In 2018, a movie called "Peerless" turned out to be a crime gang headed by a painter who mastered the technology of domestic banknote manufacturing, they made many real and false banknotes, and all of these banknotes flowed into the market, causing a great blow to China's economy and causing a lot of chaos. In order to find this gang of criminals, the police have gone through many hardships to find a breakthrough and finally annihilate these criminals. This film popularized the harm of counterfeit money to the country for the Chinese people, and at the same time warned people not to try to commit crimes in front of the law, the legal network was restored without leakage, and any crime could not escape the tracking of the eyes of the law.
At the end of the movie, the police successfully caught the criminal, for people to remove the harm, it is very gratifying, but also we ponder, why is it so dangerous to make such a serious crime, but there are still people who are willing to risk doing such a thing with their lives? Moreover, why did there not be anti-counterfeiting signs in ancient times, but why were they not counterfeited? For such a problem, experts give a very reasonable explanation: "Look at the line above!" "In the history of our country, at the beginning, only metal money was considered money, until the Northern Song Dynasty, people found that gold and silver currency was not particularly convenient to carry on the body, and there were many inconvenient places, so they began to invent paper money.
In the beginning, paper money was called "Jiaozi." In fact, the emergence of paper money is not accidental, it is an inevitable product of political and economic development. At that time, the development speed of the Song Dynasty was very fast, and commodities needed a lot of money in the process of circulation, but at that time, the production of copper coins could not meet the production status, and various items such as gold and silver ware were also extremely limited. Later, people found that if paper money was made into money, it would be more convenient and useful. There are many advantages of paper money, which are not only easy to carry, low production cost and easy to manage, but also avoid the occurrence of problems such as wear and tear in the circulation of minted coins. The benefits of using paper money far outweigh the disadvantages, and in this context, paper money called "Jiaozi" appears.
In the beginning, paper money was automatically issued by merchants, and in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, it began to be regulated and issued by the government, and began to be used in China, and this tradition continues to this day. Whether modern or ancient, paper money is issued by the government, there are special signs and methods of feces, why in ancient times no one would want to make money by making counterfeit money, and modern society has many people desperate to take risks? In fact, there are many reasons for this. The first is because of paper. In ancient times, paper was a very important item, the papermaking technology at that time was different from modern society, and in today's machine age, if you want to get paper, you only need to rely on the machine to complete.
However, in ancient times, not only was the production process cumbersome, but it also took a long time, which was time-consuming and laborious. More importantly, the right to produce paper has always been in the hands of the royal family, and it is impossible for non-professional personnel to make paper. Ordinary people don't have paper, let alone make counterfeit money? The second is the complexity of the pattern. The pattern printed on the paper not only coincides in color, but also adds a unique management mechanism of the seal, many people do not know how this pattern is formed. In the Qing Dynasty, the people who managed paper money added many anti-counterfeiting marks such as miniature watermarks to silver bills, and it was impossible to make them artificial.
The third is that the ancient banknotes have a line of very small characters, which are very small, and it is impossible to distinguish what it is with the naked eye. These words are also an important part of the security mark. It is carved by a famous micro-carving master and reprinted. And these masters are all used by the royal court, and no one in the folk can touch them at all, and no one knows what these words are? One of them alone is difficult enough to be implemented at all, and under the superior wisdom of the ancients, the method of making counterfeit money simply does not work.