Chapter 380: These Damn Profiteers and Clans
A well-made gold coin, dripping and turning in Fukangan's hand, this is the Annan people, oh no, it's time to call it the Cochin people, what kind of steam press did they use to make it.
A gold coin is about a quarter larger than a copper coin, and there are silver and copper coins underneath it.
Gold coins are called gold dollars, silver coins are called silver dollars, copper coins are called copper dollars, one hundred copper dollars are exchanged for one silver dollar, and ten silver dollars are exchanged for one gold dollar.
According to the Great Song Dynasty Qianzhuang established by the Jiaozhi people, one gold dollar is about equal to about eleven taels of silver, one silver dollar is equal to one tael of silver, and one copper dollar is almost the same as the fifteen coins of the Qing Dynasty.
When this was first released, everyone scoffed at it, and they all thought that the Anjiaozhi people must be crazy.
A small silver dollar, I don't know if there are three coins in silver, it is equivalent to one or two silver, is it a fool to be someone else?
But what happened later made everyone stunned to lose their glasses, and this cochin of gold, silver and copper coins can really be used as full silver.
Because this kind of coins with a strict exchange ratio are so convenient to use, and when the Great Song Dynasty Coin of Annam issued these gold, silver and copper coins, it is said that they went through some strict calculations.
If it has not been calculated, even His Royal Highness the King of Song cannot send it casually, and at the same time, these coins are beautifully made and difficult to imitate, and there is no such thing as fake money.
In the Qing Dynasty of this era, or the entire ancient Chinese dynasty, small transactions were better, and copper plates were used for the purchase and sale of a few pennies.
But if the transaction volume is larger, there is no way, you can't carry dozens of catties of copper coins on your back at any time, which requires silver.
But with silver, it is a relatively troublesome thing, you pay someone silver, people have to take a special small scale to weigh, a little more or less to use a special kind of small scissors to cut.
After cutting, a little bit of crumbs will definitely fall off, so you have to carefully pick up the crumbs with tweezers, and then put them on the candle to melt and stick them back.
This is simply asking for hardship, and it also involves loss, the scale is not accurate, there is no use of hands and feet, and you have to be careful that the fineness of the silver is insufficient.
Sometimes the same weight of silver, because of the different fineness, has to go through some exchange, as much trouble as it is.
Don't believe the big silver ingots that appear at any time in the TV series, that thing is equivalent to a large check, usually even if you use silver, no one directly uses silver ingots, they are all small silver horns.
But no matter how troublesome it is, most people are used to it, so when this set of gold, silver and copper coins issued by Cochin was transmitted to Guangzhou, no one paid attention to it for a long time.
I don't know when the Hongmen brothers in Guangzhou City began to trade this kind of gold, silver and copper coins internally.
And if someone goes to Jiaozhi, they will find that Jiaozhi side recognizes this money, if you want to buy good Jiaozhi coal and Jiaozhi honeycomb coal, often with gold, silver and copper coins can give priority to the goods, there will be a small discount.
Slowly, from the end of last year to the present, this combination of gold, silver and copper coins, which are called Song Wang Qian or Sun and Moon Qian by the people of Liangguang, has suddenly increased in Liangguang.
Especially in the city of Guangzhou, the copper coins issued by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were still in circulation, but the use of silver horns decreased dramatically.
There is no way, this thing is too convenient to convert, and I didn't dare to use it at first, because I was afraid that the silver dollar would not be worthless, but when everyone began to use him as one or two dollars of silver, this credit was established.
Nowadays, even some merchants no longer mark the value of two taels of silver when marking bulk commodities, but directly mark the value of silver dollars.
Fukangan put down the gold dollar in his hand, and then replaced it with a silver dollar, he felt very wrong now, and he couldn't go on like this!
If this continues, the silver coins alone will make more than 50% of the money on the Jiaozhi side.
Because this silver coin contains more than three coins of silver at most, and almost eighty or ninety percent of the silver horns or silver ingots on his side are full two of silver, if this continues, the people of Cochin can suck up all the silver silently.
Moreover, Fukangan sneered, looking at the sun on the front of the silver dollar and the moon on the back, the sun and the moon money, the sun and the moon money, what does the sun and the moon represent, when he Fukangan doesn't understand? Is this Sima Zhao's heart known to everyone?
There was a sound of soft footsteps at the door, and Fukangan looked up to see that the staff Mr. Song and the head of Goshha had come in.
"Lord Taiwan, sure enough, these Song Wangqian are all underwritten by Wu Bingjian's profiteers from foreign companies, and Ye Shanglin is even more personally promoted by Sven.
At the same time, the party members in the city of Guangzhou were also adding fuel to the fire, they roamed the streets to investigate, and whenever they came across any small merchants and traders who used silver horns to use Song Wang's silver dollars, they would beat the head of the household, and even smashed the shop! ”
"These silverfish of the country!" Fukangan let out a low sigh and hammered his fist to the coffee table next to him.
He knew that this Song Wangqian was spread all over Guangzhou so quickly, there must be internal ghosts, but he didn't expect it to be the result of the joint efforts of the businessmen of the foreign bank and the low-level party members.
After thinking about it for a while, Fukangan made a decision in his heart, those profiteers who went abroad, the treasury still wanted them to serve, and the money they earned was actually earned by the princes and ministers of Beijing, even Fukangan himself also had a share.
All of them have 'borrowed' the princes and ministers to do business, and they can't move for the time being, but these party members in Guangzhou City, Fu Daren has long seen them unpleasantly, and they can just kill a batch!
"Then what did Shang Weisheng say, and still refused to admit it?"
Fukangan, who was determined to punish the Tiandi Hui Party in Guangzhou, asked softly.
Because of the meritorious work in preparing for King Annan's entry into Beijing, Shang Weisheng was successfully reinstated, and then transferred to Huizhou to be promoted to the governor of Guangdong.
But last month, Fukangan summoned Shang Weisheng to the city of Guangzhou, and then detained him.
Because Fukangan has already realized that it is likely not Ye Kai who will enter Beijing, because if Ye Kai goes to Beijing, in the past two years, the entire revival army will not have such a big move!
The king was not there, and the people below ate the leopard's gall, and they did not dare to plan actions such as attacking the Qiongzhou Dongli area and starting a war with Siam.
Moreover, Siam also sent an envoy to the city of Guangzhou, accusing the king of Annam who entered Beijing as a fake, of course, Annam also sent an envoy to Guangzhou, saying that the current king of Siam is named Zhao Phraya, not called Zheng Hua at all, nor is he the son of Zheng Xin, but a rebel who usurped the throne!
This....! What the hell!
Feelings, the two biggest vassal ministers in the south of the Qing Dynasty, are all chaotic ministers and thieves?
Fukangan could only suppress the matter first, and did not dare to report it to Beijing at all, because of these two news, it is estimated that Qianlong, who is still waiting for his 80th birthday, will be angry to death!
But things still have to be clarified, Fukangan sent people to Siam to inquire, and at the same time decisively detained Shang Weisheng.
However, after almost ten days of interrogation, Shang Weisheng shouted injustice every day, refusing to admit that he had any collusion with King Annan, and biting him to death was King Annan, who was the same person he had seen King Annan before.
As a governor, daring to detain the governor of a province without a holy decree, Fukangan has already taken a big risk, even if Qianlong favors him again, knowing that after a reprimand, it is inevitable to seize the office, and it is even possible to go to prison.
And the biggest problem is that Guan Chenglin, who met King Annan with Shang Weisheng, has been dead for almost two years, and no one can accuse Shang Weisheng of lying.
Now the whole world knows that King Annan is in the capital, and Emperor Qianlong is even happier to eat an extra bowl of every meal, at this time, even if he is blessed and healthy, he does not dare to question the truth of King Annan, because now he is questioning, that is, to slap Qianlong in the face, who dares to do this?
Seeing that Fukangan was silent, Mr. Song, a staff member, waved his hand to let the pen post and Goshha in the house go out.
He took two steps closer to Fukangan and said: "The Lord of Taiwan is loyal to the country, and he is pure-hearted, but this matter is really too risky!"
The governor of a place has no order to seize the military gate of a province, and to put it mildly, this is a conspiracy!
Although Lord Taiwan is the most favored by His Majesty, it is better to stop this matter immediately! With His Majesty's trust, you can continue to be loyal to the country, if you lose Your Majesty's trust, how can you serve the country? ”
This Mr. Song still has a sentence that he didn't say clearly, although the whole world knows that you are likely to be Qianlong's son, but after all, you are only an illegitimate child and not a son-in-law.
Even today's prince does not dare to act like this, so it is better not to treat the Qing Dynasty as your family.
Fukangan nodded, in fact, he also knew in his heart that it was too risky to do so, but he just felt that something was likely to happen to this Tiannan Land.
This Jiaozhi Song King looks ill-intentioned, a Han person, a Mingxiang person from Annan, and a Han'er Mingxiang person with 20,000 Western-style elites in one hand, doesn't he want to restore his homeland? Even if he doesn't restore his homeland, doesn't he want to seize Liangguang and establish the Great Viet Kingdom?
He even thought about detaining the Song King of Jiaozhi when he passed through Guangzhou and returned to Jiaozhi, and he was sure that the Manchu Dynasty would support him.
But now, this Jiaozhi Song King is likely to be fake, and this is still a woolen thread?
"Lord Maker! There is a red feather in the capital who is in a hurry. Goshha shouted loudly outside the door.
Fukang stood up suddenly, could it be that His Majesty saw that King Annan was fake?
With a wave of his hand and a gesture, his Goshha leader opened the door, and a man in a six-rank military attache uniform walked in.
"Fu Zhitai, Xiaguan arrived in a hurry for eight hundred miles, and the angel is estimated to have just passed Chaozhou Mansion!"
"Dare to ask, but what happened in the capital?" Fukangan asked hopefully.
"The lower officials don't know very well, they only know that Your Majesty has received a report from Yamantai, the assistant minister in Tibet, and Baotai, the minister of the Tibet office, that the king of Gurkha ****.Shah has invaded Tibet again, and His Majesty should be to recruit the people of Taiwan to return to Beijing to discuss countermeasures!"