Qin was on a trip, the sun shone on three poles, Qin Lin and the three ladies plus Jin Xuanzhi were still hiding in the room and did not come out, and the door was tightly closed.

The four female soldiers of A, B, C and D were dressed in red, and came to the backyard with swords and bows, and the female soldier A couldn't help but be surprised: "Hey, didn't the eldest lady say that she went out to hunt today, why hasn't she come out yet?" ”

The sword beckoned to them from the cloister, his finger holding out to his lips in a silent motion.

Wow! Female Soldier B and Female Soldier C snickered with their eyebrows.

"Four, a whole four, you can make a table of mahjong!" Xiao Ding bit his fingers, his eyes were full of small stars, and his face was full of disbelief.

"Men, it's all like this," Asha said in an old-fashioned manner as she walked the dog, causing the four girls to pounce on her, laughing and grabbing her hair into a chicken coop.

Qin Lin hid indoors, neither playing mahjong, nor doing anything more evil than playing mahjong, he held a Wanli Tongbao in his left hand, and a Jiajing Tongbao in his right hand, grinding on the stone for a while, and looking at the sun from the window for a while.

This is the money taken from the treasury of the political envoy, and Qin Lin studied the difference between the two copper coins, which led to the disparity in price.

Zhang Zixuan flipped through the books such as the Yellow Book of Zhejiang Wealth and the Wanli Accounting Record that she got from the court and the political envoy, and the eyebrows that flew obliquely into the temples were gently twisted, even at home, she was also upright with her back and upright, quite a big demeanor, ten lines at a glance, and turned the book quickly.

Jin Yingji lay on the pillow, slowly turning the pages of the nautical account book written with waterproof oil paper and lacquer and ink, the soft water snake waist collapsed, lazy with charm, coupled with a slender figure, it really looked like a snake demon who lost his life and did not lose his life.

Qing Dai sat at the table, holding her slightly baby fat cheeks with both hands, her big eyes that were as clear as water flickered, and she looked at Xu Xinyi curiously.

Miss Xu gritted her teeth and was putting a copper coin in her mouth to bite: "I don't believe it, what is the difference between this Wanli Tongbao and Jiajing Tongbao?" For the same money, the size and weight of copper are not bad, but it is half cheaper, which is unreasonable! ”

Wanli Tongbao has a small flat coin, that is, a copper coin worth a penny, there are two coins, each piece is two copper coins, as well as silver mining silver coins, just take the most common small flat money as an example, the diameter is eight points, the weight of one coin, containing copper ninety, and Jiajing Tongbao is a specification, no difference.

"I flipped through the court mail and yellow books in recent years, and I didn't mention the reason why Wanli Tongbao is cheap in Jiangnan," Zhang Zixuan closed the book and rubbed her temples that were a little swollen.

"The slave family doesn't know why," Jin Yingji's voice was sweet and tired, and she looked at Qin Lin charmingly: "Little wrongdoer, you really encountered something strange, the slave family's fleet went to Yuben to do business with the Japanese people, Wanli money is very valuable in Dongying, but it can only be folded in half in Jiangnan, which is really inexplicable." ”

Qin Lin put down the copper coin, and raised his eyebrows: "You also use our money?" ”

Yikes! Jin Yingji noticed that she had missed her mouth, so she didn't turn her head and quietly stuck out her tongue, and hurriedly smiled: "Yes, the Japanese people can't mint money, so they can only exchange our money to make it, and now even the money of the Tang and Song dynasties is still universal!" ”

In fact, he himself also minted copper coins, but the craftsmen were good at slow work, such as Japanese knives, which were shorter than large-scale mass production, and the production of copper coins was labor-intensive and time-consuming, and the output was low and the cost was high.

Qin Lin noticed that what she said was not true, walked over and pressed the Wufeng boat owner on the pillow, and reached out to her water snake waist: "Mmmm, the money of the Tang and Song dynasties is still in use, so the money of Jiajing Wanli is even more, the gold ship owner, have you transported the Chinese money to the capital?" ”

Jin Yingji was tickled, and smiled meaninglessly: "Hehe, haha, don't scratch, yes, the slave family is doing this business, exchanging copper coins for silver ......"

"Wow, it turns out that the money minted by my father was all transported to Yuben by you!" Zhang Zixuan also joined the crusade team, tickling Jin Yingji coquettishly, but she was held back by Qin Lin and couldn't resist, so she had to twist her body around like a snake.

When the maid Jian, A, B, C and other women in the courtyard outside heard the "wave laughter" coming from the house, they immediately turned red and red-faced, and sped up their steps to avoid it.

"It's too barren, it's too barren and there is no way, and it's white Xuanyin! It's still a pair of fours! Xiao Ding bit his nails and rattled, and his little face was full of horror.

This time, the three sisters all deeply agreed, Chief Qin was really too nonsense.

After a few moments, the laughter in the room subsided.

Jin Yingji sat on the edge of the bed, looking like a little girl who had done something wrong, and asked Qin Lin with a red face: "Of course, the concubine violated the imperial decree by doing this, isn't it an example, okay?" ”

Zhang Zixuan slapped her twice, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "You smuggler!" ”

"No, this business is doing the right thing, and it should continue to do it in the future!" Qin Lin said suddenly.

Yes? The women didn't expect him to make such a decision, Zhang Zixuan raised her eyebrows slightly: "Brother Qin, what do you say, in order to prevent the outflow of copper coins, the imperial court has ordered a strict ban on the export of copper coins, why do you know the law and break the law?" ”

"Because Lingzun Jiangling Xianggong executed a whip law!" Qin Lin smiled and blinked.

Zhang Zixuan thought for a while: "Do you mean, replacing copper with silver?" But...... Oh, it seems that the little sister understands a little. ”

is worthy of being Zhang Juzheng's daughter, and she has won the true biography of Xiangye, and she understood Qin Lin's meaning so quickly.

In the past, the ban on the export of copper coins is because all dynasties have implemented the copper coin standard, copper coins are the currency in circulation, if a large number of outflows will cause insufficient money supply, so that the market is depressed, like the Song Dynasty because of the social and economic development led to the shortage of copper money supply, forced out of the first paper money in human history, that is not no way, had to use paper to replace copper coins, if copper coins also flow out in large quantities, the situation is even more unimaginable.

But in the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, and the monetary system essentially changed from the copper standard to the silver standard, and silver became the base currency, and things were very different.

For example, there were 10,000 taels of silver on the Chinese market, and Zhang Juzheng minted 10,000 copper coins as a supplement (each was 1,000 Wen), and each Chinese coin was worth one tael of silver, so there were 20,000 silver and copper coins in the market to participate in circulation.

But in Yueben, the price of copper money is high, and each piece is worth two taels of silver, so Jin Yingji transported this 10,000 yuan to Yueben and exchanged it for 20,000 taels of silver, plus the original 10,000 taels in China, and the silver circulating in the market has 30,000 taels.

Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, because China lacks silver-rich mines, and is worried about the lack of silver in the market.

"Moreover, copper coins can be newly minted at any time, and more silver can be exchanged from the original to the original!" Zhang Zixuan said with a happy face, and finally climbed on Jin Yingji's shoulder very embarrassedly: "Sister Jin, the more you do in this copper money for silver business, the better." ”

Jin Yingji breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out her finger and gently touched the full and smooth forehead of the prime minister's daughter: "You, you, don't you say that my sister is a smuggler?" ”

No wonder Jin Yingji can take out 50,000 taels of silver at any time, it turns out that a lot of her silver is exchanged for copper coins from the capital, think about her own silver was exchanged cheaply by her monopoly trade position, and transported to China to pay the Zhejiang soldiers who had fought the Japanese invaders, it was really defeated by the Zhejiang soldiers on the battlefield, and was defeated by the Jin Yingji in the business war.

But this is also a matter of course, from Wufeng maritime merchants to the later Zheng Group, the seas of East Asia have always belonged to Chinese maritime merchants, and I can only stand aside, and Westerners do not dare to be as presumptuous as in the South Seas.

If you exchange money for silver, you will buy a large number of copper coins in China, which will only raise the price of copper coins, and according to Jin Yingji, I don't care what Jiajing Tongbao and Wanli Tongbao you are, even if the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty, as long as it is copper money, it will be accepted in full, so recently she has asked her subordinates to buy cheap Wanli Tongbao.

"Oh, so you've acquired a lot of Wanli Tongbao?" Qin Lin laughed.

There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it, and through the large number of acquisitions of Jin Sakurahime, some clues may be found.

Jin Yingji melon seeds blushed slightly, because smuggling copper coins was against the laws of the imperial court, she didn't tell Qin Lin at first...... The warehouse of Wufeng Maritime Merchants is located outside Hangzhou, on the mouth of the bell mouth of Hangzhou Bay, with a long row of tall and sturdy blue brick houses.

Quan Zhengyin nodded in front of him and led the way, walking through one warehouse after another, each warehouse was piled up with cotton, silk, porcelain and other goods, as well as saltpeter, pearls, ginseng, and flannel shipped from overseas, piled up like a mountain.

Even Qin Lin saw this, and felt that it was not bragging that Wufeng was rich and rivaling the country, not to mention that this was not a real general warehouse, just a transfer station in Hangzhou, and a larger warehouse was located on Shuangyu Island and in Jilong Port in Taiwan.

"Qin Shaobao, this is the copper coin warehouse," Quan Zhengyin opened the door of the warehouse attentively.

If you didn't know what the smell of copper was before, now Qin Lin, Zhang Zixuan, and Xu Xinyi understand, just opened the door, the unique smell of copper coins came to your face, and when you opened some more, you saw that the warehouse was full, piled up with countless copper coins, and the luster of green oil filled the entire field of vision.

"The money minted during the Wanli period of the imperial court, I'm afraid there is one-tenth here!" Zhang Zixuan shook her head in amazement, although exchanging copper coins for silver is beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood, there is always a little strange feeling in her heart.

Qin Lin said with a smile: "It is a good thing to say that Chinese money is passed, it is best to use our money all over the world in the future, then our Ming Dynasty will be majestic." ”

Copper coins carry the words Wanli, Jiajing and other years, representing the sovereignty of a country, and all countries willing to use Chinese money are equivalent to giving up the right to mint coinage.

Qin Lin's gaze swept around, and finally squatted down and rummaged through a pile of copper coins......

(To be continued)