Receiving so many orders was also unexpected by Chen Xian, these orders brought Chen Xian a huge amount of deposit, but after some hesitation, Chen Xian did not invest the money in infrastructure construction in various places, he changed his mind and embezzled the money to build a shipyard.

Chen Xian ordered the simultaneous construction of shipyards at the mouth of the Liaohe River, Suzhou (today's Jinzhou area of Dalian), the mouth of the Yalu River, Yangzhou in Goryeo, Pusan, and other places to expand the production of Galen ships.

In order to obtain high-quality timber, Chen Xian also ordered the construction of a port and a castle in the Vladivostok area in later generations, so as to facilitate the transportation of high-quality shipbuilding timber from the local primeval forest.

Chen Xian was no longer satisfied with a sailing ship of two or three hundred tons, he wanted to build a large sailing ship of five hundred tons, or even a thousand tons.

embezzled the deposit for buying the ship, and Chen Xian turned his attention to the coinage.

For a country, what is the most profitable thing to do, of course, is printing money!

In this day and age, he can't print money, but he can mint coins.

Chen Xian set up a hydraulic mint in Qingdao and Suzhou respectively, which was named "the first (second) mint in the East China Sea".

In this era, copper coins were minted by the casting process, and the shape of the coin was a square hole with a square hole inside and an outer circle, weighing about one coin, and the material was brass, and the copper content exceeded 80%, which was a high-quality copper coin.

Chen Xian's Donghai Arm Casting Factory uses hydraulic stamping and rolling methods to mint round coins, which have no square holes in them, and are pressed with delicate patterns and characters on the surface, and have fine anti-filing zigzag around the circle.

There are two kinds of copper coins produced by the Donghai Mint, one weighs two coins (about 7.5 grams), the denomination is 5 wen, that is, equal to five coins, and the material is red copper with a copper content of more than 95%.

The other is a large copper coin of four coins (about fifteen grams) with a denomination of 10 Wen.

In order to keep the value of this coin strong, Chen Xian passed a law that the future tax of the Tokai government would only accept this coin issued by the Tokai Mint.

It stands to reason that the actual value of this copper coin, which is much less than the five minted copper coins it corresponds to, should be resisted.

But the actual situation is that this copper coin, which is made of beautiful red copper raw materials and is pressed with exquisite patterns and words, has been very popular as soon as it comes out.

In addition, Chen Xian used the taxes of the East China Sea Kingdom as a guarantee for this kind of coin, which dispelled people's worries, so the common people and merchants rushed to exchange it.

In the words of some merchants, the fine appearance of this copper coin alone is worth at least three cents.

In order to facilitate the issuance and exchange of new copper coins, Chen Xian set up a financial institution called "Donghai Bank" in various places, which exchanged copper coins for ordinary copper coins in people's hands, and then transported ordinary copper coins to the Donghai Mint for recasting.

In addition to copper coins, the Tokai Mint also minted silver coins and gold coins, silver coins weighing about thirty grams and denominations of two thousand wen, and gold coins weighing twenty-five grams and denominations of ten thousand wen.

Because there was no inflow of silver in China at this time, the price of silver and gold was relatively high, and the quantity was insufficient, so it could only be used as auxiliary currency, and the main currency could only be copper coins.

Because the value of gold and silver is too high, just the appearance of the beauty does not make people ignore their actual value, so the gold and silver coins minted by Chen Xian, although slightly lower than their actual value, are not much, so these two coins are also quite popular in the market.

Chen Xian also stipulated that ordinary gold and silver could not be directly circulated in the market, but gold and silver holders could use gold and silver to go to the bank to exchange gold and silver coins equivalent to the price of gold and silver.

In general, the profits from minting gold and silver coins are much smaller than those from minting copper coins.

Chen Xian invested the huge profits of the mint in the infrastructure construction of various places.

But when it comes to putting the new dollar into the market, Chen Xian also has a sense of proportion, and he always keeps an eye on the price increases in various places......

In addition to strengthening the internal means of infrastructure construction in various places to help the digestion of the cement plant, Chen Xian also used external means.

That's war.

The domestic situation stabilized slightly, and Chen Xian couldn't wait to launch a war against Jin.

Over the years, Chen Xian has become accustomed to the solution to financial problems such as plundering wealth through war when his finances are in trouble.

But Chen Xian's war against the Jin State this time and plundering wealth was only a bypassing purpose.

Ever since he received information about the dramatic changes within the Mongol Empire a year ago, Chen Xian had been trying to interrupt the changes, but he really couldn't spare his hands when the domestic political changes he was leading at that time were also at a critical juncture.

At this time, he had just stabilized the domestic situation, and he couldn't wait to launch the war against Jin, just to drag the Mongol Empire into the war.

Since receiving the news of the changes in the Mongol Empire, Chen Xian has strengthened his attention to the internal intelligence of the Mongol Empire, so Chen Xian also knows about a series of military reforms of the Mongols.

For the series of military reforms of the Mongols, Chen Xian was most worried about only one of them, the nine-pound copper cannon and the corresponding artillery carriage that the Mongols had already manufactured that could be used in field battles.

Napoleon called the twelve-pounder "pretty girl", which shows his love for this kind of cannon, the twelve-pounder can be said to be the best caliber of field artillery, the caliber is reduced, the lethality is insufficient, and if the caliber continues to expand, it will lose its field performance because it is too heavy.

If the performance of the nine-pound field cannon made by the Mongols (converted into pounds, about more than 12 pounds) can reach 80% or 90% of Chen Xian's 12-pound gun, then on the battlefield, Chen Xian no longer has too many advantages in artillery technology.

Considering the number of craftsmen and officers missing in China in the past two years, Chen Xian reluctantly believed that the possibility that the performance of the Mongols' nine-jin field guns should be close to theirs should be very high.

Chen Xian was most worried about the Mongols' self-made nine-pound field artillery, and what he admired most was that the Mongols had removed the bulky and useless cloth armor from the Han army.

In fact, Chen Xian had long planned to completely remove the armor from the infantry, but he had to give up because of the opposition of the whole army.

So at this time, his infantry still had a steel helmet with a large eaves and a half-cuirass to protect the chest cavity, and in order to make these two armors play some role in the face of bullets, they were made very heavy.

The Mongol refinement of the Han cavalry was also quite professional, removing the heavy armor, but retaining the spears and equipped with flintlock muskets, and the improved Mongol Han cavalry was obviously able to charge with both guns and muskets.

Isn't this the equipment mode of the Cossacks of later generations!

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It was not only the Mongols who had undergone changes over the years, but also the Song, Jin and Northern Jin kingdoms.

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