As the saying goes, people die for money, birds die for food, money is an indispensable thing for human beings, no money can be said to be difficult to walk, since ancient times, how many sayings about money, a piece of money is difficult to defeat heroes things are not uncommon today, it can be seen that money is really an indispensable part of life, for money people work hard, and some people go astray for money.
When human beings understand barter, they gradually form a sense of trading, and with the evolution of human thinking, money appears in life. In ancient times, money usually existed in the form of iron money and copper coins, and in the later period, paper money such as silver bills appeared, and many people began to suspect that ancient silver bills were a piece of paper, why did no one fake it? In fact, you can see the above line, how is this fake?
Measured in barter, gold and silver
As early as when humans mastered a certain technology, they began to have a sense of trading, after all, everyone's abilities are different, their needs are different, but they can't do everything themselves. It is said that there is a specialization in the art industry, and when someone finds that there is a surplus in the fruits of labor he has created, and he wants to obtain other things that are missing, there is a barter transaction, which is the first transaction of human beings.
Later, people felt that there was a lot of maneuvering space for barter, so they used fixed things such as shells to measure the value of items, which was the earliest "coin". Until the ancients invented bronze and mastered the ironmaking technology, bronze money and iron money became genuine currencies, and the value of these currencies changed with the changes of each dynasty, and what was inseparable from it was that gold and silver were always the most basic measure of money.
Gold and silver were scarce in ancient times, and today gold and silver are also valuables, especially gold. In ancient times, there was not such a high level of excavation and smelting technology, gold and silver were more scarce, so it could not be widely circulated, and copper coins and iron coins were replaced and became the most common currency in ancient times. At first, it was also different shapes, including shovel shapes, knife shapes, and round shapes, and finally round copper coins were the most popular trading currency. In short, no matter how copper coins change, gold and silver are still the most basic measure.
The economy is booming, and the passbook appears
In the famous "rule of wenjing" in history, the country's economy flourished so much that even the rope worn by copper coins was rotten, which shows the fullness of the national treasury. From this, we can know that copper coins have always been the most common currency in ancient times, and gold and silver are only a huge amount of wealth that only a few rich families deserve. Then, at the same time, another problem will arise, and the more developed the economy, the more obvious this problem is, that is, the weight of copper coins.
Looking back at China's history, the most economically developed dynasty was the Song Dynasty, and the per capita GDP of this dynasty, which was called "weak Song" by later generations, reached the top level in the world at the same time. Such a developed economy means an increase in the amount of transactions, and an increase in the volume of transactions means a large number of copper money turnover, at which time the weight of copper coins appears.
Sichuan in the early Days of the Northern Song Dynasty was famous for silk cloth, a horse sold for 20,000 yuan, weighing 130 pounds, just think of buying a piece of cloth and pulling a cart of money to trade is quite troublesome, so the people of Sichuan came up with the "Jiaozi shop" such a business place: that is, after the money is stored in the Jiaozi shop, other Jiaozi shops can be exchanged for the same amount of copper money, and at the same time give a certificate of the amount of money saved, and charge the corresponding handling fee, which is similar to the modern "passbook", so that it greatly facilitates the transactions of the cloth merchants.
Invented jiaozi, popular for a while
"Jiaozi shop" has been widely used in Sichuan, the use of "passbook" is called "Jiaozi", with the change of trade amount, the denomination of Jiaozi is getting smaller and smaller, more and more popular, but at this time it is still a "private relationship", and has not been officially allowed. Later, Song Renzong discovered the benefits, so he stepped in and formally stipulated the denomination of jiaozi, which was divided into five and ten consecutive, which was called "guanjiaozi", which was also the earliest paper money in China and the earliest paper money in the world.
As soon as jiaozi came out, the people experienced the benefits of lightness, especially those merchants, no longer worried about the weight of copper coins, but the denomination of jiaozi was not set in stone, depending on the mood of the emperor, in the Song Shenzong period, it was changed to consistent and five hundred texts, which can be said to be popular in the folk.
In the song huizong period, Jiaozi became a political means for him to collect the people's wealth, exchanging paper money for real money and silver of the people, so that there was an inflationary phenomenon, and Jiaozi became worthless, and later gradually faded out of the historical stage. However, paper money did not stop because of this, and developed into the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the large number of gold and silver mines excavated, silver bills slowly became hard currency.
Ancient anti-counterfeiting, simple and rude
Silver tickets are not just a measure of copper coins like Jiaozi, silver bills, as the name suggests, represent more wealth, so the ancient silver bills are just a piece of paper, why does no one dare to fake it? In fact, the reason inside is very simple and crude, because the silver ticket clearly says "the counterfeiter dies", these four words alone are enough to make most people dare not cross the thunder pool, how can this be fake?
Some people have also said that wealth and wealth are in danger, what if there are people who are not afraid of death? This situation is not unthinkable, although there are not so many modern anti-counterfeiting technologies in ancient times, but the printing technology officially mastered belongs to the absolute monopoly effect, even the rich people can not buy such a difficult printing technology.
Another point is that the production of silver tickets is not simply fixed, and the template pattern will be changed from time to time. Suppose that a powerful person buys a printed mold, and will inevitably invest a lot of money for it, but when the fake silver ticket is sent out soon after, the silver ticket template pattern has changed again, and everything that has been done before has failed, which is obviously a loss-making transaction.
The most crucial point is to return to the simple and rude warning words, "counterfeiters die", counterfeit silver tickets need to pay a lot of money, not to mention, but also to bear great risks, which is something that ordinary people dare not think, and those who have power will be willing to take their lives to do this loss-making business? Obviously not, so don't look at the ancient anti-counterfeiting technology is not very sophisticated, the possibility of counterfeiting silver tickets is extremely small.
brief summary
Silver bills are the evolution of the hand, and their ultimate purpose is to facilitate the carrying of money, after all, paper money is much lighter than metal coins, so it is more conducive to trade exchanges. A small silver ticket, seemingly inconspicuous, but it condenses the wisdom of the ancients, when things develop to a certain extent, there will inevitably be new things, and jiaozi is the best proof.
And the ancient imperial court in order to prevent the emergence of fake silver tickets is also painstaking, but more from the silver ticket above the "counterfeiter death" this simple and rough deterrent effect, if the life is gone, so much money is useless, so the imperial court fundamentally cracked down on the existence of counterfeiting in the heart, this simple and rude way is a good way to prevent counterfeiting.
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