After the plan of privately minting Italian copper coins and Spanish copper coins worsening Portuguese copper coins, before the production of copper coins exploded, Beihai first received feedback - the large number of brass coins issued allowed the domestic small trade to flourish, and then stimulated the development of commerce.

One standard silver finnig is equal to 8 brass coins, which means that the average person's salary of 2 finneys per day can be exchanged for 16 brass coins. Assuming that 1 pfennig is equivalent to 50 yuan in later generations, a brass coin is equivalent to 6.25 yuan. Although it is not a small amount, it is much smaller than the amount of 1 Fennig.

Prior to this, ordinary people in Germany did not use money at all when making small transactions, but bartered them in the simplest form. For example, if a low-value commodity is traded, simply use a handful of rye as a measure of the transaction.

But this measurement method is very inaccurate, because there are large and small human hands. Some people have large hands, and a handful of rye is more numerous. And some people have small hands, and a handful of rye is less. Some black-hearted businessmen even use the double-standard method. For example, when collecting "money", let the man reach out and grab rye, so that he can grab more. But when it was paid to the guests, the hostess was asked to catch rye. Because, women have small hands, and one handful is much less.

The appearance of small amounts of brass coins greatly facilitated the private transactions of the Beihai Kingdom. As a result, the Beihai people's trade also flourished.

Because the commodity economy is not developed at present, in order to cultivate people's consumption habits, Marin learned from later generations, popularized the supply and marketing cooperative system, and set up a supply and marketing store in each township, which was uniformly shipped by the supply and marketing headquarters located in Port Emden, set up a guide price, and sold various commodities.

At present, the farmers in Beihai Country are actually rich. Marin carried out reforms, turning all the estates into farms with a wage system and introducing a salary system. Each farmer earns 2 pfennig a day, and women don't have that much, but they also earn 1 pfennig a day. In addition, there are additional incentives based on labor performance. On top of that, the farmers' food is distributed free of charge, including to their families.

As a result, farmers in the North Sea Country, especially those on Marin's estates, netted 2 pfennigs or more per farmer per day. If you are a husband and wife, it is more than 3 pfennigs.

In this way, when the money is left, they have the ability to spend. However, the poor life in the past has made them accustomed to saving money. Therefore, the North Sea countries need to cultivate their consumption habits. The supply and marketing cooperatives, which have a wide variety of commodities, have obviously become an important place to cultivate consumption habits.

In order to stimulate consumption, Marin not only set up supply and marketing stores in the town, but also planned to set up small stores under supply and marketing stores in some populous villages to face consumers directly.

However, at present, the women of the "sweater knitting training class" have not yet graduated, and there are not enough people, so they can only temporarily set up town-level branches, and cannot open a commissary in the village. After all, there is a shortage of salespeople who know how to do arithmetic.

Even so, because Marin ordered the stewards of the various estates to encourage the peasants to go to the town to purchase during the slack time, and also arranged for horse-drawn carriages to carry people and goods in a unified manner. Therefore, the sales of supply and marketing cooperatives in various towns are not bad. And brass coins are also in circulation in large quantities.

Therefore, before the production of Italian and two-tooth copper coins began, the supply and marketing stores around the country reported that there was a shortage of tens of millions of copper coins in the market, and it will expand in the future......

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As for the shortage of copper coins in his country, Marin didn't care. Because, the minting speed of the North Sea Mint is still very fast, several times or even ten times the efficiency of other manual mints. Like the Spanish Mint, which has more than 4,000 people, the North Sea Mint only needs four or five hundred people to produce the same output. On top of that, while the Royal Spanish Mint needs experienced mints with more than seven years of apprenticeship experience, the North Sea Mint can mint as efficiently as it does with just a few hundred apprentices.

However, considering that the North Sea Mint privately minted coins from other countries, it also minted counterfeit silver coins used by the French. Therefore, Marin's mint cannot recruit workers from the society, lest secrets be leaked. Therefore, in the early stage, Marlin mostly used workers who had committed crimes as minters. Later, Marin directly purchased Mao's father-in-law from the Crimean Khanate as a coinsmith. Except for the hundreds of skilled mints who made molds, the rest of the mints were all workers of the average level of migrant workers, most of them were criminals without freedom, and slave laborers like Gonggong Mao.

Because the mint was so important, the Marint area occupied 50 square kilometers of land as the mint's sphere of activity. Among them, the mint's factory building actually covers less than 0.1 square kilometers. The remaining 49.9 square kilometers of land are all supporting facilities for the mint. In this way, the craftsmen and ordinary workers of the mint can enjoy a variety of services without leaving the mint. Its material supply is also very abundant.

50 square kilometers is definitely a large area, equivalent to the size of a township in later generations. And, as Marin recalls, Kathmandu, the capital of later Nepal, was also 50 square kilometers but had a population of 5 million. And in this era, some vassal states are just as big. Therefore, the North Sea Mint is actually equivalent to a country within a country. This is similar to the Venetians' move of their best glass artisans to Murano.

But Murano is only 4.59 square kilometres, more than 20 times smaller than the North Sea Mint. Moreover, there were only artisans on the island of Murano, and there were no artisan families, which were eventually exploited by the French. After all, the craftsman is also going home. You can't spy on French on Murano, but if you get home, you can do it......

It was precisely by learning this lesson that Marin made the mint, steel mill, cannon foundry and other confidential factories independent of the outside world, dug rivers, pulled up barbed wire, and deployed wolf dogs to guard against outside invasions and people inside. In this way, we can ensure that the technology is not leaked.

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Sometimes, Marin also feels that he is too careful, and he is not as domineering as the protagonist he has seen in his previous life. However, he knew that the protagonists of the Mandate of Heaven that he had read in his previous life had their own aura of good luck and could always turn evil into good fortune. Even if he took the risk and everyone else died, he wouldn't die.

But that's anyway, and it's very unscientific. It looks hot-blooded, but it's very unreasonable. For example, braving the enemy's bullets is not harmed by the stars. is like Stallone in "First Blood", a person singles out a Vietnamese regiment, stands and shoots at each other, and the bullets of the Vietnamese soldiers in the opposite regiment are stunned and can't hit him......

Marin didn't believe in this kind of nonsense anyway, so he would rather be cowardly and obscene, so as to save his life first. Secrets or something, and they must not be known to others. Otherwise, you will be taught to use it against yourself......

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Regarding the lack of copper coins reported below, Marin did not hesitate to sign an order to issue an additional 50 million brass coins. In this way, the total number of copper coins issued in Beihai has reached hundreds of millions. However, this is not much......

100 million brass coins are worth 12.5 million fennigs, which is worth 208,300 gold coins, which is simply not worth mentioning. If it is distributed to the more than two million people of Beihai Country, the average person is only forty or fifty copper coins, and the total value is only a few pfennigs, which is only a few days' wages, which can be said to be not worth mentioning.

Therefore, the total number of brass coins did not reach 1 billion, and Marin was embarrassed to say that Beihai promoted the application of copper coins......