"Yes." Old Fan responded first, then said with a strange look on his eyes: "Since the head of the family has decided to mint coins with all his strength, he will also order the mine to mine copper and iron with all his strength."

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

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Some people in all dynasties say that Jinling is the kingly spirit, which is not purely from Feng Shui, but also includes resources.

The Gu family is also a great landlord and gentry in Lishui. The main source of income is the secret mining of copper and iron and other minerals, and the casting of private money.

The contemporary family manager has great talents. Although he is only scholarly, he is quite talented in Shangdao, which allows the Gu family to board the ship of Zhejiang maritime merchants and turn the family's private money business into North Korea and Japan.

Hearing this, Gu Daqi couldn't help but show a hesitant look.

He said: "Under the imperial court's 'Great Steel Making Order', local governments are vigorously cracking down on black mines. At this time, we have accelerated the mining of our home mines. We have made great efforts, and we are afraid that the government will not be able to find them?"

When Mr. Fan heard this, he sneered, "Did the head of the family think that the government could not find the government? Nowadays, local officials are all the leaders of the court. In order to fight against black mines, they can be said to be searching mountains and checking the sea.

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

Since this is the case, it is better to take advantage of the discovery of the government and fish out the waters and use up all the mine slaves, and try to mine more mines to make real profits!"

Gu Daqi is a smart person, and he knew that Mr. Fan’s strategy was right at first glance.

Although the black ore can be continuously produced, the possibility of being discovered in the future will be greater and greater, and the time will also affect the Gu family.

Since this is the case, it is better to take this opportunity to deal with it and turn it into the money you have obtained.

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

"clear."

Mr. Fan left in response.

Gu Daqi indulged in Zhaowu Tongbao for a while, and then opened a smaller and more exquisite wooden box in the cellar, which contained silver dollars.

The exquisiteness of these silver dollars is obviously even greater than that of Zhaowu Tongbao, and the casting technology content is higher, which makes Gu Daqi, who has been handed over with coins for half his life, become confused as he looks at it.

"It's a pity that my Gu family can't help it. If it can flow into the market at low-quality silver dollars at the price of real silver dollars, it would be a huge profit. What a pity."

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

Not to mention silver dollars, even if it is Zhaowu Tongbao, the Gu family cannot create it, or if it is decent.

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

Now that the Empress Zhaowu is in power, the central authority of the court is at its peak, it is impossible for their Gu family to find a place to force the people to use fake 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 maritime merchants, and can also make a lot of money.

These places have the ability to mint coins and lack money. Although the people prefer low-priced private money, exquisite money is more valuable. In terms of shipping, selling a ship of copper coins is naturally more valuable.

Such exquisite copper coins as Zhaowu Tongbao, which are beyond the ages, will definitely be even more profitable in the past.

However, based on the experience of Gu Daqi family, the imperial court may not have been long before it will find that Zhaowu Tongbao was secretly acquired on the market.

After all, it is not only their family that acquired Zhaowu Tongbao, but many families. There are too many wolves and fewer meats. When they fight for it, they don’t care about covering it up.

If the court finds out about this, the only strategy to deal with it is probably to reduce the quality of Zhaowu Tongbao and try its best to alleviate the situation of bad money driving good money. In severe cases, it will even stop minting Zhaowu Tongbao.

Even as a woman, Empress Zhaowu likes exquisite things very much, but for the sake of the country, she will admit defeat, so that the Mint will no longer cast such exquisite copper coins.

Therefore, Gu Daqi was determined to acquire and sell Zhaowu Tongbao to obtain huge profits in one or two waves.

Because of this, their Gu family has to do their best to grab more in these or two huge profits...

The Gu family can "see through the situation" and make every effort to acquire Zhaowu Tongbao on the market in order to make huge profits.

Other forces engaged in private money business also have many smart people, and most of them choose to make every effort to acquire Zhaowu Tongbao.

This made the traces of Zhaowu Tongbao on the market even rarer, and the prices of secret exchanges have also risen.

From the Chongzhen coins made in early July (authentic copper coins minted by the imperial court) to exchange for one article on Zhaowu Tongbao, by the end of July, it had increased to thirteen articles before it could be exchanged for one article.

It’s not that it can’t rise any further, but that the exchange ratio between Chongzhen’s money and Zhaowu Tongbao has reached its peak.

As for the exchange ratio between private money and Zhaowu Tongbao, it is even more exaggerated. Because the quality of private money is low, sometimes there is no bottom line. Some private money even needs to be exchanged for a private money, even hundreds of liters are needed to be exchanged for a private money!

Zhaowu Tongbao appreciated all the way, and even the officials who were slow to respond to the currency market felt it.

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

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

On this day, the cabinet ministers all went to Wuying Palace and took the initiative to mention the money to Zhu Mai.

They have learned about the plan of the Supervisor of the Qianshu from Ma Shiying, but some cabinet ministers are not optimistic about the Supervisor of the Qianshu.

The chief assistant Yuan Jixian said: "Your Majesty, because our dynasty set the national policy when it was founded, we couldn't help but copper coins in the previous dynasty. Therefore, the people nowadays are not only copper coins ordered by the monarchs of the Ming Dynasty, but also ancient coins from the Tang and Song dynasties. Among them,

The most coins in Song Dynasty were even more than the sum of minted by our dynasty.

Now that the people see Zhaowu Tongbao’s value rising, they have also collected and hoarded it. If those people with ulterior motives are added, the court can be said to be an enemy of the whole world in terms of coins!”

Jie Xuelong also said, "Your Majesty, in this case, even if the mint can really produce tens of millions of Zhaowu Tongbao every day, it may be difficult to deal with it, right?

In fact, after I discovered the problem of coins, I had wanted to manage it.

For example, during the Hongzhi period, the court considered that the court did not open furnaces and minted coins after the eighth year of Xuande, and the people all used private coins and ancient coins, so they deliberately minted Hongzhi Tongbao.

However, at that time, the imperial court had not minted coins for a long time and lost its technology, and its coin minting skills were even worse than those of private money mintingers.

In the end, it was not possible to recruit a private coin minting gang in Shandong at that time, so that it was possible to re-energize the furnace to mint coins."

On the other hand, Hao Guangming shook his head and mocked him when he heard this, "It was actually a gang that could only be reminiscent of coins by relying on fake money in Zhao'an to reminisce coins. The Ming Dynasty is really good at money law."

Although Zhu Mai knew that Hao Guangming was not mocking her, but said that the monarch and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were still a little embarrassed and blushed.

Jie Xuelong continued here: "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 by the people.

However, in many places, the privately cast Hongzhi Tongbao became popular in just a few days.

Because of private coins and bad coins, the problem of bad coins is too big and it is really difficult to deal with. Not only is the court forced to reduce coins, but it is even less trust in copper coins, but the people's trust in copper coins is getting lower and lower.

Therefore, in the Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli dynasties, both the court and the people trusted Baiyin more.

In addition to small transactions, the private sector used silver for slightly larger transactions; the imperial court collected taxes and also obtained silver in addition to physical goods. By the early years of Wanli, the new policy of Zhangjiangling implemented a whip law, which clearly ordered the people to pay taxes with silver.

From this we can see that copper coins are no longer used by the masters of the world's transactions, and their master is silver. So why should the court compete in copper coins?

I believe that if Zhaowu Tongbao is of high value and the problem of people's enthusiasm for acquisition and hoarding continues, it will eventually only cause both the court and the people to lose money.
Chapter completed!