In the next one or two thousand years, there are many methods of gold counterfeiting, such as copper, zinc, lead, and the most common is to mix copper-zinc alloy into it.

If you look at it purely from the appearance, the gold 'manufactured' of copper-zinc alloy is superior to real gold in terms of color, texture and feel.

But in the current Han Empire, the method of gold counterfeiting is very crude and clumsy, that is, mixing copper into it.

This fake gold is easy to goof, and basically no one forges it.

Of course, this is also related to the very strict laws of the Han Empire, once it is found that the gold is adulterated, the light will be beheaded, the five horses will be divided, the car will be split, and the three tribes and the nine tribes will be exterminated, which is almost the same as the crime of rebellion, which is an unpardonable crime.

Therefore, except for those outlaws, who would dare to do it?

Of course, this is only a theoretical statement.

Yang Chuan clearly remembered that Sima Qian recorded in his historical records that because the princes and kings paid tribute to the imperial court for sacrificial gold, Liu Che was angry and cut off the heads of several princes and kings surnamed Liu, and by the way, he also collected the fiefs of some other princes and kings into the imperial court, and was only responsible for the favor of those princes and kings.

What is 'non-pure gold'?

It's not just adulterated with gold.

"Cao Xiang, how did you dogs like you adulterate gold?"

On this day, after dinner, Yang Chuan asked casually when chatting with Cao Xiang, but Cao Xiang was scared half to death.

"Yang Chuan, you are not allowed to be brutal in your dog's day," Cao Xiang jumped up from the horse and rubbed his cheeks vigorously, "If you are short of money, just ask, Ben Hou will give you three or five thousand catties of gold." ”

"However, if you dare to adulterate the gold, even if you are my uncle's own son, you will be killed!"

Regarding Cao Xiang's warning, Yang Chuan was noncommittal, but continued to ask with a smile: "Do you mix brass into it, or do you mix silver into it?" ”

Cao Xiang warned again: "Yang Chuan, this matter should not be mentioned again, you must know that gold adulteration is a capital crime, even if you and I are now the marquis of the Great Han Dynasty, it will not be useful, once you are targeted by the people of the Tingwei Mansion, your kid will be completely finished." ”

Yang Chuan smiled: "It's not bad, it's a bit of the rule of law." ”

Cao Xiang's face was helpless, and there was a little begging for mercy in his tone: "Yang Chuan, really, this kind of thing is only done by those outlaws, and even if gold is forged, people can distinguish the real from the fake with a bite of their teeth......"

Yang Chuan stretched out his hand, gently stroked and pinched Sister Leopard's plump body, and looked out the window thoughtfully, seemingly unresponsive to Cao Xiang's warnings and pleas.

"Yang Chuan, have you encountered anything difficult recently?" Cao Xiang was a little anxious, and personally poured a bowl of tea for Yang Chuan and handed it over, "If you are short of money, you can just say it." ”

"The few businesses we have partnered with have also made a lot of money in recent years, and according to the agreement between you and me before, you can probably get 14 million dollars."

"Or, give you another two or three percent, give you a whole number, and someone will send you 20 million money tomorrow?"

"It's really not good, it's okay to convert it all into gold......

Listening to Cao Xiang's words, the more outrageous it became, and even the little 'little secret' between the two people was revealed, Yang Chuan couldn't help laughing: "Who said I was going to adulterate the gold?" ”

Cao Xiang breathed a sigh of relief and pounded his left chest vigorously: "That's good, that's good!" ”

"I'm not talking about you, you're too scary."

Yang Chuan took a sip of tea and tasted it for a while, then said with a smile: "I'm thinking, since adulteration of gold is a capital crime to exterminate the nine clans, then, let's mix gold into the copper-zinc alloy, it is innocent?" ”

Cao Xiang just took a sip of tea, and after listening to Yang Chuan's words, he shot with a 'poof'.

Even, even his knees couldn't help but soften for a moment, and the expression on his face was very resentful: "Yang Chuan, there is nothing secret between you and my brother, let me tell you the truth, do you know how my second grandfather died?" ”

Yang Chuan was stunned: "Who is your second grandfather?" ”

Then, he suddenly remembered that Cao Xiang's second grandfather was not Emperor Jing's younger brother, Liu Che's uncle, and Liu Wu, the king of Liang who almost became the emperor back then?

"He's not ......"

Yang Chuan glanced down at the quiet Sister Leopard, and then continued: "Didn't King Liang go to the northern fiefdom by Emperor Jing because he didn't fight for the throne, and died depressed? ”

Cao Xiang shook his head, lowered his voice and said: "That's not the case, that King Liang didn't win the emperor's throne, it's a fact that he is depressed, but he won't die in a short time." ”

"I heard my mother say that after our second grandfather returned to the fiefdom of Liang State, Emperor Jing actually didn't think about killing him, but gave him a lot of gold, money and food, and selected a large number of little women in the palace who couldn't sleep by himself to send them to Liang State, thinking that King Liang would die on the woman's belly and beg for ......."

The mouth of this thing is simply unobstructed, and he dares to say anything outside.

Yang Chuan couldn't help frowning: "Okay, okay, let's get down to business, if you talk nonsense, I'll make you laugh for two hours." ”

Cao Xiang hurriedly shut up, laughed a few times, and then said: "To get back to the point, the reason why our second grandfather died was because of the adulteration of gold; He didn't know who he had listened to, and he actually had the idea of supporting the army and respecting himself, wanting to wait until Emperor Jing died to see if he could seize the throne in the hands of his nephew. ”

"So, he asked a few alchemists under his sect to refine fake gold."

"Not to mention, after some tossing, those alchemists really pulled out the fake gold......"

Yang Chuan took out an ingot of seven or eight taels of gold from his sleeve and handed it to Cao Xiang casually: "Look at it, isn't it like this?" ”

Cao Xiangmeng's spirit is excited, and the whole person is not good.

He quickly hid the ingot of gold in his sleeve, looked around smartly, and listened to several breaths until he was sure that no one else was present, and then he looked down at the fake gold in his hand: "Yang Chuan, the sky is big, you really don't want to live......

Cao Xiang is a real big dog, and the truth of gold can be known by feeling it casually in his hand.

Unexpectedly.

Well, the fake gold made by Yang Chuan, suddenly looked brighter than the real gold, the golden is bright, and it is very soft without the cheap shiny of brass.

Cao Xiang stared at it with wide eyes for a long time, then took the fake gold to his mouth and bit it a few times with his teeth.

Looking at the few impressive tooth marks left on it, Cao Xiang was very puzzled, he looked up and asked, "How did you get it?" This is more real than real gold, and if it is dealt with again, it is estimated that even the officials in charge of the warehouse will not be able to distinguish it. ”

Yang Chuan smiled and said, "That's good." ”

Cao Xiang scolded: "What a fart, there are many ways for the court to inspect gold, and there is always a way to test the authenticity for you." ”

"Do you know that in the early years, several princes surnamed Liu adulterated the gold that they paid tribute to the imperial court, and not only were they taken away, but two or three of them were even beheaded and abandoned to the city, exterminating the three clans!"

Yang Chuan waved his hand and asked rhetorically: "What if the emperor fakes?" ”

Cao Xiang opened his mouth and stammered for several breaths, and scolded angrily: "You are a bad coward!" ”

"Let me tell you Yang Chuan, if you do this, now that my uncle is short of money in order to fight, he may be kind to you in every way, and a large reward is indispensable."

"However, once he waits for a few major things to be done, even if you Yang Chuan are Liu Man's man, my uncle won't even shake his eyelids when he kills you, do you believe it or not?"

Yang Chuan nodded: "Letter." ”

"Believe you, how dare you?" Cao Xiang sighed and lay flat on Ma Zazi, and said in a low voice: "Yang Chuan, even if I Cao Xiang begs you, this matter will end here." ”

Yang Chuan smiled, took out another golden coin from his sleeve, took a few breaths carefully, and threw it to Cao Xiang: "Look at this again." ”

Cao Xiang caught the golden coin, only glanced at it, and the whole person was not good again.

This coin is in excellent condition, golden, shiny, seven or eight points better than the gold utensils that have just been polished, pinched in the hand, cool and pleasant, and there is no doubt about the feeling of gold.

What especially stunned Cao Xiang was that the coins were engraved with the heads of two people.

No, it's the heads of three people.

On the front of the coin, it can be recognized at a glance as the head of the emperor Liu Che, and a few strokes appear vigorous and powerful, and the majesty of Liu Che and the hooligan atmosphere of the old Liu family leap on the 'coin'.

On the other side of the coin, there is a very strange picture engraved on it, two women wearing phoenix crowns and shawls on their shoulders are like conjoined bodies, are they not the queen Wei Zifu and the former queen Chen Ajiao?

"Let's not talk about the coins, the question is, you get the two queens up, aren't you afraid that my uncle will kill you, a little big Han prince?"

Cao Xiang pinched the coin and continued thoughtfully: "I can roughly guess your intention, it is nothing more than wanting to replace the previous copper coins with this kind of coin...... That's not right. ”

Cao Xiang slapped his huge head a few times: "In the past, they were all copper coins, but now you have another gold coin, what do you mean?" ”

Yang Chuan took out two more coins from his sleeve and handed them to Cao Xiang quietly: "Look at these two coins again, can they still be eyed?" ”

Cao Xiang took the two coins and almost understood.

The shape of these two coins is similar to that of the gold coin, and the head of Emperor Liu Che is engraved on the front, and the head of the two empresses Wei Zifu and Chen Ajiao is engraved on the back.

Of course, this is just Cao Xiang's first feeling.

In fact, the three coins that Yang Chuan took out, gold is not gold, copper is not copper, and iron is not iron, which is actually more beautiful than the original simple metal, and the feel is also excellent.

"You mean to say that these three coins are in circulation at the same time and have a ratio that can be exchanged?"

Cao Xiang groaned and said: "You have to think clearly about this kind of thing, there is no real gold or anything of equivalent value in the coin, in the process of circulation, the people will gradually form a set of their own exchange ratio, and even may be strongly resisted, so that the circulation of our Han merchants will go back and barter." ”

Cao Xiang is really a big dog, and these few words hit the nail on the head at once.

At present, the coin minting of the Han Empire is very chaotic, and many powerful families and merchants' families have their own mines and smelting furnaces, and how many coins they want can be mixed with other 'worthless' metals in the brass, and tens of thousands of coins can be minted in one day and one night.

In this regard, the imperial court repeatedly forbade it, so it simply turned a blind eye and let the big dogs mint money on their own, which shows how much chaos there is.

If you want to say that it is not impossible to let big dogs like Yang Chuan and Cao Xiang mint money on their own, anyway, with Yang Chuan's smelting technology, plus the mines of Cao Xiang, Zhuo's family, and Princess Pingyang, how many coins do you want, it is not a matter of one sentence?

The question is.

Yang Chuan didn't want to do that.

In his opinion, since he is determined to be a qualified 'Han chef', the fields are planted well, the food is delicious, and he will make money, these skills are indispensable, but if he really wants to make a few hard dishes, he must start at the roots.

For example, the current chaotic coins have caused too much damage to the Han Empire, and if you look at the economic perspective of the next two thousand years, it can even be said to be one of the root causes of hindering the rapid development of the Han Empire.

Therefore, Yang Chuan spent a lot of energy and effort, and since the first day he returned to Han, he has actually begun to lay out, and now, it has finally worked.

Nangong Qianzhuang is his first step to go out......

Yang Chuan thought about it very seriously and said, "Cao Xiang, you are now a big farmer, with your thoughts, how to make this set of coins circulate smoothly?" ”

Cao Xiang groaned a few times and said, "There is a way, but you dragged me into the water on a dog's day, and when my uncle reacted, maybe our brothers would be cut off by him together." ”

"It's not that serious, don't worry, I'm quite experienced in this area." Yang Chuan took out a few coins from his sleeve, pinched them in his hand and stroked them gently, making a very pleasant sound of gold and iron.

Cao Xiang scolded angrily: "I have a fart experience!" ”

"You guy, every time you say you have experience, you are generally not sure......"

Yang Chuan was laughed at by the success: "Okay, okay, let's not say frustrating words, you just say, with a set of coins that can pass through the whole country, is it a good thing or a bad thing?" ”

Cao Xiang: "It's definitely a good thing. ”

"But ......"

Cao Datou stopped talking, his eyes flashed, staring at Yang Chuan's eyes and asking seriously, "Are you really going to do this?" You have to think clearly, this thing will be able to amass a huge amount of wealth for my uncle in a short time, and at the same time, the princes, the rich and the famous families will suffer a heavy blow, and the coins in their hands will become scrap copper and rotten iron, and those people will eat you and me alive. ”

Yang Chuan nodded slightly, sighed, and said, "Then I have to eat them alive first......

(End of chapter)