It can be said that the silver issue, that is, the silver dollar issue in its representative form, is a major problem in the history of Chinese currency, and it is also a major problem affecting Chinese society in the late modern era.

The reason for this situation is fundamentally caused by the shape of China's silver circulation.

Before the large-scale introduction of foreign silver coins into China, the traditional Chinese silver shape was the most basic collar-shaped, but also cake-shaped and silver ingots, which were extremely inconvenient to carry and use. There is no unified standard for the identification of silver fineness, and the content is different, which is very nerve-wracking. This was a dissonance with the expanding use of silver at that time, so foreign silver coins of uniform standards and moderate sizes were loved by the people and circulated quickly as soon as they entered Guangdong and Fujian. At that time, the Ming Dynasty also made unified silver coins, but the backward coinage process made them find that even the minting standard silver coins of seven coins and five lost money, and the reason was in the fire consumption.

The silver coins minted by foreigners are now Mao Wenlong's room temperature coinage method, there is almost no fire consumption, and there is also a proper addition of lead and tin in it, which is not only more exquisite and not deformed, but also makes more money and interest, and the result is that the bad money drives out the good money.

As a result, the Ming decided to give up the right to mint coins and no longer issue their own silver coins, and as a result, the ability of the Ming to control the surrounding countries was greatly reduced.

Neighboring countries, including North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries, also minted their own coins at the beginning, but like the Ming Dynasty, they found that they lost money in coinage, and it was better to exchange goods for foreign currency, so the Ming Dynasty and other neighboring countries gave up coinage, so that Western countries made a lot of money on coins again and again.

That's why now everyone hears that Mao Yuwenlong is going to mint counterfeit money, not from the perspective of breaking the law, just losing money, just looking at him like a fool.

So Mao Yulong also looked back like a fool without hesitation.

Everyone stared at Mao Yulong's explanation with wide eyes.

There is a reason why both sides think that the other is stupid and take it, because what they don't know is that, first, coinage is the lifeblood of a country, which can make a country rise or perish.

And the second is that Mao Yulong does not lose money when minting coins, and it is still a big profit.

"First of all, my mint uses room temperature minting, which is based on the silver plates that have been poured in advance, and then pressed directly with my waterwheel stamping method, which has almost no fire consumption.

And secondly, of course, we followed the precedent of the foreigners, and let everyone approve the proportion, and minted seven coins and five silver coins. Therefore there was interest on two pieces of silver. ”

The eyes of all the people began to light up, and the eyes of the fools were reduced.

"Then in order to overcome the problem of too soft silver, I will add 20 percent of lead, tin and nickel to it, so that, after deducting the cost, I will have another penny of interest, that is, if our mint mints a silver coin, the net profit will be three and a half pennies. If we control the market of Daming and circulate it, the silver dollars in circulation of Daming will not be more than 10,000,000, and our profits will be more than 10,000 a year? ”

"And my silver dollars will be more regular and fine than foreign ones. The eventual expulsion of foreign silver dollars is really just around the corner. It is not far off to restore the chaotic coin market of the Ming Dynasty and restore the economy of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Seeing that everyone was completely shocked, Mao Yulong said proudly: "And we don't break the law at all, because what we are forging is not the copper money of the Ming Dynasty, we are forging foreign money, and foreign countries want to come here to fight counterfeiting, does he dare to bite me?" ”

At this time, Xu Jie Huoran got up and pounced on a fly, and after swatting it to death, he muttered carefully: "It must die, because it knows too much." The other three immediately looked around to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net, no, flies that had slipped through the net.

"Is this machine complicated?" Zheng Hongda raised this crucial question.

Mao Yulong took out another stack of paper from his arms: "The rivers in our Jiangnan region are criss-crossed, and the rushing rivers are everywhere. When I traveled abroad in the past two years, I knew that the Song family had a private Chai Mountain in Fuyang Mountain in the southwest, Brother Yuanshan, isn't that so? ”

Song Yuanshan nodded again and again in confusion: "That's true, it's the property left by the distant ancestor." "Leaning on, it's better to pull in a rich N generation with a deep heritage.

"I paid close attention to it, there is a rushing river in your mountainous area, and a waterfall has been formed, which is called Fuyang Waterfall, one of the top ten scenic spots in Hangzhou, by literati."

Song Yuanshan proudly revealed: "That's my family's property, so my brother and I have to call friends and companions every year to hold a poetry meeting there, for example, this year, Brother Yu's poem——"

Xu Jie hurriedly stopped: "Don't say it, let's eat here, don't spoil your appetite." At that time, Song Yuanshan was furious, and he wanted to fight with Xu Jie. The other two brothers held on to death, which avoided a war over dinner, even if Song Yuanshan sat down, he was still snorting angrily, staring at Xu Jie deadly. In his eyes, his most proud work was so humiliated, and this beam was finished.

"Look at it, one of the most profitable methods, but it turned out to be broken by you, it's a pity, it's a pity." Mao Yulong hated the pity that iron could not become steel.

"I had a heart to investigate, just set up a waterwheel there, according to the design on my drawings, to create a heavy hammer, embedded with a template, a hammer down, a silver plate cast according to the requirements, stamping out 1,000 silver dollars is no problem, 24 hours without stopping, the output of 20,000 silver dollars is enough. Then we can make a profit of four thousand in one day. Then he squinted his eyes and thought infinitely: "One, fifteen, ten, fifteen, twenty, ha." Everyone was taken aback, and Mao Yulong happily calculated: "We can make at least 1.5 million taels of profit in a year." ”

"What if there were two of them?"

"Three million taels."

"5 sets of these devices?"

- "But where do our raw materials come from? When these people were about to fall into madness, Wang Zuoren calmly raised this very critical question.

That's right, this is how the calculation is calculated, where does the gold and silver come from? How can silver coins come out without original silver?

So everyone once again fell into a stalemate of staring at each other.

Song Yuanshan thought for a while: "I can quietly move out 100,000 silver, and my father will find out if there is more." ”

Xu Jie said bitterly: "The silver that the three of us have turned over in a year, after all the procedures of minting coins, it will not affect anything, but at most our turnover is three or four hundred thousand, which is a drop in the bucket." ”

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