In the north of Youzhou City, there is a dock fort, which is heavily guarded, except for those who hold Zhao Xun's warrant, the rest of the people are not allowed to approach.

This is the place where the craftsmen are made. There are a battalion of heavy infantry in the pro-guard army around it, and there is a pro-guard battalion left inside, and the surrounding area is the station of the heavy cavalry.

The reason why this place is so important is that this is where gunpowder is produced, and it is also where Zhao Xun prepared to make coins.

When Zhao Xun arrived here, the heads of the Mint Department, the Finance Department, and the Huitong Bank were already waiting here. Because today's craftsmen of the Mint have already made a model, which is also the coin that will be used by the Xiaoguo Army in the future.

Minting, which is not complicated here, is to make a unified coin from the trading currencies such as gold, silver and copper.

"Meet the Lord!" Seeing Zhao Xun arrive, all the officials saluted in unison.

"No need to be polite! Did you get everything out? Zhao Xun asked. He was going to go to Hajj before the year, so he naturally wanted the coin to be completed before he entered the Hajj.

"Back to the lord, it's done, this is a model!" The chief craftsman of the Mint said respectfully.

Zhao Xun took four coins made of gold, silver and copper, one for each of the four coins for gold and silver, and one large and one small for copper. The small copper coin is the outer circle and the inner square, which is the same as the copper coins circulating in the world, but the eyes are less bright. It should be doped with other metals. The remaining three are round solid coins.

On the obverse of the small copper coin are the four big characters of the Dayan copper coin, and on the back are the four characters of Huitong Tianxia. Other coins were similar, and Zhao Xun didn't think about printing his head. In fact, he wanted to print the dragon, but without the emperor's instructions, Hu Lai, Zhao Xun, who was a little taboo and didn't want to cause trouble, gave up this idea.

Because there are unscrupulous merchants who dissolve copper coins and cast them into bronze objects for profit, or take official coins to mint them privately for their own benefit. So Zhao Xun asked the craftsmen of the Mint Division to change the proportion of copper and lead in the copper coins.

Of course, not only large and small copper coins, but also gold and silver coins, are doped with other metals. You must know that in modern times, the Europeans exchanged a large number of silver coins with insufficient fineness for Chinese silver, and a silver coin with a silver content of more than seven coins could be exchanged for one or two feet of silver in China, which caused a large loss of silver in China. These have given Zhao a hint, and minting currency is also a big profit point.

All currencies have toothed patterns around them, and around the word, on the inside of the edges, there is a thin mark. Overall, it looks very beautiful. Under the four characters of Huitong Qianzhuang, there are also a few small characters cast by Xiaoguojun.

These coins are stamped out by a hydraulic forging press, which is fast to manufacture, and after strong forging, the coin is very tight, and if others want to return to the furnace to rebuild, it will definitely cost several times the price, and there is no benefit at all.

"These gold and silver coins are all relative to one or two gold and silver!" Zhao Xun took the exquisite gold and silver coins in his hand and said with a smile.

"If you return to the lord, it is true, this large copper coin is equal to ten small copper coins, and one silver coin is equal to a hundred large copper coins. Because it is doped with other metals, it is actually only 80% to 90% of the value in comparison, and if it is exchanged for huàn, we will reap great benefits. The chief officer of the minting department said with emotion, the idea of coinage, or this young lord came up with it, especially the water pressure coin, the coins produced are not easy to wear, but also exquisite and beautiful, if it circulates, this will definitely become the world's circulating currency.

It is important to know that copper, silver and gold coins are usually made by adding ores such as tin, lead and zinc to increase hardness and toughness. For example, a whole silver coin can be made of nine coins of silver and one tael of tin, lead or zinc, while the minted silver coin is still equal to one tael of silver. But in fact, it can save a penny.

"Immediately mint the gold and silver we dug up into gold and silver coins, and in addition, issued a notice to Youzhou and northern Hebei that all local government officials and soldiers should be replaced with gold and silver coins."

"Good! Big seconds! In this way, our coins began to circulate thoroughly, the government began to use them, the people naturally did not refuse, the army used them, and the merchants were worried about something? ”

"The most important thing is that Huitong Money Bank should give each other a swap, so that the other party does not need to worry about anything, I think, our coin will soon be able to circulate all over the world, and reach the real Huitong world." Zhao Xun said with a smile.

The officials of the Mint Department even mentioned that on the gold and silver coins, they signed the name of Zhao Xun, because this was different from the copper coins of the imperial court, he was a new type of coin, which did not belong to the imperial court decrees, and the imperial court should have nothing to say.

Zhao Xun hurriedly stopped it, this kind of thing is too exaggerated, if you sign your name on the coin, you will really become a wrongdoer.

You must know that Zhao Xun has collected a lot of gold, silver and bronze utensils from the landlords and nobles of the Eastern Three Mansions, and these things are useless to keep and be minted into coins. In addition, he can also go to Yizhou to exchange for a large amount of gold and silver, and go to the South China Sea countries to exchange this exquisite coin for the same or more gold and silver. This is also a means of trading, and everyone has a love for beauty. For this kind of exquisite thing, Zhao Xun is not afraid that he will not be able to change it.

Even if you exchange the money in Youzhou, you can exchange it for a million, a million. This kind of business, no matter how you say it, you have to do it. Although it is illegal to mint coins privately, there are many illegal things in Youzhou. Besides, there are now privately minted coins in every state.

And once this kind of coin circulates out, its reputation will really spread to the world, and Huitong Money Bank will become the lowest money bank organization.

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Xia Mingli was a silk merchant who often transported silk from the south to the north to the eastern three provinces to trade with the Yan people, and then transported the furs from the north back to the states of the Central Plains.

Yesterday, the fur he transported from the north was bought directly in Youzhou City, and the transaction to him was directly the general money ticket that could be exchanged directly for Huitong Bank, and early this morning, he came to exchange it for huàn silver taels.

"Brother, give me a thousand taels of silver, and the rest will be kept in my name." Xia Mingli took out the money ticket in his hand and his household registration and seal letter, and handed it to the teller at the counter.

"Okay, yes...... Boss Xia, does this thousand cash silver want silver, or silver coins or gold coins? After the teller deposited the money, he handed over the account book to Xia Mingli, signed his name, and said.

"Silver, gold? What's that? Xia Mingli didn't know why, he hadn't asked like this before.

"That's right, the Xiaoguo army minted a new coin, one silver coin is one tael of silver, and one gold coin is equal to one tael of gold, and at the same time it is exchanged for huàn and ten taels of silver. Ah, that's the sample! The teller said and handed out two coins.

"Huh? What a beautiful coin. After Xia Mingli took the coin, he couldn't help but sigh.

"By the way, can you exchange this coin for silver?" Xia Mingli immediately asked.

"Of course, swaps are supported here, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office has ordered that the Xiaoguo army and the Yulu are all this kind of currency, how can they not support swaps." The teller said with a smile. Several of the merchants who came in the morning had asked about it.

"Give me a hundred silver coins, ninety gold coins!" Xia Mingli said immediately.

"Okay, thank you for your patronage! This silk bag is the money bag we gave you, you order it! The teller said with a smile.

Naturally, the money bag can't hold so much, but it can't be much, and when Xia Mingli, who took money, came, he naturally also carried something to withdraw money, a small suitcase.

At this time, the entire lobby of the money village was full of exclamations, and Xia Mingli knew that it must be other people who were also amazed by seeing this exquisite coin. This kind of coin, held in the hand, is even reluctant to spend.

In just three days, the entire Huitong money village in Youzhou and northern Hebei Province was exchanging huàn coins, and some people took out all the gold and silver in their homes and exchanged them for this exquisite coin. Eating, buying and selling, merchants preferred gold and silver coins. Paying with gold and silver coins also looks much more atmospheric, as if it is superior. There are even some shops that only accept coins, not gold and silver, so that those customers are angry and blow their beards, but after seeing the coins, they also hurriedly rushed to Huitong Money Village to exchange huàn city coins.

Correspondingly, when people go out, they always have a money bag marked with the seal of Huitong Bank hanging around their waists. If you don't have it, you don't seem to be embarrassed to talk to people.

At the same time, this kind of coin is beneficial to people, and it is convenient to give people a reward, and they know very well, a silver coin and gold coin, the amount is not large, and they are not distressed. Even ordinary people took out their own money and exchanged it for copper coins of the size of Huitong Bank. In the end, the money banks everywhere were busy exchanging huàn coins, and some businessmen couldn't even squeeze forward to exchange huàn tickets. Fortunately, the money bank has set up a special counter to give convenience.

Soon, for this exchange of huàn, Huitong Qianzhuang also set up branches in various prefectures and counties, and Huitong Qianzhuang, which had been prepared for a long time, also quickly sent people to carry out the business of exchanging huàn. For several days, the coins of these banks were not enough to exchange for huàn.

This gold and silver coin was also brought to other state capitals with merchants. From the beginning of one silver coin to huàn one tael of silver, to one silver coin to huàn one or two counting silver, so that some people even germinated the idea of exchanging huàn coins as a business.

The merchants and people who are adjacent to northern Hebei rushed to northern Hebei to exchange huàn. If nothing else, it is to exchange some as gifts for others, or collect them, and appreciate them as antiques and artworks.

Seeing that the coins were circulating quickly, Zhao Xun and the officials were relieved, if no one found out about it, it would not be good to kill them. There must be people who imitate it, and some people who take it back to the furnace to rebuild, and come to think of it, these people also find that they will only suffer losses and will not make profits.

PS: I really admire those professional writers, how they insist on counting more every day...... As soon as the mind slips, people become lazy......