Chapter 842： Nickel white copper "silver coin"

When the messengers of Sweden arrived in Lübeck and Hamburg, the official attitude of the two Hanseatic cities seemed ambiguous. After all, they have been bought by Denmark. Moreover, Marin also greeted them.

However, they still hinted at the Swedish messenger-the key to solving this matter was still with Marin ...

The problem is obvious. The reason why Denmark dares to boldly attack the newly established Kingdom of Sweden is because the nobles of the Kingdom of Sweden are mentally disabled and confiscated half of Marin ’s shares in the highly profitable Faylun copper mine.

This directly led to the freezing point of relations between the Kingdom of Sweden and Marin. Originally, Marin's North Sea country was an ally of Sweden. Even if the military alliance is temporarily lifted, it is possible for Sweden to ask the North Sea State for help if a war occurs. After all, the relationship is so good, Marin also has a major interest in Sweden ...

However, it was because the Swedish nobles were greedy for the huge benefits of the copper mine, and the interest made them unwisely decided to kick out Marin. It is for this reason that Danish talents dare to attack Sweden with confidence.

In fact, the Swedes, including the Lübeckers and the Hamburgers, did not know that even if the Swedish nobles did not deprive Malin of half of its copper mine shares, Malin would count them. After all, Sweden is too strong and does not benefit Marin.

It's just that if the Swedish nobility does not deprive Malin Fayilun of half of the copper mine, Malin may be very difficult-because he will not find an excuse to turn his face with the Swedes, nor an excuse not to send troops to assist Sweden ...

But the huge interests of Fa Yilun's super large copper mine made the nobles in Sweden red-eyed. Coupled with the fact that they learned that the German princes joined forces to suppress Marin, they made a bold preparation to deprive Marin. After all, half of the shares in Fa Yilun Copper Mine have a high annual income. Earlier, Marin alone accounted for half of the mine's income, but more than a dozen Swedish nobles could only divide the other half. This made them extremely dissatisfied, and finally made an unwise decision to swallow Marin's shares. And this also gave Marin a good reason not to support them. Moreover, the Swedes also know that they are losing money. So, this time for help, they didn't ask for Marin ...

But in fact, Marin has long been ready to act as a mediator to mediate this war. Because, if everyone mediates, Denmark will really defeat the Kingdom of Sweden and destroy Sweden. Sweden has not been ruled by Denmark before. If the war situation is too unfavorable, Sweden may not surrender to Denmark.

Therefore, at this time, a weighted mediator is needed to mediate the military conflict between the two countries and persuade the two countries to re-divide the territory and interests ... And Marin is obviously more appropriate. After all, he is very capable of staying in place ...

Moreover, Northern Europe does not belong to Germany. Marin just vowed not to engage in trouble in Germany. Sending troops to Northern Europe is not within the scope of the promise. If Marin spoke, neither party would dare not listen. Otherwise, he angered Marin and sent an army of 10,000 or 20,000 ...

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Of course, mediation is not white mediation. In fact, Marin had already made a plan-to help Sweden mediate, but his half of the shares in Fa Yilun Copper Mine must be taken back. Otherwise, why should you help Sweden mediate? Let Denmark destroy the Kingdom of Sweden ...

This trick was shameless and was learned by Marin and Mao Zi. During the Second Opium War, Mao Zi shamelessly demanded 400,000 square kilometers of land in northeastern China under the name of "conciliation. Compared with Maozi, Marin feels like a super old man ...

At that time, Marin could also learn Maozi and shamelessly stated that he helped save the Kingdom of Sweden. With such great credit, should you repay half of my copper mine shares?

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Officials from Lübeck and Hamburg also hinted at the Swedish envoy, telling them that the key to solving the problem was Marin. However, the messengers sent to the two cities did not have the right to make their own decisions. Therefore, they secretly returned to Sweden and asked the king of Sweden and the noblemen to make a decision-whether to ask for help from Marin ...

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The Marin side is also very busy now. What are you busy with? Naturally, I was busy taking over the newly acquired land in the Ruhr River area. After all, these newly acquired land, Marin needs to send troops, and need to re-appoint officials to manage them. And these are very heavy tasks for Marin. After all, the appointment of officials, the dispatch of garrisons, and the allocation of large quantities of materials all require Marin to personally review the signature.

For some government affairs, Marin can be delegated to the Prime Minister to handle by himself. However, with the appointment of important officials, the dispatch of troops, and the allocation of a large number of materials, Marin will never fake others. Especially the first two affairs belong to the core affairs of national affairs. The appointment of high-level officials and the dispatch of troops are not the right to be decentralized. Once these rights are lost, it is equivalent to being overridden ...

As for the transfer of a large number of materials, Marin also needs to sign in person, because most of the wealth of the Grand Duchy of the North Sea is under the name of Marin, and naturally requires his signature.

In this era of Europe, there is still not a clear distinction between the owner and the public and private of the government. In Europe in this era, the government ’s finances were the finances of the kings and princes themselves. Because in this era, there was no universal taxation in Europe, the financial revenue of the kingdom and the princely countries mainly depended on the output and commercial taxation of the king ’s and princely manor houses. Even the prime minister, his salary is also borne by the king or princes. And a kingdom or princes, there is only one treasury-the king's treasury ... Unlike the contemporary China, the treasury belonging to the government, has been separated from the emperor's inner treasury ...

But it's really tiring to sign documents to allocate materials. After all, there are too many files ...

And in the process of disbursing money and money, Marin embarrassedly found that it seemed that the treasury was out of funds ...

Because of the land exchange, Marin paid a large amount of coins to the Principality of Cliff. This directly led to the fact that there was no cash currency in Marin ’s treasury, and only a large amount of food in the cement warehouse was left.

Now, Prime Minister Jeffrey said sadly-the Treasury can't afford much cash now. If you want to maintain the normal development of the domestic economy, you must have enough coins as a means of payment ... Marin can already make up for himself the terrible scene of the serious lack of currency in the North Sea market ...

When Marin had a headache and lack of currency to stimulate the development of the market economy, Cuba suddenly sent a lot of nickel blocks ...

After a long time of research, Heidel's brother, Governor of Moa, Cuba, Wiltz, finally led his craftsmen to master the mature nickel metal smelting method. At the same time, while obtaining nickel metal, sulfuric acid can also be obtained in large quantities. Because the composition of laterite nickel ore in Moa, Cuba is nickel sulfide. In the process of nickel metal being refined, a large amount of sulfur dioxide or sulfur trioxide will be generated, generating sulfuric acid and sulfurous acid ...

Of course, Marin is not interested in sulfuric acid, but nickel blocks ...

After the nickel block is remelted, it can be mixed with the copper liquid to produce white copper with a silver appearance. The appearance of white copper is similar to silver, and it is also not easy to oxidize. The only problem is probably that the copper is too hard compared to the real silver ...

But Marin still plans to use white copper to cast coins ... why? Although white copper is hard, sterling silver is very soft. However, in Europe today, there is widespread adulteration of silver coins, which has caused silver coins to lose their soft physical properties.

Generally speaking, because sterling silver is very soft. Therefore, when casting silver coins, the mint will intentionally add some copper to the silver to enhance the hardness of the silver coins. For example, the famous Spanish silver dollar has a silver content of 90%, which is 90%. The remaining 10% is copper.

This is because when copper is added, the hardness of silver will greatly increase. In fact, the classic Spanish American silver dollar is a mixed metal containing 90% silver and 10% copper.

However, it refers to the Spanish silver dollar after the discovery of a large number of silver mines in the Americas. In this time and space, because of the crossing of Marin, Spain has basically abandoned the colonial development of the Americas. Therefore, naturally there is no American silver dollar with a silver content of 90%.

Now, there is a shortage of gold and silver throughout Europe. Therefore, European silver coins are now not high in silver. Like many countries in France and Italy, the silver content of silver coins has generally fallen below 25%, which is less than a quarter.

In this way, French and Italian silver coins are actually "copper coins" containing most of the copper and a small amount of silver, and their hardness is also very high.

With the nickel metal block, Marin can make nickel white copper. Then, using nickel-nickel-copper, cast a fake silver coin-a silver coin that does not contain silver ...

The physical properties of nickel white copper are very similar to the physical properties of the so-called "silver coins" where most of the copper is a small part of silver-all are shiny and resistant to corrosion, which is very difficult to distinguish ...

Exactly, Marin is now lacking domestic currency. So he decided to let the mint use a screw-type coin press to copy large amounts of "French silver coins" with very low silver content.

Then, use these "French silver coins" to exchange gold coins on the European market. Then, use gold coins to exchange real silver coins back ... so, the problem of the North Sea country's currency shortage was solved immediately ...

Moreover, through the large-scale private casting of "French silver coins", Marin secretly obtained a bad amount of "coin tax" (coin profit) that should belong to the French official. While making money on its own, it also hit the French finances ...

In fact, nickel metal is now rarer than silver. If Marin takes nickel metal for sale, perhaps the price is no less than silver.

However, the mining costs of the two are completely different ~ www.novelhall.com ~ General silver mines, the silver content is very low. For example, Cunnington Silver Mine, the largest silver mine in later generations, contains only 200 grams per ton of silver. In other words, the ore contains only 0.02% silver. The Cuban nickel mine generally has a nickel content of about 2%.

In other words, the metal content of Cuban nickel ore is one hundred times that of ordinary silver ore. In this way, the cost of mining and smelting differs by a hundred times.

After all, smelting 2 kg of silver requires mining and processing 10 tons of silver ore. For smelting 2 kg of nickel metal, as long as 0.1 tons of nickel ore is mined and processed ... the cost and efficiency are too great ...

Moreover, the inferior "French silver coins" or "Italian silver coins" made of nickel white copper are almost the same as those of others, which is very difficult to distinguish.

Because, Europe has always been free of copper. Until the Qing Dynasty, in the 18th century, Europe also imported a large amount of white copper produced by China and called it "Chinese silver". It was not until the 19th century that German talents figured out the composition of nickel-nickel-copper and began to produce copper-nickel, and replaced the copper-nickel produced by Huaxia to occupy the European market (see Baidu Baidu Encyclopedia).

In other words, Marin used nickel-nickel-copper to produce silver coins. In this era, Europeans could not tell the difference, and they were even more confused about the ingredients. Even if it is known that it is not silver, it will be regarded as a treasure because it is rare in Europe.

However, the cost of mining and smelting silver and nickel is completely different, and the gap can be up to a hundred times. Therefore, Marin's theory of casting fake silver coins with nickel-copper copper is also a hundredfold. Such a high profit comes faster than grabbing money ...

The only worry is that the fake “French silver coins” pressed by the screw press may be more refined than genuine French silver coins. After all, genuine French silver coins are still beaten manually. How can the quality be compared with machine-made coins?