Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 244 Which one to choose

Had a dream, dreamed that he was entangled by a snake, and seemed to bite him. Zhu Yuan was so frightened that he opened his eyes suddenly, only to realize that it was Zhuang Liuniang, and couldn't help but lift his foot.

pedal!
"what--"

The woman's soft cry drew the young lady and other girls from the outside room in. Seeing Zhuang Liuniang crouching on the couch beside the bed in a panic, she didn't know what happened for a while.

Zhu Yuan had already sat up, and felt Zhongli Watermelon behind him carefully sticking towards him, pushed her away a bit, while reaching out to grab Zhuang Liuniang's chin, who was climbing the edge of the bed and poking her head over, and said with a smile, "You're not good, tell me, what should I do?" How can I punish you?"

Zhuang Liuniang's face was red, and there was water in her eyes: "Punish Liu'er as father wants to punish Liu'er."

The woman is pitiful, but Zhu Yuan is not polite. This woman is so thoughtful that she has crossed the line. She raised her head and looked at the bed frame with Cai Ling hanging down her eyes: "Then... hang it up until I go to bed at night."

Ordered, began to dress and wash.Going back to the study in the west room of the main room, I glanced at the crystal engraving watch over here. The dial has been reset, showing the hour scale.

It's three twenty in the afternoon.

His nap was interrupted, he got up earlier, but he didn't intend to catch up on sleep, so he sat down beside the desk.

In front of him is a stack of questionnaires.

Those sent to various places have not been sent back yet, and the current investigation is mainly aimed at all levels of Jinling.Zhu Yuan didn't make too many, too much to see, only one hundred copies.

Even so, I have only read half of it in the past few days.

Turning to the previous page, Zhu Yuan stretched out his hand for a pen, and once again noticed a long-necked vase with a small plum inserted in the corner of the table. The vase was only once high, and the whole body of the vase showed a rare deep red.

This is one of the red-glazed porcelain sent by Tan Qu, a merchant from Raozhou, a few days ago.

At that time, I heard what Tan Qu said, so I knew the way. Compared with mature celadon and other categories, red glazed porcelain has only begun to appear in recent decades. Moreover, because of the very strict requirements on the temperature of the fire, even Tan who has been exploring for many years At home, it is often impossible to burn one piece of porcelain in a kiln, which shows its preciousness.

Zhu Yuan has recently been thinking about whether to make a red glaze brand specifically because of this.

After all, celadon and the like are too common, and this red porcelain is definitely the type that you don't need to fry it to be very rare.

Rare means expensive.

Born luxury.

Thoughts flashed by, and he temporarily withdrew his attention. Zhu Yuan took a pen from the pen holder and turned to the questionnaire in front of him.

Regarding the recent questionnaire survey, the various questions seem to be innocuous on the surface, but a lot of information can actually be obtained through the questions.

For example, a simple scoring.

The high or low score actually means the readers' acceptance of the magazine in their hearts.

Obviously, the higher the score, the higher the acceptance. On the contrary, if it is too low, it means that there are too many people resisting, and it will not have a good effect of guiding public opinion, so there is no need for this magazine to continue.

The 10 questionnaires in front of me have been counted by the women around me in advance for the first scoring question. The 8.7-point scoring system is all calculated, and the average score is as high as [-] points.
This is actually the reader's statement.

Zhu Yuan also found that there are few full marks, which is probably an indirect display of the humble nature of Chinese people. Therefore, a score of 9 is already equivalent to a full score, and there are still a small number of people who use decimal points to give nine points.

The overall score of 8.7 was released, and Zhu Yuan immediately decided to print another edition starting next month, increasing the printing volume to about 6 copies.

I calculated it in advance, it is still 1 hardcover, and the other 5 is simple, all of which are for sale. According to the wholesale price, 3500 can be recovered.

On the other hand, let’s calculate the cost of paper first, a total of 6 volumes of magazines, two specifications, still based on the ideal 100 pages, the hardcover edition is 125 texts per volume, which is calculated before, and the paperback paper is only equivalent to one-third The cost of a hardcover is about 40 papers per volume, so the sum of all papers is 3250 papers.

That's a surplus.

Of course, there are also engraving, ink, binding, manuscript fees, and even subsequent post delivery. This part of the expenses is three or four thousand guan, which is not a lot.

Therefore, it is quite far away to actually break even.

If you really want to pursue a balance of payments, or even make a profit, Zhu Yuan certainly has a way, simple two words, advertising.

Official endorsement will help you 'advertise widely' your product, and print tens of thousands of copies and distribute it across the country. So, how much are you willing to pay for a page of advertisement?
what?
1000 passes?
Go out and turn left!

At that time, there will not be many in each issue, and there will be five or six pages of advertisements...

Ok.

Can't make money.

I can't.

However, next year's own "Guanjufang" will open, so you can give it a try.

In addition to the scoring of the first question, the following questions such as 'favorite' and 'most hated' are also quite high in gold content.

From this we can see the attitudes of different groups towards different forums, and even, because it is a real-name questionnaire, one can also see one's political leanings, and even a deeper level of personal character.

These are very valuable materials, the kind that can be included in the archives.

Zhu Yuan was reading and deliberating while taking notes. After some time, he felt that the light in the room was getting dark, so he stopped writing, took a sip of the room temperature tea at hand, and told the young lady who was silently watching: "Morning ancestor Let me have a look at the mother's money sent by someone."

Qing Niang promised, went to the outside room, and quickly came in with a tray.

Putting the tray full of various coins in front of her adults, Qingniang signaled the other girls to start lighting the lamps indoors together.

Although it's not too late, I don't need to save these candles, adults' eyes are the most important thing.

Under the lit candlelight, Zhu Yuan began to fiddle with the entire tray of mother's money in front of him.

Copper coins have already been regulated, so there is no need to worry about it, the ones in front of you are all silver coins.

The face value ranges from the smallest one coin to the largest twelve taels, and there are several styles, such as square hole coins, small ingots, or non-hole round coins like those of later generations. Some of the original proposals.

For example, the one that Zhu Yuan picked up right now is worth one penny.

This is the traditional square hole money.

Compared with pure silver, which is only the size of a soybean, the square hole coin in front of me is an alloy coin with a diameter of one inch and a weight of one tael. It contains one coin of silver, and nine coins of copper and zinc. The value of the coin actually reaches 109 cash.

However, the plan is only used as a dime of 'dangbai'.

This is Zhu Yuan's proposal to Lao Zhu during the trial production of mother money, but it is similar to Lao Zhu's concept of requiring the use of pure silver.

I would rather lose some money myself, than let the people feel that you are playing tricks on minting coins.Because if you think you are smart enough to be short of deductions, it will only damage the national credit.Once the people no longer trust the imperial court, the hidden loss is much, much greater than the little copper and silver saved by digging.

On the contrary, if the credit is established, not to mention other things, just keep the word "no deceit", and the monetary credit of the court can last longer.

Time means possibility.

The possibility of transformation, the possibility of reform, the possibility of surviving crisis.

Let's talk about the 'Dangbai' alloy silver coin in front of you.

This is the one that Zhu Yuan likes the most.

Because, one such coin, containing one penny of silver, is equivalent to 100 Wen.

Similar to the later 100 yuan.

As the silver coin with the smallest value in the tray, it is not difficult to imagine that this must be the one that is relatively easy to circulate.Further up, the denominations of silver coins of two, three, five, or even one or two, etc., are too large.

Take the minimum wage that was just discussed today.

According to the calculation of one stone of rice grain, not to mention the real-time grain price, ideally, one stone of rice is consistent money.Then, assuming that all wages are paid with money, there are two options, one is to give the craftsman 10 alloy silver coins, and the other is to only give one silver coin of 1 tael. In contrast, obviously, the former is easier to spend and easier to circulate.

As for the latter, the hard piece may only be used by craftsmen by cutting the silver coin.

This loses the meaning of minting silver coins.

As for why it is made into an alloy silver coin, it is because a penny of pure silver is too small.

First of all, the one tael of this era is not the one tael of 50 grams later.

At present, one catty should be more than the later 500 grams, but one catty is divided into 16 taels. Therefore, one tael is about 30 grams, and when it is cut to 1 qian, it is only 3 grams, not the later people. 5 grams in the concept.

How much is three grams of sterling silver?

About the size of a soybean.

Such a grain of pure silver is made into a silver coin, which is also in the tray in front of my eyes. One is a small round coin without a hole, pressed into the size of a thumb cover, with the word "Hongwu" on one side and the face value of "One Coin" on the other side.

The other is with holes, but it is not a square hole, but similar to the whistle candy later, of course, it is also much smaller than the whistle candy, roughly a small circle.The characters of "Hongwu" and "Yiqian" are also written on both sides of the circle.

The characteristics of the two silver coins can be understood after a little sketching in the mind. They are too small and too light, so they are easy to lose, and may be swallowed by children as jelly beans.

Therefore, there is the alloy scheme suggested by Zhu Yuan.

Playing with it for a while, seeing Qingniang standing by the side, Zhu Yuan didn't think much, just took three kinds of one-cent silver coins in front of him and spread them out in the palm of his hand, and asked the woman, "Hey, they are all one-cent silver coins, which one do you want?" ?”

Qingniang didn't expect that her adult would turn to her suddenly. Where did she have any thoughts, she looked at her little man for a moment, then stretched out her slender hand, and grabbed the 'whistling candy' like a chicken pecking at rice, and immediately He put it back unconfidently, and raised his head: "My lord...which one should I let the slave choose?"

Zhu Yuan: "..."

This uninitiated woman shouldn't ask you.

and……

Obviously chose.

Not the one I thought.

This is not right.

Turn your head.

There are four girls in the room, Caimulberry, Chaitoufeng, Xijiangyue, and Man Tingfang.

Looking over, Zhu Yuan originally wanted to ask, but seeing the bright eyes of the four girls who were eager to try, he gave up again.Seeing how long they have been playing with the alloy silver coins in their hands, these few will most likely choose to please themselves.

It's pointless to ask.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, so he simply held a few silver coins in his hands, got up, and planned to go out.

Qing Niang hurriedly took the fur coat, caught up and put it on for her lord, and asked: "My lord, do you want to prepare a sedan chair?"

"Need not."

As he spoke, he walked through the courtyard and came to the east chamber.

Couldn't get in.

It will soon be the third day of the twelfth lunar month, and a certain girl has been carefully inspecting her wedding dress for the past few days, with the assistance of a group of other women. Zhu Yuan wanted to go in, but was blocked by a blank space. show up.

Zhu Yuan didn't force it, and stood at the door, spreading his hands to Liu Bai and said, "They're all one-cent silver coins, pick one, how would you choose?"

Seeing that his lord didn't mean to force the door, Liu Bai breathed a sigh of relief, looked down at the silver coin he had seen this morning, thought for a while, then reached out and picked up the 'whistle candy': "This... can be threaded, It's not easy to lose."

Zhu Yuan asked: "Why didn't you choose the big one?"

Liu Bai glanced at it: "My lord, this is made of copper."

Zhu Yuan explained patiently: "The ones containing silver are worth a full [-] qian, and copper and zinc are added with [-] qian."

Liu Bai insisted: "My lord, this... looks like copper."

Zhu Yuan: "..."

Seeing that his lord was speechless, Liu Bai changed his position very cooperatively: "My lord, if... a slave, then choose this one?"

He pointed to the alloy.

Zhu Yuan: "..."

Then turn to East Garden.

The group of mountains and waters, as well as the group of corn and watermelon, all shouted to the main room of the garden, without asking one by one, showed the samples, took a note, and asked someone to write the answer.

As a result, a large group of girls, most of them also chose 'Whistle Candy'.

Zhu Yuan was unable to ask the reason.

However, he was still not quite reconciled, so he turned to the West Garden, and besides a group of 'frontier' girls, he also asked someone to call over the women in front of him.

Test again.

Most women still choose 'whistling candy'.

When it was dark, Zhu Yuan was too lazy to bother.

Sitting cross-legged on the low couch in the small hall on the west side of the main room here, he scanned the surroundings and saw a certain Nordic girl poked behind like a pillar, her depressed mood improved, and she suddenly laughed and gestured: "Wutong ,come over."

The Nordic girl immediately stepped forward, lowered her body onto the couch, and crawled to Zhu Yuan's side, her eyes filled with anticipation: "My lord, I want to eat."

Zhu Yuan spread his hand, still three silver coins: "Choose it, choose the right one, you can eat whatever you want."

Indus blinked his eyes in doubt.

The ones she chose just now were filled out by Xiaoyu with her help.

However, after roughly understanding what his lord said, Wu Tong looked down at the silver coin in front of him, pondered for a moment with his not very bright mind, then stretched out his hand...the three grabbed it together.

Zhu Yuan laughed again, stroking Wutong's fluffy head with loose hair: "It's so smart, it knows the truth of 'I want it all'."

Indus raised his head slightly, holding his adult's little hand, and laughed.

I can eat enough tonight.

Zhu Yuan didn't bother anymore, he roughly understood that he had taken it for granted.I thought it was very thoughtful, but I didn't expect that most people still value things that they can see value more, even if they are smaller, they don't want alloy coins that look like copper coins but are actually more valuable.

Thinking about it again, this is also very understandable.

No matter how small the fine silver is, it is visible to the naked eye, and no matter how big the alloy money is, who knows if it will really have a fine silver in it as Zhu Yuan said.

What if it's only half the money?
Therefore, even if it is smaller, even if it is not suitable for storage, even if it may be lost, everyone still subconsciously choose pure silver coins instead of alloy coins.

The most fundamental reason for this matter, in the final analysis, is that the level of trust has not reached a certain level.

The women in the mansion might trust Zhu Yuan, but the money was not minted by Zhu Yuan himself, so small pure silver coins are more reliable.Because you can see it, touch it, and a dollar is a dollar.

This also made Zhu Yuan reflect for a while.

For many things, it doesn't necessarily mean that you think very well, or that you are right. You still need to ask the parties for their opinions.

Ok……

This is still similar to a questionnaire survey.

So I made up my mind to do more of this kind of thing in the future.

(End of this chapter)