The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

Deda led more than 7000 Qing cavalry to quickly kill people, which directly caused the morale of the Qing troops defending Fuzhou to fall to the bottom.

At this time, the Ming army seized the opportunity and launched a general attack on Fuzhou City.

In an instant, thousands of cannons fired together, the space surged, and under countless rays of light, the city walls of Fuzhou were completely covered by gunfire and gunpowder smoke.

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While the Manqing defenders in Fuzhou were still suffering under artillery fire, Emperor Zhu Da, who was more than 1000 kilometers away, was opening the new week's miracle market with great hope.

"A complete set of coin-making equipment, including banknote printing equipment and metal coin manufacturing equipment, priced at 20 taels of silver!"

Start crit!

Looking at this new product, Zhu Heyi couldn't stop smiling.

Since the second year of Wanli, when two large Manila merchant sails loaded with Chinese silk, cotton, porcelain and other goods sailed to Acapulco, Mexico, Manila has gradually become one of the largest trade centers in Asia.

Then with the rise of the Ming Dynasty and the launch of a large number of new products, today's Manila, no, today's Dingtianfu has long since shed that "one" and has become the most dazzling pearl in the entire Asia.

However, the busy trade also caused currency chaos throughout Luzon.

Copper coins made in the Ming Dynasty, copper coins made in the Qing Dynasty, gold coins, silver coins, and silver ingots from various countries, and broken silver are flooding the market

The chaotic currency has had a considerable impact on the tax management and people's daily lives in the entire Luzon region.

For this reason, Emperor Zhu Da had the idea of ​​unifying the currency earlier.

However, at that time, he had no reserve funds and no coin-making technology.

Of course, this coin-making technology is not the manufacturing technology of metal currency. After all, the casting of metal currency really has no technical content.

The coinage technology Emperor Zhu Da refers to refers to banknotes.

That's right!From the beginning he was thinking about printing paper money. (Not because I want to exchange paper for the real money of the nouveau riche!)

When he bought a collotype printing machine from the Miracle Market, Zhu Hechi thought of using that machine to print banknotes.

However, after several attempts, it was discovered that the machine was difficult to use for banknote printing.

Although the finished products printed by collotype printing technology are exquisite, a single print is time-consuming and costly, which is not feasible for banknote printing that starts with tens of millions.

But now that he has this complete set of currency-making technology, his plan to unify the currency can be launched immediately.

However, due to insufficient gold reserves, this new currency can only be issued on the silver standard.

Of course, this is only temporary.

In fact, Emperor Zhu Da's goal was to completely decouple the new currency from precious metals and link it to national credit, and at the same time make it an international currency with the same status as the US dollar in later generations.

However, it is basically impossible to achieve this point in a short period of time, so we have to do it step by step.

After this period of trade accumulation and battlefield seizures, he now has tens of millions of taels of silver in his treasury.

With these ten million taels of silver as a reserve, and assuming that the reserve cannot be less than 20% of the currency issuance, he can print at least 5000 million silver banknotes!

Even with a large number of high-value factories as a backstop, he can print more new coins, but he currently has no plans to do so. The first batch of 5000 million new coins is enough for circulation.

Speaking of which, Emperor Zhu Da even planned to establish an "aluminum standard" at the beginning. (The wires in the previous article were changed to copper core steel stranded wires)

Because he clearly remembered that at the end of the 19th century in his previous life, the price of aluminum was even more expensive than gold.

But after thinking about it carefully, I found that this operation is too complicated, at least it cannot be realized in a short time.

The prerequisite for realizing the "aluminum standard" is that everyone must be able to recognize the value of aluminum, a "precious metal".

So far, only Daming in the world has electrolytic aluminum technology, and it is kept strictly confidential.

Not to mention aluminum, other countries can't even produce aluminum powder, and even the people of Ming Dynasty don't know what aluminum is.

Under such circumstances, if I rashly take out an aluminum ingot and tell everyone that it is a rare metal and its price is better than gold, how many people will agree?

Therefore, the "aluminum standard" is not feasible, at least not in the short term.

Although he gave up the "aluminum standard" plan, Emperor Zhu Da still planned to make aluminum a rare metal that was more expensive than gold.

For this reason, the first thing to do is to let everyone know that this thing is really rare.

Is aluminum rare?

As the most abundant metallic element on earth, it seems to have nothing to do with rarity.

However, due to its ability to easily react with oxygen, there is almost no elemental aluminum in nature. From this aspect, it is indeed extremely rare.

Therefore, in order to make people all over the world aware of the rarity of aluminum, Emperor Zhu Da decided to send several fleets to take some exquisite aluminum products for a global exhibition and distribute "aluminum manufacturing technology" around the world!

But the "aluminum-making technology" he sent may be a little bit more troublesome than Emperor Zhu Da's electrolytic aluminum technology.

For example, he needs to carry out a series of tedious substitution reactions,

Another example is that he also needs to consume a lot of metallic sodium!

After this "aluminum manufacturing technology" was used for industrial mass production in the previous life, the global output reached a full 500 kilograms a year!

As long as this "aluminum manufacturing technology" is successfully promoted, aluminum's status as a precious metal will basically be secure.

Oh, and finally, it needs a fancy name.

For example, "Mithril" is great!

Zhu Heyi shook his head and put aside a series of thoughts in his head. He turned around and put the coin-making equipment into his bag first, and then looked at the next item.

"Five early steam locomotives, priced at 5 taels of silver!"

This is another good thing!

Although steam trains have no technical barriers to Ming Dynasty, which has already applied steam engines to battleships, all it lacks is the finishing touch.

However, with these five locomotives as samples, direct copying and posting can actually reduce the time invested by the scientific research department in its research and development design.

Moreover, the emergence of trains not only greatly facilitates people's travel, but also greatly enhances the efficiency of transporting goods and ore.

This is of great significance to the rapidly developing Ming Dynasty.

But this may not be good news for the indigenous people who will be the protagonists of future railway laying.

After all, it is normal for a bunch of people to die while building the railway.

Zhu Heyi still remembered that in his previous life, the American Federation built the Pacific Railway, and countless Chinese workers died.

As for these natives, Emperor Zhu Da could only pray to God to help them, hoping that a few fewer natives would die.

As for whether God takes care of it or not, that is not within the scope of Emperor Zhu Da's consideration.

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