Chapter 233: Coins
Dai Song's living conditions at home are good, so it is difficult to imagine the poverty and backwardness of some remote areas, of course, what he didn't expect was that these things that Yang Guang bought were not intended to be used in his own plane at all, but were brought to Yangzhou City in the Ming Dynasty. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The first batch of 30 family members were personally selected and trained by Yang Guang, and then he has been guiding Zhao Wu to manage them, which can be regarded as supporting Zhao Wu to take the position. In this way, when he returns to Yangzhou, the recruitment and training of the second batch of family members and other matters can naturally be handed over to Zhao Wu to handle it.
The newly recruited more than 100 family members stood in front of Yang Guang, turning back and forth according to Zhao Wu's orders, and marching in a neat line, making it hard to imagine that they were still a rabble more than a month ago.
Because they are in Yangzhou City, these families have not been exposed to firearms, but their own quality is not bad, and they have sufficient nutrition every day during the training, as long as they are attentive, they can fully assume the duties of sailors, and it is not too late to slowly practice the use of the Wufeng Gun after arriving at the Dayuan Island base or the port of Nagashima in Japan.
Yang Guang took these families to join Wang Ying and others to the private port of Heken Village, where there have been great changes compared to the first time, the most obvious is that the place surrounded by the seaside hillside, there is a large area of houses, in which the warehouse used to load goods is far away from the wooden houses that live in it, and there is a large open space in the middle.
The hundred households here have long been fed by Ye Zongman, and the people below have also taken a lot of benefits, everyone pretends not to know that there is such a thing, as for the imperial court's sea ban or something, how can the God of Wealth on the sea, who others can't look forward to, stupidly push it out?
After a simple night's rest, there were a lot of things in the warehouse, and the old men under Ye Zongman were used to this situation, so they all moved onto the ship without Yang Guang's orders, and then set sail towards the base of Dayuan Island.
The base of Dayuan Island has been much larger than the last time Yang Guang left, and the land that had been enclosed with barbed wire has been leveled, and there are no traces of weeds and rocks anymore. Not only that, Ye Zongman's men were also cutting down trees on the periphery of the barbed wire, so that the open space left was more convenient for firearms to fire, and the wood obtained could be used to build camps.
There are a lot of wooden houses built on the side of the camp near the mountain peak, not to mention that the environment here is primitive but the conditions are not simple at all, all kinds of tools are readily available, and they are all ergonomic products from modern time and space, which are absolutely easy to use.
The entrance to the cave where dozens of tons of gold are secretly stored is in a wooden house here, and the main purpose of the building outside is actually to hide people's eyes, of course, these built wooden houses will not be wasted, before Yang Guang brought rice and other things from modern time and space are all stored here, and now there are a lot of new things.
Yang Guang chose the most remote wooden house as the mint, and he took out the wires first and installed them in the house himself. After the diesel engine placed outside the house began to work and made a surprising roar, the room suddenly shone brightly, which startled Ye Zongman and Wang Ying.
Looking at the light bulb shining above their heads, Ye Zongman and Wang Ying had a feeling of being in a fairyland, although they had seen rare things from Yang Guang many times, this method of directly turning night into day was still unheard of.
"It's amazing, is this what the immortals in the heavenly court use?" Wang Ying took Yang Guang's hand and asked, "Is the sun that rises during the day the light used by the immortals to illuminate at night?" Brother Zhao, I think you have to make the noise of that thing outside first, is that the sound of thunder just an immortal in order to make the sun in the sky light up? ”
Wang Ying's question made Yang Guang unbearable, he patiently explained, but the more he talked, the more he found that there were too many things involved, so he simply gave up the idea of popular science, and instead used a rather inaccurate way to make Wang Ying understand: "Shennong tastes herbs, so that people know what can be eaten, what things can be cured, what things are poisonous, etc." Baicao is born between heaven and earth, but everyone didn't know how to use it before Shennong. ”
"In addition to the herbs, there are many things that are also born between heaven and earth, and we also don't know how to use them, such as the lightning we see during thunderstorms. But not knowing it before doesn't mean that it won't be able to do it in the future, the electricity we use for lighting now is domestic, much more docile than lightning, but no matter how docile the jackals, tigers and leopards are also wild, so remember not to touch them. ”
Yang Guang's inaccurate explanation made Wang Ying and Ye Zongman understand the existence and use of electric energy, and after Yang Guang installed and debugged the stamping hydraulic press a few days later, Ye Zongman and Wang Ying began to be surprised.
Coins often do not use 100% pure precious metals, in addition to the cost factor, it is important to note that gold and silver are relatively soft and wear-resistant, and only by incorporating other metals can the coins have a long enough life.
When Yang Guang was purchasing in modern time and space, he bought a lot of other materials for coinage, and also brought information that recorded the detailed alloy ratio and production process, so the first attempt was relatively smooth, and it only took a few days to get the finished product.
Looking at the gold, silver and bronze coins placed on the wooden plate in front of him, Yang Guang reached out and took a gold coin. The gold coin is relatively large, so it feels like it is sinking when you put it in the palm of your hand.
On the obverse of the coin is a delicate pattern that looks a little like a blooming flower, and on the reverse there are four block Chinese characters "Tongtian Lingbao". Yang Guang admits that he has a little bit of "spoofing" interest, but Jin can afford to comment on these four words.
Compared with the thick gold coins, the silver coins are much lighter, that is, the degree of the modern space-time 5 cents, so that its value is far stretched, almost to ensure the implementation of the hundred system.
The main purpose of gold coins is for large trade, and the daily cost is generally not such a valuable thing, while the use of silver coins is much broader, and if the value is too high, it is not conducive to circulation.
As for the copper coins, Yang Guang did not plan to issue them at all, but only made some samples to show that his currency was a three-tier system. As the main currency in circulation in the market, it is also the lowest value currency, the copper coin should be similar to the function of the modern time and space Huaguo 5 cents banknote, not to mention the entire Ming Dynasty, that is, the circulation of Yangzhou in a day is astronomical, Yang Guang here is only two stamping hydraulic presses, it is really powerless, and he does not intend to bear the responsibility that should belong to the Ming government. (To be continued.) )