Today I will talk about Xingchao Tongbao. When it comes to Xingchao Tongbao, we must first talk about the person who casts Xingchao Tongbao. He is called Sun Kewang. Sun Kewang was a righteous son of the rebel army Zhang Xianzhong at the time. I think Zhang Xianzhong. He should be very famous. When he was in the uprising at that time in 1644, he was named Daxi Kaiyuan Dashun in Chengdu, and Dashun Tongbao was cast by Zhang Xianzhong.
Speaking of Sun Kewang, one of Zhang Xianzhong’s adopted sons, it took ten years to cast Qing Tongbao from 1647 to 1657. 1647 was the year Zhang Xianzhong was killed. Sun Kewang became the most famous of Zhang Xianzhong’s righteous son at that time. He is also the one most admired by everyone, so he started casting the Xingchao Tongbao in 1647. In 1657, there was an incident. This incident was that when Sun Kewang surrendered to the enemy, why did he surrender to the enemy?
At the beginning, he was a joint name against the Qing in Yunnan. Later, for some reason, he went into internal strife. After the defeat of the internal strife at the time, he went directly to the Qing court. When it comes to Sun Kewang, this person can be said to be mixed. Since the beginning of the uprising with Zhang Xianzhong, he has made numerous achievements. When it comes to demotion, he provoked the internal contradictions of the joint anti-Qing Dynasty, and finally, for some personal reasons, he turned to the Qing court to rebel against the peasant uprising army at that time.
Speaking of the coins he minted, Xingchao Tongbao, anyone who has collected real objects will think that the casting process and the use of copper are very sophisticated. This is also the biggest feature of Xingchao Tongbao at that time. Xingchao Tongbao was in Yunnan-Guizhou area at that time. As the main circulation area, at that time, the currency circulating in Yunnan and Guizhou was mainly Ming money, mainly Chongzhen Tongbao. At that time, Chongzhen Tongbao was in Yun, and the castings in Guizhou were of different sizes, and most of them were thin and small. So many people refuse to use Chongzhen Tongbao.
After Xingchao Tongbao came out, it was very popular with people. Both the casting process and the use of copper were excellent. Therefore, the casting of Xingchao Tongbao at the time was not only the consolidation of its own political power, but also the economic development. And it was also loved by the local people. Speaking of Sun Kewang’s casting of Xingchao Tongbao, it actually played a significant role in the local currency reform. Speaking of Yun and Guizhou, we just said that the Chongzhen Tongbao used in Yunnan and Guizhou at that time was On the one hand, the other is convenient for remote areas such as Yunnan or Guizhou, and even shell coins were used at that time.
As we said before, shell coins are currencies that were only used before 2000 in the Shangzhou area. It can be seen that the economy of Guizhou is very backward and the traffic is very blocked. Casting Xingchao Tongbao is useful for regional economic development and currency exchange. It also played a significant role. Therefore, the casting of Xingchao Tongbao is also a major leap in the history of my country’s currency in the Yunnan-Guizhou region. When it comes to the version of Xingchao Tongbao, it is actually very simple. There are three major versions.
The first one is Xingchao Tongbao Xiaoping’s wages, the other two are Xingchao Tongbao’s five cents and one penny, because Xingchao Tongbao’s casting time is not short, and Yunnan produces a lot of copper, so Xingchao Tongbao has a large number of coins in existence, and most of them are uncirculated coins with file marks. Why did this happen? Because the Qing government and the Qing court imposed strict suppression on coins minted by the rebel army at that time. After Sun Kewang joined the Qing court in 1657, that is, after Xingchao Tongbao stopped, as long as the Qing court found the existence of Xingchao Tongbao, it would seize it, and then melt it into the corresponding coins of the Qing Dynasty. Some local people or regimes directly took the Xing Dynasty. Tongbao was buried in the ground for preservation. Over time, a large number of Xingchao Tongbao had been put into the soil before it had time to circulate. This is why we now find that many Xingchao Tongbao have not flowed through the coins with wrong marks. This It is the casting history of Xingchao Tongbao, and its simple version.