Of course, Wang Song knew what Zhao Xin wanted to do, Zhao Xin had simply mentioned to him before, he wanted to give Renzong a part of the profits, and he was still persuading at that time that Renzong was the emperor, how could he be short of money.

But Zhao Xin smiled and didn't speak, Wang Song suddenly remembered something and stopped talking.

In fact, there is no shortage of money, depending on who it is compared to, before, with a large team of people, leaving the Beijing Division, it was only about a thousand guan, most of which were given by the Miao family, Renzong, who was the emperor of a country, but took out a few hundred guan.

Even in some cases, even one Zaisuke is not as good.

Participating in the governor's affairs, basically the monthly salary is more than 300 yuan, and if there is a department secretary, for example, Kaifeng Mansion Yin, who is responsible for all the affairs of Kaifeng Prefecture, there are even additional funds.

It is rumored that Bao Zheng earns hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, in fact, it is not his real income, the real income may be four or five thousand yuan a year, the reason why there is a hundredfold gap is very simple, that is, the funds he has mastered are also counted.

For example, in a city, the mayor's salary is at most 100,000 yuan a year, but if all the appropriations controlled by a mayor are counted, even if it is a low-level city, there are tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions.

It is impossible for Zhao Xin to give out all the profits, this is just to take out a part.

For example, iron materials, all the iron orders obtained from the imperial court, can be taken out of 2 wen per catty, conservatively estimated, the entire imperial court, will set about 400 million catties of iron, this one alone, is 800,000 guan.

Although 800,000 guan is not a lot for such a huge empire as the entire Northern Song Dynasty, it is already a lot for Renzong.

Not to mention, Zhao Xin is not ready to just so much, the business of soda ash and soap will be fixed to extract 300,000 yuan a year, which is not much for such a huge business, as for civilian products, this business is too profitable, Zhao Xin will give 600,000 yuan.

In this way, these businesses alone, in a year, can support Renzong 2 million, this money, not to mention directly to Renzong, even if it is directly to Ye Qingchen, it is quite terrifying.

Ye Qingchen found Zhao Xin the next day, early in the morning, what Zhao Xin was looking for him to do, he knew in his heart, he should give money, as for how much, for the time being, he had no bottom in his heart.

However, the iron business, in a sense, is to reduce the burden on the government of the Northern Song Dynasty, but in another sense, it is not to increase Zhao Xin's income, from this point, it is reasonable to give a little benefit.

Of course, he is based on government orders, as for civilian products, although the momentum is huge, but the total amount has not been much publicity, and he didn't know that it would be so terrible, so he didn't think about it.

It was a very simple meeting, and when Ye Qingchen came out, he could barely breathe.

2 million guan, Ye Qingchen has not seen the world, he has handled three divisions, 20 million guan per year, or even 30 million guan, he has handled it, but a courtier, a child who is only four or five years old, taking out so much at one time, still surprises him.

Even if this amount of money is directly given to Renzong, but in Ye Qingchen's eyes, there is not much difference between what was given to Renzong and what was given to the three divisions.

Zhao Xin didn't know that Ye Qingchen was actually playing this idea, and if he knew, he would have kicked him out a long time ago.

However, even if you know, plus understand some of Renzong's attitudes, it is inevitable, it is really just to improve Renzong's living conditions, if you give Renzong money, tens of thousands of guan is enough, and you don't need 2 million kan at all.

Now, the income in the Daimyo Mansion may exceed 20 million a year, and it should be good to take out a one-tenth of the subsidy, after all, at present, the Dinghai Navy has not yet grown into a towering thigh, and now in many ways, it still depends on the Great Song Dynasty.

With Renzong and Ye Qingchen, as well as these famous ministers who assisted the government, these money may not be as good as the Dingjun, and it will not be used indiscriminately, as long as the Northern Song Dynasty can develop steadily for 10 years, for Zhao Xin, everything will be solved.

When Ye Qingchen went back, he had a smile on his face, Han Qi and the others were very strange, and after asking, they were taken aback, especially Han Qi's.

I knew before that Zhao Xin's skills were first-class, when he was in Baozhou City, the business of steamed buns was selling and flying, but that was at most linked to tens of thousands of guan, and the purchasing power of coins in the Northern Song Dynasty was very strong, and ten thousand guan could already be called a huge rich.

But who would have thought that a one-time time of 2 million is a terrible fortune.

At this time, Zhao Xin was worried about money, not because he had no money, but because he had too much money.

The number of copper coins in the Northern Song Dynasty is amazing, but when calculated, it is not very convenient and too heavy.

There is a news in later generations, a villager, when digging the homestead, accidentally found 4000 kilograms of copper coins of the Song Dynasty, the netizens who followed the post below, said that there are very many of them, and they are all lamented that these copper coins are too much, and some even say that they have dug up the treasury.

In fact, 4,000 kilograms of copper coins weigh as much as 4 tons, which is a very large number for ordinary people, but in fact, you will know it if you do the math.

Copper is a metal, the specific gravity is heavier than wood, stone and the like, the general feudal society copper coin, converted into the weight unit of later generations, a penny is about 4 wen.

1000 Wen is equal to consistent, which means that consistent copper coins are almost 4 kilograms, and 4000 kilograms of copper coins are just about 1,000 yuan.

It sounds like a very large number, you can buy 10 cows in the Northern Song Dynasty, but compared with the real wealth, this is not as good as the general participation in political affairs, three or four months' salary, that is, 1000 yuan, some business people, or larger landlords, can also take out a thousand guan.

It can be seen that this weight, although it is said that the Northern Song Dynasty already has a money village and can channel the circulation of money, it is still inconvenient.

The 2 million guan given to Ye Qingchen, of which only 300,000 guan is the ticket of Qianzhuang, and the rest is some payment, when the materials from Bianliang and several surrounding cities arrive, those dealers, after the delivery of the materials, the money will be sent directly to Renzong.

Copper coins are inconvenient, although they are the basis of the currency of the Northern Song Dynasty, but they are too heavy, and a little larger transactions are easy to cause fluctuations.

More precious metals, gold and silver, this is not impossible, the point is that the total amount is too small.

China has a lot of land, but there are certain restrictions on this big land, for example, some minerals, there are no very rich mines, and some minerals, not even much.

For example, silver and gold, the whole of China, such a large territory, does not have a large gold and silver deposit.

On the other hand, Japan, although it is only an island country, is very small, but there is a world-class silver mine, Iwami Silver Mountain, the output of 38 tons at its peak, almost a million taels of silver, such an output even lasted for one or two hundred years.

This is an extremely frightening amount, and the total amount of silver produced in many parts of Japan has even reached 200 tons per year, and for a considerable period of time, Japan's silver production accounted for one-third of the world's total.

Although in later generations, China was also an important reserve of silver, but most of them were not rich mines, no mining value, unless the Northern Song Dynasty could occupy Japan and mine most of Japan's world-class silver mountains, otherwise it could not support the silver standard and the gold standard at all.

Then, the production of a metal that is more difficult to produce, more eye-catching, but has a large quantity, has become an inevitable choice.

Zhao Xin's first choice is steel, which is commonly known as fine iron, which is expensive in itself, and the price of high-grade refined iron is more than 10 yuan per catty.

Zhao Xin made a high-hardness stainless steel that has never appeared in China before.

This kind of steel has excellent properties, smooth and shiny surface, good appearance, not easy to rust, and will not be worn, and is the best material for casting.

Although it is not easy to produce this, it is a good choice to regard it as a large currency on top of copper coins, even if it is at the price of fine iron in the past, one catty is equal to 10 guan, and it is made into about 20 grams of coins, that is, 25 is almost 10 guan, which is a currency that is higher than the value of copper coins and easy to solve.

From giving Ye Qingchen money to the extent of creating a currency, Zhao Xin's thinking jumped and it was not ordinarily active, but if you think about it carefully, it seems to be very interesting.

The money shortage, to a certain extent, is a problem that has always appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Renzong even issued the Huangjiaozi in order to solve the money shortage, but because he did not understand finance, he did not know how to do what he could, and finally made Jiaozi bankrupt and let the possibility of the birth of paper money come to an end.

However, the shortage of money in the Northern Song Dynasty, more or less, also affected the commercial development of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the inconvenient carrying also restricted commerce.

Dinghai, must take the road of large-scale industrialization, a small workshop-style blacksmith workshop, can create an annual output value of 30 million, in the future, the concentration of the knowledge of later generations and a large number of people Dinghai, what will it be like, a more portable, higher value of the currency, is imperative.

It seems that with stainless steel, the reduction is not much, but the difference is almost 80-100 times, even if it is the same amount of casting as the Northern Song Dynasty, it also makes the entire economic aggregate expand a hundred times, not to mention, stainless steel, just a technical problem, as long as forging, it can be produced on a large scale, which is the best of both worlds.

Of course Zhao Xin will not do it himself, he still remembers what stainless steel is, and instructed Niu to follow up vigorously, and he focused on the auction held at night, even if it is chicken ribs, it is time to turn on, these rich businessmen can't just play around.