"The last general will be concentric, knock on the patrol and press the lord. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

In the east gate tower of Xinpingbao, Lai Tongxin, the deputy general of Yanghe East Road, was covered in a full set of armor, and the fat on his body and face was trembling, but fortunately, he was finally born in Jiangmen, and there were still muscles in the fat, and he finally supported the fifty catties of Shanwen iron armor.

Zhang Shenyan was originally sitting on a high chair, but at this time he got up and bowed, which was regarded as a salute, and then said warmly: "General Lai, please get up." ”

Lai Tongxin said with a grateful face: "Thank you, Lord Patrol." ”

Zhang Shenyan has been in office for more than three months, before only in Datong City, because there is not much trouble, after taking office, only a few incompetent old officials were impeached with a bullet stamp, Datong here is calm, nothing happened, contrary to the previous governor and patrol press to fight the bad situation, so praised by the government and the opposition as steady and powerful, Datong patrol press seat therefore sat very firmly, and Zheng Guochang can not be said to be very harmonious on the surface, after all, the court will not like to see care, press and work together, and at least both sides understand in their hearts that this is not the time to go to war, Calm people, and live a stable life is the right way.

After the New Year, Zhang Shenyan began to patrol around Datong, as a patrol has been in Datong is impossible to move, he from the pass to kill Hukou, and then to the area of Zhenqiang Fort, and finally arrived at Xinping Fort.

When he crossed Yanghe City and arrived at Xinping Fort, not only the generals came out to greet him, but Lai Tongxin, the deputy general of the East Road stationed in Yanghe City, also came to greet him, which was enough to give the patrol the face of the adult.

"I haven't had any remarks lately." After giving the seat, Zhang Shenyan said: "However, General Lai is in the same city as the governor, and the first thing to pay attention to is the defense of the city, and at this time you should often patrol the border to prevent the captives from raiding. ”

"Yes." Lai Tongxin respectfully agreed, sat on the chair and bowed down, and said: "The last general must be more careful, and after returning to Yanghe, he will lead his troops to Shoukou Fort and Jinglu Fort to patrol." ”

Zhang Shenyan said casually: "Has General Lai ever crossed the Shoukou Fort and looked to the north of the side wall?" ”

Lai Tongxin said: "Returning to the Patrol Lord, the last general will not dare to leave the letter without the imperial court's order." ”

Zhang Shenyan smiled and said: "General Lai abides by the law, and the real general is also." ”

Both sides understand in their hearts that the north is from Fort Victory to Fort Xinping and then to the east of Fort Pingyuan, such a large place is actually controlled by He Yusheng, how far it is controlled to the north, so far it is a mystery to Zhang Shenyan, even Lai Tongxin is not very clear.

If it weren't for Zhang Shenyan's own eyes to see a large number of people going to the north, I'm afraid he would also believe the "expansion of land for a hundred miles" reported by He Yusheng, after all, with the imperial court military attache going north to attack the prisoners, there has always been only to exaggerate the results of the war without concealment, Zhang Han's cover-up is very strange in Zhang Shenyan's eyes, but Zhang Shenyan is only looking at flowers in the fog now, and he himself knows that he has nothing to do with Zhang Han without empirical evidence, so he can only be at peace with each other.

And Zhang Han has been staying in Lizhuang from last year to this spring, and Yusheng has no further measures, and I have not heard of a large-scale mobilization of regimental training to continue to go north, it seems that the war against the Beiyu may be to grab some land to obtain some benefits, and then this businessman military attache will continue to do business with the Beiyu, recently Datong and even Xuanda local officialdom and people are paying attention to the business war in Zhangjiakou, the people and the gentry are all mouthful, which is a big interesting thing, and even in several banquets presided over by Zhang Shenyan, The well-known officials and gentry in Datong were all talking about this matter, and Zhang Shenyan was also very interested in it, and summoned people several times to ask about the matter of Zhangjiakou to understand the details of the situation before and after.

At this time, Zhang Shenyan said to the general of Xinpingbao: "Although he Yusheng has built a dunbao military platform in the north, but Xinpingbao here still can't relax its daily armament. ”

Xinpingbao general Ma Fu is a member of the Ma family, the foundation of the Ma family is in Xinpingbao, this person is also considered to be rooted, but now the Ma family is weak, and the power in Xuanda Shanxi has been covered by the Ma family and the Zhang family, he can only act cautiously, fortunately, Zhang Han does not despise him, and he should be given a lot of examples, and Ma Fu, the general, should also be very relieved.

Hearing what the inspector said, Ma Fu half-knelt and saluted, but agreed to come down.

"Hey," Zhang Shenyan paced to the city tower, looked out through the window, and said a little strangely: "Is it time to close the fort gate at the hour?" ”

It's March now, the doors and windows of the city tower are open, the wind at night is still a little cool, but there is already quite a feeling of spring breeze warmth, standing on the east gate of the city tower and looking out, the willow trees or poplars on the side of several avenues have obvious green, Zhang Shenyan is a southerner, when stepping to the city tower to see the scenery, he can't help but feel a little emotional, if it is in the south at this time, it has become green.

Zhang Shenyan asked casually, but Lai Tongxin and Ma Fu looked at each other, and no one came forward to answer.

"Huh?" Zhang Shenyan's heart was on fire, it seemed that he had done too badly before this, these Qiu Ba actually dared to be so blatant and not take him seriously!

"Lord Patrolman is angry." This pot horse is settled, he can only step forward and say: "Back to the adult's words, the fort gate should have been closed, but before and Yusheng Firm came to discuss with the last general, saying that it was from Li Zhuang to transport a batch of copper coins to the fort to compare, the last general thought that there are many merchants in the fort, and the people also need copper coins, this is a matter of convenience and benefit, a large number of copper coins left outside the fort may attract bandits, and it is also the responsibility of the last general, so I promised them that the gate of the fort will be closed two minutes later, if they don't arrive after two moments, the end will be closed anyway." ”

Zhang Shenyan was speechless for a while, and just now he also told these Qiu Ba to be careful, not to be slack and sloppy just because he was connected to Yusheng in the north, but in a blink of an eye, there was a matter of delaying the closing of the fort gate.

Fortunately, Ma Fu is not stupid enough to get home, the words are high-sounding, and the past is quite perfunctory, Zhang Shenyan kept a straight face and continued to look at the scenery, but his mind could no longer settle down.

After about half an hour, I saw a large group of cars and horses coming, on the official road of the north-south road, and it was really conspicuous in the evening when there were few people.

"Thirty cars, ah......" After the convoy got closer, Zhang Shenyan was a little surprised after counting the number of vehicles, and one of his staff members whispered: "A car is at least 6,000 catties of copper coins and 7 or 8,000 strings, 30 cars are more than 20,000 strings, and a string of 1,000 dollars is more than 20 million dollars, what a big deal." ”

Zhang Shenyan couldn't help but say: "I heard that Zhangjiakou is playing lively, and Yusheng has been sending money over there, what is the price comparison now?" ”

"Hui Dong Weng," the staff member whispered: "The price comparison with Yusheng is the same as that of each branch of the bank, and now the price comparison is one to one thousand, which means that one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for a string of money for them, which is two hundred dollars more than in Beijing." ”

Another staff member shook his head and said, "Now the Jingshi can't buy eight hundred for one tael of silver, and can only go to seven hundred and eight or even seven hundred and sixteen...... The Jin merchants of Zhangjiakou in order to fight with Yusheng have made a bloody investment, and the high-grade gold back money of the Beijing division has been bought by them for seventy-seven eighty-eight, at least 150,000 taels of good money was bought to Zhangjiakou, and then the merchants of the Beijing division took the low price to redeem it back, and the Jin merchants had to pay for the freight once and again, and then it was simply the Jingshi merchants who bought it in the Jin merchants' money village, moved out and put it aside for a while and sold it back to them, when did the Jin merchants do this kind of money-losing business, all of them had green faces, but they opened shops to do business and did not dare not redeem, Fortunately, there are not many merchants in the capital who lack virtue so much, so they will not be closed all at once, but on the one hand, they are constantly minting their own money, and on the other hand, they are buying money everywhere, and both sides have strong share capital, but in the opinion of the students, the seven families have become a failure, and they are no longer able to return to the sky. ”

"Yes." The staff who spoke before said: "The last time we talked about this matter, the student also said to Dong Weng that the outcome is difficult to decide, and now it seems that He Yusheng has more than enough power, this time it is not to transport money to Zhangjiakou but to Xinpingbao, which shows that their coinage speed has caught up, and it is likely that there is no need to restrict the exchange of money." ”

In order to support the exchange war with the Jin merchants, although in Datong to Xinpingbao and other important places and Yusheng have set up a money village, but there is an upper limit on the daily exchange of money, whether it is the total amount or the number of exchanges and the number of exchanges per person are limited, the merchants and people in various places are annoying, and the overall image of Yusheng can not but have a certain impact, even though people know that Yusheng is fighting a very powerful business war, but looking at the exchange ratio is very attractive but can not be exchanged as much as possible, it still makes many people feel unhappy.

"Ugh." Zhang Shenyan sighed, and sighed to the two staff members on the left and right: "The students have been officials for many years, and they still have some experience, but I really can't imagine that it is not strange that He Yusheng has so many silver books, but where did they get so much copper to mint money?" Even if it is the imperial court coinage, it is also to buy copper nuggets everywhere in advance, which is quite laborious, so the princes of the household department are not very willing to do such a thing as coinage, that is, the Nanjing household department is willing to do it, so as to make money. Heyusheng, a Datong businessman, actually has such ability? This Zhang Han is really like being in a fog, and students can't see through him. ”

When Zhang Shenyan first arrived in Datong, the only hope was that Zhang Han would not pull the flag and rebel in his office, and after a few months, the situation in Datong became more and more stable, and the local area was not turbulent because of the emergence of such a strong figure as Zhang Han, on the contrary, through the observation of these months, Zhang Shenyan found that Datong was very rich and stable, and the people's hearts were also very stable, and there seemed to be a very strange phenomenon, that is, everyone recognized Zhang Han's strength in Xuanda, but almost no one thought that Zhang Han would openly rebel. At least in recent years, there has been no such sign, so people's hearts are very stable, which is also the strangest thing about Zhang Shenyan.