Chapter 15 Rewards of Ten Thousand Gold
Time and space of the Han Dynasty, Gaoque Pass.
Su Chen, who brought a batch of medicines, was about to ask Wei Qing to hand over the medicines to treat the wounded. Huo Qubing rushed over and pulled him aside mysteriously.
"You are here, the angel has been waiting for you for two days."
"What?" Su Chen was confused. It was 124 BC. Jesus and his grandfather had not been born yet. Where did the angels come from?
"The chief lieutenant Ji An has arrived and brought the emperor's imperial edict."
"Oh." Su Chen suddenly realized that it was such an angel who was the envoy of the emperor.
"If you have something to say, just say it secretly, leave half of it." Recently, Su Chen was irritated by agents from the Time and Space Administration.
Huo Qubing didn't care at all, and his handsome and resolute face was filled with grips. "Your Majesty heard about you, and specially issued an order to sign you as a marquis and reward him with 10,000 gold. Ji An brought the general and directly appointed his uncle as a marquis in the army. He granted 8,700 households fiefs. Even his uncle's three useless sons were named Liehou. He did not give me a marquis, but he gave me a ticket to Yao's marquis."
Huo Qubing kept talking for a long time, but Su Chen didn't hear anything else afterwards. His mind was completely shocked by the reward of ten thousand gold.
Ten thousand golds? Ten thousand jins? Su Chen was completely in an extremely wonderful state.
With so much gold, what time and space trade and what school to go to. It is enough to spend the second half of your life freely. That is a huge sum of hundreds of millions of dollars!
In an instant, Su Chen felt that the sky that was originally dark and rainy was like a clear sky. The air full of fishy smell of mud was full of the fragrance of fruit trees and flowers. Even Huo Qubing, who kept complaining in front of him, seemed to have a kind face.
‘Ah?’ Huo Qubing was complaining to Su Chen that he could not be named a marquis, but the three wastes from his uncle's family passed by when he was named a marquis in advance. However, Su Chen grabbed the shoulder armor on his shoulders with one hand, and dragged it directly towards Wei Qing's central army tent.
Although Huo Qubing is young, he has always been known for his bravery in the army. Not to mention pulling him away, it is difficult for him to get close to him. But at this time, Su Chen was dragged to run away and staggered without any resistance.
Su Chen, who had been in front of Wei Qing's central army tent, had a smile on his face and came to his senses a little. He let go of Huo Qubing, whose face was blue, and took out a cigarette with his hands shaking his hands to disperse the cigarettes for the guards outside the tent. "Come on, come on, be happy together, don't be polite."
Don't joke about Su Chen being stupid. If you get hundreds of millions of wealth at once, you will have to be stupid.
Huo Qubing couldn't see Su Chen's pride and blew it aside, "Hey, your saliva is flowing."
Su Chen subconsciously wiped the corner of his mouth, and it was really a little wet.
At this time, a lieutenant came out of the military tent and saluted Su Chen. "The general has an order to summon Chen Hou to enter."
Chen Hou was the title of Lihou that Emperor Wu of Han granted Su Chen Lihou. Lihou was the previous Hou, the highest among the twenty-level military titles. Because the name Che was the same as that of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, he was avoided and changed to Lihou, also known as Tonghou.
Su Chen didn't care about waiting for anything. His eyes turned golden now, and he was only thinking about his own ten thousand gold.
The central army tent is not much different from before. Wei Qing is in the upper seat, with dozens of military generals of various levels on both sides. Each face is full of flesh and fierce eyes. They are all with big heads, thick necks, and horse racing on their arms.
But among this group of fierce generals wrapped in iron armor leaves, there was a civil servant in a long robe, which was particularly conspicuous.
This man wore a Jinxian crown and a long sword on his back. He was a little thin, but he didn't look like a corrupt scholar with no power. He had a handsome face and a firm look. Compared to the big and thick military generals around him, he was completely from another world.
"This is the chief commander Ji An, who is here to pass the order of the emperor." Wei Qing introduced Ji An's identity to Su Chen.
Su Chen still knew about Ji An.
Ji An's ancestors were ministers of the State of Defense during the Warring States Period. His father was a doctor during the reign of Emperor Jing. He can be said to be a child of a family of officials.
Whether it was the Western Han Dynasty or the Eastern Han Dynasty, the only one who could compare with the famous ministers and generals during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the only dynasty of Emperor Wu of Han.
There were many famous officials and generals in the era of Emperor Wu of Han. Needless to say, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Guang and others, as well as famous officials, such as Zhang Tang, Zhidu, Zhufu Yan, Yan Yi, Gongsun Hong, etc., in terms of ability and fame, they are not inferior to those of famous officials in the Three Kingdoms period.
Among these famous officials, Ji An is unique.
Zhang Tang was too cool, Zhidu was too ruthless, Lord Yan was too greedy, Yan Yi was too stupid, Gongsun Hong was too yin. Only Ji An preserved his integrity from beginning to end, and dared to directly advise Emperor Wu of Han in his anger. His role and image were similar to Wei Zheng beside Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin.
There are not many people who are innocent and willing to stand up for the people, and are honest and pure in history. Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty, Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty, and Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty are all such people. This is also a true famous minister who has been praised by ordinary people for thousands of years.
"Where is the gold?" Su Chen stepped forward and grabbed Ji An's shoulder directly. The eager look on his face made Ji An even more dissatisfied.
Previously, Wei Qing sent an urgent battle report to Chang'an City, focusing on describing the magical magic that Su Chen could fly to the sky and control flames. He also stated that it was because of Su Chen's magical magic that he successfully captured the right wise king of the Xiongnu, Jue Jue, and guided the army to successfully attack the right wise king's headquarters.
What this urgent newspaper mentioned most is that Su Chen has magic power beyond his imagination.
Qin Shihuang's life was magnificent, sweeping across the six kingdoms and ushering in the era of great unification. There were countless merits of inheritance such as books and chariots and tracks.
Such a great emperor suffered the most from dirty water in his life, not the dirty water poured on him by later generations of corrupt scholars, but the fact that he spent his national efforts to pursue immortality.
For example, Xu Fu, who was well-known, led three thousand boys and girls to go to sea to seek yam, such as raising thousands of alchemists, etc.
Xu Fu brought a whole fleet out of the sea. In addition to boys and girls, there were also a large number of crew guards. Building this huge fleet cost a lot of money. It is even more exaggerated to support many alchemists to refine elixirs, because these alchemists do not do production, but consume a lot of resources to refine alchemy.
Although it was said that glass was refined and black gunpowder was refined, unfortunately it was not put into use on a large scale.
This kind of consuming national strength to pursue illusory immortality has been dissatisfied and opposed by all the people in the world. Of course, it is largely because even if you seek immortality, you will not be able to enjoy it.
This is true for Qin Shihuang and so is Emperor Wu of Han.
Compared with Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of Han was even better than in pursuing immortality.
This time, Emperor Wu of Han was overjoyed when he learned that Wei Qing had found a magician. Not only did he give the noble status of the marquis and gave him a lot of wealth, he also specifically instructed Ji An to invite Su Chen back to Chang'an.
What Ji An, who is a well-mannered person, most dislikes is that he does not ask the people and ghosts and gods about seeking immortality, and believes that this is meaningless except for consuming national strength.
Naturally, there would be no good expression on the liar Su Chen, whom he thought.
"Mr. Chen, please respect yourself." Ji An took a step back with a cold face.
Su Chen ignored whether his face looked ugly and continued to ask, "Where is Jinzi?"
This eager desire for wealth made Ji An even more unbearable to Su Chen. He looked at Su Chen with a faint face and waved his hand to signal the big boxes beside him, "Your Majesty is here to give the gold."
Su Chen raised his hand and rubbed his face hard, stepped forward with the corner of his lips, and reached out to hold the iron ring of a large iron box like a pilgrimage.
The gold worth hundreds of millions was right in front of him, and Su Chen was already trying his best to control his emotions. However, at this time, the corners of his mouth were almost curled to the roots of his ears.
He felt that he could retire now and live a leisurely and contented life as a rich man in the future.
The lid of the iron box was pushed open, and the dazzling golden light in the expected form did not appear. The smile on Su Chen's face gradually closed until his face faded.
"Master's title and commander." Su Chen stood up, looked at Ji An coldly, and pointed at the iron box. "Can you explain what this is?"
Ji An leaned his head and looked at the box, "Your Majesty's Gift of Gold."
"Do you think I'm stupid? Or do you think I'm blind?" Su Chen looked ugly and reached out to take out a heavy copper strip. "This is obviously copper, it's copper!"
"That's right." Ji An looked at Su Chen with your unreasonable eyes. "Your Majesty will reward you with 10,000 gold, 500 kilograms of high-quality gold, 2,500 kilograms of medium-quality platinum, 7,000 kilograms of low-quality red gold. One liang is not bad, it's all here."
After hearing this passage, Su Chen, who was about to erupt like an active volcano, suddenly calmed down.
Su Chen remembered the information he had read. There were clear records in the Han book "Food and Message Records". During the Han Dynasty, there were three levels of gold, gold was the best, platinum was the middle, and red gold was the bottom. Gold, silver, and copper were the bottom.
Gold is gold, platinum is silver, and red gold is copper. All three are called gold.
In the modern industrialized world, silver and copper are not valuable. But in the time and space of the Han Dynasty, silver and copper are genuine precious metals.
The King of Wu, Liu Bi, who caused the Seven Kings Rebellion, had the ability to challenge Chang'an City because of the Tongshan Mountains in Yuzhang County and the boiling sea water to salt.
If it weren't for the bad luck and the intention of attacking Huanglong and being captured by Zhou Yafu, it would be different whether Liu Che could take up the throne.
Su Chen raised his hand to cover his face, and he felt that he was really embarrassed.
I originally thought it was worth hundreds of millions of gold, but I didn't expect it to be a bunch of worthless silver and copper in a blink of an eye. Five hundred kilograms of gold are not bad, worth tens of millions of dollars. But this is much different from his initial expectations.
Su Chen, who was full of depression, felt anger in his chest, but this was because he had misunderstood and could not vent his feelings to others.
Feeling Ji An's greedy gaze that despised him, Su Chen suddenly stretched out his hand and clenched his fist, then raised it up with force.
Chapter completed!