The business tax of Daqian is one of ten taxes, to be honest, it is not high, but it can't stand someone who wants to earn more, since he is not even willing to pay such a tax, is it still a big Qian?

He enjoyed the convenience and various benefits brought by the big cadres, but he was unwilling to pay taxes for the big cadres. Wang Xin doesn't think they are still big people!

On the other hand, with Wang Xin's large amount of money and grain, the preparatory work for the establishment of the Dengzhou Navy Division is also progressing smoothly.

Large ships lay keels in the dock and then assemble them together. And in a place only ten miles away from the shipyard, five thousand fishermen have also been recruited.

These fishermen have basically lived by the sea for generations, often go out to sea to fish, and they are all excellent in water, and they are also the best sailors.

Because the fisherman goes out to sea to fish all the year round, he knows best what it means to be in the same boat, and his obedience and cooperation are extremely high.

Miners go down to the mine all year round, and the mine tunnels go deep underground, which also requires cooperation and various rules, after all, once something goes wrong, it is likely that everyone will be unlucky together.

The military is also a place where you need to work together, so these two types of people are very suitable for forming an army.

Five thousand fishermen formed a naval army, and soon it had some scale, and in addition to these, various military supplies were also sent.

The navy of Daqian is strong and very experienced in naval combat, but it is cold in the north, and the navy in the south may not be able to stand it.

Moreover, the previous naval forces of Daqian were all in the rivers and rarely entered the ocean, and Dengzhou needed to fight across the sea, and it was better to use the fishermen here.

In order to form a naval army, Wang Xin drew 5,000 sets of rattan armor for these soldiers to use. With rattan armor to protect yourself, even if you fall into the water, you can rely on the buoyancy of the rattan armor to float on the water surface without drowning.

Zhao Yi supervised the construction of ships and trained sailors, and Wang Xin had already planned to wait for the navy to be trained, so that he could lead the navy to attack Jizi Korea across the sea.

Craftsman supervisor.

Accompanied by the rolling heatwave, a clanging sound sounded, followed by a squeaky sound, an iron rod the thickness of an arm, more than a zhang long, slowly rotated, and under the iron rod, an iron plate was pressing down the red-hot silver nugget.

Eventually, the silver nugget was pressed like mud into a silver plate. Immediately afterwards, a big man picked up the silver plate and stuffed it into a machine that looked similar to it, only to see that the iron plate was slowly pressed, and finally one silver coin was pressed out.

Soon, the machine was lifted, and a master next to it put the silver coins into the water to cool them quickly. When the coin had cooled down, a craftsman next to him began to take out tools to carve the coin, correcting the flaws on the coin, and after carving, the coin was finally made.

The master craftsman wiped the carved silver coins clean, carefully packed them into a brocade box, and then hurried out of the workshop with the brocade box and hurried towards the palace.

About half an hour later, in the Shangyang Palace, Wang Xin saw twenty shiny silver coins placed in a row in the brocade box.

These silver coins are cold in hand, and the front is carved with a bird that is spreading its wings and flying high, which is the divine bird of Daqian, Xuanniao, and the top of the Xuanniao pattern is written with one or two.

In addition to the Xuanniao pattern, there is also a row of text on the edge of the silver coin, which reads 'Daqian silver coin, one when one thousand'.

Wang Xin turned the silver coin over, and the back of the silver coin was engraved with some patterns, and the four big characters of Yuanfeng and Silver Dollar were written in the middle.

The entire silver coin does not look very clear, and there are still traces of engraving in many places, so it is clear that the technique of silver coin pressing is still flawed.

However, this does not prevent this coin from still being a fine silver coin, after all, there is nothing more beautiful in this era. This flaw is perfectly acceptable.

After looking at the appearance of the silver coin, Wang Xin weighed the silver coin in his hand, the silver coin was full of weight, and then asked, "How much does such a silver coin weigh?" ”

"Your Majesty, the silver coin weighs a tael." The master craftsman said respectfully.

"One or two!" Wang Xin frowned, according to the current value of silver, it is almost 1,100 copper coins to 1,000 and 50 copper coins to buy one or two taels of silver, and now such a silver coin is enough to weigh one or two. Don't count the labor, just the material money, according to one to one thousand.

"This coin is pure silver?" Wang Xin asked.

"Your Majesty is pure silver!" The master craftsman said.

"Stupid!" Wang Xin scolded directly: "One tael of silver costs one thousand and fifty copper coins, do you have to exchange one tael of silver coins for one tael for one tael?" ”

The master craftsman's face changed, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is angry, the minister knows that he is wrong, this silver coin is a pattern coin." ”

"Go and add copper to the silver coins and mint them!" Wang Xin said directly.

"Yes!" The master craftsman said respectfully, ready to go back and continue minting coins.

At this time, Wang Xin seemed to remember something, and suddenly said, "Come back!" ”

The master craftsman hurriedly returned.

Wang Xin said: "Go and call Wang Xiu and let him go to mint coins together!" ”

Soon a middle-aged man in his forties came to the hall, and Wang Xin said with a smile: "Twelfth brother, you go and help them mint silver coins." ”

Wang Xiu agreed.

Two days later, the master came to the palace again with a box of silver coins. This time the silver coin looks similar to the last time, except that the silver coin is a little smaller than the last one.

Wang Xin nodded slightly after looking at it, then picked up a silver coin and blew it hard, and then put it to his ear, only to hear a pleasant sound, and Wang Xin smiled.

"Your Majesty's silver coin this time uses ninety percent silver, one percent copper, and at the same time, the weight has also been reduced, it is nine coins, and the value of the currency is the same as last time."

"How many silver coins can you mint in a day?" Wang Xin asked directly.

"Back to Your Majesty, the process is not very mature now, it can suppress six hundred pieces a day, if it is made in the future, a set of machinery should be able to suppress about two thousand pieces a day."

Wang Xin nodded, and then said, "According to this pattern, suppress 100,000 silver coins as soon as possible." ”

"Your Majesty rest assured, the minister will do it immediately."

After receiving the order, the master of the craftsman immediately began to make the machinery, and it only took half a month to reassemble several sets of machinery, and then began to mint silver coins with all his might.

In just one month, all 100,000 "Imperial Silver Coins" were produced.

At the last court meeting before the Chinese New Year, Wang Xin officially distributed these silver coins as the official's salary for this month, and at the same time began to take out 20,000 silver coins and put them in the money bank for exchange, and officially issued an edict ordering the circulation of 'imperial silver coins'.

At the same time, the method of identifying 'Imperial Silver Coins' was also announced with a notice.

As soon as this exquisitely shaped and weighty 'imperial silver coin' appeared, it was immediately welcomed by officials and the common people.

Wang Xin's original exchange rate of one piece soon rose to 1,100 pieces, and there was even no market price.

(End of chapter)