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In fact, before you proposed to build a currency, we had already considered the currency]t - this is the unified national currency that we plan to run in the future: it is planned to be circulated in the form of silver coins, and the face value is divided into circles, Wu jiao, two jiao, and one 4; diameters 39, 315226, 186 mm; The fineness was 904%, 78%, 70% and 70% respectively; Weights are +6 grams, 135 grams, 53 grams, 27 grams. Among them, the circle is the main coin, and the other three are auxiliary coins. Every two yuan can be converted into one tael of Ming silver. ”

The silver coin was taken out by the old professor, but the introduction was made by Wen Desi. He must have been involved in the whole process of coin design and minting, and he is quite familiar with the introduction.

Listening to his introduction, Pang Yu suddenly frowned and patted his head:

"This batch of numbers seems familiar...... I always remember where I heard about ......"

Deji laughed:

"You have a wide range of knowledge - this is a replica of the 1914 silver coin of Yuan Shikai's head minted by the Tianjin Mint of the Beiyang Government...... Except for the different head patterns, all the parameters of these coins are exactly the same as those of the year's 'Yuan Datou'. ”

He picked up a silver coin in his hand, blew it on his lips, and then shook it next to his ear:

"Even the vibration sound is similar, and it can also be used as a method to identify the authenticity of 'Zhu Datou' in the future."

"Speaking of this, I don't understand, this is obviously our own coinage, why do we want to write Hongwu Tongbao? Do you want to engrave Zhu Yuanzhang's head? Can't you write directly through Tongbao? ”

For these currencies that suddenly appeared, everyone in Qiongzhou Mansion was very excited, they had just proposed to build a yì here, and they didn't expect that the main base had already made the finished product.

However, compared to the two-eyed Lin Feng, Xie Xi still felt a bit of a fly in the ointment, these coins were extremely exquisite, but they were all marked with the mark of the Ming Dynasty, which made him feel very unhappy.

But you don't need anyone else to speak. Lin Feng turned around and refuted him first:

"Of course, it should be written as Hongwu Tongbao -- this money will be taken to the mainland in the future to circulate there. Marked with the Hongwu year number. Plus Zhu Yuanzhang's headshot. Look which Ming Dynasty official dares to forbid it! ”

In addition, there is another reason - the people of the Ming Dynasty used to cut the silver into pieces for small use. There is a portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang on the top. There is a taboo about how much to use. Don't dare to destroy it at will. ”

Professor Li added from the side. There was nothing to say about the dismissal. Pick up a silver coin and take a closer look. Suddenly, he said:

"Since it is going to circulate in the Ming Empire. Why did you paint Zhu Yuanzhang so ugly? The Ming government's promulgation of local standards doesn't seem to be so ugly. ”

This time, even Ade couldn't help but laugh:

"No way, the little Wang who is responsible for designing the coin printing plates, Wang Chen - he used to draw comics. He insisted that the characteristics of the characters must be exaggerated, and that Zhu Yuanzhang's characteristics ......"

At this point, everyone couldn't help laughing - there was no camera in the Ming Dynasty, and of course Zhu Yuanzhang's true appearance has long been unknown. But in folklore, the two major facial features of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty were precisely the horse face and the hemp seed......

The Ming government would certainly not be happy about this, but so so much so that they could not deny that this was Zhu Yuanzhang. Moreover, the fact that coins are minted privately is already a great rebellion, and I don't care about offending them a little more.

Everyone giggled, Pang Yu returned to the topic, he picked up a silver dollar, weighed it in his hand, and asked in a deep voice:

"Ninety percent silver...... Isn't it a little too high? Will we lose money in this way? ”

Currency has always been the preserve of the state, and a shrewd government can make a great profit in itself: a million silver ingots are minted into money and then mixed with impurities, and if they can be minted into one and two hundred thousand silver coins, this is twenty percent of the money's interest. After deducting the cost of labor materials and other expenses, there is definitely something to be earned.

The reason why Lin Feng built his own currency was precisely because of the interests in it, but if the materials they used were too full, or the process was too complex and the processing cost was too high, it would become purely to serve the people. Moreover, if there were profiteers who melted down the silver coins, re-minted them into ingots or silver objects, and then put them on the market, only to sell them for more money, there would certainly be someone who would specialize in the business and thus completely destroy their money business.

In the Song and Ming dynasties, the copper coin shop once fell into this vicious circle - the value of the copper coin itself was greater than its face value, and the result was that some people kept collecting copper coins, casting them into bronze objects and then selling them, which made more profits.

The Mo family in Qiongzhou Mansion, Mo Dapeng's fat guy used to make money by doing this, of course, it was also very risky to do this, and he would be beheaded if he was caught, so when he made the first pot of gold, he changed to whitewashing. However, there are still people in his family who do this, and he occasionally assists his family to smuggle them away from Jiangnan.

"We're using the stamping method. With a hydraulic press on a silver plate of standard thickness

Directly punched out more than 100 silver coins, and the same principle as the manufacture of bullet copper fire caps9 templates to be engraved with machine tools, labor costs are not high. ”

The heir of the virtue is also strict and sù down, and introduces the key to this side in detail.

"If the fineness of the silver collected is not too bad, and the scrap rate can be controlled below the normal range, we can still have about 3% ~ 5% profit margins, of which the corner and corner auxiliary coins are a little bit of a loss because of the small currency value and the high proportion of labor costs, but the overall profit can still be profitable."

"We also calculated that if the coins were melted down and reminted, they would not be profitable, even without taking into account the labor costs. But at the same time, it's not going to be much the same, so to speak, and that's what we're aiming for. ”

Pang Yu nodded slightly, he fully understood what Wen Desi meant - at this stage, when promoting these silver coins, if you want people to be willing to accept it, you can only regard it as "silver" rather than "coin", then the value of the silver coin itself must not be too low.

When the coin becomes acceptable to most people in the future and becomes the general equivalent, they may be able to gradually reduce its silver content, reduce the cost of the currency, or even go further, make paper money......

"It's a pity, if it weren't for the Ming treasure banknotes that ruined the reputation of paper money, we could have tried paper money directly—at least in our occupied areas."

Deji sighed and said that they had tried to make banknotes in Lingao before, but they had been completely defeated, and the common people naturally regarded that kind of thing as the same nature as the Daming treasure banknote, and they were completely unwilling to accept it.

"If you set up an exchange agency that allows people to exchange paper money directly for silver, maybe you can establish a credit system for paper money......

Lin Feng had quite an idea about this, but this time Ade and the others all smiled bitterly:

"Do you think we haven't tried? We also set up a bank for this purpose, but the result of allowing the exchange of huàn silver was that no matter how many banknotes we put out, the bank would take back a lot of money on the same day. Occasionally, a few low-quality fakes pop up...... There is still only silver money in circulation. Soldiers don't want to spend money unless they go out with guns, and we don't want to use coercion to force the people to accept it. ”

However, Comrade Wen Desi still has hope for this:

"If it takes a long time and the amount of silver reserves reaches a certain standard, I think it can still be circulated. But our current silver reserves are not much, including the tens of thousands of silver you sent back last time, the total is less than 100,000, and it can't support a ** paper money system for the time being, so let's play silver coins honestly first. ”

"Well, then there's one more question......"

Pang Yu raised his last question:

"How do you make sure that when this kind of silver coin goes out, it goes into circulation and doesn't go into the collection of every household?"

-- Since this silver coin is exquisitely minted, uniform in form, and identical in fineness and weight, its value must be relatively stable. Therefore, when a user earns the coin, he will most likely choose to use other copper coins with poor fineness, broken silver, etc., and save this kind of coin as a reserve.

If most people do this, then there will be no circulation of this currency in the market - this is the so-called "bad money drives out good money" law. They now have a small reserve of silver, and the number of silver coins they can make is limited, and if they cannot fully circulate in the market, they will lose the original purpose of making money.

Fortunately, Wen Desi and others have also fully considered this:

"It's not a big problem. With the use of standard currency, the government will not have to spend money on fire in the future. We are taxing in Lingao this time, and we allow merchants who use silver dollars to pay taxes to reduce the corresponding fire consumption of silver, and require merchants to transfer this discount to customers, and customers who use silver dollars have to pay a little more. Therefore, in Lingao, as long as they can afford silver, they are willing to use silver dollars, and their circulation is very good. ”

Ling Ning next to him suddenly sighed and added:

However, most people still only use copper coins in their daily lives, and even barter. Even if it is silver, we have made special statistics: the most frequently circulated in the market is not the main coin of the one dollar, but the auxiliary coins of the one and the jiao—that place is still poor. ”

However, on the side of Qiongzhou Mansion, the price level seems to be higher, at least when Xie Xi and the others go out, they are embarrassed to take copper coins as tips, and they always have some broken silver in their pockets - they are now finally getting used to using tips to pay for daily consumption.

With the silver dollars, they could take the change with them in the future, and presumably no longer had to worry about how much money they had to pay for - the calculation was always a headache for the travelers, even if they were good at math.

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