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The New Year passed in such a lively way, and merchants everywhere also made a lot of money. In the whole province of Fujian, the silver coins of the Jingnan palace have replaced the original silver ingots.

Nearly 4 million taels of new money was sprinkled out, flooding the entire Fujian market. As small as two coins a silver nude, as large as one or two silver coins, they are very popular with businessmen and ordinary people. In particular, these two kinds of silver coins and square silver naked greatly reduced the workload of merchants, so many merchants specified this kind of silver coins supervised by Jingnan Wangfu when trading. The pieces of silver coins are sealed in red paper, which is also very easy to calculate.

The four million taels of silver coins are not enough in the whole of Fujian, especially the transactions of large merchants, which are tens of thousands of taels and hundreds of thousands of taels at a time. On these days of the New Year, all the craftsmen in the other workshops took annual leave, but the mint did not. Instead of taking a holiday to let the craftsmen go home for the New Year, they also brought the families of these craftsmen to the ponytail to celebrate the New Year. Of course, Geng Jingzhong also made a lot of compensation for this.

The mint workshop was in full swing, which also made the minting task very smoothly completed. It has only been a month and a half since the construction of the Mawei Mint, and the original 20 Fan Ti and the later 15 have been working day and night, and all 20 million taels of silver have been minted into silver coins and silver nudes. It was only at this time that the craftsmen of the mint breathed a sigh of relief, and it was the beginning of the holiday break.

In addition to the four million taels of silver coins that had been shipped before, there were now more than 18 million taels of silver coins that had just been minted. Geng Jingzhong's next task was to contact the major families in Fujian Province again, and use these silver coins to replace the silver buried in their silver cellars, and then mint them into silver coins. Completely made the silver ingot withdraw from the stage of Fujian.

Under Geng Jingzhong's order, the people of the royal palace visited the major families one by one and offered to exchange silver coins for silver. With the current reputation of Jingnan Palace, even if some families are reluctant, they will replace it in small amounts. For the silver ingots of this era, the fineness is relatively higher than that of Geng Jingzhong's silver coins. The better the fineness of the silver, the brighter and whiter its color is, and this white is a very soft kind.

The silver buried in the major families is basically ingot-shaped silver ingots, and the silver content is about 94 percent and not more than 95 percent, while the silver content in Geng Jingzhong's silver coins is 91.5 percent, and the difference between the two is very small, plus the silver and copper alloy of the silver coins is high temperature and cold forging, kneaded very evenly, and the color of the whole silver coin is also very bright white, even if the silver coin is cut with large scissors, the inside is also bright white, just like the Yuan Datou of later generations, the color is only nine layers, and the color is also very bright white. Judging from this point, it seems that the silver content of the silver coins of the prince is higher than that of silver ingots.

Now, the people from the palace said that they would exchange silver coins for silver ingots, one or two for one or two, but there was no reason to disagree. First, you can make good friends with the world, secondly, you can also make profits, and thirdly, it also promotes the circulation of silver coins, which is beneficial and harmless to yourself. So they took out the silver in the silver cellar one after another and began to exchange it with Geng Jingzhong's silver coins.

As soon as Geng Jingzhong's action came out, the 18 million taels of silver coins in stock were quickly replaced, and it only took half a month. As a result, there is hardly a silver ingot to be found in the entire Fujian market, and all the silver coins used in the market are completely uniform in shape, size and weight. The circulation of silver coins has further promoted the prosperity of commerce, and people no longer have to worry about the fineness, weight, etc. of silver ingots, and they can use silver coins directly, anyway, all types of silver coins are exactly the same.

There must still be a huge amount of silver ingots in the silver cellars of the major families, but they will not take out all the silver ingots and replace them. The silver ingots in the silver cellar are generally only used as the family's reserves, and they will not be taken out lightly. Even if they were replaced with silver coins, they were still put in the silver cellar. For them, since they are only stored and not used, it does not matter whether they are silver ingots or silver coins, not to mention that the fineness of both is about the same.

Large households no longer replace silver coins on a large scale, so Geng Jingzhong paid attention to small merchants and ordinary people. The usual turnover of small merchants is almost all their silver, not to mention ordinary people, they don't have much silver in their hands, and those who can have twenty taels of silver at home are already considered well-off families. Geng Jingzhong ordered all princesses to post notices in various places to exchange silver coins on the spot. This work is more cumbersome, the small people have entered the princess square to prepare the place for replacement, scattered silver needs to be weighed constantly, and at the end of the day, it also makes the guys tired and sore back, it is really a broken leg under the mouth of the mouth!

This work is estimated to last for a long time in Princess Fangs around the country, and some remote places will slowly spread the news. recruited a lot of people during the disaster relief the year before last, otherwise the princess fang took on so much work and just relied on the few people at the beginning to be really busy. It is estimated that even Geng Jingzhong himself doesn't know how many people he has in his workshop and shop, unless he asks Li Guangdi, the super housekeeper who has just been invited back, now.

To say that the birth of this silver coin has also made some merchants see business opportunities. Some discerning wealthy businessmen also wanted to imitate and reduce the silver content to make huge profits, but the entire Fujian market has only recognized the exquisite silver coins minted by Jingnan Wangfu, and even if others are imitated, they will not be able to circulate because the craftsmanship is not up to standard. This can be regarded as Geng Jingzhong's ability, ordinary people really can't make such a uniform silver-copper alloy, and they don't have the technology to extrude exquisite silver coins. In addition, it is also a matter of credibility, and the people of Fujian still trust the benevolent prince more in comparison.

"Shizi, your subordinates really admire your five-body throw. With just one action, you will earn more than three million taels of silver again. In the long run, when the silver coins are spread throughout the country, we can make a fortune as long as we continue to mint silver coins to replace silver ingots, and wait for the money to be collected! Li Guangdi looked at the detailed record of the silver coin incident in his hand and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Although Geng Jingzhong was happy, he was not as excited as him, "Brother Li, you are wrong, in the short term, we will make at most a few more money from nearby provinces, and other provinces that are far away from us will not be able to take our turn." That's it, we need to be fast enough. ”

In terms of business acumen, Lee Guangdi is still a little worse, after all, he is not a business person. "Why is that?"

"As soon as this coin comes out, others will follow suit. A few days ago, I got a few replicas of silver coins from other companies, some of which are the same as ours, and some of which are different. But all of these imitations are far inferior to our silver coins. The silver content is generally low, and the best one contains only eight layers of silver, which is clearly a bad coin. Although they were minted, they were far inferior to our silver coins in terms of fineness, style, and pattern. The most important thing is that the people of the provinces have never seen the silver coins of Amen, and there is no way to compare them, so those discerning merchants must have seized the provincial market. The market of the entire continent is too big, far from what our family can eat. For the time being, we only need to eat Fujian and the two nearby provinces. ”

"I see! By the way, Shizi, you just said that this is a short-term change, so what about the long-term? Li Guangdi was like a curious baby at the moment, breaking the clay pot and asking to the end.

Geng Jingzhong smiled: "In the long run, we will have to wait until we have accumulated enough strength to enter more provinces, our silver coins are stronger than others' in all aspects, and those silver coins can be called inferior coins in front of us." When our silver coins enter other provinces, the merchants and people will recognize our silver coins more, so that those bad coins will be slowly eliminated. Hehe, don't underestimate the common people, although most of them are ignorant, but they are not stupid, and they can distinguish between the good and the bad! According to my estimate, it won't be long before the imperial court will also make a move, after all, coinage has always been a matter for the imperial court. We're the first to mint standard silver coins! ”

Li Guang nodded in agreement. Picking up a silver coin from the table, blowing it on the edge, and quickly putting it to his ear, the sound of "buzzing" sounded, and the tail note was long and clear, very clear. I couldn't help but exclaim: "The sound of this silver coin blowing is really good, is it the same with other imitation silver coins?" ”

"Take it yourself and try it yourself!"

Li Guangdi picked up another imitation silver coin, and blew it in the same way, although there was a sound, but it was very faint, and there was no such tail note. "Shizi, this is also a silver coin, why is the sound so different, is it a question of how much silver it contains?"

"Hehe, Brother Li said it, but it's not comprehensive. The amount of silver is the most important, these bad coins contain less than eight layers of silver, and the copper content is too much and uneven, so they cannot produce such a long and clear tail. Another thing is that you take a closer look at the patterns and teeth on the coin. Li Guangdi immediately pinched two different silver coins and looked closely.

"Do you see that? Our silver coins are made of steel molds that are mechanically stamped in water, the text and patterns are very fresh, smooth and natural, and each piece of dragon scales on the back of the coiled dragon is meticulously detailed, while these bad coins are blurred, muddy and uneven. Comparing the side teeth again, the side teeth of our silver coins are fine and symmetrical, and they are uniform; The edges and teeth of the bad coin are rough and uneven, especially this one, which has traces of partial file repair. With this level, I also minted silver coins, and I wanted a piece of the pie, which is ridiculous! I have asked the guys in charge of replacing silver coins in various places to inform in detail how to judge the authenticity of silver coins, at least these bad coins will not work in our Fujian. But the people in other provinces are going to suffer a little, and those bad coins are not as high as the silver content of silver ingots! ”

Li Guangdi was still comparing the few silver coins on the table, nodding and shaking his head for a while. Sure enough, as soon as the people got their hands on the coins, they were able to distinguish the good from the bad by simply identifying them. After we accumulate strength, we can dominate the whole country's silver coins, hahaha! Even the imperial court can't compete with us! ”

"However, Brother Li, you have one more thing to do in the future. It's hard work, I have other things to do, I'll go first! After speaking, Geng Jingzhong raised his legs and left, without dragging his feet.

"Alas, alas! Shizi, I have enough things to do, you can't push everything to me! By the time Li Guangdi reacted and complained loudly, Geng Jingzhong had already gone far. Hehehe, this son of the world is really "continued to pick up the silver coin on the table and blew it, "Great talent! ”

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