I heard the white crane say, how much you receive.

Liu Zhi smiled with a self-deprecating smile: "Lord Bai, do you know how much tea our Shaanxi merchant gang has in a year?" ”

Liu Zhi's meaning is obvious, although you have money, you may not understand the situation. Very euphemistically told sù Bai Minghe, you should know how much tea there is in the Shaanxi merchant gang.

Shaanxi's tea, since the Tang Dynasty thought that it has become the most important source of tea products in the Western Regions, all kinds of brick tea, as well as green tea after the Song Dynasty, as well as several places in Hanzhong are very distinctive, can be counted as the peak of the world's top ten famous teas, not to mention the variety, only the quantity.

Shaanxi and the surrounding tea plantations controlled by the Shaanxi merchant gang exceed one million acres, which is amazing.

"That's it, then I'm arrogant." Bai Minghe's tone lowered, and when Liu Zhi was about to say a few kind words, Bai Minghe's tone changed: "That's it, according to a quantity." Every year, I swallow 10 million taels of tea and 10 million taels of cloth from the Shaanxi Merchant Gang. The white crane said to Liu Zhi, and then said to the white heron: "Just write it like this." ”

The pen of the white heron hung in the air and did not fall.

He once helped the family with the bookkeeper, and the entire Guanzhong Bai family's goods for a year, tea and cloth, all of which were worth less than 700,000 taels.

Liu Zhi's hand holding the teacup was trembling.

Twenty million taels, the amount of the Ming Dynasty's tax orthodoxy for thirteen years Liu Zhi probably knows. 30 million stones of grain, 90,000 catties of iron, 1,400,000 taels of salt (note, there are about 300 catties of salt in one quote), 8 million spindles of yarn, and 2 million catties of tea. There are also a lot of other details. For example, silk, cinnabar, etc., as well as the grain income of about 20 million stone in the tuntian of the national army.

That is. In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, all of them were converted into silver. That's twenty million taels of silver.

(Note, in some places it is said that the Ming Dynasty only had four million taels of taxes a year.) The above number is found in the official history, and it may be a little bad, but in the early Ming Dynasty, the land was not comparable with the late Ming Dynasty, and the Guardian in the early Ming Dynasty was not corroded to the point of incorrigibility, so the above number should be accurate. From: Ming Yingzong Record! ）

The Ming Dynasty was a silver-standard economy. But merchants don't necessarily trade in silver.

Treasures, grain, silk, salt, copper, iron, etc., are all hard currency.

"Twenty million taels?" Liu Zhi was stunned and repeated the number that Bai Minghe said. "Lord Bai, are you serious?"

"Believe it or not, the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce has silver to receive but no goods to deliver. I asked for 20,000 quintals of silk, and he only had 7,000 quintals, and I traded it for gold, so he squeezed out more than 2,000 quintals for me. However, I did introduce a good supplier and can provide me with some high-quality brocade! ”

Liu Zhi couldn't think that even the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce didn't have enough goods. And who still has that.

10,000 quintals of silk is only 3 million taels of silver, unless it is Su embroidery, but the number of embroideries is limited. There's not much to offer.

"This. Lord Bai, the limit of what the Shaanxi Merchant Gang can supply in a year should be within five million taels of silver. Liu Zhi had a feeling of being slapped in the face. But he had to tell the truth, if it was really according to what Bai Minghe said. Bai Minglu wrote back the original words, and all the faces of the entire Shaanxi merchant gang were not good-looking.

Shira-naka knew this was the case. Didn't say anything more.

After Bai Minglu finished writing his home, Bai Minghe said: "This official still has guests in the afternoon, so I can't accompany him." It's not that I'm not close to people, but right now I'm on the crest of the peak in the capital, and it's not necessarily a good thing to get too close to me. "Shira-naka is telling the truth.

Liu Zhi can understand that after Bai Minglu was taught by Shang Chen, he naturally understood this truth.

Only Bai Yingjie from the Bai family in Jiangxi didn't understand, but he didn't have any ideas, and he didn't dare to have any ideas as he was.

Hua Mei came over with two maids and a few boxes.

Give Liu Zhi a piece of ambergris, pale yellow. There are about four taels. What Tuo Liu took home was a few rubies, a specialty from Annam, the largest piece is about four carats according to the current calculation, and the smallest one has half a carat, a total of six pieces, as for how to divide it at home, Bai Minghe doesn't want to care.

Giving Bai Minglu and Bai Yingjie a set of four treasures in the study room is not the most valuable in the Ming Dynasty, but it is also very exquisite.

"You are still studying, learning is the most important thing, don't pursue luxury." Bai Minghe said that, and gave each person twenty taels of silver, not because Bai Minghe was stingy, but because Bai Minglu was still young, and he had a fixed living allowance for him every month.

The last box was given to Shang by Bai Minghe earlier, a set of four treasures of the real famous grade of the study.

When he sent his younger brother out and returned to the backyard, Qinghe, who was waiting for the door, said to Bai Minghe: "He is not like your own brother. Because in your eyes, there is less love for your brother. ”

A woman who is so smart that people are afraid, the white crane is more of a responsibility to the white heron than a family affection.

"As an elder brother, if you are not strict, you can only love. Minglu will be a rich man in the future, and my Bai family will rely on him to support him in the future, I believe that he can sit in place and be a minister. ”

The reason for the white crane to turn over is also appropriate.

It's just that Qinghe didn't understand, and asked rhetorically: "What about you, young master, aren't you the pillar of the Bai clan, won't you be able to rank as a minister?" ”

Bai Minghe's eyes changed, staring at Qinghe's eyes: "From the moment my Bai Minghe entered the capital, my life, my glory, and my qi qi no longer belong to me." I have a dream that I won't sue anyone, including Sun Yuanjun. This is my dream, and I must make it come true. Therefore, I am destined to be tied to one word forever. ”

"The word?"

"I remember that night, after I read that poem, Shang Gong asked me what I was thinking about that word."

Qinghe remembers that night, a song of Qinyuan spring-snow, amazing.

"I want to be a white crane in Guanzhong, full of poetry and books, loyal to the liver and courage, but I must keep a 'lonely' word in my life!" There was a little more sadness in Bai Minghe's tone, no one could really understand this sadness, whether it was Sun Yuanjun, or Huaiyu who was a nymphomaniac to Bai Minghe, or this ice and snow smart Qinghe, they couldn't.

I didn't know that the white crane was from six hundred years later.

Just as Bai Minghe was about to sigh a few more words to set off the atmosphere, Bai Hong, the kid, came in: "Young master, invitation." The white butler said, very, very important invitation! ”

I really wanted to kick Bai Hong, but Qinghe looked at Bai Hong and sympathized, Bai Minghe was obviously the kind of feeling that he wanted to compose poetry just now. It is likely that the poem has been swallowed back.

After taking the invitation, Bai Minghe smiled: "Gao Zairen, Lord Shi, a joint treat." ”

Takatani, Seok Hyung.

It was really surprising that the first person Shi Heng invited when he returned to Beijing turned out to be a white-named crane.

The date and time are not written on the invitation, which means that the date and time are set by the white crane. "Okay, tomorrow at noon, go to Gaofu!" Bai Minghe handed the invitation back, but was stopped by Qinghe: "Young master, Yili should write back the book in person." ”

Bai Minghe's words are already good, this is just a military general comparison, but it is worse than Bai Minglu. Not to mention in front of a big man like Takaya. wrote ten in a row, and finally picked out one that was barely eye-catching, and asked Bai Hong to send it out.

"Alas......" Shira-nathan sighed softly.

Qinghe thought that Bai Minghe sighed, just because the real storm was coming, but he didn't think that Bai Minghe said: "I haven't had time to practice calligraphy recently, and I'm afraid that my stinky words will lose Daming's face." ”

"Young master, this banquet must be a Hongmen banquet!" Qinghe reminded.

"No matter how wind blows and waves blow, it's better than a leisurely stroll!" The white crane quoted a quote from the great men of later generations.

Qinghe snuggled lightly on Bai Minghe, who was really a very charming man, with courage, courage, style, demeanor, and manliness.

The white crane gently picked Qinghe's chin and kissed Qinghe's mouth like a dragonfly.

"Tomorrow morning, I'm going to tell you a secret!" Bai Minghe smiled and said to Qinghe: "But now, how about practicing calligraphy with me." Qinghe's face was already red, and he only thought that Bai Minghe would take the opportunity to practice calligraphy to get close to him.

But the actual behavior of the white crane is once again beyond Qinghe's imagination.

When Bai Minghe practiced calligraphy, he was really serious, had no distractions, and every stroke was done with his heart.

Until dinner, Bai Minghe did not leave Qinghe's house, drank some wine, looked at the reddish expression on Qinghe's face, Bai Minghe reached out and took Qinghe into his arms, lightly untied Luo's shirt, revealing two points of red.

While gently kissing Qinghe's jade neck, Bai Minghe gestured violently to signal Hua Mei to go out quickly.

But instead of moving, Hua Mei went to make a bed for Bai Minghe and Qinghe, and then brought a small stool to sit at the end of the bed, obviously there was no possibility of leaving.

Bai Minghe wanted to curse very much, but at this time, the arrow was already on the string, and he missed this opportunity, and he didn't know if he would have to wait until that day.

gestured again to signal Hua Mei to go out, but Hua Mei ran to get a white cloth and spread it on the bed.

I really don't understand, or I'm pretending to be confused. Bai Minghe is going crazy, his hand is already on Qinghe's belt, and he still can't understand it.

Although Qinghe had half-closed eyes and an attitude of letting Jun pick, she knew everything that happened around her, and she also understood. It is impossible for Bai Minghe to drive Hua Mei out, Hua Mei has taken a bath with Bai Minghe, in the name of being a girl in the room, what is it if you drive it out. The little girl will pretend to be confused and not leave anyway.

After a room of spring, Hua Mei regretted it a little, the qiē in front of her made her go crazy, and her body had an indescribable feeling, as if there were countless ants crawling on her body. At this time, Hua Mei was a little grateful to Bai Minghe, it turned out that the young master was afraid that he couldn't stand it, so he let him leave.

When Hua Mei saw Qinghe beckoning to her, Xiao Yinfang bit it, and in a few clicks, she made herself white, and then got into bed.

The white crane almost jumped out of bed in shock, not too exciting, but too sudden.

The night of spring is boundless, and the white-named crane is not as good as some beasts, and he didn't take the initiative to touch Huamei at all, but just tried his best on Qinghe! (To be continued......)