The source of Marin's confidence comes from the Beihai Mint in his hands. This large mint with a scale of 5,000 people may have fewer people than the Tours Mint, the largest mint in France. However, its production efficiency is much higher.

The Tour Mint can have up to 7,000 craftsmen. However, they minted coins, all craftsmen used hammers and molds to hit patterns and words on coins, which was time-consuming and inefficient. On average, a craftsman could beat twenty or thirty coins a day. The craftsmen who beat coins had to pay a few coins a day. Therefore, the profit of hand-minting coins was not very high. A large part of them was spent on craftsmen's labor.

The Beihai country uses machine die-cast coins to increase the efficiency by more than ten times. On average, each person can cast more than 200 coins a day. If it weren't for the most time-consuming efficiency of making blank copper plates, it wouldn't be a problem for each person to cast 500 coins a day on average.

Even so, nearly ten times the efficiency difference made the Beihai Kingdom unable to stop on the road to minting coins. Originally, fake silver coins with nickel and white copper were cast. But Marin was afraid that he would do too much and could not end one day after the incident happened.

But now, with the plot of "The Merchant of Venetian" that added the plot to mint fake silver coins and took the blame, Marin decided to make another round of fake French silver coins. But before that, she would make a batch of Spanish and Portuguese copper coins first.

The Malawi copper coins in Spain and the Reis copper coins in Portugal are very similar in size and have similar currency values. It can also be said that the Portuguese copied the Spanish's creativity.

At the beginning, the Spanish queen Margaret learned to use Marin to mint Malawi copper coins with cheap Indian copper coins, which made Spain very profitable. After all, the Indian copper price was less than one-fifth of that of Europe. Even if it was shipped back to Europe, the cost was less than one-quarter of the European copper price. In this way, even if using Indian copper coins to mint copper coins by hand, the profits in the materials alone would make the Spanish royal family profit. Of course, the Portuguese royal family learned to do a lot.

In order to expand the minting volume of cheap copper coins, the two countries also jointly reduced the share of the North Sea country's copper ingots purchased in India. The reason is that Marin has a large share of the Swedish Fa-Iron copper mine and can afford it. However, the cost of copper production in Europe is higher than that in India, mainly due to the high labor costs. How can it have a price advantage over Indian copper?

Fortunately, Malin has opened up the Ming Dynasty trade route and can purchase cheaper Ming Dynasty copper. According to the market price, the silver-copper price ratio of Indian copper is between 1 to 80 and 1 to 100. The silver-copper price ratio of Ming Dynasty is currently at 1 to 160, which is almost twice as cheaper than Indian copper.

However, the Ming Dynasty used copper coins to control the outflow of copper ingots. Malin tried every means to purchase tens of thousands of kilograms of copper each time. Of course, Malin had sent people to the Ming Dynasty to inform the existence of Dexing copper mine. I believe that when the Ming Dynasty received the news, there was no need to limit the amount of copper purchases. After all, there was too much copper in Dexing copper mine.

At present, the Beihai Guomint can mint 500 to 1 million coins per day on average. However, the raw materials cannot keep up with the supply, otherwise it would be no problem to mint hundreds of millions of coins per day.

After returning to China, Marin sent someone to calculate. Based on the price of three to four thousand gold coins per ship (the ship that does not include the copper cannon itself is not expensive), more than 200 Carac sailboats and Caravel sailboats would cost about 800,000 gold coins.

A Ducat gold coin is worth 375 Malawi, and a Malawi copper coin weighs about 1.7 grams. In this way, the Beihai Mint needs to mint 300 million Malawi copper coins (Risco copper coin), which requires 510 tons of red copper. This quantity seems to be a bit insufficient...

Before, Marin only purchased dozens of tons of copper from India every year. Later, he opened up the Ming Dynasty trade route, but lost the Indian copper trade. Therefore, the copper he could get every year was only a few dozen tons.510 tons, which was indeed a bit too much...

In desperation, because of the lack of materials, Marin had to turn his attention to the higher value of French silver coins...

Anyway, French silver coins are also very popular in Southern Europe. Perhaps the Spanish, the mortal enemy of France, refused to accept it, but the Portuguese and Italians were very willing to accept it. Therefore, Marin took out a batch of nickel and white copper and asked someone to make some fake French silver coins as a means of payment for this ship trade.

As for copper coins, because they are not the currency circulating in Europe, they need to send people to the Iberian Peninsula to ship them slowly in batches, and then exchange them for gold and silver coins before paying them. But considering the huge profit, this trouble is nothing.

Now, the only thing Malin is worried about is that after the Ming Dynasty obtained the Dexing Copper Mine, he was willing to share enough copper shares. You should know that the Dexing Copper Mine had a relatively mining value of copper reserves of more than 10 million tons. If the court invested regardless of cost, it would be fine to produce thousands or even tens of thousands of tons per year. For example, the famous Yunnan Copper Mine, during the Qianlong period, the annual crude copper output of Yunnan Copper Dongchuan Copper Mine reached 8,000 tons. Otherwise, Qianlong Tongbao would not have been flooded and would not be worth anything.

Marin didn't expect to share how many shares, he would be enough to share hundreds of tons a year. However, even if it was this amount, Marin was worried that he would not be able to share. Why? Because of the personality of the literati and the officials of the Ming Dynasty...

The scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to agriculture, copper and other fundamental things, and were unwilling to give them to others easily. For them, copper is money. Giving Malin copper is equivalent to giving money. Can they bear it?

Of course, I will definitely not lose a penny. After all, this copper mine was reported by Marin. However, it is hard to say how much it gives. Previously, Marin could buy tens of thousands of kilograms of copper every year, but I applied for it under the name of "casting copper cannons". Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not be willing to sell it. Therefore, Marin could not completely count on the Ming Dynasty.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for Chile, which has the largest copper reserves, Marin does not expect it. It is no exception. The environment is too harsh, and it is mostly in desert areas or high-altitude mountainous areas. Then, there is not enough manpower to develop it in the local area.

Therefore, the copper ore that can be truly affected and developed is Japan's copper ore such as the Azuki Copper Mountain. Japan is now divided and it is not difficult to conquer. In addition, even if Japan is unified, if Marin's navy blocks the sea surface, the Daming where the Azuki Copper Mountain is located, even if the copper is created and you want to sell it, you must rely on yourself.

In other words, as long as Marin guarantees to be invincible in the Japanese sea, no matter who develops the Copper Mountain, he must accept his own control. In other words, the pricing power is in his own hands.

This is like the funeral of the United States controlling Middle East oil. No matter who you dig for oil, the oil must be settled in US dollars. Moreover, the pricing power is on Wall Street...

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Thinking of this, Malin suddenly seemed to have been opened up the eight extraordinary meridians and understood the true mystery of hegemony...

Moreover, coincidentally, he is now the king of the Kingdom of America... The American style in later generations seemed to be able to be used in advance? And it happened to be used on Baga...

So, Marin ordered people to compile materials and prepare to send them to Daming, where the Suwei Tongshan in the Far East. As for the text of the materials... Japanese in this era was not written, Japanese aristocrats also used Chinese characters. Therefore, they could write them in traditional Chinese...
Chapter completed!