Previously, it was said that the Zhu Guo Yuan Bao and Zhuang Guo Yuan Bao were not cast by Annan, and there is no very strong evidence that they were cast by the Liao State. Another way of saying is whether they were cast by Yang Guangyuan in the later Jin Dynasty, who was the Xuanwu army in the later Jin Dynasty. Jiedushi, why would he mint such coins? At that time, some people thought that Yang Guangyuan minted the national ingots in the second year of Tianfu. At that time, the Tianfu ingots of the second year of Tianfu had not been minted. How could Yang Guangyuan make coins first? Let’s analyze it from the historical perspective.
There was relatively little copper in the northern region. Most of the copper produced in China came from the south, and the Yunnan region was the most. So it was very turbulent in the Five Dynasties, and there was even less copper. Therefore, there was no copper coin without casting, which led to market circulation. It is very difficult. The currency lacks and the operation of the country is very sluggish. Therefore, in this case, we say that Yang Guangyuan judges the situation and uses the word “helping the country” to promote his own image. In order to be the emperor, but dedicated to the later Jin Dynasty court to solve the problem of currency circulation difficulties in the later Jin Dynasty.
Tianfu ingots were cast in the third year of Tianfu. At that time, the sizes of Tianfu ingots were different, and the light ones were about 2 grams. This is very similar to the shape, size or casting process of the national ingots cast by Yang Guangyuan. It is said why the national ingots have appeared in large numbers in the Liao country. In fact, the large number of ingots we are talking about here is not a huge number, but has appeared in historical records, and has not appeared in other regions or whether there are historical records. We all don’t know. At that time, the predecessor of the Liao State was called the Qidan. What was the relationship between it and the later Jin Dynasty at that time?
At that time, the founding emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty, the great ancestor of the Later Jin Dynasty, was called Shi Jingtang. When Emperor Fei Liang issued an edict to Shi Jingtang to fight to shake up the world, Shi Jingtang held the military power and was considered to be conspiring to rebel, so the Emperor Fei Liang sent someone at that time. To fight against him, Shi Jingtan would certainly not wait for death, so he turned to Qidan, the predecessor of the Liao Kingdom, and Qidan helped him. Shi Jingtan finally established the post-Jin regime and was attached to the Khitan power, which is the Liao Kingdom. Therefore, most people now think that Shi Jingtan recognized the thief as his father and became the emperor. He ceded all the Sixteen States of Youyun to the Khitan Kingdom. At that time, after Shi Jingtan’s death, he named his adopted son Shi Chonggui as his successor.
This man basically did not buy the Khitan account, so he decided to gradually break away from the Khitan. At that time, there were many wars with the Khitan. In the end, the later Jin was destroyed. Because of these relations between the latter and the Khitan, the sixteen states at that time were all ceded. Giving Khitan means staying in Khitan. What’s more, why couldn’t the small coins stay in Khitan at that time, that is, staying in the sixteen states, which is now unearthed from the territories of Liao State, so this is said to be in history. It is very possible.
In addition, the Khitan was also the predecessor of the Liao Kingdom, the nomadic people at that time. His plunder of the wealth of the Central Plains was quite serious. The plunder at the time included not only people, food, property, raw materials, but even a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry and coins. Therefore, when the Khitan plundered the wealth of the Central Plains, it was very possible to plunder the national ingot. Therefore, the national ingot appeared in the Central Plains many times, that is, the region of the Liao State. It does not mean that it was cast by the Liao State at that time. Yes, it was plundered by the Khitan, the predecessor of the Liao Kingdom at that time, or it was ceded by the way when the sixteen states were ceded. Therefore, the national ingots and the Zhuang national ingots were most likely coined by Yang Guangyuan, the later Jin Dynasty at that time.
We are now only discussing the Zhuang Guo Yuanbao and Zhuang Guo Yuanbao. The coins of other five dynasties and ten countries also often appeared in the state of Liao, which was the state of the Khitan country at that time. The casting was probably caused by his plundering. In summary, the money for helping the country and the Zhuang Kingdom should be cast by the Later Jin Dynasty, and it was in line with the historical records of the time.