When Wang An heard this, he showed an expression of sudden realization, nodded and said.
"Don't worry, Commander, I'll let someone try it right now!"
Zhu Hongyu waved his hand and said.
"Don't be in a hurry, just take your time!"
"The most important task of the institute now is to mass-produce spinning machines and looms."
What is the most important thing about fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty?
To put it bluntly, it is money. Whether it is military training, reform, governing the people, education, or researching science and technology, you must have money.
If you don't have money, you can only die as poor as Chongzhen!
Zhu Hongyu wanted to win over people's hearts and did not want to obtain tax revenue by exploiting the people.
Therefore, he can only think of other ways!
For example, through trade, we can shear the wool of other countries.
Trade requires commodities, and the only major product currently in the hands of the Liberation Army is the steel industry.
As well as some Spanish plantation estates, spices, mining, winemaking and other industries.
There are also scattered small industries such as soap, perfume, cement, and infrastructure invented by Zhu Hongyu.
Although you have already made some money, who would complain about having too much money?
With the advent of spinning machines and looms, Zhu Hongyu had the confidence to open up a new industry under the military government, the textile industry!
Like iron, cloth is also a top product, one that as long as it is made, there is no fear of not being able to sell it.
As long as the scale of the textile industry develops, the military government will once again increase its financial resources.
All the researchers agreed in unison.
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and continued to visit other projects.
For example, materials research, electromagnetics research, biological research, medical research... and other related departments.
It is worth mentioning that the institute is not only doing research, but also studying according to the junior high school physics, biology, and chemistry textbooks that Zhu Hongyu took out.
Well, they are at the level of a group of junior high school students!
Moreover, with the completion of the research institute, the weapons research department of the military government was also transferred from the arsenal to the research institute.
The arsenal became an organization specialized in weapons production!
Rifled guns, rifled guns, artillery fusible research, gun percussion powder, smokeless gunpowder... and other projects are in steady progress.
Although they don’t know when the results will be available, with Zhu Hongyu pointing out the research and development direction for them, the research and development progress has been pushed forward.
Sooner or later the results will come out!
…
In the office of the research institute, Zhu Hongyu finished his inspection and called masters and apprentices Wang An and Liang Asheng into the office.
They were given a task to develop a coin minting machine.
Because Zhu Hongyu is starting to prepare coins!
As the military government completely gained a firm foothold, Zhu Hongyu began to realize more and more the importance of coinage.
First, because the Liberation Army, as a Han regime, has been using the currency left over by the Spanish, which is not a big deal!
It doesn’t look good on face!
The second reason is that since ancient times, minting has been profitable!
Precious metals are used to mint coins. As long as a little bit of iron, lead, tin or the like is mixed into the precious metals, that will be profit.
It doesn't matter if the number of minted coins is small, but once the minted coins reach a certain scale.
That’s a huge profit!
Of course, if silver or gold coins were minted, the profits would be even more substantial.
"I wonder how the general is going to mint coins? Are you going to mint copper coins?"
Wang An asked.
In Wang An's view, there is no shortage of copper in Luzon. If Zhu Hongyu wants to mint coins, copper coins must be his first choice.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Hongyu shook his head and said.
"Not only copper coins, but also gold and silver coins!"
"Although the Western Yi are crude and barbaric, they do have something worth learning from them in finance!"
"Compared with the silver coins circulating in the Ming Dynasty, the Spanish silver coins are more suitable and convenient for use in production and transactions. This is an indisputable fact."
Silver coins have a fixed denomination and can be traded directly, but silver coins have to be weighed, the purity determined, and even the weight adjusted with silver scissors, making trading very cumbersome.
Indeed, apart from the fact that silver coins are more suitable for production and trade than silver coins, there is another point Zhu Hongyu did not mention.
That is to completely solve the problem of burning money and harming the people!
Fire consumption refers to the loss that occurs when the government melts the broken pieces of silver collected from taxes into ingots of official silver.
Naturally, this loss cannot be borne by the government!
The officials all had a tacit understanding and passed the burden of fire consumption to the people. When collecting taxes, they specially collected a sum of money for fire consumption from the people.
Actually, although the fire consumption is there, it is not much. The real fire consumption is probably only about one or two percent.
However, if the imprisoned men changed hands and took you 30% to 40%, they would be conscientious.
Even in some remote places, the fire consumption is even several times that of Zhengfu!
It can be said to be extremely harmful to the people!
As for some subordinate slaves in later generations, they thoughtlessly boasted about Yongzheng's policy of returning fire to the public.
As the name suggests, the solution is not the problem of fire consumption at all, but the problem of dividing the spoils after the fire consumption is collected.
This piece of shit, Yongzheng, directly turned Huohuo from an excuse for officials to exploit the people into a regular tax for the country.
Not a human being at all!
To put it bluntly, this is the essence of Manchu rule.
Use various means to win over the Han landlords and gentry, and then work with the landlords and gentry to exploit the poor people below.
You can also see how much water there was in the so-called prosperous era of Kangxi and Qianlong!
In fact, it is not difficult to solve the problem of fire consumption. To put it bluntly, it is just minting coins.
The precious metals of gold and silver are minted into currency and the face value is specified.
Whether it’s for transactions or tax collection, you can use it directly, so what the heck does it cost?
As for such a simple method, why has no one ever proposed it?
it's actually really easy!
On the one hand, it is the inertia of thinking. The officials in the court felt that since the silver coins can be used, they should not bother with making coins.
After all, if you do more, you will make more mistakes; if you do less, you will make fewer mistakes; if you do less, it will be better!
And that’s it!
Officials all over the world are benefiting from this matter of fire consumption. Even if someone can think of it, they dare not say it.
Whoever dares to come up with a solution to the fire consumption may even have their ashes raised!
The reason why Zhu Hongyu dared to prepare coins now and completely solve the problem of fire consumption was because the boat was small and easy to turn around.
With his current prestige in the Liberation Army, it cannot be said that there is absolutely no opposition to what he wants to do, but there is only minimal resistance.
Of course, more importantly, most of the people under him now have lived in Nanyang for a long time, and are accustomed to using Spanish silver coins to do business and pay taxes!
Even if Zhu Hongyu didn't say anything for a while, they probably wouldn't be able to realize that Lao Zhu was going to take action against Huo Hao's evil policy.
Most of the officials of the military government were on the second floor, thinking that Zhu Hongyu just thought that silver coins were convenient to use and that minting could make money.
As for Zhu Hongyu, this wave is on the third floor!
In the future, there will be silver coins that can be used. If anyone dares to collect fire and waste money again, Zhu Hongyu can only ask Jin Yiwei to discuss with them the Ming Dynasty's ancestral system of embezzling sixty taels of peeled grass!