The Rise of the European Emperor

After setting up a plan to privately mint Italian copper coins and Spanish copper coins to worsen Portuguese copper coins, before the production volume exploded, Beihai received feedback first—the large-scale issuance of brass coins allowed domestic small-scale trade to flourish, which in turn stimulated business development.

A standard Finney silver coin is equal to 8 brass coins, that is to say, an ordinary person can get 16 brass coins for 2 Finneys' wages per day. Assuming that 1 Finney is equivalent to 50 yuan in later generations, a brass coin is equivalent to 6.25 yuan. Although it is not a small amount, it is much smaller than the amount of 1 Finney.

Prior to this, ordinary people in Germany did not use currency at all when conducting small transactions, but used the simplest barter. For example, for a commodity of low value, simply use a small handful of rye as the measure of the transaction.

But such a measurement method is very inaccurate, because people's hands vary in size. Someone has a big hand, and a handful of rye is more. And someone with small hands has less handfuls of rye. Some unscrupulous businessmen even adopt the double standard method. For example, when collecting "money", let the host reach out to grab rye, so that he can grab more. But when paying the guests, the hostess was asked to grab rye. Because women's hands are small, a lot less.

The appearance of small brass coins greatly facilitated the private transactions in Beihai. As a result, private trade in the North Sea country also flourished.

Because the commodity economy is currently underdeveloped, in order to cultivate people's consumption habits, Marin learned from later generations and promoted the supply and marketing cooperative system. A supply and marketing store was set up in every township, and the supply and marketing head office in Emden port issued uniformly. goods, set guide prices, and sell various commodities.

Right now, the farmers in Beihai are actually rich. Marin carried out reforms, turning the manor into a farm with a labor system and implementing a salary system. Every farmer has a daily salary of 2 pfennigs, and women do not have so many, but they also have a daily salary of 1 pfennig. In addition, there are additional rewards based on labor performance. Most importantly, food is distributed free of charge to the farmers, including their families.

Therefore, farmers in the North Sea country, especially those in Marin's manor, can earn 2 pfennigs or more per day. For a husband and wife, it is more than 3 pfennigs.

In this way, after the money is left over, they have the ability to spend. However, the poor life in the past made them used to saving money. Therefore, Beihai countries need to cultivate their consumption habits. The supply and marketing cooperatives with a wide variety of commodities have obviously become an important place to cultivate consumption habits.

In order to stimulate consumption, Marin not only set up a supply and marketing store in the town, but also planned to set up small shops under the supply and marketing store in some populous villages, directly facing consumers.

However, the women in the "sweater knitting training class" have not yet graduated, and there is not enough manpower. At present, they can only temporarily set up branches at the township level, and cannot open small shops in villages. After all, there is a shortage of salespeople who know how to do arithmetic.

even so,

Because Marin ordered the stewards of various manors to encourage farmers to go to the town to purchase during the slack season, and arranged for carriages to carry people and goods uniformly. Therefore, the sales of the supply and marketing cooperatives in various towns are not bad. As a result, brass coins circulated in large quantities.

Therefore, before the production of Italian and two tooth copper coins has started, supply and marketing stores in various places have reported that there is a gap of tens of millions of copper coins in the market, and it will expand in the future...

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Marin didn't care about the shortage of copper coins in the country. Because the minting speed of the Beihai Mint is still very fast, which is several times or even ten times more efficient than other manual mints. Like a large factory with more than 4,000 people in the Spanish Mint, the Beihai Mint only needs four to five hundred people to achieve the same output. The most important thing is that the Spanish Royal Mint needs experienced coinage craftsmen with more than seven years of apprenticeship experience, while the Beihai Mint only needs to recruit a few hundred apprentices to achieve the same coinage efficiency.

However, considering that the Beihai Mint privately minted coins from other countries, it also privately minted fake silver coins used by the French. Therefore, Marin's mint cannot recruit workers from the society, so as not to leak secrets. Therefore, in the early stage, Marin mostly used workers who committed crimes as minters. Later, Marin directly bought Eunuch Mao from the Crimean Khanate as a minter. Except for hundreds of highly skilled coin minters who made molds, the rest of the coin miners were all ordinary-skilled migrant workers, most of whom were criminals without freedom and slave workers like Mr. Mao.

Because the Mint is too important, the Malinte Territory occupies an area of ​​50 square kilometers as the scope of the Mint's activities. Among them, the factory building of the mint actually occupies less than 0.1 square kilometers. The remaining 49.9 square kilometers of land are supporting facilities for the mint. In this way, craftsmen and ordinary workers of the mint can enjoy various services without leaving the mint. Its material supply is also very rich.

50 square kilometers is definitely a large area, equivalent to the size of a town in later generations. Moreover, Marin remembers that Kathmandu, the capital of later Nepal, is also 50 square kilometers, but has a population of 5 million. But in this era, some vassal states are only so big. Therefore, the Beihai Mint is actually equivalent to a country within a country. This is similar to the fact that the Venetians moved all their excellent glass craftsmen to Murano Island.

But Murano Island is only 4.59 square kilometers, more than 20 times smaller than the Beihai Mint. Moreover, there are only craftsmen on Murano Island, and there are no craftsmen's families, which was eventually taken advantage of by the French. After all, craftsmen also want to go home. Your craftsman can't do French spies on Murano, but once you get home, you can do it...

It was after learning this lesson that Marin made the mint, the steel factory, the cannon factory and other confidential factory areas independent of the outside world, dug the river, pulled up the barbed wire, deployed wolf dogs, and guarded against outside invasion and people inside. . Only in this way can we ensure that the technology is not leaked.

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Sometimes, Marin also felt that he was too careful, and he was not as domineering and domineering as the protagonist in the previous life. However, he knew that the fateful protagonists in the books he had read in his previous life had a halo of good luck, and they could always turn bad luck into good fortune. Even if he takes a risk and everyone else dies, he will not die.

But that is, after all, very unscientific. It looks hot-blooded, but it is very unreasonable. For example, braving the enemy's hail of bullets means not being harmed by star points. Just like Stallone in "First Blood", one person singled out a Vietnamese regiment, standing and shooting at each other, and the bullets of the Vietnamese soldiers from the opposite regiment couldn't hit him...

Anyway, Marin doesn't believe in such nonsense, so he would rather be cowardly and wretched, and save his life first. Confidential or something, absolutely must not let others know. Otherwise, you will be taught to use it against yourself...

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Regarding the lack of copper coins reported below, Marin signed an order without hesitation to issue an additional 50 million copper coins. In this way, the total number of copper coins issued by Beihai State reached hundreds of millions. However, that's not much...

100 million brass coins are worth 12.5 million Finneys, which is only worth 208,300 gold coins, which is not worth mentioning. If it is apportioned to more than two million citizens of Beihai, the average is only forty or fifty copper coins per person, and the total value is only a few pfennigs, which is only a few days' wages, which can be said to be worthless.

Therefore, the total number of brass coins is less than 1 billion, and Marin is embarrassed to say that Beihai has promoted the application of copper coins...

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