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Chapter 336 The Unexpected Secret

"Xiao Shunzi, how are you doing with the tens of millions of silver coins I asked you to make last month?" Yang Reform asked.

"Return to Your Majesty, this servant is damned, I didn't finish what His Majesty asked me to do in time, please punish me, my servant only made four to five million pieces,... this servant missed His Majesty's business, damn..., damn..." Xiao Shunzi heard the emperor Ask him what happened last month, and immediately knelt down, slapped himself in the face, 500 million silver coins, the number is really too big, he tried his best to catch up with work, and there are still only 1000 million silver coins, which is still far away from 500 million. There is a big gap, the 1000 million silver coins were not made in time.

When Yang Reform heard this, he was agitated for a while, and then he calculated it himself. One silver coin is seven cents and two cents, and 500 million silver coins weigh 22 catties in total. If it is used for performances, the effect should be similar.

"Forget it, four or five million pieces is not easy, and I don't blame you for anything, but Xiao Shunzi, you have to be careful next time. People must learn to use their brains and learn how to improve. We can cast 500 million pieces this month. Next month, we will strive to cast 500 million pieces, and people must learn to improve, not only in terms of status, but also in terms of doing things, understand?" Yang reformed a rather unhappy lesson.

Even though Xiao Shunzi was a "popular" figure in Beijing and was extremely popular, but after being taught a lesson by the emperor, he was dripping with cold sweat. The emperor was saying that his status had improved, but his speed of doing things had not increased. A red flag, the emperor has a problem with himself.

"Thank you Your Majesty Long En, I will change my mind and try my best to improve..." Xiao Shunzi hadn't seen the emperor these days, and his heart was a little fluttering. Now that he was taught by the emperor, his heart fell from the sky to the ground and became " Be firm." Get up.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about my plan... Are those silver coins in the Baoyuan Bureau now?" Yang Reform asked.

Xiao Shunzi had just eaten the watermelon in his stomach, and after a burst of sweat, he came out again.Hearing the emperor asking himself, he quickly replied: "Your Majesty, they are all here, all are here, all are here, except for four or five million silver coins, and there are quite a few silver coins, all of which are in the Baoyuan Bureau. The slaves have never acted rashly." " Xiao Shunzi was taught a lesson by the emperor, he was still a little young, and he was afraid, when the emperor asked about his silver coins, he thought that the emperor was afraid of his corruption, so he quickly explained.

"Oh? Is there any more silver? How much? Are they all from Li Ruolian?" Yang Reform asked curiously. The Baoyuan Bureau minted coins. Yang Reform told him to exchange all the silver in the bank for silver coins. There were 600 million taels of silver there. , plus his own internal funds, it is possible to mint tens of millions of silver coins. Listening to Xiao Shunzi's tone, it seems that there is something wrong with this silver. Yang Reform asked curiously.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the silver that the slaves are talking about is not from Mr. Li, but the silver that was minted by others. Someone gave the silver and asked the slaves to cast it on behalf of the slaves. The slaves have a lot of money now. There is about 200 million taels of cash from the servant..." Xiao Shunzi was still too young, it was the first time he had gained such a great power, and he was in charge of so much money in his hands. After being taught a lesson by the emperor, he was terrified, and quickly poured out everything like pouring a can.

Yang Reform was surprised!I didn't realize that there is still such a huge profit in the minting business. Among other things, the 200 million taels of "working capital" in the Baoyuan Bureau alone is a very large fortune!

Yang Reform never dreamed that such a thing would happen!Others begged Baoyuan Bureau to mint coins. At the beginning, Yang Reform was struggling with how to mint hundreds of millions of silver coins every year in order to make some money. Now, others dare to send several million taels of silver to Baoyuan Bureau, so that The Baoyuan Bureau minted silver coins... What's going on here?Yang Reform is inexplicable... The Ming Dynasty incident made Yang Reform a little confused. Who is so kind to give money to himself?
"Xiao Shunzi, what's going on here, please explain it clearly." Yang Reform is also confused now, why would anyone dare to give him millions of taels of silver to make money for him?The bureaucrats and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty were not so generous, right?Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not perish!

"Returning to Your Majesty, this matter only happened this month. Last month, the servants accepted His Majesty's order and began to mint silver coins with all their strength. Therefore, they stopped exchanging silver coins for outsiders and gathered for His Majesty. Silver coins, as a result, in the first ten days of this month, someone found slaves and asked them to exchange silver coins for them. They offered silver and exchanged them for silver coins according to their fineness. The servants can earn more money from them, so the servants agreed, and secretly exchanged hundreds of thousands of silver coins for them. Originally, the servants thought that hundreds of thousands of silver coins were nothing, and the servants could be more for His Majesty. It took a lot of money to earn that penny, but, unexpectedly, after they got the silver coins, within a few days, they found a servant girl and wanted to exchange for more silver coins. Therefore, I promised them again, and secretly exchanged more than one million silver coins for them. This time, I received more than two million taels of silver from them, and promised them that I would mint them into silver coins at the beginning of next month..., Your Majesty Damn, slaves, damn, slaves should not be greedy for the fire consumption of that one cent of silver and miss His Majesty's affairs, let alone secretly exchange them for the 200 million silver coins... Your majesty, slaves should die, damn, oh Huh..." Xiao Shunzi wailed and shook everything out.

Yang Reform was confused. Who is so obsessed with silver coins?Take several million taels of silver to exchange for silver coins?This matter is strange.Also annoyed at the little guy discounting his own orders.

"Wait, don't cry, tell me carefully, what's going on here? How can someone be willing to take so much silver to make silver coins? You know, I'm here to make money, the more coins I mint , the more I earn, who the hell is minting so many silver coins? Baba gave me silver? I don’t believe it..." Yang Reform was really confused. For one silver coin, he could get two Three points of profit, that is, three percent, one million taels, or 100 taels of silver, if those people give themselves one more penny, that is to say, they can get four percent, one million taels of silver If you get 3 taels, 100 million taels of silver, you can get 4 taels of silver, which is 200 taels more than the original 8 taels. Don’t underestimate the profit. If you cast 6 million silver coins, This profit is worth 100 million silver coins.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the maidservant was confused at first, thinking that since someone gave the slaveservant money, no, give silver to His Majesty, the next thing is, so, I didn't care too much, so I just exchanged it for that person, and that person is also generous. He didn't ask if the servant would lose his silver, but he didn't seem to worry that the servant would deceive him, so he directly invited the servant to see the quality of the silver, decided how many silver coins to exchange, and then left, only saying that he would come to pick up the silver coins in a few days... ..., Later, they took more than 10 taels of silver and asked the slaves to exchange them for silver coins. Only then did the servants feel that something was going wrong, and the servants felt that something was wrong inside, so they found an excuse to delay, saying that no matter what, they would have to go to next month. They seemed not very happy, but they still left the money in the From the servants, they only said to make silver coins as soon as possible..."

With a mournful face, Xiao Shunzi explained the situation to the emperor, explaining that he was inside and that there was absolutely no corruption.

"Then you didn't notice anything strange?" Yang Reform wondered, what the hell is this Ming Dynasty man doing?It's so mysterious.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the servants also became suspicious later and began to inquire about their affairs. However, they were tight-lipped and the servants did not come up with any reliable words. They wanted to report to His Majesty, but because the servants were afraid that His Majesty would blame them, so, again I didn't dare to report it, I just thought that I would report it to His Majesty after I found out the details of these people..." Xiao Shunzi burst into tears as he kept explaining, showing the temper of a jerky child.

Yang Reform was also troubled, it was a deal of several million taels of silver!This guy actually dared to hide it. This is an annoying thing. After thinking about it, he said: "Then you have found out their details? Do you know where they came from?" Yang Reform asked dissatisfied.

"Wuwuwu, back to Your Majesty, it was only these two days that the servants figured out some of their details and their origins. The silver coins they gave to the servants were generally not high. Later, the servants roughly estimated from the silver coins that they What are you doing..." Xiao Shunzi explained.

"What do they do?" Yang Reform asked.

"...Returning to Your Majesty, they may be merchants who specialize in collecting poor-quality silver in other places and then exchanging it into silver coins. They exchange these poor-quality silver into silver coins at the servants' place, because the silver coins are finely crafted and of excellent quality. And it can be blown, so it has become a commodity worth more than pure silver. Except for the northern and southern capitals, there is no place to mint coins. Therefore, if you want to use silver coins in other places, you have to go through them... The servant guessed that they were in other places , when collecting these scattered silver, I am afraid that they exchanged [-]% to [-]% of the fire consumption for silver coins. A profit of four cents is one cent higher than the original profit, a total of seven cents and three cents of silver for one silver coin... and they can earn a profit of [-] to [-] percent... Originally, in the past, they were There is no need to add this profit to the servants, but the servants accepted His Majesty's imperial decree and concentrated on collecting silver coins for His Majesty, so they stopped exchanging silver coins outside, so they seemed to be very anxious, and specially added a profit to the servants, Let the slaves mint silver coins for them..., the slaves are obsessed with money..."

"Wait, you mean, nowadays, there are merchants who specialize in collecting scattered silver in exchange for silver coins in other places? You are here to give you a point of fire consumption to exchange for silver coins? They made more than [-]% of the profit, didn't they?" Yang Reform didn't understand what was going on, how could there be such a large profit in it Woolen cloth?
"Returning to Your Majesty, yes, these people exchange seven cents and three cents of silver for one silver coin at the servants' place, and then add [-]% to [-]% of fire consumption to exchange for silver when they go to other places, and more than [-]% of the profit , These are all conjectured by servants... In fact, maybe not so high, maybe even higher... Because His Majesty's silver coins are very well made, and can be blown, and can be used to pay taxes, Therefore, the servant girl thought, maybe many people want to pay taxes with silver coins. In this way, there is no need to pay fire consumption silver. Generally, the fire consumption in prefectures and counties is [-] to [-] percent, and some are as high as [-] to [-] percent. If you use your majesty's silver coins, then It may only be [-]% of the fire consumption, which is obviously much cheaper... So, the servant guessed that they are probably businessmen who do this kind of business... If His Majesty didn't suddenly want to mint silver coins on a large scale, the servant would not know The mystery of it is that the servants stopped exchanging silver coins outside, and they had nowhere to get the silver coins, so there was an extra fire consumption..."

Yang Reform was even more puzzled and confused.What are these things!How could this be, a merchant who specializes in reselling his own silver coins?
"What, you have to deal with these merchants? Can't the common people exchange silver coins by themselves?" Yang Reform asked puzzled.

"...Returning to Your Majesty, there are only two capitals in the world that can mint coins. Therefore, if you want to use silver coins in other places, you have to go to the two capitals to exchange them. Hundreds of thousands of pieces, shipped together to a certain place, so that people from the bodyguard bureau can be invited to escort them, so that we are not afraid of problems on the way... This is how the servant guessed..." Xiao Shunzi explained with a sad face.

After hearing Xiao Shunzi's guess, Yang Reform didn't know what to say.After thinking for a while, he said: "They just happened to give you a point of fire consumption? That is to say, they know the details of this silver coin?"

Although Xiao Shunzi didn't cry anymore, she still burst into tears, and said, "Return to Your Majesty, yes, the slaves reckoned that they must have someone in the capital, either the vassal king or the nobles, or the ministers of the court." Otherwise, they would not have known clearly about the minting of silver coins by the slaves. When the slaves talked to them, they would say that they knew everything about silver coins. They said that they knew everything about silver coins. Afraid of trouble; secondly, they make it themselves, and the consumption is higher than that of the slaves, so it is better to build it here. , it seems that the ins and outs of the minting of coins, and even the formula of silver coins are clear, so the slaves guess that there is someone in their court..."

Xiao Shunzi's words shocked Yang Reform!Those people that Xiao Shunzi mentioned had people in the court, and they were definitely not wrong. Yang Reform had told the ministers in the court and nobles about the formula of the silver coin, and they knew the formula of the silver coin, and they knew their own formula. How much money can be made in minting coins, that's why there is a matter of adding a penny to Xiao Shunzi's minting coins.Yang Reform was not angry that these people made more money by reselling silver coins than himself, but was shocked that the ministers of the DPRK and China were involved in this matter.The ministers who were supposed to help him manage the country and make suggestions for him would actually take advantage of his own loopholes and use the news that he knew about his silver coins to make money. This makes people very suspicious of the ability, attitude and sincerity of these people to govern the country. Reliability of governance.

Faced with this kind of thing, Yang Reform has nothing to do.After thinking for a while, Yang Reform could only ask disheartenedly: "Then Xiao Shunzi, pay taxes with silver coins. If the local government collects the silver coins, will it really stop collecting fire consumption? Wouldn't it be a waste of more than [-]% of the fire consumption to exchange silver coins?"

"..." Xiao Shunzi stopped crying. When the emperor asked, he whispered: "Your Majesty, there are many people in the local area who are capable. Since Your Majesty said that they can pay taxes with silver coins, they can use silver coins. Paying taxes, instead of paying up to [-]-[-]% of fire consumption, you can save a lot of money between the entry and exit. Even the states and counties have nothing to do with them. Those who can accept those ordinary people, not to mention, the more than [-]% of the fire consumption is also guessed by the servants, maybe they only pay a small amount of fire consumption..."

Yang Reform was speechless. This kind of thing is both a good thing and a bad thing. After thinking about it for a while, he didn't have a clue, so he could only let it go and deal with his "business" first.

"Forget it, let's not mention this matter for the time being. They are willing to give you an extra point of fire consumption. That's fine. You can just cast them for them. After this busy time is over, you can increase the amount of casting. Anyone who has If you want to exchange silver coins, you will always come and try to make 1000 to [-] million silver coins every year. In this way, you will make a great contribution. However, this time, you did not do things right. For such a big thing, you did not first Report, I asked you to make [-] million silver coins, and you only made half of it. This, you have to be punished. After a while, when the work is over, I will go outside the Qianqing Palace for an hour." Yang Reform decided to punish Xiao Shunzi.

"My servant thanked His Majesty for his punishment, and my servant will go outside for a while..." Seeing that the emperor punished him, Xiao Shunzi stopped crying and instead laughed. The emperor punished him, which meant that he still valued him. Otherwise, it would not be such a punishment, but leaving his job and throwing him to a place where no one cares about him to die.

Li Ruolian has been quietly watching the conversation between the emperor and Eunuch Shun, with her head down, without saying a word. Seeing Eunuch Shun, who is so beautiful in front of others, expressing repentance in front of the emperor, Li Ruolian is also touched a lot. The reason why he and Eunuch Shun were able to succeed and become a hot figure is rooted in the emperor. It is what they have to do to look after the emperor's money. If they ruin the emperor's affairs, what are they hiding from the emperor? In a word from the emperor, they are currently These will disappear in smoke.

"Forget it, let's not mention this matter for now, let's talk about my plan first." Yang Reform said helplessly. He minted 300 million silver coins by himself and only earned 1000 million silver coins. Ten thousand silver coins, Yang Reform felt very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)