Somewhere in the lake, a large boat was floating in the middle of the lake, and several small boats were cruising around it, and there were fishing boats approaching the big boats, all of which were scattered by these small boats. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's too bullying, why don't you pass from here!"

On a fishing boat, a teenager who has not yet opened his head complained that they lived on the shore of the lake and relied on the water for draft, and no one was allowed to fish in this lake, but a group of people came for several months, and they didn't know what they were doing when they drove the boat around the lake, but they didn't allow others to approach.

Another young man on the same boat sighed helplessly: "Don't scold, anyway, it has nothing to do with us, if you annoy them, it's not a joke to shoot people with arrows." ”

"There is such a reason there, if they dare to do this, I will go to the county government to complain!"

"You're really stupid, don't you think that no one in the county knows about this kind of thing?"

"And what are they doing here?"

"What? The government didn't prohibit boats from floating on the lake, did they? What do they have to do with us, and where can they not fish? Hurry up and row the boat, those people who probe their brains are really good at doing it! ”

While the two were rowing, someone from the big boat was looking over them.

"Those two can't be the government's fine work, right?"

"No, those two are brothers, they live in a nearby village, I've seen them." Another said, "It's so poor that the boat has been repaired many times, and it's almost sinking." ”

The two talked in a low voice, carrying bows and arrows on their backs, and short knives stuck in their waists.

"Attention, the furnace is on!"

There were people in the cabin who shouted in a low voice, but it was a few people who burned a large jar with a stove, and they saw that they were using iron tongs to pinch the large jar and dump it, and a bright liquid flowed from the mouth of the jar.

The liquid looked very hot with smoke, and the clay pots below were lined up, filled with these liquids in turn, and occasionally a few drops spilled on the ship's board, and a trace of green smoke rose in an instant.

"Be careful, hold steady and don't burn your feet!"

It was a little hot in the cabin, one person opened the window for ventilation, and others brought in water from outside with wooden barrels, and a few small fish that had been accidentally caught swimming around in the barrels.

Someone used iron tongs to clamp a clay pot and opened it above the bucket, and some of the red things fell into the bucket, and there was a sizzling sound, and white smoke came out of the bucket, and the small fish were scalded to death in an instant.

All the contents of the clay pot were poured into the bucket, and the cold water had become piping hot, and after several water changes, the contents that had sunk to the bottom of the bucket finally cooled down, and when one person took it out, it was copper coins.

The texture is rough and the color is very poor, and even the outer edge has some burrs, and the front is printed with the words "Changping five baht", which is the Changping five-baht coin system of Qi, but the Qi country has been destroyed for nearly nine years, and the behavior of these people is obviously a private coin.

In one corner of the cabin, someone was in charge of "coloring" the newly minted coins with green dye, and after brushing them with a brush, these shoddy and inferior coins had a "patina" and looked like they had been battered.

Copper coins have been used for a long time, naturally have patina, blurred handwriting, and many wear and tear on the outer edges, so these newly baked inferior coins have been transformed into "old coins" minted by Qi twenty or thirty years ago.

There are also Han five baht circulating in the market hundreds of years ago, so it is not a big deal that the coins of Qi are still in use.

"I heard that the rumors have been very tight recently, and it seems that the government is strictly investigating the illegal minting of coins, and the owner still doesn't want to stop it?"

"Stop? What kind of hand, I wait for the boat to come and go freely on the lake, how can the minions of the government be caught? If it doesn't work in the lake, then go to the river, how can they catch it? ”

The man laughed, their deeds were forbidden, but unlike those who minted coins on the ground, the whole family was on the ship, and although the number of coins minted at one time was smaller, it was better to be safe.

If the private stove on the ground is surrounded by the government, it is called a monk who can run away from the temple, and everything is copied and it is difficult to deny it, but it is different on the boat, it is really unlucky to be surrounded by the officials and soldiers, and the things are thrown into the water, and there is no physical evidence.

"Catch the traitor and catch the double, catch the thief and catch the stolen goods, you can't find the concubine, you can't find the stolen goods, the government can't convict at will, right? A few brothers drove a boat here to see the scenery, which royal law did they commit? ”

While the two were talking, coins continued to be minted in the cabin, melting the bronze objects collected from the market and the money carefully made by the officials and eunuchs, and then mixing a large amount of lead and tin, and finally minting the inferior money mixed with copper in the lead tin.

There was very little material left in the hold, and seeing that it was about to run out, the ship that was carrying the material finally appeared.

"Why is it later than usual?"

"Whatever, I'm here, I'm here anyway, and I'm full of food and wine and I'm going to work overnight!"

Somehow, the speed of the ship was a little sluggish, and the small boat cruising on the periphery came forward to check, but just approached it, something suddenly happened: the sentry on the big ship of coinage noticed that there were people in the water, and they had already touched the side of the boat.

"It's not right, there's... Yes! ”

A number of feathered arrows flew and shot down the sentry, and the approaching ship was filled with men dressed in soap, some of them bent their bows and shot arrows, some of them took out their hooks and refused to hold the boats that came by, and some of them jumped on the boats shirtless to subdue the sailors.

"The government seized the private stove! If you don't want to die, hold your head and squat! ”

The scene was in turmoil, and the ship's furnace workers were overwhelmed with fear, and the boatmen howled and drew their bows and arrows to fight back, while the others urged the boatmen to row, when there was a sudden splash on the side of the boat, and many men emerged from the water.

They used the hooks in their hands to refuse to tear the people from the boat off, and the two sides became entangled and sank into the water, and after a while, those who fell into the water rolled their eyes and were pulled to the surface by them, all of them spitting water, and there was no power to resist.

The water monkeys soon climbed aboard the ship, and some of them were not afraid of death and threw the coin-making tools, including small stoves, into the water, and their arms were cut off on the spot, and they fell to the deck of the ship, crying wolf.

"Be honest with all of them! Those who don't want to break their hands and feet all squat down with their heads in their hands! ”

When the mice saw the cat, they were all frightened, and the officials of the government took out the hemp ropes that had been prepared long ago, let them carry them with their hands and tie them, and then picked up the oars and rowed to the shore.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the patrol boats turned their bows and sailed outward, but they were intercepted by the clippers that appeared around them, and most of them were caught except for a few who jumped into the water and escaped and were shot into hedgehogs.

A manor on the shore was full of people, many soldiers were searching various rooms, and a small building was on fire, that is, the owner of the farm saw that something was wrong and wanted to lock the building and set himself on fire.

Two soldiers dragged a gray-faced man out of the small building, and the others rushed up to tie him up, and then pressed him in front of one person, "Sima, the main culprit attempted to self-immolate and has been captured by us!" ”

Sima Zhou Faming of Hengzhou, holding a portrait of a person, looked at the man for a moment and then smiled: "Li Shrimp Toad, right, the real person is more handsome than the one in the painting... What a bold man dared to mint coins privately, and dared to self-immolate against the government and take it away!! (To be continued.) )