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otbnkotgt In response to the Tianfu Yamen, the guard is obviously more stringent than before.
However, as soon as Wang Xian arrived, he was immediately invited in and went directly to the heavily guarded inner signing room.
"Master Xue, what kind of reputation are you doing?"
Wang Xian smiled and said to Xue Juzheng, who came out: "How can you be like a great enemy?"
"Come in and talk about it."
Xue Ju pulled him into the house with a serious face, nodded at Zhou Man and said, "Lord Zhou should also follow up."
"Zhou Man is now the second Wu Wei, and he is almost inseparable from Wang Xian, and Xue Juzheng naturally knows him.
After the two of them entered the inner signing room, Xue Juzheng closed the door, opened the drawer, and took out two brown paper bags "Look, two. ” Wang Xian and Zhou Man picked up a bag and opened it, and saw that it contained treasure money, and then looked at the other party's money, which was also treasure money.
"What is this for" Wang Xian smiled: "Could it be that someone bribed you" said and self-denied: "Unlikely, who used treasure money to bribe these years, isn't it unpleasant?"
"Look closely."
Xue Juzheng said: "The treasure money in these two bags is different" Wang Xian and Zhou Man carefully looked at the treasure money in their hands.
In Wang Xian's hand was a treasure banknote with a consistent face value, a cyan rectangular banknote that was one foot long and six inches wide, larger than the cover of a book.
It is surrounded by dragon pattern flower columns, and there are six italics of the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.
Under the name of the banknote is still the dragon pattern flower column, the upper part of the flower column is printed in the middle of the word one through, and the denomination is ten strings of money figures, imitating the physical indication of the gold dollar banknote.
There are seals on both sides of the money, the right is the Ming treasure banknote, and the left is the world pass; There are three lines of compact text in the lower part for the household to play the printing of the Ming treasure banknote, and the copper coin is used in pass, the forger is beheaded, and the accuser is rewarded with silver and two Bowu picks, and the prisoner is still given property and other words, and it is also stamped with the seal of the household It's ridiculous to say, this is the first time that Wang Xian has been here for five years, and he has carefully looked at the appearance of the Daming treasure banknote.
However, this is not surprising, because five years ago, the treasure banknote has depreciated to the point of not being worth a few dollars, and even less valuable than these few years, in the efforts of Xia Shangshu, who has excellent talent, through various means, such as expanding the use of treasure banknotes and improving the recovery speed of faint banknotes, the value of treasure banknotes has recovered several times from the usual value of eleven dollars to the consistent value of thirty or forty dollars.
Although the growth rate is gratifying, the foundation is too poor, and it is still very worthless Just as future generations will not carefully look at what a dime looks like, Wang Xian does not pay attention to what a worthless treasure banknote looks like When Wang Xian looked at the treasure money in his hand, Zhou Man was also looking at it carefully, and when Wang Xian raised his head, Zhou Man also raised his head, and the two of them looked puzzled.
"Master Xue, show us what this is for?"
"One of these is counterfeit money," Xue Juzheng sighed.
"Really" Wang Xian hurriedly took a banknote from Zhou Man's hand, and compared with the one in his hand, he couldn't see the difference.
"Which is a counterfeit banknote?"
"This."
Xue Juzheng also needed to distinguish it carefully, so he pointed to the one in Wang Xian's left hand and said: "This, you see the color of this treasure banknote, it is slightly yellower, and the feel of the two banknotes is also a little different." ” Wang Xian took a closer look at the light, the colors were really different, both were brand new banknotes, the paper on the right hand was whiter, and it felt tougher, with a little bit of the texture of banknotes in later generations.
The left hand is a little more yellow and softer to the touch.
"I secretly consulted with the Ministry of Households, and the Daming Treasure Banknotes are all printed by the Household Treasure Banknote Lifting Division, and the banknote paper bureau is responsible for the banknotes."
Xue Juzheng said: "The banknote paper used by the bureau is mulberry paper made of white mulberry produced in a certain place in southern Anhui through special technology.
It has always been considered difficult to fake.
However, the counterfeit banknotes seized this time were also mulberry paper made of white mulberry in southern Anhui, but because of some slight differences in the manufacturing process, they still could not reach the level of genuine banknotes.
But it's enough to mess with the real, especially the old banknotes, and it is impossible to distinguish the real from the fake. ” "Hmm."
Wang Xian nodded and said, "In order to reorganize the banknote law, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is ready to order the banknote bureau to trade in the old for the people free of charge.
In this way, criminals can only make the counterfeit banknotes old and exchange them for real money."
"Yes."
Xue Juzheng nodded heavily and said, "That's why I hurriedly invited my brother and asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to urgently stop the method of pouring money." ” "No, this will make His Royal Highness the Crown Prince lose his trust Wang Xian, who frowned and said, "How did these counterfeit banknotes be discovered?"
"It was the arrester of this province who was chasing a thief, but he didn't expect to hit the horse and mule and startled the other man so much that he turned around and ran away.
After interrogation, I learned that his name was Wang Si, and he bought counterfeit banknotes from a merchant, and when he was about to use them, he was scared when he saw the catcher, so he ran away."
"Did the merchant catch it?"
asked Wang Xian.
"No, Wang Si didn't know where he came from, so I sent people to search everywhere and arrested no less than thirty merchants, although I didn't find the one who sold the goods to Wang Si.
But from several of the merchants, this kind of counterfeit banknotes were found, alas, somehow, just like the "Xue Juzheng said:" Originally, the common people refused to accept the treasure money, but this time the prince reorganized it with heavy hands, and it was a little better, but this kind of thing happened again."
"This is really worse," Zhou Man also said with a worried face: "If the news spreads, the people will be even more reluctant to make the banknote law completely abolished." ” "I'm afraid I can't hide it," Wang Xian sighed: "Even ordinary merchants can get the goods, which shows that this batch of counterfeit banknotes has fully spread." ” "Yes, so I have to ask the prince to stop pouring money."
Xue Juzheng looked at Wang Xian and said, "Then ask my brother to help, find out the source as soon as possible, and eliminate it."
"Don't worry, Lord Xue, you have helped me so many times, I will definitely help with this favor."
Wang Xian nodded angrily and said, "It's just that this case, we can only investigate it privately, so as not to make a fuss." ” "That's nature."
Xue Juzheng nodded.
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But things don't go as well as they should in the world.
At this time, Wang Xian quickly reported to the prince without delaying for a moment.
In the meantime, the news of the appearance of counterfeit banknotes in the capital spread throughout the city overnight.
The next day, not only the officials and wealthy businessmen knew, but even the street vendors and the old mothers who did the laundry at home also knew.
All of a sudden, Bao Qian was completely sentenced to death.
Ordinary people take treasure money to buy things, almost without exception are rejected for sale, the reason is also the same, it is difficult to check the authenticity, dare not accept some bold shops, and even simply hang out the brand, refuse to accept counterfeit money, true and false self-proof buyers naturally say that the treasure money in their hands is real, but who can come up with evidence to prove that their treasure money is real The treasure money in the hand can not be spent, the people are more anxious, can not look at the hard-earned money, completely into waste paper bar almost invariably, the people take out all the treasure money, poured into the household warehouse to ask to buy grain In the eyes of the people, this treasure money is issued by your household, and it can't be said that the authenticity can not be checked and refused to accept it But the Hubu warehouse really refused to accept the warehouse, and the ambassador said to the people: "The banknotes are issued by the Hubu Department, but we are the treasury, and we are only responsible for storage, but we don't know how to check money."
You'll have to go to the Treasure Lift Division. ” "No," the people said angrily: "You have to admit the money you issued, otherwise we won't leave today."
"That's it," the rest of the people chimed in: "Don't try to kick us as a ball, you have to give an explanation today" "That's it, do you think that we ordinary people are easy to bully" The common people were already depressed and dissatisfied, and at this moment, this arrogant petty official was excited, and it had the potential to explode.
Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Ambassador Cang was also so frightened that his face turned pale, and he hurriedly ordered someone to close the door.
As everyone knows, he took another wrong step, and the people were already desperate, and at this time, seeing him close the door, how could he not have a completely desperate anger, and the people in front of him pushed the door hard to prevent them from closing the door.
The people behind were even more desperately squeezing in, and there were only a few small officials inside, which was completely pushed away when there were more people outside, and the people flocked in The ambassador of the cang was so close that he was trampled to death by the people, and he even crawled to the side to look stupid.
The common people rushed in stupidly, because they had no purpose at all, they just rushed in in a moment of anger, but soon, I don't know who shouted, let's leave the money and carry the food away by ourselves Everyone heard that it was right, and they stuffed the treasure money into the arms of the ambassador and those small officials, and then began to fight against the grain in a swarm.
Seeing that the bags of grain were carried away by the people, the ambassador of the warehouse came back to his senses, hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and shouted: "Put it down, you are robbing the treasury" But the people have been short of food for many days, and at this moment they are red-eyed when they see the food, and they all have a heart that does not blame the public, how can most of the people who listen to his nonsense still go their own way, the man who was pulled by the ambassador of the warehouse, said angrily: "You don't care about others, how can you pull me, let go" turned around, and the heavy grain bag on his shoulder swept the ambassador to the ground.
Ambassador Cang was caught off guard, fell on his back to the sky, and the back of his head was hitting a brick, and he kicked his legs when he landed, and the little officials who were out of breath hurriedly stepped forward, and saw that Ambassador Cang rolled his eyes, and when he probed his snort, he screamed: "The dead man was killed by the rebels."
It didn't matter if this shouting was made, the scene suddenly became a pot of porridge, and the people fled one after another, completely unable to stop it, and seeing the fate of Ambassador Cang, those little officials did not dare to stop it.
Everyone is just a bowl of rice, who can work hard for the court So when the officials of Tianfu arrived when they heard the news, the common people had already fled cleanly, only to see the looted warehouse, and the warehouse ambassador who was already dead The news that the rebels ransacked the warehouse of the household department and killed the officials of the imperial court spread throughout the capital.
The officials couldn't bear it any longer, and once again gathered in the East Palace to ask the prince for his life: