Can you live forever

Chapter 135
The attitude of Ma Hong and the others made Peng Xia and the others change their faces immediately. There were no bandits around Shitang Town. Peng Xia possessed martial arts and had more than a dozen servants with him, so he was not afraid of ordinary bandits.

But I didn't expect this group of people to be so tough.

"Your Excellency is not a local?" Peng Xia tried her best to deal with it.

Ma Hong didn't know what he meant, so he smiled contemptuously and said, "Grandpa is from Liao, and my brothers traveled all over the country to catch mountain monsters, and occasionally worked as bandits, but I have never met fat sheep like you."

"This son has delicate skin and tender flesh, so don't try to work hard."

"Your three-legged cat kung fu, any brother under me can solve you, and don't say such stupid things as sending soldiers to save your family. If you don't want to be ripped off, send someone home quickly and ask your family to bring you money."

"Forget it, the silver is too heavy, let's take the treasure notes."

"500 taels per person, one, two, three, four...only fourteen? Forget it, you're the leader, right? It's up to you, boy, you need an extra 3000 taels, and I'll make up 1 taels for Grandpa."

"The time limit is one day. If you don't see the ransom before dawn tomorrow, you will die."

Since Jiajing opened a bank, paper banknotes have basically replaced the role of copper coins. Today, banknotes and silver coexist in the market.In order to restore the credit of the treasure banknotes, the first thing Jiajing did was to recover the old treasure banknotes in full.

Of course, the internal money is not enough, and Jiajing only has 500 million taels in his hands.

From the eighth year of Hongwu to the 31st year of Hongwu, an average of 515 million guan banknotes were issued each year, a total of 11845 million guan. Although there was a certain amount of recycling every year, some efforts were made from Yongle to Hongzhi.

But the results are minimal.

The treasure banknotes have been discarded, but there are still more than 5000 million treasure banknotes on the market, and 5000 million taels of silver are required for full redemption.

Yes, counterfeit banknotes are the reason for the total collapse of treasure banknotes.

Because there are no technical barriers to banknotes in this era, private casting of copper coins requires a lot of cost, at most the proportion of copper is less, paper money can be printed, and the face value can be as much as 1 guan.

That can't be printed?
Currency spam is not caused by the imperial court, but by counterfeit money.

Only the professionals of the Baochao Department can identify counterfeit money, and it is difficult for the common people to distinguish. Therefore, Jiajing trained hundreds of people first, and then announced that the treasure money can be redeemed in full, as long as it is certified as genuine.

Count the counterfeit banknotes with good quality in the past, even the counterfeit banknotes made directly with the technology of the treasure bank.

The stock is about 1 million.

Jiajing didn't have that much money, so naturally he still used the national debt, replacing the waste paper that had long been out of circulation with the debt of the imperial court.

This exchange lasted for a month, and when the progress was almost 3000 million coins, the credit of Daming Royal Bank had already been established.

A new banknote law is enacted.

Numbers were only "introduced" to China in the 13th century. Officials seldom use these, and generally use Chinese characters. Only numbers and Suzhou codes are used when keeping accounts.

Each of the new banknotes this time has a corresponding number, and some old banknotes are recycled every year and new banknotes are issued.And if the serial number on the market is still recycled, it is considered a counterfeit banknote.Because the recycling is random, you can be very keenly aware of where counterfeit banknotes are being issued indiscriminately, and follow the clues directly.

Jin Yiwei can be said to be iron-blooded against counterfeit banknotes.

I don't know how much blood has been shed all these years to stabilize the Daming treasure.

1 taels, with the highest denomination of 1 guan, is probably just a package. If it is exchanged for silver taels, it will be several hundred catties larger, which is not easy to carry.

However, 500 taels is not a small amount even for these young ladies.

Not everyone's business is that big.

Seeing their hesitation, Ma Hong winked, and the thugs on the side directly drew their knives and slashed at the stones on the ground. With a bang, the half-meter-thick stones were chopped open.

This time, the Fat Sheep were immediately silent.

Peng Xia took a deep breath, and suddenly remembered Ma Hong's roll call just now, 14 people?That's right, Zhang Anping and the others followed behind, and they may have discovered something was wrong, so they just went back to rescue the soldiers.

And procrastinated.

"Don't be angry, the hero. No matter what, before dawn tomorrow, 1 taels will naturally be given away. Please don't make things difficult for me during this period. Otherwise, the hero will not be able to get the silver, will he?"

"Hahaha, that's the reason."

After Ma Hong finished speaking, he ordered his men to guard the door, drove them to a corner of the temple, and then four brothers guarded them, randomly selected a servant, and asked him to go back to deliver the letter.

The fox demon didn't bother to catch it anymore, so he left after finishing his job.

……

Outside the temple, Zhang Zhixiang and the others walked slowly when they went up the mountain. When they were about to reach the top of the mountain, they heard Ma Hong's words about kidnapping them, so they didn't enter the temple.

It's not that I'm desperate.

It was because there were too many people, so he would inevitably fail to take good care of them, and there would be casualties. Since there was nothing wrong inside, he planned to wait until after dark to save people.

"This group of people specialize in capturing mountain spirits, and they all have real skills."

Behind a big rock outside the temple, the three of them hid, Zhang Zhixiang warned Zhang Jingdu, "Dudu, you have never fought with that little kung fu, so don't try to be brave, you know?"

"Know it."

Wang Cuiqiao analyzed: "Those people look like warriors, but they specialize in catching spirits and monsters. They must have some tricks."

"Yeah, yes, the leader is called Ma Hong, and he enshrines a snake demon."

The three were chatting, but suddenly there was a voice, Zhang Zhixiang was slightly surprised, then turned his head to look up, he didn't expect that there was a fox hiding in the tree.

The human words just now came from the mouth of the fox.

"Are you that fox fairy?"

Zhang Jingdu was a little excited, because this fox was silver-white, slender, and very beautiful. The fox jumped down from the tree and approached gracefully. I."

"How do you know me?"

"It is not to recognize people, but to recognize swords."

Tianshi Sword, the full name of the Sanwu Male and Female Slashing Evil Sword, has three and five in seal characters on the front and back of the sword.Other than that, there are no other obvious marks. Even if the sword is pulled away, the body of the sword is as smooth as a mirror, and there are no various runes in the legend.

Of course, this is just a normal state.

It was plain and unremarkable, and it didn't exude any power, so the fox concluded that it was the Heavenly Master Sword based on those two ancient seals?
"I have a pair of eyes that can see through precious light."

"This sword is as powerful as the sky."

"I got a glimpse of the word 'three-five' again, so I made a conjecture by the celestial master."

I didn't expect this fox to have supernatural powers. It seems that it is not an ordinary fox demon. According to what Ma Hong said, he should have fought against a fox demon.

"Tell me about Mahon's basilisk."

"Yes."

The fox responded, and replied: "Nowadays, the Liao region believes in the immortals of the horses. There are mainly five families of Hu, Huang, Bailiu and Hui. There are also good and bad families of these immortals. The good ones find disciples to enshrine and set up halls, and use them to see things and cure diseases, and earn money. merit."

"The bad fairy family colluded with the disciples, hunting for blood and food, and strengthening themselves."

"The fairy that Ma Hong enshrines is a snake demon that hunts and eats blood."

(PS: Fox yellow, white willow gray correspond to fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake, and mouse respectively.)
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