Chapter 1040 The Mother Money Leaked Out in Advance (II)

"Coincidentally, just by coincidence", Zhao Xing muttered, after a pause, he immediately asked curiously: "Teacher, then does my Great Song Dynasty issue this kind of 'Yuan You Tongbao' written by you?" ”

Su Shi's face was already wrinkled: "Why don't you issue it?" How can it not be issued? The mother money of this kind of money was sent to the money supervisors in various places at the beginning of the year, and now, the money supervisors have minted 600,000 yuan, and if it is not issued, these 600,000 yuan will be dissolved......

After a pause, Su Shi continued: "This cochin copper coin was discovered six or seven days ago, although the hole in the middle of this kind of money is solid, but except for this solid square hole, the other shapes are exactly the same as the 'Yuan Yu Tongbao' I wrote.

This is a big problem, and it takes at least three months from casting the money mold to melting the copper juice to cast the copper coin, and then polishing it and transporting it to various places in batches. Three months ago, I didn't write down the words 'Yuanyou Tongbao' at all, who can be so unpredictable?

I know they are prophets of the future, but do the ministers of the court believe them? How could they believe that someone had written these words before I did? Even if my Da Song made a profit because of this private money, but this is related to my reputation, how can I not figure it out? ”

Su Shi looked a little anxious. Others may be at a loss when this happens. But when I met Zhao Xing, it was like a pediatric. It didn't take him a few breaths to figure out why.

"Teacher...... The teacher was once taken by Shen Kuo with a letter, so that he belittled Huangzhou. Well, the teacher has been able to communicate with people recently, and there used to be the word 'Yuanyu' in the correspondence? ”

Zhao Xing reminded Su Shi that Su Shi was also a smart person, and he immediately understood: "It's not good, I've been communicating with more than 100 people recently,...... From last year to this year, there are 700 letters. ”

Zhao Xing rolled his eyes angrily, why did you say you had nothing to do to write so many letters?

However, Zhao Xing still underestimated the rights and wrongs of Su Shi, and modern people collected about 3,000 of Su Shi's letters at this time, and on average, Su Shi wrote ten letters a day - in this sense, Su Shi deserved his title of "prolific writer".

"Seven Hundred Letters...... There must have been a letter in which the word 'Yuanyu' was deducted and used to mint money...... Is there a manuscript? The teacher can flip through the manuscript and make a list of it, and I'll check it for you", Zhao Xing's enthusiastic suggestion.

Su Shi was a little dazed, he stood up uncontrollably, and walked out of the door unconsciously, as if he had listened to Zhao Xing's words and planned to make a list of seven hundred people.

In fact, what he needed to make was a list of 3,000 people.

After Su Shi walked out of the study, Chen Gongchuan was full of admiration, and personally sent him out of Su Dongpo's study, he stood at the door, watching Su Dongpo's back disappear into the courtyard, let out a long sigh, and said thoughtlessly: "Let the thief go to check the thief, alas, ......"

Zhao Xing didn't seem to hear the other party's words, he watched his teacher's departure with a solemn face, Chen Gongchuan waited until there was silence around, he reflexively walked to the pile of copper coins, picked up the solid "Kong Fang coin" that appeared in Yue Guo, looked at it for a long time, and asked curiously: "Why is the middle solid, isn't this giving someone a piece of copper for nothing?" ”

Zhao Xing touched his chin and replied honestly: "Cost, this is out of cost considerations." The 'hole square copper coin' requires two sets of stamping equipment, first stamping out the square hole, and then stamping out the money shape. If the square hole is not stamped out in the middle, then only one set of stamping equipment is needed, and the production time is also shortened by half.

Therefore, even if the square hole is solid, the overall accounting: a set of stamping equipment only needs one set of molds, reducing one set of molds, reducing one process, hiring half of the workers, and doubling the processing speed...... After accounting, the solid 'Kong Fang Qian' does not cut off the copper, but is much cheaper. ”

Chen Gongchuan walked at the door with the solid copper coin, his posture was to observe the copper coin in the sun, but his eyes swept to the entrance of the courtyard, his ears were raised high, and he said with emotion: "This kind of money casting is really exquisite, don't say it, it's the first time I've seen it."

Just now, Bachelor Xiao Su said that this kind of money is sent to the copper prison, and there is also a four-cent interest on the money. As far as I know, this copper coin is equivalent to Song money. Its copper content is higher than that of 'Yuanyou Tongbao', and the casting is more exquisite than that of 'Yuanyou Tongbao'...... Still let the money supervisor get four percent of the money interest, aren't you afraid of losing money? Isn't it a loss? ”

Zhao Xing also walked to the door, holding up a real version of 'Yuan You Tongbao' in one hand and a pirated version of 'Yuan You Tongbao' in the other, holding it up in front of him and saying to the sun: "This is a product of two eras, the former is the technology of the Bronze Age, and it still stays on the basis of 'Shashi Fan', and one coin plate mints sixty-four coins." Before each casting, the money fan must be cast, and then the copper juice should be melted, and the copper juice should be poured into the 'sand and stone fan'......

Melting copper juice is a slow job, and a furnace of copper juice has to burn countless coals, and it takes a lot of time. And casting copper juice is a hurry, the action is slow, and the copper juice solidifies again. After the copper coin is cast, the 'sand stone fan' is to be crushed, the copper coin is taken out, the filling mouth is cut off, and the ...... These tools are too time-consuming, too labor-intensive, too energy-intensive.

And the latter...... Lo and behold, this copper coin belongs to the Iron Age and is a smokeless industry. Do you know, the copper plate of the copper coin has been specified before the copper mine, this kind of copper plate to the stamping machine, no need to go through the dissolution, only need to twist the most rudimentary spiral stamping machine, a plate down, 'Dafan' stamping out of ninety-nine copper coins, 'Zhongfan' sixty-four, 'Xiaofan' nine.

The stamped copper coin does not need to be polished at all, it is directly a ready-made copper coin...... Think about it, how many processes are omitted in this casting process, how much time is saved, and the whole process, there is no need to stew before and after, isn't this a 'smokeless industry'? ”

Zhao Xing put the two copper coins together and said with emotion: "In fact, the cost of the coinage industry that evolved to the Iron Age is only one-seventeenth of the former, which means that even if this latter solid 'Kong Fang coin' is only worth half of the former, or even one-fifth, it still makes money." With a five-fold profit, who cares about a four-in-one profit.

Let the money supervisors in various places get a profit of four percent, just so that they can spare no effort to implement this kind of copper money, this is the 'equal sharing of interests', this is called 'the seeer has a share', of course, you can also call it 'convenient with others, convenient for yourself'. ”

Chen Gongchuan put down the double currency, he shook his head, and said disdainfully: "Greedy, too greedy!" ”

At this time, Su Shi reappeared at the gate of the courtyard, his hands were empty, his expression was firm, it seemed that he understood that it was impossible for him to find evidence from the vast number of letters in this life, and this evidence was of no use to those court officials who were bent on finding fault.

Seeing Su Shi coming, Zhao Xing seemed to say to himself: "From copper plates to copper coins, it is several times the profit...... But you don't understand the essence of money, from money to money, the profit of four out of four is already amazing. Because it's not one or two copper plates, but four percent of millions of copper coins......"

Su Shi approached, and Zhao Xing's words stopped abruptly. At this time, Su Shi had already thought about it, and he returned to the study with a relaxed expression under the greeting of Zhao Xing and Chen Gongchuan. Just as he wanted to open his mouth to express his attitude, Zhao Xing interrupted his train of thought by speaking first: "Teacher, when it comes to copper coins and gold and silver coins, the protégé has traveled overseas this time, but he has received a lot of coins from the feudal kingdom.

Just now the teacher talked about fake money, the protégé has been abroad for the past few years, but I don't know the authenticity of the money, the teacher will show me? ”

Su Shi was attracted by this question, and he nodded immediately. Actually, he didn't nod, Zhao Xing was already beckoning someone to carry a box.

The wooden box was opened, and it was full of bundles of round currency wrapped in paper bags, all with different words written on them, including Chinese and words that Su Shi did not recognize, zigzag like earthworms.

Zhao Xing took out a paper bag from the long box and handed it to Su Shi, on which was written in Chinese "Abbasid Dynasty - Black Clothes Big Food".

This paper bag is shaped like a stick, the two ends are tightly wrapped, Su Shi is holding it in his hand, and he is feeling the heavy weight, Zhao Xing exerted his strength, and broke open another paper stick with the same handwriting - boom, white, round silver coins spilled on the table. Depending on the situation, this kind of black-clothed food money is not the money of the era, but the head of the year instead of the year name, and those silver coins are printed with various heads wearing crowns.

The scene that followed was like a numismatic exposition of all nations, and in a short time the table was piled with Byzantine gold coins, Egyptian gold coins, gold, silver and copper dollars from France, England, Poland, the Papal States, and some African gold and silver copper coins...... Of course, the most abundant gold, silver and copper dollars from countries in South Asia are still the same.

Looking at the gold, silver and copper dollars in South Asia, Su Shi breathed a sigh of relief and his heart was full of joy.

Because this pile of money not only has the "Yuan You Tongbao" written in his handwriting, but also almost all the famous calligraphers of the Song Dynasty in addition to him. The money of the copper coin here is written by Zeng Bu, and there are also Cai Jing and Mi Fu written,...... Even the dead Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Fan Zhongyan and other celebrities are among them, and the various versions of copper coins they wrote are new and old, some are incomplete, covered with patina, and the shapes of the coins are all private coins minted by themselves under the pretense of various era names of the Song Dynasty.

"Nanyang - no, Dongyang, they are all popular Song money?! Oh my God, if you hadn't brought back this money, I wouldn't have known that all the feudal clans were copying Song money...... Now it's good! Those people in the staff department should be transferred, such a big matter, they didn't report to the court at all", Su Shi said with emotion.

A box full of money, it is not a two-piece coin, there is gold and silver in it, and the coins are new and old...... This shows that these evidences are not deliberately forged, but that foreign countries are indeed copying Song money, but the situation of those vassal states is not known to the Great Song Dynasty, which makes Su Shi both chilled and relieved.

The heart is cold because of my own ignorance; Rejoice, because with it as proof, how should those who attack him explain that they wrote money for the vassal kingdom - now they should shut up.

Looking at the pile of money, Chen Gongchuan looked directly at Zhao Xing inquiringly, and Zhao Xing casually picked up a few of the rusty copper coins, half as if to Chen Gongchuan, half as if to explain to Su Shi: "These are a few Tang coins, but it is actually an imitation of Tang money, which was imitated by Japan in the Tang Dynasty."

This shows that the tradition of imitating my Huaxia money has been in the Tang Dynasty since the Tang Dynasty...... Well, now this habit has begun to spread, Goryeo, Jiaozhi ......, everyone thinks that Song Qian is the most beautiful in the world, so they take Song Qian as a model - this is actually the embodiment of my **** prestige.

O prosperous age! You say, why don't they copy Mayi money? Imitation of Tibetan money? Imitation Liao money? Imitation of Western Xia money. It seems that they still think that my Da Song is Zhengshuo! ”

This statement made Su Shi's eyes light up.

Yes, there are two sides to the same question. Although they privately copied Song money, now, because of the import of these copper coins, my Great Song Dynasty has alleviated the money shortage, so that there is no need to buy a large number of copper ingots from Goryeo; On the other hand, isn't it an honor for everyone to imitate your money and not your enemies?

"Yes, that's it!" Su Dongpo wanted to shout excitedly, he pointed to the box of money, and asked Zhao Xing a little embarrassed: "Leave people, this thing ......"

"The teacher just takes it, and carries this box of money to the palace to see what those people say", Zhao Xing replied very cheerfully. The total value of this box of money is about 30,000 yuan. But if they are used as proof, the amount of private money can reach three million. Spend 30,000 guan to buy 3 million guan, or even 5 million guan coinage, such a cheap thing, it would be a fool not to do it.

"Okay, I'll go to the book", Su Dongpo spread out the paper, picked up the pen, and suddenly, he remembered something, and said hesitantly: "Leaving people, there is one thing, I don't know how to tell you......"

Zhao Xing blinked, and asked with an innocent expression: "What's the matter?" But it doesn't hurt to say that's okay. ”

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