Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 185 Jinyiwei South Town Fusi Daming Dragon Coin
By the way, the printing equipment of banknotes has to keep up.

The denomination of silver coins matches the weight, so the denomination cannot be too large or too small.

Therefore, appropriate banknote replenishment is also necessary!
Even if ordinary people use less, there must be some.

After Zhu Kezang browsed the system, he spent 50 points to purchase a set of banknote printing equipment from the British De La Rue Company in 1860.

De La Rue was originally a poker company, and the banknotes printed by it are favored by many countries with its exquisite craftsmanship and top anti-counterfeiting technology.

Then the problem comes, banknotes need precious metals as collateral!
Yes, aluminum is also very cheap to exchange in the system, as long as 1 point can be exchanged for a ton of aluminum ingots.

Aluminum is cheap in later generations, but in this era, it is more valuable than gold.

In fact, there is no shortage of aluminum in nature, and the storage capacity is very large, but it exists in the form of compounds.

There is very little natural pure aluminum, so the price is extremely expensive.

In ancient times and even modern times, it was very difficult to extract aluminum, and it was difficult for craftsmen to separate pure aluminum.

Therefore, it was difficult to obtain metal aluminum in ancient times, and it is naturally invaluable.

In other words, if you travel to ancient times, you only need to bring an aluminum pot lid back.

Congratulations, you made a fortune!
Interestingly, Napoleon III made a rattle out of aluminum for his crown prince.

From today's perspective, this kind of rattle is too shabby, even for country children, it will not be regarded as a rare item.

However, in that era, it was a top luxury item, and there were few in the world.

It was not until 1886 that CM Hall in the United States and P. Ayrou in France invented the electrolytic aluminum smelting method respectively that the aluminum problem was completely solved.

At this point, overnight, aluminum ceased to be a precious metal.

Since Zhu Kezang’s Daming didn’t have electricity yet, he could only exchange one ton in the system first.

To the west of Chengtianfu City, in a hidden valley in the middle of the mountains of Yizhou Island, a small factory building rises silently.

This is considered by later historians as a symbol of the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's silver dollar offensive.

This currency production plant equipped with elbow-action minting machines and printing machines ahead of this era is currently the top secret of Ming Dynasty!
Higher grade than the steelworks of the Royal Manufacturing Directorate.

It is managed by Fusi of Jinyiwei South Town.

Due to his outstanding performance in the battle to conquer the Satsuma domain and the Dutch East India Company, Chen Weiguo was directly promoted by Zhu Kezang as the governor of Jinyiwei South Town Fusi after the enthronement ceremony.

Due to the slow development of Jinyiwei, only the Fusi of the South Town has been established, and the Fusi of the North Town has not yet been established. It may have to wait for the Central Plains to develop manpower.

At present, the functions of the Nanzhen Fusi include: collecting information on the southeast coast of Nanyang and the Qing Dynasty, supervising all officials, and being responsible for minting coins and maintaining the absolute security of the mint.

Due to the militarized management, the implementation process of the Mint was very fast.

On December 12, the first edition of banknotes and silver dollars of the new Ming Dynasty were handed over to Zhu Kezang's desk.

The minimum face value of the new banknote is 1 cent, which is equivalent to 1 penny.

其实就是1、2、5、10与分、角、元相互组合，一共12种面额。

There is nothing special about the background of banknotes at the cent and corner levels. To the north is the beautiful scenery of the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Great Wall, three mountains and five mountains, etc., and on the front is the totem of the four-type mythical beast of Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, and Xuanwu.

Yuan-level banknotes are special.

The back of 1 yuan, 2 yuan and 5 yuan is the Forbidden City of Ming Dynasty, and the front is the portrait of a character.

Well, Daming, then you can’t do anything about Emperor Qin, Han, Wu, Tang, Zong, Song Zu.

Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait is printed on the 1 yuan banknote.

Of course, what Zhu Kezang adopted was definitely not the clear version of the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang with a shoehorn face.

That black one is too much, and those portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang with a straight face on the Internet in later generations are basically painted by painters in the Qing Dynasty. It is really shameless to be true.

However, it is understandable that out of the need for ruling, the Qing Dynasty will definitely smear Zhu Yuanzhang, and smearing about his appearance is naturally indispensable.

In the paintings of painters in the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang not only has a crescent-shaped face, but also has a hunchback, shrunken shoulders, and pockmarked face. It seems that Kang Pockmark, who has suffered from smallpox, is not as serious as him.

How to say, Lao Zhu can be regarded as half a son-in-law, if his appearance is really so scary, he will not be favored by Empress Ma and commit himself to marry him.

The Da Qing slandered Zhu Yuanzhang in many ways. Many unofficial histories recorded many things to smear Zhu Yuanzhang. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang was very taboo about words like "monk" and "bald" because he hated others knowing that he was a monk. past.

In fact, in "The Monument of the Imperial Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty", Zhu Yuanzhang not only did not hide his past events such as being a monk and the uprising, but even voluntarily confessed it himself.

Zhu Kezang felt that Lao Zhu was smeared. Apart from Taqing's attack, the more reason was that Lao Zhu had offended officials and the literati class. After all, the anti-corruption campaign was too ruthless.

One thing is undeniable, that is, Lao Zhu did kill many heroes, but at the same time it is undeniable that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, many heroes quickly corrupted and degenerated, and became bullies worse than the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. Land, tax evasion, rape of women, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, embezzlement and bribery.

Even making knives and guns and wearing dragon robes can be said to be bad deeds, and they are full of people's grievances. If it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang's iron-fisted anti-corruption, the Ming Dynasty would definitely be very corrupt. You can find out what crimes Zhu Liangzu and Zhou Dexing committed. Oppressing the people, a son messed up the palace.

In short, although Zhu Kezang is not the real Zhu family, he saw one of the portraits of the shoehorn face and burned one.

The portrait of the Taizu collected in the Nanjing Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum used in the 1 yuan banknote of the new Ming Dynasty looks like a dignified, dignified and dignified middle-aged man.

"If Lao Zhu knew that his profile picture was printed on banknotes, he should thank me!" Zhu Kezang thought to himself.

The 2 yuan banknote is printed with a portrait of Zhu Kezang's father, Zhu Jin.

The 5 yuan banknote is printed with a portrait of Lord Guo Xing!
As for the largest denomination of 10 yuan, its back is the same as all the above!
On the back is a soaring five-clawed golden dragon, and on the front is the handsome and martial face of Emperor Zhu, a handsome young emperor with a jade tree facing the wind.

No need for any beautification, who made Zhu Kezang a handsome boy himself.

In addition, in the past few years, he has become the leader of Xin Daming, and he has a good temperament.

Emperor Zhu, who claimed to be the savior of the new Ming Dynasty, felt that his contribution was worth the 10 yuan bill no matter what.

Regarding the title of paper money, Zhu Kezang thought about it and decided to call it Daming Dragon Coin!
After all, behind the 10-yuan banknote with the largest denomination is a five-clawed golden dragon.

That's it, referred to as Dragon Coin.

It can't be called Ming (Ming) coin for short, how unlucky it is.

(End of this chapter)