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A blank piece of paper is good for drawing!

That being said, when there is nothing on the blank paper, even the brush and ink, so that the white paper has to be prepared separately, and even the pen and ink are needed to be used for painting, then it is not always so easy to develop at once.

Running a school, running a new army, running a factory, everything starts from scratch, the road is blue, the road of a thousand miles begins with a single step, everything starts slowly, and there is always practical effect. But the first step is to raise funds. Money is needed everywhere, money is needed to run schools and educate talents, money is needed to expand the army, and money is also needed to build factories, purchase machinery, and attract foreigners.

Almost from the time when Zhu Yifeng began to plan this cause in Wuchang, he reached out to the governor's office everywhere to ask for silver. Although they tried every possible way to raise funds, and even traded with the Taiping army, selling rice, grain, munitions, and other materials, and buying raw silk and tea to sell abroad, the money was still flowing, so that the treasury was almost never abundant.

And as the end of the year approached, the word "silver money" made Zhu Yifeng more and more anxious, making him worry about it - there was no money! There are only 150,000 taels in the treasury now, which looks like a lot, but there are even more places to spend money.

Not to mention that the wages of the workers on the construction sites in Wuchang and Daye and other places need to be settled, even the salaries of the officials and Han officers and soldiers in this palace also need to be paid, well, more importantly, there are machines purchased from abroad, which must also be settled. But now there is still half a year before the summer tax, and the largest monthly income in the province is the salt tax, and as for the commercial tax, it can only barely maintain the local area.

Where does the money come from?

When he came to Wuchang, he used to have two million taels of private money, but now there are less than tens of thousands of taels left. He even imagined that he could turn iron into gold in an instant: in an instant, mountains of gold and silver could appear in front of him. He even fantasized about where he could suddenly find a gold cellar and silver vault buried in the ground at a construction site.

Of course, it is inevitable that he has imagined that there will only be two artificial intelligence in total to appear again to help him solve the financial crisis, not to mention giving him a sea of gold and silver, but it is okay to give a few million taels of silver.

Of course, none of this is possible.

For Zhu Yifeng, who is full of thoughts about enriching the country and strengthening the army, where can he get the large amount of money that he urgently needs now? This has become the biggest problem in front of him!

Money, money!

On this day, Chen Duan came to the governor's mansion again, and for a while, he showed his face several times with his actual achievements, not to mention anything else, just by formulating tooling, he had a great momentum of emergence. Even the head of the Ministry of Industry, who is running the iron factory leveling, iron ore and coal mining in Daye, has been overshadowed by him.

After reporting on the construction of the silk reeling factory, the Metropolitan Governor, who looked at the sad face, said:

"The lowly governor has been worried about the matter of funds recently, and he is willing to offer a strange plan to the governor, which can immediately solve the urgent need."

Zhu Yifeng looked at this thin Chen Duan with a puzzled look, he was an old man from Huangzhou, a person recommended by Lin Yeping, and he was also hardworking in the Ministry of Industry, could he have any way to solve this problem. Seeing that he looked serious, not like a joke, he couldn't figure out what medicine he was selling in his gourd for a while.

However, Zhu Yifeng naturally would not refuse his subordinates' ideas, so he said with a smile.

"Do you have a way to raise a sum of money right away?"

Now what the government needs is not thousands, tens of thousands of taels of silver, but tens or even millions of taels of silver, with your own knowledge of more than a hundred years, you can't think of a way, what other way can you not do? After thinking about all the open source methods, but still suffering from the fact that there is no immediate solution, he is now curious about what Chen Duan can do

"Yes, Grand Duke!"

Chen Duan nodded and said.

"If this policy is adopted, the minister guarantees that within two months, the governor's mansion will get 500,000 taels of silver, and in half a year, the mansion will get 1.5 million taels of silver!"

Hearing him say this, Zhu Yifeng said casually.

"You're going to borrow money?"

Borrow money!

Zhu Yifeng didn't think about it, but who borrowed this money? What kind of financing can we talk about without modern banks? Borrowing from a foreign bank in Shanghai? There are only a few banks in total, and even one is run by itself, and those banks can lend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is considered good.

Chen Duan shook his head again.

"It's not borrowing. The interest rate on borrowing money is not low, not to mention that you can't borrow so much. ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Yifeng stared at Chen Duan's eyes and said with interest.

"Could it be that you want to learn from the grass coward of Liangshanbo and rob the Birth Gang?"

Having said that, but in fact, what Zhu Yifeng wanted to say was that he Chen Duan wanted to persuade himself to learn from the Taiping Army and fight a local tyrant? Although the rich room in Wuchang has been copied clean, most of the "local tyrants" in Hubei under Wuchang, as well as Changsha in Hunan and Hunan are all staying at home.

If he mentions "fighting local tyrants", then his position can be regarded as the end!

Hearing what the Metropolitan Governor said, Chen Duan immediately laughed.

"The Metropolitan Governor is really going to make fun of it. In the peaceful world, how dare a weak scholar rob other people's gold and silver! Furthermore, if the Governor's Mansion carries a birthday plan, how will he win the trust of the people in the future? ”

Although the Metropolitan Governor did not break it, Chen Duan also understood what it meant, this "vanguard" could not be beaten.

Zhu Yifeng also laughed.

"And what's your chise?"

Putting away his smile, Chen Duan said solemnly:

"The minister's strange strategy does not rely on borrowing, let alone robbing, but just picking up others."

At this time, Chen Duan was extremely modest, this method in the past period of time, he has been studying, and constantly improving, in his opinion, this will not only be his miraculous work, to solve the financial difficulties of the governor's government, but also will be his opportunity to squeeze into the ministry, that Xi Zhimo may be the head of the Ministry of Industry, but what can he do?

Although he had already figured out this method, Chen Duan did not propose it, because the time was not ripe, and there was no shortage of silver in the house at that time, but now it is different, the house needs silver!

"To be honest, this method is not very new, if it weren't for the fact that adults advocated that we should study Western studies, I would not know that we could solve it with this method."

Listening to Chen Duan's explanation and knowing that he was not joking casually, Zhu Yifeng recognized the truth.

"Tell me, what good ideas do you have, if it really works, you can make a great contribution to the governor's office."

"It's actually quite simple. The Governor of the Metropolitan did not set up a money bureau in Wuchang, and now there are not two British-made silver dollar machines, this silver dollar is to be made, deducted to the fineness, it is always profitable, but the silver dollar is always needed to mint silver, the governor does not have so much silver, naturally can not mint silver dollars, so the ministers want to use these two machines to cast a new currency, that is, the silver dollar, that is, the silver dollar, but the raw material is changed from silver to copper, each copper dollar is combined with copper three coins, by the governor's office, a copper dollar is worth ten wen money. In this way, the siege of Hubei's shortage of silver money can be solved immediately. ”

While looking at Chen Duan, Zhu Yifeng thought about his words in his mind. Copper Dollar, Copper Dollar...... Isn't this exactly how the late Qing Dynasty made money?

"You mean to mint a lot of money?"

"The Metropolitan Governor, the Metropolitan Governor, Rong Chen slowly explained, as early as half a year ago, the Qing court started to cast five or ten big money, and the Qing court money method weighs one penny per penny, and now those who cast big money, when the ten weigh five coins each, and when the twenty weigh one or two each!"

Chen Duan knew the drawbacks of his method, so he patiently analyzed it.

“…… Now these two pieces of silver can be exchanged for 1,600 wen money, and 1,600 wen money weighs 134 catties, according to copper 6 and lead 4, that is to say, 1,600 wen money needs to be cast from at least seven catties of pure copper. Seven catties are 1,120 coins (16 taels per catty, 20 coins per catty), if it is imitated by the foreign style of making copper dollars, you can make 650 to 660 copper dollars, and this copper dollar is used as ten coins, which is equal to 6,500 to 6,600 yuan, then the 5,000 yuan is earned by the governor's office. One tael of silver can earn four taels of surprising, and a million taels of silver can earn four million taels of surprising. The minister estimated that the money flux of the two lakes was about 10 million taels, of course, this calculation is an approximate number, if the copper is made, to the market, it is estimated that about 3 million taels of silver can be obtained a year. The Metropolitan Governor, besides, now that I am the Governor of the Han Dynasty to control the two provinces, should I let the two provinces pass through the Manchu Dynasty? Seeing that all the profits from the coinage were obtained by the Qing court?"

Hearing Chen Duan say this, it was not difficult to get these millions of taels of silver. The silver casting machine is indeed ready-made, which was originally used by Zhu Yifeng to mint silver dollars, in fact, it is also to obtain money and profits, after all, the fineness of silver dollars is only 90%, but the fineness of silver is not less than 95%, so two coinage machines were specially purchased from Britain for minting Western-style silver dollars.

However, the silver dollar has not yet minted more than 100,000 taels, and even the capital has not been recovered, the silver deposit in the treasury has been decreasing day by day, and the mint has naturally been in semi-shutdown.

If you mint copper dollars, you can not only get several times the profit, but also make full use of the machinery in the mint. Moreover, as he said, how could all the profits from coinage flow into the Manchu Qing Dynasty? Let the Manchus beat themselves with money and profits turned into military salaries?

Although he agrees with this suggestion from the bottom of his heart, and there are successful precedents in history, Zhu Yifeng also knows that this is a major matter related to the livelihood of thousands of families, and he cannot do it hastily, and he still needs to listen to many opinions before implementing it. So he nodded and said, looking at Chen Duan and saying.

"Shuping, your idea is very good, I will hold a meeting in the council hall early tomorrow morning. You prepare well tonight, and tomorrow you will talk in detail in front of everyone, so that everyone can come to the staff together. (To be continued.) )