Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is September, and the September and autumn tigers in the north are still very powerful, especially in Sijiu City, except for the morning and evening can experience a little coolness, it is the hot dog sticking out his tongue at other times.

In this kind of ghost weather, the six yamen are too lazy to do errands, especially the Ministry of Rites, Tongwen Pavilion, Li Fan Yuan, Taixue, and Hanlin Academy...... Waiting for the noble yamen, even if the officials order in the morning and leave, people will turn a blind eye, and no one wants to embarrass the big guys.

Not to mention that the officials of the six ministries of the Qing Dynasty did not understand the rules, and the imperial court did not do much better, the arrears of the officials were as high as sixty percent, and many poor officials had reached the point of borrowing to live. Not everyone in the huge court is corrupt officials, and many Qingshui yamen have no one to burn incense at all.

The court is incomplete, and there is no work to do when you are on errands, if you still sit in the government every day, it will be a little unkind, and others are not allowed to find some foreign wealth!

But today it is very strange, the heat in Sijiu City is the same as a steamer, but the officials of the six yamen are actually full of ninety percent, they don't dare to do anything, they just sit there and drink the bottom of the tasteless tea leaves, there is no match for the idle article, the master will not go home.

The clocks on the table all pointed to eleven o'clock, and many people were grumbling with hungry stomachs, but no one was willing to leave the yamen.

"Brother Liu, Brother Liu...... In the same year, you were the head of the household department, and you were the head of the treasury! Can you tell us the truth, can you make up for the arrears?"

"That's it, Brother Liu, as long as you tell the big guy the truth today...... Nothing else, let's get together at noon and invite you to ......"

The official who was sitting in a group clasped his hands into fists and said apologetically: "Colleagues, don't embarrass me, if I really know the details, will I still need to boil here with you? I have already gone home to rest, and to tell you the truth, there is really silver, and the dragon-patterned silver coins minted by four million Ryukyu are all the kind that can be sounded when they are blown, and they were secretly escorted into Beijing from Tanggu in the middle of the night three days ago, and now they are ......in the Hubu Treasury."

"Ah, four million, that's good, we have to make up for our big guys!" the people said.

The official surnamed Liu shook his head and sighed, "Hey...... Four million seems like a lot, but don't forget that the hole in the imperial court is also too big, not to mention that our officials' salaries are in arrears, military expenses, river workers, and even the flag salaries of the Eight Banners, that is not in arrears? There are many monks and few porridges......

"Damn, those Eight Banner ancestors are too disagreeable, they don't have any money, they can receive Lu rice on a monthly basis, they don't have silver to spend but they can eat enough...... Can they be the same as us? We don't have any money, but we can't even afford to eat, and I'm not afraid of your gossip when I say it, I owe more than half a year of rent......

"Hey, it's all the same, who made our Ministry of Rites a Qingshui Yamen since ancient times? If it were the Oil and Water Yamen of the Military Department, the Criminal Department, and the Household Department, even if it was an unpopular bookstore or Zhang Jing, wouldn't it be a dead ......?"

"If you want to say that the most rich person still has to say the prime minister's yamen, the good guy has a special zone, and it is a telegraph line, and I heard that the new army will also be trained to buy a sea boat, and the money is the same as flowing seawater, and a drop of oil that leaks is enough for us to swim in it!"

People were talking a lot, and the silver they were talking about was the silver of the four million acceptance bonds that had been escorted in the name of Emperor Tongzhi three days ago.

The first to know the news was of course the Prime Minister's Yamen, because the first telegraph room in Beijing was built in the Prime Minister's Yamen, when Fuqing saw this telegram, he laughed excitedly and shouted three times Long live Your Majesty, and then at noon, he went to Quanjude and ordered a large table of noodles by himself, and he was drunk.

And Prince Gong Wang Yi was completely dumbfounded, and at that time, he called his brother Yiyun and Lao Lin of the household department, plus several descendants to discuss matters behind closed doors in the yamen.

Of course, it is a good thing to have money to spend, but how did the money come from, people didn't expect that Emperor Tongzhi would get so much silver, although it was Xiao Letian's pocket in the end, but it was clearly written on the telegram that the money was mortgaged by Zaichun with the shares of Fusang Bank.

Who would have thought that Jae-chun's little boy would be able to get so many shares just because of a thrilling assassination? Then Fuso Bank could monopolize the mining business of Japan's largest gold and silver mine, and Jae-chun actually got 20% and a half alone.

Yi's mouth was full of bitterness, he sighed and said, "If I knew this, I would have let them assassinate them once, even if I was stabbed in a desperate way, I would admit it...... This download Chun's prestige is getting higher and higher!"

The house is full of the most knowledgeable descendants, and it doesn't hurt to say something. Yi Xun sighed and said, "That's right, originally Zaichun won the country, and no one can question his reputation, but now he has started to train recruits in Ryukyu, and even now he has solved the military salary by himself...... He wants to cultivate his own power outside the imperial court!"

Everyone was full of teeth, and they said that this official was getting worse and worse.

The old Lin of the household department asked in surprise, "Why is this Xiao Letian so rich? He accepted 6 million for the Beihai project, and now he has accepted another 4 million, according to the telegram, as long as the imperial court unifies the tax reform, he will accept another 10 million taels ......."

"Even if he has the ability to sell his debts, he will have more than 10 million taels of silver for working capital, right?

People talked to each other for a long time but didn't understand the way here, and finally said, "Wait!" After the silver is really handed over to Beijing, let's see what the limelight is making a decision about.

Three days later, the silver really took advantage of the night to enter the city of Sijiu, when the cabinet of the household department and the Lotte Bank after handing over the formalities, when the silver box was counted, the two princes and the household department Shangshu finally found a flaw.

They pointed to a box full of piles of banknotes and bonds, and sneered: "This is the silver you gave us? The debts of the household department are obviously subcontracted to you for underwriting, and you should take these bonds and sell them! Why did you turn around and return to our household department? This is the solution you gave us? Search ......?"

At the sound of the order, all the silver boxes were opened, and it was only then that it was discovered that the real silver coins were only two million taels, and the remaining half were such beautifully printed bonds.

The second shopkeeper of the team leader didn't mean to panic at all, and said to the prince and the adults with a smile: "Oh, my lords, who can sleep with a silver mountain on their backs, millions of taels of silver can be transferred back and forth, and we can't use ships to transport them?

"These two million taels of silver are collected by us for the imperial court, and the remaining bonds are not waste paper, no matter what the imperial court needs, you take the bonds to our Lotte Foreign Bank to purchase, and ensure that they can be used as money......

"I heard that the prince has trained 30,000 new troops in the western suburbs? Are you worried that there is no money for the purchase of military uniforms and uniforms? Hahaha, we are here, you will take these paper bonds when you turn around, and go to any branch of Lotte to purchase, I promise that you can buy as much as you want, and give you a 20% discount?"

"Is there a shortage of bullets in the new army, is there a shortage of rifles, is there a shortage of army artillery? hahaha...... You don't need to carry cash to buy, this bond is better than silver bills, you can just come to us and buy it......"

"Since the pieces of paper can be exchanged for the materials that the imperial court urgently needs, what else do you have to worry about?"