This small banquet didn't drag on for long, Second Master Sun entrusted his purchase of firecrackers to Boss Liu, and he still had important things to do, which was to go to the north to hunt snow bears in autumn and winter. Snow bears need a lot of energy to overwinter, and they will actively come out to hunt for food, and the sights will be obvious, which is the best time to hunt them.

After Boss Liu and Liu Yifeng discussed the time and place of the transaction, they also separated.

On the way back to the inn, everyone was extremely excited, 1600 taels, including Xiao Zheng, who was born as a local official in Quanzhou, had never seen it. His family may have tried to find a way to come up with so much money, but they have never seen it.

"But, how can we take so much money? Do you want to rent a two-horse carriage? ”

Feng Shuo's words made Lao Wang and Jin Chengyou nod, Liu Yifeng hadn't spoken yet, thinking that 1600 taels should be able to use silver tickets, Xiao Zheng said with disdain: "1600 taels must be a silver ticket, you really think that you will be given 1600 taels of silver ingots." ”

Feng Shuo and Lao Wang suddenly remembered that Da Ming still had a large amount of silver tickets, mainly because they had never even seen the smallest denomination of 100 taels of silver tickets in their lives, and they had not established this concept.

Liu Yifeng nodded secretly, and sighed that it was indeed a silver ticket. But then I thought about it: Dongshan Prefecture's economy is not developed, can silver tickets be used?

Feng Shuo asked this question for him: "Can the silver ticket be universal?" I've heard that only big money banks in big cities in the Central Plains can exchange silver tickets for silver. ”

Xiao Zheng's mouth opened and he didn't say anything.

According to the rules of this dynasty, the only currencies commonly used on the market are Tongbao and silver ingots of the Ming Dynasty, of which the largest denomination of silver ingots is 50 taels, which is a silver ticket on the top.

The silver ticket is for the convenience of large transactions, although it is often used for trading, but when it is used, it must be exchanged for Tongbao or silver ingots. The only officially designated place to exchange is the money village that has been certified by the imperial court, and once other places dare to exchange silver tickets privately and are found by the government, they will not even give the opportunity to distribute Dongshan Prefecture, Annan Metropolitan Protectorate and Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and directly punish the nine clans.

Seeing this, Liu Yifeng immediately asked Xiao Zheng a few common sense questions about the Ming currency, and immediately understood what Feng Shuo was worried about. They can't use silver tickets to buy people's husbands and buy a large amount of equipment, and there is no such thing as the other party looking for money. He must first exchange the silver ticket for Tongbao or silver ingots before he can participate in the transaction.

"Is there a money bank in Shan Mountain City that can be exchanged?"

Xiao Zheng shook his head and said, "I don't know. ”

He had only traveled to Dongshan Prefecture twice, and last year he only went to Jieshan City.

This year, I was supposed to go to Kaoyama Castle, and originally the headquarters of 3 of the 5 commercial houses were in Kaoyama Castle. It was because the five commercial houses were involved in smuggling firearms and were served by the Maritime Safety Bureau and the imperial court, so they decided to send them to more commercial houses to sell these people.

"It's okay, don't worry, we just want 1,000 taels of silver tickets and 600 taels of silver, 12 silver ingots of 50 taels."

Then Liu Yifeng ignored his bewildered face and didn't know how he instantly calculated 12 Xiao Zheng with 50 taels of silver ingots, and said: "Xiao Zheng, remember to calculate how many taels of silver you have taken out so far, and give it to you directly when the time comes." ”

Most of their current activity funds are paid by Xiao Zheng, but he has completely forgotten about it, mainly because he is really not bad for money.

His uncle Huang Cheng gave him 3 silver tickets of 100 taels, which he had always wrapped in oil paper and hid in his personal bag, and the income of the crew was not low.

"Hmm."

Although Xiao Zheng verbally agreed, he had his own ideas, but it was too early now, and the foundation of that idea was not mature, and he was not ready to say it.

The time of the transaction is tonight, after all, it is contraband. All the people of the Maritime Bureau of the wharf were taken care of by Boss Liu, and there was not a single official of the Maritime Bureau in the entire wharf.

This made Liu Yifeng a little dumbfounded, corrupt to this extent?

"It's normal." Xiao Zheng said: "The Nanyang-class used by the Minfu fleet is the largest ship in the Ming Dynasty, so it is also the ship with the most smuggling, which is an open secret. Therefore, as long as it is a Nanyang-class port, it is the time for the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau to make extra money, because it is likely that there will be commercial houses to unload the goods. ”

Liu Yifeng somewhat understood that when he sent wine to the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau under false word from the captain, they were not surprised at all by the reason, and it was estimated that it was part of the bribe.

For tonight's transaction, Liu Yifeng and Xiao Zheng sang a double reed, and had already arranged in advance for the people to move 80 boxes to a certain place on the dock under the strict supervision of their own team and pile them up.

As promised, when the moon rose to its highest point, the heavy hoofs of the pack horses appeared in the night. 5 The two carriages came slowly, and Boss Liu jumped down from the first one, and began to inspect the goods after saluting each other with Liu Yifeng.

Liu Yifeng looked at the carriages, but his expression was a little surprised.

It's not because I saw horses from the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa in the Americas, but the fluffy animals in the carriage.

"Brother Feng, I haven't seen it."

Boss Liu, who was very satisfied with the inspection, came over and happened to see Liu Yifeng staring intently at the hunting dogs raised by his hunting team.

Liu Yifeng smiled, and wanted to say that he had seen it, not only seen it, but also raised it.

Alaskan Malamute, once the owner of an Internet café where he worked had one, and every time he was on night duty, he liked to hold it to watch movies.

Xiao Zheng and Feng Shuo also looked over, and they really hadn't seen so many dogs with black and white hair.

"They are Dongshan dogs that are only available in Dongshan Prefecture." Boss Liu said a little proudly, and walked to a carriage, and the Alaskan dog immediately pounced and coquettishly.

"Brother Liu, this is an Inuit dog, right?"

Boss Liu was surprised by Liu Yifeng's "erudition" and said: "Yes, the Inuit live in the ice and snow, where horse-drawn carriages are not useful for sleds, and there are no horses in Dongshan Prefecture, so they have always used dogs to pull sleds. ”

Feng Shuo and the others were amazed, but Liu Yifeng walked over and touched the sled dog.

"Brother Feng likes it very much?"

"Well, there are ones for sale in Gishan City, and I want to buy a few as hunting dogs."

"Hahaha, look at what you said, I'll send it to you directly."

Boss Liu is in the fur business, and the hunting team basically has dogs. The local dogs of Daming are not adapted to the climate of Dongshan Prefecture, so they basically raise Alaskan dogs, no, they should be called Dongshan dogs in this era.

Dongshan dogs cannot be bred on a large scale in the hands of the Inuit, because the Inuit cannot afford to raise them, but the Ming is different. In the early days, Dongshan Prefecture may still have had a food crisis and needed to be transported from the mainland, but after the establishment of the city and the reclamation of the plain in the south of the city, which is comparable to the north of Zhili, Dongshan Prefecture has never had a food crisis, and even the food is better than many places in the mainland.

This is also the reason why a large number of Dongshan Prefecture residents are not ready to return to their homeland after slowly settling down. When they go back to their homeland, they can't eat fine noodles every day, and they can't have fish and meat every day, and they can't eat beef, mutton and pork for two or three days.

There are less than 400,000 immigrants in the entire Dongshan Prefecture, and a manor and ranch in the south of the city can easily feed the immigrants in the entire Dongshan Prefecture.

So when the Han people exchanged Dongshan dogs from the Inuit, they were carefully cultivated for two generations, and today's Dongshan dogs are stronger than their ancestors in the north, and they have basically grown to the limit of large dogs, and they are close to the largest North American wolf in the wolf pack.

The one that Liu Yifeng is masturbating, I heard Boss Liu say that it is only half a year old, and it stands on the ground with a height of about 1.2 meters. You must know that most dogs stop growing after 8-11 months, and this Dongshan dog can't get the final height to exceed 1.3 meters, which is scary enough to look at.

"Brother Liu, how embarrassing is this."

Liu Yifeng didn't know the price of Dongshan dogs in this era, he subconsciously measured it with the price of later generations, and felt that this favor was too heavy and difficult to accept. But in fact, for Boss Liu, the cost of a Dongshan dog may be less than 5 taels, this is still a trained adult dog, and he is ready to send a puppy that has just been weaned for about 2 months.

Boss Liu didn't bother to be polite to Liu Yifeng, and while arranging for someone to move the firecracker, he said a few words to his subordinates, and asked him to take out 3 fluffy puppies from the carriage behind him and stuff them into Liu Yifeng's arms.

Liu Yifeng still wanted to say something, but he was conquered by the naivety of the 3 puppies and couldn't let go at all.

After the fire gun was moved, Boss Liu made a gesture: "The green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, the next time Brother Feng goes to the mountain city, remember to find me, my family business house is called Liu's Fur." ”

After saying that, he left.