The next day.

Chen Letian and his entourage came to the county Yahoutang early, and the county Cheng arrived last, under the supervision of the old men and the complainant Chen Letian. The official count of the silver began.

Then, for the first time, the county lord selected a hundred people from the thousands of people guarding outside the door to watch in the back hall to show that the county government had no intention of hiding it.

The people shouted that the lord was wise, and the county lord was very useful and said humbleness.

"These sterling silver wine utensils seem to have come from the West, hmm... It is also very exquisite, I once saw it at the house of a friend who was an official in the capital, and said that it was given to him by the Holy Lord. The chief bookkeeper was counting the money and grain of the tax department, and the county lord took out some silver wine utensils from the money pile of Zhao Wei in the canonical history, and said thoughtfully.

Chen Letian walked over to take a look and said, "I have seen it several times in the capital, and it seems that it was indeed brought by Westerners." Is it rare here?"

The county Cheng glanced at Chen Letian and said: "Our Bazhong City is sparsely populated, and we haven't seen a Westerner for more than ten years. ”

Chen Letian smiled: "What the adults said is embarrassing, and the blessing of the ancestors in the lower trust was born in the capital, and it is not in their own ability." I have heard Westerners say that in their Western Ocean, these are also affordable for wealthy families. As he spoke, Chen Letian also picked up a tall silver cup and looked at it carefully, in fact, although he had seen it, he had never looked at it carefully. The wine glasses used by Westerners are different from those used by the Great Song Dynasty. The wine glasses of the Great Song Dynasty are all four-legged, or two, and the top is either round or oval. The Western wine glass, on the other hand, has only one foot, the glass is cylindrical, the foot is also cylindrical, and the one that touches the table is a disc. Such a cup is actually not more stable than the cup of the Great Song Dynasty, and even if it is filled with wine, it is easier to pour because it is heavier on it. But in other words, from the outside, this wine glass looks quite interesting. To be honest, this kind of silverware looks really extravagant, no wonder the gentry like it. Can you not like it, the feeling of holding it in your hand is very different from that of a pottery cup.

After watching the meeting, the county lord put it back and said, "It's not unusual

Chen, this official relies on the old man to sell the old and say a word, we people of the Great Song Dynasty, especially you young people, must not take these things outside the body as the goal of life, we should look down on these, it is best to treat these as dung, then our Great Song Dynasty will get better and better, otherwise, the Great Song Dynasty will decline more and more. ”

The old men echoed one after another: "The county lord said very much, the things that people can leave in this life are never these external things, only the spirit can last forever, and only for the country and the people can be passed on for eternity." Let's not talk about how, at least we can leave something really useful for the country and the people, and do something really useful. ”

Chen Letian arched his hand and said: "My lord, my lord, uncles, what you said is very right, the students have been taught." ”

Among the invited crowd happened to be Li Xuan'er. Li Xuan'er still wears the clothes of a small servant today, and she looks like a bartender in a hotel, but she is too thin. Feng Shan, a master of disguise, not only deliberately cut a few holes in the clothes, but also splashed some wine stains and oil stains, so that people can stand next to them and smell this kind of smell that can be smelled everywhere in the restaurant.

Li Xuan'er saw Chen Letian's serious and teachable expression, and secretly said in her heart, Brother Lotte is really good at acting, obviously very dissatisfied with the county government, but now his face is full of admiration, Brother Lotte is really condescending not to sing a big drama.

Li Xuan'er has been disguised and followed behind Chen Letian and his party in disguise these days, listening to Brother Lotte talking to people, watching how Brother Lotte does things, and learning a lot. Although today is only the third day of the third day of the complaint, Li Xuan'er feels that she has grown a lot. It's as if he was just a child, but now he has become a lifter.

The confusion and ignorance of the child, to the present, if you think deeply and understand, you have gained a lot.

The way Lotte speaks and does things is really eye-opening to her, she has often read many amazing ways to deal with things in history books, but it is really as the poets of the previous generation said, and it is shallow on paper. And now she can print the truth on the certificate one by one, which really opened her eyes.

This is what her father once told her when she was a child, and just because she has read it in a book does not mean that it is true

Understand, really understand that you can implement the square words on the book everywhere in the world, or on the willows by the river, or in the swallow's nest under the eaves.

"I hope that I can continue to have people around me who are willing to guide me in my life, then my luck is the best in the world. Li Xuan'er looked at Chen Letian, who was close at hand, talking and laughing with the county lord without any jerky look, and was full of indescribable joy.

It took two days to dig up the silver, but it was quite quick to count the silver, and with the efforts of more than 20 people, the count was completed at the middle of the day.

Except for a small part of the jewelry, which is difficult to estimate, the other gold and silver are converted into a total of 320,000 taels of silver.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are 320,000 taels of gold and silver, and the preliminary estimate of other jewels is about 80,000 taels. It was preliminarily determined that the total price was 400,000 taels. The county lord took the list book and said.

As soon as the words fell, there was an uproar around.

Not only did the people not expect it, but even the elders of the big family, even the officials of the yamen, and even the county lord himself were greatly surprised.

This number is simply too large to surprise everyone.

400,000 taels of silver, what a huge amount, the financial surplus of the entire Bazhong City for ten years combined, I am afraid it will not reach so much, now it seems. It's really terrible to have so much silver.

It cost so much silver just to buy off these officials, which shows how much silver the Iron Heads plundered.

It is no wonder that the bandits of Shu have been entrenched in the mountains for decades or hundreds of years and have not been eradicated. With such a huge benefit, even if one is exterminated, the other will immediately rise up quickly.

Unless a large army can be sent to wander around the mountains of Shu all the year round, and the bandits can be eliminated at any time when they encounter them, there is no talk of eliminating them at all.

But if such a large army is really sent, then the food and grass provided to its army is probably no less than that of the bandits.

Therefore, this is also the reason why the imperial court does not do this. Because if you send a large army, you can't draw it, and even if you can eliminate it, once the army leaves, it won't be long before the bandits will come back, and the key is not to solve the fundamental problem.