The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 664 Financial Globalization

The development of science and technology has led to the improvement of labor efficiency, resulting in the decline of all costs.

To sum up, it is not too long before the construction costs of Huang's warships and merchant ships are cut in half.

This trade trip not only signed friendly and commercial agreements with many countries, but the consulates of Ming Dynasty will soon take root in the prosperous port cities of these countries. Of course, a branch of the "Huaxia Big Bank" will also come into being.

The area where the Ming Consulate is built is of course the purchase of land. Although these lands are not large, they will become the permanent land of Ming.

If any country dared to attack the Daming Consulate by treachery, it happened that the warlike soldiers of the Huang family found a reason to invade the country. At that time, compensation for gold would not be the solution to the problem, and the destruction of such a small country would be the first choice.

Because the Huang family's minting technology is world-leading, the silver and gold coins minted are favored by merchants from all over the world.

That's because Western merchants generally use silver coins made by the Spaniards, whose fineness and weight are uncertain.

Originally, the coinage technology of the Han people is world-leading, and the craftsmanship of the Huang family is to learn from others' strengths. The standardized mass-produced coins are of the same quality and weight, and the content of gold coins and silver coins is more than [-]%. few.

Silver coins and gold coins are of course enough to exchange for gold and silver. The gold and silver that Xiyi uses to exchange are of insufficient quality and need to be folded.

The Daming Fleet has talents from the "Huaxia Big Bank" who specialize in inspecting gold and silver, and such talents abound in Daming.

Almost every city in Ming Dynasty has dumping shops, also called dumping shops. One of the important businesses they do is to exchange broken silver for silver ingots. If they can’t identify the fineness of gold and silver, wouldn’t they run away with their wives? ?

However, the business of Qingyin shop does not exist in the Huang family system, because the people of the Huang family all use Huaxia Tongbao gold, silver and copper coins, and no one is stupid enough to use clippers to cut silver ingots into small pieces weighing the weight of silver and buy them. thing.

Ordinary people exchange gold and silver for Huaxia Tongbao and go directly to the "Huaxia Big Bank". The big bank has qualified professionals trained by the masters of Qingyindian to serve the people.

Now the common people in the Huang family system no longer secretly hide gold and silver at home, they are all happy to use gold and silver coins, and they are confident and bold to deposit their savings in the "Huaxia Big Bank" to earn interest.

There is a profit of [-]% of the cost of minting coins. Xiyi chooses to use Huaxia Tongbao. Of course, the Huang family welcomes it. It will definitely meet their needs if they need to exchange gold and silver coins. The gold and silver brought back will be mass-produced into gold and silver coins and sold to them next time. .

In the near future, the number of Xiyi who use Huaxia Tongbao will double.

At that time, there will be many "big Chinese banks" in the Western Yi countries, and there is no doubt that there will be countless Western Yi people who handle remote deposits and withdrawals.

They deposit the wealth they plundered in South America and Africa into the "Huaxia Big Bank" and they can withdraw cash from the "Huaxia Big Bank" in their own country in Europe as long as they pay a fee of [-]% to [-]% according to the distance. ?

In history, too many Spanish treasure ships transporting precious metals were attacked at sea or sank in the Atlantic Ocean, or became captured by raiders.

It's not just pirates who do this kind of thing, the navies of other countries also enjoy it.

The sea is not peaceful, and the accumulation of half a lifetime of the colonists may be wiped out. With the off-site storage of the "Huaxia Big Bank", these wealth will no longer be used as wedding dresses for others.

The risk of sea transportation is entirely borne by the Ming Fleet. In fact, the sea transfer of cash does not need to be carried out all the time, and it can be scientifically allocated according to the cash flow of major banks.

When transporting gold and silver coins on a large scale, it is enough to use heavy troops to escort them. Reasonable deployment will make the cost controllable, and the income from water transfer will make the "Huaxia Big Bank" earn a lot of money.

Guaranteed by the mighty power of Ming Dynasty, the moment of financial globalization is approaching, and the days when the "Huaxia Big Bank" truly connects the world will not be too long.

The scholars following the sea are very busy, there are too many things to do, the cultivation of cinchona trees and rubber trees is self-evident, and the nautical atlas must be completed as soon as possible. modified.

The fleet of "Huaxia Development" will also sail to Europe this year, and the plan for the first month of next year is to travel around the world.

Huang Mingdao is about to lead the fleet to set off from the old port, pass through the Cape of Good Hope and through the Strait of Magellan to search for the Hawaiian Islands of later generations, and occupy this place as a foothold, and then cross the Pacific Ocean to Iwo Jima and return to "Huaxia Island".

Huang Sheng held a celebration banquet and invited all the scholars who had returned from the long voyage. It happened that Xu Youkuan, the chief steward of Wei Guogong, came to "Nanhua Island" again. Xu Hongzu arranged family affairs and came with Xu Youkuan happily.

Xu Youkuan introduced several talents again, and every time he came to "Nanhua Island" to send talents off, he was treated courteously and received many rewards.

He was full of energy, happily reported back to the prince, after returning to Nanzhili, he must send more servants to find out if there are any talents that have been missed by the people.

Among the Nanzhili talents who came this time, there is another Huang Sheng who has heard of it in later generations.

This person is called Fang Yizhi and he was a famous thinker, philosopher, and scientist in the late Ming Dynasty. In fact, Huang Sheng didn't know this, he only knew that Fang Yizhi was one of the four princes in the late Ming Dynasty.

Of course, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because Hou Xun's son Hou Fangyu rebelled, the four princes ruined a jar of sauce with a single excrement.

Fang Yizhi is not a soft-bodied man, he is a hard-bodied hero. When the Qing soldiers marched southward, he contacted the southeast anti-Qing forces to fight desperately.

Finally, the Qing soldiers captured Pingle, Guangxi, and Fang Yizhi was arrested. He was unyielding, and the Qing generals were moved by his justice and allowed him to become a monk.After he was released, he refused to become an official, changed his clothes to become a monk, and changed his name to Hongzhi, which can be regarded as the end of the whole festival.

Huang Sheng and Fang Yizhi talked about philosophy, medicine and physics, which made him enlightened.

Wu You and Fang Yizhi were acquainted before, but now they belong to a foreign land and meet old acquaintances, of course they will not be drunk endlessly.

He clinked glasses with Fang Yizhi frequently. During the dinner, Wu Youxing, who was not without pride, told his old friend that the Huang Family Medical College had developed a good medicine that could cure malaria.

A cure for malaria?Fang Yizhi was attracted. He listened to Wu Youhe and Hu Jianya vaguely telling him that there are too many species overseas, and their research time is too short. They may not even reach one ten-thousandth of the research. Stones from other mountains can be used to mine jade. exactly.

If there were no species from far away overseas, such a medicine that could save countless lives would not be possible to develop.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was really no special medicine for treating malaria. The role of Artemisia annua, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" was clearly written, pungent, bitter, cool, and non-toxic.Indications for children with wind-cold shock and fever.

Artemisia annua, also known as Artemisia annua, had the technology to extract artemisinin in later generations, and it became the drug of choice for the prevention and treatment of malaria in the world in the late 80s.

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