Chapter 131

The Ming Dynasty actually minted a very small amount of money, with this period of time Cheng Shijie's in-depth understanding of ancient money, he knew that Hongxi, orthodoxy, Jingtai, Tianshun, Chenghua, Zhengde did not mint money.

Although Yongle and Xuande had minted money, they did not mint much, Yongle had very little money, Xuande money only minted 100,000 yuan in total, and Xuande did not mint money at all in the next 50 years. In the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, Hongzhi Tongbao was cast, but the casting amount was insufficient; Jiajing money is only minted about 100,000 yuan a year. The entire Ming Dynasty and the Sixteen Emperors lasted 277 years, which was much less than the amount of money minted in the Tang and Song dynasties, and even less than one-tenth of that of the Song Dynasty.

The court of the Ming Dynasty rarely minted money, for many reasons, first of all, the arrival of the Silver Age, and after Zhang Juzheng's whip law, the court's taxation mainly relied on silver.

But silver is only a precious metal, and it is more susceptible to oxidation than gold and copper. The tax silver collected by the local government can be recast into silver ingots, and the fire consumption is also an additional income for officials, which is basically legalized.

There is another thing that makes Cheng Shijie feel incredible, even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty circulated in surrounding countries, but because they were afraid of circulating abroad, they actually did not mint money.

It's like there's an opportunity to make money, but you turn a blind eye.

In later generations, Dalian has more than 70 iron ore resources, more than 40 copper ore resources, more than 20 lead-zinc ore points, due to backward technology and exploration capabilities, so far, Cheng Shijie's people have only found 16 iron mines, 14 coal mines, and four copper mines.

In addition, Cheng Shijie's warehouse also stored more than 400,000 catties of copper ingots, and the copper coins were minted according to the ratio of copper and lead to 73, at least more than 60 small flat coins could be minted.

Chongzhen Tongbao has four specifications: small flat money, when two money, when five money, when ten money, and the weight ranges from 3.72 grams to 10 grams.

Cheng Shijie pondered, first transferred manpower from the inside to cast Chongzhen Tongbao.

Liaodong's local talent pool, really what kind of people have, because the Chongzhen Dynasty minted money, not all in the capital of the Ministry of Industry, there are many places, from the later generations found Chongzhen Tongbao to calculate, there are Gui (Guizhou), heavy (Chongqing), plus (Sichuan Jiading), a total (that is, through "Gong", Guangxi Gongcheng, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties all belong to Pingle Fu), Jiang (Jiangning, Jiangsu), Guang (Guangdong), Ji (that is, Ji Han, referring to Shu Han. ), Ying (Yingtianfu), Zhong (Zhongzhou, Sichuan), Qingzhong, Qing (Nanjing Chizhou Mansion or Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, Qingyang County, Nanzhi), E (Ezhou), Yu (Yulin, Shaanxi), Shanghai (should be Lu, Luzhou, Sichuan), Ning (the abbreviation of Nanjing City, Jiangsu, because after the Sui Dynasty, it was named after Jiangning County and Jiangning Capital and Jiangning Mansion. ), Taiping (Taiping County, Kuizhou Prefecture, Sichuan).

There are dozens of production areas such as the fifth worker, the fifth supervisor, and the fifth household, with the severe inflation of the Chongzhen Dynasty, even if the profit of the minted money is 30%, it has been unable to make up for the loss of inflation, in this case, private individuals are unwilling to do thankless things.

Artisans who knew how to cast had no livelihood and became homeless. is like Fu Li Lin, a money casting master, this is an old man in his fifties, in the next generation, if he has money, he can barely be regarded as an uncle, if he has no money, he is a dead old man.

"Grass man Li Lin meets Master Jingluo!"

"Will you mint money?"

"Grass Folk Society!"

Li Lin will how to mix copper and zinc, how to control the temperature, because the melting point of zinc is low, volatile, copper and zinc are the main raw materials for making copper coins, zinc and iron can also be made into tinplate.

"This heat is very important, every time the zinc melts out, it will be consumed by two and a half!"

Li Lin was still very restrained when he first started to face Cheng Shijie, but as he talked about his profession, the more he talked about fluency, he talked about how to make a money mold, how to pour copper and zinc liquid into the mold, how to refine, and so on.

Cheng Shijie listened to Li Lin very professional, so he said directly: "Ben Shuai wants to mint money, it doesn't matter if there is a difference between it and official money, the important thing is that you have to mint qualified money, Ben Shuai plans to mint four million small flat coins, two million coins when two coins, one million coins when five coins, and one million coins when ten coins." ”

One million pieces sounds like a lot, but in fact, even if one thousand wen is exchanged for one tael of silver, the total amount of money of these four specifications is eight million pieces, which is only equivalent to twenty-three thousand taels of silver.

However, this requires hundreds of thousands of catties of copper and tens of thousands of catties of zinc.

Will Cheng Shijie do thankless things as a wronged boss?

Definitely not, once everything changes quantitatively, it will produce qualitative change.

Daming is indeed inflation, but the problem is that there are more materials and less money in southern Liaoning, and prices are lower than those in other places. Speaking of the problem of the outflow of copper coins, once the amount of new money reaches a certain scale, the problem of outflow of coins is not big.

"How many workers and how many materials you need in the early stage, list them one by one!"

"It's the grass people who save it!"

"Regarding the treatment of Ling, this mint, you are the director, and it is tentatively set at the level of 100 generals, and you have an annual salary of 36 stone of grain and 60 taels of silver every year. If you do a good job, Ben Shuai will have a heavy reward! ”

"Thank you for your grace!"

Li Lin's tears immediately fell, he was originally a coinage craftsman recruited by Sun Yuanhua, but Sun Yuanhua found out that he would lose money when he minted coins, so he closed the factory.

Hearing Li Lin's explanation, Cheng Shijie's eyes lit up: "So, Lord Futai prepared tools and equipment for you before?" ”

"I'm ready, I've made more than 150 sets for the mother money alone!"

Cheng Shijie said: "These equipment are now in the hands of Ben Shuai, you come with me, let's go to find it, there is ready-made equipment, and this mint can be put into production immediately!" ”

Li Lin said timidly: "Ask for the grace of the handsome, can you pardon the son-in-law of the little old man!" ”

Li Lin had no sons, but he gave birth to three daughters, and there was no one to support his old age, so he recruited the husband of his youngest daughter and passed on his skills to his son-in-law Huang Sizheng.

Huang Sizheng is an honest man who can't beat a fart with three sticks, and has been living with him, and later Kong Youde rebelled, and Li Lin's son-in-law Huang Sizheng was coerced in.

It's hard for a person to learn well, it's too easy to change. Huang Sizheng was originally an excellent formwork master who also excelled in silver and gold jewelry, and he made a long trip to make jewelry for his soon-to-be-married daughter at a landlord's house in Taolin Township.

At first, the work went very smoothly, and there was a naughty young master in the landlord's house, seeing that Huang Sizheng didn't talk much, he began to tease him, using the pot used to feed the dogs at home as a soup pot for Huang Sizheng and let him drink noodles.

The noodles were poured into the dog food bowl, the dog thought it was its rice, and saw that Huang Sizheng was eating, so he naturally came to grab the food, the dog was very fierce, and bit Huang Sizheng's right hand, as a craftsman, Huang Sizheng's right hand was disabled, which was equivalent to losing the rice bowl.

Later, Kong Youde's rebels broke through the landlord's compound, and the resentful Huang Sizheng took a dung fork and stabbed the young master of the landlord's family to death.

Whatever the reason, Huang Sizheng killed a nine-year-old child, who was a heinous murderer, and in this way, he was sent to the coal mine for reform.

A month ago, Li Lin went to see Huang Sizheng once, and found that Huang Sizheng had lost weight at this time, and his small body was probably not going to last long.

Hearing Li Lin's crying, Cheng Shijie realized that when he dealt with Kong Youde's rebel soldiers before, he was a little abrupt. However, Cheng Shijie did not use his identity to pardon Huang Sizheng, but asked Zhang Ruyi, the president of the court, to retry those old cases that were judged in a hurry.

Although Cheng Shijie now controls the life and death of four or five hundred thousand people, the life and death of these people are all in his thoughts, although the power is very large, as Sun Yuanhua said at the beginning, but he can't get power, he can't do whatever he wants.

There are problems with the formulation of the system, which can be changed, but there are some things that need to be implemented, rather than Cheng Shijie, who is the strategic envoy to take the lead in sabotaging.

When managing a small company, you can rely on the sophistication of people, or your own preferences to manage, but like now, the volume of southern Liaoning has exceeded that of the Hangang Group in later generations, at least the number of people is exceeded, but the problem is that this kind of large-scale enterprise management needs a system.

Instead of a hot head, a pat on the head to make a decision, and a pat on the ass and leave directly, isn't that a three-pat cadre?

Cheng Shijie took Li Lin to the storage place where the materials moved from Dengzhou were stored, but Cheng Shijie gave an order at the beginning, and he couldn't let go of even a nail.

At present, most of these equipment have been transported to various factories to play a new role, and there are not many things left, and these crucibles for casting copper coins have been taken away and used in other factories, but fortunately, the receipt of any equipment and facilities is recorded, and it is easy to find.

However, these crucibles are made of the finest mixture of mud and charcoal, and the quality is very good, and the mold and mother coin of the copper coin are untouched.

Li Lin also found the money minting craftsmen who were recruited by Sun Yuanhua at the beginning, and there were also many people in the new work unit, who mixed well, and people were unwilling to wade into this troubled water again.

Despite this, Ning Haijun's mint also pulled up the shelves, and the only six remaining crucibles began to melt the prepared copper, as well as zinc, the molds of more than 150 copper coins that had been originally made.

Two days later, the first batch of copper coins manufactured, four specifications, or four denominations, each of more than 1,500 pieces, was placed in front of Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie took these new money, he put it on a small electronic scale to weigh, the weight of the small flat money is 3.72 grams, the weight is almost the same, which makes Cheng Shijie feel incredible.

The maximum weight of this sensitive electronic scale is only ten kilograms, and the sensitivity is very high, even if it is a hundred pieces weighed together, 1,500 pieces, the maximum error between each hundred pieces is one gram, and the minimum is 0.14 grams. On average, the error of a single piece is almost negligible.

In the absence of precise electronic scales at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how did these craftsmen do it?

Although it is said that the Ming Dynasty had a small accurate hanging scale, although the accuracy of the hanging scale is there, the problem is that if it is slightly higher and lower, there will be an error.

"Handsome, Yang Yunniang asks to see!"

"Let her in!"

At this time, Yang Yunniang was dressed in men's clothes, wearing a scarf, a cyan Confucian shirt, a silk tie, and boots, which was also the standard dress of scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Yang Yunniang did not apply powder, it can still be seen that she is a woman. Of course, this is related to the customs of the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, women come out to do things, and rarely dress fancifully, which is not very convenient.

"Slave to meet the marshal!"

Yang Yunniang's eyes fell directly on these new money.

"Sit down!"

Yang Yunniang still got straight to the point and went straight to the point: "Dashuai, the slave has a question I want to ask you!" ”

"What a problem, you can say!"

"It's our bank, how to solve the problem of remote access!"

Yang Yunniang smiled bitterly: "Now we need to establish six branches, from the southernmost Lushun branch to the northernmost Haizhou branch, this distance is more than seven hundred miles, even if we use the fastest horse to transmit account information, it will take three days!" ”

"How to solve this problem?"

Cheng Shijie suddenly thought about the ancient period of the development of online literature, and there were things he liked to watch on the iron-blooded Internet at that time, but the problem was that there was no online payment in that era, if the problem of charging virtual currency into the account was solved?

Cheng Shijie was very impressed, at that time, he took the post office wire transfer, when the other party received the money, and when did he start to charge his account with virtual currency.

In fact, the starting point can stand out from countless network stations, relying on the grand game point card, because there are Shanda point cards sold in the Internet café, which can be recharged at any time, so the starting point has this innate advantage.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "We set a cycle limit, for example, a gold account deposits 100,000 taels of silver from the Lushun branch, and he needs to withdraw it in Haizhou, we must ask the Haizhou branch to receive new account information, and when the account information is updated, we can withdraw it!" At the same time, we will charge a certain handling fee when depositing and withdrawing in other places, and this handling fee needs to be professionally evaluated by your bank internally. ”

Yang Yunniang nodded, and asked again: "However, a new problem has come again, how can our branches ensure that they can meet the needs of customers in remote access?" If it is just to transmit information, a fast horse, you can achieve north-south access, but what about silver? For example, the bank in Lushun received more deposits, while Haizhou received less deposits, how can we guarantee ......"

"When our bank is first established, you can ask Zheng Jian, he is an old banker, and the bank will also face such a problem......"

Cheng Shijie is not omnipotent, and he can't solve all problems.

In fact, Cheng Shijie knows the answer to this question, but the problem is that he can't become Baidu, and if he doesn't decide to ask the marshal, then isn't he like Zhuge Liang, who does everything and can't train his subordinates.

"How many loans are being given out by the banks now?"

The most critical question of whether a bank can make a profit is how many deposits it can receive, how many loans it can receive, and if all the money is in the bank, the role of the bank will be very limited.

"The prospect is very good, the detailed figures, the slave can't say, but it should be possible to make money!"

"That's great!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the copper coin in front of him and said: "This is the money produced by our own mint, for now, we can produce small flat coins, two coins, five coins, and ten coins every day, four specifications, each more than 2,500 pieces, a total of more than 10,000 pieces!" ”

"That's too little, isn't it?"

"Less is temporary!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "The crucibles, money molds and mother coins used by the mint now are all prepared by Lord Sun when he was in Dengzhou, and we will make our own mother coins and molds in the future to expand the scale of production!" ”

Although minting money is a handicraft work, as these craftsmen become more and more skilled, the production efficiency can definitely be improved, and the production capacity will be doubled by increasing equipment and workers.

With the Ning Navy's thunderbolt being changed by Su Huaicai to the method of self-fire launch, but the problem is that due to the limitation of materials, the mute rate is too high, and only seventy percent can be successfully launched, despite this, Cheng Shijie is already very satisfied.

If there is a breakthrough in the research of gunpowder and mine mercury...... That's even better.

In fact, the Gun Bureau of the Ning Navy has been making breakthroughs in connection, just like the stimulation of the Su Huaicai incident, artillery is also being studied in this direction, and no breakthrough has been made for the time being.

Su Huaicai was leading the craftsmen to reclaim and transform the more than 4,000 arquebuses equipped by the Zuodu Division of the Ning Navy, that is, flintlock pistols.

It's just that the weight of the modified flintlock pistol has increased again, the caliber is 19.8 mm, the gun length is 1560 mm, the gun weighs 6.69 kg, and the projectile weighs 32 grams.

At the same time, the Thunderbolt Gun, which is equipped with each fire support post, has also been taken back from the musket factory and renovated, all of which have been transformed into a tap fire type, and there is no longer a need for arquebus, nor does it need every Thunderbolt hand, and must be equipped with a soldier with a torch to be responsible for ignition.

If it's during the day, it's fine, but fighting at night, with a torch, is simply telling the other party that I'm here to ambush you.

This is also a technical constraint, creating transformation while producing, which is a characteristic of southern Liaoning.

……

Wang Jun is a native of Dengzhou. He was the proprietor of the Wang Ji grain shop in Dengzhou City, and he was also a wealthy businessman with a reputation for being a villain in Dengzhou, Wang Jun was very happy, his family was well-off, and with the rising food prices in Dengzhou in recent years, he took advantage of the situation to make a lot of money. The son is filial, the daughter is well-behaved, and the wife is virtuous.

Unexpectedly, in the summer of the year before last, he recruited a guy named Wang Shun, who was diligent, eloquent, and beautiful, and was very liked by Wang Jun.

But he didn't expect that he lured the wolf into the house, he often brought Wang Shun back, and met his wife, his daughter, and his son, at first, he didn't think so much, Wang Shun was fifteen years old, what bad thoughts could he have?

Unexpectedly, Wang Shun coaxed his wife Wang Tian very happy, and often added fuel to what he saw and heard in the store, and his wife listened.

It wasn't until November last year that Wang Jun, who had been away from home, came home and found that his wife was actually more than three months pregnant.

He's been out for more than five months, his wife is pregnant, and a fool knows what's going on.

He was stunned at that time, and his wife Wang Tian thought that Wang Jun was angry, so she was so frightened that she and Wang Shun packed up the gold and silver and ran away overnight.

Wang Jun was put on a position by his wife, who had been married for more than 20 years, and soon this matter spread all over Dengzhou City, and he Wang Jun was also a face-saving person, but now he has become the laughing stock of Dengzhou City.

In a fit of rage, he passed on the family property to his son, leaving his daughter a dowry, and then committed suicide by jumping into the sea.

Unexpectedly, he didn't die, at that time, the Ning Navy was migrating to southern Liaoning on a large scale, and the sailors at sea thought that Wang Jun had accidentally fallen into the water, so they rescued him.

People, that's it, looking for death once, as long as you can't die, turn around from the ghost gate, and the mind of looking for death will fade, so Wang Jun came to southern Liaoning from Dengzhou in a daze.

Because southern Liaoning is the world of Liaodong people, Wang Jun, who has a Dengzhou accent, was excluded from the outside and was assigned to work in a dirty and smelly fur factory, and his top boss targeted him everywhere, Wang Jun was angry, so he ran to Jinzhou City, ready to find a job.

The job was not found, Wang Jun relied on his sharp mouth and empty gloves to fool a group of homeless people who had just arrived in southern Liaoning and had no work arrangement.

Wang Junyi took advantage of the chaos of the management of the navy in Nanning, Liaoning, fooled the tools, fooled the homeless people to work, and successfully opened a kiln factory, and when the first bricks were burned, these bricks were bought by the Ning Navy with hot gas.

After completing the primitive accumulation of the first pot of gold, Wang Jun became the first batch of private kiln owners in southern Liaoning, his mind was shrewd, eloquent and eloquent, after making money, the kiln factory was expanding while producing, starting from the only brick kiln, in just over half a year, he already had 17 kilns, producing bricks and tiles, hundreds of workers, and he could earn dozens of hundreds of taels of silver, which was more profitable than his original grain shop.

Wang Jun is very satisfied with his new life, and there are almost no people who know him in southern Liaoning, because there are almost no people in Dengzhou who are willing to come to southern Liaoning. Many of the new army of Denglai, and now the families of the officers and men of the Ning Navy, are reluctant to come to the poor place of southern Liaoning. Now no one in Golden State knows him, and no one talks about him being cuckolded behind his back.

Later he met a widow with two daughters and a son, and started a new family.

Now Wang Jun has his own house, although the three children are not biological, but he calls him father, and he is also very well-behaved and sensible.

Whenever Wang Jun returned home, his stepwife Qiao Shi had already put the prepared meal on the table, and the eldest girl would take the scalded wine and fill it up for Wang Jun.

Wang Jun made money, of course he will not be stingy with himself, his food level is still good, there is fish and meat, and now the supply of fish, shrimp and meat in southern Liaoning has been normalized, as long as there is money, you can eat meat, even in the factory, you can get some oil and water, and you can get some oil and water, and you can get over your mouth.

"Daddy!"

The eldest girl leads the second girl, and the six-year-old Qiao Yuyu, Qiao Yuyu actually has an elder brother named Nian Nian on it, and the names of the brothers together are Nian Nian Youyu, but when they fled, they lost it every year.

Wang Jun watched Yuyu staring at the plate of stewed mutton in front of him and beckoned to Yuyu. Yuyu sat on Wang Jun's lap, and the two of them began to eat and drink at the same time.

Of course, Yuyu drinks broth, while Wang Jun drinks wine.

Joe is a virtuous woman who keeps her home clean and spotless. Wang Jun works in the kiln factory and is covered in dust every day, but Qiao's still makes Wang Jun very decent in and out.

Qiao's age is not very old, she is not in her early thirties, and in the next life, she can even call herself a little fairy, at this time, she is actually the mother of four children.

The eldest girl, ten years old, and the second girl is seven years old, because Wang Jun is rich, he doesn't need the eldest girl and the second girl to help work at home, the two of them study at the Golden State Girls' School, and Yuyu studies at the Golden State Academy.

As for Qiao's original husband, Qiao's can't remember what he looked like. In memory, his figure has become blurred.

After Wang Jun saw that Qiao's was busy, he beckoned Qiao's to come over and eat together, and even the eldest girl and the second girl sat at the table to eat together, which was almost impossible to see outside southern Liaoning.

After three rounds of drinking, the topic inevitably shifted to the micro-loans to promote business development just announced by the management committee.

Wang Jun said: "The seventeen kilns of the kiln factory, one kiln can burn more than 300,000 bricks, and the orders of the kiln factory have been scheduled for the year after the year. ”

"Dad, what are your plans?"

Wang Jun pointed to his home and said: "I have already thought about it, I will go to sign up tomorrow, use our house and seventeen kilns as collateral, I can borrow at least eight hundred taels of silver, with these eight hundred taels of silver, I can buy three hundred acres of land around the kiln factory, and build more than a dozen kilns!" ”

Qiao's family understands business, and she is not Wang Jun's wife, she followed Wang Jun to eat, and Wang Jun adopted the four of them, so naturally she would not raise objections.

Whether it is making money or losing money, she supports it.

In the evening, Qiao's was very enthusiastic, no matter what, to give Wang Jun a son and a half-daughter, this is Qiao's most simple idea.

……

Oriental firm, the current Zhang Chen family is also a well-known rich woman in Jinzhou. Not to mention how many matchmakers came to persuade Zhang Chen to remarry.

Zhang Chen's family is clear about this, and those people, including a Xiucai, are all coming for her money.

Because Zhang Dongfang was killed in battle, he saved three acres of homestead for her, and another hundred acres of land, and Zhang Chen's family hired people to plant all the 100 acres of land, because she was a martyr, and this land was divided into fertile land that was convenient for irrigation. She grows less grain and more vegetables, with less than 30 acres of grain and more than 70 acres of vegetables.

The business of the restaurant under Zhang Chen's name is getting better and better, and the demand for vegetables and meat is also increasing, so she is thinking about learning from Cheng Shijie and opening a farm, raising hundreds of sheep, thousands of chickens and ducks, and raising some fish and shrimp casually.

The regulations of the management committee are that the military and martyr families of the Ning Navy can borrow from the Liaodong Bank with a guarantee, and the annual interest rate of these commercial loans is only 20 percent, and they will borrow 100 taels of silver, and after one year, they will repay 120 taels of silver.

One hundred taels of silver, Zhang Chen has absolute confidence to earn two hundred taels in a year, this is the business environment in southern Liaoning, although Zhang Chen is a woman, but not a cautious character, otherwise she would not dare to do business with all her worth.

Zhang Chen took his house deed, the house deed of the store and the title deed of 100 acres of land with these things into the Liaodong Bank.

Now Liaodong has entered an era of crazy expansion.

(End of chapter)