During the whole day on 19 October, the number of refugees from the various tribes of Mo Nan outside Hubao suddenly increased by several thousand.

However, because of the killing of the Fan family of Hubao and the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, as well as the efforts to maintain order, the situation outside Hubao can already be called busy but not chaotic and orderly.

And the Fan guy who had been chasing the horses and disappeared into the night the night again happily appeared in the porridge shed set up by the Fan family's business, holding a big spoon, spoonful by spoon, spoonful by spoon to add porridge to the refugees who came to beg for porridge with clay bowls.

The number of refugees outside Fort Kill has suddenly increased by thousands, and the number of materials needed such as rice, millet, dried firewood, pottery bowls, etc., has naturally increased.

In the evening, when twilight fell, the Fan family firm and the men of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce still kept driving the carriage to transport firewood, rice and other things in and out.

It was busy and lively outside Fort Kill, and it didn't look like it was on the edge of the Monan battlefield at all.

During this whole day, Zu Dacheng was naturally at ease with the situation outside the fort, and came to the city head of the north pass of Fort Hu again and again.

He personally monitored the refugee camp by the river outside the mouth, and from time to time he looked out at the possible enemy in the north.

However, what puzzled him was that Lin Dan Khan had abandoned the city and fled west for three days, but Huang Taiji, the slave chief who had entered the naturalized city, had not moved.

Could it be that Huang Taiji personally led the main army of Jianyu and went west to chase Lin Dan Khan?

Zu Dacheng was both happy and puzzled, and kept guard on the city for a day, until the twilight became heavier, and then he returned to the general's mansion in the fort.

Zu Dacheng returned to the house behind the General's Mansion, just took off the armor he had worn for a day, changed into household clothes, and was about to order wine and food to treat himself after a day of dutiful work, but suddenly heard a report from his own soldiers:

"Lord Qiyu! The young proprietor of the Fan family's business asked to see the adults outside the house! ”

Zu Dacheng nodded, and asked his own soldiers to pass Fan San in.

As soon as Fan Sanba saw Zu Dacheng, he immediately bowed and smiled all over his face, and said to Zu Dacheng:

"General Zu worked hard for a day in order to kill the safety of Fort Hu, and the contemptuous merchant and several other proprietors of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce in the fort were all in their eyes and respectful in their hearts.

"For this reason, my father has prepared a good banquet at home tonight, as a sign of rewarding the king, and specially ordered the younger generations to come and invite the adults to come to the banquet!"

After Fan Sanba finished saying these words, he took out a thick pile of red, red, green and green things from his left sleeve, which looked like bills and treasure money, and respectfully presented them with both hands.

Seeing this, Zu Dacheng smiled knowingly, took it, took a look, took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly, and then said to Fan Sanba with a smile:

"I often hear people say that the Fan family in Shanxi has strong assets and is rich enough to rival the country, but like a young proprietor, inviting people to a banquet has to be so generous, but it is also the only time in the life of an ancestor!"

The pile of thick things that Fan Sanba took out, similar to treasure banknotes but thicker than treasure banknotes, similar to pawn bills but more complicated than pawn bills, was the standard silver round ticket launched by the Taiyuan Silver Account of the Huangming Jingshi Bank in mid-September.

Now the silver received by the generals above the garrison of Datong Town has been exchanged for such silver yuan tickets since the fourth quarter of the second year of Chongzhen.

According to an official document forwarded by the Military Aircraft Department and the Cabinet in September, the military salaries of the three towns of Shanxi, Datong, and Xuanfu will be issued quarterly by the Taiyuan Silver Account of the Huangming Jingshi Bank.

The amount of military salaries distributed by the imperial court to the three towns of Shanxi, Datong, and Xuanfu was determined by the Taiyuan branch of the Jingshi Bank, and the yamen of the governors of Shanxi, Datong, and Xuanfu was guaranteed by the money and grain of the government treasury, and the bills were redeemed at sight.

The denomination of the silver yuan ticket is divided into five kinds, the smallest is Wu Yuan, and the largest is one hundred Yuan, during which they are respectively picked up Yuan, Second Pick Yuan, and Wu Yuan Yuan.

Taiyuan, Xi'an, Nanjing, the three branches, all using the Huangming World Bank Jingshi head office unified provision of silver round ticket paper, the use of digital numbering, manual writing, secret anti-counterfeiting, printing and overprinting together on the method, as well as stamping the whistle of the ticket maker (head office), scrutineer (household), drawer (head office or branch) and the original holder of the four party seals, to put an end to the counterfeiting of silver bills.

Although the practice of stamping the original bearer greatly limited the circulation of such silver yuan bills and bills of exchange, it was difficult to start everything, and Emperor Chongzhen also agreed with the cautious approach of the cabinet and the household department.

After all, safety is paramount.

Now what Fan Sanba gave to Zu Dacheng is such a thick pile of silver yuan tickets with a denomination of one hundred yuan.

In front of Fan Sanba, Zu Dacheng was embarrassed to count how many tickets there were in total, but at first glance, it had to be at least around fifty.

Fifty sheets, which is five thousand taels of silver.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when silver was relatively scarce, five thousand taels was not a small amount.

However, despite this, Zu Dacheng still didn't want to leave his post without permission, so he said to Fan Sanba: "Fan Da Proprietor's heart, Zu someone understands it!"

"You go back and tell the owner of Fan that Zu and your Fan family are not outsiders, just when the meaning arrives, what about the banquet, you won't eat it!"

"Now that the side affairs are tense, Zu has a lot of business, it's really not good to leave his post without permission!"

As soon as Zu Dacheng finished speaking, he heard the footsteps outside the second hall of the General's Mansion from far to near, and suddenly someone said aloud:

"General Zu's words are admirable! It is worthy of being a model for my Datong generals! ”

As he spoke, Zu Dacheng's Chinese army soldiers led a person straight in.

This person is none other than Fan Yongdou, the big proprietor of the Fan family's business!

Zu Dacheng looked at the pro-soldier and knew that this pro-soldier must have received a lot of door bags from Fan Da Proprietor, otherwise he would not have brought it in so directly.

It's just that in front of the Fan family's father and son, he can't reprimand him directly.

The soldier saw that his adult did not look at him well, so he hurriedly retreated.

At this time, Fan Yongdou continued: "General Zu has been working hard for more than half a month, working hard every day, the family of Shuoping City is close at hand, and the general has no time to go back to take a look.

"The proprietors of each merchant have entrusted the contemptible people to invite the general, in order to discuss how to reward the thousands of officers and soldiers in the fort, whether to give gold and silver, or wine and meat, all of which will be decided by the general at the table! The general's glass of water and wine is worth a hundred taels of silver! ”

Speaking of this, Fan Yongdou looked at Zu Dacheng, whose eyes widened in surprise, and knew that he was already in the set, so he smiled and continued:

"If the general feels that he is not strong enough to drink, why not call three or five capable generals, drink a glass of water and wine, and donate a salary of fifty taels of silver, what does the general think?"

Zu Da has no shortage of silver, but he has never seen such a way of playing.

The most important thing is that he has always boasted about the amount of wine, a glass of wine can be exchanged for a hundred taels of silver, so with his own amount of alcohol, eight thousand taels a night will definitely not be a problem.

Besides, he was born in a family of generals, although he is not short of silver, but among the bastards who eat, drink, prostitute and gamble under his command, which one is not a poor ghost who is so poor that he screams?

Therefore, Zu Dacheng, who was originally determined to stand at his post in the General's Mansion, suddenly became interested and agreed to Fan Yongdou.

sent the Chinese army soldier who took Fan Yongdou's bag of silver to pass on and kill several capable generals in the Hu Bao army, hoping that these few useful henchmen would make a windfall together.

The strategic position of Fort Kill Hu is important, but the ground is not big, there are two cities in the north and south, the east and west are mountains, there is only one main road in the middle, and the streets on both sides are shops and houses, and the radius is only four or five miles.

Zu Dacheng briefly explained the defense, took the three henchmen and generals, followed Fan Yongdou, Fan Sanba's father and son and their servants with lanterns, and without much effort, they came to the Fan family's compound in the middle of Hubao.