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

Chapter 94
Mo Ze thought to himself that King Yi really loves making money: "Businessmen are looking for profit, and Qin Zhuo must have taken a fancy to those good things of King Yi."

"Well, he said that he can help me open the Café de Coral game rooms all over the country. Thinking about it, I'm really excited." Zhao Yurui's face showed a look of financial obsession.

Mo Ze said: "These merchants do have this ability, but it must not be easy."

Moze said while thinking, why did King Yi tell me about these things?
Zhao Yurui said: "He made a request."

"Oh." Mo Ze's eyes lit up, and he was suddenly a little happy. King Yi probably couldn't make a decision, and asked me for advice. This is his trust in me.

Last time Zhao Yurui helped him ask for [-] guan from Qin Zhuo's house, and this time he gave away another [-] guan. Mo Ze now feels very good about Zhao Yurui in his heart, and Zhao Yurui usually has no airs, except that he doesn't love Learning has almost no disadvantages.

Shi Miyuan let him stay in the Wei Palace, with the intention of monitoring Zhao Yurui. After getting along during this time, Mo Ze felt that Zhao Yurui had nothing out of the ordinary.

Although he was loyal to Shi Miyuan, he definitely could not talk about some trivial matters. For example, the last time Zhao Yurui helped him ask for [-] guan, he didn't say anything.

"Qin Zhuo took several mines from the imperial court many years ago, but you also know that the imperial court has fixed purchase prices for gold, silver, copper, etc."

"The purchase price has not changed for decades, and Qin Zhuo's mine is in his hands, and he loses money every year."

"He wants me to propose to His Majesty to raise the purchase price."

"After the matter is completed, I will share [-]% of the profit."

When Zhao Yurui said this, he looked up at Mo Ze: "From the point of view of Mo Jishi, this matter is not very likely to be successful. Can this king do this? Will His Majesty agree?"

Moze looked serious and lowered his head in thought.

Whether this matter will be successful depends on what Shi Miyuan said, as long as Prime Minister Shi supports it, the officials will definitely agree.

Mo Ze came back to his senses in an instant, Zhao Yurui asked if His Majesty would agree, but actually asked Shi Miyuan if he would agree.

How should I answer?

Moze got up at this moment and walked back and forth a few times.

After a while, he said slowly: "Back then, Qin Zhuo and his father fully supported Han Yuzhou's Northern Expedition, and because they donated 4000 million yuan, they shocked the whole country."

"After the defeat, Han Yuzhou was killed, and the Qin family was suppressed even more. They plummeted and scattered a lot of family property in order to keep their current wealth."

With these two sentences, Mo Ze wanted to point out that Shi Miyuan didn't like the Qin family, and this matter was difficult to handle.

"However." Mo Ze continued: "Many years have passed, and the Qin family is still the richest man in Lin'an--"

What this sentence means is that Shi Miyuan has not killed them all.

"The prime minister is very respectful to the king of Yi. If this matter is related to the king of Yi, the prime minister may be lenient." Mo Ze finally gritted his teeth and said: "But, this is just a guess by the lower officials, we have to see—" Looking at Shi Miyuan's Mood and willingness to give Yi Wang your face.

He almost made it clear that you don't have to ask the emperor, just ask the prime minister.

Zhao Yurui immediately said: "I was fortunate enough to meet the Prime Minister and was promoted from a commoner to the King of Yi. The Prime Minister is already a great favor to me, so I never dare to beg for anything from the Prime Minister. How dare I ask the Prime Minister for such a thing."

"Forget it, don't take this money."

The corners of Mo Ze's mouth twitched slightly, and he said bravely, "Your Majesty, let's ask King Yi."

"This, this, thank you Mo Jishi. If it succeeds, Mo Jishi will get half of it, no, [-]%."

"No, no, I don't dare." Mo Ze was not as greedy as Liang Chengda and Li Zhixiao, but when he heard this, he was extremely shocked, and soon felt inexplicably excited.

When he was on duty that day, he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to meet Shi Miyuan, and waited for half an hour before Shi Miyuan came home.

Every time Shi Miyuan saw him and Zheng Qingzhi before, he would ask Yi Wang what he was doing in the mansion, but recently he seldom asked, probably the same thing every day.

Playing cuju, playing billiards, going out to decorate the card room, either for fun or for business.

But a few days ago, in the main store of Café de Coral, there were people from the Imperial City Division and the Forbidden Army who fought for a pool table in order to grab a pool table. Wang was furious, and asked Mo Ze, can the officials order that the Imperial City Secretary and the imperial guards not be allowed to play?
Of course Moser said that he couldn't do this, because it was not good for reason or law.

Except for this little episode, King Yi usually had the same itinerary, so there was really nothing to ask.

Mo Ze went up to see Shi Miyuan, and then told him what Zhao Yurui had said to him.

Speaking of Zhao Yurui, forget it, forget the money.

The corner of Shi Miyuan's mouth raised a smile, King Yi was speaking in a fit of anger, how could he really not want it.

In his eyes, Zhao Yurui is just a playful 15-year-old boy who hasn't really grown up yet.

"This Qin Zhuo is not restless, and has started to exploit again?" Shi Miyuan said in a deep voice, "He actually found King Yi."

"He should know that King Yi likes money, so he deliberately do what he likes." Mo Ze said.

Shi Miyuan was silent for a moment. Although he is a minister of power, he is greedy for power and not as greedy for money as his confidants Liang Chengda and Li Zhixiao.

At this moment, he was considering the consequences of this matter.

He intends to promote Zhao and Rui as emperors. The Qin Zhuo family's mining business has future emperors investing in it. What do you say when Zhao and Rui become emperors in the future?
Will Qin Zhuo's family gain power because of this?
A businessman is a businessman after all, and he can find any reason at that time, just take his mine.

Shi Miyuan still believed in his own power, and he was able to catch Qin Zhuo with ease.

Think about it this way, if you don't agree with this matter, why make him unhappy if you want to make Zhao Yurui emperor in the future?

"King Yi is one of his own people, so it's rare to ask the old man to do something, and he must agree." Shi Miyuan finally laughed.

"However." He changed his tone: "At the same time, we have to beat Qin Zhuo."

"By the way, how much did King Yi say he would raise the price?"

"The price of copper materials has been raised to 550 yuan per catty."

Shi Miyuan shook his head: "My Dasong copper mine is not limited to Xinzhou. Xinzhou has raised prices so much, what about other copper mines?"

"Go back and tell King Yi, and ask King Yi to tell Qin Zhuo that the court can issue up to 450 wen, and King Yi will get [-]% of the profits."

In fact, Qin Zhuo's goal was 450 Wen, and Zhao and Rui paid more than 450 Wen. Unexpectedly, Shi Miyuan lowered the price to [-] Wen.

But by the way, he was a good person, so King Yi got [-]%.

How can this kind of thing make your businessman big?
"The prime minister is wise." Mo Ze was overjoyed.

Shi Miyuan also felt that what he did was beautiful, which brought his relationship with Zhao Yurui closer.

In fact, Zhao Yurui is carefully maintaining the relationship with Shi Miyuan, and Shi Miyuan is also worried that Zhao Yurui will be alienated from him, because he wants to deal with Zhao Mian, and only Zhao Yurui can use it.

If there is a relationship with Zhao Yurui, even if Zhao Mian is pushed down, it will be a headache to establish who is the emperor.

In the "daily life" in the early morning of the next day, Shi Miyuan brought several important ministers to meet the emperor.

He spoke about it on the spot.

"Your Majesty, the minister Qi Zuo."

"Since Emperor Huizong Xianxiao of our Dasong Copper Mine set the purchase price for the private government to be 250 yuan per catty. Now more than 100 years have passed, and the purchase price has always been the same. The miners all over the country complained and suffered terribly, just like the Xinzhou mine. In the peak period, the annual output of mines was tens of millions of jin, and the copper material was more than 500 million jin, but due to the low price, the annual output of Shaoxing was shut down.”

"The imperial court also lost a large amount of income, which made the market lack of copper coins, resulting in inflated prices."

China has been short of copper since ancient times, and the copper coins of all dynasties and dynasties are not enough, otherwise they would not have issued Jiaozi, Huizi, and Daming banknotes.

Shi Miyuan was actually willing to speak, and knew that what Qin Zhuo said was right. If the official purchase price was not high, ordinary people would not want to mine. If no one mines, there would naturally be not enough copper in the market.

If you let the authorities do it, you will definitely lose money if you fill your pockets and steal chickens and dogs.

Therefore, this mine must be privately run, but the price must be raised.

This matter is not only beneficial to the country and the people, but also to sell Yi Wang well. Shi Miyuan is very hardworking, and last night he specially supplemented his mining knowledge.

Song Ningzong is kind, but not stupid. Shi Miyuan can speak the truth, and he can understand it.

He was also quite shocked to hear that the price of copper had not changed for more than 100 years.

No one mentioned this matter before, but Shi Miyuan was still loyal to state affairs.

The emperor asked on the spot, how much should be mentioned?
"Copper coins are 450 Wen a catty, and Huizi always pays 350 Wen a catty."

At this time, some of the ministers also raised objections: "With such a high price, will the court lose money?"

The imperial court purchased copper materials mainly for minting coins. If the price was high, minting coins might lose money.

In fact, since the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, limited by the cost of labor and materials, casting copper coins has been a loss-making business. Otherwise, the imperial court would not have raised the purchase price for more than 100 years, let alone issued hundreds of millions of yuan.

So Shi Miyuan said: "The imperial court was originally at a loss, otherwise it would not have vigorously issued the meeting."

The man said: "Then raising the purchase price, wouldn't the imperial court suffer even more?"

"It can't be calculated like this. It may reverse the exchange of copper coins and clubs, and instead turn losses into profits." Shi Miyuan came here after doing his homework.

Although he is a powerful minister, he is indeed very powerful. He immediately quoted classics and used data to convince others.

Copper coins in the Song Dynasty were mainly composed of copper, tin and lead metals.

太祖开宝八年（975），得铜81万斤（65.85%）、铅26万斤（21.14%）、锡16万斤（13.01%），岁铸钱30万贯。每枚钱平均2.5953克，一贯2595.3克，轻于唐开元通宝（1贯4051.2克）。

During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong Tianxi (1017-1021), "copper was used to make money three catties and ten taels, lead was one catty and eight taels, and tin was eight liang, and the money was one thousand, and the weight was five."The proportions of copper, lead and tin are 64.44%, 26.67% and 8.89% respectively. Each coin is 3.560625 grams, and each coin is 3560.625 grams, which is also lighter than Tang Kaiyuan Tongbao.During the same period, Jianzhou (in today’s Jian’ou City, Fujian Province) increased copper by 70.00 liang, and correspondingly reduced lead by 21.11 liang. The weight remained unchanged, and the proportions of copper, lead and tin changed to 8.89%, [-]% and [-]%.

Before Daguan (Huizong Zhaoji Year), iron impurities in Song copper coins were very small, accounting for less than 0.2%. After Daguan, iron impurities suddenly increased, and in the entire Southern Song Dynasty, they were at least 1% or more.

Each of its copper coins is basically between 3 grams and 4 grams. According to the proportion of 70% copper, there are about 2.5 grams of copper material.

Six hundred grams per catty in the Southern Song Dynasty can cast 1500 pieces. (The two, three, and four grams here refer to one penny copper coins, and the weight of five Wen and ten Wen is about 8-11 grams)
And a catty of copper material is only 450 liters. Based on the purchase price of copper alone, the court is making a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)