Out of the gate of the Yacheng barracks, which had recently been heightened and thickened, Zhang Donggou followed the horse path straight south.

It's July, but the weather is still hot and humid, and the ground is very dry, and every time the carriage passes by, the dust raised makes him can't help but reach out and cover his mouth and nose.

Tiger Head Fort is getting more and more lively.

Zhang Donggou's steps are very brisk, today is the day of rotation, a rare day of rest after hard training, no need to get up early to exercise, no running, no queue, no shooting. He hadn't taken a vacation for a long time, and he didn't sleep lazy in the morning, and he woke up immediately when he heard the wake-up call, and then he didn't follow the team out for exercises, but just ran on the school field in the camp for two quarters of an hour, and he found that if he didn't run every other day, he was actually a little uncomfortable, and he always felt uncomfortable.

After running, after sweating, I went to the bathroom to take a shower, and the whole person felt comfortable and refreshed.

Hutou Fort has now been initially scaled, the original long street has been extended a lot, and a new horizontal street has been built horizontally, forming a cross street with the original one, dividing the newly built Hutou Fort into four districts.

Zhang Donggou is going to the southwest district, which is a residential area, not a few earthen buildings, but a house made of yellow mud and mountain stone and wood.

During this time, Hutou Fort became more and more lively, attracting not only many vendors, but also many homeless people. At first, I heard that the wages here are high, but later I found out that this is indeed the case, and the wages are settled every three days, and you can choose to settle the bill with rice knot or silver money.

Even when they found out that the young Lord Liu here would not drive them away, but allowed them to settle here. Even with a welcoming attitude, the homeless people worked on the construction site, and Lord Liu set aside a piece of land for them to build many houses, which could be moved in at a very low rent, and their children could even go to the school in the fort for free.

The homeless people worked on the construction site in the fort, and received the same wages as the rest of the workers, and they did not miss a penny. Occasionally, some elderly people who are just lonely or young orphans and children come with other displaced people, they have no work and no money, but Lord Liu still takes them in.

During this time, more than 1,000 displaced people came to Hutou Fort one after another, making the population of the fort exceed 3,000. It was the arrival of these people that greatly accelerated the construction of the tiger head fort, the cross street was built, nine earthen buildings were built, many new houses were built, and now even the fort wall, fort gate, and even the moat ditch and the fort city of the inner yacheng have been reinforced.

Now we are about to complete the construction of the third phase of the project, and the corner tower, arrow tower, Wengcheng, and more houses and shops are also about to be completed.

The fort is lined with shops on both sides of the cross street, and many merchants now set up shop and even set up warehouses here, serving as a supply transit point on the trade route between Wuchang and Luoyang.

The Nine-Headed Bird Camp Service Club has also officially moved into the main street of West Street, a three-story building with a wealth of various commodities. Food, clothing, everything, beautiful items, and cheap, of course, provided you have a point coupon.

The point coupon is just a piece of paper, a paper coupon issued by the Nine-Headed Bird Battalion, but it is much better than the banknotes issued by the imperial court.

Only with the point coupon can you purchase goods at the service center.

Originally, the service club only served the members of the Hydra, but now, it is open to anyone, but it can only be paid with point coupons, gold, silver, copper money and paper money are not allowed, only point coupons are accepted.

The points coupon is issued to the players by the nine-headed bird, and the team members usually perform well in training and combat, and they can get points.

Point coupons can be used to purchase goods at service centers, and there are discounted prices. Alternatively, it can be given to family and friends. Of course, it is also allowed to sell circulation.

Since the service company has a wide range of products, and it can only be purchased with point coupons, and point coupons are also discounted, point coupons are extremely popular now. On the street in front of the gate of the service club, many people are waiting there every day, looking for team members to exchange point coupons.

At first, many people just exchanged it for their own use, so that they could enter the service club to buy some goods that were not available in the outside shops, but then a group of people simply rose up to resell point coupons, collect them from the team members, and then sell them at a higher price.

For this group of speculative people, the nine-headed bird turned a blind eye and ignored the investigation, which also made the current point coupons more and more hot.

Zhang Donggou walked directly to the gate of the service cooperative, and many people immediately rushed up when they saw the nine-headed bird embroidered logo on the chest of his military uniform.

"Sir, there are no point coupons, sixty points for one or two silver!"

"Brother, exchange with me, I have the best gold and silver, ninety percent of the silver, one or two silver is only exchanged for sixty-five points."

"One tael of silver for fifty points, fifty points."

Seven or eight people hugged Zhang Donggou and quoted their prices one after another. The goods in the service agency, in fact, have a ninety percent discount on points compared to silver, but because only points are collected in it, it is impossible to buy it with silver, so the point coupons are rising. Now there are more than nine discounts, there are even seven discounts and six discounts, and some ruthless guys even offer an exchange price equal to one hundred points for two taels of silver, which is twice as high as the official price.

"I have a thousand points coupon here to exchange, the fifty points for one or two silver, how much money do you have?"

"Absolutely ninety percent of the silver, sir, exchange it with me, I'm in a hurry to change the point coupon to buy something." The fat old man who was about fifty points for one or two silvers hurriedly shouted.

"A thousand points, can you eat them all?" Zhang Donggou asked, he has a lot of points in his hand, it can be said that he is the person with the most points in the whole camp, he scored 10,000 points for the first time, although he used some later, but then he got some points, most of them were not willing to use them, and now he sees that the points are so hot, so he also cashes out some from time to time.

The old man hurriedly smiled and said, "Eat, eat, 1,000 points and 20 taels of silver, I will take them all." Anything else? ”

Zhang Donggou took the old man into the service club and went directly to a counter at the entrance of the first floor. It was Fang Qing's counter, she was still wearing a blue dress, but she was in good spirits, and when she saw the winter dog coming, she greeted him with a smile.

"I'm on vacation today." Winter Dog said with a smile, a little nervous as he spoke.

With that, he asked the old man to bring out the money.

"You exchange points with him, I'll help you look at the silver." Fang Qing has been in the service club for a long time, and she has gradually faded the mind of going home again, she only thinks about doing things here well, and then asking someone to send the money home every month. At the service club, she also learned to identify silver taels.

The old man handed over four five taels of silver, and Fang Qing took out the waiter, which is specially used to weigh gold and silver valuables, also called 戥子, which can be accurate to one-fiftieth of a tael.

Fang Qing weighed it again, and the weight was indeed not bad, and it was even two points heavier. Then she carefully identified the silver, looking, piercing, scraping, and cutting, and after a while, she nodded to the winter dog, "More than ninety percent of the silver, good color." ”

Hearing Fang Qing say this, Winter Dog took out an oilcloth bag from his arms and counted out ten point coupons with a denomination of one hundred points. This point coupon is similar to the banker's ticket, with various seals and other anti-counterfeiting means, and it is not difficult to identify.

The old man looked at it for a while, then showed it to Fang Qing, Fang Qing nodded, and the old man accepted the point coupon with satisfaction, and the business was done. Everyone is satisfied, and the points that are worth ten taels of winter dogs are also quite satisfied when they are exchanged for twenty taels of silver.

The old man took the point coupon and went inside satisfied, to buy a new batch of foreign gadgets in the service agency. Many people exchange points coupons in fact want to buy these things, from overseas chiming bells, clairvoyance, reading glasses, perfume, glass, woolen, and even cotton flowers, knives, etc., in addition to ginseng, shark fin, pearls, etc., when there are not foreign hot-selling goods, such as salt, sugar, firearms, knives, swords, etc. sold by the service agency, many things are not in stock here, or even no, in the past can only go to Wuchang, Luoyang and other big cities to buy, now there are also Hutoubao, we save a lot of time and distance, even if it is a little more expensive they also accept, What's more, the goods here are very good.

"Miss Fang, I still have some point coupons here, or I'll put you here, and if someone wants to change it, you can help exchange it out." Zhang Donggou said, he has changed a lot during this time, but he still has 6,000 point coupons in his hand.

"It's all changed? Point coupons are very sought-after now, and if you keep them, they may be more expensive in the future. Fang Qing had a good impression of Zhang Donggou and thought about him very much.

"Let me tell you a piece of news, Lord Liu is going to directly issue point coupons for the money and food of the team members in the future, and even I heard that the craftsmen who plan to work for the castle in the future will also issue point coupons and no longer find silver." As a result, point coupons are everywhere and are unlikely to be as sought-after as they are now. If you sell now, you might be able to make a little money.

"Are you sure?"

"You can't be wrong." Winter Dog replied, "Actually, this is also convenient, in the future, the team will directly issue the point coupons, no longer need to send silver money, cloth, salt and rice, and directly issue coupons, everyone can come here to buy whatever they want." ”

Winter Dog took out a cloth bag and opened it, and inside was a full 6,000 point coupons. If it can be exchanged at the current maximum of one to two, this is equivalent to one hundred and twenty taels of silver. Fang Qing was a little excited, "You handed over so many point coupons to me, you are not afraid that I will take the silver and run away." ”

"I believe in you."

"Then you will call me sister in the future, don't call Miss Fang, I am not a girl anymore." Speaking of which, she was a little depressed, in fact, she also saw that Dong Gouzi had a special meaning for her, and she also felt that Dong Gouzi was a good person, down-to-earth and safe. But when she thought that she had a husband and children, and she had been a bandit, she felt that she was not worthy of him.

"Sister Qing."

"It's Sister Fang." Fang Qing corrected.

"Okay, put me here the points coupon, I will help you change it if I have the opportunity, and now there are many people who want to exchange points, and almost all of them can be exchanged for one to two."

"Sister Fang, after you get off work at noon, I will invite you to the front restaurant for dinner."

Fang Qing glanced at the winter dog, lowered his eyes again, and reached out to put away the point coupon. "What are you doing with wasting that money, if you want to thank my sister, then my sister will go buy some food and go back to the dormitory to make it herself, saving money and satisfying your taste."

Winter Gouzi was extremely excited when he heard this, "Okay, okay, or I'll go grocery shopping first." ”

After the two said yes, Winter Gouzi came out of the service club, and felt that his steps were much easier. In fact, with his current conditions, it is not a problem to find a younger and more beautiful yellow flower girl at all, but it is very strange, he always forgets Fang Qing's shadow in his heart, and when he sees her, he always feels that his heart beats hard.

I had just walked a little way when I suddenly saw a group of people in front of me.

Winter Gouzi sped up a few steps, saw a few teammates coming over, and hurriedly asked, "Is something wrong?" ”

"Team Zhang." Several members of the team were members of the Infantry Division, and they recognized Zhang Donggou and saluted him first, and then one of them whispered, "Something is indeed wrong, and some bandits have sneaked into the fort." ”

"Bandits?" Zhang Donggou was surprised, "Did you catch it?" ”

"When the patrol team was patrolling, they found a guy acting suspiciously, and when he came forward to question, the man's words flickered, and the patrol wanted to take him back for investigation, and then the man began to run away, but he was caught after a few steps. According to the interrogation, the man was a bandit, and he did not come in alone, there were more than a dozen members of the same party mixed in, now we are tracking it, the fort gate has been closed, just now we found one, but the guy injured a person and ran away. ”

Zhang Donggou turned around, no longer went to the vegetable market, turned his head and returned to the Yacheng barracks, something like this happened, he wanted to return to the team immediately.