The largest hall in Leshan is "Le Chun Tang", and the business officials of Leshan like to run here whenever they have free time.

When Wang Hengyue and a few people came in, the clothes were not very conspicuous, and the reward for the turtle slave was not rich, and the turtle slave took them to the position, put a pot of tea, and a stack of melon seeds, but no one came to greet them for a long time.

Fortunately, Wang Hengyue and they didn't really come to have fun, just to see what the biggest hall in Leshan was like, and it could be regarded as a long opening of their eyes.

Especially Wang Hengyue, this is the first time he has visited this kind of place.

Looking at their dress when they come and go, all of them are either rich or expensive, and the turtle slave and bustard sisters are naturally very enthusiastic, and then look at Wang Hengyue here, it is deserted.

Yu Lei couldn't look at it, he brought his adults and brothers to this place, and now he was really losing face to sit down, and he was about to call the turtle slave over, but Wang Hengyue waved his hand at him.

Li Yifeng, Xu Mu, and Deng Xia are all young people, and when they came to this kind of place for the first time, they saw women wearing flowers and butterflies walking there, and the fragrant wind continued to spread to their noses, and they couldn't help but blush, and they wanted to close their eyes, but they really couldn't control their eyes.

Wang Hengyue looked funny, and occasionally glanced out of the door, but saw a middle-aged man dressed in ordinary clothes also walking in outside the door.

The middle-aged man stood there for a long time and no one greeted him, so he found a place to sit down, sat there for a while, and saw that no one came, a little impatient, and finally called a turtle man, who looked at his simple clothes twice, and impatiently said that his cousin now has guests.

I called the bustard again, but the bustard was also a general rhetoric, and he didn't even bother to take care of it, so he turned around and left.

The middle-aged man was about to get angry, and an old woman who specialized in changing the spittoon came over and changed a new spittoon in front of him: "Sir, business here is busy today, you can wait patiently." ”

Seeing that there was no tea in front of the middle-aged man, the old woman swallowed: "Sir, if you don't think I'm dirty, I'll pour you a bowl of tea." ”

"No, no." The middle-aged man sneered.

The brothers around Wang Hengyue found that the adults were looking at the corner intently, and they were all a little curious, and along the look, Yu Lei's complexion suddenly changed greatly, and the muscles on his face beat rapidly, and then said with a smile: "Is it him?" Hehe, there's a good show to watch. ”

Wang Hengyue and a few brothers are strange, does Yu Lei recognize that middle-aged man?

Before he could ask, he saw the old woman bring a bowl of tea and respectfully put it in front of the middle-aged man: "Sir, I have carefully washed my hands several times, don't worry." ”

"The dignified Lechun Hall is actually all things that look down on people with dog eyes!" The middle-aged man slammed the table and said angrily.

He used it so hard that the table shook a few times, the tea spilled out, and the old woman didn't know where she had offended the guests, and her face turned pale with fright.

The middle-aged man had a loud voice, and most of the guests of Lechun Hall looked here. The middle-aged man sneered a few times, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and stuffed it into the old woman's hand: "Only you come to greet me, very good, very good, this thing will be used as a reward for you!" ”

The old woman didn't know what it was, but when she opened the sack, she froze there. A few troubled guests also came up to take a look, and everyone let out a burst of exclamation.

In the cloth bag, there are actually six gold bills!

These six gold bills look like there are one, two or two, and they are so generous to an old mother, I am afraid that no one can compare with them!

The old woman was afraid that she had never seen such a large fortune in her life, and her hands trembled: "Mr. Xian, you, you gave it wrong."

The middle-aged man laughed: "It's not wrong, I Zhou Baoliang doesn't have anything else, but I'm rich!" Le Chuntang's dog looks at people low, and even I Zhou Baoliang don't recognize it, haha, haha! ”

He laughed a few times and walked away.

When a group of people heard the words "Zhou Baoliang", everyone was dumbfounded. The old bustard was also stunned there for a long time, and suddenly slapped the turtle next to him fiercely:

"You blind thing, you actually let a God of Wealth grandfather go!"

Where did Wang Hengyue recognize who this Zhou Baoliang was, Li Yifeng said in a low voice: "This Zhou Baoliang is not an ordinary person, he is the biggest businessman in Leshan, he originally started his career as a running boy, and then he has been doing business in big places such as Chengdu and Yucheng. So in Leshan, everyone only knows his name, but few people have really seen him, no wonder everyone doesn't recognize him. He had a good relationship with the former governor Xiliang, and even the Sichuan rupee was handled by him. ”

The so-called "Sichuan rupee" refers to the fact that after the British invaded Tibetan Province and the door of Tibetan Province was opened, British and Indian merchants were free to trade in Tibetan Province. In the exchange of markets between the two sides, in order to maintain further economic penetration, the British side continuously exported a large number of rupee silver coins made by the East India Company from the Indo-Burmese region to Tibet, and almost became the common currency in the Tibetan provinces. The widespread circulation of the Indian rupee in Tibetan provinces has seriously undermined the financial and financial order in Tibet and aroused the concern and uneasiness of some high-level figures in the Qing Dynasty.

On November 29, the 31st year of Guangxu, the governor of Sichuan, Xiliang, presented a proposal to the imperial court on this matter, proposing to mint a Chinese silver dollar modeled on the rupee to resist the Indian rupee and to confiscate Tibetan salaries.

The Qing court attached great importance to his suggestion, and issued an edict on December 24: "The Finance Department and the Household Department will discuss it." After the Minister of Finance, Yi Li, and others agreed to mint new silver coins in the style of the Indian rupee at the Sichuan Silver Dollar Bureau, and then Zhao Erfeng, Minister of Frontier Affairs of Sichuan and Yunnan, quickly began this work and began to mint silver in large quantities in the form of the Indian rupee using new machines at the Chengdu Mint. The Indian rupee is cast with the side image of the King of England and the name of the king in English on the obverse, and the English "One Indian Rupee" and the year of striking on the back.

The silver dollar imitated by Sichuan is the side portrait of the Guangxu Emperor on the front, and the four characters "made in Sichuan Province" are cast on the back, surrounded by flowers and grass patterns. There are three denominations: one dollar, half yuan and one quarter yuan. This new silver coin is the earliest silver coin with a human image in China, and it is also the only silver coin with the emperor's head.

People call this counterfeit coin "Sichuan rupee", "Tibetan foreign" and so on. The people of Tibetan Province also call it "Zhao Erfeng money". After the silver coins were minted, a large number of them were transported and sold to the west of the arrow furnace and promoted to the Kang-Tibet area as the main local currency. Because of its pure color and exquisite craftsmanship, it is well received by local businessmen. The local financial authorities have also taken corresponding measures to collect only Sichuan rupees and not Indian rupees in tax revenue.

Although its circulation area is not wide and is only used in the Kang-Tibet region, it did play a positive role in resisting and expelling foreign yuan to invade China's commodity market in the late Qing Dynasty!