Chapter 536: Bloody Shock (Fourth Watch)

In the palace, the commander of the Jinyi guard sent Peng Cheng to report urgently.

"Your Majesty, early this morning, a large number of counterfeit silver dollars suddenly appeared on the market, disrupting the market!" Peng Cheng said, while presenting a fake silver dollar coin that had been confiscated when he found it to Zhu Cijiao.

After Zhu Ci took it, he looked at it carefully, and then sneered.

"Hmph, the imitation is fifty percent similar, it seems that some people can't sit still and plan to fight to the death!" Zhu Ciji was not surprised by the appearance of counterfeit money, and it can even be said that it was within his expectations, from the day the central bank opened, he knew that relying on the strong competitiveness of the central bank, the original money banks on the market would inevitably be squeezed and forced into a desperate situation, and more and more money banks would go bankrupt, and eventually all money banks would not be able to continue to operate.

Zhu Ci knew very well that in the face of life and death, some money banks may be afraid of the power of the imperial court and dare not make moves, so they can only silently bear the collapse of the money bank, but some money banks will choose to fight to the death.

Businessmen pursue profits, and they can not even want their lives for the sake of profit, not to mention that they will definitely fight hard when it is a matter of life and death.

In order to deal with this almost inevitable counterattack, Zhu Ciwei had already sent a large number of Jinyiwei secret agents to monitor the movements in the market at all times, and therefore, the fake silver dollar coins on the market had just appeared, and Jinyiwei got the news, and then quickly spread the news to Zhu Cijiao's ears.

"This matter will be handed over to you Jinyi Wei to deal with, and all those who dare to imitate silver dollar coins will be found out within three days, and there will be no mercy!" Zhu Ci said solemnly.

"Obey the order!" Peng Cheng's heart sank, and he immediately took the order and walked out.

Three days is an important juncture, generally from the birth of counterfeit money, to the real flooding, it takes at least three days or more, as long as it can be solved within three days, then there will not be too much of a problem.

Similarly, the Tang and Song families also needed these three days.

It was also that teahouse, where the heads of the Tang and Song dynasties gathered again.

"Brother Tang, the counterfeit coins imitated by my Song family have begun to be distributed, what about your Tang family?" The head of the Song family said.

"Our Tang family has also distributed it, and several other money houses may also be secretly distributing counterfeit coins, but the degree of imitation is not as good as my two, but together with my two families, we can make the fake silver dollar coins on the market flood in three days at most, and then we will be half of the success." The head of the Tang family said with a smile.

"In this way, there must be no mistakes in secrecy, as long as we survive these three days, we will be able to usher in our turnaround!" The head of the Song family nodded.

After discussing the details again, the two heads of the family left the teahouse one after another.

In a place 100 meters away from the east of the teahouse, a fortune teller who looks about thirty years old is napping here, when the head of the Tang family leaves the teahouse, the fortune teller, intentionally or unintentionally, glanced at it, and after a while, when the head of the Song family also left the teahouse, the fortune teller also looked at it intentionally or unintentionally, but his eyes narrowed slightly at the same time, flashing a trace of cold light.

After a stick of incense, no one found out when the fortune teller had left.

This fortune teller was undoubtedly one of the secret agents of the Jinyi Guard, and at this moment he was in a secret guard of the Jinyi Guard, reporting to Peng Chengyu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, about the meeting between the Song family and the Tang family.

"Hmph, the Song family and the Tang family behind the two largest money houses are really mixed up!" Peng Cheng said coldly, he dared to conclude that the Tang and Song dynasties must be involved in the circulation time of counterfeit money, and it may even be dominated by the two families.

The reason why Peng Cheng dared to make such a conclusion was not only because the two families controlled the two largest money houses on the market, but also because Peng Cheng had checked the current situation of the two families, and the two families were almost driven to a dead end.

"Come here, send more people, and closely monitor the entry and exit of all industries and personnel of the two families, especially the two places where the two original silver stamps of the two major banks were printed!" Peng Cheng gave an order, and immediately a Jinyi Wei spy went to do it.

Peng Cheng didn't believe that the two families had made counterfeit money in such a short period of time, and there would be no flaws left.

Not only the two families, but there were also other counterfeit coins in time, and Peng Cheng also sent Jinyi guards to closely monitor them.

All of a sudden, there were constant secret battles between the city of Nanjing, where the Nineteen Banks were located, and the provincial capitals, and there were signs of Jinyiwei's secret agent activities everywhere, detecting any suspicious news and personnel.

A day later, a brocade-clothed guard followed a slave of the Song family to a secret location outside Nanjing.

Two days later, a brocade guard secretly discovered the place where the Tang family printed counterfeit money.

On the same day, more places where other families printed counterfeit money were found, including the Song family, and even some ordinary people were tempted by profits and joined in the sale of counterfeit money.

Things have reached such an extent that it is almost time to close the net.

On the third day, thousands of brocade guards were all dispatched, and together with some police officers from the police station, rushed to the families involved in it with lightning speed.

In one day, the Tang and Song families were raided, and all the children of the family were arrested and put in prison, and together with the Tang and Song families, there were several other counterfeit money banks, none of which escaped the net, and at the same time, about dozens of ordinary people were also arrested and imprisoned because they participated in the sale of counterfeit money.

Although these so-called money merchants are not weak in financial resources, they also have a certain amount of strength, but it is a pity that they are fighting against the pervasive Jinyiwei intelligence organization and the entire Ming court, so what they do is no different from hitting a stone with an egg.

At the same time that the two Tang and Song dynasties and various banks that dared to imitate counterfeit money were wiped out, Daming Daily successively reported on several counterfeit money, and at the same time listed the difference between several counterfeit coins and genuine central bank money in Daming Daily.

In fact, because of the relationship between technology and time, the highest counterfeit money is only imitated to less than 60%, and the worst is not even 40%.

Only two days have passed since the counterfeit money came out and several money houses were raided on the third day, so the counterfeit money has not really spread.

According to the introduction in Daming Daily, the people who got the counterfeit money were compared, and for a while, the market was full of scenes of people scolding and crying.

Although counterfeit money has not really spread, in the end, there are still many people who have been fooled, and they have worked hard to sell a lot of things, but they have taken over in exchange for counterfeit money that has no use.

As a result, the credibility of the Daming Central Bank has suffered a certain blow, but because the time is short and the scope is not very large, the loss can still be within the bank's tolerance.

It is believed that although the people who have been deceived by counterfeit money have lingering palpitations and have a certain resistance to the banknotes of the central bank, they still blame themselves for being careless, and the credibility of the central bank will slowly recover over time.

And because of this blow, the wealthy businessmen of the two great merchants of the Tang and Song dynasties took as a lesson from the past, and even if other money banks were unwilling to go bankrupt, they would definitely not dare to act rashly again, and it was strange to appoint and close their own money banks, or carry out a series of reforms according to the central bank.

From the day the central bank opened, Zhu Cicheng had a strict order that those who made and sold paper money would not be punished.

In order to play a deterrent effect, the Tang and Song dynasties and several other paper money makers were beheaded, all family property confiscated, that day, the vegetable market guillotine, together with dozens of ordinary people who could not bear the temptation to know that it was counterfeit money and still participated in the sale of counterfeit money, nearly 300 people were killed at the same time, for a while, the heads were rolling, blood flowed, giving everyone a great deterrent.