Regarding how many gold, silver and copper coins should be minted next year, Li Yu chose the best policy proposed by Xin'er, and approved the casting of 400,000 taels of gold in Kaiyuan Tongbao, 100,000 taels of silver, and 2 million taels of copper.

The reason why more money is minted than silver money is due to the scarcity of silver ore in the land of China and the shortage of silver. At present, gold can be used as currency circulation, but silver cannot be used as currency, only as a precious metal by the local government as a tribute to the emperor, and the emperor will give it as a reward to the courtiers who have been reused or made great contributions.

The common people only beat silver into various instruments and used it, not for money.

Historically, silver was able to become a widely circulated currency in China, and this had to wait until the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the development of Iwami Silver Mountain in Japan and the discovery of rich silver deposits in Central and South America in Spanish colonization. The two countries transported a large amount of mined silver into China in exchange for silk and porcelain, and the possession of silver in China exploded.

Gold deposits in China are also not much, compared with silver reserves, gold in China and the surrounding areas have several rich reserves. Among them, the gold mines in Denglai Erzhou and Taipei are the most famous and have the most abundant reserves.

It just so happened that these two gold mines were under the control of Li Yu's Jinwei Xunjinwei, and through the tens of thousands of prisoners captured by the envoys, the two gold mines produced more than 30,000 taels of gold annually, and were moving towards the 40,000 taels.

This gave Li Yu the confidence to issue Jin Kaiyuan Tongbao.

The Kaiyuan Tongbao issued by Longyin Qian Zhuang regardless of gold, silver and copper coins, are all square hole round, the front is Kaiyuan Tongbao four Chinese characters, the back is peony petals, the inside of the square hole is the anti-counterfeiting groove, up and down left and right three each.

Although the gold and silver deposits in Datang are not abundant, there are no longer a few places around the area that have large reserves and also mined gold and silver deposits. The most recent is the western and southern Yunnan provinces in Yunnan, which were the main silver producing areas of the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the silver output of the southern provinces was less than half of that of Yunnan. In the late 19th century, the British invaded Yunnan on a large scale by analyzing the silver slag in southern Yunnan at that time and found that the slag contained no less silver than the silver ore they mined in Burma. At present, southern Yunnan and most of western Yunnan are not under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and there is not even a state of conjure. Li Yu had no choice but to put the idea of acquiring more gold and silver deposits in Wakoku, Kamchatka, Hokkaido, and Nanyang.

In fact, the closest gold ore rich place to Andong is the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in Heilongjiang and the northern part of the Changbai Mountains in the later Heilongjiang. Because the place is either under the control of the Ya tribes or the control of the Murowei tribes, it is not as easy to fight as those natives in the South Seas, Li Yu's purpose in this place is to curb the local fishing and hunting people, and he has little interest in mining local gold mines.

To put it bluntly, the gold mines in Heilongjiang are far less famous than the gold mines in Sado and Luzon and Borneo.

"It's time to plan to snatch Sado Island from the Wa Kingdom."

Li Yu thought greedily.

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In the third note, regarding the development and construction of cities and immigrants on the northern coast of Shaohai, Li Yu planned only three points, namely, Magadan, the capital of Magadan Oblast in Russia, and Ayan and Okhotsk along the northern coast of the Khabarovsk Territory.

As for planning more places, Li Yu said that the local climate and environment are too harsh, and before the bandits who were forcibly relocated to the land have not adapted to the local climate and multiplied, no matter how many cities are built and how many people are moved, it will only be a waste of manpower and material resources, which is not cost-effective.

Li Yu only asked for control through a few colonies set up along the coast of Shaohai, and it was fortunate that he could be self-sufficient and take root.

As for the vast cold zone in the north, Li Yu said that if he is powerless, it depends on the creation of future generations.

The colonial castles along the coast of Shaohai began to be built in the fifth year of Xianheng, and were moved to the bandit Tunken to garrison, and the castle guards and envoys were all subordinate to each other, and no real administrative construction was established, which was not conducive to the local control of the Andong Protectorate in the long run.

Only then did Xin'er take out the administrative construction planning regulations for the castles along the Shaohai coast and appoint the corresponding officials to manage them by the Metropolitan Protectorate.

Li Yu carefully reviewed the plan drawn up by Xin'er in the song, which was intended to establish independent governors in each geographically separated area. For example, Sakhalin Island set up the Xuansu Governor's Office, and set up Yizhou under it, and the seat of governance was set in Yining County in the south, and Xiaoyaobao, located in the valley in the middle of the island, was promoted to county governance. On the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kamchatka Governorate was established, and the Blue Water and Bochi Forts in the territory were promoted to counties, and Rongzhou was set up in Blue Water County as the seat of governance. The original bandit leader Lu Niu Xun has performed well in the past two years, and has repeatedly attacked the local ghost people, and has won quite a lot, so he can be appointed as the governor of Rongzhou and the governor of the capital.

Lushui County on the northwest shore of Shaohai is set up in Juzhou, and the two forts of Pingdu and Chengdong that are about to be built can be controlled by the Governor's Office of Meidu.

As for Junshan Fort, which is located on the north coast of Shaohai and was built at the beginning of next year, it is nearly 1,000 miles away from Kamchatka in the east and Dumei in the west, so it should be under the jurisdiction of Mengzhou Thorn History.

Li Yu saw that Xin'er's administrative regulations were in line with his taste, and mentioned Zhu Bi and approved a quasi-word on the song.

The fourth note is about Li Yu's preparations for a new expansion plan in Nanyang next year at the beginning of the year. It is expected that by the end of the year and early next year, the establishment of the Cheongju Metropolitan Government in the northern part of Luzon Island in the South Ocean and the Tingju Metropolitan Government in the southern part of the island will be implemented to achieve control over the entire Luzon Island. Among the archipelago between south of Luzon and north of Mindanao, the Governor of Chung State, the Governor of Suzhou on the island of Cebu, and the Governor of Suzhou on the island of Palawan were established on the island of Panay. The Senhua Governorate was established in Zamboanga in western Mindanao.

With regard to the situation in Borneo, Li Yu pondered for a long time and decided to suspend the plan to increase the troops of the Bo Ni Prefecture against Wei Chi Xunyu, and instead send troops to set up another Dianzhou Governor's Office in the western part of Borneo to oversee the conquest and expansion of the southwest of Borneo. Wei Chi Xunyu still puts his heart on the Daya and Maolu people in the territory, and he is not needed to expand the territory.

In the past two years, the governor of the Polo Governor's Office, Li Wenchang, who is located in Singapore, has expanded rapidly to the north of the polar peninsula, conquering several countries, and is in the limelight.

This made Li Yujue, who pursued a balanced policy, set up another Phuket Governorate on Phuket on the northwest coast of the Polar Peninsula to be responsible for the task of conquering the central and northern parts of the Polar Peninsula.

Li Yu also approved a vermilion quasi-character on the fourth note, and glanced at the "Civilization Promotion Plan" written in block letters on the first page of the book. That is, the code name for Li Yu's expansion plan for the expansion of the South Seas at the beginning of the year, which means to implement the human civilization promotion plan in the South Seas, which is a wild region, but behind the implementation of the plan is blood and brutality.

With the issuance of this recital, the civilization promotion plan will be officially implemented and will be staged in the Nanyang Islands.

This move also means that from the end of this year to the beginning of next year, the 21,000-strong Andong Army will go south on an expedition to Nanyang to ensure the establishment of a total of eight prefectures and the reclamation of 80,000 immigrants.

For this reason, the town of Tori concentrated 40% of the food and military supplies of Andong Prefecture, half of artemisinin, and various herbs that help treat tropical diseases, after all, the tropics are not just malaria.

Fortunately, the expansion of the Liaodong shipyard has been completed, and the shipbuilding capacity has been greatly improved, and it can build 100 medium and large sea ships a year.

A large number of poor people in Jiangnan, Lingnan, Jiannan, Shannan, and Huainan who could swim and row were attracted by the high salaries offered by Jiaolong Hainan Airlines to enlist and train as seafarers.

Only then did Li Yu have the strength to transport more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians to Nanyang in batches.