Han Xiufeng asked for a high price, and Wang Yuli and Huang Zhiji wanted to pay back the money.

Han Xiufeng insisted that Zhang Guangcheng wanted the money and that he was just a messenger, but Zhang Guangcheng acted in a business-like manner and "thanked guests behind closed doors" without even giving him a chance to bargain. Han Chen considered himself unlucky and was willing to pay five

Wang Yuli and Huang Zhiji had no choice but to grit their teeth and agree to buy peace with a thousand taels.

The money was to be delivered before noon on the third day of the lunar month. Wang Yuli and Huang Zhiji did not dare to delay for a moment and rushed back overnight to collect the money. Before leaving, they persuaded Han Chen, who was also going back to Jiao Xiechang, and asked Han Chen to stay in Hai'an for a few more days.

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As for Han Chen's five thousand taels, they will help raise them after they return, and will send someone to help put them on the mat tomorrow. They will pay them back after everything is done. Han Chen knows that they are worried that Zhang Guangcheng will not do anything after taking the money, and will be pretentious.

After weighing it up, he reluctantly agreed to stay.

He didn't sleep well on New Year's Eve. He was too busy investigating smuggled salt on New Year's Eve and didn't sleep. Han Xiufeng couldn't bear it anymore and couldn't even open his eyes.

Han Chen knew that he hadn't slept well in the past few days, so he proposed to talk about hometown friendship tomorrow. Han Xiufeng didn't show any pretense and went to look at the guest room that he had just packed for Han Chen. After confirming that the bedding was still clean, he went back to the room to wash his feet and rest.

During the New Year days, people in the town set off firecrackers early every morning.

Han Xiufeng was too tired and sleepy. On the morning of the third day of the third year of junior high school, he was not awakened by the deafening sound of firecrackers. Instead, he was awakened by Zhang Shiheng. When he opened his eyes and asked, he found out that Fu'an and Anfeng, two salt department ambassadors, had sent money from their families.

I had to hand it over to him personally, and Han Chen was required to be a witness.

After working so long just for this moment, Han Xiufeng felt no sleepiness at all. He immediately put on his clothes and washed up. He quickly came to the signing room on the left side of the second hall. He saw four more large wooden boxes tied with copper bars in the room.

The two family members of the salt officials respectfully stood by the wooden box and bowed to Han Xiufeng when they saw him.

"Mr. Han, it's Chinese New Year, and all the banks in the salt field are closed. My master can't raise so many banknotes for a while, so he can only collect 2,300 taels of cash overnight." Wang Yuli's family opened the wooden box.

Pointing to the neatly arranged silver ingots in the box, he took them from his arms

He took out a stack of banknotes: "These are banknotes from Tianbao Silver House and Yongsheng Bank, totaling two thousand seven hundred taels. You may not know this when you are new here, but Ambassador Han must know that these two companies have branches in Taizhou and Yangzhou.

, you can cash the banknote by taking it to Taizhou or Yangzhou."

"Mr. Han, this belongs to my master."

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It was related to whether their master would lose his official position. Han Xiufeng believed that they would not dare to use tide money or counterfeit banknotes to make money. He looked back at Han Chen who was sitting in the corner drinking tea and asked unhappily: "Your master said when he left last night

I will help Ambassador Han with his share, but what about Ambassador Han’s share?"

"Mr. Han, my master promised, but I didn't expect that all the banks were closed. You and Ambassador Han are from the same hometown. Can you think of a way to help accommodate me?"

"Mr. Han, I really didn't want to lie to you. It's not like I can't get out the money. All the money of our Fu'an Salt Department is deposited in the bank to make profits. The bank is closed and the shopkeeper has returned to Yangzhou. I will look for him in a while.

There is really nothing we can do if we don’t touch anyone!”

"Why are you doing things like this!" Han Chen was anxious, and stood up suddenly and said, "I trust you so much, but you misled me like this. Why are you thinking about crossing the river and burning the bridge when the matter is not over yet?"

"Ambassador Han, I have the conscience of heaven and earth. My master has never thought of harming you, but he really won't be able to raise that much for a while."

"Forget it, forget it, I'll figure it out on my own. Send a message to your master for me, and Han Chen will do it, but they have to give me an explanation after it's done."

"That's natural, Ambassador Han. My husband said that he will definitely come to apologize to you after the matter is settled."

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After sending away the families of the two salt officials, Han Xiufeng asked Pan Er and Yu Youfu to come in and weigh a thousand taels of cash and put them aside. He asked them to carry the remaining three thousand taels into the inner house, and then counted a stack of silver.

The ticket was gently placed in front of Han Chen.

"Zhixing, what are you doing?"

"Ill-gotten gains come to those who see them. Besides, if you hadn't helped sing this double act, they wouldn't have bled so easily."

"How fun is this!"

"You and I are from the same hometown, what's there to be embarrassed about?" Han Xiufeng forced the two thousand taels of silver notes into Han Chen's hand, then looked at the one thousand taels of cash beside him and said with a smile, "That one is for Zhang

The second young master is using his guise to ask for money from others, but you can't not share it with him at all."

As long as Zhang Guangcheng collected the money, it was confirmed that all the money was used to help Zhang Guangcheng manage what others wanted. As for how much Zhang Guangcheng collected, it didn't matter, because this was not something that could be brought to the table for confrontation.

Thinking that even if those two fellow salt officials hated Zhang Guangcheng with their teeth, Han Chen couldn't help but smile and said: "Brilliant, brilliant!"

"It's grand, let alone clever. Don't be afraid of brother Yu's jokes. This is a thousand taels of silver. My annual official salary and support are just as much. If this matter hadn't been so important, I wouldn't have given him so much."

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"It doesn't matter if you give him a thousand taels, at least he will feel at ease."

The two of them were sighing when the family members of the Ambassador of the Kuancha Chang Salt Class Department arrived. This time, all the items delivered were banknotes. Han Xiufeng accepted them unceremoniously and swore to guarantee that his master would not have to worry about this anymore.

Ambassador Si's family then bowed and said goodbye.

After receiving ten thousand taels of silver, Pan Er and Yu Youfu were the happiest.

Looking at the two large wooden boxes filled with white silver, Pan Er murmured: "Uncle Yu, although my family runs a pawn shop, I have never seen so much cash in cash since I can remember!"

"Now you know what Si Wazi is capable of. Fang was doing inspections and held birthdays every three days, which made people angry, but he didn't make much money. Since Si Wazi took office, he has never held a birthday party, and there is no money.

You make less money, so being an official is also a science."

"Really, I will do the same thing when I become a Shangguan in the future!"

Thinking that Xu Lequn was locked up in the prison room outside, and calculating the time for Young Master Zhang to come to the Yamen from the post office, Yu Youfu slammed the lid on the wooden box: "There are a lot of things outside, so quickly lock the box."

"Uncle Yu, is it appropriate to put so much money here?"

"If you don't put it here or anywhere, even if you want to dig a hole and hide it, it's too late. Lock the box first, then lock the door, and then ask Si Wazi what to do after finishing the business."

"That's all."

The two locked the box and went out to lock the door. They made sure that the doors and windows were tight before returning to the front yard. Instead of waiting for Master Zhang, Wang Ruhai was waiting.

"What is this?" Pan Er asked, looking at the package in Wang Ruhai's arms.

"Mr. Su asked Pu Ding to send Mr. Han a book from Taizhou, and there is also a letter."

"I'll send him in. You go back and serve Master Zhang Er."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you."

Pan Er didn't say anything but thought that Su Jueming would do some useless things. First he brought Xu Lequn from Fu'an Chang who was full of bad ideas, and now he spent money to buy a bunch of useless books.

Han Xiufeng opened the package and took a look at the book, and then opened the letter in front of him and Han Chen. After reading it, he couldn't help but smile: "This book is a good purchase, and the money was not wasted."

"Master, why are there no free flowers?"

"What do you know? This "New History of the Yuan Dynasty" was verified and compiled by Mr. Wei from Wei Yuan, the magistrate of Gaoyou. It was just published a few years ago. This set of "Hai Guo Tu Zhi" is also the masterpiece of Mr. Wei. Mr. Wei is not Our Mr. Zhang in Taizhou is too ill to be a director. As far as I know, Mr. Wei is not only a Jinshi, but also a good friend of the late Lin Zexu. Others buy Mr. Wei's masterpieces, how can we not buy them? "

Han Xiufeng put down the letter and picked up a book. As he flipped through it, he sighed: "I have heard about "Hai Guo Tu Zhi" for a long time. It is all about foreigners. When I was in the capital, I heard Mr. Ji say that this is a strange book. , It turns out that the world is not nine states and eight wilderness, nor is it a round sky and a square place. Our Qing Dynasty is not even the center of the celestial dynasty. This world is actually five continents and four oceans."

Han Chen took it and looked through it for a while, then raised his head and said, "Yi's three special skills are: first, battleships, second, firearms, third, how to raise troops and train them... This is a military book."

"No matter what book you read, you should look back carefully. The foreigners are fierce, and they are not the thieves who caused trouble. Our place is not close to Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture, nor is it far away. It is said that there are many foreigners in Shanghai County. If a person has no worries about the future, he will have worries about the near future, and we must be on guard against them."

"Zhixing, I didn't expect you to have such ambition!"

"What ambition, I just don't think we can be a frog in the well. If foreigners come over one day, if we know ourselves and the enemy, we will know how to deal with it."

"Foreigners will not come here. Foreigners are very clever. If they want money, they will definitely go to the capital to find the emperor."

"That's right, what's the use of looking for us? Even if they put their foreign guns and cannons in front of us, they won't look down on our little money."

While the two were chatting, Zhang Shiheng hurriedly walked in, bowed and said: "Uncle Han, Ambassador Han, and Li Xiucai are here. As soon as they arrived, they went to the class room to find Xu Lequn. They closed the door and were sneaky, not knowing they were talking to Xu Lequn. say something."

"It's just that Xu Lequn and the people behind Xu Lequn want money. What else can he say? Ignore him and let him go. Don't pry."

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Han Chen asked curiously: "Zhixing, do you think those merchants in Fu'an will submit?"

"Evil people need to be punished by evil people. If it were someone else, those dealers in Fu'an would not take out the money easily, but when they meet Li Xiucai, they can only bleed. It is related to the wealth and lives of hundreds of people in several families. They don't dare to gamble, let alone can't afford to gamble." Han Xiufeng thought for a while and continued: "Besides, this is not just a matter of those dealers, but also Huang Zhiji's matter. If the Bao family does not agree to Zhang Guangcheng's conditions, Wasn't his five thousand taels wasted?"
Chapter completed!