I am the king of the dead

Chapter 198 Great opportunity to make a fortune

Tianzi Tiqi, a Tiqi wearing a visor and a flying fish suit, led the Tiqi to the Shiyongfang Mansion in the capital, and took out a whistle and blew it vigorously.

The whistle startled countless birds, and the dogs rushed out from all corners immediately. Hearing the whistle, they pricked up their ears to distinguish for a moment, and then returned to the kennel. These vicious dogs have undergone very strict training. .

Tianzi Tiqi, carrying a watchman's gong, walked over and over and shouted: "Your Majesty's decree, tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival, special night, no firecrackers and fireworks are allowed, and fire candles are not allowed."

Fangye is the first time it appeared in Yongfang, big and small.

After several inquiries, the gentlemen of the mansion finally came out of Shiyongfang's mansion when the moon was rising.

The Shuiyun Pavilion Garden built by His Majesty is extremely elegant. The bureaucrats brought melons, fruits and vegetables, and came to the Shuiyun Pavilion Garden to enjoy the moon, but they basically never mentioned the affairs of the court.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty are also used to the emperor's style of doing things. His Majesty's actions have always been premeditated!

Your Majesty let the night go, that's bait!
The bait can be eaten, but it is better to avoid biting the hook.

The truth that being with a king is like a tiger, in fact, the courtiers understand better than the emperor, there is only one sky in Ming Dynasty, and that is His Majesty.

In the small Yongfang, the officials and their family members walked around, occasionally saw each other, exchanged mooncakes made at home, and chatted about the mid-autumn night. It will mention the current situation of North Korea and China.

Talking about the past and the present is better than discussing current affairs, and it is strong to be caught by His Majesty.

Yu Qian brought Mrs. Dong and his three granddaughters from Jiuzhong Hall to Shuiyunxieyuan.

Yu Qian's parent and son, Yu Mian, had six daughters and no males.

The main reason is that the children want to join in the fun, but the whole family is happy and happy.

In Dashi Yongfang was the family of bureaucrats, while in childhood Yongfang was the family of Xunqi.

Daming was celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Sun Zhong's family was no exception, but after eating at the big round table, they came to the workshop in the backyard.

The emperor of Ming minted silver coins, and the ban on using gold and silver was relaxed. For Sun Zhong, who is a powerful family member, the first thing that comes to mind is whether it can be minted privately!

The coinage process of the Bingzhan Bureau is too complicated, and they don't even understand why some processes are done, such as annealing the embryo cake, such as edge rolling, such as why it is cold pressed instead of hot cast.

Sun Zhong's silver workshop is currently testing whether it can use its own silver to cast Ming's currency. If so, then it can be used for personal gain!

Minting coins has been a big business in all dynasties, and it is easy to make a living. Even copper coins still had a [-]% gross profit in the Yongle period. However, copper is expensive and difficult to transport, so much is needed.

Now the opportunity to make a fortune by casting silver coins is right in front of you!
Sun Zhong, Sun Jizong, and Sun Xianzong waited anxiously for the silversmiths in the workshop to start the furnace to mint coins.

Instead of using His Majesty's cold pressing method, they used the sand casting method, with two upper and lower layers of sand molds, sprinkled with a layer of charcoal surface, poured silver water into the sprue, and cast it into silver coins.

For this reason, the craftsmen also specially found a huge stone, pressed it on it, and waited for the furnace to be opened.

The silver, copper and tin on the crucible slowly melted, and the craftsmen picked up the iron braze and slowly poured it into the sand mold.

After waiting until it was completely cooled, the craftsmen raised the stones on the sand mold box, opened the wooden press mold, and smashed the condensed sand inside, and a piece of black silver dollar leaked out.

The craftsmen looked at each other, cleaned the surface of the silver coin, and took it outside the workshop.

"Father, come out, come out!" Sun Jizong looked forward to it, and looked up at the silver coin that the craftsman took out. The black silver coin was placed in front of everyone.

The craftsmen carefully cleaned the surface, but there are still many black spots.

"Can't this black spot be cleaned?" Sun Zhong frowned and looked at the black silver coin, and then took out the silver coin made by the Ming Emperor's Military Bureau. It was also a silver coin. How could there be such a big gap?
The craftsman looked at the black spot and said helplessly, "Try annealing a small one."

After annealing, the silver coins finally had no dark spots, but they turned yellow and brown. Compared with the bright and shiny Ming Dynasty silver coins, they looked like they were on the brink of heaven, and the other seemed to be buried deep in the soil. for a long time.

Not only that, but the pattern on this imperial silver coin is extremely fine, and the wheat grains on the ears of wheat are clearly visible, while the ears of wheat on the silver coins they minted themselves are all connected into one piece.

Sun Xianzong said dully: "Carve it by hand?"

Sun Zhong shook his head and said, "The man-hours spent on that one is completely useless."

After the minted silver coin was completely cooled, Sun Zhong sighed and picked up the slightly yellowed silver coin, and blew vigorously, but there was no sound at all, and the flick was extremely dull.

He minted this silver coin, a fake at a glance.

Sun Jizong asked dully: "Father, can this be spent?"

"What do you think?" Sun Zhong flipped through the yellowed silver coins, and there were some obvious yellow spots and white spots on them, all of which were unmelted copper and tin.

Sun Xianzong looked at the minted silver coins, frowned and said: "It should be possible, how to put it, it is also made of silver."

"What a fart! This looks like a fake silver cake at first glance. Once you take it out and spend it, there will be memorials from the censors, yamen, and military guards immediately!"

"Your Majesty's Tiqi will come to our door tomorrow, three times, five times, two times, click, click, click, click! Take you, you, you, your head, all off!"

Sun Zhong waved his hands vigorously, and said extremely angrily: "The private caster is dead, are you joking when you think that evil emperor? He didn't keep what he said!"

Conspiracies and tricks, can you use your brains, they are eating in the bowl of His Majesty today, if they make trouble, they will lose their heads and die without a place to bury them!

Sun Zhong looked at the privately minted silver coin and asked again: "Master, is this the black surface caused by these toners?"

"The difference in brightness is too much!"

The craftsman looked at Huichang Bo, who was not working hard, and said helplessly: "If you don't sprinkle the toner, there will be trachoma on this silver coin. The silver water cools down very quickly. Look, there are honeycombs and pockmarks inside. Your Majesty rolled it." The machine is not unreasonable."

Silver ingots with honeycomb pockmarks are the best way to judge old silver ingots. The fake holes made by the master craftsman can see through them at a glance.

"Then can we go through the rolling machine and try using His Majesty's cold pressing method?" Sun Jizong continued to ask.

The craftsman shook his head helplessly and said, "Forgive me for my incompetence. If I had the ability, I would have gone to Beijing to go to Shijingchang and Bingzhan Bureau to take an examination as a great craftsman."

The craftsman said very clearly, he is not that capable, but if he has that ability, it would not be good to get the salary of the court for Hui Changbo to do such a thing of losing his head?
The craftsmen under His Majesty, the monthly salt and silver that everyone gets a full salary, is that money uneasy?
Sun Zhong finally sighed, why does the emperor have so many ways?

What the queen mother said was right, you can't fight the emperor if you fight him.

The emperor is not good at using intrigues and tricks, and even shows the essence of anglers every time he fishes, and he always fails to catch.

But His Majesty is good at plotting, and he clearly placed the chess in front of everyone. If you want to fight with Your Majesty, you have to have real skills to win.

The craftsmen in Bingzhanju all have experience accumulated through rewarding cards for meritorious service. If they want to have similar skills, they have to invest so much money in it first, and they have to not be discovered by the emperor.

How difficult is this?
It's a pity that it's okay for Sun Zhong to engage in some conspiracy.

If he has the strategy to stabilize the country in literature, and the ability to stabilize the country in military affairs, what is he still doing in his hometown in Shandong with these insidious tricks?
Isn't it a great joy in life to set up a battle with the emperor in front of the gong and drums in front of the emperor?
It's not that His Majesty doesn't want people to talk, but unfortunately, he doesn't have that ability.

Sun Jizong looked at the yellowed and speckled silver coin, which could not be blown soundly, was dull when bounced, and even swelled with heat and contracted with holes. This extremely inferior silver coin seemed to be mocking everyone silently.

"Father, let's forget it. It's a good thing anyway, and it's better than putting the silver in the pigsty to rot." Sun Jizong said very pragmatically.

Daming has a ban on gold and silver, and spending money is done secretly. Your Majesty has relaxed the ban on using gold and silver, but it has only been relaxed a little bit. The silver can be spent in a fair manner after being sent to the Baoyuan Bureau for a furnace.

After all, it is a good thing. If it is buried in a pigsty, it will not only turn black, but it will not sprout buds, blossom and bear fruit, and then produce new silver.

On the contrary, the silver ingot can be taken out after going through the war. It is a good thing to spend it aboveboard.

"Forget it, this evil emperor is really a headache." Sun Zhong shook his head, and he signaled the craftsmen to leave.

Sun Zhong said dejectedly: "Let the family members of the capital send the silver to the Baoyuan Bureau to exchange it for silver coins. Wealth is only rich if it is spent."

Sun Jizong sighed, and said in a low voice: "The sea of ​​silver coins has gone, and we have to wait in line. Your Majesty has 200 million taels of silver in the warehouse, and Taicang has a million silver. We need at least a year." Later."

Sun Zhong's face was full of displeasure, and he said indignantly: "We will be in Changbo Mansion, when did we suffer such grievances!"

"I still have to queue up. When the emperor is still here, what a good thing, it's not that we will give priority to Changbo Mansion!"

"This concubine emperor has no rules!"

If Zhu Qiyu had rules and Zhu Qizhen was still alive, they would naturally have a lot to do.

But who would have thought that His Majesty would kill someone in the Taimiao?

Right now in Daming, Zhu Qiyu is the biggest rule!

Sun Zhong was tinkering with silver coins in Shandong, but he was reported by Tiqi Dongchang fan who was watching Sun Zhong, and Xing'an took it into the Juxian Pavilion in the lecture hall, and reported to His Majesty.

Zhu Qiyu held Tiqi's report and Dongchang's report, and asked with a sneer: "Uncle Huichang is dancing on the tip of a knife, isn't he afraid of scratching himself?"

"Did he take out the coin and spend it?"

Xing'an bowed his head and said: "Destroy all of them. They didn't go to the market to exchange for copper and silver, but they were also made into silver jewelry."

Zhu Qiyu nodded, put down the memorandum, and said helplessly: "The father and son Sun Zhong and Sun Jizong also have some brains. They are not stupid. Take out a piece, and I can kill their whole family."

"It's also great to take the heads of their whole family and sacrifice the flag for Daming's new monetary policy."

"It's a pity that they were still persuaded in the end."

At home, some silver was poured into castings, and finally it was turned into jewelry. Zhu Qiyu was not easy to punish, and he couldn't handle an iron case that made people speechless.

Putting his whole family to death just because of the silver jewellery, that's a way to punish the heart, and it's trampling on the laws of the Ming Dynasty and the precepts of the emperor's ancestors.

As the emperor, he took the lead in violating the laws of the Ming Dynasty, so would anyone abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty?
Even when Zhu Yuanzhang handles the case, he still needs to talk about documentary evidence, physical evidence, and personal evidence.

Sun Zhong and Sun Jizong never expected that His Majesty would be staring at them, preparing to kill them, eradicating them by the roots, and offering sacrifices to the new monetary policy.

They tried it on the edge of life and death, and then retreated, missing a great opportunity to make a fortune.

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dukes from the Six Ministries have arrived, and the monthly salt and iron meeting should also begin." Xing'an reported.

The once-a-month salt and iron meeting has gradually become a routine. At the meeting, regulations and government affairs will not be formulated, but the atmosphere is more relaxed and everyone expresses their opinions.

Daming's financial affairs, which have been corrupted to the extreme, need to be cleared up before they can be dealt with.

　求……票！今日更新了1.5万字……4000+3600+4000+3400，求票！
　　
　
(End of this chapter)