Chapter 473 "Private Visit via Microservice"

Mi Zhu immediately looked at the coins in his hand again.

After careful comparison, these coins are not only almost the same from pattern lines to weight.

This is absolutely fine as a coin.

Mi Zhu immediately realized that as a businessman, and a big businessman at that, the appearance of gold coins and silver coins was very important.

As a big businessman, a lot of time for large transactions, you need several carts of copper coins.

If there are gold coins and silver coins, it will be much more convenient for large transactions.

"Brother Zhang, how many gold coins and silver coins can you produce? Can they have the same appearance and weight?" Mi Zhu asked again.

Zhang Yu understood what Mi Zhu was worried about. He said: "The appearance and weight are the same. As for how much can be produced, it is entirely determined by the raw materials. At present, I have discovered copper and silver mines overseas, and they will be produced in large quantities soon."

"What? You mint copper coins too." Mi Zhu exclaimed in surprise.

Zhang Yu smiled and said: "Tens of millions of copper coins have been minted, but I don't have enough in Jiangdong area, and I rarely use them outside for the time being, but these gold coins and silver coins are convenient for foreign trade."

"Brother Zhang, the minting of gold coins and silver coins will not say anything to the court, but casting of copper coins is nothing short of rebellion." Mi Zhu said eagerly.

Zhang Yu said calmly: "I have already obtained Liu Xie's imperial decree, as well as Empress Dowager He's imperial decree. I can cast whatever I want."

Only then did Mi Zhu let out a sigh of relief, but he suddenly felt that Zhang Yu had really thought too far, that he had minted so many coins quietly.

Zhang Yu has already planned to start using the copper coins, and some of them have been distributed to see the reaction of the people.

In the past few days, Zhang Yu ordered the intelligence department to pay close attention to the reactions of the people.

Mi Zhu went back full of shock.

These few days Zhang Yu has a few big things to be busy with.

The first is the commercial war against Xuzhou. The first city will kill all the salt merchants in Xuzhou and monopolize the salt in Xuzhou.

The second big thing was how to launch his own coins.

The first thing has been prepared for a long time and will start soon, but Zhang Yu has been paying attention to the matter of putting in coins.

"My lord, the common people are just curious when they receive these copper coins, but almost none of them reject them." An intelligence chief reported to Zhang Yu.

"Okay, tomorrow I will continue to put in millions of copper coins, and the area will expand. Your people must pay close attention to it, and report any opinions in time." Zhang Yu said to the man.

"Yes, my lord."

If the release of copper coins cannot be accepted by the public, it will be useless to mint more copper coins.

Therefore, Zhang Yu started a small-scale trial in the Jiangdong area, and then looked at the reactions of the people.

The new copper coins are recast, with a new style, but more exquisite.

Zhang Yu not only asked the intelligence agency to observe the use of the new copper coins by the people, but he also planned to go out to find out.

"Ning'er, go out with me, let's try to use this new coin." Zhang Yu had a whim, and wanted to take Zhang Ning out for shopping, and then see how the people reacted to the new coin.

Not long after Zhang Ning came back from Liaodong, he was naturally very happy and was about to go out.

"Ning'er, why don't you change into men's clothes and let's go out together?" Zhang Yu suddenly got a bad idea and asked Zhang Ning to wear men's clothes.

Without even thinking about it, Zhang Ning immediately went back and changed into men's clothes.

"What a handsome little brother."

Zhang Ning changed into men's clothes, and Zhang Yu couldn't help admiring.

Zhang Ning has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. In fact, he often wore men's clothing in his early years, because men's clothing is convenient for practicing martial arts.

After Zhang Ning changed into men's clothes, he had a different flavor, which confused Zhang Yu for a while.

Seeing Zhang Yu's aggressive eyes, Zhang Ning gave him a blank look. She knew that Zhang Yu must have some bad idea in his heart.

The two were dressed in ordinary clothes, like two ordinary scholars, and they went out alone without any guards.

The two show up on the street and hang out.

Going shopping, Zhang Yu rarely has time to go shopping in this era.

When I had no influence before, I visited Xiangyang and Luoyang,

However, some accidents happened, and it didn't feel good.

The two walked side by side on the street, feeling very relaxed.

The street is very wide and relatively clean, and many vendors and shops are selling all kinds of things.

"Brother Yu, there are a lot of snacks, let's go buy some." Zhang Ning saw all kinds of snacks on the street, so he dragged Zhang Yu to buy them.

The two wanted to conceal their identities, so Zhang Ning called Brother Zhang Yuyu.

Zhang Yu was also very happy. It was rare for later generations to go shopping with a female ticket. He followed Zhang Ning to buy food in front of some small stalls.

In other words, these snacks are not very delicious, and the culture of eating has not been well developed in this era when fullness is a problem.

But there have been many snacks that were not there before.

After all, some early commoners are now rich.

Zhang Yu took out a new copper coin.

"Boss, here are two small cakes." Zhang Yu came to a place selling sesame seed cakes and said to the boss.

The boss took the new copper coin, flipped through it, and then put it away. The action was natural and there was no reaction.

This area is the area that Zhang Yu put in earlier.

The boss took the copper coin and didn't say anything, obviously accepting it.

Zhang Yu and Zhang Ning went to some places and bought some small items, but none of them were rejected.

After shopping for more than an hour, Zhang Yu and Zhang Yu went to a teahouse.

Now there are teahouses in many places in Jiangdong. After all, tea is very popular in Jiangdong.

After entering the teahouse, there are many seats, and there are more than 20 tea customers.

Zhang Yu and Zhang Ning found a corner seat and sat down.

The two ordered tea, which was the kind they brewed by themselves. There was a small stove for burning charcoal, and they could brew it on the spot.

Zhang Yu started to prepare the tea set to make tea.

"Second brother, I recently received a lot of new copper coins, how about the new copper coins?" Zhang Yu asked when he saw the second coming over with something.

"We receive a lot of new copper coins every day. These new copper coins are of sufficient weight and are beautifully made. We are willing to accept them all." Xiaoer said to Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu nodded secretly.

After Xiaoer left, Zhang Yu started to make tea, occasionally talking to Zhang Ning.

After a while, a few people came. They all wore better clothes and looked a little rich. Zhang Yu judged that they were some small businessmen.

A few people sat down and started chatting. They were indeed businessmen, and they had cooperation or friends with each other. They came to the teahouse to drink tea and chat together.

"Do you know that we have recently received a lot of new copper coins, which are said to be minted by ourselves in Jiangdong." A businessman said mysteriously.

"Well, my shop has also received a lot recently. At first I collected a few pieces, but recently there are more and more."

"It doesn't matter who made it, the most important thing is that the weight should be sufficient, and it won't depreciate. I heard that Dong Zhuo also made a lot of them at the beginning, and forced them to push them out. The result is that they are all inferior and worthless."

"What I'm talking about is that we ordinary people don't care who made it. Jiangdong's own casting is better. Mr. Zhang will never cheat our people."