Buying things needs money, although Jinhewan is not short of money, but Hong Tao doesn't want to exchange real money for these raw materials, if it weren't for his lack of effort, these things should have been grabbed for free, who heard that pirate leaders have to spend money to buy things? So Hong Tao came up with a bad idea, which was to make counterfeit money. It has been several years since Jinhewan tried to cast cannons, and countless bronzes have been spent, all of which have been piled up into a small mountain. The fineness of these bronzes is not quite the same, and it is difficult to grasp the composition of the cannon that is remelted and cast; Use them for something else, do something and lose something. Because they're copper, what's more expensive than making them out of copper coins? How to deal with these bronzes has become a problem for the board of directors of Jinhewan, and they can't bear to watch such an expensive good thing rust away in the sun and rain.

Hong Tao also thought of many ways to digest the bronze waste, but so far he has not found a suitable one, and finally he figured out that this thing has the same value as copper coins, so it will simply be made into copper coins. The minting of copper coins was a piece of cake for the craftsmen of Jinhewan, and there were no technical problems. The color of the waste bronze material is not very suitable, it doesn't matter, it should add iron and iron, lead and lead, tin and tin, alloy copper is also a piece of cake for the craftsmen of Jinhewan, there are no technical problems, I haven't done anything else in recent years, just study these technologies.

With Hong Tao's approval, jars of Da Song money were soon produced from Jinhewan, and they were all hot and freshly out of the pot. A small coin weighs about four grams, and one kilogram of waste can make more than 200 pieces, and one ton of waste is 200 pieces. There are thousands of tons of scrap here, and all of them are fake. There are more than 100,000 of them. The smelting and casting costs were almost negligible. This work did not delay the casting of cannons. It is enough for all the work to be done by the apprentices, and by the way, they are also allowed to practice their craft, at most, they are sent to watch the master a few times and check the key steps.

Would this disrupt the financial system of the Southern Song Dynasty? The answer is no impact at all. Why? Because the currency of the Southern Song Dynasty is a circulating currency, at least in Southeast Asia, it is a hard currency, and many countries simply do not mint coins themselves, and directly use the copper coins of the Southern Song Dynasty as their national currency. Therefore, the copper coins of the Southern Song Dynasty are, to some extent, a bit like the dollars of later generations. Even more domineering than the dollar.

The Americans still have to wonder whether the issuance of dollars will affect the world exchange rate, although they also print more, but they can't print blindly. But Hong Tao doesn't have to think about this, unless he makes counterfeit money with his life, otherwise just relying on hundreds of thousands of copper coins, a small Japanese market can eat them all, and there is no bubbling, and it doesn't matter if he throws a million yuan. If there is an opportunity to plunder the resources of other countries by currency, why waste it? The Americans have relied on their own hegemony and worked hard for many years to obtain this privilege. Now that Hong Tao has gotten it for nothing, can he bear it?

In fact, at first, Hong Tao wanted to tell Wen Hao about this method. Write to the newspaper to remind the Southern Song court, so that they understand that there is another way to quickly replenish the treasury. But after thinking about it, the Southern Song Dynasty was already short of copper, and once this matter was publicized, it might cause even more chaos. I will use this method for a few years first, and then talk about economic war when the problem of the frontal battlefield is solved.

"This method is good, as long as we don't spend the fake money on the Great Song Dynasty, we won't be disappointed. What does it have to do with the Great Song Dynasty to buy things from foreigners? Xiaotao's method is good! When Hong Tao submitted his plan to the board of directors for discussion, his father-in-law, the current financial director of Jinhewan, Bo Fu, immediately expressed strong support. In his opinion, Hong Tao's ability to care about the Great Song Dynasty and refuse to harm the Great Song Dynasty is already a very benevolent and righteous performance, and it is natural to take advantage of it, and there is no need to have any moral burden.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Who says it's fake money? Let's see, which of these is fake money? Hong Tao still thought that the reputation of fraud was not good, and wanted to completely wash it away, so he took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and put them on the table.

"I really can't see it, Lao Qi, your craftsmanship is really not enough." The big guy put his head on the table and pulled it around, but he never found any difference between the dozen or so copper coins.

"Except for this one, the others are all made in Jinhewan. So we are not cheating, but helping the Great Song court to improve productivity! Don't mention fake money in the future, it's not good to say. Hong Tao finally picked out a real Song coin from more than a dozen copper coins, if it weren't for the fact that there was a knife mark on this coin, he himself would not be able to distinguish the real from the fake. In order to make these fake coins more realistic, Hong Tao even used the old method of later generations, putting the newly minted copper coins and salt brine together and heating them, and then burying them in the saline-alkali land by the sea for ten years. After digging it out, there is a layer of oxide layer, and it is re-scrubbed and directly goes to Lin'an City to buy anything, which is exactly the same as Song Qian.

In October of the first year of Duanping, the port of Guangzhou became a sea of ships again, although a major event occurred last year, the largest maritime merchant in Guangzhou, the Wu family, four boats of more than 300 people, all did not come back, life and death are uncertain, and at the same time there are several Pu family members are also the same fate, but the popularity of going to the South Seas to run ocean trade has not declined, but has risen. There is one less sea merchant and a few foreign merchants, and more small sea merchants have emerged, they are more energetic, more adventurous, a little barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes.

These people are not all blind adventurers, because they have many role models. In the past two years, most of the maritime merchants who have risen in Guangzhou are shareholders of the Straits Company, and two or three years ago, they also took other people's sea ships and scraped together a few boxes of goods, and they could not make much money back and forth, and they had to take the same risk. But the past two years have been different, they have become shareholders of the Straits Company, they have become organized people, and they have also explored a new route to the Great Food. I only need to run once a year, and after running for two years, I have already made a lot of money, not only buying a house and a shop in the city, but also buying a new type of sea ship, becoming a real sea businessman.

It only took two years! Their story has been serialized in that "Bosom Friend" for many issues, and it has been changed by the storyteller to a meat story that is preached every day in Vasheri. Who doesn't love the story of getting rich, especially the nouveau riche, which is the focus of everyone's attention. Especially young people. They experience less. Be bold. It is easier to be swayed by the external environment. Everyone is a head and two legs, why can others start from scratch and not make it themselves?

Strait Company, right? It's not at the ends of the earth, isn't it also in the city of Guangzhou, let's also ask if we can sail with us! Can you? Must be able to! This strait company is benevolent, not only gave a quota of 30 individual passengers on the boat, but also published an advertisement in the newspaper. It's called a commercial microfinance company! What does that mean? That is, if you use your property as collateral, the company will lend you the start-up capital for the purchase of goods, and the interest rate is not very high, which is not a usury at all. This money strait company will help you purchase goods, you just carefully watch your goods follow the ship to the sea, to the place to sell, buy goods have the company's broker to help you come up with ideas, will never let you be deceived, or in the Song Dynasty can sell high-priced goods in demand, this is called shopping guide service. When you come back and sell the goods, just pay the interest and service fees. If the principal is repaid, the mortgaged property will still be yours. People don't want a minute.

If you are too unlucky, what should you do if you really lose money? It doesn't matter, as long as you sign a work agreement with the Straits Company, voluntarily go to an overseas port to serve for five years, and as soon as the term expires, the loan will be written off, not only will you not have to repay the interest and principal, but the collateral will also be repaid to you, and you will also be paid. This kind of benevolent company is difficult to find with a lantern, especially for those immigrants from the north and young people who want to start a business, the whole is a caring service.

"This is called an incubator, just like an old hen hatching eggs, the two of us are old hens, or the strait company is an old hen, and these young, self-made maritime merchants are eggs. If we want the flock to grow, we have to hatch the eggs first and pay more chicks. That's not all, you have to help them grow, and when they have grown feathers, they will fly to all corners of the world to find bugs to eat. The chickens have grown, and the two of us have more power as the chicken heads, you ponder, is this the reason? Luo Youde has always had opinions on Hong Tao's method, he thinks that Hong Tao is engaging in charity, where is there anyone who borrows money for no reason to make others rich, which is not in line with the laws of the market. In order to convince him, Hong Tao can be regarded as fighting, and he describes himself as a sacred and mysterious profession of chicken head.

"Brother Hong, your analogy also makes sense, but what if you catch up with them are all bad guys? Wouldn't you lose it then? Although I also have a court" Luo Youde still didn't understand what Hong Tao meant, he only considered the problem from a very narrow angle. It's not his fault, in fact, in terms of this period, his vision is already very wide, but compared with Hong Tao, it is narrow. It's not that Hong Tao is powerful, but that he stands too tall, and when he opens his eyes, he sees the whole world, and he can't see it without thinking about it.

"Badass? It's not human! Lao Luo, think about it, if you are an ordinary person now, and suddenly have a chance to make a fortune, will you take this money to play in the Qinglou? There are such people, but the proportion is not too high, and most people are still willing to take this opportunity to develop themselves. Besides, I didn't give them a loan for nothing, it was secured. Even if I don't want their collateral in the end, if you think about it, is it cost-effective for my own people to take a group of slaves to guard those supply points thousands of miles away, or do I want them to work in the form of a contract? Slave is a double-edged sword, if you don't have absolute power, it's best not to try, it will be a big curse for yourself. Once there is a disturbance, it is difficult to clean it up, just like an infectious disease, it is contagious, and it is very fast. Hong Tao is not worried that his money will be wasted, he has already calculated, as long as the market is bigger, whether it is the Strait Company or Jinhewan, he can completely recover these loans from other places ten or a hundred times. Now there is no shortage of commodities in Jinhewan, but a lack of sales outlets, and the Southern Song Dynasty is not suitable for dumping, so it can only develop other markets. It is too expensive to rely on Jinhewan to develop it by itself, so it is better to use a little start-up capital to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Southern Song Dynasty businessmen and let them help them develop it, which will be much better.

In addition, this is also an important part of Hong Tao's plan to transform the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the Southern Song Dynasty merchants can grow stronger, so that they can transfuse blood for the Southern Song Dynasty, they can identify with their own ideas, and they can change the structure and ideas of the Southern Song Dynasty court from the bottom up. Taking them to run a business is just an introduction, and the ultimate goal is to make them realize the size of the world, don't be limited to one country and one place, as long as they go out, the money is inexhaustible, and no one picks up things on the street in the Great Song Dynasty, and they are pulled by sea boats to run thousands of miles away, maybe they are other people's treasures. In the same way, the objects that are readily available in other countries may be urgently needed resources in the Great Song Dynasty. Investing resources in this matter is what Hong Tao must do, but he can't say it, and everyone can't say it, even if someone sees it, he can't admit it. There are many things in the world that are like this, and you can't say what you can do. (To be continued.) )