Chapter 40 The Monetary System of Circulation

The gold, silver and bronze tickets are also determined according to the ratio of precious metals...... It's just that the face value is more refined. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The bronze ticket is overprinted in bronze and yellow, with a watermark pattern, which can be seen in the light.

Its face value is divided into nine levels, including one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, hundred, and five hundred.

Its main front and rear motif is a dhow.

The silver ticket is overprinted in silver and red, with a watermark pattern, which is visible to the light.

Its face value is divided into eight levels, such as consistent, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, and one hundred.

The main pattern at the front and rear is a three-masted sailing ship, which is currently the most commonly used ship shape.

Finally, there is the golden ticket, which has only one face value, a thousand guan.

It is golden yellow, with a five-masted schooner and a total of five watermarks.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, decided to completely dissociate himself from the money of the Great Song Dynasty, and he can't sanction you Da Song, so we can't try to hide away from you economically?

He believed that the banknotes he issued were equivalent to precious metals of the same denomination...... Of course, this is only his own unilateral identification, it is not important, the key is to be recognized by everyone.

They have to have their own money bank, otherwise there is no way to issue it.

The little Liuqiu, who has just grown some muscles, is about to challenge the economy of the Great Song Dynasty economically.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, personally took charge of the construction of the system of seeking money and money, and he pulled Gu Jianshan out of the customs as his deputy.

In fact, there have been merchants on the island for a long time...... They accept pledges from merchants or ordinary people to provide corresponding loan business, of course, their size is different.

The Great Song Dynasty issued money, they relied on the credit of the state, and sometimes they were reasonable, knowing that they could not print more; However, sometimes they don't care about it when they need it urgently, and they carve a woodblock and print it.

Therefore, this always makes Zhang Guoan, the owner of Liuqiu Island, nervous, and constantly observes the development of the economy of the Great Song Dynasty, which is really unreassuring.

The money issued by Liuqiu is marked by precious metals on the surface, but in essence, it is based on its own products.

In the end, they decided that they had to vigorously march into the processing of military products, because in this time and space where wars are fought everywhere, only arms are the best to sell, and they will definitely be sold.

At the same time, they also have to find a way to get real gold and silver, of course, this is only useful in the early stages of the release, as long as the power of their products increases, the so-called precious metals are just symbols.

On the one hand, Zhang Guoan established money banks in Dengzhou, Mingzhou, Jiankang, Lin'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, Guangzhou, and even inland Ezhou and Xiangyang on the Shandong Peninsula, and on the other hand, he wanted to attack the Japanese Iwami Silver Mountain.

Iwami Province Japan's order system is equivalent to the state-level unit of the Great Song Dynasty.

Iwami Province's guardian during the current Kamakura Shogunate period was originally the Ouchi clan, but its dominance was not strong, and various local forces in the country were endless, which was a bit chaotic.

The Ginmi vein is located in the eastern part of Iwami Province, and at the present time, there has been sporadic development there, but the Japanese are not very good at smelting silver, so the production is extremely low.

Charcoal was still widely used throughout Japan during this period, and coal or even coke was not used as in the Great Song Dynasty.

With charcoal, they are unable to successfully complete ordinary smelting needs due to the melting point.

If history had not changed, more than 200 years later, they learned the ash blowing method in refining technology from the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the yield and quality of silver increased.

What's even happier is that there are also chalcopyrite, pyrite, galena and other veins there.

So that Iwami Silver Mountain is a real treasure mountain.

The lord of Zhang Guoan Island summoned Mihara Koi, who had been stationed in Hachidaohe for a long time, and the clan merchants of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain, and the two families have now become a consortium and are in a period of mutual coexistence, and the relationship is relatively good.

The owner of Zhang Guoan directly asked them to find a way to occupy Iwajianshan, as long as they mined the ore and transported it back, regardless of the follow-up treatment.

The exchange condition given by the owner of Zhang Guoan was that he could provide all kinds of steel armor or rope armor, and of course other goods could also be used.

Everyone has heard of the silver in Iwamiyama, but the production is not comparable to the price paid, unless the silver is of extremely high grade, and it is all coarse silver.

Mihara Koi told the situation at the time...... Zhang Guoan, the island owner, explained with a smile that he didn't have to be afraid, he had a scientific formation to deal with it.

The clan merchants of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain knelt on the ground at that time.

Their family really has no way to further develop their trade now, and they always rely on exporting labor and mercenaries, and they have no potential to tap there.

After the Satsuma clan introduced various grain god seeds from Ryugu, the harvest was great, but the seasonality of the grain management was too strong, and the profits were relatively small.

Compared to the rest of Japan, the Satsuma Domain had nothing but dry fields.

Their clan merchants are retainers, so they need to open up their own business channels to make a fortune, there is no way, the better the conditions, the more their family owners can spend money.

In fact, the merchant of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain took a fancy to the whaling industry of Liuqiu, and he has been persuading the head of the family to start this business.

This industry is good, the production of whale oil alone is hundreds of dollars, not counting its skin and flesh, and even its internal organs and bones...... As long as one is caught, the deep body is a treasure, and the cost is only the need for whaling ships and tools, as well as related sailors.

Regarding the fact that the Japanese wanted to learn whaling, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, really didn't expect it at first, until Wang Defa came and found that among the sailors they hired, most of the sailors of the Japanese Satsuma Domain worked in whaling ships and whale processing plants.

After Wang Defa put forward the opinion that their Japanese sailors liked to engage in whaling, it attracted the attention of Zhang Guoan.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, sneered at that time and said: "If they go whaling according to the primitive method, I don't object to it and I can't control it, but if you want to use our equipment, you have to sell it for a good price......

Sure enough, when the merchant of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain offered to buy the whaling ship and the equipment needed to handle the whales, he found that it was a high price!

Can't afford it......

The money earned by exporting labor and mercenaries for several years was paid at once.

Japan's shipbuilding industry in this time and space was so low that it could not even build seagoing ships of more than 50 tons...... They were also going to send out laborers to learn how to build ships.

But they also found that there was a lot of equipment for shipbuilding, and they not only had to learn from it, but they also had to buy it...... I can only save money slowly!

Watching the big whales slowly being dragged into the whale treatment plant, and then watching the big chimney of the whale treatment plant happily rise up smoke, I was really hungry!

Now, the opportunity has come, he only needs to go to the mines, and he can exchange the ore for commodities, which means that he will soon be able to buy whaling equipment!

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, pulled him up from the ground with a smile, what era is this? It's an era of common wealth, don't be so polite, when you mine, it may not be so easy.

Mihara shook his head and said, "It's easy, I've been there to buy lead and tin and honey...... The magistrates at all levels there were also very fond of business. (To be continued.) )