Cheng Wancai is a green battalion Qing soldier of the Fengtai battalion, the Fengtai battalion, just look at the name, it is the Beijing division garrison unit guarding the periphery of the capital, where 12 8 banners and 30 battalions of green battalions are stationed, with a total of more than 6,000 people in the eight banners and more than 30,000 green battalions. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The green battalion stationed in Fengtai is naturally the most elite green battalion soldiers, with sophisticated weapons and solid armor, and each green battalion soldier is tall and majestic, looking majestic. But that's just the surface of the glamour, in fact, like the Beijing battalion soldiers of every dynasty, they are all strong outsiders and middle cadres, just a group of goods.

Because the Beijing camp basically does not fight, except for the Yang Qilong case that happened two years ago, the Beijing camp has never fought a war. Yang Qilong's case completely pierced the majestic appearance of the Eight Banners of the Jingshi Division, exposing the fragile nature, which made Bumu Butai and Kangxi dispatch the elite Eight Banners outside the Guanwai from outside the customs to enter the customs.

In today's Fengtai Battalion, the Eight Banners stationed here have long been the elite Eight Banners who came in from outside the gate, but the Green Battalion soldiers are still the original Green Battalion soldiers. In the suppression of Yang Qilong's uprising, the Jingshi Green Battalion made great contributions. In fact, it is to fight more and fight less, and anyone can win, so the Jingshi Green Battalion, which is not inferior to the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division, has not been exposed to the painting skin, and has been retained as a strong army, still stationed on the periphery of the capital.

In fact, Cheng Wancai knew very well in his heart what kind of goods the Jingshi Green Camp stationed in Fengtai was. The salary of the green battalion of the Beijing division is higher than that of the green battalion soldiers in other places, and a long man like Cheng Wancai can get a military salary of four taels of silver a month.

The military salary of four taels of silver was considered a high income in that year, and the average person could live for a year with one tael of silver. Four taels of silver a month is enough for a family to live a very good life. Not in the process of Wancai has not yet married a daughter-in-law, every month the military salary is paid, and he goes to the kiln to solve the problem. I go three or four times a month, and the rest of the money is used to buy Nanyang brand cigarettes.

Since one time, a soldier of the Eight Banners let Cheng Wancai smoke a few puffs of the special offerings of the Eight Banners, Cheng Wancai has been obsessed with the kind of good things that are more powerful than cigarettes, and since then he has been out of control, and the military salary paid every month can't even go to the kiln, and all of them are thrown into the tobacco house for consumption.

Later, the Eight Banners special offerings were levied by the imperial court with high taxes, and the amount of Eight Banners special offerings purchased from Yunnan every month was greatly reduced, and the price of the Eight Banners special offerings soared.

Fortunately, in addition to the special offerings of the Eight Banners made in Yunnan (in fact, also made in Nanyang) sold in regular tobacco houses, there are also some smuggled Eight Banners special offerings provided by small tobacco houses, which are relatively cheap.

But later, the Yang Qilong incident broke out, Wu Sangui rebelled, and the way of the Eight Banners special offerings through regular channels was all cut off, leaving only Nanyang smuggled goods. The price of smuggled goods has also risen, and the children of the Eight Banners who have access to the road have also joined the smuggling ranks. A green battalion soldier like Cheng Wancai naturally has no way to obtain the special offerings of the Eight Banners, so he can only buy them at a high price. And the imperial court punished the Han people for smuggling the special offerings of the Eight Banners very severely, and if they were caught, they would be beheaded!

Cheng Wancai can't make ends meet every month, and every time he becomes addicted to cigarettes and has no money on his body, he can only find a way to get some. I really couldn't get it, so I had to endure it for a while, and that feeling was really unpleasant.

No, Cheng Wancai hadn't drawn the Eight Banners Special Offering for three days, because he didn't even have a copper plate on him, and he couldn't afford even the worst kind of smuggled goods. But fortunately, the military salary is about to be paid.

"When the military salary is paid, I must draw a good bag!" Cheng Wancai said to himself secretly in his heart.

"The military salary has been paid!" Someone shouted.

For Cheng Wancai, this is undoubtedly the most beautiful sound in the world! In fact, the green battalion of the Beijing division is quite good, at least there is no empty salary and military salary deduction, and the military salary can be paid in time every month.

The chief Zhao Shigen came over and paid the military salary to the green battalion soldiers who had already stretched their necks and were waiting for the military salary.

"What's going on? Why did you pay us this kind of salary? How is it not silver? Someone shouted.

"This is from the imperial court! Even Lao Tzu gives out treasure money! Don't pull it down! Lao Tzu take it back! Zhao Shigen scolded and yelled.

"Yes! How not! The protesting soldier hurriedly put his salary into his purse.

"What? What kind of treasure money is issued? Cheng Wancai stopped the soldier and asked.

The soldier replied weakly: "Yes, send treasure money!" It's a treasure banknote! It's just a Shanxi ticket number, and we can go to the money village to exchange for silver. ”

Cheng Wancai squeezed forward and received his military salary from the general. After he took the four thin pieces of paper, he took a closer look, and saw that the papers read: Daqing Dragon Banknote, one or two silver and other words, and the banknote was also stamped with two bright red seals, one seal said Daqing Bank, and the other seal was Shanxi ticket number. Although it is paper money, the paper is still relatively good, and the printing is quite beautiful, which is difficult to counterfeit.

What he got in his hand was not the silver in vain, but the paper, and Cheng Wancai was obviously a little unhappy.

Zhao Shigen said angrily: "Look at what!" This Qing dragon banknote is actually a silver ticket with a Shanxi ticket number! With the Qing Dynasty dragon banknote, you can go to any Shanxi ticket number to exchange for white flowers! It's not the same yet! ”

Cheng Wancai hurriedly put the banknote into his arms, hurriedly walked out of the barracks, and went straight to the business district outside Zhengyangmen. In his impression, there are several Shanxi ticket numbers, and it should be possible to exchange banknotes for white silver.

Come to the outer city outside Zhengyang Gate, which is the most prosperous commercial street in Beijing, with various shops on both sides. Cheng Wancai didn't care about anything at this time, stretched his neck and looked around, looking for the Shanxi ticket number. He searched for most of the day, but he didn't find a store with a Shanxi ticket number sign, but he saw a long queue on the street, and the end of the line was a store with a plaque of Daqing Bank. The queue was very long, half a mile long, and most of the people in the queue were green battalion soldiers.

"Why are there so many people in line?" Cheng Wancai asked a green battalion soldier in line very suspiciously.

"All the green camps have issued Daqing dragon banknotes!" The Green Battalion soldier replied.

"How long is the queue?" Cheng Wancai looked at the queue with a sad face.

A green battalion soldier walked back happily in front, and someone immediately stepped forward and asked, "Brother, how is it?" Did you get silver? ”

"Changed!" The green battalion soldiers said happily.

"It seems that the reputation of Shanxi's ticket number is still good, but the queue is too long!" Cheng Wancai said secretly.