In the hot fake money workshop, Huang Anshou, the person in charge of the fake money workshop, enthusiastically explained to the leaders at all levels who came to inspect.

"My lord, we have made a hundred pairs of money molds and a hundred mother money." Huang Anshou said and handed over a mother money, Chen Xin took it and read it, there were only two words written on it, "Yiwen", he didn't dare to write Weihai production, and lost a good advertising space.

Chen Xin shook it, about a penny, handed it to Song Wenxian and Liu Minyou to see, and asked Huang Anshou again: "One penny?" ”

Huang Anshou nodded and said: "Back to the adult's words, this mother money is made of all copper, and the copper money made after making a mold with the mother money is a penny heavy, copper seven lead three, slightly inferior to Jiajing gold back money, but better than Wanli gold back money." ”

Chen Xin nodded, Huang Anshou picked up a wooden frame-like thing, and introduced to a few people: "My lord, this is the empty Kuang, a pair is a pair, each empty Kuang has a total of 100 spaces, which are filled with soil and fine toner, and then sprinkled with willow charcoal ash, and put 100 pieces of mother money in the space, and the two empty Kuang are combined together, and the money mold is printed, and there are holes in the money mold, and the copper is burned and melted into it, and a hundred pieces can be cast at a time." ”

Liu Minyou said to Chen Xin: "I have seen their process, wait for the copper to cool down and take it out, one hundred questions at a time, and then break the connected money and text, wear each hundred wen with bamboo branches to frustrate the edge, and finally polish the money surface. Mr. Huang and his craftsmen are only in charge of the process of copper melting and pouring liquid. ”

Chen Xin nodded, it is an assembly line again, the original workshop made too many things, cold weapons, armor and muskets, and some farm tools and wood, and there are not enough talents, Liu Minyou has not reached standardization at all, and the assembly line is impossible to talk about, but this fake money workshop has a single product, Liu Minyou arranged for Zhang Erhui to come over to help record the operation process, and it seems that it can be standardized soon.

Chen Xinyi's leadership style, went to all the places in the workshop, Liu Minyou left a lot of space for the workshop, and now there is no industry, mainly fake money workshops and the original workshop, the technical process is in the house, and the others are in the open space outside, surrounded by a fence, so as not to be seen by outsiders.

After Chen Xin looked at the venue, he asked Huang Anshou: "How many silver taels can be refined from those 120,000 catties of copper?" ”

Huang Anshou said respectfully: "No more than a thousand taels, as long as you use lead, you can withdraw the silver." The copper materials bought by adults are good, and they can buy ten to twelve taels per 100 catties in Beijing. ”

Song Wenxian's eyes lit up, even if they only sell copper, they can make double the income, that is, about six or seven thousand taels of silver, Li Guozhu did send a big favor, Japan is more and more strict with copper materials, if it is not for a local snake like Li Guozhu, it is difficult to buy so much copper.

Chen Xin swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said to Huang Anshou: "Mr. Huang will work hard, make the first batch first, and the rest will be completed within this year." ”

Huang Anshou looked at Liu Minyou and promised: "There is a process arranged by Mr. Liu, it should be possible, but the manpower is still requested not to be transferred to other places." ”

Chen Xin also looked at Liu Minyou, and Liu Minyou coughed twice before saying: "But there are only so many people, and some people are also needed in the field to do things like weeding." ”

Huang Anshou lowered his head and didn't speak, Chen Xin also had a headache of manpower, although this year attracted a lot of homeless people, there are more than 300 peasant households, dozens of artisan households, but Tang Zuoxiang's workshop employs a lot of people, and more than half of the homeless people are bachelors, and even women have been allowed to farm, and they really can't find more manpower for a while, but this matter is the most urgent thing at the moment, and we have to think of a way.

Chen Xin's eyes rolled, and he got the idea that Liu Minyou had dozens of students, pulled Liu Minyou aside, and whispered to Liu Minyou: "Brother Liu, you see that this manpower is so tight, why don't you let those children also come to work-study." ”

Liu Minyou glared and said, "Such a young child also got to work?" ”

"Don't be under the age of seven, it's better to be older, you see, this sprinkling of willow ashes, as well as filings, can be done, how much to give some wages."

Liu Minyou's head shook like a rattle: "No, it's too small, let's let them learn." ”

Chen Xin was puzzled: "Brother Liu, didn't you say that children should be used as adults, what are you teaching them now?" Need to study all day? ”

"Well, arithmetic and literacy, and some fairy tales and celebrity stories."

"And celebrity stories? It's all those cherry trees, apple trees, and stuff like that? Otherwise, Mr. Liu, let's put these lessons in the back and talk about them slowly, just teach some arithmetic and literacy. Just like Wang Daixi and Zhang Dahui, it's enough. ”

Liu Minyou said reluctantly: "What is enough is enough, how can you do it without moral cultivation, and it is not a production tool." ”

Chen Xin pondered for a while and persuaded: "You see that you only teach for one hour every day, which is reduced to half an hour, and they study by themselves for half an hour, and the rest of the time they go to the workshop to work." As long as you are over seven years old, no matter how young you are, you can keep it for yourself. ”

Liu Minyou frowned and was silent, he was very disgusted with this kind of child labor, although Chen Xinxin was in the name of work-study, but Liu Minyou knew how hard the physical work of this workshop was.

Chen Xin continued to lure him: "When they take their wages back, you tell your parents that you can only work in school, and those who put their children at home to feed chickens and cook, why don't you send your children here quickly?" ”

Liu Minyou thought about it for a long time, many new homeless people did not have a place to live, so they built a shack on the edge of the dungeon, there was no cleaning requirement outside, and some chickens and ducks were raised.

He finally gave in slightly: "At most, if you are over ten years old, come and do it for half a day every day." ”

Chen Xin saw that Liu Min had a resolute attitude, but fortunately, he solved part of the labor gap, so he had to persuade Liu Minyou: "Teacher Liu, I have to train teachers first to build a school, you better not teach those children who are too young in person, you have to find seventeen or eighteen, teach a group of teachers to come out, and then they teach children, the content is only to learn literacy and arithmetic, otherwise where will you be busy." ”

"Well, that's okay, but it's fun to teach kids."

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In July, Chen Xin began to take the army to train, and the second batch of 500 recruits has been in place, including a group of Liaomin coolies bought from Dengzhou in May, and the next round of recruit training began.

A month later, Steward Xu really sent a whole boatload of weapons, all according to Chen Xin's requirements, enough to equip five hundred cold weapons, five hundred sets of iron scale armor and ten tiger squat cannons, Song Wenxian's son and wife also came over on the same boat, they thought that Song Wenxian had been buried in the sea, and cried all the way.

Chen Xin handed over 10,000 taels of silver as promised, and gave another 500 taels of silver promised by Steward Xu. Steward Xu was in a good mood after receiving the money, and told Chen Xin that the merit book had been completed, and he immediately reported it to the military department, and asked him to collect the remaining eight thousand taels as much as possible.

Song Wenxian, who had seen his wife and children, quietly went to Tianjin with the first batch of copper coins and goods, and by the way, he had to pick up Zhao Xiang and prepare to get married.

Song Wenxian came back from Tianjin in August and first talked about Zheng Zhilong, and the court began to discuss the possibility of recruiting Zheng Zhilong in May.

In addition, bring some news near Denglai, the household owed Guanning March military salary, Jizhen also owed salary, there was a mutiny in July, Jizhen was a little better, took a little silver and stopped, Guanning soldiers made a lot of trouble, after insulting the governor of Liaodong Bi Zisu, Bi Zisu could not bear it and committed suicide by hunger strike, Yuan Chonghuan asked Chongzhen to ask for food and salary as soon as he arrived in Ningyuan, and killed a few coercions, which was suppressed, since Bi Zisu died, Yuan Chonghuan told the emperor that there would no longer be a governor of Liaodong, anyway, it was useless, and the emperor agreed. However, in January, Jiliao, the two most important border towns, was paid at the same time, which shows how poor the Ming finances are.

Yang Guodong, who has been appointed to Zhejiang as the chief soldier, actually didn't know how to get through the relationship, Sun Guozhen made a twist, saying that Denglai was ten times more important than Zhejiang, and Yang Guodong couldn't go, but the report was approved, and he still went back to the house to manage military affairs. But in May, Chongzhen appointed a new Denglai coastal defense commander-in-chief, Zhang Keda, and Chen Xin didn't know how the two of them would divide labor, so he had to make a point on both sides.

In addition to sending 3,000 people to raze Jinzhou, Xingshan, and Gaoqiao, which were abandoned by the Ming army, they did not go to Liaoxi to make a big move, and Jinzhou, the so-called strategic place, was not occupied, and returned to Liaodong after the demolition.

The Hudun Rabbit (Lin Dan Khan) of Chahar became more and more afraid of the Houjin, and began to move westward, and attacked the Karaqin and Tumut tribes, in a vain attempt to unify the nearby Mongol tribes, but he obviously had a huge gap in ability with the original Genghis Khan, and fought a great battle with the allied forces in Tumut Zhaocheng, which did not unify the tribes, but caused many tribes in Karaqin to take refuge in the Houjin.

Song Wenxian didn't know the names of those tribes very well, but what Chen Xin knew was that since Huang Taiji attacked Korea last year and weakened the power of the Dongjiang River, the containment in the east was much smaller, and now the containment on the Mongolian side is gradually weakening.

The Xiaoice River also affected Houjin, the price of grain in Liaodong was high, and the large number of deaths of Han people also made human resources more strained, and the looting of materials and population from Daming became the only alternative answer to meet the material and cultural needs of the Houjin people.

The change in the strategic shape of the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty has not changed because of the two little butterflies, Chen Xinren is soft-spoken, and he does not take Liao's salary, so he can't manage things that far. Mao Wenlong, who was opposite Weihai, wanted to take care of it, but he still fought guerrilla warfare along the coast and Houjin, and connected a few songs, mainly meaning that the Dongjiang River was very important, and the food and salary were too small, and he reviewed the exploits and hardships of Dongjiang Town to the new emperor, and at the same time warned that Houjin was very likely to be from the Kouluoyan land near Xifeng. (Note 1)

Song Wenxian brought Zhao Xiang's family on the same boat, and then loaded the new copper coins and went to Tianjin. According to the price he negotiated with the shopkeeper Yan, the profit of copper coins can be more than doubled, and the 120,000 catties of copper that Chen Xin bought in Japan cost six or seven thousand taels of silver, and after all of them are sold, they can earn 12,300 taels. Chen Xin can also accept this profit.

On this trip to Japan, Chen Xin swallowed more than 30,000 taels of Zhong Daotai, and Lord Zhong's family came to ask for it, and Chen Xin pushed it to Steward Xu. Those family members can't, and they don't know if they went to manage Xu.

Swallowed plus what he earned, he had a total of more than 90,000 taels of silver in his hands. Song Wenxian also earned more than 10,000 taels, and he also invested in the copper coin business, and his income was very good this year. The only bad thing is that because of Chen Xin's flickering, he, as a shipwrecked missing person, can't return to Dengzhou for a while.

Chen Xin's August was transferred to the post of sentry officer of the Wendeng battalion because of his meritorious service in the extermination of the Japanese invaders, and he was appointed as the governor of Weihaiwei, and he handed over the remaining 8,000 taels to Sun Guozhen. The unfortunate thing is that Xiao Jiahua was also sent back.

In the same month, he married Zhao Xiang and married Zhao Xiang into the door with a red silk sedan chair, and all the officials of Weihai Acropolis came to congratulate him that day, and even Zhou Laifu, Lao Cai and Deng Keshan of Dengzhou also took a grain boat to drink the wine. Yang Yunnong volunteered to be the main marriage, but the matchmaker really didn't have it, so he had to let Lao Cai, who was closer to the Zhao family, take the role, and the two of them signed the marriage letter first, and then Chen Xin and Zhao Xiang also signed, and he and Zhao Xiang became a legal husband and wife.

Chen Xin gave money to everyone in the dungeon, and the people in the dunfort came to eat for a day. After getting married, Chen Xin moved out of the barracks and lived in the Sanjin compound built by Liu Minyou facing the sea.

In September, Lord Sun Guozhen had just received Chen Xin's eight thousand taels, and he waited for the holy decree to be dismissed from his post and idle. Chen Xin asked Song Wenxian to send someone to send letters and silver tickets to Zhang Dahui, keeping an eye on who would be the governor of Denglai, and if it was a Beijing official, he would go to the point in advance. However, according to Song Wenxian, who returned to Dengzhou, Wang Tingqian, a Taoist minister of Denglai Daoist in Shandong, was the most powerful contender for the governor of Denglai, and Song Wenxian was entrusting some of his former colleagues to do so, preparing to find a new job and continue to be Chen Xin's agent.

The King James Rebellion Case is still slowly being carried out in Beijing, and the first-hand project personally grasped by Chongzhen Tianzi does not reflect much efficiency. In September, the emperor Taiji personally conquered Har, and won a complete victory, and there were constantly small Mongolian tribes to take refuge in Houjin.

Also in September, Chen Xin was newly married, and finally went to Wendeng Camp to take office, the distance between the two places was not more than 100 miles, and after resigning from his colleagues in Weihai Acropolis, he was scheduled to set off in mid-September.

On 12 September, the soldiers of the two bureaus stood quietly in front of the fort, and the wheat fields behind the soldiers were bursting with wheat waves, and groups of peasant households were harvesting autumn grain in the fields.

Leading the soldiers was the new trial hundred-household Lu Chuanzong, and the two bureaus would follow Chen Xintong to the Wendeng camp to take up the post of sentry, and Liu Minyou also brought a few civil affairs assistants with him.

Chen Xin looked at the fields and soldiers in front of him, and said to Liu Minyou: "I am finally going to Wendeng Camp." ”

"Isn't it Wendeng Camp, what's so good, I've heard it in my last life."

Chen Xin said in surprise: "Have you heard of Wendeng Camp in your last life?" ”

"Of course, in Xia Bucai, Qi Jiguang's Guowen Dengying has heard of it."

"So cultured? Do you have this poem, can you read it and listen to it? ”

"Ran Ran Shuangqi is the end of the sea, and Xiaoyan is low to protect the savages.

Whoever will come to the remnants of spring, the unique wind will send a short flute.

The water falls and there are still Qin Dynasty stones, and the tide does not see the Han Dynasty hawthorn ......"

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Note 1: Seen in "Dongjiang Shujietang Daily", Tang Bao on May 24 in the first year of Chongzhen, Tang Bao on the third day of June, and Tang Bao on the fifth day of September. The warning that Jiannu may be entered by Xifeng is accurate.