Chapter 5: Pile of Silver Coins
It wasn't until it was already dark in Vigo Bay that the final search work came to an end. The entire bottom of the bay was scanned again, and no trace of any treasure could be found. Shen Ruoxue rubbed her almost unconscious wrist and said: "Finally Done, it seems that having too much money will make people lose their passion. Now I just want to go back and take a hot bath and have a good sleep." She operated the shuttle and jumped out of the water and flew into the sky.
Continuous exclamations came from the dock. Two merchant sailors who got up early saw the shuttle leaping out of the water and taking off. Since the sky had just turned white and the light was dim, they did not fully see the full picture of the shuttle. They just felt that It's just a big dark guy.
After receiving the report from the sailor, the police station immediately blocked the dock, and then the divers went down to the seabed to explore. The search operation lasted for a week. The divers sifted through the underwater sifting inch by inch, but they found nothing new except the messy sediment. The discovery of the incident ended in nothing, and the government had no choice but to file it away as a mysterious incident, but since then the name of the Vigo Bay Water Monster has been widely spread.
"Okay, everything has been transported back. I'll leave the rest to you. I want to have a good sleep." Just as the government of the country in red was launching an underwater investigation, Shen Ruoxue had already driven the shuttle back to the space hospital. After she said hello to Zhao Shouhong, she found a room to sleep under the arrangement of Honor. This move kept her awake all night. According to Shen Ruoxue, lack of sleep is the biggest problem for her skin. enemy, so she had to get enough sleep before talking.
In order to save transportation space, Zhao Feihong has not followed since the third trip. He has used this time to modify a machine that can input the data in the two-person chip for the biochemical man. There is no rush to input the chip, since Since all the treasures have been brought back, he naturally needs to take stock of the start-up funds for future development of his power.
Under Glory's inventory, Zhao Feihong was extremely shocked. Although most of the treasures were silver, there were also 70 tons of gold and 10 tons of jewelry. These things were priceless. But these things It is not circulating in the market. What he values more is the nearly three thousand tons of silver. These are resources that he can use at any time.
It is a very thankless task to use the silver directly. Although this situation was very common in the late Qing Dynasty, the transaction process was very troublesome because each use required observing the silver color and weighing it. A more labor-saving method Naturally, it is much more convenient to make these silver coins into silver coins. Making silver coins is not difficult. Among the medical equipment of Sky Hospital is a particle shaping machine. Making silver coins is only a matter of minutes, but what kind of silver coins are made? You need to think about it carefully.
In the Hualan Kingdom in 1906, the currency system on the market was quite confusing. Not only were there various banknotes issued by many banks and foreign banks, but even the actual silver coins had the names of Siyang, Longyang, Benyang, Zhuyang, and Eagle. There are many types of currencies, including foreign currency. The conversion relationship is quite complicated and gives him a headache just thinking about it. It is estimated that the powerful currency conversion ability and familiarity of Hualan merchants in this era will be enough to put foreign exchange market speculators to shame decades later.
After many considerations, Zhao Feihong finally decided to cast Yingyang, which is the Menassian silver dollar. The Menassian silver dollar is called Yingyang in China because the Menassian silver dollar is engraved with the eagle pattern, the national emblem of the Menassian country.
From the late Jin Dynasty to the Republic of China, the largest amount of foreign silver coins imported into Hualan was Menasi Yingyang.
According to the branch survey in the second year of Xuantong of the Later Jin Dynasty, there were about 1.1 billion foreign silver coins in circulation in Hualan at that time, one-third of which were Menasi Yingyang. The silver content of Menasi Yingyang reached 9
The fineness is the best among all foreign silver coins, and the quality has not changed for many years and is very stable, so people are happy to use it.
The Menace Eagle was widely circulated in the southern and central provinces of Hualan and almost became the main currency. Even when foreign banks in China issued banknotes, the Manasseh Eagle was the exchange standard before the eighth year of the Republic. In this way
Currency with a large circulation, as the currency you want to create, is naturally easier to get through and less likely to arouse suspicion from others.
Of course, in order to share the risk, Zhao Feihong still made two types of Yingyang when casting, the lace Yingyang issued before 1897 and the straight-edged Yingyang issued after 1898. However, after casting, Zhao Shouhong was surprised to find that adding
After 10% of other metals, these 3,000 tons of silver turned into more than 123 million eagle coins.
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Ruoxue walked into the room after waking up and asked looking at Zhao Feihong's demented expression.
"Don't you see? There are so many silver coins, more than 100 million." Zhao Feihong pointed to the silver coins piled up in the big room.
"Is it a lot? For financial analysts, this can only be regarded as a good number, not an astronomical figure." Shen Ruoxue said.
"If you knew the purchasing power of silver dollars in this era, you wouldn't say this. In the novel "Jane Eyre" published in this era, the heroine was already living a decent life with an annual salary of 30 salars, and the displacement was more than 7,000 tons.
The total price of the two armored ships in Dingyuan and Zhenyuan is only 3.32 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to more than 6 million silver dollars." Zhao Feihong shook his head, but did not argue with her anymore.
"Have you finished the chip input?" Shen Ruoxue doesn't care about the price. For her financial knowledge, as long as you have the capital, you can make a lot of money. It doesn't matter how much money you have.
"It's done. You can input your own chip program into the biochemical human's chip, but you'd better not use these biochemical human beings too much to avoid leaking the information." Zhao Feihong said.
"The body structure of biochemical humans is basically the same as that of natural humans. How can there be any possibility of leaking information? Besides, I don't need many. Just enough for me to train new spies and conduct financial operations. About a hundred people. Remember to send them
All of them have white skin and yellow hair, so that they can move around more easily in foreign countries," Shen Ruoxue said.
"Okay, I'll help you prepare right away." Zhao Feihong raised his shoulders.
"I'm leaving tonight. Besides, you can't use this money. I'll use 100 million silver dollars as my start-up capital. You can use the rest." Shen Ruoxue said with a smile.
Chapter completed!