"The last general Lai Tongxin will pay tribute to the Admiral."

Inside the east gate tower of Xinpingbao, the deputy general of Yanghe East Road, Lai Tongxin, was full of armor, and the fat on his body and face was trembling. Fortunately, he was finally born in the gate and had muscles inside the fat, and finally supported the fifty kilograms of Shanwen iron armor.

Zhang Shenyan was originally sitting on a high chair, but then stood up and bowed, as a return of the gift. Then he said warmly: "General Lai, please get up."

Lai Tongxin said with gratitude: "Thank you, Lord Xun."

Zhang Shenyan has been in office for more than three months. He was only in Datong City. Because he didn't cause any trouble, he only used a bullet to impeach a few incompetent old officials after taking office. Datong is calm and nothing happened. In contrast to the previous bad situation of the ruling and the inspectors fighting, he was praised by the court and the public as steady and capable. The seat of the inspectors in Datong was therefore very firm, and it cannot be said that they are very harmonious with Zheng Guochang. After all, the court will not like to see the guards and work together. At least both sides understand that this is not the time to start a war. It is the right way to settle things and live a stable life.

After the New Year, Zhang Shenyan began to patrol all over Datong. As an inspector, it was impossible for him to stay in Datong. He went from Panguan to Shahukou, and then to Zhenqiang Fort, and finally arrived in Xinping Fort.

The round trip was nearly a thousand miles long, and naturally it was full of dust. When I crossed Yanghe City and arrived at Xinping Fort, not only did the participating generals come out to welcome him, but Lai Tongxin, the deputy general stationed in Yanghe City, also came to greet him, which gave him enough face to the patrol.

"There has been no mercy in the enemy recently." After giving the seat, Zhang Shenyan said: "However, General Lai and the Governor are in the same city, the first thing to pay attention to is the city defense. At this time, you should patrol the border frequently to prevent the enemy from raiding."

"Yes." Lai Tongxin agreed respectfully, sat on the chair and bowed, "I will be more careful. After returning to Yanghe, I will lead my troops to patrol the area of ​​Shoukou Fort and Jinglu Fort."

Zhang Shenyan said casually: "Has General Lai ever crossed the Shoukou Fort and patrolled the north side of the wall?"

Lai Tongxin said: "Report to the inspector, the last general has not received the imperial edict, so he dare not leave the land of faith without obtaining the imperial edict."

Zhang Shenyan smiled and said, "General Lai is abide by the law, and he is a true general."

Both sides knew in their hearts that the north was from Desheng Fort to Xinping Fort and then to the east of Pingyuan Fort. Such a large place was actually controlled by He Yusheng. How far was it controlled to the north? So far, it was a mystery to Zhang Shenyan, and even Lai Tongxin was not very clear.

If Zhang Shenyan had not seen a large number of people heading north with his own eyes, he would probably believe the saying "Tuan Baili" reported by He Yusheng. After all, the military officers of the court went north to attack the enemy, and they had always only exaggerated the results of the war without concealing them. Zhang Han's concealment was very strange in Zhang Shenyan's eyes, but Zhang Shenyan is just watching flowers in the fog now. Without evidence, he himself knew that he had no choice but to do anything to Zhang Han and could only be at peace with each other.

Zhang Han stayed in Lizhuang from last year to this spring, and he did not take any further measures with Yusheng, nor did he hear that the large-scale mobilization of the regiment training continued to go north. It seems that the war against the Northern Lu may be to steal some land and gain some benefits. Then the merchant and military officers will continue to do business with the Northern Lu. Recently, the officialdom and the people in Datong and even Xuanda have been paying attention to the business war in Zhangjiakou. The people and officials and gentry were all passed down by words, which was a major interesting thing. Even in several banquets hosted by Zhang Shenyan, famous officials and gentry in Datong were talking about this matter. Zhang Shenyan was also very interested in this and summoned people several times to ask about Zhangjiakou to learn about the details before and after.

At this time, Zhang Shenyan said to the Xinpingbao General: "Although He Yusheng built the Dunbao Military Platform in the north, Xinpingbao still cannot relax his daily military preparations. If the official finds that he has laziness in military affairs, he may not report impeachment. If the person is inconvenient to each other, it is better to be more careful in normal times."

The Xinpingbao Ginseng General Ma Fu is from the Ma family. The Ma family’s foundation is in Xinpingbao. This person has returned to his roots. However, the Ma family is weak now, and the power in Xuanda Shanxi has been blocked by the Ma family and the Zhang family. He can only act cautiously. Fortunately, Zhang Han does not despise him and has given him a lot of cases. Ma Fu, the ginseng general, is very at ease.

After hearing what the patrol said, Ma Fu half-knelt and bowed, and agreed submissively.

"Hey," Zhang Shenyan walked to the city tower, looked out through the window, and said strangely: "Does it be time to close the fort gate?"

It is March now, and the doors and windows of the city tower are all open. The wind is still a little cool at night, but it feels like spring breeze is warm. Standing on the east gate and looking out, the willows or poplars on the edges of several avenues have already become obvious green. Zhang Shenyan is from the south, and when he walks to the city tower to see the scenery, he can't help but feel a little moved. If it is in the south, it is already green and shady.

Zhang Shenyan asked casually, but Lai Tongxin and Ma Fu looked at each other, and no one stood up to answer.

"Huh?" Zhang Shenyan was furious. It seemed that what he had done before, the inspector was a bit too bad. These Qiu Ba dared to ignore him so openly!

"Stop the anger." Ma Fu was determined to take the blame, and he could only go forward and said, "Return to the words of the master, he should have closed the fort gate, but he had previously discussed with the Yusheng merchants and discussed with the generals that they were transporting a batch of copper coins from Lizhuang to the fort to compare. The generals thought that there were many merchants in the fort and the people also needed copper coins. This was a matter of convenience and benefiting the people. Staying a large amount of copper coins outside the fort may attract bandits, and it was also the responsibility of the generals. So they promised that the gate would be closed two minutes later. If they did not have two minutes later, the generals would have to close the door anyway."

Zhang Shenyan was speechless for a moment. He just told these Qiu Ba to be careful and not to be careless just because he was connected with Yusheng in the north. Unexpectedly, it was delayed in closing the fort gate in a blink of an eye.

Fortunately, Ma Fu is not stupid, and he speaks well and passes by perfunctorily. Zhang Shenyan has a stern face and continues to look at the scenery, but his mind can no longer settle down.

After about half a quarter of an hour, I saw a large group of cars and horses coming in a winding manner. On the official road leading from north to south, it was when there were fewer people in the evening, which was really conspicuous.

"Thirty cars..." After the convoy got closer, Zhang Shenyan was a little surprised after counting the vehicle numbers. One of his staff whispered: "A car has at least 6,000 kilograms of copper coins and 7,800 strings, 30 cars are more than 20,000 strings, and a string of 1,000 coins is more than 20,000. What a big deal."

Zhang Shenyan couldn't help but say, "I heard that the fight was very lively in Zhangjiakou, and he and Yusheng have been sending money there. How much is the price comparison now?"

"Go back to Dongweng," the staff member whispered: "The price comparison with Yusheng is the same as the branch bank in various places. Now the price comparison is one to one thousand, which means that one tael of silver will be exchanged for their string of money, which is two hundred more than in the capital."

Another aide shook his head and said, "Now the capital's silver price is not enough to buy 800 yuan, but only 78 or even 760... In order to fight with He Yusheng, the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou spent a lot of money. The top-quality gold-backed money in the capital was already bought by them. At least 150,000 taels of good money were bought in Zhangjiakou. Then the merchants in the capital paid for the low price. They had to pay for the freight when they returned. Later, the merchants in the capital had to pay for the freight.

They bought it in, moved it out for a while and sold it back to them. When did the Shanxi merchants do such a loss-making business? They all turned green, but they dared not refuse to repay it. Fortunately, there are not many such unethical businessmen in the capital, and they always told them not to close their business all at once. However, on the one hand, they kept minting money themselves, and on the other hand, they bought money everywhere, and both sides had strong capital. But students thought that the seven families had already failed and were unable to make up for the situation."

"Yes." The staff member who spoke before said: "Last time we talked about this, the student also told Dongweng that the winner was difficult to decide. Now it seems that he has enough energy to do it. This time, it is not to transport money to Zhangjiakou but Xinpingbao. It is enough to show that their minting speed has already reached. There is a possibility that the sub-counts elsewhere will no longer have to restrict the exchange of money."

In order to support the exchange war with Shanxi merchants, although money shops were set up in important places such as Datong to Xinpingbao, there was an upper limit on exchange money every day, and there were restrictions on the total amount and the number of exchanges and the number of exchanges for each person. Merchants and people in various places were bothered, which had a certain impact on Heyusheng's overall image. Even though people knew that Heyusheng was fighting a very powerful business war, seeing that the exchange rate was very attractive but could not be exchanged as much as possible, it still made many people feel unhappy.

"Oh." Zhang Shenyan sighed and said to the two staff members on the left and right: "Students have been officials for many years, but I think they still have some experience, but I really can't imagine that it's not surprising that He Yusheng has so much silver money. However, where did they get so much copper to mint coins? Even if the imperial court minted coins, they went to buy copper blocks everywhere in advance, which was quite laborious, so the officials of the Ministry of Revenue were not willing to do such things as minting coins, that is, the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue is just willing to do it and make money. Is He Yusheng a Datong businessman so capable? Zhang Han is really like in the fog, and the students can't see through him."

When Zhang Shenyan first arrived at Da, his only hope was that Zhang Han would not rebel under his post. After a few months, the situation in Datong became more and more stable. There was no turbulent locality due to the appearance of a strong figure like Zhang Han. On the contrary, through the observations of these months, Zhang Shenyan found that Datong was very rich and stable, and people's hearts were also very stable. There seemed to be a very strange phenomenon, that is, everyone recognized Zhang Han's strength in Xuanda. However, almost no one thought that Zhang Han would openly rebel. At least there was no such sign in recent years, and people's hearts were therefore very stable. This is also the strange thing that Zhang Shenyan felt the most.
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