Datang romantic little landlord

At the beginning, the Taiyuan Wang family lost only 30 coins to Li Wangyou.This coming and going is nearly double the profit.

Wanting to understand the key point, Li Er's breathing became short of breath.

"Ziyou, you can't joke about this! Are you really sure?"

Li Wangyou nodded: "As long as my uncle asks the general supervisor and craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry to cooperate with me, my nephew will soon set up this mint. At that time, my uncle will find out after trying it. If my nephew has the slightest falsehood, it will be stored in the palace." My nephew is willing to accompany my uncle with the 300 million catties of private money."

He was naturally very sure that he dared to say such a thing.

Before Li Wangyou was reborn, a friend made "counterfeit coins".

In fact, it is not considered a counterfeit coin, but a stamping machine to forge antique copper coins and sell them as handicrafts.

So he still knows how to stamp coins.At least in this era, it definitely belongs to the "brick house" level.

Li Wangyou's answer with such certainty made Li Er ponder, and kept pacing back and forth in the hall.

After a while, Li Er stretched out his hand to call Mi Tuo into the hall.

"Mi Tuo, I have given you a mission."

Mi Tuo was so frightened that he quickly knelt down: "Your Majesty has an order, but this servant dares not to die."

"Okay, it's not a fatal thing. I'm going to let you use the copper coins and gold in the palace and exchange them all for private money."

What?Mi Tuo thought that there was something wrong with his ears. Was it an auditory hallucination?

Li Er asked him to exchange gold and copper coins for private money?

Isn't this crazy?

What is private money?They are all copper coins minted privately by the aristocratic family. The craftsmanship is rough, and only two or three coins can be used as an official coin.

Even the aristocratic family is unwilling to use these private money.

But now His Majesty actually asked himself to exchange the gold and private money in the palace for private money?

"Remember, don't say anything about this matter, let Baiqisi handle it, exchange all the gold and copper coins in the palace into private money and bring them into the palace, understand?" Li Er ordered again.

Mi Tuo finally understood this time, and confirmed that he did not have auditory hallucinations.He turned his head to look at Li Wangyou who was at the side, hoping to get an explanation from him.

Li Er's request is really against common sense.

However, Li Wangyou was also shocked by Li Er's generosity, this guy is even darker than him!

He remembered that the last time Li Er wanted to bet at his family's gambling house, he asked Mi Tuo, and he knew that there were more than [-] taels of gold in the palace.

All of this has to be exchanged into private money, and then melted and cast into copper coins. After coming and going, the profits obtained are astronomical.

However, Li Wangyou will not stop Li Er, anyway, the private money is almost all made by the aristocratic family, and Li Er is sucking the bones from the aristocratic family, so he is naturally happy to see the success.

Even Li Wangyou didn't forget to give Li Er an idea: "Uncle, you can ask Baiqisi to bring gold and copper coins to various states and counties to exchange. My nephew heard that the more remote states and counties, the higher the ratio of official money to private money." high."

Hearing what he said, Mi Tuo really wanted to cry.

He wanted to break his head, but he couldn't figure out what the uncle and nephew were going to do...

464 Mansion completed

In recent days, many merchants in Chang'an City have suddenly discovered that there is much less private money that is common in daily life.

There are even rumors that someone is buying a lot of private money.

And the exchange ratio is one to two, which makes many merchants with private money in their hands very excited.There is even more discussion between each other, how can there be such a fool?

When the private money minted by the aristocratic family is actually used, in Chang'an City, five pieces of private money are usually used to offset two pieces of official money.

As for the states and counties that are a little farther away, three to one is the normal exchange ratio.

And the aristocratic family with a lot of private money in their hands has already known about this.There are even merchants who come to their door and ask if they are willing to exchange.

In this regard, these aristocratic families will naturally not refuse anyone who comes.This kind of good thing, if you refuse it, you will be careless.

In less than a month, there was almost no shadow of private money in Chang'an City.And these private money, without a doubt, were all quietly transported into the treasury of Tai Chi Palace.

These are all things to talk about later.

After Li Wangyou patted his chest and assured Li Er that the hydraulic stamping and forging machine must be produced, Li Er issued an imperial order to ask the Ministry of Industry and the General Superintendent to fully cooperate with Hu Xianbo.

Li Wangyou excused that the mint needed to be kept secret and needed abundant water sources, so he suggested that the mint should be built in Huangyu in the Qinling Mountains, near Cuiwei Palace, the royal palace.

Near Cuiwei Palace, there is a river rushing out of the Qinling Mountains. The river is fast and very suitable for driving waterwheels.

Moreover, it is located in Huangyu, and there are guards in the palace, so confidentiality and safety are not a problem.

As for the blast furnace used to smelt copper, Li Wangyou didn't bother to think about whether the dense smoke produced during combustion would pollute the environment.

In fact, the main reason why he suggested this to Li Er was that he was close to home.

It takes only a quarter of an hour to ride a horse for a distance of more than 20 miles.

For Li Wangyou, who is becoming more and more lazy nowadays, the short distance to "go to work" is the most important thing.

Where did Li Er think of his flamboyance, so he naturally nodded in agreement.

As a result, the vicinity of Cuiwei Palace, the well-endowed Royal Palace, turned into a lively construction site.Countless craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, like hardworking worker ants, are carrying all kinds of wood, bricks and stones, preparing to start building workshops here.

Fortunately, with the four-wheeled carriage and the "Mirage Mud", which can be called an artifact, it is very simple for the Ministry of Industry to build a workshop of this scale, and it does not take much time at all.

On the contrary, Li Wangyou and the craftsmen who will be the supervisor need to spend a lot of effort to develop the hydraulic stamping and forging machine.

Li Wangyou was very annoyed by this, and felt that his time was wasted too much, and he had other things to be busy with.

Fortunately, he has Yan Liben, a disciple who is good at organs and buildings.

Although Yan Liben had never seen the hydraulic stamping and forging machine mentioned by Li Wangyou, after reading the drawings, he quickly understood its working principle.

"Teacher, it's wonderful! Through the water flow, this thing can be continuously punched and forged with the hammer head without manpower. Tsk tsk, in this way, it can not only be used to mint coins, but also the weapons and armor used by my soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. It can be forged through this hydraulic forging machine, wonderful, really wonderful!"

Holding the drawings, Yan Liben looked like a treasure, and he was full of praise for the hydraulic forging machine "invented" by Li Wangyou.

"Haha, Liben, as expected, you have seen the good intentions of being a teacher. I will entrust you to build this mint. If there is something you don't understand, go to Dingzhou Village to ask the teacher."

Li Wangyou shamelessly pushed the matter to Yan Liben.

His time is so precious, how can he waste it on this construction site, thinking about how to make that hydraulic forging machine?

Still the same sentence, if the teacher has something to do, the disciple will do it for him.