Kim Gen-bo turned around with three companions to leave, but was stopped by five splashes. The www.biquge.info first splasher was wearing a thick cotton coat imported from the South Seas, but his head was shaved bare, with only a money rattail and a scar on his face, which made this face-covered and fleshy skin look even more fierce.

"What? Want to leave like that? Now that you've come to your master's territory, don't even think about going back like this! Go back and leave the money! The splash sneered.

"Leave the money? What money do we keep? We didn't sell anything. Kim Geun-bo argued. This kind of pimpling to extract the change of the people who entered the city to sell goods was quite a few in every city. Those people just collect a protection fee, and some big leaders go to Qinglou, restaurant and the like to collect protection money. The little gangsters in front of them can only accept them from ordinary people, and these are all unruly rules.

But why should you charge protection money when you don't sell anything?

The splash sneered, "This is the master's territory!" When you mud-legged people set foot on the master's territory, you have to leave the money! Otherwise, don't even think about leaving today! If you don't have the money, hum! Leave the deer behind! ”

A pedestrian walked over to the side and kindly persuaded Jin Genbao in his ear: "This little brother, since you are here, let's sell the goods." The announcement of the imperial court has come down, starting next year, you have to sell the grain for dragon money first, and then use the dragon money to pay taxes, and you can't use dragon money in the future! ”

"What?" Kim Geun-bo was stunned, "Why do we North Koreans use waste paper from dogs?" ”

"Return North Korea?" The man shook his head, "It's all shaved and easy to wear, is there still North Korea?" ”

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Hundreds of miles away in Seoul, a city that was later renamed Seoul by Koreans, after the looting of the Eight Banners, although it has been rebuilt for more than a year, it has not yet recovered, and now Seoul is almost like a ruin, even if some rich people rebuilt the house, it is not much better.

Gyeongbokgung Palace, which was once the residence of the King of Joseon, has now become the residence of the Seunggyeong general Dadu. Since the king of Joseon was deposed as king and demoted to a vassal king, he was naturally sent to the capital long ago.

Dadu, who was wearing a python robe, sat on the throne of the main hall, and the former Korean minister Yin Yong had already changed out of the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, and changed into the court clothes of the Qing Dynasty, with a group of civil and military officials who were also wearing the court clothes of the Qing court, standing in the main hall respectfully.

Although the original North Korean official uniform was imitated from the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, the hem of the Korean official uniform was shorter, the sleeves were slightly narrower, and the hat wings on the black gauze hat were also much shorter. Now Tu Hai shaved his hair in North Korea and changed the officials of the DPRK into the official uniforms of the Qing court, and actually forgot to give them the official uniforms of one size smaller, but completely adopted the style of the Qing court and changed them into the officials of the DPRK.

In fact, Tuhai's approach is beyond reproach, Korea is no longer a kingdom, but a province, and it is also a matter of course to wear the same clothes as the Qing court.

"General!" Yin Yong finally mustered up the courage and stepped forward and said, "Now that the Qing Dynasty is issuing paper money in my North Korea and forcing the people of North Korea to use paper money, it is already full of complaints, and the people are miserable. Otherwise, Xia Guan is afraid that there will be a change in North Korea. ”

Dadu sneered: "I, Daqing, myself are using Daqing dragon banknotes!" Why is it so hard to use in North Korea? This Qing Dynasty dragon banknote is jointly issued by Shanxi ticket number and the imperial court! Shanxi ticket number, you know, right? The silver ticket of the Shanxi ticket number is used as silver on weekdays! This big Qing dragon banknote is nothing more than a small amount of silver bills! If you go to Daqing Bank, or any Shanxi ticket number, you can exchange it for cash! So, what is the difference between using dragon money and using cash? ”

Yin Yong smiled bitterly: "General, but the Daqing Bank does not have a semicolon in our North Korea, and the Shanxi ticket number does not have a semicolon in North Korea." We and other officials can also go to Shengjing to exchange cash, how can the people get by? ”

"Humph!" Dadu sneered, "What are the people going to exchange for cash?" In short, let them know that the effect of this dragon banknote and cash is the same! ”

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Jiujiang, on the Yangtze River, an almost empty cargo ship Yang Fan went upstream, slowly arrived near the river, and docked at the wharf. This ship, the most common smuggling ship on the Yangtze River, was used to smuggle grain from Huguang to the north. Of course, the purchase of grain from the south was legal in the areas controlled by the Ming court, but it was subject to relatively high taxes. After entering the canal in Jiangbei, the boat was an illegal smuggling boat.

The ship was docked at the dock, and the boss also had a group of men working for the merchant house on the south bank, and the men had already purchased food long before the ship arrived. The grain purchased in advance is temporarily stored in the dock warehouse rented by the shipowner, and as soon as the ship arrives, the dock workers carry bags of grain onto the ship.

The dragon banknotes of the Great Qing Dynasty could not be used in the south, so the smuggling ships that came to buy grain used real money and silver, and the merchants from the north used white silver to buy grain from the south. When the ship leaves the dock, it has to pay taxes to the tax collector stationed at the dock before it can leave the dock.

Yang Yunchao is the boss of this cargo ship, but no one knows that he also has a real identity, which is actually a hidden agent of the Heaven and Earth Society.

"Hurry up! After loading the boat, we are off to go! Yang Yun shouted loudly, urging the dock workers to carry the grain.

No one noticed that the two dock workers whose real identities were agents of the Heaven and Earth Society were not filled with grain, but with a layer of grain on the outside, and the middle of the grain bags was filled with the Daqing dragon banknotes printed by the Shanghai Banknote Printing Factory of Nanyang Bank! Of course, the Daqing Dragon banknotes printed by Nanyang Bank are all counterfeit banknotes.

In a few moments, the cargo ship was full of grain. Twenty of the food bags contained counterfeit banknotes.

Yang Yunchao took out the silver and paid the tax to the tax collector stationed at the wharf, and then the tax collector took out a document and wrote down the quantity and type of grain purchased by the ship. After that, a stamp is stamped on it, which means that the tax has been paid. The ship then slowly left the dock.

The cargo ship laden with grain sailed down the river to Kua Chau, about to enter the canal.

At this time, Yangzhou was still under the control of the Qing court for the time being, in fact, Wang Xinyu deliberately did not take Yangzhou, leaving a north-south treaty port, so as to let a steady stream of silver from the north flow into the south. However, although Yangzhou was still in the hands of the Qing army, Guazhou, where the Yangtze River led to the Grand Canal, was in the hands of the Ming army.

In fact, there are many small rivers that can enter the canal, but the entrances to those small rivers are either garrisoned by the Ming army, or the way is blocked by barrages and wooden piles.

On the Guazhou River, there are countless cargo ships parked, all of which are smuggling ships bound for the north. The ships were waiting in line, and the Ming troops stationed in Guazhou needed to board and inspect the goods on board and check the tax certificates on board, and only when they were all numbered would the cargo ships be allowed to enter the canal.