Where have they ever seen such a machine? It didn't take long to pin an iron block into a round ball!
This made them feel like their minds were blank, and they didn't know what to say for a while until they left.
No way, this is an absolute crushing of civilization and technology.
Just like when primitive people saw an airplane, they thought it was a god flying through the sky.
With this machine tool, it will be much easier for the industrial team to do their work.
Even if Fang Xiaoyue is not around, as long as the design drawings are there, the people in the industrial team can work according to the drawings and manufacture sub-precision machine tools or other machinery.
However, after the birth of this machine tool, its first real product was a coin minting machine!
Well, the production of coin minting machines was requested by Chen Liuxiang, who is now in charge of trade affairs.
The reason is simple. Chen Liuxiang felt too uncomfortable with the money transactions in the Ming Dynasty.
When he was stationed in Qiongshan County, the currency brought out by the merchants and hawkers who came to trade was either a lot of copper coins or silver coins of varying weights, which also needed to be weighed with a small scale.
If the silver coin is overweight, you need a pair of small scissors to cut off part of it, etc.
The whole process is not only cumbersome, but also carries huge risks.
After all, the few time travel agents in charge of the transaction didn’t know much about silver as a metal.
Those Ming Dynasty businessmen could roughly tell the content of silver by grabbing a piece of silver.
These travel groups will not work unless each of them is equipped with a machine specifically designed to detect silver content.
Therefore, at the latest enlarged meeting of the Provisional Management Committee, which gathered the leaders and backbones of each group, Chen Liuxiang proposed a plan to unify the currency within the control of the Management Committee.
The benefits of this unified currency are not only limited to convenient transactions, but also the ability to collect a currency tax!
Well, this kind of operation will be known to anyone who has studied some history in future generations.
You can make a fortune by pressing silver, copper and other precious metals into gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins to replace the popular broken silver, copper coins, and gold leaves on the market.
After all, no matter whether gold coins, silver coins, or copper coins, it is impossible to be of sufficient purity.
If you want to mint coins, it is definitely impossible to adopt the manual workshop model and get a machine.
Of course, the technology of a coin minting machine like the one Chen Liuxiang wants is actually very simple.
A small die-casting machine with a hydraulic device can solve the problem. You only need to make a set of coin molds first.
Of course, as usual, the meeting was also very lively in order to determine the specifications, weight and even patterns of these coins, anti-theft methods, etc.
Initially, some people wanted to continue voting, but this time the so-called voting plan was directly rejected by Zheng Xiangdong.
Are you kidding me? We are voting every day and no one has any rest from work, right?
Finally, after intense discussion among everyone, the coin plan was officially released.
The coins in circulation are divided into three types: gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins. There are two types of gold coins, 18K gold coins with two face values of ten yuan and five yuan. Silver coins are 1 yuan and 50 cents with 925 silver content. Copper coins are 50 cents.
, 1 corner, 1 cent, three types, made of bronze.
All coins are surrounded by a ring of anti-wear gears.
The gold coin has a machine tool on the front and a ship on the back, the silver coin has a steam engine on the front and a car on the back, the copper coin has a Thunderbolt 1646 rifle on the front and wheat ears on the back.
It has to be said that the big guys were reluctant to give out gold coins at first.
The reason is very simple. The gold reserves in the dock area can be said to be seriously insufficient, almost non-existent.
In fact, even silver reserves are in jeopardy.
But Zhang Feifei smiled and took over the matter of minting coins.
At this time, he happened to suppress the precious metals in the underground warehouse and turn them into coins, so that he would not have to worry about the precious metals being stolen.
You know, after all this time, there are more than 10 tons of gold in the underground warehouse!
This day was originally a Sunday, and the dock area adopted a six-day work week.
Whether they are traveling people or those recruited indigenous naturalized people, they can all enjoy a day off on Sunday.
A natural market has been born outside the current dock area.
In the early morning, before it was fully dark, villagers from nearby villages and towns had already placed the vegetables, chickens, ducks, geese and other agricultural and sideline products they had brought with them on their makeshift stalls.
But when it gets dark, the best business is in the small supermarket on the outer side of the dock area.
Well, in terms of scale, it is just a small supermarket.
But because it sells some things that can't be bought outside, it has become the busiest place in the market.
A large group of naturalized migrant workers who had just received their wages were either holding a few silver coins in their pockets and nervously staring at the long queue in front of them, or they were looking down and counting the copper coins in their pockets, worried that they would not have enough money to bring out this time.
Initially, the leaders of the Provisional Management Committee were worried that everyone would not be able to accept this new currency.
However, after the introduction of gold, silver and copper coins, the naturalized migrant workers were not dissatisfied at all. On the contrary, they liked these new currencies very much.
The reason is very simple. In fact, with the advancement of the Age of Discovery, merchants from the west brought gold coins, silver coins and other currencies into the territory of the Ming Dynasty early.
In other words, those naturalized citizens have more or less seen this type of coins before. In addition, the coins introduced by the Provisional Management Committee are exquisitely crafted, heavy, and not counterfeit, making the currency highly credible.
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Of course, the most critical point is that the supermarkets in the dock area only accept these three currencies, and no broken silver or copper coins are allowed.
But this is not a problem for those naturalized citizens, because starting from this month, their wages will be calculated in silver coins and copper coins.
Probably one silver coin is equivalent to one tael of silver.
This is why there are such long queues at the supermarket entrance.
Everyone has paid their wages, plus it’s Sunday off, so naturally they want to buy some things for their homes.
Wang Fuyu was among the second batch of workers recruited in the dock area, and his main job was to blow glassware.
This type of work requires some skills, so the wages are higher than those of ordinary farm workers, and the wages are classified as skilled workers level two.
The average farm worker is only a first-level skilled worker.
The first-level technical worker is only paid 1 yuan per month, while the second-level technical worker is paid 1.5 yuan. It can be said that the gap is not small.
After entering the supermarket after a long queue, Wang Fuyu was almost dazzled when he entered the supermarket for the first time.
He felt as if he had stepped into the palace from his shabby yard, with a dazzling array of merchandise everywhere.
Most of the items in this supermarket are small commodities scrounged from all over the dock area.