Ma Ying is a peasant in a mountainous area of the state capital, because it is located in a mountainous area, so many wars have not affected him, but once a nearby regime stabilizes, someone will always find people in the mountains, and he and his family have to continue to pay taxes to these people, which is the sadness of being a common man.

With rough hands, shriveled skin, weather-beaten faces, five short figures, and two hundred catties of rice millet on his back, he crossed the mountains and mountains and walked into the county seat of Lishui, which is also the capital of the state.

The streets of the state capital were full of people, and the people of the city in coarse cloth clothes were walking in a hurry, as if they had something to do, and it was too late to do it.

The last time he entered the city, people were still full of smiles, some talked and laughed, but this time I don't know why, everyone has a sad face on their faces.

Ma Ying still has something, he has no time to be idle, go to a passer-by to ask to understand, he has to exchange the rice millet for some silver taels, he has to find a grain merchant to sell the two hundred catties of rice millet in his hand, and then buy some medicine for his mother-in-law, since the mother-in-law gave birth, the body is not good, often affected by the wind and cold, so he is bedridden, and asked the village head of the doctor Zhao to prescribe a few prescriptions, after eating a few times are not good, but can not not eat, otherwise the mother-in-law will not be able to survive, thinking of the mother-in-law lying on the bed uncomfortable, Ma Ying quickly accelerated the pace.

Sell the grain early, exchange some silver taels for the mother-in-law to grasp the medicine, and then take advantage of the early day, turn back, otherwise the mountain road is not easy to walk at night, and it is not good to make a heart, turn into the cliff, or fall into the rolling river, or be surrounded by wild wolves, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

When I came to the door of the grain store, I saw that the door was closed, and the door was sealed, and the people who bought the grain were gone, and the door was very deserted, and the pedestrians all took a detour.

Ma Ying looked left and right, not knowing what to do next, a person came over, saw his appearance, and said to him: "Big brother, go to another house, this grain store was seized because of hoarding grain and driving up the price of grain, and the owner was arrested by the government, and his family was scattered in a hurry, and fled to other places to make a living." ”

"Ahh Ma Ying didn't expect such a thing.

But I think of the past in this grain store, big bucket in, small bucket out, every time I estimate the good catties to him, always not enough, always less, and every time I buy his grain, it is always much more expensive than others, if you want to argue with him, he always says: "You are too expensive, too little, go to another house." ”

Ma Ying once went to other houses to buy and sell, but they were all the same, and the grain bought by other families was always mixed with a lot of sand and stones, and there was a severe shortage of catties, when selling food, other families were always bigger than this family's bucket, one bucket could be exchanged for two buckets of food, although this family also pitted people, but because they always bought and sold food here with them, they were familiar with each other, and sometimes they could have less pits, although not much, but for them, what they saved was earned, compared to other families, he still felt that acquaintances were good here.

But now, this family has been arrested, and he can only go to another house.

Thinking of having to be exploited more, the two hundred catties of food on his back, I don't know how much silver I can exchange, whether the silver is enough to change the medicine for my mother-in-law, Ma Ying's psychology is not good.

When he walked to another house, he found that it was the same, the door was closed, and the door panels were all hung, Ma Ying was anxious, is there no place to sell grain?

He was unwilling and continued to walk, three families in a row were like this, and he was a little confused.

With some luck and some unwillingness, he went to the sixth house, and saw that there were many people in front of the sixth house, Ma Ying's was relieved, and stood in the line of selling grain with grain on his back.

After queuing for a while, he felt strange, in the past, after those people had sold their grain, they carried silver in their arms, and strings of copper coins in their pockets, and when they walked by, the scene of jingling sounds was gone.

The person in front always looked like someone else owed him a lot of money, and left without saying a word unhappy.

Some people still have a pile of colorful pieces of paper in their hands, sighing, shaking their heads, not knowing why.

After a long time, he heard everyone's discussions, it turned out that from now on, only those colorful pieces of paper were allowed to be used on the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, and silver and copper coins were not allowed.

A talking man said: "Don't care about those, deal with the government, let's use those colorful pieces of paper issued by the government, in private, we still use copper coins and silver, these hundreds of years, everyone uses silver, and only silver is money, are those pieces of paper worth money?" The government asked us to use those things, isn't this to loot money from us? ”

Another person said: "That is, these officials do not have a good thing, I thought that the government had changed its temperament, no longer exploiting us, only three percent of the taxes are collected, and the difficult people are exempt from taxes, and those landlords do not dare not listen, and they pay the big head, we pay the small head, I feel that this world is finally fair, I didn't expect that within a few days, their nature was revealed, and they actually wanted to use a piece of paper to exchange the money we had worked hard to save for a worthless piece of paper in their hands. It's too bad. ”

A talented humane: "The government is good, it is estimated that someone secretly made trouble, entered the slander, and bewitched the Governor, and the Governor did this, and when I have the opportunity, I must go to the Governor to petition and send the slanderer to the prison." ”

"Hehehe." Everyone laughed.

An old man said, "Young man, you are still too young, even if the Governor is deceived, you will not be able to see the Governor, if you dare to petition, and before you see the Governor, you will be secretly beaten half to death by those people and burn down your house." Do you dare to sue him in that case? ”

Xiucai's face was pale with fright, and he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally he could only sigh.

"Actually, it's not that terrible, you see how beautiful this kind of food stamp is." A voice diametrically opposed to everyone suddenly came.

Everyone frowned, turned their heads angrily and looked for the guy who dared to disagree with them, Xiucai said: "Who is it, the government oppresses us so much, can't we talk about it here?" ”

For a while, the crowd that exchanged food was indignant and raised their hands one after another, "Yes, can't you talk about it?" ”

The old man was a little panicked, he didn't shout with everyone, but hurriedly grabbed a few people around him, and said anxiously: "Shut up, shut up, don't you know that trouble comes from your mouth?" Think about how many times those soldiers beat tens of thousands of Qing army Tartars to the point of bleeding and fled in panic, the prisoners who were pulled in, string after string, slipping and slipping, the leather whip whipped on the prisoners, whipped on those Tartars who invaded our homeland, then you are ruthless, do you want to be with them? ”

The old man's words played a role, but it was limited to the few people around him, and the other people in line were indomitable, and some even pulled out the flat pole to pick up food, and rolled up their sleeves, wanting to find the person who spoke, they hated using paper as money from the bottom of their hearts.

The crowd was furious, and finally found the person who spoke and aroused the anger in everyone's hearts, a guy who looked like a small official wearing a green robe and a horse coat and a black Ming Dynasty black gauze hat.

Next to this guy stood two burly men, one holding a water and fire stick in his hand.

Seeing this kind of official appearance of the person, everyone immediately stopped talking, although they dared to say bad things about the government behind their backs, but in front of the government, they were still a group of children and cows, willing to eat grass, spit out milk for the government lords to eat white.

This is the national condition, with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty.

Do you know why the land of China is surrounded by enemies and has never had friends?

If you take a closer look, you will find that all the enemies are those former obedient people in the land of China, after they went out, they immediately regarded themselves as people from other countries, and then looked down on the Ming Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts, they climbed to the high positions of other countries, but they hated China more than the natives of other countries, and they wanted to persecute China, and the first people to propose were often them.

Because they know the strength of China, and at the same time, they deeply want to take revenge on the pain that China has brought them, even if it comes to their descendants, they will not forget to take revenge.

On the one hand, they want to integrate into the local area, and they are eager to fade their characteristics as a Ming and a Chinese, and on the other hand, they want to gain the recognition of the local people by suppressing China, and once they are favored in the future, they will in turn formulate the limited laws of the Ming people who later entered these countries, and the lazy natives do not want to fight at all, although they are not smart, but they are also shrewd, let these people go to work for them, to create wealth, let them fight with the Ming people, and enjoy their own success.

All the enemies of China, all the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, are the former Chinese.

The Manchu Tartars were only a hundred thousand people, and the reason why they were able to conquer the Ming Dynasty was because they still had hundreds of thousands of loyal original Han people, as well as Korean Goryeo people who were conquered by them.

Seeing that everyone didn't say a word, Zhang Qiang smiled slightly.

He made a private visit to Weifu today to see the reaction of the people below to this kind of paper-style banknote, but he didn't expect such a big reaction.

"Why don't you accept this piece of paper?"

"Why don't you use it for money?"

"Isn't he gorgeous enough?"

Zhang Qiang motioned to the supervisor of the grain store's arrangement to keep a grain stamp full of food stamps designed by him and the Governor's Palace's numismatic reform team to walk in front of each queue, and at the same time issued them a set of exquisite grain stamps to that group of people, two rows of people in line, plus the people who watched the excitement nearby, a total of ten sets.

Of course it's not for them to spend, it's for them to see the beauty of the food stamps.

to pave the way for the next presentation.