Dong Ce hurriedly said: "The steward is polite, polite, call me Hanchen is-"

Yang Mo was in a very good mood for some reason, and said with a smile: "Eh, that's not good, if the old man learns of such a rudeness, he will definitely blame." ”

Dong Ce is modest again.

The two talked and walked, and when they arrived at the second hall, the ticket that Dong Ce had been carrying in his arms had already reached Yang Mo's sleeve, and Dong Ce also told him where he could withdraw the money, and what he could do.

In this way, the five thousand taels can be regarded as a successful bribe.

The money was given to Yang Sichang, and Dong Ce took out a silver ingot of ten taels and quietly handed it to Yang Mo, Yang Mo got another benefit, and he was even closer to Dong Ce. The two talked and laughed all the way to the front yard, and Yang Moyang's steward was already so close that he called Dong Ce a brother.

He personally sent Dong Ce out, and told him very much, such as coming back in the future, and directly signing up to find him. Dong Ce naturally agreed.

The man was panting in his heart when he saw it next to him, and he was fortunate that he was quite respectful to these two sons, looking at the posture of the people, the chief steward of the inner house sent it directly, which showed how much face he had in front of the governor.

After bidding farewell to Yang Mo, Dong Ce left the government office and led the horse to walk back and forth. The two confidants were successfully resolved, and compared to when he came, he was in a much lighter mood, and there was a smile on his face, but when he looked at one place, the smile on his face instantly condensed.

The soldier who was scolded by Hou Fangyu before was still kneeling on the ground, motionless, perhaps already frozen.

Dong Ce pursed his lips, glanced back at the solemn and tall mansion, and a fierce color flashed in his eyes: "One day...... You will wag your tail and beg for mercy in front of me, and your life will be decided by me! ”

……

After leaving the Xuanda Governor's Office, Dong Ce immediately returned to the Yuelai Inn.

After he gave a few instructions, Wang Tong hurried out, and about an hour later, he took Liu San and the two into the inn.

As soon as he entered the door and saw Dong Ce's expression, Liu San smiled and said, "Congratulations, congratulations, my lord, everything went well this time, congratulations." ”

Dong Ce laughed self-deprecatingly: "Thousands of taels of silver were scattered, and I got what I should have gotten, and it's really hard to say whether this deal was made or lost." ”

Liu San'er said with a straight face: "My lord's words are wrong, this year, if I can get what I should get, that is God bless me, and everything is fine." If you can't get it, you should take it for granted, or you have to see it yourself and find it by yourself. ”

Dong Ce smiled faintly: "You see it very clearly. ”

Liu San'er humbly conceded: "Don't dare, adults praise falsely." ”

Dong Ce stretched out his hand: "Please take a seat." ”

He also said to the king: "Let the shopkeeper bring some tea, you don't have to do these things to serve people, and don't let the housekeeper do it, let the shopkeeper bring it up." ”

Wang Tong answered, and went down by himself.

After a while, the shopkeeper delivered tea, and the two drank tea and talked for a while, and Dong Ce said the purpose of calling him this time.

"I don't know if Brother Liu knows about private coinage?" Dong Ce suddenly asked.

"Privately minted money?" Liu San'er was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect Dong Ce to say this, he nodded: "Naturally, I know that there are many such private coins that are used every day." Speaking of which, it seems to be more than the money minted by the government. ”

Dong Ce said: "The amount of this private coinage, is it a lot? ”

"That's right." Liu San nodded and said: "Shanxi's practice of privately minting money is very serious. Many large families, especially those in the countryside, usually mint money in secret places, and it is said that they have made a lot of profits. Especially in northern Shanxi, this kind of atmosphere is even more serious. ”

Dong Ce nodded, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "If you want to buy a large amount of private money, I don't know if Brother Liu has some ways?" ”

"Buying private money?"

Liu San'er didn't ask Dong Ce why he was fed up with your private money, if he was such a curious person and didn't know the severity, it would be impossible for him to sit firmly in this position. He only needs to know that Dong Ce wants to buy private money, and he just needs to see if he can help from it and get benefits by the way.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Here I know a few people who specialize in this business, and they can buy them from all over the market. It's just that these teeth also have to support their families......"

Dong Ce waved his hand: "This is okay, Brother Liu can tell them that if you accept one or two pieces of silver, you will give them the benefit of a penny of silver." If you want to come, with their ability, they can collect a few taels a day, I'm afraid it won't be a problem? ”

Liu San nodded and said, "The commission promised by the adults is already very high. ”

Dong Ce knew this, needless to say, this money passed through Liu San'er's hands, and he would definitely get some benefits from it. This is a matter of course, people do things for you, and it is not a fateful friendship with you, and there is no benefit to take, how can there be this truth in the world?

Dong Ce said: "For the time being, I will collect five hundred taels first, and when Brother Liu leaves later, you can directly take the silver." ”

When Liu San'er heard this, she also trembled in her heart, and was a little moved in an instant. Speaking of which, he is also quite wealthy, but he has never seen so much money in his life, and Dong Ce is now willing to hand over this lot of money directly to him, which is already quite trusting. Of course, his family has a big business, and he will never dare to swallow this money and offend Dong Ce.

He nodded silently and agreed.

Dong Ce took out a copper coin from his sleeve and handed it to Liu San'er.

Liu San'er took it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

The diameter of this copper coin is about one and a half inches, and the weight is about one and a half coins, and the color is blue and yellow, obviously there is not only brass in it, but also tin, lead and other metals. The edges are smooth, quite thick to the touch, and have a heavy texture. This is obviously a privately minted coin, and it is also a round square hole, with a 'one' written above the perforation, and a 'wen' written below the perforation, representing a penny. And the back is bare, nothing.

Liu San'er looked at it and said, "This kind of money, the size and weight of Chongzhen's horse money are the same, or even better." Looking at this color, when casting, copper should also account for sixty percent of the share, so thick, it is also superior in private coinage. It should be the private coinage that flows from Yingzhou, Ulzhou, where copper is produced in the mountains, and it has always produced high-quality private coinage. ”

This copper coin was obtained by Dong Ce from the shopkeeper of the inn outside the city when he first came to Yanghe City, and he never threw it away.

Dong Ce asked: "If it is such a good thick private coin, how much can one or two pieces of silver be exchanged?" ”

Liu San said: "One tael of silver is exchanged for Chongzhen's horse money, which is five hundred and fifty, and it is exchanged for one thousand five hundred." ”

In fact, Dong Ce has known this exchange number for a long time, and he said this just to see if Liu San'er is greedy. Hearing this, Dong Ce nodded: "Please Brother Liu instruct me to go down, as long as there is such a thick and sturdy private coin, of course, there are heavier ones better." ”

Although Liu San was a little surprised, he didn't ask too much and agreed.

Dong Ce instructed a few more words, Liu San'er saw that there was nothing else, so don't say goodbye and leave.

Dong Ce promised him time, and in five days, he had to exchange the silver for copper coins.

At this time, Dong Ce estimated that it was the time when he returned to Yanghe City again.

Later, Dong Ce called Wang Tong and asked him to instruct everyone to prepare to go back to Panshi Fort, and at the same time leave two family members to take care of Dong Zhongyong and Dong Zhongkang nearby, and at the same time, he was always keeping an eye on the movements of the Xie Ji Grain Store.

Since he has to come back in a few days, there is no need to return the house, he still lives there, and Dong Ce is not short of these house money.

After ordering this, Dong Ce took people away.

It was in the afternoon that Dong Ce and his entourage left Yanghe City, so they smeared marmot oil on their faces, put them in order, and hurried to the Rock Fort.

……

Rock Fort.

The city, which was under construction and improvement, changed almost in a day, rising from the ruins and gradually becoming prosperous, neat, new and heavy. At this time, compared to a dozen days, or even a few days ago, it will have to be different.

The outer walls of the castle had been completed a month earlier, and the inner walls that divided the various areas had now been completed.

Under the command of the craftsmen, the people first dug a trench two feet deep and three feet wide in the ground, which was the foundation. Then sprinkle moisture-proof lime at the bottom, and then spread a thick layer of large bluestone on top, and the bluestone is layered with three layers until it is almost level with the ground. Then the bricks were laid on top of it and the walls were built. With the big bluestone as the foundation, the wall built in this way is stable and firm, and unless it is seriously damaged by man, it may not collapse in hundreds of years.

In terms of scale, these walls are naturally far inferior to the outer city walls more than ten meters thick, in fact, there is no need to reach that level, they are just the square walls of the future people's residential area - "Fang", and the outer walls of the four planned military or government districts of A, B, C and D. Its main function is to rely on these walls that are already high enough to divide the city into large and small pieces, so that the roads in the city are complicated, so as to create good conditions for street fighting.

It's just that the height of these walls was originally one zhang and six feet high, but now it is only eight feet high, which means that people can not look up and see the outside. However, the thickness has not shrunk, and it is still six feet thick. In this way, although it is not completed now, it can be rebuilt at any time in the future.

The reason for the suspension of work is that there is a shortage of masonry, tiles and wood.

There were indeed a lot of bricks, stones, tiles and timbers removed from the ruins of the Rock Fort at that time, but some of them were broken and broken and could no longer be used, so they were pushed to the Hunshui River and the Gan River outside to make the bridge piers. The rest of them, repairing the city wall, and then repairing the workshop wall, and setting aside a lot of bricks and tiles to build Dong Ce's official residence, the barracks of the soldiers, and the residences of the officials, had to be temporarily suspended. Although the brick kiln outside the city has been opened, the soil is so hard that it is not easy to get rid of in winter, and not a single brick has been produced until now. Count on them, that's a shadowless thing.

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