A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 458 Silver Mine Act
The imperial meeting ended soon, and under Wang Xin's strong push, the edict of the Yi tribe was officially issued.Of course, because of the opposition of the ministers, Wang Xin was more open to the female family members and instead of being sent to the priest's office, they were exiled.

Even so, thousands of people were beheaded at one time, and the executioners' knives in the execution ground had several curled blades.Among them, the Chen family's royal family, as the official office, showed no mercy.

A large area was left vacant in the inner city and city walls where the nobles of Luoyang, the divine capital, gathered.

This time, Wang Xin wanted to use thunderous means to deal with those nobles and powerful men, just to establish his authority.This is a warning to those who want to mint counterfeit silver coins privately and make bad money.

At the same time, it is also a reference for future emperors if this situation occurs in the future.

As the saying goes, those who seek the top will get the bottom, and those who seek the bottom will get the bottom. He deliberately set such a strict law, thinking that even if the descendants' laws were not so strict in the future, they would at least implement beheading and exile.

After Wang Xin carried out the raids on those nobles and powerful people, the imperial court seized hundreds of thousands of imperial silver coins from their homes. These silver coins were all fine silver coins minted by the imperial court. In addition, there were more than [-] imperial silver coins. Counterfeit silver coins, as well as a large amount of silver, copper, lead, tin, etc.

Although these fake silver coins have a fake character, they are not worthless. They contain [-]% to [-]% of silver. Wang Xin asked the master craftsman who is the supervisor of the craftsman to wait for someone to check, and prepare to re-make these fake silver coins, and then add enough silver coins. Measure silver and recast it into silver dollars.

The master made an inspection of the coinage technologies mastered by these nobles. Although most of these coinage technologies lag behind the court's technology, there are also some places where the court's coinage technology has been improved, and some technologies are even no weaker than those of the imperial court. imperial court.

This is also good news for the court. It can improve the coinage process, reduce the cost of coinage, increase the speed of coinage, and make the coinage process more perfect, setting a higher threshold for other people to mint coins, making it more difficult to mint counterfeit coins.

In addition to these, several nobles were displaced by the Yi clan, which also left a large amount of land and property free. These lands and properties were nationalized by the royal family and then leased to the people for farming at low prices.

As for why they are not sold to the people, it is because these properties cannot be bought by the people at all. Even if they reluctantly buy them, they cannot keep them. It will not be long before other nobles and officials use various methods to force them to sell them at low prices. .

The land owned by nobles and nobles is in the upper fields, which is convenient for getting water, and the surrounding areas are basically the fields owned by nobles and officials.Ordinary people can only be oppressed by them here.The best way is to let the court control it, divide it into official fields, and then hand them over to the people for farming.

As for the houses and manors in Luoyang City, they were controlled by the royal family.These houses or manors will be used as rewards in the future to reward those who have made military exploits.

As for those shops, workshops and the like, some were taken over by the court and some were sold.After these things were processed, what surprised Wang Xin the most was the silver mine and the craftsmen in the hands of these nobles.

Wang Xin did not punish the craftsmen.In fact, these craftsmen are basically controlled by nobles, including their personal freedom, and even their marriages are controlled by those nobles. They are called craftsmen in nice words, but in fact they are slaves.

They have no right to choose at all. In the eyes of those nobles, these craftsmen are just like tool men.

Many of these craftsmen were highly skilled, and Wang Xin valued the craftsmen even more. After pardoning their crimes, he incorporated all of these craftsmen into craftsmen's supervision.Assign jobs according to their skills and provide corresponding treatment.

Wang Xin also sent people to take over the silver mine that had been secretly excavated by the nobles. When the embroidered clothes messenger and the secret guard came back with the specific information about the silver mine, Wang Xin was immediately shocked.This newly discovered silver mine is not far from Luoyang, the capital of China, in the Nanyang Basin and located in Fuyang County, Nanyang County.Due to the fertile land and complete water conservancy facilities in the Nanyang Basin, a large number of nobles bought land here, and many nobles were enfeoffed here.

This silver mine is in Fuyang County. After the imperial craftsmen evaluated the silver mine, they were all shocked by it.This silver mine is a rare rich mine and is easy to mine. It is currently estimated that the reserves exceed half of the silver mines controlled by the imperial court.

It can be called the best silver mine in the world.

If such a silver mine, which is easy to mine and has rich reserves, is in the hands of nobles, it will definitely be a huge threat to the imperial court.If the nobles are smart enough, the mined silver mines can control Daqian's economy.

Although the imperial court controlled more than a dozen silver mines and established many mine supervisors, some of these silver mines were inconvenient to mine, some had poor silver ore taste, and some were almost exhausted.

There are not even one-third of the silver mines that can truly produce silver stably.The combined output of these silver mines is not as high as the output of the Nanyang silver mine.

If such a silver mine is controlled by nobles, Wang Xin can't help but feel chills running down his back at the consequences.

Over the years, the imperial court has minted as many as 3000 million silver coins, but the vast majority of them have been collected by nobles, powerful men, and officials. The actual number of silver coins circulating in the market is less than 1000 million. At the same time, because of the convenience of silver coins, In addition to its exquisite patterns, difficulty in counterfeiting, anti-counterfeiting, and value preservation, it has begun to be circulated in Daqian vassal countries.

There are also a large number of silver coins circulating in the Western Regions, Lingnan, Mobei Grassland and other places.

With such a vast land and an estimated population of 9000 to [-] million people, such a huge market requires an extremely terrifying number of silver coins and copper coins.

Even though the imperial court continued to mint silver coins, the supply on the market still exceeded demand.

The silver collars accumulated by the imperial court were all used up two years ago. The current silver coins are minted with the silver produced in the silver mines. The imperial court's banking supervisor originally had ten sets of minting machines, but now only four are in operation, and several others are in operation. They have all stopped working, and they are used alternately when minting coins, because there is insufficient silver.

Now that there are Nanyang silver mines, those few silver mines with high mining costs, poor taste and about to be exhausted can be completely closed and then put into Nanyang Mine Supervision.With the Nanyang Mine Supervisor, the Imperial Mint Supervisor can fully operate.

After discovering the Nanyang Silver Mine, Wang Xin realized a problem, that is, after the imperial court released Heze, once the minerals were discovered and those nobles secretly exploited them, the imperial court would suffer huge losses.

In order to prevent the Nanyang Silver Mine from happening again in the future, Wang Xin ordered the Legalists to perfect the laws on mountains and rivers.

(End of this chapter)