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Liu Yuan: "I see! Father, the King's Landing mint is under your jurisdiction, right?"

Adrian: "Yes, there are three mints in King's Landing. They mint gold dragons, silver stags, silver moons, and three kinds of copper coins respectively."

Liu Yuan smiled: "I have a big deal, I wonder if you're interested."

"Oh! Tell me about it."

Liu Yuan took out a few coins, placed them on the table, and then took out a small balance. "Look, this is a gold dragon minted by Daeron II, and this one is made by me. Their weights are the same. This one was designed by me for King Robert, and its gold content is 80 percent, with some other metals added. If you can persuade His Majesty the King to issue the Baratheon dynasty's currency, the mint will make at least 10 percent profit. If it's done well, it will be a large income for the royal family. At that time, you can use the power of the Minister of Finance to force foreign merchants to use standard currency. Set up currency exchange points at each city gate, and the handling fee will be about 15 percent."

Adrian pondered for a long time: "It is indeed a good idea, the King and the Prime Minister will like it. It can not only show the majesty of the royal family, but also alleviate financial pressure. But you just said it was a business, what benefits can the Celtigar family get?"

Liu Yuan: "If I do the minting, the loss can be reduced to a minimum, and the profit will be close to 20 percent. Not only gold dragons, but I also prepared silver stags and copper stars, and they can be distributed in other cities of the Seven Kingdoms. With our family's wealth, minting tens of millions of them is not a problem."

Earl Adrian slapped the table with red eyes: "Let's do it!"

The Celtigar family's accumulation of hundreds of years is only more than four million gold dragons in cash. If this operation is done properly, this number can be doubled.

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At dusk, Earl Adrian didn't even eat dinner. He took an iron box containing the plan that the three of them had been studying all afternoon, as well as a dozen coins.

The King, who was having dinner, was suddenly interrupted by his visit. Before long, Prime Minister Jon was also invited over. Robert reluctantly pushed the plate away and asked the servants to take them away. He pulled over a napkin and wiped his mouth and said, "You better have something important to say, today is my favorite pork knuckle, what a pity."

Prime Minister Jon said: "I don't know either. Earl Adrian asked me to come."

Adrian said seriously: "Your Majesty, Lord Prime Minister, this matter is very important, it's not appropriate to talk about it here, right?"

Robert clapped his hands: "Okay, let's go to my study."

In the King's reception room, Robert sat on the chair and said, "Okay, now what can you say?"

Adrian placed the box on the table, and he said solemnly: "Your Majesty, as the founder of the Baratheon dynasty. Do you think the people of the Seven Kingdoms all support your rule?"

Robert frowned: "Earl, what do you mean by this?"

Adrian: "Although your uprising was oppressed by the Mad King, even if you have the blood of the Targaryen family, in fact, some people in the folk still call you a usurper, and some people still yearn for the rule of the Targaryen family."

Robert looked at his Prime Minister, Jon Arryn nodded silently. He then asked: "What exactly do you want to say?"

Adrian said: "The establishment of a new dynasty. If you want to maintain his rule, there are only two ways. One is to accept it completely, just like your ancestors used the sigil and banner of the Storm King and inherited everything from the Durrandon family. The other is to completely erase the traces of the previous ruler, such as the Tyrell family, now no one mentions the Gardener family anymore."

Robert said: "It's only been a few years since I ascended the throne, and the blood of the Targaryen family has not been cut off. How can I change the people's views?"

Adrian said: "Your Majesty, this will be a long process, but we can start here." He pointed to the box he brought.

Then he took out the balance and the dozen coins, demonstrated them to the King and the Prime Minister, and explained to them clearly what Liu Yuan had told him.

Robert played with the coins. The silver coin had his head on the front and his sigil, the crowned stag, on the back. The back of the gold coin changed the Targaryen's three-headed dragon to a prostrate and sleeping dragon, and the front was a half-length portrait of Robert wearing armor and holding a war hammer. The front of the copper coin was Robert's head and text, and the back was a seven-pointed star pattern representing the faith of the Seven Gods.

Jon Arryn raised his question: "Why are there only these three kinds of coins?"

Adrian said: "Cost! Minting more types of coins will undoubtedly increase our investment. It is better to concentrate the limited gold and silver to mint more new coins, only in this way can we quickly form a scale and gradually replace the old currency. The market can gradually self-regulate, and some inferior coins are driven out of the market and recovered at a relatively low price."

Prime Minister Jon: "It seems that you have already calculated it, and considered it very clearly, how much profit will the Royal Mint have?"

Adrian: "Excluding costs, the royal family's profit is about 8-10%. If the scale of minting continues to expand, the cost will be further compressed. Here is a detailed plan, which contains follow-up plans. If it can be implemented normally, it is expected to change the income of the treasury in three years."

The King and the Prime Minister picked up the plan he brought, and even Robert, who lacked patience, was looking at it seriously. He and Jon kept asking questions, and Adrian explained them one by one. Their discussion continued until late at night before Robert put down the plan. He asked Jon: "Prime Minister, what do you think?"

Jon Arryn rubbed his eyebrows and said: "Your Majesty, this plan. I agree!"

In the past few days, people who often entered and exited King's Landing found that the shops not far from the seven city gates were closed. They were originally very good locations, and soon merchants with a keen sense of smell inquired. The result disappointed them. According to the gold cloaks patrolling the streets, these shops were bought by big shots above.

Those shops are being renovated. They have already been covered with curtains. Except for the scaffolding used for construction that occupies part of the street, it doesn't hinder everyone much.

There are also new announcements posted on the bulletin boards at the city gates and squares. Minister of Finance Earl Adrian officially issued a recruitment notice to the residents and mercenaries in the city to form a temporary security team to protect tax officials and maintain the治安 (zhì ān - public security/order) of the port, and the treatment is the same as the gold cloaks, with a deadline of twenty days.

But the locals know that the gangs in the port area are not easy to mess with. If you join the security team, you will definitely be against them. Except for some orphans who have nowhere to go, few locals signed up. Many foreign mercenaries plan to make a quick buck.