A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After successfully completing various tasks in Kyoto and successfully changing their appearance, the Zikoji Kodaira family continued to wander the streets of Kyoto during the last two or three days of their stay.

After all, he had traveled a lot of time, but Xiaopingtai was still poor. He had to make some money to make a fortune, marry a wife, have children, and buy life-saving armor, right?

Make soap? Sorry, neither can I. What about boiling beef and mutton fat, using plant ashes as alkali? Where in Japan do big animals come from and kill them every day to get the fat for you? Besides, pandan is widely available on the market, so I won’t comment on it.

Make a mirror? Make glass? Sorry, the merchants of Arabian Venice are heading to East Asia by shipload. Then second-rate dealers in Portugal and Spain have already sold this stuff everywhere. There are actually idiots who make flat glass and sell it as windows. Young man, I advise you to go to Baidu and search for clam paper. Your glass is so expensive, you think ordinary people are fools.

There are also people who make wine and sell spirits. Not to mention the complete set of bronze distilling equipment unearthed from the tomb of Haihunhou, which was popularized in the Han Dynasty. You, a sixteenth-century person, are just pretending to be a fool. After the Han Dynasty, those who pretended to be rich by selling spirits should be sure to spit on them. What's more, people don't have enough to eat, the famous people are still eating four dishes and one soup, and you are still making wine. Aren't you afraid of thunder and lightning?

Making sugar-roasted chestnuts? Making kimchi? Is there someone selling rock candy? Does your heart really not hurt? The idea is quite good, but how much money can be made from this thing, you guys can only ask for a few hundred guan (someone said 700 guan per pill, I can only laugh). Todo Takatora's reward (three hundred guan) after fighting bad wars for more than ten years is no better than selling some gadgets to you? Okay, everyone, wake up!

Even umbrellas, paper, tatami and even kombu have been sold exclusively. All the famous people are frantically trying every means to amass wealth to support the samurai and ashigaru, and make money by doing business (unless they go to sea). I just want to look at you with caring eyes.

Koheita is no exception. He inspects the market very carefully, and the market in Kyoto is not small. The merchant groups in Kyoto are also very strong (they often rely on the religious forces of the old temples with strong economic and military strength), and the industry The system is quite complete.

They have issued their own banknotes (I'm not making this up, not only Kyo-machi residents, but many large towns issue banknotes), opened ryokan (which can also be used as a bank or even a pawn shop), and sell everything from silk, cloth, tea and porcelain. All of them are specialty products. Unless Xiaoheita can develop special products, and the special products should be cheaper, they will definitely not be able to compete with the original products that have already occupied the market, and maybe everything will be in vain in the end.

Xiao Pingtai suddenly felt frustrated. When people traveled through time, money fell from the sky (a certain alien sent five million taels of gold from the sky, I was so envious), and his idea was to earn thousands by picking up the same money. Thousands of dollars (a small local lord with a big butthole earns more than two thousand dollars a month from selling salt).

I finally managed to get through it, and it took me more than 20,000 words to achieve a low-level goal like becoming a samurai, and I almost died on the way to achieve it through nepotism. With only a salary of fifteen thousand yuan a year, he was so poor that he couldn't even afford Wu clothes, so he wore what was left from the young master's clothes. One person's power is really too small and he can't do anything at all.

But Xiao Pingtai, who has been watching ghost and animal videos at Bilibili for many years, has not discovered anything at all. After all, he has watched so many wild survival videos and there are so many "historians" at Bilibili. I also learned a lot through my ears and eyes. Everyone in the broken station is a talented person and they speak well, right?

This discovery is that one hundred kilograms (a kilogram is 590 grams) of copper is only worth five hundred kilograms. Five kilograms of five hundred copper coins are only a little more than thirty-six kilograms, but they can buy one hundred kilograms of copper. I dare to believe it. ? Xiao Pingtai couldn't believe it either. (This data is for the Warring States Period. If you want to get closer to the Warring States Period, please tell me)

So what does this mean? If you could mint coins, wouldn't you be able to earn more than three times the profit?

So Xiaoheita recalled that Kanyong Tongbao was very well cast. This could not be achieved overnight, which proved that Japan had already had skilled coin craftsmen. And the casting techniques must have matured.

So why is it that all the coins you mint are bad money? Normally, a Yongle coin contains slightly more than 3 grams of copper (4 grams), and the rest is lead, tin, iron and other impurities. It is purple-red in color and has clear characters. It is the hard currency in almost all of East Asia today. Bad money, on the other hand, is often only three-quarters of the size of the original (or even half the size) and thinner, containing less than one-third or even one-fifth of the copper content, making it brittle and thin.

Any big name with a copper mine would not mint bad money privately. Each coin only needs about half a gram of copper and can be used at a quarter of the Yongle coin. Such huge profits make them not want to mint good coins at all. In the spirit of bad coins, If the principles of market economy drive out good money, bad money will naturally flourish.

Of course, the main reason for this is that the price of copper in Japan is too low, and the cost of mining copper and minting coins is even lower. (In addition to the mines in Japan that are directly managed by daimyo and hired by ordinary people to mine, there are also local powerful groups that occupy them and use prisoners, prisoners of war, and slaves to mine them.) , there are actually many benefits.

Xiao Ping Tai didn't think so. If he could try to imitate Yongle coins and try to ensure their currency value (copper content and exquisite casting), it would only be more profitable. And Xiao Pingtai also knows a thing or two about ways to save copper!

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