Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 593

"Yes." Fan Lao answered first, and then said with a strange look in his eyes: "Since the Patriarch has decided to mint coins with all his strength, he must also order the mine to mine copper and iron at the same time."

There are also many mining areas around Yingtianfu, such as Ma'anshan at the junction of Taipingfu and Yingtianfu, Wuhu County in Taipingfu, Lishui County in this prefecture, Jiangpu and Liuhe across the river, all of which produce important military resources such as copper, iron and sulfur. .

Throughout the dynasties, some people have said that Jinling is where the aura of the king lies, but it is not purely based on geomantic omen, but also includes resources.

The Gu family can be regarded as one of the most famous landlords and gentry in Lishui. Their main source of income is the secret mining of copper and iron and other minerals, as well as the casting of private money.

Gu Daqi, the contemporary family patron, is only famous as a scholar, but he is quite talented in business, so that the Gu family got on the ship of Zhejiang Maritime Merchant, and made the family's private money business to North Korea and Japan.

Hearing the words at this time, Gu Daqi couldn't help showing hesitation.

He said: "Under the imperial court's 'big iron and steel smelting order', the local government is vigorously cracking down on black mines. At this time, we are ordering the mine at home to speed up mining. If we move too much, I am afraid that the government will not find it?"

Fan Lao sneered after hearing this, "Could it be that the Patriarch thinks that if the action is small, the government will not be able to find it? Now the local officials are all the leaders of the imperial court. In order to fight against black mines and make meritorious service, it can be said that they are searching mountains and seas.

Lishui County is so big. Although the black mines at home are relatively hidden, they will be discovered sooner or later.

That being the case, it is better to use up all these miners before being discovered by the government, and try to mine as much as possible to gain real profits! "

Gu Daqi is a smart person, and he knew that Fan Lao's strategy was right when he heard it.

Although the black mine can continue to produce, it is more and more likely to be discovered in the future, and it will also affect the Gu family.

That being the case, why not take this opportunity to dispose of it and turn it into the money you get.

"Then do as you said. In short, before the court reacts, our Gu family wants to get a bigger share of the benefits of Zhaowu Tongbao!"

"clear."

Elder Fan responded and left.

Gu Daqi indulged in Zhaowu Tongbao for a while, and then opened a smaller and more delicate wooden box in the cellar, but it was filled with silver dollars.

The exquisiteness of these silver coins obviously surpassed that of Zhaowu Tongbao, and the casting technology contained in them was higher, which made Gu Daqi, who had been handing over the coins for half his life, blurred when he looked at them.

"It's a pity that my Gu family can't imitate such an exquisite silver dollar. If it can be sold as real silver dollars with inferior silver dollars, it will be a huge profit. It's a pity, it's a pity."

Gu Daqi inserted his hands into the cold pile of silver dollars and sighed endlessly.

Not to mention the silver dollar, it is Zhaowu Tongbao, and even the Gu family can't imitate it, or they can't imitate a decent one.

Your private money looks too fake, and the people are not fools, so they won't accept it.

Now that Empress Zhaowu is in power and the central authority of the imperial court is in full swing, it is impossible for the Gu family to find a place to force the people to use fake and inferior Zhaowu Tongbao.

Fortunately, Zhaowu Tongbao is exquisite enough, and the Gu family can sell it to North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other places through sea merchants, and they can also make a lot of money.

These places have low ability to make money and are short of money. Although the folks prefer low-priced private money, exquisite and valuable money is worth more.In terms of sea transportation, the same sale of a ship of copper coins is naturally more valuable and more profitable.

Exquisite copper coins, such as Zhaowu Tongbao, which surpassed the past, must have been more profitable if sold in the past.

However, based on the experience of Gu Daqi's family, the imperial court may soon find out that the Zhaowu Tongbao on the market has been secretly purchased.

After all, they were not the only ones who bought Zhaowu Tongbao, but many.There are more wolves and less meat, so when they fight for it, they don't care to cover it up.

If the imperial court finds out about this, the only countermeasure is probably to reduce the quality of Zhaowu Tongbao and try to alleviate the situation where bad money drives out good money.If it is serious, it will even stop casting Zhaowu Tongbao.

Even though Empress Zhaowu is a woman who likes exquisite things, she will admit it for the sake of the country and the country, so that the Mint will no longer mint such exquisite copper coins.

Therefore, Gu Daqi expected that there would only be one or two opportunities to acquire and sell Zhaowu Tongbao for huge profits.

Because of this, their Gu family has to try their best to grab more in the two waves of huge profits...

The Gu family can "see through the situation" and try their best to acquire Zhaowu Tongbao on the market in order to obtain huge profits.

There are also many smart people in other forces engaged in private money business, and most of them have chosen the strategy of buying Zhaowu Tongbao with all their strength.

This makes the traces of Zhaowu Tongbao on the market even rarer, and the price of secretly exchanged has also been rising.

From the beginning of July, when Chongzhen made money (genuine copper coins minted by the imperial court), five coins were exchanged for one coin of Zhaowu Tongbao. By the end of July, it had risen to thirteen coins before being exchanged for one coin.

It's not that it can't go up any more, but in terms of the exchange ratio between Chongzhen's money and Zhaowu Tongbao, it has already reached its peak.

As for the exchange ratio between folk private money and Zhaowu Tongbao, it is even more exaggerated.Because of the low quality of private money, sometimes there is no bottom line. Some private money even needs to be exchanged for a penny Zhaowu Tongbao or even hundreds of pennies!
Zhaowu Tongbao has appreciated all the way, even the common people and officials who are slow to respond to the coin market can feel it.

The common people naturally also joined the ranks of collecting Zhaowu Tongbao - although most of the common people don't have much money, they will collect what they can and will not use it easily.

As for the officials, they reported this situation to their superiors, hoping to attract the attention of the imperial court.

On this day, all the cabinet ministers came to Wu Ying Hall and took the initiative to mention the coin to Zhu Wei.

They have already learned about Duqian's plan from Ma Shiying. However, some cabinet ministers are not optimistic about Duqian.

Yuan Jixian, the chief assistant, said: "Your Majesty, because of the national policy established at the founding of our dynasty, we can't help the copper coins of the previous dynasty. Therefore, there are not only copper coins minted by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, but also ancient coins from Tang and Song Dynasties in circulation among the people. Song money is the most, even more than the sum of the castings of our dynasty.

Nowadays, seeing the high value of Zhaowu Tongbao, the common people are also collecting and hoarding it one after another. If you add those people with ulterior motives, the imperial court can be said to be an enemy of the whole world in terms of coins! "

Xie Xuelong followed suit, "Your Majesty, even if the mint can produce tens of millions of Zhaowu Tongbao every day, it may be difficult to deal with it, right?
In fact, I, the Ming emperors of all dynasties, once noticed the coin problem and wanted to fix it.

For example, during the period of Hongzhi, the imperial court intended to mint Hongzhi Tongbao in view of the fact that the imperial court had not opened a furnace to mint coins eight years after Xuande, and the people all traded private money and ancient coins.

However, at that time, because the imperial court had not minted coins for a long time, the technology was abolished, and the minting skills were not even as good as those of private coin minters.

In the end, it was not possible, and a private coin minting group called "Jinshan" in Shandong at that time was recruited, so that the furnace could be minted again. "

On the other side, Hao Guangming couldn't help shaking his head when he heard this, and sarcastically said, "It's possible to rely on Zhao'an's counterfeit money to create a gang to re-mint coins. Daming is really good at money law."

Although Aimee Zhu knew that Hao Guangming was not mocking her, but referring to the former emperor and minister of the Ming Dynasty, she was still a little embarrassed and her face turned red.

Here Xie Xuelong continued: "At that time, the imperial court strictly ordered all localities to promote the circulation of Hongzhi Tongbao, and prohibited the private casting of copper coins.

However, within a few days in many places, Hongzhi Tongbao privately cast by the people flooded.

Because the problem of private coins and bad coins is huge and difficult to deal with, not only the imperial court was forced to reduce or even not mint coins to deal with this problem, but the trust of the common people in copper coins is also getting lower and lower.

Therefore, as far as the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli dynasties, both the court and the people have more trust in silver.

Except for small transactions among the people, silver is used for larger transactions; the imperial court collects taxes and taxes, and also takes silver in addition to physical objects.In the early years of Wanli, Zhang Jiangling's new policy even implemented a whip method, explicitly ordering the people to pay taxes in silver.

It can be seen from this that copper coins are no longer the main use of the world's transactions, but silver.So, why did the imperial court compete with each other on the issue of copper coins?
The minister believes that if the value of Zhaowu Tongbao continues to rise and the people are keen to buy and hoard it, it will only end up hurting both the court and the people.

How is it beneficial to the country, and what is the benefit to the people?This matter is related to the stability of people's livelihood, please think twice, Your Majesty! "

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　　Correct the typo later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)