The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 181 Coinage and Fire Consumption

Hearing this, Wang An showed a suddenly realized expression, nodded and said.

"Don't worry, the governor, I'll let people try it!"

Zhu Hongyu waved his hand and said.

"Don't worry, just take your time!"

"The most important task of the research institute now is to do a good job in the mass production of spinning machines and looms."

What is the most important thing in anti-Qing and Fuming?
To put it bluntly, it is money. Whether it is military training, reform, governance of the people, education, or scientific and technological research, you must have money.

If you have no money, you can only die of poverty like Chongzhen!
Zhu Hongyu wanted to win people's hearts, and he didn't want to get taxes by exploiting the people.

Therefore, he can only think of other ways!

For example, through trade, to shear wool from other countries.

Trade requires commodities, and now the main product in the hands of the Liberation Army is the steel industry.

And some Spaniards planted manors, spices, mining, wine making and other industries.

There are also small industries such as soap, perfume, cement, and infrastructure invented by Zhu Hongyu.

Although some have already made money, who would think too much money?
With the advent of spinning machines and looms, Zhu Hongyu has the confidence to open up a new industry for the military government, the textile industry!

Like iron materials, cloth is also a high-end product, and it belongs to the kind that once it is made, it is not afraid that it will not be sold.

As long as the scale of the textile industry develops, the military government will once again increase its source of income.

All the researchers agreed in unison.

Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly, and then continued to visit other projects.

Such as material research, electromagnetic research, biological research, medical research... and other related departments.

It is worth mentioning that the research institute is not only doing research, but also studying according to the junior high school physics, biology, and chemistry textbooks that Zhu Hongyu took out.

Well, they are at the level of a group of junior high school students!

Moreover, with the completion of the research institute, the weapon research department of the military government has also been transferred from the arsenal to the research institute.

The arsenal has become an institution dedicated to the production of weapons!

Research on rifled guns, rifled guns, artillery flintlock, percussion powder for guns, smokeless gunpowder... etc. are all progressing steadily.

Although they don't know when the results will come out, but with Zhu Hongyu pointing out the research and development direction for them, the research and development progress has been pushing forward.

Sooner or later the results will come out!
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In the office of the research institute, Zhu Hongyu finished his inspection and called Wang An and Liang Asheng into the office.

They were issued a task of preparing to develop a minting machine.

Because Zhu Hongyu is about to start making coins!

As the military government gained a firm foothold, Zhu Hongyu became more and more aware of the importance of minting coins.

One is because, as a Han regime, the Guangfu Army has been using the currency left over by the Spaniards, so that's not a big deal!
It's not good looking!

The second is because, since ancient times, minting coins has been profitable!

Coins need to use precious metals, as long as a little bit of iron, 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!
Of course, if silver or gold coins were minted, the profits would only be more substantial.

"I don't know how the general plans to mint coins? Is it to mint copper coins?"

Wang An asked.

In Wang An's view, there is no shortage of copper in Luzon. If Zhu Hongyu wants to mint coins, copper coins must be the first choice.

Who knows, Zhu Hongyu shook his head and said.

"Not only copper coins, but also gold and silver coins!"

"Although Xiyi is crude and barbaric, they do have something worth learning from in terms of finance!"

"It is an indisputable fact that the Spanish silver coins are more suitable and convenient for production and trading than the silver coins circulated in the Ming Dynasty."

Silver coins have a fixed denomination, so they can be traded directly, but silver coins have to be weighed to judge the purity, and even use silver scissors to adjust the weight, which is very cumbersome to trade.

Indeed, apart from the fact that silver coins are more suitable for production and trading than silver taels, there is another point that Zhu Hongyu did not say.

That is to completely solve the harmful thing of burning money!
Fire consumption refers to the loss generated in the process of melting and casting the scattered silver taels collected by the government into ingots of official silver.

Naturally, this loss cannot be borne by the government!

The officials and lords are very tacit, dumping the burden of the fire consumption to the people, and when collecting taxes, they collect a sum of money for the fire consumption from the people.

In fact, although there is fire consumption, it is not too much. The real fire consumption may be around one or two percent.

However, once the officials change hands, they charge you [-]% to [-]% because they have a conscience.

Even in some remote places, the fire consumption is even several times that of Zheng Fu!

It can be said to be extremely harmful to the people!
As for some of the coated minions in later generations, they brag about Yongzheng's policy of returning fire to the public without thinking.

As the name suggests, the solution is not the problem of fire loss at all, but the problem of dividing the spoils after the fire loss is collected.

Yongzheng, this bastard, directly turned Huohua from an excuse for officials to exploit the people into a national tax.

Not human at all!
To put it bluntly, this is the essence of Manchu rule.

Use various means to win over the Han landlord and gentry class, and then exploit the poor people underneath together with the landlord and gentry.

It can also be seen how much water is in the so-called Kangqian prosperous age!
In fact, it is not difficult to solve the problem of fire consumption. To put it bluntly, it is coinage.

Cast gold, silver and precious metals into currency, and specify the face value.

Whether it's trading or collecting taxes, it can be used directly, so what's the fire consumption?
As for such a simple method, why has no one proposed it.

it's actually really easy!
On the one hand, it is the inertia of thinking. The officials in the court think that since the silver can be used, they don't bother to mint coins.

After all, if you do more, you make more mistakes, if you do less, you make fewer mistakes, and it’s not bad if you don’t do it!

And there is!

Officials all over the world are benefiting from the matter of fire consumption. Even if someone can think of it, they dare not say it.

Whoever dares to propose a solution to the fire loss, is afraid that the ashes will be thrown away!
And the reason why Zhu Hongyu dared to start preparing coins now to completely solve the problem of fire consumption was because the boat was small and easy to turn around.

With his current prestige in the Restoration Army, it cannot be said that there is no opposition to what he wants to do, but there is very little resistance.

Of course, more importantly, most of the people under him now have lived in Nanyang for a long time, and are used to doing business and paying taxes with Spanish silver coins!

If Zhu Hongyu didn't say anything for a while, they probably wouldn't be able to realize that Lao Zhu was going to deal with the evil policy of Huohao.

The officials of the military government are at most on the second floor, thinking that Zhu Hongyu just thinks that silver coins are convenient to use and that minting coins can make money.

But for him, Zhu Hongyu, this wave is on the third floor!

There will be silver coins available in the future, and whoever dares to spend money on fire, Zhu Hongyu can only ask Jin Yiwei to discuss with them the Great Ming ancestor's system of embezzling 60 taels of skinned grass!

(End of this chapter)