"Liu Qi, in the future, you don't have to worry about mineral mining anymore, and it will be handed over to the county guards of each county to deal with."

In the past, in order to keep it secret, the intelligence department was responsible for prospecting and mining, but now that Ye Chen plans to make it public, then naturally he can't let the intelligence department do it.

The intelligence department is in charge of intelligence, and then it is a bit nondescript to be responsible for the development and exploration of minerals, and their efficiency is also slow.

"Yes, my lord." Liu Qi was not unhappy at all, on the contrary, he was very happy, because mining was indeed not his forte, and he didn't understand it at all.

Ye Chen didn't know how much he could get from mineral development, but he had already reserved some gold and silver before, and these gold and silver could be used for use.

The value of gold and silver must be high, and it is more convenient to circulate, and it is really troublesome to trade large items with carts and carts of copper coins, and it can be much more convenient after using gold and silver.

However, there is also a problem, that is, gold and silver are not currency at this time, and they have never flowed through, so it may be difficult to promote it in the early stage.

But Ye Chen is not worried, first of all, gold and silver have a lot of value, although it is not currency, it is not very difficult to be accepted.

Ye Chen can imagine that when he pays for the goods, he uses gold coins and silver coins, whether he loves it or not, I believe that no one will refuse.

Since Ye Chen held the meeting, everyone has been busy.

And Ye Chen gradually became idle.

After everything is on the right track, as long as you do things according to the rules, you don't need Ye Chen to stare at it personally.

Ye Chen, who was idle, wanted to do something, and the first thing he thought of was to return to Liaodong, and then prepare to follow the fleet south.

A few days later, Ye Chen returned to Liaodong.

"It's different every time I come back." This time back in Liaodong, Ye Chen was already the pastor of Youzhou and the lord of a state.

"Young family master, now that you are the governor of a state, how can you think of going south, it's too dangerous, and this Youzhou can't do without you." Along the way, the tiger head kept chattering.

The tiger head led the personal guard battalion, and naturally followed Ye Chen at all times, and after hearing that Ye Chen was going south with the fleet, he kept persuading Ye Chen not to go south.

"Don't worry, I won't go to dangerous places, besides, in addition to the 3,000 sailors going south this time, I will also bring 3,000 personal guard battalions, with you here, what is the danger." Ye Chen said lightly.

The tiger head is the stupidest, and he looks at the deputy general Zhang Yi vigorously, hoping that Zhang Yi will also persuade Ye Chen.

But Zhang Yi knew that this was Ye Chen's decision, and it was difficult to change, so he ignored the tiger head and did not persuade Ye Chen.

"Let's go, when we get to Yuxian, let's go to the workshops to have a look." Ye Chen ignored the tiger's persuasion and went directly to the workshop to check.

The other workshops didn't go, Ye Chen went directly to the minting workshop.

"My subordinates meet my lord."

When they arrived at the door of the workshop, the steward inside came out to greet them.

The mint was built very secretly, in a col with a river in the middle of it.

Built in the middle of the mountain col, in addition to for concealment, there is also the development of a hydraulic press in Liaodong, which requires water power to promote, and there is a river here.

However, the press was not running at this time because the river was frozen in winter.

"My lord, there is no hydraulic press to build it now, and we can make about 100,000 pieces of money a day by hand, and a total of 600,000 and 230,000 gold and silver coins have been created this year."

After Ye Chen entered, the steward introduced Ye Chen.

"From today, we will suspend the minting of copper coins and make every effort to make gold and silver coins." Ye Chen said.

In order to put gold and silver coins on the market, it is natural to form a certain scale.

After Ye Chen entered, many craftsmen were building.

Picking up a gold coin and a silver coin, Ye Chen looked at it.

Both gold and silver coins are a unicorn on the obverse, and the north side is written with the Zhenbei General's Mansion.

The reason why the dragon totem is not used on the front, but the unicorn is because the dragon is suspected of rebellion, and the merchants and the family will not dare to use it at that time, and they will attract a lot of criticism, so in order to reduce trouble, Ye Chen will use the unicorn.

And the back is written with the Zhenbei General's Mansion, which represents him, no matter where these gold and silver coins circulate, they will bring their influence wherever they are.

These gold and silver coins can increase their influence invisibly.

For example, coins of later generations are mostly printed with the heads of leaders on the obverse.

"Well, yes, the specifications of these coins can be harmonized." Ye Chen weighed the silver coin in his hand and said.

"My lord, according to your instructions, the gold coins are made of pure gold as much as possible, and the silver coins are made of eight silver and two coppers, and we use engraved templates to create, and the specifications are uniform."

Ye Chen nodded after listening, he pushed gold coins and silver coins for another purpose, that is, to collect money.

As we all know, sterling silver is soft, so it must be mixed with other metals in the silver coin.

In this way, Ye Chen didn't create a silver coin, in fact, he only needed to use eight cents of silver, and the other two cents were copper.

Therefore, once it is popularized on a large scale, Ye Chen can exchange it for silver from other people, and then make silver coins to make huge profits from it.

However, this has no effect on the people who use the silver coin, and although the silver coin only has eight cents in it, they still count the value as a complete silver coin.

This is the seigniorage, and it makes a lot of money without changing the original value of the silver coin.

"A book of great profits." Ye Chen sighed in his heart.

However, hundreds of thousands of silver coins, although they are of high value, do not play a big role in the entire Youzhou at all, so Ye Chen asked the workshop to continue to build, and it will only have a great effect after accumulating a certain amount.

In the future, copper coins will definitely be reformed, but that is a relatively distant thing, and Ye Chen will not think about it.

The design and workmanship are all excellent, I believe that it will not be hindered too much after it is launched, even if it is hindered, then Ye Chen can also use the power in his hand to push hard.

It doesn't matter if they don't accept it, Ye Chen won't use the regime to do anything to them, but they also don't want to participate in any business of the Ye family.

"Within a month, a million silver coins must be crafted, and gold coins can be minted less, but silver coins must be made faster, and when the ice water melts, silver coins must be made with all their might."

Ye Chen's idea was to use the silver coins for experiments first, so he ordered to say.

The workshop took over the task and began to build nervously, while Ye Chen left the workshop and went directly to the dock.

There is no need to look at other workshops, there are people in the workshops who have given feedback to Ye Chen within ten days, Ye Chen probably knows their situation, so it is enough.

When they arrived at the wharf, the wharf was very busy at this time, and the boats and vehicles were very dense, so Ye Chen and the others had to dismount and walk.

Ye Chen wanted to move the naval base to the south, and at the same time, he also had to bring a large number of people to go, and these people always had to bring their belongings with them.

When these craftsmen pass, they will also bring their families with them, after all, they don't know what year or month they want to come back, and they may even settle down there.