Qiming 1158

Chapter 675 The anti-counterfeiting upgrade of Baitiao

The counterfeit currency, not to mention the paper currency era, there are also many incidents of minting counterfeit currency in the metal currency era.

All kinds of shortages and shortages are two big springs. Officials and private people work together to drive out bad money and drive out good money. Every time, the people can be washed with blood, making the people feel miserable and sad, and in one fell swoop, the currency market has been plunged into a bottomless abyss.

It can only be said that this thing is too profitable, similar to killing chickens to get their eggs. As long as the people are not prepared, a wave of cleaning can make a lot of money, and eat a mouthful of oil.

As for the chicken feathers in the future... how many people really care?
The wealthy and wealthy households naturally have their own ways to stop the loss, not to mention the ruling class. In the end, it is the wealth of the people who are bloodbathed, and the rulers will not care about such things.

Even if one or two conscientious officials objected, it would not change the overall situation.

The official will play this way, and of course the private sector will play this way. Not everyone has a conscience. Who wouldn’t do this kind of money-making work?Therefore, if there are genuine coins, there must be some counterfeit coins, but the difference in quantity and difficulty.

Some currencies are genuine and strong, making them profitable, and some currencies are so rotten that they are unprofitable.

Su Yonglin remembered that godlike joke——

Why are you making counterfeit money?
Because I can't make real money.

For this kind of thing, Su Yonglin felt that there was no need to think dialectically about whether it would happen, but should consider when it would happen, and the countermeasures after it happened.

Because at this time and a half, Su Yonglin didn't have enough money to give up the baitiao.

In order to repair the Yellow River, in order to launch water conservancy projects in various places, in order to restore the vitality of the Central Plains, the white policy of the Ming Empire will inevitably continue to be used, and the "tradition" of borrowing and doing things will continue for a while.

Although there has not been any news of forged white strips, it is necessary to plan ahead.

In order to prevent the government's credit from corrupting due to counterfeiting incidents in the future, which would affect the future layout, Su Yonglin felt that it was necessary to upgrade Baitiao.

Anti-counterfeiting upgrade.

After investigation, Su Yonglin decided that all the white strips after the anti-counterfeiting upgrade use special water texture paper as the material.

Water-patterned paper, also known as flower-curtain paper, can show bright lines or patterns in addition to the curtain pattern when viewed in the light. The purpose is to increase the potential beauty of the paper. Its origin can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

In the early days, water-patterned paper was mostly used as letter paper, poem paper, and Buddhist paper. It was purely a manifestation of the leisurely feelings of literati and writers.

After Su Yonglin made this decision, he ordered to buy out all the workshops and craftsmen that made water-printed paper in Daming Kingdom, and enforced the monopoly of all the water-printed paper industry by government order, and private private production and sales were not allowed.

All personnel with relevant skills were forcibly employed by the government as subordinate employees of the Ministry of National Works of the Ming Dynasty, and were given the status and treatment of officials.

In addition, Su Yonglin also ordered a large number of unused water pattern paper to be recycled in the private sector, to get all the water pattern paper before the action, and cut off the storage of folk water pattern paper.

Fortunately, this kind of paper itself is also a high-grade paper, and the price is high. It is not a popular commodity that can be widely used by the people. It is not popular among the people, except for people who have money and leisure, such as literati and writers. No big deal, no turbulence.

In the end, the people involved either worked for the Daming Ministry of Industry, or they got enough compensation to keep silent.

So on the 13th day of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Su Yonglin ordered the Ministry of Industry to ask the water pattern paper production department to make water pattern paper with a new pattern, which should be complicated and inconvenient to forge, as the basic material for white strips.

Patterns can be works of art, birds and beasts, or even landscape paintings. All in all, they need to be complicated, and there must be subtle tricks that are not easy to be discovered.

At best, people who want to counterfeit can be made to despair, and the costs they need to pay far exceed the benefits that can be obtained, so as to force them to give up counterfeiting.

Later, in terms of page writing of the white strips, cinnabar was used as the writing material.

Cinnabar is either used for alchemy or for official writing. In this era, it generally has a mysterious and solemn symbolic meaning, and this color represents the importance of white strips.

In terms of text, Su Yonglin also requires the uniform use of the prescribed characters, and the engraving printing mode is adopted. The engravings are stored in the warehouse of the Ministry of Finance. If the Privy Council and the Ministry of Industry want to use it, they must obtain permission from the Ministry of Finance to use.

Under the multi-layer increase, a new set of white stripes appeared, and Su Yonglin saw the samples at No.20 eight days after he ascended the throne.

Others can be ignored, only the landscape painting hidden in it when facing the sun is quite graceful, adding a romantic mood to this common thing for no reason.

This feeling, like turning money into a work of art, is quite aesthetic.

Is this the way of paper money in the future?
Su Yonglin suddenly had such an idea.

Although the cost may be a little higher, it is still a piece of paper in the end, and some time to improve the process, how to do it is more cost-effective than using copper to cast money.

Su Yonglin ordered to reward the craftsmen who completed this innovation, and mass-produced part of this batch of white bars for reserve.

And this time, in order to recruit [-] people in Shandong to help with the military logistics, the Privy Council submitted a batch of applications to the Ministry of Finance at the request of the local officials in Shandong.

After the Ministry of Finance reviewed and confirmed that it was compliant and feasible, it was approved, and this batch of white papers was delegated to the public.

At the same time, Shandong Province began to explain the styles and differences of the new white bars, and opened the business of exchanging old white bars for new white bars, encouraging people to exchange old unused white bars for new white bars for the next step. Prepare for the purging of the flow of baitiao among the people.

Su Yonglin also ordered a time limit for the exchange of the old white bars and the new white bars. After a certain time limit, the old white bars were immediately voided and no longer allowed to be exchanged, thus speeding up the replacement of the folk white bars.

It is too easy for the old white strip to fake it.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the war, the Ming government under the leadership of Su Yonglin prepared many, many things, and did not blindly wait for the victory of the war and the acquisition of New Year coins.

This battle must be won, but the Ming government needs to do too much.

At the same time, on the front line of Haizhou in Shandong Province, Zhou Zhi also learned a lot of information on the movements of the Song army through the second operation group of the Skynet Army, which penetrated deeply into the Song Dynasty.

Judging from the information on Song Jun's movements, it is not that Song Jun did not do any intelligence work at all.

They obviously already knew that the Ming army was gathering in Haizhou and was preparing for a large-scale operation, and correspondingly strengthened the defense forces of the naval forces in the Jianghuai area and the defense forces of Zhenjiang Prefecture and Jiankang Prefecture on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Judging from the arrangement of the Ming army, Song Ting obviously judged that the Ming army planned to launch an attack from Haizhou, all the way south, breaking through the Huaihe and Yangtze River defense lines and set foot on the land of Jiangnan.

Therefore, it is not surprising that they strengthened the defenses of Zhenjiang and Jiankang.

According to the intelligence of the Ming army, it can be known that the number of Song troops in Zhenjiang Prefecture is about [-], but the actual number is around [-].

Both armies were underpaid, but one side ate more and the other side ate less.

From this point of view, the kingship is indeed a straw bag.

As for the navy, the Song army's navy in the Huaihe River area can basically only be counted as patrol and alert, and the number of warships is only a few dozen. As part of the battle navy, it is concentrated in the Yangtze River defense line. The number of warships exceeds [-], and the water The number of teachers is about three thousand.

More than [-] Mingzhou navy warships and more than [-] sailors, as the main force of the Song Army navy, were still moored at the port of Dinghai County and did not take any action.

Judging from this, Song Ting obviously believed that the Ming army navy had the possibility of attacking Lin'an from the sea, so he asked the Mingzhou navy to become the Great Wall of the Sea in Lin'an City.

Therefore, this battle is [-] of the Ming army's water and land armies against the Song army's [-] water and land armies.

The difference in strength between the two sides is not too big, and it is barely evenly matched. However, considering that the Song army has a home field advantage in battle, it may increase its troops at any time, so the Ming army still needs a quick decision.

(End of this chapter)