The copper coin in Liu Jing's hand is a Han coin minted by them, but the color of this Han coin is grayish, and it does not have the brass color of the usual Han five-baht coin, which can be easily identified from the surface, indicating that the copper content of this fake coin is not enough.

"This is the imitation Han coin we found in Yedu, Your Highness, please look at this cut five-baht coin."

Zhang Jin handed another cut of the same fake money to Liu Jing, Liu Jing took it and looked closely, only to see that the cross-section was slightly grayish-white, and it was the same as the copper coins of the Wei State in the past, Liu Jing had an understanding in his heart.

Zhang Jin explained: "We have already checked that the copper content is the same as that of the previous Wei money, and the copper content is only 60% and 5, so we suspect that this is a fake money officially minted by the Wei State in order to destroy the reputation of the Han money." ”

Liu Jing handed the fake money to Ma Liang and Jiang Wan, pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that Cao Pi has realized that Wei is about to be occupied by Han money, so he uses this disgraceful means to discredit Han money, but he can't change the quality of fake money, it can be distinguished from the surface, we must let the people of Wei know that if we distinguish real money from fake money, we must also increase the minting of money and gold ingots, and exchange various important materials from Wei State." ”

At this time, Zhang Jin cautiously asked: "Your Highness, can we retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and mint even more inferior Wei money?"

"Not necessarily!"

After Zhang Jin finished speaking, Liu Jing waved his hand and said: "Originally, Wei Qian's reputation is not good, and it is not meaningful to discredit it, and more importantly, it will waste our ability to mint money, we don't have to ignore it, once the fake money is identified, Cao Pi will also stop, he can only mint real new Han money to fight, in that way, Wei Qian will gradually disappear, which will lay the foundation for us to unify the world." ”

Zhang Jin nodded silently, he already understood the intention of the King of Han, Han money is on the one hand, the key is money and gold ingots, after the money and gold ingots of the Han State enter the Wei State, most of them will be collected, and there is no need to worry about circulating them back, unless the Wei State also mints money and gold ingots, but there is not much gold in the hands of the Wei State government, and the Han State has accumulated a lot of gold in these years of conquest, which is far from being comparable to the Wei State.

Swapping money and money for a large number of important materials for Wei was actually speeding up the war readiness of the Han State in disguise, and at the same time weakening the war readiness of the Wei State, and when Cao Wei realized this, it would be difficult to reverse the situation.

As for Liu Jing's acquiescence in the smuggling of pig iron and grain, it was nothing more than a bait that made it difficult for Cao Wei to make up his mind to cut off trade with the Han state.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jin gave a deep salute, "Weichen understands, and will speed up the casting of money and gold ingots." ”

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Yedu, since the Han and Wei countries opened up trade and allowed merchants to do business freely, as commerce between the two countries gradually flourished, Yedu also prospered, and most of the goods from Wei and Han were transited in Yedu and then transported to the final place.

This made Yedu, which had been deserted for several years, suddenly become prosperous, and the supplies were sufficient, and many long-closed shops and taverns reopened, but anyone with a discerning eye knew that all kinds of materials would not fall from the sky, and the prosperity of Yedu meant that the counties of Wei were even more destitute, and this false prosperity could not last long.

However, for Cao Cao, he needed pig iron and grain more, although these two items were officially controlled by the Han State and strictly forbidden to be sold to the Wei State, some well-known merchants still got a lot of pig iron and grain from the Han State and resold them to the Wei military at a high price.

Most of the Han money obtained by the Wei State from selling various materials was used to buy pig iron and grain, although Cao Cao also knew that this was to drink water to quench his thirst, but the desire for pig iron and grain made him unable to take care of it too much for the time being.

However, Cao Cao had another idea, they could also mint Han money to go to Chang'an to buy supplies, but in this way, Wei Qian would be severely impacted, so Cao Cao was undecided for a while, and at this time, Liu Jing sent someone to send an official document, asking Cao Cao to severely crack down on the minting of fake Han money in Wei.

In the Tongque Palace, Cao Pi reported the urgently needed inventory report to his father, Cao Cao sat on the seat, slowly looked at the inventory materials, his brows slowly furrowed, Cao Cao closed the report and asked, "Why is the gold inventory so small?" ”

"Back to my father, at the beginning of last year, I used gold to buy grain from the Han State to stabilize the price of grain, and I consumed a lot, and I rewarded the army twice last year and this year, and used tens of thousands of taels, so now the inventory is less than 20,000 taels."

Cao Cao didn't speak for a long time, and then Cao Pi said again: "Fortunately, there is enough stock of brass, which we can use to mint Han money and buy grain and pig iron." ”

"It's all used to mint Han money, what about our own money?" Cao Cao said a little unhappily.

"Father, in fact, the loss is not big, as long as we have enough copper, and the red gold can also be melted and minted money, we can completely mint an unlimited amount of Han money to buy Han materials."

Cao Cao sighed, "There may be no loss in interests, but the people accept Han money, in fact, they accept the Han Kingdom, Liu Jing has invisibly unified the world, how should this account be calculated?" ”

Of course, Cao Pi also knew the consequences of this Yan zhòng, but he was more realistic, Han money became more and more popular in the territory of Wei, on the contrary, Wei money was more and more ostracized, and if Wei money was minted again, they would only lose more.

Cao Pi said helplessly: "The child doesn't want to be like this, last month he began to mint Wei money according to the proportion of Han money, but after it was put into the market, no one cared, and the child made inferior Han money, but it is too different from the real Han money, and it has no effect, and now we are either watching the Han Kingdom buy our materials, or we also make Han money and buy each other's materials, there is really no way, unless my father cuts off the trade with the Han Kingdom again." ”

Cao Cao shook his head, "Cutting off trade will lead to even greater conflicts, and besides, I also need to buy pig iron and grain from the Han Kingdom, if there is really no way, then I can only mint Han money to reduce losses as much as possible." ”

"Yes! The child understands. ”

After a pause, Cao Cao said: "I received an official letter from Liu Jing, asking us to severely crack down on the minting of fake Han money in Wei, what do you think of this matter?" ”

Cao Pi thought for a while and said: "In terms of attitude, of course we must clearly support the fight against counterfeit money, but we can't take it too seriously. ”

Cao Cao nodded, "That's what it means, don't take the initiative too much, if the other party finds us, you might as well be positive, block the other party's mouth, in addition, suspend Wei Qian, the army is in urgent need of war materials, we have to go all out to mint Han money." ”

After some trade-offs, Cao Cao could only face reality, and at this time, he suddenly understood Sun Quan's helplessness at the beginning.

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A tavern near the West Gate in Yedu has finally opened its doors, and this tavern has a very vulgar name, Jucai Tavern, which was sold at a low price after closing for a few months during the Yedu depression.

Now the new owner of this tavern is Li Fu, and Cao Jun's search for Han spies eventually failed, but for the sake of prudence, Li Fu changed another tavern as his point of contact.

This tavern covers an area of five acres, not far from the city gate, and is an ideal location for information, and after Li Fu bought this tavern, he simply lived in this tavern himself.

In the lobby on the second floor of the tavern, dozens of drinkers are drinking and chatting, and the sound of laughter and chatting fills the lobby, most of these people are merchants, and the tavern is close to the West City Gate, which can not only drink and eat, but also provide accommodation, which has become an ideal place for merchants to stop.

At a table by the window, Li Fu was pouring himself a drink, although he was lustful and greedy, he was also very principled, and would never bring a woman to the intelligence point of the Han army.

At this time, a tall and thin man ran up from the first floor, his footsteps were very heavy, and immediately attracted the attention of the drinkers on the second floor, the man came directly to Li Fu, and said anxiously: "Master Li, can you help me see if this money is real or fake?" ”

This kind of topic is the most attractive to businessmen, dozens of businessmen in the lobby are attracted to come over, around Li Fu, Li Fu picked up a piece of money on the table, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, and smiled around: "Let's identify it and see if it's true or false?" ”

He held the money aloft, and several businessmen stepped forward to take a closer look, and a fat businessman said, "I don't feel like it's real, the color is not right." ”

Everyone agreed with the fat businessman's words, and Li Fu nodded, "Everyone is right!" ”

He said to the thin man again: "If you take a closer look, the money in the Han Kingdom is pure gold, and the color should be the same golden, and there should be no color difference, but your money is red and yellow, mottled in color, obviously wrong, and it contains at least half of the red gold." ”

The thin man almost cried, "Master Li, what should I do, I received more than a hundred of these fake coins." ”

The surrounding merchants sighed, all sympathized with him, but there was a bit of contempt in the sympathy, now in addition to buying and selling contraband, no one in the market paid the bill with money and gold ingots, it will be collected, the money that appears in the market must be carefully distinguished, who dares to accept money with obvious color difference like this, this person actually received more than a hundred, it is indeed a bit stupid.

Li Fu shook his head, "Long Qi, I've told you a few times, be cautious in doing business, don't be greedy, but you won't listen." ”

"Master Li, I know it's wrong, you can help me!"

Li Fu smiled and said, "I'll show you the way!" Go to the Honglu Pavilion in the Han Kingdom to report, if you provide clues that can allow the Honglu Pavilion to find out the counterfeiter, maybe the Honglu Pavilion will compensate you for your losses. ”

The merchants said: "It is indeed the only way, otherwise this money can only rot in their hands." ”

The thin man had no choice but to salute and hurriedly go, Li Fu smiled at everyone again: "Everyone has to spread the method of distinguishing real and fake money, so that everyone knows that fake money has nowhere to go, so it will disappear naturally, don't you say?" ”

"Li Ye is right, it is convenient for you to be with others, and it is convenient for yourself." Everyone agreed, and returned to their seats.

At this time, a bartender hurriedly went up and whispered a few words to Li Fu, Li Fu nodded, picked up the wine glass and flask, got up and went up to the third floor, he just walked into his room on the third floor, and there was a rhythmic knock on the door outside, "Come in!" Li Fu put down the ear cup, this should be the king's shopkeeper with news.

The door opened, and the shopkeeper Wang walked in quickly from the outside, closed the door casually, and stepped forward with a smile: "Master Li, I have already got the news." ”

Li Fu was in good spirits, this was three days ago he received an urgent order from Chang'an, asking him to do his best to find out the amount of money minted by Wei every year, which of course also belongs to the secret of Wei, but there are many people who know this secret.

Shopkeeper Wang handed him a piece of information, Li Fu opened it and looked at it, and then asked, "Where did you get it?" ”

It was obtained from Ma Xun from Si Jin Zhonglang with three hundred taels of gold, and his wife and brother made this deal, Li Fu felt a little painful in his heart for this gold, and he actually spent three hundred taels of gold, which was too cheap This bastard, but this person must use it again.

Li Fu asked again: "The guy who was going to sell weapons last time, has the background been clarified?" ”

"I found it clear, this person was originally Cang Cao in Cao's army, who was dismissed in the Battle of Hefei the year before last, and now specializes in reselling all kinds of military supplies, which is very convenient."

"And does he have any news now?"

"This person came to us the day before yesterday, and he is willing to give a little more price, it depends on when it is convenient for Li Ye."

Li Fu thought for a while and said, "Then let's go in the afternoon!" I'm going to see the goods with my own eyes. ”

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