Daming's route to the Americas is definitely full of incomparably lucrative profits. In the tenth year of the apocalypse, there were four fleets that arrived in Central and South America, and the number of merchant ships was about 200.

But these two hundred merchant ships brought back as much as 6 million taels of silver and more than 600,000 taels of gold for the Ming Dynasty. Not only that, but I also brought back some other raw materials that were not very valuable, which were all incidental. With the development of the Honolulu Islands and Jinshan Bay, there will be more raw materials that can be shipped back to the Ming mainland in the future, and the trade with the Spaniards is mainly for precious metals.

Banya began to import a large number of Daming goods, and began to reduce the import of goods from other European countries. Precious metals are flowing to Daming with the opening of this trade voyage.

Moreover, the trade potential of Central and South America is still very huge, the Spaniards did not use all the precious metals to buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, and the scale of the merchant ships sent by the Ming to the Americas was not too large, and the Spaniards did not prepare so many merchant ships to transport these goods.

But then both sides will expand their trade.

The flow of precious metals to the East is not the business of Spain, they are not an industrial country, anyway, they can continue to grab precious metals through colonization, as long as they can buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, they do not care about the life or death of other European countries.

Spain is like a hooligan who makes money and then spends all day drinking, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling. If you don't have an industry of your own, you will eventually weaken one day.

But the existence of such a stinky hooligan is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

With the continuous flow of precious metals to the Ming Dynasty, the financial system of the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more stable, and the banknotes issued by the central bank are linked to the value of precious metals. It is not exchangeable within the administrative area. Externally, however, it is still possible to exchange banknotes for precious metals at the bank.

For example, paper money circulated to unreformed areas of the South. These banknotes can then be taken to the bank in exchange for precious metals. In addition, when it comes to foreign trade, merchants can also exchange paper money for precious metals when they invest in overseas countries.

In this mode, because the internal banknotes will not be exchanged for precious metals, in terms of external trade, the export volume of the Ming Dynasty is higher, the import value is smaller, and it has a large trade surplus. Therefore, the precious metals of Daming will not flow out. On the contrary, it is constantly increasing.

And there is no problem with the over-issuance of banknotes, for example, if you have ten taels of silver, you can issue banknotes worth twenty taels, and the larger the scale of precious metals, the more banknotes that Daming can issue, without fear of a crisis in the financial system.

The gold army was also very effective in the tenth year of the Apocalypse, and mined about ten tons of gold in the outer northeast region, that is, more than 200,000 taels of gold.

At the same time, the gold mined in the South Seas, Australia, and Alaska added up to 20 tons, and nearly 30 tons of gold were mined in a year. And trade with the Spaniards also obtained more than thirty tons of gold. At the same time, the gold obtained by the Ming Dynasty's trade activities added up to hundreds of tons of gold obtained through commercial plunder.

Among them, the outflow of gold from Japan continues. As the Japanese Civil War continued, the policy of restricting the outflow of precious metals turned into a fart, and the outflow of precious metals continued. The Tokugawa shogunate also bleed heavily in order to buy equipment.

The precious metals of the Indochina Peninsula also continued to flow out, and the trade with India also earned gold, and in the trade with the Africans, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty sailed to the west coast of Africa this year, and traded with the black natives in the Congo region in the later generations, and also obtained gold.

As for the inflow of silver, it was even more, because the Portuguese expanded their trade with the Ming Dynasty, and the trade volume rose to nearly 20 million taels of silver, and the trade surplus reached tens of millions of taels of silver, which is equivalent to tens of millions of taels of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty.

And these trade surpluses are basically created by the trading fleets of state-owned enterprises, and these precious metals flow into the hands of state-owned capital consortia in large quantities.

The strength of the state-owned capital consortium has been further enhanced.

The value of the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote has also become extremely strong, and the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote has also begun to go international and circulate in other countries and regions.

Korea, the Ryukyus, the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, and even Japan in the midst of the chaos, the Apocalypse Treasure Banknotes are widely recognized, because the merchants of the Ming Dynasty recognize the purchasing power of the Apocalypse Treasure Banknotes, as long as they hold them, they can buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally recognize the monetary function of these Apocalypse Treasure Banknotes.

Several large state-owned banks in the Ming Dynasty have also opened in these countries.

As for colonies such as Nanyang and Australia, because it is a New Deal system, the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote is the only legal tender, and these regions do not use precious metals for trading, they all use the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote.

In terms of copper coins, the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse Tongbao has also been recognized by various countries along with trade, and even along the coast of Africa, many black tribes and countries have accepted the Apocalypse Tongbao.

The Apocalypse Tongbao can be circulated, not only because of the development of the Ming Dynasty's trade, holding the Apocalypse Tongbao and the Apocalypse Treasure banknotes to facilitate settlement, but also because the quality of the Apocalypse Tongbao has been further improved.

Because of the advent of the steam engine, the copper coin casting efficiency is faster, and a new version of the copper coin is designed at the same time, and it is more difficult for the people to scrape copper, and the copper can be scraped, but the efficiency is too low, and it becomes nothing to do. At the same time, the copper content of Tianqi Tongbao remained stable and did not cut corners.

This beautifully designed, high-quality copper coin has become widely popular today.

Especially in the northern and southern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the quality of the Apocalypse Tongbao makes the people extremely satisfied, and when they trade, they are willing to accept the Apocalypse Tongbao, or even only accept the Apocalypse Tongbao.

The Apocalypse Treasure and the Apocalypse Tongbao became similar to the later British pound, which gave the Ming the ability to use currency to exploit other countries.

And the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote in the Ming Dynasty has also begun to become popular in the southern region.

Because the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote is easy to use and the currency value is stable, you can go to the bank at any time to exchange the same amount of silver dollars, and the state-owned banks have now set up business outlets in the southern provinces, and carry out savings and loans, and the business is very good.

The economy of southern towns was further depressed in the tenth year of the Apocalypse, because of the influx of state-owned capital textiles into the southern provinces in the tenth year of the Apocalypse.

The prices of cotton cloth and woolen products were superior to those in the south, so that the textile industry continued to be depressed, and a large number of textile workers in Songjiang Province lost their jobs.

Moreover, the textiles of state-owned capital are not only cheap, but also dyed, and the cotton cloth is more durable and better-looking. The textiles of Songjiang Province had no room for parry at all, and they were killed in the market and lost their armor.

In terms of steel smelting, it has long been finished, and state-owned steel mills occupy the vast majority of the steel commodity market in Daming.

On the contrary, the plantation industry in the southern provinces prospered in such an environment, because of the development of industry in the north, there was a great demand for raw materials. (To be continued.) )