With the prevalence of brick roads and four-wheeled carriages, the convenience of transportation and means of transportation further stimulated the commerce of Chang'an City, and today's Chang'an City has attracted countless merchants to come to pan for gold by virtue of the advantages of the capital.

Business travelers from all over the world come to Chang'an City, without exception, they want to go to Mojia Village to have a look, one is for the products of Mojia Village, and the other is to see the famous Mojia Village.

But everyone who came to Mojia Village was shocked by the magic of Mojia Village, and the ink skills of Mojia Village are known to the whole world, not to mention for the time being, and what is even more amazing is the silver ticket of Mojia Village.

A palm-sized piece of paper can be exchanged for white silver, which is extremely convenient, and Mojia Village directly bet 300,000 yuan in the palace treasury for the silver ticket, which makes the reputation of the silver ticket even more promising.

"Shopkeeper, this is a silver ticket of three taels!"

In Chang'an City, a business traveler skillfully handed the silver ticket of three taels to the shopkeeper, and after the shopkeeper took it, he looked at the silver ticket carefully, and then he was relieved to enter the pocket.

Such transactions abound in Chang'an City, silver tickets are not only prevalent in Mojia Village, but also gradually appear in the extremely open Chang'an City, the convenience of silver tickets and the royal reputation directly clear the way for silver tickets, some bold merchants also openly collect silver tickets, anyway, just go to Mojia Village Bank can be exchanged for full color silver two.

However, what the shopkeeper didn't know was that outside the store, an ordinary-looking idler shook his head imperceptibly, turned to leave, and when he saw an old lady selling cloth about fifty years old, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

"Auntie, how much is your cloth?" The idler asked.

When the old lady saw that the business was coming, her eyes lit up and said: "In the future, eight cents is a foot." ”

"Give me three feet, but I don't have copper coins, only Mojia Village silver tickets, you can't accept them." The idle man's eyes flashed.

The old lady laughed and said: "Later life, the old body is old, but I don't know what a silver ticket is, let alone a silver ticket, even if it's silver." ”

When the idle man heard this, he immediately agitated: "Auntie, the silver ticket is made by the Mo family, and every silver ticket can be exchanged for white silver, and there is also a royal guarantee, so you don't have to worry about it at all." ”

The idle man immediately turned into an expert in the promotion of silver tickets, and spared no effort to be a propagandist of silver tickets.

"This ......, but the old body only knows copper coins." The Mo family's silver ticket was spread in Chang'an City, and it even made a fuss in the court, this matter had already spread all over Chang'an City, and the eldest lady had naturally heard of it, and the current refusal was not so resolute.

As soon as the idle man heard that there was a play, he immediately continued to agitate: "Auntie, I do like your cloth, why don't you have any cash in your hand, if you agree to accept these three cents of silver tickets, you don't need to look for money for the extra six cents." ”

The old lady was suddenly moved, her profit from selling cloth was not much, if she charged an extra six cents, it would not be a small amount.

"Okay, I'll believe in the Mo family once." The old lady thought about it for a long time, but in the end she didn't resist the temptation, handed the idler a three-foot cloth, and took three one-cent silver tickets from the idler's hand, but she didn't have the slightest awareness of checking the silver tickets.

The idler took the cloth in his hand, couldn't help but show a smug smile, walked to a corner, saw a beautiful carriage parked on the side, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and said, "Second owner." ”

"Hmmm! How's it going? There was a voice from the second owner of the Ziqian family in the carriage.

"Qiyu two owners, many shopkeepers are very shrewd, and they will check the silver tickets when they receive them, which is easy to expose, but some foolish old women have never seen the market, which is the best target." The idler bowed.

"Well done." The second proprietor praised, "Go and do it immediately, gather as many people as possible, and spend as much of these fake silver tickets as possible, once you make the Mo family alert, I'm afraid it won't be so easy." ”

"Yes!" The idler immediately took the order.

With the departure of the idle man, the people of the Qian family began to spread all over Chang'an City, and a net of heaven and earth for silver tickets was quickly spread.

"What, you don't accept it, this is the Mo family's silver ticket, and the emperor guarantees it." At the door of a dim sum shop, the old lady and the shopkeeper of the dim sum shop argued, the old lady made money and wanted to buy some snacks for her granddaughter, but she didn't expect the other party not to accept it.

The shopkeeper of the dim sum shop frowned and said, "Auntie, it's not that we don't accept cash tickets, but that your silver tickets are not in the right condition!" ”

"What do you mean it's not the right color?" The old lady stayed there and said.

"This is a real silver ticket, this is the silver ticket you collected, you can compare it well, and you will know." The shopkeeper of the dim sum shop took out a real silver ticket and put it in front of the three fake silver tickets of the old lady.

"How so?" The old lady looked at the silver ticket in front of her in disbelief, even if the craftsmanship of the craftsmen invited by the Ziqian family was superb and could reach eight points of the silver ticket, but as long as it was carefully compared, the difference would definitely be found.

"Not to mention that the quality of your silver ticket is wrong, each of the Mo family's silver tickets has a unique number, and the number of your three silver tickets is the same." The shopkeeper put out the numbers of the three silver tickets of the old lady, and it was exactly the same, in fact, the shopkeeper of the dim sum shop was also the first time to see the fake silver ticket, and he was not sure at the time, when he saw the three same numbers on the fake silver ticket, he was sure that the silver ticket in front of him was fake.

"And you don't have a watermark on this silver ticket yet! and ......" The shopkeeper of the dim sum shop picked up the real silver ticket and told the old lady how to distinguish the authenticity of the silver ticket from the popular science ink magazine, and the old lady gradually believed that her silver ticket was fake, and couldn't help crying.

Thirty wen is not much in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is the cost of living for ten days in an abjectly poor home, which is not a small loss.

As time passed, one by one the fake silver tickets were exposed, most of the victims were elderly people, and there were also many merchants who received silver tickets and did not inspect them at all.

Soon, the matter of fake silver tickets instantly spread throughout Chang'an City, everyone was afraid of silver tickets like snakes and scorpions, and the credibility of the silver tickets in Mojia Village instantly fell into a trough.

"Fake Silver Ticket!" Merton took the few fake silver tickets in his hand, his face gloomy.

After the outbreak of fake silver bills, Mojia Village Bank, which received the news for the first time, immediately reported it to Merton.

"The bank has just issued a silver ticket, and the other party can create a fake silver ticket in a short time, which is definitely not done by ordinary people." Shen Hongcai said with a gloomy face.

He saw with his own eyes how sophisticated the process of making silver tickets was, and the secret skills contained in it were even more extraordinary, but he didn't expect that it would be imitated by the other party in a short period of time.

"Who the hell is it? Are you targeting my Mo family? Merton frowned, he led the Mo family to rise, although he advocated a peaceful rise along the way, but he inevitably offended many people, he thought back to his opponents over the years, but he didn't have the slightest clue.

"No matter who targets the Mo family, the immediate priority is to curb the proliferation of fake silver tickets." Shen Hongcai took a deep breath and said.

Once the fake silver tickets are rampant and the people suffer heavy losses, at that time, even if the Mo family is not responsible, they will not be able to explain to the imperial court, and the credit of the silver tickets will be greatly hit.

Merton nodded solemnly and said: "This time the hardest hit areas of fake silver tickets are Chang'an City and Luoyang City, and the people in the dark have seen through the fact that the people of Chang'an do not know the fake silver tickets, which makes the people of Chang'an deceived, and immediately publicize the anti-counterfeiting method of silver tickets in Chang'an City and Luoyang City. ”

Shen Hongcai nodded and said: "Although the appearance of the fake silver ticket this time is eighty percent similar, but the watermark and micro-carving secret technique of Mojia Village have not been cracked, as long as you pay attention to it, it is not difficult to distinguish, the biggest reason why so many people were deceived this time is that these people did not check the fake silver ticket for the first time, so they were tricked." ”

"Second, vigorously offer a reward in the ink magazine, if anyone can provide clues to fake silver tickets, they will be rewarded with 100 yuan, and important clues will be rewarded with 1000 yuan!" Mo Dun said sharply, this time he was really angry, not because the other party moved the interests of Mojia Village, but because the fake silver ticket hurt many people who trusted Mojia Village, which is the foundation of the Mo family.

"There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and I believe that the other party cannot be completely flawless." Shen Hongcai said coldly.

"What about the ordinary people who have been deceived?" Fu Bo on the side said worriedly, he had experienced the poverty of Mojia Village, sometimes a penny was precious, and even more importantly, the silver tickets were at least one cent, and many deceived people were holding one or two silver tickets, which was too cruel for a family.

"Since it's my Mojia Village that I haven't thought through, then I'll be accompanied by my Mojia Village!" Merton said categorically.

"Never!" Shen Hongcai hurriedly said: "If Mojia Village bears the fake silver bills in full, wouldn't it be a ploy of the people in the middle and in the dark, and the other party will definitely be able to easily defraud a huge amount of money from the Mojia Village Bank if they take out a lot of fake silver tickets."

I am afraid that the people in the shadows are paying attention to Mojia Village's every move, if Mojia Village releases a rumor to compensate the fake silver ticket in full, the other party can use the fake silver ticket to easily defraud the huge wealth from the hands of Mojia Village.

Mo Dun suddenly frowned, if Mojia Village does not compensate, the credibility of the silver ticket will plummet, if it is compensated, it will be the strategy of the people behind it.

"For today's plan, there is only one way, then ask the Chang'an County Ya to come out, count the losses of the people, and summarize them in the record, if the case is solved in the future, follow the losses, and then compensate." Fauber's heart moved.

"That's really one way to do it." Shen Hongcai nodded in agreement, and in this way, it also gave the deceived people hope to recover their losses.

Merton thought for a while and said, "That's fine, but if the deceived person under the silver bill has a guarantee from the owner, the bank will directly compensate him." ”

"Young Master is merciful!" Fauber was moved. In fact, most of the poor people are deceived by a penny of silver, plus someone to guarantee it, so that the secret people cannot be bad.

Shen Hongcai carefully calculated that it would not take too much money to pay only one penny of silver, so he agreed to this plan, and in this matter, although Mojia Village is also a victim, but if it doesn't pay a penny, I'm afraid it can't be justified.

"Even so, the enemy is clear and I am secret, since the other party can imitate the silver ticket eighty percent similar, it is difficult to guarantee that it will continue to crack the silver ticket." Shen Hongcai sat down and said uneasily, the strength of the person who spread the fake silver ticket was so strong that he was like a fish in his throat, and he imitated the fake silver ticket so quickly to this extent.

Merton frowned and asked, "Where is the paper used to make the silver ticket this time?" ”

"Back to the young master, the silver ticket is made of the best Chu paper in Shu." Fu Bo replied that Chu paper is the best paper in Datang, and it is one of the few papers that can meet the needs of making silver tickets.

Merton shook his head and said: "Although Chu paper is precious, but there are not many in circulation on the market, immediately revise the silver ticket, abandon Chu paper, and use the royal tribute mulberry paper, I will personally ask Your Majesty for this matter." ”

Shen Hongcai couldn't help but be happy, mulberry paper is a royal tribute, and it is not circulated in the market at all, and it will be much more difficult for people in the dark to fake it.

"This mulberry paper is just a transition to the silver ticket, and Mojia Village must control the lifeblood in its own hands and create a unique paper for the silver ticket." Merton said solemnly.

"A one-of-a-kind paper!" Fauber wondered.

"Tissue paper!" Morton said word by word, although he did not know the production process of banknotes in later generations, but he knew that the paper used in banknotes in later generations was cotton paper.

And cotton has just appeared in Datang, and it is unheard of to make paper with cotton pulp.

"In addition, whether it is a penny or a penny of silver tickets are all using the highest anti-counterfeiting secret technology, one or two silver tickets everyone will be cautious, really let people let down their guard or a penny of silver tickets, I want to make a point of fake silver tickets out of the capital is not enough." Merton said proudly.