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Li Jing carefully calculated an account, if the proportion of copper, lead, two, half, and tin and one and a half is used to cast money, then the cost of materials can be reduced to 600 wen per perme. For the rest of the labor costs of craftsmen, Li Jing also has a process improvement, and the new coinage will be made by metal smelting and casting. In accordance with the design style in advance, it is made by hand-molding, batch sand casting, and grinding;

With the new sand casting process, the production capacity of the minting craftsmen has nearly tripled, and the average day can produce a consistent coin.

In this way, the cost of materials is 600 Wen, the salary of craftsmen is about 80 Wen, plus other expenses such as charcoal, the cost of consistent money is controlled below 700 Wen, and the consistent money earns at least 300 Wen.

"If this can really be done, the actual cost will not cost 700 Wen." Du Zhongwu raised his eyebrows, and said with some excitement: "We don't need money for mining now, and we don't have to pay taxes, all we need is labor money for mining." ”

Zhang Hong also became active all of a sudden: "You can also save half of the charcoal money, this time we can not explore several coal mines, we can use coal instead of charcoal, and save a lot." ”

"If that's the case, then there is still money to be made." Li Zhen also said with a smile on the side.

"Then build a hundred coin-casting furnaces first!" Li Jing said directly, since you want to make it, let's make it bigger. Originally, a coin casting furnace could produce 3,300 guan a year, but now after the new process, the annual output can reach 10,000 guan. A hundred coin-casting furnaces can mint a million coins a year. If copper, lead, and tin are mined themselves, coal is used instead of charcoal. There is also an increase in artificial production. That removes the labor costs of mining and minting money. The cost of materials is not incurred at all. In this way, the integration of mining and coinage can earn nearly one million yuan a year.

"Where are we going to find so many miners?" Guo Chengan asked.

According to the new process standard, a furnace is 10,000 yuan, which is 64,000 catties, and it will cost more than 38,000 catties of copper, 16,000 catties of lead, and 9,600 catties of tin. One hundred furnaces. That's nearly 4 million catties of copper, more than 1.6 million catties of lead, and more than 900,000 catties of tin. This is not a small number, the mining skills at this time are not high, and so much copper, tin and lead is needed, so the number of mining workers needed will also be a huge number.

In addition, coal mining is also required, and Li Jing previously proposed to mine iron ore, which requires a large number of manpower. If you add the sulfur mining plan, the oil mining plan and the limestone mining plan, this counts a huge amount of manpower.

"Let's use the homeless!" Li Jing thought about it. If all these mining plans are launched, it will be able to accommodate 100,000 workers. And the use of homeless people is also the result of Li Jing's consideration for several days. These days. Dengzhou's cash-for-work is in full swing, and the surrounding Laizhou and Qingzhou are also known, and even Haizhou, Mizhou, and Weizhou are also aware of the road.

Because there is a port in Dengzhou, although the people have been affected, the situation is still much stronger than that of some people in the mainland. The people of Dengzhou can't live anymore, and the other places are even more serious.

These days, Dengzhou Thorn Shi Li Jing borrowed rain from the Dragon King, as well as the Dragon King's grace, and Li Jing opened a warehouse to release grain, and other news came out, and those hungry people in various places heard that all the people in Dengzhou can have food to eat, and they have long been red-eyed. In addition, those local officials and wealthy families are also afraid of these hungry people who are gathering more and more, and at this time, they are also taking the opportunity to spread the benefits of Dengzhou everywhere, saying that Dengzhou seems to be the most pure land in the world.

As a result, the hungry people decided that as long as they arrived in Dengzhou, they would no longer have to worry about running out of food.

The hungry people in the nearby states are now dragging their families and mouths, and they are marching towards Dengzhou one after another, and the ones that are close have already entered the territory of Dengzhou. Now the official documents of the county orders of Huang County and Dongmu County have been sent desperately. The influx of thousands of hungry people at once made them a little overwhelmed. To help them, there is also a lot of food in the state of Kodeng. If you don't provide relief, it doesn't seem to be good, so you have to push this thorny problem to Li Jing.

Li Jing is now worried about this problem, and Dengzhou's work-for-relief is not only to relieve the people, but also to prepare for the resumption of production next year. Now these outsiders are pouring in, and it is not appropriate for them to also go to repair water conservancy, etc.

It is not possible to see death without saving, but how to relieve it is also a problem.

Now, these hungry people are just recruited to open mines, so that not only the people can be relieved, but also the labor problem of mining can be solved, and even because they are hungry, even the cost can be reduced.

Guo Chengan said with some worry: "I'm afraid that if this case is opened, we won't be able to bear it if there is an influx of victims from all sides." ”

At present, Mudong County in Huang County and Laizhou have not yet received a reply from Li Jing, so they have set up wooden fences on the border roads, and two battalions are stationed at the border to intercept the victims.

Li Jing pondered for a moment, Guo Chengan's worries were not unreasonable, if the hungry people heard the news, this would indeed be a big problem. However, after thinking about it, Li Jing still said: "We are on the coast of the East China Sea, and we only have the border with Laizhou at the moment, and the other three sides are the sea. Even if the hungry were to come, it would not be so easy to come. Besides, now that we're preparing to open a mine, the refugees don't have to worry too much if they come. Most of them can be sent to mines to open mines, and some fishermen can also be sent to fish. Now we still have a lot of food, and the sales of various commodities are also very optimistic, but I am not afraid of raising some refugees. If there are too many people, we can also move them to Liaodong to hoard land for development. Henan and Shandong are in drought, and Liaodong is not drought, so you can plant a season of soybeans at the moment, and in autumn, you can also plant a kind of winter wheat. ”

Seeing that Li Jing already had an idea, the others thought about it carefully, and felt that such an arrangement was still okay. The current famine is an opportunity to get a group of people. Population can sometimes seem like a burden, but it is also a sign of a strong town. Especially in Liaodong, the territory occupied by Qingni City and Beisha City is almost two Dengzhou, but there is not much land to be reclaimed. Just relocate a group of people to hoard the fields, or graze, even if they don't see the benefits in a year or two, don't be afraid.

And so it was settled. Li Jing personally took people to the border road between Huangxian and Laizhou. The recruitment list was established. Workers are being recruited at the mine in Dengzhou. Those who are willing to work not only have three meals a day, but also a day's salary of 50 yuan, plus five buckets of food a month. As soon as this condition was announced, the eyes of the hungry people who were gathering on the border and were not allowed to enter Dengzhou because of the previous blockade by the Zhendong Army lit up.

These days, the Zhendong Army does not let them enter Dengzhou, but they still put porridge every day, and each person can drink two bowls of porridge a day. But how can you eat two bowls of porridge? Now there are such good conditions. Although many people also know that the work in the mine is hard, they have to go for the five buckets of grain a month, not to mention three meals a day, plus fifty yuan. If you work hard like this, not only can you eat enough, but the family will follow you, and you can't do anything, but you can save some wild vegetables or something, and you can survive the past.

"I'm going!"

"I'll go!"

"Count me in!"

Suddenly, countless people signed up. Some even teenage children are rushing to sign up. Li Jing asked people to register their names, and then directly asked the foremen of each newly arranged mine to lead the people. Pick out the young and strong ones first. Then their families can be taken with them, and when there are 1,000 people, the foremen will immediately take them back to the mine. In a whole day, more than 10,000 strong workers were picked up, and 50,000 or 60,000 people were taken away with their families.

But there are still tens of thousands of people left, and Li Jing can't help but sigh when he sees it, in addition to these people, there is also a steady stream of groups of hungry people coming from behind. Those who were too weak, Li Jing did not arrange for them to go to the mine, and it was useless to go, so he arranged to go to the construction sites in various counties and those workshops, and arranged to do whatever they could. The rest of those who are in a slightly better condition, those who drag their families with them, are ready to be sent to Liaodong and let them hoard fields. The government first lent them tools and rations, and let them reclaim the famine.

After staying at the Laizhou border for ten days, Li Jing returned to Dengzhou. In ten days, more than 50,000 miners have been recruited from more than 30 mines, large and small, and as many as 1230,000 hungry people have been resettled in the mines, including their families. In addition, there were tens of thousands of frail and hungry people who remained in Dengzhou, and even more than 10,000 households, 40,000 or 50,000 people, were sent to Liaodong for reclamation. Together, there are as many as 200,000 hungry people pouring into Dengzhou this time.

At least half of the hungry people from nearby states have flocked to Dengzhou. Li Jing knew that in a few days, there would definitely be more refugees pouring in.

However, with the influx of these 200,000 refugees, more than 30 mines in Dengzhou and Liaodong have also officially started mining, and another 100 new coin-casting furnaces have also been cast, and more than 10,000 newly recruited craftsmen have officially started to mint money. A hundred coin-casting furnaces began to mint money, and the amount of copper, lead, tin, and coal consumed every day was massive, but copper coins also flowed out day and night.

Every day, it can produce nearly 3,000 yuan, up to several million yuan! With the steady flow of these coins, Li Jing ordered the money houses to begin to expand, and built ten new money houses in the counties of Dengzhou and the control area of Liaodong, and the printing house there also began to print a new batch of banknotes and issue them in the jurisdiction of the Zhendong Army. This time, because there was a million coins minted in a year, Li Jing directly issued two million banknotes.

The 100 coinage furnaces of the Dengzhou Mint mint minted the Kaiyuan Tongbao day and night, while the banknote printing factory on Salmon Island printed banknotes day and night. With the expansion of the money village and the expansion of the issuance of banknotes, now under the jurisdiction of the Zhendong Army, Dengzhou and Liaodong Qingni City and Beishan City, all the salaries of officials and soldiers are 40 percent grain, 3 percent banknotes, 2 percent silk and 1 percent copper money, Li Jing specially stipulates that all transactions of more than 10 times must be traded with banknotes, copper coins are prohibited, and private buying and selling of large bronze objects is prohibited. It is even more forbidden to privately mint copper coins, and if it is found that privately minted copper coins will not only have their property confiscated, but they will also be punished with a labor camp in Liaodong.

Moreover, it is specially stipulated that except for the Kaiyuan Tongbao newly minted and issued by the Zhendong Army with a town character, all other copper coins will be exchanged for new money within a month. Ordinary people are not allowed to deposit more than 100,000 copper coins in their homes, that is, they are not allowed to deposit more than 100 copper coins, and merchants are not allowed to deposit more than 1,000 copper coins. Violators, once investigated, must be confiscated and fined twice the amount of copper coins in exceedance.

As soon as these regulations came out, the copper coins and large bronze utensils saved in the hands of the people of Dengzhou had to be handed over to the Sihai Money Village and exchanged for banknotes. Even those merchants, when the money in the shop reaches a certain amount, they also have to go to the bank to find banknotes.

The Four Seas Money Village took away the old money and private money, as well as large bronze objects, and minted them into new coins. Because there is a town character on the back of the new money, it is called town army money by the people.

Due to Li Jing's various harsh methods, the Zhendong Army mainly used banknotes, supplemented by Zhenjun money and silk. Moreover, the grain price in Dengzhou has also remained at the price of 200 yuan of rice, which is even lower than that at the beginning of the year. (To be continued......)