I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 129 Returning to Ming Dynasty
November [-]th, Friday, at eleven o'clock in the night, four days have passed since the Yijimae incident.

Zhu Cixuan tilted his head and glanced at Li Wenwen who was sleeping soundly with a satisfied smile on his face, smiled, and turned his attention to the "roaming card" in the system space.

"Ding, Roaming Card: The vast universe is full of wonders, and there are countless parallel worlds. With this card, customers can roam in various parallel worlds and experience a different life journey.

Given that the client is currently roaming in the world of the Great Zhou Empire, would the client return to the original Great Ming world? "

"Return" Zhu Cixuan murmured silently in his heart, his eyes went dark, and then returned to normal.

Zhu Cixuan slowly opened his eyes, and found that he was still in the posture of roaming to the world of the Great Zhou Empire, sitting cross-legged on the bed in the East Nuan Pavilion of Wenhua Hall, and the clothes on his body had changed back to the clothes before roaming. The oil lamps still glowed dimly, illuminating the entire Wenhua Palace.

Breathing the warm air, he stretched comfortably, startling Wang Yuyan who was standing beside him.

Wang Yuyan bent her slender waist and took small steps, came to the bedside, blessed Zhu Cixuan, and said in a soft voice: "Your Highness, would you like your servant to prepare some pastries?"

Zhu Cixuan looked at the already slim Wang Yuyan, couldn't help moving his index finger, and said with a light smile: "No, Yuyan, you are the best pastry."

After finishing speaking, she took Wang Yuyan's slender hand and pulled it violently. Wang Yuyan let out a soft cry.

At si o'clock the next morning, Zhu Cixuan went to the East Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor Zhu Youlang. After seeing the ceremony, he took out a brocade handkerchief, opened it and presented it to Zhu Youlang: "Father, this is a newly minted coin by my minister. Take a look."

Zhu Youlang took it and saw that there were four large and small finely cast copper coins and three silver coins in the Jinpa.

The four large and small copper coins are solid round copper coins with flat edges and silk teeth. A small character, with a lifelike five-clawed golden dragon hovering on both sides of the character.

On the back, the inner circle has "Yongli Tongbao", and the outer circle has the Ming Empire's "one piece of money for 1 piece of money", "five pieces of money for five pieces of money", "ten pieces of money for 5 pieces of money" and "fifty pieces of money for money". typeface.

The silver coins are all solid circles with continuous silk teeth. In the center of the front are the words "one yuan", "five yuan" and "ten yuan". Above the words are four small characters "Da Ming Empire".

In the center of the back are the four big characters of "Yongli Yuanbao", and the outer rings are "100 Wen for 500 Wen for making money", 1000 Wen for [-] Wen for making money", "[-] Wen for [-] Wen when making money" and other words.

Zhu Youlang has never seen such delicate coins minted, they are simply exquisite works of art, and he can't put it down after looking at them carefully.

He happily asked Zhu Cixuan: "My lord, can these coins be minted in large quantities? How about the cost?"

Zhu Cixuan pointed to the copper coin inside the outer circle and said: "Father, this one penny flat coin weighs six cents and two cents (3.72 grams x 0.62 is approximately equal to 2.30 grams). This Wu Wen coin weighs one penny and four quarters." Percentage, ten Wen weighs two cents and eight cents, and fifty Wen weighs seven cents and two cents.

这枚当制钱100文的银币重七分二厘，这枚当制钱500文的银币重三钱六厘，这枚当制钱1000文的重七钱二分（26.50至27克）。

These coins of Fuhuang can be minted in large quantities, and the cost is comparable to the copper coins issued now. "

"Really?" Zhu Youlang was shocked. It is unbelievable that this exquisite coin is equivalent to the current cost of copper coins.

"Zhu Cixuan nodded affirmatively and said: "Father, really. "

"Okay, my father will issue an imperial decree, and my son and you will be fully responsible for minting new coins." Zhu Youlang felt very relieved, and immediately studied ink, "swish, swish, swish" and wrote a new coin that the prince Zhu Cixuan had full authority to mint and issue. currency.

Zhu Cixuan received the imperial decree, kowtowed to thank him, left Qianqing Palace, and went to the yamen of the household department.

He found Wang Weigong, Shangshu of the household department, read out the imperial decree, and then asked Wang Weigong to send all the copper coins of the household department to the Wenhua Hall where he lived.

In fact, Zhu Cixuan, who owns a universal minting machine, can cast copper coins very quickly, and can complete the casting in the warehouse of the household department, but Zhu Cixuan did not do this in order to maintain mystery.

Boxes of copper coins were transported to Wenhua Hall. Zhu Cixuan found a spacious side hall and put all these copper coins in. Due to the excessive amount of copper coins in the warehouse of the household department, only a small part was transported that day.

At night, he ordered others not to disturb him, and went into the side hall alone, and put his hands on the boxes containing copper coins. With a thought, boxes of copper coins flew into the system space.

Then the copper coins flew into the feed port of the universal minting machine like rain, and in the blink of an eye, new copper coins gushing out from the discharge port one after another.

Under the control of Zhu Cixuan's mind, a hundred copper coins were sealed into a package and neatly stacked in the box.It didn't take long for the old copper coins transported during the day to become brand new copper coins after polishing.

The next day, the Minister of the Household Department sent someone to continue transporting the copper coins to the Wenhua Palace, and Zhu Cixuan asked him to take away the new copper coins that had been minted.

When Hubu Shangshu Wang Weigong received the report from his subordinates that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had minted new copper coins, he hurried to the Hubu warehouse and opened a letter of copper coins. When the beautifully minted and gleaming new copper coins appeared in front of his eyes, he was completely shocked up.

This copper coin is so beautiful, with this pattern and workmanship, he can't imagine what kind of technical means is used to cast such a beautiful copper coin. I am afraid that only gods can cast such a delicate and beautiful copper coin!Wang Weigong thought so.

The only downside is that the weight of the new copper coins is much lighter than the old copper coins, and it is suspected of cutting corners, but with such exquisite copper coins, who cares about the weight, and is not willing to spend them in their hands.

For many days in a row, the copper coins and silver from the Ministry of Households were transported to the Wenhua Hall in a car, and then a new one-wen, five-wen, ten-wen, and five-shi-wen copper coins were minted on the handlebars of the car, one yuan, five Round and ten-yuan silver dollars are transported back to the household department.

It took more than half a month to toss back and forth to cast all the copper coins and silver in the household department into new copper coins and silver dollars.

While Zhu Cixuan was busy minting new coins, Emperor Zhu Youlang and Queen Wang were trying to choose a princess for Zhu Cixuan. For a while, all the girls in Jiangnan who were over 15 years old and 20 years old were not engaged or married. , their parents were alarmed.

This time the emperor Zhu Youlang made a lot of noise, and he directly ordered that auditions be held in the entire Jiangnan area controlled by the Ming army.

However, according to the rules of the old Zhu family, the first thing is not to choose women from powerful families, but to generally choose women from good families, and those from ordinary families are the best.

I hope that some disasters can be avoided in this way, and I hope that the good morals of folk women can bring a new atmosphere to the harem of the Ming Dynasty.

Then Zhu Youlang sent eunuchs to various places to select girls between the ages of 15 and 20. A total of 5000 girls were selected, and then the imperial court issued travel expenses to allow these girls to arrive in the capital within the specified time.

When Zhu Cixuan heard that [-] school-age girls were selected first at once, he was shocked. This is too much work and waste of money!

He hurried to find the emperor Zhu Youlang, and after all he said, he finally decided to select a thousand girls to go to Beijing, and then they were driven back by the emperor and empress, so that he could wait at ease and let him have a look after the selection.

The emperor and empress were busy choosing Zhu Cixuan as a concubine, and Zhu Cixuan was not idle there either. He bought a small bank in Jiangning City.

He chose a middle-aged man in his 30s named Xiao Shouxin as the treasurer, and transferred 300 people from his East Palace guards to guard the safety of the bank.

After a period of investigation, he found that Xiao Shouxin was quite capable and managed the bank in an orderly manner, so he used a loyalty card for him to make him no longer have half-hearted thoughts about himself.

Because a bank is no different than other things, a person must not only have ability, but most importantly, must be loyal and not have two hearts, otherwise, he will suffer a lot if he tampers with it in private.

Then, Zhu Cixuan began to open new copper coins and silver dollar exchange business in this bank called Daming Empire. One penny of old copper coins in good condition was exchanged for one penny of new copper coins, and one tael of silver was exchanged for ten yuan silver coins.

Although the new copper coin weighs only 2.30 grams, the old copper coin weighs about 3.50 grams, the silver tael weighs 37.3 grams, and the ten-yuan silver coin weighs 26.5 grams.

3.50 grams of an old copper coin is exchanged for 2.30 grams of a penny of new copper coins, and 37.3 grams of a tael of silver is exchanged for 26.5 grams of a ten-yuan silver coin. Obviously, there is a lot of loss.

Some people were even willing to pay high prices for new coins, which caused long queues at the gate of the Ming Empire Bank every day.

Carloads of copper coins and silver were transported into the bank, and then transported to the Wenhua Palace where Zhu Cixuan lived. The next day, new copper coins and silver were brought in, and the minted copper coins and silver dollars were brought back to the bank.

Zhu Cixuan opened two more branches of the Ming Empire Bank in Jiangning, and gradually opened the branches to various Chengxuanzhengshisi, various prefectures, and various Zhili prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River.

In this way, after more than three months of non-stop recruitment of manpower, construction of underground bank vaults, dispatch of shopkeepers, guards, and establishment of bodyguard bureaus for transporting coins and other tedious tasks, the construction of branch offices in various places was finally completed and opened for business.The situation of queuing up to exchange new currency has eased.

The branches of the Ming Empire Banks were still full of people, and there was an endless stream of people, making Zhu Cixuan earn a lot of money, and he returned a wave of blood fiercely.

Of course, it is not about issuing new coins without restraint, but how many copper coins are recovered, how many copper coins are exchanged, how many taels of silver are recovered, and silver dollars of equivalent value are exchanged.

It's not a one-brained way to cast all the recovered copper coins and silver into copper coins, and circulate the silver dollars on the market.

Control the total amount of coins in circulation in the market, so as not to cause inflation, raise prices in disguise, and cause currency depreciation.

Amidst the busy schedule, a thousand school-age girls also rushed to Jiangning to start the selection of the princess.

First choose from the height, fat and thin, skin, facial features, hair, and voice, and those who do not meet the requirements will be eliminated directly.

Then use a ruler to carefully measure the size of the siblings, and let them walk for a while to see how they look.Those with thick bones, big feet, and those with bad manners were eliminated again.

Finally, the maids of the palace check whether they have body odor, whether their bodies are well-proportioned, whether their skin is delicate, and whether there are any defects on their bodies.

After a strict personal inspection, 100 people were left. They will live in the palace for a month, and a special person will observe their lifestyle, judge their character and conduct from their words and deeds, and then eliminate a group.

The 50 people who passed the customs met with the emperor and the queen, and three final candidates were selected, one was the crown princess, and the other two were the crown prince's side concubines.

　Explanation: One coin = 10 cents = 100 centimetres = 3.72 grams.

　　
　
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