It takes money to buy things. Although Jinhewan is not short of money, Hong Tao does not want to exchange real money and silver for these raw materials. If he hadn't been able to take hard work, these things should have been stolen for free. Who heard that the pirate leader had to spend money to buy things? So Hong Tao came up with a bad idea, which was to make counterfeit coins. Jinhewan has tried to cast cannons for several years, and the bronze materials consumed are all piled up into a hill. The bronzes are of different colors. It is difficult to master the ingredients; use them to make other things, and they will lose whatever they do. Because they are copper, what is more expensive than making them with copper coins? How to deal with these bronzes has become a heart-wrenching on the board of directors of Jinhewan. They can't bear to see such expensive good things rust out of the sun and rain.

Hong Tao also thought of many ways to digest bronze waste, but he still hasn't found the same suitable one. Finally, he figured it out. This thing is the same value as copper coins, so it's all over. For the craftsmen in Jinhewan, casting copper coins is a piece of cake and no technical problems. The color of the waste bronze material is not suitable, it doesn't matter. I should add iron and iron, lead and lead, and sten. Alloy copper is also a piece of cake for craftsmen in Jinhewan. There are no technical problems. I haven't done anything else in recent years, just research these technologies.

With Hong Tao's approval, the Song Dynasty coins made from Jinhewan were soon produced from the Jinhewan, and they were all hot and freshly out of the pot. A small coin weighs about four grams, and a kilogram of waste can be made more than 200 pieces, and a ton of waste is 200 stag. There are thousands of tons of waste here. If it is made into fake money, it is as much as tens of thousands of stagnants, and the smelting and casting cost is almost negligible. This work does not delay casting cannons, and all the work is enough for apprentices to do. By the way, they are also asked to practice their skills. At most, they are sent to a master to stare at it and check the key steps.

Will doing this disrupt the financial system of the Southern Song Dynasty? The answer is that there is no impact at all. Why? Because the currency of the Southern Song Dynasty is a circulating currency, at least in Southeast Asia, it is a hard currency. Many countries simply stop minting coins themselves and directly use the copper coins of the Southern Song Dynasty as their country's currency. So to a certain extent, the copper coins of the Southern Song Dynasty were a bit like the US dollar in later generations, and even more domineering than the US dollar.

Americans have to wonder if it will affect the world exchange rate when issuing US dollars. Although they also print a lot, they cannot print it blindly. But Hong Tao doesn't need to consider this. Unless he makes a life of making counterfeit coins, a small Japanese market can eat all of them with more than 100,000 guan of copper coins. There is no bubble, and it doesn't matter if you throw a million guan. Since you have the opportunity to rely on currency to plunder other countries' resources, why not waste it? Americans rely on their own hegemony and have worked hard for many years to obtain this privilege. Now Hong Tao has obtained it for nothing. Can he bear it?

In fact, at the beginning, Hong Tao wanted to tell Wen Hao this method and wrote it to the newspaper to remind the Southern Song court, so that they could understand that there was another way to quickly fill the treasury. But then he thought that the Southern Song Dynasty was short of copper, and once this matter was promoted, it might cause greater chaos. If you have a good intention, you might do bad things. You might as well talk about it later. You can use this method to enjoy it for a few years, and then talk about the economic war when the problem on the front battlefield is solved.

"This method is good. As long as we don't spend fake money on the Song Dynasty, we will not lose our worries. What's the matter with the Song Dynasty when we buy foreigners' things? Xiao Tao's method is good!" When Hong Tao submitted his method to the board of directors for discussion, his father-in-law, Bofu, the current chief financial officer of Jinhewan, immediately expressed strong support. In his opinion, Hong Tao's ability to care about the Song Dynasty and refuse to harm the Song Dynasty was already a very benevolent expression, and it was natural to take advantage of it. There was no need to have any moral burden.

"Hehe...Who said it was fake money? Look, which one is fake money here?" Hong Tao also thought that the reputation of fake money was not good, so he wanted to completely cleanse it up, so he took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and put it on the table.

"I really can't tell you, Lao Qi, your skills are really useless." Everyone put their heads on the table and scattered them, but they still couldn't find out what the differences were between these more than ten copper coins.

"Apart from this one, everything else is made in Jinhewan. So we are not making fakes, but helping the Song Dynasty improve productivity! Don't mention fake money in the future, it's not nice to say it." Hong Tao finally picked out a real Song coins from more than ten copper coins. If it weren't for the trace of a knife chop on the coin, he wouldn't be able to tell the truth by himself. In order to make these fake coins more realistic, Hong Tao even used the old method of later generations, put the newly cast copper coins and salt brine together to heat it, and then buried it in the salt-alkali land by the sea for one day. After it was dug out, there was a layer of oxide layer, and it was washed again and went to Lin'an City to buy anything, which was exactly the same as Song coins.

In October of the first year of Duanping, Guangzhou Port became a sea of ​​ships again. Although a major incident happened last year, the Wu family, the largest maritime merchant in Guangzhou, had not returned, and life and death are still undecided. At the same time, there are several Pu families with the same fate. However, the popularity of traveling to the Southeast Ocean to trade has not decreased, but has risen. With one large maritime merchant and several foreign merchants, more small maritime merchants emerged. They are more dynamic and adventurous, and they are a bit of barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. They are willing to sacrifice their lives and are about to bring down the maritime merchants!

Not all of these people are taking risks blindly because they have many role models. In the past two years, most of the sea merchants that have risen in Guangzhou are shareholders of the Strait Company. Two or three years ago, they also took other people's sea boats and pieced together a few boxes of goods. They couldn't make much money and had to take the same risks. But in the past two years, they have transformed into shareholders of the Strait Company, become organized people, and explored a new route to Dashi. They only need to run once a year, and after two years of running, they have made a fortune. Not only did they buy houses and shops in the city, but also new sea boats, becoming real sea merchants.

It only took two years! Their story has been serialized in the Zhiyin Daily for many issues, and it was also changed to a storyteller to a dirty talk in the vashes. Who doesn’t love the story of getting rich, especially the nouveau riche, which is the focus of everyone’s attention. Especially young people, they have less experiences, they are more courageous and are more likely to be influenced by the external environment. Everyone has one head and two legs. Why can others start from scratch and fail to succeed?

The Strait Company is right? It is not in the end of the world, isn't it also in Guangzhou City? Let's ask. Can it go sailing with you? Is it possible? This Strait Company is Renyi. Not only does it give 30 individual passengers on board, but it also publishes an advertisement in the newspaper called a commercial micro-loan company! What does it mean? It means that you use your home property to mortgage it. The company will lend you the start-up capital for purchasing goods. The interest is not very high and it is not considered a usury at all.

.The Qianhaixia Company will help you purchase goods. Just watch your goods carefully and follow the ship to sea. When you go to the local area to sell goods and buy goods, the company's brokers will help you come up with ideas. You will never be deceived. You can still sell high-priced, in the Song Dynasty, which is called shopping guide service. After you come back and sell the goods, as long as you pay the interest and service fees, and the principal will be paid, the mortgaged property will still belong to you, and others don't want it for a minute.

There is a difference between losing money when doing business. If you are too unlucky, what should you do if you really lose money? It doesn’t matter. You just need to sign a job agreement with the Strait Company. You voluntarily go to overseas ports for five years. Once the term expires, the loan will be cancelled. Not only do you have to pay back the interest and principal, but you will also pay you a salary. Such a kind and righteous company is hard to find with a lantern, especially for those immigrants from the north and those who want to start a business. It is a caring service.

"This is called an incubator, just like an old hen hatching eggs. We are old hens, or the Strait Company is an old hen. These young and self-made maritime merchants all have eggs. If we want to grow the chickens, we have to hatch eggs first and pay more chickens. This is not the end, and we have to help them grow. When they all grow feathers, they will fly to every corner of the world to find insects to eat. When the chickens grow, our chicken heads will have greater power. Do you think about this? " Luo Youde has always had an objection to Hong Tao's method. He thinks that Hong Tao is doing charity, and there is no way to borrow money from others to make money for no reason. This is not in line with the market rules. In order to convince him, Hong Tao has tried his best, and he described himself as a sacred and mysterious profession of Chicken Heads.

"Brother Hong, your metaphor makes sense, but what if they are all bad guys? Then you will lose money? Although there are also ones in my court, Luo Youde still couldn't understand what Hong Tao meant. He only considered the problem from a very narrow perspective. This was not his fault. In fact, in this period, his vision was already very broad, but compared with Hong Tao, it was narrow. It was not that Hong Tao was powerful, but that he stood too high, and when he opened his eyes, he could not even see it.

"Bad guy? This is not in human nature! Lao Luo, think about it. If you are an ordinary person now and suddenly have a chance to get rich, would you use the money to play in brothels? There are such people, but the proportion will not be too high. Most people are still willing to take this opportunity to develop themselves. Besides, I am not giving them a loan for nothing, but there is a mortgage. Even if I don't want their collateral in the end, think about it, should I let my own people take a group of slaves thousands of miles away to guard those supply points, or should they work in the form of contracts? This thing is a double-edged sword when used. If there is no absolute power, it is better not to try it.

Try it, it will lay a huge disaster for himself. Once it starts, it will be difficult to clean up. Just like an infectious disease, it will be contagious and very fast." Hong Tao was not worried that his money would be wasted. He had already planned it. As long as the market is bigger, whether it is the Strait Company or Jinhewan, it can completely recover these loans from other places ten or hundreds of times. Now Jinhewan does not lack commodities, but lacks sales channels. The Southern Song Dynasty is not suitable for dumping land, so he can only develop other markets. It is too expensive to rely on Jinhewan to develop by himself. It is better to use some startup funds to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Southern Song merchants and let them help them develop it. That effect will be much better.
Chapter completed!