The small kit seemed quite heavy, so Liu Chengyong weighed it and gently untied it.

It fell on the tatami. The color was not very bright, but Hong Jinglai knew that it was silver!

"Bean silver?" Hong Jinglai picked up one.

It is shaped like a bean, stamped on one side, and the light is dim, so it is difficult to see clearly. However, it is generally stamped with "often", "big black", "black", etc. It is one of the legal auxiliary coins circulating in Japan today.

, cast by the Ginza of the shogunate. It was in circulation for more than 250 years, until the Ansei period (that is, the era of Naoki Ii).

Although it is a auxiliary coin, in fact, ordinary people will never see silver in their lifetime, so its value is naturally much better than copper coins. Each bean of silver weighs five qian (3.76 grams per coin), and one bean can be worth hundreds of qian or more.

One hundred coins.

"Sir, do you also recognize Japanese silver?"

"I have heard a little bit. In the past, most of the silver used in our country came from Japan, which was called Japanese silver. It was shaped like a plate or a bean, and there was a lot of it."

"That's right. Your Excellency is a Confucian scholar from Sungkyunkwan. How could you not be familiar with the anecdotes of old years?"

"I don't know why you two shared this bean silver with me?"

"Your Excellency, you might as well take a look at this bean silver." The Shimazu samurai suddenly said in Chinese.

When Hong Jinglai heard this, an idea flashed in his mind. He stared at the bean silver in his hand and weighed it first. Each bean silver should weigh five cents. In addition, the silver cast in Ginza, Japan, only contains 70 to 8% silver.

10. The rest is copper, with a small amount of impurities, and the color is not bright and bright.

Putting the candlestick gently close to the bean silver, there were no less than thirty grains on the tatami, all of which seemed to be the most common bean silver.

wrong!

Something is wrong! Hong Jinglai picked up one. The weight was almost the same, but this one was darker in color, even black, and had small oxidized holes.

After examining it carefully, Hong Jinglai confirmed that it was a "fake coin", or "fake silver".

"More than half of this one is made of black lead!" Hong Jinglai smiled enigmatically and handed the bean silver to the Shimazu samurai.

The man didn't have much to argue with, so he nodded and accepted. Then Hong Jinglai picked out two more coins, both of which were counterfeit coins with insufficient silver content.

"You two, do you want to make bad money?"

Looking directly at the two people, Hong Jinglai roughly understood what the two people in front of him were thinking.

"Even adults can pick them out one by one after just a little inspection. It seems that this bean silver is not easy to make." Liu Chengyong did not talk to Hong Jing, but sighed to the Shimazu samurai.

"The situation is like this, no matter what, we must give it a try!" The Shimazu samurai thought that although these things were not exactly the same, they should be very similar. How could he have thought that Hong Jinglai would find it mixed in more than thirty pills.

Nowadays, the Satsuma Domain's finances have collapsed, and it is all maintained by Shimazu Shigetoshi, who used the illustrious power of his shogunate minister and the shogun's father-in-law to borrow money from daimyo and wealthy merchants all over the world.

How can you make money faster than counterfeiting coins when you exploit the common people?

If you are poor, you will want to change, but Satsuma's "change" is enough for a bachelor. No matter what happens to him in the future, he will first make counterfeit coins and plunder the wealth of other Japanese lords on a large scale.

It's best if nothing happens, but if something happens it's better to have him commit hara-kiri as a scapegoat!

It doesn’t take Hong Jinglai to understand their plan, which is to use Laishang as an intermediary to mint counterfeit coins on a small island in the Sea of ​​Japan.

Since the Satsuma clan was penniless and realistically did not have a dime in cash, it was impossible for him to find a partner in Japan, so he naturally focused on Raishang.

Raishang used the silver imported from China to mint counterfeit coins with one third of the silver content of normal soy silver. They were then shipped to Botsu and were taken over by the Satsuma Domain.

Through the channels of Satsuma Domain's Osaka Twenty-four Houses (guilds) and Edo Jumon Houses, counterfeit coins were put into the market and the gold in the market was plundered.

The profits are more or less divided between Raishang and Satsuma. It is indeed a "high road" to become extremely rich after just three years of work.

But the casting technology of Satsuma's counterfeit currency is also terrible! The metallic lead, now called black lead, is easily oxidized quickly when exposed to air, forming dark black lead oxide.

Although counterfeit coins with metallic lead added to them can get away with it at first, after a period of circulation, they will inevitably turn black due to the large amount of metallic lead added. They will be easily discovered and will not last long.

"Obviously, the risk of this matter is huge, and this bad currency is very easy for others to spot. It only takes three to five months for the incident to happen. Do you two want to do it?"

Counterfeit money is naturally extremely profitable, but it's hard to say whether you will survive using it.

"Actually, as long as you have 50% silver, you can... just..."

"Containing 50% silver? That's not considered a bad coin, hahahahahaha."

"Do you have any plans?" The Shimazu warrior looked at Hong Jing and laughed out loud. Not only was he not angry, but he came closer.

You’ve asked the right person!

Fujiwara bomb is making his first pot of wealth!

The fake Yongle Tongbao contains only 50 to 55% copper!

If you want to fake money, although the cost is higher, it is not impossible!

"Do you two know about platinum?"

"Platinum?" the two said in unison.

"The Han book "Huayang Guozhi" records that silver is produced from Qingti. However, this silver is not the silver produced in Hanzhong, and its shape and color are brighter, so it has been called platinum since the Han Dynasty.

Time has changed, and it has been discovered throughout the ages that the so-called platinum produced in Yunnan is actually white copper!

However, in Wusi Zang, a genus of Yi and Miao people in the southwest, they are still called Zang Yin and Miao Yin.

Just because white copper contains other substances, it can make the copper white and not easy to darken. It is similar to real silver and difficult for ordinary people to identify."

The two of them were silent for a while, and at the same time they were overjoyed. What Hong Jinglai meant was that mixing a large amount of white copper into the bean silver would ensure that the color of the counterfeit currency would not darken in large areas for a long time and would be discovered.

Originally, this business was not a long-term one. If you do it for three to five years, you will get rich. After three to five years, millions of counterfeit coins will enter the market. Stop it.

After ten or twenty years, someone discovered something was wrong, and their hands and feet had been washed clean.

The platinum that Hong Jinglai mentioned was comparable in price to gold in the Han Dynasty. However, by the Tang and Song Dynasties, the development of science and technology enabled people at that time to realize that the so-called platinum was just white copper.

Naturally, besides copper, another metal in cupronickel is nickel, which is still abundant in Yunnan today!

By 9102, it was still the country's most important coinage material and a very useful industrial metal.

If you want to pass off as silver, there is absolutely nothing better than copper-nickel alloy these days.

"What's the price of this white copper?" Liu Chengyong asked immediately.

"The price of silver is sixteen taels per hundred pounds of copper-nickel!"

The price of white copper is only one percent of that of silver!

"Your Majesty, please don't forget what I have taught you. Please accept my respect!"
Chapter completed!