After coming back, Zhu Youxiao went directly to the queen's palace, Zhang Yan happened to be a female celebrity with Duan Ying and Wang Wan, and when they saw the emperor coming to the harem during the day, they didn't know what happened, so they all stood up in surprise and saluted. Zhu Youxiao helped them up one by one, and by the way, he lightly pinched everyone's wrists, and harvested a few beautiful white eyes.

"It's good that all the concubines are here, I have a lotus picture here, I just want to revise it, let's come up with ideas together." Zhu Youxiao took out the lotus flower picture of the mint and spread it on the table.

"Your Majesty, what is this picture for? What to change. Duan Ying asked curiously.

"This is the pattern that the mint is going to use to make silver coins, and I don't know how to change it, so I have to ask the concubines to come up with ideas."

"Your Majesty, the concubine is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the concubine is not allowed to interfere in this matter." When Zhang Yan heard that this was the case, she immediately objected.

"The queen is too sensitive." Zhu Youxiao glanced at Zhang Yan as he spoke, and Zhang Yan blushed when she heard the word sensitive. How can this unorthodox emperor tell the words in the boudoir in front of others.

"Now it's not for you to decide anything, it's just a pattern, the three concubines are quite accomplished in Danqing, so I asked me to ask for advice. I remember that the queen has a purse with lotus flowers on it that are better than those in this picture, so it might as well be used to replace this picture. It was the purse that the two met, and Zhu Youxiao felt that the lotus flower had a special meaning, so he wanted to use it on the newly made coin.

Zhang Yan's face turned red again, she kept the purse, after she took it out, several people painted the lotus on the purse for a while, and finally the four of them agreed that Wang Wan's picture was the most similar, and her picture would prevail. Zhu Youxiao asked her to write two words of one yuan on the lotus flower, and six words of Daming Royal Bank below. I took a piece of paper again, wrote in the middle when half a tael, and wrote below the two years of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, thinking of the coins of the future generations, and noted next to it: Prevent someone from scratching the silver coin, and make the outer ring into a side tooth.

After asking people to send the pattern to the mint and hand it over to Li Zhizao, Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "The success of this silver coin is due to the merits of three concubines, have you ever thought about what reward?" ”

The three girls discussed for a while, pushed Duan Ying out and said, "Your Majesty, we all want a child." With that, he blushed and lowered his head.

Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that he would be burned, and he regretted it greatly, but since they brought it up, they explained that the reason they said last time was not enough to convince them, so they had to take it: "Ladies and gentlemen, come and sit down, and let's discuss this matter together." ”

The three girls sat down around the small round table, Zhu Youxiao pulled the hands of the three people together, and said softly: "Actually, I don't want to have my own children, but I told you last time that I am too young and my body is not fully developed, so I am not suitable for pregnancy." ”

Zhang Yan pursed her lips, thinking to herself, who said that her body was too perfectly developed last time, and now she is saying it again. Duan Ying also thought that he had been practicing martial arts and was in excellent health, but he was not easy to speak after the emperor praised him last time.

Wang Wan said: "The concubine knows that Your Majesty pities the concubine, but the concubine also wants to give birth to a son and a half daughter for Your Majesty to comfort the spirit of the ancestors." The other two girls nodded again and again, thinking that Concubine Liang had performed well this time, and she said it too well.

Zhu Youxiao said that they couldn't do it, so he had to show the prestige of a feudal parent: "This matter is not negotiable, you have to listen if you understand, and you have to listen if you don't understand, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl wants to have a child, you don't have to think about it, I said it here first, and you can only prepare to have a child after the age of sixteen." ”

Duan Ying immediately smiled: "Your Majesty, the concubine is already seventeen years old. Zhu Youxiao's words made her fly away with joy: "It's sixteen years old, not a virtual age, understand?" ”

Several people wrenched their fingers, and they all lowered their heads in frustration, according to the emperor said that he was sixteen years old, the eldest Duan Ying would be in April next year, Zhang Yan would not be until October next year, and Wang Wan would be in March of the year after next. So the three daughters' multi-day plan to seek a child failed shamefully.

After Li Zhizao received the pattern, he immediately entered the palace. It turned out that in order to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's ridicule, the Ming Dynasty couldn't even call the ingots, and now the emperor wrote a yuan, which is obviously not good, so he came to ask for instructions.

Zhu Youxiao was very annoyed by these things, but there was no way, so he thought of another word instead. first proposed to use the word baht, but it was still vetoed, because the emperor's surname was Zhu, and in the end, he had no choice, so he decided to call for a dollar.

As for the issue of copper coins, originally according to Zhu Youxiao's intentions, copper coins of different denominations were originally made, but Li Zhizao felt that it was better to issue only one copper coin first, and then issue ten or 100 coins later, and Zhu Youxiao would of course listen to the opinions of professionals.

After more than a month of intense work, the mint finally made the mold, Li Zhizao sent the pattern coin into the palace, and Zhu Youxiao looked at the silver and copper coins with edge teeth, and was very satisfied. Decree: Li Zhizao, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple and the director of the Ministry of Industry, was promoted to the head of the Tobu Langzhong, served as the president of the Ming Royal Bank, the director of the mint, and began to issue silver and copper coins in Beijing, and the exchange ratio of copper and silver coins was 500 to 1.

Most of the courtiers didn't know what a bank and a mint were, and now they hurriedly inquired when they saw such a holy decree, and after figuring it out, a group of people led by Zuo Guangdou began to play, thinking that there was already a Baoyuan Bureau and the Baoquan Bureau below, and now it was a waste to have a new mint? Then the people already have a money bank, isn't the Daming Royal Bank competing with the people for profit?

In the eyes of the Donglin people, the imperial court cannot compete with the people. As long as it is a business done by the people, the court cannot do it, otherwise it will compete with the people for profit. Now the emperor even wants to open a bank, that's not what it is to compete with the people for profit. Why did the emperor open a money bank, it was not to loot the people's wealth. Therefore, we must oppose it, strongly oppose it, and as for whether this is good or bad for the imperial court, they don't care.

Zhu Youxiao ignored them and directly issued an order: the Baoquan Bureau of the Political Department of the Ministry of Commerce will stop minting money from now on, and seal the accounts for joint inspection by the household department and Jinyiwei. He didn't want to check it immediately, he wanted to give them a chance to return the embezzled money.

The head office of Daming Royal Bank and the Jingshi branch were established in Beijing on the eighth day of October in the first year of the Apocalypse, located in the most lively chessboard street, and there is only one business, that is, to exchange silver coins for silver, or silver for silver coins.

Because the 10th day is the day when most of the yamen are paid, there is a decree from the saint that from this month, the officials have no rank, and their true colors only account for 30% of the money, and the other 70% of the folded colors are issued with silver and copper coins. I'm afraid that some people don't like silver coins and like silver, so in the Daming Royal Bank to carry out exchange business, if you exchange silver coins for silver, you only need to pay one cent (one percent) of the handling fee, and the exchange of silver for silver coins is free.