In the early years of the Kangxi Dynasty, why did a large number of meltdowns destroy the Shunzhi Tongbao
Kangxi Tongbao coin can be said to be one of the largest coins minted in the entire Qing Dynasty, after only 18 years of rule by the Shunzhi Emperor, how did it have huge copper resources for coinage in the early years of Kangxi? In fact, in the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty only left three money minting bureaus, which are now often called Baoquan Bureau, Baoyuan Bureau and Jiangning Bureau.
Only three coin minting bureaus also need a huge amount of copper resources for coinage, before we mentioned that the Qing Dynasty literature compiled by Zhang Tingyu and others recorded that Kangxi Tongbao money was issued in the first year of Kangxi, because of the limited production of copper, the Ministry of Works was stopped to do copper, and how the Ministry of Works successfully completed this task this time.
In fact, when it comes to doing copper is to find copper resources, if you say that re-smelting, whether from the human, material and financial resources can not be achieved in a short period of time, the simplest way is to destroy the old money to mint new money, in the Shunzhi Dynasty, in fact, the market circulation of the previous dynasty, that is, the Ming Dynasty coins were purchased.
Kangxi Dynasty can only now only play the idea of Shunzhi Tongbao, the most common one of which is to destroy a cent and mint new money, that is, the Shunzhi Tongbao one cent style, all after the acquisition of the meltdown minted Kangxi Tongbao new money, in fact, here a cent is just a collective name, we now commonly see the first three styles of Shunzhi Whether from the bare back, back single word money and one cent coin, most of them are coins unearthed from the pit.
And there are very few handed down, from here we can also see one or two, in fact, at that time the acquisition of not only a cent of Shunzhi Tongbao, but the first three styles of Shunzhi Tongbao, through this copper activity, it also completely separated the entire Qing Dynasty coin system and form from the previous dynasty, that is, the Ming Dynasty coins, and reached its own faction.
