It was dawn, and Jiangyin City was lively again.

Last night's fire gave the people an added topic of conversation.

The news soon spread, and it was the cloth shop of the Wu family of the Jiangyin clan that was burned down.

Jiangyin County Commander was furious when he heard the news and immediately ordered a thorough investigation.

The officials all went out, and the chickens and dogs jumped for a while, and the green skins in Jiangyin City were panicked, and those who had roots hurriedly inquired about the inside information, and those who had not visited the dock hurriedly ran away, and all the slow ones were arrested and put in prison.

In this arrest, two suspicious elements were really caught.

Under the punishment of the people, the two green skins who had fled from Changzhou were immediately recruited.

Wu family.

"Who did it?"

Wu Jizhong's face was gloomy, and he was about to scrape off a layer of frost.

The person who reported the report wiped his sweat: "Master, last night's night guard was busy fighting the fire, and he didn't catch the person who did it." ”

"A bunch of rubbish!"

Wu Jizhong waved his hand, and the family immediately retreated.

After a while, the butler hurried in.

"Do you know who did it?"

Wu Jizhong asked in a deep voice, his face gloomy.

The housekeeper took a breath and said, "The news that just came from the yamen was done by Yao Laosan. ”

"Damn it!"

Wu Ji smashed the cup angrily, his face was gloomy.

……

The Wu family's cloth shop was set on fire in the middle of the night, and the loss was not small.

Jiangyin people talk about it with relish, they are very interested in this kind of gossip, and they have everything to say.

Li Chuan sneered a few times in the study, and then stopped paying attention to these things.

Two days ago, Li Changyue went to the capital of Changzhou, claiming that he was Yao Laosan, who was robbed of a shop by the Wu family in collusion with the government a few years ago, and then found two green skins from the city to make heavy profits, and only then did the Wu family's shop be burned.

The two green skins failed to escape in time, and it was also Li Chuan's tricks and feet.

burned down the Wu family cloth shop, and the evil spirit of the grocery store being robbed before also came out.

Li Chuan walked around the Zhuangzi, preparing to build a silver treasury.

Jiangnan has developed commerce, there are not a few people who operate the bank, and his silver is basically silver tickets, but the silver deposited in the bank not only does not have deposit interest, but also has to pay a fee to the bank, the key is not insurance.

Those money banks are only run by the people, and there is no official backing, it doesn't matter if there are tens of taels or hundreds of taels, but if it is hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of silver, no one dares to save the money bank, otherwise if it is swallowed in one bite, there is no place to cry.

Originally, there was a treasury for storing silver in Zhuangzi, but it was a little small.

Li Chuan went down to take a look, and he was ready to build a new one.

Such a warehouse has no safety factor at all, and any thief can open it.

Hollow out all the underground, cast it with reinforced concrete, and install a high-level security door, who can open it.

Li Chuan spent three days drawing a picture himself, and found Li Changyue to explain: "Go find a construction team, according to the map I drew, rebuild a silver warehouse, don't be afraid of spending money, it must be done within a month." ”

Li Changyue looked at the drawings and said, "Young Master, if you re-follow the drawings, the garden will have to be dug up." ”

Li Chuan said: "Dig it up, dig it up, and when the Ginza is built, get another one." ”

Li Changyue agreed, he just reminded him, since the young master counted in his heart, he didn't say more, took the drawings to find someone, and thought about how to find some work for the Li family's dealers, so as to earn a few dollars, and by the way, invite the young master to buy people's hearts.

The progress of the treasury is very fast, and this era is different from the 21st century, there is a shortage of everything, that is, there is no shortage of people.

More than a hundred people went into battle together, and soon dug a huge pit in the inner courtyard.

The big pit can be more than two acres large, and a garden has been dug up, and even the study has been demolished.

According to Li Chuan's design, the big pit has to be dug nine meters deep, built into two layers, and the surrounding and bottom top are poured with reinforced concrete, at least one meter thick, and the top and bottom are completely sealed all around, and then two high-strength anti-theft doors are installed, which is foolproof.

I took a few trips and brought back a lot of things with dozens of carts.

The cement was pulled, but the steel bars were a bit troublesome.

In this era, there is no steel, only iron, and iron is a strategic material, although it is nothing to smuggle some iron in private, but the amount is too large will still attract attention, Li Chuan had to act at night, let the cart in and out, and secretly put steel bars inside.

……

Forbidden city.

Late at night, Emperor Chongzhen was still reading the Spring Chapter with candles.

I picked up a piece of music casually, opened it and frowned.

Change another copy, the content is still the same, all of them ask for silver.

"Hey, the state affairs are so difficult, who can relieve my worries?"

Emperor Chongzhen's frowns tighter, Liaodong's military salary is a bottomless pit, how much to put into it is not satisfied, in order to make up for the border army, as a great tomorrow, he has to cut back on food and clothing, the emperor doesn't understand, how can the Ming Dynasty become so poor when he gets into his own hands, do you want to increase taxes?

But Shanxi and Henan have been in drought for many years, and the people have rebelled, how can it increase?

If you really can't do it, you can give up your son and borrow some money from your relatives in the court, right?

"Your Majesty, the silver from Changzhou has arrived!"

Just as he was raising the flag, the great eunuch Wang En came over and reported in a low voice.

"Huh?"

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned, and then remembered the excerpt on the eunuch in Changzhou Town, saying that there was a merchant in Changzhou who wanted to donate 100,000 silver to the inner treasury every year.

"How much silver did you get?"

Emperor Chongzhen perked up and asked.

Wang Chengen said: "Fifty thousand silver." ”

"Good!"

Chongzhen Longyan said with great joy: "Zhao Yuan is really loyal to me and reliable. ”

Wang Chengen also smiled and said: "It's all Your Majesty's good discipline, with the 50,000 taels of silver from Jiangyin, the soldiers in Liaodong will no longer make trouble, and the servants will urge again, so that the silver from other places in the south of the Yangtze River will also be sent as soon as possible." ”

Chongzhen nodded and said: "Tell those minions that if they are reliable, I will naturally remember them in my heart, and I will not hesitate to punish those who do not do good things, but there are people in the imperial tomb, and if anyone does not do things seriously, they will go to guard the imperial tomb." ”

"Minion Honor!"

Wang Chengen responded with a smile, and wondered in his heart how to knock the minions below when he turned around.

Chongzhen suddenly sighed with emotion: "A mere businessman can give me 100,000 silver, thinking that my Ming businessman is so rich, if the world's businessmen can share the worries of state affairs, why should I worry about Liao's salary, and why should the Manchu Tartars not be worried." ”

Wang Chengen followed the conversation and said: "Businessmen seek profits, and there are only a few people who are willing to share worries for the country. ”

Chongzhen said: "This Li family is so generous, I am a little stingy with a fellow Jinshi who was born in Xian, pass the decree, seal the Li family, forget it, summon the Li family to Beijing, I want to meet this person in person." ”

"Ugh!"

Wang Chengen was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "The slave obeys the order!" ”

……

Jiangyin, summer is scorching.

Li Chuan's sense of crisis has become more and more serious recently, and he doesn't know if it's a psychological effect, he always feels that there are countless eyes peeping at him in the dark, and his family's training is not a one-time effort, so he plans to improve his defense ability.

Forget about practicing martial arts, it's not something that can be practiced in a day or two.

The only way to do this is to take advantage of firearms.

There are guns on Taobao, all of which are stores in Europe and the United States, and they all sell semi-automatic weapons that are not bursting.

Li Chuan had always had concerns before, but the growing sense of crisis made him unable to take care of anything, and spent hundreds of oceans to buy a Sig Sauer SP2022 pistol from Taobao, with 300 rounds of ammunition, ready to practice the gun.

You can't practice in Zhuangzi, and if you shoot here, you're looking for death.

Li Chuan took his family and went to Xiangshan with great interest.

Xiangshan is located to the east of Jiangyin, close to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

found an inaccessible mountain, Li Chuan arranged for his family to stay everywhere, and set off fireworks as soon as someone approached, leaving only Zhao Tiezhu to stare at his side. The fireworks are bought on Taobao, as long as the fireworks are lit, Zhao Tiezhu will report in time.

After arranging the dinging whistle, Li Chuan set up his handle and began to shoot.

Bang!

Li Chuan was startled by the sound of the gunshot, and was so shocked by the recoil that he almost couldn't hold the handle of the gun.

The first time I shot a gun, I was not used to all kinds of things.

The recoil of the rear gun is actually not large, but it is normal to be unaccustomed to the first shot.

Not far away, Zhao Tiezhu was also startled, and hurriedly looked around.

Seeing the young master holding a black thing in his hand, he wondered in his heart, what he heard just now was obviously a bit similar to the sound of the fire gun, but what was the thing in the young master's hand, it didn't look like a fire gun!

Just as I was wondering, I heard a thud again.

This time, I saw it really, and the sound came from the black thing in the young master's hand.

Could it be that a fire bolt?

Zhao Tiezhu was very puzzled, but remembering the young master's explanation, he didn't dare to be distracted, so he quickly cheered up, and his eyes scanned the surroundings of the mountain, for fear that someone would come up, and secretly possessing firearms was a big crime to kill his head, and he still knew this.

Bang bang bang......

Fifteen rounds of ammunition were quickly fired, and nine of the big handles of the basin were missing.

"Shame on you!"

Li Chuan's face was a little red, but fortunately no one saw it.

The hand holding the gun was a little sore, and after a pause, he reloaded and fired again.

Bang bang bang......

The gunfire was endless, and Li Chuan's head was rapidly rising.

Of the fifteen rounds in the second round, only three were missing.

By the third round, there was only one off-handle.

Li Chuan's hands became more and more stable, and when the fourth round was over, none of them fell off.

"It's not enough."

If you don't hit the ten rings, it's a joke to hit the moving handle.

Even if the hit rate of the Ten Rings reaches 100%, it is enough to choke if you want to play the mobile handle.