Chapter 1167 Returning
"Sanlang should hurry back to Wu'an."
Old Huang looked at Qin Lang wandering around Xinjin Mountain all day long, and couldn't bear to see him. There was a newly married princess wife and concubines in Taiping Port, so what's the point of staying here all day playing bachelor.
"Qindao Startup, everyone worked very hard..."
"Then you don't need to sit in the town yourself, or is it that Sanlang doesn't trust me, Lao Huang? Even if I'm not capable, there are more than a hundred old stewards who come to Qindao now. Our deacon council is also full of sages. With them Now, isn't Saburo still at ease?"
As more and more people came to Treasure Island, everyone gradually gave the island a new name, Qindao.
"Leave when I get training camp done."
"Let's go quickly, don't make the princess angry. If the princess is angry, the sage Baobuqi will also be angry. If you get angry, old Taishan, the consequences will be serious. As for the training camp, it's okay to take your time." urgent."
Zhang Chao also came over and said with a smile, "I heard that the sage gave the princess a new title. Princess Taiping, how appropriate the occasion is. The princess lives in Taiping, and the princess lives in Taiping. Hurry back and let the princess get pregnant as soon as possible. Our Qin family is such a big business." , I don’t have a son-in-law yet.”
"It's better to have a few more."
Qin Lang had no choice but to smile, and promised them to wrap up the matter at hand before going back. During this time, apart from planning the future of the entire island, Qin Lang was also busy with one thing, building a training camp. This training camp is not an ordinary training camp, but a military academy similar to a lecture hall.
In order to consider the safety of Qin Island when it grows in size in the future, Qin Lang has already started to build a military academy, intending to build an absolutely loyal Qin family army from scratch.
Among the five-year-old apprentices or junior buddies in the various industries of the Qin family, recruit some young and strong martial artists, and the first batch will give priority to the apprentices and buddies who were born as orphans.
The purpose of doing this is to make them have a stronger cohesion with the Qin family in the future.
So the security guards at this stage are not selected for the training camp. Many of the current training camps are guards trained by the Qin family on the South China Sea Island. They can also be regarded as mercenaries, and their backgrounds are relatively complicated.
Qin Lang's new training camp is going to be carefully selected and trained like the Qin family's training buddies, and an elimination mechanism will be introduced.
Five-year period, training is divided into subjects, such as equine, infantry, navy, and even special engineers, logistics, etc., not only military training, but also cultural courses to teach them benevolence, loyalty, filial piety, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness.
A batch of recruits are recruited every year. After the five-year period expires, they will form a Qindao regiment with them as the backbone.
Even using the students in the training camp as the pro-army of the Qin family, similar to Emperor Li Shimin's Habayashiro.
Qin Lang attaches great importance to this matter. After all, the situation here will become more and more complicated when it develops in the future. The Qin family must have the ability to defend this place.
Qin Langchu planned to enroll 1,200 people in the first phase, and organize them into two cavalry teams, four infantry teams, one sailor team, and a logistics engineering team, each with 200 people.
The student soldiers of this first training camp will be Qin Lang's pro-army or servant team on Qin Island.
Now the selection has begun. From the Qin family's properties across the country, we will select 1,200 young people who were born as orphans, have been apprentices or junior or above for more than five years, and are between the ages of 16 and 21. It is best to already have a certain cultural foundation.
Once selected, these people will be sent to Qindao for five years of comprehensive training, and will be incorporated into the Qindao family team. Everyone will be treated very well.
Qin Lang also proposed a 10% annual elimination rate, and those who are eliminated can return to work in their original business or workshop, or transfer to Qindao's security team.
3,000 a month, six dollars of rice, this is the basic treatment for training camp students, comparable to security guards, and also enjoy food, housing, clothes, shoes, hats and other daily necessities.
This is to spend a lot of money to build an elite team of servants.
The current security team is definitely not as loyal as such a family battalion.
"Let's go back to Taiping first. If you are really worried about this place, you can come back after the Chinese New Year. Then you can personally conduct a personal test on the training camp students you sent."
September, autumn is crisp.
Outside the rammed-earth city wall of Xinjin Mountain, which has been initially completed, the rice planted in the summer has also begun to turn yellow.
A lot of rice was planted in the summer, and now the waves of golden rice are rolling, and the ears of rice are heavy. It is a lack of fertilizer, but the land here is good and there is enough water, so at least one mu of land can reach the yield of about two stones.
Qin Lang thinks this output is basically correct, but there is a small situation here, that is, in the Central Plains, there are large acres and small acres, but in Qindao, all fields are calculated according to large acres. It is two hundred and forty steps long and one step wide is one mu, which is equivalent to about five hundred and forty square meters, and one mu is equivalent to 0`81 mu in later generations.
In the central plain area with good weather and good weather, one mu of rice harvests two stones, which is only two hundred catties. In fact, this yield can be said to be very low. After all, in later generations, it is not said that the yield of hybrid rice exceeds one thousand catties, and even super hybrid rice can reach The yield per mu is three thousand catties, but even ordinary rice seeds can reach seven to eight hundred catties, or even thousands of catties per mu.
The old deacons who were in charge of the manor said that next year they will plow the land deeply, burn some plant ash, make some dung compost, and do some silt to improve the fertility of the field. Strengthening management can greatly increase the yield.
Qin Lang is convinced of this, guarding such a fertile plain without worrying about food, the main reason is that there are few people farming, such as the vast plain outside Xinjinshan City, but only a small amount of rice is cultivated and planted in summer. Part of the soybeans were replanted.
There are still large tracts of land that are still covered with grass and can only graze sheep, cattle and pigs.
Farewell to Lao Huang, boarded the big treasure ship of the Qin family, Qin Lang began to sail back from Xinjin Mountain, this time the route was to go south to San Francisco Port, then go to Zhenzhou Sanya on Qiongzhou Island, and then sail back to Taiping Port.
The entire voyage is about five days.
When the boat enters San Francisco, a high rammed-earth city wall has already been erected here, and the city of San Francisco also has a city wall. The tall windmill on the riverside drives the water hammer, and coins are being minted day and night, from the Kaiyuan gold coins of the imperial court to Kaiyuan silver coins to Kaiyuan The copper coins are exactly the same imitation, even the material and color are the same, and the finished products are also fake or genuine.
Because there is no difference in other aspects except that the money is not minted by the imperial court.
It was Qin Lang's decision that Qin Dao began to use the gold, silver and copper mined from his head to mint coins directly, but he did not intend to mint counterfeit coins. The minting of coins was originally for the convenience of circulation on the island. With more and more people, the demand for currency is also increasing.
However, the imperial court has a policy of prohibiting gold, silver and money from going to sea, and usually only a small amount can be carried out, which cannot meet today's needs.
Before, Qin Lang used the Qin Family Taiping Bank’s banknotes to circulate, but these are just paper after all, not real money, especially overseas, it will still have some influence.
Furthermore, the Qin family can also mine a lot of associated silver and copper when mining gold on the island. Since they have the materials and are not unskilled, casting money is not a problem, not to mention that casting money is also profitable. After all, the imperial court's gold and silver coins were not in sufficient quantity, but silver-patterned gold, that is, circulated at face value.
A standard Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coin is made of copper, lead and tin, and contains about 68% copper. The usual coin uses four catties of copper and three liang of copper, and one catty of copper is one hundred and sixty coins. The material money of lead and tin is about 750 yuan. However, before the imperial court minted coins, they usually set up coin furnaces where the copper mines were located. The labor costs were high, and there was also a high transportation cost. As a result, one thousand coins were often minted in the end, and the cost may add up to the same amount. The money that came out was still at a loss.
Of course, the technology of the Qin family foundry in San Francisco is more advanced, and it can basically guarantee more than 10% of the net minting profit, which is quite amazing.
Gold and silver coins have considerable minting profits. Jin Kaiyuan generally contains 90% gold, while silver Kaiyuan contains 80% silver. Gold coins also contain silver and other metals, and silver coins also contain copper and other metals. The imperial court holds the coinage right, so it is firmly established. Controls the cost and profit of minting coins.
This is still when Datang was very loyal. The copper coins of Kaiyuan Tongbao are very good, weighing six catties and four liang per catty, which is far better than the five baht meat in the past, not to mention the fake thin coins and white coins since the Han Dynasty.
So Qin Lang didn't need to make bad coins at all, and the copper coins could get more than 10% of the coinage profit. The same is true for gold and silver coins. The imperial court guarantees a lot of seigniorage by marking the face value and controlling the fineness of gold and silver raw materials.
Therefore, in recent years, the Great Tang has strictly prohibited the casting of private money. This was released when the country was founded in the early days of Wude. The imperial court has an official money supervisor, but some private money is also allowed, as long as the casting standard meets the official standard. It was put into circulation in the market. At the beginning, it was done because of the shortage of money in the market, and a large number of counterfeit coins and private money were rampant. The Kaiyuan Tongbao cast by the imperial court was of good quality. Two to three hundred thousand coins can be minted, and once these good money come out, they are often collected by merchants and common people, and even secretly melted down to make bronze wares, or turned around and used to make fake money.
The extreme lack of money in the market made the economy more difficult and bad money became more rampant. In the end, the imperial court could only allow private coinage in order to increase the amount of money in the market.
But after the Zhenguan reform, the imperial court unified the world, the economy recovered, and after the prosperity of industry and commerce, not only the amount of copper mining increased greatly, but also through policies such as crackdown on Buddhism and Taoism, copper ban, and copper imports, the imperial court had sufficient copper coins in its hands. The source, coupled with the innovation in coinage technology, has made the imperial court change from a situation where there was no copper coinage, or even a loss of money in coinage, to profitable coinage, and the benefits are not small.
As high as more than 10% of the profit of copper coin minting, the imperial court, of course, could no longer release it to private individuals, so it began to comprehensively crack down on private minting and counterfeit coins.
(end of this chapter)