During smelting, workers constantly stir and mix the alloy solution in the crucible with a stirring rod. After confirming that the mixing and smelting are uniform, the solution is poured into a steel mold to make a silver plate for making coins.
strip.
Since silver has a greater mass than copper and zinc, it is easy to cause silver to sink to the bottom and other metals to float during mixing and smelting. If it is not fully mixed, it is easy to cause the first strip to contain insufficient silver, and the last strip to contain silver.
The amount is on the high side. Therefore, a small amount of powder is ground from the end of the first silver bar and the upper end of the last bar cast in each furnace and sent for testing to ensure that the proportion of silver bars is consistent.
The cast silver lath cannot be used as stamping material. It is only a casting and has not undergone the "forging" process. The finished lath is sent to the rolling workshop to be rolled into a plate of a certain size for stamping. Compared with high temperature
When it comes to processing steel plates under high pressure, making silver alloys with good ductility into plates with uniform thickness and smooth appearance is no longer a problem in the current Lingao industrial system.
The next step is stamping. Use a stamping machine to punch out circular bare plates from the plate, which are the embryos of various coins. The leftover scraps from the stamping are collected and re-smelted and pressed into new plates.
The stamped silver cake blank is polished with a smooth edge machine to remove burrs, and then sent to the pickling workshop to clean and remove oil stains.
The washed and polished light plates are neatly loaded into the crimping machine. This machine holds the light plates one by one, and then forcibly squeezes the edges of the light plates to form a flange. This flange will be used in coins of later generations.
It is very common to protect the coin pattern from being worn. Of course, this design is very advanced in this time and space. The mint also presses a subtle pattern when curling the edge. Under normal use, the wear and tear of the pattern is difficult to see with the naked eye.
It is not noticeable, but once it is scratched with a file, marks will appear immediately. This is to curb the "edging" trick that is very popular in this time and space.
The crimped bare coin blanks are put into the pressing machine one by one. The pressing machine is equipped with a steel coin mold, and the silver cake blanks are punched into coins.
The pressed coins also need to go through a weighing procedure. One of the characteristics of stamped coins is the accuracy of weight. However, in actual production, it is difficult to achieve the exact same weight of each coin. This requires controlling the tolerance value.
After discussion, the industrial department and the financial department believe that with their current technical capabilities, the tolerance can be controlled within 3. The coins are weighed on a special continuous weighing machine. The principle of the weighing machine is similar to a balance, and the coins fall on the machine platform.
After the weight shakes within a certain value, the coins will continue to flow down the outlet. Once the tolerance is exceeded, another cover will be opened to discharge the coins.
The pressed coins were wiped clean again after being inspected by people. They were packed in packages of hundreds, sealed with mulberry paper and stamped with the Ministry of Finance. They were then placed in a strong money box, sealed, and sent to the Central Reserve Bank in Hong Kong.
In the vault, waiting to be used.
In mid-spring in Guangzhou, winter is not over yet. There is still lingering coldness. A miserable wind and heavy rain are coming, and the sky is still covered with clouds, which makes people feel even more depressed.
At this moment, on the Lion Ocean at the mouth of the Pearl River, an Australian bicycle puffing out smoke was going upstream. On the side of the boat, Meng Xian looked at the gloomy river surface, looking worried.
It is now the seventh year after D-Day, 1635 AD. Even according to the Tatong calendar prevailing in the Ming Dynasty, the time has already entered the eighth year of Chongzhen.
Since the first year of Chongzhen, disasters have continued in the north of the Ming Dynasty. There was a severe drought in the first year of Chongzhen, three years of great famine, five years of great famine, six years of floods, seven years of autumn locusts, and great famine. From the central plain to the northwest, the bare land is thousands of miles away, and not a single blade of grass grows. The people
They were displaced and starved to death. Ma Maocai, the governor of Shaanxi Province, said in a book about the great famine in Chen that the people competed for the grass in the mountains, and the grass was gone. They peeled off the bark of the trees and ate it. After the bark was gone, they could only eat Guanyin soil, and they ended up with abdominal distension.
And die.
The Hou Jin Dynasty in Liaodong continued to invade the border areas for many years. Instead of providing relief to the disaster-stricken areas, the imperial court had to intensify taxation. Officials forced the people to rebel, and countless hungry people who could not survive revolted. The north was filled with dust, thousands of miles of erosion, and people's lives were in ruins.
In November of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the northwest peasant army crossed the Yellow River in large numbers and entered Henan.
In July of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Hou Jin entered the fortress for the second time and ravaged Xuanfu and the Datong area.
In the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, there were thirteen families, including Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao, Luo Rucai, Ge Liyan, Hun Shiwan, Jiu Tiao Long, Zuo Jin Wang, Gaishi Wang, Heng Tian Wang, Shun Tian Wang, Guo Tianxing, She Tuantian and so on.
When the Second Battalion of the Peasant Army gathered in Xingyang, Gao Yingxiang's general Li Zicheng proposed the strategy of "dividing the troops into directions and attacking in four directions." After that, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng led their troops south to Fengyang, dug up the ancestral graves of the Ming Dynasty royal family, and burned the imperial palace where Zhu Yuanzhang once became a monk.
Jue Temple, killed more than sixty eunuchs, beheaded the capital guard General Zhu Guoxiang, and kidnapped countless rare treasures. The whole country was shocked, and many knowledgeable people in the government and the public were secretly sighing: This Ming Dynasty is probably coming to an end.
As a large number of refugees, gentry, and wealthy households fled to the south, the harmonious and peaceful city of Guangzhou actually added an abnormal prosperity. The businesses of the Senate's properties, such as Ziming Tower, Zicheng Ji, and Great World, were booming. At the same time, a group of
A group of refugees with no livelihood were transported to Lingao by sea ship to enjoy the blessings of the Senate.
The fruit was already rotten, and while his illness was killing him, the Senate launched the Guangdong strategy at this juncture, which was like stabbing the weak patient again. From the bottom of his heart, Meng Xian still sympathized with Chongzhen in the Forbidden City.
It is difficult for ordinary people to understand the emperor's pain of trying desperately to maintain the situation even though he knew it was hopeless.
However, Meng Xian is not happy at all. As the president of Delong Bank and the president of the Guangdong Branch of the Central Reserve Bank, he is the leader of the Senate on the financial front in the new area of Guangdong. He maintains the financial and financial stability of the new area.
, is something he has no shirk to do, so he feels heavy pressure.
The ship's cargo hold was filled with new currency that he had just withdrawn from the Ministry of Finance's Hong Kong warehouse. 20,000 yuan of silver coins of different denominations: This batch of silver coins was mainly half yuan and 20 cents. There were not many 1 yuan coins.
It is mainly used for office expenses of the military and administrative agencies after entering Guangzhou. After all, one yuan coin weighs more than seven cents of silver, which is a bit too high according to the current purchasing power of silver on the Guangdong market.
In addition to the silver coins, there are 20 boxes of banknotes, most of which are also auxiliary coins. The total denomination is one million yuan. These money are the "starting expenses" of the Guangdong Regional Government of the Senate. Not only that, they must also be used to try to maintain the market.
financial stability.
The mint in Hong Kong continued to mint silver coins, and the banknote printing press in Lingao's printing house continued to rotate. However, he knew that the available resources were limited, and he must find financial resources for this newly minted regime as soon as possible.
"You look worried about the country and the people, are you worried?" A joking voice came from the side.
"Xiba, I am so burdened that I can't breathe and worry about my country." Meng Xian turned around, and the person next to him was Liu San. He was appointed by the Ministry of People's Welfare and Labor to take charge of the health work in the new district.
.The reason why I chose a Chinese medicine doctor was probably because the Senate didn’t have much modern medical supplies to support the new area, and it was better to use traditional Chinese medicine that could be implemented first.
Liu San nodded: "We all want to cook without rice."
Just as Meng Xian was about to speak, he suddenly heard some crew members exclaiming. When he turned around, several crew members pointed at a black spot in the center of the river ahead. Liu San was a little short-sighted, and it took him a long time to determine that the black figure was probably a person, Meng Xian.
Xian had practiced in the shooting team and his eyesight was very good. I saw him hugging a piece of wood tightly, floating down the river, floating and sinking, and there was no response even when the crew yelled, and he didn't know whether to live or die.
At this time, the captain came over to ask for instructions. There was someone floating on the river. Do you want to rescue him?
Because the ship was carrying "special grade supplies", the captain did not dare to decide without authorization whether to save more people.
Meng Xian saw that the ship had sailed near Yuzhuzhou, not far from the Great World. This was the sphere of influence of the Senate, and the security was always good. There were no suspicious phenomena around, so there was no problem. He immediately agreed to rescue people.
The captain ordered the ship to slow down, and several experienced sailors jumped into the river, pulling and pushing people to get on board. Liu San stepped forward to check and found that the rescued person was a young man in his twenties. He thought he had been soaking in the water.
He was no longer short, his skin was blue and purple, his teeth were clenched, his expression was painful, his body was cold, and he had fallen into a semi-conscious state.
Everyone scrambled to carry him into the cabin. Liu San saw that he was breathing well and had not drowned. Someone pried open his mouth and fed him half a bowl of hot water. The young man gradually gained some consciousness and was unconscious.
Press the right abdomen and feel pain.
The two young apprentices accompanying Liu Sanming were his newly adopted orphans. Fu Wuben is now a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Lingao. Liu De, Liu Quan took off his wet clothes and checked his symptoms. There was no abnormality in this man's abdomen.
Trauma, but red face and eyes, dry lips, bad breath, red tongue with yellow coating; the pulse is thick and stringy; the Yang Qi is internally deficient, the Yin and Cold are too strong, the pathogenic factors are deep-rooted, and there is haze all over the abdomen, which is exactly
Intestinal carbuncle crisis is acute appendicitis perforation leading to diffuse peritonitis, which is quite serious.
Liu San couldn't help but hesitate a little. This kind of evil enters the blood and the crisis of yin and yang is divided. The first line of yang is about to escape, and the illness is critical. It can be said that he has a narrow escape. He uses commonly used traditional Chinese medicine methods such as Dahuang Mudan Decoction and Dachengqi Decoction to treat it.
I'm afraid it will be over if it doesn't work, but there is no way to perform surgery on this ship, what should I do?
"This man's life is in danger, it's very dangerous!" Liu Sandao said, "I don't have the conditions to have an operation, ugh!"
"Forget it if you can't save it." Meng Xian has no interest in half-dead people. Anyway, he just saves people casually. As for whether the rescued people can live or not, he has no control over it. Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty for many years, he has seen many tragedies in the world, life and death, and he knows that individuals
His compassion cannot change the fate of most people, and his heart is already very hardened. (To be continued.)
Come to the pavilion to watch it from the ground to the cloud】