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Chapter 787 Fake Gold Case Part 1

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A man in black saw Liu Jing and quietly came up and whispered: "Does this gentleman want a pornographic product?"

Liu Jing was puzzled. What does the guard behind Huang Huo come forward and push the man in black away. However, Liu Jing stopped the guard with a fan and asked with a smile: "What is Huang Huo?"

Seeing that Liu Jing was interested, the man in black hurriedly said, "This is not a place to speak, please come here.

Liu Jing was really curious. He knew that these people were brokers, but what would the yellow goods they said would be? After he followed the man in black to a big tree, the man in black then whispered: "It's gold. If you want it, we have it here. You can exchange it for red gold or money."

Gold is also a currency, but it is very little circulated in the market. The market mainly circulates red gold and money, that is, brass. The official price is one pound of red gold equals one thousand coins, while one pound of gold is worth ten pounds of red gold. Liu Jing asked again with a smile: "What price do you use to exchange for the gold here?"

Seeing that Liu Jing seemed interested, the man pointed to an alley next to him, "Let's go inside and talk in detail."

Liu Jing became more and more interested. He knew that there was an underground exchange black market in Wuchang, and Jiangxia coins were in high demand. The official price was different from the black market. Today he found the underground exchange black market in Chengdu. This was the first time he heard that Liu Jing was really curious and said happily: "Take it in front"

The man in black was overjoyed and took Liu Jing to the alley. Liu Jing waved his slap and stopped several guards, "I won't have anything to do when I wait for me here."

Several guards looked at each other, and one guard handed Liu Jing a package, "There are ten kilograms of red gold in it, so the master will exchange them for money, so it should be fine."

Liu Jing took the package and walked into the alley. Several guards followed from afar. The man in black led Liu Jing around and walked into a black room. There were several burly men standing with his hands behind the door, with fleshy faces and fierce eyes.

When Liu Jing walked into the room, the air inside was very bad, with a pungent sour smell. The light in the room was fine. You could clearly see that the surrounding walls were covered with mold spots. There were a row of tables beside the innermost wall, and there were five or six people sitting behind the table. A fat merchant was bargaining with the person behind the table. He seemed to be pulled in by the man in black.

As soon as the man in black entered the door, he stepped forward and laughed and said, "Fourth Master, another one comes."

Liu Jing noticed that the fourth master, about fifty years old, was thin and small, his eyes were full of cunning gazes. He glanced at Liu Jing, waved his hand and smiled, "Please sit down with a distinguished guest."

It seemed that the other party was quite polite and had a good attitude. The man in black bowed and left. Liu Jing showed that it was impossible for him to leave at this time. Two big men stared at him. Liu Jing sat down and asked with a smile: "My surname is Liu, this shopkeeper has a noble surname."

"I'm in the next chapter Yang, I don't know how much gold Mr. Liu wants to exchange for."

"Can Manager Yang talk about the price first?"

The thin shopkeeper Yang narrowed his eyes and smiled, "We are not a fool. The official price is 10,000 yuan for one pound of gold, or ten pounds of red gold for one pound of gold. We have to be a little more expensive here, 12,000 yuan for one pound of gold. Similarly, ten pounds of red gold are exchanged for one pound of gold, but I will explain first that if you don't change it, you must pay the five-in-one entrance fee. This is the rule."

"Can't you change the diary?" Liu Jing asked again with a smile.

Several shopkeepers looked at each other and laughed together. Shopkeeper Yang laughed and said, "This brother seems to have read too much books and rarely go out. There is no gold in the residence store that can be exchanged for red gold. We don't talk nonsense, how much gold should I exchange for."

At this time, the fat businessman next to him shouted, "Your gold is not good enough, I won't change it."

As soon as he finished speaking, two burly men walked to him, one left and one right, and the fat businessman suddenly did not dare to say anything. At this time, Manager Yang narrowed his eyes and asked Liu Jing, "How much does Mr. Liu want to change?"

Liu Jing opened the package and took out ten red gold ingots. This is the official standard red gold ingot. One ingot weighs one pound. He pushed it to Manager Yang, "Ten pounds of red gold"

Manager Yang immediately smiled. He looked at Chi Jin carefully, then took out twelve ingots of gold from a small wooden box and pushed it to Liu Jing, "One or two, one ingot, it's packed."

Liu Jing didn't look closely, and got up and left after taking the gold. As long as he exchanged honestly, several big men would not make things difficult for him. He asked him to walk out of the room. After walking more than a dozen steps, Liu Jing only heard someone from behind him calling him, "Sir, stay."

When Liu Jing turned around, it was the fat businessman just now. He ran up panting and said with a frown: "We have all been cheated. The gold here is not of sufficient quality, at most only 80% of the gold, which is fake official gold."

He took out a small ingot of gold, and said to the sunshine in a crying voice: "Look, the color is wrong, there is red gold mixed in it. Now I'm so stupid. I know it's a black store, but I still have to follow in."

Liu Jing took out the gold he exchanged, and there was also an official casting number, just like the fat merchant, but the color of the gold was obviously impure, and it was a fake official gold. He asked again: "Why did you want to exchange gold?"

"It's not for the sake of convenience. I am from Jiangzhou. I do tea trading. I sold more than kilograms of red gold. I thought it was heavy and wanted to change it to gold. Someone told me that the black market here could be exchanged, so I believed it and thought about changing it a little first, but I was fooled."

"How many have you changed?" Liu Jing asked again.

"Fortunately, I'm the same as you, I only changed ten kilograms, and I don't dare to change them any more."

Liu Jing patted him on the shoulder and said, "Learn from the lesson."

The fat businessman left with a bitter face. At this time, several guards came up and asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Liu Jing said coldly: "Go to Huo Jun and say it was my order, and he ordered him to send troops to destroy the black market, and everyone arrested him and handed him over to the Chengdu prefect for trial."

Half an hour later, two thousand Han troops rushed into the southern city and arrested all six nearby families who exchanged for the black market. There were as many as surplus people, and they seized tens of thousands of gold, tens of millions of gold and a large amount of fake gold.

According to the Han law, those who privately cast official coins were cut in half, and those who privately exchanged money were also serious crimes. One month later, they were jointly committed for the crimes of privately cast official coins, privately exchanged coins and fraud. More than one person was publicly executed. This case caused a sensation in the entire Han Dynasty.

After leaving Nanshi, Liu Jing came directly to the Hanwang Office. This complex covering several acres has changed its name several times. It was first called the Zhoumufu Office, and then the General's Office. It is now renamed the Hanguo Palace, but the people in Chengdu call it the Hanwang Palace.

The Han State Mansion covers an area of ​​about 1000 mu. Apart from the library that covers nearly acres and various rockery ponds, forests, flowers and trees that cover more than one mu, the actual building covers only a little over acres. For the Han State, which has a territory of thousands of miles, it is indeed very cramped. Officials have proposed to expand the Han State Mansion several times, but considering that the capital will be moved to Chang'an sooner or later, the expansion plan has been suspended.

The gate of the Han State Mansion is composed of two gulfs five meters high, followed by Danfeng Square, the center is the Han King Hall, which is the important place for officials to hold court meetings. On the left side of the Han King Hall is Liu Jing's official room, on the right side is Pingzhang Platform, and on the back is the important place of the Six Caos and the officials.

Liu Jing changed his makeup in the carriage and restored his original appearance. The carriage entered the gate, walked along the horse path, and came directly to Pingzhang Platform. The carriage slowly stopped in front of Pingzhang Platform. A group of high-ranking officials, including the five ministers and the minister Yin Jing, had already waited in front of the steps after hearing the news.

When Liu Jing slowly came down from the carriage, everyone came up and bowed to him: "See Your Highness, the King of Han."

Liu Jing and everyone separated for half a year. When they saw each other again, they felt very kind. He waved his hand and smiled, "Thank you all for your hard work, please give me no gift."

Everyone exchanged a few greetings, and Liu Jing asked again: "Who is the turn to govern today?"

Jiang Wan bowed and said, "These ten days are the throne of the empress."

"I have an important thing, I want to discuss it with you. Please ask Shangshu Jiang to open the attic."

Opening the loft is the popular saying of Pingzhangtai to hold closed-door discussions. Because it is held in Fengqi Pavilion on the second floor, it is commonly known as opening the loft. Jiang Wan immediately said: "I obey the order."

Jiang Wan immediately ordered to open Fengqi Pavilion to clean up, and wrote a discussion post. Generally, the discussion post must state what to discuss, but today this column is empty. Although everyone is there, all procedures must be left to express the formality of the discussion. Soon, five ministers Xu Shu, Jiang Wan, Dong He, Fei Guan, Sima Yi and Shizhong Yin Jing came to Fengqi Pavilion together to sit down, while Secretary Lang Fei Yi was responsible for the record. Liu Jing also sat down. He glanced at everyone and smiled and said, "The first thing that everyone must guess is the attack on Hefei. We have taken down Lujiang County. Huang Zhong led tens of troops to Wan County, and Shen Mi led 10,000 naval troops to establish a water camp in Chaohu Lake. The next step is to seize the battle of Hefei. This is our top priority next year. The reason why I tore up the armistice agreement with Cao Cao and attacked Cao Cao's naval army was to prepare for the battle in Hefei."

The Fengqi Pavilion was very quiet, and Liu Jing did not write a letter in advance, so he caught everyone off guard when he raised this matter. Liu Jing smiled and said, "Today I am just telling you about this matter, not to decide what to do immediately. After all, the battle in Hefei is of great importance and we need to make a long-term plan."

Jiang Wan stood up and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for giving us time to prepare. After all, a major battle involves many aspects. We need to discuss repeatedly to finally determine the transportation plan for materials and grain."

Seeing that everyone nodded in agreement, Liu Jing smiled and said, "Let's just let go of the battle in Hefei. Let me talk about two other major events. One is to move the capital to Chang'an. I believe you have read Jia Xu's report. I want to hear everyone's opinions."

Liu Jing looked at everyone one by one, and finally his eyes fell on Xu Shu's face. Today, Xu Shu was silent, which made Liu Jing a little strange. He smiled and said, "Shu Xu, let's talk first."

"There is a good minister to obey the order"

Xu Shu stood up and said, "Moving the capital is a consensus. I won't talk about the benefits. I believe that there are two key points to moving the capital Chang'an, one is the population economy, and the second is security. The population of Chang'an is gradually recovering. By next summer, it will probably increase to 100,000 to 400,000 people, which is the same as Chengdu. Business is prosperous, prices are low, and people live and work in peace. The economic and population conditions for moving the capital before next autumn are basically met. However, I am worried about the safety issue. The security here does not refer to Cao Cao, but to the Hu Hu, especially the Qiang Hu, Wuhuan and Xiongnu, etc., and hundreds of thousands of Hu people entrenched in Heshuo and Guanzhong, etc., and His Highness has not had any contact with them. Once they are bribed by Cao Cao, 100,000 soldiers will enter Guanzhong, which will be a devastating blow to Guanzhong and Chang'an. Therefore, I suggest that before moving the capital, we must first solve the problem of Hu people in Guanzhong."

Liu Jing nodded. He wiped out Qiang and Di Hu in Longxi, Hehuang and Hexi Corridors, but he had not yet contacted the Hu people in Guannei and Heshuo areas. He originally wanted to solve it slowly in the future, but Xu Shu's words were very reasonable. If the Hu people in these two places were not solved, there would be problems with moving the capital.

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Let's do this, let's discuss this matter tomorrow. Please ask Xu Shu to write a complete report today. Everyone should think about how to solve this problem."

Xu Shu bowed and said, "I obey the order."

At this time, Liu Jing said solemnly to everyone: "I want to tell you about a strange thing I encountered in Nanshi this morning. I think it is necessary to have a good talk with you about this matter."
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