"Listen to the people from the Military and Political Department," Zhang Chunniu said with a smile: "In the first year of Tianqi, the imperial court allocated 390,000 taels of silver and minted 650 million coins. If all copper coins are sold, you can get more than 900,000 taels of silver. One thousand coins are four pounds and eight taels of copper. It is about 400,000 pounds of copper, which means ten thousand taels of silver for 10,000 pounds of copper. If we sell hundreds of thousands of pounds of copper a year, we will have an additional income of hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of silver. This is very good."

Lu Dafu said: "The coins were cast by the imperial court. I remember when I was a child, a thousand coins weighed eight pounds and eight ounces. This one was half less. No wonder people now like to use Jiajing gold to carry coins. After Wanli, especially the copper coins cast in the past two years of the Tianqi year are small and inferior!"

Zhang Chunniu said: "The money in some places is even worse now. It costs fifty-five cents of silver. How much money can you spend on one tael of silver?"

&⊕￠⊕￠⊕￠⊕￠,▼.↖.＄p;The money law in the Ming Dynasty was indeed in chaos. From the early Ming Dynasty to around Jiajing, since silver did not become legal currency, the minting was mainly minted by official minting. The quality was better. Although the court wanted to make money and interest, the face still wanted. After Wanli, the court actually adopted the silver standard, and the trend of private minting began to prevail again. The quality of copper coins among the people was uneven, and the price comparison between copper coins and silver became very chaotic.

During the Tianqi period, it was quite good. By the Chongzhen period, due to insufficient national use, the quality of copper coins cast by the imperial court was also extremely poor. Those officials still seemed to have insufficient interest in earning money and interest, and they had to make a decision on quality. The coins cast can be crushed with one hand. The price comparison between silver and copper is of course even more disparity.

Lu Dafu looked thoughtful at this time, thought for a while, and said, "The copper mine is very important. I guess we are transferred here to be the guardian of the copper mine."

"Not necessarily." Zhang Chunniu said: "Sir, you are already giving holidays to each department in batches. You may be stationed here for a while, which is a transition from the front line to the rear. Then you will go back to Lizhuang and stay for a while, and then you can have a holiday."

"I hope we can have a holiday before last year." Lu Dafu said with great anticipation: "My brothers and four are all in the army now. My parents don't know how to miss them. At least they can go back for two during the Chinese New Year, which can make them happier."

Zhang Chunniu said happily: "I was ordered to go to Lingqiu a while ago to escort some mining supplies. The boss gave me three days off and I have already returned home."

Lu Dafu sighed enviously. At this time, a military judge came over and coughed gently. Zhang Chunniu immediately sat upright and pretended to scrape the plate with a spoon. Lu Dafu was also focused on eliminating his canned food. After the military judge left, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Chunniu smiled and said, "Your little 4 is amazing. The adults personally summoned Taiwan and awarded it to the first-class medal. There are tens of thousands of people in our army, and he is the only one who needs the first-class one. Now he is already famous."

Lu Dafu also looked relieved and said, "I really don't know how to explain to my parents during the days when Xiao Si disappeared! Now, he will always have a good future in the future, and he should be much better than my brother."

Zhang Chunniu said: "You are now the deputy general manager of the war soldiers and the captain of the flag. The next step is the general manager of the bureau. I will transfer it into the baggage soldiers, which is half a level higher than you. How can I reason with it?"

Lu Dafu said sincerely: "Chunniu, your businessman, is much better at buying and selling in the family, or in the military and political department than in the combat troops."

Zhang Chunniu glanced at Lu Dafu and smiled and said, "You are much more calm than before. You were just climbing up at the beginning, and you are too utilitarian."

"It depends on his ability." Lu Dafu smiled and said, "Our Li team official is the fort guard of Jining Fort. He performed well under the eyes of the adults. If he is not capable, he will not be able to become this official. I am afraid that he will not be able to take the position alone in a long time."

Li Shouxin was also one of the officers who performed well in this battle, and he was indeed very popular.

At this time, after Lu Dafu's soldiers finished eating, everyone stood up and went out to rinse the iron boxes. Lu Dafu was no exception. Zhang Chunniu also followed them. If they were in the Ming army, as the General Manager of the Bureau, there would definitely be a few Needians who had accepted their godfather and changed their surname. There would be another group of personal soldiers. Not to mention having to rinse the basin by themselves when they had eaten, even if they had foot washing water, they would probably have to fight them out of their own, so they would definitely take care of them meticulously. He Yusheng's officers were all used to it. If they were in the camp, even the General Manager of the Department would do these things by themselves. Only Li Shenming, Wang Changfu and others had the same military service. This was only a privilege that a very small number of people had.

"How about canned food?" Zhang Chunniu laughed unconsciously when he saw many people licking the canned juice at the bottom of the iron jar before washing.

"It's very good." Lu Dafu sighed: "I feel that the food and clothing we eat are so good, a bit too luxurious."

"Sir," Zhang Chunniu said with a respectful look: "Soldiers sacrifice their heads and blood. Should they eat and wear poorly? In the future, they canned fresh fruits and vegetables in summer and autumn, and can also be made into canned fish and meat. The soldiers do not have to eat wheat cakes all the time, and the nutrition can be more comprehensive and balanced. Those canned foods are made of glass, and they can be recycled and used again."

"Isn't it better to make iron?" Lu Dafu said casually: "It is easy to recycle and use. The glass bottle is easy to wash, but it is easy to break."

Zhang Chunniu said: "I have also inquired about this in the Military and Political Department... The first batch of canned food was sent by our baggage soldiers. It is really broken, but there is no way. The iron box is easy to save trouble, but now it cannot be sealed. The canned food cannot be kept for a long time without sealing. If it is hot, it will break in a few days. Why bother with this matter?"

"So that's it." Lu Dafu smiled and said, "You should go to the Military and Political Department in the future. These things are suitable for you."

"It's really working on this matter." Zhang Chunniu said without any modesty: "I also feel that I'm not suitable to continue to hang out in the war team. The baggage soldiers either drive big trucks or manage cooks, or boats and bridges, and also manage camps and fortresses. Anyway, there is nothing that makes me feel like I want to do. It's better to go to the Military and Political Department, which is more suitable for me to play my strengths."

Lu Dafu nodded, feeling the progress and changes of his partners.

"There is something..." Lu Dafu looked around and no one followed them. After all, they were two middle-level officers. No one would run over and eavesdrop when talking. Seeing that there was no one around, Lu Dafu said, "I heard that the soldiers of the entire army were going to divide the land?"

"There is such a statement." This time, Zhang Chunniu's friends in the Military and Political Department did not disclose too much. After all, it is a matter of higher secret level now. Zhang Chunniu said: "No one knows what's going on and how to divide it."

"Ah, it's good if you have this..." Lu Dafu immediately smiled when he thought of his parents' happy appearance at home.

The Lu family is very poor, almost without overnight food at home, and there are few memories of having enough food for a family of big and small families. From childhood to adulthood, Lu Dafu didn't remember having enough food or any new clothes he had worn. Even if he barely had new clothes, Lu Da, the eldest brother, wore it first, and then took turns to him. By the time the fourth brother put it in, he had already put a thick layer of patch on the clothes.

The house at home leaks when it rains. Lu Dafu has just walked since he was a child. He was as thin as something and started looking for a change job to make up for the family. Later, he became a miner and went down to the mine to do things at the age of sixteen. It was very hard. What the family wanted most. The wish of the family when they were chatting together was to save money, buy thirty or fifty acres of land, and farm a few young and strong people together. If the year is good, they can at least eat enough.

However, the natural disasters became heavier every year, and taxes, especially local white lists, were higher and higher. Many families with land, and even the families of scholars could not withstand the pressure and began to sell land. Lu Dafu came to serve in the army again, with a generous monthly salary and officers were not allowed to buy land, so the family settled their minds of buying land.

Although the land is on the grassland now, if I could get a large piece of land for nothing, I think my parents know, but I still don’t know how happy they would be.

"Let's go to my room." Lu Dafu's identity is qualified to live in a single dormitory. He pulled Zhang Chunniu and said, "Let's talk about this carefully."

Zhang Chunniu was also very itchy in his heart, but he didn't dare to talk about the rumors. He hit it off with Lu Dafu and the two of them sneaked to Lu Dafu's room.

...

Li Shouxin got a three-day short vacation, not asking him to go back to Lizhuang. The three-day period was very short, and at most it was not far from Xinpingbao. Zhang Han specially approved these three-day holidays, because Li Shouxin's parents and many soldiers' parents rushed to Jiningbao in a passenger carriage with Yusheng.

Now a large barracks have been formed around Jining Fort. Because the war has temporarily stopped, the military command has only maintained about 2,000 troops to the Xiaoheihe Fort area, and the number of troops guarding the fortress has also decreased by 30,000. The number of troops guarding the fortress has been reduced by 30,000. The fewer troops in Xinghe Fort area are basically still maintained, and the rest of the troops have been transferred to Jining Fort one after another, and then they are directly transferred from Jining Fort or Daheihe Fort to Xinping Fort, from there to Lizhuang. After returning to Lizhuang, they stay in Lizhuang for a period of time, and then take turns to take holidays. After the holidays are closed, they will return to the garrison.

Until the beginning of the New Year and before the beginning of spring after the New Year, Jining Fort would be a relatively lively area. Since Zhang Han has always been stationed here, this ordinary military fort, one of the six military forts, has become another Lizhuang.

At the same time, because many soldiers, most of them are officers, have been rotated in the near future. After Zhang Han and the Military and Political Department discussed it, they decided to send a large number of carriages, from Lingqiu to Tianchengwei and Zhenluwei, and then to Yanghewei. The Xinpingbao area is free to pick up and drop off soldiers' families. Each soldier family can come at will at will. The army is responsible for reception. Each family can stay for three days before returning. Of course, the military department will send the carriages to send back. Of course, the military department will also send the carriages to send back.

Jining District does have a large-scale copper mine, which is one of the large copper mines in Inner Mongolia.

In addition, canned food first appeared in the 18th century, and glass bottles were used, and iron canned food later appeared.
Chapter completed!