When they heard that they were going to share some money, the Jinyiwei all smiled happily.

"Thank you, Master Cao..."

"Lord Cao is righteous!"

"Thank you for your reward, sir. I will go through fire and water for you!"

Seeing that the Jinyiwei were about to kowtow to him to thank him, Cao Huachun coughed hard and said, "Don't be impatient, everyone. This silver is only given to you temporarily, not as a reward."

ah?

The Jinyiwei fell silent and looked at Cao Huachun.

A captain asked in a low voice: "May I ask, Lord Cao, what does it mean to temporarily hand it over to us?"

"Literally, this mission will require a large amount of silver, so do you understand?"

"Ah..." The Jinyiwei expressed regret.

However, they were not discouraged, but came to Cao Huachun and asked, "Sir, what is the mission?"

"Dangto!"

"What?"

"It's not buying, it's exchanging! Use the silver in your hands to go to Daming Money House and Xi'an Baoyuan Bureau to exchange for silver coins, which are the Daming Yuanbao newly issued by the court."

The Jinyiwei's curiosity was instantly aroused.

Basically, they have never been a shill, and even if someone has been a shill, they have never been a shill like this.

Taking advantage of their curiosity, Cao Huachun explained the mission in detail and repeatedly emphasized the things that needed to be paid attention to.

The Jinyiwei listened very attentively, countless times more attentively than when they were studying.

An hour later, the Jinyiwei left.

Cao Huachun did not leave with them, but stayed in the manor to think about it, and then wrote a letter to Chongzhen and Yan Yingyuan respectively.

Five days later, Xi'an City.

The door of the Shaanxi branch of Daming Money House was full of people.

Some of them were leading horses with heavy packages hanging on their backs. Four or five servants were nearby, constantly looking around, as if they were on guard against something.

There was a man sitting in a carriage piled high with boxes, and the servants around him were on high alert.

Some people had bulging arms, and no one knew what was in them.

The people didn't understand what was going on and came over to watch the fun.

As more and more people came to watch the fun, the nearby streets were soon blocked.

Some people couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"

"Go, go, go away and stay away from it. Don't ask questions that you don't need to ask." said a businessman.

"Hey! I was just asking casually, why do you speak so harshly? We are all from the same hometown, we know each other every day." The commoner spoke in a loud voice, attracting the attention of a group of people around.

The merchant was carrying a package that looked like it was filled with money. He didn't want to draw attention, so he replied, "Isn't the imperial court going to issue Ming Yuanbao in Shaanxi? Today is the first day, and we are lining up to exchange money."

"Why do we have to queue? Isn't it the same whether we change it early or late?" The people were very confused.

"It's different!" The merchant swallowed and looked around. Seeing that no one was paying attention, he continued in a low voice: "It is rumored that the court will ban the use of ordinary silver in the near future and only allow the use of Ming Yuanbao. Anyone who disobeys will be regarded as privately minting coins!"

"Ah?" The people around exclaimed.

Privately minting coins is a capital crime!

"No way? Isn't the Ming Yuanbao also made of silver? There's no reason to ban the use of ordinary silver!"

"Yes, it's all silver, why can't I use it?"

The common people immediately started talking about it.

The businessman coughed lightly and said, "I didn't say it can't be used, it's just a rumor that it can't be used. It's up to you to believe it or not, and the consequences are at your own risk!"

This sentence was so powerful that the people were at a loss for a moment.

They had known for a long time that the Ming Yuanbao would be issued, but they did not expect it to come so soon.

In fact, the news of issuing the Ming Yuanbao was published in the official gazette of the 17th year of Chongzhen several months ago. In addition to the official gazette, local government officials and scholars also passed the news on.

"Hey, one last question." A commoner asked loudly, "Why are you in such a hurry to exchange your silver for Ming Yuanbao?"

The businessman chuckled: "The sooner you change it, the easier it will be. If you change it early, the money will definitely be yours. If you change it late...who knows whose money it is!"

The people fell into deep thought again.

Faced with new and unknown things, they subconsciously chose to wait and see.

Now that someone has taken the lead in exchanging silver coins, their wait-and-see attitude has begun to waver.

But it was just a wavering move, and no action was taken!

It was well known that silver coins were mixed with copper, and exchanging silver for silver coins meant losing a certain amount of silver.

If you don't change it, the ordinary silver will be at risk of being unusable when the time comes.

Just as they were hesitating, the door of the Daming Money House creaked open from the inside.

A guy came out with a board.

Someone with good eyesight saw the contents on the board and read it out: "There are 100,000 Ming Dynasty Yuanbao coins available today. First come, first served!"

"Today, one tael of silver can be exchanged for one Ming Yuanbao or 1,150 copper coins. We are not accepting copper for silver at this time!"

Seeing this, the people queuing outside immediately rushed forward.

The waiter immediately organized people to block the door and shouted, "Everyone line up and don't squeeze, one by one!"

"Make way, everyone. I came here first, so let me change first!" shouted a gentleman.

"Bullshit, I was here first, everyone get in line behind me!"

"Don't push, or someone will die."

The scene immediately became noisy and chaotic.

While these people were queuing up to exchange Ming Yuanbao, the people were also discussing it.

"Shouldn't one tael of silver be exchanged for 1,500 copper coins? Why can it only be exchanged for 1,150 copper coins?"

"You are talking about the past. Ever since the imperial court announced that copper coins could be used to pay taxes a few days ago, the exchange rate of silver and copper has been changing. Yesterday, one tael of silver could be exchanged for 1,300 coins, but today it can only be exchanged for 1,150 coins."

"That's true. I think the price of copper coins will increase!"

"Everyone, please spend your copper coins slowly!"

The exchange lasted from morning to evening, and all 100,000 silver coins were "exchanged".

In fact, only more than 2,000 coins were actually exchanged, and the rest were all exchanged by the Jinyiwei.

After they exchanged the silver coins, they returned them to the bank at night and got back the silver.

The next morning, the Jinyiwei replaced a group of people and continued the same thing.

What was different from the first day was that there were many ordinary people among the participants.

However, the Jinyiwei did not give the people the opportunity to exchange the silver coins, and they exchanged all the silver coins again.

On the third day, they repeated the same trick.

The people who had not been able to exchange their silver coins for three days began to panic.