[Chapter Word Count:3563 Last Updated:2014-10-0218:00:00.0]

The scenery of Taibaiding is as good as ever, but the tiger girl who came here for the first time is not in the mood to watch the spring beauty outside the camp at all, and her and Xiao Letian's eyes have been attracted by the two small blast furnaces.

The red is the burning coal, the white is the scattered silver, and the flowing silver water is the eerie light. On the ground were rows and rows of iron fans, and the special cast iron pots were carefully poured into the iron fans under the lifting of two shirtless strong men.

This is Xiao Letian's real backhand to accumulate wealth, the so-called opening of foreign banks and foreigners to do business are all pretenses, and the business on the surface is actually to cover up his real plan to make a fortune.

Privately minting silver dollars and privately manufacturing Mexican eagles, this is Xiao Letian's trick to gather wealth for Taibaiding. It is said that according to the thinking of the Qing Dynasty people at that time, it was not uncommon to mint coins privately, and there were many major cases of private coinage in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

There were even anti-Qing organizations such as the White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society, which secretly minted copper coins to collect money, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also issued its own coins. But Xiao Letian is not so low-tech, what he wants is a combination of the two silver coins that had the greatest influence on China during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

The casting process is Yuan Datou, and the shape is the Mexican Eagle Ocean, these two coins that have a profound impact on the history of Chinese silver coins are finally combined in Xiao Letian's hands.

The Mexican Eagle refers to the new coinage used after Mexico's independence in 1821, and it was minted from 1823. The obverse depicts the emblem of the Republic of Mexico: an eagle with outstretched wings and a snake in its mouth, perched on a cactus growing from the rocks of a lake. Surrounded by oak and laurel foliage, the shape symbolizes strength, loyalty, and peace.

During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the largest number of foreign silver dollars were imported into China. According to the survey statistics of the second year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, there were about 1.1 billion foreign silver dollars in circulation in China at that time, of which one-third were Mexican eagles, which shows that this kind of foreign coins had a far-reaching impact on China's finance. The Mexican Eagle Ocean is in better condition than other foreign silver dollars, and it has not changed for many years, and people are happy to use it, which shows that stability is an important indicator of the survival of a currency.

And Yuan Datou, the people of later generations are more familiar, the most classic picture is that people pinch the center of the silver coin, put it to their mouths and blow it, and then reach their ears, you can hear an obvious buzzing sound. This unique design process has almost become Yuan Datou's trademark.

The weight of a Yuan head is six coins and eight cents of Kuping pure silver, and the proportion of silver nine and copper is cast, and the total weight after casting is seven coins and two cents. Regardless of the tax advantages of issuing currency, just one percent of copper is a great interest.

Xiao Letian imagined in his mind that from south to north, from west to east, people in the land of China were filled with their own forged eagles, and the owner of the shop would put it to his mouth every time he received an eagle and blow it, this picture was too beautiful.

"Mr. Xiao! Mr. Xiao ......" Shi Dakai and Fan Yao's shopkeeper woke up Xiao Letian, who was drooling and fantasizing, "This is the first Yingyang today, isn't Mr. addicted?"

How could Xiao Letian give up this opportunity, he tentatively touched Tie Fan and found that his hands were no longer hot, and then he lifted a piece of Tie Fan and threw it on the ground. There was a muffled click, and the two pieces of Tiefan instantly separated, revealing the silver coins side by side inside.

"My precious money, with your father, I won't be bullied......" Xiao Letian was really out of shape, he knelt on the ground and broke off the silver coins one by one, holding them in the palm of his hand as if he were holding his own child. Beside him, dozens of wooden boxes were full of rolls of Yingyang, and a hundred rolls were wrapped in red paper, not to mention how festive it was.

"How many silver coins can we produce every day? How many catties of silver can we use?"

"Now nine thousand taels of silver and one thousand taels of copper can be smelted every day, and more than thirteen,000 silver coins are minted. Originally, I wanted to open two more furnaces, but we don't have much broken silver, and there are only 300,000 taels of silver in the cottage, which is not enough at all......" Fan Yao said regretfully.

Shi Dakai was also a little annoyed now, "I knew that Mr. had such a clever plan, we should have stored more silver taels and made so many jewels less......"

Xiao Lotian shook his head, "It's okay, the Qing Dynasty doesn't have anything else, there are two pieces of scattered silver, I don't believe it, let's exchange such a good silver coin for their silver taels, will anyone not change it?" After speaking, Xiao Lotian gently blew the silver coin, and a melodious buzzing sound sounded, and the people present were overjoyed.

"Kill pigs and sheep, the cottage has a big meal today......" Xiao Lotian roared, and the whole Taibai Ding thundered.

Money is a man's guts, this is not wrong at all, Xiao Letian officially explained his economic layout to Shi Dakai and Fan Yao at the banquet.

The people sitting at the table were all real elites, and they didn't quite understand the doorway inside Xiao Letian's coinage at first, and it was only when Xiao Letian drunkenly explained all the twists and turns that they suddenly realized.

Everyone knows that coinage can make money, but many people don't know how to make money. First of all, it is impossible to mint silver with pure silver, and some other hard metals must be added to increase the hardness of the silver coin. For example, Yuan Datou added one-tenth of copper to it.

Compared with the price of silver, the cost of copper is almost negligible, so this tenth of the profit is steadily earned.

The second point is to analyze the ancient fire consumption system. The term fire consumption first appeared in the Ming Dynasty, was coined by the famous minister Zhang Juzheng, and it was one of his whips that allowed silver taels to enter the national tax system, and finally became a member of the monetary family.

If there is silver, it must be minted, and it is impossible for the people to buy and sell all the big silver ingots, and the ordinary people have one or two coins and scattered silver taels, which is considered a wealthy household. As the state and county governments, the vast majority of the silver they collected through taxes belonged to scattered silver taels.

In order to facilitate transportation and to submit the accounts to the capital, the units at the county level had to smelt the silver into large ingots. In the process of smelting, there will inevitably be loss, which is called fire loss.

Soon, the officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties discovered the advantages of fire consumption and wealth accumulation, and it was completely up to them to decide how much fire consumption they received for one or two pieces of silver. According to the standard of the most innocent officials, one or two pieces of silver will receive three yuan of fire consumption, let alone corrupt officials.

In ancient times, one catty and sixteen taels, the Qing officials collected fire consumption reached one-fifth of the principal, which is a 20% increase in taxes for the people. Well, as for the corrupt officials who spend more than five cents on the fire, they have little effect except to force the people to rebel.

Xiao Lotian wants to mint more silver coins, then he needs more scattered silver taels, of course, Xiao Lotian has a conscience, he will not spend the fire to receive three coins, but two coins should always be collected, this is a proper 12% net profit.

"Shopkeeper Fan, my good prince, what kind of business in the world can get two percent of the profit without much effort, this is a business without capital! Now do you know why I want to bribe the officials of the entire Yi County? I am just preparing for us to absorb a large amount of silver taels from the people, with the protection of this group of people, how many silver taels can we absorb?"

"Although Yi County is small, there will always be a tax of 200,000 taels a year, and these silver taels will be the raw materials for our coinage, do you think about how much there is......?

Fan Yi nodded angrily, the brother he split up, he dug ten big holes in the silver vault alone, and the hidden silver taels were no less than one million, but this time the family only gave himself 100,000 taels, and what did he say This is to take care of his brother, according to the rules, he should not give a penny, I ......

"In a county of Yi, the wealth accumulated by the people is no less than three million taels, and the silver taels hidden in a high-class county in Jiangnan and other places are more than 10 million! Think about it, if we cast all these silver taels into silver coins, how huge will our twenty percent of the money interest be?"

"What's more, in the future, when we have a big ship, we can directly purchase silver ore from Japan, Mexico, and even the United States, and the cost of minting will be even cheaper!" Xiao Lotian suddenly stood up, raised his wine glass and said.

"Lao Tzu, I wave my hand, hundreds of millions of silver dollars will fall from the sky like rain, it depends on whether you have the courage to continue......" The gray-bearded Liu Lang and the old shopkeeper have already made Xiao Letian's eyes red, and they are about to go berserk, only Shi Dakai is calmer.

"O military advisor, even if we can mint so much money, how can we spend it? Such a huge amount of money rushing to the people will definitely cause a sharp decrease in a large amount of scattered silver, and the fire consumption of the Qing Dynasty will be drastically reduced, how can the Manchu Tartars not pay attention? Even if they are as greedy as Heshen, I am afraid they will not dare to melt the ready-made silver dollars back into silver ingots, right? Then they have forced the people to rebel again......

Xiao Lotian shook his head and burped, "The prince is too worried, really too worried, didn't I say a long time ago, I want to set up a trading house in Tanggu, which will also bring in the American Lewis and give him a hundred percent of the shares." You say that people in the court dare to investigate foreigners' foreign businesses?"

"As far as our imitation of the Mexican Eagle Ocean is concerned, let me tell you the truth, there are more than 10 million of this kind of silver coins in circulation privately in the south! Hundreds of millions of them may be, who in the imperial court dares to check it?"

"Not only that, but we also have other umbrellas, we are not misers, no matter how much money we make, we have to spend it, we have to buy hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars to buy grassroots officials. We want cannibalization county by county. Yixian, Zhuozhou, Gu'an, Langfang, Xianghe...... There are also counties around Beijing, let's encroach on them one by one. ”

"If you want money, we will give money, if you don't want money, we will ask for their lives, and everyone who comes over will write a blood book to Lao Tzu, press the handprint, just like Liu Sanchang, so that they are the courtiers of the Qing Dynasty on the surface, but they are all our lackeys in private......"

"Lao Tzu doesn't need to be a clean official, can we use corrupt officials? Back then, the eighth elder brother Yinzheng could pull out a small court under Qianlong and Yongzheng, I don't believe we don't have the ability......"

Xiao Letian was really drunk, he actually told his plan in front of the people at the wine table, fortunately this is Xiao Letian's study, only Shi Dakai, Liu Lang, Fan Yao, Hu Niu and Xiao Hexin are a few of their cronies. If all the brothers outside hear this, then they can't fry the pot!

Rao is like this, Xiao Hexin, Wang Huaiyuan, and Sima Yun's eyes are already shining like light bulbs, they are completely shocked by the pride of the military advisor, and the blood in their hearts is surging upward.

"It's so cool, it's cool to follow the military advisor......" Xiao Young stood up at that time. In the end, Shi Dakai and Fan Yao's shopkeeper were more steady, and these young people should not shout.

"Let Mr. rest, if there is anything to talk about tomorrow, Tiger Girl, you serve Mr. to sleep...... You bastards, shut your mouths for me, what the military advisor said just now is top secret, don't blame me for being ruthless if you dare to reveal it......"

At this time, Xiao Lotian was already snoring like thunder.