Today, I would like to share with you what were the sources of copper in the early Qing Dynasty? When I talked about Kangxi Tongbao in the second year of Kangxi, I used to destroy a li to make new money, or buy other coins to make new money for Kangxi Tongbao. This is just a very small epitome of the source of copper when coining coins. .
According to the summary, it is the source of copper and lead for coinage in the early Qing Dynasty. There are three ways. The first one mainly uses scrap copper, old money and old copperware to make coins.
The second one mainly uses foreign copper and Japanese lead to make coins. Why do you say that? Because in the early days of the Qing government, he was the same as other feudal dynasties. Their policy was to emphasize agriculture, suppress business, and prohibit people from mining. Therefore, the domestic copper and lead resources were very small at that time, so they could only import them. To make up for the inadequacy of copper and lead in casting money.
The third way is to use Yunnan copper and Qian lead in the future. In such a coinage period, because the price of imported copper and lead is very high, all governments including the Qing government, his main purpose of casting copper coins is to make profits. That is to increase the government’s income. When the prices of imported copper and lead have been rising, they have to consider excluding imports. They are self-sufficient from the country. At the earliest, they began to use Yunnan copper and Guizhou lead to mint coins during the Kangxi period. It was only during the Yongzheng period that initial results were achieved. Later, through the development and growth of the Qianlong Dynasty, Yunnan copper and Qian lead gradually became the most important source of resources for casting copper coins. I hope that through this article, everyone can briefly understand the Qing Dynasty. There are three sources of copper and lead for casting copper coins.