Wang Dou looked at the white flower, round thing in his hand, this is a silver dollar. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Overall, the production is very exquisite, the pattern is natural and clear, the color is delicate and rich, there is "Huangming Xuanfu Town Made", there is "one or two gold flowers and silver folding" under it, and the middle is the words "Chongzhen Tongbao", Qian Wen Xiuyi, dignified strokes.

On the back, there are two big characters written "One Yuan", followed by the sun, moon and wave pattern, and on the side, there are several small characters of "containing silver ninety into five".

Wang Dou's fingertips stroked gently, felt the patterns on it, as well as the tooth patterns on the edges, and grabbed a handful of the silver box next to him, let it fall, making a pleasant sound, and in the silver box, the luster of the white flowers was dazzling.

There is no hole in the middle, these silver rounds that came to the Ming Dynasty early, almost every shape, fineness, and weight are the same, and one can be used as one, which is also Wang Dou in order to avoid the color and weight not meeting the standard, and even the circulation can only be calculated by weight, not by the value, and the loss of the meaning of silver yuan circulation is prevented.

Moreover, the silver content of these silver rounds is also 95 silver, which is similar to the Ming Dynasty folded silver, which can be described as very high-quality.

Although it is not possible to use machine stamping at this time, there are slight differences between some silver rounds, but it is very good to be able to achieve such exquisite and standard, and it is not a problem for the people to accept and popularize it at that time.

"Wow!"

"...... Uproar"

Wang Dou looked at Du Xun and Zhu Zhifeng next to him, the two of them also couldn't put it down, Du Xun was holding a handful of silver yuan in his hand, from time to time his left hand fell on his right hand, and his right hand fell on his left hand, intoxicated listening to the pleasant sound between the silver yuan hitting each other.

Zhu Zhifeng grabbed a few silver yuan and looked left and right, repeatedly experienced the feel, and from time to time learned from Wang Dou's appearance, blowing a few times on the corners, and listening to the sound coming into his ears.

The silver round in his hand was the same size. However, each denomination is different, with a total of denominations such as a circle, a pentagon, a dime, and a quarter.

The first three are silver dollars. According to the fineness, the silver content is different, and there are marks on the back, but the latter is a copper round.

Copper purplish red. The size, pattern and text are about the same as a silver dollar, but the front is lower. It is written with several big characters of "each piece should be made of money", and the back is written with two big characters of "one point", which are also beautifully cast and of high quality.

Zhu Zhifeng stroked the copper circle, looked at the words "each piece should be made of ten wen", felt the weight again, and sighed: "Such good money, not to mention that each piece should be made of ten wen." It's twenty texts, and the people are willing to change it. ”

Du Xun nodded and said: "In Jingshi, such a copper round can be exchanged for at least twenty-five to thirty small flat coins." ”

The Ming Dynasty minted money, and the early Ming Dynasty Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was there. Only handed over to the Ministry of Industry Baoyuan Bureau is responsible, at that time the annual minting of money is not much, and vigorously pursue the treasure money policy, strict control of copper coins, three times twice stop casting, prohibited, so although at that time private casting was rampant, but overall, copper coins are very valuable.

However, in the Wanli period of Mingshenzong, due to the war of aid to Korea, the household department that obtained the right to mint money vigorously set up a coinage furnace, and all parts of the country followed suit, and finally the entire Ming Dynasty had how much money furnace could not be counted, especially a large amount of private money, light and inferior money mixed into the official money to fill the number, so that many official furnaces have closed their doors.

During the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, the same private money was overflowing, the provincial money bureaus were indiscriminate and bad money, making profits, Chongzhen was the first year, Chongzhen Tongbao was cast, each text weighed one penny and two cents and five cents, and it was well-cast, but because the imperial court finances almost collapsed, it was not maintained soon.

Later, the official money was minted, all of which were small and light, and were jokingly called horse money, and the money system at this time was the most complicated, and the money bureaus around the country were wantonly minted, and the private money that was flooded throughout the country reached more than 100 kinds.

As in the past dynasties, Chongzhen Tongbao is mainly a small flat money, which is a small money with a face value, of course, there are two money, three money, five money, ten money and other big money, which is used as two, five, ten and other money.

The Ming Dynasty stipulates that when the tenth class of big money, at least the money weighs one or two, and how much copper should be reached, but it is rarely done, during the Apocalypse, it was opened to cast when ten coins, but because of the official and private casting, it was quickly ordered to stop casting, and the silver was produced by the imperial court, and the ten coins were recovered.

The copper round in everyone's hand, good color, beautiful appearance, high copper content, sufficient weight, as Du Xun said, one cent face value copper round, in the outside for twenty-five money, very easy.

As for the silver to make this shape, Zhu Zhifeng and others did not care, the Ming Dynasty calculated the silver taels, has always only looked at the color and weight, what is the shape, it doesn't matter, it is like broken silver, it is cut from a piece of silver, a scissors down, what is the shape?

The official silver of the Ming Dynasty is folded into silver, and it is cast into the shape of ingots, which is just convenient for statistics.

I think that such a piece is easy to use, and there is no need to weigh it, look at the color, and it is convenient for the people.

"Zhu Gong, now that the Ming Dynasty has too much money and is too bad, the people are suffering from it, so let them take advantage of it, what is it?"

Wang Dou Zhengse said.

Zhu Zhifeng nodded, Xuanfu Town also has a money bureau, coinage is not a violation, plus Wang Dou's silver and copper rounds, exquisite materials, and the people have great benefits, it is a good thing for the country and the people, it is rare that there is no quarrel, and Zhu Zhifeng's strong support is obtained.

He knew that as soon as Yinyuan came out, there might be people scolding Wang Dou again.

Scolding him for inviting people to buy people's hearts, plotting against him, etc., anyway, the bones have to be picked out from the eggs, thinking of this, he also felt indignant for Wang Dou, and felt that many people in the Ming Dynasty were already hysterical, which was not good for the dynasty.

Of course, how much silver and copper yuan should be made, Zhu Zhifeng didn't count in his heart, and now all the money bureaus in the Ming Dynasty are all starting to make them, and there is no overall planning.

In Zhu Zhifeng's heart, the more coins are made, the better, so that more people can enjoy the benefits of exquisite coins, and finally, he will find a way to hand over the Xuanfu Town Money Bureau to the hands of the imperial court.

Only Wang Dou knows that the issuance of coins is not a simple matter, too much and too little is not good, especially too much, Daming treasure banknotes are a lesson from the past, so, as with the issuance of food stamps, the members of the silver money division have also been carefully calculated.

At this time, the new ambassador of the Silver Money Division is Tian Changguo, the former director of the Department of Civil Affairs, who was entrusted with important tasks by Wang Dou because of his outstanding performance.

Everyone in the hall is optimistic about the prospects of silver and copper yuan, of course, after the issuance, there will be no problems, such as fire consumption, as well as Xuanfu Town and the private money that is flooded outside, for Wang Dou, the fire consumption problem in the jurisdiction is easy to solve, private money, and the fake money that will be faced, it will have to rely on heavy blows.

In the Ming Dynasty, it is a common phenomenon to make huge profits by casting money, at this time, the copper used to cast money, per 100 catties of copper, at least 16,000 yuan can be obtained after the sale, but the cost of 100 catties of copper is less than half, and the profit margin is almost three times.

Therefore, starting from the Ming Taizu, there are more and more people who mint coins privately, although the daily report of capital crimes, it can not be stopped, and it has developed to the present, more and more flooded, and it is full of official generals, gentry, eunuchs and other control and participation, and the power of private money dealers is getting bigger and bigger.

Although it is necessary to reduce the resistance to some extent, because of the large amount of copper required, and to take the opportunity to open the way for the passage of grain stamps of small denominations, Xuanfu Town does not issue small flat coins with a face value of penny, but it is inevitable that the interests of these private money dealers will be harmed by high-quality silver and copper yuan.

In the face of the temptation of huge profits, many people may start to counterfeit again, issuing fake silver and copper yuan.

This is the big aspect, that is, the small aspect, those who sell silver scales, sell silver scissors, because the silver round does not need to be cut and weighed to calculate, may have some resentment.

In addition to Wang Dou's coordination of Wang Pu, Shanxi Governor Cai Maode, Datong Governor Wei Jingyu and others, it is more important to let the newly established Sanjin Commercial Bank participate in the crackdown.

Under their firm, there is a special force, although within the firm, there are inevitably people with strange thoughts, etc., but most of them are standing with Wang Dou.

Xuanfu Town, especially the gentry and officials in the area of the town, Wang Dou asked Du Xun to deal with it, and the issuance of silver yuan was not without the credit of the Money Minting Bureau, and in addition, the silver and copper yuan were issued, and Du Xun and others would have a certain benefit of sharing profits, so Du Xun was quite enthusiastic in his heart.

Playing with the silver yuan in his hand, after hearing Wang Dou's words, Du Xun moved quietly, and then looked at his hand, those silver yuan were gone, and he didn't know where to go.

He screamed: "Yongning Hou doesn't need to say much, for the country and the people, our family is duty-bound!" Who dares to make a noise? Carefully we skinned him! ”

Recently, the city appearance and official road have been rectified, although many big officials and gentry are resentful of Du Xun, but Du Xun has also made a lot of money because of this, for money, Du Xun thinks that he can not even want his life, just resentment, what is it?

Zhu Zhifeng lowered his head, stroked the silver yuan in his hand, and thought: "If one day, the household department also issues silver yuan and promotes it to the whole Ming Dynasty, then the imperial court money system is worry-free." ”

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Three days later, in the treasury room of the silver coin division next to the mansion of the general soldier in Xuanfu Town, the tall and thin Tian Changguo looked at the silver boxes in the warehouse, and he took a deep breath: "Open the treasury and move the silver yuan out." ”

Boxes of silver dollars with white flowers were constantly shipped out and began to be exchanged in the whole town, causing a sensation.

Even on the East Road, there are many soldiers and civilians who exchange silver and copper yuan, although food stamps are generally accepted, but after generation to generation, silver is still very heavy in the hearts of everyone, and it is always right to change a few at home.

Especially if you go out to the outside of the town, the use of silver and copper dollars is even more important.

And this silver round copper round, one is one, easy to use, clearly understood, and the quality is very good, why not put a few at home?

On the first day of March, Baoan Zhou City, East Road, has changed even more in the past few years.

In the courtyard of a house facing the street in Huiminfang, a gentleman with a thick beard and a square face, about fifty years old, wearing a regimental collar shirt, and looking forward to the sharp spirit, was quietly looking at the state citizens who were queuing up to exchange silver yuan below, and he was also holding a few silver yuan in his hand.

Several people dressed as literati also stood beside him and watched. (To be continued.) )