The prince doesn't understand it very well. He won't make any moves until he understands it. This is a habit he has developed through many years of experience.
He is not his father, and he does not have his own team yet. Although his father does not care, he has never set up his own team. Even Zongze, his father allowed him to get close to him, and he only stopped in moderation.
Therefore, the prince asked his father, but he sent the royal agent Zhao Qin.
The prince didn't even know what to call Zhao Qin.
There is no rank, but he is a very powerful person in the entire inner garden, and even in the entire dynasty.
But the prince knew that she was his father's...
"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince..."
The reason why Zhao Qin has been in charge of the royal family for a long time is because of her self-knowledge. Her popularity in the inner garden is not only because of her status as the royal business agent, but also because she is not arrogant.
"I've only met shopkeeper Zhao..."
The prince really doesn't know how to address him, so this is the only way to address him.
Zhao Qin didn't expect that the prince would be able to salute him by calling him aunt, so she was already satisfied.
The official asked her to come here to explain to the prince how to gain profits from gold mining. Shopkeeper Zhao's identity is very suitable.
Both the empress and the officials wanted to give her a title, but Zhao Qin refused. Having a title may not necessarily make her better than she is now...
Zhao Qin did not explain like Xue Xiang did, but just put two hundred copper coins on the low table, and then placed three gold coins.
"Your Highness, based on the market price of the country, ten stones of gold mine are only worth two hundred copper coins."
Don't be surprised, with ancient gold refining technology, one ton of gold can extract more than ten or twenty grams of gold, and the weight of a gold coin is about ten grams. Therefore, ordinary gold raw ore is not valuable by the ton, but only one
The volume of a ton of gold is not large.
It’s not that there is no inner garden of ten stones of gold, it’s that there is no raw ore, it’s all refined, or it’s just gold coins. Zhao Qin didn’t even think about actually moving ten stones of gold.
She just needs to explain things clearly to the prince.
"Two hundred copper coins are used to purchase raw ore, and in the end, almost three gold coins can be minted in the workshop city. The added auxiliary materials are negligible. The difference during this period is the profit."
"It's not that there's 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 less than two gold coins at most..."
"With the advancement of Guochao's coinage technology, merchants, nobles and even civilians all preferred coins minted by Guochao, whether in Northern Liao, Goryeo, Fusang and other places."
"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 200 copper coins. The copper coins of the imperial dynasty are what officials call hard currency...
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"Therefore, it should be said that the country takes the initiative, or even has the final say, about the pricing of gold's raw ore. Raw ore cannot turn into wealth, and even if the raw ore is mined outside, it cannot cast as exquisite gold coins as the country.
Possessing the coins of a country is considered wealth..."
Although the prince's intelligence is not as good as that of the official family, he has passed the Jinshi in high school. Zhao Qin will not say any more, and has said enough.
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The Fourth Prince's team has not expanded, but the number of people going to sea this time has increased. All kinds of people, including the prince, the cabinet, ministers and officials in the court, and some famous nobles, all participated in his team.
bingo.
It's a pity that they are not a combat team, and they are even responsible for protecting these people.
They are not even absent from work. If they say they are absent from work, they need to find a solution... Isn't it just to capture the pirates and use them as slaves? This is not a difficult task.
Although the gold mining on the island this time was similar in form to the Dongchuan Copper Mining City in the early years, the fourth prince understood that there were still big differences.
In the early years, the Dongchuan Copper Mine was discovered by my father. He took the lead and presided over it, and even the nobles and ministers who chose to be involved were all decided by his father.
Now the island gold mine was discovered by his own team, but the initiative was decided by the prince...
Not only the ministers and nobles, but also the royal family were presided over by the crown prince... The person was trained by shopkeeper Zhao. And because he was the discoverer, he was lucky enough to get involved. The other princes did not have it at all.
This opportunity.
The fourth prince couldn't explain clearly, but he felt very honored even though he should have been emotional... just because the eldest brother of the prince took him to have a long talk...
The model of the gold mine is indeed based on that of the Dongchuan Copper Mine. The location of the gold mine is located on an island close to the territory of Goryeo, or it is no wonder that it was originally the jurisdiction of Goryeo. However, the various people on the island are mixed, and Goryeo cannot
There is no effective control. Now it belongs to the fourth prince and the imperial dynasty.
For the sake of profit, the fourth prince completely copied the model of Dongchuan Mining City and brought in the forces from Goryeo, Fuso, and even Northern Liao for development...
The fourth prince could not keep the entire team on this island. He still wanted to go south. At the same time, he also needed to send people north in time to investigate the situation in Suzhou, Laizhou and other places in the Northern Liao Dynasty to ensure that in the future, the country and the North
When the Liao Dynasty went to war, he could really play the role of a partial army... even though the court didn't need it.
The key point is that he still needs to complete the task assigned by his father...to wipe out Wanyan Keribao's family.
This matter is not difficult. The title of a knight-in-arms is still hereditary for three generations. The martial arts in the country are still acceptable, and in this desperate team, there is no shortage of such dead soldiers.
Similarly, Wanyan Keribao's ambitions and the so-called common hatred of the enemy will inevitably have some omissions.
As a powerful hero, Kelibao was of course not one of Yi's generation. Unfortunately, he didn't understand gunpowder, and he didn't have the Northern Liao's understanding of the various strategies of the state and the dynasty.
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"The officials, the fourth prince reported that Wanyan Keribao has surrendered. However, Keribao who visited the fourth prince's team only took his second son Wanyan Agu to fight. The terrain in Liaodong is not familiar, so further action cannot be taken."
In just three months, the Imperial City Division received a report from the overseas team. Unfortunately, it was a pot of raw rice.
Although there was a misfortune, Zhao Xi was not dissatisfied. At the very least, Keribao and Agu's plans were resolved. As for the entire Wanyan family... it was difficult to handle.
"Find a way to spread this news to the Northern Liao Dynasty, as well as the Womouhan tribe, Wuchun tribe, Huannan tribe and Sanda tribe."
Zhao Xi could only do this. During this period, Zhao Xi asked the Imperial City Department to collect a lot of information about the Jurchens. Whether it was true or not, he could only borrow it like this at this time.
The Jurchen tribe, whose forces are intertwined with each other, and Bei Liao are instigating an internal fight behind their backs... I believe that with the news of Keribao's death, there should be a fight between one side.