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Chapter 1399 Enfeoffment (3)

Zhou Wen was dumbfounded, Sun Jie was dumbfounded, all the guards present were dumbfounded, Locke and Luo Fei even stared wide-eyed, and opened their mouths in a daze.Although they are simple and straightforward, they also know the value of money. Although they have long known that exchanging coins can make money, they have never known so clearly that they can make money like this!

Only Zhao Hu, who was immune to money, just froze for a moment.Those present are all cronies, and they don't care about being heard, because maids are not qualified to serve at this time.

Zhou Wen shouted with golden eyes: "My lord, leave the exchange work to your subordinates! As long as you transport it back and forth a few times, the funds can be multiplied several times. What can you do to make money like this? It's like robbing the royal treasury." identical!"

Sun Jie wiped off his saliva, and interjected, "Can you get so much by robbing the royal treasury? I said it's raining gold coins. Countless money is falling from the sky, and there is no end to it!"

Oakd smiled bitterly and said: "Please, this is only theoretically possible to exchange so many coins. If there are so many copper coins in the empire, they will definitely depreciate, and if the southeast peninsula loses so many copper coins, it will also appreciate. In the end, it must be the same exchange rate between the empire and here.

"Do you really think that you can exchange money back and forth for a long time? Maybe it will cause the prying eyes of the empire and the alliance, and directly wipe out the southeast peninsula!"

"What's the matter, anyway, as long as we can make a lot of money, it's impossible for adults to stay here for a long time." Zhou Wen said nonchalantly.

Oakd shook his head and said: "Things are not as simple as you think. It is useless for us to transport these coins back to the empire now, because these coins cannot be directly circulated in the empire at all. Small quantities can be exchanged privately, but large quantities I can only go to the bank, but such a large amount of coins will definitely attract the attention of the imperial department. If I accidentally cause financial turmoil, I will be wanted and arrested by the empire immediately. At that time, I will be full of trouble if I don’t eat fish! "

Zhou Wen immediately became distressed: "Then what should I do?"

"There are two methods. One is to melt the coins in the southeast peninsula and sell them as precious metals, but this will result in a lot of losses." As soon as Okede said this, Zhou Wen and Sun Jie shook their heads and asked about the second method.

Oakd first glanced at Zhao Hu, then gritted his teeth and said, "The second method is the only one that can be hidden, and that is to cast the coins here into imperial coins."

As soon as these words came out, the audience was silent. For any sovereign country, privately minting coins is a crime of copying one's family and exterminating one's family.

Zhao Hu, who had no idea about this, thought for a while and asked, "Can you tell the difference?"

Oakd, who was ready to accept the scolding, obviously didn't expect Zhao Hu to ask such a question, he was taken aback for a moment and said hurriedly: "If it is made according to the metal content of the imperial gold coin, it will be an imperial coin except for its new color. If we deal with it as usual, It doesn't look like it's new at all."

"Do we have craftsmen who mint coins?" Zhao Hu asked again.

This time it was Sun Jie who replied: "Yes, my lord, this subordinate knows that the southeast coins are minted by various forces according to the standards, and this subordinate has looked at the list of craftsmen, not only coin miners, but even blacksmiths and shipbuilders. There is no shortage of workers, carpenters, cobblers, etc. If it wasn't for the small number of people, it would be like a country with all kinds of talents, no wonder Mingyue City can become an independent force."

At this moment, everyone could tell that Zhao Hu was going to mint coins by himself, but for them, mainly Zhao Hu, this was not a particularly important matter. After all, they were now on the southeast peninsula. Could it be that the empire could find out here?

Seeing Zhao Hu moved, Aoked reminded a little worriedly: "My lord, it's best not to mint too many coins for the first time."

Sun Jie interrupted and said, "I can't do more than I want to. Just a few craftsmen can make tens of thousands of them a day. It's amazing, and this is a confidential matter. You can't just add people at will!"

Zhao Hu smiled and said, "It's okay, the water flows forever. By the way, tell me what should we mint? Gold coins or copper coins?"

"Copper coins, firstly, you can take them back and exchange them for imperial gold coins, and secondly, you can exchange southeast gold coins for southeast copper coins." Zhou Wen said hurriedly.

But Sun Jie retorted: "Sister, don't forget that there are only a few craftsmen, and there are more than 500 million copper coins in stock, which means more than 50 billion copper coins. The project is really too big. It is better to melt the gold coins directly Forget about the imperial gold coins, they can be used directly in the empire.”

Zhou Wen curled his lips and said, "Of course I know, but although the southeast gold coins are directly melted and cast into imperial gold coins, although it is one for three, it is too much of a loss. One gold coin is a full seven thousand copper coins short."

When everyone heard this, they thought about it and felt that it was a disadvantage. Just when everyone was distressed and didn't know what to do, Zhao Hu smiled and said: "Don't think so much, anyway, we are not short of money now, it doesn't matter if we slowly melt copper coins. If you need it urgently In terms of money, we can use these southeast copper coins to buy empire supplies, and then sell the empire supplies to the southeast peninsula, so using southeast copper coins to buy goods in the empire, I believe it is not as eye-catching as directly exchanging money for money, right?"

Everyone heard that in the empire, one hundred copper coins can be used to buy one silver coin. In the southeast peninsula, even one southeast silver coin can make three times the profit. The profit is the same but it is much safer and is in short supply. The goods are sold twice, and the profit is more.

Thinking of this, everyone immediately praised, and only Zhou Wen muttered: "It's not as fast as directly exchanging coins."

Oakd said with a little embarrassment: "Your Excellency is wise, this subordinate was confused by the huge amount brought by the currency exchange, and was so confused that he went around the corner and couldn't turn around. In fact, smuggling is also equivalent to currency exchange, and it is more profitable It's more hidden, no wonder Mingyue City is so rich that they still want to smuggle it.

"You must know that buying goods with money like this will not attract attention at all, and the southeast coins can also be used openly. As long as we don't smuggle them, the empire would like to have more such businesses, because this is to increase exports."

Zhao Hu shook his head with a smile and said, "Leave this matter to you, Oakd. You can ask Fair to be your helper. After all, he is in charge of these things in Mingyue City." Discussing this aspect, they began to ask Sun Jie: "Aside from money, what other good things are hidden in Mingyue City?"

Sun Jie woke up from the reverie of money: "Oh, there are still [-] sets of intact armor, [-] sets of swords, guns, shields and bows, and [-] granaries, each with tens of thousands of stones. In comparison, the armaments are simply poor."

Thinking about it, it is really weird that there are tens of millions of wealth in stock, but only so little weapons and equipment.

Zhao Hu said with a smile: "It's not surprising. I heard from Mode that there is no shortage of gold, silver, grain or copper in the southeast peninsula, but there is a shortage of everything else. They have to smuggle in iron and leather armor from outside." Well, so the lack of armament is not surprising. Has the number of soldiers who surrendered been counted?"

"With the support of those vassals, the inventory was quickly completed. We captured more than 5000 soldiers, of which more than 1000 were private soldiers of the vassals in the city. They came to ask for it, but they were blocked by our subordinates.

"The subordinate sent his subordinates to investigate and found that these soldiers have no resistance to being loyal to the Lord, because it is really common in this southeast peninsula to absorb captives into one's army, so as long as the Lord organizes them, it will be completely It can be used as a militia led by a major." Sun Jie said.

"Hmph, a bunch of unloyal guys." Zhou Wen said dissatisfied.

Sun Jie argued: "Sister, that's not what you said. In places where wars are frequent, everyone will habitually seek refuge with the strong. It can't be blamed for their disloyalty. After all, they have to survive."

"Humph." Zhou Wen closed his mouth. Although he didn't like it, he also had the hope of pursuing survival, and the surrender of the other party saved him so many things. Isn't it good?
Oakd suddenly said to Zhao Hu: "My lord, do you really want to give up this place to people in the southeast peninsula? This place is very promising."

It's no wonder that Okede said that now Zhao Hu is the local emperor here, but in the empire he is only a major of a local army. Compared with this, Zhao Hu can develop and take off more here.

Originally, Oakd would not propose this, but after seeing Zhao Hu agreeing to mint coins, his thoughts began to change.

Zhao Hu didn't speak, but Zhou Wen said very strangely: "If you don't hand it over to people from the native land, let the adults manage it yourself? Not to mention what the empire will do after learning about it, even the southeast peninsula doesn't recognize outsiders."

Aokede said with a smile: "Hey, Miss Zhou Wen, didn't you see that those retainers knew that you were an outsider, and they still pledged their allegiance to you? They didn't even know what everyone's name was, so I didn't think they were very realistic. Is it? But the empire is in trouble."

"Hey, is there any way you can let the adults occupy this place? There is a lot of money here." Sun Jie said excitedly from the side.

After checking the inventory, Sun Jie felt that it was a wrong decision to hand over this place to others.

After thinking for a while, Oakd said confidently: "It's very simple. My lord, make a false name and wear a mask when you go out. Such a brand new family will rule Mingyue City. There is no opinion on the southeast peninsula, and neither will the empire." I know, after all, except for a few people, the people on the southeast peninsula don't know the name of the adults."

(End of this chapter)