Paper?

In a huge box, there is just a pile of useless waste paper?

What is written on these papers?

The camera zooms in.

Sun Zheng picked up one of the surface sheets, and when he looked at it, this piece of paper turned out to be a pawn ticket!

What is a pawn ticket?

That is, in ancient times, it was a written voucher for exchanging things at a pawnshop!

"Teacher Sun, what is written on this pawn ticket?" Teacher Huang asked.

Sun Zheng opened the pawn ticket, and there were many words written on it.

However, most of the text is the agreed rules of pawnshops, as is the case with the terms of contracts today.

Sun Zheng didn't read these terms, but stared at the most eye-catching words in a line and read them out!

"Take your own jade bracelet as a pair of three hundred taels of silver!"

……

"A pair of jade bracelets, three hundred taels of silver, the pawnshop should make a lot of money."

"It must have made money, will the pawnshop do a loss-making business?"

"Has the Yue family started selling property since ancient times?"

"In fact, it is also normal, very few families can prosper for a long time."

"But this is too loser, how can the money from the pawnshop be sold directly?"

"If a pair of ancient jade bracelets are left to the present, it will definitely be a sky-high price!"

"What a shame!"

……

The barrage in the live broadcast room kept swiping the screen, expressing their opinions and lamenting the fall of the Yue family.

For three hundred taels of silver, everyone would feel a pity to sell something that could be used as a family heirloom.

But......

Sun Zheng didn't stop, and picked up the second piece of paper.

It's a contract!

"This is a contract for the purchase of grain, and it says that a total of ten stone (dan) of rice was purchased, and it cost nine hundred taels of silver."

"The purchaser is called Yue Xiangling."

Sun Zheng said.

He is now accustomed to the style of the show, not only showing it to the people around him, but also dedicating the camera to a close-up.

"That...... Teacher Sun, I'm sorry, how many catties is a stone of rice? ”

Yixing asked timidly.

He was not familiar with these ancient units of measurement, and felt that he knew too little about Chinese culture, so he was a little embarrassed.

But in fact, most people know the unit of stone, and they also know that it is pronounced as the same burden, not the stone of stone.

As for how many catties one stone is equivalent to now, few people know it.

In fact, even Mr. Huang doesn't fully understand the proportions, because the proportions of each dynasty are different, and it is easy to make mistakes.

"These two contracts are the system of the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, according to the weights and measures of the Yuan Dynasty, one stone is equivalent to about one hundred and fifty catties now."

Sun Zheng replied.

"I count...... One stone is one hundred and fifty catties, and ten stones are fifteen hundred catties......"

Yixing muttered a few words as if talking to himself, and then his eyes widened suddenly, and he said in astonishment: "Fifteen hundred catties? How many people were in the Yue family back then? Why buy so much rice at once? ”

"This ...... It's hard to say...... Let's move on. ”

Sun Zheng shook his head.

Perhaps for today's families, buying 1,500 catties of rice at a time is a bit exaggerated.

But for the big families in ancient times, it was normal, because the big families in ancient times would store some grain in the granary in case of emergency.

And Sun Zheng didn't explain this truth to Yixing, because there are too many bills here!

Without reading the bills, there is no way to infer the role of these grains.

In the live broadcast room, the audience also had a heated discussion about this matter.

"Buying so much food at one time doesn't feel like a family, does it?"

"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were many peasant uprisings, and I guess their families were secretly funding the rebels."

"It's possible, maybe the Yue family organized a rebel army by themselves."

……

Seniors.

Basically, it has become a relatively uniform conjecture of the barrage.

And Sun Zheng's subsequent discovery seems to confirm this conjecture.

Contracts for the purchase of grain.

Contracts for the purchase of livestock.

Pawn tickets for gold and silver jewelry.

……

Most of the papers in the box were turned out, and almost all of them were vouchers for pawns or food purchases.

Of course, this does not become a key piece of evidence for the capital army.

The key evidence is that the bills were traded in close proximity and the amount of food purchased was huge.

Up to now, the food purchased is enough to supply tens of thousands of people for two or three months!

No matter how large the population of the Yue family is, it won't squeeze out tens of thousands of people in a small house, right?

"It seems that the Yue family is indeed funding the rebel army, or, they have formed a rebel army themselves!"

"Yue Xiangling, it should be a woman, she is really a heroine among women!"

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the women of the Yue family are also good!"

The barrage was praised one after another.

What everyone didn't expect was that Sun Zheng actually stood up at this time and refuted everyone's views.

"I can especially understand the mood of everyone expecting the Yue family to go into battle to kill the enemy, or to fund the rebel army."

"But judging from a professional point of view, I don't think this food is used to fund the army."

"I think everyone knows a saying, it is called before the soldiers and horses move, and the grain and grass go first."

This sentence reflects the importance of logistics, but if you want to march to fight and conquer cities, logistics needs more than just food.

"Weapons, armor, clothing, siege equipment...... These are all indispensable in the ranks of baggage. ”

"Don't just see that in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded in overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty and the uprising was successful."

"Behind his success, there are actually countless suppressed peasant uprisings!"

"Why was the peasant revolt so easily suppressed? It's not because of insufficient armament and poor training! ”

"What the peasant rebels need most is not only food, but also equipment!"

The crowd was speechless.

The uprising, how bloody and righteous it sounds.

But with just one heart of blood and the righteousness in one's chest, it can't be done.

War, not a game.

There is no chance of repeating it.

Once the preparation is insufficient, it is suppressed by the officers and soldiers, and what awaits the rebel army is only death!

If the Yue family really wanted to raise troops, how could they not know this.

Why did they only fund food, but not weapons and armor?

Is it possible to fight a good war by eating well?

This is obviously not realistic.

Sun Zheng didn't say anything more, but continued to rummage down.

As the box was about to bottom, he saw a piece of letter paper and some blood-red marks.

Blood Book!

It's blood again!

However, this is still different from Yue Yang's blood book.

The main body of this letter is written in ink, but there are a lot of bloody fingerprints on the place where it is signed.

At first glance, there are seven or eight different fingerprints, some large and some small.

"Hoo ......"

Sun Zheng breathed a long sigh of relief, sorted out his emotions, and began to seriously examine the letter.

"Aunt Xiangling!"

"Think again!"

"Think twice!"

At the beginning of the letter, the frustrated strokes show the emotional excitement of the writer.

Here's a letter of advice!