Chapter 85: Huaxia Tongbao Part 2 "Uh."
Hama didn't expect that there could be so many tricks hidden in one piece of silver, and his face suddenly turned black.
He himself knew very well how greedy the officials of the Yuan Dynasty were.
If they can really reduce the fire cost by 10% more, even if they don't have any silver in their hands, they will try their best to create some silver.
He was so angry that he heard Sangge add in a low voice, "There is a bigger difference between official silver and private silver.
On the surface, official silver is of better quality.
But in fact, private silver is used by the private sector to deliver bulk goods."
At that time, both sides would send out accountants and clerks to verify the fineness of the scattered silver, and then weigh it with a stamp.
The money and cents would be clearly counted in person.
Five taels or ten taels per ingot can be entered into the account after counting.
In this way, when casting official silver, many bubbles are deliberately made in the silver water.
On the surface, the size of the silver ingots is actually exactly the same. , five taels of silver ingots, it’s not surprising that the weight difference is half a tael.
Anyway, both sides are male to male, treasury to treasury, never take it out to spend, it doesn’t matter how much the difference is.”
"Bah!"
Before Hama could get angry, Tuohuan Timur was so angry that he kicked the table over.
"Thieves, you dare to be thieves.
I, I will definitely skin them and kill them all as a warning to others."
"Your Majesty, calm down."
Hama, Pu Buhua, Sang Geshili, and the eunuchs and maids present were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed hard.
"Your Majesty's dragon body is important, it's not worth getting angry over these corrupt officials."
"I'm not angry.
If I don't get angry, they will dare to send fake money into the palace."
Tuohuan Timur's hands and feet were numb, his face was ashen, and his words were broken.
"Hama, go and check.
You send someone to check for me.
Look at the national treasury and the treasury of various local governments.
How much money in the town treasury is hollow.
I, I must get to the bottom of it."
"Yes, Wei Chen will send someone to do it right away" Hama promised loudly and got up, walking backwards with his legs and walking outside.
Before turning around, he didn't forget to give Sangeshili a hard look, hating him for not bringing a well-known matter to the table.
"Stop, come back," Tuo Huan Timur said, but he guessed a few clues from his little movements.
He kicked the table and yelled, "Don't be hasty yet.
Let's go after we have clarified today's matters.
Brother Sang is out of touch, go on, what else is fishy, I don't know."
"This" Sang Ge Shili glanced at Hama hesitantly, but the latter didn't want to talk to him anymore.
He curled his lips and quickly turned his head away.
"Your Majesty, please calm down first."
Sang Ge failed to get any instructions, so he had to stick to his own ideas to the end.
He stood up first, helped Tuohuan Timur lift the desk, and then put away the memorials on the ground and said in a low voice, "Actually, what Weichen said before was all speculation.
What is the specific truth, Weichen I don’t know.
Maybe the ministers were overly concerned and wronged the officials in the provinces.
Maybe it was because things in Jingzhou were so expensive, as the prime minister said before.”
"Then you should tell me how the prices are in Jingzhou," Tuohuan Timur interrupted impatiently.
He is a smart man.
After venting his anger, he understood in his heart that freezing three feet is not something that can be done in a day.
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Therefore, we turned our attention from hollow official silver to private rice and grain prices.
"It's definitely risen, but it's not a surge."
Sang Ge thought for a while and decided to tell the truth, "The weather over there is warm and the wheat is harvested early.
As long as new grains come in, grain prices will stabilize.
According to reports, What Wei Chen knows is that in April, the price of food was more than twice as high as in previous years.
By mid-May, it began to slowly fall back to one and a half times the price of last year."
"Well" Tuohuan Timur frowned again when he couldn't hear the answer he wanted, "Then it's just the hollow silver that caused me trouble.
I'll find out later if I go back."
"Your Majesty, calm down.
I have another speculation.
I don't know whether it is correct or not.
I would like to ask Your Majesty and the Prime Minister to consider it."
Sang Ge suddenly had an idea and interrupted in a low voice.
"Go on, say everything you think about.
You are my junior.
It doesn't matter if you say the wrong thing."
Tuohuan Timur took a deep breath and suppressed the raging fire in his heart.
"Wei Chen, I have a few samples of money here.
I wonder if your Majesty has seen them."
Sang Gesili got the permission and quickly straightened up.
He took out several yellow and white objects from his pocket and placed them one by one on Tuohuan Timur's desk.
He was born in Qixue, and he was one of those who was absolutely loyal and reliable in the Yuan Dynasty.
Therefore, when he entered the palace, the eunuchs on duty did not search his body carefully.
At this moment, he suddenly saw the light of metal.
Pu Buhua hurriedly dodged over and blocked Tuohuan Timur behind him while screaming, "How dare you bring iron weapons into the palace?
You still want to rebel?"
"Your Majesty, I forgive you, I.
I just want to show your Majesty a real thing, and I have no intention of harming Your Majesty."
Sang Ge was so frightened that he lost his mind.
Only then did he realize that he was no longer a coward and could not bring any metal objects without permission.
Entering and leaving the palace.
He knelt straight on the ground and defended loudly.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, you old guy is so confused.
If even my coward wants to kill me, who can I trust?"
Tuohuan Timur was not confused.
He kicked Pu Buhua away first, and then He walked quickly to the desk and sat down.
He picked up the objects donated by Sang Ge and slowly played with them, "Here, here are copper coins here, here are a few iron coins here, it's amazing, there are actually silver and gold ones.
This Huai thief really knows how to play tricks." tricks" "This is the coin issued by the Huai thieves this summer.
It is divided into four types: gold, silver, copper and steel.
Gold coins are rare.
Each coin is worth ten silver coins.
Each silver dollar is exchanged for one hundred copper coins.
Each copper coin is exchanged for steel coins.
Ten."
Sangge crawled over and explained one by one to the coins on the table.
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"One exchange for one hundred, what kind of weird exchange is this?"
Tuohuan Timur was curious and couldn't help asking in a low voice.
"Your Majesty, please take a look."
Speaking of money, Sang Ge's eyes immediately started to shine again, "This Huaiyang copper coin is about as heavy as two ordinary small coins.
So one hundred copper coins are almost as heavy as two hundred.
Xiaoping's money is heavy, and ten silver coins weigh about one tael or more.
The fineness of a silver dollar is 90% silver and 10% lead and copper.
That is, ten silver coins are just equivalent to one tael of pure silver.
One thousand Huai'an copper coins can be equivalent to at least one.
Xiao Ping’s money is two thousand, which is almost equal to the price of silver on the market.”
"What do you mean?
Just say it.
I get a headache just listening to so many numbers."
Tuohuan Timur ordered with a frown, his eyes dazzled.
"Yes."
Sangge Shili promised loudly, but when he carried out the execution, he continued to lead everyone in circles, "Your Majesty, this matter cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.
I dare to ask Your Majesty to take a closer look at the Huai thief's money.
Then evaluate its texture and color.”
"Well, I'll leave it to you."
Thinking that he was once his own coward, Temur responded with a frown.
"Prime Minister, Mr.
Pu, I would like to invite you both to come and comment on the money-making of the Huai thieves."
Sang Ge boldly continued to send out invitations.
Hama was already very disgusted with him, but seeing that Tuohuan Timur was taking it seriously, he suppressed his anger and went over to look at the coins on the desk carefully.
Pu Buhua was dedicated to the emperor's favor, so she knelt down tightly and made a serious look to comment, "Ah, this Huai thief's craftsmanship is really good, but he didn't use it in the right way.
Look at it well."
Money has to be surrounded by many sawtooths to make it unnecessary.
It’s really unnecessary.”
"I'm afraid that people will use a knife to cut off the silver shavings from it.
I don't know how ingenious it will be."
Tuohuan Timur is good at making utensils.
With a little thought, he got rid of Pu Buhua, a flatterer.
I don't know.
How many streets.
"The weight of each of these copper coins is the same, the hardness is moderate, and the color is bright.
I'm afraid copper accounts for at least 60% of them."
"Indeed, Your Majesty has a keen eye."
Sangge nodded in disbelief, smiling and flattering Timur.
However, he soon put away his smile and carefully took out two small flat coins that were common in the market from his pocket and placed them in the same place as the Huai'an coins.
"Your Majesty, please see how this money compares to Huai money."
If you are really comparing goods, you have to throw away Xiaoping coins.
This was the mold set when the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was founded.
It was originally modeled after Kaiyuan Tongbao.
Each coin weighed one coin, ten coins equaled one tael, and copper was six and lead was four.
But after the dividends from the early looting were spent, the Mongolian Yuan's treasury became increasingly empty, so Xiaoping's coins became thinner and thinner, and the quality became worse.
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The lead content in the common small flat coins on the market today has exceeded 55%, and some are even as high as 70%.
Therefore, under the same light, all Huaxia Tongbao in Huai'an are yellow with red, dazzling and dazzling.
Xiao Ping's money looked dark and shabby, as shabby as a donkey tied next to a sweaty horse.
"What do you mean, do you just want to see my jokes?"
Even though he had a good impression of Sang Ge, Tuohuan Timur couldn't bear this kind of slap in the face in public, so he raised his eyebrows and asked sharply.
"I don't dare."
Sangge kowtowed in disbelief and said seriously: "Your Majesty treats me as a national scholar, and I will repay you as a national scholar.
Your Majesty asked Yabatulu why he couldn't buy food with his silver.
Wei Chen thought that "Either the local government gave him hollow coins, or the problem lies in these coins."
After a pause, regardless of how dark the faces of the people around him were, he continued to add bravely: "Your Majesty, just imagine, if Prime Minister Badulu sends people to buy rice, iron, cattle and sheep, they will definitely have to pay the bill.
One party will take the Hollow silver and small black money, but the other party got a lot of silver dollars and large copper coins.
Who would those ordinary people sell their grain and goods to?
Besides, the Huai thieves have always been cunning.
If They deliberately put a large amount of their copper coins and silver coins on the ground near Jingzhou to raise the price.
How could the merchant not be fooled?
, without spending a single soldier, the Huai thieves could beat him so hard that he couldn’t even afford to eat with just the money on his desk, or even directly demoralize his army and collapse without a fight
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