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On the second day of the Lunar New Year, everyone began to visit relatives and friends and greet each other.
Qingluan also came to Li's house to pay New Year's greetings, and the New Year's gifts were very special, a few pieces of dog's head gold weighing a few catties, and a few big jadeite.
Cui Yingying was very angry about Qingluan's coming to the door.
With a smile on his face all the time, he greeted him warmly.
"When do you plan to return to Kangyan?"
Li Chao peeled a frozen pear for Qingluan.
"Your Majesty has promised to sell us a batch of ordnance, but it will have to wait for the ordnance supervisor to make it, and I will wait here.
But my brother will go back first, and he will send back the goods we have traded, and then organize more goods to come over, and bring some gold to pay for the ordnance. ” Qingluan took the pear that Li Chao peeled for her, and then unceremoniously jumped the last one into Li Chao's chessboard.
Cui Yingying and the red line were schadenfreude beside her.
Six people played checkers, and as a result, not only Cui Yingying, Zheng Hongxian, Du Caiwei and Zhao Siniang all won against Li Chao, but even the novice Qingluan won against him, and Li Chao became the final loser.
He grabbed a handful of money from the box in front of him and counted a few coins in front of the five people.
"Awesome, I'll take it."
"San Lang, we also want to reward."
Qiuyue and Dongqing were also laughing and begging for money.
Although the two girls have not been able to realize their original dream of becoming Zhang Sanlang's woman.
But now he is also the kitchen steward of the Li family, and the reward issued in the Chinese New Year's Eve is quite a lot, and if he wants, he can redeem himself.
"Okay, I'll give you one for each of you."
"Xie Saburo" Playing chess also has a lottery, but the money Li Chao lost just now was not copper coins, but gold coins.
This is a project he experimented with when he was in Taozhou, hydraulic stamping and coinage.
The traditional coinage, more troublesome, is also very simple, is the use of the mother money sand turning process, this process is still today's more advanced technology, compared to the Han and Wei dynasties, it is still much more advanced.
But even so, there are 30 craftsmen in a furnace, and they do it for ten months a year, but they don't mint 3,300 yuan a year.
There is a lot of labor used, and it is also inefficient, resulting in a high cost of minting money.
Li Chao had previously found a relatively easy copper mine in Taozhou with his secret map, and then prepared to start the hydraulic stamping and coinage process.
Stamping coinage is completely different from traditional mother coinage and sand coinage.
Stamping coins are faster and more efficient, and that's normal.
Copper, tin, and lead are first melted into a liquid alloy in a furnace, and then poured into an ingot tank to cool, or directly pressed into alloy strips.
Then some rolling operations are carried out to make the strips with the thickness of the blank cake, and then these strips are stamped into semi-finished blank cakes.
Then these blanks are processed in an annealing furnace, and they are also cleaned, edging, polished, etc.
Finally, these qualified blanks are fed to a hydraulic stamping machine, and the blanks are stamped with a special steel mold, and then they become the final coinage.
However, this process is very simple to say, but it is also more complicated.
Whether it is melting and casting alloys, or manufacturing rough blanks, and processing of fine blanks, and finally stamping and forming, it is not simple.
In particular, the steel mold requires excellent special steel, which has to be very hard.
And on this kind of steel, it is even more difficult to carve out a female mold.
The two steel molds on the front and back of a set of molds were carved by excellent carvers, and it took several months to carve them.
When Li Chao entered Beijing, his Taozhou mint had only begun to mint gold and silver coins, because copper coins were harder and more difficult to mint.
The first batch of gold coins was ninety percent fine and weighed one tael.
The obverse of the coin depicts the Great Wall, and the reverse depicts a dragon with toothed patterns around the perimeter.
The silver coin also contains ninety percent silver, and the same one weighs one tael.
The minting volume of this batch of gold and silver coins is not large, and it can be said that it is preparing for the minting of a large number of copper coins.
Gold and silver were not directly circulated in the Tang Dynasty, but they were able to be used as currency at some times.
The first batch of gold and silver coins minted by Li Chao were placed in his money bank for use, not weighed, but used according to the face value, a gold coin is worth 8,000 copper coins, and a silver coin is 5,000 copper coins.
As long as the surrounding tooth pattern and the relief pattern on the surface are not worn, then directly according to one or two, if it is worn, it is called a kind of calculation.
This kind of gold and silver coins are actually in circulation in a small area, just like the bankers' bills.
Once launched, it was quite popular.
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The main thing is that this thing is easy to carry, and the five guan coins weigh more than 30 catties, but a silver coin is only one or two.
The gold coin is even more one when eight times, and ten gold coins in a money bag can be used as five hundred catties of copper coins.
The banker is lighter, but after all, the banker is just a piece of paper, and it is worthless, not as good as the gold and silver itself, which is still very valuable, and there is no need to worry about breaking or something, even if there is no place where there is no money bank, it can be directly used as gold and silver.
As for the money bank, they are also happy to introduce gold and silver coins, because whether it is gold or silver coins, only ninety percent of the purity, and the remaining ten percent are replaced by copper, which is much cheaper than gold and silver, and the difference is six or seven times or even ten times.
The mint uses hydraulic stamping to mint coins, although there are many processes, but the mass production efficiency is extremely high, and the cost is greatly reduced.
The main cost is gold, silver, copper and other materials, and the other costs are very low, especially labor, which is almost negligible.
The most expensive thing is the engraving, which is the set of machinery.
The profit of coinage is very high, but it is difficult for ordinary people to imitate it.
Because this is not an ordinary copper coin, you can just turn the sand and cast it.
Without a mold, you can't mint gold and silver coins as exquisite as the Li family, the difference is too big, and it is a valuable coin like gold and silver, so it is difficult to use it.
Unlike copper coins, which are too easy to mint privately.
At present, the Li Kee Mint has minted more than 100,000 gold and silver coins, and a large number of gold and silver coins have begun to flow out through money banks and pawnshops.
Just by minting coins and circulating them, the Li family made a lot of money.
Li Chao had already calculated an account, and through minting and circulating, he could earn five percent of the profit for every gold and silver coin minted and circulated.
Collecting gold and silver from the market, minting them into coins, and circulating them is simply the simplest and most lucrative business.
For every twenty coins minted, Li Chao earned one.
One hundred thousand, he is equivalent to earning five thousand.
This was supposed to be the seigniorage of the state, but private minting has always been rampant because of the huge profits.
The imperial court is also very strict on private minting, but Zhang Chao minted gold and silver coins, which is equivalent to a kind of gold and silver products, so it can be regarded as a side game.
However, minting gold and silver coins is more profitable than privately minting copper coins, or destroying copper coins to mint bronze objects.
Those bold guys, in disregard of the ban, destroyed copper coins to cast bronze ware, sold thousands of dollars to get six catties of copper, and made bronze utensils for six hundred catties, and always melted copper coins to make more than 3,000 dollars.
As for the direct minting of thin copper coins and white copper coins with a lot of lead, the profits are also extremely high.
However, both of these acts are quite dangerous, and the court is ruthless in cracking down.
But they are not as good as Li Chao to make money by minting gold and silver coins, as long as they can't steal Li Chao's coinage steel mold, they can't mint the same coin.
Not to mention that if you want to rely on the traditional coinage method to imitate gold and silver coins, there is no money to be made at all.
If Zhang Chao dedicated this kind of hydraulic stamping and coinage to the imperial court, and the imperial court used this method to mint money, the cost of minting money would never remain high, and even minting money would be at a loss.
And with this coinage method, imitation casting is also more difficult, and even the copper content can be reduced.
In the past, the main reason for the failure of the previous dynasties was that this kind of money forcibly increased the value of the currency, but it did not have the function of anti-counterfeiting, and others were too easy to imitate.
There are even some dynasties that directly cast iron money instead of copper money, which is as stupid as Zhu Yuanzhang printing a large number of treasure money in later generations.
However, if Li Chao's method is used to ensure the exquisiteness and anti-counterfeiting ability of copper coins, then even if the copper content is reduced, it is difficult for ordinary people to forge private coinage, because stamping coins are not products of the same era as sand coinage.
The cost and currency phase are greatly increasing the difficulty of anti-counterfeiting.
Minting gold and silver coins is very profitable, but Li Chao doesn't plan to make it for long.
Earn him a few sums first, and then go back and dedicate it to the imperial court, and he wants to control this technology and this huge profit for a long time, which is too dangerous.
In fact, without minting gold and silver coins, it is also very profitable to have a rich bank.
Qian Zhuang, what he is playing is the real white wolf with empty gloves and borrowing chickens to lay eggs.
Use other people's money to earn interest on yourself.
In the afternoon, Li Chao went to Qin Qiong's mansion to pay New Year's greetings.
As soon as he entered the mansion, he found that Qin Qiong's face was not very good.
"Yang Wengan rebelled" "Didn't Yu Wenying go to announce Yang Wen's doing?"
After Yu Wenying arrived in Gyeongju, Yang Wengan rebelled.
It is still unknown whether Yu Wenying deliberately revealed the news or inadvertently leaked the news, in short, Yang Wengan already knew that the prince was under house arrest and had already rebelled. ” "This is a good thing" Li Chao thought about it, and felt that it would be better if Yang Wen didn't rebel, wouldn't he have three hundred taels of silver, and it became more and more confirmed that the prince was going to rebel with him before "After Yang Wengan raised his troops, he did not come south, but directly led the Liang division to the north into Gyeongju."
"That's nothing, Master Liang can still stand up in Shuofang, he dares to go south, that's looking for death."
"But there is news that Li Yi's subordinates in Liangzhou are also preparing to make trouble, and the Turks are also moving."
A general like Qin Shubao is of course not afraid of a Yang Wengan, even if Liang Shidu is added, it is not worth mentioning.
But if the Turks want to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, it is different.
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"The Turkic Jieli Khan claimed that he wanted to fight for the crown prince, apply for justice, uphold justice for him, and lead his troops to the south to ask for clarification."
"What is the reaction of the imperial court?"
"I heard that the prime ministers were arguing, some people thought that they should send envoys to explain to the Turks, and some people proposed to send troops to destroy Yang Wengan and Liang Shidu directly, and if the Turks dared to come south, they would do it with them."
"Your Majesty's Intentions?"
"Your Majesty has not yet made a statement" Li Chao nodded, thoughtfully, what the emperor is still hesitating about at this time is indeed worth pondering t1706231537: