Today we will talk about a phenomenon, that is, China's vassal countries have recently unearthed a large number of ancient Chinese coins. There are two main aspects of the main summary.
The first is that the official trade at that time was the flow of ancient Chinese coins into the neighboring countries of China, such as Japan, Korea, and even Vietnam, through the form of official trade, the vassal countries at that time sent envoys to pay tribute, and China rewarded the coins to the vassal countries, or the reward items were far greater than the tribute items, both in quality and quantity, which also showed that China was a gift to the vassal countries at that time as a big country.
The second way is the folk trade at that time, since the Han Dynasty began to have neighboring countries, a private trade with China, to the Tang Dynasty, song Dynasty, and even the Ming Dynasty when this trade gradually increased, which is why we found a lot of Tang and Song dynasty coins in the surrounding vassal countries of Japan, Korea and other places, in fact, the official reward of coins does not account for the majority, and the money of private trade with the gradual development and prosperity of the economies of various countries, so that a large number of Chinese coins outflow, As a result, there have been many shortages of money in China.
The Chinese government also issued repeated orders to prohibit the outflow of copper coins, that is, to a certain extent, hindered some trade between China and neighboring subsidiaries, which led to the emergence of a situation, the surrounding dependent countries with the economic development of the need for more and more copper coins, there are many people relative to the illegal trade at that time began to exist, the Chinese government carried out a severe crackdown after repeated prohibitions, but after the Qing Dynasty China implemented a complete closed country policy, which led to the phenomenon of copper money outflow to a large extent to be curbed.
This is one of the reasons why qing dynasty coins are rare in dependent countries, and another reason is that with the ability of the vassal countries themselves to mint some coins, the coin minting process of the vassal countries themselves during the Qing Dynasty also reached a peak, in summary, this is the reason why a large number of ancient Chinese coins appeared in the vassal countries, and there was no large number of Chinese Qing Dynasty coins.