"It's counterfeit! Although it is not enough to confuse the real with the false, but how can the small people tell the difference? Zhang Ziyun took a closer look at the silver dollar coupon in his hand, and immediately lost his voice. The Silver Dollar Coupon had been issued for more than three years, and it was all too familiar, so she could see the difference at a glance.

A few silver dollar coupons were circulated in the hands of everyone, and the meeting room began to buzz with discussion.

One of the silver yuan coupons was sent to Wang Yue, he turned it over and looked at the front and back, and then put it in front of his nose and smelled it.

If there is a real coin, there will be a fake, and the production process of the starting point city comes from later generations, whether it is paper materials or printing materials. It is simply impossible for the production process of this plane to forge silver dollar coupons without being recognized, so these counterfeit coins can be distinguished at a glance in the eyes of those who know the industry.

Wang Yue asked Li Maochang quietly: "Where do these fake silver yuan coupons come from?" ”

"Shanxi." Li Maochang said: "Since last month, counterfeit silver yuan coupons have appeared in Taiyuan, Datong and Zhangjiakou outside Shanxi Province, and most of these counterfeit coins have been circulated through small trade. As far as we know, most of these counterfeit coins are used to buy food and other goods from the people, and the people have limited ability to distinguish counterfeit money, so most of them fall into their hands. ”

Zhang Ziyun said in surprise: "It has only been less than two years since the promotion of the silver yuan coupon of my starting point city in Shanxi, has the people already recognized it so much?" ”

Li Maochang smiled and said: "The prime minister doesn't know, my starting point city bank has always had good credit, and it has accumulated a good reputation in Shanxi for more than a year, so the silver yuan coupon has been recognized by most people."

Moreover, Shanxi is the base camp of Jin merchants, and has always had a tradition of using silver tickets, and our silver yuan coupons are actually similar to small silver tickets, so Shanxi people are more acceptable than people elsewhere. ”

Wang Yue nodded and asked, "May I ask Minister Li, who made this counterfeit money?" Do you have a clue? ”

"It's Jin Shang!" Li Maochang's tone was affirmative.

"Oh? How so? Wang Yue then asked.

Li Maochang said: "I used to be a businessman, and before I did not make a living by myself, I used to be a partner in the Jin family's shop and a shopkeeper. Therefore, the Jin merchants have seen too many silver tickets, bills, and bills, and on this fake silver yuan coupon, the humble position can feel the shadow of the Jin merchants, and only they have the ability to make the silver yuan coupon so similar. ”

In fact, the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty have done a good job in the anti-counterfeiting of various bills, watermark technology, special writing, seal micro-carving, Chinese character seal, all kinds of things, their kind of horn anti-counterfeiting special-shaped seal, is to the later generations, the same is admired.

Especially the silver tickets of the Jin merchants, its anti-counterfeiting technology is very superb, if there is no excellent anti-counterfeiting technology, the silver tickets of the Ming and Qing dynasties are difficult to prevail.

"This is one thing," Li Maochang continued, "and the second is that there is a large amount of counterfeit money. Since last month, a large number of counterfeit coins have poured into Shanxi and Zhangjiakou, threatening to drown out the real coins. Such a big action is none other than the Jin merchants, without their participation and acquiescence, the flood of counterfeit money would not have been so fast. ”

"Shhh Everyone in the conference room gasped, credit is ethereal, it is very difficult to establish, and it is very fast to destroy, and the treasure money of the Ming Dynasty is a lesson from the past.

"What about the third?" Zhang Ziyun asked eagerly.

The silver dollar coupon is the most important weapon of the country in the starting city, and she is deeply aware of its importance, so she can't help but be anxious.

Li Maochang said: "Third, Minister Wang should explain to everyone. ”

Wang Pengyuan said loudly: "Since Minister Li's trading company discovered the counterfeit money, the branches of our Imperial Bank in Taiyuan and Datong have also appeared with counterfeit money to save people.

But that's not the most important thing, and despite the noise of the people who hold the counterfeit money, these counterfeit coins are still kept out of our doors.

The strangest thing is that the genuine silver yuan coupons issued by our Imperial Bank have been flowing to Shanxi in large quantities since last month.

According to our investigation, we found that there are large merchants in Shanxi Province who use goods, silver and other equivalents to cash out a large number of silver yuan coupons. According to statistics, within a month, these large merchants have collected as many as 8 million taels of silver yuan coupons, and they are still rising.

And these silver yuan notes did not enter the market, but were deposited in the branch of our imperial bank in Shanxi. ”

Wang Yue tapped his finger on the table and said, "These big merchants are all Jin merchants, right?" ”

"Yes!" Wang Pengyuan said: "The difference between our silver dollar coupons and silver coupons is bearer, but the passbook is named, and these big merchants include more than ten wealthy merchants such as Fan, Wang, Jin, Kang, Zhai, Liang, Huang, and Qu in Jindi. ”

Wang Yue sneered: "The exchange of silver for silver yuan coupons will lose fire consumption, and storing silver yuan coupons will generate interest to make up for fire consumption, these Jin merchants have a good calculation." There are counterfeit money in the front, and there are hoarding silver yuan coupons in the back, what do these Jin merchants want to do? Tell me about it. ”

Li Maochang hurriedly said: "It's very simple, their goal is to bring down the silver yuan coupons. Our Imperial Bank is too threatening to their Jin merchants' banks, and in the long run, their banks will not be able to open.

Counterfeit coins were created to disrupt the market and undermine the reputation of silver dollar bills. Once the time comes, they will spread rumors that the silver dollar coupons are not credible and will sooner or later become waste paper, luring the people to run on the silver coupons, and the huge silver yuan coupons in their own hands are the hammer that will be smashed into our starting city, and will destroy our Imperial Bank in one fell swoop. ”

Li Maochang also knows a lot about the operation of the bank, so he has accumulated a lot of basic financial knowledge.

He continued: "In addition, there is another point worth noting, the merchants in Shanxi and other places who are close to my starting point city have also been suppressed by the Jin merchants recently, among which the Cao family and the Chu family, represented by the Chen vinegar family in Qingxu County, have been boycotted by the eight Jin merchants.

It can also be seen from this that once the silver yuan coupons of my starting point city are run on and shaken, the next means of the Jin merchants may be to boycott the commercial goods of my starting point city, so as to achieve the purpose of adding fuel to the fire.

In addition, the means of the Jin merchants are not only this, the price of grain, salt, tea, cloth and other daily necessities in Shanxi and other places has also been rising, while the checkpoints in Shanxi are blocking the import of various places in every way, resulting in a small number of department stores in Shanxi, and then there is a map. ”

"What a big hand, these Jin merchants are so bold!" Wang Zhuo finally understood and was angry.

"Huh!" Wang Yue smiled and said: "I see that these Jin merchants are so aggressive, not only that my starting point city has affected their financial routes, but it is very likely that they are messing with my back road for the sake of the Manchu Dynasty." ”