Regarding the current General Staff, Feng Yunshan always felt that it still had a name in vain, but no god. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Thinking of the last time the prince of Prussia, His Royal Highness Frederick? William? Nikulaus? Karl, his father, Prince William? Frederick, the future king of Prussia, won a resounding victory in both the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars 10 years later, thanks to a famous figure---- General Moltke, who created the General Staff and was Germany's most famous chief of staff.

The General Staff Headquarters built by itself is still somewhat lacking. Feng Yunshan started thinking again. This Moltke is a late bloomer, although he is now in his fifties, he should not have reached the level of a general, and he happens to have a relationship with the little prince, so it is better to ......

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan asked the Prussian minister Karenwei to invite the Holy State to hire some Prussian officers as instructors to help the captives train soldiers and improve the general staff, especially Moltke.

Of course, Feng Yunshan suggested that the Holy Congress would pay a large amount of employment money, and Karenwei himself would make up for the benefits. So, Karen Wei happily agreed, saying that he would immediately contact His Royal Highness the Prince, who had returned to China, to make arrangements.

Feng Yunshan just wanted to get a good night's sleep, and Zhou Shengkun and Fan Ruzeng, vice ministers of the Ministry of Finance and Taxation, asked to see him.

Zhou Shengkun came with Fan Ruzeng to report on the Manchu Qing Dynasty's opening of a big coin.

"Holy King, a few days ago, Brother Fan's subordinates carefully discovered that the Qing Demon Household Department has begun to mint big money, called Xianfeng ingots, respectively when fifty money, when hundred, when five hundred, when a thousand money, and this time the Qing Demon was ruthless, when fifty is only one or two or two coins of copper, when a hundred weigh one or two or four dollars, when five hundred weigh one or two or six dollars, when a thousand weigh two taels, it can be described as indiscriminate issuance of large coins, to make up for the lack of finance." Because Zhou Shengkun was in contact with finance and taxation, he knew the fame in it, and he gritted his teeth at the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Using a small amount of copper to mint it into a large coin and treat it as a large amount of money, this is a naked robbery of the wealth of the common people.

Fan Ruzeng, who was on the side, also echoed: "That's true. It is said that the treasury of the Qing court was empty. So, they came up with such a trick, and the household department organized the Baoyuan Bureau and the Baoquan Bureau to create indiscriminate issuance of large coins and plunder the wealth of the people. After speaking, he took out several kinds of money and handed them to Feng Yunshan.

Feng Yunshan took a copper coin and looked at it, this is a copper coin with a face value of 100 yuan, it should weigh one or two or four coins, copper yellow, all grinding and filtering, luster like a mirror, and the workmanship of the copper coin is very exquisite. Not enough, for this kind of trick of using a small amount of copper to offset the high price, Feng Yunshan certainly knows this method.

However, not only could he not help the people in the Manchu ruling area, but also added fuel to the fire, so that this coinage policy of the Qing demon could be declared bankrupt as soon as possible.

"Brother Shengkun, since the Qing Demon is in such a financial crisis, our Holy Kingdom has to do its part. In this way, you will tell Zeng Yuheng to ask the Ministry of Public Works to produce the mother money as soon as possible, and our Holy Kingdom will also copy a large number of such big coins and put them into the Qing Demon Occupation Area in batches. Feng Yunshan said excitedly.

"Holy King, will this cause some damage to the people?" Zhou Shengkun was a little unbearable and reminded.

"Brother Shengkun has a good heart, but this does not have much impact on the poor people at the bottom." Feng Yunshan analyzed: "The poor people are using the original old money, and for this new money, it is not in their hands for the time being. This kind of big coin, mainly in the hands of the traders in the towns, although it will cause harm to them, but as long as there is more than one issue, this one can not be counted as five hundred or one thousand, at least at a discount, so that our goal has been achieved, on the one hand, it has weakened the Manchus, and on the other hand, it has also helped the people under the rule of the Manchus in disguise. ”

Feng Yunshan thought that according to the shrewdness of those traders, naturally many people would refuse to use this kind of big coin with little copper and big money, and when the time comes, this kind of big coin of one thousand will actually be worth only two or three hundred, so that the Qing Demon will spend his thoughts in vain and rejoice.

However, it reminded myself. The Holy State has always adopted the Manchu monetary system and has not yet issued its own copper coins, which is indeed a problem. At the beginning, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established Tianjing as the capital, they all issued their own coins, and now they have the ability to mint coins, how can they not issue them?

Moreover, the issuance of coins, there is a great profit in it.

Not to mention that like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the weight of two copper coins was forcibly stipulated as 10 copper coins, deducting the cost, and 6 wen coins could be profitable, not to mention that when the 100 weighed one or two or four coins, that is, the copper weight of 10 standard coins, it could directly make a profit of more than 80 wen.

Even a standard copper coin can be profitable.

Take the standard money system in the Kangxi period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty as an example, each copper coin is a penny and four cents, all of which are cast from brass, and brass is an alloy composed of copper and zinc, which is also doped with lead, tin, manganese, nickel, iron, silicon, etc., which are not pure copper, and the cost is about 0.6~0.7 Wen, so that every copper coin made can earn at least 0.3 Wen.

It's just a copper coin, and if it's like a silver dollar, the profit is even higher.

Take the Mexican Eagle Ocean, which was widely circulated in later generations by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because each silver dollar, that is, the standard 27.07 grams, is 90.30% silver, but the value it represents is seven coins and two cents of silver, and the value represented by this represents the value of pure silver, so that it is equivalent to making an 8% difference in the price of each silver dollar issued, that is, earning 2 grams of silver.

Don't underestimate this gram of silver, there are more silver coins minted, and if you mint 100 million pieces, you can earn 200,000 kilograms of silver. That's an incredible number.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan told Zhou Shengkun to let the Ministry of Finance and Taxation prepare to form the Central Bank of the Holy Country, and open the Holy Country Mint, and decided to mint money.

The first is to imitate the large money minted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was put into the Manchu ruled area in batches to buy goods and exchange them for them. In this regard, Feng Yunshan asked the Ministry of Finance and Taxation, the Ministry of Public Works, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to unite and start casting as soon as possible, and cast all the copper stored in the hands of the Holy Kingdom into denominations of 50, 100, and 500, so as to absorb a batch of wealth.

The second is that the Holy Kingdom mints its own coins.

Although Feng Yunshan knew that there was too little gold in China, he decided to adopt a gold and silver standard system for the time being. It stands to reason that China has been using the silver standard since ancient times, but even if the domestic silver production is not high, the silver production of other countries is very high, and once the silver production rises, it will cause the price of silver to plummet.

Feng Yunshan remembered that in the 70s of the 19th century, the ratio of gold and silver was still between 1:15~1:16, but by the beginning of the 20th century, it had changed to about 1:39.

When the price of silver plummets, countries on the silver standard will lose their assets and fall into the doom of paying for the gold standard countries.

Moreover, major countries such as Britain, France, and the United States all use the gold standard system, so Feng Yunshan has to consider it. But it's ridiculous to say that China's gold is too little, even if the gold standard is adopted, it still can't prevent the fate of being misappropriated by those European and American countries.

As for the types of coinage, Feng Yunshan decided to use three kinds of coins: gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins.

Gold coins are directly imitated from the pound sterling, and the size, weight, and fineness of the gold coin refer to the pound sterling. And, according to the price level, a gold coin of one pound is converted into 7.32238 grams of pure gold, which is equivalent to 110 grams of silver, that is, the exchange ratio of 4.4 silver dollars, according to the current ratio of gold and silver at 1:15, of course, this is only in the existing gold and silver exchange ratio.

The next is the silver coin, each coin is a silver dollar, which is also a direct copy of the Mexican eagle, the standard 27.07 grams, and the silver is 90.30%, so that it can be used and traded abroad in the future. This is also a last resort, because in the trade of Guangzhou, a large number of these Mexican eagles flow into the ocean every day.

Of course, the patterns and patterns of gold and silver coins will definitely not copy the style of foreigners, Feng Yunshan asked Zhou Shengkun to design the style and give it to himself.