Jiangnan Jiadao, this is the richest place in Daxia. If Kyoto is the political center, then it is the financial center.

And the richest person in Jiangnan is Wu Qidong.

This man does everything. Restaurants, fabrics, antiques, pawnshops, and even gambling, green houses, and private salt are also involved. In general, this person eats everything in black and white, of course, the fastest and most comfortable way to get money is to lend. One tael of silver is out, and ten taels of silver are returned.

To this end, he raised a group of thugs under his command. In Jiangnan Sandwich Road, there is no one he dare not provoke.

At first, he had some money in his family, but not as much as he does now. But he is transparent and will come to things. The underworld and white roads in this piece all call him Angkor. He raises the underworld, you want protection money, no problem I'll give it, but I can only give the strongest, the rest, I'm sorry, you can beat him, I'll give you the money. And a group of thugs under his hands, if they really get it, they don't necessarily want to die. On the surface, he is still a good person, and he helps the victims from time to time, and everyone in Jiangnan is praised.

Of course, these are just shows, and his big family business is not earned by doing business honestly.

Fair play, non-existent.

But now he was worried, and Jiangnan Jiadao suddenly broke into a troublemaker. If it were an ordinary person, the corpses of family members would have sunk to the bottom of the river. However, this spoiler is not an ordinary person, he was sent by the imperial court.

As mentioned earlier, this guy's main income is lending. Which of the merchants in the Jiangnan area did not deposit their money into his silver account, and then used the money to lend, it was simply a business without capital. But he also charges storage fees. It's like lying down and picking up money every day.

Even if his Qinglou is gambling, the gambling time has arrived, and the loan can't be broken.

Now they have a conflict of interest with the bank, and those who can't get along and want to turn over the money don't come to him to borrow money. Walking from the bank, the interest rate is lower and more comfortable. Now his money bank basically exists in name only, and he doesn't care about other places, but only he has the final say in Jiangnan Jiadao.

If the bank is going to collapse, he wants people to know that only he, Wu Qidong, has the final say in Jiangnan Sandwich Road. The rest, not even the imperial court.

Bring down the bank in Jiangnan Sandwich, and he has already assigned the task.

Soon, someone came up with a great idea. Fake money.

The imperial court is not without capable people, and it has been mentioned before that paper money is used instead of silver, but the most difficult thing to prevent is counterfeit money. If you can't prevent counterfeit money, a lot of money will pour into the market, and the money will no longer be straight. Jiangnan has nothing else, but there are many talents.

Soon, several consultations began.

Xia Yuan is like a shy little lady, gradually visible in front of them. Wu Qidong invited Zhou Qiling, known as the ghost hand, to copy. Let the famous paper king Qian Xu identify the paper used for fake money.

They knew that Xia Coin would definitely have a series of anti-theft measures, so they were well prepared.

They are all masters in the industry, and to put it mildly, the fake money they make may be more real than the real money.

It took them nearly two weeks to make the counterfeit money. A pile of Xia coins lay quietly in front of Wu Qidong, and he smiled presumptuously. "What kind of paper money do you say the imperial court makes, this money is earned faster than picking up money. Come, come, don't look at it, take a pile of them for each person. All of you here, if you take the money, we are in the same boat. I advise you to exchange the money in your hands for silver, for it will not be long before it will be turned into waste paper. ”

Wu Qidong is very confident and confident in his power. The people he invited were all celebrities from Great Xia, don't look at these people who are not famous when they are alive. After death, it's a generation.

But everyone also has to eat, and he has to give him face, otherwise he will invite them down to drink Meng Po soup.

He is confident that these people are the top talents in the industry.

Of course, he was not so stupid, he directly took the money to exchange for silver, and suddenly such a large sum of money came, the bank would definitely know. He decided to put a small batch to test the water, and the money was distributed to his men. His idea is simple, as long as fake money circulates in the market, fake money can become real.

He generously raised the wages of his subordinates, and those people naturally didn't know what was going on, and they were grateful to Dade one by one, and praised Wu Qidong for being a good person and a good man.

Soon, the fake money was sent to the bank.

Counterfeit money, Liu Meng and others decided to make paper money when they had already thought about it, the anti-counterfeiting mark was made by the Institute of Industry and Information Technology, and the detection equipment had already been in the hands of various banks along with the banknotes.

Moreover, notices have been issued to officials in various localities to severely punish counterfeit money once it is discovered. Moreover, there is a special tracking team for counterfeit money, which directly belongs to Emperor Xia. The heads of banks at all levels will report to the authorities once they discover counterfeit money, and they will naturally come down to investigate the matter at that time.

The bank manager silently receives the counterfeit money and passes the message back on the other. Now it is much more convenient to transmit news than before, and the post station personnel at all levels are equipped with walkie-talkies, which are transmitted from level to level, and there are strict orders and all kinds of things will not be transmitted wrongly. Soon the people of the investigation team came.

Wu Qidong was still proud at home, but he didn't know that the people from the investigation team had already arrived.

When the investigation team actually arrived, the bank suddenly released the news that a large amount of counterfeit money had been found. And the counterfeit money users were summoned one by one for questioning. In the end, the source was locked in Wu Qidong. Zhang Mingyuan, the administrative secretary, knew the news and immediately notified Wu Qidong. Wu Qidong didn't take it seriously, and it was over if he found someone to talk back. He was familiar with the officialdom of Jiangnan Sandwich, but he didn't expect it to be different this time.

Officials who knew him well were controlled and arrested early.

This time, Emperor Xia made up his mind to bring paper money to the market, and all other factors would be ruled out. So, the investigation team is equipped with the latest firearms. One or two firearms in the local yamen are already very good, and most of them are equipped with swords and other cold weapons.

They have little room for resistance. was arrested.

By the time Wu Qidong realized that something was wrong, it was too late, and the musket team had already surrounded Wu Qidong's mansion. He never imagined that he would fall on the counterfeit coin. In his opinion, isn't it just a counterfeit coin, how big it can be, he did all the murder and arson. If you can't find someone to go out, the image he created is enough to escape responsibility, I'm afraid many people don't understand why a good old man was arrested. He underestimated the determination of the imperial court and the power of technology.

In the past, when the emergency measures came down, it would take twice as much time to say less.

I have lived in Jiangnan for a long time, but I don't know that the outside world has already been turned upside down, and even the barbarian country has suffered a big loss on the battlefield, killing 200,000 people. Not to mention that he is a businessman.

He didn't give up, and was ready to buy a peace with money, and when he saw Zhang Mingyuan, he knew that he was finished.

And the most direct impact of this incident on Liu Meng is that a batch of big orders came. Civilianization of summer coin detectors.

ps: Recently, I read those things in the Ming Dynasty, and I found out that I wrote a very serious bug before, in fact, paper money has been around for a long time, and it has been prevalent in the Yuan Dynasty. And the concept I mentioned was also put forward in the Yuan Dynasty. What's more, the money distributed by the officials was grain. I mentioned productivity, but I ignored the important factor of food. Speaking of which, I still have to thank Mr. Yuan, it is his dedication that has made this book that I am full of. So the book tacitly assumes that the food problem has been solved. I really don't want to expand on the food issue, first, I don't understand, and second, I don't want to mislead everyone.