After Li Zicheng returned to Xi'an after inspecting the wheat fields on the Weihe Plain, he immediately issued an order to set up the Baoyuan Bureau, which was subordinate to the household government and was responsible for minting large and thick Yongchang money. At the same time, Wu Xing also organized craftsmen to study how to mint the same silver dollar as the Nanzhong silver dollar. Although the silver dollar used in the jurisdiction of Dashun is also very popular, it is after all someone else's currency, and it is quite awkward to use. However, if you use silver ingots and silver ingots, not only are they different in shape and color, but they also have to be weighed repeatedly and checked for authenticity every time you trade silver, and you have to cut it open to see if there is lead inside. And so on, it's annoying. But there is nothing you can do, and if you don't pay attention, you will suffer a big loss.

Although the minting of silver dollars is troublesome, fortunately, there is a lot of gold and silver in the Dashun army, and there are quite a lot of silver dollars, so they are not in a hurry to use them for a while. However, the source of copper used to mint Yongchang coins is very difficult.

Because in order to pursue good color, good quality, and good appearance, it is necessary to invest a lot of good brass, but Li Zicheng is not as good as Li Shouhan, and he has Luzon copper mines and copper mines in the Bodhisattva area in his hands, and he can use them without scruples, and even the bottom of the sea ship is wrapped with thin copper sheets to prevent biological attachment. Where can Wu Xing go to find so many fine brass?

The Baoyuan Bureau had no choice but to write a recital, which was played by the household government to Li Zicheng, the emperor of Dashun. Two solutions were proposed.

After Lao Li read the playbook, he agreed to implement it.

The first plan was to collect folk bronzes and transport them to the Baoyuan Bureau, so that they could be minted day and night. Although this collection of bronze artifacts inevitably harassed the people, it had no choice but to do so.

Compared with the second type, the first type is laborious and the quality of the copper harvested is messy and the quantity is small. It's nowhere near as refreshing as the second one.

This is the second kind. Wu Xing's idea for Li Zicheng was to attack temples and Taoist temples in various places. Temples around the country were asked to donate a number of bronze Buddha statues according to the size of the temple, and the bronze Buddha statues in the temples were used to mint coins. "If anyone dares to resist the decree, you can immediately send troops to recruit them!"

This murderous decree was immediately sent to the state capitals. In the eyes of the generals of the Dashun Army, those temples were the same as the big squires, eunuchs and clans everywhere, and they were all big households that occupied a large area of land and did not pay taxes or grain. Now the emperor can afford them, and he wants them to serve some bronze tools. If you dare to be stubborn, doesn't it just give us a good reason to clean them up? Isn't the money, food, and goods they have accumulated just right to come in handy for our Dashun Imperial Court?!

As a result, on the Guanzhong Plain, temples and temples of all sizes have fallen into bad luck. However, there are also those tenants and little monks and nuns who have no conscience, not only do not sacrifice their lives to defend the Tao in order to repay the virtue of the temple, but instead lead the soldiers of the Dashun army to dig cellars everywhere. The gold, silver, grain, and even swords, guns, and armor secretly stored in the temple came out together.

The large amount of land occupied by the temple was taken advantage of by the Dashun court to implement a new policy.

The trend of demolishing bronze statues and recovering the land occupied by the temple on the Guanzhong Plain soon spread in the Dashun military area. Looking at the large and small Buddha statues that were transported to Chang'an City day by day and turned into a furnace of yellow Yongchang Tongbao, and looking at the increase in the number of land that can be collected and grain that can be collected every five days reported by the household government, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others couldn't help but be quite happy.

Some rejoice, and some resent. Countless monks have set up incense tables in the dark room, praying to the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Taishang Laojun. Cursed the initiator of such an idea of destroying monks and destroying the Dao, he thundered down to the eighteenth layer of hell to dig coal and repair sewers!

However, it is in the midst of this bright spring scenery. The initiator was Shi Shiran who came out of Chang'an City in the direction of Lishan.

"Sir, sir, wait for me." With a burst of calling, a figure galloped after the person in front of him who was digging in the wheat field and was digging in the wheat field in plain clothes, and the man in plain clothes stopped when he heard the voice, and said softly to himself: "Hey, be this bullshit official." You can't even dig a wild vegetable. ”

With that, he put down his basket and knife, and waited silently for the caller to catch up. When the person approached, the man in civilian clothes said, "Zhou Zheng, what are you doing?" Today is my day of bathing. It's time to take a break and don't work, but to work and wait for tomorrow. ”

This man named Zhou Zheng jumped down from the back of the big green donkey and wiped the sweat on his face, and said breathlessly: "Mr. Wu, you are really, you are also a dignified court member now, just take a vacation, just drink tea and listen to a song, what kind of wild vegetables do you come out to dig by yourself?" If you love to eat, it's good to call someone to dig it, if you can't let me dig it, I'll tell you sir, I think before I voted for the king, when it comes to digging wild vegetables, I'm better than the rabbit on the mountain. ”

"This shepherd's cabbage is born in the wheat field, competing with the wheat seedlings for water and soil, and for space. If it is not eradicated early, it will inevitably endanger the growth of wheat seedlings. This thing is quite delicious, and it is also very delicious when wrapped into dumplings with mutton. As he spoke, the man in civilian clothes raised the wicker basket in his hand and motioned to Zhou Zheng to look at the small half basket of camellia in the basket.

"Sir, good Yaxing. After returning to the city that time, the students went to buy a leg of mutton and ate dumplings at the teacher's place in the evening! ”

"You!"

"No way, although we are not high-ranking officials, we have also followed the emperor to fight in the north and south for so long, and we have eaten a lot of good things. The diet in Shaanxi is really a bit rough, and it is rare to have a chance to make a tooth sacrifice here with the teacher, so why don't you seize the opportunity quickly? ”

The person in civilian clothes was Wu Xing, listening to Zhou Zheng's words, Wu Xing couldn't help but smile helplessly, where is this to fight my tooth sacrifice here, it is clear that he has something to say to me. Otherwise, with the identity of the person in front of you, what can't you eat? In fact, although this digging wild vegetables is his hobby, but this time he came out, in fact, it was a disguised avoidance, but he didn't expect this Zhou Zhengke to be good, and he directly caught up with Lishan, which is called avoidance.

These days, the students of the Qin Law School have come one after another, and they have only one purpose, to let Wu Xing call the shots for them and clean up those official beetles. Among them, the most fierce rhetoric is this Zhou Zheng, he once bluntly told Wu Xing that the new deal of Dashun is the Lao Tzu of Shizi, and you now let their son do things for you. Isn't it a tiger skin?

If you want to be reasonable, Wu Xing understands it better than them, the problem is that the Shizi faction also has deep power, and the people behind them are not comparable to him, who came to vote halfway. Therefore. He could only try to dodge, but judging from what happened after entering Guanzhong, dodging didn't seem to have any effect.

Wu Xing could only sigh helplessly when he thought of this and said, "Okay, since you are here, I can't let you go." However, there is no Taishi chair in this place, so you can find an earthen platform to sit on by yourself. Zhou Zheng was not polite, and directly found a place close to Wu Xing to sit down, and Wu Xing also put down his tools and sat on the ground.

After you sit down. Zhou Zheng couldn't help but say with emotion: "Sir, when we were in Kaifeng, I remember that we sat on the ground like this, listening to you give us instructions to analyze things, and I haven't sat down and talked like this for a long time." Wu Xing smiled and said: "That is, you are all state officials in Dashun now, and you have busy government affairs, and your wings are stiff." How can you still be in the mood to listen to my teacher's nagging. ”

Zhou Zheng hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Sir, you have wronged us." We have always followed Mr. Teacher's teachings, and we dare not disobey half a word. Wu Xing looked at Zhou Zhengdao: "When did you become thick-skinned in your later life, and you didn't dare to disobey the damn half of the word, you don't know when I don't know, you just accepted a concubine a while ago, but this is what my husband taught you?" Zhou Zheng blushed and said, "Sir, you know." But sir, although it is true that I am so beautiful when I take a concubine, I have also done a good deed. ”

"Oh, you should have heard it." Wu Xing said with a smile.

Zhou Zheng looked around first and made sure that there was no one before saying, "Sir." You also know, my new boss's surname is Huang Shiren, let me tell you, this is a fucking bastard! I don't know how to play with it, originally this guy was a Guanzhong clan, and according to the law, he should avoid his hometown. But people can be local officials! As soon as he came up, he played a trick with a ghost idea, and our Dashun wanted to collect money and grain in accordance with the preferential and exemption rules of Emperor Jiajing of the previous dynasty, so this guy said, then it should be counted from the Jiajing period, in this way, their family has a total of dozens of people, more than a dozen state and county officials, and two or three prefects. Therefore, it is necessary to follow the merits and fame of these dozens of people. ”

"Oh." Wu Xing's face couldn't help but become a little heavy, and he asked, "What happened then?" Zhou Zhengyi patted his thigh and smiled: "Playing this game with the people from our Qin Law School blinded his dog eyes!" Lao Tzu slapped the table and scolded him for being an official beetle, and then paraded the people of their family in shackles on the street, cleared the arrears within a time limit, and dared not to give him a board to death. Sir, you didn't see it, that Huang Shiren's face was as ugly as a dead man, he wanted to turn his face with me but didn't dare, hahaha!"

Speaking of pride, Zhou Zheng couldn't help laughing. After he laughed for a while, Wu Xingcai said unhurriedly: "Zhou Zheng, you have been talking about it for a long time, it seems that it has nothing to do with your concubine, if you report the violation, you should go to Li Yan." ”

Zhou Zheng hurriedly said: "Sir, don't be impatient, this is foreshadowing, you know no, you taught us, foreshadowing." The back is like this, my current father-in-law, surnamed Meng, has a daughter named Meng Xi, who is too energetic. His family originally owed a debt to the Huang family, and then this guy was humiliated by me, and I don't know if it was premeditated or a momentary evil fire, so I had to go to his house to force the debt, and said, although Dashun has new rules, but the debt has to be repaid. But my father-in-law used to be a homeless person, and he just came back, so how could he have the money to pay him back, and he was forced to seek death and life. Then, when I saw it, I paid it back. ”

Wu Xing waved his hand and interrupted: "Then, you deceived the girl and became a person in your house?" Zhou Zhengyi pouted and said: "Mr. Wu, why do you speak so ugly as a scholar, that is not called cheating, it is called mutual love." After that, I went to her house to help with the work, farming and sweeping the yard, I did everything, and finally my old man was moved, and said that this young man has a future, since you have all cooked raw rice, you should marry, girl. ”

Zhou Zheng was talking and talking, and found that he had missed his mouth, so he quickly shut up. Wu Xing grabbed the handle now, not only patted his legs and laughed, but said while laughing: "I didn't admit it just now, but now I missed it, I'll say that the weasel gives the chicken a New Year's greeting, and it's strange that he can be good." Forget it, since you have been deceived into bed, treat others well, if you let me know that you are not good to others, I will punish you boy to go to the embankment of the Wei River to pick up soil, and you are not allowed to receive wages. ”

Zhou Zheng pouted disdainfully: "Mr. looks down on people again, I will go to the Weihe River all day and night, my face is sweaty, and my legs are full of mud, which is no worse than the migrant workers who repair the river!" And that Huang Shiren, how many times has he been there? Go once in a while. The one who calls friends and regulates poems is a maid and a house slave, and the cook and the palanquin man are waiting like an outing. It makes my eyes burn when I see it! At that time, I asked the emperor to come and ordered all the people he brought to drive to the construction site to pick up soil and dig mud! Our Lao Tzu was born as a thief, although he is not a good person, but I at least abide by the law and think about the people in everything. Because we are poor. Don't forget your roots. I can understand that you don't want to cause trouble, but Mr. followed the emperor to Shaanxi, is it just to take refuge? ”

Zhou Zheng's words, like a sharp sword, pierced Wu Xing's heart defense, Wu Xing couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and after a long time, Wu Xing said to Zhou Zheng: "You are right, if it is to avoid disasters. I'm going to Nanzhong. Since he followed the emperor to Shaanxi and captured 800 miles of Qinchuan, he should benefit the people. In a few days, I should advise on the court to build Shaanxi for three years, build the Qin Law School, and at the same time let Your Majesty restrain Huang Shiren and these officials. In the end, Wu Xing's eyes also showed a hint of murderous intent.

Coincidentally. Just when Wu Xing and Zhou were looking at the crops in the field. In the mansion of Niu Jinxing in Chang'an City, Huang Shiren, who was scolded by Zhou Zheng, was bloody. He was kneeling in the living room of Niufu and crying to Niu Jinxing: "Teacher, you have to be the master of the students." Zhou Zheng, a bastard, relied on Wu Xing's support, despised Shangguan, refused to obey control, and even paraded my family in the streets. Rebuke in public. also robbed the people's daughters and insulted the chief, if this kind of person is not severely punished, the country will not be a country! ”

In the face of Huang Shiren's crying, Niu Jinxing was not shocked. He took a sip of tea lightly, and then said unhurriedly: "In order to pay less money and food, you have given preferential treatment to the dead ghosts who have been dead in your family for decades, and Zhou Zheng is reasonable, so he naturally dares to punish your family." As for the matter of the people's girl, I don't even bother to talk about you, what's so good about a cloth dress hairpin, and you can persecute good people for her? This has to thank Zhou Zheng for letting you go, otherwise if it reaches the ears of Wu Xing or Li Yan, the two of them will sue Your Majesty, I am afraid that you will already have the head of the whole family fall to the ground by now. ”

Although Niu Jinxing's voice was not loud, it shook like thunder Huang Shiren's eyes were stunned, he immediately stopped crying, got up and knelt down to bow to Niu Jinxing: "Teacher save me." ”

Niu Jinxing smiled and said, "Get up, Wu Xing didn't sue you, so you and I can talk about family life here." However, next time, remember that this dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty, and His Majesty is not Chongzhen. At the beginning of the dynasty, it was when the law was strict, if people grabbed your handle, your neck was soft, and Your Majesty's knife was not soft. ”

Huang Shiren hurriedly said yes, but he just knelt and stood up, but the sweat had already soaked through his clothes. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then said: "The student thanks the teacher for teaching, but the teacher, this Wu Xing was just arrested halfway to join the emperor's wild road, and brought a group of grass people who didn't know a few big characters, but now he is riding on the teacher's head as a prestige, and the student's face is completely lost." This is something that has not been seen in all dynasties, teacher, in the long run, where is the dignity of our readers? ”

Niu Jinxing's eyes widened, and he reprimanded: "Confused, decency is earned by yourself, if you don't do some messy things, you naturally have the word decency." In addition, he Wu Xing is the dry bones in the mound, and he will not be arrogant for a few days. Hearing what Niu Jinxing said, Huang Shiren hurriedly asked, "Teacher, what does this mean?" ”

Niu Jinxing smiled meaningfully and said: "The party struggle in the past dynasties is nothing more than fighting for who has more students. Now his students from Wu Xingqin Law School are all over Shaanxi, Henan, and Hubei, so I let him do everything. But if His Majesty marches eastward and enters Beijing, at any time, all the scholars in the world will gather under the teacher's command. At that time, the teacher had more students and less of his students. ”

Huang Shiren was immediately excited when he heard this, but after a moment, he said gloomily: "Teacher, in the future, Your Majesty will rule the world, and of course all the masters in the world will belong to the teacher." However, if Wu Xing continues to run the Qin Law School, his students will also increase, so what? ”

Niu Jinxing laughed and said, "Increase? Dream! The key to the Qin Law School is to first have a group of clay legs who are at least 500 literate and familiar with political affairs, and to teach this generation to read and write, it is necessary to have teachers and funds. But after the defeat of Beijing, the world is bound to decide. At present, the war and depression in the north are waiting to be rebuilt, where does the government still have the money to continue to run the Qin Law School and train officials? Not at least for five years! And with these five years, I can ask the emperor to open more imperial examinations, recruit talents, and at that time, let my students be all over the court, even if Wu Xingda runs a school five years later and revitalizes its strength, it will be difficult to restore the current situation of monopolizing the court and controlling government affairs. At that time, this world is still the world of my generation of readers. The people of the Qin Law Academy are only worthy of being a small official! ”

The more Huang Shiren listened, the more he felt that Niu Jinxing was really smart, so he couldn't help but give a heartfelt thumbs up and praised: "Sir's move, high, really high!" (To be continued.) )

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