When Li Mingchen arrived in Guangzhou, Lin Chunhong took the silver coins and copper coins set by the court and couldn't help but feel deeply moved. The ability of the Ming craftsmen is indeed extraordinary, and their anti-counterfeiting measures and Bangtai silver coins are the same as those of Bangtai silver coins.

Take silver coins for example. There is a clear word "Chongzhen" in the lower right corner of the rice ear, which makes the handwriting blurred when counterfeiting silver dollars by using the turn-casting method, which makes it easy to distinguish. At the same time, there are subtle patterns and tooth edges on the edges of the silver coins, which greatly increases the difficulty of turning-casting.

Li Mingchen was very respectful and talked about the coin minting matters: there was a lot of silver in the south of the Yangtze River, and the silver coins were stamped in Nanjing, while the copper coins were stamped in Wuchang, so that Daye's copper was used nearby. Since the start of construction in March, the cumulative loss has reached more than 30,000 taels of silver...

Lin Chunhong interrupted Li Mingchen when he heard this, "The workshop is placed in Nanjing and Wuchang? There is no wind and the water flow is smooth. How to start construction?"

Li Mingchen replied: "The main use of animal power."

"No, the problem arises. How can there be wind power and water saving in animal power? The two options are either like Bailizhou, building a super large water truck, or moving it to a place where the water flows hard or the wind is strong!"

Li Mingchen said: "This...why doesn't there be so much money to build a super large water truck? If you move to a remote village, will the emperor agree?"

Lin Chunhong bluntly stated: "How about this, within half a year, Bangtai will help Zhang Goujiao complete the tasks of the court. However, this matter cannot last long. Bangtai will send people to Nanjing and Wuchang to help Zhang Goujiao turn coins into a profitable transaction. In order to better cooperate, Zhang Goujiao needs to provide stamping molds."

Li Mingchen had no right to make a decision, so he had to send a quick horse to Nanjing to ask Zhang Yixian for instructions.

Lin Chunhong's strong support for the court's coins does not mean that Lin Chunhong does not want to share the benefits. The most fundamental thing of this transaction is to provide stamping molds. With the mold, Bangtai can produce silver coins and copper coins effortlessly. This is a complete real currency, and it is no problem to be placed in the circulation field. Lin Chunhong held this plan and with Bangtai's huge production capacity, most of the profits of the court's coins will flow into his pocket.

Silver coins and copper coins are basically sufficient coins, and no matter how much they are placed, their impact on the market will be minimal. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty economy is so huge that the coins needed are astronomical numbers, which is enough for the Bangtai and the imperial court to produce for more than ten years. Moreover, as the market size expands, the coins needed will gradually increase.

At the same time, Lin Chunhong is preparing to send someone to assist Zhang Yixian in establishing a complete management system and building a super-large water truck. On the one hand, it can control the court's coins and prevent others from interfering. On the other hand, the super-large water truck will have a huge impact on Wuchang and Nanjing surrounding areas, prompting knowledgeable people to devote their energy to the ingenious yin skills.

Most of the conditions proposed by Zhang Yixian were accepted by Lin Chunhong, but he only required that every silver coin was stamped, he would have to make half of it. Lin Chunhong laughed loudly, waved his pen, and passed the order to Jingzhou, ordering the Finance Department to do a good job in handing over with Zhang Yixian.

Since then, Bangtai's coin workshop has been expanded crazily, and the silver coins and copper coins were stamped out. In addition, Zhu Youjian obtained a large amount of silver from the coin, which has continuously expanded Zhang Yixian's production. In less than three years, coin was not only popular all over the country, but also circulated to Japan, Southeast Asia, and even in Europe. The Ming Dynasty finally took this opportunity to establish a modern monetary system.

Moreover, once the coins were launched by the imperial court, they were highly sought after by the rich merchants from all over the country, greatly promoting the prosperity of industry and commerce in the southeast coast and Huguang area. The people also gradually accepted silver coins and affectionately called silver coins "Dayuan", which was in line with the people's expectations for reunion.

These are all later stories, so I won't mention them for now.

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Let’s talk about Li Mingchen and Zhang Yixian’s exchanges between the north and the south, Lin Chunhong was preparing for the maritime business conference. After finally finalizing the coin minting with Zhang Yixian, Yang Yiren happened to come to Guangzhou from Changsha. Lin Chunhong was overjoyed and immediately handed over the preparations to Yang Yiren, and he devoted himself to the great cause of preserving sea fish freshness.

Whether it is a maritime business conference or preservation of sea fish, it is definitely not done casually. Lin Chunhong has his long-term plans. The "On Sea Power" makes it clear, "A huge group of people engaged in professions related to the ocean are as important factors as ever." What Lin Chunhong needs to do is to strive to expand the scale of marine practitioners.

Overseas trade does require a large number of sailors and a large number of relevant supporting personnel. However, due to technology, the risks and costs of navigation trade in this era are too high, and the goods transported are mainly luxuries with high profits, which has no significant effect on the entire society.

Fishing at sea is not the case, which involves the eating problem of over 100 million people in the Ming Dynasty. It can be imagined that if 20% of the food in the Ming Dynasty came from the ocean, no one in power could have arbitrarily implemented a policy of banning the sea. Not only would it not be banned, but they would also worry about losing the ocean all day long. In this way, strengthening maritime armed forces would become inevitable.

Therefore, compared with the maritime business conference, it is not difficult to understand that Lin Chunhong attaches more importance to marine fishing.

To make marine fishing an emerging industry, two problems are absolutely unavoidable: one is to keep sea fish fresh and the other is to obtain a large amount of cheap salt.

The salt problem is easy to solve. Lin Chunhong has ordered the merchants to establish large salt drying fields in Yinggehai, Dongfang, Yuya and other places in Qiongzhou Prefecture. As for the court's reaction, Lin Chunhong directly ignored it and even did the robbery and the establishment of the government office. What is the only thing that is to dry salt privately? Moreover, this does not conflict with official salt and has little impact on the court's income.

The only difficulty lies in keeping sea fish fresh. Guangdong's coast is tropical, and fishermen catch fish for up to one day and cannot be eaten the next day. Therefore, fishermen mostly fish in the nearshore and their income is very limited. If the problem of keeping sea fish fresh, fishermen can not only go to the far sea to fish, but also transport the fish to all parts of the country. The income of their employees will inevitably increase significantly.

After Zhang Zhao arrived in Guangdong, he immediately noticed this problem and suggested that Lin Chunhong allocate a large amount of money to study the preservation technology of sea fish. Lin Chunhong agreed and asked the Academy of Engineering to purchase preservation technology of sea fish from the whole society, and allocate a large amount of money to draw elite forces to study preservation technology.

Now, Song Yingxing and Xue Yiqian brought a huge sealed pot and placed it in front of Lin Chunhong.

Lin Chunhong understood as soon as he saw it. It turned out to be "primitive canned food". Song Yingxing was quite excited and said endlessly: "After cooking the sea fish, add seasonings according to the taste, then use a cork to tighten the mouth of the pot, and then seal it with yellow mud, which is enough to ensure that it does not deteriorate for four months!"

Lin Chunhong was very interested and peeled off the yellow mud outside the mouth of the pottery jar and suddenly found that the production date "February 8th of the eighth year" was printed on the cork.

Lin Chunhong praised, "I even thought of the date of rubbing. It seems that Dean Song has put a lot of effort into it!" After saying that, Lin Chunhong pulled out the blockage, dug a piece of fish with a spoon, and sent it into his mouth.

"Well, it's not bad. But, this taste is really not very good..."

Song Yingxing smiled embarrassedly: "This is the seasoning that the subordinates have given up..."

"Haha... I have to ask the Ming Dynasty chef to put seasonings in the future..." Lin Chunhong laughed, "Well, this method is good. However, the prospect of commercialization is not very good... The value of clay pots is not low, and the transportation of clay pots is not convenient, and the cost is too high."

Xue Yiqian was the general manager of the Transport Department and was quite sensitive to transportation costs. He nodded immediately and said, "Indeed, it is fragile, large in size, and the boat is small. It is not cost-effective to run a trip. If the boat is large, the loss will rise sharply, which is not cost-effective."

Song Yingxing didn't think it was offended, and smiled and took out two dried sea fish from one pocket, saying, "This is made in August of the seventh year of Chongzhen. See if it has deteriorated?"

Lin Chunhong took two dried fish and put them in front of his nose to sniff it. It was indeed odorless. Lin Chunhong was overjoyed and asked, "How is this made? It can be kept for more than half a year!"

Song Yingxing replied: "While the sea fish are fresh, remove the head and internal organs, then add a lot of salt and then dry it. However, when storing, it should be placed in a dry and ventilated environment."

"It's done, it's done! It seems that the sea in Guangdong will be covered with fishing boats!" Lin Chunhong was ecstatic and couldn't help but shout.

Seeing Lin Chunhong extremely excited, Xue Yiqian resisted the urge to pour cold water, and his expression was rich, without saying a word. However, Song Yingxing ignored it and said, "There are two major problems in making dried fish in the military, which may be difficult to promote. One requires a lot of salt and the other requires a lot of manpower. At present, in Guangdong, we do not seem to have these two conditions!"

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "Did you know how much salt we have stockpiled in Qiongzhou Prefecture? It's a full 100,000 stones! This is only three months of production, and there will be more in the future! As for manpower..."

Lin Chunhong's brow turned into the character "Chuan".

Song Yingxing and Xue Yiqian seemed not to see Lin Chunhong falling into trouble, and exclaimed heartlessly: "Three months 100,000 stones! What a big salt field..."

Lin Chunhong instantly thought of the rioters in Henan and Shaanxi, and immediately called Zhang Jief and ordered: "You draft an order and order the Zhang Mansion to send elite forces to Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi to recruit refugees on a large scale, and send them all to Guangzhou. No matter how much food and money you spend, you can do it!"

"In addition, we ordered the governor Zhou to send troops to cooperate with Zhang's mansion to recruit refugees. At the same time, we contacted Lu Xiangsheng, Zuo Liangyu and other frontline generals to buy all the prisoners of war they had. It would still be at the price of one or two silver coins. It would not matter if the price was higher. In short, try every means to increase the manpower!"

"Also, let Qin Bangding immediately organizes people to prepare for the manufacture of ocean-going fishing boats..."

Zhang Jief wrote down Lin Chunhong's words in a blink of an eye, and after saluting, he left the side hall.

After giving the order, Lin Chunhong stared at Xue Yiqian and said, "Mr. Xue, I will leave it to you to form a maritime merchant fleet. Remember, the maritime commercial route cannot be limited to the coast of the Ming Dynasty. We must strive to expand to the Western direction! The Navy will provide protection for the merchant fleet."
Chapter completed!