Tian Wu exchanged money for the first time, and exchanged for more than 50,000 pieces of Hongwudang 10 Wen's big money, as well as more than 200,000 pieces of leather money (local coinage).

As can be seen from the sheer quantity, the premium is in the copper content of these coins, which is where the cost of minting is reflected.

The coinage of the Ming Dynasty is similar to that of the Tang and Song dynasties, and it is still the method of casting.

However, compared with the Tang and Song dynasties, the coinage process of the Ming Dynasty has indeed improved.

However, the local coinage was made by these two points, which made the copper coin market in the Ming Dynasty very chaotic.

When Zhang Xuan found out about this problem, he had no way to solve it, so he could only mint a batch of good money from the government and stipulate that one tael of silver should be exchanged for 700 Wen.

Even if it is a reform move, it can't stop the cost, and make such a low silver-copper ratio, and the result is that the local government is crazy imitation, and the bad money has hit this batch of new money again.

In the end, the court couldn't bear it, so it had to be stopped.

Fortunately, Zhang Juzheng reformed and made a whip law, the core of which was the official face, recognized the circulation role of silver, and on this basis, adjusted the tax system.

So when Yan Zheng looked at the money he had exchanged, he was almost lying in the pile of money, this feeling was so refreshing.

It's like if you have a money printing machine at home, and when you run out of money, you go to print it out with six cents per kilowatt-hour, but everyone recognizes your account and rushes to exchange RMB for your money.

This kind of behavior is really addictive after using it once!

Without saying a word, he directly signed an order for the First Shipyard to build another class barge.

Transporting copper coins by barge can be very profitable every time, how can this kind of trade not be increased?

At the same time, he gave the order for the shipyard to build another Long March-class.

There are now two dry docks and one improvised dock, which makes it possible to build two ships at the same time and also meet the needs of ship repairs.

The next shipyard, Yan Zheng plans to put it in the bamboo trench, which is a deep-water port, and the dock is casually tidy.

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asked people to carry two frames of copper coins in exchange, and Yan Zheng came to the steel factory triumphantly.

He smiled and said to the ironwood needle: "Melt all these copper coins!" ”

Without saying a word, Tiemu Needle immediately asked people to get a clay crucible and began to melt money.

Looking at the copper coins slowly changing, Tiemu Needle suddenly felt distressed and said, "Son of God, aren't these coins minted copper coins?" How to melt off? ”

Yan Zheng smiled: "Melt and recast!" These copper coins are all Ming style, we want the Dongfan style! ”

Tiemu Needle was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he said: "It makes sense, this is to turn the copper coins of the Ming Kingdom into our own copper coins!" ”

Yan Zheng nodded, looking at the copper coins in the crucible after they were melted, he ordered: "Add lead, stir it after adding lead, and then wait." ”

The iron and wood needles did so, and when the content of lead in it increased, the density of lead was greater than that of copper, so it began to sink to the bottom.

In this way, the already higher content of lead in the bad money is melted away, and the tin liquid also slowly floats in the process.

If you wait for these copper coins to melt and layer slowly, it will be a tedious thing, but this operation speeds up the process.

Somewhat similar to the role of clarification, the ancient Chinese also mastered this technique very early.

Wealthy merchants collected good money and melted it, and in this way, they used the melted copper to make money or make copper utensils, and they could make a lot of profits.

And Yan Zheng is also brazenly carrying out this kind of operation at the moment.

Even in the future, there will be mutual money!

Yan Zheng's Dongfan copper coins flowed past, and the wealthy merchants cheaply got the inferior coins such as leather money, exchanged them for this kind of Dongfan good money with higher copper content, melted it to get copper, and used it to make bronze ware.

When Dongfan received the bad money, he melted it down, and relying on the cost advantage, he minted it into copper coins and took them to Zhangzhou to buy money and exchange money.

The key to this is the cost of minting money and the copper content, if converted, it is equivalent to Yan Zheng has been able to make better copper coins than Daming with less copper!

Productivity in this, played a huge role, and when Yan Zheng's three and ten minting machines were opened, the bad money in the Ming market would be re-expelled from the good money.

At that time, there will be a situation where the bad currency will depreciate even more, and the Dongfan copper coins will also depreciate, and those good money will also begin to lose the market.

It's a financial war! Due to the inconvenient transmission and vast size, it may initially have only a significant impact on coastal areas.

But in the long run, this is very likely to have a very far-reaching impact on the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty would become the first dynasty in history to lose its sovereignty over currency.

After melting a cauldron, Yan Zheng nodded with satisfaction and said, "Just follow this method, re-melt the copper, tin, and lead, and then re-batch, make it into a copper plate, and send it to the mint after it is done!" This matter will be handed over to the prisoners of war, and I will give you a note later, and you go to them and ask for 100 prisoners of war, and every time you get back the money in the future, you will deal with it like this! ”

"Also, the fourth minting machine, start to be built on the other side of the river, and the errand of financing money and casting copper plates will also be put over there!"

Ironwood nodded, he knew it was spreading out some capacity.

The current city of Mo is too crowded, and there is no planning outside the city of Me, but fortunately, a lot of land on the other side of the river has been reserved.

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Returning to the Red House from the steel factory, Yan Zheng found that the expanded part had begun to take shape.

He was in a much happier mood, and the coinage was simply a gift from the Ming Dynasty before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

He returned to the table with a smile, looked at the Huaxia Constitution, and now finally added a few articles.

These articles are all about the system, and it is inconvenient to describe them in detail here.

Roughly speaking, China will be a constitutional monarchy in the future.

Similar to a dual monarchy, under the premise of constitutionality, the monarch has more power than the parliament, and all major laws must be signed by it, and it often has the power to appoint ministers and parliamentarians.

It's just that each institution has been localized by Yan Zheng and renamed (anti-river crab).

The constitutional body is called the House of Parliament and has legislative power.

The cabinet has not changed its name, and the cabinet is still used, the difference is that the Chinese cabinet is not a function of later generations, but similar to the XXX Standing Committee.

Then there was the Privy Council, which was the supreme consultative body of state, similar to the cabinet of later constitutional monarchies, enjoying executive power and being supervised by the court house.

There is also a law court, which is responsible for judicial power, which determines that the monarch's power cannot be higher than the legal power, and adds a specific clause, that is, the monarch can exercise special decrees to interfere with the monarch's power and supervise the monarch's power in certain cases that have a significant impact.

Actually, Yan Zheng is very sure that this set can work, but it is inconvenient to say the reason and the source.

Besides, if there is a problem with the results of practice, he can still exercise the royal power to correct it.

To be honest, after writing these articles, many of the following clauses are only side notes.

What is really important is how to expound the rights and obligations of citizens, which must be clarified, and the concept of the Chinese clan must be clearly explained.

First of all, equality of personality and equality in law must be achieved, but this is what the Chinese people say behind closed doors.

As for people from other regions, they will not be able to enjoy this article until they are included in the Huaxia clan.

And the monarch of Huaxia is the only criterion for adjudicating this matter, in the future, Yan Zheng can put a certain race into the situation of the public enemy of Huaxia with a word, and he can also let a race be directly included in it with a word.

In this way, we can get a set of high-sounding rhetoric for the future expansion and reclamation. Let future generations be able to confidently say: This world was given to me by the Creator of the Chinese race, we will spread civilization overseas, we have swept away all backwardness and ignorance, we sail all over the world, just to spread the gospel of China, we are born to enjoy the best land, the highest status!

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