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Chapter 168 It's All Thanks to Nephew Peng Xian!
Yingtian Mansion, inside the imperial palace.

Emperor Hongwu was sitting in the hall of Wenhua Hall, dealing with government affairs.

The current Wenhua Palace is not a place for the crown prince to observe politics, but it is completely Hongwu Emperor's personal permanent imperial palace.

Basically, Emperor Hongwu handled government affairs in Wenhua Hall and summoned officials, and only moved to Fengtian Hall for court meetings during the noon and late dynasties.

Emperor Hongwu, who was correcting the memorial with a vermilion pen, raised his eyes, glanced at Song Zhong who was guarding in the palace, and asked lightly: "Song Qing, how did you do what you were asked to do?"

Since Peng Ke resigned as the commander of Jinyiwei, Song Zhong, the deputy, has become a regular.

For Song Zhong, he is very loyal, but his ability is not enough.

In other words, his ability lies in commanding the army, not in governing Jinyiwei.

Song Zhong really can't play with the winding and winding things.

This made Emperor Hongwu quite dissatisfied.

He is also currently looking for a new Jinyiwei commander, and when he finds it, President Song will be sent out to the border to become a general or governor.

But before being released, he still needs to do his job well.

Song Zhong, who was guarding Emperor Hongwu without squinting his eyes, immediately went out to salute and said, "Return to Your Majesty!"

"The news has already been spread through Jinyiwei and informants everywhere."

"In Dengzhou Prefecture, there have been many rangers who want to go boating to Jianzhou to pan for gold."

"Commander Peng Du's letters to the nobles have also been sent to their homes. It is estimated that within a few days, the nobles will take action."

"Everything has been arranged properly, please rest assured, Your Majesty!"

Only then did Emperor Hongwu nodded in satisfaction.

The plan given by Peng Ke to develop the Jianzhou gold mine is to mobilize the nobles in the court and the so-called "rangers" and "heroes" who are idle around the Ming Dynasty to set off for Jianzhou to mine.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, although there is no king in the world, the common people can open mines on their own after applying to the local government.

Of course, this is also one of the political influences of the pioneer of Mo Academy.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there was a shortage of copper, iron, coal and other minerals.

After all, Daming is a nascent country that is entering industrialization.

And industrialization is absolutely inseparable from all kinds of mines.

At that time, Daming was busy with wars and had no energy, and it was impossible to carry out large-scale mining under the leadership of the government across the country.

So this job was delegated to the people.

Of course, gold, silver and copper mines must be brought under supervision and can only be sold to the state. Other mines, such as coal, iron and sulfur, are allowed to mine as long as they pass the approval.

The "common people" here must refer to those wealthy businessmen and landlords with net worth of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels.

Although the mining tax in Ming Dynasty is very high, private mines have to pay at least [-]% to [-]% of the tax according to different production, the least is coal, half of the tax is paid, and the most is gold, [-]% of the tax is paid.

But for the landlords, this is still an industry that can make a fortune!

Because almost all mines in Daming accept anyone who comes to them!
And prices are basically stable.

As long as the mine can be opened, even the most worthless coal mine, a coal mine with an annual output of [-] tons, can at least earn thousands of taels of silver a year!
That's still net income!

The speed at which money can be earned is much higher than that of planing food in the ground.

After all, there is an upper limit to the yield per mu in farming, and we have to worry about the impact of the weather. In case of a drought or flood, it is common for the bamboo basket to fetch water in vain.

But mining is different. As long as the mines are opened, as many miners as there are can dig out as many mines, and the more you work, the more you get!
Since Daming allowed private mining, many private mines have appeared all over the country. Every year, the value of mineral production in Daming is nearly half of the government-run and nearly half of the private.

It can be seen that there are so many private mines!

However, now that the imperial court has tightened the rights of private mining, it is very difficult for new mines to obtain mining approval.

On the contrary, there are more and more government-run mines, and now the folks want to open mines privately, without the relationship of Tongtian, it is difficult to get approval.

Therefore, this time, when Peng Ke proposed to let the nobles get involved in the Jianzhou gold mine, as soon as it was proposed, Emperor Hongwu immediately agreed and actively promoted it.

In recent years, a large number of founding heroes have been killed, and some people are somewhat panicked.

At the beginning of the year, Emperor Hongwu had just bestowed the death of Song Guogong Feng Sheng, which made the nobles in Beijing panic all day long.

The instability of the noble class is actually a particularly unfavorable thing for the court.

And now those nobles with high achievements and threats to the grandson's coming to power have all been cleaned up.

What is left now are the second-generation and third-generation hoon who have little influence, or who have just grown up.

This is the time to win over and reassure them.

It is just in time for Penke to throw out a Jianzhou gold mine at this time.

Jianzhou is located in a remote area, and there are no people there. If you want to open a mine, you can only move people from the inland.

In Daming, apart from the royal family, who is the most capable of mobilization?

Undoubtedly it was this group of nobles who had nothing to do in Yingtian Mansion.

Any Lord Daming with an Earl or above can easily organize a team of more than a thousand people, either his own tenants and servants, or his subordinate Bao Ze who retired from the army.

Letting these honorable families send people to build mines in Jianzhou can not only give them some benefits and reassure their hearts, but also make full use of the energy of the nobles to develop Jianzhou for Daming.

This is a great thing.

When Emperor Hongwu bestowed the meritorious officials, he always said that he would let the heroes rest with the country.

Now that the country is seeing prosperity, it is time to share some benefits with these nobles.

It takes a lot of effort for the imperial court to send people to mine, not to mention that it will also affect the subsequent immigration strategy.

After all, the main energy of the country is now on emigrating to Liaodong and preparing for the Northern Expedition, and there is really no time to organize the development and construction of the state.

But let the nobles take on this responsibility, the court only needs to share [-]% of the profit of the gold mine, and they can be the shopkeepers, and they don't need to worry about anything, and these nobles will rush to get everything right.

And when I turn around, I will be grateful to Emperor Hongwu.

An emperor who is willing to make everyone rich is a good emperor!
Don't underestimate the [-]% profit!
According to the situation reported by Peng Ke, if the gold mines in Jianzhou can be fully developed, the annual production of 20 to [-] taels of gold will not be a problem.

A [-]% profit also has [-] to [-] gold!

Plus the associated copper and brass.

It is said that a few hundred thousand taels of silver can be distributed to the nobles in a year.

Even if each family gets a share, that family can get 3 to [-] taels of silver, which is two or three times more than their own land closure output!

It was really not easy to be a noble in the early Ming Dynasty.

The Duke of the State can get 8000 taels a year, the master Hou may only get 5000 taels, and the uncle will only have [-] taels left.

This Jianzhou Gold Mine will allow them to share a fortune. All the masters of the Ming Dynasty, you can wake up laughing when you dream at night!
The countless nobles who received Peng Ke's handwriting almost didn't shed tears.

After surviving the three major cases, the good days of Daming Xungui have finally come!
This is all thanks to His Majesty's kindness, and Peng Xian's nephew (big brother) who made the suggestion!
(End of this chapter)