Almost at the same time, the Imperial Palace in Beijing.

The young emperor Chongzhen was restless. He has received three reports a day, and the Jin army is about to attack the city of Beijing.

This is the third defense of Beijing since the 14th year of Ming orthodoxy and the 29th year of Jiajing.

At this moment, how much he wished that there was also a Yu Qian by his side.

But later facts proved that there was indeed a "Yu Qian" by his side, and this "Yu Qian" was killed by him himself.

Chongzhen had just executed Yuan Chonghuan a few days earlier, and Houjin's raging offensive had begun.

In fact, half a month ago, the Ming court had issued an order to the king of Qin to all places, ordering the troops from all over the country to rush to the aid of the capital, and the flying reports received at this time also showed that the reinforcements from Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong were desperately rushing to Beijing, and the nearest was only two days away from the capital.

It stands to reason that it is not a problem for the defenders of the capital to support for a month, and the thieves dare not say that it is still possible to defend the city. The Emperor didn't need to be in such a hurry.

In fact, Chongzhen is not anxious about the Houjin army, he understands that these barbarians are here to rob things and people, and they will not capture his capital, what he is really worried about is his own backyard.

The recital of the governor of Shaanxi is placed on the case of the dragon book, and a series of names are listed on it like a water margin.

Flying Mountain Tiger, Big Red Wolf, God One Yuan, King of the Mixed World, Heavenly Wolf, Lone Wolf, Light the Lamp, Passing the Sky Star, Full of Stars, Old Huihui, Erlang God, Black Evil God......

Almost all the gods and monsters in each cave have arrived. It's more lively than Journey to the West.

Of course, it was not Wu Chengen who wrote this letter, but the situation in Shaanxi was definitely a hundred times more lively than the Havoc in the Heavenly Palace. These "immortals" are all people who take the lead in the rebellion. Each person has hundreds of people, tens of thousands, and tens of thousands. Swaggering through the market, rampant.

The whole of Shaanxi has been full of smoke and chaos.

The reason is simple, famine!

Moreover, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty, and there was no money to relieve hunger. Those who can't eat can only rise up.

At this time, Daming really had water in the front door, a fire in the backyard, and luck was back home.

Chongzhen was extremely angry, and someone entered the Qinzheng Palace, knelt down and kowtowed: "Minister Yang He is here." ”

Chongzhen smiled a little at this time: "Let's be flat." Yang Qing, I heard you say that you have a plan to quell the rebellion in the northwest, and let's hear about it. ”

Yang He got up: "Exactly, the Northwest Rebellion, there are countless thieves. But those thieves are all common people and officials and soldiers who cannot get their salaries, and as long as the treasury gives some money and goes to appease the ministers, within a year, the thieves will be peaceful. ”

Chongzhen frowned: "Now that the treasury is empty, how can it be good?" ”

Yang He pondered for a moment and said hesitantly: "In the opinion of the micro-ministers, Your Majesty only has ...... The only way to do this is to use the inner treasury money. ”

The silver in the inner treasury he mentioned was the emperor's private money.

Chongzhen gritted his teeth: "It's okay, I'll allocate 100,000 taels to you, remember, within a year, pacify the northwest." ”

Yang He breathed a sigh of relief: "The minister can make a military order." Chongzhen waved his hand: "Let's go down on an errand." ”

Coming out of the Qinzheng Palace, Yang He was just about to go home and prepare to travel, when a person came out of the room and stopped him, this person was thirty-five or sixteen years old, with thin eyes and black beard, and he was born very powerful.

This person stopped Yang He and arched his hand: "Lord Yang." Yang He looked at it, and hurriedly returned the salute: "Brother Hengjiu, it's you." ”

This person's name is Hong Chengchou, his name is Hengjiu, and he has just been released from Shaanxi to participate in politics, and he has not yet had time to leave Beijing to take office. The relationship between the two is very good, they have nothing to talk about on weekdays, Hong Chengchou can be released, or Yang He's recommendation.

Hong Chengchou asked him: "Lord Yang, has the emperor allowed you to go to Shaanxi to quell the chaos?" ”

Yang He's face was full of excitement: "Yes, I also allocated 100,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury, with this silver, I will definitely be able to calm down the thieves." ”

After speaking, he looked at Hong Chengchou and found that his face was very disappreroving, so he asked: "Brother Hengjiu has something on his mind, just say it directly." ”

Hong Chengchou sighed: "Lord Yang, 100,000 taels of silver is a lot, but there are many thieves, how much can each person have when the money is distributed to people!" How many days is enough to feed them? Once the money is spent, they are afraid that they will still have to rebel. ”

Yang He shook his head: "There is a big drought in Shaanxi this year, and there is no grain harvest, so there are so many thieves, as long as they are allowed to spend these few months, when the wheat harvest is time next year, they will not rebel." ”

Hong Chengchou looked up at the sky: "I hope so......"

Yang He said: "I will leave the day after tomorrow, Brother Heng Jiu will go with me, and you and I will discuss it carefully on the way." ”

The two talked about the thief all the way and went home.

Bai Qi and Li Kang escorted Zhang Yi straight to Xianyang.

Since Xianyang was burned by Xiang Yu, it has become dilapidated, and although it was repaired by Liu Bang, it has not been restored after all, so Xianyang is declining day by day. Today's Xianyang City is far inferior to Xi'an, which is just an ordinary county seat.

It was almost noon, and the three of them entered the county seat, and Bai Qi instructed Li Kang: "Go find someone and ask, where is there a place to sell books?" Zhang Yi smiled: "No, no, let's go eat first." ”

Bai Qi was stunned: "Eat?" Zhang Yi nodded: "Yes, aren't you hungry?" Let's come back to life, this first meal, we have to pay attention to it. ”

Li Dang smiled, in fact, he was already hungry.

Bai Qiyi frowned: "Right Minister, the three of me don't have any money around me, how can I account for it?" Do you want to eat white food? I've heard that when you didn't meet King Huiwen, you were poor, and you didn't eat much of this white food...... Don't you have exclusive cheats? After saying that, he laughed himself.

Zhang Yi rolled her eyes: "There are no exclusive cheats, but I have this." With that, he took a pearl out of his bosom. Bai Qi took it and took a look: "This is given by the king, but you have to go to the pawnshop to pawn the money before you can eat." Zhang Yi smiled: "Don't be so troublesome, just come with me." As he spoke, he pointed to the side of the road, where there happened to be a hotel: the Hui Bin Building.

This Huibin Building is a first-class hotel in Xianyang, with a two-story shop and colored lights in front of the door, which looks gorgeous. Although it was a famine year at this time, there were still rich men in the city, so the business of the hotel was still acceptable.

At this time, it was dinner time, and all kinds of sounds in the guest house converged.

Zhang Yi and the three of them entered the building, asked the guy for an accord on the second floor, went in and sat down, the guy asked what he wanted to eat, Zhang Yi commanded with a grin: "If you have anything to do, just bring it up." ”

The guy looked at the clothes of the three of them, because the village where Bai Qi went to buy clothes was too poor, and the clothes he bought were not much better than those who asked for food, and the guy was angry: the three of them are called Hanako, and they came here to eat the overlord meal......

As soon as Zhang Yi saw the man's eyes, he guessed his thoughts, sneered, took out the bead, and threw it into the lacquer plate on the table: "This pearl is enough to eat a few meals." ”

The guy picked up the beads, looked at them carefully, and was not sure in his heart, so he put down the beads, said a little wait, and ran downstairs, and after a while, a middle-aged fat man came up, who seemed to be the shopkeeper, and the fat man picked up the beads and looked at them carefully, and then checked them, and finally wiped them with his fingers, and then smiled and hurriedly gave his hand: "Three distinguished guests, the villain has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, and the good wine and food will be served, and this will be served......"

Zhang Yi stopped him: "Wait." I have one more thing to ask for. The fat man hurriedly asked what was the matter, Zhang Yi smiled: "It's not a secret, the three of us are guests of horse dealers, we encountered robbers on the road, lost gold, only this bead is left, I wanted to go to the pawnshop to pawn, so that I can go back to my hometown for the travel expenses, and I feel that the pawnshop is very bad, I intend to sell this fine pearl to you, how about it?" ”

When the fat man heard this, he hurriedly asked, "I don't know how much silver the guest wants to sell?" ”

Zhang Yi was stunned for a moment: "Silver? ”

You must know that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period until Qin Shi Huang, all the coins in circulation in the world were copper, and until the Han Dynasty, silver was not circulated as currency, but only as a valuable item. Therefore, Zhang Yi did not know.

The fat man thought that Zhang Yi hadn't heard clearly, so he asked again: "How many taels of silver do you want to sell?" ”

Zhang Yi suffered a hardship now, so she had to answer casually: "Ten taels." ”

When the fat man heard this, he almost fell down. He has seen the world, and knows that such a pearl can be sold for almost ten taels of gold, and this unjust man only sells for ten taels of silver, which is really a fortune that fell from the sky.

The fat shopkeeper was really good, although his heart was happy, but he didn't show the slightest expression on his face, and even frowned: "This price...... It's okay, it's a little higher, but if you are a foreigner and have been robbed again, I will pity you once, ten taels will be ten taels. ”

Zhang Yi also seemed to feel that it was cheap, and was a little unwilling: "If you pity us, then pity us to the end, and this table of wine and food will also be given to us, how about it?" ”

The fat shopkeeper smacked his lips: "Distinguished guest, you can really do business, well, today is destined to cut meat, man, good food, good wine." ”

When the guy and the shopkeeper left, Li Dare stuck out his tongue: "Sir, you must be selling too cheaply." ”

Zhang Yi smiled wryly: "Don't worry, you won't be cheap after a while."