Chapter 473 - Issuance of new coins

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Please enter the text. Please note: According to the requirements of relevant national laws and regulations, please do not upload any pornographic, vulgar, politically related and other illegal content, we will review and report it in accordance with laws and regulations. It is already imperative to mint new coins, but in order to solve the huge fire consumption problem of smelting old coins, in order to avoid the high proportion of copper and lead in his own coins, let unscrupulous merchants re-mint bad coins, and let the unscrupulous smelt and cast into bronze, Lu Peng decided that the coins he minted were steel coins. Yes, it's to mint new coins using steel that is not available in the world of its own Savage Valley.

Use your own unique steel to mint coins, in the material almost in a period of time to eliminate the appearance of imitation things, if you use their own windmill with smokeless casting method, in the casting process, the world is more incomparable, so the world can only look at their own steel coins in the huge money interest and sigh.

The second one is that the cost of steel coins is cheaper, and they can harvest huge money interest, so they can obtain a large amount of additional income for their own Youzhou households, if they take advantage of the fact that others have no concept of currency issuance and minting rights, and issue them to the whole Han, then an absolute economic war without gunpowder, an unscrupulous plunder, will be completely mastered by themselves, and they will use this steel coin to slowly suck the blood of warlords and families around the world, so that they will eventually become dry corpses one by one.

In this way, in his own battle for hegemony, he has two sharp weapons, one is the butcher knife in his hand, which is clear. There is also a steel coin in his hand, which is dark. In fact, this dark method is definitely no less effective than the butcher's knife of the bright one. Cutting meat with a hidden knife actually hurts more.

Think about the future of those who are enemies of themselves, and in the end the real strategic materials are all plundered into their hands by their own almost costless steel coins, and they are only left with mountains of steel coins, but they are useless at all, how refreshing it is.

Of course, because the issuance of steel coins has no precious metal properties, the people will not easily accept it. But it didn't matter, Lu Peng decided to pegged his steel coins to precious metals, just like the dollar coins of later generations, pegged to gold, and then relied on this huge credibility to shear the wool of other warlords.

When the first batch of steel coins was minted half a month after the decision, my wife specially convened a meeting to appreciate all officials, families and even businessmen, to show its great superiority to the civil and military and the invited representatives of the family and merchants.

Boxes of snow-white and shiny steel coins were lifted up and placed on the lobby, the beautiful pattern, smooth and smooth shape, at a glance people are difficult to part, countless people are around these new coins to evaluate the head.

Mi Zhu picked up the solid "Kong Fang Money" that was die-cast from the base of the Savage Valley, looked at it for a long time, and asked curiously: "Why is it solid in the middle, isn't it a waste?" "There is no square hole in the middle, which subverts the current understanding of money, how to look at it awkwardly, especially without the hole in the middle, it seems that a small piece of steel is wasted, which seems to be very cost-effective.

Lu Peng touched his chin and replied honestly: "Cost, this is out of cost considerations." 'Hole square money' requires two sets of stamping equipment, first stamping out the square hole, and then stamping out the money shape. If the square hole is not stamped out in the middle, then only one set of stamping equipment is needed, and the production time is also shortened by half.

Therefore, even if the square hole is solid, but the overall accounting: a set of stamping equipment, only one set of molds, reduce a set of molds, reduce a process, hire half of the workers, double the processing speed, and a molding, but also a lot of defective products...... After accounting, the solid 'hole square money' does not cut off the steel, but is much cheaper. It's a kind of cost consideration, you don't understand. ”

Mi Zhu really doesn't know how to mint coins and do more accounting, he will only collect money and spend money.

Mr. Big walked at the door with the solid coin, he posed to observe the steel coin in the sun, the second brother Su Shuang stood beside him, and also carefully looked at this exquisite steel coin, and said with emotion: "This kind of money is shiny, the casting is really exquisite, don't say it, I am still the first time to see such a beautiful coin, it can be used as a handicraft as a collection." ”

This coin is indeed incomparably exquisite, the round steel coin has a circle of regular protruding lines on the outside, and a circle of exquisite Chinese characters on the inside - Jian'an Tongbao. There should be a hole in the middle of the casting of a small flower bud, and below is two war knives ringing, and the back is also a circle of official books - a strong man, although far away will be punished.

This line of words and the graphics of the two war knives on the front make the steel coin, which originally represents wealth and peace, look murderous.

This pattern was designed by Lu Peng himself, and its purpose was to continue to cultivate the blood of the Han nation in the world and look forward to recreating the ambition of a strong man.

As for the name of this steel coin called Jian'an, it is definitely not Lu Peng's prophetic pandering to the later Han Xian Emperor Jian'an's year name, and patting the Han Xian Emperor's sycophancy, it is really his bad taste to cross the trouble.

But his explanation to the outside world is: "We want to build a peaceful and peaceful prosperous era, and I cast this great Han dream on coins to remind us and remind the Han people all over the world that the revolution has not yet succeeded, and future generations still need to work hard." ”

Look at how shameless and lofty this reason is.

But after this passage came out, everyone in the world respected Lu Peng, and later when Emperor Han Xian changed the year name, he simply used this tall Jian'an. According to reason, this is no longer Lu Peng's plagiarism of Emperor Han Xian, but Emperor Han Xian's shameful piracy of Lu Peng.

The judge also picked up a steel coin to look at in the sun, and said without worry: "Such a beautiful steel coin, minted, absolutely consumes countless manpower and material resources, just a grinding and polishing procedure is a gain outweighs the loss, the cost increases to the second, once the number does not go up, it will affect the promotion speed of our new coin, a pity, a pity." ”

Lu Peng and Wu Tao looked at each other and smiled, Wu Tao stepped forward and explained: "The new coin we minted should not be called casting, but should be called die-casting. ”

Then looking at a group of curious babies in front of him and behind him, Wu Tao proudly showed what he learned from Lu Peng: "Do you know, the steel plate for casting steel coins has been specified in the steel mill, and the thickness has been specified, and it is directly rolled flat with rolling rollers, and then polished with frosting, and then this steel plate is taken to the wind stamping machine invented by the lord, no need to go through burning, only need to twist the most rudimentary spiral stamping machine, a version down, bang, 'Dafan' stamped out ninety-nine copper coins, 'Zhongfan' sixty-four,' Xiao Fan's nine. one-time molding,

The stamped money does not need to be polished at all, it is directly ready-made money...... Think about it, how many processes are omitted in this casting process, how much time is saved, and the whole process, there is no need to stew before and after, and there is no fire consumption, isn't this a 'smokeless industry'? A worker can die mint 100,000 steel coins a day, and we now have 20 wind power stamping machines working day and night, and can produce 4 million steel coins a day. ”

Then looking at the surprised crowd, Wu Tao continued to show off proudly: "And our planning goal is that a hundred sets of such stamping machines will go into battle together, think about the output at that time, tut-tut." ”

So everyone was surprised and tsk.

There are also businessmen who have other meanings in their hearts, and they have explored deeper craftsmanship, and Xu Jie stared at them vigilantly.

Being stared at by Xu Jie's increasingly cold eyes is definitely not a comfortable thing, and it is definitely not a good thing. So all the people with dark psychology closed their mouths together.

The process of minting coins must now remain mysterious, the workers employed by Lu Peng are all death row prisoners, and the mint is built at the center of the Savage Valley's own core secrets, which must not be known to outsiders, including his own civil and military affairs. So people don't know that this steel coin was finally minted in this way.

For such a labor-saving and efficient stamping and coinage method, it simply makes all the civil and military who do not know the inside story feel incredible.

Lu Peng put the two copper coins together, and said with emotion: "In fact, the minting industry that evolved to the Iron Age, the cost is only one-seventeenth of the previous one, if I no longer use copper but use special steel, then my cost is one-thirtieth, that is to say, in fact, Mr. Mi Zhu, you can use a pound of pure copper to exchange me for thirty catties, or even fifty catties of my special steel." ”

Greed, this explains what is greedy, according to this method, what kind of war is there to fight if you have the world, just buy it directly, anyway, the cost of steel coins is too low.

At this time, Tian Feng once again showed a serious uprightness, and directly rebuked Lu Peng's greed: "This is competing with the people for profit, this is what the benevolent can't do, I despise your greed, and I am ready to fight you the most resolutely." Such a statement is from the moral level of ritualism. But thinking about the future when he will use the steel of this rotten street to plunder other warlords in the world, Tian Feng's mood is extremely happy, and he wishes that he could mint hundreds of millions of steel coins in one day now, and first take Yuan Shao, an old opponent, to start the knife.

may be the reason for fate, Tian Feng always looks at Yuan Shao unpleasantly, and has a feeling of great hatred for life and death.

The eldest brother Zhang Shiyuan also stood up, pointed at his brother and reprimanded loudly: "You are simply a waste, because your money may not be accepted by the people." ”

This is from the perspective of interests, because Mr. Big does see the maximum benefits in this, but also sees the most worrying root of this.

Copper coins are popular because they are rare metals and have the effect of preserving value, which is the essential reason for the circulation of coins. But now that you have made a piece of steel, let alone maintain its value, it is simply useless, so who will agree with you? That's the key.

Lu Peng smiled, deeply despised for the eldest brother for not understanding the things of the afterlife. After all, my steel coin is still metal, and future generations will not even be willing to do this, and they will use paper directly, which is called plundering and greed. I thought so in my heart, but I explained to my eldest brother with confidence: "Replacing the original copper coins with steel coins, speaking of conscience, is indeed not an element of value preservation, but the steel coins I am minting now, because no one can imitate the materials and technology in a few decades, so he already has the most basic conditions for circulation, and there is one, in order to ensure the stability and longevity of the currency value, of course I have to make follow-up means." ”

The so-called follow-up means made by Lu Peng is actually very simple, that is, to link his steel coins to precious metals, which is the same as the forest system linked to the dollar and gold after World War II.

"We have a large amount of copper coins in Youzhou, I am going to melt them all down and decompose them into copper and lead and tin, these three metals are strategic materials, which are very scarce in our Han territory, and it is simply a waste to use them as the circulating currency of the market.

And copper is the most important strategic material, and we can't afford to waste it, so I melt these copper coins and separate them. I will now announce to the whole world that each of my steel coins still implements the rule of ten coins and one tael (at that time, 1 catty and 16 taels, and the current standard is 40 grams of one tael, that is, four grams of each steel coin) and every thousand steel coins can be exchanged for pure copper ingots at any time in our Youzhou bank, and you can exchange for a full amount of gold four taels in our Youzhou bank. I use this as a guarantee, and of course the people will be relieved, so that we will still have the excess lead and tin. ”

Then he stretched his hands up and made an exaggerated gesture of exclamation: "I use this method to make money, and the interest rate of the money is a joke, which is dozens of times." Then, with a gesture of relief, he said to the civil and military ministers around him: "If our steel coins can be popular in the entire Han Dynasty and collect all kinds of copper coins from the entire Han Dynasty, what war will I fight?" Directly bought the entire Han with money, what a beautiful and harmonious situation it would be. ”

At this time, Mr. Er put forward a different opinion: "If our issuance is too large, everyone thinks that we in Youzhou can't afford to accept it, what should we do?" ”

These are all kind-hearted people, what they pay attention to is a reputation, they have never had the concept of taking money into their pockets and turning around and running.

For the kind-hearted people, you can't lie to them, so Lu Peng waved his hand very generously: "In this grassland war, I emptied the royal court of the Wuhuan people, I seized a large amount of gold, plus the copper material we melted, I will cast a gold mountain, a copper mountain in front of our household department in Youzhou, so that all the people in the world can see the wealth of our Youzhou, with such confidence, who is willing to exchange gold and silver with me?" Then he said viciously: "I will use my knife to pierce the gun, protect the passage of my steel coins, and resolutely put an end to the circulation of gold and copper coins in the market. ”

Ignoring the murderous words in the back, the appearance of these two copper mountains alone is definitely a good way to stabilize people's hearts, and all the people are happy, but in a blink of an eye, a key question comes to mind, even if there is really so much gold, if it is really cast into an awe-inspiring gold mountain, copper mountain, it is also a very impossible problem to achieve.

So Lu Peng said hatefully: "Can't you build them into hollow ones?" ”

All the civil and military forces fell together.

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