Chang Feng led Huzi and followed everyone to Cai Zhong's study.

Release the tiger. Huzi turned left in the study and sniffed right. Suddenly, Huzi stopped in front of the south wall and began to bark wildly.

Chang Feng walked over and tapped the wall with the treasure ring, and when the treasure ring made a familiar sound again, Chang Feng smiled: "The silver hidden in the wall is not new." ”

Cellar silver is dug under the bed in the bedroom, which is called "cellar".

The walls are covered with a mezzanine layer of silver, which is called "wall storage".

To break the wall, you need to pick up a sledgehammer.

The work of picking a sledgehammer has always belonged to Xu Fatzi. He was seven feet tall and more than two hundred pounds. It is a famous strong man in the brocade guard.

"Ahh Xu Fatzi spat at the mouth twice on his hand, picked up the sledgehammer and smashed it towards the south wall.

"Boom". A large hole was smashed open in the south wall. Two taels of small silver bills flowed out of the hole like flowing water.

"Ding, ding, ding". Every silver coin landed on the ground with a crisp sound.

Xu Fatzi made persistent efforts and smashed ten more hammers.

The entire sandwich wall of the south wall was smashed open. There were a lot of small silver bills neatly stacked inside.

Chang Feng picked up one, only to see that the whereabouts of the small silver coin were "Fuyuan cast".

Fuyuan is one of the three major money banks in Beijing. It seems that this silver is not official silver, but city silver.

Xu Fatzi said: "City silver? It seems that it was not Xu Zhong's corruption, but bribery. This is what we are talking about - embezzling official silver, bribing city bank. ”

Chang Feng smiled slightly: "Wrong!" These are also official banks. What do you think is the difference between this silver coin and ordinary silver? ”

Fat Xu picked it up and looked at it carefully. I saw a little bit of gold on the silver of the white flowers.

Xu Fatzi said: "The quality of this silver is very similar to the fifty taels of silver ingots that the household department sends to my family every month to worship my ancestors." ”

Chang Feng said eloquently: "Yes! This is gold and silver. As the name suggests, silver contains gold in silver. ”

"This is not the gold that silversmiths deliberately added. Rather, silver ore is accompanied by gold mines. ”

"The Ming Dynasty has a system, and gold and silver are not allowed to circulate in the market. It was collected by the governors of the provinces and paid tribute to the treasury. It is used for the emperor to reward or fold the military attache month. ”

Xu Fatzi was a little strange: "Since it can only exist in the treasury." How did it become a city silver system with the name of a private bank? ”

Chang Feng said: "Simple. Cai Zhong must have embezzled the gold and silver in the treasury, and then melted it into city silver to cover people's eyes, and used it to give gifts to relatives and friends in the future, buy houses and buy land, raise his sister and children, and enjoy the show. ”

Xu Fatzi patted his brain: "I said it!" My father has been complaining for the past two years that the silver ingots offered to my ancestor King Zhongshan in the first month have not been enough. ”

"Because it was rewarded by the imperial court, it is not good to complain to the head of the household department who is responsible for the distribution of silver."

Chang Feng analyzed: "Most of the nobles in the capital may have the same mentality as Ling Zun. I'm embarrassed to complain that the amount of silver given by the imperial court is insufficient. ”

"Cai Zhong took advantage of this mentality of yours. When casting silver, use hands and feet in the portion. The part of the buckle, he put into his pocket. and let the money village be recast into an unobtrusive two taels of small coins. ”

Xu Fatzi scolded: "He's got a." It's really a good way to make money. ”

The crowd began to count the number of silver coins hidden in the wall.

After the inventory was completed, Chang Feng called the captain to record the accounts: "Remember, the mansion of Cai Zhong, the right attendant of the household department, copied out seven hundred and fifteen pieces of two taels of gold and silver in the study." A total of four hundred and thirty taels. ”

Record the second count of the school captain. Chang Feng signed the account book, and everyone packed the gold and silver into boxes and affixed seals.

Xu Fatzi asked the captain of the book: "How much real money has been copied out?" ”

The bookkeeper replied, "The silver ingots, silver bills, and the gold bills are three thousand six hundred and ninety taels. ”

Chang Feng gasped: "It's still far from 30,000!" Our waist card is still hanging in the air, and if you don't say it, you won't have it. ”

The two of them got out of the study. I saw the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, escorting eight women passing by. Those eight women have completely different charms.

Four of them were in their twenties. Plump figure. Quite mature and charming.

The other four look like they are thirteen or fourteen, and the girl is just starting to grow, and she is very moving.

They were crying and crying. The soldiers on the side impatiently urged: "Hurry up!" ”

Chang Feng stopped the group. He asked the soldiers, "Who are these women?" ”

The soldier smiled evilly: "Hehe, if you go back to the errand." These are all domestic prostitutes raised by Cai Zhong. The conductor asked us to escort us to the West Cross Courtyard so that we could take care of it. The next day the teaching workshop division will come to raise people. ”

Chang Feng asked one of the women who was crying with pear blossoms and rain: "Where are you from?" ”

The woman said in a thick Shanxi old vinegar accent: "E, I am from Datong, Shanxi." ”

Chang Feng asked a timid girl again: "Where are you from?" ”

The girl said softly: "I am Yangzhou silver." ”

Chang Feng and Xu Fatzi glanced at each other.

Xu Fatzi sighed: "Aunt Datong, Yangzhou Skinny Horse!" Cai Zhong, the wolf, is simply a toad marrying a frog, ugly and playful! ”

Datong's mother-in-law and Yangzhou Slender Horse are the favorite prostitutes of the rich and noble families in Beijing.

In this era when women are no different from objects, beautiful women are often traded as goods.

Aunt Datong, as the name suggests, is a Datong woman.

Traffickers bought them when they were 10 years old. Every day, we have to "sit in an urn".

The traffickers would choose an urn for their age and let the girls sit on the edge of the urn with their legs between them. Every day they sat for more than three hours.

And so on for six years. The bodies of these girls will develop differently from ordinary people.

Six years of "sitting urn" completed. They will become qualified Datong aunts. It was sold by traffickers to the capital and Jiangnan.

The literati and writers commented on the "Datong aunt", saying: Heavy doors are stacked, and winding paths lead to seclusion.

The old coarse people evaluate "Aunt Datong", basically just one word......

From the Ming and Qing dynasties to modern times, women must not be called "mother-in-law" in Datong. If you shout, a big pocket will basically not be able to run.

On the market, the deed of sale of a Datong aunt ranges from 200 taels to 300 taels.

Yangzhou Skinny Horse is Yangzhou's "tooth woman" who selects a five-year-old girl. Since childhood, he has learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing.

Stay until the thirteenth, if you adhere to the seven standards of "thin, fragrant, small, sharp, curved, positive, and soft", and the text can chant poems and paint, the dance can flutter like a fairy, and the song can go around the beam for three days. They will become qualified skinny horses.

On the market, the deed of sale of a Yangzhou thin horse costs three or four hundred taels.

In addition to Aunt Datong and Yangzhou Thin Horse, there are two other schools in Daming's flower industry: Taishan Sister-in-law and West Lake Boat Niang.

The four major schools basically dominate the Daming flower industry.

Chang Feng said to the soldiers: "If the next day the sect division comes to pick up people." You tell them that these eight women are temporarily detained! Let them wait to go. ”

With an expression of "I understand" on his face, the soldier led the eight women to the West Cross Courtyard.

Xu Fatzi said: "I said Chang Ye." You detain these eight women, don't you plan to give them to the commander for a promotion, right? ”

Chang Feng shook his head: "Although I am looking forward to promotion, I am not ashamed to use the method of giving women away." ”

Fat Xu's face changed: "Huh? Don't keep it for yourself! This is a violation of the Jinyi family's rules! When the time comes, it's not the waist card that will be lost, but the head! ”

Chang Feng shook his head: "Woman, I'm only interested in Xiao Yan." Let me tell you, the commander Jun Ling only said that we should search for 30,000 taels of silver. But I didn't say whether I could fold the color! ”

The silver is white.

The so-called folding color is to convert the price of houses, fields, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, domestic prostitutes, etc., and calculate the total amount together with the real money and silver copied out.

Xu Fatzi patted his brain: "Fold color? I didn't expect that. ”

Chang Feng said: "Those eight women are worth at least two thousand taels. So I'll hold them up first. ”

"If we take out 30,000 taels of silver, we will give them to the Faculty Division. If they are insufficient, they will be folded. ”