Chapter 14 16. Make Money by All Means

After successfully completing various tasks and changing their appearance in Kyoto, Xiao Pingtai's family in Zixiao Road continued to wander around the streets and alleys of Kyoto in the last two or three days they stayed.

After all, it has been a long time since he traveled through time, but Xiao Pingtai is still poor. He must make some money to get rich so that he can marry a wife, have children, and buy life-saving armor, right?

Make soap? Sorry, I don't know how to do it. What about boiling cow and sheep oil, using plant ash to make alkali, where in Japan do you get big animals that are killed every day to get oil for you. Besides, pancreas is also very popular in the market, so I won't comment on it.

Make mirrors? Make glass? Sorry, the merchants in Venice, Arabia, are pulling whole ships to East Asia. Then the second-hand dealers in Portugal and Spain have already sold this stuff everywhere. There are actually fools who make flat glass and sell it as windows. Young man, I advise you to go to Baidu to search for clam paper. Your glass is so expensive, you are a fool to be an ordinary citizen.

There are also people who brew and sell strong liquor. Not to mention the complete set of bronze distilling equipment unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Haihun, they were already popular in the Han Dynasty. You, a person in the 16th century, are just pretending to be a fool. Those who sell strong liquor after the Han Dynasty and pretend to be rich, please go up and spit. What's more, people are not full, and the daimyo still has four dishes and one soup, and you still brew liquor. Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?

Making sugar-fried chestnuts? Making kimchi? And someone selling rock sugar? Are you really not hurt? The idea is good, but how much money can this thing make? You guys just ask for hundreds of kan (someone sells 700 kan per pill, I can only laugh). The reward (300 kan) that Fujido Takatora got after fighting for more than ten years is not as good as you selling some small things? Wake up!

Even umbrellas, paper, tatami and even kelp have been monopolized. The daimyo were all crazy and tried every possible way to accumulate wealth to support samurai and foot soldiers. They made money by doing business (unless they went to sea). I just want to look at you with caring eyes.

Kobayata was no exception. He investigated the market very carefully. The market in Kyoto was not small. The business groups of the townspeople in Kyoto were also very powerful (they often relied on the old temple religious forces with strong economic and military strength), and the industry system was quite complete.

They have issued banknotes on their own (I am not making it up. Not only the townspeople in Kyoto, but many large towns also issue banknotes) and opened two-way houses (which can also be used as banks or even pawnshops), covering everything from silk, cloth, tea and porcelain. All of them are monopoly products. Unless Kobayata can develop special products, and the special products are better, they will definitely not be able to compete with the original products that have already occupied the market. Who knows, all the hard work will be in vain in the end.

Xiao Pingtai suddenly felt frustrated. When other people traveled through time, money fell from the sky (in a book, aliens sent five million taels of gold from the sky, I was so envious), and one idea was to earn tens of thousands of dollars just like picking up the same thing (in a book, a small local lord with a big asshole earned more than 2,000 strings of cash a month by selling salt).

I finally traveled through time once, and it took more than 20,000 words to achieve such a low-level goal as a samurai. I almost died on the road before I became one through nepotism. I only have an annual salary of 15 strings of cash a year, and I am so poor that I can't even afford Wufu. I wear what the young master left behind. The power of one person is really too small, and I can't do anything at all.

But Xiao Pingtai, who has been watching ghost videos on B station for many years, is not completely unaware. After all, I have watched so many wilderness survival videos, and there are so many "historians" on B station. I have learned a lot from what I have seen and heard. Everyone in the broken station is talented and speaks well, right?

This discovery is that a hundred jin (a jin is 590 grams) of copper is only worth five guan and five hundred wen. Five guan and five hundred wen copper coins are only a little more than thirty-six jin, but they can buy a hundred jin of copper. Do you dare to believe it? Xiao Pingtai also didn't dare to believe it. (This data is from the Kyoho era. If you have more hope for the Warring States era, tell me)

So what does this mean? If you can mint coins, wouldn't you be able to make more than three times the profit?

So Xiao Pingtai recalled that the Kan'ei Tsūho was minted very well, which could not be done overnight, proving that Japan already had skilled minting craftsmen. And the minting technique must have been mature.

Then why are all the coins minted by yourself bad money? Normally, a Yongle coin contains 4 grams of copper and slightly more than 3 grams, and the rest are impurities such as lead, tin, and iron. The color is purple-red, and the characters are clear. It is now the hard currency of almost all East Asia. The bad coins are often only three-quarters the size of the original (even worse, only half the size), and thinner, containing less than one-third or even only one-fifth of the copper, which is both brittle and thin.

Which daimyo who has a copper mine would not privately mint bad coins? Each coin only needs about half a gram of copper to be used at a quarter of the Yongle coin. This kind of huge profit makes them not want to mint good coins at all. Based on the market economy principle that bad coins drive out good coins, bad coins are naturally popular.

Of course, the main reason is that the price of copper in Japan is too cheap, and the cost of mining copper and minting coins is lower (in addition to the mines in Japan directly managed by the daimyo and hired by the people, there are also local powerful groups occupying and using prisoners, prisoners of war and slaves to mine), which really has many benefits.

Xiao Pingtai doesn't think so. If he can find a way to imitate the Yongle coin and try to ensure its value (copper content and exquisite casting), it will only make more money. And Xiao Pingtai also knows a thing or two about saving copper!

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