There are a lot of broken silver and silver tickets on the two little fathers-in-law, but there are no copper coins, and in the end, the entourage outside the door and a few shop juniors in Kuixinglou turned over their pockets together, so that they could make up more than 30 copper coins, and counted out 12 stacks on the square stool that Zhang Dezhong moved for his father, and everyone immediately retreated and watched excitedly in a semicircle.

Zhang Houye, who was stocky and had thick arms, pulled out his sword with a "bang", and the "buzzing" metal sound from the sword body sounded clearly, winning praise again.

The overjoyed Marquis Zhang shook out a fancy sword flower in his hand, snorted and waved it down suddenly, and the twelve stacked copper coins and the square stool below opened in response, all of which were neatly cut in half.

After the silence of the hall, the exclamation burst out, and Marquis Zhang pointed at him like a halberd, slashing through the cold and faint sharp blade, and his face was full of irrepressible excited smiles.

Seeing this, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, turned around and ordered loudly to a group of relatives gathered in the hall at some point: "Zhong Lin and Rulong come out of the ranks, pull out your treasure swords, and stand in the middle!" ”

The two family leaders who were named rushed to five steps in front of Grandpa Guo, pulled out the heavy long knife at their waists, and skillfully raised their faces full of anticipation.

Xu Hongji took two steps forward under the gaze of all eyes, and the sword in his hand instantly drew a semicircular arc, accurately slashing at the intersection of the two long knives.

The cheers rang out.

The delighted Xu Hongji carefully looked at the unscathed sword, and couldn't help but sigh sincerely: "Sharpening iron like mud, unscathed, it is really a rare treasure in the world!" ”

Everyone echoed and boasted about the two swords, but Zhu Daolin laughed in his heart, he had already seen the texture of the two waist knives when the two family leaders pulled out the waist knives and crossed them, which seemed to be shining, but in fact, only a little narrow blade was made of steel, and the whole blade seemed to be heavy, but in fact it was just made of ordinary wrought iron, how could it be possible to block the selection of high-quality pattern steel casting, and then after more than ten secret quenching and annealing processes, the sharp sword with a hardness of more than 65 degrees was ready to split?

But except for Zhu Daolin, where did others go to know the mystery, so they naturally congratulated Wei Guogong and Marquis Longping on their success.

The overjoyed Wei Guogong and Zhang Houye handed over the sheathed sword to their son to take, and turned to Zhu Daolin, who gave such a generous gift, thanked him again and again, and finally grabbed the humble Zhu Daolin, saying that he wanted him to sit beside him and have a drink, where did Zhu Daolin dare to be so presumptuous? Naturally, he was flattered and hurriedly refused, making the hall laugh.

The laughter has not stopped, there were bursts of scolding and dense footsteps outside the door, and the more than ten families and parents who gathered around the hall to watch the excitement suddenly remembered their duties, and one by one their faces turned pale with fright, and they did not wait for the discolored grandfather and Zhang Hou Ye to get angry, so they pulled out their swords and poured out of the main hall gate together.

After a burst of chickens and dogs, all the screaming and scolding footsteps miraculously disappeared in an instant, and for a while it was extremely quiet inside and out, everyone in the hall looked at me, I look at you, I don't know what happened, Wei Guogong and Longping Hou, who were very unhappy, looked at each other, sank their faces, and walked out of the door side by side.

Without waiting for the two of them to take three steps, the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses and the two Baihu wearing five-grade official uniforms had already rushed to the threshold and knelt down, kowtowing while shouting the capital crime in a wailing voice.

Outside the gate of the courtyard, the little marquis was stunned and looked at the leader of the guards who ran to the side of the old man in front of him, and before he finished listening to a few words, he was already frightened like ashes, and looked at the hundreds of soldiers and soldiers of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division kneeling all over the courtyard and the knives and guns on the ground, only to feel that his whole body was cold, his legs and feet trembled, and he had no strength to move a step.

In the next half an hour, Zhu Daolin finally saw the majesty of the superior.

Zhu Daolin, who was the major shareholder of Bofu Money, was responsible for the specific management of the entire Qianzhuang General Number and the big shopkeeper Ying Changpei, as well as the two eldest sons of the family, Xu Wenjue and Zhang Dezhong, respectfully accompanied, and there were eight people on the huge wine table enjoying themselves, and in the cold and windy courtyard outside the door, but they knelt straight and upright, including a thousand households and two hundred households of the Nancheng Terracotta Division, More than 150 officers and men, including 10 general flags.

Zhang Da, a slave of the Marquis of Longping who did not do his duty, was allowed to kneel in front of the dry threshold outside the main hall because of his good attitude of admitting his mistakes, and was angrily scolded by the master as a little beast and was beaten with half of his face.

When the wine was half-drunk, Ying Changpei started the theme of today's party under the signal of the old man Ying Zhengqing, moved the heavy camphor wood box and put it on the empty chair behind him, grabbed the newly minted copper coin in his hand, and respectfully distributed one to everyone present, and finally sent the remaining two to Zhu Daolin.

After everyone played carefully and showed a satisfied smile, Ying Changpei stood up again, saluted the elders, and turned to Zhu Daolin, who was seriously watching the copper coins:

"Brother Xian, do you have any good suggestions for the newly minted Chongzhen Tongbao in our Qian Village?"

Zhu Daolin has been distracted, feeling that he has made the little Hou Ye a little too much, and if he doesn't want to reconcile, he is afraid that there will be more trouble in the future, but in the face of everyone's eyes, he has to cheer up, and turn his mind to the distribution of interests that is about to begin, so he can only helplessly put aside the idea of interceding for the little Hou Ye for the time being, and couldn't bear to glance at the little Hou Ye who was kneeling alone with his head hanging down in the corner, turned his head to meet everyone's eyes, and calmly said his opinion on the newly minted copper coin:

"This batch of Chongzhen Tongbao is much better than any copper coin that the younger generation has ever seen in Jinling, whether it is the casting technique, or the weight and texture of the copper coins, and it is far above the Chongzhen Tongbao cast by the Royal Copper Yuan Bureau in the capital in the past two years, and the younger generation is very satisfied with it, and it is quite surprising!"

"Before that, the younger generation did not have much confidence in the current level of coin minting, and now I have to admit that the younger generation underestimated the superb skills of the skilled craftsmen in the future, and also underestimated the efficiency and wisdom of the craftsmen...... Well, when I say efficiency, I mean the effectiveness of copper coin casting and the high proportion of good products, I have to admit that the craftsmen are much stronger than I expected, and I am more grateful to Gonggong Wu and your predecessors for their great efforts. ”

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, and it was undoubtedly a very face-saving thing to be praised by Zhu Daolin, who was well-informed and could get many rare treasures.

Zhu Daolin paused for a moment and continued to say sincerely: "Don't say anything else, in a word: the younger generation is full of confidence in the future of Qianzhuang!" ”

"In addition, the younger generation will abide by its promise, and will ship back no less than 300,000 catties of high-quality copper plates before the fifteenth day of the first month of the new year at the latest, and in the future, it will also act in accordance with the responsibilities and powers agreed with the third brother before, and will ship back no less than 300,000 catties of high-quality copper plates every quarter for our Bofu Money Village to mint more copper coins."

"If the Chongming sailors under the command of Grandpa Guo can contact Japan on this path and exchange the copper coins minted by our money bank for Japanese silver and gold, the younger generations will find ways to ship back more copper plates, even if the price is high, they will not care."

"Good! Happy nephew! ”

Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei, and Zhang Gongwei, Marquis of Longping, applauded in unison, and then laughed in unison.

Gonggong Wu stroked his palms and praised it, his eyes narrowed with joy, and the old man Ying maintained the subtlety of the literati as always, and nodded frequently with his beautiful five-willow long beard.

After the surprise of the two eldest sons, they hurriedly turned to Ying Changpei, who was full of pride, and asked in a low voice, "How can Brother Zhu be so rich?" Ying Changpei couldn't elaborate for a while, so he could only quietly tell the two of them to talk about it after the banquet was over.