Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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"Take me to have a look!" Zhao Wen nodded and said slowly.

After a while, Zhao Wen was taken to a workshop by Zhang Helang.

Workers in this workshop are fixing Qian Fan's lower section on the workbench.

When these workers saw Zhao Wen coming in, they rushed over to greet him.

Zhao Wen waved his hands at these people, and said slowly: "No need, you all go to work first."

As soon as Zhao Wen's words fell, these people returned to their posts.

Zhao Wen kept patrolling back and forth in the workshop.

In today's workshop, a considerable part of Qian Fan has been fixed to the workbench.

Zhao Wen couldn't help but nodded as he looked at Qian Fan who was fixed.

When all these coins are fixed, the efficiency of the entire mint will increase a lot.

"My lord, there are already tens of millions of taels of silver in the bank. Do we have to mint so much silver into silver coins?" Zhang Helang looked at Zhao Wen and asked slowly.

Zhang Helang still couldn't believe that Zhao Wen was going to turn all the silver in the bank into silver coins.

This is tens of millions of taels of silver. What if these silver coins are not recognized?

Zhao Wen laughed, and said: "Mr. Zhang, I hope you remember a sentence, only the silver that is in circulation can be called silver, and the silver that is not in circulation is a stone.

The value of silver is not its own value, but the value that people assign to it.

If there are countless silver in vain and cannot be circulated, then this silver is useless to us.

Now that our Daming Bank has formed a scale, it is a good time to throw silver coins out.

And you also know the silver of our Daming, and you also know the quality of the silver on the market.Lead alone is estimated to be worth four to five cents in a tael of silver. Although the silver weighs a tael, it is definitely not worth a tael.

Nowadays, this kind of silver is everywhere in the whole market, which has great disadvantages for our business development.

The common people have long hated this kind of silver, and our silver coins can perfectly solve this problem.Even if it may be difficult to implement in the early stage, it will be much easier if the people accept it. "

Listening to Zhao Wen's words, Zhang Helang couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Yes, only the silver in circulation can be called silver.

If the silver is not circulated, but only stored in dark warehouses, then these silvers cannot be called silver at all.

And the quality of silver on the market is indeed much worse.

After a long while, Zhang Helang's eyes were bright, "My lord, I understand."

Zhao Wen looked at Zhang Helang and nodded, "Just understand, just understand."

Zhao Wen looked at Qian Fan who had already installed it, and said to Zhang Helang, "You can make arrangements for this workbench to run."

Zhang Helang cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, and then called a few workers to open the already installed workbench.

There is no difficulty in casting silver plates, so the casting speed is much faster.

There are many standard silver plates minted throughout the Mint today.

These silver plates are about four millimeters thick, about one millimeter thicker than Yuan Datou of later generations.

It is slightly smaller than Qian Fan in terms of length and width. After all, the silver plate is to be wrapped by Qian Fan.

When the steam engine is started, the gears on the workbench used to transmit power also start to rotate.

The gear above the workbench drives a huge hammer, and there is a lever between the gear and the hammer to control the connection between the two.

The lever is to the left, the hammer and gear are off.

The lever is to the right and the hammer and gear are connected.

Zhao Wen stood by, quietly looking at the workers who were working on the workbench.

I saw a few workers carefully lift the taken out silver plate onto the money fan, and then accurately place the upper part of the money fan on the silver plate.

Because there are pin holes for proofreading on the upper and lower money fans, it is not difficult to align them.

When the upper and lower money fans are aligned, the worker fixes the two money fans, and then shifts the lever to the right.

Driven by the gears, the hammer above the workbench slowly rose upwards.

When rising to the highest point, the worker dials the lever to the left.

Under its own gravity, the huge iron hammer fell heavily towards Qian Fan below.

"Oh!"

The hammer hit Qian Fan fiercely, making a loud noise.

Zhao Wen stared at Qian Fan with a pair of eyes, only to see that Qian Fan in the upper section was suddenly shocked by the impact of the heavy hammer.

The worker shifted the lever to the right again, and the hammer moved upwards slowly under the control of the gear.

When the hammer reached the highest point, it slammed down on Qian Fan again.

After repeating this three or four times, the worker raised the hammer and stopped it in mid-air.

At this time, several workers carried down Qian Fan from the upper section.

When the money fan in the upper section was carried down, there were nearly two hundred silver coins neatly arranged on the money fan.

When the workers put these silver coins into a frame and put them in front of Zhao Wen, Zhao Wen let out a long breath, pointed at the silver coins, and said to Zhang Helang, "What do I say? Is this method faster than casting silver coins?" A lot?"

Looking at the silver coins in the frame, Zhang Helang gasped, "This speed is too fast, it's unimaginable."

Zhao Wen chuckled, then squatted beside the frame, and took out a silver coin from it.

The entire silver coin is about 43 mm in diameter and [-] mm thick, and the whole body is silvery white.

The specifications of silver coins are slightly larger and thicker than those of Yuan Datou in later generations.

After all, Yuan Datou in later generations did not weigh one tael. Yuan Datou in later generations weighed six cents, four cents and eight cents, while Zhao Wen's silver coin weighed one tael, so this size was larger than Yuan Datou.

In the center of the front of the silver coin, there are two block letters of "one or two" written in Chinese characters, and below the Chinese characters are written a few small characters of "made by the Bank of Ming Dynasty".

On the edge of the back of the silver coin, there are several block letters of "Daming Chongzhen Five Years".

In addition to these block letters, there is also an extremely exquisite chrysanthemum.

The reason for using chrysanthemums is that the patterns on the one-yuan coins of later generations are chrysanthemums. Zhao Wen didn't know what pattern to use at the time, so he directly moved over the chrysanthemums of later generations.

Moreover, the chrysanthemum pattern is easier to process, and Qian Fan is relatively simple to make.

The pattern and specifications of the forged silver coin and the minted silver coin are about the same size, but the forged pattern is more exquisite and clear than the cast one.

Zhao Wen pinched the silver coin in his hand, put it to his mouth, and blew suddenly.

Then Zhao Wen put it to his ear again. Hearing the buzzing sound in his ear, Zhao Wen narrowed his eyes.

"This silver coin is not bad, and the color is not bad."

Zhao Wen put the silver coin in his hand into the frame, took out another silver coin, put it in his mouth, blew it, and listened again.

Looking at Zhao Wen's appearance, Zhang Helang followed Zhao Wen's example and took out a silver coin from the box, put it to his mouth and blew it, and then put it to his ear.

"My lord, can this silver coin still make a sound?" Zhang Helang looked at Zhao Wen suspiciously.

Zhao Wendao: "This is the magic of this silver coin. The way to judge the authenticity of this silver coin is very simple, that is, blow the silver coin and put it to your ear to listen.

If there is a buzzing sound, the silver coin is real, if not, it is fake. "

"My lord, this method is good. In this way, the authenticity of the silver coin can be easily distinguished." Zhang Helang put down the silver coin in his hand and said to Zhao Wen.

"My lord, this silver coin weighs one tael, of which silver accounts for seven cents and copper accounts for three cents. This means that we can earn three cents of silver for one silver coin. In this way, we will be able to Make a lot of money."

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Chapter 247 Exquisite Silver Coin

Zhao Wen pointed to the silver coins in the frame, and said to Zhang Helang, "These silver coins can change the entire Ming Dynasty, so they must be treated well, and they must not be sloppy."

"Don't worry, my lord, we will treat these silver coins well." Zhang Helang said.

Zhao Wen wandered around the mint for a few more times, and then headed outside. When leaving, Zhao Wen said to Zhang Helang: "After all these silver coins are produced, they must be issued in the shortest possible time. release it within a short period of time.”

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Ten days later, almost 500 million silver coins had been produced in the mint.

Each of these more than 500 million silver coins weighs one tael, of which silver accounts for seven cents, which means that one silver coin can earn three cents of silver.

Then these more than 500 million silver coins can earn more than 150 million taels of silver. This is a huge fortune, and it is a huge profit when it changes hands.

Including the silver coins minted before, the total adds up to more than 700 million silver coins.

After these silver coins were produced, Zhao Wen sent them to various banks in northern Daming.

For a while, there was an endless stream of carriages transporting silver coins in Xuan Town. Countless silver coins were wrapped in mulberry paper and loaded onto the carts in strips, heading towards the banks in various provincial capitals in northern Daming.

There is an Anfu Square in the capital city, which was a commercial street in the Ming Dynasty. There are so many shops in the square, and the Daming Bank in the capital city just stands here.

One day in April in Chongzhen, Ming Dynasty, the weather was clear, the sky was cloudless, and the sun shone warmly on pedestrians.After the winter passed, people in the workshop took advantage of the great sunshine to play outside.

Many shops and teahouses were full of people, and countless people gathered in teahouses and restaurants to listen to newspaper readers reading the latest edition of Da Ming Pao.

At this moment, a convoy escorted by more than 100 powerful men walked in slowly from the end of the room.

Many people looked at this weird convoy with doubts on their faces.

While everyone was curious, the convoy stopped in front of Daming Bank.

"What is this convoy for? Why are there so many escorts?" A middle-aged scholar sitting in a teahouse looked at the convoy, his face full of doubts.

"What else can it be, it's nothing more than some silver." The owner of the teahouse walked up to the middle-aged scholar with a pot of tea and poured him a cup of hot tea, his face full of envy.

"I don't know which big Buddha is behind this Daming Bank, but it is still intact after snatching the British public." The middle-aged scholar looked at the big man carrying the wooden box from the motorcade, his face full of doubts.

"Who knows. Anyway, after robbing the British government, it is still safe and sound. This is really the first time for Ming Dynasty." The owner of the teahouse said slowly, looking at the bank.

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"Be careful, take these boxes to the warehouse quickly. At the same time, no one is allowed to approach the warehouse without my order."

The steward of Daming Bank in Beijing was holding a booklet, counting the boxes containing silver coins, and kept shouting.

The big men who carried the boxes carefully lifted the wooden boxes and headed for the bank's warehouse.

After more than an hour, all the boxes have been put into storage.After the steward checked and found out that there were no mistakes, he immediately had some wooden boxes moved to the bank's lobby where the silver was temporarily stored.

As the sun gradually set to the west, a middle-aged man who looked like a scholar in a blue robe walked into the bank.

As soon as he walked in, a bank employee greeted him, "What business does this gentleman need to handle?"

The middle-aged man took out a booklet made of rice paper from his pocket, and said slowly: "I'm here to withdraw money. My son is going to get married in a few days, and I need to buy some things, so I want to put my All the silver in the bank was withdrawn."

This booklet is the passbook issued by the bank to depositors. It is the certificate for depositors to deposit and withdraw money. It is similar to the passbook of later generations, but without the magnetic strip of later generations.

There are three copies of this passbook, one in the hands of the depositor, one in the bank in Beijing, and the last one in the bank headquarters in Xuanzhen.

Every month, banks from all over the country will hand over their bank account books and running water to the headquarter bank in Xuanzhen.

The headquarters bank will liquidate these account books, and will reissue the account books after the liquidation is completed.

In this way, falsification can be largely prevented.

The staff took the booklet from the middle-aged man and checked the anti-counterfeiting marks on it, then took the passbook and walked towards a counter.

"Mr. Liu, this gentleman wants to withdraw money."

The staff led the middle-aged man to a counter and handed the passbook to the accountant behind the counter.

The staff on the counters of Daming Bank are basically experienced accountants, and only these accountants can handle these things quickly and accurately.

The middle-aged man sat on the chair in front of the counter and looked at the cashier Liu in the counter, "Sir, I want to take out all the money in the passbook."

Accountant Liu opened the passbook, checked the code on it, and then took out an extremely thick booklet from the counter, and searched it.

This heavy booklet is the stub when handling the passbook, and the record left by the passbook every time it handles business in the bank.

Liu ran through the accountant for a while, and then found the middle-aged man's passbook stub in the booklet.

After comparing the two, Accountant Liu took out a passbook that was not much different from the passbook of the middle-aged scholar from a cabinet next to it.

Accountant Liu compared the passbook with the passbook of the middle-aged scholar and said to the middle-aged man, "You have a total of 70 taels of silver with interest on this passbook. Are you sure you want to take it all out?"