- In fact, Chen Ke never thought of monopolizing the copper mines in Dongchuan, this is on the territory of Dali, between the two major snakes of the Duan family and the Gao family, if they can't eat it, something big will definitely happen.

What's more, limited to mining technology and manpower, in a few hundred years, the copper mines in Dongchuan are not too few but too much, and they can't be mined at all, so it's good to let them help dig copper for the Great Song Dynasty.

And he was not worried that they would threaten the currency security of the Song Dynasty. Because the 'Great Song Tongbao' of various years in the Song Dynasty is the only circulating currency in Dali!

This was not imposed on Dali by the Song Dynasty, but was established naturally. As mentioned earlier, Dali's goods are very rich, swords, armor, and good horses are all popular and hot-selling goods, and the internal circulation of goods is also very developed. Commodity circulation is inseparable from currency, and Dali has always had copper mines, but they have been trapped in the dilemma of lack of currency.

Because Dali is a real feudal society, the lord has absolute power in his own territory. Therefore, in addition to the 'Tongbao' minted by the Duan family, the Gao family and the Yang family also set up a coin mint, but the three families did not recognize each other's copper coins. Moreover, their technology and copper quality are not up to standard, and the same currency value is still different in size and quantity, so the minted copper coins cannot be used as currency, and can only be used according to the amount of copper.

As a result, the only currency recognized by the three and able to circulate in Dali was the Great Song Tongbao that flowed into Dali through a trade surplus...... The use of Song money as hard currency, Dali is not an exception, and a series of countries around the Great Song Dynasty, such as Japan, Korea, Cochin, Bagan, etc., have such a situation. Even the seemingly powerful Liao and Western Xia could not get rid of the strange phenomenon that their own coins were not as strong as the Song money.

Chen Ke easily understands this situation, because this is the case with the dollar in later generations. And it's the dollar 'before the collapse of the Bretton Woods system'. Because of the strong economic position of the Song Dynasty, the settlement of trade between countries all used Song money. Of course, Song Qian does have its advantages, such as beautiful shape and not easy to be imitated...... Of course, it is also relative that it is not easy to be imitated, and if the subject of imitation is the state, it is inevitable to be imitated.

But it doesn't matter, because the advantage of precious metal currency is that it is not afraid of counterfeiting. As long as it is sufficient, the people will recognize it, and if it is insufficient, the people will not recognize it, and it will not damage the reputation of Song Qian - because the prestige of the Song Dynasty is so high that everyone takes it for granted that Song Qian is the best and the bad ones are counterfeit.

This is a strange sight. Although large countries like Liao and Western Xia despised the Song Dynasty militarily, when they officially minted coins, they would mint a large number of Tongbao of the Song Dynasty, but as for their own coins, they only minted a small amount to support the façade. And Dali, Japan, these countries, have completely stopped their national currencies and used Song money as their local currency.

In the final analysis, it's because of the people of this era. There is no awareness of 'coinage rights', just because Song money is the only currency for international settlement, the currency rights of a country will be surrendered. If the Song Dynasty were smart enough, they could have taken control of the entire economy of Asia and made the whole of Asia pay for its inflation by coining on a large scale......

It is a pity that the Confucian scholars who ruled the country in the Song Dynasty did not have this vision and wisdom at all, on the contrary, they only saw the copper coins lost by the Song Dynasty due to the trade deficit. As high as tens of millions, causing a serious shortage of money. Therefore, copper coins are expressly forbidden to leave the country. For example, in the "Song Criminal Code", it is clearly stipulated: 'Those who put copper coins into the sea ship...... Ten runs through two thousand miles, and the servant is apprenticed for three years! ’

Of course, this provision has long been a non-existent one. But how do you expect their elm heads to think of taking the initiative to use the super coinage rights in their hands to make Asian countries become workers of the Great Song Dynasty?

Fortunately, now that there is Chen Ke, he naturally wants to let Song Qian play his due role! …,

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Chen Ke had already prepared the mining area for the two families. He divided the two mining areas farthest from Dongchuan in the east and west to the Duan family and the Gao family. The copper reserves in these two mines are not low, but they are a little troublesome to transport. But this is not a problem that Chen Ke is worried about......

For Duan and Gao, the mining area obtained is close to their own territory, which is also a good result, so they have no opinion...... It's just that the thought of the land that originally belonged to them now has to rely on other people's alms, and the two families are inevitably a little desolate. However, they had no choice, because the excavated copper ore needed to be transported through the Hongshui River and minted in Wuzhou Qianjian on Guangnan West Road before it could become a Great Song Tongbao.

If the copper mine can't be transported, it's just a pile of broken copper and iron, worthless.

The Hongshui River was in Chen Ke's hands, and it choked their lifeline, so that they had to cooperate with the imperial court obediently.

In the end, the two families signed a five-year contract with the Hongshui River Yamen and the Guangxi Wuzhou Qian Jian to transport five million catties of copper ingots every year to cast the Great Song Tongbao, half of which belonged to the two families and half to the imperial court.

But in actual production, they found that they could not train copper ore into qualified copper ingots. The mined ore could only be roughly sorted and transported to the copper smelting yard in Dongchuan City, where the Han people helped smelt copper coins. But the copper smelting yard is already too busy to receive its own orders, how can there be time to serve them?

So the two can only add money to cut the queue. As a result, after being stripped layer by layer, the two families could only make a profit of two percent, and they had to give the majority of their heads to the imperial court. It can be regarded as more than a thousand years ahead of time, and tasted the pain of third world countries......

But in this way, the two families are also happy, after all, the amount is too large, and the benefits are still very considerable. The Yang family couldn't sit still, and Yang Yizhen personally went to Dongchuan City to beg Chen Ke to give his family a chance to be exploited. Mr. Chen, who pursues a 'balanced policy', naturally agreed.

In the fourth year of Jiayou, more than half of the copper ore was provided by the three companies, and the miners they requisitioned exceeded 110,000 at the most...... Of course, the Duan family only has 10,000 people.

The Han Chinese recruited by Chen Ke to Dongchuan were mainly engaged in smelting and transportation. After visiting Dongchuan City, which was beginning to take shape, and learning about a series of generous policies, more than 40,000 people chose to stay or return home.

By the end of the third year of Jiayou, there were already 100,000 Han Chinese in Dongchuan City, half of whom were garrisons and half were craftsmen. With the addition of Baiman and Wuman, the number of people has reached 200,000, and it has become one of the top five cities in Dali. However, the yang and yin in the city are prosperous, and the ratio of men and women is very unbalanced, which makes Fan Fuzi, who serves as the city guard, very worried.

"Zhong Fang, the singles in the city are not a way...... "Although Fan Zhen is a layman in military affairs, he is a good hand in civil affairs, for more than a year, Chen Ke's main energy is on mining and copper smelting, and the big and small affairs of Dongchuan City are all carefully handled by him.

The biggest problem Fan Fuzi encountered was the problem of public security, there were more than a dozen fights in the city every day, and each fight resulted in deaths and injuries. Some people say, you have so many troops in your hands, and you can't control some people? It's a pity that the soldiers themselves are fighting...... What do you let Master Fan do?

He found Yang Wenguang and hoped that the old general would take military discipline seriously, but the people who came out of the old Western Army didn't know any military discipline at all when they weren't fighting. He said to Fan Zhen nonchalantly: "The sons and daughters are stuck in this bird place, they can't go back to their homes, they can't do anything, they don't let them fight, where do you spread your anger?" ”

Although Fan Zhen touched his nose, he grabbed something from Yang Wenguang's words. So he found Chen Ke and said: "It's too dangerous for a man to become a family, let alone a hundred thousand singles, if this problem is not solved, something big will happen." ”

"Resolved, resolved." Chen Ke smiled and said: "The man of the Great Song Dynasty can't marry a daughter-in-law, and if it is spread out, it will make people laugh off their big teeth." ”…,

"Then where are you going to find so many women?"

"Dali is a place for beautiful women!" Chen Ke said with a smile: "There are also nearby Jiaozhi and Bagan, although the men are not very good-looking, but the women are extremely soft and beautiful, and they can be wives." In the country of incense, why does Han'er have no wife? ”

"This ......" Fan Zhen had long been numb to Chen Ke's wanton behavior, and said with a wry smile: "You can figure it out, and it is necessary to provoke criticism by matching these men with their wives." ”

"It's a Han species!" Chen Keman said indifferently: "The law of the Great Song Dynasty only stipulates that the daughters of the Han family are not allowed to marry in Waifan, but there is no provision that the men of the Han family are not allowed to marry daughters." He poured tea for Fan Fuzi and said: "The father of the Han family, the mother of the Fan family, gave birth to a baby is a Han'er." I really want to marry a daughter-in-law of the Han family, is it a big deal to take a concubine first, and take a concubine of the Fan family, so that I won't also wronged them, right? ”

"Concubine......" Fan Zhen was a little moved, in fact, in Dongchuan City, a large number of Han people have families, but they all stay in their hometown to take care of Gao Tang and the young, so they are almost not around. If they are encouraged to marry an outer chamber here, they can have the best of both worlds.

"So be it, encourage them to let go of their baggage." Chen Ke said with a smile: "Your Excellency, you might as well let the people in the government take the lead first, and within a month, everyone will have to take a concubine." ”

"You can figure it out." Fan Zhen smiled: "You, the signing adult, should you take the lead?" ”

"Hey......" Chen Ke said with a dry smile: "I'm a person who talks about feelings, and I can't force it without feelings." He smiled and said, "Besides, the imperial court has urged me to return to Beijing several times, and I really can't delay it any longer." ”

"It's time to go back," Fan Zhen nodded and smiled: "Otherwise, people will say that you want to support the army and respect yourself." ”

"Hahaha......" Chen Ke laughed loudly: "I'm a newcomer to officialdom, and I won't be deducted such a big hat." ”

"Hehe," Fan Zhen said with a smile, "In a few years, you can afford it." Saying that, Zhengse said: "When are you going to leave?" ”

"As soon as possible, I am going to take the sea route and strive to return to Beijing before the year." Chen Ke said: "Anyway, the imperial court let Brother Zirong take over my stall, and it also saves the handover." "Zirong is Su Song, with Su Song's grade, when this Dongchuan signing seems to be yielding, but the most difficult time in Dongchuan has passed, this year's waterway is open, and next year's steady stream of Yunnan copper will be transported to the mainland, he will definitely become a dazzling political star-

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I'm sorry, I have a bad cold, and the child is not worried, it will be fine...... (To be continued)