.Chapter 215: Gold hidden in the wall

On that day, Bing'er and Yu'er's slingshot practice plan continued. Jin Gui found someone to get some cheap pots to put them on the wall as a target for his two daughters to practice. Using glass bottles as targets was undoubtedly a very promiscuous act in Jin Gui's opinion. Jin Gui kept holding various glass vases and other things and traveling around the mansions of adults in Nanjing for gifts.

After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, he still left a shadow government in Nanjing, except for the six emperors and three ministers. However, the officials in the shadow government here had no real power and could only receive a salary every month. However, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were very low. The monthly salary of the first rank was only 87 s of white rice, and the monthly salary of the seventh rank county magistrate was only 7 s of white rice, five dou of five dou of white rice, so several generations of emperors of the Ming Dynasty regarded Nanjing as the exile place for retired and retired officials.

Jin Gui naturally had his idea of ​​giving gifts to these officials who came to Nanjing for retirement. Although these people have lost power at the moment, there are still many disciples and old officials, and there are also many people who come and go around during the New Year. Giving this gift in is one to open up the local market, and the other is to pave the way for promotion. The prerequisite for promotion is that first, there must be people, and second, there must be money. No, even if you have money, you can't give gifts. If you have no money, you can only watch it.

It was not without effect that Jin Gui walked around. Within a few days, the Ministry of Personnel of Nanjing City Shadow Government issued a document and promoted Jin Gui to the position of Minister Wailang, Taipu Temple, Nanjing. However, in addition to receiving a monthly salary of 14 stones of white rice, Jin Gui also had to go to Nanjing Guishan Post to raise horses on weekdays. The horse raising matter was a real fatal problem. Although he was a Bima Wen who did not even have a grade, the monthly money he got from raising horses from Guishan Post Station was no less than that of the fifth-rank official Wailang, so no wonder Jin Gui refused to let go.

Jingui's shop also opened with firecrackers. The location of this shop is not in the city, but near Jingui's house by Xuanwu Lake in the north of the city. It is less than a hundred steps away from the main entrance of Jingui's family. At this time, we can see that Jingui's benefits of raising a large family. Jingui's store opened and did not hire anyone. Usually, all the concubines, maids and servants at home took turns to help in the store. Bing'er and Yu'er could not bear the loneliness of the family, and even put on makeup and ran to the store to make trouble. Of course, I was indispensable here.

‘Aunt Thirteen, are you?’ Seeing that the flushed Aunt Thirteen moved out of the backyard of the shop, Binger was startled and asked.

Aunt Thirteen tidied up her clothes casually and said with a blushing face, "It's okay, I went to the bathroom just now."

‘Oh.’ Bing'er responded skeptically. But after a while, Bing'er saw me coming back from behind with my belt, and she vaguely understood what was going on. My husband went to steal the fish again.

‘Bing'er's good wife is here too. Call Yu'er and I found a good place. Oh.’ As I said that, I shook the extra-large jasper thorn ring on my thumb.

Bing'er's eyes began to become blurred when she saw the Jade Thorn ring. Her body was trembling without any hesitation. Her legs tightened and she quickly turned around to find Yu'er.

It seems that the days are going to pass like this, and I don’t care much about North Sidao, North Korea and Japan. There are professional working teams there doing normal operations. It seems that this big boss is really an optional person.

In addition to the matter here, Xu's Blacksmith Street also took time to go to the Xu family. Hundreds of trucks of high-quality iron sand were driving into the Blacksmith Street one after another. Then he pulled dozens of trucks of ironware back on the ship. Otherwise, there was no profit to sell industrial raw materials. It had no technical content.

At this time, a letter was passed upwards through the hands of Captain Xu, Nanjing, and finally transferred to the hands of Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of Beijing. At this time, Zhang Juzheng was already the number one figure in the Ming Dynasty officialdom, and truly broke away from the category of one person and ten thousand people. As for the little emperor, he had been enclosed in the huge palace, delicious food and drink, and became a real nominal supreme existence without any real power.

Zhang Juzheng opened the letter and looked at it. This was a letter from the Jiangsu Governor General. In addition to saying that Jiangsu fully supported the great Prime Minister Zhang, it informed the Jinyiwei that Lord Qianhu Wang was staying in Nanjing. In the eyes of the Jiangsu Governor General General, this Jinyiwei, Lord Qianhu Wang was undoubtedly sent by Beijing to Nanjing to secretly monitor the activities of the entire Jiangsu officialdom. A Jinyiwei Qianhu had a thousand Jinyiwei spies and even more. Who knows where they were? Perhaps the master, accountant, newly acquired concubine, and sedan chair husband of the family may be the Jinyiwei spies. Captain Xu's letter to his uncle only mentioned that a new Jinyiwei son Wang came to Nanjing, but it scared the Jiangsu officialdom very much. These days, Jiangsu officials were always cautious when receiving gifts, for fear of a third party being present.

Zhang Juzheng chuckled and thought, the officials in several provinces near Jiangsu are still peaceful now. It would be bad for this king to scare everyone to be in danger. He couldn't use this king's love to monitor the officialdom of Jiangsu. He must not mess with the water for me when he goes there. This man neither wants to go to North Korea to eat kimchi nor to go to Japan to eat rice balls. It seems that the food in the Ming Dynasty is better, but he just sent him where to go? Zhang Juzheng pondered for a long time, "Well, if you want to say that Sichuan cuisine is one of the four major Chinese cuisines, I will invite this king's love to eat boiled meat slices, mapo tofu, salivation chicken, and pickled fish. Why do you say that this king also receives the salary of the court?"

Of course, Zhang Juzheng knew that this thousand households would have dozens of stones of rice per month by the rich merchants, but the reason why the Ming Dynasty had not yet carried out the reform of the administration was very simple. The court had no money. Although many vassal kings were abolished due to the matter of serving the kings, the court had confiscated the property of these vassal kings, most of the money was used to train new troops. Before the acres were put into operation nationwide, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty could not increase. If the salary was not increased, it was just empty talk. The officials below should not let the officials below go hungry to carry out the new policy. Besides, this was an offensive thing. Although Zhang Juzheng had a comprehensive plan for reform, he still had to take it step by step. The most important issue of reform was money. With money, he could compile countless new troops, expand territory from the outside and stabilize the political situation inside.

Soon, Zhang Juzheng's highest order was sent out with a 400-mile stairs. At this time, I was looking at the house in Nanjing. A large number of Japanese and Korean concubines and maids brought from North Korea from the ship could not live on the ship for a long time. Moreover, the fleet would soon return to North Korea with goods after a period of rest. I decided to extend the time of sightseeing in China indefinitely.

It would be better to say that it is better to have a big house in China. When I was in North Korea, my concubines who lived next to the Korean Palace still couldn't get a house for each person. This salt merchant's garden outside Nanjing could live in. The price was very fair, only 200,000 taels of silver. The garden left by the salt merchant occupied one-fifth of the coast of Xuanwu Lake. Some time ago, it was convicted of tax evasion and smuggling black salt because it collapsed in the backstage of the court. Generally, it was certain that the house was beheaded, and the house was naturally confiscated and sold by the government. Although I showed the sign of Jinyiwei Qianhu, I could only give me five more money based on the half price treatment.

To get it, you should know that this garden was built by the salt merchants and family over hundreds of years. The money spent at least several million taels of silver on this garden was spent by generations of salt merchants. Even if they were sold for 800,000 taels, some people would be moved. However, in fact, few people would spend so much cash to buy a house. Those big merchants and landlords would rather buy land slowly and expand it themselves. The answer is that Feng Shui is not good. In this era, everyone's mind was very feudal, and no one wanted to live in the homes of the convicted person who was convicted of his family. So the price of this salt merchant garden also dropped from 800,000 taels of silver to 400,000 taels of silver, and I finally took it down for 200,000 taels of silver.

‘Pile driver starts.’

‘Humanoid* medicine mode is activated.’

‘The highest secret, the crazy human-shaped pile driver starts.’

With a 'boom', just as I was fighting with dozens of concubines and maids, the earthen kang in the house was overwhelmed and collapsed.

‘Grandma, who built the tofu project? I want him to look good sooner or later.’ A man stood up in the smoke and dust and was almost cursed by me. But it was just a curse. This house has been built for more than a hundred years. The person who was responsible for building this earthen kang had long turned into a dry bone. ‘Are some injured?’ After the disaster, I immediately remembered more than a dozen concubines on the earthen kang. There was nothing wrong with standing on the ground to prepare for battle, but the earthen kang was dangerous. Now I finally understand why Japan and North Korea used wooden floors and tatamis. The thing was elastic. The facts proved that this earthen kang could not withstand the intense exercise of many people. However, it can also be understood as the crystallization of wisdom of the ancient Chinese people and used for family planning. If this was on the news newspaper, it should be called the 'kang'.

After checking, no one was injured. The earthen kang was less than one meter high, and there was a thick brocade quilt underneath. However, it was inevitable to be frightened. It seemed that the dream of sleeping with the big quilt could not continue. The largest room left by the salt merchant could not be lived in for the time being.

‘Master, what do you think this is?’ After helping the sisters up one by one, the palace girl made a major discovery. Some places on one side of the earthen kang were cracked, which might be called ‘wall cracking’. The wall is made of a civil structure, and the inside should have been a solid loess in the palace girl picked up a gold ingot.

‘Damn, this salt merchant is really rich, and that gold is built on the wall.’ As soon as he said, I understood, this was done by the salt merchant to leave a hand for his descendants. It was no longer a new thing to bury gold and silver in the walls of old houses in ancient China. I heard that Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, also left tens of millions of taels of gold for his descendants in the ground of the Qianqing Palace. But later, no one knew that after Emperor Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain in internal and external troubles, Li Zicheng was not hot in the palace before he could make the dragon throne hot in the palace.

Sangui drove away with the Qing army. Later, during the Kangxi period, the Qianqing Palace caught fire. When the Qianqing Palace was renovated, tens of millions of taels of gold were found underground in the Qianqing Palace. It was the gold left by Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, who had left his children and grandchildren, which indirectly created the Kangxi and Qianlong prosperous era. However, Kangxi always had to go to Jiangnan for private visits, and then collected concubines all the way. His grandson Qianlong was similar, and he visited southern tours several times, and then played with women. The gold was gone through private visits and southern tours, and the Qing Dynasty began to decline from then on.

‘Call the sisters and count how many?’ As gold ingots were stripped out of the wall, I was already thinking about whether I could get the purchase price back. In fact, I really underestimated the accumulation of this salt merchant for hundreds of years. In the end, the gold ingots on the floor were estimated to be as much as 50,000 taels. According to the official exchange rate of the market price, one tael of gold is ten taels of silver, and in the black market, this tael of gold can be exchanged for twelve taels of silver. At the same time, the largest house is only the glossy outside, and the walls on the inner wall have been demolished.

‘This time I’m open-minded. 50,000 taels of gold, which is 600,000 taels of silver. Even if I buy this house for 400,000 taels of silver, I still make a lot of money. Hahahaha. This time I’ve made a lot of money.’ Considering that this is just income from the walls of a house, if I dig the ground or another house, I might have a reward.

Seeing that I was full of complacent intentions, Bing'er advised him, "My husband, should the owner of this family help them?"

I found a cigar from my clothes and picked it up, spit out a cigarette ring, 'It makes sense, does it mean to drink water and remember the source? But whose house is this?'

Yu'er replied, 'This is the garden of Cheng Baiwan's family. It seems that the people from the Cheng Baiwan family have been transported to Beijing for a fall. Those who are not sentenced to death seem to be exiled. At that time, Cheng Baiwan's house was confiscated and was questioned. This was a major event that caused a sensation in the entire Nanjing city.'

‘Oh, then do you know why you were scouted and beheaded? Don’t tell me that it was selling private salt. As far as I know, no salt merchants don’t sell private salt.’ Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the government has begun to control the sale of salt. Only public salt is considered legal. However, it is impossible to eat public salt. The public salt is mixed with mud and sand, and the price remains high. However, boiling salt with sea water is not a high-tech job, and this private salt has also begun to spread during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The biggest benefit of private salt is its good quality, low price, and is loved by the general public. However, the government’s crackdown is also quite strong. Selling 100 kilograms of private salt in the Ming Dynasty was a death sentence. However, Lao Ma said that since there is a profit of 200%, losing his head or trampling on all laws in the world is not a big deal. Private salt still flourished in every dynasty and generation through the collusion between officials and merchants.

After Bing'er looked around and found that there were no outsiders, she whispered mysteriously, 'I heard that the Cheng family provided military pay to the King of War some time ago. Later, several groups of King of War were defeated by the Qi army in Henan and the Cheng family lost power. Finally, the government found a charge of selling private salt to confiscate the Cheng family and questioned the Cheng family. More than 100 males in the family were sentenced to be beheaded, and relatives were exiled for 3,000 miles. The woman in the family was sent to the Jiaosifang as an official.'

'That's really a serious crime. Since this is the case, it's better to keep a distance.' Since the fall of the Cheng family in the salt merchant is involved in politics, it's not even a problem. It's not a wise choice to cause trouble. 'Let me do this, I'll ask someone to spend money in the Beijing prison to make the Cheng family's father and son and brothers eat and drink and go on the road.'

Yu'er said, "My husband, I heard that the eldest lady of the Cheng family in the teaching staff is about to be trained and is about to come out to pick up customers."

‘Miss Cheng’s family?’

‘Yes, although I have never seen it, it is said that it is a great beauty in Nanjing. The people who came to propose marriage before the Cheng family was convicted can be ranked in Yangzhou.’

‘Where is this good thing? Where is the Jiaosifang?’ Although I dare not redeem my eldest daughter of the Cheng family, it must be very happy to use the Cheng family’s gold to play with the Cheng family’s women, because this is a good deed, and I will say it happily if I do good deeds.

‘.This is a brothel opened by Jiaosifang on the Shili Qinhuai.’ Bing'er said with a red face. Where is Shili Qinhuai? Not to mention the native Nanjing people, even foreigners who have been to China know about it.

Speaking of which, I have been here for half a month in Nanjing. I have never even been to the most famous Qinhuai Street, ***. I am really too kind recently. If a man doesn’t go to Nanjing to visit Qinhuai, it’s like a casual trip to Tokyo or Shinjuku. It’s too failed.

The lights are on, and the Qinhuai River is ten miles away.

As an area where many special operators gather, the Shili Qinhuai is no different from most similar ones during business hours. They sleep during the day and work at night. Whenever night just falls, Shili Qinhuai also enters the busiest time. I took a boat from Crescent Lake to Shili Qinhuai. Standing on the bow of the boat, I was dressed in a noble man and was repeatedly harassed by countless aunts on the pleasure boats. "Cough cough, it seems that this era is not as good as Qinhuai Eight.

The brand effect of Yan is formed.' I stood at the bow of the boat and muttered in a low voice. I don't like these vulgar fans, but I really can't get on the boat at the level of Qinhuai Bayan. Looking at the old man who rowed the boat was half dead, it was really annoying. However, this was the only one boat by the Crescent Lake at that time. If he didn't have his boat, he could only take a carriage to Qinhuai and cross the bridges and alleys, which was slower. 'Boatman, row faster, I'll go in a hurry.'

'Good class.' The boatman responded, but the speed was not seen to speed up. The boatman saw that I was a little anxious and asked, 'Young Master, too, went to see the eldest lady of the Cheng family pick up customers.'
Chapter completed!