In this era, Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng and formed two tributaries, one of which seized the Huai River and entered the sea. Not far from Jinan, there is a so-called Yellow River, which can be directly overseas by boat from Jinan.

Taking a group of black slaves to escort, Wang Xuejun and his young wife, Princess, went downstream and went straight to the mouth of the Yellow River to meet with Yu Minzhong.

As soon as he boarded the flagship, Jack ran over with his original pirate ship and proudly reported to Wang Xuejun: "My Lord Regent, with his unremitting efforts and careful calculations, the batch of jewelry you left for me in Macau has been auctioned out in gold. And he used gold to exchange silver from South America for the Portuguese. At the same time, Datuk also transported all the arms we ordered. This time I brought it back to you."

Wang Xuejun was very satisfied with his performance and praised him with great harsh praise. Then he took a sip of the coffee in front of Jack - making up for the spit I had just wasted.

Jack was even more excited about his boss' appreciation, so he reported again: "I also bought a thousand black slaves for you."

Wang Xuejun almost jumped up excitedly: "With these thousand black slave soldiers, it is enough to be worth 20,000 enemy troops."

Jack continued to report mysteriously: "I also bought a few mysterious things for you."

Wang Xuejun asked with interest: "What is it?"

Jack just held his hand and smiled and said nothing.

Wang Xuejun immediately understood the guy's purpose, and took out a sapphire from his sleeve, threw it on the table with a clang: "If your mysterious goods satisfy me, this stone will be yours."

When Jack saw it, he pounced on him like a wolf: "Now I can finally explain it like Rose. Now he can let me go to her bed."

Yu Minzhong joked: "Does it still have to pay for your wife's bed?"

Jack smiled awkwardly: "It's just my wife who asks me for some gadgets she likes from time to time. I laugh at you, laugh at you."

After everyone laughed for a while, Wang Xuejun asked again: "What kind of goods did you buy for me?"

Then Jack solemnly reported: "It's a batch of wind presses."

Seeing that Wang Xuejun had not understood, Jack explained again: "It is a stamping machine for minting silver coins."

Wang Xuejun really jumped up. He stepped forward and hugged Jack directly in his arms, and pecked him on the face without any image.

Jack was so scared that he pushed him away: "Please respect yourself, I am a normal person, I don't have that hobby."

Wang Xuejun went up and punched him: "What are you thinking? I am just so happy that I forgot about it."

"You are so happy that you forgot your shape. You can reward me with another gem, and you don't have to do this in the future."

Jack's performance was indeed beyond Wang Xuejun's expectations. He was really an outstanding businessman, a slave trader, a pirate, and a smart and versatile person.

He thought of turning silver into silver dollars and plundering another handful of people who used silver in disguise.

Compared with silver, silver dollars have the advantages of being more convenient, more stable and more fixed.

When using silver dollars, you don’t have to take out the scale to weigh it, you don’t have to distinguish the quality with the naked eye, and you don’t need to spare scissors from the merchants, and you can cut the big and small at any time.

At the same time, in the Central Plains, silver dollars have been fully circulated and are deeply loved by the people. When the position is said, it has long been circulated in the market and has become synonymous with capital.

Positions are ten silver dollars stacked together, which is exactly one inch, hence the name.

However, all the silver dollars circulated in the Ming Dynasty were inflows from the Gentiles, and were not issued by the Central Plains court.

The reason is the word casting.

At this point, the Central Plains dynasty, at the beginning, went to a misunderstanding in coin manufacturing compared to the ancient Roman Empire and the Persian Empire.

Looking at ancient Roman and Persian coins, they are all made of cold rolls.

However, the coins of the Central Plains dynasty were all made of moulds. Of course, the normative beauty is more beautiful than those of the Gentiles, but it has brought huge holes to the minted government.

In other words, the coins minted are lost.

Not to mention the fire consumption of nearly 20%, it is just the nearly ten processes and the huge labor costs that are prohibitive.

This is why there are many dynasties, even if the government acquiesced to the private casting of copper coins by the people, the vassal kings and wealthy families in various places did not do it - they could not afford to pay.

The reason why paper money appeared first in the Central Plains dynasty was because of the loss of money from the coins.

This is why you still saw copper coins from the Ming Dynasty and even the Yuan Dynasty that were still circulating in the late Qing Dynasty.

Only by using the original coins as much as possible and minting your own coins as little as possible can we alleviate the shortage of money due to insufficient coins in the imperial court.

But Wang Xuejun is completely different with these wind-powered coin machines.

As long as he melted the silver into silver plates at one time, he completed the exquisite production process of silver dollars with a clanging sound, without multiple fire consumption, no loss of polishing, and no huge labor.

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"The silver dollar is soft and easy to deform. In addition, it will rust and turn black and not look good. So, I decided to add three cents of lead and one cent of zinc in silver, just like copper coins. In this way, the silver dollar we make will be firm, shiny and bright for a long time. It will not be easily scraped by treacherous people, nor will it be re-melted by silver craftsmen to cast silver. In this way, the silver dollar we minted will be circulated in the market, so that there will be no more currency shortages and the development of industry and commerce will be suppressed."

Regarding such a high-profile reason for the mixed hypothesis, the princess covered her mouth and was stunned for a long time, and finally commented: "This is much faster than robbery, it's so black."

Yes, in this way, after the first and only fire consumption, Wang Xuejun can get three points of interest.

Then, the two million tael-footed Latin American silver in his hand turned into two million and six million in a blink of an eye.

Robbery? You may also encounter someone who is poorer than you.

This is much more stable than robbery.

"However, your silver dollar is not of sufficient quality and the people will not accept it." Li Yan, who followed, sneered at Wang Xuejun's actions to rob the people.

After all, Li Yan still cared about the people.

Wang Xuejun laughed: "Sir, I'm worried. In front of you, there is a silver dollar with a solid texture and a piece of ugly one. I don't know how many people have bitten, how many scissors have cut it, what quality, or what silver with real weight, which one do you choose?"

Before Li Yan was completely stumped by this question, Wang Xuejun laughed and said, "Practicality is the real foundation. As for whether the silver dollar placed in front of you was stolen or exchanged for sweat, you have to tell which one is dirty and which one is noble, is that necessary?"

Li Yan was really speechless.

Finally, he murmured stubbornly: "If the people don't accept it, it depends on how you cry."

Jack stood up at the right time: "If you want to promote such silver dollars, it is very simple. First, you are paying salaries to officials under the regent. There is only this silver dollar. Do you want it?"

The officials around him could only smile bitterly and nodded: "Yes, having is better than not."

"Second, pay the soldiers, do you want the soldiers?"

The guards immediately rejoiced: "I haven't seen military pay for many years, why don't you?"

"Third, we use bank loans to implement it, starting with the spring plowing startup funds that the people are most worried about most. Anyone who borrows from the bank will lend them silver dollars. And those who repay the loan must also be this kind of silver dollars. Does the people still not trust this currency?"

Wang Xuejun immediately stretched out his thumb and praised Jack: "Gao, it's really high."
Chapter completed!