Old man Wu, a farmer from Cao County, Shandong Province, stood in the hall of the Jinqi Bank in Cao County, holding five counterfeit banknotes, very nervous. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He was fifty-three years old, had two sons, and the family was starving on fifteen acres of land. But over the years, the Duke of Jin Guojun has leveled the fields, and all of a sudden his family of three has been fed. Then, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, his eldest son was given twenty acres of dry land in Dingtao County next door.

There are twenty acres of tenant land for farming, and the days are considered to be food and clothing. The year before last, his eldest son was introduced to him by a matchmaker, and this year he gave birth to a grandson.

The other younger son was even more courageous and went to Tianjin with a package. A large number of peasants in Tianjin were trained and educated as soldiers, workers, and government officials by the Duke of Tianjin, and there was a great shortage of manpower in the cities. Old man Wu's youngest son found a job serving vegetables in a restaurant in Tianjin Acropolis, with two taels and five dollars a month, and he also lived a life of abundant food and clothing.

Old man Wu's wife died of illness, and his sons went out to earn a living, so he stayed at home alone to cultivate the fields. He was in good health, and his life was not bad, but who knew that he had received ten counterfeit banknotes these days, a full ten taels.

The counterfeit banknote was given to him by a grain merchant from another province for the price of four stone rice noodles. Old man Wu looked at the banknote at that time and thought it was no problem. At that time, in order to be insured, he also asked the neighbors next door to help him see it, and they all said that it was genuine money, so Old Man Wu sold the rice and noodles to those merchants.

Who knew that the news came today that those grain merchants from other provinces were liars. Those swindlers bought more than 700 stone of rice noodles within a radius of ten miles nearby, and the banknotes used were all fake. There is nothing wrong with the banknote on the surface, but it is not numbered correctly, and it is a counterfeit.

When Old Man Wu heard the news at that time, he almost fainted.

He planted fifteen acres of thin fields, and the princes of Jinguo were given by Pingtian Fu, and the income from the seeds and fields was more than 30 taels of silver a year. The youngest son is thirty years old, and the old man Wu thinks about saving more silver for his younger son to buy a house and marry a daughter-in-law every day, how can he accept being deceived by someone for ten taels of silver all of a sudden? This second half of the year was in vain.

Old man Wu can't eat, sleep or sleep these days, so he pondered how to find the profiteer and snatch his four-stone rice noodles back.

However, the villagers said that after the profiteers bought the grain, they hurriedly transported the grain away, transported it to other provinces, and never came back, I am afraid that they will not be found.

Old man Wu could only beat his chest helplessly, sighing that he had a bad year and had deceived the traitor.

Merchants from other provinces are profiteers!

It seems that in the future, money will not be collected, and money will still be collected. Although there are fake silver, you can always see it if you are careful.

Just when Old Man Wu thought that he had lost ten taels of silver in vain, news came from the county town that the silver of the Duke of Jin accepted counterfeit banknotes. As long as it is a counterfeit banknote that cannot distinguish the authenticity, the Duke of Jin is responsible for the end and converts all of them into silver.

Old man Wu was very excited when he heard the news. He teamed up with several neighbors who had also been deceived and rushed to the county bank with counterfeit banknotes.

The decoration in the bank is very magnificent, and the employees are also polite, all of which are decent that Old Man Wu has never seen. When Old Man Wu nervously handed over his ten taels of bills, the clerk could see it at a glance.

"It's a counterfeit!"

Old man Wu looked back at the two neighbors and saw that both of them were very nervous. Old man Wu nodded and asked cautiously, "Can this fake banknote be exchanged for silver?" ”

The clerk laughed happily and said, "Don't worry, the old man, the Duke of Jinguo has ordered that any counter of our Jinqi Bank accept the exchange of counterfeit banknotes. ”

Old man Wu grinned all of a sudden, and asked, "Really?" ”

"Is this still fake?"

The clerk said no more, and divided five by two before taking out a small silver ingot from behind the counter. He weighed it on the scale and handed it to Old Man Wu.

Old man Wu was so excited that his face was bloody, and tears came out of his eyes. Ten taels of silver, and he came back at once!

It still depends on the people to be the master of Jinguogong.

Old man Wu stood up with the silver ingot and showed it to the two neighbors behind him. The two neighbors also had counterfeit banknotes to exchange, and their eyes lit up when they looked at the barefoot silver in Old Man Wu's hand.

"Jin Guogong even admits counterfeit banknotes, so he really doesn't let us small people suffer a little loss!"

"Follow Jin Guogong, there is no risk at all!"

When the other people in the bank saw this scene, they also started to talk about it. Jin Guogong used thunderous means to cover the counterfeit banknotes, so that everyone's confidence in the banknotes was very high for a while. The support for the Duke of Jin Guogong has also increased invisibly.

Old man Wu took the silver and shook his head suddenly, he sat back in front of the counter and said, "Big man, this silver is too heavy to take, you better exchange it for money for me!" After thinking about it, Old Man Wu was afraid that the bank clerk would misunderstand his meaning, so he added: "Replace it with real banknotes!" ”

The bank teller smiled and asked, "Or are the banknotes still useful?" ”

Old man Wu nodded and replied: "Grandpa Youguo gives us a small people's back, and we are twelve banknotes with confidence, which are much better than silver." ”

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On November 20, Ruan Dacheng and a man stood at the junction of Nanzhili and Shandong Province, looking at the Tiger Ben Army soldiers in the distance and frowning silently.

Looking at the Tiger Ben Army soldier with a loaded gun, Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but scold: "The Li thief is stationed on such a mountain road to block the road." ”

Ruan Dacheng's guy said: "Boss, the roads near Shandong and Tianjin have all been blocked by Li Zhi, and Li Thief doesn't know how many soldiers he has sent to do this, and not a single fly is allowed to fly across the line." All of us who smuggled counterfeit banknotes into Shandong and Tianjin are now stopped outside, and counterfeit banknotes cannot get in, and the property bought with counterfeit banknotes cannot get out. ”

Ruan Dacheng thought for a while and asked, "How many counterfeit banknotes did we put in this time?" ”

The guy said: "We were completely stopped after six days of work, and more than 400,000 taels of silver were put in front and back. ”

"Originally, we thought that putting so many counterfeit banknotes would cause chaos in Li Zhi's territory, but we didn't expect Li Zhi to eat all our counterfeit banknotes with a stroke of his pen. More than 400,000 taels of silver is not a big amount for Li Zhi, and now there is no storm in Li Zhi's territory, and the people trust Li Thief's banknotes even more after this incident. ”

Because it took time for orders to be conveyed on the roads, Lee Sik's operation to block the border was gradually carried out from north to south. Therefore, Ruan Dacheng only sent more than 400,000 taels of counterfeit banknotes to Li Zhiling in six days.

Ruan Dacheng frowned, and secretly said that he was angry. I came up with such a clever plan, spent so much energy, and hired thousands of market greens to dress up to do this, but in the end I only earned 400,000 taels?

Ruan Dacheng is a person whose heart is higher than the sky, and he will definitely not be satisfied if he earns 400,000 taels. At this time, it was an opportunity to seal his throat with a sword and hit Li Zhi hard, and Ruan Dacheng decided to take some risks.

Ruan Dacheng gritted his teeth and said: "If the land route is not successful, I don't believe that Li Zhi can block all the coasts." You go and organize the fleet, and we bring counterfeit money in from the sea and goods out from the sea. ”