Guo Ning frowned: "People from the Song State? People from the Song State directly provoked our people to launch a rebellion?"
"Exactly."
"Where are the credentials?"
Zhou Keshan took his time and asked the servant for some water. He washed his face and hands, took out a cloth bag from his sleeve, and poured the contents on the table.
Those were several copper coins, shining with golden light and very attractive in color.
Guo Ning looked down and looked a little confused: "Is this copper coin very sophisticated?"
"Lin Zhen, that guy, has always been known for his boldness and generosity. In recent months, he has become extra generous. He often invites other leaders and subordinates to treat guests and have banquets to play with women. What exactly did they talk about? What did the leaders talk about?
I won’t even say it to death, and I won’t ask, but one thing is that many people have seen Lin Zhen asking his subordinates to pay the bills, and have seen the money he took out.”
The Ding Navy developed through maritime trade, and the benefits from maritime trade were ultimately reflected in copper coins. No matter how hard a business is done, if you get bad money, you will have to pay the bills. So if you do some business
All of these people are shrewd in distinguishing coins.
When Zhou Keshan was chatting with the gang leaders, he felt that there might be a possibility to dig deeper here, so he led everyone to talk in this direction.
Finally, a gang leader said that the copper coins used by Lin Zhen were Dading Tongbao from the Kingdom of Jin, but they were different from Dading Tongbao made by official officials. This gang leader had never seen it before, and because he was curious, he also specially
I kept a few coins and kept them on hand as change.
These few coins were now on the table in front of Guo Ning, spinning around twice before stopping.
Li Yun glanced at it and was shocked. He strode over, touched the copper coins, and then said with certainty: "This is our money! It is the batch produced by Yidu Qianjian at the end of last year!"
Zhou Keshan nodded: "Since the establishment of Yidu Money Supervisor, we have only produced this batch of copper coins."
"Didn't this money not come out of the warehouse?" Li Yun asked.
It turns out that mining in Shandong has been developed since ancient times. As early as the Song Dynasty, Yanzhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou had mining and metallurgy. In Yanzhou and Laiwujian alone, there were Shibaye Metallurgy and Santiekeng, which made a living from mining and iron smelting.
There are more than 2,400 furnace households and more than 5,000 miners living here. After Ding Haijun established his foothold in Shandong, he became more and more engaged in mining and metallurgy. When he came to Wujian alone, his annual output of iron materials exceeded 10,000 yuan.
1.2 million jin, while the mines around Dengzhou produce more than 5,000 taels of gold annually, which has made a huge contribution to the expansion of the army and the stability of the regime.
However, in terms of mining output, there are many iron ores in Shandong, followed by gold and silver mines, and copper mines are relatively rare. Gold and silver mines are still distributed in Denglai, Mizhou and other places, while copper mines are only in Yizhou.
Capital, mining is extremely difficult. Therefore, for a long time, Ding Haijun has obtained a large amount of copper coins from the Southern Dynasties through sea trade for its own use.
This is not just the case with Ding Haijun. In fact, since the founding of the country for a hundred years, Dajin has been relying on copper coins from the Southern Dynasties and its own banknotes, which are increasingly like waste paper to maintain economic operations. During the reign of Sejong Dading, a money supervisor was set up in Zhongdu to mint coins on a large scale.
The result may be that the technology is not up to par, or there are too many officials who are profiting from it. After a year of busy work, the Dading Tongbao cast is indeed of high quality, but the currency value is 140,000 guan, and the cost is as high as 800,000 guan.
He suddenly started a hugely profitable business and lost his pants.
For this reason, Ding Haijun was very cautious in trying copper coins. It was not until the end of last year that he took advantage of the establishment of the Zhongdu Privy Council and established a new money supervisor to try to imitate Dading Tongbao. Because he had no experience and the workmanship was rough, the front and back After several attempts, more than three thousand copper coins were produced.
Of course money is good money, but the new Qianjian was built. After all, it was the first time the work was started. The casting was not exquisite enough. Occasionally, pores could be seen, and the edges of the characters were also slightly molded. Compared with the Zhining Tongbao newly cast by the imperial court in recent years, the Da'an Tongbao is quite different. Not as good as that, and the cost is prohibitively high.
In recent years, the world has been short of money. Even in the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, there were a large number of officially minted tin coins and privately minted iron coins in circulation. Although Ding Haijun's own copper coins were not so exquisite, they were precious treasures, so the Privy Council of Zhongdu was not willing to put them into circulation. The flowers go out and become a storehouse.
Guo Ning picked up a copper coin and looked at it carefully. He vaguely remembered that Du Shisheng seemed to have sent a written notification about this. He asked: "How did the money in Yidu's treasury end up here? How can we prove that the gang leaders rebelled?" Are you being provoked by the Song people?"
"Ahem..." Zhou Keshan said respectfully: "Marshal, this money was later spent. It was urgent at the time, and Mr. Jinzhi specifically approved it. My subordinates were responsible for transferring it out of the treasury."
"Huh? When are we still in such a hurry for money? Why?"
"At the beginning of the year, the maritime grain trade was interrupted, and grain smuggling from the canal to the north was also affected. In Baoying County, Chuzhou, I contacted a local magistrate named Jia She who had a lot of money, and asked him to come forward to help Huaidong. The Zhizhi envoys and the Chuzhou side raised their noble hands and sent the merchants' grain ships northward to hand over the goods."
"I remember this. You reported it later, saying that Jia She was good at appeasing all parties and was very talented. However, he was just a little too greedy for money..."
At this point, Guo Ning suddenly realized: "Three thousand strings?"
"It's exactly the three thousand strings given in that batch."
Zhou Keshan said solemnly: "After we minted these copper coins, we kept them in the treasury until that time when Jia She openly asked for a bribe of three thousand guan. I didn't have enough money around me, so I sent my cronies to report back to the capital. Because of the food Trade is very important, and Mr. Jinzhi was afraid of causing trouble, so he simply sent me three thousand self-made Dading Tongbao."
Li Yun picked up the money, flicked it twice, and listened to the sound: "The only person who got the money was Jia She, the magistrate of Baoying County. But not long after, the money was taken from Lin Zhen. Keep spending the money inside..."
"Three thousand guan is not a small amount of money, but the area in Chuzhou faces Sizhou Ganchang and Xuyi Ganchang to the west, and the prosperous Yangzhou to the south, and is also passed by the canal trade road. Every day, gold mountains and silver seas flow like water. Three If Jia She spends thousands of dollars, it will immediately flow into countless channels and pass through the hands of countless people. From then on, it will be scattered and can never be gathered together."
"But Lin Zhen was able to spend a lot of this money, so he must have gotten it from Jia She!"
Guo Ning followed the two people's thoughts and figured out the sequence, and suddenly became angry.
He slapped his hand on the table, causing the copper coins to jump wildly: "In other words, this Jia She took our bribes, then took our money, bribed our people, and made our people rebel in Zhongdu. ?”
"I think he used not only this little money to bribe Lin Zhen, but also promised many other benefits. Marshal, I have dealt with this Jia She several times, and I know that this person is cunning and cunning, and he has many tricks.
It is indeed possible that a person wandering at sea could be bewitched by him..."
"Hey……"
Guo Ning thought for a while and asked: "But, why did he do this? I heard before that this person is quite well-intentioned towards our navy? Why did he suddenly fall out?"