After deciding to privately minted Italian copper coins, Spanish copper coins worsened Portuguese copper coins, before they could even produce more money, the Beihai country received feedback first - the large-scale issuance of brass coins has allowed domestic small-scale trade to flourish and stimulate the development of commerce.
A standard silver Finney coin is equal to 8 brass coins, which means that ordinary people can get 16 brass coins for two Finneys a day. Assuming that 1 Finney is equivalent to 50 yuan in later generations, a brass coin is equivalent to 6.25 yuan. Although it is not a small amount, it is much smaller than the amount of 1 Finney.
Before this, ordinary Germans did not use currency when conducting small transactions, but used the simplest barter. For example, a low-value commodity simply used a small handful of rye as a measure of transactions.
But this method of measurement is inaccurate, because people have big hands and small hands. Some people have big hands and a handful of rye is more numerous. Some people have small hands and a handful of rye is less. Some unscrupulous businessmen even use the double standard method. For example, when collecting "money", let the male owner reach out to grab rye, and he can grab more points. However, when paying to the customer, the female owner asks the rye to catch rye. Because women have small hands and much less hands.
The emergence of small amounts of brass coins greatly facilitated the private transactions of Beihai Kingdom. This led to the prosperity of Beihai Kingdom's private trade.
Because the commodity economy is not developed at present, in order to cultivate people's consumption habits, Marin learned from later generations and promoted the supply and marketing cooperative system. A supply and marketing store was set up in each township, and the supply and marketing main store located in Emden Port was uniformly shipped, with a guide price set to sell various goods.
At present, the farmers in Beihai are actually rich. Marin has reformed and changed the manor into a farm with a employed system, and implemented a salary system. Each farmer has a daily salary of 2 Finneys, but there is not so many women, but there is also a daily salary of 1 Finney. In addition, there are additional rewards based on labor performance. Most importantly, farmers' food is distributed for free, including their families.
Therefore, farmers in Beihai, especially farmers in Marin's manor, can earn 2 Finneys per day or even more. For couples, they will have more than 3 Finneys.
In this way, after the money is surplus, they have the ability to consume. However, the poor life in the past made them accustomed to saving money. Therefore, Beihai Country needs to cultivate their consumption habits. The supply and marketing cooperatives with a wide variety of goods have obviously become an important place to cultivate consumption habits.
In order to stimulate consumption, Malin not only set up supply and marketing stores in the town, but also plans to set up convenience stores under supply and marketing stores in some villages with a large population, so as to directly target consumers.
However, the women who are currently in the "sweater knitting training class" have not graduated and have insufficient staff. They can only temporarily set up town-level branches and cannot open convenience stores in villages. After all, salespeople who know how to learn mathematics are currently short of money.
Even so, because during the slack season, Malin ordered the managers of various estates to encourage farmers to go to the town to purchase, and arranged for carriages to carry people and goods. Therefore, the sales of supply and marketing cooperatives in various towns were pretty good. Brass coins were also circulated in large quantities.
Therefore, before the production of Italian and two-two copper coins began, supply and marketing stores in various places reported that the market's copper coins gap was tens of millions, and it will expand in the future...
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Marin didn't care about the shortage of copper coins in its country. Because the Beihai Mint's coin speed is still very fast, several times or even ten times the efficiency of other handmade mints. For example, the Spanish Mint has a large factory with more than 4,000 people, and the Beihai Mint can produce the same output as it only needs four or five hundred people. The most important thing is that the Spanish Royal Mint requires more than seven years of experience in coin minting, while the Beihai Mint only needs hundreds of apprentices to achieve the same coin efficiency as it is.
However, considering that the Beihai Mint privately minted coins from other countries and also privately minted fake silver coins used by the French, Marin's mint could not recruit workers in society to avoid secrets leaking. Therefore, in the early days, Marin mostly used workers who committed crimes as coin workers. Later, Marin directly bought Mr. Mao as coin workers with the Crimean Khanate. Except for hundreds of coin craftsmen with superb skills, the rest of the coin workers were all workers of average skilled migrant workers, most of whom were criminals without freedom, and slave workers like Mr. Mao.
Because the mint is too important, Marin specially occupies 50 square kilometers of territory as the activity range of the mint. Among them, the mint factory buildings actually cover less than 0.1 square kilometers. The other 49.9 square kilometers of territory are supporting facilities of the mint. In this way, the mint craftsmen and ordinary workers can enjoy various services without leaving the mint. The supply of materials is also very rich.
50 square kilometers is definitely a large area, equivalent to the size of a town in later generations. Moreover, Marin remembers that Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, was also 50 square kilometers, but had a population of 5 million. In this era, some vassal states were only so large. Therefore, the Beihai Mint was actually equivalent to a country among the country. This is similar to the Venetians' moving outstanding glass craftsmen to Murano Island.
But Murano Island is only 4.59 square kilometers, which is more than 20 times smaller than the Beihai Mint. Moreover, there are only craftsmen on Murano Island, but there are no family members of craftsmen, and the French eventually took advantage of the loopholes. After all, craftsmen also have to go home. You craftsmen can't do French spies on Murano Island, but if you go home, you can start...
It was precisely because of this lesson that Marin took the secret factory areas such as the Mint, Steel Factory, and the Iron and Steel Factory from the outside world. He dug the river, pulled up the barbed wire, and deployed wolfdogs to prevent outside invasion and people from running out. In this way, the technology will not be leaked.
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Sometimes, Marin felt that he was too careful and was not as strong and domineering as the protagonists in the novels he had read in his previous life. However, he knew that the protagonists of the destiny in the novels he had read in his previous life had a halo of good luck and could always turn bad luck into good fortune. Even if he took risks, he would not die if he died.
But it was a novel after all, and it was a very unscientific novel. It looked passionate, but it was unreasonable. For example, braved the enemy's guns and bullets, and was not harmed by star points. Just like Stallone in "The First Blood", he fought against a Vietnamese regiment alone, stood and shot at the opposite regiment, and the bullets of a Vietnamese soldier on the opposite side could not hit him...
Marin doesn't believe in such nonsense anyway, so he would rather be more timid and vulgar, and at least save his life first. The secrets and other things must not be known to others. Otherwise, they will be learned to deal with him...
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Regarding the lack of copper coins reported below, Malin signed an order without hesitation to issue 50 million additional brass coins. In this way, the total number of copper coins issued by the Beihai Kingdom reached hundreds of millions. However, this is not much...
One hundred million brass coins are worth 12.5 million Finneys, only 208,300 gold coins, which is simply not worth mentioning. If it is shared among the more than two million citizens of Beihai Kingdom, the average number of each person is only forty or fifty copper coins, and the total value is only a few Finneys, which is only a few days' salary, which can be said to be worth mentioning.
Chapter completed!