Silver Overlord Chapter 604: Arrival camp guard

The current currency of the Han Empire is three kinds of gold, silver and copper. The copper coins are also copper coins. The copper coins are mainly cast from alloys such as copper and tin, lead and zinc. The casting of copper coins is completely in the hands of the court. Local governments and tyrants are not qualified to cast copper coins. It is a felony to cast copper coins locally. Except for a few people who are willing to take risks and do so at the risk of losing their heads, few people do this kind of thing.

But gold ingots and silver ingots are not the same. These two precious metals, the local government and the wealthy households can smelt and cast the gold ingots for storage and circulation if they have enough gold and silver in their hands. The imperial court did not restrict it, which caused In order to make a huge profit, many black-hearted people mixed metals such as tin and lead in the smelted silver, and then filled them with second intentionally, deliberately adulterating them, causing a lot of chaos.

In the actual use process, using natural gold bullion and silver bullion as currency to circulate also has many disadvantages, which is very unfavorable to the development of commerce. Take a random merchant in Pingxi City. Those merchants When receiving the gold seal, the first thing is that the boss has enough eyesight and eyesight to determine whether the gold and silver received by him is adulterated through the feel, weight, and color. If it is confirmed that the color of the gold and silver received is sufficient, the first In the second step, the received gold and silver will be weighed on the scale to determine the weight. In the third step, if the silver is received for change, the owner of the store will often use steel scissors to make every effort. , To cut the silver nuggets for change, so behind those counters that do business, scales called silver and steel shears cut silver are almost all essential things for merchants. This kind of situation where everyone buys food and eats and throws away a piece of silver, although it can not be said that it is not, it is far from the reality and the lives of many ordinary people ...

If the quality of the silver is not good, those shopkeepers and the bosses will not accept it when they see it. Even if it is received, it will be discounted, which will cause many disputes. At the same time, because of the accuracy of the scale called the silver, The problem of the weight of grams of silver is also everywhere.

These courts were unable to deal with the situation, so they could only let it go.

There are also a small number of silver coins and gold coins in circulation on the market, but those gold and silver coins in circulation are not actually gold and silver coins in the real sense. They are just some big men who deliberately put big ingots during smelting. The gold and silver have become similar to copper coins. One of the gold and silver coins is very rough and the standard weight is not uniform. The second is that the number is very small and there is no large-scale circulation. Those gold and silver coins are mostly engraved with what The words "Shou", "Fu", and "Ting Ding's Joy" are things that a few wealthy tribes have used in some important family celebrations in order to show off and reward them for their use. Therefore, these gold and silver coins are essentially It is still a small piece of precious metal that has been divided ...

The wealthy tribes of the Han Empire do not understand the meaning of casting gold coins and silver coins, but for Yan Liqiang, turning the circulating gold and silver into circulating gold and silver coins, there is a huge opportunity-the right to coin !

Once the gold coins and silver coins issued by Qi Yundu ’s Hufu circulate in the market, they become a currency that everyone is willing to accept, resulting in a fait accompli. Once this credit is established, it will be great in the future.

Unfortunately, no one can see the significance of this point until now. Some people may think of casting gold and silver coins to facilitate circulation, but there is no technical means to achieve it, because casting gold and silver into currency is for those people. It is not an easy task. If you really want to get gold and silver coins according to the current technical methods, the cost will be too great to be acceptable.

But for Yan Liqiang, all this is not a problem at all, because to mint gold and silver coins, you only need a mint machine, and the most reliable and stable mint machine-the elbow type press mint machine The structure is not complicated for Yan Liqiang. He has ready-made drawings in his mind. The structure of this machine is even simpler than the steam engine. There are no complicated structures and parts, and it is very durable and the efficiency of the coin is high. Some of the coin-making machines that I saw in museums in my last life can still be used for nearly a hundred years.

Yan Liqiang has even figured out the appearance of the gold and silver coins to be issued. All gold coins and silver coins were originally based on the weight of one dollar. One or two silver coins are ten silver coins, and one or two gold coins are ten gold coins. , Easy to calculate, easy to use...

It was only a few days before I gave the drawings to the manufacturing bureau. The craftsmen of the manufacturing bureau estimated that they were still exploring the mystery of the elbow-operated press coin machine in the past few days, but they have not fully understood it yet, but Yan Liqiang believes that it will not be used God, the manufacturing bureau will be able to put the first mint in front of itself.

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When the sun went down, Yan Liqiang ’s carriage finally stopped.

The car door opened, Qian Su and Lu Wenbin got out of the car first, then Yan Liqiang also sorted out his clothes, and then got out of the carriage.

The outside of the carriage is already the gate of the county government of Yingwei County. The accompanying guards stand on both sides of the county government, and the streets are blocked. Many people in the county probe the brain around them and wear a county. Ling Changfu, Fu Changde, wearing a black gauze hat on his head, took a cadre of officials in Yingwei County. He stood at the gate of the county government office. He saw Yan Liqiang coming down. Fu Changde took all the size of Yingwei County. The official went to the ground, "Changlu, county magistrate of Yingwei County, has seen the governor ..."

In order not to let people guess their origins, but also to relax the hostility of the Seventh Division of Sand and Earth against the newly established Qiyundu Hufu, Fu Changde has used a pseudonym instead of his real name, except for Yan Liqiang. Besides, even the people around Yan Liqiang don't know his destiny.

Yan Liqiang glanced at Fu Changde, then looked at many familiar faces among the large and small officials in Yingwei County, and smiled, "Master Chang, are you still used to wearing this official uniform?"

"Today, I know that the governor is coming, so I put on this official uniform to greet it, so as not to be rude. On weekdays, I feel that this official uniform is a bit cumbersome, and I feel that there is no sheepskin jacket to wear comfortably ..." Fu Chang De grinned and smiled at Yan Liqiang. The smile, with a bit of cunning and hidden sharpness, was impressive. Among the people Yan Liqiang knew, only Fu Changde could have such a smile on his face.

"Okay, you do n’t like to wear this official uniform. I will allow you not to wear it when you see me in the future, nor will it be your crime of rudeness!"

"Thank you Supervisor!"

Qianqiang raised his head ~ IndoMTL.com ~ looked at the somewhat mottled county government gate in Yingwei County, Yan Liqiang touched his stomach, "Okay, let ’s talk inside, Master Qian and Master Lu The two of them ran around the road for a day, and their stomachs were already hungry. Let ’s have dinner first ... "

"Dinner is ready, please a few adults!" Chang Lu said, bowing, and led Yan Liqiang, Qian Su and others into the county government office.

Chang Lu also knows Yan Liqiang ’s temper, and knows that Yan Liqiang does n’t like to talk about the show, so the dinner prepared for Yan Liqiang is just hearty, with meat and vegetables. luxury.

After dinner, Yan Liqiang just rested for a moment in the official office where he stayed behind the county government office. Fu Changde and Situ Feixing, who was wearing an ordinary concierge costume, walked into Yan Liqiang ’s room ...

After letting the two sit down, Yan Liqiang directly asked Situ Feixing, "How is the connection with the Heiqiren?"

Situ Feixing licked his lips. He glanced at Yan Liqiang admiringly. "The young master is like a god. The Heiqiang people are already hooked. After tasting a little sweetness, the appetite of those Heiqiang people increases. Come bigger ... "