As Wang Ning'an got closer and closer to the capital, various news came out one after another. It turned out that Wang Ning'an had obtained a treasure and wanted to send it back to the capital to offer a splendor to the emperor.

Many ministers disagreed with this news.

What a shit treasure, how many things can there be?

Not to mention Wang Ning'an just finds an excuse to cover up, his real purpose is to be unwilling to leave Beijing and want to return to the center of power, right?

A group of people were ready to wait for Wang Ning'an to sue him after he entered Beijing. In the past, the emperor favored Wang Ning'an, but it was useless to impeach him. Now that the Empress is in power, she might be able to impeach Wang Ning'an!

The censors couldn't wait and were eager to try.

In the strange atmosphere, Wang Ning'an escorted the convoy into the capital.

He went to the Yizhou Guild Hall first.

This is a guild hall where Su Shi participated in the design and mainly serves merchants in Bashu. After several years of development, it has become the largest commodity exhibition and sale venue in the capital. Silk products and official kiln porcelain from all over the country will be sent here for exhibition, allowing outsiders' wealthy merchants to purchase, which is convenient and fast.

Wang Ning'an waved his hand and wrapped the entire guild hall. Someone immediately started to arrange it. After three days of hard work, the guild hall was re-planned, and all the original products were removed and replaced with the treasure brought back by Wang Ning'an!

More than 8,000 red gold products were placed on three floors.

With the whale oil headlights around, the golden light flashed, and it turned out to be a world of gold.

Not to mention the merchants and officials in Beijing, even the emperor and the prince have never seen so many red gold products!

The day before the public exhibition, Zhao Zhen ignored his health and asked the prince to accompany him to the guild hall. A young eunuch carried the chariot. Zhao Zhen walked and stopped, kept asking, and showed a look of horror from time to time.

"There are 72 ditches in the Altai Mountains, and there is gold. Altai is a local language in the local language, meaning gold mountain." Wang Ning'an introduced with a smile, "half a year ago, after Murong Qingchen defeated Xizhi, he extended his power to the north of the Tianshan Mountains. During his patrol, his subordinates discovered abandoned castles and tombs. These red gold products were from tombs. According to the investigation of the ministers, the inscriptions on the gold artifacts should belong to Turkic characters, perhaps the tombs left by Turkic nobles during the Han and Tang dynasties. Of course, some people think it was the tombs of the Wusun people. In short, gold products were generally buried with them, and the number was astonishing. There were more than 8,000 pieces in just one tomb. In order to send this batch of gold artifacts intact and return to the Song Dynasty, Murong Qingchen and others used 30,000 people, died thousands of people along the way, and lost a lot of livestock."

Wang Ning'an talked a lot, but Zhao Zhen only remembered one grave and more than 8,000 goldware!

Looking at the gold all over, he roughly estimated that he arranged a gold tool to calculate one or two taels, which was more than eight thousand taels!

The actual number is far beyond that, and the net weight of these gold should be around 30,000 taels.

If you are not sure how much gold this is, then let me tell you that the treasury of Uncle Zhao only has 18,000 taels of gold deposited, one of which is to be made into goldware for funeral objects, and some golden sand should be decorated with stone pillars in the palace.

No matter what, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty had less than the owner of a tomb!

"Jingping, who is the owner of this tomb? Is the Emperor of the Turks?"

Wang Ning'an shook his head, "If the guess is good, he is a prince who was enfeoffed around Mount Altai. However, he has been in power for a long time and has accumulated a little more wealth."

"Slightly?" Zhao Zhen frowned. If this is just a little bit, then there is no word "excessive" in the world!

"Your Majesty, the real key is actually in Mount Altai. There is indeed too much gold here, and it is worthless!"

"Oh? Is there still gold now?"

"Yes!" Wang Ning'an said confidently: "Your Majesty, I have read some ancient documents. At the latest in the Han Dynasty, someone had already mined gold here. I remember that in "Records of the Grand Historian", there were many records of gold use. Later, gold was used less and less. By this dynasty, large-scale transactions were settled entirely with copper coins. As for gold and silver, they had withdrawn from the market. I think that perhaps the Han Dynasty had imported a large amount of gold from the Western Regions through the Silk Road. Later, due to frequent wars, the source of gold was cut off, so the Central Plains lacked gold."

Wang Ning settled down and said, "In recent years, there have been many people trying out gold in Altai Mountain. There should be as many as thousands, but they lack organization and have backward technology. There is not much gold that can be mined every year."

Wang Ning'an said, someone brought a box and unfolded it in front of Zhao Zhen. There was a large piece of naturally formed golden turtle inside. Zhao Zhen tried to hold it up with his hands, but it failed!

This piece of natural gold reaches a weight of 320 taels!

"Your Majesty, this was acquired by General Murong from a native of the country. It is said that their ancestors have seen bigger gold heads!"

"What?"

Zhao Zhen was so excited that he couldn't sit still. Gold, there is nothing more attractive in this world than it!

Bright, heavy, what a great thing!

I really didn’t expect that there was such a treasure in the Western Regions that produced gold. Could it be a treasure given by heaven?

After watching the exhibition, Zhao Zhen was still excited.

"Jingping, do you have any plans?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, the gold in Altai Mountain has amazing reserves. If it can be developed, it will definitely be a perfect tonic for me, Dasong! Over the years, industry and commerce have developed, the demand for currency has increased, and the development of Yunnan copper has been developed and Jiaozi has been issued. Although the money shortage has been alleviated, due to the large demand for money and the low value of copper, it is actually impossible to keep up with the needs. Dasong needs to innovate and come up with more suitable currencies. Gold and silver are the best choices. If you control the Altai Jinshan, you can issue gold coins."

Wang Ning'an picked up a gold cake, which weighed three or two. According to one hundred to one, this is a three hundred jin of copper coins. The best-quality copper coins are also more than four jin. Three hundred jin, which is 1,200 jin, which is piled on the ground, like a hill, but it is only three jin for gold!

You can understand what gold means to business with your toes!

Moreover, with the supply of gold, the Song Dynasty can issue gold coins and even gold notes, and stipulate that all commodities must be settled in gold!

If this step is achieved, the imperial court's control over wealth will increase countless times.

"Your Majesty, in the long run, the Song Dynasty needs more gold and silver supply. My uncle goes to Japan almost every year to trade. The gold and silver production there is amazing. There are also minerals rich in gold on the Nanyang sea. If the Altai Jinshan is added, the Song Dynasty will be enough to reshape the monetary system. The bulk transactions are used for gold coins and the second-class silver coins. The people use copper coins on a daily basis. After unifying the gold and silver coins, they can get rid of the embarrassing situation of copper coins' system chaos and different values. Moreover, if they collect more copper coins, they can create more advanced firearms."

Since a few years ago, the Royal Academy of Technology has been studying more advanced firearms, such as artillery!

Don’t underestimate the creativity of the ancients. In fact, Wang Ning'an doesn’t need to say it, the ancients also thought of it.

The best material for making cannons is copper, but copper is also currency!

It deserves its name, and once the cannon fires, it will cost ten thousand taels of gold!

Even if the Song Dynasty was rich, it could not afford it.

Therefore, the Baigong Academy can only make some samples and cannot truly build artillery on a large scale.

As gold pours in, copper becomes more abundant. It is conceivable that the military strength of the entire Song Dynasty will rise to another level!

...

The king and his ministers chatted for a long time, but in the end, Zhao Zhen was so exhausted that he couldn't bear it, so he returned to the palace.

In the next few days, the Yizhou Guild Hall will be open to the public.

As long as you pay the ticket for the consistent money, you can enter and visit.

In one day, I bought 37,000 yuan of tickets, and the next day, it soared by more than 50,000 yuan. Some people even came to queue up in the middle of the night just to see the gold style.

From everyone's infatuated expressions, it can be seen that the Song Dynasty was indeed too short of gold, making the high-ranking officials and nobles look like local buns.

Facing the dazzling array of gold products, I pointed and exclaimed from time to time.

When they knew that all of these came from a grave, they all fell off their chins.

There were many officials from the old school who were ready to come, but after seeing it, they were extremely stunned. Lu Hui was one of them. The last time he went to find trouble for Wang Ning'an, but he didn't even see Wang Ning'an's face, and he was beaten by Ma Tao to make his face swollen and return to the capital in shame.

This time he came again. Needless to say, after he finished reading, his old face became swollen again.

So much gold blinded!

How good it would be if it were mine... The thought came out, Lu Hui shook his head quickly. You can't think so, absolutely not! These are all things from graves, people who die, and digging graves will be punished... A gentleman is cautious of being alone, and a gentleman is cautious of being alone!

Lu Hui tried his best to warn himself, but no matter what, the gold in his mind could not be removed... That night, countless people had insomnia and were all thinking about the gold.

Wang Ning'an increased his troops tenfold in the Yizhou Guild Hall and captured seven groups of thieves in front and behind.

The entire Song Dynasty was really detonated!

Wang Ning'an once thought about it, for example, when Yanyun was restored, the people were extremely enthusiastic, but when he came to the northwest, especially after regaining Hengshan, the Song Dynasty reacted mediocrely and soon passed.

Is it because I get numb after winning too many battles?

Later, Wang Ning'an thought clearly that in the hearts of the Song Dynasty, the land under their feet was the best in the world, and the outside was wild and barren... Yan Yun became particularly sensitive because of a century of shame. As for the northwest, except for a few people who could see the value, most people were insensitive.

Even so much land has attracted only some brave people, but gold is different. No one doesn’t like gold, and no one can withstand the attraction of gold.

The scholars and officials who were unrighteous in speaking could not be calm. They hesitated whether to seek the meeting with King Xiliang, and some more powerful people who became Wang Ning'an's guests.

The study room was filled with people coming to inquire about it.

"I can only tell you two points. Gold is by no means fake, and the amount is beyond your imagination. Secondly, Liangzhou and Ganzhou are still in the hands of Xixia, and the trade routes are blocked, and there is still some trouble..."
Chapter completed!