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The copper coin in Liu Jing's hand was a Han coin they cast, but the color of this Han coin was darker and not as brass as the usual Han Wuzhu coins. It can be easily identified from the surface, indicating that this fake coin contains seriously insufficient copper content.

"This is a fake Han coins we found in Yedu. Your Highness, please look at this cut Wuzhu coins."

Zhang Jin handed Liu Jing another fake money cut open. Liu Jing took it and looked carefully. He saw that the cross-section was slightly grayish-white, which was actually the same as the copper coins in Wei State before. Liu Jing felt something in his heart.

Zhang Jin explained on the side: "We have experienced that the copper content is the same as the Wei coins in the past, with a copper content of only 65%. We suspect that this is a fake money officially cast by the Wei State to destroy the reputation of Han coins."

Liu Jing handed the fake money to Ma Liang and Jiang Wan, and pondered for a moment: "It seems that Cao Pi has realized that the Wei Kingdom will be occupied by Han coins, so he used this disgraceful method to discredit Han coins. However, he could not change the quality of the fake money. It can be distinguished from the surface. We must let the people of Wei know that if we distinguish between real money and fake money, we must also increase the casting of money and gold ingots to exchange for various important materials from Wei."

At this time, Zhang Jin asked carefully: "Your Highness, can we cast even worse Wei coins for slaughtering...?"

“No need!”

After Zhang Jin finished speaking, Liu Jing waved his hand and said, "Wei coins have a bad reputation, and it doesn't make much sense to discredit them. More importantly, it will waste our ability to cast money. We don't have to pay attention to it. Once the fake coins are identified, Cao Pi will stop. He can only cast real new Han coins to fight. In that case, Wei coins will gradually disappear, which will lay the foundation for us to unify the world."

Zhang Jin nodded silently. He had already understood the intention of the King of Han. Han coins were one aspect, and the key was money and gold ingots. After the Han Dynasty entered the Wei Kingdom, most of the money and gold ingots would be collected without worrying about circulating them back. Unless the Wei Kingdom also cast money and gold ingots, the Wei Kingdom also had no much gold in the hands of the government, and the Han Dynasty had accumulated a large amount of gold in the wars over the years, which was far from comparable to the Wei Kingdom.

Using money and money to exchange a large amount of important materials from Wei State is actually accelerating the war preparations of the Han State in disguise and weakening the war preparations of the Wei State. When Cao Wei realizes this, it will be difficult to reverse the situation.

As for Liu Jing's tacit consent to pig iron and grain smuggling, it was just a bait, which made it difficult for Cao Wei to make up his mind to cut off trade with the Han Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jin gave a deep gift, "I understand that it 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 the commerce between the two countries gradually flourished, Yedu also flourished. Most of the goods from Wei and Han countries were transferred in Yedu and then transported to the final place.

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

However, for Cao Cao, he needed pig iron and grain more. Although these two kinds of things were officially controlled by the Han State and were strictly prohibited from being sold to Wei State, some big merchants with a family still got a lot of pig iron and grain from the Han State and resold them to Wei State at a high price.

Most of the Han money obtained by Wei sold all kinds of materials was used to purchase pig iron and grain. Although Cao Cao also knew that this was a poison to quench thirst, his desire for pig iron and grain made him temporarily ignore it.

However, Cao Cao had another idea. They could also cast Han coins to buy supplies in Chang'an, but in this way, Wei coins would be severely impacted, so Cao Cao was undecided. At this moment, Liu Jing sent someone to send a formal letter, asking Cao Cao to crack down on the minting of fake Han coins in the Wei State.

In the Tongque Palace, Cao Pi reported the urgently needed inventory report to his father. Cao Cao sat in his seat and slowly looked through the inventory materials. His brows slowly frowned. Cao Cao closed the report and asked, "Why is there so little gold inventory?"

"Report to my father, I used gold to buy grain from the Han Dynasty to stabilize the price of grain, which consumed a lot. 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 say anything for a long time, and then Cao Pi said again: "Fortunately, there is enough brass in stock, so we can use it to cast Han coins to buy grain and pig iron."

"It's all used to cast Han coins, what should we do with our own money?" Cao Cao said a little unhappy.

"Father, the loss is not big. As long as we have enough copper, red gold can also melt and cast coins. We can completely cast unlimited amounts of Han coins to buy Han materials."

Cao Cao sighed, "There may be no loss in interests, but the people accepted Han money, but in fact they accepted Han Kingdom. Liu Jing had invisibly unified the world. How should this account be calculated?"

Of course, Cao Pi knew this serious consequence, but he was more realistic. Han coins were becoming more and more popular in the territory of Wei. On the contrary, Wei coins were increasingly rejected. If Wei coins were minted, they would only suffer greater losses.

Cao Pi said helplessly: "The child doesn't want to do this. Last month, he started to mint Wei coins according to the proportion of Han coins, but after it was put into the market, he still no one cared about it. The child made bad money again, but it was very different from real Han coins and had no effect. Now he either watches the Han Dynasty buy our supplies, or we also make Han coins. There is really no way to buy the other party's supplies, unless my father cuts off trade with the Han Dynasty again."

Cao Cao shook his head, "Severing trade will cause greater conflicts. Besides, I also need to buy pig iron and grain from the Han Dynasty. If there is really no way, I can only mint Han coins and reduce losses as much as possible."

"Yes! The boy understands."

After pausing, Cao Cao said, "I received a formal letter from Liu Jing, asking us to crack down on the minting of fake Han coins in Wei. What do you think about this?"

Cao Pi thought for a while and said, "In terms of attitude, we must certainly support the crackdown on fake money, but we cannot be too serious. The child means to say, openly and secretly."

Cao Cao nodded, "That's what it means, don't take the initiative. If the other party finds us, you might as well accumulate a little and block the other party's mouth. In addition, suspend Wei coins. The army urgently needs combat preparations. We must do our best to cast Han coins."

After some trade-offs, Cao Cao could only face reality. At this moment, he suddenly understood Sun Quan's helplessness.

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A tavern near the west gate of Yedu finally opened its doors. This tavern has a very vulgar name, Jucai Tavern. During the depression of Yedu, it was transferred at a low price several months after closing.

The door opened, and Manager Wang walked in quickly from outside, closed the door casually, stepped forward and smiled, "Mr. Li, you have already received the news."

Li Fu was excited. This was a day ago when he received an emergency order from Chang'an, asking him to find out the amount of money minted by Wei as soon as possible. Of course, this also belongs to the secret of Wei, but many people know this secret.

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

He obtained it from Ma Xun, the general of Sijin, and made the deal through his wife and brother-in-law. Li Fu felt a little sorry for the gold. He actually spent two golds to make a cheaper bastard, but this person must use it again.

Li Fu asked again: "Have the background checked out that guy who wanted to sell weapons last time?"

"I found out clearly that this person was originally a warehouse in Cao's army. He was dismissed during the Battle of Hefei the previous year. Now he specializes in reselling various military supplies, which is very skillful."

"So he has news now?"

"This person came to us the day before yesterday. He is willing to give a little more price, it depends on when Mr. Li will be convenient."
Chapter completed!