As Wang Ning'an got closer and closer to the capital, various news came out one after another, and it turned out that Wang Ning'an had obtained a treasure and wanted to send it back to the capital to offer Rui to the emperor.

When they got this news, many ministers were unimpressed.

What bullshit treasure, how many things can there be?

Don't be Wang Ningan casually looking for an excuse to cover up, the real purpose is not to leave Beijing unwillingly and want to return to the center of power, right?

A group of people are gearing up, ready to wait for Wang Ning'an to enter Beijing and sue him a few times. In the past, the emperor favored Wang Ning'an, and it was useless to impeach, but now that the queen is in power, she may be able to impeach Wang Ning'an!

The officials couldn't wait and were eager to try.

In the weird atmosphere, Wang Ningan escorted the convoy into the capital.

He went to the Yizhou Hall first.

This is Su Shi to participate in the design, to serve the Bashu merchants as the main hall, after several years of development has become the largest commodity exhibition place in the capital, silk products from all over the country, official kiln porcelain, will be sent here for exhibition, so that outsiders of the wealthy businessmen purchase, convenient and fast.

Wang Ning'an waved his hand, wrapped the entire hall, and immediately someone began to arrange, after three days of hard work, the hall was re-planned, and all the original commodities were removed and replaced with the treasure brought back by Wang Ning'an!

There are more than 8,000 pieces of red gold products, which are placed on three floors.

With the whale oil headlights around it, the golden light flashes, and it is simply a golden world.

Not to mention the merchants and officials in Beijing, even the emperor and the crown prince have never seen so many red gold products!

On the day before the public exhibition, Zhao Zhen disregarded his body and asked the prince to accompany him to the hall in person.

"There are 72 ditches in the Altai Mountains, and there is gold in the ditches. Altai is a local vernacular language meaning golden mountain. Wang Ning'an smiled and introduced, "Half a year ago, after Murong Qingchen defeated Xizhi, he extended his power to the north of the Tianshan Mountains, and his subordinates found abandoned castles and tombs during patrols, these red gold products came from the tombs, according to the minister's investigation, the inscriptions on the gold should belong to the Turkic script, perhaps in the Han and Tang dynasties, the tombs left by the Turkic nobles, of course, some people think that it is the tomb of the Wusun people, all in all, among these tombs, gold products are generally used for burial, and the number is amazing. There are more than 8,000 pieces of one tomb alone. In order to keep this batch of gold artifacts intact and send them back to the Great Song Dynasty, Murong Qingchen and his team used 30,000 people, killed thousands of people along the way, and lost a lot of livestock. ”

Wang Ningan talked a lot, but Zhao Zhen only remembered one tomb and more than 8,000 pieces of gold!

Looking at the gold in his eyes, he made a rough estimate, and arranged a piece of gold to be counted in one tael, which was also more than eight thousand taels!

The actual number is far exceeded, and the net weight of these gold should be around 30,000 taels.

If it is not clear how much gold this is, then let me tell you that our Uncle Zhao's internal money is only 18,000 taels of gold, of which a batch is to be made into gold utensils to be used as burial goods, and there are also some golden sands to decorate the stone pillars in the palace.

In any case, the dignified Emperor of the Song Dynasty did not have as much gold in his hands as the owner of a tomb!

"Jingping, who is the owner of this tomb? But the emperor of the Turks? ”

Wang Ningan shook his head, "If the guess is right, he is a prince who has been divided around the Altai Mountains, but he has been in power for a long time and has accumulated a little more wealth." ”

"Slightly?" Zhao Zhen frowned, if this is only a little, then there is no word "excessive" in the world!

"Your Majesty, in fact, the real key is still in the Altai Mountains, there is indeed too much gold here, so much that it is worthless!"

"Oh? Is there still gold now? ”

"Yes!" Wang Ningan said very firmly: "Your Majesty, the minister has consulted some ancient documents, and at the latest in the Han Dynasty, there have been people mining gold here. Chen remembered that in the "Historical Records", there were many records of the use of gold, and later the use of gold became less and less, and in this dynasty, large-scale transactions were completely settled with copper coins, and as for gold and silver, they had withdrawn from the market. The minister thought that perhaps the Han Dynasty had imported a large amount of gold from the Western Regions through the Silk Road, but later because of frequent wars, it lost control of the Western Regions, and the source of gold was cut off, so the Central Plains lacked gold. ”

Wang Ning paused and said: "Over the years, there have been many people in the Altai Mountains who are digging for gold, there should be thousands of people, but they lack organization, and the technology is backward, and the gold that can be mined every year is not much. ”

Wang Ningan said, someone brought a box and unfolded it in front of Zhao Zhen, there was a large piece of naturally formed golden turtle inside, Zhao Zhen tried to hold it with his hand, but he was stunned and unsuccessful!

This piece of natural gold weighs 320 taels!

"Your Majesty, this is General Murong who bought it from a native man, and it is said that their ancestors have also seen a bigger dog's head gold!"

"What?"

Zhao Zhen couldn't sit still excitedly, gold, there is nothing more attractive in this world!

Bright, heavy, what a good thing!

I really can't imagine that there is such a precious gold-producing land in the Western Regions, isn't it a godsend?

After seeing the exhibition, Zhao Zhen was still excited.

"Jingping, do you have any plans?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the gold reserves of the Altai Mountains are amazing, if it can be developed, it will definitely be a perfect tonic pill for my Great Song! Over the years, the development of industry and commerce, the increase in the demand for money, the development of Yunnan copper, the issuance of Jiaozi, although the shortage of money has been alleviated, but because the demand for money is too large, the value of copper is low, in fact, it can not keep up with the needs. My Da Song needs to innovate and come up with more suitable currencies, gold and silver are the best choices. If you control the Altai Golden Mountain, you will be able to issue gold coins. ”

Wang Ningan picked up a piece of gold cake casually, there are three taels, according to the conversion of one hundred to one, this is three hundred copper coins, the best copper coins, always more than four catties, three hundred catties, that is, 1200 catties, piled on the ground, like a hill, and exchanged for gold, only three taels!

You can understand with your toes what gold means to business!

And after the supply of gold, the Great Song Dynasty can issue gold coins, and even issue gold tickets, and stipulate that all commodities must be settled in gold!

If this step can be achieved, the imperial court's control over wealth will increase countless times.

"Your Majesty, in the long run, the Great Song Dynasty needs more gold and silver supply, the minister's uncle almost every year to the Wa State to trade, where the gold and silver production is amazing, the South Sea Sea, there are also rich gold minerals, if you add the Altai Golden Mountain, the Great Song Dynasty is enough to reshape the monetary system, large transactions with gold coins, second-class silver coins, the common people use copper coins daily, after the unification of gold and silver currency, you can get rid of the copper money system chaos, the embarrassing situation of different values. And by collecting more copper coins, more advanced firearms can be made. ”

Since a few years ago, the Royal Academy of Craftsmen has been researching more advanced firearms, such as artillery!

Don't underestimate the creativity of the ancients, in fact, there is no need for Wang Ningan to say it, the ancients also thought of it.

The best material for making cannons is copper, but copper is also currency!

True to the name, as soon as the cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold!

Even if the Great Song Dynasty is rich, he can't afford it.

Therefore, the Baigong Institute can only make some samples, and cannot really make large-scale artillery.

And with the influx of gold and the emergence of a surplus of copper, it is conceivable that the military strength of the entire Great Song Dynasty will go to a higher level!

……

The monarch and the ministers chatted for a long time, and finally Zhao Zhen was really tired and couldn't bear it, so he returned to the palace.

In the next few days, the Yizhou Hall was opened to the public.

As long as you pay the same amount of money, you can enter the tour.

In one day, 37,000 tickets were bought, and by the next day, the price had skyrocketed to more than 50,000. Some people even come to line up in the middle of the night, just to catch a glimpse of the gold.

From everyone's fascinated expressions, it can also be seen that the Great Song Dynasty is indeed too short of gold, and it makes the dignitaries and dignitaries look like dirt buns.

Facing the dazzling array of gold products, he pointed and exclaimed from time to time.

When they found out that it was all from a grave, their jaws dropped.

There are many officials of the old school, who are ready to come, but after seeing it, they are extremely dumbfounded, and Lu Zhi is one of them. The last time he went to find trouble with Wang Ning'an, he didn't even see Wang Ning'an's face, so he was beaten by Ma Tao and his old face was swollen, and he returned to the capital in disgrace.

This time he came again, needless to say, after he finished reading it, the old face was swollen again.

So much gold, blinding the eyes!

If only it were mine...... The thought popped up, and Lu Yu hurriedly shook his head, he couldn't think like this, absolutely not! These are the things of the grave, the dead, and digging the grave is to be punished...... Gentlemen are cautious, gentlemen are cautious!

Lu Zhi tried his best to warn himself, but no matter what, the gold in his head just couldn't get rid of it...... This night, countless people lost sleep, all thinking about the gold.

Wang Ningan increased his troops tenfold in the Yizhou Guild Hall, and arrested seven groups of thieves before and after.

The entire Great Song Dynasty was really detonated!

Wang Ningan once thought about it, for example, when Yanyun was restored, the people's enthusiasm was extremely high, but when he arrived in the northwest of Jingluo, especially after recapturing Hengshan, the Great Song Dynasty reacted mediocre and passed quickly.

Is it because you have won many battles and become numb?

Later, Wang Ningan figured out that in the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, the land under their feet was the best in the world, and the outside was wild and barren...... Yan Yun has become extremely sensitive because of a hundred years of shame, and as for the northwest, except for a few people who can see the value, most people are indifferent.

Even if there is so much land, it only attracts some bold people, but gold is different, no one does not like gold, and no one can withstand the attraction of gold.

The scholars and doctors who were silent could not be calm, they hesitated whether to ask to see King Xiliang, and some of them were more powerful, and they directly became Wang Ning'an's guests.

The study was crowded with people who had come to inquire about the situation.

"I can only tell you two things, gold is by no means fake, and the amount is beyond your imagination; Secondly, Liangzhou and Ganzhou are still in the hands of Western Xia, and the trade routes are not passable, and there are still some troubles......"