Chapter 1023: The bottom of the ship is covered with copper nails
Liu Laogen saw that Kong Tai took a few silver bars, and his eyes were straight. In the Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of copper coins, but there was no silver.
Right now in the Zhengde dynasty, the Portuguese have not yet arrived in China, and Japan ’s Ishigami Silver Mountain has not yet been mined. Therefore, the silver of the Ming Dynasty is very scarce right now.
How to say, the current price of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty is about 1 to 5 to 1 to 6. In other words, five or six silvers can be exchanged for one or two golds. In Europe, it is 1 to 12. Of course, with the mining of silver in the Americas and the development of Ishimi Silver Mountain, the gold-silver exchange ratio in Europe will rise to 1 to 15 in the middle and late 16th century, and then increase to 1 to 20 in the 17th century. But in the Ming Dynasty, until 1600, the exchange ratio was 1 to 8.
It stands to reason that the Ming Dynasty is so short of silver now, should one or two silver be exchanged for a lot of coins? The reason is this, but in the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial court had laid down death rules-1 two silver = 1000 Wen copper coins = 1 Guan Bao banknote ...
Of course, because of the indiscriminate use of the Ming Dynasty ancestor Zhu Di, the devaluation of Bao banknotes was severe. Later, in the years of Zhengde, it was abolished directly. However, the exchange ratio of silver and copper coins has continued.
However, for ordinary people, silver is very rare. Ordinary people shopping, still carrying a lot of copper coins on their bodies, stringed with ropes, jingle like a key chain on a belt that will be later, and It weighs a lot.
Generally speaking, only rich people have gold and silver collections in their homes. In the eyes of ordinary people, silver is a symbol of wealth.
The silver bars brought out by Conte are authentic Bohemian silver bars with high purity. Because Marin knew that the people of the Ming Dynasty were very savvy, and there were many ways to identify silver. It is not feasible in Daming to use the bad currency of Europe.
Even in the late 17th century, when Europeans wanted to buy from Daming, they had to use the highest purity Spanish silver dollar, with a fixed silver content of 90%. The Spanish silver dollar is also the only Western currency accepted by the Ming Dynasty. If you use other European inferior silver coins to buy things, people in the Ming Dynasty will not recognize them.
Therefore, Marin is not nonsense, and directly takes the most authentic bohemian silver bars in Europe. A bohemian silver bar weighs 600 grams, which is equivalent to 2400 deniers (containing 0.25 grams of silver). If converted to silver, it would look like 16 silver.
In the Ming dynasty, 16 pairs is 16,000, and you can buy more than two stone meters. In the Ming Dynasty, one stone rice was more than 153 kg, and two stone rice was more than 300 kg. A 16-two silver bar can be exchanged for four or five kilograms of rice. Even in the Jiangnan paddy field, there were almost two hundred kilograms per acre of real estate rice in this era. Therefore, a silver bar can be worth the annual rice output of 20-30 mu of Jiangnan paddy field.
And there can be 20-30 acres of good paddy fields in the home, which is definitely a well-off home in the Ming Dynasty, and can support a scholar to take the exam ...
Kong Tai took out a few silver bars, which was enough for the annual income of several well-off families in the Ming Dynasty. Why didn't he surprise Liu Laogen?
"Sir, what are you going to buy? Our boat is small, but it can't fit ..." Liu Laogen's hand took the silver bar and shook. The small fishing boat they used to smuggle can be filled with a single silver bar. These few silver bars ...
"Nothing, just want to buy some tung oil, nails and canvas for shipbuilding. By the way, buy some waterproof paint ..." Kong Tai thought.
"The paint is waterproof ..." Liu Laogen questioned.
He didn't know that there are no sumacs in Europe, and the paints are all made up, and not every paint is waterproof. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, the paint of the Ming Dynasty was based on the lacquer obtained on the lacquer tree. The lacquer is waterproof, and most paints of the Ming Dynasty are also waterproof.
"That would be great, you buy enough tung oil, nails, paint, and canvas for the two speedboats ..." After that, Kong Tai compared the size of the speedboat.
"Such a big ship ... two barrels of tung oil are enough, and one barrel of paint is enough ... nails ... the shipbuilding needs copper nails ..."
"Copper nails? Are they expensive?" Kong Tai's eyelids jumped. In Europe, copper is very expensive. And the nails made of copper are very time-consuming and more expensive ... Kong Tai is a bit inaccurate ...
"It's a bit expensive. It costs 200 jin for a catty. One or two silver can buy 5 jin ..." Liu Laogen replied.
"What? One or two silver can buy 5 pounds of copper nails?" Kong Tai almost thought he had heard it wrong. That's a catty, heavier than a pound ...
"That's right? Do you think it's expensive?" Liu Laogen questioned.
Kongtai almost didn't come up in one breath-can it be expensive? Daming a catty of 16 two pounds is equivalent to one or two silver can buy 80 two copper, this price is 1 to 80!
But before he was shocked, Liu Laogen continued:
"The price of copper is only 50 jin a catty, and one or two silver can be exchanged for 20 kilograms of copper (coarse copper). They are nailed into copper nails, and the price is quadrupled. Do you say black is not black? Even red cooked copper (high purity copper) , Less than 100 liters a catty ... "
Kong Tai almost gasped:
"What? One or two silver can be exchanged for 20 pounds of copper?" Kong Tai almost doubted his life. Last time I purchased in Guangzhou, there was no metal involved, so he did not know that the copper price in Ming Dynasty was so cheap.
Even if the 100 liters of one pound of red copper are used for calculation, one or two silver can buy 10 pounds of high-purity copper, which is 160 two ... 1 to 160 silver copper comparison ... Kong Tai feels that he is crazy, this price is cheaper than Europe 10 times more ...
"No wonder Dagong wants to come to the Ming Dynasty to buy things ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ It's too cheap!" Kong Tai murmured.
"Sir, how many copper nails are you going to buy?" Liu Laogen asked. Generally speaking, a few pounds of copper nails is enough for a speedboat.
As the saying goes, "a rotten boat also has three pounds of nails", that is to say, in a small boat, 3 pounds of nails are enough. The speed boat made by Kong Tai is not much larger than the average boat, and a speed boat can use up to 5 pounds of nails. Two speedboats, with 10 pounds of copper nails, exactly 2 two silver. This is still using copper nails, because of the luxury, after all, it is a sea boat, which has high corrosion resistance requirements. If you use iron nails for an inland river boat, you only need 20 jin for a catty, and you can buy 50 jin for one or two silver ...
However, at this time, Kong Tai was full of pride-since copper nails are so cheap, I want to nail the hull with copper nails! Such a sullen boat, it is estimated that many people will be envious of driving back to Europe!
So, with a big wave of his hand, he proudly said:
"Buy me a copper bar with silver bars!"
"16-coil copper nails? Obedient, that's 80-pound copper nails! You can't use that much ..." This is a nail with 8 times the demand ...
"Don't worry about this! Big deal, I let the craftsmen nail the bottom of the ship with copper nails to see how the maggots can still bite! Hum ..." Kong Tai proudly said.
Liu Laogen didn't speak anymore. He had seen wearing silk clothes, comparing with riding a BMW, and having seen before and after, but never really saw the bottom of the boat filled with copper nails ... … Even if you install it, no one else can see it… Do you dive to see the copper nails on the bottom of your ship?
However, this was not something he could manage, so he took the silver bar and left silently, leaving Kong Tai, who was still there, and exuded Wang Baqi and Tiaoqi towards the air ...
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