Chapter 3: The Death of Tu Lai (IV)

After leaving Shanhaiguan all the way, Dorgon and his party arrived at a place called Gaoling Post. This was originally a transfer station placed on the official road, but later it gradually developed into a small town and was still called Gaoling Post. There were not many families in the town, and only about 200 households were there. Since the town was built next to the official road, it was quite lively. There were four or five inns in the town. Seeing that there were unexpected storms and snowstorms in the sky, Dorgon saw that there were heavy winds and snowstorms and it seemed that the sky was not too early, he threw in the largest inn in the town, "Laiyi Inn", and planned to avoid this heavy snow before getting on the road.

When the shop owner saw Dorgon dressed in wealth, he naturally greeted him with a smile and tried every means to please him. He arranged an independent yard for Dorgon and others, and sent a quick-witted guy to serve him.

Apart from the clothes he wore, Dorgon was penniless, so the ones who stayed in the hotel were all the "accompaniment guards" behind him. However, this also implicitly matched his noble status. Rich people always took care of everything when they went out to do things, and the master did not need to do it. Moreover, these guards received special funds this time, so they were not afraid of spending money.

When it comes to spending money, we can't help but talk about the currency of the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty. Now the Long Yuan issued by the Ming Dynasty has occupied almost seven levels of usage. Although some remote places still use traditional silver or barter, the Long Yuan is already the mainstream currency. Behind it is a powerful Ming Dynasty court. Especially in this close to the Jingji area, the Long Yuan is particularly good. A piece of silver dragon yuan can be exchanged for one tael and two coins of silver, or even more. Before this, some people naturally thought about it. The fake ones don't know how to make money. Although it is also real silver, there is no

In terms of beauty and craftsmanship, the fine lines on the real dragon yuan are even more difficult to learn by counterfeiters. However, even so, the fake dragon yuan is still a very gunman's currency. No matter what, it is also minted from silver. As for copper yuan, it is different. The copper yuan minted by the court was not enough. In addition, the copper yuan minted by the court was not only exquisite, but also has an upper-level quality. Therefore, copper yuan is the main currency for ordinary people. Once the counterfeiting is overflowing, it will cause the depreciation of the copper yuan, which is a disaster for the country's monetary system.

The imperial court cracked down on the counterfeiting of copper coins in a very strong way. Almost one was caught and thrown into prison and didn't think about coming out again. The Later Jin Dynasty also wanted to learn the Ming Dynasty and build its own currency system. However, their minting technology was not up to standard, and the official technical strength was not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, although it also developed a gold, silver and copper currency system such as Tiancong Tongbao and formulated some exchange rates, it did not learn the strict currency management methods of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Later Jin Dynasty's lack of knowledge on financial management led to the rapid development of this currency system as soon as it was introduced.

With the depreciation, the Later Jin Dynasty has been filled with the Long Yuan issued by the Ming Dynasty, and even many Later Jin Dynasty. Mongolian nobles are collecting and exchanging Long Yuan at home. Although the Jin Dynasty's court still uses its own currency system to operate its own finances, the Ming Dynasty has quietly become the world of the Long Yuan of the Ming Dynasty. Although the composition of the Yintongbao announced by the Later Jin Dynasty and the silver content are almost exactly the same as that of the Silver Dragon Yuan of the Ming Dynasty and the silver content, the quality of the Yintongbao is not as good as those in the Ming Dynasty who are minted privately at risk of beheading and jailing.

Of course, we have to say that when the Later Jin issued the Tiancong Tongbao, there was a financial war between the Ming and the Later Jin. Although there were no stocks or futures in this time and space, in the eyes of Zhu Yinglong, a person who has surpassed three hundred years later, everything can be used as a means of war. Although he was not the one who led that financial war, he just reminded him that the economic group led by the Later Jin immediately understood it and killed the Later Jin in finance.

It's a very simple thing to say. This kind of trick is not worth mentioning in later generations, but in this time and space, it is a superlative strategy. Since the monetary system created by the Later Jin was almost copied from the Ming Dynasty, and the components of their minting currency were exactly the same, but their technology and gold reserves for minting currency cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty. As soon as the currency minted by the Later Jin was secretly led by the harem group, a large number of fake coins that were already prepared inadequately (this fake is just for the real ones minted by the Later Jin Dynasty)

In the Later Jin Dynasty, the currency of Later Jin was gradually increased through batch release, which caused the Later Jin Dynasty to depreciate greatly. Then, the Tiancong Tongbao, which was issued by Later Jin, was acquired by Long Yuan, and returned to the Ming Dynasty's own mint and turned into Long Yuan. Then, in the future, the Later Jin Dynasty acquired the currency that Hou Jin was minted by itself. In this way, the price difference between the two currencies was used to take out a large amount of silver from the Later Jin Dynasty's treasury, second only to the first item, and the Later Jin Dynasty lost millions of taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold. If it were not for the support of the wealth plundered from North Korea, there would have been a shortage of money in the Later Jin Dynasty.

Since Hou King Kong entered feudal society from primitive society, in addition to supplying certain special items from the outside world, other things can basically be self-sufficient, which is a relatively closed economy. After the Hou Jin realized that he could not learn everything from the Ming Dynasty, he simply strangled the currency system to death and used the previous real money and silver. Of course, due to the strength of Longyuan and Longyun had become the mainstream currency in China, the Hou Jin had no ability to drive it out at all. If the people were forcibly not allowed to be circulated, it would cause public grievances. The Huang Taiji government is no longer the one who only knows how to attack.

Nurhaci's Later Jin regime was plundered, so while restricting the entry of Long Yuan, he would recycle the Long Yuan into ingots through various means, in order to drive the Long Yuan out of the country. However, how could people who have used Long Yuan be willing to use the heavy, clumsy and ugly ingots? Especially in order to reduce their losses, the Later Jin court increased the consumption of fire. In this way, the domestic economy of Later Jin became very fragile and could only be maintained by external wars and plunders. The meager domestic tax revenue could not support the expanding external wars of the Later Jin government.

Although the Ming Dynasty can only be regarded as a child in finance, the Later Jin Dynasty is a baby, and its fragile economy is not an opponent of the Ming Dynasty. Earlier, since the Jinzhou Treaty signed, Zhu Yinglong formulated some plans to penetrate the Later Jin economy. Due to the secret nature of the plan and the discrimination of the merchants by seizing this time and space, with the help of the fallen country, the harem group has quietly formed an economic network in the Later Jin Dynasty. They penetrated the Later Jin Dynasty's economic system in various ways. All the emerging industries and traditional industries in the Later Jin Dynasty secretly had the shadow of the Ming Dynasty. By cultivating various agents, the interests of many nobles of the Later Jin Dynasty were tied together and penetrated upward step by step, forming a huge interest group, which collapsed the fighting spirit of the Jin Dynasty from the bottom up, and incorporated the Later Jin into the Ming Dynasty without bloodshed.

Of course, this is only one aspect. It is impossible for the Later Jin Dynasty to annex the Ming Dynasty without resisting. Moreover, Huang Taiji, Fan Wencheng and others are not fools. Although they have not discovered these actions of the Ming Dynasty for the time being, and for the purpose of concealing the motives, all the actions are carried out scattered. Even those who do this in secret do not understand the profound meaning of this, Zhu Yinglong is unwilling to alert the snake to avoid ruining his careful arrangement. He wants to fully conquer the Later Jin Dynasty from the trinity of economic, cultural and military. This is also the consistent strategy of the Ming Dynasty to every opponent or enemy in the future!

This is a bit far-reaching. In fact, Dorgon was a chess piece that conquered the Later Jin militarily. As for culture, the Han people in the Central Plains on the hundreds of thousands of islands were powerful weapons that Zhu Yinglong could use. Although it might be ridiculous to assimilate the Jurchens with such a little bit of people, the Jurchens did not have their own writings and did not form their own inherent culture. Even their beliefs were in a vain. These Han people brought them culture and beliefs, and sometimes they were not necessarily leveraging the power of religion.

Of course, cultural identity is a long process, so although Zhu Yinglong also attaches great importance to cultural infiltration, it is just not as direct as Yamato from the previous economic and military industries.

Tu Lai sneaked into the Ming Dynasty with his seventeen guards. In order to conceal his identity, he not only forged the Ming Dynasty's identity document, but also replaced the Tiancong Tongbao, which was not very circulated in the Later Jin Dynasty, with the Silver Dragon Yuan of the Ming Dynasty. This was still exchanged on the black market. One piece of four days Cong Tongbao was exchanged for one piece of silver dragon yuan. The material picture changed to 10,000 silver dragon yuan. It cost 14,000 silver Tongbao. He brought five thousand yuan on himself, and the seventeen guards also brought five thousand yuan on him, all of which were replaced with exquisitely printed banknotes. Of course, this black market is like this.

If the Ming Dynasty was not involved, I would probably not survive. The Ming Dynasty would naturally be the one who took the big head. Moreover, the banknotes could only be circulated in the Ming Dynasty, which was absolutely not possible in the Later Jin Dynasty. The Later Jin Dynasty also used the most primitive silver notes (flying money). For the time being, this ancient thing and the two countries are still basically common. However, in large-scale transactions, only the small-scale transactions or the dragon yuan issued by the imperial court. Otherwise, the Tu Lai would not have to replace the Yintongbao with the Silver Dragon Yuan with the Silver Dragon Yuan and bring the silver notes directly.

In Gaolingyi, Baoyuandang is a famous signboard with fair prices, fair transactions, and fair transactions. Since the development of weapon storage business, Baoyuandang has made a statement that it has spread far away. Gaolingyi is close to Shanhaiguan, and the journey is fast, and it can be reached in half a day. Therefore, the tourists outside the pass cannot get the military license specially issued by Shanhaiguan. Most of them choose to store their beloved weapons in Baoyuandang. The owner of Baoyuandang was also considered the number one figure in the martial arts world, especially in the martial arts world outside the pass. It is quite famous. It is just a fair person. After washing hands in Jinban, he opened a pawnshop, which is Baoyuandang.

Since they were all martial arts people, everyone could trust them. Therefore, after Baoyuan opened the business of "weapons" storage, the business was booming, and weapons were of different levels. Therefore, Baoyuan naturally charges separately according to the level of the weapons stored, and those who come to collect the time will have to double the fees. Although it is different from pawning, it can be said that the person who stores weapons is dead and the receipt is gone. If the weapons stored are magic weapons, then Baoyuan will be cheap. This transaction is definitely easy to do. Of course, this is also a transaction under the court policy. One day the court policy changes, the transaction will not be completed.

There are hundreds of people coming to Baoyuan every day to store and retrieve weapons, so it would not cause too many people to think of it when Tulai and others took weapons separately. However, Tulai's weapons are extraordinary, especially Tulai's weapons, which are inlaid with gold and jade. They are not only extremely luxurious, but also have hair as thin as mud. Baoyuan should place it in the special level, and the storage fee is naturally very expensive. If Baoyuan does not have the acquiescence of the court, can it handle such weapons storage business in Gaolingyi? Obviously it is impossible. In fact, Baoyuan is a news point installed in the intelligence department in the rivers and lakes. In the rivers and lakes, people are in swords. Don't you know where the weapons are? So Tulai's intelligence department is powerful and has such precious weapons. Although a bag of cloth is not known to outsiders, people who can handle business will not know.

Of course, if Tu Lai is more thorough or knows more about the business of "reserving weapons", then the "wealth is not revealed" will not happen. There are two types of "reserving weapons": open and hidden weapons. After all, some people in the martial arts world do not want the secrets of their weapons to be known, so they will prepare a box, prepare it by themselves or pawn shops. After putting the weapons in, they will bring their own copper locks, put a seal on them, and then take the key away when they return. However, the price of hidden storage is more than twice the amount of open storage, because hidden weapons are very expensive weapons, and there is no higher requirement, they will automatically be classified as advanced. They need to be kept strictly. At the same time, they must also buy an insurance for the weapons in the box. If the weapons are lost in the storage place, they will be compensated ten times the amount of insurance purchased.

There are many people handling such business, but not many people buying insurance, because most people just want to make their weapons mysterious. In fact, if you really count them, how can there be so many magical weapons and blades that are sharp as iron as mud in the world?

Besides, if you don’t have a military certificate in the Ming Dynasty, then wait to hide from all over the street and become a rat. The government will catch you up to heaven and earth and enter without a door. Of course, if you are not in the Ming Dynasty, it doesn’t matter how much you make trouble.

The court did this not to limit the development of martial arts, a Chinese treasure, but to put a tight curse on the martial arts scum who caused trouble all day long, so that these people can be brave and cruel, and regard human life as if they were careless!

This is really effective. The people's heroes who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and the powerful men who killed and robbed people disappeared all of a sudden. The merchants who traveled from all over the country also felt much safer. The escort businesses also lived a happy life. The unemployment rate of the heroes in the green forest remained high. Everyone lived a peaceful life. Who would still be willing to live a life of adding blood to the knife? Don't your head on your belt. Once the people's hearts disperse, the team will be difficult to take. The mountain villages in Taihang Mountains have implemented weapons control systems. Within a month, more than half of them were empty. From the leader of the village to the minions, they scattered and went home. The wife, children, and the warm kang were on their backs.

The security outside the pass was originally in chaos. A few years ago, the Jin and the Ming Dynasty fought one after another. The war was chaotic, deserters and most of them were that the court was busy fighting against the invasion of the Jurchens and founded the chiefs. They could not control so many of them. Now it is different. Although the court only occupied a few big cities in the Liaodong area, the court had swept several times within its jurisdiction. Those who did not accept the kingdom had all seen the King of Hell. In addition, the court disarmament and garrisoning troops were basically under semi-militarized management. If there was basically no war, Liaodong is now one of the best areas for the Ming Dynasty's security.

Yuan Chonghuan had a good plan for governing military and civilians. He was a military-political talent, especially when he was good at defending and in peacetime, it was most appropriate to use him to act in the military and political affairs of Liaodong.

As soon as Tu Lai took out his weapons, Zhou Huaian, Leng Yan and others who followed him had already received the news.
Chapter completed!