Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 920: Hunting for Prisoners and Gold Mining (6)

A blizzard suddenly hit.

Guangning City was covered in silver.

There are fewer people on the streets.

"The changes in Liaodong are really significant."

Street Inn.

Jiang Chen stood by the window, facing the cold wind, and said with emotion: "We have secretly entered the customs along the way and have been to many places. Places like Suizhong and Jinzhou have changed a lot."

"Even now, whether it's the capital, the capital region, or even northern Zhili, many people still stubbornly believe that Liaodong is a barren and cold place. Little do they know that Liaodong has already undergone great changes without their knowledge."

Jiang Chen's words made everyone who was gathered together look up.

The leader was Xiao Niezhong.

"Have you noticed anything about the large-scale counterfeit money with various sources and varying qualities that has appeared in Liaodong?" Under the gaze of everyone, Jiang Chen closed the window, turned around and looked at Xiao Niezhong and the others.

"This is fundamentally different from the counterfeit currency cases we have handled in the past. If we can't get to the root of the problem, it will be up to our detective team to investigate the counterfeit currency cases in Liaodong in the shortest possible time, minimize the losses, and maintain the credibility of the new currency. This is not an easy task."

Xiao Niezhong frowned and said, "Detective, judging from the intelligence we have now, the counterfeit currency that appeared in Liaodong this time is closely related to the hunting and gold rush in Liaodong."

"This strategy started last year. Many people have participated in it. There are even many unknown forces behind these people."

Jiang Chen smiled with relief.

This newcomer he discovered has already acquired the ability to stand on his own after these years of training. If it had not involved many things in Liaodong, Jiang Chen would not have come to Liaodong in person to handle the counterfeit currency case handled by the detective team, but would have asked Xiao Niezhong to take charge.

"continue."

Jiang Chen gestured.

"Because of this incident, a large number of armed merchant groups appeared in the border areas of Liaodong."

Xiao Niezhong continued, "The armed merchant groups need to report to the customs, and this also involves the sale of obsolete firearms and military equipment to these armed merchant groups."

"In the past year, countless armed merchant groups have left Liaodong. Some of these groups were lucky enough to discover gold and silver mines. The scale and quality of the mines may vary, but the gold and silver materials mined are still gathering in Liaodong in batches."

"good."

Jiang Chen nodded and said, "For these gold and silver materials, if they want to be circulated into Liaodong, they need to pass through several checkpoints, one is the customs and the other is the customs. The double taxation on land and sea has caused many groups holding gold and silver materials to choose to keep them in Liaodong, thus avoiding a large amount of gold and silver from overflowing."

"Last year, Liaodong officially began to circulate the new currency, and many groups were given new currency for distribution, and even many tax items were clearly levied in new currency."

“That presents another problem.”

One person stepped forward and said with a serious expression: "It involves the exchange of large quantities of new coins. Although it is an equal exchange, the new coins in circulation are mixed with other materials. This is also the key to the seigniorage."

"For ordinary people, as long as the new currency they hold is the same as the silver they exchanged, and people recognize it as sufficient when they go to other places, they will not think too much about other things."

"But for other groups, especially the minority groups who know about this, they would never want this to happen to them." "That's right."

Jiang Chen agreed, "This is also the reason why, since the new currency was introduced, counterfeit currency has frequently appeared in these places of circulation."

"Since the imperial court can mint new coins and earn a lot of money from the seigniorage, why do we have to go through the imperial court to exchange for new coins? Wouldn't it be better to mint them privately?"

Everyone gathered here nodded in approval.

This is the most fundamental conclusion they could draw after handling so many counterfeit currency cases.

The imperial court earned money from seigniorage from this, so they could do it secretly.

However, the new currency system is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. It is backed by the credibility of the imperial court and is a currency recognized by all groups under its rule.

If many of the new coins in circulation are fake, or even have an alarmingly low gold-silver ratio, the harm and chaos caused will be too great.

What the detective team has to do is to do everything possible to confiscate every counterfeit currency in circulation and catch all the evildoers involved.

The right to mint coins must be firmly in the hands of the imperial court. Anyone or group who dares to get involved in the right to mint coins is contemptuous of the imperial court's authority and tramples on the laws of the Ming Dynasty!
"So the large-scale counterfeit currency appeared in Liaodong, and the root of this problem has been found."

Jiang Chen lifted his robe and said, "It is precisely because of these people's evil thoughts that they are unwilling to give up part of their hard-earned income to the court for tax collection, so that the court can realize the concept of taking from the people and using it for the people, so they choose to mint coins privately."

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"We have found the source of the private forging, but there is one question that we must pay attention to, which is why this matter has developed so quickly."

The Ming Dynasty is more scarce in precious metals than other places, but this does not mean that there are no precious metals such as gold, silver and copper in the Ming Dynasty or even in the surrounding areas.

The essence of hunting for gold is to attract more groups to Liaodong through this event, and then drive the development of various fields in Liaodong.

If Liaodong wants to be well governed and developed, it cannot rely solely on the military-industrial system, but must also actively develop industries in other fields.

People have started to immigrate to Liaoning since last year.

But people alone are not enough.

How to resettle these people is something that must be resolved.

This attracted a group of people to set up industries in various places in Liaodong. Once the industry was established, a large number of people needed to be recruited, and a relatively stable cycle was formed.

In addition to hunting for captives and gold panning, there are many other areas of development surrounding Liaodong, such as trade with the grasslands, maritime trade, and exchanges with North Korea. It is precisely because of these many demands that Liaodong has developed little by little.

"This must be related to the government officials!"

Xiao Niezhong said with a sharp look.

"Where's the evidence?"

Jiang Chen asked back: "We, the detective team, cannot rely solely on experience and speculation when handling cases. If so, who would believe it if we told them?"

"Liaodong is very complicated. We can't follow the previous thinking to handle the Liaodong counterfeit currency case. If we do so, we may not find anything useful, and it will also mess up Liaodong, and some people may even seize the opportunity! !"

(End of this chapter)