Hong Chengchou's Qi cultivation kung fu is naturally much stronger than Hong Antong, and he can't do this kind of thing with a guy who buys rice. He grabbed Hong Antong and said to the guy with a smile: "This little brother, we are merchants who have just come from other places, and we are wandering on the street today, and we can't help but be curious when we see that the price of grain in your land is so cheap. ”

After speaking, Hong Chengchou glanced at Hong Antong, and Hong Antong reluctantly took out a piece of broken silver and threw it to the shopkeeper, who took the broken silver and shook it in his hand, and immediately smiled on his face.

"Eh, this guest officer is not strange, the little one is really too busy, and I thought that the guest officer was here to make trouble, and there was a lot of offense in his words, this objective is not strange!"

"Out of the way!" Hong Chengchou waved his hand, and then asked the question just now: "This little brother, the price of grain here is so cheap, aren't you afraid that grain merchants from other places will come and snap it up, and then sell it to other places?" ”

"They dare!" The shopkeeper said with a disdainful face: "This guest officer, you are from out of town, and you may not be familiar with us." This place on our North Road is no better than other places, in our place, but every time you buy Liang, you can't exceed 30 catties, and if you want to buy a large amount of grain, you must have the approval of the Department of Civil Affairs, otherwise you can't transport these grains to our North Road, otherwise you will be the Department of Civil Affairs, those people are eating dry rice? If this is caught, it will be fined silver, and at worst it will be sent to the mine for mining, at the beginning, many people did not believe in this evil, and wanted to resell grain from us to sell it to other places to make a fortune, but now these people are all in the mines of Yingzhou Capital with sledgehammers! They don't want to think about it, is it so easy to take advantage of the cheapness of our North Road? ”

Hong Antong, who was on the side, couldn't help but ask: "Your grain prices are so cheap, hasn't anyone from the nearby state capital come to buy grain?" ”

"Of course." The shopkeeper smiled, "We can take proper care of these neighbors, but the Marquis Yue said that we don't run a soup kitchen, we want to buy food...... OK. But you'll have to move to our north road, and you'll have to be naturalized so you can buy cheap food. ”

Looking at the proud look on the shopkeeper's face, Hong Chengchou was shocked. If you can only see the appearance of this shopkeeper greedy for money, he can see this ordinary person's sense of identity and pride in being Shanbei Road from this shopkeeper.

After the guy finished speaking, he asked: "This guest officer, I advise you that if you want to buy a large amount of food, you have to apply for it from the Civil Affairs Department, otherwise if you buy too much, you will be caught, and you will be in trouble." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled faintly and was about to leave, but saw Yingniang come back with a depressed face. I saw her pulling Hong Chengchou's sleeve and coquettishly said, "Master." The concubine went to buy a dress and gave the store a piece of silver, but the shopkeeper there found two round things for the concubine, and I don't know what it was, the concubine wanted the boss to exchange for silver, but the boss said that this thing was universal here, and the concubine did not follow, but the boss said that there was no way to return the silver to the concubine. But the concubine really liked that dress, so she accepted those things, you see, these are the things. "Say it. Yingniang handed a few round objects to Hong Chengchou, and then looked at Hong Chengchou with some apprehension, for fear that he would blame herself.

Hong Chengchou took the thing and looked at it, his expression was first condensed. Then he looked at it in amazement. This round thing is silver

Definitely, Hong Chengchou can also be sure that this is still made of extremely pure silver. He checked it with his hand and found that the silver coin weighed about eight or nine cents. It should be less than one or two, but the production zuò is extremely exquisite, the outer ring of the silver coin is jagged, one side is cast with Ming Wansheng, one side is cast with one or two or four words of silver, and the next to the font is also carved by the mountains and rivers, and the workmanship is extremely fine.

Hong Chengchou turned around and asked the guy: "Little brother, do you know what this thing is?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled as soon as he saw the thing in Hong Chengchou's hand: "This guest officer, this kind of thing in your hand is called a silver dollar, which is a new coin issued by us, and one can be used as a silver tael, and we all recognize it here." ”

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be surprised when he heard it: "This little brother, this silver dollar is less than one or two, do you really recognize it?" If that were the case, wouldn't the merchants of the land be able to mint such silver coins in a big way for violence? ”

The guy laughed: "The guest officer said that he was joking, do you think this silver dollar and this workmanship can be imitated casually?" Even if it can be imitated, I'm afraid the cost of this silver dollar is more than one or two silver, right? ”

"Huh...... That's just as well! Hong Chengchou thought about it, and also felt that it was very reasonable, seeing that this kind of silver coin was so exquisitely made, it was impossible to cast it on a large scale, and it could only be carved slowly by hand, and if it could be carved manually, the cost would make the imitation person lose his blood to vomit blood.

At this time, Hong Antong on the side snorted coldly: "You Shanbei Road dare to mint coins privately, this is a big crime, aren't you afraid of the court to blame?" ”

"The court is to blame!" When the guy heard this, his face immediately sank, and he said coldly: "This guest officer, this silver dollar was minted by the order of the Marquis Yue, and the Marquis Yue was authorized by the emperor to open the mansion and build a tooth, and this coinage is also the right of the Marquis, you are so unreasonable, if it weren't for the face of this old guest official, I would have arrested you today!" ”

"You!"

Hong Antong was so angry that he was about to give this guy a little color in a fit of anger, but when Hong Chengchou glared at him, his body suddenly became shorter, and he retreated stupidly.

After coming out of the grain shop, Hong Chengchou walked slowly along the road with his hands behind his back, but his eyes were no longer on this street, behind him, the little concubine Yingniang slowly followed behind, and then Hong Antong and several personal soldiers.

After walking for a long time, Hong Chengchou at this time only felt that his heart was in a panic, and what he saw and heard on the street today made him feel strange and frightened. Elite troops, sophisticated equipment, abundant food, popular support, and privately minted silver coins will constantly be reversed in his mind.

After thinking about it for a long time, Hong Chengchou found that the more he thought about it, the more scared he became, if this Yueyang had a bad heart, the danger was too great, and as the governor of Xuanda, once Yueyang rebelled, he would probably be the first to suffer.

"No, you must rush to Datong to take up your post, and you must do your best to train a strong army!" Looking at the bustling crowd, Hong Chengchou secretly made up his mind in his heart...... (To be continued......)