C45

Chapter 45 - Ying Yang and Yuan Datou

The Taibai Top's scenery was as good as ever, but Hu Niu, who was visiting the camp for the first time, was not in the mood to watch the beautiful spring scenery outside. Her and Xiao Letian's eyes were already attracted by the two small furnaces.

The red was burning coal, the white was scattered silver, and the flowing silver was emitting a strange glow. On the ground were rows after rows of iron models. The specially made iron pots were carefully poured silver water into the iron models as the two hulks carried them.

This was the true backing of Xiao Letian's wealth collection. The so-called "foreign banks" and "foreign people" were just pretense for business, the ostensible business purpose was to hide the fact that he was truly rich.

This was the treasure that Xiao Letian had bestowed to the Taibai Top. According to the thinking of the people of the Qing Dynasty at that time, forging coins without permission was not a rare occurrence. In the history of the Qing Dynasty, there had been many cases of forging coins without permission.

There were even anti-Qing organizations such as the White Lotus Cult, the Heaven and Earth Society, etc. They had secretly forged copper coins to amass wealth, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had even released its own currency. However, Xiao Letian did not do things with such low skill levels. What he wanted to do was to combine the two kinds of silver coins that had the greatest impact on China during the period of the late Qing and the period of the Republic of China.

The casting process used Yuan Datou's, and the shape used Mexican eagle's. The two currencies that had a profound impact on the history of China's silver coins, were finally combined in Xiao Letian's hands.

The Mexican eagle is a new coin used after Mexico's independence in 1821. It was created in 1823. The front was in the shape of the national emblem of the Republic of Mexico: an eagle with wings and a snake in its beak, standing on a cactus that grew from the rocks of the lake. The lower part of the design is surrounded by oak and laurel leaves, symbolizing strength, loyalty and peace.

During the time of the late Qing Republic, the number of Mexican eagle that had imported foreign silver coins into China was the most. According to the statistics of the two years' survey, there were about 1.1 billion foreign silver yuan in circulation in China at that time, and one third of them were Mexican eagle. This showed how far-reaching the foreign currency's financial impact was for China. The quality of the Mexican eagle is better than that of other foreign silver, and it has not changed for many years. People are happy to use it, so stability is an important indicator of currency survival.

As for Yuan Datou, the commoners of the future were even more familiar with him. The most classic scene was people holding silver coins in the center of their chests and blowing it on their lips. When it reached their ears, they could hear a clear buzzing sound. This kind of unique design technology almost became Yuan Datou's trademark.

The weight of one Yuan Datou was six and a half percent of Cuping's Pure Silver. It was cast with a ratio of nine to one. After casting, the total weight was seven and a half points. Even without considering the advantages of issuing currency in tax, a mere 10% copper was already a great interest.

Xiao Letian imagined, from north to south in China, all the shops from west to east would have falsified falsified eagles in their pockets. Every time the shop owner received a falsified falcon, he would put it to his lips and blow on it, this scene was simply too beautiful.

"Mr. Xiao! Mr. Xiao... " Shi Dakai and Fan Lian, the shopkeepers, both pushed to wake Xiao Letian, who was in the midst of fantasizing and drooling, up. "This is the first time Ying Yang is here today. The two teased.

How could Xiao Letian give up on this opportunity? He tried to touch Tie Fan and discovered that he was no longer scalding his hands, following that he raised a piece of iron and fiercely threw it onto the ground. With a dull thumping sound, the two pieces of iron instantly separated, revealing the silver coins inside side by side.

"My precious money! With your father, I won't be bullied anymore …" Xiao Letian really lost his composure, he knelt on the ground and broke all the silver coins one by one, holding them in his hands as though he was holding his own child. Beside him, dozens of wooden boxes were filled with eagles. A hundred of them were wrapped in red paper. It was a very joyous scene.

"How many silver coins can we produce per day?" "How many kilograms of silver should I use?"

"Now I can smelt 9000 taels of silver, 1000 taels of copper, and forge 13000 silver taels. "Originally, I wanted to open two more stoves, but we don't have much scattered silver. The entire village only has 300 thousand taels of silver, that's not enough …" Fan Lian said regretfully.

Shi Dakai was a little upset now. "If I had known that you had such an ingenious plan, we would have stored up more silver taels to reduce the amount of jewelry we have here …"

Xiao Letian shook his head: "It's alright, there is nothing else in Great Qing Dynasty, there are still some scattered silver, I don't believe that anyone would refuse to exchange for their silver with such a good silver?" After saying that, Xiao Letian blew the silver coin lightly, and a melodious buzzing sound came out, causing everyone present to be overjoyed.

"Killing pigs and sheep, a feast is starting today in the mountain stronghold …" Xiao Letian roared, and the entire Taibai Top roared with joy.

Money is the guts of a man, these words were not wrong at all. At the feast, Xiao Letian could be considered to have officially explained his economic layout to Shi Dakai and Fan Lian.

The people sitting on the table were all elites, they did not really understand Xiao Letian's method of forging the coin at the beginning, but after Xiao Letian explained all the twists and turns in a drunken manner, they finally understood.

Forging money could make money, and everyone knew this principle. However, many people did not know how to make money. First of all, it was impossible to use pure silver to make silver coins. In order to increase the hardness of silver coins, other hard metals would be added in. For example, Yuan Datou added a tenth of the copper inside.

Compared to the price of silver, the cost of copper was negligible. As a result, this tenth of the profit was steadily earned.

The second point was that he needed to analyze the ancient fire consumption system. The word "fire" first appeared in the Ming Dynasty and was coined by the famous Zhang Jizheng. It was one of his lashes that allowed the two banks to enter the national tax system and eventually become a member of the monetary family.

If they had money, they would have to forge it. It was impossible for people to only have large silver ingots. If ordinary people had one or two pieces of silver, they could be considered rich. As the county government, the silver they collected through taxes was mostly scattered silver.

In order to transport it easily, in order to send it to the capital for easy accounting, the county level units of the silver taels had to undergo a smelting process, turning the scattered silver into large ingots. And during the smelting process, there would definitely be loss. This loss was called fire consumption.

Very soon, the officials of the Ming and Qing Dynasties discovered the advantages of using fire to amass wealth. As for how much one tael of silver was used up, that was entirely up to them. According to the most official standards, even one tael of silver was worth three yuan, let alone a corrupt official.

In ancient times, a pound would cost sixteen taels of silver. The revenue collected by the officials had reached one fifth of the capital. This was equivalent to a 20% tax increase for the commoners. Alright, as for those corrupt officials who had collected more than five gold coins from the fire, they were of no use other than to force the citizens to rebel.

Xiao Letian wanted to forge more silver coins, so he needed more silver coins. Of course, Xiao Letian had a conscience, he wouldn't accept the money he had spent, but he should at least accept the money.

"Oh, Manager Fan, my good prince, what kind of deal could earn you twenty-two percent of the profit without any effort? This is a business deal! Do you know why I bribed the officials of the entire Yi County? "I was just preparing for us to absorb a lot of silver from the common people. With the protection of these people, how much silver can we absorb?"

"Although the Yi County is small, but every year, there must be a tax of 200 thousand gold, and these silver are all the raw materials for us to forge coins. Think about it, how much is this? Adding on the accumulated silver from the people, I can say that the taxes are dozens of times higher than a year. Doesn't the landlord of Qing Province like to bury money in warehouses and fields? old shopkeeper, think of your brother … "

Fan Lian angrily nodded his head. His branch brother had already dug ten large holes in the ground with no less than one million silver taels, but this time, the branch family had only given him one hundred thousand silver taels. They had even said that he was taking care of his brother, so according to the rules, he should not give him a single cent.

"A Yi County has accumulated a fortune of no less than three million silver taels among the common folk, while a top-class county in Jiangnan has accumulated more than ten million silver taels! "Think about it, if we were to turn all these silver taels into silver coins, how big would our interest rate be?"

"Moreover, once we have a big ship, we can buy silver ore directly from Japan, Mexico and even the United States. At that time, the cost of forging coins would be much cheaper!" Xiao Letian suddenly stood up and raised his wine cup as he spoke.

"I'll wave my hand and over a hundred million silver coins will fall from the sky like rain. Let's see if you have the guts to accept it …" gray beard Liu Lang and old shopkeeper were agitated to the point that their eyes were completely red. They were about to go berserk, and only Shi Dakai was relatively calm.

"Military Advisor, even if we can create so much money, how can we spend it all on others? Such a huge amount of funds rushing into the people would definitely cause a large amount of silver to fall. The fire consumption in the Qing Dynasty was greatly reduced, how could the Qing Dynasty's Manticores not pay attention? Even if they were greedy like Heshen, perhaps they wouldn't dare to turn the silver back into a silver ingot. "Then they've forced the citizens to rebel again …"

Xiao Letian shook his head and burped, "Your highness, you are overthinking things. Didn't I say it earlier, I want to set up a business in the Tanggu, and I want to pull Louis in to give him 10% of the shares." "You say that the court dares to investigate foreign banks?"

"As for the imitation Mexican eagle s, let me tell you the truth. There are more than a million of these silver coins secretly circulating in the south! Even a hundred million of them might not even be enough. Who would dare to search in the imperial government? "

"Not only that, we also have other protective umbrellas. We are not misers, so no matter how much money we earn, we will have to spend it all. We want hundreds of thousands or even millions to buy off the officials at the base level. We want to nibble away at a county. Yi County, Zhuozhou, Guang An, Langfang, Xiang He … And the counties around the Beijing, let's eat them one by one. "

"If you want money, we'll pay, if you don't want money, we'll take their lives. If you don't want money, we'll take their lives, if you don't want money, we'll take their lives, if you don't want money, we'll write blood letters for your father.

"This old man doesn't need a court official, can't we just use a greedy one?" Back then, Eighth Brother Yin was even able to pull out a small court under the dryad and the Yongzheng. I don't believe that we don't have the ability to do so … "

Xiao Letian was drunk, he actually told Xiao Letian his plan in front of the people at the table. Luckily, this was Xiao Letian's study room, only Shi Dakai, Liu Lang, Fan Lian, Hu Niu and the rest of her trusted aides. If all the brothers outside heard this, it would be a complete blowout!

Even so, Xiao Hexin, Wang Huaiyuan, and the others' eyes lit up like electric bulbs. They were completely shocked by the instructor's heroic spirit, and their blood boiled in their hearts.

"Do it!" "Following the Military Advisor is really a refreshing experience …" The young man immediately stood up. In the end, it was Shi Dakai and who became more mature, and ordered all the youngsters not to make a ruckus.

"Let Mister rest. If there's anything, we can talk about it tomorrow. Hu Niu, please help Mister sleep … "You bastards, shut up. Just now, the Military Advisor said it was a top secret. Don't blame me for not showing mercy …"

At this time, Xiao Letian was snoring thunderously.