Chapter 2052： Cebu Island Copper Mine

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The source of Marin's confidence comes from the Beihai Mint in his hands. This 5,000-person large mint, in terms of numbers, may be smaller than the Tour Mint, the largest mint in France. However, the production efficiency is much higher.

The Tour Mint can have up to 7000 craftsmen. But when they mint coins, craftsmen use hammers and molds to strike patterns and characters on the coins, which is time-consuming and inefficient. On average, a craftsman can beat out 20 to 30 coins a day. The craftsman who beats the coins pays a few coins every day. Therefore, the profit of manual coin minting is not very high. A large part of it is spent on craftsmen's wages.

The North Sea country uses machines to die-cast coins, and the efficiency has increased more than ten times. On average, each person can cast more than 200 pieces a day. If it weren't for the most time-consuming process of making blank copper plates, it would not be a problem for the average person to cast 500 copper coins per day.

Even so, the generation gap of nearly ten times the efficiency makes the North Sea country unable to stop on the road of coinage. Originally, a fake silver coin of French nickel-nickel copper was cast. But Marin was afraid of doing too much, and one day the incident would not end.

But now, with the "Merchant of Venice" added to the plot of the fake silver coin, Marin decided to make another round of fake French silver coins. But before that, let's first make a batch of Spanish and Portuguese copper coins.

Spain’s Malawidian coin is very similar in size to Portugal’s Riss coin, and the currency value is similar. It can also be said that the Portuguese copied the ideas of the Spaniards.

At the beginning, the little queen of Spain, Margaret, learned from Marin and used cheap Indian copper to cast Malawi coins, which made Spain a lot of money. After all, copper prices in India are less than one-fifth of those in Europe. Even if it is shipped back to Europe, the cost is less than a quarter of the European copper price. In this way, the use of Indian copper to cast copper coins, even if it is hand-made this inefficient method of coining, the profit on the material alone will make the Spanish royal family make a profit. Of course, the Portuguese royal family who learns to do is also very profitable.

In order to expand the casting volume of cheap copper coins, the two countries have also joined forces to reduce the share of North Sea countries in purchasing copper ingots in India. The reason is that Marin has a large share of Sweden's Falun copper mine and can be self-sufficient. However, the cost of European copper production is higher than that of India, mainly due to higher labor costs. How can it have a price advantage over Indian copper?

Fortunately, Marin has opened up the Ming Dynasty trade route and can purchase cheaper Ming Dynasty copper. According to market prices, the ratio of silver to copper for copper in India is between 1 to 80 and 1 to 100. The Ming Dynasty silver and copper price ratio is currently 1:160, almost twice as cheap as Indian copper.

However, the Ming Dynasty used copper to make money to control the outflow of copper ingots. Marin tried every means to purchase tens of thousands of catties of copper each time. Of course, Marin had sent someone to the Ming Dynasty to inform the existence of Dexing Copper Mine. I believe that when the Ming Dynasty receives the news, there is no need to limit his copper purchases. After all, there is too much copper in Dexing Copper Mine.

Right now, the Beihai Kingdom Mint can mint 500,000 to 1 million coins per day on average. But the raw materials cannot keep up with the supply, otherwise, it would be no problem to mint hundreds of millions of coins every day.

After returning to China, Marin sent people to calculate. According to the price of three or four thousand gold coins per ship (not including the copper gun ship itself is not expensive), more than 200 Karak and Caravel sailing boats are estimated to cost 800,000. Around gold coins.

A Ducat gold coin is worth 375 Malawians, and a Malawian copper coin weighs about 1.7 grams. In this way, the North Sea Mint needs to mint 300 million Malawian copper coins (Ris copper coins) and 510 tons of red copper. This amount seems to be a bit insufficient...

Before, Marin only purchased dozens of tons of copper from India every year. Later, the Ming Dynasty trade routes were opened up, but the Indian copper trade was lost. Therefore, the amount of copper he can get every year is only a few dozen tons less. 510 tons, which is a bit much...

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

Anyway, French silver coins are also very popular in Southern Europe. Perhaps the Spaniards, the mortal enemy of France, would not accept it, but the Portuguese and Italians were quite willing to accept it. Therefore, Marin took out a batch of nickel-nickel cupronickel and asked people to make some fake French silver coins as a means of payment for this ship trade.

As for the copper coins, because they are not the currency in general circulation in Europe, they need to be sent to the Iberian Peninsula to slowly ship them in batches. After the team has changed into gold and silver coins, they can be used to pay, which is a bit troublesome. But considering the huge profits, this trouble is nothing.

Now, the only thing Marin worried about was whether the Ming Dynasty would give him enough copper after he got the Dexing copper mine. You know, the Dexing Copper Mine alone has more than 10 million tons of copper metal reserves that are worth mining. If the imperial court does not consider cost input, it will be no problem to produce several thousand tons or even tens of thousands of tons per year. For example, the famous Yunnan copper, during the Qianlong period, the annual output of blister copper in the Dongchuan copper mine of Yunnan copper reached 8,000 tons. Otherwise, Qianlong Tongbao would not be flooded and would be worthless at all.

Marin doesn't expect how many shares he can divide. If he divides a few hundred tons a year, he is enough. However, even with this amount, Marin was worried that he would not be able to divide it. Why? Because of the personality of the Ming Dynasty literati...

The scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to basic things such as agriculture and copper, and they were not willing to give it to others lightly. For them, copper is money. Giving Marlin copper is equivalent to giving money. Can they afford it?

Of course, it will certainly not be a gross. After all, this copper mine was reported by Marin. However, it is hard to say how much to give. Before that, Marin could buy tens of thousands of catties of copper every year, but I still applied for it under the name of "casting copper cannon". Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not sell it. Therefore, Marin can't completely count on the Ming Dynasty.

As for Chile, which has the largest copper reserves, Marin doesn't expect it either. Nothing else, the environment is too harsh, mostly in desert areas or high-altitude mountainous areas. Then, there were not enough local people to develop.

Therefore, the copper mines that can really be affected and can be developed are copper mines such as Ashio Copper Mountain in Japan. Japan is now torn apart and it is not difficult to conquer. In addition, even if Japan is unified, if Marin’s navy blocks the sea, the daimyo where Ashio Copper Mountain is located, even if the copper is sold out, he must rely on himself.

In other words, as long as Marin is guaranteed to be invincible on the Sea of ​​Japan, no matter who develops the copper mountain, he must accept his own control. In other words, the pricing power is in your own hands.

This is like the funeral of the old American controlling oil in the Middle East Whoever digs for oil, but the oil must be settled in U.S. dollars. Moreover, the pricing power is on Wall Street...

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Thinking of this, Marin suddenly seemed to have been opened up through the eight channels of the odd meridian, and understood the true meaning of hegemony...

Moreover, by coincidence, he is now the king of the American Kingdom... It seems that the later Americans can be used in advance? And, it happened to be used on the country of Baga...

Therefore, Marin ordered someone to compile the information and prepare to send someone to the daimyo where the Ashio Copper Mountain in the Far East is located. As for the text used in the materials... Japanese that was not written in this era, Japanese nobles also use Chinese characters. So, it can be written in traditional characters...

In addition, Marin also wrote a letter to Conte, the manager of Dongpan Island, ordering him to send a ship to the Philippines to search for Cebu Island. In addition, send people to look for the Toledo copper mine on Cebu Island...

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