Is there a risk associated with minting money?

What are the risks of minting money?

"Risk?"

Looking at Qian Lei in surprise, Zhu Mingzhong asked rhetorically.

"Since there is no money available in this city, what is the big deal about Zhu Mou, as a Jianghuai manager?"

"After a strategy, it is the biggest risk to be a Ming official to mint money!"

Looking at Jing Luo, Qian Lei's tone was tentative.

"As a Ming official to mint money? Bingqi, what do you mean by that? ”

Looking at Qian Lei, Zhu Mingzhong's eyebrows suddenly raised, and then asked rhetorically.

"Why did Zhu mint money?"

Why don't you cast Daming's money? Instead, you want to mint money? Looking at Qian Lei puzzled, Zhu Mingzhong hoped that he would give a reasonable answer.

"Strategy, in fact, the reason is simple, the clear money is heavy for a penny and four cents, containing copper up to seventy, and I Ming coinage is mixed with a large amount of lead sand, copper at most only four to five percent, and the apocalypse, Chongzhen new money, containing copper only two or three percent, the people are naturally reluctant to use, the people are all happy to use Shunzhi money, and not willing to use Ming money, if it is not Shunzhi money is insufficient, I am afraid that the city has long disappeared my Ming money, if you want the people to use our money, naturally can only cast the money of the Qing Dynasty......"

When Qian Lei mentioned the market's recognition of Shunzhi money, Yao Xiang added on the side.

"After the strategy, this Shunzhi money with copper seventy, is the Qing prisoner into the customs, the traitor Hong Chengchou for its dedication of the law, its ambition is to use the money to buy the hearts of the people, so that it is happy to use the money of the Qing Dynasty, abandon the money of our dynasty, and the Qing Lu to cast money with copper both its slaughter in the city in the city or the city to collect the old money and old copper utensils as the raw materials for coinage. After the Qing captives entered the customs, the slaughter of the city was not less than hundreds, the city and countryside were all redland, only white bones were left in the houses, and the copper kettles, copper stoves and other things in the house were available everywhere, so the copper price was naturally low, so the high profit was really rare......"

After the fall of Hangzhou, Yao Xiang, who had traveled around the world for more than ten years, naturally witnessed the appearance of thousands of miles of red land, and also knew where the copper used to mint money came from.

"And the money that these people are happy to use in Shunzhi is full of blood and tears of my Han people......"

Looking at the Shunzhi Tongbao in his hand, Zhu Mingzhong suddenly smelled a smell of blood, this copper used to cast money may have been a kettle and incense burner in the Han family, or it may be a woman's hairpin and a child's longevity lock, but now, it has become another weapon, an invisible slave!

Because of its high copper content, the people are happy to use it. People are always profit-seeking! And when the people are happy to use Shunzhi Tongbao, they will slowly forget their identity.

"Even so, the people are still happy to use the Shunzhi money, although the Qing money rules are exchanged for one or two, but the money in the city can be exchanged for one or two of silver for 800 Wen, although so, the people are still willing to follow it, if it is Ming money, it takes one thousand five hundred, or even two thousand Wen, before it can be exchanged for one or two taels of silver, if it is the money of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen Dynasties, it can only be sold as scrap copper."

Qian Bingqi's words made Zhu Mingzhong's brows suddenly lock, and his insight beyond the times made him immediately understand that this was a "war of currency".

"This is the battlefield! Currency Wars! ”

Frowning, Zhu Mingzhong said to the two.

"Qing Lu is borrowing money to fight a currency war with us, the price of money is high, and the price of money is low, so, the people are naturally willing to use money, not money, this money is a matter of people's hearts, if the people are good money, naturally they will regard Qing Lu as orthodox, and regard me as a bandit! Hong Chengchou, who is really my No. 1 traitor in China, actually offered such a vicious plan......"

Maybe most people in this era can't understand currency wars, or maybe that book is just a "conspiracy theory" stall literature, which has no practical significance, but Zhu Mingzhong, who understands wars, knows very well that there are many similar currency wars in history.

And Hong Chengchou's method is very simple - that is, by putting good money into the market, establish the monetary credit of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so as to destroy the monetary credit of the Ming Dynasty, so that because of the recognition of Qing money in the market, it will naturally produce the orthodox identity of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"What the scripture says is that the people are happy to use the money, not the money of the Ming Dynasty, so if we open the money, we can only cast the money, otherwise, even if the money is equal to the white cast, the people do not use, the money will naturally not be able to get the profits, but if we wait to cast the money, it is equivalent to opening the eyes for the Qing Dynasty, helping it to be orthodox in the world, Hong Chengchou's poisonous plan is really out of my imagination!"

Even in this era, in the past ten years, Yao Xiang, who has traveled all over the world, still sees the superiority of Hong Chengchou's poisonous plan, although he sees the purpose of the other party, but he can't crack this poisonous plan, and even now, in order to solve the problem of use, he can only cast the "Shunzhi Tongbao" of the Qing Dynasty, so as to make up for the use of the house with the benefit of coinage.

"But this Hong Chengchou's method is unsolvable, even if we have no choice but to follow it, it is really hateful!"

When Qian Lei shook his head and sighed, Zhu Mingzhong sneered.

"Why can't you crack it?"

Looking at the two in front of him, looking at the helplessness in their expressions, Zhu Mingzhong, who had hundreds of years of knowledge ahead of them, naturally knew very well what kind of method should be used to solve all this. There are too many examples in later generations.

"Oh, could it be that we have a good solution to this plan?"

Facing the expectations of the two, Zhu Mingzhong sneered.

"Cast money, cast Shunzhi Tongbao, they are 7 copper into it, let's cast 6 into it, and then cast 5 into it, 4 into it, and the weight keeps decreasing, their weight is one penny and four cents, we will cast one penny and three or five points, and then continue to lose weight......"

"Jinglu, you mean to mint fake money?"

Qian Lei looked at Zhu Mingzhong puzzled, this is simply the way of folk imitation.

"That's right!"

Nodding, Zhu Mingzhong said affirmatively.

"It is to mint fake money, and to mint as much as possible, the more money we mint, the more money we get, after these bad coins pour into the market, it will inevitably have an impact on the credit of the Qing Qian system, when the time comes, we can sell it in large quantities in the market, one can subsidize the expenses of the government office, and the other can destroy the circulation of the Qing Qian system, especially its credit, when the money we cast in the market occupies the mainstream, forty percent, fifty percent of the bad money floods the market, it is the day when we regain the orthodoxy of the money......

In fact, this is the war of counterfeit money, the use of counterfeit money as a means of war, is nothing new, the history of counterfeit money can be traced back to ancient Greece, Frederick the Great of Prussia made counterfeit money against Poland during the Seven Years' War, and Napoleon also signed an order to make counterfeit money from Austria and Russia. During the American Civil War, both the South and the North forged each other's paper money in order to attack each other's economic weaknesses. The aim is to destroy the monetary credibility of the enemy.

"It's good to have this method, it's very good to have this method, so naturally it can break the method used by the flood thief, it's just ......"

After thinking for a moment, Yao Xiang, who knew that this was the method of cracking the money of the thief, looked at Jing Luo and asked rhetorically.

"But where did the copper come from?"