Ai Husheng is here. He has been here several times. Every time, he nags Li Xiao to ask him to spend less money!

There was no choice but to suddenly recruit one million people. All kinds of expenses came flooding in as if a floodgate had been opened.

The Ministry of Accounts has to deal with various requests for funding!

The ministers, Yuanwailang and other officials in charge all saw the invitation to dinner one by one as if they were seeing a reminder.

At this time, who dares to eat and ask for cards?

If you are really unlucky and misappropriate any amount of money that should not be appropriated, your head will be moved!

Ai Husheng had said hello beforehand. If anyone dared to cause trouble in private this time, even he wouldn't be able to protect him.

Hearing Ai Husheng's name, Li Xiao was a little irritated because he really didn't want to waste his experience on this!

The most important thing is that he doesn't know how to run a business. He has read the book Macroeconomics but has never opened it.

How could a person who has been obsessed with various firearms and artillery magazines since he was in middle school be interested in this kind of book?

"Commander! Something happened." Ai Husheng lost his usual composure and barged in furiously.

"What's going on? You're in a panic!" Li Xiao frowned.

Ai Husheng is an important official in the imperial court, and he still has the necessary qualities. It must be a big deal to make him become like this.

"Commander, look!" Ai Husheng took out two silver coins and placed them on Li Xiao's desk.

"What's going on?" Li Xiao looked at the two silver coins shining under the light.

"Someone secretly minted Ming Dynasty silver coins and copper coins!" Ai Husheng held up two silver coins in front of Li Xiao's eyes.

"Is there such a thing?" Li Xiao frowned.

After years of evolution, the Ming Dynasty silver coins have been revised several times. Now they no longer contain any silver content!

The steel plate is completely hard-hardened and then nickel-plated. It looks shiny and corrosion-resistant.

Through the Ming Dynasty Bank and trade circulation, Ming Dynasty coins have become a proper world currency.

India! Southeast Asia! Japan! Korea! Mongolia! Siam! Burma! Cochin!

There are also countries in the Middle East where Ming coins are hard currencies. Even in Japan, Korea, and Jiaozhi, Ming coins have become legal currency.

The hard-forged steel core coins were used to improve the Ming Dynasty's dependence on precious metals.

But I didn't expect that someone would actually start to imitate it.

"These silver coins are so realistic that ordinary people can hardly tell them apart.

The Ministry of Finance also discovered it by accident, and it is still unclear how many fake silver coins are in circulation."

"Which one of these is real and which one is fake?" Li Xiao held one in one hand and looked around carefully, but he didn't find which one was fake.

"Just now...!" Ai Husheng was a little confused, and he wasn't sure whether he could tell the difference.

He held two silver coins and looked at them for a long time, then pointed to one and said, "This is real, that one is fake."

Commander, you see, there are thirteen dots on the side of the fake silver coin. And our Ming Dynasty coin has twelve dots, and besides...!

It needs to be weighed on a scale. The fake silver coins are about half a cent lighter than our Ming Dynasty silver coins.

I guess it’s because of the steel. The steel we use in Daming is specially made. They can’t get it yet!

But the nickel plating process... must have been leaked."

"The nickel plating process requires electricity. Could it be that someone in our Ming Dynasty dared to cast Ming Dynasty coins privately?"

Zheng Sen also took a look at the fake coin, at least he couldn't see any clues on it.

"It's hard to say! In the past, coins minted in the Ming Dynasty were stamped and made with a stamping machine. In appearance, they are very different from those cast, which can be seen at a glance.

Nowadays, the steel core is made by hard-rolling process, and then electroplated by nickel plating process.

For safety reasons, the mint was built on Juehua Island on the coast of Ningyuan. All the mints used were death row prisoners!

There is a separate generator and a cold-rolling workshop. Personnel entering and exiting are strictly controlled. There is no possibility of leaks!"

The mint was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue, so Ai Husheng instinctively distanced himself from the relationship.

"That means... this incident happened abroad?

Nowadays, the technology of generating electricity is not a secret. At least Israel already has large power plants.

By the way, there are also big cities like Paris and Berlin.

I heard that many places in the North American territory have also begun to build power plants.

With electricity, the nickel plating process is not complicated.

Could it be that someone abroad is secretly making our Ming Dynasty coins?"

Li Lin looked at the coins in Li Xiao's hand and said.

Li Xiao nodded, he thought what Li Lin said made sense.

When power generation is no longer a secret, the nickel plating process naturally becomes easier to crack.

The question now is whether the counterfeit currency business is conducted domestically or abroad.

If it was done by people from the Ming Dynasty, then the matter would be relatively simple. After all, everything is under the control of the Ming court.

Arrest people and kill them all! Lingchi...!

Once these methods are used, almost no one will dare to do them again.

But it was different abroad. Ming Dynasty did not use hard means to do so.

Today's Ming Dynasty silver coins have become the world's currency. They can even circulate like local coins in some places in Europe.

If a large amount of money floods into the market and someone is willing to buy Ming products, the consequences...!

After all, the current Ming Dynasty silver coins are not real gold and silver. The so-called gold coins are actually copper.

As long as these people make large amounts of coins, they can exchange for Ming Dynasty's large amounts of strategic materials at extremely low prices.

There are no weapons in these supplies, but food, cotton, rubber, sugar, and refined oil are indispensable.

After all, factories in Ming Dynasty were springing up like mushrooms after a rain.

Especially in provinces such as Gyeonggi and Liaodong, Hebei, and Shandong. There are large factories in the suburbs of almost every city.

Especially for bulk commodities, such as cotton, printing and dyeing, there are many factories.

The Ming Dynasty could not afford the food produced in so many factories.

More are exported abroad.

Nowadays, it is a trivial matter for exported goods to become scrap metal. If there are too many counterfeit coins, it will cause inflation.

High prices are a destabilizing factor for any society.

Although the people of the Ming Dynasty are still relatively wealthy, they have just emerged from poverty, and their family wealth is far from deep.

If large-scale inflation occurs at this time, the consequences...!

Political economics Li Xiao only memorized dogma, but Li Xiao knew the consequences of inflation.

If it really gets to the point where people exchange a bag of coins for a bag of rice, then a rebellion is not far away.

"Let Luzhu investigate. No matter who is found, he will be killed without mercy!" The matter was related to the life and death of the Ming Empire, and Li Xiao's face was so gloomy that it could drip with water.

"...!" None of the three people spoke. They all knew that Li Xiao was really angry this time.

Li Xiao is currently the most powerful person on the planet, and his anger usually requires killing millions of people to quell it.

Zheng Sen decided to go home and investigate carefully to see if it was done by those dudes in his family, or if it was really a cousin who did it.

Get rid of it yourself and destroy everything. Otherwise, the end of the Zheng family is right in front of you.

Li Lin looked relaxed. His only subordinates were the old monkeys.

A year ago, every one of them was a top soldier, and they were absolutely incapable of doing such a thing.

Ai Husheng is really anxious. Although he doesn't understand what inflation is, he knows that money is just an intermediary for commodities.

If there is too much money, the result will be an increase in prices.

Years of experience in doing business tell him that price increases are not always a good thing.

The three people were thinking about this matter, and the flower hall immediately fell into silence.

On the other side of the earth, with the end of the Battle of Constantinople, it seemed like the war had stopped all of a sudden!

But all the monarchs in Europe knew that this was just a rest period for another more intense war.

The combat effectiveness displayed by the Ming Dynasty in two consecutive battles is frightening!

In just fifteen days on the Northern Front, 450,000 Poles were defeated. The Polish Empire, which was considered a powerful power in Europe, was forced to kneel on the ground and beg for peace.

On the southern front, at Constantinople, the emerging Israel and the Ming Dynasty clashed and suffered a bloody blow.

Despite heavy losses on both sides, the Ming Dynasty finally succeeded in defending Constantinople.

Israel also sent envoys to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to beg for peace.
To be continued...