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"Camellia oleifera is coming, five-spice camellia is ......"

The familiar shouts of buying oil tea came from the streets of Nanjing City, and the absolute Ruzhou voice came into Chen Ming's ears through the carriage. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info "Go buy a few bowls of oil tea, use silver horns, and see how the vendor finds money?" ”

The carriage was lit with incense, the smell was very light, Chen Ming was dressed in civilian clothes on the sofa-style seat, and there were six attendants around the carriage, but in the flow of people around the carriage, dozens of guards were mixing in it. Chen Hui has already left, and the paper money has been promoted in China for more than half a month, and Chen Ming is going out of the palace today to take a look with his own eyes.

Picking up some carriage curtains, through the gap, Chen Ming looked at the vendor not far away, stretched out a finger and gestured with the guard, and then neatly took out two bamboo cups, from the big oil teapot, with a kind of tea doctor-like beauty, neatly poured hot oil tea into the two bamboo cups.

This thing is a 'foreign product' in the territory of Nanjing, and it has not been seen before. That is, after Chen Han moved the capital here, a large number of Henan and Hubei heroes poured into Nanjing, bringing the oil tea that the people of Central Plains and Hubei love to drink here.

"Master, camellia is a dime banknote, a bamboo cup and a two-corner banknote, and two cups of camellia plus a bamboo cup. The younger one gave him a silver horn, and the man retrieved five copper dollars. The two cups of oil tea have been taken over, and the guard showed Chen Ming the five copper yuan that he had found after buying the oil tea.

Chen Ming looked at the copper circle in the guard's palm, counted it seriously, nodded slightly, and then put the curtain down, leaning on the soft sofa with his eyes closed, and countless thoughts turned in his heart.

The price of oil tea and bamboo cup is not inflated, and what makes him pay attention to the meaning behind this matter.

Five copper rounds, hexagonal banknotes, one silver slot to one two-diagonal note, and one silver dollar to twelve yuan banknotes. Have the common people consciously fixed the exchange rate between the silver dollar and the banknote at one silver dollar and the twelve yuan banknote?

Chen Ming was happy and worried. He is glad that the official fixed exchange rate has been recognized by the people, and there is no official exchange rate of 1 to 12, but in real trading, it is 1 to 15, or even more. For example, the vendor who bought oil tea just now asked the guards not five copper yuan, but six copper yuan, and four copper yuan is on top of the hexagonal banknote, which is a tragedy. That means that the common people have a much lower recognition of paper money than the official law......

But what is he worried about? At the moment, the 12-to-12 exchange rate is only an early discount time, and in mid-May, three months later, the official exchange rate will become one silver dollar to 10 banknotes. What about the civil shock at that time?

"Go buy two raw fried ......"

The carriage drove forward for a while, and Chen Ming smelled a smell of meat. He asked the guards to go to the shop to buy it once, this business is a storefront, not as good as the previous one who bought oil tea, which was sold along the street. This time the guard gave the banknotes, and the guards kept silent, seeing if the shopkeeper had found the money himself, or if he had asked and then looked for the money, and whether he had found the banknotes or copper yuan. The result is banknotes!

From the small to the big, of course, these small merchants and hawkers cannot represent the whole Chinese people, but it is very necessary and important for Chen Ming to get a glimpse of the whole leopard. "I finally have a plan." The banknotes have been issued for half a month, and the amount of exchange in various places has not yet been reported to the central government, although the eyes of local governments and national security departments have been firmly watching the market, and the reports say that there is no commotion. But Chen Ming didn't take a look at it with his own eyes, so relieved?

In the past few months, the banknotes have been well prepared, and the total printing volume is 5 billion! From the denomination of one cent to the highest denomination of one hundred.

"Your Highness, Li Di has been assassinated...... Chen Ming was about to let the carriage go to the Pingshi Street Bridge, which is the real prosperous commercial center of Nanjing, much more prosperous than the Confucius Temple. Although in later generations it did not have the slightest reputation. But now, the bridge, a single-hole stone arch bridge that spans the ancient Yundu, is famous.

Chen Ming felt that the current Qinhuai River Confucius Temple should be the amusement park and commercial center of the city in later generations compared with Pingshi Street.

As a result, at this time, Li Di was assassinated. "Is anyone dead?" Chen Ming's spine straightened instantly.

"Life and death are uncertain, and they are being rescued."

"Where was the assassination made, and by whom? Have you caught the murderer? ”

"At the Dabao'en Temple, five dead bodies were found at the scene, and no one was caught. According to the report of Li Bao's attendants, the person who shot Li Yi was dressed as a monk. Da Bao En Temple has now been cordoned off. ＂

……

Black covered the earth like felt, and a trace of fish white stubbornly pushed away the thick fog.

When the sun shone down, when the last rays of darkness before dawn completely subsided, ten thousand golden rays appeared in the sky, driving away not only the darkness, but also the remaining coolness of early spring.

The people in Chifeng City were like rats dodging cats, carefully opening the door and looking out into the street through the crack in the door. But the street was eerily deserted, the Eight Banners who could have been seen in the past were gone, and there were many blood stains scattered on the street, as well as corpses one after another. Hats, shoes, discarded knives, guns, bows and arrows, quite a lot, but I don't know where their original owners have gone.

The street was quiet, and the sound of artillery and gunfire that had been sounding for many days could not be heard, only the whirring wind could be heard, which blew away the smoke and blood.

The Fuhan army, which attacked from Chengde, spent three days and easily captured Chifeng, the closest city to Chengde.

Was the Eight Banners defeated? But didn't those who were in power say that the Eight Banners would not be defeated?

It is said that there are tens of thousands of Eight Banners Mabu troops stationed in Chifeng, while the Fu Han army that fought Chengde is only two or three thousand.

"Bell, bell, bell, ......"

At noon, the Fu Han army, which had withdrawn the pursuing troops, took full control of the entire Chifeng City.

"No more fighting, it's too peaceful! The army from the south is coming. The turtle grandsons of the Eight Banners have all escaped, what are they still hiding? Hurry up and meet the Fu Han army! ”

As an immigrant city, as an emerging city, the people of Chifeng come from all over the world. These local people, who were organized by the Fu Han Army, shouted happily with their voices raised. It didn't take long for the entire Chifeng City to become lively.

The people opened the door of the house, and one by one, they saw several familiar faces, all full of joy, carrying a big flag, and the flag had a big 'Han' character written on it, shouting all the way. Red flags waved in the air, and a striking 'Han' character on it was waving in the wind. They really realized that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was really beaten away!

As Kang Mazi began to establish a foothold in the city, Chifeng's age was very small, and the policy of "borrowing land to support the people" in the early years of Yongzheng made a large number of Han people pour in, and Chifeng became a place where all walks of life of agriculture and commerce outside the Guanxi came together, and "nine streets and three cities" gradually formed. In its heyday, hundreds of horses were listed every day, and more than 100 grain trucks entered and exited every day, and the market was extremely prosperous. But all this came to an end with the defeat of the Manchus from Beijing. Many local handicraftsmen were forcibly relocated to the northeast by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the remaining pure peasants all became serfs serving the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

In the vast grassland, without the support of the Central Plains, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to garrison tens of thousands of troops in Chifeng, entirely because of the relative development of local agriculture. These Chifeng people, who have been crying for a long time under the guns of the Eight Banners, are really happy at this moment.

The braids were cut off by the locals, burned or thrown into the stinking ditch, and became history as their owners. Chifeng City is about to usher in a new page.

"Oh? Wang Shijie's family has settled down? Wei Baocheng raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the middle-aged man who had followed the staff officer.

The man hurriedly took off his hat and bowed, the braid on his head had been cut off, and he said respectfully, "Thanks to the lord, everything is settled." My lord sent the villain to thank the adult, and by the way, inform the adult, the errand of going to the street to buy vegetables and food in the next few days will fall on the villain, and please say hello to the officers and soldiers under him, so as not to be able to go out of the garrison yamen in the future. ”

Chifeng garrison Wang Shijie made a contribution in this battle anyway. He is the youngest son of Wang Jintai, Wang Jintai was the original governor of Zhili, the deputy general of Hailancha, the general of the Manchu Han Dynasty, and Zhou Yuanli in Jinan City. In fact, he captured and killed several banner generals in the Jinan defenders, and instructed his subordinates to do it anyway. Although he himself did die later, such a 'martyrdom', the Fu Han army should not be too happy.

Wang Jintai gave the Fu Han army a great favor before he died, and now it is time for the Fu Han army to be good to his descendants. After the two parties have a previous marriage, they should not hook up too quickly.

"Now that Chifeng has just recovered, there will inevitably be some chaos in the market, the Tartars have already run away, and this hatred will be left to you. It is for your own good that you should stay in the house, lest the people beat the water dogs, and the soldiers sent to protect you. You don't have to worry about buying vegetables and food, you will send someone to arrange it every day. Now I am protecting you, not starving you to death in the garrison. So, when you go back, tell Wang Shijie that the families who are hiding inside are all living in the yamen with peace of mind. ”

"By the way, ...... you?"

"The villain is the steward of the palace."

"Except for your master, do the other families have anything to say in the mansion?"

Wang Shijie's family is not the only Han member in Chifeng City, and Wang Shijie is not the only one who surrendered this time, and some of their families are still in Shengjing. If the news of their surrender spreads back, the fate that awaits his family will be extremely miserable. This kind of person Wei Baocheng is a hundred people who can't look down on him.

"Back to my lord, those people are all people who have figured it out, and naturally know what to do now. They have now surrendered and there is no way back. Just like that Zhou Shengshi, this person is the second son of Zhou Yuanli Zhou, after Zhou Shengshi was martyred in Jinan, Zhou Shengshi hated the Han army very much, which indirectly some Liangzi. However, since Zhou Shengshi has fallen, he has figured it out, the entire Zhou family in addition to him There are more than a dozen people, Zhou Shengshi said to the villain, one person does things and one person is responsible, since it is already fish on the chopping board, if you want to kill or cut, you will follow the will of the adult, I still hope that the adult will see that he also has a meritorious service this time, and let the rest of the Zhou family return to their hometown to be a small people in the mountains, just beg not to implicate the rest of the Zhou family. ”

"Huh! Zhou Shengshi is enlightened now? When he was so energetic as he led people to search for the secret camp in Beijing, why didn't he think about his family and future? The national security department still has his assassination order, and took 800 silver dollars from his small life. Now that the Tartar is at the end of his rope, he has finally opened his mind, and he knows that he is afraid, right? The expression on Wei Baocheng's face stiffened. Snorted coldly and said, "I knew today, why bother in the first place?" When I go back, tell the man surnamed Zhou, don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain! The promise we made before counted, not only will we not kill his family, but his own life will not be killed. It's just that the Zhou family's property will be confiscated! ”

"The Zhou family is from Hangzhou, you ask him to get ready, and he will go back to Hangzhou on an errand in a few days." This is not a public servant, but a punitive measure. Some Manchu officials who committed crimes that did not lead to death confiscated their family property and decided according to the situation, the most serious ones were of course put into labor camps, and the light ones were punished to work for the government in the local area.

Although Zhou Shengshi chased the hidden camp like a mad dog and bit it, and it did cause the hidden camp to suffer a little loss, he teamed up with Wang Shijie anyway to keep a large number of military supplies and grain in Chifeng City, and even the entire Chifeng City. Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a plan to burn down the entire Chifeng when they were defeated in the Battle of Chifeng, Zhou Shengshi made this plan stillborn, and his credit was not small.

"The new dynasty is benevolent and righteous, and the villain admires it!" The housekeeper had nothing to say. All the answers lie in Chen Han's treatment of Zhou Shengshi. This is just like when Liu Bang sealed Yongya for the Marquis of Shifang, the most people got a relatively good end, and the remaining Manchu officials could completely put their hearts in their stomachs.

It's just that the life of the Zhou family will not be easy in the future. The family property was confiscated, and the most that the Zhou family could leave was a little clothing, but they didn't know how many silk and satin furs were left for them in the new dynasty?

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Suzhou Mansion, Changshu.

March 13 of the first year of Chengtian

On this day, the weather was sunny, the drizzle and haze of the past few days were swept away, the spring was bright, the birds were singing, it was the good weather in the south of the Yangtze River.

More than 300 miles away from Nanjing, Changshu Xupu Town, under the sun, this prosperous riverside wharf town is full of people and traffic on the streets.

A four-wheeled carriage with ordinary decoration marched from the entrance of the town into the north of the town, and crossed the streets and alleys to the door of the Jin family, a big family in Xupu Town.

Xupu Town is not a big town in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not a famous one, but it is very important in Changshu. From here, the Xupu River enters Suzhou, and you can also float into the Yangtze River by boat.

Recently, the economic development of the Jiangnan area has been rapid, and Xupu Town has also been revitalized. Juggling, which used to be only available every five or ten, is now visible every day.

Singing, storytelling, and a thriving economy are always hotbeds of all kinds of entertainment.

The local people have also adapted to this change, and they will gather around to see the excitement when they have nothing to do, and they may not necessarily throw money, and the onlookers will applaud.

The performers are not angry, and their popularity in this industry is also a kind of capital. Besides, this place is rich, and the common people don't give money for one day, two days, three days and five days, so it's important to give it once every ten days and eight days, right? It will be better if you make it a habit later. Just like what the document issued by the Department of Education and Correction said, it is called cultivating the market.

The carriage crossed several streets, entered a small alley, and stopped at the side gate of the Luo family's house.

Luo Wei, the largest landlord and rich man in Xupu Town, was waiting at the door in person, and if others saw it, they would have to die of curiosity. Why didn't the person who Luo Wei personally greeted walk through the gate?

"The master has worked hard." Luo Wei said very respectfully to the people in the carriage, even the person who drove the carriage he was polite.

"Monks, no matter how hard it is, it will cause trouble for Lord Luo's family." A middle-aged monk in his thirties and forties lifted the curtain and stepped out of the carriage. He was dressed in a plain pale green monk's robe, with a compassionate color on his face.

After picking up a life from the operating table at this moment, Li Yuan, who had been firmly protected by the hands of the national security, would definitely be surprised if he saw the monk's face that looked full of compassion and serenity. Isn't this the Assassin of that day? (To be continued.) )