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It was dark soon after Yusheng's convoy came in, Ma Fu gave a majestic order at the head of the city, and a team of soldiers guarding the city gate were waiting at the two fort gates with lanterns, and when they heard the order, they immediately pushed the fort gate and put down the bolt, but then these people greeted the soldiers of the convoy and Yusheng around the convoy, and the two sides laughed and laughed, and they were very affectionate to each other, and they couldn't see that they were soldiers under the two systems at all.

Zhang Shenyan is also cautiously observing and Yusheng's soldiers, he saw it last time when passing by Xinping Fort, the most surprising thing for him is that the spiritual temperament of the soldiers with Yusheng is completely different from the border army, he felt it at the time, but he didn't understand why he felt this way, what surprised him the most at that time was that there were many soldiers with Yusheng who could write, which was almost impossible to pick a second in the 900,000 border army in the nine-sided town of the Ming Dynasty, in the nine-sided military town, not only the ordinary soldiers were almost all illiterate, but even the illiteracy rate of the generals was extremely high, Confucian generals like Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou have long been famous, not to mention ordinary border soldiers.

At this time, he faintly felt where the difference was, in front of him was a flag team and Yusheng cavalry, they had turned over and dismounted, pulling their horses and the convoy to walk together, beside them was the team of Datong border troops, and the two sides were greeting and laughing. These Datong border troops are also directly subordinate to the generals, both sides are not wearing armor, but Yusheng's military robes are neat and crisp, the robes of the border soldiers are shabby and dirty, and Yusheng's cavalry are equipped with firearms, and the firearms that are not too long are obliquely inserted in the pockets, placed on the side of the war horse, and the body is wearing a straight and long saber.

In addition, there is a clear difference between the two in terms of breath, most of the border soldiers are scorched, their eyes are blank, and their bodies are also thin, they are generally malnourished, in recent years, the imperial court has not supported the military, and has been in arrears for many times, even if they are not in arrears of military salaries, the border army officers and soldiers from the small army to the officer level are also generally struggling on the food and clothing line, in addition to supporting themselves, their meager military salaries also have to support their families, and life is really very difficult.

Such a standard of living must make the border army have no way to maintain the tradition of three or five days of training in the early years, the border soldiers are not only thin and godless in appearance, that is, in terms of body shape, compared to the big shoulders and round waist of the Yusheng soldiers, the expression is also far behind, coupled with the gap in weapons, and possibly armor, Zhang Shenyan suddenly realized that Datong's recognition of the strength of He Yusheng is not based on ethereal rumors, but a very obvious fact.

"What are they doing here?"

The border troops guarding the city gate not only did not stay, but after greetings, most of them scattered.

Not only these border troops, but also many people near the city gate looked hurried, some continued to walk with the convoy, and some hurriedly began to trot away.

Not only near the city gate, this abnormal trend began to spread to the entire North Street, the center point is the place where He Yusheng's old store is located, which is not far from the fort gate, and now a large area is owned by He Yusheng, the old shop, the mule and horse shop, the account office, the storage area, and now there are more money villages.

A large number of people ran towards Heyusheng Qianzhuang, most of them carrying lanterns, looking hurried, and showing nervous expressions on their faces.

"The Admiral knows." Ma Fu suddenly woke up and said: "It should be that He Yusheng still has half an hour to close, and he sent so many copper coins, maybe he opened up the exchange, so the big guys all ran to the money bank and waited to exchange the money." ”

"Ahh A Qian Zong, who accompanied the pilgrimage patrol, suddenly slapped his leg and said, "Don't redeem it all overnight." ”

Another thousand always showed a nervous look on his face: "Yes, how many people are waiting for this day." ”

Xinpingbao to Zhangjiakou is still some distance, these days in addition to some large merchants, there are only a few medium-level merchants sent people to Zhangjiakou to exchange copper money, and some people want to trick and Yusheng's mule and horse shop to exchange, this is of course not allowed, if the mule and horse shop can be replaced, it is better to directly open the exchange in the money village here in Xinpingbao.

Seeing the exchange rate of one to one thousand in Zhangjiakou, the people on the side of Xinpingbao have long been unable to hold back, and today they have opened the exchange, and many merchants have already prepared a large amount of silver in hand, just waiting for the copper coins to come over from the bank.

Of course, there is still an upper limit here, a exchange shall not exceed a thousand taels, can not be repeated, the exchange ratio is still not high, but slightly relaxed the previous restrictions, compared to the scale of the horse market in Xinpingbao second only to Zhangjiakou, more than thousands of commercial banks in the city, if you let go of the exchange like Zhangjiakou, I am afraid that these dozens of cars of copper coins sent at a time will be exchanged in less than half an hour.

Seeing that there was a long queue in front of the Qianzhuang gate, the generals on the city tower were a little scratching their ears and cheeks and feeling impatient, this time it was a pure business behavior than in Heyusheng, and the usual respect and Yusheng have never been less, this time it is also a word first, whether it is a general or a garrison, Qianzong, all of them are fair exchanges with ordinary merchants and ordinary people, fortunately, after the usual point, after the words are first, with the strength of Yusheng and Zhang Han today, there is no need to care about what these Qiu Ba who hold military power think in the depths of his heart.

These generals really don't have to queue up to exchange with ordinary businessmen or ordinary people, the silver has long been prepared according to the upper limit, and the people at home have already been instructed to queue up as long as they exchange it, but these generals have more or less manpower, even if they don't dare to do too much, but arrange some people to line up to change more, and Yusheng won't really check it so strictly, and how much can he earn more.

If these things are not in charge, these generals are also itchy and feel a little restless.

"That's it," Zhang Shenyan knew that if he forced these people to stay here, he was afraid that he would have to complain, and there was no need to erect so many opponents in vain, even if these Qiu Ba couldn't do what they did, it was not worth being scolded by them in their hearts, so he flicked the sleeves of his robe and said: "Disperse, this official will go back to the general yamen to rest." ”

If everyone was amnesty, they didn't have to accompany each other and quickly knelt down to salute and say goodbye, Ma Fu, the general, couldn't go, and of course Lai Tongxin could only accompany the escort, and dozens of people escorted Zhang Shenyan back to the yamen for placement.

The area around North Street was already crowded and impenetrable, and although Zhang Shenyan was patrolling, he didn't want to touch everyone's anger at this time, so there was no reason. Generally speaking, officials will go out on patrol to shout in Jingjie first, and there will be no embarrassing thing in front of them, but just now Zhang Shenyan was on the city tower, and the people below did not have orders and did not have Jingjie, and at this time thousands of people had gathered in North Street.

Therefore, the dignified patrol could not take the avenue, but could only detour to the north at the intersection of North Street, detour through the City God Temple, and then turn westward, and finally arrived at the Yamen of the general.

When Zhang Shenyan got off the sedan chair, he also saw a lot of people running to Qianzhuang, he didn't feel emotional, today's meeting called himself a good good reason, the respect of the patrol gave way to the people, and I don't know if it is a beautiful talk or a scandal, I have been hiding from Yusheng, and today's scene is also my own bump, it is really a big bad luck!

Lai Tongxin and Ma Fu were originally going to arrange a banquet and invite the gentry in the city to accompany them, Zhang Shenyan was about to agree, but when he thought about the situation in Qianzhuang, he suddenly waved his hand and said: "Don't put the wine on the table, I'm a little tired today, and I'll talk about it tomorrow." After a while, I asked someone to get some light food, and the official could use some at will. ”

The two generals reluctantly agreed, Zhang Shenyan looked at their appearance, and scolded with a smile: "It's really hateful, about you also going to arrange the exchange?" It's already so late, it's getting dark, I'm afraid it's such a day late? ”

Lai Tongxin's status is higher, and he said with a shy face: "Today, I will exchange a maximum of 1,000 taels, just to see if He Yusheng can support it, whether it will be a normal exchange in the future, or will this price remain unchanged...... The boss is gentle, and the last general does not dare to slack off on official and military affairs in peacetime. ”

Zhang Shenyan shook his head helplessly, and said: "In this case, you all go down, and ask you about military affairs tomorrow morning, if you are not familiar with military affairs and negligence, this official will never indulge!" ”

So far, Zhang Shenyan has revealed the majesty of the patrol, although he is only a seven-grade official, but in matters such as the impeachment of officials, the imperial court's opinions on the patrol are more acceptable than the governor, the original governor is also specialized in military affairs, and now he has gradually become a local official, and the patrol is a full-time patrol of the place, doing the matter of the governor set up by the imperial court in the early years, so the position is humble and powerful, the two generals in front of him are one is the second grade and the other is the third grade, but in front of Zhang Shenyan, he did not even dare to breathe, in the face of Zhang Shenyan's reprimand, he could only make a promise, and agreed to come down.

When the generals retired, Zhang Shenyan changed out of the regular robe of the seven-grade civil official, changed into a homely azure round-necked gown, took off the black gauze hat, and changed to a Tang scarf inlaid with a pool of jasper on his head, without a belt around his waist, changed his official boots, and changed to home-style step shoes.

The two staff members were waiting outside, and after Zhang Shenyan came out, the two stood up together to greet him, Zhang Shenyan said casually: "The two gentlemen will accompany the students to eat together, and the situation in Datong can be discussed in detail." ”

"Dong Weng," the two staff members glanced left and right, and one of the staff members said boldly, "The students are not very hungry, and they are not in a hurry to eat." ”

Zhang Shenyan said unexpectedly: "Oh, what does that gentleman mean? ”

The staff showed some embarrassment on his face, and the other staff member was straightforward by nature, so he simply said bluntly: "Dong Weng resigned from Beijing this time, and he thought that he had pulled some Beijing debts on his body......

Zhang Shenyan has been a Beijing official for many years, and there is no way not to owe debts with the sincerity of the Ming officials, even if he is not corrupt after leaving Beijing, the gray income will increase, and the Beijing debt will be repaid in a few years, but if there is a good opportunity to make a lot of money at once, and it has nothing to do with corruption, and even gray income is not counted, it is a pity to miss this opportunity.