Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 184 Stealing money is not as fast as printing money!
In November 1682, the weather had turned cold, and the son of Ming Dynasty in Chengtian Mansion was also wrapped in a coat, and inspected the work of the Royal Manufacturing Bureau of the Ming Dynasty in the warm winter sun.

Zhu Kezang attached great importance to "made in Ming Dynasty".

The Royal Manufacturing Bureau is involved in all aspects of the Ming army.

No matter which factory it is, if the quality of the products produced is not good, then the problem will be big.

Imagine that when the gunners of the Ming Dynasty fired, the shells didn't go out, and they exploded directly in the barrel, killing the senior gunners who cost a lot to train. What a loss!
Moreover, this kind of imperial industry has been a very lucrative business since ancient times, and people who can be greedy have lost their minds.

If you don’t come and pay close attention, then the people from the Ministry of Industry will be involved. Like the end of the Ming Dynasty, the corruption will reach a certain level. The weapons made by the Ming government will not be dared to be used by grassroots soldiers.

Zhu Kezang will never allow this to happen.

Therefore, Zhu Kezang would often visit the General Administration of Manufacturing and visit the craftsmen here to see if they had any new inventions.

Of course, he also made private visits to the countryside and markets to observe people's lives and market trade.

Through private interviews on Weibo, he really discovered a serious problem in Xin Daming.

That is, the monetary system is too chaotic, with broken silver, Spanish silver dollars, and copper coins.

In the past, Mingzheng was just a small government, and it was fine to turn a blind eye to such things. Now that a new dynasty has been opened, it must be taken seriously.

Otherwise, it would not look good for such a huge country to still use Spanish silver dollars.

Moreover, precious metals are used for coinage, as long as a little iron or lead, tin, etc. are mixed into the precious metals, that is profit.

It doesn't matter if the number of minted coins is small, but once the minted coins reach a certain scale.

That's a huge profit!
Gold coins are not considered for the time being, Zhu Kezang is going to issue silver coins!
Paper money can also be considered, but it can't be printed too much. Back then, the Daming banknotes were printed casually, and eventually flooded, and even smashed the signboard of Daming currency.

Moreover, there is another difficulty in banknotes, which is to be anti-counterfeiting.

If Daming is powered on now, Zhu Kezang will immediately make banknotes.

Because he can exchange for a wave of money printing machines of later generations, so the anti-counterfeiting ability is very strong, as long as the printing is not excessive, basically there will be no problems.

In addition, another reason for minting silver coins is that the system is very cheap to exchange for silver.

1点数能兑换1吨白银，大明1两银子的重量是37.3克，1点数相当于27000两左右的银子。

If you really run out of money, use precious points to exchange for a wave.

Zhu Kezang found that the exchange of technology in the system mall consumes a lot of points, and the resource-type materials on the bad street do not consume high points.

Wait, he found that exchanging points for silver is better than directly exchanging for the night pearl with technology and hard work, which is more profitable.

One can sell for millions of taels!
So, he put out the idea of ​​exchanging points for silver.

It's better to earn money by selling goods on your own.

By the way, there is another advantage of making silver coins, which is convenience.

Silver coins have a fixed denomination and can be traded directly.

And the silver on the market has to be weighed, and then judge the purity, and even use silver scissors to adjust the weight, which is very cumbersome.

This is also the reason why Spanish silver dollars are so popular in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, you can also take the opportunity to solve a problem, that is, fire consumption.

In the past, when ordinary people paid taxes, they generally paid more in broken silver.

And these scraps of silver will eventually be recast into standard official silver according to uniform standards.

In the process of returning to the furnace, there will definitely be losses, so these losses will naturally not be borne by the government, but by the people. This is the source of the fire loss.

The standards vary from place to place, and in some places, the loss is as little as one renminbi, and as much as six renminbi or even more.

But the problem is that the cost of remelting is actually not that high at all, and more of it will naturally flow into the pockets of the government, and then be corrupted.

Some people may say that Yongzheng was very powerful, and he was directly burned to the public.

Here, the fire consumption that the Qing fans of later generations boasted so much is returned to the public, but it does not mean that the common people do not need to spend money on firefighting.

Even if the literal meaning is that fire consumption is owned by the public, and it has since become a formal tax to eliminate the gray income of officials and distribute it uniformly by the court.

One thing to say, one point is not human!
To put it bluntly, it is impossible for the Qing Dynasty not to exploit the people.

The problem of fire consumption is easy to solve. It can be solved by minting silver coins or banknotes. Both silver coins and banknotes have a fixed face value, and there is also a hammer fire consumption.

However, officials all over the world are benefiting from the matter of fire consumption. It is definitely a deep-water area and it is not easy to move.

If it was in the Qing Dynasty, whoever dared to propose a solution to the fire loss would probably throw away the ashes!
Fortunately, the current Daming ship is small and easy to turn around, and the new Daming also has the habit of using silver coins, so there is very little resistance to minting coins.

Moreover, as long as Zhu Kezang doesn't talk about the fire loss, the officials of Xin Daming probably won't be able to react.

This wave, he is on the fifth floor!

Taking advantage of the time, Zhu Kezang took a look at the coin-minting machine in the system, the steam-powered one.

It is very convenient to exchange one directly, and then let the craftsmen of the Royal Manufacturing Bureau copy it.

When it comes to the use of steam power, the British are definitely awesome. They did apply steam power to coinage. However, by the beginning of the 19th century, the British still used the relatively backward spiral coinage machine.

This type of screw machine has complex structure, difficult operation, high vibration and noise, and the machine must have a huge foundation, so it is not an ideal mechanical device.

Until 1817, a German engineer Uchen created a more advanced elbow-action coinage machine.

Elbow type coin minting machine, the machine itself is easy to manufacture, the main structure is simple to cast, and the progress of steelmaking technology makes the parts of the elbow joint very durable. In addition, the production speed of this type of coin minting machine is fast, and it can punch every minute 90 times.

Moreover, it can produce various coins with toothed edges, smooth edges, word edges, etc., so it is widely welcomed.

The basic design of the elbow-action minting machine is to use a large flywheel, which is installed on the ground at the back of the machine body. There are multiple connecting rods connected to the spokes. There are toggle joints on the machine body. The slider of the upper coin mold and the lower coin mold are fixed on the machine table.

There is a movable joint in the joint and the main connecting rod. When rotating, the main connecting rod pushes the toggle. Since one end is fixed, the slider is pressed downward.

At this time, each connecting rod moves along with the flywheel to operate other devices such as pushing the automatic feeding clamp, and cleverly uses the characteristics of each connecting rod at different positions of the flywheel spokes to produce a synchronous cooperation effect.

Plus, the machines are extremely durable, with some lasting over 125 years!Its basic design has remained unchanged for more than a hundred years after its introduction.

It was decided to be it, "System, exchange elbow-action minting machine!"

[Balance of 980 points]

(End of this chapter)