Xing touched his chin and replied honestly: "Cost, this is due to cost considerations. The 'hole square copper coins' requires two sets of stamping equipment, first punching out the square hole, and then punching out the money shape. If the square hole is not stamped out in the middle, then only one set of stamping equipment is needed, and the production time is shortened by half.

So, even if the square hole is solid, overall calculation: a set of stamping equipment only requires one set of molds, reduce one set of molds, reduce one process, hire half of the workers, and double the processing speed... After calculation, a solid 'hole square money' does not cut off the copper, it is much cheaper."

Chen Gongchuan walked at the door with the solid copper coin. His posture was to observe the copper coin in the sun, but his eyes swept to the entrance of the courtyard, his ears were raised high, and he said with emotion: "This kind of coin is so exquisitely cast. Don't say it, this is the first time I have seen it.

Just now, Master Su said that if this kind of money is given to the copper jail, there is still one cent to four cents of interest. As far as I know, this kind of copper coins are equivalent to Song jail. It contains higher copper content than "Yuanyou Tongbao", and its casting is more exquisite than "Yuanyou Tongbao". It has enough weight and large quantity. Who would have thought that it was just done by a hundred and ten craftsmen... and it also made the money jail cost 14% of interest, aren't you afraid of losing money? Aren't you losing money?"

Zhao Xing also walked to the door, and one hand, the real version of the "Yuanyou Tongbao" and the other hand, the pirated "Yuanyou Tongbao" raised it in front of him and said to the sun: "This is the product of two eras. The former is the technology of the Bronze Age, and it still stays on the basis of the "sand and stone model". A coin version casts sixty-four coins. Before each minting, you must first cast the coin model, then dissolve the copper juice and pour the copper juice into the "sand and stone model"...

Modifying copper juice is a slow job. A furnace of copper juice will burn countless coals and it will take a lot of time. And casting copper juice is an urgent job. If the action is slow, the copper juice will solidify again. After casting copper coins, the "sand and stone film" will be broken. Take out the copper coins, cut them off the filling mouth, and polish them... These tools are too time-consuming, too labor-intensive, and too energy-intensive.

And the latter... Look, this copper coin belongs to the Iron Age and is a smoke-free industry. Do you know that the size of the copper plate for casting copper coins has been specified before it is released from the copper mine. This kind of copper plate is not required to be burned and dissolved under the stamping machine. It only needs to screw the simplest spiral press, and after one piece, the "big Fan" punches out ninety-nine copper coins, "zhong Fan" 64, and "xiao Fan" 9.

The stamped copper coins do not need to be polished at all, they are just ready-made copper coins... Think about it, how many processes are omitted in this casting process, how much time is saved, and the entire process does not require stewing fire before and after. Isn’t this a ‘smoke-free industry’?”

Zhao Xing put two copper coins together and said with emotion: "In fact, the coin industry that evolved into the Iron Age cost only one-seventeenth of the former, which means that the latter solid "Kongfang Money" is worth only half or even one-fifth of the former. With five times the profit, who cares about 14% of the profit?

Letting local money supervisors get 14% of the profits can just allow them to spare no effort to promote this kind of copper coins. This is the 'all-in-profit', which is called 'the one who sees it has a share'. Of course, you can also call it 'convenience with others and your own'."

Chen Gongchuan put down his dual currency. He shook his head and said contemptuously: "Greed, too greedy!"

At this time, Su Shi reappeared at the gate of the courtyard. He was empty-handed and firm. It seemed that he understood that he could not find evidence from the vast number of letters in his life, and this evidence was useless to those court officials who were determined to find fault.

Seeing Su Shi coming, Zhao Xing said to himself: "From copper plate to copper coins, it is several times profit... But you don't understand the essence of money. From currency to currency, the profit of 14% is already amazing. Because this is not 14% of one or two copper plates, but 14% of millions of copper coins..."

Su Shi approached, and Zhao Xing's words stopped abruptly. At this time, Su Shi had already thought about it. He returned to the study with a relaxed expression on the crossroads between Zhao Xing and Chen Gongchuan. Just as he was about to express his attitude, Zhao Xing spoke first and interrupted his thoughts: "Teacher, when it comes to copper coins and gold and silver coins, the disciple has collected a lot of coins from the vassal state when he traveled overseas this time.

The teacher just mentioned fake money. The disciples have been abroad for the past few years, so I don’t know the authenticity of the money. The teacher shows me?"

Su Shi was attracted by this question and nodded immediately. In fact, if he didn't nod, Zhao Xing was already asking someone to carry a box.

The wooden box was opened, and it was filled with bundles of round currencies in paper bags. The paper bags were written with different words, including Chinese and those that Su Shi didn't recognize, and were curved like earthworms.

Zhao Xing picked up a paper bag from a long box and handed it to Su Shi, which read "Abbas Dynasty - Black Food and Food" on it.

The paper wrap is shaped like a stick, with both ends wrapped tightly. Su Shi held it in his hand and was feeling the heavy weight. Zhao Xing tried his best to break apart another paper stick with the same handwriting - white, round silver coins sprinkled on the table. Depending on the situation, this kind of black-clothed food money is not the money of the age, but the avatar instead of the year number. The silver coins were printed with various avatars of wearing Wang Mian.

The next scene was to hold the Coin Fair of the World. After a while, the table was filled with Byzantine gold coins, Egyptian gold coins, gold coins from France, Britain, Poland, and the Pope's gold coins, and some African gold coins... Of course, the most were gold coins from various countries in South Asia.

After seeing the gold, silver and copper coins in South Asia, Su Shi breathed a sigh of relief and his heart was overwhelmed.

Because not only did his handwriting in this pile of coins be eaten up by Astronomy. The coins in the copper coins here are written by Zeng cloth, and those written by Cai Jing and Mi Fu... Even the dead Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Fan Zhongyan and other celebrities are among them. The various versions of copper coins they wrote are new and old, some are incomplete, covered with copper green, and the shapes of the coins are all private coins minted by themselves based on the various dynasties of the Song Dynasty.

"Nanyang - no, Eastern Ocean, they are all popular in Song coins?! Oh my god, Liren, if you hadn't brought back the money, I wouldn't have known that all the vassals were imitating Song coins... Now! Those people in the rank of the ranks should have been submissive. Such a big thing has not been reported to the court at all," Su Shi said with emotion.

A box of money is full of money, not one or two, with gold and silver inside, and coins new and old... This shows that: these evidences were not deliberately forged, but the extra countries were indeed imitating Song coins, but the situation of those vassal states was not aware of the Song Dynasty, which made Su Shi both feel disappointed and relieved.

I feel heartbroken because of my ignorance; I feel gratified because of it as evidence. How should those who attack him explain the fact that they wrote money for the vassal states? Now they should shut up.

Looking at the pile of money, Chen Gongchuan looked straight at Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing picked up a few of the rusty copper coins as if nothing had happened, half as if they were to Chen Gongchuan and half as if they were to Su Shi: "These are a few Tang coins, but it is actually an imitation of Tang coins, which was imitated by Japan in the Tang Dynasty.

This shows that the Japanese have been imitating the tradition of Chinese money since the Tang Dynasty... Well, now this habit has begun to spread, Goryeo, Jiaozhi... Everyone thinks that Song money is the most beautiful in the world, so they use Song money as a model - this is actually the embodiment of my great majesty in the Celestial Empire.

A prosperous era! You said, why don’t they imitate Ma Yi money? Imitate Tubo money? Imitate Liao money? Imitate Xixia money. It seems that they still think that I, the Song Dynasty, are the truest things!"

This statement made Su Shi's eyes shiny.

Yes, one problem is from two aspects. Although they imitate Song coins in private, now, the Song Dynasty has alleviated the money shortage because of the input of this batch of copper coins, so that they no longer have to buy a large number of copper ingots from Goryeo; on the other hand, everyone imitates your money but does not imitate the enemy. Isn’t this an honor?

"Yes, that's the reason!" Su Dongpo wanted to shout excitedly. He pointed to the box of money and asked Zhao Xing a little embarrassedly: "Li Ren, this thing..."

"Just just take it, I will carry the box of money to the hall to see what those people say." Zhao Xing replied very readily. The total value of the box of money is only about 30,000 guan. But if they are used as evidence, the amount of private money can reach 3 million guan. Spend 30,000 guan and buy three million guan or even five million guan. It is a fool to not do such a cheap thing.

"Okay, I'll write a letter now." Su Dongpo spread out the paper and lifted the pen. Suddenly, he remembered something and said hesitantly: "Li Ren, there is one thing, I don't know how to tell you..."
Chapter completed!