Win the Ding 1617

On March 27th of the third year of Chongzhen, shortly after Huanglang led his troops out of the customs to digest and enjoy the victory of entering the customs and fighting grass valley, Chen Yao made a statement in Nanjing Huke: Nanjing Hubu has a new and old second factory .The old factory minted money to set up military rations and support official salaries. The new factory started to mint money from the first year of Taichang (1620). , Still using the remaining profits to help Liao pay.In the second year of Apocalypse (1622), the northern bank was used to cast northern coins, but the casting bureau was in the south and the original was from the north. There were different powers and minor disadvantages, so there was a request to stop.However, since the northern casting has stopped, the southern casting should be resumed, and it is safe to stop all of them.If you can set up a place to cast tens of thousands of gold, you can get double the benefits at the age of one year. Now that you have paid for it, you can benefit a lot. Therefore, please restore the new factory to Nanzhu, and Emperor Chongzhen ordered the Secretary to discuss it.

The news was sent by Lin Wenbing, who was stationed in Nanjing, to Hue by fast boat. On the same boat, there was also a box of Chongzhen Tongbao coins. money.

These coins were neatly placed on several long tables by the people of the Household Finance Bureau for Shou Han and Li Peilin to watch.

From the appearance and feel, the "Chongzhen Tongbao", which was minted in the first year of Chongzhen, weighs [-] cents and [-] cents per coin. The ratio of copper, lead and tin is relatively reasonable, and it is easy to be accepted by the market. It is well cast and the surface of the coin is very exquisite.But after two years, the weight and appearance of the coins have been greatly reduced.Among them, recasting Beijing coins weighs one coin, Nanjing coins weigh eight cents, and Xiaoping coins with the words "Chongzhen Tongbao" cast on them are also discounted in two.There are many tricks for being five or ten big money.The fonts on Xiaoping coins are all direct-reading from real books, and can be divided into two categories: those with no text on the back and those with text on the back.

"Can this kind of money be used?" Shouhan weighed the coin in his hand. He was holding a coin with a pattern of galloping horses cast on its back. It can be regarded as leaving a fortune.However, it was a sum similar to that of the Golden Yuan Coupon.Moreover, there were many legends about the horse racing Chongzhen later.Such as entering the chaos of the Central Plains with one horse.

"The bad state of the country begins with spending money!"

Now the de facto head of the cabinet, Li Peilin, the chief of the office, looked at this pile of coins of very different appearances with grief.

For more than a year, various news have come from the north.He felt more and more that he was dispatched to Qiongzhou back then.And because of the shipwreck, I came to Shouhan here, which is really due to the virtues of my ancestors.now.He is in charge of the civil affairs of more than [-] people under his rule, and millions of yuan coins flow in and out, from east to west.From the south to the north, there are tens of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and the government orders are smooth. Sometimes in his dreams, he would ask his ancestor Cheng Lianggong, "When you were in your prime, did my Li family have such power?"

The more power you hold, the more you must cherish the power in front of you.Especially like him, after experiencing the huge gap from having rights to almost losing his life, he feels more and more precious about the position and trust that Shou Han gave him.

"We must do a career of monarchs and ministers that can be passed down through the ages!" This is a sentence and a goal that he often secretly warns and encourages himself.

"Brother Zong, I think we have to start a furnace to make money."

With a little force, the Chongzhen Tongbao in his hand was broken into two halves, and he dropped the racing horse Chongzhen in his hand. Shou Han wiped his hands in disgust, "The circulation of such bad coins in the market is simply an insult to the common people Wisdom!"

With the gradual rollout of various constructions, the economic and commercial trade between various regions has gradually recovered and developed. Moreover, the merchants who come to South China for trade from various places are like crucian carp crossing the river. However, large-scale traders can Gold coins and silver dollars are used as settlement units, and it is inconvenient to use silver dollars for small amounts of sporadic trade and daily expenses.

"Yes! We're going to start 'minting money' too!"

Shou Han and Pei Lin looked at each other and smiled, they both knew what each other meant by "making money".

It is more appropriate to say that the "money casting" of the South China Army is not so much coinage as coinage.When making coins, such as silver dollars, all kinds of silver ingots and ingots are first melted in a crucible, and after purification, almost 90.00% pure silver is obtained, and then these pure silver are processed into silver plates suitable for stamping.Afterwards, it is put into the stamping frame with hydraulic power as the driving force, and the silver plate on the high manganese steel mold in the stamping frame is stamped and formed by hydraulic power.The stamping machine can punch out a thousand silver dollars every time it rises and falls, which is much more efficient and costly than the traditional furnace melting and casting in the mainland.

"As soon as possible, let Jin Chuan of the Minting Bureau find someone to make the money model of the copper coin. Before August [-]th, our new money will be listed."

Jinchuan is the Minting Bureau of Husi, which is in charge of minting coins. In the mainland, this is a fat vacancy that can cause oil rain with a sneeze, but it is a slightly stronger position in Nanzhong than other positions. Some positions are for the sake of raising money.

"How much money should we cast?"

"Billion!"

"One billion?! My lord, isn't this number too big? One billion pieces, each piece weighs one coin according to the Nanzhong unit of measurement, and it is cast according to the ratio of copper, six, lead, and four. That's... . . ”

"Stop! It's not copper, six lead, four, but copper, six lead, three tin, one." Shou Han corrected Li Peilin's statement, and then motioned him to continue.

"Each coin weighs one coin, roughly equivalent to one coin or two in the mainland. Every hundred coins is one catty, and one billion coins is 1000 million catties! Copper, lead, tin, so many materials, how to prepare and transport them? "

Shou Han laughed, and Pei Lin was a little puzzled by his laughter.

"Brother, you are really smart and confused for a while. Although the copper sounds a lot, is it more than the copper skin we use to cover the bottom of the ship?"

Since the use of copper skins to cover the bottom of various ships, the cost of ships has increased a lot. At first, some people complained that Shou Han’s move was to use wallet ships, but later found that the maintenance costs of ships were reduced in this way, and the operating time was reduced. Increase, the inside and outside calculation is still very cost-effective, so not only the public ships are covered with copper bottoms.That is, as long as the ships of each family have a little more money, they will use the maintenance time to go to the shipyard to request for the bottom of the ship.

"Nowadays, our copper sources mainly come from these places, copper from Luzon, copper from Bodhisattva, and red copper from Fusang. So much copper, if we don't use it, it won't be piled up in the warehouse for nothing. The patina? We don’t need so much patina to make gunpowder?”

The Ananduo River, the rivers provide the South Central Army with abundant water resources. In addition to being used for drinking water for humans and animals and farmland irrigation, they can also provide relatively reliable power for industry.

Like gold and silver coins, copper, lead, and tin were smelted in a ratio of six to three to one.After being made into copper alloy.Placed under the mold to accept the stamping baptism brought by the huge pressure of water, after which the clear imprint will be permanently left on the copper plate.The originally neat strips of copper plates were also turned into honeycomb-shaped objects due to the huge punching force, and were sent back to the furnace again.Remelted and shaped.

Such a process.The water cone head with the mold rises and falls.You can "cast" a thousand pieces of Tongbao, what if you multiply two hundred times on the basis of a hydraulic stamping cone head?

Listening to the sound of the cones rising and falling one after another, watching the copper coins being taken off the copper plate by the slaves.Shou Han and Pei Lin couldn't help feeling elated.

On a whim, Pei Lin took out a Yongle Tongbao and a Jiajing Tongbao from the purse hanging on his body, asked Jinchuan for a Happy Horse Chongzhen, took a new Nanzhong Tongbao, and held the four Coins, call an official slave, "Four coins, you choose two, it will be considered as a reward for you."

The official slave was carrying a large basket containing scrap copper materials, with doubts and fear in his eyes, wondering if the nobleman in front of him was trying to make fun of him, he was unknown to others, but Chengxuan Jinchuan of the Mint knew it This belongs to my big boss, seventeen or eight floors away from me.At the moment, he looked at Jin Chuan with eyes asking for instructions.

"My lord wants to reward you with money, why don't you thank me soon?"

The official slave put down his back basket, and kept looking back and forth between the four copper coins in Li Peilin's hands with his bony eyes. Soon, he slowly stretched out his hand, and firmly grasped the Yongle Tongbao and Nanzhong Tongbao in Peilin's hand. come over.

This move made Pei Lin laugh out loud, took out a gold coin from his purse, and stuffed it into the official slave's hand, "I'll give it to you as well!"

The monthly money of official slaves is five qian per month. Since the use of silver coins, it has become an income of one silver dollar every two months.This gold coin can be exchanged for thirty silver coins. In this way, the official slave suddenly had almost five years' salary, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, fearing that something bad would happen.

This action caused the people around to burst into laughter. After Jin Chuan laughed a few times, he called up the official slave, "Your Excellency rewarded you, so you can keep it yourself, don't cause trouble."

On August 12th of the third year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Jiliao, was sentenced to "conspiracy for treason" for "being good at negotiating peace and killing the general". He was taken to Caishikou and ate [-] dollars.And the academician Qian Longxi who first proposed Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong was also imprisoned at first for the crimes of advocating Yuan Chonghuan to kill Wenlong, proposing peace, betraying the country and deceiving the emperor, etc. After a catastrophe, he was sentenced to Haiwei after he was released from prison.Note that his hometown is Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, which can be regarded as returning home.After living in Dinghai for [-] years, when King Fu came to the throne, he returned to his hometown in Huating County, and finally died at home, what a shame!

"Corrupt a cannon, guard for two days, build three cities, block four gates and not move like a mountain, speak loudly for five years in the Ping Liao Dynasty, six ministries will be exhausted to ask for payment, and seven armies will be dismissed when they go to aid. In the end, it will be spread in all directions and nine sides. It was originally very now.

For ten days, the army was forced to pay nine times, eight souls were lost and seven souls were turned into the wind, and the commander was privately beheaded to deceive the six palaces. The enemy would pass five miles through the city, and the rice would be stolen from all directions. Who taught you to make peace with two hearts? Really not wronged at all. "

After reading this couplet written by Pei Lin, Shou Han was speechless.From one to ten, and from ten to one, Yuan Dushi's life is vividly described.It's just a little mean and not kind enough.If it is on the Internet, Li Peilin's couplet is definitely listed as Yuan Hei's work.

"Brother Zong, this?!"

Pei Lin dropped the large brush in his hand, and the remaining ink on the brush quickly stained the fine rice paper into a ball of black.

"Yang Gao was beheaded, and someone Yuan was sent to Caishikou. The two old members of my Li family in Liaodong have already sacrificed to the national law. From then on, they have no other distractions and have devoted themselves to serving the Lord!"

A piece of steamed fish and two side dishes were nothing more than dried peanuts and tofu, and a jar of yellow rice wine stood beside it.

"Brother Zong, you and Pei Ting can be said to be two people with two styles of acting. If it is Pei Ting's treat, then it is really the front man of the food, and you have to be polite and say that there is no place to eat chopsticks. You are doing well here, even fried in oil. I don’t have any food, so you use these to get rid of me?”

"It's just drinking and chatting, what do you want to do with such an eyesore?" Pei Lin was very disapproving.

"In the past few years, disasters have continued in the north, civil upheavals have sprung up, and the political situation in the DPRK and China is turbulent. I plan to send people to Beijing."

Hearing what Shou Han said, Pei Lin didn't lift his head, just picked up a boiled peanut and chewed it slowly in his mouth, "Going to Beijing?"

"That's right! It's Beijing."

"Right now, among the few people in the mainland, who is the right one? How about Pei Ting? He is familiar with official affairs and can easily open up the situation."

"No, first of all, both of you are exiles in the officialdom in the mainland. It is easier to handle in Guangdong and Guangxi. Once you arrive in the capital, there are too many people and you are recognized. How can you get out? And, once Second brother goes north to the capital, who will handle the affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi?"

"Then who do you think is suitable?"

"Ye Qi's deputy, I transferred Lin Wenbing from Nanjing to Beijing. It happens to go north along the canal."

"Okay!" (To be continued...)