Chapter 15: New Books Come In
Emperor Xianfeng had no idea for a while, and looked at Su Shun. Su Shun, the www.biquge.info of the pen, the fun and the pavilion, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the matter of repairing the garden can be prioritized. According to the slave, the three mountains and five gardens are not busy with major repairs in front of them, as long as they are repaired and maintained daily, they can live. As for the silver, you can follow the old calendar and let the salt merchants repay it, and the cost is only a few hundred thousand taels. ”
This was a compromise policy, and it was nothing, but the Internal Affairs Office had long been hungry, and after hearing that the household department had surplus money, there was a green light in both eyes, and they were waiting to break the country to support their families.
Bai Jun played: "Your Majesty, the salt merchants in the south were killed by Changmao, how can there be silver to repay them?" What's more, now foreign salt (in fact, Song Haiping's salt, flying the flag of foreign ships and employing foreigners) is flooding the market, and the official salt price is high and low, and no one cares about it. There are many salt merchants in the north. (This is nonsense, in fact, many salt merchants have become Song Haiping's agents, and they have channels in their hands.) )”
Xianfeng began to roll call: "Weng Qing? ”
Weng Xincun was preparing a road to the dark anyway, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister said that he wanted to repair the garden, and the household department didn't have a penny. ”
Weng Xincun is really not afraid of the imperial court to check the accounts, in fact, although the household department and Song Haiping have joined hands to do business, there is no exchange of documents and account books, Weng Xincun was born in a family of eunuchs and knows that some things can be done but cannot be said, and some things can be said but cannot be done, how can it be possible to leave such evidence of the crime of robbing the family and killing the head.
Xianfeng: "Hundreds of thousands of taels? ”
Weng Xincun: "Back to the emperor, no." ”
Xianfeng asked: "Then there will be a decisive battle with foreign soldiers, how to solve the problem of money and food?" ”
Weng Xincun: "Back to the emperor, if you want to fight a decisive battle with foreign soldiers, not to mention hundreds of thousands of taels, it is millions of taels, tens of millions of taels, and the ministers must also raise them for military use." ”
Bai Jun pouted, knelt on the ground, and said to Xianfeng: "Your Majesty, Weng deserves to die, he regards the household department of the imperial court as a place." ”
Weng Xincun: "Bai Jun, if you are not satisfied, you can come to the household department to check the accounts." ”
Bai Jun kowtowed: "The slave asks for an order to thoroughly check the accounts of the household department." ”
Xianfeng also wanted to know how much food the household still had: "Yes." Retreat. ”
At this time, how can Bai Jun know that Weng Xincun is very beautiful at this time, Weng Xinzhi is the head of the household department Shangshu who has filled in the deficits of his previous predecessors, not to mention, and also made up for the arrears of the Beijing officials and Beijing camp in the past two years out of thin air - the name of this money and grain is from the people who do not want to leave their names to serve the nameless, but this is the ability, if you have the ability, wouldn't it be beautiful for you Bai Jun to sponsor the repair of the three mountains and five gardens.
Although the household warehouse is still empty, as long as Weng Xin keeps a secret note, whether it is a few million taels of silver or millions of stone grain, it can be put into the warehouse immediately.
Weng Xincun was able to do this because in the northern provinces alone, rice and salt worth tens of millions of taels of silver were sold in the local area under the banner of the household department -- what do you say, passing the customs and passing the gold? Lao Tzu is escorting the grain of the household department into Beijing, and he has not paid a cent of silver.
Just when Bai Jun entered the household department with a few money and grain masters, there was already a group of people outside the Japanese pavilion (among them, a small half of the people from the household department were encircled, during the cooperation period), Yu Deqian shouted at the door with a newly learned Beijing film: "Take a look, take a look, the invincible armor of the East, you cut with a knife, pierce with a gun, chop with an axe, and hit with a gun, it doesn't matter, it's really invulnerable." The real heirloom armor, as long as you take home three thousand taels of silver, you can't buy three thousand taels of silver, and you can't buy three thousand taels of silver, and you can't be fooled......"
The next shopping tray shouted, "What if I pierce your armor with a gun?" ”
Yu Deqian: "What I didn't say, you will be rewarded with 30,000 taels of silver for breaking a armor." Pay on the spot, which hero will try the defense of our steel armor. It doesn't matter if you can't break it, we'll send a tea money here......"
"I'll earn your 30,000 taels of silver." Immediately below, a man jumped into the circle unconvinced, took off his robe and showed off his muscles, this first put the long braid around his neck, picked and selected a pear flower gun from the weapon rack, and poked and poked it with the head of the gun on the ground and on the wall. After being satisfied, the uncle said, "That's it." ”
There is already a Japanese samurai with armor on the whole body as a target waiting here, and there is a samurai behind him who is holding this samurai from behind so as not to be pushed down by the impact, and this master is ready to stab a spear with an arrow, and the tip of the spear is in the lower abdomen of the armored samurai, but after the stabbing is bent the body of the spear and does not go in, but the person who was stabbed with the spear bounced out.
The master thought it was a problem with the body of the gun, and stabbed it the ground, and it stabbed into the ground more than half a foot without any effort. Now everyone can see that the defense value of this treasure armor is perverted, and this master is also flushed, and he picked up his clothes and slipped away after receiving the three coins of tea and silver given by Guo Deqian.
There were people in the audience who knew each other, and only after waiting for them to leave did they say: "Fifth Master Qi is embarrassed and thrown to the East this time......"
Another Tuo shouted in the crowd: "This armor is good, but is three thousand taels of silver too expensive?" ”
Yu Deqian: "Someone asked if three thousand taels of silver is expensive, it depends on how much your net worth is worth." If you want me to say that when the time comes, you will cut off the heads of two more foreign soldiers, and you will come back.
This body has a cuirass, a helmet, left and right arms, and left and right legs, and is composed of six parts. If I want to recommend it, I will buy this cuirass and helmet combination for only 1,000 taels, the cuirass can defend the chest, abdomen and shoulders, and the helmet can defend the head and neck. ”
This treasure armor was not sold on the first day, but dozens of people came to try swords and guns, and the reputation was quickly played out in Sijiu City, which is not too big or small.
The next day, the retainers of the prince Baylor brought silver to buy, three thousand taels of silver was a lot of money, but it also had to be divided, and for the rich there was no difference between three taels and three thousand taels, and sixteen sets were sold on this day. Two days before and after, more than 100 people who wanted to come to get the 30,000 taels of silver as a reward came, but all they took away were tea expenses of 30,000 taels of silver.
On the third day, Yu Deqian no longer had to go to the stall outside the door to practice, and there was an endless stream of people who came from morning to night to buy armor and order armor parts. On this day, the income was 180,000 taels of silver, and there were 54,000 taels of silver for the bookkeeping, which were all secured by a silver number, and the Japanese Pavilion did not accept unsecured and unsecured debts.
And the habit of this era, large families don't have to pay money at the moment to buy things, they all take things before the three festivals (Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Festival) to pay the bills in a centralized manner. Now I have pinched my nose and approved the way the Oriental people sell goods - more importantly, the Oriental people always sell goods that no one else has or can never compare. Moreover, these Orientals also buy things in cash and in silver, so there is nothing to say.