Yiyin looked at the copper ore in the plate and couldn't figure out why, so he touched his nose and asked.
"Is this copper ore mined from the Ashio Mountains?"
Under him were Okuma Chaohide, Ozo Changan, and Ina Chuji. Ina Chuji bowed excitedly and answered.
"Hi! This is the first batch of copper ore from Ashio Copper Mountain. Please taste it, sage."
Yiyin is even more embarrassed. He knows nothing about copper mines. What should he say?
Ina Chuji was overly excited, but the other people present were not stupid. Shima Katsuo, who was sitting next to him with his belly in his arms, pointed at the ore and came to the rescue for Yiyin.
"I don't know much about mining. Can any adult explain to me whether this piece of copper ore is good or bad?"
Ina Chuji was suddenly reminded by Shima Katsu, and he immediately reacted and sweated.
To death, I almost embarrassed the big boss.
She quickly made amends.
“The ore from Ashio Copper Mountain is excellent, the best I have ever seen in my life.
Sage, Lord Shima, please see, the red color of this ore shows that it is extremely pure.
Generally speaking, copper ore contains many impurities and has colors such as green, blue, yellow, and gray. Only the purest copper will appear red, so it is also called red copper.
Red copper is soft and has strong plasticity. It does not need to be smelted or purified, and copper coins can be made directly from cast mother coins. The copper coins produced will never be worse than Yongle Tongbao, or even better."
Yiyin touched his chin, nodded with satisfaction, and said.
"Yes, the purity is high enough and easy to make money, so the technical requirements will be relatively low. You only need a sophisticated mother coin template to make copper coins that are not weaker than Yongle Tongbao.
Inaji, I didn’t expect you to excavate the Copper Mountain so quickly, it’s really hard work.”
Ina Chuji said happily.
"The saint does not know something.
Because the purity of this red copper is too high, it is mostly produced in open-air shallow ore deposits, so that it is not mixed with impurities from other mountain ores.
I picked up copper ore for the first time. When I saw the red color of the ore, I judged that the deposit must be shallow on the surface and easy to mine.
Therefore, I sent more people to explore the deep and shallow mountains, and sure enough I discovered Tongshan.
The reason why no one knew about the existence of Tongshan before was simply because it was difficult to go deep into the mountains and forests, so no one knew about its existence.
Now that I have a clear target, I can easily dig it out."
Yiyin smiled.
"Don't be humble. You have discovered the treasures that others have not discovered. This is your ability."
Dao Shengmeng on the side joked.
"Saint, are you happy that Inaji has accomplished such a great feat? Don't you want to give me something as a reward?"
Shima Shengmeng was also thirty-seven weeks pregnant at this time, and his face was full of motherly luster, which made Yiyin feel warm in his heart, and he would not refute this woman who was about to give birth to his child.
he said fondly.
"I asked you to take a good rest, but you came out to listen, and now you want to interrupt. I really can't defeat you.
So according to you, how should I reward her?"
Daosheng covered his mouth and chuckled.
"Of course it's a big credit and a big reward."
Yiyin smiled and pointed at Dao Shengmeng.
"After you said that, I don't dare to underestimate the hero, Ina Chuji."
"Hi! I'm here!"
"Tell me, how many copper coins can this copper mountain cast for me? Think about it carefully before you tell me. This is related to the size of your reward."
Yoshigan joked and didn't think much about it, but his words embarrassed Ina Chuji and made this honest technician suddenly stuck.
Seeing that Ina Chuji was speechless, Yoshigan smiled.
"I shouldn't be joking about serious matters, I think I'm scaring you. Just say it, don't worry, I won't blame you if I'm wrong."
Ina Chuji said in a deep voice.
"Saint, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's actually Ashio Copper Mountain, which is a mountain of copper. I don't know how much copper is hidden in the bottomless caves in that towering mountain.
But I predict that if there are sufficient manpower and smooth transportation, after the mining process matures, we should be able to produce one million jins of copper a year."
Yiyin was stunned for a moment and asked again.
"How much did you just say? One million catties per year? Which catty?"
Ina Chuji's voice was low, and he seemed to be shocked and unsure of the numbers he calculated.
"Weighing in the Ming Dynasty will be one million catties."
Yiyin took a breath of air.
The number of mingjin is close to that of modern China, which is more than 500 grams. One million mingjin means 500 tons!
Five hundred tons per year of pure copper of extremely high purity that can be directly used to make money? What is the difference between this and a money printing machine?
Not only Yiyin was surprised, but all the ladies sitting there were also in disbelief.
Ozo Changan and Ina Chuji worked together in the Samurai Giri Promotion Association, fearing that their partners would talk nonsense and cause trouble.
She said quickly.
"Inaji, when you speak in front of a saint, you must be well-founded and don't make random guesses."
Ina Chuji sighed.
"I didn't believe it at first, and after repeated calculations many times, I dared to report it to the saint.
This is the specific data I calculated, please ask the saint to take a look."
Ina Chuji took out a document from his arms and gave it to Kamaojigo who was accompanying him with both hands.
After receiving the document from the Pu Sheng clan, Yiyin read it ten lines at a time.
He couldn't understand most of the data, but the final forecast figure of one million kilograms of annual mining volume, which could produce 200,000 copper coins, made him a little confused.
Two hundred thousand guan is a high-quality copper coin such as Yongle Tongbao. It has high market recognition and good liquidity, and its actual value is far more than 200,000 guan.
The world is a pie in the sky. Every year, there are two hundred thousand high-quality copper coins for nothing, which makes Yiyin so happy that it cannot believe this fact.
But the reality is actually more exaggerated than Ina Chuji's speculation.
Ashio Copper Mountain is one of the richest mines on the treasure island of the island nation.
It has been mined for two hundred years, with the highest annual output reaching 1,000 tons of copper, which is double the 500 tons calculated by Inai Chuji.
Moreover, the amount of coins calculated by Ina Chuji was based on the weight of pure copper coins.
In fact, ancient copper coins were generally mixed with 10% to 40% of aluminium, iron, lead and other metals, and the actual amount of copper used was even less.
Even if the new copper coins are as sophisticated as Yongle Tongbao and have a high copper content, then 500 tons will not be enough to make only 200,000 guan. At the very least, more than 250,000 guan can be made.
The Ashio Copper Mountain, which produces 1,000 tons of copper annually, can actually bring at least 500,000 high-quality copper coins to the Bank of Japan, and it does so every year.
The island nation in history discovered Ashio Copper Mountain and Besshi Copper Mountain around the end of the Warring States Period, and conducted extensive mining.
In the next two hundred years, the island country not only no longer had to import copper coins from China, but instead sent a large amount of copper coins to China.
China not only imported a large amount of copper coins from the island countries, but also imported a large amount of copper from the island countries. The copper from the island countries was of high purity and was praised as red copper by the China, and became a major source of official coins of the China.
Although Yoshigan did not know the huge reserves of Ashio Copper Mountain at this time, the data that Ina Chuji reported to him already made him satisfied, and he did not know how to spend so much money.
What Yoshihiro didn't expect was that when Ashio Copper Mountain was actually mining and minting money, before he had time to worry about how to spend it, a huge financial crisis would sweep across Kanto.
Ashio Copper Mountain will become the anchor of Kanto's economy and help it survive this crisis.
When time passes and I think back, maybe this was destiny.
God wanted the Shiba family to conquer the world, and money dropped from the sky to help the saint stabilize the situation. After experiencing all this, the Kanto warrior family naturally strengthened their respect for Shiba's divine power.
One drink and one peck, could it be a predetermined decision?