Chapter 338: Secrets I learned unexpectedly

"Xiao Shunzi, how have you done the tens of millions of silver coins I asked you to make last month?" Yang Jinghui asked.

"When you go back to Your Majesty, I should die. I did not complete the things that Your Majesty gave in time. Please punish him. I only did four or five million.... I missed Your Majesty's affairs, damn..., damn..." Xiao Shunzi immediately knelt down when he heard the emperor ask him about what happened last month, and slapped himself in the face. Ten million silver coins. The number was too big. He tried his best to work, but there were still only four or five million. There was still a big gap from ten million coins. These ten million silver coins were not made in time.

After hearing this, Yang Jie felt annoyed at first, and then he calculated it himself. A silver coin was seven cents and two cents, and five million silver coins weighed a total of 220,000 kilograms. If used for performance, the effect should be almost the same.

"Forget it, four or five million pieces are not easy, and I don't blame you any more. However, Xiao Shunzi, you have to pay attention next time. People must learn to use their brains and learn how to improve. They can cast five million pieces this month, and next month, they will strive to cast ten million pieces. People must learn to make progress, not only to pursue progress in their status, but also to learn to make progress in their work. Do you understand?" Yang Jing said a lesson that was quite unhappy.

Although Xiao Shunzi was a "reputable" person in Beijing, and was so popular that he was taught a lesson by the emperor and was sweating profusely. The emperor was saying that his status had improved, but his speed of doing things did not increase. This was a dangerous signal that the emperor had an objection to him.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness. I will definitely change my mind, work hard to improve, and strive for progress..." Xiao Shunzi didn't see the emperor these days, and his heart was a little drifty. Now he was taught a lesson by the emperor, and his heart fell from the sky to the ground, becoming "stable".

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Tell me what I plan to put... Are those silver coins now in Baoyuan Bureau?" Yang Jing asked.

The watermelon that Xiao Shunzi had just eaten into her stomach came out again with a sweat just now. When he heard the emperor ask him, he quickly replied: "Your Majesty, you are here, you are here, you are here, you are there, except for four or five million silver coins, there is still a lot of silver, all in Baoyuan Bureau. I never acted aloofly." Xiao Shunzi was taught a lesson by the emperor, but he was still a little younger and was scared. When he saw the emperor ask about his silver coins, he thought the emperor was afraid of his corruption, so he quickly explained.

"Oh? There is still silver? How much? Are they from Li Ruolian?" Yang Jing asked curiously. When Baoyuan Bureau minted coins, Yang Jing told him to exchange all the silver in the bank for silver coins, where there were six million taels of silver, and with his own treasury, it was possible to mint tens of millions of silver coins. Judging from Xiao Shunzi's tone, it seemed that there was something wrong with the silver. Yang Jing asked curiously.

"When I go back to your majesty, I don't mean the money I have to cast on my behalf, but the money I have to cast on my behalf. Someone paid the money and asked me to cast on my behalf to give me a penny of fire. Now I have a lot of money in my place, and I have about two million taels of silver in cash..." Xiao Shunzi was still a little too young. For the first time, he gained such great power and was in charge of so much money. He was inevitably weak and a little erratic. Now he was taught a lesson by the emperor, and was afraid in his heart, and quickly poured out everything like a pot.

Yang Jing was surprised! He didn't realize that there was such a huge profit in the coin industry. Not to mention anything else, the "liquid capital" of Baoyuan Bureau alone was a very large amount of wealth!

Yang Jing never dreamed that such a thing would happen! Others begged Baoyuan Bureau to mint coins. At that time, in order to make some money, Yang Jing was still worried about how to mint hundreds of millions of silver coins every year. Now, others dare to send millions of taels of silver to Baoyuan Bureau and let Baoyuan Bureau mint silver coins... What's going on? Yang Jing was inexplicably... The Ming Dynasty incident made Yang Jing a little confused. Who was so kind to give money to himself?

"Xiao Shunzi, what's going on? Tell me clearly now." Yang Jie is also confused now. Why do anyone dare to give him millions of taels of silver to make money? The bureaucrats and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty were not so generous, right? Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not have perished!

"Go back to Your Majesty, this matter is only happening this month. Last month, I received Your Majesty's order and began to mint silver coins with all my might. So I stopped exchanging silver coins for you outside, and specially gathered silver coins for Your Majesty. As a result, in the early part of this month, someone found me and asked me to exchange them for minting silver coins. They paid the silver and exchanged them with silver coins according to the quality. As long as I minted it, I calculated that according to the price they paid, I could earn more money from their fire. So I agreed and secretly exchanged hundreds of thousands of silver coins for them. Originally, I thought hundreds of thousands of silver coins were nothing, but I could earn more for Your Majesty.

Fire consumption, but unexpectedly, after they received the silver coins, they found me again a few days later and wanted to exchange more silver coins. I was obsessed with the money and thought about earning the money for His Majesty the fire, so I promised them to exchange them for more than one million silver coins. This time, I collected more than two million taels of silver and promised them to cast silver coins for them at the beginning of next month... Your Majesty, I should die, damn, I should not be greedy for the money for His Majesty the fire, and I should not secretly exchange them for one or two million silver coins... Your Majesty, I should die, damn, damn..." Xiao Shunzi cried and shook everything out.

Yang Jing was confused. Who was so fascinated by silver coins? He took millions of taels of silver to exchange for silver coins? This matter was strange. He was also annoyed by the order that this little guy gave him discount.

"Wait, don't cry first, let me talk carefully, what's going on? Why are some people willing to use so much silver to mint silver coins? You know, I have to make money here, the more I mint it, the more I mint it. Who is it? Why are you minting such a lot of silver coins? I don't believe it..." Yang Jing was really confused. If you mint a silver coin, you can get two or three cents of profit, that is, three percent, one million taels, or 30,000 taels of silver. If those people give themselves one more silver, that is, you can get four percent, one million taels of silver, forty thousand taels of silver, and two million taels of silver, and you can get eighty thousand taels of silver, which is more than the original sixty thousand taels of silver. Don't underestimate this profit. If you mint a hundred million silver coins, this profit will be one million silver coins.

"When you go back to your Majesty, I am confused at first. I think that since someone gives me money, no, I give you money. Next, I don't care too much, so I changed it to that person directly. The man is generous. I don't ask if I will lose his money. I don't seem to worry that I will cheat me. I directly asked me to see the quality of the silver, and then I left after a few days of exchange. I came to get the silver coins... Later, he

They took hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to exchange for silver coins. They couldn't bear it and exchanged them again. Later, they took more than two million taels of silver and asked them to exchange for silver coins. Then I felt that things were going on, and then I found an excuse to hold it back, saying that no matter what, it would be next month. They seemed unhappy, but they still left the silver with me, and just said that they would cast silver coins as soon as possible..."

Xiao Shunzi cried and explained the situation to the emperor, saying that he was in it and there was absolutely no corruption.

"Then you didn't realize there was anything strange?" Yang Jingwei wondered, what the hell was this Ming Dynasty man? It was so mysterious.

"When I go back to Your Majesty, I became suspicious later and began to inquire about them. However, they were so nervous that I didn't make any reliable words. I wanted to report to Your Majesty, but because I was afraid that Your Majesty would blame him, I didn't dare to report it. I just thought that when I found out the details of these people, I would report to Your Majesty..." Xiao Shunzi cried and kept explaining that the temperament of a naughty child was fully revealed.

Yang Jingwei was also worried. It was a transaction of millions of taels of silver! This guy dared to hide it. This was annoying. He thought about it and said, "Then have you asked them for details? Do you know where they came from?" Yang Jingwei asked dissatisfiedly.

"Wuwuwu, I'll tell you, it was only in the past two days that I found out some of their background and origin. The silver coins they gave me were generally not of high quality. Later, I followed the money and probably figured out what they did..." Xiao Shunzi explained.

"What do they do?" Yang Jing asked.

"......Reply to Your Majesty, they may be merchants who specialize in collecting bad silver in other places and then exchanged them for silver coins. They exchanged these bad silver coins into silver coins in my place. Because the silver coins are finely crafted, of excellent quality, and can be sounded, they have become more valuable than sterling silver. Except for the two capitals in the north and south, there is no place to mint coins. Therefore, if other places want to use silver coins, they have to pass through them.... When I guess they are in other places, they are afraid that they will exchange silver coins for 15 to 18% of fire consumption. When I arrive at my place, they are like

I knew that the profit of the slave in the fire consumption was only two or three cents, so I gave the slave a four cents of profit, which was one cent higher than the original profit, and a total of seven cents of silver for one silver coin... They could make a profit of one to one four cents of profit... Originally, in the past, they did not need to add this profit to the slave, but the slave received the imperial edict from His Majesty and focused on gathering silver coins for His Majesty, so they stopped exchanging silver coins for the outside world. Therefore, they seemed very anxious and added a little profit to the slave, so they asked them to cast silver coins... The slave was fascinated by the money..."

"Wait, do you mean that nowadays, there are merchants who specialize in collecting scattered silver in other places to exchange silver coins? When they use silver coins to collect scattered silver in other places, they add 15 to 18% of the fire consumption, and then add a cent of the fire consumption to exchange for silver coins. They make more than 10% of the profits in this, right?" Yang Jing did not understand what was going on, why did there be such a huge profit in it?

"Reply to Your Majesty, yes, they exchanged seven cents of silver for a silver coin for me, and then when I went to another place, they added 15 to 18% of fire consumption for silver, and more than 10% of the profits were all speculated by me... In fact, it may not be so high, maybe even higher than this... Because Your Majesty's silver coins are very well-made, and can be sounded and used to pay taxes, so I think that many people may want to pay taxes with silver coins, such as

In this case, there is no need to pay the fire consumption silver. Generally, the fire consumption in prefectures and counties is 20% or 30% or 40% or 50% or 40% or 50% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% or 10% of the fire consumption.

Yang Jing became even more puzzled and confused. What are these things? How could this happen? A businessman who specializes in reselling his own silver coins?

"What, do you have to deal with these merchants? Can't the people exchange silver coins themselves?" Yang Jing asked in confusion.

"...... Go back to Your Majesty, there are only two capitals in the north and south that can be minted. Therefore, if you want to use silver coins in other places, you must go to the two capitals to exchange them. The journey is long and the road is not safe. Therefore, there are also merchants like them who exchange hundreds of thousands at a time and transport them to a certain place together. In this way, you can ask the escort from the escort agency so that you will not be afraid of problems on the road... This is how I guess..." Xiao Shunzi explained with a sad face.

After listening to Xiao Shunzi's guess, Yang Jie didn't know what to say. After thinking for a while, he said, "They just added a point of fire consumption to you? In other words, they know the details of the silver coin?"

Although Xiao Shunzi didn't cry, he still cried and said, "Your Majesty, yes, I guess, they must have someone in the capital, either the vassal kings or the nobles, or the ministers in the court, otherwise they would not know the silver coins to me clearly. When I talked to them, they were told to them tightly. They said that they knew everything about silver coins, but they didn't do it themselves, but they were afraid of trouble; secondly, they made their own money, and they were better at making trouble than those in me, and they were not afraid of trouble, and secondly, they were not afraid of trouble, and secondly, they were all easy, and thirdly, everyone had money to make money. I listened to their tone, as if they were clear about the ins and outs of coins, and even the recipe for silver coins, so I guess there were people in the court..."

Xiao Shunzi's words shocked Yang Jing! The people Xiao Shunzi said were definitely not wrong. The recipe for silver coins, Yang Jing told the ministers in the court, and also told the nobles that they knew the recipe for silver coins and knew how much money they could make in minting coins. Therefore, they would add a cent of silver coins to Xiao Shunzi. Yang Jing was not angry that these people earned more silver than they did, but was shocked that the ministers in the court participated in this matter. Ministers who should have assisted themselves in managing the country and gave advice for themselves would actually take advantage of their own loopholes and use the information they knew their own silver coins to make money. This made people very doubt these people's ability to govern the country, attitude to govern the country, sincerity to govern the country, and reliability of governing the country.

Yang Jing had no choice but to face such a thing. After thinking for a while, Yang Jing could only ask in shame: "When Xiao Shunzi paid taxes with silver coins, the local government will really stop collecting fire and burning? If he collects silver coins and burning fire again, wouldn't it be wasted more than 10% of the burning fire in exchange for silver coins?"

"..." Xiao Shunzi stopped crying anymore. When he saw the emperor ask, he whispered: "Your Majesty, many people in the local area are capable. Since Your Majesty said that they could pay taxes with silver coins, they could pay taxes with silver coins, and would not pay up to 20% or 30% of the fire consumption. This time, they could save a lot of money between in and out. Even the prefectures and counties had no way to collect fire consumption, and they could only collect the fire consumption of ordinary people. What's more, the fire consumption of more than 10% was guessed by me. Perhaps, they only paid a few fire consumption..."

Yang Jing was speechless. Such things were both good and bad. After thinking for a while, he had no clue. He could only let it go. It is important to deal with his own "main business" first.

"Forget it, let's not mention this matter for now. They are willing to add a point of fire consumption to you. It's okay. Just mint them. When this time is over, you will increase the amount of minting. Anyone who wants to exchange silver coins will come, and strive to make 100 million silver coins a year. In this way, you will make great contributions. However, this time, you did not do the right thing. If you do such a big thing, you didn't report it first. I asked you to make 10 million silver coins, and you only made half of it. This will have to be punished. After a while, you will be done, and you will stay outside the Qianqing Palace for an hour." Yang Jing decided to punish Xiao Shunzi.

"I thank Your Majesty for your punishment. I will stay outside for a while..." Xiao Shunzi stopped crying when he saw the emperor punishing him, but instead laughed. The emperor punished him, which means he still valued him. Otherwise, it would not be such a punishment, but he was dismissed and threw him to a place where no one cares about him to live.

Li Ruolian kept quietly watching the conversation between the emperor and the father-in-law Shun, lowering his head and saying nothing. Seeing the unparalleled elegance in front of the people crying and expressing repentance in front of the emperor, Li Ruolian was also touched a lot. The reason why he, Heshun's father-in-law, succeeded and became a hot figure, was that the root of the emperor was that they wanted to do. If they ruined the emperor's affairs, they would hide anything from the emperor. In one word, their current situation would disappear.
Chapter completed!