Chapter 209 Finished

Gold and Yuan alloy armaments, a set weighs sixty kilograms. If you switch to making coins, you can make millions of coins, but this set of armaments is only priced at a few thousand or a few hundred dollars. The alloy of gold and yuan made into coins is money, and the alloy made into armaments is just armaments. The distinction is that.

Anyway, except for Ying Yi, no one has the means to smelt armaments made of gold and yuan alloys and convert them into coins.

What's more, this is only the first generation of coins. In the future, with more advanced alloy materials, the second and third sets of coins will be released.

As for why not to use banknotes, Ying Yi also had his own considerations. Early banknotes were available in the Song Dynasty. But banknotes are too easy to counterfeit, which could lead to future problems. Even in the era before Ying Yi traveled through time, there were many counterfeit coins.

At that time, the state's ability to monitor civilians was not comparable to what it is now. The Ming Dynasty also issued treasure banknotes, but they also collapsed.

Using real objects that cannot be imitated as coins will make it easier to be accepted by this era, and it can also reduce hidden dangers.

After seeing the coin samples, Liu Yiqian and others agreed with Ying Yi's coin change plan.

Liu Yiqian said: "It is feasible for my lord to change the currency. However, I think that we can increase the value of a few small amounts to make it easier for ordinary people to use."

Ying Yi waved his hand: "What I took out was just a sample. How to implement it is the business of your Commercial Affairs Department. Just bring out the articles of association and show them to me as soon as possible."

"Yes, my lord." Liu Yiqian suddenly knew what he was saying.

Ying Yi said: "The currency change does not only involve the replacement of gold, silver and copper. How many new coins should be issued and how to replace them also requires detailed planning. The size of the economy under my rule needs to be coordinated, and the private sector needs How much is issued..."

Liu Yiqian smiled and said: "Please don't worry, my lord. There have always been rules for the issuance of coins. If too much is issued, the price of folk items will increase, making it unbearable for the people. If there are too few, it will be difficult to trade and circulate."

When Ying Yi saw that he understood the truth, he was immediately satisfied and said with a smile, "That's good."

Then he said: "At the beginning of the issuance, it must be exchanged for the original currency of the people. You must also know how to compare it."

"The processing workshop will complete the arms manufacturing within half a month. Your Commercial Department should make preparations first and start working on this matter when the arms manufacturing is completed."

In the following days, Ying Yi manufactured ten more processing tables dedicated to making coins. In addition to the Jinyuan Alloy Processing Workshop, a special coin-making department was established, which was directly under the Commercial Affairs Department.

In this way, preparations for coin exchange should be in place.

But Ying Yi was still not free.

During the half-month period when the processing workshop was stepping up efforts to forge armaments, Ying Yi was busy improving crop seeds with Erniu. In addition to the large amounts of wheat and rice seeds shipped daily from Kaifeng, Ying Yi also improves some daily fruits and vegetables.

Improvements will be made in two major aspects: yield and resistance to pests and diseases. Other aspects are minor.

Including home-cooked peaches, plums, water spinach, etc. People even specially opened a botanical garden in the mountains to grow various improved fruits and vegetables.

In addition, there are some cash crops, such as cotton and linen, and mulberry trees.

It is planned to gradually introduce these improved fruits, vegetables and cash crops to the public after the improved staple food becomes popular.

Although these must be done step by step, preparations must be made in advance.

It will be exactly half a month later when the armament mission of the processing workshop is completed. The Logistics Department immediately allocated the finished armaments and ordered the Auxiliary Arms Department to transport them to various armies for replacement. Naturally, Ying Yi did not need to handle the specific matters personally.

After completing the armament mission, Jinyuan Alloy was no longer so nervous, and the coin foundry under the Department of Commerce began to mint coins.

In the detailed statement handed over by the Department of Commerce, three more currency types were added to the five types of coins that Ying Yi had previously proposed. A half-coin coin under one penny is the minimum denomination coin. Then, between one penny and ten penny, add a five-pen coin, and between ten penny and a hundred penny, add a fifty-penny coin.

In this way, the coins are divided into eight levels. Starting from half a Wen, one Wen, five Wen, ten Wen, fifty Wen, one hundred Wen, and then thousands, ten thousand.

And due to different currency values, the color and luster are also different. Half a coin is brass, one coin is copper, ten coins are silver, fifty coins are silvery-yellow, a hundred coins are light gold, card-shaped coins of a thousand coins are pure gold, and ten thousand coins are purple gold.

Coloring and processing are the same process. Coloring is done during the processing, so that the color can be soaked into the gold alloy and will not be worn.

There is no need for Ying Yi to personally handle the matter of making money. He has more important things to do.

That is the Bafang Pagoda and the Diji Yi.

The Bafang Pagoda and Diji Yi made before were defective products, and the materials were made of Baiyang Steel. After meeting the needs for armaments, Jinyuan Alloy became more relaxed, and Ying Yi planned to manufacture a few genuine units.

One is that the function of the defective product is slightly lacking, and the other is that only one unit is not enough.

So in the next half month, Ying Yi completed the construction of three Bafang Pagodas and two Diji Yi. On the eve of September, there are a total of three genuine Bafang Pagodas, one defective Bafang Pagoda, one defective Diji Yi, and two genuine Diji Yi. In this way, in a short period of time, whether it is the demand for Yuanqi Energy , or the need for improved crops, are no longer tense.

The entire Crescent Valley is completely on track.

Headed by the Moshi Division, it has two branches: the Jinyuan Alloy Body Smelting and Manufacturing Processing System and the General Metal Smelting and Manufacturing Processing System. Under these two systems, there are also related industries such as raw material mining, preliminary processing, and transportation. A total of 3,000 craftsmen and 20,000 slave laborers are involved.

There are also branches such as salt production, daily and work tool manufacturing, and weaving workshops.

In addition, due to some opinions raised by Ying Yi, it is also planned to build glass and ceramics firing and processing related industries near Xiaowangzhuang outside the mountain.

The reason for doing this is probably a kind of subsidy. The greatest function of the two valleys in Fangcheng Mountain is to meet the official needs of the Ying Yi regime. The only things that can generate external profits for the time being are the salt mine and a small amount of profits from the manufacturing of living and working tools and the weaving workshop.

It is necessary to open up new profit points, at least to meet the self-sufficiency of the two valleys of Fangcheng Mountain. After all, apart from slave labor, all craftsmen and workers in the industries involved in Fangcheng Mountain must be paid salaries. This salary cannot always be drawn from Ying Yi.

In addition to the above items, Ying Yi also gathered together the ammunition manufacturing system for muskets and artillery, and wanted to build an ammunition workshop in a mountain col a few miles away from the Crescent Valley.

And issued relevant tasks to improve gunpowder and fixed ammunition.

By this time, Ying Yi's purpose of leaving Kaifeng and going to Fangcheng Mountain had almost been achieved. Starting from paying homage to the folks in Xiaowangzhuang, to the transformation of Yuanfu into jade scripts, the manufacturing of gold and yuan alloys, the manufacturing of armaments, the transformation of coins, the development of new profit points and the establishment of ammunition workshops, one by one, they were completed. After that, Ying Yi left Crescent Valley with satisfaction and returned to Kaifeng.