The popularity of these counterfeit coins was not as long as they had checked before. They only appeared when Lu Zhong accepted the mine.
As early as when Xie Yuan took office, these counterfeit coins were slowly circulating.
It's just that Xie Yuan was busy dealing with the mess at that time, so he had no time to take care of it.
Everyone was busy for several days and found out that the earliest batch of counterfeit coins was leaked from a bank named Tongyuan.
As early as the founding of the Jin Dynasty, Tongyuan Bank was built in various places in the Central Plains under the order of Emperor Tianwu. Coins minted in the central section would be sent to Tongyuan Bank in various places, and then spread to the people - it can be said that this is an ancient version of the National Bank.
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After thinking about it, Xie Yuan turned into a businessman, carried a box of silver to Tongyuan Bank, and asked someone to exchange it for five baht.
Before the Jin Dynasty, 1,500 Jin Wu bahts were called one tael of money. One tael could be exchanged for one tael of silver, and seventy taels of silver could be exchanged for one tael of gold.
The bank clerk confirmed the authenticity of the silver, weighed it, and then exchanged it for Xie Yuan for several boxes of five baht.
Xie Yuan took it back, poured out box after box, and inspected box after box.
It turned out that they were all counterfeit coins.
The young man's gentle eyes were filled with anger.
"My lord, the coins we exchanged are all counterfeit coins, so more of them must have been circulated. How should we find out who forged the counterfeit coins, and what should we do with the people's counterfeit coins after they are found out?" Huo Qubing looked at it.
The counterfeit coins in this place look sad.
People only make so much money all year round, and all they get are counterfeit coins.
If the counterfeit coins were exposed, it would cause a huge explosion.
"Of course it's up to those who forge counterfeit coins and swallow real money to deal with it. We can't be taken advantage of."
Xie Yuan slowly stood up and asked people to put away all the counterfeit coins, thinking about how to fish out these people.
This thought brought me to the evening, and I had no thoughts until late at night.
The young man sat under the wooden corridor, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, with a little irritation in his warm eyes.
"It's late at night, why doesn't my lord take a rest?"
Xie Yuan tilted his head.
The person who came was Cui Heng. He walked to Xie Yuan and bowed, then sat down cross-legged with him, looking up at the moon.
"I'm thinking about how to lure out those who forge counterfeit coins." Xie Yuan sighed.
"They forged counterfeit coins, and they must have wanted to put the blame on their lord and make a huge profit from it themselves. These days, if you want to make a huge profit in a short period of time, you can quietly exchange Jin Wu Baht for it.
There are not many industries in the world that make counterfeit coins." Cui Heng shook his feather fan and smiled slightly.
There are not many industries...
Xie Yuan rubbed his chin thoughtfully, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Gambling house!"
If you want to make a lot of money in a short period of time and convert real money into counterfeit money quietly, the only way is to go to a gambling house.
Most of the bookmakers in gambling houses have secret hands in the gambling games and can control the overall situation——
Dajin Gambling House only allows silver to bet, so gamblers must bring silver to bet.
As long as the gamblers win money first, the banker exchanges the counterfeit coins. When those gamblers get the benefit and want to continue to win money, they will exchange silver for silver, enter the gambling house, and gamble again. The cycle repeats, and counterfeit coins continue to flow.
It keeps flowing out! And the truly usable silver falls into their hands.
"I am like a fish in water!" Xie Yuan patted Cui Heng on the shoulder, stood up happily and returned to the house.
Cui Heng shook his head and smiled, then leisurely got up and went back.
Now that the master has cleared up his doubts, he can go back and rest.
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Early the next morning, Huo Qubing got up to wash up and have breakfast. Just as he was preparing to practice, he was called over by Xie Yuan.
"Change your outfit and go to the gambling house with me." Xie Yuan threw him a pair of plain clothes.
Huo Qubing: "???"
The Lord wants to gamble?
"My Lord, you are gambling away." The young man recovered from his daze and looked at Xie Yuan seriously.
Xie Yuan: "...Is there any possibility? I'm going to investigate the case."
"Investigating the case?"
"Well, investigating the counterfeit currency case."
"Oh, okay, my lord, wait for me for a moment."
Huo Qubing breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took his clothes and left.
It scared him to death. He thought his master was addicted to gambling.
The two of them changed into civilian clothes and went to the gambling shop closest to Tongyuan Bank.
The Yangzhou Prefectural Governor's Office was based in Shouchun, which was under the jurisdiction of Huainan County, and Huainan County was the ancestral home of the Yuan family.
It is said that the two generals of the Yuan family in the Three Kingdoms came from here.
As for the gambling house in front of the two of them, it was under the name of the Huainan Yuan family.
This is their first time coming to a gambling house.
Huo Qubing hadn't seen enough before he was taken in by Xie Yuan.
He saw Xie Yuan taking a bag of silver, found a random gambling game and joined in.
Soon I won a lot of copper coins.
Xie Yuan put all the money he won into a purse and handed it to Huo Qubing.
The two of them played several gambling games one after another, and both made a lot of money, which made many people jealous.
Xie Yuan knew it was enough, so he stopped at the right time.
After the two went out, Xie Yuan found a teahouse and ordered a pot of sencha.
Huo Qubing poured out some of the five baht coins he had earned, and he and Xie Yuan carefully examined them and found that they were all counterfeit coins.
"This gambling house is so close to Tongyuan Bank. Could it be that this is the first place where counterfeit coins flow to the public?" Huo Qubing thought of something and suddenly lowered his voice and spoke.
Xie Yuan took a sip of tea and nodded slightly: "If nothing else, that's probably the case."
Huo Qubing pursed his lips and secretly clenched his fists.
These bastards!
"Then how will my lord find those people?" Huo Qubing asked again.
Xie Yuan took something out of his sleeves without hesitation and pushed it in front of Huo Qubing.
"What is this?" Huo Qubing opened the cloth bag and saw a human face.
The boy's hand shook, and the human skin fell onto the table.
"Pay attention. I made this thing all night." Xie Yuan picked it up, patted the dust on it, and handed it to Huo Qubing, "Unjust, you put this on your face to disguise yourself, and then go with me again.
Come to the gambling house and let me see how effective this human skin is."
"Master, do you still want to gamble?" Huo Qubing was stunned.
"If you want to arrest someone, but don't want to alert someone, you have to send someone to investigate in depth." Xie Yuan said with a smile.
Huo Qubing: "..."
I always have a bad feeling.
After a while, the disguised Huo Qubing followed Xie Yuan to the gambling house again.
Xie Yuan was gambling while looking around. When he came out, he caught a waiter, put a sack on him and knocked him unconscious with a stick, and took him back to the Governor's Mansion.
This human skin production was the reward given to him by the system last month.
Xie Yuan had nothing to do, so he went out to tinker.
The first piece of human skin was worn by Huo Qubing. It fit perfectly and showed no signs of damage.
After confirming that the human skin would not be exposed when wearing the disguise, Xie Yuan made an identical human skin based on the captured waiter.
Then he extracted the guy's identity information and a series of useful words, and asked Huo Qubing to put on a human skin and go to work in the gambling shop in place of the waiter.