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Chapter 149 Official Silver

"Old Huai, why isn't Shadow with you?" Li Dun'er felt very strange when she saw Hao Huai alone. In their eyes, the shadow was simply Hao Huai's "shadow" and rarely wasn't by his side.

"It should be a supermarket selling things. I heard that Xiaoji was in a hurry to ask me to come, so I didn't wait for her." Hao Huai explained briefly, and then asked, "By the way, what happened? It's so mysterious."

When Li Dun'er saw Hao Huai ask a question, she winked with the chicken man, and then chatted with Lao Jiang beside her.

The chicken man smiled and walked to Hao Huai and whispered: "Brother Bad, you have laid a good foundation last time. Now our brothers are really going to get rich."

"Get rich, did the farmer discover something good again? Is it official kiln porcelain or ancient jade?"

"Hehe..., none of them, this time it's really a good thing." After the chicken man finished speaking, he took out a blue coarse cloth bag in his hand, wrapped in a piece of thing the size of a teacup, looking very distracted.

Hao Huai had already rushed to the river to find that exporting porcelain was a very strange thing. At this time, he became curious again. Seeing the little chicken man lifting the blue cloth, the things inside suddenly lit up his eyes.

It was clearly a piece of gold ingot, and although there was a little mud and sand on it, it was still as bright as new.

"How could there be any gold ingots discovered?"

"Wooden box? In other words, the gold-headed gold must be an object in the shipwreck. Is it possible that the one hundred and twenty export porcelains are the same shipwreck?"

Hao Huai was puzzled, but he still held the ingot in his right hand. At that moment, an abnormal movement came from the ring, and two blue lights shot out from the relief longan eye. One went straight to the golden ingot in his hand, and the other flew into his right eye, and immediately formed a detailed prompt on Dujin ingot in his mind.

"The official silver of Kangxi Qing Dynasty..."

When the Blue Light returned to the ring, Hao Huai said casually: "How come the official silver appears?"

"Official silver?" Li Dun'er couldn't help asking, "What is official silver?"

Hao Huai answered the questions of Li Dun'er and Xiao Chicken Man through the tip of the ring just now. When it comes to "official silver", it means that it is the currency of the ancient government. In ancient times, official silver cannot be used in the civilians or officials themselves. If someone violates it, it will lead to the crime of beheading.

In this case, the official silver should have its special purpose, and the main purpose of the official silver is "entry into the warehouse, that is, the taxes of each province. The fiscal revenue must be engraved with the words or patterns of the official silver logo to facilitate the management of the national treasury.

In addition to incorporating the official silver, the other uses include military pay, official salary, palace use, local construction, disaster relief and other expenses.

After the official silver is paid to various places and individuals, the units or individuals who obtain official silver must dissolve the official silver again. New silver ingots or silver blocks are refined, which is the main source of broken silver, and this is also the origin of the term "fire consumption".

Fire burning refers to the depletion of the broken silver when melted and recasted into silver ingots, or the depletion of the melted silver ingots into silver. In the late Ming and Qing dynasties, "fire consumption" became the main means of embezzlement by officials and military generals. Most of the silver ingots used by the people were broken silver circulated by the army and officials. The main general currency was still mainly copper coins, and this gold "official silver" was even more precious.

After Hao Huai learned about the origin of playing the official silver, he once again looked at the gold ingot in his hand and found that the words "23rd year of Kangxi" were indeed engraved on it, which shows that the almost gold official silver was the official silver of the 23rd year of Kangxi.

"This is exactly the same as the firing time of that batch of export porcelain. Is it a coincidence?"

With a hint of curiosity, Hao Huai calmed down his excitement and called Lao Jiang over. He first made some polite decisions, and then asked about the process of discovering the gold ingot.

After Lao Jiang's narration, Hao Huai learned that the man's nephew went to Hetao with him to dig treasures and accidentally dug out a severely rotten wooden box. The dog-headed gold was not in the wooden box, but was next to the wooden box.

After hearing Lao Jiang's words, Hao Huai thought quickly in his mind, and then asked: "Is the same place as the ones you discovered last time?"

"You are right, it's the same place where you found that batch of porcelain." Lao Jiang replied.

After hearing his words, Hao Huai looked at the little chicken man and found that the other party was also looking at him with excitement. Both of them were convinced that if the dog-headed gold, export porcelain and gold ingots came from the same shipwreck, there should be more than this piece of official silver in it, and there might be other treasures.

The chicken man took out 50,000 yuan and handed it to Lao Jiang without waiting for Hao Huai's order.

With the last transaction, the honest old Jiang happily accepted the price, but this time the little chicken man did not let him leave immediately, but arranged for him to go to a nearby express hotel.

Only Hao Huai and Li Dun'er were left in the store. After seeing the man with the chicken, the latter came to Hao Huai and asked, "Old Huai, why is Xiao Huai so generous today? And she also took Lao Jiang to check in the room. Will there be no problem with Xiao Huai's sexual orientation?"

Hao Huai knew that Li Dun'er was joking and did not answer his words. Instead, he thought about it and said, "I will go to the Hetao with Lao Jiang tomorrow."

"You're so bad that you don't want to dig treasures. That's not reliable than buying lottery tickets, and your leg is still injured."

Although Li Dun'er likes to joke, he also saw the intentions of Hao Huai and the little chicken man. However, in his opinion, such as treasure digging is even more accurate than gambling stones, so he did not want Hao Huai to go there in person.

"No, the gold ingot clearly states the 23rd year of Kangxi, which is the same year as the output of the batch of export porcelain."

Hao Huai decisively linked the gold ingots and the shipwreck. If the two things came from the same shipwreck, then the original amount of this batch of official silver gold should be quite large. Maybe it was a considerable fortune. If it didn't go, it would be a good opportunity to take measures. If someone else succeeded, wouldn't it be too regretful.

Hao Huai's naturally had his plans. On the surface, the gold ingots and export porcelain were most likely from the same small shipwreck. Although treasure digging is a great fortune for ordinary people, he has the help of a ring and will probably discover the wealth soon.

What's more, it is a very strange thing to find export porcelain in a small river that should have been found on the bottom of the sea, so Hao Huai also wanted to figure out what was going on.

Li Dun'er knew Hao Huai's temper. Anyway, it was difficult to make changes to what he wanted to do, so he simply didn't stop him, but he still insisted on going with him.

Hao Huai originally wanted Li Dun'er to stay in the store. First, he came to see the store with the Chicken Man, and second, he could contact Zhang Bai to find the whereabouts of three pieces of official kiln porcelain, because it directly related to whether he could cause severe damage to Zhen Xiaoren in the next few days, and even fulfill his promise and drove him out of the Pan family.

When the discussion was under discussion, Hao Huai called Yingzi's cell phone and wanted to notify her to go to Baoding countryside with him tomorrow, but Yingzi's phone was always turned off, which gave him a very bad premonition.

"Shadow rarely leaves me for so long. If I really went to the supermarket to buy things, I would have been going back long ago. It would be fine if I didn't call me, but why would it turn off?"

"Old bad, will Shadow recover his memory and go home?"

"Impossible. Even if the shadow really recovers his memory, he will not leave without saying goodbye."

The relationship between Hao Huai and Shadow has always been very subtle, but at least they can be regarded as each other's confidants. He knows very well that although Shadow has a weird temper, he will never do anything else without saying goodbye, but he can't think of any other reason except this.

Although he was a little worried, Hao Huai was also very clear about the skills of Shadow, at least there would be no accidents, so he didn't think much about it, just hoped that he could see her when he went home.

After the little chicken man came back, he told Hao Huai that he had settled Lao Jiang and went to the rural areas of Baoding with him on the grounds of going on vacation in the countryside. Of course, he didn't know that Hao Huai was going to go in person.

"Bad brother, your legs are not healed yet, so I'll go."

"My legs don't matter. And if Li Dun'er comes with me, you can stay in the store to manage the store and keep in touch with Zhang Bai at any time. Those three pieces of official kiln porcelain are crucial to us in dealing with Zhen Xiaoren."

Li Dun'er drove back home with Hao Huai, but as expected, the shadow never came back.

Hao Huai felt the loneliness of the shadow after it was not there for the first time. It seemed that there was something missing and felt a little uncomfortable. Although he rarely heard the shadow talk during the time he spent with her, he seemed to have become a very important person around him.

The brand new blue hiking pole in her hand was left by the shadow. Thinking about her instructions when she handed over the things to herself, Hao Huai understood that the shadow was not leaving without saying goodbye, and she seemed to be ready.

"Have she been waiting for the day my legs are good, and does she have something important to do?"

Countless questions linger in Hao Huai's mind. When the familiar people around you are here, you may not feel that you have much, but once she is not here, it is a different feeling.

Fortunately, with Li Dun'er here, Hao Huai did not show any unnecessary melancholy. He thought that Shadow's independence made him feel very relieved and would not worry about personal safety for her.

After drinking the beer in the government office, Hao Huai and Li Dun'er slept for a while. The next morning, the latter drove to the hotel to pick up Lao Jiang. The three of them drove out of Taipei City. The destination was Baoding City, located in the south of the North City - an ordinary rural village called "Beitian".

Hao Huai did not expect that this treasure hunting trip not only did not delay his search for the whereabouts of the three porcelains, but also helped him a lot. In other words, if he had not gone to the countryside to search for treasure, it would have been absolutely impossible to find the whereabouts of the three porcelains.

The Land Rover car drove for about two hours. After getting off the expressway and passing through a small county town, it drove into a five-meter-wide and ten-meter-high river bank road. Due to years of disrepair, the road surface of the plate rail road was bumpy, the vehicle was very bumpy, and the driving speed was not very fast.

Hao Huai found through the car window that there were villages after village on the right side of the river bank, full of bungalows made of red bricks, and under the river bank on the right side were scattered farmland. The farmland was on the right side, which was a dry river channel. In recent years, due to the drop in the groundwater level in Hebei, the river channel has been dry for several years.
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