I became the son of Renzong

In other words, Zhao Xi really wanted to know if it would be possible to use the universal currency as in later generations when it was not banknotes... legally plundering wealth.

"Officials, I remember that officials said that the earliest transactions were barter transactions. Even when the coins were tight in the early years of the Kingdom, there were barters in many places in the Kingdom."

"When currency acts as an intermediate, that is, the evaluation standard of the value of all items, coins become to some extent more important than goods."

"During these years, I discovered that when Guochao's currency becomes a common currency, it means that Guochao has the right to set prices for all items..."

"For example, rice, whether it is Annan or Champa, assuming that Shiyi Temple approves the price in Guochao territory is [-] yuan, then the local purchase price of merchants will not be higher than ten yuan. But once the price in Guochao territory is [-] yuan Wen, merchants need to reduce the local purchase price in order to ensure their interests.”

"For example, stone lacquer. There are Hu merchants in Xifan who sell stone lacquer, and the price change is also based on the approved price of Shiyi Temple as the standard and basis. In this way, it is equivalent to Guochao having the pricing power of all traded goods. "

"The officials have talked about the difference between price and value. I think that after the common currency, the country and court can control the value and price gap of traded items according to the pricing."

Pricing power and standards... This is the most important aspect of trade in later generations.I didn't expect Xue Xiang to be able to extend to this point only through one common currency.

Zhao Xi really didn't know how to feel emotionally.

"Officials, this time the cabinet agreed to mine gold and silver in Fusang, Koryo and other places, and I agree with it. I want to use this as a pilot to try to see if the price and value can be controlled by means of currency."

"The mining workers, the participants of Fusang Koryo, and the participants of the Guochao do not have the craftsmanship and rights to mint currency, and the currency of the Guochao is only used today. Therefore, in the end, it is necessary to use the currency of the Guochao to measure the mined gold. The value of silver, all forces also need the currency of the country to measure wealth."

I don't know if the other cabinets understood it, but Zhao Xi probably understood it.

The currency of the Song Dynasty is a common currency, that is to say, even the forces of Fusang and Goryeo need to exchange the mined gold and silver for the currency of the country... After all, the raw gold and silver mines are even less valuable.

Similarly, those employees and participants also need to use the currency of Song Dynasty to pay wages and dividends.Therefore, the imperial court controlled the minting of currency, which was equivalent to controlling the entire mining of gold and silver.

This is very different from mining the mining city in Dongchuan...

However, Zhao Xi felt that Xue Xiang should talk to him alone about this matter. After all, since the cabinet invited this matter, they must all have the intention to participate.After all, it is to plunder the resources of other countries, and no one has the burden.

This is also my own negligence, I didn't expect Xue Xiang to extend the currency to this point...

"I'm sure about this matter. The prince will be in the middle to coordinate..."

This kind of matter, the royal family must not miss it. If the royal family does not participate, I am afraid that the ministers will not be at ease.

The fourth prince is the leader no matter what, and as the general of the army, he is from the old guard battalion.Not to mention that the workshop city is an absolute place where officials cannot be peeped and touched by others.

According to Xue Xiang, without the participation of the royal family, it is not a matter of earning more and less, and it is possible to lose everything.

Chapter 880

The prince doesn't understand it very well. Before he understands it, he won't make any movements. This is a habit he has developed through years of experience.

He is not his father, and he doesn't have his own team yet. Although his father doesn't care, he has never set up his own team.Even Zong Ze, it was his father who allowed him to get close, and he also had enough time.

So, the prince asked Dad, but Dad sent Zhao Qin, the royal agent.

For Zhao Qin, the prince didn't even know what to call him.

There is no rank, but there are quite powerful people in the entire inner garden, even in the entire kingdom.

But the crown prince knows that she belongs to his father...

"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince..."

The reason why Zhao Qin has been in charge of the royal business for a long time is because of self-knowledge.In the inner garden, her popularity is not only because of her status as the royal business agent, but because she is not arrogant.

"Lonely met Shopkeeper Zhao..."

The prince really doesn't know how to address him, so that's all he can do.

Zhao Qin didn't expect the prince to call her aunt, and she was already satisfied with the prince's gift.

The official asked her to come to explain to the prince how to obtain profits from gold mining, and Zhao's identity as shopkeeper is very suitable.

Both the empress and the officials wanted to give her a title, but Zhao Qin herself refused.Having a reputation may not be better than now...

Zhao Qin didn't want to explain like Xue Xiang, but just put two hundred copper coins on the low table, and then put three gold coins.

"Your Highness, at the market price of Guochao, the price of ten stone gold mines is only two hundred copper coins."

Don't be surprised, with the ancient gold refining technology, a ton of gold can be refined to a dozen or twenty grams of gold, and the weight of a gold coin is almost a dozen grams.Therefore, ordinary gold ore is worthless by ton, but the volume of a ton of gold is not large.

It's not that there is no ten-stone gold inner garden, it is that there is no raw ore, all of which are extracted, or just gold coins, Zhao Qin didn't think about actually moving ten-stone gold.

She just needs to explain the truth to the prince.

"Two hundred copper coins are used to buy the raw ore, and in the end almost three gold coins can be minted in the workshop city, and the added auxiliary materials can be ignored. The difference during this period is the profit."

"It's not that there is no way to refine pure gold in places other than Workshop City, it's just that the refining technology in other places can only extract gold that is less than two gold coins..."

"The Guochao's coinage technology is advanced, whether it is the Northern Liao Dynasty, Goryeo, Fusang and other places, merchants, nobles and even civilians all prefer the coins minted by the Guochao."

"The raw ore of gold is useless. Although it can be used as currency to a certain extent, it is often used cheaply, and the price is even less than two hundred copper coins. The copper coins of Guochao are hard currency as officials say... ···”

"Therefore, it should be said that Guochao has the initiative in the pricing of raw gold ore, or even that Guochao has the final say. Raw ore cannot make wealth, even if the raw ore is mined outside, it cannot be minted as exquisite gold coins as Guochao. Owning the coins of the dynasty is considered wealth..."

Although the prince's intelligence is not as good as that of the officials, he is also a Jinshi in high school. Zhao Qin won't say any more, but enough has been said.

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The team of the fourth prince has not expanded, but the number of people going to sea this time has increased.All kinds of people from the prince, the cabinet, the ministers and workers of the court, and some well-known gentry have joined his team.

It's a pity that none of them are combat teams, and they are even responsible for protecting these people.

They are not even absent from work, saying that absenteeism requires them to find a way... Isn't it just to capture pirates as slaves?This is not difficult.

Although the gold mining on the island this time is similar in form to the Dongchuan Copper Mine City in the early years, the Fourth Prince understands that there is still a big difference.

The Dongchuan Copper Mine in the early years was discovered by the father, and it was decided by the father to lead and host, and even choose to mix in the gentry and ministers.

But now the island gold mine is discovered by the team led by himself, but the initiative is decided by the crown prince...

Not only the ministers and nobles, but even the royal family is presided over by the crown prince... the shopkeeper Zhao is responsible for the training.As for myself, as the discoverer, I was lucky enough to get involved, and the other princes simply did not have this opportunity.

The fourth prince couldn't explain clearly, but he felt very honored about something that should be emotional... just because the eldest brother of the prince took him to have a long talk...

The model of the gold mine does refer to that of the Dongchuan Copper Mine.The location of the gold mine is located on an island close to the territory of Koryo, or it can be said that it was originally under the jurisdiction of Koryo, but there are all kinds of people on the island mixed, and Koryo cannot and does not have effective control.Now it belongs to the fourth prince, and it belongs to Guochao.

In consideration of interests, the fourth prince completely copied the model of Dongchuan Mining City, and brought in the forces from Korea, Fusang, and even Beiliao for development...

It is impossible for the fourth prince to stop the entire team on this island, he still wants to go south.At the same time, he also needs to send people north in a timely manner to investigate the situation in Suzhou, Laizhou and other places in the Northern Liao Dynasty, so as to ensure that in the future when the Kingdom of China and the Northern Liao Dynasty go to war, they can really take on the role of partial teachers... Although the court is not needed.

The key point is that he still needs to complete the task assigned by his father...to wipe out Wanyan Keribo's family.

This matter is not difficult, a lord of the Martial Cavalry Captain has been hereditary for three generations, and in the current situation where martial arts are still popular in the country, and in his own desperate team, there is no shortage of such dead soldiers.