"Zhang Yang, you go and keep an eye on the money village, chase your life and guard in cold blood in the inn, and the others will act according to the previous plan, once you find that someone is using fake copper coins, you will immediately follow."

"Understood."

Chasing Life changed his outfit and turned into a guy from Drunken Moon Building, as the most experienced person, Chasing Life is the one who knows the most about fake copper coins among the people.

"Everyone should remember that the fake copper coin is very low, easy to break, and the workmanship is relatively rough, the texture, and weight are different from the real one, and you can actually distinguish it if you look closely." Chasing Fate demonstrated to everyone, and easily broke a copper coin with his fingers.

"The reason why the people can't distinguish the real from the fake is because the people who sell fake copper coins are also very smart, and they mix fake copper coins with real coins and spend them, even if four out of ten are fake, the whole capital adds up to a large number. And the people spend money back and forth every day, it is impossible to carefully identify them one by one, and the lack of skill does not necessarily break the copper coin, so it will become more and more popular. ”

After some popular science, everyone has a new understanding of how to distinguish fake copper coins, and the fake copper coins currently in circulation are mainly copper coins, and there is no more refined Chu coins outflow. And gold and silver were still hard currency, so there was no more confusion.

Today, copper coins are like one yuan or five cents coins, which are relatively basic monetary units and have a relatively large number of coins in circulation. This also facilitates the circulation of counterfeit copper coins.

After the "training" was over, everyone went separately and found a place to be monitored in the capital, ready to work hard. Hone your patience.

It's just that after a few days, everyone hasn't made much progress. According to the speculation of the chaser, the people who sold the counterfeit copper coins were a well-managed gang. There is a clear hierarchy between the upper and lower levels, and there are strict controls on the time and quantity of counterfeit copper coins in circulation. Perhaps some people have already guessed that the time and period of each release of counterfeit copper coins are not fixed, and the number of counterfeit copper coins is not large.

On the fourth day, just as Zhang Yang was bored and continued to drink tea at the tea stall around the corner of Qianzhuang, the situation finally took a new turn.

A man who looked like an idler had been wandering around the door of the money bank for a while, and he always met people who came out of the bank. I went up and asked the other party if they needed to exchange huàn copper coins, and the proportion of huàn was slightly higher than that of Qianzhuang.

For any modern person, in the face of this kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing, I am afraid that he has already developed a strong enough immunity, but now people are still relatively simple after all, although some people feel that something is wrong, but there are still people who covet this benefit and choose to exchange with each other.

A full ten taels of silver, all of which were exchanged for copper coins. For a full ten hangs, the copper coins are all worn in advance, and it is very convenient to count. And it was a middle-aged man who was not dressed in a shivering manner, and Zhang Yang vaguely felt that the other party was a little familiar. Then I remembered. A few days ago, when I was stalking at the Changle Gambling House, when I threw the gamblers out, this guy was one of the thugs!

"The main drama is coming." Zhang Yang's spirit was shocked. Seeing that the person who had sold the counterfeit copper coins before turned away, he immediately followed.

Obviously. The guy at the gambling house knew that it was a fake copper coin, but he still chose to exchange it. Naturally, he took a fancy to the price difference between him and the bank. You must know that as a semi-legal gambling house, the amount of coins circulating every day is extremely huge, after all, not all gamblers are holding gold and silver to block, often three or three taels of broken silver, copper coins to make bets. In this way, the gambling house can naturally seek greater benefits by using fake copper coins to transfer them to gamblers.

If there is no experience in distinguishing fake money, gamblers will naturally be tricked, and even if they recognize it, the gambling house can turn their faces and not recognize people, and just throw it out. On the other hand, when the gambling house receives the fake copper coin, it either chooses to remain silent, or it deducts the fake money and throws it out.

Anyway, the gambling house is definitely a place to make money and not lose money.

Following the man in the capital, he turned left and right, and the other party passed by several inns and shops that were not very large, spent part of the fake money, and finally estimated that the amount was not much, and then began to return.

Zhang Yang calculated, and the fake copper coins shot by this guy alone reached twenty times!

The monetary ratio at this moment is about 1 tael of gold = 11 taels of silver, 1 tael of silver = 1 kan of money, or a hanging of money, that is, 1000 cents.

followed the other party until he came to an ordinary inn in Dongcheng near the city gate, the other party walked in, and Zhang Yang also happened to see the big wolf tracking nearby, and gestured to the other party.

"Brother Zhang Yang, the person I followed also entered this inn."

With the meeting of the two, Da Yong and the people who were being tracked by the chase also converged here, as if this was a stronghold for each other to meet and trade.

Cold-blooded made an excuse to go in and take a turn, and when he came out again, he brought a fairly useful news: a whole six people, all related to fake copper coins, and one of them seemed to be the leader. It's just that this so-called leader left again not long after, and after turning around, he actually went around to Nancheng and walked in the backyard of a ready-to-wear store (a place where clothes are sold).

Zhang Yang gave the chase a look, and saw the other party jump lightly, like a weightless feather, flying lightly onto the roof, without making any sound with the rubble under his feet, carefully observing the situation inside. This light skill was revealed, but it once again opened the gap with everyone, and the cold-blooded will also work lightly, but there is absolutely no such thing as chasing life, you must know that it is not so easy to be a spy.

It didn't take long for the chase to fly down lightly again, and said with a cautious face: "That person met with another person in the rivers and lakes, nicknamed the Monkey of the Mixed Heavens, and he didn't care about the natal gold, and he had been imprisoned for minting fake copper coins before, and was later bailed out by An Shigeng." It can now be determined that An Shigeng must have a great deal to do with the circulation of counterfeit copper coins! ”

"But only we know that it doesn't work, we have no direct evidence, empty words, and others won't believe it." Interjected in cold blood.

Chasing Ming nodded and said: "The problem is here, so if we want to catch Jin Buwen, we must have sufficient evidence and certainty, and it is best to arrest him on the spot." ”

And when everyone was exchanging opinions, the previous man and Jin Buwen left in two directions, looking at Jin Buwen's appearance, it seemed that he was planning to go out of the city, publicize and chase his life, and immediately followed in cold blood. Soon after leaving the southern gate, Jin Buwen burrowed headlong into a forest in the south of the city, and finally came to the branch of the moat. A large, dilapidated wooden boat has been converted into a workshop-like place, quietly docked by this remote river, where no one has come to visit.

The three of them glanced at each other, knowing that the source of the counterfeit copper coins had been found. (To be continued......)