"My dear, look at this memorial!" Emperor Zhao Xu smiled and handed a memorial directly to Wang Jinghui.

It snowed heavily last night, and the silver decorations of Biandu, who was immersed in the joy of the Spring Festival, Wang Jinghui originally wanted to sleep in. Since he came to this time and space, sleep has become the most distressing thing for him. Sleeping only two hours a day is like a precise clock. It is said that he is sleeping in, but he is just staying in bed and refuses to come out. He cannot sleep.

However, the qualification to stay in bed was shattered by the emperor's urging. He had to wear it and take a car to meet the saint. Unlike every time he entered the palace, Wang Jinghui packed his money so much that he started from the guards at the gate of the palace. After entering the palace, he would send a red envelope whenever he saw someone, which made all the guards, eunuchs, palace maids and others who saw him smiled. Others would not dare to do this, but Wang Jinghui didn't care and dared to publicly send red envelopes to people in the palace. It is estimated that no one except the emperor had done this since the Song Dynasty came. Wang Jinghui sent the red envelopes all the way to the emperor Zhao Xu, which made Emperor Zhao Xu feel a little amused.

After Wang Jinghui opened the memorial, he read it carefully. It turned out that this memorial was submitted by Cai Rong, the governor of Mayi Island. Cai Rong was from the sixth year of Xining and was born in Huaying Academy. As early as when he was studying in the academy, Cai Rong's knowledge was highly praised by all the gentlemen of the academy. He also published many valuable articles in "Mei Xue" and "The Mirror of the Song Dynasty", and there were more articles published in the academy journals.

Cai Rong's performance also attracted Wang Jinghui's attention, but what really made Wang Jinghui remember was that Cai Rong visited Wang Jinghui after leaving the imperial examination list. Cai Rong hoped that Wang Jinghui would help him go to Mayi Island to become an official! Some people hoped to be an official in Nanyang, which was the first time Wang Jinghui heard. Under the influence of Wang Jinghui, the students of Huaying Academy and Xihu Academy under his name, once passed the imperial examination, a large number of them went to the south to become officials. This was changed after the end of the Song-Xia War. Many students from the two major academies also went to the northwest to become officials. However, no one took the initiative to go to Nanyang.

Wang Jinghui still clearly remembers the scene when Cai Rong came to the Prince Consort's Mansion to visit him that day. When he went to Huaying Academy to give lectures, Cai Rong had also attended his classes many times, but the impression Cai Rong left him was still very vague at that time, and he was just a typical young student. However, after a conversation, especially when Cai Rong took the initiative to express his hope to become an official on Mayi Island, Wang Jinghui really remembered him. Cai Rong left a very good impression on Wang Jinghui, which made Wang Jinghui think of Ouyang Fa ten years ago, who was also a young student with lofty ambitions, and he was also very simple and unchasing fame and fortune.

"Captain the sword, with Tanhua's ranking, you can be included in the Pavilion. Three or four years later, you will be vacant for the Holy Spirit. Ten years later, it will not be difficult to return to Kaifeng, Biandu to serve as the six ministries. If you are lucky in twenty or thirty years later, it may not be impossible to become the prime minister..." Wang Jinghui said to Cai Rong.

"Sir, the student thought of going to the Southeast Asian Sea after reading many articles written by Mr. As the student said, 'The Nanyang land is far away from the Song Dynasty, but its rich resources are actually the lifeblood of the Song Dynasty...' So far, although our Song Dynasty has occupied Mayi Island and sulfur balls, sulfur balls have been managed by the Privy Council. Why is Mayi Island more important than sulfur balls still not sent officials to manage it after six years of the Song Dynasty? The student has read all the information on Mayi Island that can be found and learned that Mayi Island has the copper, gold, silver, wood, and a large amount of high-yield fertile fields that can be planted in the Song Dynasty. If no one manages such an important taxi land, it would be a pity..."

"It is rare to have such a profound vision for the sword. It is true that as you said, Mayi Island has a very meaning for the Song Dynasty. As time goes by, Mayi Island's status will gradually become prominent. However, it is still in its original state. Apart from the army and prisoners of the Song Dynasty, there are only natives who have not yet been civilized. The people of our Song Dynasty regard southern Xinjiang as a fear of their fate. That is because the miasma in the south is rampant, but the living conditions of Mayi Island are worse than those in the south..." Wang Jinghui said truthfully. In fact, Cai Rong was already very satisfied with this. He even wanted to place Cai Rong on Liangzhe Road to serve as an official for a period of time, and then rely on his strength to assist Cai Rong in making some achievements before transferring him back to the Bian Capital to entrust the important task.

"In the opinion of students, Mayi Island's affairs are mainly maintained by the garrison generals. They may be very good at fighting, but they are not suitable for construction. The current conditions of Mayi Island are relatively difficult, but their status is very important in our Song Dynasty. Students heard that the court was willing to expand the three copper mines on Mayi Island in large quantities. If there were no special people to coordinate and guide them, there would inevitably be amazing waste in the middle, and there would be certain problems in planning and construction. When students were studying in the academy, in addition to the courses required by the academy, they also took elective mathematics, physics and medicine. All of these three courses were graded. Students thought that what they learned was the most suitable for Mayi Island." Cai Rong said.

After a long talk, Wang Jinghui finally accepted Cai Rong and jointly recommended Cai Rong as the governor of Mayi Island and had the right to deal with Bonito Ni affairs. After Cai Rong arrived at Mayi Island, he lived up to expectations and managed Mayi Island's affairs in an orderly manner. The court originally planned to expand three mines and their refining equipment workshops to progress rapidly under his coordination. Of course, Cai Rong was able to do a good job in Mayi Island, which was inseparable from Wang Jinghui's behind him. In the project of expanding the mines and workshops, Wang Jinghui recruited a large number of technicians from the two major academies to Cai Rong, and also tried his best to ensure the construction of Mayi Island in the supply of slaves.

Cai Rong's role in construction is remarkable, but his greatest contribution is not in this. Cai Rong selected slaves who speak Chinese and perform more prominently in daily labor, and asked them to hold certain low-level positions, and gave them relatively good treatment to participate in the management of slaves. Although the Mayi Island military had some complaints about this, it was temporarily suppressed by Wang Jinghui. In order to accelerate the infrastructure of the Song Dynasty, he turned prisoners of war into slaves, not only to accelerate the infrastructure of the Song Dynasty, but more importantly, assimilated these Khitans and Dangxiang people. The hatred between the nations would not be suppressed so quickly. However, the Xixia country had already destroyed its country and the Liao country was not far apart. The days ahead were still long. There was no need to use harsh means to continue to deepen this hatred when managing these prisoners of war.

Although it was just a small improvement measure, it was praised by Wang Jinghui and it also had a great influence among the prisoners of war. The Song army, who was guarding these prisoners of war, treated prisoners of war very stubbornly and really treated prisoners of war as slaves. In addition to working, they were shackles and guarded them. Under the guard of these Song army, there had been many small-scale unrest in the slaves.

Cai Rong adopted a very generous management method for the slaves and increased measures to improve the lives of slaves. In the year after he took office, the number of slave deaths on Mayi Island decreased significantly compared with the previous period, which in turn promoted the improvement of the project progress. The most surprising time was that local natives attacked the mines. As a result, Cai Rong mobilized the slaves to cooperate with the Song army to counterattack, and actually defeated the local natives. After reporting to Kaifeng, Biandu, all officials were impressed by Cai Rong, which also left a very good impression on Cai Rong for the first time.

The memorial that Wang Jinghui saw this time was a report by Cai Rong, which was somewhat similar to the year-end summary. After two years of large-scale construction, Mayi Island can produce 2 million jin of copper every year (one kilogram in Song Dynasty is equal to 640 grams today, and two million jin is equivalent to 1,280 tons today). Moreover, the gold and silver mines discovered two years ago were also expanded and can provide the court with 800,000 taels of silver and 160,000 taels of gold (one kilogram in Song Dynasty is equivalent to 16 taels of gold and silver). More importantly, a very large gold and silver mine was found in the south of Mayi Island. Although the scale cannot be estimated, it is much larger than the total reserves of the two gold and silver mines discovered before, and the ore is not comparable to the previous gold and silver mines. If the court can increase its efforts to carry out construction, the output of this gold and silver mine will exceed the existing gold and silver mines by next year!

Of course, there are more than 100,000 mu of newly developed fertile land in the memorial, plus the previous 50,000 mu, the annual grain production can reach 1.2 million stones. In addition to meeting the supply of local slaves and defenders on Mayi Island, 800,000 stones of grain can be directly supplied to the Song Dynasty through sea transportation. To this day, the Song Dynasty still has constant disasters of all sizes, but droughts like the second year of Xining are gone. 800,000 stones of grain can be effectively supplied to the south of the Song Dynasty and alleviate the food tension there.

"Congratulations to the Master, my Song Dynasty has been spreading frequently in all aspects recently. This is because the Master is wise to govern the country!" After reading the memorial, Wang Jinghui took advantage of the time when Emperor Zhao Xu was happy and almost made his teeth sore.

"It seems that flattering is not easy!" Wang Jinghui thought to himself.

Emperor Zhao Xu also laughed happily after hearing this. Recently, there were too many good news about the Song Dynasty. The recovery of Yanyun made Emperor Zhao Xu more confident. What Taizu Taizong finally made a break in his generation. What made him even more relieved was that when Wang Jinghui negotiated with the Liao Kingdom, he actually won the "annual tribute" that Liao Kingdom would pay 50,000 ounces to the Song Dynasty every year. Although today's 50,000 ounces is not proportional to the annual income of the Song Dynasty, the 50,000 ounces of annual income made every Song Dynasty regain confidence, and the shame that began with Emperor Zhenzong was also washed away. In terms of pride, he was the emperor.

"Your dear is a meritorious in recommending someone. Cai Rong is quite talented. A barren place like Mayi Island is actually well-managed. I want to reward him very much!" Emperor Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"Sir, the development of Mayi Island has just begun. There is still a long way to go in the future. At least I know that the Song Dynasty of Mayi Island has only reclaimed less than 200,000 mu of fertile land. There are far more than so many fertile land available for planting in Mayi Island, and it can be further developed. If the operation is done properly, Mayi Island will become the granary of my Song Dynasty in twenty or thirty years. Even if the Song Dynasty encounters a major natural disaster, there is no need to be afraid!" Wang Jinghui said with a smile.

"Well said! I want to send more wing troops to Mayi Island to reclaim land and plant grain, but what is more worthwhile on Mayi Island is to mine now. According to Cai Rong's memorial, Mayi Island has a rich copper reserves, which also proves the analysis of the mineral reserves of this island. Mayi Island actually has a copper mine of one island that is comparable to all the copper mines in the entire Song Dynasty. This is amazing!" Emperor Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"Haha, the Philippines' copper reserves in later generations ranked among the top in the world. Even if they were not the first, there would be no problem to get at least the top three or four. The copper reserves in mainland China will not be in the top five together. It is naturally no problem to move them over and use them directly. In comparison, the area of ​​the Philippines is so large, so it is naturally much easier to find ore than to find ore in the territory of the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, it is a little far away, so mining is not easy..." Wang Jinghui thought to himself.

"I summoned my beloved today to ask me if something is feasible." Emperor Zhao Xu said slowly in a more comfortable position.

"What is the matter that the Lord asks? If I have any experience, I will do my best!"

"This is what I only thought of from Cai Rong's memorial. In the Song Dynasty, because I lacked copper in the past, I might not have made coins. In addition, the power of minting coins in each state and road, so there are many types of coins produced, such as iron or even tin to make coins. I think if the copper ore on Mayi Island is further developed, at least you don't have to worry about the absence of copper..." Emperor Zhao Xu said slowly.

"The Emperor wants to take back the power of the states to make money and eliminate all coins except copper coins?" Wang Jinghui asked.

After hearing this, Emperor Zhao Xu said with a smile: "What I guess is exactly what I am thinking in my heart. I wonder if you have any suggestions for this? I want to hear your advice and leave it to Wang Jiefu and Sima Junshi and others for discussion!"

Wang Jinghui pondered for a moment and said, "Sir, I have also studied this coin slightly. Moreover, I think that small coins are related to the future development of our Song Dynasty. We must not make major changes easily, otherwise it will cause unpredictable consequences and people's lives will be greatly affected. Although there may not be Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun, there will always be some public grievances. The emperor also knows that Xingguo Bank is in my industry. As for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, it was jointly built with other merchants, both banks issued silver notes and gold notes and filed with the Ministry of Revenue. In fact, these are experiments to confirm some of my ideas in my mind, and they are just accumulating some experience in improving coins in the future."

"I also talked to me about the issuance of gold and silver notes by these two banks, which reminded me of the joint issuance of money by Yizhou merchants decades ago. In the end, these merchants issued money by the payment caused a lot of chaos, and were eventually banned by the government and the court issued money by the government. At that time, I still remembered that after I submitted the memorial, Sima Junshi had raised questions about the old things..." Emperor Zhao Xu had a very good memory, and still remembered the things three years ago very clearly.

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "The things that Jun Shixiang Gong is not unreasonable. What I did is not different from what those Yizhou merchants did back then. It can be said that they are exactly the same. If the difference is that I have absolute control over these two banks, so under my control, there would not be any disaster in which Yizhou merchants issued money randomly. However, I still signed and sealed with Mr. Jun Shi, and the court sent someone to monitor the issuance and use of gold and silver bills in the two banks."

"To be fair, those merchants in Yizhou jointly issued Jiaoduo, which did a great role in promoting local businesses. After all, Yizhou mostly traded iron coins, and twenty iron coins were equivalent to three or four copper coins. If they did a big business like this, it would be very distressing to just carry coins to trade. They did something wrong back then and were punished. However, Emperor Renzong did not give up on the issue of Jiaoduo, but instead took the Jiaoduoduo to the court. This was much better than controlling Zhuoduoduo in the hands of a few people without any guarantees. At least the merchants in the world benefited a lot." Emperor Zhao Xu seemed to have done some homework in advance, remembered the story of Jiaoduoduo very clearly, and talked about it very well.

"Sir, I forgive me for saying that, in fact, judging from the scale of business operations of merchants in the Song Dynasty, there is no need to mention the inconvenience of trading copper coins. In bulk commercial transactions, copper coins will inevitably be eliminated. Even if the payment of money is also a big deficit in the face value, this is why I still issue bank notes and gold notes. The face value of these two types of bills is huge, which is exactly where bulk business merchants like to trade the most." Wang Jinghui said with a smile.

After hearing this, Emperor Zhao Xu thought for a while and said with a smile: "I was still fooled by my beloved after talking for a long time. I asked you to discuss whether to replace some local currencies. My beloved after listening for a long time, I wanted me to agree to the court to issue gold and silver notes?!"
Chapter completed!