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Sanhe Butterfly Chapter 147 Yongle¡¯s Money Dilemma (First Update)

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    The new money-making order was tried out for a whole month in Kyoto and Sakamoto, but some problems were still found. As the influence of the money-making order continued to ferment, a large amount of gold money from all over the country poured into the money house, and for a time, money piled up like a mountain.  There was a short-term shortage of Yongle money. Fortunately, Ji Liangyi was prepared for this and exchanged the 23,000 guan of money accumulated in the inner treasury into Yongle money in advance, which solved the temporary money shortage problem, but the money in his hand  A large amount of money has become a burden that must be dealt with.  There are currently more than ten kinds of coins circulating in the market. Most of them are coins privately minted by daimyo from various places since the outbreak of the Onin Rebellion. Among them, there are always some coins with extremely poor quality that are marked with ten coins by money houses.  Of course, there is a huge profit in exchange for one penny or even fifteen pence for one penny. People who exchange money can refuse to exchange if they feel it is a loss, but they will soon regret their stupidity.  Due to the influx of a large amount of money, the base price of the money against the Yongle money suddenly dropped to the base price of the Yongle money. Many businessmen who made the difference by trafficking goods back and forth between Kinai and Kanto almost pawned their pants.  The price of the exchangeable gold coins, which were of acceptable quality, was also set at the price of four cents to one cent.  Exchanging gold coins is very profitable, and the profit difference is enough to make him rich overnight. However, how to extract the maximum profit from gold coins becomes an urgent problem. His solution is to hire senior staff from Kyoto and Sakai Town with huge sums of money.  People study how to melt gold coins to extract pure copper. Shonin means craftsmen, and craftsmen are also a type of craftsmen. There are the most craftsmen in Sakai Town and Kyoto. In comparison, Sakamoto, an emerging city, still has a long way to go.  way to go.  During interviews with many craftsmen, a senior craftsman from Sakai Town, Soga Taihei, proposed using the ash blowing method to smelt gold coins and extract the pure copper from the coins. According to him, Japan currently has  If the smelting process is not up to standard, the smelted copper ingots will contain a small amount of pure silver. This pure silver can be extracted directly from the coins using the ash blowing method.  Kira Yoshitsune was very excited about this proposal. He had also heard of the name of Ash Blow Technique, but as an unfamiliar layman, he had no idea that Ash Blow Technique had such miraculous effects. Pure copper is a hard currency that is known all over the world.  As you know, Japan has been required by the Ming Dynasty to provide enough pure copper for years of exploration and trade, and the Ming Dynasty will give Japan the equivalent of Yongle money.  Can the value of pure copper be equal to the value of Yongle money?  Even a fool can see the difference. It goes without saying that Yongle coins are exquisitely crafted, but copper coins from any dynasty are not pure copper. Copper coins must be mixed with other metals. If there is no profit, the Ming Dynasty will not allow a trip to Japan.  He brought a broken fan and used a knife to cheat money.  As we all know, both the Ming Dynasty and Japan were short of copper coins. Japan was short of money because it had copper mines but did not have the technology to mine, smelt, and mint currency. The Ming Dynasty was short of copper coins because it had a vast territory and a large population and there were simply not enough copper coins.  The lack of money in the Ming Dynasty directly affected the smooth development of capitalism in the Jiangnan region in its infancy. The handicraft industry was unable to start operations because it lacked enough currency to purchase the means of production. The market lacked enough currency to promote logistics growth. The entire Jiangnan handicraft industry has been facing a lack of money to start operations.  The dilemma of having no money to purchase.  There were also gentry landlords in the Ming Dynasty who liked to smelt gold, silver, copper and other precious metals into metal balls and store them in their cellars, or simply put copper coins in large vats and bury them. This bad habit further contributed to the money shortage.  The more money is lacking, the more people will do this, which in turn will lead to less copper coins on the market. In the end, the vicious circle will kill itself.  In the final analysis, Japan is more short of money, and the Ming Dynasty is more short of copper. If the Ming Dynasty has enough copper mines or pure copper supply, these unhealthy trends can be reversed, and the exploration and trade between Japan and the Ming Dynasty  It is not the so-called tricking the Ming Dynasty. Both sides have their own interests and demands.  The shogunate sent exploration and trade envoys to the Ming Dynasty to ask for Yongle money, and the Ming Dynasty asked them to contribute pure copper. Of course, the shogunate would not be willing to do so without giving them some sweetness, so they went to Ningbo City to exchange for broken fans and broken knives.  The reason why raw silk is trafficked back to Japan to make huge profits.  From the mouth of this white-haired Soga Taibei, who is nearly sixty years old, we learned that when he was a teenager, he followed his fellow villagers to Kitakyushu to learn prospecting, mining and smelting technology, and took root in Kitakyushu and Saikuni.  After more than thirty years, it was not until the end of last year that the Ouchi family was in trouble, and the family returned to their hometown.  His eldest son, Soga and Hei, is a better mining and metallurgist than his father. He has a very powerful blacksmithing skill at the age of thirty-two. It is said that the craft of gray blowing was also accidentally discovered by Soga and Hei when he was an apprentice.  I learned a craft called ash blowing from a Ming Dynasty craftsman who was living in Yamaguchikan. I learned that this craft could increase the proportion of pure gold, silver and copper extracted from the ore, and then relied on this craft to become an Ouchi master.  A smelting craftsman, his father also became the royal craftsman of the Ouchi family.  But soon after he learned the trick, he was unwilling to be lonelySoga and Heibei gave up their generous treatment and went to Nagabune in Bizen Province to learn Nagabune's famous weapon forging technology. They stayed in Nagakawa Province for thirteen years. If his father hadn't seen him  He has always been obsessed with knife skills, and even without a wife, he dragged him back to Sakai Town. He may stay there for the rest of his life.  Soga Taihei also has a younger son named Soga Heihei. He has just turned twenty this year and has inherited the talents of his father and brother. He also has a talent that surpasses his elder brother Soga Heihei in smelting technology.  Not only did he learn the ancestral skills passed down from his family, but he also followed his elder brother's example, who ran away from home when he was a teenager and went to Hirado, Kyushu, to hang out with the Nanban people. According to him, during the five years he stayed in Hirado, the Nanban dialect and the Ming Dynasty became more common.  Can understand all Chinese.  This is a very interesting family. Kira Yoshitoki decided to hire the three of them, father and son. For this purpose, they set up a copper house in the north of Sakamoto Castle near Sand¨­cho, and asked the father and son to be responsible for smelting copper coins and extracting copper materials. When they were smelting  Kira Yoshitoshi was able to visit the site and find out what this ash blowing method was all about.  The ash blowing method seems very mysterious. In fact, it uses the different melting points of gold, silver, copper and lead to gradually separate the liquid layer through air oxidation and deposition through the process of high-temperature heating. Then a gap is opened and a large iron rod is used to blow out the upper liquid lead and the  The impurities are drained out and a pure copper solution can be obtained.  It is also worth mentioning that the method of refining gold, silver and copper is to add pure lead to the mixed metal of gold, silver and copper. By heating the lead, integrating it and then depositing and separating it, the gold, silver and copper can be separated out little by little. This already belongs to this  The most advanced technology of the times, it is no wonder that their family has to leave their hometown of Gojo Village in Hanoi Province to go all the way to Kyushu and Western countries to study.  Having enough copper can only ensure that he does not lose money, but where will Yongle¡¯s money come from?  You can't sell pure copper for Yongle money, right?  So he began to worry about enough Yongle coins again. When Kira Yoshihide was in Sakai Town, he looked for merchants from the Ming Dynasty to see if there were any craftsmen who could recast Yongle coins. However, most of these Ming Dynasty merchants were timid and fearful.  Hua Feng shook his head and said that this would not work and that would not work, which made him feel helpless. It would be a waste if he did not make money if he had copper material, but where could he find someone who could make money.  One day at the end of February, Kira Yoshitoki was sitting in a daze outside the copper house. The town where the copper house is located has become a storage place for Yongle money. Naturally, such an important place has to be specially guarded by Saijo. These days, Kira Yoshitoki has been working for Yongle money.  Worrying, the cost of trafficking Yongle money back and forth from the Western Kingdom is too high, and the mountains and rivers are high and far away along the way. It will be a trap if you encounter unsighted ambushes and pirates. Not to mention that it is unlucky to be robbed, and the big names on the road will collect taxes.  It can also beat him to death.  Soga Heibei sneaked over and asked Kira Yoshi, "Is His Highness Sakamoto worried about Yongle's money?" "Well, you can tell?" Kira Yoshi smiled bitterly.  , he was frowning all day long and ran to the copper house every three days. It would be strange if he didn't see it.  "There is a solution that is not a solution. I don't know what His Highness Sakamoto means" "Don't show off." Kira Yoshishi rubbed his forehead and saw Soga Heibei looking like he wanted to say something but didn't dare to say it, and then  He smiled and said: "If you have anything to say, just say it!" Soga Heibei smiled and said: "Yes! I once heard a Ming Dynasty craftsman accidentally mention the mother's money sanding method, but I didn't ask about it.  At that time, the man refused to speak, and even said that he was talking nonsense while drunk, but he clearly did not drink that day. I kept this sentence in my heart, and I wonder if it would be helpful to His Highness Sakamoto. " Kira Yoshishi quickly asked.  : "Is that man a craftsman from Kyushu or Sakai Town?" "A craftsman from Hirado Port, Kyushu." "Are you kidding me?" Yoshitoki Kira finally couldn't resist the urge to curse, and his talk for a long time was in vain.  , Kyushu Hirado is so far away, I can fly there.  "Eh? What is His Highness Sakamoto talking about?" Heibei Soga didn't hear clearly. He thought that what Kira Yoshishi just said should be in Tanemei dialect, but he spoke too fast and couldn't understand what he meant.  "Nothing, just go back if you don't have anything else to do!" Soga Heibei hurriedly bowed and left. He hesitated halfway, then turned around and said, "I saw the craftsman's fellow villager in Sakai Town. He seems to be  There was a big businessman from the Ming Dynasty in Kyushu. I met him many times in Kyushu. This businessman often came to the craftsman to make bronze wares. I still remember that the businessman¡¯s name was Wang Dan. "¡ª¡ª  PS: It¡¯s a new week, a new beginning, and the protagonist will also have a more interesting beginning. If you have tickets, don¡¯t hide them!  Collecting and clicking is also necessary. In addition, I would like to thank the enthusiastic book friends Yang Shibei 1712, comic0121, and Inquisitor who gave rewards last week. Thank you!  Wu Mei will work harder!
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