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Chapter 85

Coming out of the East Factory, Jiang Xia sighed in his heart: "Sure enough, as imagined, I revealed that I already knew everything, and there was no longer a life to live in peace." (Please search, or enter directly to see the latest chapter)"

Jiang Xia walked to the carriage and sat down, he was waiting for Han Yu to come out.

After waiting for about a cup of tea, Han Yu walked out of the East Factory. After seeing Jiang Xia, Han Yu was obviously a little moved, he walked up to Jiang Xia and said, "Thank you." ”

Say these two words and you'll see the outside. Jiang Xia said with a smile.

"What's next? Anyway, they're already free people, why don't you go out and play first, and then think about your next plans?" Jiang Xia said.

The reason why he said that Han Yu had become a free man was because he negotiated with Liu Jin on the condition of joining Dongchang, and Liu Jin agreed to both requests.

The first is to no longer embarrass Li Dongyang, of course, Jiang Xia also has to ensure that Li Dongyang will never interfere in the affairs of the court again. The second is to let Han Yu go and give him a free body.

Han Yu said to Jiang Xia: "I will go to Shaoxing first, and after I finish some things over there, I will return to Beijing, and I hope that Brother Jiang can give me an errand to escort me." ”

Jiang Xia patted Han Yu on the shoulder, smiled and didn't say anything more.

Han Yu also laughed, jumped into the carriage and drove away.

On the way, Han Yu also asked Jiang Xia how he made Liu Jin believe that he was sincere, Jiang Xia casually perfunctory, and did not say anything about the name.

That night, Jiang Xia did not go to Cui Rushuang to talk about life and ideals as he said, he sat alone in the courtyard in front of his house, thinking about what Liu Jin said.

The petition that Liu Jin asked for was a few land deeds in Zhang Yong's hand, which did not sound difficult. But in fact, those land deeds involved a huge amount, enough to bring Zhang Yong down.

We have to start with the lack of copper since the opening of the Ming Dynasty. Due to the lack of copper in the Ming Dynasty, from the first year of "Hongwu" to the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, only the four dynasties of "Hongwu", "Yongle", "Xuande" and "Hongzhi" minted copper coins, and the number was very small.

In the Zhu Houzhao Dynasty, no copper coins have been minted, so the only copper coins circulating in the market are "Hongwu Tongbao", "Yongle Tongbao", "Xuande Tongbao" and "Hongzhi Tongbao". The rest of the money in circulation was gold, silver, and treasure money.

To tell the truth, Daming treasure banknotes have been in a precarious state for a long time. Due to the poor paper, the Daming treasure banknotes are difficult to withstand and are easy to break, and this thing is only not collected, and there is no demarcation, and the old banknotes are not recycled. Therefore, there are more and more banknotes circulating in the market, and treasure banknotes have long been flooded.

The official price of one tael of silver can be worth thousands of copper coins, but in fact, the real treasure banknotes of one tael of silver can only be exchanged for five hundred copper coins, which is twice as low. It can have such a value because in the Hongzhi Dynasty, the wise Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu stipulated that merchants pay taxes and collect both "Daming treasure banknotes" and copper coins, each accounting for 70 percent of the "Ming treasure banknotes" and only 30 percent of copper coins. And all the officials' Dai Lu also accounted for 70 percent of the "Ming treasure money" and 30 percent of the copper money.

In order to encourage everyone to use the "Daming treasure banknote", for a period of time, the imperial court even allowed the common people to use the old "Daming treasure banknote" to go to the "banknote bank" to exchange the new "Daming treasure banknote" in the form of one to one. In this way, the monetary system that kept the Daming treasure banknote did not collapse.

But because of this, copper coins have very little circulation in the market, but they have become a hard currency, and the price of copper coins is much more expensive.

For this reason, the copper of the Ming Dynasty was controlled by the imperial court, and all copper mines had to be mined and operated by the imperial court. All those who mine copper privately and privately mine are now guilty of a capital offense.

And the few land deeds that Liu Jin asked Jiangxia to steal from Zhang Yong were the land deeds of several copper mines.

In the Ming Dynasty, although private copper mines are a capital offense. But the huge profits led to the clandestine private mining of many powerful people, who would mine the copper and then mint some coins with the four dates, and then put them into circulation.

Since the copper coins themselves are small, this method has not caused any major problems. However, seeing that Zhu Houzhao's treasury is so empty, this is naturally one of the factors.

If Jiangxia can steal the land deeds of the copper mines in Zhang Yong's hands and hand them over to Liu Jin, so that Zhang Yong's name is on the land deeds, then there will be ironclad evidence, and Zhang Yong will never turn over.

But Zhang Yong must keep such a top-secret thing carefully, if Jiang Xia rashly steals it, it will definitely be easy to be revealed, maybe this little life will be in Zhang Yong's hands.

However, if this matter is not completed, then Jiang Xia will definitely not be able to gain Liu Jin's trust, and Liu Jin will naturally send someone to eradicate Jiang Xia again. With Jiangxia's current forces, it is simply impossible to resist Liu Jin's attack, so this matter must be done.

To the left is hell, to the right is hell. Jiang Xia was distressed for a night.

Jiang Xia got up early in the morning of the second day, and now Guozijian reported to study, and after two classes, Jiang Xia took leave from Wang Ruhai, and went out from the back door of Guozijian alone to copy the path to Zhang Yong's mansion. The reason why this is so is because Zhong Bin is waiting there at the front door, and Jiang Xia wants to see Zhang Yong, so naturally he can't let Zhong Bin know.

Guozijian and Zhang Yong's mansion are not far apart, and Jiang Xia arrived outside Zhang Yong's mansion not long after leaving Guozijian.

knocked on the door of Zhang Yong's mansion, and after a while, a small door under the gate opened, and a porter servant stuck out his head to ask Jiang Xia's origin. After telling the porter his name, the porter asked Jiang Xia to wait for a while, and then immediately went to report.

It didn't take long for the middle door to open wide, and behind the door was Zhang Yong who came to greet him in person, he smiled and hugged his fist at Jiang Xia and said, "Oh, rare guests." I didn't expect it to be Brother Jiang's visit, what a rare guest."

Jiang Xia crossed the threshold and walked into the mansion, he smiled and said to Zhang Yong: "The schoolwork in the Guozi Prison is dull and boring, and I can't find a place to go after sneaking out, so I remembered Brother Zhang's mansion to ask for a good glass of wine and mix it for lunch." ”

"Hahaha" Zhang Yong laughed a few times, he shook his head and said: "Brother Jiang is polite, you can come to my Zhang Yong, if you like it, you can come every day, although I dare not guarantee that the wine and food will be to my brother's taste, but it must be the best thing that I Zhang Yong can come up with." ”

"Brother Zhang is really righteous enough, this big brother is not in vain. Jiang Xia also laughed and laughed.

The two walked into the main hall with greetings all the way, and at the moment they entered the door, Jiang Xia suddenly whispered to Zhang Yong: "Brother Zhang, find a quiet place to talk." ”

Zhang Yong was slightly stunned, and immediately said loudly: "Brother, you came just in time, last time you took a blue glaze lamp from me, this time I found a few good treasures, take a walk, go with my brother to see." ”

"There's a baby again? Jiang Xia said with a smile, and then walked to the backyard with Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong took Jiang Xia into a house, which was indeed full of antique calligraphy, paintings, gold, silver and jade, as Zhang Yong said. Zhang Yong pointed to a chair in the room and said, "Brother Jiang, please sit down, this house is specially made, and you and I will never be heard by outsiders talking in here." ”

Jiang Xia nodded, and then said with a slight smile: "It's not a secret, my brother came to Brother Zhang's mansion to visit this time because he had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and my brother wanted to borrow a few things from Brother Zhang." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Yong said with a faint smile: "What's it, brother, but it's okay to talk about it." ”

"Title deeds, title deeds for several copper mines. Jiangxia said.

Zhang Yong suddenly fell silent, although he still had a smile on his face, but a cold light flashed in his eyes. But soon Zhang Yong laughed again, shook his head and said: "Brother is really joking, how can my brother have the title deed of that copper mine, doesn't my brother know that the law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that private copper mines are a big crime to kill the head?"

Jiang Xia nodded and said, "Private copper mines are naturally a big crime, but Gonggong Liu of Dongchang forced me to come to Brother Zhang to steal those land deeds." If I don't get my hands on this thing, I'm afraid that Gonggong Liu won't let me go lightly. ”

Zhang Yong smiled even more, he reached out and took a silver knife inlaid with sapphires from the small wooden table on the side, and said while playing: "Brother, I'm only afraid that Gonggong Liu won't let you go, aren't you afraid that Gonggong Zhang won't let you go?"

"That's naturally scary. Jiang Xia smiled and said, "But I guess Brother Zhang will definitely not watch his brother die, so I will directly tell Brother Zhang what I want in my heart." I also hope that Brother Zhang will save his brother's life. ”

Zhang Yong smiled coldly, he suddenly pulled out the knife in his hand and said, "Since the brothers have spoken, the eldest brother naturally has to do his best to help." But the brother wants the eldest brother's life with one mouth, how can the eldest brother give it?"

Jiang Xia shook his head and said, "Big brother misunderstood, how could my brother take my eldest brother's life." On the contrary, the brother will not only not ask for the life of the eldest brother, but will give the eldest brother a credit, plus a broader financial path. ”

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Zhang Yong asked with an eyebrow raised and looked at Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia smiled slightly, and then told Zhang Yong about his plan.

This conversation was two or three hours, and after Jiang Xia left Zhang Yong's mansion. Zhang Yong immediately changed his clothes, and then asked the housekeeper to prepare the carriage to go to the leopard room to face the saint.

At night, Jiang Xia had been standing in the courtyard, as if waiting for someone.

Suddenly, a sound of breaking the air sounded, and Jiang Xia turned his head to see a man dressed in black. The man clasped his fists at Jiang Xia and asked, "But Jiang Gongzi?"

"Exactly. Jiang Xia replied.

The man in black took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to Jiang Xia and said, "The head of the family asked me to say a word to Gongzi on his behalf, thank you Gongzi, everyone will earn silver together in the future." ”