Due to historical reasons, iron coins have poor credibility among the people and are difficult to circulate. After the iron coins are galvanized, the difficulty of folk acceptance can be greatly reduced.
As for the anti-counterfeiting means, in addition to relief and galvanizing, there is only a ring of flange to prevent shearing. In order to reduce processing costs, no anti-filing piping is designed. The reason is also very simple. No veteran thinks that someone can make money by scraping iron filings from wrought iron without losing money.
The elders are generally not worried about the issue of anti-counterfeiting. When asked by the Senate Council whether it was possible to manufacture counterfeit coins overseas and in the Ming Dynasty, the elder engineer of the mint said confidently:
"If they want to imitate our one-dollar silver coin at a cost of one yuan, they may only need a few tons of lead or cupronickel, a few talented craftsmen and a hydraulic press designed by a time traveler.
"But if they want to reproduce the one-penny coins made of our steel at a cost of less than one penny, what they need is the Senate, the Cabinet, the Ministry of Industry, hundreds of industrial veterans and thousands of industrial workers as upstream and downstream leaders. Technical support, in short, requires a great Senate and people."
"This is the Kun thief's Tongbao money. It just started circulating a few days ago. One silver dollar is worth a thousand cash. There are no Australian Kun notes in this money. It's all Tongbao money." The shopkeeper saw that the master was very interested in this Australian Tongbao and came over quickly. Commentary.
"It's all Tongbao money? This is strange. The thief Kun has changed his temper!" Li Guangyuan played with the new money in his hand. Although I know that this is just an iron coin with very little value, the coin is well made and is worthy of the best Yongle coins. It's addictive.
Luo Heying said with a smile: "This is just an iron coin. If the thieves are concerned about this trivial matter, their big country should close down earlier."
Li Guangyuan asked, "How can you exchange this money now?"
"You can exchange them at Kun Thief's warehouse on the pier, and you can exchange them at Mr. Fan's shop. Merchants in the market exchange a lot of old treasure notes."
Small-denomination banknotes are not durable and difficult to count, and they are "paper money". Naturally, they are not as reliable as "coins" in the minds of ordinary people.
"Is there any old money that can be redeemed?"
"Yes, yes," the shopkeeper nodded repeatedly, "not many people exchange good money for it. Most people exchange it for bad money such as sand flakes and crab shells. Not many people exchange five baht for it... …”
The Australians are quite generous in this regard. Although the quality and weight are determined, as long as it is minted money, no matter what kind of money it is, they will never refuse, and they will more or less exchange it for new money.
Li Guangyuan thought about it for a while, but he didn't see any conspiracy among the Australians. He could only hum with an inscrutable expression, throw the money back to the waiter, and say: "Let's keep walking."
Once you enter the Xiaoyao Market, there is nothing special about it. There is no market today, there are few vendors, and the streets are a bit deserted. He was also a well-known figure in the local area. When he passed by on the street, shop assistants and shopkeepers came to say hello and say hello.
Since the thief came, Mr. Li has become much kinder to others. In the past, he would have ignored the courtesy of some small shops, but now he not only smiles and nods in return, but also greets them from time to time.
Luo Heying wanted to open a store in the market, naturally so that the Eight Immortals Society could have a separate base and eyes in the market. The two of them knew this very well and didn't tell each other. After all, the Eight Immortals are the Eight Immortals, and the Li family is the Li family. Although they are sleeping in the same bed, their dreams are different.
Li Guangyuan wanted to eat the pie painted by the Eight Immortals Society, saying "Master Wang went south, helped the country, and honored the ancestors." Li Guangyuan wanted to eat it, but he was not that stupid. He just relied on a few empty words to lead his team to fight against the Kun thieves - unless the Ming Dynasty Officers and soldiers entered Dongguan County.
However, he used the Eight Immortals Society to become the "King of Heaven". Not only did his influence on the surrounding areas suddenly increase greatly, but his prestige in Lijiawei also reached its peak. The reputation of the Eight Immortals Society still needs to be sold.
Luo Heying actually knew Li Guangyuan's thoughts clearly. However, since ancient times, it has been easier to get on board than to get off. The benefits of the Eight Immortals Association and the Tiandao Alliance are not so easy to obtain.
The two of them each had their own hidden agendas and searched everywhere in the market. If we talk about free land, there is still a lot of it in Xiaoyao Market. But after reading it, Luo and Ying both expressed that it was inappropriate. The two looked around Xiaoyao Ruins but couldn't find anything they were satisfied with.
In the heart of the guy who leads the way
He secretly thought, what kind of land does Mr. Luo want? Being so picky, I didn't say that I was ugly. The market is not big, just a half-mile-long street that soon reaches the end. There is a pier here - this pier did not exist before. The Fan family built it here after the Australians came. In order to distinguish it from the old pier in the market, it is called the new pier.
After the new pier was repaired, it was rarely used, and not a single ship was seen berthing for three to five days. It was not until recently that the Australians carried out extensive construction projects in Xiaoyao Market that the wharf became prosperous. A large number of ships docked every day to load and unload cargo.
Going further west from the new wharf, there is a fence blocking the road, and we have reached the edge of the market. The "big house" built by the Australians is just outside the fence, across the river from the new pier.
Li Guangyuan knew that this place was originally a river beach and was later purchased by the Fan family as a cemetery. It was unknown how many bones were buried over the decades. No one wants to go there in broad daylight.
The thief's "big house" was actually built on this cemetery? Li Guangyuan was somewhat surprised.
I saw some people wearing Australian-style jackets running around the construction site carrying or carrying some belongings. Someone from Kun set up a small box with three long legs, and carefully looked at the lead pendant hanging from the box for a long time. Then he stood up, put his head towards the small hole in the middle of the side of the box, and looked carefully What, while looking at it, he was waving his hands and dancing some kind of charm. There is a Kun man in the distance, carrying a long wooden board shaped like a ruler. There are red and black lines painted on the wooden board. The Banchi Kun man kept moving back and forth along with the Guan Xia Kun man's chants and spells, without stopping for a moment. Another person from Kun placed a long wooden box on a flat place, took out a small object from his arms, looked at it for a few times, then crawled on the ground and worshiped the long wooden box. Write down what to draw on the scroll beside you. The writing and painting are very careful, and I have to use the small objects to compare them from time to time. There are also some Kun people holding some strange-shaped things in their hands, sometimes looking at the sky, sometimes probing the ground, not knowing what they are doing. In addition to this group of Kun people, there were some Japanese warriors wearing iron hats on their heads and Japanese swords at their waists who were on guard and protecting the outside. The idle people in Xiaoyao Market gathered in twos and threes to watch from a distance, sometimes whispering to each other.
Li Guangyuan was very surprised and looked at each other with Luo Heying - What are you doing?
But the shopkeeper was very proud and talked eloquently: "These are Australian Feng Shui masters. The Feng Shui of the cemetery in Xiaoyao Xu is very prosperous. There have been three talented people in the past. The Kun people must have taken a fancy to this Feng Shui treasure land, so they will Encircle this place and move all the tombs and cemeteries here."
That's all for Luo Heying. Li Guangyuan is a local and knows the situation in Xiaoyao Xu very well. This river beach is a graveyard, a burial place for helpless people. Not to mention prominent descendants, they may not even have a wife. Where does this geomantic treasure land come from? As for the scholars who came out of Xiaoyao Market, none of them had their ancestral graves in the cemetery. This guy is from outside, and he is talking nonsense when he opens his mouth.
However, the guy kept talking more and more enthusiastically: "The three-legged box is a thousand-mile yin-yang box, and the flat ruler that man is carrying is a soul-pulling board. The soul-pulling board and a tree can pull and condense the souls within a radius of ten feet. Then use the yin and yang box to carefully distinguish. If the place where the evil ghosts and evil spirits reside is not used, it is looking at the qi. The long box that the man worshiped contains condensed yin souls. If the earth is peaceful and the qi is upright, the Yin soul will be stable. Lying in the middle, the eight winds do not move. If there is evil and evil at work, the ghosts will move towards each other, but they have the power to restrain them and cannot escape. The small thing taken out from the arms is the most dexterous, which is the Western Eight Treasures Australian Compass. , don’t look at a small thing, there are mysteries of heaven and earth inside. Opening the lid can calm the wind and calm the air, and break all the ghosts and ghosts. The man used the ghost box and the Australian compass to look at the ground. The writing is not The good things are originally from the Mysterious Book of the Heavenly Book. The Kun people with strong magic power write and draw in that book, which is to change the feng shui. In addition, the magic tools held by the Kun people..."
Li Guangyuan thought to himself: What a bunch of nonsense! However, doubts soon arose in my mind: Maybe this Australian really has some witchcraft? Otherwise, how could he sweep across Guangdong and Guangxi from the small county of Lingao and become king in just ten years? Besides, many of their secret techniques are contrary to common sense...
Luo Heying watched Kunren measuring Feng Shui at Qiwangdi, and listened to the shopkeeper talk about the skills of Australian warlocks. All he could hear was the mist of clouds and mountains.
No idea. I couldn't help but ask: "Is there any real Kun here?"
"Zhen Kun? The real Kun and the fake Kun look similar, and you can't tell them apart." At this point, the shop assistant became more and more interested. "If you can get closer, there are still some differences. The real Kun all have their chests raised. The belly is folded, and the air is majestic. The stature is also a head taller than the ordinary fake kun. The clothes on the body are also different. Although the clothes are almost the same, the clothes of the real kun are made of better materials and have more styles. If they are dressed in a nondescript way, they must be There is no doubt that he is a true Kun."
Luo Heying couldn't help but ask: "How did you know?"
The shopkeeper said proudly: "When Kun Bing first arrived, Zhen Kun came to see a lot of people in the market, inspecting the market conditions and shouting from behind. Everyone is called the chief, and I have seen a lot of them. Now I am doing the work." They must all be fake kuns, and the people wearing iron hats and saber guards are all Japanese pirates under the kun thieves - there must be real kuns in the camp."
As he spoke, he pointed to a place next to the construction site surrounded by an earthen bamboo fence and said, "That's the Kun people's camp."
