Chapter 348: Gold Coins (II)

Shi Fatzi inquired and looked at the manager of Speer, who was sitting on the single sofa in the study, and wondered if there was something wrong with it, so that Lorliste was anxious to send Schward to pull him over. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info It's not just Lorist during this time, I'm also very busy on my side, and there are a lot of things in the family territory waiting to be dealt with by myself.

"That's right, Chief Speer said that you had instructed him to stop using the Imperial Old Man's Head Gold Coin in the family domain, and to only buy it and not spend it. At present, more than 8 million pieces have been accumulated. In this destruction of the Duchy of Madras, we seized nearly 10 million gold coins of the old man's head of the Empire, and at the same time, it was also discovered that the Grand Duke of Madras originally intended to use these gold coins to privately mint gold fortunes. It's a pity that his ambition died before he was paid, and it was impossible to complete this cottage task. I just wanted to ask you if we could privately mint Jinford? After all, the three-to-one exchange rate is too much of a loss......" Lorist got straight to the point and explained the reason for inviting Shi Fatzi to come.

"Your Highness, the document about the Grand Duke of Madras wanting to mint gold for private purposes is with me, and during this time, I have also been thinking about what to do with those imperial old men's head gold coins, but I haven't had a good plan for the time being, so I haven't submitted this matter to you. My personal opinion is that it is not a good idea to privately mint Kimford. Shi Fatzi thought for a while and said.

"Why? Kingford has become the largest, most versatile, and most reassuring currency on the continent of Guelintea. Don't look at the countries where business alliances are rampant, and now they have the strictest vigilance and precautions against business alliances, but their domestic circulation is still Kingford. As long as we mint these Imperial Old Man Gold Coins into Golden Ford, we can spend them right away. Lorist said.

"My lord, do you know which chamber of commerce of the business alliance Jinford is issued?" Shi Fatzi shook his head when he saw Lorist before he continued: "Jinford is the largest chamber of commerce in the business alliance, and the Twin Dragon Chamber of Commerce led by the Seven Giants is issued, but the Twin Dragon Chamber of Commerce only accounts for sixty percent of the profits, the other six giant chambers of commerce each account for five percent, and the remaining ten percent is used as the daily administrative expenses of the alliance. ”

"Since all gold coins have the same material formula ratio, and they must be tested with gold liquid before leaving the factory, the profit model of the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce to issue gold fords is the loss rate. That is to say, one hundred and ten materials need to be prepared to mint one hundred goldfords. The material that remains after the casting is completed is the profit. The Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce basically issues 10 million gold fords a year, and the highest annual issuance is 30 million gold fords.

However, the loss rate of 10 percent refers to the issuance within the business alliance, in fact, the profit of the issuance of 10 million gold fords a year is not so high, it is about 8 percent, after deducting the cost of dividends, artificial field molds and other expenses, the real net profit of issuing 10 million gold fords is only two or three hundred thousand gold fords. What really makes the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce rich is external processing, that is, casting Jinfu for other countries.

The loss rate of external processing and casting Jinfu is 30 percent, and the relationship can be reduced to 25 percent. Your Highness, do you remember the Kingdom of Chigda, that Marquis of the Kingdom of Chigda, Marquis of Fausta, was to escort a batch of gold and silver to the city of Morente to prepare to cast the Golden Ford. The two-headed dragon chamber of commerce gave a loss rate of twenty-five percent, but in fact it was only twenty percent, and five percent went into the marquis's pocket, and the kingdom of Chigeda commissioned the business alliance to mint fifteen million gold-for-fortune ......"

Kingdom of Chigda...... Marquis of Lopie Fausta...... The middle-aged nobleman holding the girl who looked like an elf in the moonlight had a gold badge with a firebird pattern pinned to his chest...... A long memory came flooding back to her heart, and Lorlist's expression began to drift......

Shi Fatzi closed his mouth very understandingly, and motioned to Schward, who was standing in the corner, to bring him a bottle of fruit wine.

It took a while for Lorist to come to his senses, and Fat Shi was already pouring himself a second glass of wine.

"How do you know so clearly?" said Lorliste's voice was a little hoarse.

"Back then, I had a stupid brother who fell out of love, and his lover followed this Marquis of Rofe. So I went to investigate, and found that this marquis was so rich and powerful that I couldn't do anything about him, and I couldn't help my brother. That's one of the things I regret the most. However, at the same time, he figured out the matter of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce's foreign OEM casting Jinfu, and became interested in it and had an in-depth understanding. found out that the old man's head gold coin exchange was greasy, and originally wanted to resell it to make a fortune. Later, it was discovered that the people who bought and exchanged the Imperial Old Man's Head Gold Coin were all people from the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, so he dispelled this idea. ”

Lorist laughed: "You are such a failure, you can't do both things well. ”

Shi Fatzi said: "It's all nonsense, that marquis is a golden knight, I was only two stars of silver at that time, and to find trouble with him is to ask for trouble, and I am not his opponent at all." As for the fat meat targeted by the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, with me at that time, the deputy director of the small law enforcement department of Dawn Academy, wanting to take a bite was purely looking for death. ”

Lorist took the wine bottle, and didn't use the glass, and directly knocked it with the bottleneck and the wine glass that Shi Fat Man took: "I respect the years and youth we spent in Dawn Academy......"

He raised his head and gulped down.

Steward Speer, who was sitting on the single sofa, shook his head helplessly, his young duke didn't care about the prestige of being the Grand Duke of the Northland, and he wasn't a farmer and mercenary in a village tavern, how could he drink like this.

After pouring down half a bottle of fruit wine, Lorist wiped his mouth with his sleeve: "I have a question, what casting method does the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce use to issue Jinfu, so that it can issue more than 10 million or even 30 million pieces a year?"

Lorist remembers that the countries on the continent of Gelinthia used the gypsum casting method to issue gold coins, that is, the pattern of the gold coin was first engraved on the metal, and then the thickness of the gold coin and the traces on both sides were printed on the soft gypsum board, and after the gypsum board hardened, the two sides were closed, and then the gold liquid was poured in, and after cooling, the gypsum board was broken and the gold coin was trimmed and inspected, so that a gold coin was minted. However, the use of this method to mint gold coins has a high scrap rate, which is very uneconomical in terms of labor, cost and loss.

"Your Highness, the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce uses the metal casting mold method, and they have an alloy that is kept secret from the outside world, and they use this alloy to cast three molds, the bottom plate, the middle plate, and the panel. After fitting, pour in the gold liquid directly, then water to accelerate the cooling, remove the bottom plate and the panel, and tap the middle plate with a wooden hammer, and the cast gold ford will fall off, and then a simple trim can be done. One mold can cast 100 gold fords at a time. And a foundry, with dozens of molds, can cast nearly a million gold fords a day if needed.

I once accompanied Dean Levins on a tour of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce's foundry, and they didn't mind inviting someone of status to visit. According to the steward of a two-headed dragon chamber of commerce who accompanied the tour, their method of minting gold coins from metal molds was the most advanced on the continent of Gelintya. Other countries can mint a gold coin at a cost of 1.3 to 1.5 times, but they can keep the cost below 1.1. This is the main reason why the countries around the world have entrusted the business of minting gold coins to the business alliance, and the business alliance has also expanded the use of Jinford, so that Jinford has slowly become a common gold coin in the mainland. ”

Lorist raised his head: "You mean that we don't need to privately mint Jinford by ourselves, just entrust it directly to the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce?"

Shi Fatzi pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "Your Highness, I don't recommend you to do this. The biggest possibility that the Grand Duke of Madras wanted to mint gold for private purposes was that he could not transport the accumulated gold coins of the Imperial Old Man's Head to the Commercial Alliance, and the road was impassable, and he could not exchange them even if he wanted to. In addition, because the exchange rate of three to one was too much of a loss, I thought of privately minting Jinfu. The steward in charge of the matter confessed that several gold and silver craftsmen recruited by the Grand Duke had spent a great deal of time not getting the molds for plate making.

Privately casting Jinford, which is easy to say, is actually very difficult. Although the material of the gold coin formula is the same, because of the characteristics of the gold coin minted by this formula, the pattern is clear and resistant to wear, so the privately minted gold ford must be exactly the same as the one issued by the commercial alliance, and the position of the pattern on the obverse and reverse must not be different. And this is the most difficult part of private casting. Because the foundry of the Double-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce uses the metal casting mold method, all the Jinford that leaves the factory are exactly the same, and if there is no same alloy plate-making mold for private casting, the gypsum casting mold method can only be used.

Perhaps the previous batch of gold coins minted by the gypsum casting method is very similar to the goldford, but if you continue to mint it, it is easy to have blurred lines, deviations in the position of the front and back patterns, etc., and it is easy to find that this is a privately minted gold coin. This requires frequent modification of the mold, which will greatly increase labor and costs. Once it is detected, according to the common practice of various countries on the mainland, even if the privately minted gold coins pass the test of gold liquid, their value will be automatically reduced by half, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

The Grand Duke of Madras had no choice but to want to privately mint Jinford. We at the Norton family don't have to do that. It is very convenient to send these Imperial Old Heads to Moriente City by sea and entrust them to the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, and through the introduction of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, we can even reduce the loss rate to 20%, which is more economical than taking it for private casting. ”

"It's just ......," Shi Fatzi hesitated.

"Is there anything wrong?" Lorist was a little strange, since it was better to entrust the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce of the Business Alliance to OEM than private casting, then why didn't Shi Fatzi recommend doing it himself?

"Your Highness, I don't know how to define our Northlands, and the relationship between the Northlands and the Petersen Chamber of Commerce is a friendly and cooperative business partner. But we are flying the banner of the Kingdom of Antinac, and now the Kingdom of Andinac is ruled by His Royal Highness, and his relationship with the commercial alliance is hostile. So I'm very worried about rashly sending these Imperial Old Man Gold Coins to the Business Alliance to be reminted into Jinford, even if there is a Peterson Chamber of Commerce to endorse us, I am afraid that if someone has a heart to provoke, the Business Alliance will easily start the idea of this huge amount of money.

The current business alliance is not the one we know at Dawn Academy, and I have found that the business alliance with a lord system has no lower limit than even those noble feudal kingdoms and duchies, as the last time you visited the city of Moronte, you showed this. In addition, I have doubts about the Petersen Chamber of Commerce, they still owe our family nearly half a million gold fords, although they repay part of it every year, but in terms of the credibility of a chamber of commerce, this is already a very disappointing thing.

I have instructed my family not to deal with the Petersen Chamber of Commerce every year in any way other than the skin. Unless they pay off all the money first. Although they emphasized the difficulty of the trade routes being blocked by the Zhou Nation, several years had passed since the Glass War, and the relationship between the business alliance and the Zhou Nation had not improved, which could not but make one doubt their sincerity. In such a situation, I don't think it would be a good idea to give them these gold coins that had been stored up in the Empire and recast them into goldford. ”

Lorist tapped his fingers on the table top, what Shi Fat Man said was very reasonable, the current situation is indeed not suitable to send these Imperial Old Man Head Gold Coins to Morent City to entrust the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce to recast them into Jinford. Although I am not afraid of the idea of the business alliance to fight this batch of gold coins, it is better to have more than one thing, and if something really happens, I have to turn around and fight with the business alliance. With the powerful Norton family armed, the Business Alliance will regret its greed, but its own side is a labor expedition, and even if it defeats the Business Alliance, it will be broken. In particular, the happiest will be the Second Highness, who will sit back and enjoy the results, and then swallow the results with a smile......

"Then should we continue to accumulate these Imperial Old Men and ......wait for a while," Lorist stopped tapping his fingers on the table.

"Your Highness, what I'm thinking about during this time is whether our family should issue a gold coin of its own?" said Shi Fatzi.

"We issue our own gold coins?" Lorist and Speer who was sitting on the sofa, and Schward, who was standing in the corner, were all stunned, and Shi Fatzi's brain was a little big.

"Yes, Your Highness. Our family territory currently has a population of 1.3 million, and when the territory is replaced, the entire Northland will belong to our family, and if the southern and eastern regions of the Northland are developed, at least seven Fengle Plains can be settled, and as long as there are enough immigrants to the Northland, it is easy to reach a population of three million, which is more than the population of some kingdoms and principalities. We could issue a gold coin of our House of Norton, called the Bear Coins, to circulate in the Northlands and the territories of our three allies. As long as we make it mandatory for all transactions to be in Bear Coins, we can drive Kingford out of our sphere of influence in a few days......"

"Alright, stop dreaming. Lorist looked at the fat man who was foaming at the mouth and laughed: "It is not the actual situation to want to issue the family's own gold coins now. First of all, His Royal Highness will never allow a family-issued gold coin to appear in the Kingdom of Antinac, which is related to the face of a kingdom. Secondly, there is no gold mine in our family territory, and without a steady stream of output, we will not be able to cope with the increasing market demand, which is a fatal weakness for the issuer, and thirdly, what method are you going to use to mint gold coins?

"No, Your Highness. Shi Fatzi replied very seriously: "We are not issuing gold coins immediately, His Royal Highness doesn't need to deal with him for the time being, what he has to worry about in the next few years is how to deal with the business alliance and the four principalities in the middle of the country, maybe he will also thank us for issuing gold coins to replace the old man's head gold coins and gold fortune of the empire."

As for the gold mine, I have also thought about it, after the family takes the entire Northland, Master Sid will organize a team of professional explorers to explore the entire Northland, the eastern region of the Northland, the former Kenmax family territory has a small gold mine, although it has been mined almost, but Master Sid believes that there must be gold veins, and there is no reason for the existence of a separate small gold mine.

In addition, even if no gold mines are discovered, the current gold coins of the Imperial Old Man's Head that our family has accumulated at present, as well as the horseshoe gold and the gold paid by the Earl of Kenmasse, are enough for us to issue more than 20 million gold coins worth one to one with the weight of Kingford. And this amount of gold is enough to cope with the circulation of transactions in the family's territory and sphere of influence. In the unlikely event that there is a shortage of gold, we can also urgently buy gold mines or use goldford to directly recast into family gold coins.

The last method to use to mint gold coins, I hope it will be the same metal casting method as the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce. I went to consult Master Yu Lian in the Xuantie Refining Field, and Master Yu Lian was willing to experiment to see if he could make this alloy. With this alloy, we will be able to make metal stencils, and we will be able to produce large quantities of Bear Coins with minimal wear and tear, just like the Gold Coin Mint of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce. ”

Hearing that gold coins could be minted with minimal loss, Chief Speer also stood up: "Your Highness, I agree with the opinion of Lord Knight Schredder, our family should issue its own gold coins. ”

Lorist pondered silently for a while, and nodded slowly: "Schreder, you write me a plan with your ideas, I will understand the situation again, and have a meeting to discuss it later." Let's get here today. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

...... (To be continued.) )