At present, there are two main fleets to the outside world, one is led by Li Haigou, while running Ryukyu and Satsuma, and on the other hand, the old students lead the new students.

One team is led by Tian Wu and is responsible for running the Zhangzhou-Penghu-Yangang line.

If it weren't for the lack of capacity, Yan Zheng even planned to directly separate the Penghu and Fujian routes.

In this way, a fleet of ships can be used directly to cross the Dongfan Strait, instead of passing through Penghu.

Anyway, the ship is tall and has a cross-sail combination, and a ship of this type of Long March does not need to take another pretext.

In this way, it will take about a day and night to reach the opposite side.

After the special order was issued, the people below did not dare to be sloppy at all.

Yan Zheng got a bunch of copper coins eight days later, which shows that the speed of the boat has indeed increased a lot since the combination of vertical and horizontal sails was made.

Just looking at these copper coins, he can be said to be confused, and Daming's copper coins are also miscellaneous!

There are all kinds of Tongbao, all kinds of quality, it looks big, if this is in the Daming Bank, I am afraid that the identification of copper coins will have to learn for several years!

After thinking about it, he said to Lan Ya: "Go and call Qiu Rui, the child I brought back that day!"

Lan Ya nodded in agreement, she knew that this boy was teaching math now.

Not long after, Qiu Rui walked in wearing a printed and dyed Mao suit, combing his big back.

After Yan Zheng saw it, he almost couldn't hold back, he really looked like a rural teacher in later generations!

This batch of printed and dyed tunics is all made of indigo imported from Fujian, so it looks very old.

In order to highlight the difference, Yan Zheng generally wears gray and black, and the blue one is all issued to the cadres, and the army has also begun to be blue!

"King, are you looking for me?" Qiu Ruicai arched his hand.

Yan Zheng nodded with a smile and quipped: "You are quite decent in this dress!"

Qiu Ruicai smiled and said: "Thank you for the praise of the king, this dress is light and simple, it is breathable and fitting when you wear it, and it is not in the way!"

"It's just a little crude, isn't it?" Yan Zheng said with a smile.

Qiu Ruicai hurriedly bowed down and said: "Don't dare, this Dongfan costume has the benefits of Dongfan clothing, as for the Daming dress, there is also the truth of the Daming dress!"

"Well said! Clothes, the important thing is to wear comfortable and convenient, you can't expect to farm and work, but also wear silk and satin, so the clothing of Dongfan is actually improved from the clothing of the working people.

The reason why it is made to be elegant is also to show that we are really thinking about the working people! As for the Huaxia clothes, you can rest assured, I will not force the elimination of the clothes, and the future festivals, the Huaxia clothes, will still appear in the form of dresses! What can't be passed down in China for thousands of years will be broken in our hands! ”

Qiu Ruicai's forehead was sweating, but he muttered in his heart, the meaning of this short hair is actually to carry forward the Chinese clothes!

It's just that he quickly reacted, this short hair has been preaching the unity of Dongfan and China, and the Dongfan people also regard themselves as Chinese, which shows that his ambition is not small.

But in addition to borrowing Chinese customs and names, he did not respect Confucius and Mencius, nor did he use any Confucian etiquette to govern, which shows that this person respects Huaxia but does not want to use his name and religion, and even in his words and deeds, there are many betrayals, which makes him have more beads of sweat on his forehead.

He shouted in his heart, this person is really an enemy of the famous religion for thousands of years!

Yan Zheng looked at his reaction, and said with a smile: "Come, you come to see these copper coins, if I want to mint coins, what do you suggest?"

Qiu Ruicai stepped forward slowly, rummaged through a pile of copper coins, and quickly picked them up skillfully.

While picking, he said: "The king is not a Ming person, and he has less contact with copper coins, so he naturally doesn't know the difference!" But for the people of the Ming Dynasty, they can see the difference in money at a glance! ”

"All parts of the Ming Dynasty can mint coins, and this law is also a helpless move where copper coins are not enough, but it has already become a harmful move to the people! Almost all the good money on the market is eaten by the wealthy landlords, and in the hands of the small people, there is only some bad money. And when paying taxes, all kinds of fire consumption will hurt the people even more! ”

"If the king wants to cast Dongfan's money, it is not tricky, but if he has more contact with Daming in the future, it may be harmful. Because there were many miners in the Ming Dynasty, as long as it was profitable, they would definitely collect good money from the Ming Dynasty and resell the money minted into Dongfan to buy things in Dongfan! ”

Yan Zheng looked at Qiu Ruicai's skillful movements, and couldn't help sighing: "It turns out that the Ming monetary system is so chaotic, no wonder the commerce of the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, but the court can't get a little light, and it can't even control the method of coinage, pitiful!"

Qiu Ruicai smiled and continued to lower his head to choose, he had a more intuitive feeling about the landlord and gentry using copper coins to harm others and benefit themselves.

One of the ways of the landlords and gentry is to eat good money and use bad money for lending. This trick is equivalent to exploitation twice.

After picking for a while, the copper coins in front of Yan Zheng were divided into thirteen small piles, and there were more than a dozen coins, which were placed separately.

After finishing the selection, Qiu Rui pointed to the dozen or so coins that were made out separately and said: "King, these are gold-backed money, black lacquer money and Rongbian money, these dozen coins can be described as the best copper coins in the Ming Dynasty!"

"Presumably it is a bonus specially given by the money bank when it is replaced! These three kinds of money, all of which have been treated with anti-counterfeiting, are specially coated with copper powder on both sides of the front and back, and look bright as gold!

Black lacquer money is on the surface, and it is smoked into a black lacquer shape. The edge of the coin is on the edge of the copper coin, with a special pattern. These three kinds of money, with enough materials, are good money! Ordinary people may be able to encounter more than a dozen times in their lifetime! ”

Yan Zheng took it and took a look, and after weighing it, he found that these three kinds of money were thicker, and the craftsmanship was relatively more exquisite.

Historically, there will be a large-scale minting of these three kinds of money, and it will have to wait for the imperial court to find out that the bad money is harmful to the country and the people.

"King, please look, this money is bad money, at a glance, you can know that it was cast by the local government, and the color is blue, I'm afraid that there is more tin!"

Yan Zheng took it and looked at it again and said, "When you hold it in your hand, it feels different!" No wonder, no wonder! ”

Qiu Ruicai smiled and said: "Look, the quality of this pile of money is relatively good, and the copper material is used a little more, but not too much, so this money is the most on the market!"

Yan Zheng looked at the highest pile, took it and looked at it, and said, "This money is not good-looking!"

"Naturally, it's not good-looking, but it's good to look good when there is more copper!" Qiu Ruicai explained.

Yan Zheng frowned and looked at it, and under Qiu Ruicai's explanation, he read all the thirteen types of copper coins.

"Why is it that the most of these bad money is ten and fifty?"

Qiu Ruicai smiled bitterly: "The imperial court once minted large coins, and these coins were all the year names of Emperor Taizu, which were minted at that time.

As a result, the money of the imperial court was not very good, and the merchants and gentry below saw this, and they cast money one after another, and the money was even better than that of the imperial court, which was a huge profit! It's a pity that there is more private money, and the people have been suffering for a long time! ”

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's commotion is far more than that, such as issuing banknotes, but not recognizing banknotes when collecting taxes, and as a result, the banknote credit formed since the Song Dynasty has been lost by his commotion operations.

Yan Zheng scratched his head, this coinage matter really can't be sloppy.

He listened to it for so long and understood that the key point of coinage is the use of materials, the use of materials is too sufficient, it is very likely to be melted by the people for profit, although this is a later story, but a decade or two later, it is best to avoid it now!

And if the materials are too sufficient, they may attract Ming merchants, and if they eat on a large scale, the meaning of casting will become a job for them.

You can try to restrict, strictly prohibit the private minting of copper coins, and the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to circulate in Dongfan, but you can't stop the people's exchanges.

At the same time, the materials can not be too bad, too poor will leave room for private casters to make profits, when the time is not only Dongfan people, I am afraid that even the Ming Dynasty officials at all levels, will also work hard to cast.

In addition, a lot of thought has to be put into the style design of copper coins.

This kind of thing made Yan Zheng want to give up minting copper coins and want to directly put on silver coins.

But he understands that the silver reserves are not enough, and Daming is also extremely short of silver at this moment!

But the greater the difficulty, the greater the reward, if he can mint a copper coin of equal value at a lower cost, he can replace the Ming Dynasty and collect seigniorage!

At that time, he will make as much as he makes! It is enough to purchase a large amount of materials from Daming.

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