On the third day of Ying Caihe's arrival in Quanzhou, Yue Jing found Ying Caihe early in the morning and told her an important news, Yao Guangping was going to the harbor this morning to inspect the warship.

"I see!" Ying Cai and cold voices came from the room.

"We won't be coming back today, thank you for the past two days."

"Take care!"

Yue Jing returned to the shopkeeper's room, and immediately began to burn all kinds of information to keep the bottom, and asked the man to hang up the sign that the store was temporarily closed.

The guy was puzzled and asked, "Shopkeeper, are we going to change places?" ”

"Go pack the pigeon cage immediately, take the pigeons to Lianjiang County, and set off immediately!"

Yue Jing was anxious, he knew that there would be a big case soon, and they foreigners would definitely be arrested, and they would leave Jinjiang County immediately and go out to avoid the limelight.

As soon as he packed all the silver and belongings in a box, the man came to report: "Shopkeeper, they are gone, and I don't know how they left?" There was no one in the yard anymore, and they took everything with them. ”

"Then let's go!"

Yue Jing hired two ox carts, left the inn with four men, and drove towards the north city gate, and after a short time, the two ox carts left the north city gate and headed for Lianjiang County in the north.

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Not long after Yue Jing and his entourage left, hundreds of cavalry escorted a carriage and drove towards the harbor.

Yao Guangping had already decided to send troops to Guangzhou and destroy the Guangzhou warships, but the naval army did not just leave like the infantry, the warships needed to be inspected before going to sea, they needed to be replenished, they needed to be dispatched, and they had to prepare for at least ten days before they could set off.

Today, Yao Guangping specially came to inspect the preparations of the warships, and in the bay, there are more than 1,000 warships moored densely, including more than a dozen 3,000-stone ships moored on the wharf.

To the north, there are civilian ships, albeit large in the hundreds, which fill the bay.

Thousands of soldiers gathered on the dock, and the carriage came to a stop in front of the procession, Yao Guangping came out of the carriage and waved to the soldiers, who immediately cheered.

A chief steward stepped forward and said, "Captain Qiyu, these dozen or so warships have been inspected and can go to sea at any time!" ”

Yao Guangping shook his head, "A dozen warships are far from enough, at least a hundred or more thousand-stone warships are needed." ”

The chief steward wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Then I have to ask the captain for a few more days." ”

Yao Guangping glanced at the chief steward sternly, and said coldly: "I will give you another five days, and after five days, you must complete all the inspections, otherwise the military law will be engaged!" ”

"Humble ..... It's going to be done!"

Yao Guangping stepped on the plank of the boarding ship, and two personal guards guarded him one after the other, and just walked to the side of the ship, suddenly a black shadow holding a cable flew from the mast, and instantly arrived in front of him.

She shook her hand, and a beam of golden light shot towards Yao Guangping's front door, where could Yao Guangping hide, screamed, he was shot in the face by five golden needles at the same time, and fell down the boat on his back, and a guard behind him was quick and hugged him.

At this moment, one of the guards in front of him was shocked, drew his sword and stabbed at the man in black, only to hear 'Click! With a bang, his long sword was cut into two pieces, and before the broken sword landed, it was kicked by the man in black in the air, and the broken sword flashed like a cold light, 'Poof! The ground shot into Yao Guangping's throat, and it was already poisonous, and the dying Yao Guangping was shot through the neck by this broken sword and was killed.

"There are assassins!"

The guards finally came and shouted together, and all the soldiers on the dock were stunned, and saw that their lord had been pierced through the throat with a sword, and the man in black had swung with the cable to the other end, and one of them turned over, jumped onto the mast, and then jumped into the sea.

There was chaos on the docks, some guards treated Yao Guangping, and some guards went to capture the assassins, but the figure of the assassin had long since disappeared into the sea.

"Captain! Captain! ”

Yao Guangping's face turned pitch black, and the guards couldn't help but cry together, which made the hearts of thousands of sailor soldiers cold, needless to say, their lord was finished.

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Ying Caihe swam miles away, swimming to the back of an unmanned warship, her apprentice Jingyue was already waiting for her with a small boat, Ying Caihe overturned the boat, Jingyue immediately rowed away,

With the help of the spray of the water and the cover of the numerous ships in the bay, the ships passed among the warships and merchant ships, and the southerly wind made the ships extremely fast, and in a short time the small boats became a small black spot and detached from the confines of the harbor.

The news of Yao Guangping's assassination at the dock soon spread throughout the city, and the atmosphere in Jinjiang became extremely tense, the city gates were closed, the checkpoints were blocked, and teams of soldiers began to go door-to-door to investigate, and all Han people with northern accents were taken away for interrogation.

As pigeon letters were sent to various places, Yao Guangping's six sons and sons-in-law rushed back to Jinjiang from all over the country, on the one hand, to wake their father's spirit, and on the other hand, to fight for the inheritance.

However, after Yao Guangping's death, he could not use his sword for at least three months, and the decision to attack Guangzhou was naturally canceled.

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Chang'an has entered early summer, the weather is gradually getting hotter, and the shouts of selling ice are also ringing in Chang'an City.

Every winter, large families in Chang'an would cut large pieces of ice from the frozen lake, transport them home and store them in ice cellars or ice wells, and take them out to enjoy in the summer, or put them in the wall to cool their rooms.

There are also many merchants who store ice cubes, and in summer, they take them out to make various ice drinks and sell them to the low-level people who do not have ice cellars at home, such as smoothie sour plum soup and iced wine, which are hot goods in summer.

In the summer, Guo Song's official room was also transferred from the second floor to the innermost courtyard, which was a brick house with a specially built sandwich wall that could place ice cubes in it, so that the temperature in the official room could always be kept in the early twenties.

On this morning, Duqiu hurried to the official room of the King of Jin, and just now the King of Jin sent someone to summon him, and he didn't know what was going on, so he hurried over.

One of the main reasons for Guo Song's appointment of Du Qiu as prime minister was that he wanted him to establish a number of large-scale government-run businesses, such as mines, shipbuilding workshops, smelting factories, salt factories, sugar boiling factories, weaving factories, grain farms, sugar cane farms, and other major projects related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

So since the beginning of the year, Duqiu has been so busy that his feet don't touch the ground, and all kinds of things are waiting for him to approve and deal with, and he has been busy preparing for the construction of a large-scale sugar boiling factory in the past two days.

Duqiu came to the official residence of King Jin, and a guard reported for him, he walked into the official room and found that Pan Liao and Du You were also there.

"Your Highness has something to do with Weichen?"

Guo Song smiled and beckoned to him, "Come and see this!" ”

Duyi Qiu stepped forward, only to see a vermilion lacquered wooden plate on the table, inside is a bill printed with gold powder ink, a bit like the flying money of the cabinet, but look closely, and the flying money of the cabinet is different, the gold powder ink is not the kind of ink mixed with gold powder, it is actually embroidered with gold thread, the words written on it are 'one hundred taels of official silver', and there is a seal of the household department below.

Dugu Qiu gasped, "This is ..... What is it? ”

Guo Song said with a smile: "Dugu Xiangguo is not always saying that it is inconvenient for merchants to pay large sums of money, so the household department specially prints this kind of silver ticket, which can be exchanged for corresponding silver in any cabinet in the world, so it is not convenient to carry." ”

"But is the cabinet shop willing?"

"Why not? This is the silver ticket accepted by the household department, and the cabinet can be exchanged for the corresponding copper money or silver when it gets the household department or the local transfer department, and the cabinet will also have income. ”

Du Guqiu picked up the silver ticket and looked at it for a long time, and then worried: "What if it is counterfeited?" ”

Next to Du You smiled: "This piece of paper can't be faked, this is a kind of leather paper sent by Wang Yu from Xuanzhou, the paper is very delicate, the toughness is excellent, we are all the first time to see this kind of paper, it is said that the output is very low, and only one can be made, so His Royal Highness means, as long as we control this paper, even if someone wants to counterfeit it can not find the same material, in addition to the gold thread embroidery on the paper only a very small number of embroidery girls can do, we also summoned these embroidery girls into the official office, no matter how clever people can not imitate." ”

Pan Liao added: "In addition, there are strict punishment laws, and those who dare to forge silver tickets will be beheaded all over the house without leaving heirs, so that there will be no fake silver tickets in the two-pronged way." ”

Du Qiu's mind began to come alive, and he looked at the silver ticket carefully and said: "If it can really be anti-counterfeiting, it is impossible to make money leads, ten times, five times, and consistent, and you can directly take the money to the restaurant to drink." ”

In fact, as long as the anti-counterfeiting technology is excellent, it is indeed difficult to forge it.

Guo Song nodded, "Let's discuss this matter in the political hall first, and I plan to discuss this matter at the next small court meeting!" ”

Guo Song then said to Du You: "We must move all the Qian family to Chang'an as soon as possible, and all craftsmen who understand technology must not be missed, and it is important for Li Bing and Wang Yu to understand the importance of this matter." ”

Du You nodded, "Your Highness, please rest assured, Weichen will personally keep an eye on this matter, and there will be no omissions!" ”