Huangshi: They had only watched the rain for a while, and Wu Mu came over happily. Originally, this kind of work of praying for rain should have been the work of local ministers, but since there were no ministers on Changsheng Island, they had to let Gonggong Wu do it for him.

"Grandpa Wu has worked hard, and this rain is all your credit. Huang Shi led a large number of officers and Wu Mu to politely exchange a few words, while courteously building him to take a hot bath: "Wu Gonggong's daughter's body." You have to be careful, I have a lot of affairs on Eternal Life Island, and I have to rely on my father-in-law a lot. ”

The bodies of the eunuchs have always been weaker than ordinary people, and of course, they cannot be compared with the martial artists. Now Wu Mu's whole body was lightly wet, his teeth were fighting, and his lips were frozen purple. But after seeing the rain, he was also very happy in his heart, and he said a few more words to Huang Shi before leaving in a hurry, and his mouth was still trembling, humming a cheerful tune.

But after Wu Mu left, Yang Zhiyuan sighed softly: "It seems that there is a villain next to the emperor." Huang Shi quietly swept around the people around him, and now all the officers under him, including Jin Qiude and Zhao Slowxiong, showed more or less approving expressions.

Since Wanli's favor of Zheng Guifei, there has been a drought in northern China for many years. Since the Son of Wanli tried to establish the third son of the emperor as the crown prince, the drought in northern China has become more and more severe day by day. The Wenchen clique (including the Donglin, Qi, Zhejiang, Chu and other parties) has been attacking Wanli Tianzi for decades. Zheng Guifei, as the culprit, is naturally a fox spirit.

When the Taichang Dynasty was catastrophic, the people who lacked virtue were replaced by Li Xuanzhi. This foxy and troublesome harem of the has been driven out of the palace by the righteous Donglin Party, but the natural disaster continues, so it shows that there are treacherous and righteous Donglin parties in the palace or in the court, of course, they will not be villains, so the apocalypse nurse Keshi has taken over this important task with honor, and the Donglin Party said that she is "sexually strange and obscene". But what about the specific behavior and evidence...... The Donglin Party also said: "The secret matter in the palace." Outside the unknowable. ”

In October of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian set off a prison to rectify the Donglin Party. In the winter of this year, there was no snow in Jingshi and Shanxi and Shaanxi in the north, and there was a rumor among the people in private, that is, the saints were deceived by villains today, and the people who were hit by the court were all righteous men and gentlemen. After the snow had not yet fallen in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the eunuchs were determined to counter the counter-revolutionary rumors with revolutionary rumors. Their explanation for this is that Donglin's poison is not exhausted, so God is still very unhappy. Therefore, we must intensify the crackdown on the Donglin Party to please the heavens.

But unfortunately, at least on Eternal Life Island, this rumor is obviously not convincing. Although Huangshi's subordinates did not dare to say it openly, it could be seen that they all thought that the emperor was suspected of ingratitude. The Donglin Party decided to establish the first emperor as the crown prince, investigate the murderer who poisoned the first emperor, and drove away the father and daughter of Li Xuan, who tried to usurp the throne (Li Xuanzhi, her father was a small military attaché, and this time the great work of the Donglin Party's Qingtian Baosheji was compiled into a commentary by them, and in Huangshi's previous life, it was finally adapted into a Peking opera) The son of the apocalypse was so inconsiderate and loyal to the ministers, which obviously caused the wrath of the heavens.

As for Huangshi himself, except for a handful of people, he had no good impression of the civil officials in the late Ming Dynasty. The eunuch party and the Donglin party have their own merits in terms of corruption and harm to the country, the eunuch party in the fifth year of the apocalypse, Donglin's big hat is greed, but when the eunuch party comes to power, it is not much better. As far as Huangshi's personal impression is concerned, the difference is that one is very attentive and good at setting up a bitch in the archway, and the other is neither faceless nor very good at grease and powder. So Da Ming is already sick and very sick.

How this rain brought more water flow to Changsheng Island and the western and central islands. Ten days later, the skilled craftsmen on Changsheng Island had built a new set of forging machine molds, and Liu Qingyang and Yang Zhiyuan immediately came to ask Huangshi to inspect.

The waterwheel drives the screw forging machine, and the hard pig iron mold squeaks out the metal deformation sound on the raw material. Wait for the mold to rise. Liu Qingyang took the tray out of the forging machine with his own hands. Carefully pick up the Yellowstone and look at it.

The blackened tray of cast iron was filled with a plate of silver coins, and the bits and pieces that had been forged around it would be remelted into silver plates, which would then be forged into coins in the forging machine.

Yellowstone picked up a silver coin and looked at it carefully in the daylight. The mold is carved very carefully, this silver coin is clearly visible on the ground, and the upper obverse is "military ticket", three angular Chinese characters, and the bottom of these three words is written "when five coins". There is also an Arabic numeral "5" at the bottom. Huangshi turned the silver coin over, and there were three rows of characters from top to bottom, which were "Daming", "Dongjiang Town", and "Zuo Xie".

Since the opening of Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong has come up with all kinds of "ghost ideas" in order to pick out those drifters, and the marching ticket is one of them. Mao Wenlong's wishful thinking was that he could give military tickets to the officers of each battalion in the Dongjiang River, and then the officers and soldiers of the battalion would exchange the Dongjiang military tickets he made with the merchants for things, and finally these merchants would go to Caizhou to exchange the military tickets for silver.

This policy sounds good, and the Dongjiang Army can use this to avoid dealing directly with the grain officials in Dengzhou. Moreover, Huang Shi speculated about Mao Dashuai's intentions with his villain's heart, and always felt that there was still some conspiracy in it. As long as you can exchange military tickets for grain from merchants, it is not a matter of Mao Dashuai whether you can receive the silver or not. Moreover, Mao Dashuai can also take the opportunity to take advantage of the military tickets -- in history, when Mao Wenlong was beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan, Dongjiang Town still owed the merchants 2 million taels of silver, which is almost the same as Dongjiang Town's military salary for nine years! Yuan Chonghuan once scolded Mao Wenlong for "bowing down to thieves and robbing merchants." Since Mao Wenlong was carrying the black cauldron, this debt was relied on by Yuan Chonghuan and later the chief officials of Liaodong, and the unlucky businessmen were those who supported the Ming army.

As far as Huang Shi's personal feeling is concerned, many things are indeed the general atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, but extenuating circumstances do not mean that they are doing the right thing.

As for the results...... Of course, it was very bad, Mao Wenlong sent Dongjiang officers in Shandong to cooperate with local officials to forge a large number of military tickets, which made Mao Wenlong's credit plummet, not to mention ruthless, and many honest businessmen went bankrupt because of this.

In the recent Dongjiangtang newspaper, Mao Wenlong put all the blame on the civil officials of Shandong. He also told the apocalypse about the civil officials. After the failure of the complaint against the Son of Heaven, Mao Wenlong simply carried out a personal attack on the Shandong civil officials in the Tang Daily, which was simply scolding.

But Huang Shi thinks that Mao Wenlong is not as innocent as he said, no matter what, those who forged military tickets are all officers in Dongjiang Town, and those businessmen who get military tickets are also Mao Wenlong's. Huang Shi personally thought that Mao Wenlong had no right to kick those unlucky businessmen back to Shandong with both hands.

But that's how Mao Wenlong did, and Huangshi felt that many bankrupt businessmen could be called patriots. They risked possible losses and personal risks to transport supplies to Liaodong, and they were also willing to accept worthless military tickets and resupply before seeing the silver, and they could not do it at all to Dongjiang Town, which was self-sufficient.

Nowadays, many businessmen sit idle for months or even ten months and do not get a penny, which is extremely unfair to them and their patriotic feelings. For the Ming Dynasty, to hurt these people was to suppress the patriotism of the entire merchant class. is also cutting the meat of the Ming Empire. For Dongjiang Town, which is extremely dependent on grain and cloth from Shandong, harming the interests of honest businessmen is actually committing suicide in a slow way.

Yellowstone picked up another silver coin, and he held the two coins side by side, frowning, and turning them over and over again, comparing the forged mold in a pattern similar to that of living printing—Yellowstone didn't know how to make the mold would be more efficient. However, the molds were very well done, and the difference between the two silver coins was barely noticeable.

Yang Zhiyuan and Liu Qingyang looked at Huang Shidi's expression nervously, and their chief kept his mouth shut and didn't express any opinion, which made them a little uneasy.

"Okay, in the future, my Dongjiang Left Association will use this kind of military ticket. Huang Shi's left thumb flicked two silver coins in succession, drawing a shining arc in the air one after another, and Yang Zhiyuan and Liu Qingyang were busy catching the thrown coins.

"I have 8,000 members in Dongjiang Town, and I am paid 10 yuan a month for each soldier, and 60,000 taels of silver a year. "The fixed salary of the border army was originally one or two or four yuan, but since the Apocalypse Dynasty, the rebellion of Lu'an, Jianzhou, and White Lotus has consumed a lot. In particular, more than 100,000 troops have been mobilized in the past three years of the Lu'an Rebellion. Several long-term sorties cost nearly 20 million taels of military spending. The reserves of the inner and outer treasury have long been stretched, and the military towns in the interior and the military towns that have not been in war have been suspended for many years, and although Dongjiang Town, as a frontier military town, has only a few hundred thousand, it is less than the upper and more than the lower, and it is also a medium level.

Because of this year's Nanguan victory, the domestic currency made up for the shortfall. In this way, after handing over 10,000 taels of Dongjiang headquarters, Zuo Xie, plus miscellaneous rewards, a total of 150,000 taels of silver, etc., Huangshi requested to send additional local consumption documents, and there will be 30,000 taels of input after arriving in Shandong. Therefore, Huang Shi planned to cover this shortfall and pay the full army salary of all departments of the Left Association: "We have four silver coins for each soldier on Changsheng Island, and we in the Golden State have sent people to pay each soldier for four coins." I don't care about the people in Jinzhou and the Xuanfeng Battalion, but if there are people in Changsheng Island who are corrupt or collude with the generals of the Xuanfeng Battalion to embezzle, they will all be dealt with by military law. ”

"Yes, my lord. Yang Zhiyuan agreed neatly, and he had already calculated a few salary candidates and supervisors in his heart. In addition, he also knew that Yellowstone would also send people from the internal guard and the Patriotic Catholic Church to oversee it.

"As for Zhang Pan, Mao Keyi, and Mao Kexi, they pay them according to the survey results of the military department, so we don't have to send people to supervise them. Yellowstone reached out and grabbed some silver coins from his plate and poured them back and forth between his hands. The new land coins came out with a pleasant sound, and the forged hairy horns were still a little prickly.

The Kuping official silver transported from Shandong is pure silver that has passed ninety percent of ninety, while the silver coins in Huangshi's hands do not have such a high purity, about the ratio of silver seven tin three, so the minting of this silver coin has brought thirty percent of the money interest. However, the money is not in Yellowstone's hands yet, because this silver coin is theoretically only a military ticket. Huangshi also stipulates that five silver coins can be exchanged for five silver coins in the old camp of Changsheng Island.

Even if all the merchants came to exchange the silver coins for sterling silver yellowstone, they did not suffer. But this silver coin is a better currency than silver ingots, both in terms of portability and intuitive value. Therefore, Huang Shi believed that after the credit of the Immortal Island silver coin was established over time, the interest on the money would be in his pocket. In addition to the unconditional exchange service provided by Changsheng Island, Huangshi also ordered that all the production of Changsheng Island should be traded in silver coins according to the merchants.

In addition to the silver coins, Huangshi also plans to forge some copper coins as auxiliary coins, and of course, the above names are also military tickets for Changsheng Island. After the Ming Dynasty arrived in the Apocalypse Dynasty, the credit of the Ming Dynasty had fallen to a very low level, and there were already a lot of money houses in this era, and they began to mint coins privately. The Ming Empire was completely powerless to stop this. In the small area where these private coins were in circulation, the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty could no longer compete with them. Officials from the central to the local level of the Ming Dynasty also adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards these private money. There seems to be a complete lack of awareness of how dangerous this is for the country.

The extremely low monetary credit of the Ming government has caused a phenomenon that in addition to private coinage, all kinds of silver ingots are in circulation throughout the country. Although silver ingots have more credit limits, there is still a serious difference in the quality of official and private banks. Private silver ingots are also different in different places, which brings great trouble to commercial transactions. Yellowstone has every reason to believe that once a general equivalent that can be manufactured in large quantities and has considerable creditworthiness appears, it will eventually be in circulation in the commercial sphere.

The misfortune of Daming is the luck of Changsheng Island. Of course, the ultimate goal of credit currency is to abolish the two yuan and change the yuan, but Huang Shi does not plan to become a fat man at this time, and the focus of his and Liu Qingyang's attention at this stage is still the credit, convenience and difficulty of forging this kind of "military ticket".

There were many additional benefits to this silver coin, and Huang Shi now thought of two things: the first was that it could unite the Dongjiang Left Association more closely, and the second was that it would make it more difficult for the Houjin to buy and make it difficult for Huang Shi to monitor how much silver the merchants had brought to southern Liaoning, but it was relatively easy for him to count the flow of silver coins, and if a merchant wanted to buy Huangshi's soldiers with a large amount of silver coins, the intelligence department would be more likely to show this behavior.

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At the end of April of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the waterwheels and forging machines on Changsheng Island were still working overtime to produce "military tickets". Several waterwheels on Nakajima also followed closely behind the reservoir, and a large furnace was repaired, and it seemed that it was about to be built.

After making a fortune this time, Huang Shi ruthlessly threw thousands of taels of silver into it, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a new large steelmaking furnace.

In the past, pig iron always stubbornly refused to melt into molten steel, and no matter how many people Huangshi mobilized to blow the wind, it was useless. This time, Yellowstone had more than half of the island's metro and carpenters work together, and finally made a large hydraulic blower. Blowers using screws and gears can provide continuous, steady wind power when driven by waterwheels.

The furnace also has a completely new design, with the previous blower always blowing cold air directly into the furnace. Therefore, no matter how much coal is burned in Yellowstone, the temperature inside the furnace will always not go up (about 1,300 degrees or less). Now the chimney of the stove is no longer an iron pipe leading out, but has to twist and turn around several times after it has come out of the furnace.

Yellowstone struggled to recall the shallow physics he had studied, designing the outlet ducts to sit side by side with the inlet ducts, and the icy air would be heated by the outlet chimney as soon as it entered the air intake, and then passed through the air intake into the heat storage chamber. From there, the outlet chimney pipes that swirl through will heat the fresh air (five or six hundred degrees) and finally the hot air will be blown into the furnace to make steel.

The repair of such a large furnace and the matching powerful blower made Huang Shi's subordinates complain again, and everyone shouted that the money was spent to catch up with alchemy. However, under Yellowstone's firm will, the cries of these flies were suppressed, and Yellowstone also made it clear to several of his subordinates that if they could not melt the iron this time, then he would have to build a larger furnace and a stronger blower.

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The envoy from Jinzhou sent a letter of request for instructions from the Xuanfeng camp, and five years after the apocalypse, refugees were surging towards southern Liaoning.

As early as the first month of this year, Nurhachi had a premonition that this year would be a year of great disaster, and he believed that allowing the Han people to live in large numbers would seriously affect the right to life of the Manchu compatriots. Therefore, the Later Jin regime in Liaoyang ordered the killing of all Han merchants, landlords, and talents.

Although the February military campaign interrupted Nurhachi's purge, they then moved again with swiftness to massacre the wealthy Han Chinese in Liaodong. The Later Jin regime planned to secretly use their family property to buy grain and cloth from Jin merchants.

At the end of March of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi once again ordered the arrest of the Han poor people in Liaodong, and all the beggars and poor peasants were within the scope of the massacre, and this time the massacre order was issued two months earlier than Huangshi's previous life. The wives and daughters of these poor Han Chinese were also taken captive by the Later Jin, and they were sold to some Mongolian tribes for cattle, sheep and furs. For this kind of transaction, the Houjin regime even opened a horse market in Hexi, and a large number of Han women were led naked like cattle, and the Houjin robbers and Mongolian buyers bargained.

In early April, Nurhachi issued an order for the indiscriminate slaughter of the Apocalypse for five years, which was also famous in Yellowstone's previous life. In this order, Nurhachi ordered that the Jin officers and soldiers should systematically inspect every village in their territory, and that all Han Chinese who did not have five buckets of rice should be regarded as "enemies", and that these Han people should be immediately killed and taken of their pitiful property, and that if there were five buckets of rice, they should be "compiled into villages" and become slaves of the Eight Banners.

When Li Yongfang heard about this dehumanizing murder plan, he tried to dissuade Nurhachi and was immediately imprisoned.

The Xuanfeng battalion reported to Huangshi: After April, the Han army asked for surrender one after another, and many of them fled south with their families without waiting for a reply from the Dongjiang army. On the one hand, the Jinzhou side imprisoned all these Han troops, and on the other hand, the clipper asked for instructions on Changsheng Island.

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