Ling Qingyu paused, Lingjia Village is still short of people, especially such experienced miners and smelters, and of course craftsmen. Said: "I'm going to sea, but don't worry, there is no problem with safety and food in the future. The wages are paid according to the output per month, and the rice is provided free of charge according to the population."
Liu Jueming and his wife looked at each other overjoyed, and asked in disbelief, "Is there really such a good place?"
Ling Qingyu smiled and said: "I have something to go to Chang'an first, I will give you the travel expenses, you go to Hangzhou to find my steward first, he will arrange for you to board the boat, you are not afraid of death, are you afraid of being cheated?"
Liu Jueming nodded, and asked cautiously: "Most of the iron households in our village and the surrounding villages can't survive, can we go together?"
This is already a dead family... No wonder when I came in, I felt that this place was not popular at all. Ling Qingyu sighed and said, "It's no problem to go, but if you all move, it's not good if the government finds out. It's better to leave separately, and , except for you, don’t let anyone know where you are going, just say that you can’t live anymore, and find a way out elsewhere.”
Liu Jueming understood as soon as he thought about it, nodded and said: "What the girl said is that it is still the time of the Chinese New Year, and the government has less control. If you want to leave, you have to leave at this time. Don't worry, girl, I will definitely not implicate the girl. Discuss with the villagers whether to go out and find a way to survive, and if you are willing to go, go."
"Yes." Ling Qingyu nodded.
"Then, shall I ask now?" Liu Jueming asked while rubbing his hands, seeing Ling Qingyu nodding, he hurriedly got up and went out.
Not only the agricultural tax, but even the mining tax is driving people to death. How far has the situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty reached? Ling Qing Yucai couldn't taste the taste in his mouth.
"Master, you said there is a gold mine here?" Han Bian sat next to Ling Qingyu and asked in a low voice.
"It should be, but it's just that no one may find it at this time. It's inside Little Qinling." Ling Qingyu also whispered.
"If they want to leave, the household registration will be useless. You can borrow their names to buy this mountain forest first." Han Bian whispered. Although the management of mine households is related to household registration, it is not related to land deeds, so there are loopholes that can be exploited.
It's just that when Liu Jueming came back and said how many people wanted to go together, Han Bian gave up on this idea. Damn it, the ten surrounding villages are all empty!
"When I went to ask, the people in the village over there were also discussing whether they should fight to the death or move to another place. If they stay here again, they might all die." Liu Jueming said, his voice a little embarrassing. Well, after doing this calculation, there are actually hundreds of people with their families and families, which is indeed a lot.
Ling Qingyu was also a little stunned, thought for a while, and said: "In this way, if you go together, I'm afraid it will be a little eye-catching. Divide into two parts, one part goes to Hangzhou, and the other part goes to Quanzhou." If there is no accident, Zhu Weili has already separated Australia and The mine in Papua has been found, and these people can be skilled workers.
"Can you go?" Liu Jueming said happily.
"Okay, you can divide into two routes. You can find a reliable person to lead the team on the other route. I will give you one hundred taels of silver as travel expenses first." Seeing that Liu Jueming's eyes were smiling, Ling Qingyu turned slightly cold and said: "But I have to say it first. After you go, you have to listen to me. My subordinates, as long as they are willing to work, they will definitely not be treated badly. But if you have selfish intentions and commit betrayal and betrayal, then don't blame me for being ruthless."
Liu Jueming was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Young lady's words are a bit contemptuous of us. She saved us, and we know what is good and bad. If someone does something like that, Liu will kill him first without waiting for Miss to act. "
"That's very good." Ling Qingyu nodded and smiled: "You can discuss the specific route with Mr. Han. We will leave at dawn. You wait two days before leaving. Remember, don't publicize it and leave secretly."
"We save it." Liu Jueming nodded.
Ling Qingyu asked Ying Shisan to take fifty taels of broken silver and fifty copper coins to Liu Jueming, and asked again: "Is it enough?" Before Liu Jueming could speak, he thought for a while, and said to Ying Shisan: "Take another fifty For two pieces of silver, how many copper coins do we have?"
"Enough is enough." Liu Jueming hurriedly said, so much money!
"There are still thirty copper coins, and we should keep some for ourselves as the head of the house." Ying Shisan said, why don't you go out and buy a steamed stuffed bun and hand them a fifty-two ingot of silver, or a bank note, and they won't just shoot you to death !
"Then take a large ingot of silver, you break it and give it to him." Ling Qingyu said.
A pile of broken silver and seventy copper coins. Wang Jiawei, the other team leader, looked at it for a long time without making a sound, then kowtowed to Ling Qingyu three times on his knees, his forehead and heart were bleeding, and said: "Young lady, you can't forget the grace of saving your life!" !"
Ling Qingyu quickly helped him up, and said: "Don't say that, mutual benefit, ha ha."
After tossing and tossing all night, he didn't get any sleep at all. Before dawn, Han Bian hurried on the road. With such a big move here, they must not leave traces of them.
They didn't even keep the letters about their trips to Hangzhou and Quanzhou, including their own names, and only said to go to the place where there is a recruiting sailor on the pier to apply for recruits.
Of course, the letter explaining the matter here will be passed through the channel, and the men will board the ship as sailors, and the women and children can only be smuggled.
Lingbao County is not big, there is only one street, and only one inn. There is no choice but to stay.
Han Bian went to exchange copper coins, and Ling Qingyu wanted to go shopping in the street.
"Your injury is still not healed, and you didn't sleep last night, so you can rest here first, Shisan is fine." Ling Qingyu said.
"Thirteen has driven the car all day, so he needs to rest." Yan San put on his shirt and said. Accidents happened again and again, and he dared not let her out of his sight again.
Hey, that's right, Sum, he looks too eye-catching. Even if he is fully armed and even his hair is not exposed, but the whole body is wrapped in black, which is even weirder. You can't take it with you for shopping, Xie Sanlang... this bear Let the child forget it, he can bury him to death if he buys something!
Although it was still the first lunar month, there were very few pedestrians on the street, with a sense of depression, and the relatively few shops were closed because of the Chinese New Year.
After strolling around for a while, Ling Qingyu became a little discouraged.
Seeing a snack shop opened, he dragged Yan San into the shop.
They ordered a bowl of noodles and some stone biscuits, and the two of them sat in the small shop and ate them.
Seeing Ling Qingyu eating happily, Yan San asked, "Delicious?"
"Well, it tastes good, try it." Ling Qingyu broke open a biscuit and ate it deliciously.
Yan San shook his head, picked up noodles with his chopsticks, as long as this person eats, there is nothing bad to eat, no wonder he will never forget Lu Yao's craftsmanship, cooking is not difficult.
"I heard that another family died in Majiazhai." Several local people walked in while talking, ordered some noodles and sesame seed cakes, and sat down.
"Many families have died, and now there are no mines in the pit. Ask those miners to go there to find mines, hey, it's a crime."
"Have you seen the notice outside the county office?"
"We can't read, so tell me, what do you write?"
"It is said that the government wants to sell the mountain land in Xiaoqinling. If anyone is willing to buy it, you can go to the government to buy it."
"Little Qinling? How much will it sell for?"
"One hundred thousand taels of silver."
"The county magistrate is crazy about money. There is no land on the Xiaoqinling Mountains, and the trees are not worth much. Why is it worth the price?"
"If you can't collect the taxes, don't try to find money to make up for it?"
The locals eat fast, and leave soon after eating.
Seeing that the money they threw on the table seemed different, Ling Qingyu turned his head to look at it.
"What do you want, girl?" The proprietress came to collect the money and asked Ling Qingyu when she saw Ling Qingyu's appearance.
"Isn't this money a copper coin?" Ling Qingyu asked, pointing to the coin in her hand.
"This is iron money, isn't the girl from Lingbao? It's from Zhongyuan? We also use this money here, but it's light and can't compare to copper coins." The proprietress shook her head and shouted to the boss: " That Chen family boy gave me three iron coins less."
Iron money, the economy in the Northern Song Dynasty was deeply affected by the scourge of light money. I thought that there was no such thing in Dazhou, but it turned out that there was no such thing in the places I visited.
"What?" Seeing her serious expression, Yan San asked unconsciously.
"Dazhou's finances are in trouble." Ling Qingyu lowered his voice and said to Yan San, saying that Yan San didn't understand the reason, so it's better to talk about the result directly, and then continued: "In the third division, only the Ministry of Finance is under the Dong family's command, and the others They are all members of the Wang family. If the country’s finances are in trouble, the third department will bear the brunt, followed by military expenses. Hey, let’s see how the two of them deal with it.”
She smiled cunningly, and Yan San couldn't help but smile, she was different from him, Yan San's solution to hatred was very direct and violent, while Ling Qingyu liked to go around so many ways, sometimes Yan San felt that she just enjoyed the kind of special treatment of others. It's the feeling of pulling all the money from the enemy's pocket into your own pocket.
Back at the inn, he handed over the sesame seed cakes he had brought back to a few people who hadn't left the house, and Ling Qingyu asked Han Bian who had just returned to make a secret discussion.
"You mean to buy that little Qinling." Han Bian asked.
"Yes, if the county magistrate is really trying to subsidize the tax, then this matter will be very urgent, and our identity checks will not be so strict. Didn't Shi Fang lead the way? Use his name, just say you like it The mountains and rivers here, I want to build a Taoist temple or something." Ling Qingyu said.
Taoist temple! Han Bian laughed unconsciously, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go to the county government office."
Ling Qingyu took out a stack of banknotes and said, "Bring Shifang, and then, we need to use up the banknotes as soon as possible. I guess the value of the banknotes will depreciate soon."
"Why?" Han Bian asked in surprise.
"I was eating on the street today, and someone nearby paid the bill with iron money. I calculated that the store charged three iron coins for one copper coin. Let me ask you, how much iron money is consumed on Shaanxi Road?" Ling Qingyu asked.
Han Bian was silent for a moment, his face darkened, and said: "It is very expensive. There are large-scale iron coins in Sichuan, Shu and Shaanxi Roads, but the official price is one to one."
"And I saw that he also paid a relatively large copper coin. If calculated according to what they ate, would that large copper coin be worth ten dollars?" Ling Qingyu asked.
"Yes." Han Bian nodded.
"The cost of casting a pawn coin and iron coin is only one-third of that of a copper coin. After a long time, such money will naturally depreciate. If someone mints it privately, this trend will be aggravated. Look, the imperial court will probably adjust the exchange ratio of iron money down in a short time. If the currency itself is in chaos and the people in the imperial court are short-sighted, it will easily lead to the collapse of the currency system. Another point is that the mining tax department now It is so heavy that the miners have fled, so the output of copper and iron will be affected, and the casting of copper coins will also decrease sharply. What will happen if the copper coins or silver that can be exchanged do not match and are far lower than the real ones?" Ling Qingyu himself broke into a cold sweat when he said it, grandma, I still have five million silver notes! More than that, plus what Han Bian, Zheng Xi, and Cai Jingfang have in hand is far more than that.