Boom, boom, boom.

There was a mechanism that made a loud noise on the first gold mine near Xinhua City. As the rumbling sound continued to be emitted, the water in the mine was constantly being pumped up.

"Add some firewood into it."

With a man's order, a group of people began to add firewood into a furnace in this machine. After the firewood was added, the bearings on the machine were running faster.

This thing is the product of Zhao Weiji's beginning to cheat without any chores, the steam engine.

With the arrival of the second batch of immigrants, Xinhua City began to mine surrounding minerals, especially iron ore and gold mines. When the open-pit minerals are mined, they will inevitably enter underground mining. Underground mining faces a serious problem, that is, what to do with groundwater?

It is impossible to pump all the groundwater up with manpower alone, so Zhao Weiji took out the steam engine.

In fact, when he first arrived in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Weiji, a science and engineering technician, could directly cheat and create these mechanical products from later generations, but doing so was too shocking. To be honest, Zhao Weiji didn't want to be cheaper to Zhao Guangyi. So the things he brought out were all inventions that were beyond the fifty years of this era, except for the Jenny machine.

Moreover, even if it is a Jenny machine, its production process is not too complicated, so it will not have much impact even if it is taken out.

But now it’s different. Basically, no one in Zhao Weiji in Xinhua City can restrain him. In addition, he needs to quickly establish a super power on this land, so he can’t take care of so many things. Cheating is the king.

When the second batch of immigrants arrived, in addition to a large number of laborers coming to Xinhua City, many engineering students from Tsinghua Academy were also accompanied.

The arrival of this group of people gave Zhao Weiji great help. He worked with this group of engineering students for a week before designing the steam engine, and it took him more than a month to produce it.

When the steam engine was released, the entire Xinhua cheating flow development began. Moreover, due to Zhao Weiji's own advantages, the horsepower of the first steam engine launched here exceeded 200 horses, which was simply exaggerated.

The arrival of the steam engine greatly saves the use of manpower. Xinhua City, which was originally inadequate in labor, was able to develop multiple industries at the same time in a blink of an eye.

A large iron smelting plant was established and two mine veins were excavated at the same time. The most important point is that this group of engineering students have begun researching the steam engine engine. It is estimated that the first steamship will be released in at most six months.

"Prince, can this steam engine really be placed on the boat?" Wang Dayuan, an old sailor who has been wandering on the sea for half his life, felt inexplicably excited when he thought of installing this kind of thing on the boat.

The joy of eating is something that ordinary people cannot understand.

"Of course, haven't Jiaxian and the others already transformed the steam engine? I've seen their progress and I believe the results will be produced soon."

The name of Jiaxian in Zhao Weiji is Qian, whose name is Qian Sen, whose name is Jiaxian. Four other people who carried out steam engine transformation with him were Yang Qiang, whose name is Zhengdao, Li Guang, whose name is Weichang, Ding Wen, whose name is Zhenning, Chen Run, and Peiyuan.

These people are more valuable than gold in Zhao Weiji's eyes. If they were born in Europe six or seven hundred years later, they would definitely be amazing.

"Okay, let alone the ship, that thing is too anxious. Let's talk to me about the gold coins first. The second batch should come out."

When Wang Dayuan heard Zhao Weiji ask about the gold coins, he suddenly became happy, "Of course, thanks to this steam engine, the second batch is even more perfect than the first batch of casting. With this steam engine, both the smelting temperature and the strength of die-casting have been greatly improved. Why don't you and I go and have a look?"

When Zhao Weiji heard Wang Dayuan say this, he was naturally willing to see what this second batch of gold coins is.

After the two of them came to the coin minting workshop, Wang Dayuan took a newly minted gold coin and handed it to Zhao Weiji. Zhao Weiji put it in his hand and observed it carefully.

Indeed, because the furnace temperature is high this time, the impurities are removed relatively cleanly, and the die-casting is also very good, and the patterns on it are very clear.

The gold coins written by Zhao Weiji in Xinhua City are about the size of the one-yuan coins of later generations, and the thickness is about the same. However, the patterns printed on it are a little different. The front of the one-yuan coins of later generations are one and the back is a chrysanthemum. The gold coins here are still one on the front, but they are just one of the Chinese numbers, and the four big characters "The Song Dynasty" are printed on the back.

Of course, Zhao Weiji also thought about printing the Duchy of Zeon on the back, but he still didn't have the courage to do so later.

Today, this gold coin can be worth about one yuan in Central Plains, so Zhao Weiji customized the unit of this gold coin for one yuan.

Now that gold coins are issued, the trading problems in the market have naturally been greatly alleviated, but the question is whether it is necessary to continue to implement paper money in this way?

Of course, there is, because there is a big disadvantage to using gold coins, that is, the face value is too large, and you can always do too much money in the Central Plains, not to mention in a place with sufficient supplies like Xinhua City.

With the arrival of potatoes and sweet potatoes, the food in Xinhua City suddenly became abundant, and the current food prices can be said to be outrageously low.

There are only more than 10,000 residents in Xinhua City today, but the grain produced is enough for at least 30,000 people to use, and vegetables and meat are not included. In other words, there is too much leftover.

This leads to a problem, that is, things are too cheap, and the currency is too low to find things to buy. What should I do?

At this time, the exchange launched a savings business according to Zhao Weiji's plan. You put gold coins on the exchange, and the exchange provides you with savings notes, and the savings notes can be opened as a face value of one cent.

This is Zhao Weiji's insidiousness. There is no copper coins. If you want to trade with a small denomination, then exchange the gold coins for banknotes.

Of course, it is not that no one has seen the loopholes here. Feng Yun clearly pointed out what if the denomination in his hand is not enough to take out a gold coin?

He thought that this kind of problem could be Zhao Weiji, but he could not have imagined how many shameless tricks Zhao Weiji, who came from later generations, learned from the bank.

It doesn't matter if the banknotes are not enough to exchange for a gold coin. It doesn't matter. If you save some money and get enough money to make up the amount of a gold coin, it doesn't matter. It can be replaced by physical objects. The exchange will purchase the people's physical objects and then pay with bills, so that you can get enough bills to get out the gold coins.

In fact, the purpose of doing this is to force the popularization of paper money in Xinhua City. A gold coin, that is, the amount of money always is very large. In order to avoid the trouble of payment, most people will choose paper money. Even if the paper money is not enough for a gold coin, it is still very sufficient for daily life, so there will not be so many that you have to exchange paper money for gold coins. So even if the paper money has become popular in three months.

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On this day, Zhao Weiji was discussing with Jiang Yu and others in the city hall to establish basic education, because more and more laws are being proposed, but many people don’t even know the words, which will create certain obstacles to the voting of laws. Therefore, Zhao Weiji wanted to establish a school that allows everyone to attend. Although it would not teach a lot of advanced knowledge, it could at least eliminate illiteracy.

At this moment, Feng Yun suddenly hurriedly ran in: "No, the prince is not good."

Seeing Feng Yun's furious look, Zhao Weiji knew that something bad must have happened, so he immediately stopped discussing with everyone, "What's wrong?"

"Prince, it's not good, there are counterfeit coins in the banknote." Feng Yun spoke and handed Zhao Weiji a banknote with a denomination of 100 cents.

You can tell at a glance that this banknote is a counterfeit currency, because the banknotes issued by Zhao Weiji have a very good texture. Although they are not as durable as those of later banknotes, the quality is almost the same as those of later printing papers.

Now the banknote at hand feels obviously wrong when you touch it, and it feels lighter in weight. In addition, there is obvious error in the pattern on the banknote, which is obviously a fake banknote that cannot be fake.

Although this is very fake, it is a bad sign, that is, someone in Xinhua City wants to use evil ways to make profits for themselves, which means that the signs of crime are beginning to appear.

"Where did you get this fake coin?"

"Just on the exchange, someone just now wanted to exchange ten counterfeit coins with a face value of 100 yuan to exchange for a gold coin, but our teller felt something was wrong as soon as he touched it, so he immediately asked the guard to deduct the person and handed the counterfeit coins to me. I also found that something was wrong after touching it. Wouldn't we come to you?"

"Well, this is indeed a problem. But don't worry, the new banknote has been made, you can take it and take a look." After saying that, Zhao Weiji took out a new banknote worth 100 cents from the drawer next to him and handed it to Feng Yun.

Feng Yun touched and looked, but didn't notice any difference from the original one, so he had to look at Zhao Weiji with a confused look on his face.

"You look at the sun again."

According to Zhao Weiji's instructions, Feng Yun walked to the window, raised the money and looked at the sun carefully. This time he discovered a magical thing, that is, two words appeared in the blank space of the banknote: Da Song.

Feng Yun, who discovered this change, said in surprise: "Prince, is this?"

"This is a new banknote, which can better prevent the generation of counterfeit coins." Zhao Weiji had already thought that counterfeit coins would be generated as early as when the banknotes were about to be issued. However, at that time, the banknotes with watermarks were not yet able to be produced well, so he could only use good quality to push them first.

However, no matter how good the quality is, it is still paper. In Zhao Weiji's expectation, once the counterfeit currency appears, it will take not long to make up for the quality of the paper. So in the end he still came up with a watermark method. He believed that at least at this stage, ordinary counterfeiters could not get the watermark out.

However, although the problem of counterfeit currency can be solved, Zhao Weiji was very worried about this sign, so Zhao Weiji decided to continue this opportunity to do something legally.
Chapter completed!