The Quanzhou Maritime Safety Bureau Branch is among the best among the many branches in the Great Song Dynasty, which can be seen from the navigation-related offices and residential communities. The office is a building, and the staff living area is a building, and there is a basement with a half-leakage outside. As long as there is such a basement in hot and humid areas, the humidity of the rooms on each floor will be greatly reduced. The cost of building a house is much higher.

Chen Daoqing went to the factory where the Maritime Safety Bureau repaired the water storage equipment, and when the workers in the factory saw the uniforms of the procuratorate and the police, their faces became even more ugly. When the person in charge of the factory is in the office, he can wring water out of his face. Wiping the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, the person in charge said cautiously: "I also just came, and many people have been arrested in the factory." I am very limited in what I know. ”

Listening to this introduction, Chen Daoqing felt that the situation was not as bad as he thought. Originally, Chen Daoqing thought that the local people would rebound strongly, but he didn't expect the local people to attach great importance to this matter.

"What do you think about this?" Chen Daoqing asked the person in charge.

The person in charge had a wry smile on his face, "What can we think?" If they can do such a harmful thing, can they still call people? We all eat at sea, and this kind of infectious disease people used to be thrown into the sea at sea, and their lives could not be saved. The rules of the sea set by the officials are for the sake of fewer dead, or even immortal. So everyone said, these people should be killed. ”

There was no need to even go to Quanzhou, and the personnel of the Maritime Safety Bureau and the shipping personnel that Chen Daoqing came into contact with along the way all said that they wanted to severely punish these guys. The reason is the same as what the new person in charge of the factory said, those people are harming people by stealing sterilized silver, and no one can accept the existence of victims. So Chen Daoqing asked the person in charge, "Why didn't anyone come out to expose this matter before?" ”

"Before?" The person in charge looked embarrassed, "I just knew about it." ”

This is a statement that Chen Daoqing has heard many times, and it is also the most unacceptable statement of Chen Daoqing. How could such a thing have been going on for so long and no one knows? Those who have scourged the entire maritime industry can cover the sky with such a single hand!

"What has been the recent inspection of the vessel?" Chen Daoqing continued to ask the next question. Evidence is needed to kill those silverfish, and this is the job of the prosecutor.

"All the ships rushed to adjust when they heard the news. There are problems with more than 95 water tanks in this. The person in charge looked rather distressed as he spoke.

"Take me to see the scene." Chen Daoqing said coldly. Such a fact filled his heart with anger.

The inspection workshop is a very ordinary looking workshop, and many of the water storage equipment on the ship makes use of the hull space, not a separate water tank. Before the ship leaves the port, freshwater is sterilized and several ceramic strips embedded with silver sheets are placed to allow the silver to come into full contact with the water. Now that these ceramic strips are stacked in the workshop, the silver pieces near the upper part are still there, and the silver pieces at the lower end are missing.

The silver piece has been soaked in water for a long time, and the color on it is mottled, and it does not have the beautiful luster of the Great Song silver coin. But a large pile of dismantled silver pieces was piled up haphazardly, looking quite large. Chen Daoqing was bored when he first saw it, and he asked the person in charge of the workshop, "How many ships are this?" ”

"Sterilization tablets on about nineteen ships."

"Only nineteen?" Chen Daoqing was a little surprised, he thought that looking at a lot of silver pieces must be twenty or thirty ships.

"The ship is worried about the oxidation of the silver flakes, so they put more of them."

“…… How much did the stolen parts weigh? ”

"If it is minted by the imperial court, it can mint silver coins with a denomination of three hundred yuan."

"What? And the silver coins minted by the people privately? Chen Daoqing felt that something didn't seem right in his words.

Because he wanted to describe the situation accurately, but accidentally slipped out, the person in charge of the workshop was silent. Chen Daoqing was completely alert, there were rumors of counterfeit money a long time ago, and at that time, the local government had a lot of power to mint iron money. As for Jia Rudao's indiscriminate payment of banknotes when he was in power, it was only more than ten years ago. The real stability of the currency of the Great Song Dynasty was after the Zhao official family took over.

Although the Zhao family never boasted about this as their own merit, Chen Daoqing knew about the great changes in the currency of the Great Song Dynasty. Hearing the news, Chen Daoqing didn't dare to startle the snake, so he swallowed the topic back into his stomach. Moving on to the issue of silver.

Weigh and look at the color. With the narration of the person in charge of the workshop, Chen Daoqing suddenly understood one thing. The unsightly things in front of him were actually money, and they were all other forms of silver coins that were now very hard in the Great Song Dynasty. He picked up a handful of silver pieces, weighed them in his hand, put down the silver bar, took a silver coin from his pocket and turned it upside down. Chen Daoqing looked down at the silver pieces again, and felt that there was something strange in his heart.

The currency reform of the Zhao official family in recent years has been extremely vigorous, first of all, the gold and silver coins minted by the state began to circulate in the market, and secondly, the paper money, which could only pay half of the tax, has a status completely equivalent to gold and silver coins and coinage. With the banknotes, you can go to the bank to exchange for gold and silver coins of the same denomination. This action once set off a frenzied trend of exchanging money for metal currency.

However, in the end, this trend did not make metal money completely disappear from various storages, because Zhao Guanjia stipulated that metal money was not accepted in many fields, only paper money was accepted. In order to buy food, the people had to exchange metal money for paper money of the same denomination. In order to buy a house, wealthy families had to exchange metal currency and gold and silver for banknotes. Those who have the money to open shops, buy ships, and engage in shipping need to pay money to make various transactions with the bank.

Even so, seeing this pile of silver pieces that could be turned into silver coins with a little processing, Chen Daoqing felt that he understood why those people were so bold. Because at this time, even Chen Daoqing temporarily forgot the use function of the silver piece, and what he thought of in his mind was completely the monetary function of the silver piece. As long as you have a lot of silver coins, you can fulfill many of your wishes.

Chen Daoqing finally broke free from the magic of money, and after he returned to his residence, he sent a message to Ding Fei with his password, "I have heard that someone has minted silver coins without permission, but I don't know the specific situation."

The telegram soon arrived in Ding Fei's hands, which made Ding Fei very helpless. This is not the first telegram about this rumor, and prosecutors who have arrived at repair shops everywhere have sent similar messages. Ding Fei himself still remembers that his first errand after leaving the Anti-Rape Committee was the Fujian Lutidian Prison, where he went to Fujian and Liangguang to investigate the rumored counterfeit money case at that time.

At that time, the hard work did not find out anything, at most, when Zhao Guan's family exchanged and handed over the banknotes, there were some problems. However, those were all using the official banknotes that had already been issued to make profits, and there was no situation of printing banknotes privately. And now the rumors everywhere are related to the people who mint coins privately.

Ding Fei stood up and walked back and forth, he took a big gulp of his cigarette, but he didn't notice that he was smoking at all. It's easy to think that the money thieves are going to have to exchange their silver for currency. But Ding Fei didn't expect that this gang of silver thieves had such a big appetite, and if the same silver was used to make counterfeit coins, the profit would be much greater than that of exchanging silver coins minted by the country. Of course, the culpability is greater.

Snuffing out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, Ding Fei said viciously: "Invite the deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau and the National Security Bureau." ”

On the afternoon of the next day, Zhao Dengtong, deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau, Liu Chong, deputy director of the Security Bureau, and Ding Fei, the chief prosecutor, flew to the gate of the mint. It was a completely military unit, located in a relatively remote place, and was heavily protected and surrounded by the military. If it weren't for the fact that the three of them felt that they needed to supplement their knowledge and make an application, ordinary officials would not have thought of coming here at all. Not to mention ordinary people.

After some complicated procedures, the three heads of the powerful departments finally passed many checkpoints and entered the mint. Once they came in, they had to change into their work clothes. The best feature of these garments is that they have no pockets and are very easy to check. This mode is different from the military uniform of the army, the biggest difference in the military uniform of the army is that there are many pockets and many positions of various pendant plug-ins. The more combat techniques you master, the more pockets you have.

After changing their clothes, they were shown around. The head of this powerful department is also the first time to really contact the production and manufacturing of the Great Song Dynasty, and he is also quite excited. The crowd followed the narrator. It was discovered that coinage requires metal materials in the first place. The materials used in the silver coins of the Great Song Dynasty were all made in the smelter, and the mint itself was not responsible for producing them.

The materials were rectangular sheets, which were sent to a steam-powered press, from which they were stamped into round pieces of silver. These silver pieces are the same size, Ding Fei and the others walked to the boxes where the silver pieces were placed and took out some to see, it turned out that there were no patterns and textures on them, they were all silver pieces of the same size. Most of the silver sheets are very smooth, and some of them are not very good stamped, so they have to be sorted out and sent back to the furnace for recasting together with the left materials of the square after stamping.

After a large number of good silver sheets, these silver sheets are sent to another stamping machine, and after some stamping, the silver sheets have an outer outline. But there are no patterns and words on it. After this stamping process, the unqualified silver coins are picked out again.

After a number of processes, the final result is a beautifully crafted silver coin of standard weight. If it is an ordinary bump or other damage, everyone will know it at a glance. If someone estimates the reduction of silver coins, the same will be seen.

When Ding Fei and the others came out, the leaders of the powerful department were very surprised by this process, in their imagination, it was to make a mold, put silver in it, and smash such a beautiful silver coin with a bang. In reality, there are many more ways to deal with it than they think.

After coming out, Ding Fei invited the other two leaders to eat together. There was a lot of talk at the dinner table, which naturally included the recent money supply of the Great Song Dynasty. Silk has clearly withdrawn from the monetary field, and the supply of paper money appears to be much, much more. In particular, the face value of banknotes has changed from the original unit to the smallest unit of ten cents, which makes many people feel very unaccustomed. Because when they traveled, the copper coins in their hands completely turned into change.

Liu Pet said indifferently: "I didn't expect that our Great Song Dynasty would learn Mongolia in this matter. ”

As soon as these words came out, Ding Fei was simply amused. Fang Cai's topic is too complicated and heavy, and such a light-hearted statement is needed to ease the mood. Mongolia's "Zhongtong Yuanbao Jiao Banknote" was engraved and printed in the Kublai Khan era in the first year of Zhongtong in the Yuan Dynasty (1260 AD). This banknote is the result of several technical transfers. First, the Jin State imitated the Great Song Dynasty to some extent, and Mongolia acquired banknote making techniques and concepts from the Jin Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty. Especially after the surrender of Lin'an, Mongolia took away many coinage experts from the Great Song Dynasty, making greater breakthroughs in their coinage technology and concepts.

"Zhongtong Yuanbao Jiao Banknote" is printed on bark paper, the banknote paper is 16.4 cm long and 9.4 cm wide, and the upper and lower front and back are stamped with red official seals. This kind of banknote silver is the standard, with the unit of Guan and Wen, and the denomination: the text is counted in ten or four: 10 Wen, 20 Wen, 30 Wen, and 50 Wen. There are three hundreds: one hundred, two hundred, and five hundred. The second one is to be consistent, and the second is to be consistent. The banknotes can be exchanged for one tael of silver for every two times. This currency is not limited by region and time, and the state collects taxes, salaries, commodity transactions, loans, etc., and allows the exchange of old banknotes for new money, so that the Zhongtong banknotes become a unified currency that is common throughout Mongolia.

The Great Song Dynasty's banknotes were different, at least before the Zhao Guanjia came to power, this thing was mainly used by the rich and the city. It was only after the Zhao family came to power that a new monetary system was established, and as a result, the payment of banknotes by the Great Song Dynasty seemed to follow the path that Mongolia had already taken.

Laughing back to laughter, Ding Fei asked a question, "Have any of you ever seen a privately minted silver coin?" ”

This question left the guys in the powerful department speechless, they themselves have seen many currencies, used many currencies, but they have really never seen the silver coins minted privately over the years. Zhao Dengtong couldn't help but ask: "Do you think this is a rumor?" ”

"Rumors say that they have such a nose and eyes, it will not be so simple." Liu Zhong replied, "And if the Mongols are forged, it can only be counterfeited paper money." The Mongols themselves did not have so much silver to circulate. ”

As a general who fought in Hebei, Liu Zhong was embarrassed to say that the Great Song Dynasty carried out a counterfeit currency war against Mongolia, but because of Mongolian inflation, it led to the loss of money in small denominations.

"I think the problem is probably mainly in Fujian, or in Guangzhou. Jiangnan has really never heard of anyone daring to do this. Zhao Dengtong expressed his views.

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