Chapter 7: History is back on track

"What is Zhang Bingzhong going to Suizhou Wuchang to do, he should go to Shuzhong!"

Yun Zhao put down the brush in his hand, kneaded his brows, and felt that these thieves were not obedient at all, and they did not follow the set route at all.

"That's what he did after reading The Art of War for a whole year?"

Xu Wu thought and said: "It's nothing more than a set of fiction and reality, reality and fiction, he still has to enter Shu in the end, but now he needs to accumulate money and food to recruit troops."

Li Hongji was in Nanyang, and half a year ago, Xiong Wencan forced Zhang Bingzhong to withdraw from Xiangyang and gather in Gucheng, which was located in a more dangerous location.

Luo Rucai's men and horses were also divided out and gathered in Yunyang.

The two-headed lion horse should be guarded in Suizhou.

Although Li Hongji broke through the encirclement, he was unwilling to enter the locust-plagued area, and he went around there and absorbed more than 300,000 horses and returned to Nanyang, hoping to move closer to Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Rucai, and Ma Shouying, with the aim of absorbing these people and forming a greater force.

Obviously, Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Rucai, and Ma Shouying were very wary of Li Hongji, and when they heard that Li Hongji's troops had entered Xiangyang, they also ran away, not wanting to be annexed by Li Hongji. ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "This is all what has happened, just go according to the plan, what do you mean by this?" ”

Xu Wuxiang said with some embarrassment: "We have made a deal with Zhang Bingzhong." ”

Yun Zhao looked at Xu Wu and thought, "It's nothing, it can't hide from people." ”

Xu Wuxiang smiled bitterly: "Originally, we thought that Zhang Bingzhong would continue to endure when he arrived in Gucheng, and we were not ready to cut off contact with Zhang Bingzhong until we got all the wealth looted in his hands, after all, doing business with him was very profitable."

However, this Zhang Bingzhong has only been in Gucheng for two months, and he launched a surprise attack on Gucheng, and defeated the officers and troops guarding Gucheng in one day and one night.

Killed the county commander Ruan Zhitian and the patrol press Yu Shi Lin Mingqiu.

Tear down the city walls, rob the warehouses and set prisoners. Zhang Dajing, Ma Tingbao and Xu Qizuo were forced to surrender.

This guy was a little broken when he left Gucheng and headed for Suizhou...... Write down the list, number and time of the bribes demanded from the officials of the government in detail on the walls inside and outside the city, and your name is in third place! ”

Yun Zhao frowned and said, "It seems that this guy is dead set on breaking with us this time." ”

Xu Wu wanted to scratch his hair and said, "Liu Dashou, they blackmailed Zhang Bingzhong too ruthlessly?" ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be ruthless, you didn't see my name before ranking third, oh, by the way, who are the top two?" ”

"Yang Sichang, Wang Guozhen!"

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "Wrong, the first in line should be Your Majesty." ”

"Now our reputation is a bad street, and countless imperial historians have impeached us, saying that we extorted too much and forced Zhang Bingzhong to rebel.

There is also a voice saying that whoever makes a mistake should be put to rest, pointing the finger at us, with the obvious intention of asking us to send troops. ”

Yun Zhao laughed silently when he heard this, pressed his hands on the table and said, "I can send troops, the question is whether they dare to let me send troops?"

Our army has left Hangu Pass, and in front of us is a land of Pingchuan, which can go directly to Qinhuangdao without any obstacles. Do they dare?

Hahaha......"

Yun Zhao looked up to the sky and laughed, and Xu Wuxiang laughed too.

In the scientific examination during the Chongzhen period, there were already two subjects in Shaanxi without a single Jinshi.

This is the most direct view of the people of Guanzhong in Shaanxi Province on the imperial court.

The world of the Ming Dynasty is still in chaos, not too unexpected by Yun Zhao, the bureaucratic system that Yun Zhao has spent ten years building is running smoothly, and they control everything they can touch through the countless tentacles stretched out from Lantian County.

And Yun Zhao is the big spider lying in the middle of the spider's web.

The world of Daming is still on the verge of collapse.

In four months, the locusts flew from the grassland to the capital ...... Everywhere I went, there was no real grass.

In October, the emperor mourned to heaven in the New Year's Hall, and Si Tianjian said: Good!

Fifteen days later, the locusts were all gone.

The emperor was quite complacent.

Yun Zhao felt that it was not that God had spared the emperor, but that winter was coming, and locusts should also die, which was a natural law.

Since the emperor thought that this was a manifestation of his unity of heaven and man, and all the officials of the Ming Dynasty congratulated the emperor on the table, Yun Zhao naturally couldn't avoid vulgarity, so Xu Wuxiang wrote a letter of praise and sent it to Jingshi.

From autumn to the first snowfall, Yun Zhao did not wait for the imperial court to order him to become famous, on the contrary, Yang Sichang got a new appointment, he came to the Great Lakes region, sat in Nanjing and commanded the army to exterminate Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Rucai, and Ma Shouying.

Yun Zhao continued to wait, and waited for half a month without waiting for the emperor to deal with the ministers who advised him to recruit Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Rucai, and Ma Shouying.

Back then, Zhang Bingzhong and others excavated his ancestral grave of the Zhu family......

Since he could even forget such hatred, Yun Zhao felt that he should be a good person in the eyes of the emperor, and as for the order of the officials to ask him to go to Beijing to report on his work, he treated it as if this thing did not exist.

As a courtier with two hearts, he had already arranged everything, so naturally he didn't have to venture into Beijing to express his heart.

There are many people in history who have done this, and the probability of success is less than one percent, and the reason why the Hongmen Banquet can be famous all over the world and praised by the world is completely an exception among the exceptions.

More often after entering Beijing, they were cut down and never had a chance to return to their hometown.

In order to express his reverence for the emperor, Yun sent a newly minted box of silver dollars to Jingshi, and at the same time, Yun Zhao also suggested that the emperor unify the use of silver taels in the country and replace those strangely shaped broken silver with silver dollars.

This is obviously a big plan to make a fortune, but I don't know if the emperor can handle it well, if it is not handled well, and the cost of minting the silver dollar exceeds the value of the silver dollar, then it is none of Yunzhao's business.

Lantian City stands lonely in the grassland of Saishang, there is no human population within a radius of 300 miles, and there are no people on the grassland Gobi in the distance, even at the foot of Yin Mountain, where water and grass are abundant, there is a rare silence this year.

Fortunately, the city is well stocked, and it is already a small country that can be considered self-sufficient.

Lantian County is even more prosperous, Yunzhao expects the effect of the pumping machine has appeared, good talents, good technology, good population, a lot of money, a large number of materials are pouring into Lantian County, which makes Lantian County's finance once again get a huge development.

There are already many businessmen who are actively making suggestions to Lantian County, hoping that Lantian County will take the lead and everyone will work together to reopen the Grand Canal to Xi'an and communicate the connection between the southeast and Guanzhong.

This suggestion is clearly uneasy and well-intentioned.

Some people are ready to repeat the strategy of South Korea during the Warring States Period to encourage Qin to open the Zhengguo Canal to exhaust Qin, and then use this canal to drag down the finances of Lantian County.

Such a suggestion was full of deception, and even some of the students were shocked by this huge plan, and the shock was followed by ecstasy, thinking that as long as the canal was dredged, the city of Xi'an would be able to restore the prosperity of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Completely forgetting the reality that the Silk Road has long since broken down.

In November, Feng Ying's belly did not move, and Qian Duoduo's belly had no news of children except for some oranges.

Therefore, Lantian County can celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.

This year, Yun Niang ushered in the annual harvest day.

Yun Niang took this day very seriously, and ten days ago, she had already ordered the housekeeper Yun Qi to set up a tent and wait for the snow to fall.

Yun Niang stubbornly believes that collecting rent when the snow falls is a good sign, and if it doesn't snow at the end of the year, she is willing to wait until the snow falls to get dividends.

In the first two years, I built a shed and prepared some pot helmets for the big guys, and it was a good treat to eat garlic cloves and other things like mutton soup.

This year, it was obviously not possible, the simple sheds that used to leak on all sides have become warm sheds, and there are more than 30 huge cowhide tents in the open space, all of which Yun Zhao brought back from the plug, and it is best to entertain business partners after the arrangement is parked here.

Yun Niang held a snow-white tanuki in her arms and inspected her servants in the company of Feng Ying and Qian Duoduo.

Although each of these merchants was a free man, Yun Niang still stubbornly believed that these people were her own tenants.

It's just that they don't grow crops.

Qian Duoduo likes the pure white tanuki in Yun Niang's arms very much, and wants to take it from Yun Niang's hands several times and hold it himself, but Yun Niang knocks off his hand again and again.

"If you give me a grandson, who will be a raccoon cat!"

"I'll ask Princess Qin to send another one."

"Dream it, this is a Siamese cat, a gift from the King of Siam to the royal family, and Princess Qin is the only one."

"Then let the caravan go through Siam and bring me a blue-eyed cat."

Yun Niang looked at her two daughters-in-law left and right, sighed and said, "You didn't have a child, where did you get the confidence to laugh at the Hongchen concubine?" ”

Feng Ying habitually lowered her head, she didn't have the experience of growing up next to Yun Niang, and she couldn't be as unscrupulous as Qian Duoduo.

"This year's tenants are happy to look at, and all of them are not like people who have borrowed our money.

Look at it, there is also a bearskin coat, sitting in the snow and sweating, yo, now people don't even carry their coats, one by one wearing gold and silver is not like words, if anyone dares to say anything about the deficit to Wei Niang this year, let Yunqi send someone to tear his mouth.

Those who bring concubines to our house to show off are not short of money. ”

Although she couldn't take her two daughters-in-law to shuttle through the crowd unruly, Yun Niang still sat on a high place and pointed at the group of people below.

"Mother, you have made a fortune this year, can your daughter-in-law's share increase somewhat? Five hundred taels of silver in a season is not enough at all. ”

Qian Duoduo hugged Yun Niang's arm again and shook it.

"Princess Qin's annual body is only two thousand taels, and there are only one mother-in-law and three maids in your yard, why is it not enough?"

As he spoke, he threw away the pouting Qian Duoduo, and said to Feng Ying with a smile: "Your silver is not enough for Zhao Niang to know, and I will allocate you another thousand taels of silver every quarter." ”

Feng Ying hurriedly said: "Enough, enough, there are only me and Xiao Chu and two maids in the courtyard, and five hundred taels of silver is already a lot." ”

Yun Niang patted Feng Ying's hand and said, "You still have a big stall of people to feed in Funiu Mountain, since these people followed you into the Yun family's door, there is no reason to let them eat chaff vegetables." ”

"I also have someone to feed...... Qian Duoduo shook Yun Niang's arm even more.

Yun Niang scoffed.

Liu Ru came in a carriage this year, and although the carriage she rode in was not good, it was also a sturdy and durable new carriage.

The carriage was followed by a cart driven by a young fellow, and a wooden box was tied to it.

The Yun Clan's Mr. Tent is the most powerful, and their eyes are also the most poisonous.

If a man comes dressed in gold and silver, but carries a light flowing bag, such a person is not qualified to go into a cowhide tent to drink wine and eat meat.

On the contrary, when a shrewd and capable person like Liu Ru came with a heavy suitcase, even if she was a woman with an old woman and a girl, she could be courteously greeted into the cowhide tent to rest.

The old woman saw that the tent was full of some richly dressed people, so she didn't dare to go in, but Liu Ru didn't care about dragging her mother-in-law with one hand and her daughter with the other, strode in, sat in a position at the bottom, first saluted the people present, and then poured tea for her mother-in-law and daughter.

There are also people present who know her, and the shopkeeper of Liansheng He arched his hand and said: "Shopkeeper Liu has made a fortune this year." ”

Liu Ru also saluted: "The blessing of the shopkeeper, the world is good this year, and it can be regarded as earning three melons and two dates, which makes you smile." ”

The shopkeeper He said: "Broken silver is converted into silver dollars, I heard that there are two points of fire consumption in the middle?" ”

Liu Ru shook his head and said: "More than that, the official fire consumption of broken silver into silver dollars is two and a half, if the shopkeeper is interested, how about we cooperate?" ”

Shopkeeper He smiled bitterly: "Shopkeeper Liu thinks too much of me, although the profit is big, but the risk is also big, as long as the official family changes the current policy slightly, there will be no blood, and there is no courage of Shopkeeper Liu." ”

Liu Ru smiled lightly when she heard this, and stopped making a sound, when it comes to the courage to do business, these people are indeed as timid as mice.

Liu Ru concluded that in the future, the main currency of the world will be transformed from broken silver to silver dollars, and once the silver dollar begins to be popularized in the Ming Dynasty, broken silver will be launched into the market, and a currency that has withdrawn from the market will definitely fall to the point of being slaughtered by others.

The reason why she has such a great determination is completely accurate, as long as it is what Lantian County has started to do, there are few things that cannot be done.

This is just the beginning of the silver dollar business, and her purpose in recent years is not only to give Yun a huge amount of dividends, but also to borrow more silver dollars from Yun, and she feels that this is not difficult to do.

Constantly businessmen were invited out by the Yun family's tent, and they came back complacently without much effort, and began to eat and drink, as if they wanted to eat back the dividends they had just given out.

Liu Ru sat on the bench like a man and poured himself a drink, which was quite majestic.

When Yun's tent called her name, Liu Ru stood up and said to her mother-in-law, "You take a good look at Nannan, I'll go back when I go." ”

Because it was a woman, Liu Ru went straight behind the curtain and looked up at the group of women sitting here.

Yun Niang sat in the middle with a smile, a beautiful woman in a goose yellow dress sat behind Yun Niang and beat her back, and another beautiful woman with a straight back stared at her from the moment she came in.

"I've seen Anren, Liu Ru kowtowed to you."

Yun Niang pointed to Liu Ru, who was kowtowing, and said to everyone: "It's this broken settlement, every time I come to our house, I have to take advantage of it before I want to leave, but I don't know how I plan to take advantage of it this year." ”

Liu Ru saw that the nobles in the house didn't mean to blame her, so she smiled and moved the box to Yun Niang's side and opened it: "This is your dividend this year, 1,400 taels!" ”

Qian Duoduo glanced at the silver in the box and pouted, "That's it?" ”

Yun Niang smiled: "It's okay, after all, our family's capital is only one or two silver, and after three years of hard work, we can receive so much money, what is there to be dissatisfied with." ”

Feng Ying heard Yun Niang say this, and looked at Liu Ru's eyes with a little more playfulness.

After the Yun's account quickly settled the dividends according to the account book, he gave Liu Ru a return ticket, and this year's settlement was completed.

Liu Ru had no intention of leaving, but kowtowed to Yun Niang again and said, "If An Ren can hand over all the bonus money received today to the little woman to take care of, the little woman has the ability to increase the money by three percent in half a year." ”

Qian Duoduo's eyes turned around and said to Yun Niang: "Mother, if you give me the money, I can give you an extra forty percent of the half a year." ”

Yun Niang smiled and said nothing, Feng Ying stood up and said: "It's just a trick to exchange silver for silver dollars, and silver dollars for silver, Liu, I have a bigger business here, do you want to do it?" ”

Liu Ru looked at Feng Ying puzzled, the person who could sit next to Yun Niang must be a nobleman, but she didn't know who Feng Ying was.

Feng Ying looked at Liu Ru and said: "I have a large army, I have been fighting endlessly over the years, and there are some captures, I need someone to supply military supplies for this army, and at the same time sell the seizures in the army, and let the lives of women and children in the army gradually become better, let me ask you, do you dare to take it?" ”

Liu Ru thought for a moment and saluted Feng Ying: "But I belong to Lantian County?" ”

Feng Ying smiled: "I am the wife of Lantian County!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Ru forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in her heart, and re-saluted: "The little woman is sent by her wife. ”

Feng Ying immediately set his eyes on Qian Duoduo, and Qian Duoduo immediately said: "No, I want to use it to make money." ”

Yun Niang smiled on the side: "Then it's half for one person." ”

Feng Ying said to Liu Ru: "This is the best result I can get for you." ”

Liu Ru said with a smile: "The little woman only wanted to borrow 10,000 taels of silver, but she didn't dare to ask for more." ”

"Hahaha," Yun Niang laughed, fighting with Liu Ru every year was something she had been looking forward to for a long time, and this year was no exception.

Now that the play that should be watched has been watched, and Liu Ru has also been requisitioned by Feng Ying, what follows is nothing more than some boring money exchanges, where is there any superfluous fun.

"Duoduo, if you like money, just look at it and go back to rest for your mother for a while."

Feng Ying helped Yun Niang to leave, Liu Ru also left happily, Qian Duoduo looked at the silver in the room for some reason, and lost interest in looking at the silver, kicked the silver that Liu Ru took, and took He Chang's family back to his yard.

When Yun Zhao came back from the Phoenix Mountain military camp, the matter of the tenants in front of the Yun family's mansion to deliver the silver taels was still in full swing.

Today should be the happiest day for his mother, and Yun Zhao dared to go to see his mother.

When I walked into the inner house, I found that my mother was offering incense to my father's tablet, so I bowed with it.

Before he could speak, he saw his mother sitting cross-legged on the futon and preparing to recite the scriptures, and sighed in his heart, so he sat on the futon with his mother, opened the scriptures on the offering table, and prepared to accompany his mother to recite the scriptures again.

Chanting scriptures every day is already the biggest obsession in my mother's heart.

As the Yun clan prospered, the frequency of her mother's chanting became higher.

Yun Niang knocked on the wooden fish a few times, suddenly stopped, looked at Yun Zhao and said, "Is it really your problem?" ”

Yun Zhao closed his eyes and said painfully: "The child has no problem at all!" ”

Yun Niang said again: "Master Xuan Jing of Baiyi Nunnery came to see Duoduo and Feng Ying in gynecology, saying that they are strong and strong, and there are no symptoms that hinder their descendants, such as palace cold. ”

Yun Zhao tapped Mu Yu irritablely and said, "Can you still chant the scriptures properly?" ”

Yun Niang leaned towards her son, pointed to her husband's tablet on the table and said, "Tell me, your father also wants to hear it!" ”

"Ahh