I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 132 The Great Era of Crazy Expansion
Chapter 131

In fact, the amount of money cast in the Ming Dynasty was very small. With Cheng Shijie's in-depth understanding of ancient coins during this period of time, he realized that Hongxi, Zhengtong, Jingtai, Tianshun, Chenghua, and Zhengde years did not mint money.

Although there were coins minted during the Yongle and Xuande years, not much was minted. Yongle had very little money, and only 50 coins were minted in Xuande. After Xuande, there was no coin at all for 16 years.In the 270th year of Hongzhi, Hongzhi Tongbao was cast, but the amount of casting was insufficient; Jiajing coins were only cast about [-] guan every year.The entire sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty went through [-] years, and the amount of money minted was much less than that of the Tang and Song dynasties, not even one-tenth of that of the Song Dynasty.

The court of the Ming Dynasty seldom minted money for many reasons. First of all, with the arrival of the silver age, and after Zhang Juzheng's whip, the court's tax revenue mainly relied on silver.

But silver is only a precious metal, and it is easier to oxidize than gold and copper.The tax money collected by the local governments can be recast into silver ingots, and fire consumption is also an additional income for officials, which is basically legalized.

Another thing that makes Cheng Shijie feel unbelievable is that even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty circulated in neighboring countries, because they were afraid of being circulated abroad, they did not mint coins.

This is simply turning a blind eye when there is an opportunity to make money.

In later generations, Dalian has more than [-] iron ore resources, more than [-] copper ore resources, and more than [-] lead-zinc mines. Due to backward technology and poor exploration capabilities, so far, Cheng Shijie's people have only found [-]. Iron mines, fourteen coal mines, and four copper mines.

The preliminary conditions for casting copper and silver coins are mature. In addition, Cheng Shijie's warehouse also stores more than 40 catties of copper ingots. According to the ratio of copper and lead to seven to three, copper coins can be cast at least more than 60 Xiaoping coins.

Chongzhen Tongbao comes in four sizes: Xiaoping coins, Dang [-] coins, Dang [-] coins, and Dang [-] coins, with weights ranging from [-] grams to [-] grams.

Cheng Shijie thought about it, and first recruited people from the inside to cast Chongzhen Tongbao.

The local talent reserve in Liaodong really has all kinds of people, because not all the money cast in the Chongzhen Dynasty was placed in the Ministry of Industry in the capital, and there are still many places, calculated from the Chongzhen Tongbao discovered by later generations, there are expensive (Guizhou) ), Chong (Chongqing), Jia (Jiading, Sichuan), Gong (that is, Gongcheng, Guangxi, Yuan, Ming and Qing belong to Pingyuefu), Jiang (Jiangsu Jiangning), Guang (Guangdong), Ji (that is, Jihan , Refers to Shu Han.), Ying (Yingtianfu), Zhong (Zhongzhou, Sichuan), Qingzhong, Qing (Nanjing Chizhou Prefecture or Nanzhi Qingyang County, Songjiang Prefecture, Qingpu County), Hubei (Ezhou), Yu (Shaanxi Yulin), Shanghai (Should be Lu, Luzhou, Sichuan), Ning (the abbreviation of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, named after the Sui Dynasty as Jiangning County, Jiangning Capital, and Jiangning Prefecture.), Taiping (Taiping County, Sichuan Kuizhou Prefecture).

There are also dozens of production areas such as Gongwu, Jianwu, and Huwu. With the severe inflation in the Chongzhen Dynasty, even [-]% of the profit from casting money can no longer make up for the loss of inflation. In this case, private individuals are unwilling Do something thankless.

The craftsmen who knew the craft of casting also lost their livelihood and became refugees.Just like Li Lin, the master coin maker, this is an old man in his 50s. In future generations, if he has money, he can barely be regarded as an uncle. If he has no money, he is a dead old man.

"Grassman Li Lin pays homage to Mr. Jinglue!"

"You can mint money?"

"Grassmen's Association!"

Li Lin will how to mix copper and zinc and how to control the temperature, because zinc has a low melting point and is easy to volatilize. Copper and zinc are the main raw materials for making copper coins, and zinc and iron can also be made into tinplate.

"The heat is very important. Every time the zinc is melted, it will consume [-]%!"

When Li Lin first met Cheng Shijie, he was still very restrained, but as he talked about his profession, he became more and more fluent. , How to refine it, wait for the eloquence.

Cheng Shijie heard that Li Lin was very professional, so he said directly: "I want to make money, it doesn't matter whether it is different from official money, what is important is that you have to make qualified money, and I plan to make 400 million Xiaoping coins , when two coins are 200 million coins, when five coins are 100 million coins, when ten coins are 100 million coins.”

One million coins sounds like a lot, but in fact, even if one thousand cash is exchanged for one tael of silver, the total of 100 million coins of these four specifications is only equivalent to 800 taels of silver.

However, this requires hundreds of thousands of catties of copper and tens of thousands of catties of zinc.

Will Cheng Shijie be taken advantage of and do something thankless?

Certainly not, once anything changes in quantity, it will change in quality.

Daming is indeed inflationary, but the problem is that southern Liaoning has more supplies and less money, and prices are lower than other places.Let's talk about the outflow of copper coins. Once the amount of new money reaches a certain scale, the problem of outflow of coins will not be too big.

"How many workers and supplies do you need in the early stage, list them one by one!"

"It's the grassroots who save it!"

"About your treatment, you are the director of this mint, and you are temporarily designated as a hundred-level chief. You have an annual salary of 36 shi grains and 60 taels of silver. If you do a good job, I will give you a big reward!"

"Thank you, Marshal, for your grace!"

Li Lin immediately burst into tears. He was originally a coin minter recruited by Sun Yuanhua, but Sun Yuanhua found out that he would lose money on coin minting, so he closed down the factory.

Hearing Li Lin's explanation, Cheng Shijie's eyes lit up: "So, Master Futai prepared tools and equipment for you before?"

"Get ready, more than 150 sets have been made with just the mother's money!"

Cheng Shijie said: "These equipments are all in my hands now, you follow me, we will find them, there are ready-made equipments, this mint can be put into production immediately!"

Li Lin said timidly: "I beg for the grace of the commander-in-chief, can you forgive the son-in-law of the little old man!"

Li Lin had no sons, but gave birth to three daughters, and no one gave birth to him, so he recruited the younger daughter's husband as a son-in-law, and passed on his skills to his son-in-law, Huang Sizheng.

Huang Sizheng was an honest man who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks, and he lived with him all the time. Later, Kong Youde rebelled, and Li Lin's son-in-law Huang Sizheng was kidnapped and entered.

It is very difficult for a person to learn well, but it is too easy to change.Huang Sizheng was originally an excellent template maker, who was also good at making silver and gold jewelry. He went on a long trip to make jewelry for his daughter who was about to marry at a landlord's house in Taolin Town.

At first, the work went smoothly, but the landlord had a mischievous young master. Seeing that Huang Sizheng didn't talk much, he started to play tricks on him, using the dog's bowl at home as a soup bowl for Huang Sizheng to drink noodles.

The noodles were poured into the dog food bowl, and the dog thought it was its food. Seeing Huang Sizheng eating, it naturally came to grab the food. The dog was very fierce and bit Huang Sizheng's right hand. As a craftsman, Huang Sizheng's right hand was disabled , is tantamount to losing his job.

Later, Kong Youde's rebels broke through the landlord's compound, and the angry Huang Sizheng stabbed the young master of the landlord's family to death with a dung fork.

No matter what the reason was, Huang Sizheng killed a nine-year-old child, and he was a heinous murderer. In this way, he was sent to a coal mine for reform.

A month ago, Li Lin went to see Huang Sizheng, and found that Huang Sizheng was already thin and out of shape at this time. His small body may not last long.

Hearing Li Lin's cry, Cheng Shijie realized that when he dealt with Kong Youde's rebel soldiers before, he was a little abrupt.However, Cheng Shijie did not use his status to pardon Huang Sizheng, but asked Zhang Ruyi, the president of the court, to retry the old cases that were judged in a hurry.

Although Cheng Shijie now controls the life and death of 50 million people, the life and death of these people are all in his mind. Although the power is great, just like what Sun Yuanhua said at the beginning, he cannot exercise power or do whatever he wants.

There are problems with the formulation of the system, which can be changed. However, there are some things that need to be implemented, rather than Cheng Shijie, an envoy, taking the lead in destroying them.

When managing a small company, you can rely on the sophistication of the world, or your own preferences. However, like now, the size of Liaonan has surpassed that of the later Han Steel Group, at least the number of people has exceeded it. The problem is, this Management of a large enterprise requires a system.

Instead of getting hot on the head, making a decision with one slap on the head, and leaving with one slap on the ass, wouldn't that be three slaps on the cadre?
Cheng Shijie took Li Lin to the storage place where the materials moved from Dengzhou were stored. Cheng Shijie had given an order at the beginning, not to let a nail go.

At present, most of these equipments are transported to various factories to play a new role, and there are not many left. These crucibles for casting copper coins have been taken away and used in other factories. Fortunately, any equipment and facilities can be obtained. Records are easy to find.

However, these crucibles are made by mixing the finest mud powder and charcoal powder, and the quality is very high. The molds of the copper coins and the mother coins have not been touched.

Li Lin also recruited the same coin minters who were recruited by Sun Yuanhua at the beginning, and many of them are in the new work unit, and they are doing well, and they don't want to go into this mess again.

Even so, Ning Haijun's mint also pulled up the shelves, and the remaining six crucibles began to melt the prepared copper materials and zinc, and the molds of more than 150 copper coins that were originally made.

Two days later, the first batch of copper coins manufactured, four sizes, or four denominations of copper coins, more than [-] pieces each, were placed in front of Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie took the new money and weighed it on a small electronic scale. The Xiaoping money weighed [-] grams, almost the same weight, which made Cheng Shijie feel incredible.

The maximum weight of this sensitive electronic scale is only ten kilograms, and the sensitivity is very high. Even if a hundred pieces are weighed together, [-] pieces, the maximum error between each hundred pieces is one gram, and the minimum is [-] gram.On average, the single error is almost negligible.

In the absence of precise electronic scales in the late Ming Dynasty, how did these craftsmen do it?
Although it is said that there were small and accurate crane scales in the Ming Dynasty, although the accuracy of the crane scales has been improved, the problem is that if the scale is slightly higher or lower, there will be errors.

"Master, Yang Yunniang, please see me!"

"Let her in!"

At this time, Yang Yunniang was dressed in men's clothing, wearing a shawl, a blue Confucian shirt, sash, and boots. This was also the standard attire for scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Yang Yunniang did not apply Fendai, she could still tell that she was a woman.Of course, this has something to do with the customs of the Ming Dynasty. Generally speaking, when women go out to work, they seldom dress fancy, which is not convenient.

"Nubai see the handsome!"

Yang Yunniang's eyes fell directly on the new money.

"sit down!"

Yang Yunniang was still straight to the point, straight to the point: "Marshal, I have a question I want to ask you!"

"What's the problem, you can say it!"

"It's our bank, how to solve the problem of remote deposit and withdrawal!"

Yang Yunniang smiled bitterly and said, "Now we need to establish six branches. From the southernmost Lushun branch to the northernmost Haizhou branch, the distance is more than 700 miles. Even if we use the fastest horse to send account information, it will take three days. time!"

"how to solve this problem?"

Cheng Shijie suddenly remembered that in the ancient times of the development of online literature, there were novels he liked to read on Jagged Online at that time, but the problem was that there was no online payment in that era. How to solve the problem of charging virtual currency to the account?

Cheng Shijie was very impressed. At that time, the post office wire transfer was used. When did the other party receive the money and when did he start charging virtual currency into his account.

In fact, Qidian can stand out from countless online novel websites, relying on Shanda’s game point cards, because there are Shanda point cards sold in Internet cafes, which can be recharged at any time, so Qidian has this inherent advantage.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "We set a cycle limit. For example, if a gold account deposits 10 taels of silver from the Lushun branch, and he needs to withdraw it in Haizhou, we must have the Haizhou branch receive the new account information. Withdrawals can only be made when the account information is updated! At the same time, we will charge a certain handling fee when depositing and withdrawing in different places. The establishment of this handling fee requires a professional evaluation within your bank."

Yang Yunniang nodded and asked again: "However, here comes a new problem. How can our branches ensure that customers can access in different places? If it is just to transmit information, a fast horse can be connected from north to south, but what about money? ?Like the bank in Lushun, it receives a lot of deposits, but Haizhou receives less deposits, how can we guarantee..."

"Our bank was first established, you can ask Zheng Jian, he is an old bank, and the bank will also face such problems..."

Cheng Shijie is not omnipotent and cannot solve all problems.

Cheng Shijie actually knows the answer to this question, but the problem is, he can't become Baidu, if he is undecided and asks the commander, isn't he like Zhuge Liang, who manages everything and can't train his subordinates?

"How many loans have the bank released now?"

Whether a bank can make a profit depends on how many deposits and loans it can receive. If all the money is in the bank, the role of the bank will be very limited.

"The prospects are very good. I can't tell you the detailed figures, but I should be able to make money!"

"So good!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the copper coins in front of him and said: "This is the money produced by our own mint. As far as it is concerned, we can produce Xiaoping coins, two coins, five coins, and ten coins every day. There are four specifications, two thousand each. More than [-] pieces, a total of more than [-] pieces!"

"That's too little!"

"Less is temporary!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "The crucible, money molds and mother coins currently used by the Mint were all prepared by Mr. Sun when he was in Dengzhou. We will make mother coins and molds by ourselves in the future to expand the production scale!"

Although casting money is a handicraft, as these craftsmen become more and more proficient, the production efficiency can definitely be improved. With more equipment and more workers, the production capacity will also increase exponentially.

Su Huaicai changed the Xunlei blunderbuss of Ning Haijun to self-fired firing. However, due to the limitation of materials, the rate of misfiring is too high, and only [-]% of them can be fired successfully. However, Cheng Shijie is already very satisfied.

If there is a breakthrough in gunpowder and thunder mercury research... that would be even better.

In fact, Ning Haijun's gun bureau has been making breakthroughs in connection, just like the stimulation of the Su Huaicai incident, the artillery is also researching in this direction, and there has been no breakthrough for the time being.

Su Huaicai led the craftsmen to take back more than 4000 matchlock guns equipped by the Zuo Dusi of the Ning Navy and transform them into tap fire, that is, flintlock guns.

It's just that the weight of the modified flintlock gun has increased again, with a caliber of 19.8 mm, a gun length of 1560 mm, a gun weight of 6.69 kg, and a projectile weighing 32 grams.

At the same time, the Xunlei blunderbuss attached to each fire support post were also taken back to the musket factory for transformation. Soldiers with torches are responsible for lighting fires.

It’s okay if it’s during the day, but fighting at night and holding a torch is simply telling the other party that I’m here to ambush you.

This is also a limitation in technology. It is the characteristic of southern Liaoning to create and transform while producing.

……

Wang Jun is from Dengzhou.He was originally the proprietor of the Wangji Grain Shop in Dengzhou City, and he was also a well-known wealthy businessman in Dengzhou. Originally, Wang Jun was very happy, and his family was well-off. , He took advantage of the situation and made a lot of money.The son is filial, the daughter is well-behaved, and the wife is virtuous.

Unexpectedly, in the summer of the previous year, he recruited a guy named Wang Shun. This guy was diligent, eloquent, and handsome, and he was very popular with Wang Jun.

Unexpectedly, he lured wolves into the house. He took Wang Shun back from time to time to get acquainted with his wife, daughter, and son. At first, he didn't think too much about it. Wang Shun is 15 years old, so what bad thoughts could he have?
Unexpectedly, Wang Shun coaxed his wife, Wang Tianshi, to be very happy, and would often add fuel and jealousy to what he had seen and heard in the store, so that his wife could listen.

It wasn't until last November, when Wang Jun returned home from a long trip, that he found out that his wife was pregnant for more than three months.

He has been away for more than five months, and his wife is pregnant, and the fool knows what's going on.

He was stunned by anger at that time, his wife Wang Tian thought that Wang Jun had died of anger, so frightened, she and Wang Shun packed up the gold and silver, and ran away overnight.

Wang Junlin was posed by his wife who had been married for more than 20 years, and soon the news spread throughout Dengzhou City. He, Wang Jun, is also a shameless person, but now he has become the laughing stock of Dengzhou City.

In a rage, he passed the family property to his son and left a dowry to his daughter, and then jumped into the sea to commit suicide.

Unexpectedly, he did not die. At that time, Ning Haijun was migrating to southern Liaoning on a large scale. The sailors at sea thought Wang Jun fell into the water accidentally, so they rescued him.

People, that's how it is, if you seek death once, as long as you can't die, and turn around from the gate of hell, the desire to seek death will fade away. In this way, Wang Jun came from Dengzhou to southern Liaoning in a daze.

Because southern Liaoning is dominated by Liaodong people, Wang Jun with a Dengzhou accent was squeezed out and assigned to work in a dirty and smelly fur factory, and his immediate superiors targeted him everywhere, so Wang Jun ran away in a rage When I arrived in Jinzhou City, I was ready to find a job.

Unable to find a job, Wang Jun relied on his quick words and empty gloves to fool a group of refugees who had just arrived in southern Liaoning and had no job arrangements. After asking, he found out that these people actually knew how to burn kilns.

Wang Jun took advantage of the chaos in the management of the Liaonan Ning Navy, fooled the tools, and fooled the refugees to work, and successfully opened a kiln. When the first furnace of bricks was fired, these bricks were still hot by the Ning Navy. up.

After completing the primitive accumulation of the first bucket of gold, Wang Jun became the first batch of private kiln owners in southern Liaoning. Starting with a brick kiln, in just over half a year, he has already owned [-] kilns, producing bricks and tiles, with hundreds of workers, and can earn him tens of hundreds of taels of silver, which is more expensive than his original grain shop. Also make money.

Wang Jun is very satisfied with his new life. There are few people who know him in southern Liaoning, because there are almost no people in Dengzhou who are willing to come to southern Liaoning.Many of the Denglai new army, and now the family members of Ning Navy officers and men, are unwilling to come to this poor place in southern Liaoning.Now no one in Jinzhou knows him, and no one talks about him being cuckolded behind his back.

Later he met a widow with two daughters and a son, and formed a new family.

Now Wang Jun has his own house. Although the three children are not biological, they are called his father, and they are very well-behaved and sensible.

Whenever Wang Jun came home, his stepwife, Qiao Shi, would have already put the prepared meals on the table, and Da Ya would serve Wang Junman with hot wine.

Wang Jun has made money, of course he will not be stingy with himself. His food standard is still good. There are fish and meat. Now the supply of fish, shrimp and meat in southern Liaoning has become normal. As long as you have money, you can eat it. For meat, even in the factory, you can get some oil and water every now and then, and enjoy your mouth.

"Daddy!"

Da Ya leads Er Ya, and Qiao Yuyu, the youngest, who is six years old. Qiao Yuyu actually has an older brother named Nian Nian. The combined names of the two brothers mean Nian Nian You Yu. year lost.

Wang Jun watched Yuyu staring at a plate of stewed mutton in front of him, and waved to Yuyu.Yuyu sat on Wang Jun's lap, and the two of them started eating and drinking.

Of course, Yuyu drank broth, while Wang Jun drank wine.

Qiao Shi is a virtuous woman who keeps the house clean and spotless.Wang Jun works in a kiln factory and is covered in dust every day, but Mrs. Qiao still allows Wang Jun to go in and out very decently.

Qiao's age is not very old, she is not yet in her early thirties. In future generations, she can even call herself a little fairy. At this time, she is actually the mother of four children.

The eldest girl is ten years old, and the second girl is seven years old. Because Wang Jun is rich, he doesn't need the elder girl and the second girl to help out at home. They both study at Jinzhou Girls' School, while Yuyu studies at Jinzhou Academy.

As for Qiao's original husband, Qiao could no longer remember what he looked like.In memory, his figure has become blurred.

Seeing that Mrs. Qiao was busy, Wang Jun called Mrs. Qiao over to have a meal together. Even Da Ya and Er Ya sat at the table to eat together. This is almost impossible to see outside of southern Liaoning.

After drinking for three rounds, the topic inevitably shifted to the micro-loans just announced by the management committee to promote business development.

Wang Jundao: "There are 30 kilns in the kiln factory, and each kiln can burn more than [-] bricks. The order of the kiln factory has already reached the end of the year. If there are too few kilns and too few workers, it seems that money cannot be earned. I feel bad."

"Father, what are your plans!"

Pointing to his home, Wang Jun said, "I've already made up my mind. I'm going to sign up tomorrow. Using our house and seventeen kilns as collateral, I can get a loan of at least 800 taels of silver. With these 800 taels of silver, I can Buy the [-] mu of land around the kiln, and build more than a dozen more kilns!"

Mrs. Qiao already knew business, and she was not Wang Jun's first wife. She ate with Wang Jun, and Wang Jun adopted their four mothers, so naturally she would not raise any objections.

Whether making money or losing money, she supports it.

At night, Mrs. Qiao was very enthusiastic. No matter what, it was Mrs. Qiao's most simple idea to give birth to a son and a half for Wang Jun.

……

Dongfang Company, the current Zhang Chen family can be regarded as a well-known rich woman in Jinzhou.Not to mention how many matchmakers came to persuade Mrs. Zhang and Chen to remarry.

Mrs. Zhang Chen was very clear about this, and those people even included a scholar, they all came for her money.

Because Zhang Dongfang was killed in battle, he saved her a three-acre homestead and another one hundred acres of land. Zhang Chen hired someone to plant all the one hundred acres of land. Because she was a martyr, the land was allotted for easy irrigation. of fertile land.She grows less grain but more vegetables. The grain is less than 70 acres, and more than [-] acres are all kinds of vegetables.

The business of the restaurant under Zhang Chen’s name is getting better and better, and the demand for vegetables and meat is also increasing. She thought that she would learn from Cheng Shijie, open a farm, and raise hundreds of sheep, thousands of chickens and ducks. Raise some more fish and shrimp.

The regulations of the management committee are that the military and martyrs of Ning Haijun can borrow from Liaodong Bank under the condition of guarantee. The annual interest of these commercial loans is only 100%, borrowing 120 taels of silver, and repaying [-] taels of silver after one year .

100 taels of silver, Zhang Chen has absolute confidence to earn 200 taels within a year. This is the business environment in southern Liaoning. Although Zhang Chen is a woman, she is not cautious, otherwise she would not dare to overwhelm her. All worth doing business.

Mrs. Zhang Chen took his house deed, the house deed of the store, and the land deed of a hundred acres of land, and walked into the Liaodong Bank with these things.

Now Liaodong has entered an era of crazy expansion.

(End of this chapter)