Chapter 1705: The benefits of coinage
Bernard Shaw has no right to decide such a big list, but he can ask Marin for instructions. It is just that after the spy Bard was stationed in Persia, he has established a transfer route for pigeons along the Persian, Ukrainian and German homes.
So, the request letter was sent back to the locality through the pigeons, and asked Marin for instructions ...
Marin was also surprised to see that Persia actually wanted Beihai to help cast brass coins. The price of Ismail I was relatively low, only willing to be a little higher than the price of Persian copper. The Persian silver-copper price ratio is 1 to 60. It really needs to be based on this price ratio. Even if the price is increased a little, Marin will not make much money.
Thinking of this, Marin had intended to refuse. But later, without knowing what he thought of, he agreed to come down ...
Why did Marin agree to accept such a low-profit or extremely low-profit order? Not for profit, but for influence!
I would like to ask, if Persian coins are dependent on the North Sea country afterwards, can they not depend on the North Sea country economically?
The North Sea countries all have the right to coin coins for Persia. Then, if you want to go to Persia to buy things, you can start casting Persian brass coins directly. Anyway, the money mold is ready-made, you can get more copper forging. Then, directly take Persia for cattle, sheep and oil, without spending gold and silver. And this is what Marin values most!
Persian is also the top power in the Middle East anyway. Having the right to mint a country's coins is definitely the best way to influence a country.
Although the profit of casting copper coins is not high, the political impact is immeasurable!
Therefore, Marin finally agreed to help Persia cast 50 million copper coins at a silver-copper ratio of 1:50. As for the reason for the price increase, brass coins are not pure copper, but need to add a lot of rare precious metals. Then, the cost of artificial construction ... In fact, zinc is not expensive, at least cheaper than copper, but only Marin knows how to extract zinc in the world. This is the only company with no semicolon. He said that expensive is expensive, anyway. Ma Yi I did not understand ... Moreover, if more zinc is added, the cost can be reduced. After all, the mining cost of zinc is lower, and the content of ore is much higher than copper.
Subsequently, this decision was passed to Persia by the pigeons through the newly built pigeon transmission route.
After receiving the response from Marin, Ismail I felt that the price was fair, and agreed to this number. However, if you want to cast that kind of brass coin, you have to wait for the sample coin to come over.
In fact, if copper is purchased locally from Persia and brought back to mint, Malin will not make money or even lose money. But if you buy copper ingots from India with a silver-copper price ratio of 1 to 80 or more, you will make a profit. Although profits are incomparable to maritime trade, they are also profitable.
But the profit is not important. Compared with the ability to easily influence and control the Persian economy through minting, this profit is really nothing.
Moreover, even if the 50 million copper coins were mined for Persia alone, the profits would not be low. In addition to the low cost of introducing copper from India or the Ming Dynasty, this batch of copper coins was also directly taken to Persia to buy livestock.
In fact, Ismail I did not intend to price the batch of brass coins based on the silver-copper price ratio of 1 to 60, but directly priced the batch of copper coins at the price of Malinti. In this way, according to the silver-copper ratio of 1 to 50, 50 copper coins are equivalent to the value of 1 silver coin of equal weight.
In addition, the price of gold and silver in Persia is also different from Europe. The price of gold and silver here is similar to that of India, around 1 to 10, not 1 to 12 in Europe.
In other words, 500 brass coins can be exchanged for one gold coin of equal weight. The brass coin weighs 3.5 grams, which is about the same as the European gold coin. In other words, 50 million brass coins can be used as 100,000 gold coins in Persia.
Once these 50 million brass coins were cast, they were not sent to Persia for gold and silver, but directly for horses, cattle, sheep and oil.
These 50 million brass coins alone can buy 10,000 war horses from Persia! It is a warhorse, not an ordinary Persian horse!
Bosma only has 10 gold coins, and the price is really low. There is no other way. Who said Persia has no export market? Before reaching cooperation with Egypt, only two Shiite states in India could be the export targets of horses. However, the cavalry of these two states is not large, and the number of imports is limited. Therefore, the price cannot be sold.
In fact, Turkey and Crimea's war horses can sell 20 gold coins, because of their proximity to Europe. Affected by the high prices in Europe, the price of war horses was only so high. The prices in Persia are the normal prices in nomadic countries. The Ming Dynasty, where horses are scarce, was only 20 ounces of silver (equivalent to 17.4 gold coins), not to mention the Middle East where horses are not lacking? Horses in the Ming Dynasty were so expensive, they were still slaughtered by the grassland tribe ...
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Earlier, Marin had been worried that there would be no goods to exchange with Persia. After all, the direct use of gold and silver is too bad, and it is not enough at home. In exchange for goods, the Portuguese did not agree.
Well now, the Persians asked the North Sea country to help cast brass coins, which is no problem. In the future, if you want to buy a horse, you can directly cast 5000 Persian brass coins and you can take it to buy a horse.
As for the mint brass, the cost is really not high. As long as you do n’t use European high-priced copper stupidly, but cheap copper from India and Daming, plus zinc metal, the cost can be reduced a lot.
Right now, it is not just the Barkens lead-zinc-silver mine in Newfoundland that is constantly producing zinc ingots, the Goslar lead-zinc-silver mine is also starting to produce zinc metal.
However, because zinc metal is currently mainly used to make tinplate, the amount of tinplate is currently very low. Therefore, there are a lot of zinc ingots in Beihai that are useless there. It is definitely a good choice for coining.
However, it seems that zinc brass zinc is more than 20% will cause problems. But it's nothing. The big thing is that the zinc content should be controlled within 20%, and the profit is relatively large.
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In fact, the biggest significance of helping Persian to cast brass coins this time was to allow Marin to find a suitable commodity to trade with Persian coins.
With this transaction, Marin would like to buy Persian animals and oil again. Moreover, if the amount is not too large, the Persians will even welcome.
Sure enough ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ As Bernard Shaw and Irmayi I continued their negotiations, ISMAYI made it clear that they don't mind casting more Persian versions of brass coins from the North Sea.
Anyway, Persia itself does not have the ability to cast coins on a large scale, but only symbolically casts some gold and silver coins that symbolize kingship. The copper coin is the foreign currency that flooded the market.
Rather than flooding the Persian market with cheap copper coins from India, it is better to flood the market with Persian brass coins minted by the North Sea. After all, although it was created with the help of foreigners, the Persian and Persian styles used represent the Persian court.
As long as the price is reasonable, Ismail I did not care about making more in the North Sea. Anyway, he thinks the huge Persian market can eat it. Moreover, the Beihai Kingdom is just a little grand duchy, where can the coinage ability be strengthened?
This judgment is quite reasonable under normal circumstances, but Ismail I did not know that the North Sea coinage was not created by hand, but by machine suppression, and the efficiency was not improved by a star. As long as there are enough bare copper plates, how many machines can be suppressed ...
Later, the unruly Marin really cast hundreds of millions of brass coins and bought them in Persia. However, because the price given by Marin was relatively reasonable, it did not disturb the Persian economic order, but promoted the prosperity of the Persian market ...
