Anti-counterfeiting is not something that the Toyo military government needs to worry about right now.

Because all over the world, if you want to make a fake of the Ming Dynasty on the banknotes, only the people of the Ming Dynasty have this ability, but the name of the Tongbao here is 'Daming Yazhou Wanli Tongbao', and Chen Mu plans to build two silver exchange storage stations in Majiagang and Panama in the future.

From the Central Plains, precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper were exchanged for paper money.

Leaving Asia, paper money was exchanged for precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper.

This is also the reason why some people in the Ming Dynasty opposed maritime trade - seafood has greater profits than the mainland, strange goods can live, and maritime trade is prosperous, which will increase the loss of precious metals.

Unless it is like Chen Mu, who directly controls the means of Luzon gold and copper mines, and replaces the equivalent with weapons and armor in trade, and even sends instructors and garrisons to ensure safety, in exchange for goods.

"It's not a secret, Wanli Tongbao in Changsheng County has almost no anti-counterfeiting." Chen Mu explained to Hai Rui with a wry smile: "Chen didn't expect that the imperial court would send 100,000 immigrants, and he only regarded them as soldiers in the second phase of Beiyang, so he didn't add anti-counterfeiting for a while. ”

He has all the grassroots creation of important people here, no one wants anything, what to do with anti-counterfeiting?

Hai Rui shook his head one after another with reproach, and said: "Even if this Tongbao is not circulated in the Central Plains, it has no anti-counterfeiting, isn't Jing Haibo afraid of the local people and Xiyi copying?" ”

To be honest, Chen Mu is really not afraid.

Chen Mu rummaged on the table, and finally found four pieces of paper with different appearances and slapped them on the table, pointed to the first two and said: "This is the paper of Xiyi and Haiyi in England, they only make this kind of hemp paper, made of broken linen, very thick and durable, but the process is rough, ten out of ten are with rope ends that cannot be broken, all are hemp paper, but the craftsmanship of England on hemp paper is a little better than that of Westerners." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the third thick piece of cardboard and said, "This is the paper of the Maya people in southern Asia, they should have used the tender skin of local figs to crush into pulp, flatten and dried to become cardboard, and the cardboard was greasy with lime, so that they could write books and paint, which was thicker than the paper of the Westerners, and these papers together were the books of the Mayans." ”

Chen Mu said and picked up the Mayan cardboard like a thin wooden board and said: "These books are rare now, in the forty-first year of the reign of Emperor Shizong of my country, the priest Dinago de Landa of the Westerners ordered all the Mayan books to be burned, and all the priests were tied to the stake and burned, and the smallpox they brought followed by killing most of the Mayans, and now there are no Mayans who can make this kind of paper." ”

Hai Rui frowned, he felt that Chen Mu's words were not rigorous enough, and asked: "Then how did Jing Haibo know about this cardboard practice, wasn't it taught by the so-called 'Maya' people in Your Excellency's mouth?" ”

Chen Mu shook his head with a smile and said, "Deng Shuai took a few from Panama and sent them to Changsheng, and our warsmiths then reversed the experiment and made exactly the same cardboard. ”

"It's so easy for us to copy their two kinds of paper, whether it's hemp paper or vellum paper, we will make it a hundred times more delicate than them, and they can't make our paper."

Chen Mu said, patted his hand on the paper at the end of the table, and said: "The paper is made by Shuntian military craftsmen, and it uses the process of Xuande paper porcelain blue paper, but there is a fluorite powder line, and the porcelain blue will soon fade, but it will always maintain its color, and there are stars in the dark that are slightly bright." ”

Chen Mu made Tongbao is much smaller than the past treasure banknotes, he heard that the Ming treasure banknotes are huge, but he doesn't want to make it so big, although it has better anti-counterfeiting ability to make it bigger, after all, it is easy to learn to make paper, but it is much more difficult to make paper bigger.

However, it was used to prevent the close neighbors of the Ming Dynasty, and in this land and even in European countries, there is no such problem - they can't even make decent paper, so how can they be bigger?

Hai Rui is no longer angry with Chen Mu for making a mistake in Tongbao, anyway, he said that the Spaniards are the reserves of Daming Tongbao, and it does make sense.

The division of labor was very clear, the Spanish managed the mines, the silver was sent to the imperial court to mint coins, and the Spaniards were given to buy Tongbao, and then exchanged Tongbao for guns to support the Spaniards' war on the mainland.

In fact, Hai Rui felt that the Spaniards did not lose money, such a piece of land that fell from heaven for nothing, half of the maintenance fee did not have to be paid, although a large number of plantations were lost, but they could send a steady stream of ordnance and goods to the western mainland, no matter how you look at it, it made a lot of money.

The old man took the celadon paper made by the craftsmen of the Oriental Military Mansion and said: "If this is the case, it is okay, add the engraving and seal, and engrave the warning; A law was enacted whereby the pirate was punished by death and confiscated, and the whistleblower gave half of the property. ”

Hai Rui grew up in an era when he could still vaguely see the treasure banknotes that had long lost their circulation value, Chen Mu's generation really hadn't even seen it, and he didn't even know what anti-counterfeiting was on it, and when he heard Hai Rui's statement, he immediately woke him up, nodded and responded: "This is good, now every Tongbao has the seal of the Oriental Military Government, what else do you want to print?" ”

"It's not what to print, it's how to print." Hai Rui said: "It is usually a cinnabar seal, but the treasure money is not like this, Chen Shuai can send someone to take a boat back to the household department to inquire, and then the first batch of Tongbao can be taken back and reissued." ”

As long as he knew that Chen Mu did not intend to harm the people, Hai Rui was much more relaxed, although in his opinion, the issuance of treasure banknotes in Changsheng County was still not fully prepared, and he would encounter a lot of trouble in sorting it out in the future, but this was all reasonable, and he didn't want to blame anything.

Chen Mu himself is not a member of the household department, and he has no culture, he won the battle here to open up the territory, and he also gained the hearts of the people to make the county orderly.

Where in the world is there a perfect man?

Although Hai Rui came here to be similar to being degraded, but the old man Hai himself would never think so, he thought that he came here to check and fill in the gaps for Chen Mu, if the matter of minting the official currency only Chen Mu, the Asian strategy, had real power, he himself sent someone back to China to ask the household department.

Chen Mu also felt that this matter could wait, the most important thing for him at the moment was mainly the contract with the Spaniards, and the real lifting of the state of war could allow Asia to enter the time of assured development, after all, in his position, the most important thing was not to compete with the Spanish or Europeans for dominance.

But to transport enough benefits for the Ming Dynasty, he said: "This is not in a hurry, the capacity of thousands of ships, the local goods, products to the emperor, the huge amount of domestic transportation, it will take a long time to load, but unfortunately there is not much to find large iron ore here." ”

Chen Mu's people really didn't dig much iron ore here, there is one in Zhuangyuan Bridge, but the yield is very low, basically there is no shallow large iron ore that can be excavated in the current range of activities of the Ming people.

However, there are a lot of copper mines, and there are copper mines in Majiagang, Jincheng, Jie, and Changsheng counties where the Ming army landed, especially in Jincheng.

Let's dig a gold mine, dig and dig and dig to the copper mine, next to a chisel, yo! There are still a lot of copper mines!

Chen Mu looked at Hai Rui expectantly and asked, "When Hai Gong left the country, how did the industries of the north and south and Guangdong and Fujian develop?" ”