In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 130 It is better to rely on yourself

Others from Zhao and Rui will replace the officials in Dinghai and Cixi counties, so that their own people can stand and speak in the local area.

It's been a long time since I saw Quan Yong. Quan Yong has grown a lot taller. Of course, Zhao Yurui has been getting better nutrition recently, and he exercises every day. He has also grown a lot taller and is slowly starting to develop.

The two brothers were very happy to meet each other and hugged each other heavily.

This time Quan Yong not only brought a batch of young men who had been trained for half a year, but also brought a boat full of newly minted copper coins.

The two brothers had a conversation, and Zhao and Rui talked about helping Quan Yong get married.

"What? What about my Miao Rong?" Quan Yong became anxious, his face flushed.

"Ms. Nit, of course Miao Rong is a concubine." Zhao Yurui said, "You think you can decide your marriage?"

"..." Quan Yong didn't understand, why can't I make decisions about my marriage?
"I'm the king of Wei, I can't decide who the princess is, why do you still want to fall in love freely?" Zhao Yurui scolded.

Qin Zhuo quickly persuaded Quan Yong: "Everything is for the king's great affairs, listen to the king."

"What's the big deal, cousin?" Quan Yong was puzzled.

"Isn't making money a big deal?" Zhao Yurui said.

"That's okay." Quan Yong said with a bitter face, "How can I tell Miao Rong when I go back?"

"Just say it."

Quan Yong looked troubled.

Zhao Yurui said: "Last month I asked for a lot of promotions for the Dinghai Navy, and I also hired you."

"You are now Bingjielang from the eighth rank, Commodore Dinghai Navy, you are already a general, how can you marry a female official?"

Quan Yong seemed to think it made sense, and nodded slightly, but felt sorry for Miao Rong, which was really a dilemma.

He followed Zhao Yurui, and for more than half a year, he flew up like a rocket. In a blink of an eye, he was an eighth-rank military officer, and he was getting closer and closer to the middle and senior military officers.

Quan Yong is still clear about the priorities, and immediately decides to listen to his cousin.

In the evening, Zhao and Rui treated guests to dinner, and Feng Deshan also brought his daughter over. Seeing Quan Yong, of course he was quite satisfied, and the two parties formally decided on the marriage.

But Zhao Yurui said that everything should be kept simple, because Quan Yong is a member of Wei Wangfu, in case someone has a heart, Feng Deshan agreed.

The king of Wei appointed him as the commander of the expansion of the navy, and he has already reported it. As long as Feng Deshan is approved, Feng Deshan will enter the ranks of senior generals in the Song Dynasty. He will definitely hold on to King Wei's thigh.

The marriage will be held in Xinzhou. When Quan Yong leaves later, Feng Deshan's daughter will follow to Xinzhou, Dinghai County. The two families will have a meal. Zhao and Rui will give enough gifts, 1000 taels of silver, 100 taels of gold, and other belongings A few, Feng Deshan was smiling, very happy.

After dinner that day, Zhao Yurui came to the living room, and Qin Zhuo was waiting for him.

Qin Zhuo said happily: "I came from Lin'an, the folks are building up momentum for King Wei, it should be Shi Miyuan who made it."

"I just said that Shi Miyuan wanted to make the king the emperor."

Zhao and Rui didn't look happy, but felt that they were being put in the limelight, which made Quan Yong keep a low profile in their marriage.

"Uncle Zhuo, don't be too happy too early, the backing will fall, and everyone will fall."

"Yu Rui believes that you can't rely on others for everything. If you can fight for it yourself, you must fight for it yourself."

Zhao Yurui thinks that history has changed, and perhaps Shi Miyuan did the same in history, but no matter what, he can't count on the help of others for such a big event, and he must plan ahead and prepare well.

If Shi Miyuan had done the same thing in history, he could have done nothing, behaved honestly and kept a low profile, waiting to be emperor.

But such an emperor is not what he wants, and Shi Miyuan will inevitably control the government, and he is like a puppet.

While the Kingdom of Jin is still alive and they are still resisting Mongolia, Zhao Yurui hopes to become emperor as soon as possible, to centralize power quickly in a few years, and then carry out appropriate reforms to change the current situation in the Southern Song Dynasty. Perhaps there is still a glimmer of life.

After hearing this, Qin Zhuo showed admiration on his face: "Your Majesty is right, you should rely on yourself for everything."

"We can't manage these major affairs of the capital right now. We must do the immediate thing first. We must control Dinghai and Cixi County as soon as possible."

Whether it is Zhao Yurui's shop or the navy, they are all in Dinghai County, and they need the support of Dinghai County to control Dinghai County without delay.

Qin Zhuo thought so.

The two were chatting, and Quan Yong came in with three bags.

After entering the room, he picked up one and poured it on the table. Zhao Yurui looked at it carefully, but it was a brand new copper coin.

In the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, there was a great shortage of copper coins, otherwise, they would not have desperately printed and distributed one session after another.

During Shi Miyuan's administration, the issuance of huizi exceeded [-] million yuan, which caused the ratio of copper coins to huizi to fall again and again.

There are several reasons for the lack of copper coins in the Southern Song Dynasty. One is that he always lost money when he minted money himself. This must be caused by the oppression and corruption of officials.

The second is that a large amount of copper coins are flowing overseas, because Japan and Koryo are currently using money from the Southern Song Dynasty because of poor coin casting technology, and even money from the Tang Dynasty is still circulating in Japan and Korea. Casting copper ware can have five times the benefits.

Compared with other countries, the copper coins cast in the Song Dynasty are not only well-made, but also of higher value. Copper coins with the same face value are more recognized by the businessmen, and the value is also high. , They all used copper coins of the Song people in large quantities.

The development of overseas trade in the Southern Song Dynasty not only led to the loss of population, but also a large amount of copper coins. Maritime merchants often "attach their boats with money."

Historical Records: "There are a lot of losses in the sea, especially the loss of copper coins." That is to say, in the maritime trade of the Song Dynasty, the loss of copper coins was the most.

For example, in the 13th year of Shaoxing ([-]), Quanzhou merchants "carried more than [-] copper coins into the ocean in a small boat at night. When it sank, the wealth along with the ship was also buried in the vast sea.

In addition to the value and loss of money in foreign countries, there are even more: "Sell ten coins to get one or two refined copper, and make them into utensils, and the profit is five times."

Selling money and casting utensils became a common phenomenon in the Song Dynasty. This phenomenon was also vividly expressed on bronze mirrors, one of the daily-used bronze utensils, so that some Song mirrors directly cast "every two hundred texts" and "the best ones every Two 150 texts".

The folks destroy all the copper coins, and then make bronze mirrors, the price can be increased by five times, which also makes a large number of copper coins disappear.

Now Zhao Yurui privately mints copper coins at the Xinzhou Copper Factory, and finds that as long as they are managed properly, they can only make money, how can they lose money?It's no wonder that the official casting of money in the Song Dynasty was always at a loss, while private casting was everywhere.

"We mainly cast Jiading Tongbao (dang five, five Wen coins), Jiading Yuanbao (dang ten), Chongning Tongbao (dang ten), Daguan Tongbao (dang five, dang ten), and currently there are five denominations."

The first step to make money by casting copper coins is of course to cast them at a large denomination. When Cai Jing was in power in the Song Dynasty, the top ten coins were specially minted.

After entering the Southern Song Dynasty, only Jiading cast five-wen coins and ten-wen coins once, and the rest of the emperors cast three denominations of one-wen, two-wen and three-wen coins.

Therefore, Quan Yong chose the large denominations of Song Weizong and Ningzong.

The second step to make money is to reduce the ratio of copper to tin. The official minimum copper in the Song and Song Dynasties was 40%, and the folks may be even lower.

Quan Yong said: "The imperial court officially used ten coins (Chongning Tongbao and Daguan Tongbao in Weizong's time), each weighing 14 catties and seven taels, and the fire consumption was 9.11%, (nearly 10%) each coin was 11.8727 grams."

"Our Chongzong Tongbao and Daguan Tongbao weigh 13 catties each—"

For Quan Yong, the proportions of copper, lead and tin are about 62%, 33% and 7%, and the fire consumption is 2%.

From the weight and appearance, it is basically invisible, it is relatively new.

Dangwu coins are more than 8 grams each, and the ratio is similar. When you calculate it, you must make more denominations to make money.

Quan Yong then took out a few iron coins.

Because of the lack of copper in the Southern Song Dynasty, iron coins were also cast, and iron coins were specially used in Sichuan. The Jin Dynasty also used iron coins to trade with the Song Dynasty.

The official use of iron in the Song Dynasty was fifteen catties, which was equivalent to ten iron coins. Each piece weighed only 7.68 grams, and the fire consumption was 2.67 catties, which was much higher than that of copper coins.

The ten iron coins made by Quan Yong use thirteen catties of iron. The proper coin weighs 7.36 grams each, and the fire consumption is relatively low.

The reason for the low fire consumption is that Zhao Yurui's molds are good, and the workers are also careful. The iron powder and copper powder that are ground are collected for reuse. (When the official coins were minted, no one cared about the ground iron powder and copper powder)

The reason for making iron coins is because there may be transactions with the northwest direction, and more iron coins are used.

The main thing is to make more copper coins according to Zhao Yurui's request.

"This time, 50 copper coins, [-] iron coins, and [-] bronze mirrors were shipped."

What Quan Yong took out of his last bag was a bronze mirror.

At this time, bronze mirrors are more profitable than making copper coins, so copper coins will be sold in the Ming Dynasty, and copper realms will be made. In the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, even the officials did the same. If copper coins are not made, copper realms will be made. No wonder there are fewer and fewer copper coins.

Zhao Yurui looked at the bronze mirror which was relatively small, similar to a football.

"How do you sell it? Does it make money?" Zhao Yurui asked.

"It's more profitable than copper coins." Qin Zhuo said at this time: "The market sells by weight. A bronze mirror made of copper coins costs 150 Wen per tael."

One tael is about 37 grams, which is less than four ten copper coins.

The four ten-wen copper coins weigh more than 40 grams and are only worth forty Wen.

One or two bronze mirrors sold for 150 Wen.

"Ours is made of pure copper. One tael can be sold for more than two hundred cash. If it is sold in Korea or Japan, it will be at least three hundred cash."

The bronze mirror in Zhao Yurui's hands weighed more than a catty, and it was at least four or five times thick.

When Zhao Yurui saw the table full of copper coins, she was determined that she finally had a stable source of income, and she couldn't keep taking advantage of her father-in-law Qin Zhuo.

"How much can we earn now? How much is Yuezhu?" Zhao Yurui asked again.

"Our Xinzhou Copper Factory now has more than 5 households, with a monthly output of 46 jin of copper, 18 jin of iron, and about [-] jin of tin and lead." (Some tin and lead are from other mines It was also Qin Zhuo’s mine)

(End of this chapter)