People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 410 The secret code of the AD calendar!
The old man has been in this business for so many years, so he still has some confidence.

His technique is the result of many years of consideration, and is of course a mockery of those who are now complacent.

He had realized it back then. Although the imperial court was still printing treasure notes, because the treasure notes were no longer circulated as currency, no one really cared how exquisite these treasure notes were.

Even the treasure notes were largely reduced to rewards for foreign envoys.

After receiving such treatment, of course no one is willing to work hard to study it. Many of the technologies have been passed down from a long time ago and cannot keep up with the times.

And these people regard this as their livelihood.

If you want to make a living in a place like Jiangnan where so many experts gather, you need to work very hard, otherwise no one will pay attention to you.

During this process, the old man devoted himself to research, combining the strengths of various schools and integrating them into one, pushing his own skills to the level of perfection.

In this situation, she believes that many people want to surpass her, but that is impossible.

He had great contempt for the craftsmen in the court.

Even though the court craftsmen were standing in front of him, he still expressed his thoughts without hesitation.

Fortunately, the other craftsmen did not take this matter to heart. After Princess Ning'an's encouragement, they also realized that they had been arrogant and conceited over the years and believed that the royal technology was the best.

So much so that there has been no breakthrough over the years.

These craftsmen are not like ordinary scholars. Scholars can spend their entire lives reading the classics handed down for thousands of years. Anyway, they are just those few shabby books with the same few words. All they need to do is read all day long.

But the more people use technology, the more they need people to study it and make breakthroughs.

Now that a master from the folks has finally appeared, how can they not be happy?
Of course, learn the technology quickly.

Although there are some who are very stubborn and envy others who have better skills than themselves, and think that others are just taking shortcuts.

As long as such a person appears in front of Princess Ning'an, he will be immediately cleared away.

Princess Ning'an was very generous when she heard the old man say this.

"Tell him why he was found out!"

Once Princess Ning'an has given the order, of course someone will come forward to tell him.

The captain of the two hundred craftsmen stood up.

"Old sir, your skills have actually reached the level of perfection. The rest of us are really not as good as you."

Upon hearing this, the old man immediately became modest: "Don't say that, I'm just trying to make a living and came up with this by accident. In the future, we should learn from each other."

This was said very humbly and gave enough face to colleagues.

Everyone felt relieved when they saw that the old man was so good at talking. It seemed that they would be able to get along well in the future.

I’m afraid that some people who are not very smart may think they have some skills and start to show off.

This kind of person will not get any good results no matter how good his skills are.

Such people are often easily marginalized.

The captain was also very happy: "You are so polite, old senior. In fact, the reason why we can identify it is not because of your poor skills, but because you don't understand what these numbers mean."

As he said this, the captain took out two silver bills, one real and one fake.

If someone who doesn't know much about this saw these two banknotes, they would not be able to tell which one was real and which one was fake.

This is enough to show that the old man's skills are really superb.

"Old man, this ticket of yours is so real that it looks real, but the use of this string of numbers has exposed you."

The old man suddenly realized: "So that's how it is. To be honest, when I saw this strange and bizarre ghost painting, I wondered what it was. But you said it was a number, so I have some impression of it.

I remember meeting a red-bearded man from the Western Regions at a wealthy family’s house a few years ago…”

In fact, that person was not from the Western Regions, he might be Spanish or Portuguese.

However, the society at that time regarded these overseas foreigners as either from Nanyang or from the Western Regions, which meant they were not from the Central Plains.

"That Westerner has a watch with these words on it. It turns out that this is another way of writing the numbers we usually use!"

The old man didn't expect to be defeated by such an insignificant thing.

Princess Ning'an and the senior bank executives nearby all smiled knowingly.

In fact, this looks very simple, but the trick is that even they don’t quite understand it now. Only Duke Chen Han can explain it clearly.

The reason why they can now complete this entire set of processes is because they are guided by the letter from the Duke.

Especially the anti-counterfeiting of this seemingly simple silver note also shows Chen Han’s unique craftsmanship.

The captain explained: "These foreign numbers were taught to us by the Duke. Because we, the people of the Central Plains, don't know what they mean, so even if we want to forge them, we don't know how to do it."

After hearing this, the old man immediately said, "But in this case, only you few can identify the real from the fake, and ordinary people can't tell it apart. Then won't ordinary people still be deceived in the future?"

Princess Ning'an didn't expect the old man to have such foresight, and this is indeed the case.

Princess Ning An said at the side: "So our future anti-counterfeiting measures must not only stay on digital codes, but also improve our printing technology, so that those who want to forge will not be able to do it even if they want to."

The old man understood what this meant better. In fact, it was to design the silver notes more complicated, whether it was the pattern or the raw material of the paper, to try to make it so that the counterfeiters would be discouraged.

He is very experienced in this.

When he imitated those ancient paintings, there was one time when he made them so similar that the owners of the original paintings couldn't tell them apart. He was able to pass off fake paintings as genuine and sell them for a price that was even more valuable than the real ones.

The owner had no way to defend himself, and finally he was so angry that he tore up the real painting.

From this example, we can see that once the fake is mistaken for the real, very terrible things will happen.

Fortunately, he was the only one who forged the banknotes a few days ago, and there was no way to copy them on a large scale. If there was a professional team doing this, the bank would have suffered heavy losses.

Li Hai, the director of the Baochao Duzhisi, said: "According to the instructions of the Duke, we must not only strengthen research on anti-counterfeiting technology, but also strengthen publicity and education for the people so that they can identify fake silver notes, and strengthen the punishment in the law.

According to the laws of the Duke, once someone is caught forging silver bills, he must be killed without mercy. The reason you are still alive is because Her Royal Highness the Princess feels sorry for you because you are a talented person, and you had no subjective motive to forge silver bills, so she let you go.

For this favor, we hope that you can work well for the court and try to reduce the number of folk masters like you in the market, which will bring unnecessary losses to the people. "The old man was flattered when he heard such a grand goal, because he was a craftsman before and felt that it was very good to support his family with his craftsmanship.

The most important thing is that it is not a very honest person.

If people who can do this job don't have some tricks to deceive people, it is impossible for them to survive.

Under such circumstances, he felt that his character was not very good. Although he stopped in the end and chose to retire in order to survive, he did so to avoid his enemies. However, he did not expect that he would have such an opportunity to serve the court now that he was about to die.

To be honest, such an opportunity is really rare for this old man.

It was kind of like giving him a chance to redeem himself.

People like him always think that they have no future and will definitely go to the eighteenth level of hell. He has already thought that if he does not have any great luck, his fate will probably be to be infamous for eternity.

But he didn't expect that the captain would tell him today that in order to reduce the losses suffered by ordinary people, he had to participate in this research.

It is even possible that you will become the object of everyone's admiration in the future.

You should know that the influence of the Ming Bank is very significant even in the whole of Jiangnan.

If it wasn't for the possibility of causing such a stir, those people wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to find me, and even put in so much effort to get the bank.

This is a life-threatening business, and the fact that these people dare to rush in is enough to prove how important this business is.

The old man doesn't know what to say now.

To be honest, it is so lucky for a person to have the opportunity to do such a thing in his life.

Not everyone has this opportunity.

Especially for someone like him who originally thought he would be dead if caught by the government, he had made plans to die heroically. The only regret was that he failed to rescue his family. In fact, he still felt very guilty towards his family.

Although I seemed to have achieved good results with my skills in the past, I was also worried.

It's not worth spending this money.

Now they are being threatened that if they don't do this, their families will be destroyed.

What's more, he knew very well that if he was no longer useful one day, those people would definitely kill him to silence him, that was for sure.

If I knew such a confidential matter, I would have to kill the person to silence him, otherwise my own life would not be guaranteed.

So now that he can work at Daming Bank, he feels that it is the luckiest thing in his life, and nothing else can compare to this.

He was already very satisfied.

But he didn't expect that the captain would tell him that what he would do in the future would be so great and so meaningful.

People like him might one day be able to save many ordinary people from losses.

What a meritorious thing this is.

People in ancient times were very superstitious and attached great importance to accumulating merit so that they and their families could benefit greatly.

Thinking of this, the old man's eyes were red, and he knelt down in front of Princess Ning'an again. "Your Highness, I don't know what to say if you can give someone like me a chance. I won't say those big words. If I continue to commit those evil things in my life, I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death."

The fact that he made such a serious vow shows how moved the old man is.

No way.

Anyone would be excited if a death row inmate suddenly got the opportunity to accomplish something great, not only would he not have to die but he would also be remembered for generations.

Princess Ning An helped him up and said, "No need to say anything. Captain, what's the point of telling him these foreign numbers?"

The captain immediately started talking to him.

"Old Senior, the reason why you lost to us is not because of your poor skills, but because these numbers actually record the year, month and day."

The old man was stunned for a moment.

Year, month, day?
In the past, we used the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches calendar. Who could tolerate something so new?

The captain of the World told him about the knowledge he got from Chen Han.

Although this process seems simple, it was definitely a painful rote memorization for the people of the Ming Dynasty who did not often use the Gregorian calendar.

Just like Chen Han had never used the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches calendar, even if he read more theories on the subject, he didn't seem to know how to remember these things. It was really too difficult.

Sometimes I really admire the brains of ancient people. How did they remember such a difficult system of dating?

It's the same principle. If the ancients were suddenly asked to use the Gregorian calendar, they wouldn't understand. It's clearly the Wanli year, so how come it suddenly became the 15th or st century?

Moreover, the ancients used the lunar calendar, which is very different from the solar calendar.

In other words, this set alone is enough to make it difficult for counterfeiters to tell the difference.

Of course, ordinary people will not be able to tell the difference.

Therefore, this form of code is only suitable for large-denomination, low-circulation silver bills. If we want real silver bills to become a fixed currency in the future, we must strengthen the legal system and kill people. Otherwise, don't even mention the so-called anti-counterfeiting technology.

After the old man figured out these things, he felt calmer.

He knew in his heart: It’s not that my skills are not good enough, but that my thinking is not good enough.

I don't have the brains like Duke Chen Han, so there's no way I can do it.

If you could lend me such a useful brain, I would immediately become a leader in the industry.

Of course, it is a great honor to be able to work with the Duke now.

When he thought of this, he felt much better.

With his understanding of this industry, he believes that he will soon be able to lead the entire industry.

This can be considered as the last rays of light that have finally radiated from my old age.

This way, I can be considered to have made up for the sins I have committed over the years...

(End of this chapter)