But Zheng Tu took advantage of the fact that it was not dark and went to see it again.

Three hundred and fifty copper dollars for one silver dollar!

The green tendons in Zheng Tu's head were about to bulge, looking at the sign that seemed to be cold-blooded and indifferent, Zheng Tu's head was sweating, gritting his teeth, and leaving.

When he returned home, Zheng Tutie blushed and hurriedly took action.

This night, there seemed to be a lot less laughter in the city, but a smell of anxiety and panic.

Early the next morning, Zheng Tu packed everything and took the woman out of the city.

As soon as I went, what I didn't expect was that the city gate was crowded with people today, except for those who got up early to carry water and various daily necessities, but there were all kinds of people in the city, and even Zheng Tu saw a brothel float, which is usually used for "door-to-door delivery".

But Zheng Tu at least had a little wisdom, he didn't make a loud noise, just now he was busy all night, tidying up the house, boiling a few eggs, and the remaining meat, all of which were stewed directly in the pot, no matter what salty and light, he baked the flatbread and prepared to take it to eat on the road.

Before the city gate was opened, he saw a group of people running from afar, and drank a few times, but by the bright light, they stood at the gate of the city, and shouted: "What are you waiting to leave the city?" ”

No one dared to answer, but the head of the soap squad suddenly caught a person, who seemed to be a small trader selling needles and threads in the streets and alleys, who was caught like a little chicken, and was asked: "What are you going to do out of the city, what are you doing out of the city!" ”

The man was frightened, but he said hesitantly, "Go to the relatives." ”

"It's not fifteen, it's not the New Year's Day, what kind of relatives are gone!"

"It's to see my cousin."

"Which village does your cousin live in, what is the surname, I'll take you there!"

"Don't be busy, I'll just go by myself."

"Then what's the matter, I think you are a thief's spy, you have to open the city gate from the inside and outside, yes or no!"

The head of the soap class was full of energy and tall, grabbed the vendor in his hand and choked his neck, the hawker couldn't answer, the head of the soap class smiled darkly, and suddenly said: "Someone, such a spy, it's not okay not to fight, give me a beat!" ”

At that moment, in front of the men and women who were about to leave the city, several men from the soap class carried sticks of various colors, and beat the peddler, and after a while, the people lay there silently.

"Anyone who goes out of the city for no reason is a spy, and they will be interrogated by me!"

As soon as he said this, he scared away countless people.

It was early in the morning, and many people were indeed thinking of going out of the city for a while, because of the depreciation of the currency, if they exchanged it at the current price, it was almost as if they were contributing a small half of their family property.

Besides, those who can live in the city are not fools, not to mention anything else, the Cao gang brought back the republican Tongbao from the north, and there are more people in other places, and it is better to find a way to exchange it back at a more conscientious price than to be slaughtered in the city.

But how can this make you happy?

From that day onwards, people entering and exiting the city gate will be subjected to the strictest inspection in history, and anyone who tries to carry a large amount of Chongzhen Tongbao out of the city will be subjected to the most severe interrogation and torture, almost as if they are dead, and they do not want to sell their houses and wives and daughters, and do not want to leave the city alive.

Even in order to search for women, several gold and silver shops in the city also enthusiastically lent their own women, of course, to help search women.

People can go, but money can't.

Zheng Tu was helpless, he wanted to go out of the city to buy pigs, but he was told that he was not allowed to carry money, and if he wanted to bring it, he could only exchange the money for Gonghe Tongbao and then go out of the city.

Replaced with a republican Tongbao, what else can you buy.

The whole city was dying.

There is no shop willing to open the door, once the door is opened, it will be a wolf like a tiger to the door, of course, not a robbery, but to see what to buy, even if it is useless things, it is better than grabbing the Chongzhen Tongbao that is worthless every day.

And the elders there are naturally up and down, and the benefits here are obvious, this is a feast.

As the focus of their work, the elders are attentive to the work of the Cao Gang.

In history, a certain emperor was included in the Cao Gang, which shows his strength, in fact, these people are just relatively united internally, of course, the most important thing is that the comparison is different from the Confucian class that has been completely corrupted and useless, completely put into a separate book, and labeled as "hindering the development of productive forces".

Within the Cao Gang, or these small groups of Cao Yun, no matter how ignorant and unruly they are, there is one that is rare in this country.

At the very least, they do things.

Fight for job offers.

Because of this, the elders are very much in agreement with the Cao Gang's transfer to shipping, and the future of China will be a long time with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and these capacity support is needed, so for the Cao Gang to carry out marine transportation, it is a considerable amount of support, at least for the sake of buying horses, the subsidies received by the people who initially "went to the sea" are equivalent to buying a ship for nothing.

Of course, it's definitely not a loss.

Therefore, the Cao Gang, which itself had an organizational form attached to the government in the Ming Dynasty, was the first to have a considerable number of people join the Presbyterian Church.

This is also the reason why Li Xiangqian can receive the news quickly.

The bell tower in Suzhou has begun to operate, providing time services every day, and it is also a scene here, but later generations of urban construction researchers must have beaten their chests and feet, and in a classical city that has been kept intact, a brick bell tower suddenly appeared that did not match at all, and anyone would go crazy.

Fortunately, it was quite peaceful.

If you consider it from the perspective of inclusiveness, the bell tower is not bad, of course, in the future, a four-storey commercial building will be built next to the bell tower, which requires careful calculation, and it is also the right thing to find some local people to invest in, the elders are basically too lazy to manage a commercial building thousands of miles away, so a little profit, in fact, there is a casual stirring and stirring in the stock market, but they don't have to.

"It's another bunch of fools."

Li Xiangqian was a little surprised to know that there was a Ming magistrate who jumped so much and directly used the republican Tongbao to collect taxes, how did he say this, he should send someone to hook up first, in fact, the elders have been lacking in the ability to grasp people's hearts and other aspects, and they don't know how to operate, but there must be a ruthless reward.

But what does it mean to collect taxes quietly in this way?

This is almost the equivalent of the North Stick suddenly announcing one day that it will not use its own currency, but adopt the South Stick currency as a currency......

At first, he thought that there was a soul piercer in Nantong Prefecture, which was pulling the flag and asking him to contact him, but after the news sent by the Cao Gang, the people in Nantong Prefecture were also uniting with the people of the Cao Gang to squeeze the last dollar of the local people together.

Their request is very simple, it is best not to bring the republican Tongbao brought back from the imperial capital into Tongzhou, if it is brought, it is best to sell it to gold and silver shops of the size of the city, and when the time comes, their benefits will be indispensable.

Li Xiangqian briefly calculated how much money he could earn here.

When the common people were forced to exchange their copper coins and silver deposits for republican treasures, it was a terrible knife.

And in the end, after the money is in the hands of the government, what they hand over to their bosses will definitely not be the republican Tongbao, but will choose the silver ingots and even copper coins that the Ming Dynasty is used to.

With this one out and one in, it is very simple to double the capital.

"It's really smart enough, it's hundreds of thousands when you get out and you go in."

Li Xiangqian sincerely admired the ruling class of this era, who had not read Capital or The Wealth of Nations, but by virtue of their own exploration, they had mastered the skills of sheep shearing by the European and American bourgeoisie in later generations.

Of course, this kind of wool shearing requires high skills, and it needs to cooperate with Hollywood movies and TV networks to brainwash and three-dimensional operations, but the people in Nantong City are much worse.

"Husband, since it has nothing to do with us, why don't we go and help the ugly people, we have enough silver dollars here, we can transport them over, and exchange them at the right price, and they will be grateful to us."

Li Xiangqian smiled bitterly and said: "You don't understand this, no matter how the prefect thinks of this trick, but he is actually in an invincible position, after all, using our Republican Tongbao as a tax collection voucher is a political behavior that needs to be encouraged, I can't suppress him because of this, of course, I don't care about offending the rich families in Nantong City, they are not much stronger than dogs, but what I am worried about is that I saved those people, but what I immediately got was boundless hatred." ”

"How could this be?"

"People are very strange animals, a person, all the year round to help the poor, suddenly business problems, naturally no strength to save people, but hated by the people he helps, a robber, took hostages, constantly tortured, and then the situation eased, the robber gave the hostages a little food and water, but in exchange for a great favor, human nature."

"But now they are alone, and all of a sudden they will have their property."

"May ......"

Li Xiangqian said slowly: "You see, some of these people have been forced to exchange their money at a very loss-making price, these people, even if we passed, also commanded why not arrive earlier, while others, since we helped them exchange money in the past, there is no pain of losing property, and remember the chaos and fear before, who do you say they hate." ”

"Of course I hate those officials and businessmen."

"What are you kidding, aren't you afraid of losing your head, what kind of big shots are they, in fact, in the end, the object of anger, no matter how you look at it, it is only us, who makes us troublesome, what kind of republican treasure is cast, honestly starving at home, starving to death, so that the Confucian masters can continue to live a peaceful life."

Li Xiangjun's eyes rolled, she seemed to be in a little pain, and said, "Is it really impossible to help them?" ”

Li Xiangqian thought for a while and said: "In fact, this is a testing ground, for the existing officials of the Ming Dynasty, no one can help them answer the road ahead, once they choose the wrong one, they will be crushed, but it is a better choice to quickly get a vote and return to the countryside to be a village sage." ”

Li Xiangjun said: "However, those people ......"

"You see, what we know now, in this world, in fact, there is a choice that is ten times better in Nantong City, go to Liaodong to farm, each family planted those hundreds of acres of land together, and go to the Americas in the future, the land is more and more fertile, for a common people, send themselves to our school, no matter what they learn, the future benefits are far greater than what to take the imperial examination, but they just won't make the right choice, only if they are forced to go bankrupt, they can take a risk, which is why, The middle class is often the most pitiful person to say, because Ya has no desire to change everything, to smash everything. ”

Li Xiangjun said: "So, does the husband want to wait until those people pay the taxes, and then find a way to save people?" ”

"You see, this method is good, since the first tax collection used the Republic Tongbao, then next time it will be difficult to change it back, if the operation is done properly, it is not impossible to directly let the Republic Tongbao occupy the entire Jiangbei market, at least we have one more exchange point, this loss, can make the entire Nantong people remember the benefits of the Republic Tongbao for a hundred years!"

"That's true."

Li Xiangqian looked at her and said with a smile: "Actually, it's not that you can't do anything, Nantong is not far from here, in fact, it will take a day or two at most by boat, we can go and see, in fact, I don't like the other party to use us to make money, this is essentially exchanging the prestige of the imperial capital for money, he patted his ass and went home, we still have to govern the country." ”

This is the biggest drawback of the system of rogue officials.

In the past two or three years, especially lower-level officials, they have been shaving the local area three feet high and then hanging it away, and there have been more and more behaviors that do not covet power, which has in fact become a very common phenomenon.

Li Xiangqian knows the human nature calculation here, first of all, abandon his own power, in order to show "high and clear", that is very respected, since the Great Song Dynasty, the official likes to constantly resign the appointment of the emperor, in order to show that he is not a person who is greedy for power, although it is acting, the emperor will generally be good-natured and cooperate with you to play this game.

The second is the consideration of money, after all, it is a sudden change of power, and there are many benefits that can be grabbed, with this money, go home to be a village sage, and in the period of change of dynasty, they are not without hope of making a comeback.

In fact, many of the people who came to the imperial capital to collude were so-called Zhishi bureaucrats, who were more flexible and more convenient.

Li Xiangqian collected some information.

Ma Lianger is a figure who has made a difference in the tide of the past.

According to some Cao Gang, this person is very good at getting into trouble, in the previous county commander, he had some strange feats, and suddenly the pirates who appeared out of nowhere, were defeated and killed by the few soldiers he led, so the performance was excellent, and he was directly promoted to the prefect, which was also smooth.

But the strangest thing is that those pirates also disappeared with Ma Liang'er's promotion to the prefect, and the people of the Cao Gang suspected that this person relied on the people of Jiading Township to pretend to be pirates to brush up on political achievements.

I have to admit that this man's brain is really fast.

(End of chapter)