I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Unless the Hong Kong dollar is directly riveted against the U.S. dollar on the one hand, and on the other hand relies on the support of the mainland, it can become a long-term stable currency.

However, for Zhu Fugui who had the right to trade between the two worlds in the 19s, it was much easier to realize an independent currency.

There is no other reason, that is, after 160 years, the value of gold has hardly fluctuated, but the price of silver has plunged.

As long as a large amount of silver is hoarded and the equivalent silver dollar is used as the national currency, then "Zhu Datou" will certainly not be difficult to implement.

As for the production of currency, Zhu Fugui found his old friend: [Authentic antique sales Xiaoerhei]

Because he planned to build a Daming Royal Museum in Xinfeng to enhance the cohesion of the people, Zhu Fugui often went to Xiao Erhei to buy things during this period of time.

From the skull of Homo erectus in East Asia to the cannon that killed Nurhachi, Zhu Fugui has almost collected everything.

Although none of these cultural relics are authentic, Zhu Fugui can confirm that they are authentic.

At that time, a glass cabinet with a width of one or two meters will be installed. Whether it is true or not is up to the museum.

For such a big client, Xiao Erhei naturally knew everything and said everything.

He recommended to Zhu Fugui Boss Zhou, who specialized in counterfeiting silver coins, and Zhu Fugui readily hired him as Daming's minting consultant.

In Zhu Fugui's view, as long as "Zhu Datou" has the workmanship of the fake silver coins of later generations, it is enough to pass the world.

Wanting to make silver dollars, Zhu Fugui said that they are going to build a Ming-themed amusement park here.

This silver dollar is a commemorative coin sold to tourists.

Boss Zhou suggested using metals such as tin and lead to make Daming silver coins as a matter of course, but Zhu Fugui refused.

This is not a one-shot deal, and full silver has to be used.

This frightened Boss Zhou.

You must know that as the price of gold rises, the price of silver is also at a historical high.

Isn't this Boss Zhu too ruthless?

Since the other party is willing to be taken advantage of, Boss Zhou has nothing to do with it.

However, he still explained that it is not practical to make silver coins with pure silver, as it is too soft, and copper must be added to make it wear-resistant.

Zhu Fugui accepted this point.

[Boss Zhu, you are really an honest businessman!Antique amusement parks all over the country, this is the first time I have seen people make commemorative coins with real silver, the most outrageous thing I have even seen are commemorative coins made of aluminum, that thing is light~]

Zhu Fugui was stunned when he saw the short message sent by Boss Zhou, and then slapped his forehead.

Yup!

How could I forget about this product?

Aluminum, a metal comparable to or even surpassing gold in this era, but 160 years later, it is as cheap as iron.

In 1854, the French chemist de Vere mixed bauxite, charcoal, and salt, fed chlorine gas and heated to obtain NaCl and AlCl3 double salts, and then melted the double salts with excess sodium to obtain metal aluminum.

This beautiful, pure, light, non-corrodible, and difficult-to-refine metal has suddenly become the darling of the times.

In this day and age:

In Europa, Napoleon III not only wears an aluminum crown, but also likes to use aluminum cups when entertaining guests, so that everyone else uses gold or silver cups to highlight his status.

In Asia, the king of Thailand loves aluminum watch chains because of the rarity of aluminum, and regards it as the most high-end luxury. He even wants to use aluminum to decorate his elephants, but because it is too expensive, he can only use gold.

Aluminum was exhibited with the crown jewel at the Paris Exposition in 1885, with a label reading "Silver from Clay".

It wasn't until 1886 that the 23-year-old Hall in the United States discovered the method of electrolytic aluminum in the woodshed laboratory at home that people realized that this metal element that can be seen everywhere in the earth's crust was worthless.

1886 is still more than 20 years away. Even if Zhu Fugui, a little butterfly, leads to the acceleration of technology, the high price of aluminum will last at least ten years.

Ten years, that's enough!

However, having a batch of silver in his hand would not arouse the suspicion of outsiders. If he rashly exposed that he owns a large amount of aluminum, it would be a blessing or a curse.

Zhu Fugui must take a long-term view and use aluminum as his trump card.

Chapter 088 "The Royal Science Journal of the Ming Dynasty"

Temporary container dormitories No. 3-1 at Xinfeng No. 5 construction site.

A dark young man knocked on the door.

Xia Zhixin put down the pen and paper, opened the door, and it was Mo Bai who hadn't seen him for several days.

Today's Mo Bai is not called Mo Bai, it is better to be called Mo Hei.

Days of training and work on duty made this young Ming soldier's face darken.

"Mr. Xia, the army is on vacation for ten days, so I just came to see you for a drink!"

Mo Bai picked up the two plastic bags in his handle.

One of the bags contained draft beer, still steaming.

Another bag was full of cooked edamame and peanuts.

It's the height of summer in July, what could be better than a big bowl of cold beer?

Of course!

That is Bing Kuo Luo!

In fact, Mo Bai prefers to drink Fugui Coke. After drinking it in one gulp, he hiccups to expel the summer heat from his body, not to mention how enjoyable it is!

But Mo Bai thinks that Mr. Xia should like to drink beer more.

Because Mo Bai’s class monitor, Huang Hansheng, was also a middle-aged man in his late forties, he joked that Mo Bai drank Coke all day long, saying that it was something only children drank.

Mo Bai thinks about it too.

If it is Long Live God, he must also drink spirits made of gold, not sweet cola.

Because of his excellent performance in the physical fitness assessment, Mo Bai is now promoted to a second-class second-class soldier, with a monthly income of 3 dollars and 60 cents.

Although there is still some gap compared with the veterans, for Mo Bai who has never seen a whole silver in his life, this is already a huge sum of money.

So he bought affordable draft beer and came to visit Mr. Xia.

Because he is a pseudo-elite scholar with a high degree of education, Xia Zhixin was assigned to a double dormitory.

Another roommate of his is a pig butcher from Ningbo, who has a good ability to kill cattle.

In the previous anatomy study, this pig butcher named Dong Wei stood out and learned a lot about the skills of white doctors.

He became the first legal surgeon in Ming Dynasty.

After successfully performing an appendectomy on an experimental pig, Dong Wei also received the treatment of a double room as a special talent.

Xia Zhixin didn't communicate much with this roommate on weekdays, but there was no conflict.

At this time, Dong Wei was undergoing consultation at the Royal Hospital, and Xia Zhixin was the only one in the dormitory.

Xia Zhixin welcomed Mo Bai into the room with a smile.

"Brother Mo, you are black and thin!"

Looking at his little brother, Xia Zhixin couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "I never imagined that there is such a powerful army in Citi Country. If Mr. Yuan Fu had such an army in his hands back then, maybe..."

Mr. Yuan Fu in Xia Zhixin's mouth refers to Lin Zexu, his fellow official waiting for an official.

If we really want to get connected, Xia Zhixin can still call this national hero his uncle.

It is precisely because of this role model in his hometown that Xia Zhixin has always paid great attention to Western learning.

Of course Mo Bai didn't know who Mr. Yuan Fu was, but he also guessed that it should be a general of the Qing Dynasty.

He divided the beer into bowls and said with a smile: "Mr. Xia, you don't know something. We are eating rice from Long Live. We fought for Long Live, Ming, and China. If it falls into the hands of a Tartar official, It becomes a rolling pin in the hands of a lazy woman, and it can only be poked inside, and it is just a display outside."

Mo Bai handed the wine bowl to Xia Zhixin, and asked again: "By the way, Mr. Xia, didn't you come to Citigroup to find a son? Do you have any clues?"

Xia Zhixin took a sip of the cold beer, feeling refreshed for a while.

He sighed and said, "Citigroup covers thousands of miles, no less than China. It's not easy to find a rebellious son in this vast world. But no matter whether that little bastard is dead or alive, I want to see him in the end.

But before that, Xia had to repay the favor of the Ming court for his life, so he had to stay here and do some things first. "

Of course, there was one thing Xia Zhixin didn't say.

That is, he has a cyst and is shy now, and he has to save up travel expenses in Xinfeng before he can set off.

"That's really wonderful. Mr. Xia is a Wenqu star descending from the sky, and he happens to be able to serve as a school teacher for the imperial court!"

Mo Bai heard that there will be hospitals, schools and other buildings in Xinfeng City, so he said this.

Xia Zhiwen said but his expression became strange.

It turned out that when he was appointed as a post, he also felt that he was a scholar, and the school was naturally the best home.

However, his first choice was rejected and he was assigned to work in a museum.

Xia Zhixin knew a thing or two about what this museum was.

It is said that Westerners do not pay attention to martial arts, but only dig people's graves, plunder humanities for entertainment, and gather them in one place for Chinese people to visit.

Three years ago, British and French foreign soldiers invaded Forty-Nine City, and many of the treasures in the palace became their collections in the Louvre and the British Museum.

Xia Zhixin felt that he couldn't plunder cultural relics in martial arts, and he couldn't send out the pyramids in Wenqiu, so he couldn't compete with museums anyway.

But when he actually worked, he realized that his task was not like that at all.

He didn't even use outdoor homework, but wrote books and biographies for the treasures in the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty, and was responsible for compiling the "Journal of Royal Science of the Ming Dynasty".

This can be regarded as a professional counterpart, after all, Xia Zhixin was responsible for compiling the local annals of his hometown.

It's just that when he saw the vast treasures of the Ming imperial family, even Xia Zhixin, who had a calm mind, couldn't help but take a breath of the sweet air of America.

At this point, Xia Zhixin had to admit to that little Emperor Zhu that he was very likely to be a genuine one.

Chapter 089 Zhu Fugui and Xing Aiqing's Scientific Research Achievements

In fact, Xia Zhixin's post transfer was completely planned by Zhu Fugui.

To be honest, today's literacy education really does not need this talented gentleman.

On the contrary, young people who are proficient in writing, pinyin and some simplified characters are more suitable for teaching literacy.

If the traditional way of enlightenment is followed, it is almost impossible for the Ming Dynasty to complete the great cause of literacy.

Text, for now, is just a tool for learning.

Zhu Fugui has no plans to cultivate literary masters yet.

In the current Daming, it is enough to have him as a poet.

But as far as museums are concerned, Xia Zhixin's writing skills are very useful.

This is the cultural treasure accumulated by the Ming royal family for 500 years!

What if you don't write a book and write a biography carefully?

At the same time, "Da Ming Royal Science Journal" is also extremely important.

In 1880, Edison invested 1 US dollars to establish the journal "Science", which will become one of the most important academic journals in the scientific research field in the future, alongside the British "Nature".

But now it is only 1863, when theocracy is gradually weakening, and science is becoming stronger and stronger, but it has not yet gained a decisive advantage in 1863.

When the core journals in the global scientific research community were still blank, it was not impossible for Zhu Fugui to draw on several high-quality papers to promote the "Daming Royal Science Journal" to the altar in one fell swoop.

Anyway, there is no need to invest much money, at most it will consume a scholar's hair and liver.

In later generations, when writing a college graduation thesis, you have to check for repetitions.

Nowadays, Xia Ji's pleasure of copying casually is really not enough for outsiders.

So Zhu Fugui put it into practice without hesitation.

……

Xia Zhixin took out a photo album from the drawer, and said, "Look, brother Mo, this is my job these days."

"what is this?"

Mo Bai pointed at a photo strangely, in which there was a vaguely white arc-shaped cover.

Xia Zhixin's expression turned serious, and he said, "This is the skull of Homo erectus, which was a human being hundreds of thousands of years ago. Its relationship with us is not yet clear."