Chapter 261: Counterfeit currency exchanged for real currency
Fraud is an inevitable product after the emergence of trading activities, because the profit margin of counterfeiting is too large.
Two goods that look similar in appearance may have production costs that differ ten to a hundred times. Because of such huge profits, there are endless counterfeiters.
Counterfeiting coins is undoubtedly one of the most profitable items among counterfeiting activities.
Jiang Xuan never expected that in such a short period of time, someone would start to imitate the sword coins of the Vine Tribe and use them in the trading area of the Vine Tribe to trade goods.
Facts have proved that he still underestimated the tribesmen.
While Jiang Xuan was thinking about these things, he followed the soldier to the trading area. Not long after, he had arrived at the trading area.
At this time, in the trading area, a large group of people were watching the excitement. "Get out of the way, the leader is coming."
The soldier opened the way in front and squeezed out a passage among the crowd of onlookers.
In the center of the crowd, Magnolia and several guardsmen were holding a frightened young man.
The young man was about 23 or 24 years old, with tanned skin, a thin body, and strange totem lines on his face, which looked like a pair of sharp claws.
Seeing Jiang Xuan coming, Dong Kui immediately took out two golden sword coins and said: "Chief, this man brought two fake sword coins and wanted to exchange them for salt and pottery."
Jiang Xuan took the two fake sword coins, which were heavy and glowing with golden metallic luster. The most important thing is that this golden color is more dazzling than the bronze of the Vine Tribe.
The appearance of these two fake big knife coins is almost the same as the real big knife coins, with only some differences in details.
The large sword coins of the Vine Tribe are cast using the lost wax casting method and are then polished to have a smooth appearance.
But these two fake broadsword coins are different. Their appearance is obviously concave and convex. Based on Jiang Xuan's experience, he guessed that it should be a hammer mark.
In other words, these two large sword coins were actually made through forging.
Forging is the most primitive method of metal processing. It only needs to heat the metal or directly cold forge it to shape it into the desired shape.
However, there are not many metals that can be directly forged. It requires that metal to exist in the form of simple substances in nature.
For example, natural copper, silver, or gold. Wait, gold? Jiang Xuan's eyes widened when he thought of this.
He looked at the two fake sword coins and said in surprise: "Such a bright gold color, can't it really be gold?"
Jiang Xuan immediately left the crowd and walked to the inn in the trading area.
Dong Kui and others didn't know what Jiang Xuan wanted to do, but they followed him one after another.
After Jiang Xuan entered the inn, he walked directly to the kitchen and said to the waiter who was lighting the fire: "Throw these two big knife coins into the fire to heat them up."
"Yes!"
Although the waiter was also curious about what Jiang Xuan was going to do, he didn't ask any more questions. He threw the two large sword coins into the fire pit and blew air as hard as he could with a bamboo pipe so that the fire could burn brighter.
"Chief, what are you doing?" Dong Kui walked to Jiang Xuan and asked curiously.
Jiang Xuan replied: "Test the material of the fake knife coin to see if it is what we need."
Dong Kui seemed to understand, but she didn't ask too much. She just looked at Jiang Xuan's movements curiously.
Jiang Xuan stared at the fake knives and coins in the flames, and saw that they were gradually burned red by the flames and became bright red.
"Okay, hook them out."
Under Jiang Xuan's command, the clerk used a bronze hook to hook the rings on the handles of the two fake sword coins and hooked them out.
After being placed on the ground, the two fake knife coins began to slowly cool down.
When the fake knife coins had almost cooled down, Jiang Xuan directly picked them up with his hands. "Ding ding ding..."
He held two fake knife coins and knocked them against each other a few times. The fake knife coins made a crisp sound.
Then, he took the fake knife coin outside the inn and carefully observed the fake knife coin in a well-lit place. He found that its color was no different from before, and it was still shining like gold.
Finally, Jiang Xuan bent the fake coin with his hands, restored it to its original shape, bent it again, and restored it to its original shape. "Yes, this should be gold!"
Jiang Xuan was very excited. The reason why he used so many methods to toss these two fake sword coins just now was to verify whether they were gold.
No matter from the color, sound, color change and flexibility after burning, it is the same as gold.
When Jiang Xuan thought of this, his eyes suddenly became hot.
Gold is a precious metal, and since he came to this world, he has never seen gold anywhere else. This at least shows that gold is relatively rare in the primitive continent.
However, in other tribes, even if metals like gold are discovered, they can only be used as decorations, and their actual value is not high.
Because it is too soft, it is not suitable for use as weapons such as swords, spears, and arrowheads. But in the Vine tribe, it can come in handy. The advantage of the knife coin is obvious, that is, it is highly practical and easy to be used by the tribe. Acceptable.
But its shortcomings are equally obvious, that is, it wears out too quickly and is prone to problems such as fractures, notches, and wear.
Therefore, in the future, after the currency and credit system of the Vine Tribe is established, a second-generation currency will inevitably be launched to replace the knife coins that wear out too quickly.
Gold is one of the best carriers of money.
Gold is wear-resistant, resistant to storage, easy to carry, and can solve the problems of knives and coins.
Because of this, Jiang Xuan was very excited when he discovered that this fake knife coin was actually made of gold.
He immediately ordered the guardsmen to take the captured young man from the trading area to a nearby empty house.
The young man was escorted by two guardsmen. He shivered as he looked at the empty house, feeling very scared inside.
As for counterfeiting knives and coins, it is a very serious crime. According to the temper of the tribesmen, he will probably die.
Soon, Jiang Xuan walked in from outside, holding two big knife coins in his hand. "Did you make these two fake knife coins? Yes... I made them..."
The young man's legs began to shake uncontrollably.
"One of our Vine Tribe's sword coins can be exchanged for more than three kilograms of salt. Now that you have taken two of them, if you are fooled, the Vine Tribe will lose more than six kilograms of salt!"
"You don't need to say more about how precious salt is? You are going to defraud our Vine tribe of so much salt in one go. You tell yourself, how should I punish you?"
The young man's legs shook even more because he knew in his heart that for such a big sin, he might not be able to save his life.
Jiang Xuan added: "However, I am very interested in the materials you used to make fake sword coins. If you can bring more, maybe I will consider saving your life."
As soon as Jiang Xuan said these words, not only the young man was stunned, but Dong Kui and others next to him were also stunned. No one thought that Jiang Xuan would actually say such a thing. "Are you telling the truth?" The young man was full of laughter.
His face was in disbelief. Jiang Xuan nodded and said: "Of course it is true, I swear in the name of the leader of the Vine Tribe."
"Great!"
The young man was excited to have saved his life. Who would want to die if he could live?
Jiang Xuan continued: "If you can come up with the materials to make at least ten large sword coins, the Teng tribe will not pursue the matter of counterfeit sword coins. If you can come up with more materials, you can even directly contact Teng.
Tribes make deals."
"A deal?" The young man looked at Jiang Xuan in astonishment.
"That's right, as for the materials to make a fake big knife coin, I can exchange it with you for two small knife coins. After exchanging it for real knife coins, you can trade what you want in the trading area openly."<
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The young man was completely stunned. He never thought that not only would he not be killed this time, but he would also encounter such a good thing.
For a moment, he felt as if he was in a dream, which was very unreal.