The current currency of the Han Empire is gold, silver and copper, among which the copper coins are copper coins. The copper coins are mainly made of alloys such as copper, tin, lead and zinc. The casting of copper coins is completely in the hands of the court. Local governments and powerful people do not have the qualifications to cast copper coins. To cast copper coins in local areas is a serious crime. Except for a few people who are willing to take the risk of losing their heads to do such things, few people will do such things.

However, gold ingots and silver ingots are different. If local governments and wealthy families have enough gold and silver in their hands, they can melt and cast gold ingots and silver ingots on their own. The court does not restrict it. This has caused a lot of chaos. In order to make huge profits, many black-hearted people mixed metals such as tin and lead into the melted silver, using inferior products as good ones, and deliberately adulterated them, causing a lot of chaos.

In the actual use process, there are many disadvantages to circulating natural gold ingots and silver blocks as currency, which is very unfavorable to the development of business. Take any merchant in Pingxi City for example. When those merchants receive the gold seal, the first thing they have is that the boss has enough eyesight and eyes to determine whether the gold and silver they receive is adulterated by the feel, weight and color. If you confirm that the gold and silver received is of sufficient quality, the second step will be to take the gold and silver received on the scale to weigh it and determine the weight

The third step is, if you receive a change in silver, many times, the boss in the store will use steel shears and try his best to cut the silver pieces to make changes. So behind those counters doing business, the scales that call silver and steel shears that cut silver are almost essential items for merchants. Yan Liqiang saw in film and television dramas in his previous life that people left with a single ingot of silver when they bought things and ate. Although it cannot be said that there is no, it is far from the reality and the lives of many ordinary people...

If the quality of the silver is not good, the shopkeepers and bosses will either not charge them or even if they charge them, which will cause many disputes. At the same time, due to the accuracy of the scales called silver, and for the weight of one or two grams of silver, merchants and customers will be quarrel and fight each other everywhere.

The court was unable to deal with these situations, so it could only let them go.

There are also a small number of silver coins and gold coins on the market, but the gold and silver coins in circulation are not actually gold and silver coins in the true sense. They are just some wealthy families deliberately make the gold and silver ingots of gold and silver similar to copper coins when they are smelted. One of the gold and silver coins is made very rough, with the standard weight not uniform, and the second is that the quantity is very small and there is no large-scale circulation. Most of the gold and silver coins are engraved with words such as the word "Fu" and "Happiness" and "Happiness" on them. Those things are made out in some important family celebrations and activities to reward the servants for their use. Therefore, these gold and silver coins are essentially small pieces of precious metals that have been divided into...

The wealthy families of the Han Empire did not understand the meaning of minting gold and silver coins, but for Yan Liqiang, turning the circulating gold and silver into circulating gold and silver coins contained a huge opportunity to mint coins!

Once the gold and silver coins issued by the Qiyun Supervisor's Office are first-class in the market, they will become circulating currencies that everyone is willing to accept, creating a fait accompli. Once this credit is established, it will be amazing in the future.

Unfortunately, no one in the Han Empire can see the significance of this point clearly. Perhaps some people think of the minting of gold and silver coins for easy circulation, but there is no technical means to achieve it, because it is not easy for those people to cast gold and silver into currency. If you really need to use current technical means to get gold and silver coins, the cost will be too high and unacceptable.

For Yan Liqiang, all this is not a problem at all, because to mint gold and silver coins, you only need a coin minting machine. The structure of the most reliable and stable coin minting machine, the elbow-moving press-bed coin minting machine, is not complicated at all for Yan Liqiang. He has ready-made drawings in his mind. The structure of this machine is even simpler than a steam machine, without any complex structures and parts, and is very durable and has high coin efficiency. Some of the coin minting machines he saw in museums in his previous life can continue to be used for nearly a hundred years.

Yan Liqiang had even thought about the appearance of the gold and silver coins to be issued. All gold and silver coins were initially weighed by one qian. One liang of silver was ten silver coins, and one liang of gold was ten gold coins. It was easy to calculate and easy to use...

It only took a few days for the manufacturing bureau to give the drawings to the manufacturing bureau. The craftsmen of the manufacturing bureau probably are still exploring the secrets of the elbow-moving press coin minting machine in the past few days. They have not yet understood it thoroughly yet, but Yan Liqiang believes that in a few days, the manufacturing bureau will definitely be able to put the first coin minting machine in front of him.

...

When the sun set, the four-wheeled carriage that Yan Liqiang was riding finally stopped.

When the car door opened, Qian Su and Lu Wenbin got out of the car first, and then Yan Liqiang tidied up his clothes and then got off the carriage.

Outside the carriage, there was already the gate of the county government office in Yingwei County. The accompanying guards stood on both sides of the county government office, surrounding the streets. Many people in the county were lying around, wearing county magistrate's uniforms and wearing black hats on their heads, and stood at the entrance of the county government office. Seeing Yan Li strong, Fu Changde brought all the officials from Yingwei County to the ground, "Yingwei County Magistrate Chang Lu met the supervisor..."

In order not to make people guess his origin and to allow the Seventh Ministry of Shatu to relax his hostility towards the newly established Qi Yun Guardian Mansion, Fu Changde has been using pseudonyms rather than real names until now. In addition to Yan Liqiang, even the people around Yan Liqiang did not know his natality.

Yan Liqiang glanced at Fu Changde, then looked at many familiar faces among the officials of Yingwei County, and smiled, "Sir Chang, are you still used to wearing this official uniform?"

"I only wore this official uniform to greet him today when I knew that the supervisor was coming, so as not to be rude. On weekdays, I feel that this official uniform is a bit cumbersome and feels comfortable to wear without a sheepskin coat..." Fu Changde grinned and smiled at Yan Liqiang. His smile was a bit cunning and hidden sharp, which was impressive. Among the people Yan Liqiang knew, only Fu Changde could have such a smile on his face.

"Okay, you don't like wearing this official uniform. I will allow you to not wear it when you see me in the future, and it is not considered your guilt of rudeness!"

"Thank you, Lord Supervisor!"

He raised his head in his eyes and looked at the somewhat mottled county government gate of Yingwei County. Yan Liqiang touched his stomach, "Okay, let's talk inside. Lord Qian and Lord Lu, I have been running around on the road for a day. I have been hungry for a long time, so I have had supper first..."

"The supper is ready, please invite me, sir!" Chang Lu said, then bowed his body and walked into the county government with Yan Liqiang, Qian Su and others.

Chang Lu also knew Yan Liqiang's temper and knew that Yan Liqiang didn't like to talk about the show on such occasions, so the dinner prepared to welcome Yan Liqiang was just rich, with meat and vegetables, and it was not a luxury to cook.

After dinner, Yan Liqiang had just rested in the official office behind the county government office. Fu Changde and Situ Feixing, who was wearing ordinary service uniforms, walked into Yan Liqiang's room together...

After letting the two sit down, Yan Liqiang asked Situ Feixing straight to the point, "How is the contact with the Black Capricorn?"
Chapter completed!