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Chapter 241 Calendar
"Double-sided printing, the central bank is printed on the front and Qian Yiwen is printed on the back." Chen Xun replied.

Instead of using the historical naming method to name this coin, the issuing bank is marked on the front and the currency value is marked on the back.

"Okay." Feng Yutie responded first, and then asked: "What is this central bank?"

"It is the department that manages all banks and banks within the scope of the military government. It does not handle ordinary savings, loans and other businesses. It is only responsible for minting, printing banknotes, issuing currency, stabilizing the financial market, etc. It only deals with banks."

"Oh..., I think I understand." Not sure if he really understood it, Feng Yutie did not continue to ask, but took out other coins for Chen Xun to review. These coins were all forged according to the requirements in Chen Xun's letter. .

"This is iron money. Compared with ordinary iron tools, its anti-rust ability is stronger, but it is far worse than copper coins." There are three types of iron money placed on the table.

"The smallest one weighs only one-third of the copper coin, and the middle one has one-half the weight of the copper coin. This one is as heavy as the copper coin." Feng Yutie introduced: "It is said that it is an iron coin, but their materials are actually Alloy steel is much harder than iron, as long as it does not rust, it is still very durable."

The heaviest iron coin looks bigger than the copper coin.

"Very good, these iron coins are transitional and consumables. It doesn't matter if they get rusty. Each bank will recycle the old coins." Chen Xun did not take a closer look at these iron coins. They are considered real auxiliary coins, and the unit is "cent" , from Da Da Da Xiao, they are five points, two points and one point respectively.

These three kinds of iron money were designed simply to provide people with daily sporadic transactions and change.

Later generations of RMB had auxiliary coins of dimes and cents. The value of a copper coin was not much different from that of a yuan, so there had to be auxiliary coins of smaller denominations.

At present, ordinary people use metals such as copper as auxiliary coins. Chen Xun plans to directly unify these small denomination coins.

"What's the cost?" Chen Xun asked.

"You can make more money than making other iron tools." Feng Yutie replied: "Especially after the steam engine was developed, the casting machine tool was directly used for cold forging. The quality is good, the speed is fast, and the cost is very low, less than [-]% of the currency value."

This is the huge profit from minting! !
When it comes to making money, printing these small denominations is the most profitable, and high denominations are not bad either.

"Here are the silver and gold coins you gave me."

The silver coins and gold coins on the table are very different from the previous iron coins and copper coins. There are no holes in the middle, and there are jagged lines on the periphery of the coins to prevent someone from scratching silver or gold dust from the coins.The pattern on the front and back is very complex, it is a flower.

"The weight of a silver coin is five cents, and the silver content is only [-]%. This alloy is much harder than pure silver, and the patterns can be very rich. When you look at a flower, the lines are already very thin." Feng Yutie introduced.

Wuqian is equivalent to 32 grams in later generations.

"Very good, just make it according to this size." Chen Xun picked up the silver coin and looked at it carefully. The size and weight exceeded the silver coins of later generations, which was very kind.

"I'm curious, can this silver coin really be used as one tael of silver?" Feng Yutie couldn't help but ask, "That's too profitable."

"It's definitely possible, otherwise why would we bother with this? Wouldn't it be better to just use pure silver?" Chen Xun held the silver coin between his nails, put it to his mouth and blew it, then put it close to his ear to listen, and the silver coin made a crisp sound. "Ding" vibrating sound.

Chen Xun's later generations read a popular science article, blowing money and listening to the sound to distinguish the authenticity of coins, not by listening to the sound, but by listening to the sound.

As long as standard pinching methods and appropriate blowing methods are used, most metal coins can produce sounds.

However, the sound of a real silver dollar will be crisper. Experienced people can tell whether it is a real silver dollar by the sound quality of the sound.The principle should be related to the "resonance" phenomenon in physics, but Chen Xun didn't understand the specifics.

"What's printed on the silver coin?" Feng Yutie asked.

"I've already drawn it, you just follow the imprinting." Chen Xun took out a drawing with four circles printed on it, which he designed for silver and gold coins.

In the center of the obverse of the silver coin is a five-clawed dragon coiled into a ball with the dragon's head in the middle. The central bank is written on the top of the pattern, and Qianqianwen is written on the bottom. The two sides are filled with wheat ears patterns.

A large portrait of Chen Xun is printed on the back, with eight characters written on it: "Kaiyuan Lunar Calendar [-]"

The Kaiyuan here is not the reign name of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Li Longji, but the meaning of the beginning, the beginning, and also the meaning of a new stage and a new era.

The lunar calendar, also known as the lunar calendar, Chinese calendar, lunar calendar, etc., is the most widely used calendar in China. It was a calendar created by the Xia Dynasty and can be regarded as the earliest calendar in Chinese civilization.

Chen Xun chose this calendar to trace the origin and inherit the connotation of Chinese orthodoxy, and he will promote it in the future.

Fortunately, Chen Xun had studied the lunar calendar in his previous life and knew that the Xia calendar era was AD +2697. Otherwise, with the current level of archeology, it would be absolutely impossible to trace the correct year.

"Kaiyuan lunar calendar? Three eight twenty four?" Feng Yutie was confused.

"The minted coins must have the time stamped on them. Now that the Song Dynasty has collapsed, we cannot continue to use the Song Dynasty's year name, so I chose this calendar. Kaiyuan means the beginning, the lunar calendar is the Xia calendar, and the Xia calendar is the calendar that originated from the Xia Dynasty. It is the lunar calendar, the year of the stem and branch, and the year of the zodiac. Our Chinese nation is based on agriculture, so I call it the lunar calendar." Chen Xun replied: "This calendar has been around for 820 years."

"Ah!!? This..., how did you know?" Feng Yutie asked curiously.

"Just use it, you won't go wrong." Of course Chen Xun couldn't explain the reason, so he could only act rogue.

In fact, although the lunar calendar is called agriculture, it cannot reflect the seasonal changes and accurately guide farming.

Because it is obtained by observing the moon, its biggest role is to reflect the tides. The moon plays a leading role in the tidal phenomenon. The lunar calendar based on the changes of the moon phases can guide maritime activities, which is very suitable for the current military government.

After the founding of the country, Chen Xun also planned to research the solar calendar.

More than 100 years later, the Yuan Dynasty observed the sun and developed the "Time Calendar", and Chen Xun believed that he could also measure it.

Thinking of this, Chen Xun couldn't help but have a little story pop up in his mind.

300 years after the advent of the time calendar, the Pope introduced the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar), which he claimed to have formulated himself. However, his 365.2425 days in a year were exactly the same as the time calendar, and he did not have the vast land and manpower of the Yuan Dynasty. To measure, there is no historical measurement record.

The most important thing is that Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty sent a detachment to Florence, Italy before the advent of the Gregorian calendar. Zheng He's deputy envoy met with Pope Eugene IV and spread a large amount of Chinese astronomical calendar and cultural knowledge to Europe. , including the "Ephemeris" of the Ming Dynasty, the "Time Calendar" of the Yuan Dynasty, etc.

It is obvious that the Pope is an impostor who plagiarizes.

(End of this chapter)