In fact, while minting fake French silver coins with nickel and white copper, the Beihai Kingdom also issued brass coins to China. Since 1508, the Beihai Kingdom Mint began to mint zinc and brass coins weighing (1.5 grams) with Finney silver coins, and stipulated that one Imperial Finney with 50% silver content was exchanged for 8 brass coins engraved with the Brock family with 9 crosses.

This kind of copper coin, also known as the "Nine Golden Eagles" by the people, is the smallest denomination coin in the Beihai Kingdom. Since 1508, Marin has issued about 20 million pieces and put them on the market.

After four years of circulation test, the people of Beihai have basically accepted this kind of small denomination currency with smaller denominations, but very much like gold coins.

Brass is very similar to gold, so this kind of small copper coin looks very much like a gold coin. If Maririn hadn't deliberately made the brass coin the same size as the Finney silver coin, it might have been mistaken for gold coin. Because it is as golden as gold coin.

Therefore, this kind of small copper coins with a look similar to the appearance of gold coins are very popular in the market. Many poor people often brag about it in a fake way after taking brass coins - look, I have gold coins...

Moreover, the emergence of this small-degree copper coin has indeed facilitated the transaction and circulation of small commodities. Unlike before, a Finney silver coin is equivalent to 50 yuan in later generations, and even if you take it out, you can't make any change.

In the past, people went to beer in beer and often had to make bookkeeping consumption because they could not find change. But now, the emergence of small brass coins equivalent to one-eighth of the face value of Finney silver coins has facilitated consumption by alcoholics. At the same time, it is also convenient for the purchase of small commodities.

While issuing small-description brass coins, this small copper coins were named "cent", which is the word "cent" in later generations. At the same time, it also means change.

Moreover, Marin also forced a mandatory regulation that both German and English call this brass coin "cent" and its pronunciation is the same. The reason for this regulation is to facilitate the integration of English and German when the United Kingdom is unified in the future, so that the English and German communication can be more closely communicated with the Germans and avoid excessive ethnic differences and mutual opposition.

In order to promote the use of one-cent copper coins, Marin also took the initiative to reduce the entry tax from 1 Finney to one-cent copper coins. Moreover, he deliberately prevented the soldiers guarding the city gate from making changes.

In this way, for the sake of cost-effectiveness, people will definitely take the initiative to exchange a penny of copper coins to pay the city tax. Otherwise, it would be a loss. You should know that if you pay a Finney tax, it would be 8 times more expensive than paying a copper coins.

Therefore, when Marin returned to China, many people in the Beihai Province had already strongly demanded the issuance of an additional copper coins. Especially those vendors who often go to and from cities, as smart as them, would definitely not be willing to use Finney silver coins to pay the tax on entering the city.

However, the ministers had no right to issue currency. Therefore, they had to wait for Marin to come back before they could decide. Because only the princes could order the right to mint coins, and the regent had no right to order the Beihai Mint to mint coins.

When shipping fake French silver coins, Kohler mentioned this matter. Marin thought about it over and over again and finally decided to issue 500 million 1-cent copper coins to promote domestic commercial circulation.

However, on the other hand, he also wanted to make 500 million nickel, white copper fake French silver coins. It seemed that there was not enough manpower and the spiral coin press was not enough. So Marin ordered to expand the scale of the Beihai Mint, recruit more manpower, and purchase more machines.

However, it takes hundreds of tons of copper to cast 500 million yuan of copper coins, which is quite expensive. Fortunately, the Ferylón copper mine in Sweden now has half of the income of Marin. The copper it earns is just for coins.

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But what Marin didn't expect was that he was thinking of using Sweden's copper coins, and something happened to Sweden...

It turned out that after hearing the news that Marin might have died in a shipwreck, Sweden was also a little ready to move and actually planned to lose shares in Marin's Faylon Copper Mine.

However, there are a lot of noise within Sweden now. Because some timid Swedish nobles are afraid of revenge from the Beihai Army. After all, Swedes have few people and poor countries, and the number of troops is limited, and they can bring up at most more than 10,000 troops. But now, the Beihai Army has 30,000 to 40,000 troops on its own, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, which really scares them.

Therefore, the Swedish noble parliament finally decided to wait and see, at least after the North Sea army was disbanded, we could only publicly detain Marin's shares.

And their decision ultimately saved Sweden's life. Because, before they finally made up their minds to lose Marin's copper mine shares, Marin appeared...

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Of course, Marin didn't know about this episode, otherwise, it would definitely be good-looking in Sweden. Moreover, Marin didn't care about anything else now, and she was very happy. Because the first batch of saltpeter produced in Chile arrived...

When setting out for the Ming Dynasty, Marin passed by Panama and asked a team of exploration to take a batch of slaves and camels purchased from Egypt, as well as hundreds of sun stoves, to land in the future Iquique port in northern Chile, and explore the saltpeter mines deep in the desert.

The leader who landed in Iquik with hundreds of Egyptian slaves, dozens of camels and hundreds of sun stoves was named Kuska, who was originally a criminal in East Friesland. Of course, the crime he committed was only offended the son of the Seke, who had ruled East Friesland, who had secretly ruled the family. Then, the whole family was thrown into prison, and his parents died of illness. Only Kuska survived because of his youth and strength.

After Marin seized the East Frieslander Kingdom, he released all the prisoners who had been persecuted by the Sexner family, except for the criminals who really harmed society.

So, Kuscat came to the door and recognized Marin as his benefactor and was willing to die for Marin. Because the Kusca family was originally a fisherman, Marin sent him to the Navigation School to study and prepared to make him a captain.

But the problem is that Kusca doesn't seem to be very smart. Aben, a fisherman who entered the captain's school like him, had already passed the assessment and became a captain, and Kusca studied under Abendo for several years before he could barely pass the qualification. Therefore, Kusca is not talented and has poor ability.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, there is one thing that Marin knows very well - this person is very loyal and reliable. Outside, anyone who dares to say something bad about Marin will be angry and want to duel with someone...

It just so happened that the development of Chilean saltpeter was highly confidential and needed reliable people. So Marin chose Kuska, who was not capable but loyal, as the governor of Iquique.

Kusca did not disappoint Marin's trust. After landing in Iquique, he did not take the risk of sending people to find saltpeter immediately. Instead, he was busy building the Iquique base, especially the layout of the desalinated sun stove...

It took several months before Kuska built a habitable seaside stronghold in Iquique that produces a large amount of fresh water every day.

Then he sent troops to supervise the Egyptian slaves, including slave craftsmen who knew saltpeter, rode camels to the depths of the desert to find saltpeter.

When Marin returned from the Ming Dynasty, the men sent by Kuska found a saltpeter mine deep in the desert dozens of kilometers away from Iquik. Then, he began to send slaves to mine saltpeter and transported it to the port of Iquik with camels. Then, he sealed and packaged it with oil paper bags obtained by Marin from the paper mill on Cape Breton Island, loaded it on ship to Panama, and then shipped it from Panama to the local area...

The output of this batch of Chilean saltpeter is not large, only more than 50 tons, and has not been purified. In fact, its main ingredient is sodium saltpeter, rather than military potassium saltpeter. Because sodium saltpeter is very prone to dehydration and deterioration. In order to preserve it for a long time, sodium saltpeter needs to be converted into potassium saltpeter.
Chapter completed!