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Chapter 213
Chapter 213. Deceiving the Lord with Customers
With a bang, everyone came to their senses when they heard this.

Shunzhi Tongbao is the first of the five emperors' money, so it should be placed at the beginning of the inscription, but the other party used it in the inscription. This certainly means he looks down on Ren Ping and claims to be superior to his master.

Thinking of the implied humiliation in the arrangement of copper coins, everyone was full of anger.

Cui Simin looked unhappy, obviously acquiescing, but still refused to admit defeat and said angrily:

"You are just guessing. When it comes to winning or losing, just guessing is not enough. There must be an explanation."

"It's not easy to explain, let's start with these Shunzhi Tongbao,"

Ren Ping pointed to the five small characters below the plaque:

"Shunzhi Tongbao is the first type of money that was formally minted after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Because it inherited the money-making craft of the Ming Dynasty, its layout has obvious traces of the previous generation. It was not until later that it slowly broke away and formed its own style. "

"Therefore, Shunzhi Tongbao played a role in the evolution of coins in the Ming and Qing Dynasties as a link between the past and the future. There are five formats before and after, called the 'Shunzhi Five Styles'."

"Shunzhi Five Styles? How do you say it?"

"The first type is called antique style, or no discipline bureau style, which means that the shape and craftsmanship are still very close to the Ming Dynasty system, and there is no disciplinary bureau mark on the back of the money."

The so-called bureau mark refers to the special mark engraved on the back of the money to indicate the issuing bureau when copper coins were minted in ancient times. It is usually the abbreviation of the region.

This practice was especially popular in the Qing Dynasty, such as the famous "Baoguang", "Baohu", "Baochuan" and so on in the Guangxu Copper Yuan.

However, the first inscribed character "Qin" that Ren Ping refers to at this time does not have inscriptions on the back of the copper coins used.

"This kind of Wujiju-style copper coins is unique among the coins of the Qing Dynasty. It is the only one, so based on this alone, I can also conclude that they are Shunzhi Tongbao."

Everyone heard him talk about the Five Styles of Shunzhi, but they rarely heard about it. They thought it would be an extremely complicated rhetoric, but they didn't expect to make a judgment so quickly.

Although it is direct and sharp, it lacks a little strength.

"Then what are the other four moves?"

Someone couldn't help but ask.

Cui Simin also reacted immediately: "Yes, what about the other four styles? Not all of these five small characters are not marked by the Bureau of Discipline Inspection. How can you conclude that they are all Shunzhi Tongbao based on just one or two?"

"You don't know the questions you came up with? Or did you not come up with the questions?"

"Humph, of course I didn't mean it, you just said it."

"Haha, it's easy for Mr. Cui to raise an argument, so let me explain it to you. The other four styles are 'Single Chinese Character Jiju Style', 'One Li Style', 'Manchu Style' and 'Manchu-Chinese Dual Style' ,"

"Except for the Yili style, which is special, the other three can be understood just by hearing their names. Since the five Shunzhi Tongbao are arranged in five characters, they naturally correspond one to one. Mr. Cui will know after taking a closer look."

As soon as the words fell, Cui Simin remained silent.

Rong Qiancheng and the others got a little closer, and looked closely at the periphery. As Ren Ping said, the single Chinese character Jiju style means to use one Chinese character to indicate Jiju in the back text, and the Manchu style means to use Manchu, Manchu and Chinese double scripts. The formula is to use both Manchu and Chinese characters.

These three formats are easy to distinguish and correspond to the second, fourth, and fifth small characters of the signature respectively.

Even the third one-percent formula just adds the word "one-percent" on the basis of the second one, such as household one-percent, work one-percent, and Ning one-percent.

The five small characters on the signature correspond to the five Tongbao of Shunzhi's five styles, which is very clear.

What is puzzling is that since the other party used the money back up to embarrass Ren Ping, the copper coins used were all recognizable through the inscriptions, and the logic seemed somewhat illogical.

There is only one possibility, that is, the other party believes that others cannot know the unknown Shunzhi Five Styles, and naturally cannot distinguish them. This is because he is looking down on Ren Ping from the bottom of his heart!

"In addition to Shunzhi Tongbao, the first Kangxi Tongbao used in the word 'Cai' is also divided into two categories, one is Manchu Baoquan and Baoyuanqian imitating the fourth style of Shunzhi; the other is imitating the fifth style of Shunzhi There are 20 kinds of disciplinary bureaus in the latter, plus the former two, a total of 22 kinds, collectively referred to as 'Kangxi set money',"

"Yongzheng Tongbao is relatively simple. Although there are 20 bureaus, the format and text are regular and unified, and they are easy to identify when put together. This probably fits the simple nature of Emperor Yongzheng,"

"As for Qianlong Tongbao and Jiaqing Tongbao, they are a bit more complicated, but they cannot escape the influence of the shape of the first three generations. Even if they only have inscriptions on the back, they are easy to identify, like this one..."

Ren Ping recounted the characteristics and inferences of the five Tongbao in one breath, as if he was taking inventory of his own collection.

For example, Rong Qiancheng, Wu Yousheng and others who had seen him perform were fine, and the others all secretly admired him, thinking that he was indeed the famous master of Mingquan Xiaotianlong. Such ancient spring skills were really rare.

At this time, Cui Simin had already frowned, and beads of sweat kept popping out from her forehead. She was like a teacher who thought he had prepared extremely difficult test papers, but was easily answered by a student with 100 points, feeling ashamed.

"Mr. Cui, Mr. Cui?"

"Huh? What?"

Hearing the other party's call, he suddenly woke up.

Ren Ping smiled slightly: "With all due respect, Mr. Cui, you didn't come up with this question, right?"

"How do you know... nonsense! What basis do you have!"

"I'm guessing. It's obvious from just now that you don't know much about Guquan. The person behind you came up with the question. It's just that the question was too easy. I guess that person didn't like my eyesight at all and thought it was casual. The debut question is enough, as for why you are asked to come forward, I think the person should be of high seniority, probably an elder in your family or something, and I don’t want to be known as someone who bullies the younger ones.”

"Hmph, that's nonsense. Who do you think you are, and you deserve to be asked by the elders of my family to give you questions?"

Cui Simin still refused to admit it and only said that it was her own question.

After all, this matter involves the face of the Spring and Autumn League of the three southeastern provinces. Once it is admitted that the elders of the family are from it, not only will the big bully the small, but it will be easily deciphered by the other party's juniors, and it will be a big embarrassment.

Ren Ping was not in a hurry to expose him, but suddenly pointed to the plaque again:
"Mr. Cui, does Mr. Cui know why this plaque must be arranged with one hundred five emperor coins? No more, no less, not 99, nor [-]?"

"This, what's the point of this? It just happened to be a whole." Cui Simin said with a forced calm.

"It seems that the person who asked the question didn't tell you all the details,"

Ren Pingping said calmly: "One hundred copper coins actually means twenty coins from each of the five types of coins of the Five Emperors. In ancient times, twenty was the number of crowns. It generally refers to a man who has reached adulthood and can inherit the lintel, and also generally refers to his ability. Gaining recognition from outsiders,"

"It's good intentions, but there is a small trap here, that is, if you take a step back from twenty, you will be nineteen. If you are not a year, it also means that you have not yet reached your ability and qualifications. Although it is only one step away, it is not in the top. "

"So what? What do you mean?"

Cui Simin was at a loss.

"It means that there are five copper coins in it that are fake." Ren Ping snorted.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly clapped his right hand and landed on the frame of the plaque. The sudden force immediately caused a hundred copper coins to shake together, and then they fell to the bottom of the frame.

Ren Ping took down the glass window outside, stretched out his left hand, and found five copper coins from it.

The five copper coins were inconspicuous among the fallen copper coins, but they stood out in his palm at the moment, because the front was blank without any inscriptions.

In other words, these are five obvious counterfeit coins!

"Don't you want the basis for me to believe that you are not the person who created the question? This is it."

(End of this chapter)