At the mouth of the Huluyu Valley in the middle of the ten thousand mountains, on this day, an old and thin mule came from afar, with long hair and no flesh, drooping ears, and staggering when he walked. On the mule, a sleepy man with a head and face wrapped in rags, his clothes were ragged, his face was tired, a worn-out long knife was pinned obliquely to his waist, and a small burden hung loosely behind the mule, and the whole person and the mule revealed boundless exhaustion.

There are a few minions holding spears and sticks and thinly clothed minions in the mountain pass of Huluyu Zhaimen who are chatting with each other, lazily basking in the deep winter sun, talking about the girl who was captured by the big boss yesterday, and the misery behind her.

The girl looked average, and there was no money and food at home, but the big boss didn't know which tendon was in the wrong place, so he had to move the crowd to plunder. It's a pity for another miserable person.

Speaking of the woman's miserable wail last night, it was unbearable to listen to it all night. The most annoying thing is that the second and third masters of the cottage continue to applaud outside the house in order to please the big bosses, which makes everyone resentful. They are all from bitter backgrounds, which family has no wives and daughters? As for ruining like this? Compare your heart to your heart and sigh each one. Only Wu Tao, who was the fourth master, couldn't bear it in his heart, and stood up to speak without a face, but it disturbed the interest of the big boss, and he was scolded and beaten for no reason.

Yes, this stubborn donkey Wu Tao, why can't he look at the eyes of the big boss, in this cottage, he is nominally the fourth master, but he is not as good as a pro-military family of the big boss, and there are only a dozen brothers in his hand who are also righteous and have a sense of justice.

However, because people are anxious for justice and righteousness, and they are righteous and bold, they are loved by many of the minions below. How can you endure current affairs better than others, and how can you love them? After all, you are later, you are a lonely person, and you are always croaking under the ears of the big boss, don't do this and that, you don't like the big boss, if it weren't for the accident that went out to rob and saved the life of the big boss, I'm afraid I would have already eaten the meat of the sword.

But it was this life-saving move that made the big bosses and those helpers even more disliked.

People are so weird, they obviously have a life-saving grace for themselves, but they always think as if they are being despised and appear to be incompetent. Hey, people, especially a good man like Wu Tao, why don't you know how to do it with such a intestine? Knowing that the big boss likes this yellow and white thing, and a lot of women drink and meat, you just sing some praises in his ear like everyone else, and coax the big boss to be happy? Where is it like this, today accuse the big boss of the wrong place, tomorrow I hope that the big boss will get rid of some problems, the day after tomorrow simply collided with the big boss, and the big boss is unhappy, along with his own unhappiness, although your proposal is for the future of the cottage and our bitter brothers, but we can't get benefits, the situation is still the same, the cottage has not changed a little, but you Wu Tao offended all the other leaders on the cottage, and the days are even more difficult.

Look at how good the second master and the third master are, ten are not as good as one when they fight, but in front of the flattery of the big boss, it is a top ten, and the idea given by the big boss is more than a loss, but who makes our big boss like this? The four masters just don't know who has the final say here, and we are not worth it for him.

So whispering to the happiness of the words, I saw a mule and a person walking straight towards the cottage from a distance, everyone was very surprised at the time, this is far away from the road, easy not to come and move around, today is strange, what is here? In the realm of the bandits, there were unsightly people who came to the door, and they were busy cheering up and holding up their guns and sticks to stop them.

"Well, where did you come from, wild boy, this place is far away from the main road, what is the matter here? Could it be that you are a big lobbyist, if not, it must be an official secret agent, so that you will crash into our hands, it will ruin your life. "It's boring, but this is the fox and the tiger, and everyone is shouting because of the crowd.

The person who came didn't speak, just staggered forward on the thin mule, and waited until he was done, and when the minions were finished, he smiled and took off the wrapped headscarf on his head, and scolded the little leader who led the mountain pass with a smile: "Okay, you two dogs, are you really out of luck?" I'm not a big lobbyist, let alone a sentry dog from the dog official's family, but the third brother of your Chen family came to ask for the pot of good wine you owed me at the beginning of the year. Hahaha, the debtor is coming."

When the minions called Ergou looked at it, it wasn't Chen San of the original Murakami, or was it that? Hurriedly told everyone to put down their guns and sticks, and hurriedly ran over to hug their fists to salute, with a smile on their faces: "I'm the one, but the third brother is here, I don't know where to get rich now?" What kind of wind is blowing you here? ”

Chen San deceived his legs and got off the mule, stepped forward and arched his hand: "It's not rich, it's not down, I think of your second dog brother in this gourd valley who still owes me a pot of good wine, Baba rushed to beg for it, so I can continue to buy a bowl of gruel to save my life." As soon as everyone saw that they were acquaintances, they laughed happily together.

Ergou immediately rushed over and led the cattle to greet a group of minions who were standing guard and Chen San to introduce them, "Come on, what are you stunned about?" I haven't come to see my brother Chen San. My elder brother Chen Sanna is also the fourth leading brother, who is brave and knowledgeable. Come and come, let's get closer and closer. ”

A group of minions of all sizes came forward to see, after the ceremony, Chen San turned around and groped out a handful of copper coins in the broken package to disperse with everyone, everyone happily received it in their hands and saw it, it was even more joyful, but it turned out to be ten out of ten good money, to be worthy of the market ten dollars of small money, just this hand is worthy of the gift of hundreds of dollars on the market. Hurriedly put it in his arms, and when he came up to meet Chen San, it was even more enthusiastic.

It turns out that in the early Ming Dynasty, all copper coins were stipulated to be copper seven lead three, and copper coins should weigh one penny. However, unscrupulous businessmen melted down the copper coins issued by the Ming Dynasty and extracted copper to cast bronze and sell them to make huge profits, resulting in a shortage of money in the market. Helplessly, the Wanli Dynasty was changed to copper six lead four, and each copper coin weighed one penny and two cents. The copper coins of the Taichang and Tianqi dynasties also followed the rules of the Wanli Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty got a lot of money and interest after deducting the cost (copper, lead price difference, about two cents, so that the Ming Dynasty could get millions of money and interest every year, which was used for military spending and enriching the inner treasury) Merchants were unprofitable, and slowly suppressed the Ming money shortage.

Since the Taichang and Apocalypse dynasties, the Donglin Party has controlled the Nanjing Mint Division, and since then the copper coins produced have been inferior to one generation, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, the copper coins minted in Nanjing have dropped to copper three lead seven, weighing eight points. By the third year of the Apocalypse, the newly released batch of copper coins in Nanjing turned out to be nine copper and lead, and the weight had been reduced to one quarter for the first time. The money and interest are only paid tens of thousands of taels every year, and the rest are full of private pockets. In this way, in Suzhou and other places, the people of the Ming Dynasty spontaneously raised a boycott of the Apocalypse copper coin movement, and this boycott lasted for eight months, which made the Nanzhili Donglin Party anxious.

By the fifth year of the Apocalypse, it was the powerful traitor Wei Zhongxian who took advantage of the victory in the Guangning fiasco to brazenly launch the money minting case. But this is just a traditional party dog-eat-dog, Wei Zhongxian is just a family dog raised by his Zhu Youxiao, and the Donglin Party is clearly a group of wild dogs grabbing food. As a result, the Wei party won a big victory, and Donglin fell, but this was just a change in the person who minted money, Wei Zhongxian's party controlled the coinage, but Wei Zhongxian's party had a lot more conscience than Donglin, and the coinage issued by the Ming Dynasty changed from copper one lead nine to copper four lead six, which somewhat calmed the people's anger and made people patient, and the silver money handed over to the inner treasury also reached a historical high of three million taels, so that Guan Ning's military salary was no longer in arrears, although how much these military salaries were sent to the soldiers, it was better than nothing. Therefore, it is not possible to make money in the world. It's rare to see this good copper coin, how can you not make everyone happy. Such good copper coins are called meat and good money behind the back, which is very rare, and even if you get it, you are reluctant to spend it anymore.

After everyone was over, Chen San said: "I still have to bother the second brother to go in and report it, and then give my brother the one who knows that my brother who is not angry has come to visit him, ah yes, by the way, give me a report to your family, and say that I, Chen San, came to worship the mountain." ”

This is the rule, and the rule cannot be expensed.

The second dog hurriedly smiled and said: "What are you bothering about, you don't have to go to the big boss, he is sleeping back to sleep, I think I haven't gotten up yet, and our brothers don't need to touch this moldy head, and they will be unhappy, or I will take the third brother to visit the fourth master in the village." Without waiting for Chen Sanda to speak, he gave the animal ** to a minion to take care of, so he took Chen San's hand and went directly into the cottage, looking at the back.

Chen San promised Luo Yi of Ergou along the way, while carefully observing the situation in the village. But seeing that the minions in the cottage are scattered and lax, the knives and guns are untidy, and the sick and lifeless, the dependents in the cottage are even more trance-like, but look at a few pro-military families called Huatian are brightly dressed and red, and they are talking and laughing in the village, and every time they pass by, the other minions must be respectful, but when they turn around, they are disgusted, and they are full of confidence when they see this.

It turned out that after Chen San told the topographical characteristics of Huluyu and the person called Huatian, Lu Shi took it to heart, and discussed with Chen San how to take Huluyu with the Black Tiger Star Chen Ce and others. But it's a pity that the Black Tiger Army is now repairing and recovering, and everyone is busy with their feet, although everyone urgently needs the stability of an old battalion, but they really can't spare their hands to fight.

According to the meaning of the Black Tiger Star, he led the army to fight his mother, but Lu Shi did not agree to attack the army to increase the casualties, because in Lu Shi's view, no matter which side of the casualties were the lives of poor brothers. So there's no good way to talk about it. However, the investigation work still had to be done in advance, so he ordered Chen San to go to Huluyu under the pretext of visiting his brother, first, to understand the reality of the opponent, and second, if he could persuade Wu Tao to turn against the water and make an internal response when attacking Huluyu, then he would get twice the result with half the effort.

Chen San received the task, picked an old mule, and deliberately found a tattered clothes, and made himself look like a dusty servant, as if he was coming from afar, and also received a batch of copper coins from the third uncle for emergency.

Easily go up the mountain, carefully observe, see that not only are the minions not trained, I'm afraid it's difficult to even eat, and then look at the family called Huatian's family is full of red light, proving that there is no shortage of food to eat and drink in the cottage, but Huatian is unwilling to take out things for everyone to share, which is very different from the Black Tiger Star cottage. When I was glad that I had to meet the Lord, I had a bold plan in my heart.

But the way is to seek wealth and danger, and this situation is the time for him to show his talents.