Chapter 401: New Money
Qiao Wansan, who came out of a building, had an ordinary appearance of a two-story building. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info grabbed a bag of money in his sleeve. Out of the building, worried about the money bag in his hand, he walked to a huge building complex, Chang'an Theater.
To put it mildly, he Qiao Wansan is a fan of drama, as long as the work is over, he will go to the theater to listen to the play. The Buddha was destroyed a while ago, and the temples of Chang'an were almost demolished, and the remaining ones were also miserable. The entire Buddhist temple was closed for meditation, and even the theater was closed.
He didn't know how those days had passed. If you don't watch a play for one day, it's okay, if you don't watch a play for two days, it's bearable. If I don't watch a play for three days, I'm going to break out. During that time, it was several years, and I really didn't know how to get through it.
Later, finally, a new theater opened, which is this Chang'an theater. Why didn't anyone think about it before, this theater has no rule that it has to be in a Buddhist temple.
Chang'an Opera Park had to be established, which brought him back to life. Not only is it alive, it's simply a new life. This theater, there are too many I haven't heard of, and I haven't seen a new play. When he heard the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the first time, he was fascinated, and every day he kept thinking about what would happen next time.
Although there are constantly some sour people, the sarcasm is simply scribbled, the Three Kingdoms is not like this, and they have to go back and take a closer look at the Three Kingdoms. However, he didn't listen to it, he didn't pay attention to it, he just loved to listen to these three countries, how about it.
Later, he finally couldn't help it and hit those sour people. Because, the Three Kingdoms not only said, but also began to act. Hearing this, he couldn't sit still and immediately went to buy a ticket. Sure enough, the acting is much better than the talk. Skip the Yellow Turban Rebellion in front of you, and go directly to Taoyuan Sanjieyi.
It's just that when I watched it wonderfully, the sour man appeared again, shouting loudly, Liu Guanzhang didn't tie up at all, they were just like brothers. If he is really righteous, wouldn't Guan Yu, a murderer, also become a relative of the emperor?
At the moment, I really can't help it. Take off your shoes at the moment, grab them, and come forward to beat these people violently. It made them cry and cry.
Later, these people went to report to the official. As a result, the county magistrate of Wannian County sent a quick arrest, but he was not caught. Without him, the law does not blame the public. At the moment, there were a lot of dissatisfaction with these people, and when they saw him do it, they also rushed up, and they suffered a lot to those people.
The county order said, you don't even know who beat you, how do you want me to judge this? Originally, those people were still trying to argue, but the county order directly blew them away. Anyway, no one was killed, no one died, nothing happened.
Later, the emperor died, to be honest, this made him quite stunned, isn't this emperor very young? That's not his concern, though. What he is concerned about is that when the new emperor ascends the throne, the temples that were destroyed and imprisoned will also be replaced, and many temples that have been destroyed and abandoned will be rebuilt.
However, the new emperor didn't know what was wrong, the new Buddhist temple was established, but the emperor actually stipulated that the Buddhist temple should not be built as a theater. With this order, he didn't care, anyway, it would be good to have Chang'an Theater. But then I was happy, and under this order, many new theaters, imitating the Chang'an Theater, opened.
Now he, an old drama fan, is happy, and there are many scenes to watch. It's just that he still loves to come to the Chang'an theater. Because of the high style here, there are often new plays, and the performances are also wonderful. He still loves to come to Chang'an Theater to cheer.
'Give me a bunch of silk flowers. Not much to say, the play is about to start, just at this time, a doctor passed by, he called someone, and asked the doctor to send him silk flowers, listen to the wonderful, he can reward.
The silk flowers were quickly delivered, and he took out the money and carefully counted it to the doctor. Seeing that it was new money, the doctor was very happy, thanked Qiao Wansan, and carefully took the shiny new money. As for this money, Qiao Wansan just took it out of the bank and went out.
After taking the silk flower, Qiao Wansan took the new money in his hand and played with it. This is what he got from the bank with a five-to-one ratio. Five copper coins for such a new coin.
I don't know what material this new money is made of, unlike the traditional Kong Fang brother, the whole thing is round and shiny. Above, one side is written in the Chinese character Wu, indicating that this is Wu Yuanqian. At the back, there is a fine pattern, and if you look closely at it, you can see the first year of the large and medium, around the coin. In the middle is a delicate floral figure. On the side, there are also fine lines.
'It's really rare, how can this court do it. Qiao Wansan looked at the shiny money in his hand. Not to mention that there is no hole in the middle. It's this exquisite carving, how to get it? Now those fake money are nerve-wracking. Qiao Wansan is a craftsman, and he knows how the imperial court used to mint money.
The sand turning method can not make such a beautiful pattern. It's so delicate, take it to the sand casting mold, and probably won't even have a pattern. Also, what is this money made of, how shiny and shiny, you can't feel it at all just by touch.
In addition, he took out another copper coin to watch. With this technology alone, it's worth five dollars. In the past, the court was poor and crazy, and it was not that it had never made a lot of money. When ten dollars. As a result, counterfeit money appeared wildly, causing prices to skyrocket.
Not now, though. The shiny five-yuan new money, he really couldn't figure out what kind of material it was made of. I can't even figure out the material, how do you imitate it?
Even, if you want to scrape money like before, it's impossible. Scraping money is unimaginable in modern times, but it was a very common thing in ancient times. It is to grind the money to grind a layer of crumbs, and to grind the money small and thin. This doesn't seem like much, but in fact, it adds up to a lot, and you can sell it for money when the time comes.
However, this trick did not work with this new money. There is a circle of lines around the new money, and there are exquisite patterns on the front and back, so that it can't be scraped. If there is even the slightest damage, it will be invalid and used as bad money. In this way, the money will not be able to be drawn.
After playing with it for a while, Qiao Wansan took out another copper coin. It's a penny. The front is a one. In addition to the year, the middle is a map of mountains and rivers, the same delicate, whether it is used to scrape money and imitate it is very troublesome, it is probably impossible to imitate it.
It's just that Qiao Wansan frowned, carefully groping for this copper coin, with his years of experience, he always felt that this copper coin was a little weird, but, where is the blame? Suddenly, the gongs and drums sounded, and before he could think clearly, the play began. Qiao Wansan put away the coins, and now it is more important to listen to the play.
'What is this, this is iron, only a layer of copper. What Qiao Wansan didn't know was that in various places in Datang, there were also a group of people who had such questions. As soon as the money was in hand, the professional habit felt that the money was wrong, so he simply melted the money, but he didn't expect to get iron and copper. This copper coin turned out to be just an iron coin with a layer of copper skin on the outside.
This court has no professional ethics than them for making fake money. Although they say that they are professional counterfeiters, they don't think so, they also have professional skills. According to them, they are making up for the dilemma of the lack of Datang coins and striving to build a new Datang, so they must have ethics.
In fact, they are not wrong, in these years, the minting of counterfeit coins is still tacitly approved. The imperial court is not enough coinage, what is ****** to do the history of currency, the history of the currency of the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that no one knows better than these people. The level of understanding can be used as a lesson for the prime minister of the current dynasty.
He can tell you that in the early Tang Dynasty, there were still very few coins, and many times they were bartered, using all kinds of silk and linen fabrics, and even in many places, even these cloths were scarce. In many rural areas of Shannan Province, when I go to buy salt, I exchange silk, wax, lacquer, fish, and goose. In Lingnan, gold, silver, cinnabar, and ivory were all traded.
Later, the money gradually increased, but it was still not enough. In the Central Plains, such as Ziqing, Taiyuan, Weibo and other places, lead and iron money are used. The material is not good, the shape is also poor, and all kinds of strange things are available before. They have calculated it here, and they have always minted money in good conscience, and the "goose eyes" and "rings" that they cast have been used by the imperial court by default as official money.
So when they heard that the imperial court had launched new money, including five coins, they immediately got a batch of new money, ready to continue to increase the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Before I got it, I was still very excited, when I was five dollars, how I wanted to go back to the time when the imperial court launched ten dollars, or even when I got fifty dollars.
His grandfather often said that when he was a child, the court introduced ten or even fifty yuan, and the elders were very happy. Desperately tried to cast.
Oh, no, they are not doing it for personal gain, but to remind the court that this law is not feasible. Sure enough, not long after, the imperial court had to announce that at that time, it had to dry the yuan heavy treasure and the heavy wheel dry yuan, and restore the same as the original Kaiyuan money, which was used one by one.
Originally, are the people in the court all fools? Although there are more materials, if you want to become ten or even fifty, other people will not mint fake money, but they will see that it is not worth it at all.
Who knows, as soon as I took it, I was dumbfounded. How can this money be imitated? The grandfather, who had not done anything for a long time and had always been a guide, was dumbfounded.
This thing is too delicate. Whether it is a wax fan, a sand fan, or a mud fan, it is impossible to leave too deep traces. In the past, when they minted money, the handwriting on it was relatively blurry, because they used the money issued by the imperial court as their mother's money, unlike the imperial court, where the mother's money was directly available, and the handwriting would of course be blurred.
I printed him on a wax model, and then I took it upon myself to carve the lines a little deeper. Then we use wax patterns, and we make our own money. If you have the mother money, you can use it to turn the sand. Finally, the minting family, the most skilled old man, spoke.
'Worthy of a grandfather. Someone immediately praised it, the sand turning marks are too shallow, isn't it good to deepen it? There is no mother money, we make it ourselves. It's a great way to do it.
But what about the shiny surface? This is five dollars, the surface is shiny and shiny, and I still don't know what it is made of, how to imitate this? Not to mention making molds, this shiny surface is a metal they have never seen before, and they don't even know where to get it. So, after brainstorming, someone came up with a solution, and then in exchange for a terrible howl. (To be continued.) )