Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 758
Following Zhu Youjian's will, the missions visiting Europe bought two mechanical minting machines from Venice, and also brought back two Venetian craftsmen with many years of experience in minting coins. After returning to China, after proofing and debugging, the Ming silver coins Freshly baked, and soon circulated in the market.

The silver coins of the Ming Dynasty are round in shape, without a square hole like copper coins in the middle, with side teeth around them, and are composed of seven cents of pure silver, two cents of tin, and one cent of lead.Since tin and lead are not valuable, after issuing a silver coin, nearly [-]% of its value goes to the imperial court.

According to the market value, silver coins are divided into four large denominations of ten taels, five taels, two taels and one tael, and three small denominations of five cents, two cents and one cent to facilitate commodity circulation and daily use.

The obverse pattern of the twelve taels of silver coin is the head of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and the north side is the winding Great Wall pattern. The silver coins of other currency values ​​are all cast in molds with the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty as the background. The north side of each silver coin, There are words such as "Supervised by the Ministry of Households of Ming Dynasty" and currency value.

After the silver coins flow into the market, they will be circulated together with the current silver ingots. Everyone who holds silver can go to the Four Seas Bank to exchange it at the same price. Only by this trick, the imperial court will invisibly increase the profit by nearly [-]%.

Due to the exquisite shape of silver coins, people seem to think that they are more valuable than normal silver taels. Therefore, when the 10 taels of silver coins of various specifications were first released by Sihai Bank, they were snapped up, and there were nearly 3 taels in the blink of an eye. The profit of the silver was put into the treasury, which made Zhu Youjian and other insiders very happy. Several important ministers even admired the emperor's whimsy.

If the emperor could come up with such a wonderful method when he first ascended the throne, wouldn't the imperial court's finances be in a state of embarrassment for a long time?How could the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty lose their morale because of the lack of food and pay?
If 10 taels of silver coins are minted, Taicang can make a profit of more than 100 taels. What if it is 1000 million or [-] million?What a happy situation that must be.

Through the huge profits generated by minting coins, the important ministers are becoming more and more interested in the vassal state. For example, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Chen Qiyu, the important ministers who know the soldiers, are already thinking about what to do next in their spare time. Everything became a new vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

Now the important ministers who know the inside story have realized that not only silver coins, but also yellow-orange-orange copper coins produced by the brass produced in Luzon. But a big profit is no less than the silver coin, and may even be higher than the profit of the silver coin.

Compared with silver coins, the casting cost of copper coins is now lower. In addition to paying the wages of the natives, Daming only paid a few craftsmen and a few pieces of equipment, and the wages of the miners were also paid with the copper coins produced.

After thinking about this kind of thing a little bit, you can come to the conclusion: Daming has an extra tax source out of thin air, and the scope of this tax source will continue to extend and expand to the surrounding areas as time goes by. If a series of related policies are formulated based on this, One day in the future, Luzon and surrounding countries and regions will be "bathed" in the halo of Chinese civilization.

With this in mind, Sun Chuanting and others entered the palace together and reported the matter to Zhu Youjian. The monarchs and ministers discussed it for two hours in Zhaoren Hall, and then a rudimentary overall strategic plan for overseas was born.

Zhu Youjian and his ministers agreed that Daming inherited China's splendid civilization for thousands of years and has always stood proudly at the top of the world. With its current growing strength, it should shoulder the important task of saving all people in the world from fire and water.

Especially in Luzon and surrounding countries and regions, the people's lives are in dire straits, and they don't know how to use the treasures they have, because the people are ignorant. In view of this, Huang Ming should use the splendid culture of China to get rid of their ignorance and teach them skills to make them operate Youdao, all parties work together to make everyone in the world rich and healthy. Daming has an unshirkable mission and responsibility for this, and will make this a national policy and persevere until the goal is achieved.

The monarchs and ministers also reached a consensus on increasing the exploration and mining of mineral resources in Luzon and neighboring countries. The cabinet will send envoys to visit Chenla, Luzon, Siam, Jiaozhi and other countries to position the relationship between these countries and Ming Dynasty, and Urge the governments of all countries to adopt a friendly and cooperative attitude, strengthen economic and trade exchanges with Daming, promote the economic development of all parties, and improve the living standards of the local people.

Daming will provide money and technology to "help" countries vigorously develop various mineral resources, and sell them to merchants in Daming at a more favorable price.

His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the imperial court hope that the governments of all countries will take effective measures to actively cooperate with the relevant cooperation measures proposed by Ming Dynasty, and do not show an attitude of "non-violence and non-cooperation", so as to avoid being "misjudged by the situation" by the Ming Dynasty's army and brazenly taking measures to protect freedom trade action.

Speaking of the Ming Dynasty's official army, these small countries are still full of awe from top to bottom.

After conquering Manila, Zhang Wenyao learned that a small local tribe had killed more than a hundred immigrants from the Ming Dynasty who had fled to them when the massacre happened because of their greed for money. The army found the tribe, and killed all the murderers in less than half an hour, and the rest of the tribe were all caught and sent to the mine to mine.

This matter was quickly spread, and the countries in South Asia, which were generally weak in force, respected the Ming army like gods. Therefore, the Ming court cabinet specifically mentioned it in the writing to the countries, do not let Ming Army "misjudgment".

After this meeting between the monarch and his ministers, the Ming army stationed in Manila and relevant officials sent by the imperial court to Luzon, who were instructed, not only increased the mining work of the two original copper mines with the great assistance of the Luzon government, Two mineral deposits have been explored in other areas of Luzon, one is a copper mine and the other is a very high-grade iron ore. Now the infrastructure construction of these two mines has been completed, and it will not be long before Daming's finances will increase by one year. Vice major's progress.

Because the effect of the first batch of silver coins was surprisingly good, and Zhu Youjian hoped that the silver coins could be circulated in neighboring countries. Therefore, after imitating five minting machines, the Ministry of Household Affairs specially casted them according to Zhu Youjian's will. The 10 taels of silver coins left behind were used to put on the markets of neighboring countries in exchange for more overseas resources.

Now there are mainly three and a half kinds of currencies in circulation in the Ming Dynasty. The first is traditional silver ingots, the second is silver coins, the third is copper coins, and the other half is silver bills.

And Zhu Youjian's ultimate goal is to make bank notes the main currency in circulation throughout the world.

Using paper to exchange other people's resources is the kingly way. Compared with other precious metals, the cost of paper currency can be ignored directly.

　Thank you Maple Leaf City for your reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)