A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

In fact, Xiao Pingtai's idea is very simple. Copper coins in the early Ming Dynasty often contained about 80% or more of copper, so it was a loss-making business in China, which was short of copper.

Of course, after the large-scale development of Yunnan, casting copper coins became profitable. But this was all after the mid-Qing Dynasty.

At the most exaggerated level, it would cost 2,470 yuan to mint 1,000 yuan at this level.

Even during the Wanli period, the country quelled internal and external rebellions and breathed a sigh of relief through Zhang Juzheng's reforms. The country is at peace, prices are falling, and the price of copper is almost the same as copper coins. This means that if copper coins are minted with a copper content of more than 80%, not only labor and food costs, but also fuel costs and fire consumption will be charged, which can make you vomit blood.

Although due to its high copper content, the currency is extremely hard and beautifully cast, making Yongle money the hard currency throughout East and Southeast Asia. But the huge money-minting losses also made the money-minting government miserable.

However, the high content of copper made the copper coins of this period clear in character and purple in color. As long as the copper content can be changed or reduced while ensuring beautiful casting, people will try any method.

So after arriving in Jiajing, in addition to the direct reason that the government's finances could not make ends meet, the other was that large-scale mining and production of Japanese lead became a reality, which was extremely convenient in the records of "Tiangong Kaiwu".

Therefore, it became inevitable to cast coins from an alloy of copper and Japanese lead, and the copper coins also changed to contain slightly less than 60% of copper, 35% of Japanese lead, and finally more than half of it was lead (the braid direction further reduced the copper content to 50%, if not low A copper coin of less than 50% is fragile, and it may be even lower).

This made coining money no longer a loss-making business, and the new brass coins were golden in color, more radiant and well-cast.

The golden color makes people like it more. After all, who doesn't like golden things? This may be an instinct. At the same time, a large amount of brass money has appeared in Japan's Ming money. Casting brass money and putting it into the market would have no effect.

Under this circumstance, Japan could already make a profit by minting coins, but now it contains less copper and the profits are even greater.

But all this is a castle in the air, because there are no skilled coppersmiths, and Xiaopingtai and the two are definitely not good at it. You see in time travel novels, those great masters are so awesome. They built chemical reaction tables and acid-base preparation equipment by hand, just like for fun. Xiao Pingtai just wanted to say: "I admire you! I admire you!"

After all, Uncle Tsunaliang had eaten more salt and rice than Xiaoping for more than ten years and had seen more, so he told Xiaoping. Ashikaga in Soshu produces copper, and Seshu also produces copper. It's not too far from the main town. If it's not possible, you can go find someone nearby.

Kodaira was noncommittal. One of the two places belonged to the Kitahata Kuniji family, and the other belonged to the Ashikaga Nagao family. The two are involved in a big deal. One is one of the Three Kingdoms Division, and the other is the head of the family. He had no confidence in finding people from the copper mines they operated.

In fact, it is not impossible to let those who mint one-cent gold come in. They have experience in smelting and casting gold coins and should be able to understand it.

Because the melting points of gold and copper are roughly over 1,000 degrees, while the melting points of Japanese lead are only over 400 degrees. If you tell others about this, no one will understand it, but Xiaopingtai knows it himself.

He was going to give it a try on his own, since poaching from the government wouldn't be a burden anyway. After all, it’s not every day that there is gold that needs furnaces and furnaces for them to cast gold.

However, Xiao Pingtai was still not sick and rushed to the doctor. Even if the money could not be minted, the copper could still be sold, and at least the capital was guaranteed.

Xiaopingtai was going to continue to investigate secretly. The samurai actually didn't care much about these craftsmen and couldn't get any information from them.

This thing is the same in any era. The gossip must come from the bottom, although the information is complicated and patchy. But the amount of information will be huge. As long as you have a pair of discerning eyes, you can easily find the information you need.

Although other samurai may not care about the lives of the townspeople at all, Heita is an anomaly. Heita, a member of the town in Hachimanmonzen Town, is already half-acquainted with taverns and sleeping quarters, bathhouses (not baths, but steam ones, plus burning Boiling water is used to wipe the body, and some even have female technicians helping to wipe the body.) The various low-level waiters quietly inquired about the gambling properties. Some didn't and some heard a lot.

Sure enough, no matter what era, gossip is human nature. It's just that people in this era are more simple, no one asks and they don't speak loudly. Unlike now, if you think your life is miserable, just find an old community and chat with a bunch of middle-aged and elderly women. Within ten minutes, you will feel that the world is so beautiful and there are too many people who are miserable than you. .

In short, Xiao Pingtai relied on a pack of sugar to get everything he wanted, which was even more convenient than loose cigarettes now. I quickly found out how each of the stoves were doing, and even knew who had a nasty birthmark on their buttocks.

The next step is to get close, from casting a wide net to directional fishing, to fool a certain stove head.

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