As expected by Li Fan, Comrade Xiao Zhu repeatedly tried to keep him, so Zhang Siwei reluctantly agreed. His family's wealth was huge and he also explained it to generations of maritime merchants, but Wu Jingshi was not so lucky.

Zhang Siwei took the initiative to resign, but he, the censor, had no chance to turn over. His family was confiscated and his family was exiled to Qiongzhou and went to company with his colleagues.

As for the searched property, it is a different matter if it can be entered into the Ministry of Revenue.

After Li Fan's trouble, no one mentioned the incident of the Fan family being robbed of silver. As soon as the morning court ended, Li Fan was sent by Comrade Xiao Zhu to call him to the imperial study room.

"Li Fan! You are too impulsive! The teacher went south and found countless hidden fields. This year's taxes will definitely exceed 10 million, even 20 million is possible.

How do you bear so much fire consumption?

Forget it! Don’t send the money from Xishan Royal Trading Company to the inner treasury. My treasury still has 600,000 taels of silver, and I will also send it to you. Let’s hold on to this year’s fire consumption first!”

Listening to Comrade Xiao Zhu's sincere words, a warm current surged in Li Fan's heart. Comrade Xiao Zhu really treated him as a brother and even took out his own private money.

The 600,000 taels are probably all I have given him, so maybe I have to pay a portion of it.

After calming down, Li Fan smiled and said, "Your Majesty! You don't have to take more profits from the minting silver. I don't have much share capital. You can't take away my wife's capital!"

What? Comrade Xiao Zhu was completely confused. Cashed silver has always lost money, so where can there be any profit?

"Li Fan! You are not really crazy, you are talking crazy words!"

Li Fan heard the black thread in his head and said angrily: "Your Majesty! Have you ever seen me doing a loss-making business? It is profitable to cast silver. Although the profit is small, it will accumulate more than a small amount!

If there are really 20 million taels of silver to cast, we will make at least 2 million taels of profit!"

What’s the thing? Comrade Xiao Zhu almost bit off his tongue when he heard Li Fan’s words. When will the silver casting make such a big profit?

Li Fan curled his lips, despised Comrade Xiao Zhu's ignorance, and explained: "Your Majesty! I am not going to cast traditional silver ingots.

That kind of ingot is not only good-looking, but it is also too expensive and cannot be circulated at all. Even if it is taken to the market, it needs to be cut into small pieces for trading.

Therefore, the government has to recast the tax and silver. In this way, it has to collect more fire and waste, which will not only waste, but will also deceive the people and harm the people.

The ones we minted in Xishan are silver coins, with the denominations mainly five cents and one liang, with a small amount of five liang and ten liang as auxiliary.

Moreover, if silver is minted, it must be mixed with copper, tin, etc., as long as it does not exceed one layer, it will not only not affect the quality of the silver coins, but also make the silver coins strong and wear-resistant. Therefore, silver coins will have a profit of minting!"

"Be serious?" Comrade Xiao Zhu became more and more excited as he heard it. He grabbed Li Fan's hand and said excitedly.

The main reason is that Li Fan's silver casting method is really feasible, so the entire Ming Dynasty will have no more fire consumption. The officials will have fewer opportunities to attack, and the people will only praise him Xiao Zhu's immeasurable merits.

Li Fan smiled and said, "Your Majesty! Actually, when the money arrived at Xishan, I had already told the workshop to do this.

If Your Majesty is worried, you will know when you have time to go to the West Mountain!"

Have leisure! Have leisure!

Comrade Xiao Zhu didn't want to wait for a moment, so he immediately ordered to drive to the west mountain. After a busy palace, Comrade Xiao Zhu and Li Fan drove straight to the west mountain.

Zheng Shupin, who was waiting for Comrade Xiao Zhu to arrive in the palace, had a frosty face. She punished several clumsy palace maids, and then stared at Xishan fiercely and cursed: "It doesn't matter this time, it doesn't mean it's okay in the future! Let's take a look!"

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There is an independent workshop in Xishan, with more than a hundred armed postmen standing around, and there are people walking back and forth on the courtyard wall. You can vaguely see crossbows covered with oil cloth. It can be said that the place is already under high alert. Not to mention people, even a bird cannot fly in.

Li Fan and Comrade Xiao Zhu walked in, and the scorching breath came to his face. Comrade Xiao Zhu was not tired of it at all, but instead walked in first.

Unlike the court's method of minting coins, here is to crush the melted silver into pieces and then stamp it into exquisite silver coins.

The front of the silver coin is the Chinese dragon, and the reverse is the Chinese characters, one or two. The other one is smaller but the Chinese characters are different, while the rest are almost the same.

Comrade Xiao Zhu played for a while and touched the small teeth on the edge of the silver coin. He couldn't help but ask: "Li Fan! Why do you have to do this in one go? It may take a lot of energy to use these small teeth!"

"Your Majesty is amazing, you can see the difference between silver coins at a glance. Silver coins circulating in the world will inevitably be moved by sluts. If they do not destroy the surface pattern of the silver coins, they will only scrape it off a circle, which is difficult for ordinary people to find out.

If this continues, our silver coins will inevitably shrink significantly, and we have to recycle and recast them, which will make those little kids cheaper." When Li Fan said this, Comrade Xiao Zhu suddenly realized.

He clapped his hands and said, "Oh...! I understand! The disappearance of the small teeth means that the silver coins are damaged, so they will naturally not have the original value.

This method is very wonderful! This method is very wonderful!"

After looking around the coin workshop, Comrade Xiao Zhu was very happy. He believed that Li Fan said that coin could make profits and returned to the palace happily.

Zhang Siwei sent the court with a document and sent all the tax and silver from the Ministry of Revenue to Xishan. Although it attracted a lot of complaints and cut off the financial resources of a group of people, the second auxiliary ordered the Ministry of Revenue to follow suit. Not only that, even the silver in the treasury was sent.

His purpose is very clear, which is to drag the Ming Dynasty Royal Trading Company in the shortest time.

But Xishan is like a silver-swallowing monster. No matter how much silver he sends, he will receive it all. Moreover, the mysterious workshop started work day and night, and the minted silver coins are sent back to the Ministry of Revenue every day.

When the exquisite silver coins were delivered to Zhang Siwei, a bad feeling arose. Li Fan must have not been a temporary idea, so he might have made wedding dresses for Li Fan this time.

Soon, the beautifully made silver coins in the capital were popular on the market, and various strange silver coins were different from the eagle coins brought by the barbarians. I don’t know how much exquisite it was. Once used, the people liked it.

It saved the trouble of weighing and dividing in the past, and merchants were also very satisfied with this kind of silver coin. With the copper coin as a supplement, the silver coin received almost no opposition and was recognized by the people.

Now those who go out to pay the bill and take out the silver ingots will be laughed at as a local. Only by throwing out silver coins is the most respectable thing.

Zhang Siwei angrily smashed his beloved jade bowl, and even his beloved son Zhang Taizheng was scolded by him.

But this still cannot change the fact that Li Fan succeeded, or the silver coins succeeded!

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A Tianjin Wei Port has been blocked, and thousands of people are busy here every day to build a huge port.
Chapter completed!