Zhao Xing touched his chin and said with no expression on his face: "Master Yan, are you saying that this group of people has not registered for naturalization, nor has they paid taxes to the government. In other words, you can't find their number and name from the government, so is there a roster in the castle? ”

Gao Yu chuckled: "This group of people, they don't mess with the government, how dare they tax them, as for Lujiabao, there are some strange things, the officials found a few furnaces for casting private money, guessing that this may be a place for making private money, but ......"

Gao Yu spread his hands and pointed to this fire field: "Look, what else is left here?" Hehe, you made such a big explosion at the end of the team, how many people told you to blow it up, how to count it...... Even if we can tap it, do we dare to count it? Leaving people, not everyone can make private money, at this time the involvement is too wide, I think, let's just forget it, clean up our hands and feet, and withdraw as soon as possible. ”

I see! Got it all.

The Song Dynasty had four major money supervisors, and the closest to Hushan was the Chizhou money supervisor, one of the four major money supervisors. The private money minting in the Song Dynasty was actually made by the collusion between the money supervisor and the officials of the copper field. Zhao Xing's castle has a huge amount of private money shipments, and he can't hide it from his peers if he hides it from others, and he continues to stubbornly sneak in to find evidence and find Zhao Xing's coinage furnace, but they didn't expect Zhao Xing to cast private money without using a furnace to melt copper coins......

A private money foundry needs at least more than 1,000 people, so where did all the private money foundry workers in the lake and mountains go?

Continue interrogation? Wrong. can't be tried, if the trial continues, it is not something that Zhao Xing can control. If you don't get it, you have to plant yourself in it.

Zhao Xing turned his gaze to the stone castle, and at this time, Zhang Dutou walked in with a smile and reported to Zhao Xing: "Lord Signatory, Lujiabao has found a lot of stolen goods, and one hundred and thirteen pieces of lost property have been found in the case, as well as some treasures, how to deal with it?" ”

Zhang Dutou is talking nonsense. There were no computers in those days. How can the number of lost items be determined so quickly. But Zhao Xing is not a rookie in officialdom now, he understands what Zhang Dutou means, and replied casually: "These one hundred and thirteen items will be registered and reported to the official, and about the same number of items will be selected and sent to Fuyang County, so that Fuyang County will enter the mountains to count, and in addition, you will take someone to the dock early tomorrow morning." Inform my ship to send someone to carry it.

It is recorded like this: There are seventeen households in Lujia Stone Fort, in the process of fighting with us. The young and strong are dying, and the women and children are lighting the house**, isn't it? ”

Lord Lu Bao panicked, and he trembled and said, "My lord, spare your life, little one, little one......"

Zhao Xing seemed to be talking to himself: "Have you heard this sentence yourself?" How many people have ever said this pleading word to you? Have you spared them? …… People always have to bear the consequences of their actions. You now. You must also bear the consequences of your own evil. I forgive you, that's an injustice to others! ”

Zhang Dutou was also trembling. The people of the Song Dynasty did not yet have the consciousness of killing the good and taking the merits, and even if the Song army invaded the enemy's country, they were very merciful to the Western Xia people and the Qingtang people, and Zhao Xing was now talking about killing them all.

Zhou Bangshi could still speak, and he hurriedly persuaded: "Leave people, kill prisoners unknown, kill women and children......"

"I will not kill women and children, but they are no longer qualified to live in this land, and I will send them on ships and exile abroad. The young and strong here are different, and whoever has blood on their hands, they must also bleed—" Zhao Xing said fiercely.

Lord Lu Bao was caught, but it became a hot thing, and he was taken back for interrogation, to expose Zhao Xing's cross-border pursuit. Hushan is located in a foreign county, and the power to interrogate other places is not in Zhaoxing, but in Fuyang County. If Fuyang County releases or absconds with the Lord of Lubao, then the hidden danger in the future will be greater, and the hatred will be deeper. Therefore, the only way to do this is to kill people!

When a person dies, many of the shelterers can stand still, and then the truth will gradually emerge.

There is a copper furnace in Lujiabao, which means that more than 1,000 people are employed in the local area, Zhao Xing only encountered a little resistance here, perhaps most of them are wandering outside, for the sake of the quiet of his home in the future, Zhao Xing can only raise his knife......

He turned to Zhang Dutou and continued: "I'll give you three days - sixty percent of the loot here will be taken by the group training, and the rest will be mine." Three days later, you hire a local farmer to carry everything in the stone fort, and make sure to remove every table, chair, bench, brick, and stone in this stone fort, and if you can't move it, you will set fire to me, and leave no grass behind—I will let everyone know that I have offended me! ”

Zhang Dutou was happy: since he joined the war, he has done nothing, and he can get sixty percent of the harvest while standing and watching the play, this huge gain makes Zhang Dutou forget to oppose the massacre, he is afraid that Zhao Xing will regret it, and he agreed, and immediately ran away.

In the middle of the night, the surviving raiders of Lujiabao began to return in twos and threes, some of them still wanted to storm the stone fort, and some simply came to the fort gate and surrendered to Zhao Xing. However, without exception, they were subjected to "rectification." At dawn, the group drills began to bury the bodies. However, even though all the bodies had been buried, the smell of blood still floated throughout the castle.

The magistrate of Fuyang County arrived at Lujiabao on the third day, and when Zhao Xing's first ship of goods was shipped back, Fuyang County was still skeptical, because the first ship was all captive's family members. When the furniture of Lujiabao began to be carried on the dock, Fuyang County came to his senses and hurriedly gathered his manpower and rushed to Lujiabao.

As soon as the two sides met, Zhao Xing gave him a list, which listed about 300 items and about 10,000 floating wealth. Then Zhao Xing pointed to the list with a kind smile and explained: "This is found in the castle, and the head of our county said that some of them are stolen goods, please check them in Fuyang County." ”

What else can I say, 10,000 yuan of money, a lot less, not much more, but it is the sum of the family property of three middle-class families. With this money, plus three hundred items, the magistrate didn't say anything. Fuyang County smiled and rushed to check his harvest with the beaming Fuyang officials. The so-called stolen goods are women's jewelry, porcelain vases and paintings. A small amount of gold and silverware, but Zhao Xing only roughly listed the number of items on the list, but did not describe the appearance of the items in detail, which is convenient for Fuyang County to do tricks. Fuyang County accepted this kindness, and immediately became attentive, mobilizing the government to organize local villagers to help Zhao Xing carry things.

Lu Jiabao has been a thief for two hundred years, and the accumulation of such a thief family is far beyond Zhao Xing's imagination. The stolen goods that Zhao Xing gave to Fuyang County were only one-tenth of the total amount of stolen goods. Those small pieces of rare jewelry. He had already rushed to let the ship take it away before Fuyang County arrived, and the rest were some large items - wooden beds, wooden chairs, bronze bells and copper banners, etc.

Zhao Xingdi's transportation work was carried out for five days, and it was not until he was sure that there was nothing left in Lujiabao except stones, and he left by boat in a happy manner. During this period, in addition to sneaking into the mountains and woodlands, the members of Lujiabao constantly surrendered. He was not harassed at all, which made Zhao Xing even more puzzled.

Out of the mountains and forests. Zhou Bangshi saw that Zhao Xing was in a bad mood, and he suggested with great interest: "Leave people, you have swept the lakes and mountains, why don't I accompany you to visit the tomb of Empress Li." In the past, there was a lot of trouble here, and others didn't dare to come, but now it's okay, you can come anytime! ”

Zhao Xing sighed sullenly. Answer: "I'm worried that the bandit can't be eradicated. After we leave, there will be new bandits in the middle of the mountain......" Zhao Xing said. Helplessly, he sighed deeply: This is Da Song! During the period of social transformation, many contradictory phenomena exist at the same time. There is not only the public security situation in the city that does not close the door that night, but also the chronic disease of bandits in the countryside and forests, and they dare to kidnap the princess at the feet of the emperor of Beijing; He not only gets along with neighbors gently, but also has the existence of guns in the grass market; …… All this constitutes an all-round Great Song Dynasty.

Gao Yu didn't know what Zhao Xing was feeling, but he teased thoughtfully: "Hushan can hide bandits for two hundred years - in this way, this is a good place to hide soldiers." If you leave the country, you might as well buy this mountainous area from Fuyang County and build your own fortress. In this way, in the future, there will be no fear of robbers making a comeback! ”

Zhao Xing's heart moved, but he immediately turned his gaze to the river as if nothing had happened......

After the end of the bandits, the capital head and the Xiang army who accompanied Zhao Xing to the battle were completely rich. Because a lot of the furniture in Lujiabao is made of Vietnamese mahogany, these wooden carvings are very fine, and the soldiers are divided into a part, many of them do not use it at home, and they are too lazy to carry it, so they directly sell it at a discount at the grass market near the wharf.

These people have no taboos, and directly say that they are here to rob the robbers in the grass market. Unexpectedly, this made those stolen goods very sought-after, and many people who came to the grass market to trade were willing to buy one back as a souvenir. A few days later, the news spread more widely and more outrageously, and the wealthy merchants who had been robbed in the neighborhood kept coming to the grass market to identify whether there were any items from their own land...... Subsequently, the incidence rate of major grass markets in the jurisdiction of the Hangzhou Prefecture plummeted, and many thieves regarded Hangzhou as a daunting path.

The summer and autumn of 1089 passed like this. In the summer and autumn of this year, Zhao Xing was busy repairing the roads in Hangzhou, and 200,000 migrant workers and soldiers were divided into more than 100 groups and began the project of connecting the township and county roads. In his spare time, he drank with Su Shi and other literati, watched songs and dances, and when Zhao Xing woke up, it was the end of another year.

This year's winter is neither early nor late, this normal climate makes the people of Hangzhou breathe a sigh of relief, they look forward to next year will be better, of course, due to the large-scale promotion of waterwheels this year, the lives of the people of Hangzhou are not much lower than usual.

At the beginning of the year, they handed over all the job fields to Zhao Xing to manage, and Zhao Xing planted new vegetables and flowers in these job fields, and these new vegetables and flowers were sold at high prices as seeds, so that the officials' job fields obtained more than 20 times the income from growing grain.

Zhao Xing is always not serious about such a cocktail party, because it is inevitable to compose poems and lyrics at the cocktail party, he is a modern person who compares the level of poetry with the Song people, that is, the birthday star eats arsenic and is purely looking for death, so even if he is present, he always watches the song and dance performance, and when the main seat opens, he immediately slips away.

With the completion of Zhao Xing's castle, the luxurious life in his castle also aroused the yearning of Hangzhou officials, and with it, cement and stone construction methods began to be promoted.

For example, there are two holy places in the hearts of today's masons, one is Huangzhou and the other is Hangzhou, and most of them bring their own dry food. He came to the two places to work as an apprentice, and when he was full, he began to return to his hometown and set up a construction team to help the villagers build new houses.

This winter. I don't know the situation elsewhere, but Hangzhou has become a big construction site, which has a bit of a taste of the early years of reform and opening up. The gentry have torn down their old houses and built new stone houses with thick stone walls and warm and insulated floors. As a result, lime sales in Huangzhou skyrocketed, so that demand outstripped supply. Subsequently, the impact also spread to the Mizhou gypsum kiln. Lime and gypsum began to be quietly calcined in various places.

Oddly enough. The architectural pattern of Zhaoxing's big stone fort did not bring more Byzantine and Baroque ideas to Hangzhou, and the newly built brick houses of Hangzhou's wealthy people invariably chose the "traditional style", which is similar to the Suzhou garden in the later Ming and Qing dynasties. Zhao Xing was shocked to find that history had arrived in advance, but he was relieved to think that the Suzhou gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties originally originated from the courtyard style of the Song Dynasty.

During this period, there were many acquaintances who wanted to enter the castle of Zhaoxing to visit, but after they visited. But he crossed the bridge to the Israelite settlement, and used the newly built village of the Israelites as a model for architecture. Over there. Zhao Xing also followed the trend to build a similar Ming and Qing Dynasty Suzhou garden into the eight courtyards, the unfinished courtyard is full of small bridges and flowing water, ancient wood and strange stones, winding paths through the secluded place suddenly opened, bricks, stone and wooden beams everywhere carved exquisitely, it can be said that the delicacy has been done in every detail.

The wealthy people of Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty immediately resonated with this architectural style, and thereafter. They went to the field with craftsmen in an endless stream. And instruct the craftsman to imitate. As a result, such buildings immediately proliferated everywhere. It even became a model of rich people in the Song Dynasty. If you don't have a house like this, you're embarrassed to say hello when you go out......

At the same time, after the attack, Zhao Xing's castle was more tightly guarded, and he followed the example of Zoumatang and Lujiabao, dug a wide trench outside the castle, poured river water, and protected the flat part of the castle with a moat. The castle walls also began to be manned by guards.

After Zhao Xing's gate control here is strict, it becomes a little difficult for ordinary people to enter and exit the castle. Among the officials, only Su Shi, Gao Yu, and Qin Guan can enter without notification, and the rest of the people have to wait for about an hour just to report. In this way, the activities in the castle are even more mysterious, for example, there are more than 40 people in the castle recently, and there are even feudal merchants from surrounding countries, and there is no rumor outside, including Su Shi and other officials who often come and go in the courtyard, and they are not aware of it.

Actually, this is a year-end party of Song Dynasty bankers - if there is a local term for "banker" at this time.

There are seven large ticket banks in Bianliang City and three banks under Chen Yiyi's name. In addition to Hong Leong Bank, the other two banks under Yiyi's name have strange names, but those who understand it will know at a glance that it comes from Zhao Xing's bad taste, such as: a bank is called Citibank Bank; One is called Nanyang Ticket Company.

Citigroup is responsible for domestic ticketing properties, and it now has points in four places, namely Bianliang, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, and Mizhou. What outsiders learned was that the Citibank was a joint venture between several Israelis, and it was established on the basis of Zhao Xing's loach stack, which was mainly responsible for accepting the silver currency used in business with the loach stack. Because there is a large loach printed on the back of the ticket accepted by the ticket bank, the bottom of the loach is a complex wave, and the upper part is a variety of intricate flowers, so outsiders also recognize the name of Citigroup.

Nanyang Ticket House is responsible for overseas transactions, and it is said that it was jointly established by more than a dozen wealthy businessmen who ran Nanyang, hence the name Nanyang Ticket Bank. The most famous business of the ticket house is in the country of Wa and in Jiaozhi. The ticket house in the Wa Kingdom can exchange the Wa Kingdom Golden Sands and Silver Crown for Song money, so that the Wa merchants are very willing to use this ticket house for settlement. The ticket house in Cochin was responsible for exchanging various foreign currencies for the Song merchants, including Persian silver coins, Egyptian gold coins, and so on. Therefore, it is very popular with Song merchants.

The bills of exchange between Nanyang Bills and Citibank are exchangeable, which makes people who operate maritime trade very willing to deal with these two bills, so the two bills have been established for more than a year and have taken over a lot of business, especially the overseas acceptance.

At present, although the imperial court no longer deliberately prohibits the outflow of Song money, it can get a large amount of Song money to be exchanged overseas, which is a major advantage. Song merchants often pledged their goods overseas to ticket houses, and then exchanged enough Song money from Nanyang ticket houses to trade with the locals. The profit of the goods plus the interest of the money made the Song merchants earn more abundantly. And overseas sales revenue, do not have to be all brought back to China, open a ticket with you, after returning to China directly to Citi Ticket Bank exchange, pay a little handling fee, you can collect cash in China, this convenience, but also make Nanyang Ticket Bank although only in Hangzhou, but take over most of the foreign exchange business.

The meeting was not held in the Blue House, because the things discussed by the people were so appalling that they held them secretly in the walled tower of the western part of the castle, which was supposed to be a forbidden area for storing valuables, and it was just right for small meetings.

Now the speaker at the meeting is Cao Lin, a maritime merchant and the richest man in Hangzhou, this guy is said to be related to the founding hero of the Cao family, and is also a distant relative of Empress Cao, because the Song Dynasty had a ban on officials not being able to engage in maritime trade, so the Cao family deliberately removed him from the genealogy. However, this guy obviously has the task of helping the Cao clan to collect money, just looking at him walking everywhere and passing unimpeded, you know that this guy is a heavenly figure.

In the past, Zhao Xing and Cao Lin had no intersection, because Cao Lin's ship sailed to Jiaozhi, but this year, the Cao family somehow also got the construction method of the iron keel ship and began to test it in the Indian Ocean, so he contacted the Nanyang ticket company. Cao Lin was saying, he was throwing a few silver coins and gold coins with a clanging bell in his hand: "This kind of money issued by the Nanyang Ticket Bank, I think it's very good, you see, this goose-eye silver coin contains one cent of silver, which is exactly worth ten copper plates, and this one is ten silver with one penny of silver, which is exactly worth ten goose-eye silver coins and a hundred copper plates, this method is very good, but the value of this gold coin is too high, how can it jump to a lot more at once, and the difference in the middle is too big." It is especially inconvenient to spend. ”

Zhou Wende, a maritime merchant - this guy is one of the six major maritime merchants who operate Japanese shipping routes, he shook his head and said, "Money interest! If we mint this money, where will the interest be on it? I see, people say that this goose-eye silver coin contains a penny of silver, but I don't think so. Although the goose-eye money is small, but with such a thick money, it can cost three or four points. How could it be ......?"

His brother Zhou Wenyi muttered beside him: "Big brother, don't say it, as long as this money is brought, Citi Ticket Store dares to exchange it, don't say that they say that it contains a penny of silver, even if they say that it contains a penny, as long as they are willing to exchange it according to a penny, then it will be a penny." ”

Zhao Xing clapped his hands, snapped, and the slapping sound was particularly loud in the stone hall: "The literati old man is right!" Oh, all of you here are seniors, originally I, a junior, shouldn't have interjected, but my concubine can't say anything about this matter, so I'll tell you about it. ”

Zhao Xing's words caused everyone to pout, and the expressions of the people present could be read: Come on, don't play the banner of your concubine, we all know that you are still the person in charge behind your family. "The literati uncle just said a fact: as long as the ticket bank dares to pay, then how much we pay, even if it is a piece of paper, it is worth the price we pay - paper, this is the key I want to talk about today."

Maritime merchant Zhu Rencong's eyes widened, and he preemptively said: "Paper, do you want to issue flying banknotes?" ”

This sentence made everyone's eyes widen.

Zhao Xing nodded calmly, he took out a stack of flying tickets from his arms, spread them on the table one by one, and then pointed to those flying tickets and replied: "I know that each ticket house has its own anti-counterfeiting methods, which are called dark flowers." Whether it is true or not, the person at the ticket bank can know as soon as he sees whether the dark flower is correct.

I say this, regardless of your opinions, next year Nanyang Bills and Citibank will issue a kind of exchange ticket, which is divided into three denominations, one is consistent, one is five, and one is ten. This kind of banknote will be accepted by the two billable houses, Nanyang and Citi...... In addition, we will issue a portion of metal currency and reformulate the exchange rates of each currency.

I don't force you to participate, there are wealthy businessmen here, there are also ticket store managers, you can pass this news back, willing to join the plan, we can set up a joint number, the ticket banks between the exchange and deposit, those who do not want to join, not reluctantly.

It is the month of Lunar New Year, and Nanyang Ticket House and Citi Ticket House will launch this plan in May next year, if you are willing to join, please bring your person in charge to discuss with me before the first day of the first day of March. ”

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, the hall had become a pot of porridge, and everyone was discussing the pros and cons of the ticket house in private.