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Chapter 345 Cannot Make Silver Dollars

"Sit still." After Zhu Biao stopped her from getting out of bed, he called the maid outside, whom he brought from the palace this morning, and said, "From now on, you will serve at the Ming Commercial Bureau, and you can't make any mistakes."

Shen Zhi thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Your Highness, is she here to monitor me?"

Zhu Biao almost knocked over the bowl and chopsticks, got up and said angrily: "You think too much!"

When he is nothing, there are so many Jinyiwei, and the little maid is used to supervise her, and if they want to supervise, they will directly transfer to the Beijing army.

Xiaobai and the maid immediately withdrew.

"You, I was just joking, why is Your Highness angry..." Shen knew whether he got off the bed with his shoes on, and sat in front of Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao looked at her, and suddenly heaved a long sigh of relief and said, "The orphan can rest assured."

Shen Zhi raised his head, looked at him reproachfully and asked, "Your Highness...what do you mean?"

Zhu Biao ignored her, lowered his head to eat, and watched her eat porridge quietly, with his tongue sticking out to lick the corner of her mouth, which was very charming.

There was a knock on the door outside, saying that the bureau chief and bureau envoy of the Ming Commercial Bureau had something to see and were waiting in the lobby. Zhu Biao put down his bowl and chopsticks and left immediately.

Shen Zhizhi walked to the window, looked at the leaving figure with some nostalgia, and walked to the desk to look at the account books.

In the lobby of the Ming Dynasty Commercial Bureau, two bureau envoys are discussing the restructuring of silver, but they still can't decide. Some say that the circle is the main one, and some say that the square is the main one.

Zhu Biao sees that they can take the initiative to spend their minds on reforming silver, and the starting point is good.But he does not agree with the restructuring of silver.

He would have done it a long time ago if he was able to do it, and he still has to wait until now. The combination of various problems is not suitable for doing it.

Copper coins were cast into round shapes very early, and later in the late Qing Dynasty, silver coins became popular very quickly.

It is easy for everyone to accept round currency, but there is a reason why silver is made into ingots, which is in line with society.

The first point is that there are not many local silver reserves in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not true that the kind of martial arts novels just randomly take out a pile of silver.

Throughout the dynasties, there was a shortage of heavy metals such as gold and silver, and copper coins or even iron coins were always used by the people, all because of the lack of silver.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, although a large amount of silver was imported, it was far from enough. Silver had a high gold content and was in the hands of rich merchants. The common people were almost all copper coins and broken silver.

In restaurants in the capital, a good banquet on the top table is only two taels of silver.

When people use silver for meals, the shopkeeper needs to use special silver scissors to cut off a corner and weigh it for change. Therefore, in most cases, silver ingots are not used at all, only broken silver.

Broken silver and copper coins are the most convenient for the common people today, and they use copper coins and broken silver for their daily purchases.

It must conform to the daily prices and circulation of the common people.

Silver has penetrated into the hearts of the people according to its purity and color. If the people find that the silver is impure or otherwise, it will only lead to chaos.

Treasure banknotes and copper coins have already been reformed, so there is no need to stare at the reform of silver.

If you advocate processing this silver ingot into silver dollars, there will be many problems later.

The ancients were definitely not fools.

Although the imperial court already had a money document to prevent the theft of copper coins, it was only time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it was not as good as the use of copper coins and treasure banknotes.

The Bureau of Ming and Commerce moved their mouths and wanted to say a few more words. These days, based on the copper coin model, they finally proposed silver coins.But the prince seemed to disagree.They couldn't figure it out for a while.

Zhu Biao waved his hand lightly, and said decisively: "Everyone is working hard for the imperial court, and I am very happy, but this matter will not work, you should go to work first."

The Three Treasures next to him asked: "My lord, is he going back to the palace today? I heard from Princess Xu that she will come to Ming Shang Bureau to deliver meals to His Highness today."

Zhu Biao was taken aback when he heard this, how could this make Xu Miaowei discover that she was a charming woman in the golden house, and besides, he didn't like to explain, it was too troublesome: "Ming Commercial Bureau does not have a cook, forget it, we will go back later."

The account books were neatly placed on the table, and Zhu Biao hadn't closed the one he checked last night, so he spread it out there randomly.

These are the business tax books of various places, and many of them are the losses of various post office branches and weaving bureaus.

Shen knew whether to read a few books, and then he was a little surprised, how did the weaving bureau lose so much money.These raw silk suppliers charged the Weaving Bureau [-]% more than those in the Jiangnan area.

There is no problem with the account, every expenditure and profit is very clear, even if it is from the Ministry of Accounts, it will feel that there is no problem.

But what the experts saw was the doorway in this business. For the supply to the Weaving Bureau, the purchase price was [-]% higher than the market price. Even if the price of raw silk increased, it would not be so much higher.

And the suffix of each stroke is Chen.

Even though she was skeptical, she was also afraid that if she was not in the capital for more than a year, the price would rise.In order not to make mistakes, it is appropriate.

So he asked Li Changsheng to invite Shen Qiancheng.

Shen knew whether he couldn't see Zhu Biao being deceived by those experts.Then he sat down, polished the ink, and carefully looked at the supply problem.

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When Shen Qiancheng saw his daughter, he saw his wife again in a daze. Their mother and daughter looked so much alike.

He has been busy with business all year round and missed many moments of his daughter. It is normal for the two of them to be a little strange.

"father."

"No."

Shen Zhiwen walked to the table, picked out a few supply records of the Weaving Bureau, looked at Shen Qiancheng and asked, "Why is the raw silk supplied [-]% higher than the market price, and the cost will increase greatly."

"The Chen family is in charge of the weaving bureau in Suzhou and Hangzhou, including the weaving bureau in the capital. It's not easy for your father or me to ask about this matter."

"Then ask dad to check it for me." Shen Zhishi brushed his hair, and looked carefully along the account with his fingers.

Shen Qiancheng glanced around, sat down and looked at his daughter for a while: "Don't you care about our Shen family's business, and aren't you afraid that Dad will give your second mother and the others shops and houses in various places in Jiangnan and Shanxi?"

"Father, you are here for the Shen family's business, so my daughter doesn't worry." Shen Zhishi paused, then put down the writing brush in his hand: "Give it to Erniang and the others, and my daughter is not envious. My daughter can be sure of the business things I have done these years." More than daddy. There are fish, why worry about no fish."

Shen Qiancheng glanced at her, thought of what Zhu Biao had told him, and sighed: "If that child is still alive, the Shen family will be considered as successors."

"Father, don't talk about it anymore." Shen Zhifu lowered his head, and tears overflowed: "I see that His Highness is working hard, so I want to deal with some trivial matters of Ming Shang Bureau for him, and my daughter will naturally go back in a few days."

"I didn't expect that I, who spent my whole life striving for profit in business, would give birth to an infatuated child like you, but father still hopes that you will have a good home."

"Isn't loneliness a good home?" Zhu Biao knows that all parents in the world are children, but he blatantly provokes his own woman, so he has to deal with him properly.

Shen Qiancheng lowered his head, so what if he was rich and invincible in front of the imperial power, when he was young, he often fought against the government, and only by being close to the big tree of the official court, can he do business for a long time.

"Your Highness, I..." Shen Zhi thought that Zhu Biao was going to clean up Shen Qiancheng, so he immediately stood up and looked at Zhu Biao pitifully.

Zhu Biao looked at her: "Gu'er won't do what you say today, stay well." Then he turned to San Bao and said, "Bao'er, take Shen Qiancheng to the side room."

Sanbao was stunned for a moment, did he want to use lynching, but he had to obediently obey and took Shen Qiancheng out.

After a long time, Zhu Biao looked at Shen Qiancheng who was sitting opposite him: "Drink, old man, this wine is royal wine. I tell you, only if you violate the laws of Ming Dynasty and harm the people, will you be punished by Gu. Children, what is the crime?"

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