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As soon as Mubashaf said this, several merchants from the Western Regions next to him also immediately coaxed: "That's it!" You Han people themselves are also in a hurry to exchange, and they are duplicitous to speak for the emperor, don't you want to trick us into going back, do you want to queue up less? ”

"It's not what you think it is! I'm not here to redeem it! Just to see the buzz. I thank Changfeng for believing in His Majesty the Emperor the most! I immediately took this note home and stored it properly, and I didn't exchange it at all! After Xie Changfeng heard this, he was furious.

In order to gamble, he let out cruel words in a puffed up, and then shouted loudly: "Since the founding of the country, how many good things have you done for our businessmen and old surnames? How much tax is deducted? Farm tools and land were also distributed. It can really be described by the words 'imperial grace'. I think we'll all go back and support His Majesty's new monetary policy! ”

After that, Xie Changfeng took the stack of banknotes in his hand and went home angrily. The merchants in line, seeing the endless queue in sight, some also hesitated to follow Xie Changfeng, quit the queue, and went home by themselves.

Others resisted the taunts of the merchants of the Western Regions and remained in the ranks, ready to insist on exchanging paper money for gold and silver.

Mubashaf got the news very early, so he rushed to the Ministry of Finance as soon as he got the banknotes. He was also in the front row, and he thought it would be his turn soon. But what he never expected was that after waiting for a long time, he saw that the sun was going west, and he hadn't stepped into the door of the Ministry of Finance.

At this time, his stomach was already rumbling with hunger, you must know that he came early in the morning, and he didn't even eat breakfast, but now it's past time to eat lunch.

Why is the Treasury Department's exchange process so slow? Mubashaf had a vague feeling in his heart that something was not quite right. He remembered coming here before, exchanging copper coins for gold and silver. There is a long row of exchange windows inside the exchange point. The people who do the work at the window are all young and beautiful women with quick hands and feet, and it won't take much time to finish it.

But why is it so strange today? The team moved forward as fast as a snail.

Mubashaf clearly remembers that when he first talked to Xie Changfeng, he was at the door of the Hutchison pawnshop, ten feet away from the gate of the Ministry of Finance.

And now two hours have passed, and I have only moved to He's Noodle Village, which is twenty zhang away from the gate of the Ministry of Finance. In other words, for two full hours, the team only advanced ten feet.

"O my Allah! You can only walk ten zhang in two hours, so now there are still twenty zhang away from the gate of the Ministry of Finance, wouldn't it take four hours to walk? Won't it all be dark then? When Mubashaf thought of this, he suddenly felt that his legs were weak, and he had not eaten in the morning, and now he felt even more hungry and painful.

There were already many restaurants on this street, and they soon saw that this was a good opportunity to make money, so they immediately picked up steamed buns and other foods and sold them at the side of the line.

After waiting in line for most of the day, the merchants and people, who were already dizzy and hungry, hurriedly took out copper coins and bought food to eat.

Mubashaf is an Islamist and can't eat pork, but these buns are all filled with pork, so he has to nibble on steamed buns.

After eating steamed buns for a long time, Mubashaf bought a chair from the vendor to sit down, and then made a pot of hot tea.

At this time, the small stalls and vendors all over the city heard about the business opportunities here in the Ministry of Finance, so they all flocked to the street, turning the street into a street of snacks and groceries. Everything from food to tables and chairs, cards, tea, everything.

The number of hawkers and those in line was so large that the Jingzhao Yin Yamen had to send a large number of officials to maintain order. Let the hawkers set up stalls in the designated area, and they cannot occupy the road at will and affect others.

At this time, some people had already picked up tents and quilts and shouted loudly, feeling that he thought that the people in line were going to spend the night on this street.

After another four hours, it was already dark, and many people in line really had to buy tents to live in the cold.

And at this moment, Mubashaf finally entered the Ministry of Finance.

He walked into the hall of the exchange point and took a look, only to find that such an exchange hall originally had ten exchange windows, but only one was open, and the other twenty-nine were closed, so could it not be slow?

When Mubashaf arrived at the counter, he looked inside and gasped.

The young and beautiful girls of the past were gone, and an old man with a white beard and a wrinkled face like a ravine sat there. I don't know where I found the old tent room, looking at his appearance, I'm afraid that he will already be past the age of six, and go straight to Gu Xi.

When the old tent saw Mubashaf coming in, he didn't raise his head, and asked slowly: "Hu, who wears a turban, are you exchanging paper money for gold and silver?" Or exchange gold and silver for banknotes? ”

When Mubashaf heard the music, he secretly wondered if he still needed to ask? Fools will exchange gold and silver for paper money that is about the same as waste paper. So, he hurriedly stuffed the large stack of banknotes into the exchange window, and then said quietly: "Of course, I exchanged banknotes for gold and silver." I have a total of 100,000 yuan in banknotes here, all of which have been exchanged for gold! ”

The old tent coughed a few times, and then Fang slowly took the stack of banknotes, and then slowly counted them one by one, and after counting for a while, he picked up an abacus, and counted there for a long time, so that Mubashaf was flustered, and the old account finally said: "It seems that the number of banknotes is correct!" ”

"Of course there's nothing wrong with that! I had a few accounts count a whole whole before I came! I didn't even go back to my house, so I just ran here! Mubashaf said quietly.

The old account was still unconscious, and he opened a pair of cloudy presbyopia, and said slowly: "The gold and silver coins have to wait for me to go to the treasury to get them, and if you are not picky, there are gold and silver nuggets!" You see, do you want to wait for me to go to the storeroom, or ......"

"Just nuggets! That's it! Mubashaf said hurriedly. He thought to himself, if you wait for you to go to the treasury to get the gold coins, I don't know when you will be able to come back, then you will really have to sleep on the floor at this exchange point.

Besides, gold nuggets and coins are the same. Anyway, it's better than paper money, and Mubashaf is not picky about this.

These 100,000 yuan banknotes, according to the previous exchange price, can be exchanged for thousands of gold coins, that is, two gold.

The old tent limped to the large cabinet at the back, and then opened the half-hidden door of the cabinet, only to see that it was full of golden nuggets. Mubashaf's eyes were a little dazzled.

"It seems that there is a lot of gold in this exchange point!" Mubashaf mused.

At this moment the old tent was about to take the nuggets from the chest. But he seemed to suddenly remember something, and then turned around and asked, "Dahu, gold nuggets are divided into gold bars, gold bricks, and gold ingots, which one do you want?" ”

"Then the gold bricks! Good to get some! Mubashaf said casually.

"But the gold bricks are heavy, and if you want to divide them, gold bars are actually more suitable!" The old tent patiently explained.

Mubashaf couldn't help but be so angry that he glared at him: "In that case, then what do you ask me for gold bricks or gold bars?" Just take the gold bars and you won't get it! ”

"That's not going to work! Your Majesty has always taught us that we must serve the people, that we must take the interests of the people as our highest interests, that we must think what the masses think, that we must be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, and that we must ......," the old tent shook his head and said.

Seeing that he couldn't get the gold nuggets for a long time, Mubashaf was so anxious that he wanted to beat someone, so he hurriedly interrupted the old tent and said: "If you don't give it to me again, I'm really in a hurry!" ”

The old tent glared at him at this time, and then said in a slur manner: "Okay! Gold bars are gold bars, but do you want five taels or ten taels? ”

Mubashaf had been worn out of temper, and two words burst out from between his teeth: "Whatever! ”

"Well, then, I will give you sixty gold bars of fifty taels for your change...... But you'll have to wait for me to count the bars......" The old tent counted the bars slowly.

He seemed to be very careful, counting them one by one, and according to his method, he didn't know when he would be able to count them clearly.

Mubashaf finally couldn't hold it anymore, and he yelled viciously: "You dead old man! Can you hurry up? You are so slow, I have to go to the Ministry of Finance to complain about you! You know, Minister Changsun is an old acquaintance of mine, and His Majesty often eats and drinks tea......"

"Ahh Where did I count your mistakes? The old tent sighed and said, "Don't worry, you big beard, I forgot about this roar." ”

Then he counted from the beginning again: "One, two, four, five......"

Mubashaf didn't dare to interrupt him anymore, so he sat on the ground outside the exchange window, waiting for the old man in the tent to count the gold bars......

Finally, when Mubashaf finally walked out of the Treasury gate with a large pile of bits and pieces of gold bars, it was already late at night. Thinking that I had spent so much time in order to exchange this bit of gold, and now I have a sore back, I really don't know who to talk to about the misery on my face?

And he had barely stepped out of the gate when several guards from the Ministry of Finance closed it. The old account poked out a white head from the window of the door, and then said tremblingly: "Everyone, I'm sorry today! The time is over, and the old man is off work. Come early tomorrow! The old man will continue to exchange it for you! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he slammed the small window on the door. Outside the Ministry of Finance, all the exchange people who were still in line with the end were all left in place.

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