"What fleet drove you away? Could it be Dakang's fleet? Li Yang asked again, although it was only something that happened in the sea thousands of miles away, but it was closely related to Dakang, and he still wanted to find out as much as possible. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It should be the Dakang fleet, those ships are ten times the size of our ships, the number is innumerable, covering the sky and the sun, alas, we also deserve our bad luck, we just happened to encounter this group of evil stars passing by when we went to sea, our brothers can only obediently tie their hands and capture, fortunately they don't seem to value us small fish and shrimp, and then I found a chance to escape."

Li Yang thought about it carefully, it stands to reason that such a large fleet, and when it reaches the sea area between Korea and Dongying, there is only one possibility, that is, Dakang intervened in the Korean civil war......

Li Yang didn't have the heart to eat the next meal, and the uncle and nephew of the Jin family also obviously felt Li Yang's absent-mindedness, Jiang Shixi just thought that Li Yang was worried about this huge fleet, and Jiang Shixi, who would be wrong, also wanted to persuade Li Yang: There is nothing to worry about, the Dakang Dynasty in the Central Plains has a big business, and it will not be greedy for your palm-sized plot overseas.

After the dinner ended in a hurry, Li Yang still politely left Jiang Shixi in the guest house for a few days, seeing that he had good martial arts and had the experience of making a living at sea, he could play a certain role no matter where he stayed.

But it is indeed not easy for Jiang Yan and him to meet together by chance, for the time being, Li Yang still gives Jiang Shixi a little more time to rest.

If the Dakang fleet had escaped from Goguryeo, and now the Dongyang Han Kingdom was shaking the East China Sea, Li Yang would have reason to believe that the Dakang fleet might have entered any port in the territory of the Eastern Han Kingdom.

Shaking his head, Li Yang had a headache, now it is too late to give birth to a son and come out to supervise the country or go to pay tribute instead of himself, and now he can only find a way to strengthen his rule. Although Emperor Dakang is his descendant, he can't say it, and no one believes it.

In the past, Li Yang wanted to issue his own currency, and now it is all right to circulate copper coins and silver as currency, but the limitation of silver as a currency for trading completely by its own actual weight is still too narrow, and it is not conducive to actual transactions.

Li Yang had long had the idea of minting silver dollars to act as currency for daily transactions together with copper coins, but considering that the Dongyang Han Kingdom had not been established long ago, the people's hearts had not yet been completely settled, and secondly, he was afraid that the lack of credit of this new silver dollar would make a mess of the good economic situation.

But now there is no need to take care of so much in an emergency, and the issuance of silver dollars can amass a large amount of money, and secondly, it is also a way to increase one's personal prestige and national cohesion.

Wang Bao, Li Wen, Marsar, and Wang Guangzong were recruited overnight, and the minting of silver dollars could be handed over to the smelter to set up a new factory with a strict system, and the proportion only needed to ensure that the sterling silver was considered to be in good condition at eighty percent.

Li Yang demanded that after the general style of his silver coin came out, the factory that minted the silver coin must also be in place immediately, and after two months, the Oriental silver dollar must be spread throughout the East China Sea and even become a special currency for ocean trade.

The design of the silver coin is actually very simple, and in order to be able to print Li Yang's complete portrait on one side, he also gave up the traditional design of the round sky with a hole in the middle, and made it into the style of later coins.

Li Yang's own portrait was specially sketched by a celestial man who was familiar with Western painting techniques, which was used as the front mold of the silver coin.

In this sketch, Li Yang's head is slightly sideways, and he is naturally not a handsome guy, but from the painter's expressive depiction, you can also see the confidence and calmness on Li Yang's face.

On the reverse side of the silver coin are two large characters in block letters: "One Liang", and there is a row of small characters below: "Oriental Han National Mint".

According to the size of the mold drawing, the weight of the minted silver coin is about nine coins, so the mint is equivalent to a banknote printing factory, and for every thousand taels of silver coins minted, Li Yang actually only took out seven hundred and twenty taels of silver and copper of negligible value, which is equivalent to earning two hundred and eighty taels.

Although this kind of profit cannot be said to be a huge profit, but not only to make money, but also to expand their influence, think about it, if even Dakang transactions in the future feel that it is more convenient to use your silver coins, what kind of scene will it be, it is equivalent to the world of land has been scraped by you.

Rubbed the pattern coin in his hand, well, this thing has a lot of texture than paper money, Li Yang checked it with his hand, and pressed his hand heavily, most people will not notice that this one or two is one or two after shrinking, on the contrary, at least in the Eastern Han Kingdom, with this silver coin, it must have saved many merchants to test the purity of silver when trading with silver or gold, and the troublesome step of weighing it.

It's just that when silver coins become popular in the future, we must remember to strengthen market inspections and find counterfeit coins in time, and I believe that there will still be many criminals who will take risks to make this money.

After everything was prepared at the mint, the first batch of 100,000 taels of silver was sent to the mint under the escort of the soldiers of the Second Legion, and boxes of silver mixed with precisely weighed copper ingots were poured into the crucible, melted and blended together, and silver coins were minted one by one.

After the silver coins have cooled, there are special inspectors to check the weight of the silver coins, and if three unqualified ones are found in a small batch, then the small batch needs to be re-baked.

This matter can not tolerate a little sloppiness, anyway, the shortage of catties and less than two is well known, but the lack of the same is also lacking, if it is from their own mint out of the too poor defective products, will undoubtedly greatly affect their reputation.

Half a month later, the first batch of more than 137,000 silver coins was freshly released, and there was still a small loss in the process compared to theoretical calculations, but it was completely insignificant compared to the gains.

One hundred thousand taels of silver turned into a silver coin worth 137,000 taels in a blink of an eye, which increased in value by more than 30,000 taels, but the next thing is to accept the test of the market, if no one wants to use this thing, it will be blind to the raw materials of 100,000 taels of silver.

Pieces of silver coins were wrapped in oiled paper and rolled into long strips, neatly stacked in boxes, and shipped to Miyako Money, where the issuance of new coins was completed.

The next day, those who needed to go to Miyako Money House to withdraw their money found that they had an additional choice, and in addition to copper and silver ingots, there was also an option for silver coins.