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Chapter 828 Anti-Counterfeiting
Anti-counterfeiting is not something that the Japanese military government needs to worry about now.

Because the whole world wants to make fakes of Daming on banknotes, only Daming people have this ability, but the name of the Tongbao here is 'Daming Yazhou Wanli Tongbao', and Chen Mu plans to build two exchanges in Majiagang and Panama later. Silver storage station.

From the Central Plains, precious metals such as gold, silver and copper were exchanged for banknotes there.

Leaving from Asia, the banknotes were exchanged for precious metals such as gold, silver and copper.

This is also the reason why some people in the Ming Dynasty opposed ocean trade—sea goods were more profitable than local goods, rare goods could be lived in, and the prosperity of sea trade would increase the loss of precious metals.

Unless it is a means like Chen Mu who directly masters the gold and copper mines in Luzon, in the trade, the equivalent is replaced by weapons and armor, or even dispatched instructors and garrisons to ensure safety, in exchange for goods.

"To tell you the truth, the Wanli Tongbao in Changsheng County is hardly forged." Chen Mu explained to Hai Rui with a wry smile: "Chen did not expect that the imperial court would send [-] immigrants. soldiers, so there was no anti-counterfeiting for a while."

All the start-up dignitaries here don’t want anything, so what do they use for anti-counterfeiting?
Hai Rui shook his head reproachfully, and said, "This Tongbao is not distributed in the Central Plains, but there is no anti-counterfeiting. Isn't Jing Haibo afraid of imitation by the local natives and Western Yi?"

To be honest, Chen Mu is really not afraid.

Chen Mu rummaged on the table, finally found four pieces of paper with different shapes and slapped them on the table, pointed to the first two and said: "This is the paper from Xiyi and Haiyi in England, they can only make this kind of hemp paper , made of torn linen, very thick and durable, but the workmanship is rough, and ten out of ten sheets have unbroken string ends, all of which are linen paper, but England's workmanship on linen paper is better than that of Westerners A star and a half."

As he spoke, he pointed to the third piece of thick cardboard and said, "This is the paper of the Mayans in southern Asia. They should have crushed the tender skin of local figs into pulp, pressed it flat and dried it into cardboard, and smoothed the cardboard with lime. , you can write books and draw pictures, which is thicker than Western paper, and these papers are combined into Mayan books."

Chen Mu picked up the thin plank-like Mayan cardboard and said: "These books are hard to come by now. In the 41st year of Jiajing, Emperor Sejong, the Western priest Dinago de Landa ordered all Mayan books to be burned. All the priests were burned at the stake, and the smallpox they brought followed and killed most of the Mayans, and now there are no Mayans who can make this kind of paper."

Hai Rui frowned. He felt that Chen Mu's words were not rigorous enough, and asked, "Then how did Jing Haibo know about this kind of cardboard making? Wasn't it taught by the so-called 'Maya' people in your mouth?"

Chen Mu shook his head with a smile, and said, "Deng Shuai obtained a few pieces from Panama and sent them to Changsheng. Our military craftsmen followed them up and tested them to make exactly the same cardboard."

"It's very easy for us to imitate their two kinds of paper. No matter hemp paper or leather paper, we can and do it a hundred times more exquisitely than theirs. They can't make our paper."

As Chen Mu said, he patted his hand on the last piece of paper on the table, and said: "The paper is made by Shuntian military craftsmen, using the craftsmanship of Xuande Jian porcelain blue paper, but with fluorite powder lines, the porcelain blue color is very It will fade soon, but it will always maintain its color, and there are stars in the dark."

The Tongbao made by Chen Mu is much smaller than the previous treasure banknotes. He heard that the Daming banknotes are huge, but he doesn’t want to make them so big. Although they will have better anti-counterfeiting ability, after all, it is easy to learn papermaking, but if you want to Making paper bigger is much harder.

But it was used to guard against Ming's neighbors. In this land and even in European countries, this problem does not exist-they can't even make decent paper, so what's the big deal?

Hai Rui was no longer angry with Chen Mu for making Tongbao with flaws. Anyway, he had already said that the Spaniards were Daming Tongbao's reserves, and it was indeed quite reasonable.

The division of labor is very clear. Spain manages the mines, and the silver is sent to the court to mint coins, which are used to buy Tong Bao for the Spaniards, who then exchange Tong Bao for guns to support the Spaniards in their homeland wars.

In fact, Hai Rui thinks that the Spaniards are not at a loss. With such a free land, half of the maintenance fee does not need to be paid. Although a large number of plantations have been lost, they can continue to send armaments and goods to the mainland of the West. What do you think? They all made a lot of money.

The old man took the celadon paper made by the craftsmen of the Eastern Army Mansion and said: "If it is so, it is fine, add engravings and engrave police texts; make laws, those who steal the seals will be punished with death and confiscated their property, and those who report will be given half of their property."

When Hai Rui grew up, he could vaguely see precious banknotes that had long since lost their circulation value. Chen Mu's generation had never even seen them. He didn't even know what anti-counterfeiting was on them. Reminding him, he nodded and said: "That's good, now every Tongbao has a stamp from the Eastern Army Mansion, what else is there to print?"

"It's not what to print, but how to print it." Hai Rui said, "Usually it's a cinnabar print, not treasure banknotes. Chen Shuai can send someone back to the household department by boat to inquire, and then just take back the first batch of Tongbao for a replacement." .”

As long as he knows that Chen Mu didn't intentionally harm the people, Hai Rui will relax a lot. Although in his opinion, Changsheng County's treasure banknote issuance is still not fully prepared, and there will be a lot of trouble in sorting it out in the future, but this is all reasonable , and he didn't want to criticize anything.

Chen Mu himself is not from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he has "no culture". He won battles here, opened up territories, and gained people to make the county in order.

Where in the world is there a perfect person?
Although Hai Rui seems to have been demoted here, Mr. Hai never thinks so. He thinks that he came here to fill in the gaps for Chen Mu. I sent someone back to China to ask the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Chen Mu also thinks that this matter can wait for a while. The most important thing for him right now is the contract with the Spaniards. Only when the state of war is truly lifted can Asia enter a period of development with peace of mind. After all, given his position, the most important thing is It's not about competing with the Spanish or the Europeans for hegemony.

It is to deliver enough benefits for the Ming Dynasty, he said: "There is no rush, the transport capacity of thousands of ships, local goods and products are offered to the emperor, and the domestic transport volume is huge, and it will take a long time to load. , Unfortunately, there are not many large iron mines found here.”

Chen Mu's people really didn't dig iron ore here. There was one in Zhuangyuan Bridge, but the output was very low. Basically, there was no shallow large-scale iron ore that could be excavated within the current range of Ming people's activities.

On the contrary, there are many copper mines. Copper mines are generally found in the four counties of Majiagang, Jincheng, Jie, and Changsheng where the Ming army landed, especially in Jincheng.

Everyone dug a gold mine, dug and dug and found a copper mine, and chiseled next to it, yo!There are still many copper mines!
Chen Mu asked Hai Rui with eyes full of expectation: "When Hai Gong left the middle school, how did the industries in the north and south Zhili and Guangdong Fujian develop?"

　Good morning!

　　
　
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