Chapter 256: The Silver Comes

Seeing that the problem of the forbidden army stationed in the tables, chairs and benches has been solved, now I am waiting for the silver in the afternoon to come in, and I will go to the Ministry of Industry to handle the problem of printing silver tickets, although the Ming Dynasty has not issued silver tickets, but once issued a kind of paper money called Daming Bao banknotes, but because there is no sufficient reserve gold, the paper money has depreciated very much, and now it is still used in the army, basically the outside has disappeared

Now to print silver tickets, their printing technology can be used, which is why I have not been in a hurry, ready-made workers and technology, plus the current paper money has been issued very little, I go to the Ministry of Industry to transfer a few workers, it is still very easy

At noon, I asked Sui Jian 'Chun' to call the thousand households, plus Liu County's order, Wang Jinhuai, and two hundred households, Sui Jian's 'Chun' must go

went to the second senior brother's restaurant together, drank a full meal, and Sun Qianhu drank the most, patted his chest, and said: "Lord Lan, you are righteous enough, and in the future, I, Sun Rui, will listen to you," I don't believe this drunken statement, but I can also see that this Qianhu is a rough person, as long as he is not a well-rounded scholar, I can change him

"Sun Qianhu is polite, and everyone will be closer and closer to each other in the future."

"That's another day, I'll invite my brothers to drink together, and I won't get drunk and won't return"

"Then thank you Sun Qianhu first, the official can wait to drink your wine."

"Be sure to call all the brothers, and we'll come here to drink," After saying this, Sun Qianhu was no longer able to do it, and he was about to slip under the table with a wine burp

I asked Sui Jian 'Chun' to carry him out of the restaurant, and returned to Xiao Cai's mansion, the silver in the palace has arrived, and it is an old acquaintance Su Si who escorts the silver, this Su Si is not only a eunuch in Dongchang, but also a part-time job to protect the emperor

"Lord Lan, I can send you something, please send someone to accept it," the reason why Su Si didn't say that he was afraid that there would be many people and that it would be spread out, so he said that he would send something

"Father-in-law Su has worked hard, I can't sit inside, but I'm very simple here, and I don't even have water to drink," because it was an old acquaintance, I also said with a haha

"Lord Lan, you're really picky, I won't drink your water, hurry up and find someone to count things, I'll go back and drink," Su Si replied with a smile knowing that I was joking

At this time, seeing the vehicle coming outside, Liu Xianling and Wang Jinhuai also came out with those students, and I said to Liu Xianling: "Lord Liu, something is here, let the soldiers carry it in, you can check it."

There were also officers and soldiers who came with Su Si here, and these officers and soldiers unloaded the silver, carried it and followed Liu Xian Ling to the backyard, one million taels of silver is not a small amount, converted into catties, or more than 60,000 catties, a carriage pulls a thousand catties, even if it is a lot, so it is also a long queue outside, thanks to martial law, there are no pedestrians on the street, if it is not usually to watch the excitement

"Lord Lan, you are now the God of Wealth of our Ming Dynasty, and the little one is here to congratulate you first," Su Si told me, because Su Si is by the emperor's side every day, so he also knows what our responsibilities are

"Father-in-law Su, you don't know that I am also running errands for the emperor, is this not mine, it is all the emperor, I am just for the emperor to take care of the family, isn't it the same as your father-in-law Su?"

"Yes, yes, Lord Lan is right, in fact, we are all a dog of the emperor, as long as we are loyal and don't have any 'private' thoughts."

"That's a loyal dog, and it is not easy to be a dog that will not be killed by the owner, and it is not easy to eat a dog that eats 'meat', Father-in-law Su, don't you also have an experience" I also said perfunctorily, I am very annoyed by Su Si's words, but after all, he is a person next to the emperor, in fact, they are eunuchs, even dogs are not as good as dogs, and they are free, no matter how big an official they are, they are also in front of the emperor, maybe one day the emperor is unhappy, they will fall to the ground

Su Si didn't speak again, maybe I said what he was thinking, just stood there and looked at the officers and soldiers who were carrying the silver, I saw the scene cold, and said without saying anything: "What is Grandpa Su and Manager Chen busy with today?"

"Lord Lan, Manager Chen, didn't sleep all night last night, and now he is still interrogating those prisoners last night," Su Si knew that I knew the inside story, so he didn't shy away from it, and said it directly

"You all worked hard last night, I don't know if the arrest went well."

"It's good that there was a joke in the middle"

"What kind of joke is Grandpa Su, tell this official?"

"Okay, that's what Mr. Chen told me, if you don't say it, I forgot it, and Mr. Chen also asked me to tell you about this joke, and he said that you will definitely laugh when you hear it."

"Then please ask Father-in-law Su to hurry up, Xiaguan can't wait."

"Manager Chen said that someone outside the city reported last night that it was the housekeeper of the Wang family's grain merchant and the keeper of the city 'gate' that their grain depot was robbed" Speaking of this, Su Si stopped, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional

"This is impossible, there are still people in the capital who dare to rob the Wang family's warehouse, is that person fake?"

"Yes, this thousand households who don't guard the city 'gate' sent someone to ask Cheng Anhou, Cheng Anhou didn't believe it, so he told the hundred households that they didn't go out, it must be a rumor, or the housekeeper was drunk, and after the hundred households went back, they happened to meet the Wang family to find the housekeeper, saying that the housekeeper went to the good place and drank too much, and when he went back, he saw that there were many people he didn't know inside, and he ran to the city 'gate' in fright, and reported to the official, saying that he was robbed, and the housekeeper was scolded by the thousand households guarding the city 'gate', and went back in disgrace."

After Su Si finished speaking, he laughed a few times first, and I laughed a few times, but I heard it as if it was Chen Jiuzhuan's 'door' and asked Su Si to tell me, which means that last night Mr. Wang, they were discovered, but they were arrested by Mr. Wang, and I don't know the specific details, but I know one thing, that is, Chen Jiu has already said that the Jingjun will not care about these things, and Shuntianfu has no 'fine' strength to care, which also means that this robbery is considered a success, but I don't know what the result is

"And such a housekeeper is really faint, I don't know how this Wang family recruited people to find such a two hundred and five to be a housekeeper"

"These housekeepers are all related to each other, no matter whether they have the ability or not, as long as they have a relationship and are loyal enough, these big families have money to support a few idlers, it's not a trivial matter."

The two of us chatted about the progress over there, and after a while, the officers and soldiers carried the silver in, but the inventory speed inside was a little slow, and I said to Su Si: "Father-in-law Su, let's go in and have a look, I still haven't seen so many things, do you want to open your eyes together?"

"Okay, Lord Lan, please, I haven't seen so many things."

The two of us laughed and walked to the courtyard, and it is true that I have never seen so much silver, and the 500,000 taels in my father's secret room have already taken me. Excited, this time it is a million taels of silver, even Su Si will not see so much silver, don't look at him escorting the silver, but don't dare to open the box, see that there are seals on each box, we have received here, a priori look at the seal, if the seal moves, the silver can not be collected, the seal is intact, this side is only open the box to inspect the number of inspections, this side is then sealed, the seal is affixed to the house, and the house is saved

When it comes to the inner courtyard where the silver is stored, here is a separate courtyard between the backyard and the front yard, there are five main houses, and ten side rooms are more than enough to store millions of taels of silver, and this is also the safest place, and there are fewer idlers coming and going, and yesterday it was the courtyard selected by Liu County

In the courtyard, boxes of silver were opened, only dazzling in the sun, Liu County ordered to record the total number, Wang Jinhuai took the thirty students to check the silver, one person and one box, and the royal inner treasury with the eunuchs to check the silver, it is not a simple matter, this is all the silver in the palace, but also a separate ingot, there are two official seals on it, and the personnel who check it not only have to see whether there are two words here, but also distinguish the "color" of the silver, so as not to let someone fool us with shoddy quality, so the progress is not fast, and now we have checked one-third

Su Si looked at the boxes of white 'flowers' and 'flowers' of silver, and his face 'revealed' a greedy look, but the god 'color' flashed by me, and I knew that the eunuchs were very greedy, and their purpose in entering the palace was for silver, a man did not have the basic function of a man, and lost the "temptation" and "confusion" of "woman" and "sex", and now the only thing that can impress them is only silver, and with silver, when he is old, he can also ensure that he can have no worries about food and clothing, if he is old, he will be sent to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb, and he will not even have a tomb 'cave'

"How does Father-in-law Su feel when he looks at these silvers?" I asked Su Si, who had been staring at the silver, in order to break the silence

"Lord Lan's silver is a good thing, it's a pity that I only have a dozen taels of silver a month, look at these silver, I can't earn it in three lifetimes, and I will never be able to suffer from this sin again in the next life."

"Father-in-law Su, is there anyone else in the family?" Generally, eunuchs will send their children to the palace because their family is not well-off, they can't eat or wear, and of course, there are very few who are hoping to go to the palace to 'mix' a little famous and win glory for the family

"Alas, Lord Lan is sad to talk about, my hometown Shanxi was six years old, when my hometown was six years old, my hometown was drought, my brother starved to death, and my brother was also hungry and half dead, this did not flee to the capital, just the palace recruited people, my parents really couldn't afford to support me, and wanted to send my brother to the palace, who knows that my father-in-law thinks that my brother is old, look at me, no, I will come to the palace for more than 20 years, and I have no news of my parents, and I don't know how my brother is, can I leave some roots for my Su family, if it is really starved to death that year, our Su family will be broken," Su Si said, there were tears in the corners of his eyes. The flowers are flickering, and I can't ask anymore when I see it

I had to persuade him: "Father-in-law Su, don't be sad, have the opportunity to send someone to your hometown to inquire, maybe they are all right."