Then government had ordered its ichi-no-tsukasa (governmental organization) to regulate prices of commodities for fixing at high the value of currency, but as a result, such initiation of the government helped to increase fraudulent acts of money-exchange by using cheap coins made and used in China.
政府は東西の市司に命じて物価を統制し、銭の価値を高く固定しようとしたが、このことはかえって安く仕入れた中国銭を素材に両替詐欺まがいの行為を助長させた。