.    , Qiming 1158

There are many incidents of counterfeit coins like counterfeit coins in the era of paper currency, not to mention the era of paper currency, but also the case of minting counterfeit coins in the era of metal currency.

There are two big springs that are short of weight and are thousands of dollars. Officials and people work together to drive out good coins. Every time they can kill the people, causing the people to suffer misery and miserable life, and destroy the money market into the bottomless abyss in one fell swoop.

I can only say that this thing is too profitable, similar to killing a chicken to get eggs. As long as the people are not prepared for it, they can make a lot of money by cleaning and eat oily mouths.

As for the mess that followed... how many people really care?

There are naturally great families with high-ranking families with high-ranking families with high-ranking families, let alone the ruling class. In the end, the people's wealth was destroyed. The rulers would not care about this kind of thing.

Even if one or two conscientious officials object, the overall situation cannot be changed.

The official will play like this, and of course the people will play like this. Not everyone has a conscience. Who doesn’t take action to make a lot of money? So if there are real coins, someone will inevitably make counterfeit coins, but it’s just a difference in quantity and difficulty.

Some currencies are real and have strong currency values, which is profitable to make, while some currencies are rotten and unprofitable to make.

Su Yonglin remembered that magical joke

Why did you make a fake money?

Because I can't make real money.

Regarding such a thing, Su Yonglin felt that there was no need to think dialectically about whether it would happen, but should consider when it would happen and how to respond after it appeared.

Because in this moment, Su Yonglin didn't have such a wealth of capital to give up the white slips.

In order to build the Yellow River, launch water conservancy projects in various places, and to restore vitality to the Central Plains, the Ming Empire's white-pronged policy will inevitably continue to be used, and the "tradition" of borrowing debts and doing business will last for a while.

Although there has not been any news of forging white posts yet, it is necessary to prepare for the future.

In order to avoid the government's credit corruption due to counterfeiting incidents in the future, which will affect its future layout, Su Yonglin feels that it is necessary to upgrade the white note.

Anti-counterfeiting upgrade.

After investigation, Su Yonglin decided that all white strips after the anti-counterfeiting upgrade were used to use special water-textured paper as the material.

Water-textured paper is also known as flower curtain paper. This kind of paper can show shiny lines or patterns other than curtain marks when looking at it. The purpose is to add the potential beauty of the paper. Its origin can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

In the early days, water-patterned paper was mostly used as letter paper, poem paper, and post paper. It was purely a reflection of the leisure and leisure of literati and poets. Its main value lies in the artistic level. Only rich and leisure artists would care about this beauty.

After Su Yonglin made this decision, he ordered the craftsmen to buy out all the workshops that made water-textured paper in the Ming Dynasty, and forced the monopoly of the entire water-textured paper industry under the government's orders, and private production and sale of the private sector is not allowed.

All the people who master relevant technology were forcibly hired by the government as employees of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, and were given the status and treatment of officials. All of them were forced to move to Zhongdu to live and live in order to be taken care of and monitored nearby.

In addition, Su Yonglin also ordered the public to recycle large amounts of unused water-textured paper, and to get all the water-textured paper before the action, and to cut off the storage of water-textured paper among the people.

Fortunately, this kind of paper itself is high-end paper and is expensive. It is not a big street product that can be widely used by the people. Except for those who are rich and leisurely liked by literati and poets, it is not popular among the people, the output is not high, and it is not involved, and it does not cause any trouble.

In the end, the relevant people either worked for the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Industry or received enough compensation and kept silent.

So on the thirteenth day of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Su Yonglin ordered the Ministry of Works to require the Water-Striped Paper Production Department to make new patterns of water-Striped Paper, striving for complexity and inconvenient for forging, and use this as the basic material for white strips.

Patterns can be works of art, birds and beasts, or even landscape paintings. In short, it must be complicated and have subtle small methods that are not easy to be discovered.

It is best to make those who want to forge despair, and make the price they need to pay far more than the benefits they can obtain, thus forcing them to give up for forgetting.

Later, when it comes to writing the pages of the white strip, the writing materials were uniformly used.

Cinnabar is either used for elixir refining or for writing documents in government offices. In this era, it has a mysterious and solemn symbolic meaning, and this color represents the importance of white strips.

In terms of text, Su Yonglin also requires the use of the prescribed words uniformly, and the woodblock printing model is adopted. The woodblock is stored in the warehouse of the Ministry of Finance. If the Privy Council and the Ministry of Works want to be used, it must be approved by the Ministry of Finance before it can be used.

With multiple layers of additional materials, a new set of white strip styles appeared. Su Yonglin saw the samples on the 28th day after ascending the throne.

The rest can be ignored, but the landscape painting hidden deep in it when you see the sunlight is quite graceful, adding a romantic mood to this vulgar object for no reason.

This feeling is like turning money into a work of art, quite beautiful.

Let’s do the future banknotes like this?

Su Yonglin suddenly had this idea.

Although the cost may be a little higher, it is still a piece of paper. There is time to improve the process, and it is more cost-effective than using copper coins to mint them.

Su Yonglin ordered the craftsmen who completed this innovation and mass-produced part of this batch of white strips to be used as reserves.

This time, in order to recruit 100,000 civilians from Shandong to help with military logistics, the Privy Council submitted a batch of applications for white notes to the Ministry of Finance at the request of the Shandong local government.

After the Ministry of Finance reviewed it, it confirmed that it was compliant and feasible, and approved it and delegated the batch of idle slips and flowed into the public.

At the same time, Shandong Province began to explain the styles and differences of new white strips, and opened up the business of using old white strips to exchange for new white strips in equal amounts, encouraging the people to exchange the old white strips that were not used in their hands into new white strips, preparing for the next step of pursuing the flow of white strips among the people.

Su Yonglin also ordered that the exchange of old white strips and new white strips should be limited to each other. The old white strips will be invalidated after a certain time limit and no redemption will be allowed, which will accelerate the renewal of folk white strips.

It is too easy to fake the old white strips.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of war, the Ming government under Su Yonglin prepared a lot of things and did not just wait for the victory of the war and the acquisition of annual monies.

Although this battle is to be won, the Ming government needs to do too much.

At the same time, on the Haizhou front of Shandong Province, Zhou Zhi also learned a large amount of information about the movements of the Song army through the ubiquitous operation team of the Skynet Army.

Judging from the intelligence of the Song army's movements, the Song army is not completely unintentional in intelligence work.

They obviously knew that the Ming army was gathering in Haizhou and prepared for a large-scale operation, and correspondingly strengthened the naval forces in the Jianghuai area and the defense forces of Zhenjiang Prefecture and Jiankang Prefecture on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Judging from the arrangement of the Ming army, the Song court obviously judged that the Ming army planned to launch an attack from Haizhou, headed south all the way, and broke through the Huaihe Yangtze River defense line and stepped onto the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, they strengthened Zhenjiang Prefecture and Jiankang Prefecture's defense behavior was not surprising at all.

According to the information from the Ming army, it can be learned that the number of Song soldiers in Zhenjiang Prefecture is said to be 50,000, but the actual number of Song soldiers in Jiankang Prefecture is said to be 70,000, but the actual number of Song soldiers in Jiankang Prefecture is also said to be 70,000, but the actual number is also about 40,000.

Both armies were vacant, but they ate more while eating less.

From this point of view, Wang Quan is indeed a fool.

As for the navy, the Song army's navy in the Lianghuai area can basically be regarded as patrol and alert, with only a few dozen warships. As part of the combat navy, it is concentrated on the Yangtze River defense line. The number of warships exceeded 200, and the number of navy personnel was about 3,000.

Mingzhou naval warships were more than 300,000 naval warships and more than 7,000 sailors, as the main force of the Song army's naval division, still anchored at the port of Dinghai County, and did not take any action.

Based on this judgment, it was obvious that the Song Ting believed that the Ming army's navy had the possibility of a surprise attack from the sea to Lin'an, so he asked the Mingzhou navy to become the Great Wall of the sea in Lin'an City.

So this battle was about 63,000 naval and land armies of the Ming army against 90,000 naval and land armies of the Song army.

The gap in military strength between the two sides is not too big, and it can be considered to be evenly matched. However, considering that the Song army has home advantage in combat and may increase troops at any time, the Ming army still needs to fight and decide quickly.
Chapter completed!