Afraid that Han Xiufeng would not understand, Ji Yunfei explained: "The copper factory is far away in the mountains, and Yunnan must first mine the copper ore and smelt it into copper ingots, and then transfer it to Yongning with cattle and horses, and it will take 23 stations to be transported by water. Now it is the second year of Xianfeng, not only the water is far away, but even the freight for land transshipment is still calculated according to the foot price agreed in the 20th year of Qianlong, and only 8 and a half cents of silver is given for each 100 catties of copper per transshipment station, which is not enough at all.

The money is not as valuable as before, the horses in Yunnan are scarce, and the food is expensive. Not only the officials were miserable, but the people of Yunnan were also miserable, and Lord Zhang begged the emperor not to let Yunnan do copper anymore, and proposed that the imperial court buy foreign copper coinage. ”

Han Xiufeng couldn't help but ask: "The more the water is stirred, the more muddy it becomes, from the shortage of copper catties to the copper politics?" ”

"Well," Ji Yunfei nodded, and said meaningfully, "It's not that the prisoner has great ability, just because he can't make such a big storm in the same year." But the disadvantages of the copper policy are accumulated and difficult to return, the people of Yunnan are overwhelmed, and the officials of Yunnan are miserable, and they want the court to investigate it. ”

"If the imperial court really wants to deal with those few officials, it has to come up with a solution?"

"Exactly, but how can it be solved, the imperial court is waiting for Yunnan copper and Guizhou lead to mint money, and is worried about the food and salary of Guangxi to quell the chaos, how can there be silver money allocated to Yunnan to do copper, and the purchase of foreign copper coinage must have silver, so the shortage of copper catties is a confused account, there is no way to investigate and deal with it, and the more you investigate, the more troublesome it will be."

"So the imperial court will be with the mud, what will happen to those few transport officials who are short of copper catties?"

"At most, I will be dismissed."

Han Xiufeng pretended to sigh regretfully: "It's a pity, Master Jiang finally got a job, but he had to work in vain. ”

Han Zhan Kedao already looked down on the officials of the Criminal Department, but Ji Yunfei looked down on him as a reviewer of the Hanlin Academy, and said lightly: "A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." There's nothing wrong with working in vain, you can't dare to accept any silver, and you can't ask for it, especially this kind of silver. ”

"What Master Ji said is very true, come, I will toast you."

……

Ji Yunfei didn't dare to get too close to Lord Zhuo, and he never thought of being the same examiner of the Enke Examination, but when he thought that someone like Qian Junchen was actually selected, and in more than ten days, he would become a room teacher, and he still felt a little bad in his heart, and he was drunk while drinking.

got up too early, Han Xiufeng was also sleepy, first helped Ji Yunfei to the east wing room to rest, and then went to Fei Erye's room to sleep back. As a result, I actually slept this sleep, and it wasn't until I was woken up by Pan Er and Datou that I found that it was already afternoon.

"What about Master Ji, has Master Ji woken up?"

"Woke up, just left." Pan Er didn't care about Ji Yunfei, who had just left, and said happily after his buttocks: "Fourth brother, if you don't go to the Gongyuan to see, I really don't know that there are so many people in the world, I estimate that there are five or six thousand!" Before dawn, they began to wait in line for recognition, and they had to untie their clothes, pants, shoes and socks for search. How cold it was in the morning, and there were a lot of cold sneezes. ”

Han Xiufeng sighed while washing his face: "So it is not easy to say that ten years of cold windows are hard, don't look at other people's glamorous." ”

"It's nothing to untie the clothes, and then I went to a big official, led a team of Qiu Ba to strictly investigate, and also hung out a reward, saying that as long as you find a reward with a cheat sheet, a reward of one or two. Don't mention how hard those people work hard, let the people in front of the queue take off all their clothes, and let so many people have bare butts in broad daylight, not only untie their braids, but also pick up ** to see if there is anything stuffed inside. ”

"So strict?"

"You can see it when you go and see it," Pan Er looked back at the big head, and said colorfully: "If you don't search, you don't know, a search really found a lot of fraud, and all of them were dressed in flail to show the public, and a large number of them were lined up, all of them were lifted." There are a lot of people who are frightened, some hurry to find a place to throw away the cheat sheet, some turn around and slip away, and simply don't take the test! ”

Han Xiufeng wiped his face, hung the towel on the rope, turned around and asked, "What about the second master?" ”

Pan Er looked at the gate of the courtyard, and said with a divine chatter: "The second master also brought a cheat sheet and hid it in his shoes, but fortunately he was not in the front, and when he saw that the front was so strict, he took off his shoes and kicked them aside." I could see clearly that he was lining up barefoot. ”

"Didn't find out?"

"No," Pan Er smiled and said, "I saw Ren He, he didn't seem to have a cheat sheet, and he wasn't nervous at all." However, his turtle son was unlucky, he was targeted by a Qiu Ba, when so many people were stripped naked, he had to pout his ass and let Qiu Ba see if he had stuffed something, hahahaha. ”

"Second master, they don't have it?"

"The second master and they are at the back of the line, maybe those Qiu Ba were impatient to search later, and shouted 'all checked', and the second master and they just went in like this, and they didn't have to take off their clothes."

"That's good, otherwise it would be embarrassing for him to be stripped naked at such an age."

Just finished cleaning up the leftovers in the hall, the big head who was washing dishes by the well couldn't help but ask: "Fourth brother, do you say that the second master can they go to high school?" ”

Han Xiufeng looked back, and saw that He Heng and Liu Shanyang's families were not there, so he sat on the small stool and said with a wry smile: "The second master is enough to choke, and it is difficult for them to say, our hall has gone to seven this time, and it would be good to have a Chinese style." ”

"One at most?"

"Maybe you won't be able to hit any of them."

"What about Ren He's turtle son?" The big head asked.

Han Xiufeng muttered: "Ren He is a little talented in Ba County, but this is a capital full of talents, not Ba County, he is really not outstanding." ”

He Heng and Liu Shanyang's three family members were all wandering outside, there were no outsiders in the yard, Pan Er had nothing to scruple about, and couldn't help laughing: "It's nothing bad if one can't win, if they can't win all, we can start work a month in advance, and we don't have to wait for the palace test list." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, but you should prepare for both."

As soon as Han Xiufeng's words fell, an extraordinarily dressed scholar knocked on the door of the courtyard that was open, and asked, "May I ask if this is the Chongqing Guild Hall?" ”

Pan Er hurriedly greeted him and said, "Yes, this is the Chongqing Guild Hall, who are you looking for, what's the matter?" ”

"May I ask Han Zhixing, is Han Shou here?"

"Yes, he was born in the late life of Han Zhixing, dare to ask Mr. your surname?"

"Don't be surnamed Wang," the uninvited guest looked Han Xiufeng up and down, and took out a letter from his arms: "Han Shoushi, this is a letter from Master Yu of Pingshan County, Zhengding Prefecture, and there is a silver ticket of fifty taels in the letter." Entrusted by people, loyal to people, the letter and the silver ticket Wang has arrived, I bother you to write a reply letter to Master Yu, and after Wang goes back, he will have to deal with Master Yu. ”

"It turned out to be a friend of Master Yu, disrespectful and disrespectful!" During the Chinese New Year, he wrote so many letters to the foreign officials of Chongqing who lived in the guild hall, and finally waited for a reply, and they also brought a silver ticket of fifty taels, Han Xiufeng was ecstatic, and hurriedly invited the scholar who sent the letter to go to the hall to drink tea.