Chinese A factory building with a width of three zhang and a depth of ten zhang, the towering walls of the factory look extremely thick, and anyone who wants to enter this factory needs to go through several inspections, and when they come out, they also have to go through strict inspections.

Watermark Ad TestThe reason why the watermark ad test is so rigorous is because of the silver coins that are made here that are quite valuable.

"Before entering the factory, craftsmen change their clothes here, and then after a naked inspection to make sure that there are no foreign objects on their bodies, they will change into work clothes in another room, and then they will enter the factory......" When entering the factory, Zheng Juming explained the role of this channel, although it is a government-run mint, but in terms of management, it still borrows from the management model of private banks.

Through strict inspection, it is avoided that there are workers who carry silver coins or silver, which can lead to the loss of silver.

"When you go out of the room, in addition to being naked for examination, you have to bend over and cough to avoid entrainment in the valley." For Zhu Mingzhong, who came to the mint for the first time, he naturally never thought that the management here was a bit like a prison.

Although I have seen the mint's workflow on the Internet in later generations, it does not seem to be as strict as here.

"I remember, aren't all the rough bills of this silver dollar counted? Why do you need such an examination? Zhu Mingzhong asked puzzledly, in order to avoid someone from entraining, so in the process of making silver dollars, almost every time it changes hands, it will be counted, inspected, and signed, so that as long as there are people

"Entrainment" will naturally be exposed immediately, so he will be a little puzzled.

"After all, there will always be people who take risks, and this is also a precaution." Zheng Juming's explanation made Zhu Mingzhong smile helplessly, it is indeed the same, even if there are institutional constraints in the face of windfall profits, what can be done?

Moreover, if you enter and exit the plant without strict inspection, there is indeed a possibility of entrainment. Unlike the scorching mint because of the scorching heat wave of the mint, there is no scorching heat wave in the mint, and even the craftsmen here are engaged in their work on one workbench after another, unlike the traditional Chinese sand minting process, in the silver coin production in Jiangbei, this process was abandoned from the beginning and replaced with Western coinage.

However, even when the Western coinage process was introduced, it underwent two changes, and in the beginning, it was tried to use a hydraulic hammer to press the mold with a hammer.

However, in the end, because the specifications of this hammered and pressed silver coin were not standard, the spiral stamping machine was finally chosen, and then the mint was equipped with a rolling machine, a slicer, and a screw press to start mechanical coin production using the flow of the canal as the driving force.

These techniques were not provided by Zhu Mingzhong, but were introduced to Jiangbei by those missionaries, at a time when the production of hammered coins in Europe had tended to be obsolete, and European countries had begun to use spiral presses to produce gold and silver coins.

This production technology has long been mature, and the manufacturing equipment used in this kind of production is a human-powered screw press, which may not be comparable to the production speed of the sand coinage

"Sand coinage", but the silver coins produced by it are exquisite. So much so that when he got the silver dollar for the first time, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but sigh at the craftsmanship of this era.

Although Zhu Mingzhong had lamented the beauty of the Jiangbei silver dollar, this was the first time he had seen the silver dollar manufacturing process, in the factory, in groups of four people, where a human screw press rotated, which was the most important minting equipment of the mint, it was powered by four workers, although primitive but extremely effective, and it was this primitive process that produced millions of silver dollars.

This is true of many things, maybe the technology can be primitive, but as long as enough manpower is invested, there is always enough return, and this primitive coinage technology has not affected the manufacture and issuance of silver dollars.

"After a little, now the minting process in the factory is basically the first batching, the raw materials for the production of silver coins are precious metal silver and ordinary metal copper, the accuracy of weighing is relatively high, raw materials, semi-finished products, finished products batch weighing are completed by the balance. Then the silver is melted and poured into a casting mold to cast into a blank cake. After casting, the blank cake is rolled by a sheeting machine to the standard thickness required for embossing, and then weighed to avoid overweight ......" Zheng Juming explained to him the process of making silver coins as Zhu Mingzhong watched with great interest as workers squeezed silver coins with a spiral stamping machine.

“…… The last process before printing is the smooth edge of the blank. Then it is to get here for printing, each embossing machine can press 15-20 pieces per minute, not less than 1000 pieces per hour, according to ten hours a day, there are a total of 10 embossing machines in the factory, up to 100,000 pieces per day, 00000 pieces per month, because the face value of the silver coin is not equal, so the monthly output is about one million taels, in terms of the current coinage, it can still meet the needs of the ,...... "came to the side of the rolling table, watched the craftsman keep shaking the rolling machine, and rolled the tooth edge for the embossed silver dollar, Zhu Mingzhong's brows tightened slightly.

It's all handmade! Although Jiangbei's silver coins claim to be mechanical, they are actually only manual mechanisms, and the machines used are only manual machines.

The productivity of these manual machines is naturally conceivable.

"000,000 pieces per month, if you exchange it for copper coins, that is, 000 taels, and what is the monthly salary of these workers?" Thinking secretly in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong's brows locked slightly, and he immediately realized that it seemed unrealistic to replace casting money with machine-made money in this era, after all, its production speed was too low, even if the number of embossing machines was increased, it could not meet the production needs of a large number of copper coins.

It would even increase the cost of producing copper coins, which was clearly not in the interest of minting coins. Picking up a piece of silver dollar, looking at the exquisite pattern on the silver dollar, the pattern of one or two silver dollars in Jiangbei, Zhu Mingzhong borrowed from the late Qing Dynasty

"Longyang", the obverse is

"Yongli ingot", the back is the dragon pattern, so now this kind of silver dollar is commonly known as the folk

"Dragon Yuan". Turn over to the other side and look at it

"Yongli ingots" as well

The clear words of "Kuping one tael", Zhu Mingzhong's mind appeared in the blur of the words on the coinage, which is the biggest advantage of the mechanism currency, and the pattern is exquisite and clear.

Of course, I also thought of the mechanism of the late Qing Dynasty, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was not only the copper dollar of the mechanism, but also the mechanism of the money, that is, the money of the outer circle and the inner square.

However, although the mechanism system was quite elaborate and the words were clear, it was eventually replaced by the larger copper dollar due to cost problems.

However, in the late Qing Dynasty, more copper dollars could be issued because the purchasing power of money had declined, and now, it is obviously unrealistic to use ten copper dollars.

"The key is embossing!" Looking at the process of the workers turning the spiral stamping machine to squeeze the silver coin, the process is cumbersome, in addition to the four people who are responsible for rotating the spiral stamping machine to squeeze the silver coin, there is also a child laborer who is responsible for loading the silver billet into the stamper, or taking out the stamped silver coin out of the stamping mold, the two stampers are used alternately back and forth, and the four workers rotate the stamping machine clockwise at the same time, after squeezing completely, and then counterclockwise, take out the lower stamping die, and then load the stamper...... With such a cumbersome manufacturing process, how can production efficiency be improved?

15 to 20 prints per minute, that's too slow! Is there any way to increase the speed of the imprint?

Staring at the spiral stamping machine in the distance, Zhu Mingzhong secretly thought to himself, it is obviously impossible to use this kind of spiral stamping machine, in the press, the efficiency of this equipment is the lowest, unless other presses are used.

Presses. Recall in the mind the various presses that have been contacted, one by one after excluding those complex structure of the equipment, finally a kind of manual press emerged in Zhu Mingzhong's mind, the current screw press is also a manual press, and suitable for the processing level of this era of manual press in addition to the screw press, there is also a kind of tooth rod type, this press is mainly the use of rack and pinion transmission structure, the design is relatively simple, the production is relatively easy, very good small press equipment, in later generations can be used to stamping some small bearings.

"Using rack and pinion transmission, if the gear of this transmission is combined with hydraulics, the pressure should be able to meet the ...... of embossed coins" Looking at the tooth rod press just drawn, Zhu Mingzhong once again combined the manual lever with water power, and the reciprocating transmission structure required to press down and lift the wrench is not complicated, and the water conservancy bellows in the ironmaking plant use a similar traditional structure.

"If you use hydraulic power, then the tonnage of the press will increase, and the press will also increase a lot, so you can consider increasing the stamper, and each stamper can be embossed with more than a dozen copper coins at the same time." While secretly planning to increase the number of embossing molds, Zhu Mingzhong even thought that the factory needed to increase the number of child laborers - those child laborers were needed to put blanks into the stamping molds.

Child labor is a characteristic of this era, even if the use of child labor is contrary to Zhu Mingzhong's educational values, but he still has to choose to acquiesce, after all, the times have the characteristics of the times, in this era child labor is always inevitable, and the factory also needs those child laborers to put a blank into the mold, compared to adults, those teenage child labor is more suitable for this job, they are more careful, and more patient.

"This is also a characteristic ...... of the times" sighed secretly, Zhu Mingzhong sandwiched the drawings of the machine into a document, and then put it on the table, tomorrow this drawing will be sent to the arsenal, and then made by the arsenal, as for how much its production efficiency can be improved, further experiments are needed, but one thing is for sure, the currency made by this machine is the real mechanism currency, as for the previous one, it is just a semi-manual currency.

"Do you need to redesign the copper coin?" Thinking of this, Zhu Mingzhong's mind suddenly came up with the copper yuan in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

But the idea was immediately dismissed.

"Now the people still have no way to accept the new copper dollar, or make a new type of money first, and everything has to come step by step!" I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

"Let's let the arsenal make new presses first, and then we have to do everything step by step."

When the "Nantianmen ......" picked up another official document from the table, looking at the content of the official document, Zhu Mingzhong's expression couldn't help but change slightly, this was an official document transferred from the south by sea.

Although trade routes to the South Seas have not yet been opened, the expeditionary fleet still maintains contact with the country by sending fast sailing ships, and of course this contact is purposeful.

In this official document, in addition to reporting the itinerary of the fleet and some achievements along the way, there is also a request for the country to send exiles to Nantianmen to build Nantianmen.

Nantianmen! Perhaps to others, this name is unfamiliar, but Zhu Mingzhong knows very well what this place name is, this is the Singapore of later generations, and it is also the place where he instructed the fleet to control as much as possible, of course he will not use anything again

In Zhu Mingzhong's view, the name of "Singapore", an ancient name such as the Lion City, is far less appropriate than the Nantianmen, which in this era will become the southern gate of China.

Even before the fleet departed, Zhu Mingzhong was on the map

"Singapore" is marked, and it will become the first colony of China, nay, the Ming Dynasty.

Compared to Taiwan, Taiwan is the national territory, as for

"Nantianmen" is a colony. And mentioned in the official document

In Zhu Mingzhong's opinion, the attachment of "Zhancheng State" is not worth mentioning at all, after all, the attachment of those natives is really countless in history.

"You actually got Nantianmen so smoothly, permanent rent, one thousand taels a year? This price seems to be a bit high, if it is cheaper, it doesn't seem to be expensive......" muttered, but Zhu Mingzhong's face showed a smile because of this perpetual lease agreement.

After a moment of joy, he muttered to himself.

"Nantianmen, Nantianmen, when this letter was sent back, Nantianmen had already taken it down, so now the fleet should almost arrive in Burma......" Nantianmen is important, but what really matters is Myanmar, compared to the success of Nantianmen, Myanmar is the purpose of this voyage,

"If the Burmese resist, I don't know how much trouble it will bring." Think of the so-called more than a hundred years later, the so-called

The so-called "perfect old man" set for himself

"Ten Perfect Martial Arts".

Zhu Mingzhong didn't laugh at all at the joke of "subduing" Myanmar, after all, Myanmar is different from other places, and he is known in this era

"The first power in Southeast Asia", a hundred years later they once made the so-called

"Sheng Qing" was defeated in Burma, the so-called

"Submission" is nothing more than a joke. Now, wouldn't it be too hasty to send the fleet to Burma in such a hurry?

Thinking of this, although he had been fully prepared before, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but become a little unconfident, after all, this fleet had only just been formed, and more importantly, now that the imperial court and Yongli were still under the control of the Burmese, so rashly breaking through, if the plan changed, no one knew what would happen.

"I hope everything goes well......" Staring at the heaven and earth in the south, Zhu Mingzhong prayed silently, this is the first time...... Cat flutter Chinese