Fenghou

"That's okay, it's only a month anyway."

Daoist Qingsong left them his contact information and then drifted away. Guan Xiaolin copied a copy of his father's letter and burned the original letter to prevent leaks.

Two days later, the Guan family hired more than a dozen ox carts and moved to a temporarily rented private house outside the city. The Guan mansion was quickly assigned to Zhao Guozhang, and it was hung with the sign of Duke Jin's mansion. Qi State and Bianliang City were quickly cleared.

One month later, the State of Qi approved the Guan family's request to return to their hometown to build a tomb, and a group of 17 members of the Guan family left Bianliang by boat and walked the Yellow River to Yanzhou.

……

At this time, news of Liu Yu's refusal to send troops reached the Jingzhao Mansion. Not only did he refuse to send troops, but he also refused to allocate money and food, which made Wan Yanchang furious.

"I knew that this stupid king would betray me one day. He thought that with Wushu backing him up, I wouldn't be able to do anything to him. Then he can ignore me, okay! He will wait and see, see me turn around How to deal with him!"

Yu Hong, an aide next to him, suggested: "I heard that Liu Yu's levies and levies were so overwhelming that the people lost their hearts and even ordered the people to sell their sons and daughters to pay taxes. Marshal Du can use this reason to ask the court to abolish Liu Yu."

Wan Yanchang sighed and said, "Now that the court situation is unstable, we will definitely not consider this matter. We can only wait for the court situation to stabilize, then it will not be too late to deal with him."

Wanyan Lisa was a little worried: "Without the Qi army, our Jurchen army alone may not have enough numbers."

Wan Yanchang said helplessly: "Then we can only gather the state soldiers from Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road prefectures in the name of training, and then train them, change their armor and weapons, and improve their combat effectiveness."

"How many troops can there be?"

"About fifty thousand!"

There were actually [-] troops, which was a little unexpected to Wanyan and Lisa. He couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and said, "Assemble as soon as possible! I'm worried that Chen Qing's army will provoke us soon."

Wan Yanchang gave him a dissatisfied look. He knew very well what Wanyan Helisa had in mind. He wanted to withdraw all the Jurchen troops to Guanzhong, gather them together, and hand over the remote places to the Qi army to guard.

Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, but Wan Yanchang has nothing to do. Wanyan Helisa's idea of ​​keeping the Jurchen army is completely in his own interests. Without the support of the Jurchen army, he will lose everything in the ensuing changes in the Jin Dynasty.

Volume VI East

Chapter 549 Making Money

In the official room of Chen Qing in Jinglue Mansion, a group of officials gathered around a large table. The Department of Money and Cargo ordered Li Yao to take out a coin and a silver coin and put them on the table. He said with a smile to everyone: "This is the famous Xuanhe coin Hezhenghe Yinqian, this is the back of Shanxi, and there is Shaanxi Road on the back for casting. At that time, one coin could be exchanged for consistent money, and one silver coin could be exchanged for Baiwen coin. Now the money has increased ten times, and the silver coin has increased five times.”

Chen Qing picked up the silver coin, looked at it and asked, "It seems that this kind of silver coin has never been seen in the market!"

"Even though I don't know, the amount of casting was not much at that time, and it was snatched up by rich people as soon as it came out. It was collected and almost never circulated in the market. Most people have never seen it. We are just lucky to be here. Hundreds of them were found in the official treasury in Lanzhou."

"What about ours?" Chen Qing asked again.

Li Yao took out two more gold and silver coins from the box, put them on the table, and said with a smile: "This is the gold and silver coins we minted, please have a look."

Everyone was very interested. Chen Qing looked at the money and handed it to Jiang Yanxian who was next to him. Jiang Yanxian looked at it carefully and found that it was exactly the same as Xuanhe's money. He asked curiously, "Where did you get the mother's money?"

Chen Qing said with a smile: "I know this. When Xianyang was captured, I found a set of ten mother coins in the official treasury of Xianyang."

Zhang Xiao added from the side: "The envoy of Jinglue is right. The coin minting office on Shaanxi Road was in Xianyang back then. Xuanhe stopped minting money in five years, and the mother money box was stored in the official treasury. People touched it, and it was almost forgotten by others. At that time, I was working as a staff member of Qiangu in Xianyang County. I also considered using it to make money, so I applied to Bianliang for casting iron money, but there was no reply at all.”

"How much gold and silver and copper and fine copper do we have now?"

"Reporting to Jinglueshi, all the 90 jin of rough silver returned to the Sichuan Silver Mine have been refined, and about 30 jin of refined silver were obtained. After refining the Zhangye crude copper, 120 jin of copper ingots were obtained, and 20 jin of refined copper were produced by ourselves. Ten thousand catties, the total inventory is 30 million catties, there are 20 taels of gold and 40 copper coins in the warehouse, and this big victory alone seized [-] copper coins and [-] pieces of cloth and silk."

Jiang Yanxian sighed and said, "It sounds like a lot, but when you think about the monthly salary, it's far from enough."

The monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is two guan qian, which may not seem like much, but it cannot support the huge army!The total strength of the Xihe Road Army has reached 15, and the annual tax revenue is only tens of thousands of dollars. The Silk Road trade can make a little difference, but it has only just started, and it has earned more than 1 dollars.

This is the reason why the Song army quickly expanded to tens of thousands of people after the Battle of Fuping, and then quickly shrank to tens of thousands of people, and they couldn't afford it.

What's more terrible is that if the monthly 30 military salary flows into the market, the price of goods on Xihe Road will skyrocket, and there will not be so much supplies at all.

Before that, the Song army used land to pay their salaries, but now the land on both sides of the Weihe River is gone, only the Taohe Valley and the Hehuang Valley are left. The soldiers may not like the land there, so starting from this month, they will If you want to pay the military salary in a serious manner, you have to pay 30 yuan a month, which scares the officials even thinking about it.

Lu Wei said worriedly: "A few days ago, the army had a day off, and as a result, nearly 10 people poured into Chengji County, eating and drinking all the wine and meat in Chengji County, so we had to urgently buy sheep and wine from Liangzhou. It hasn’t come yet, and the people in the city are complaining, saying that the soldiers are too good to eat, and now everyone is afraid that the soldiers will go on holiday again.”

Chen Qing nodded and said: "I understand what everyone means. No matter how you do it, you can't affect the distribution of military salaries, but you can let the soldiers store their salaries. That's why I asked for silver coins to be minted. There are only four silver coins a month. , and then spread it to the soldiers, this kind of silver money is rare, in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, one silver coin can be exchanged for the same money, so the soldiers are naturally reluctant to use it and store it.”

"But it won't work if it goes on like this for a long time!" Jiang Yan said first.

"It's only a few months!"

Chen Qing said to everyone: "I have received definite news that the emperor of the Jin Kingdom will die soon, and the Jin Kingdom will face another fierce power struggle. This will be our chance to expand eastward. I have ordered the scout battalion to dispatch all The intelligence scouts went to the main counties on Shaanxi Road to find out the intelligence first, and we have started to deliver food and supplies to Pingliang City to prepare for the war in advance.”

……

In the afternoon, Chen Qing returned to the mansion. As usual, he came to the study first.

Just as Chen Qing sat down, his wife Lu Xiu came in with tea.

"Husband, why haven't you taken off your coat yet?"

"I forgot!"

Chen Qing got up and took off his coat, Lu Xiu stepped forward and untied her husband's belt on the back, and said with a smile: "Just now the little guy insisted on coming to your study to play, but I didn't let him come, so he cried."

"Sometimes I'll be with him when I look back."

Lu Xiu hesitated, and whispered, "Husband, I may be pregnant again."

"what!"

Chen Qing was taken aback, and quickly turned around to support his wife's arms, and asked pleasantly, "When was it confirmed?"

"This morning, two doctors came to see it, and they unanimously confirmed that it was Ximai. I didn't have menstruation last month, and I haven't had any this month. I can already feel fetal movement. I guess I'm almost three months pregnant. "

"Great, let's have a baby girl this time."

Lu Xiu smiled and said: "It's not up to you and me, but this time the reaction is really not big, much better than last time, they said it might be a daughter."

Chen Qing's heart was full of joy, he wanted a daughter very much now, Jiang Yanxian's granddaughter was only two years old, she was very lively and cute, which really made him envious.

"Then you can rest! If there is anything in the mansion, you let Yu Lian and Yu Ying do it, they are not young anymore, they can take care of themselves."

Lu Xiu glanced at her husband, it turned out that the husband also knew that the two young ladies were not young anymore.

"Husband, let the two girls move to the outside room to sleep! I wake up a lot at night now, it's really inconvenient, I need someone to help me."

"What about Ji'er?"

"Let him sleep with the wet nurse, no problem, it's all in the same yard anyway."

Chen Qing didn't think too much, nodded, "I have no objection, you arrange it!!"

Lu Xiu laughed again: "There is one more thing I need to discuss with my husband."

"You said, what's the matter?"

Lu Xiu smiled sweetly, "Next month is my master's 50th birthday. I want to celebrate my master's birthday in a lively manner and invite a dozen of her female disciples to the mansion."

Chen Qing thought for a while and smiled: "Why don't you stay in the teahouse! Then just take over the teahouse. You are too tired at home, so what can you do?"

Lu Xiuyou felt that what her husband said was reasonable, so she readily agreed.

……

Back in her dormitory, Lu Xiu found Yu Ying and Yu Lian, smiled at them and said, "Clean up the outside, you can move here tonight!"

Yu Lian's pretty eyes lit up, and she asked in a low voice, "We move here, does the master agree?"

"Of course he agreed. I promised you last time, and now I give you the chance."

All women are scheming, and Lu Xiu is no exception. She is pregnant again, which means that she will not be able to have sex with her husband for half a year. She knows her husband and is full of energy. She does not want him to raise other housewives outside during this time .

Especially after the incident between the second brother and Li Mei happened, Lu Xiu became more vigilant. Her husband has become the master of Xihe Road at such a young age. I don't know how many women are staring at him. During her pregnancy, she is the easiest to give other women a chance.

Anyway, the sisters of the Yu family were her husband's concubines sooner or later, and they followed her for many years, and were loyal to her. More importantly, they were all orphans, and at most they were favored, but they would not have their natal family as a backer to pose a threat to their status.

It happened that during my pregnancy, I asked the sisters to serve my husband for me. As for whether the husband is willing or not, it depends on their own ability.

Lu Xiu reckoned that Yu Ying would be a bit thin-skinned, but Yu Lian had absolutely no problem, that little lady was born to be a vixen who would seduce men.

That night, the Yu sisters moved to the outside room again.

5 Chapter fifty

At two o'clock, Chen Qing got up at night to take a urinate, the room was dimly lit, and he couldn't find his shoes. At this moment, a delicate hand held his feet and put them on for him.

Chen Qing immediately smelled a faint scent of roses, "It's A-Lian!"

The woman nodded slightly, the two girls used different hair oils, Yu Ying likes sweet-scented osmanthus oil, and Yu Lian likes rose fragrance, they can be distinguished by the smell.

"Go to sleep! I can see now."

But Yu Lian followed him stubbornly, all the way to the screen in the corner of the room. After Chen Qing finished his toilet, Yu Lian stepped forward to wipe his hands with a wet towel.

At this moment, Yu Lian suddenly fell into Chen Qing's arms as if she had been tripped, and embraced her warmly and softly, and pressed her body against Chen Qing's body, holding Chen Qing's waist tightly with both hands and refused to let go. Open, Xiaozui kissed Chen Qing's mouth without hesitation.

At this time, Chen Qing felt that the other party was only wearing a thin gauze, he felt the amazing elasticity of the other party's skin, and couldn't bear the distraction in his heart anymore, he slowly stretched out his arms to hug her, and stroked her delicate body , tasting her tongue intoxicatedly.

'cough!cough! ' Yu Ying coughed from the outer room.

Chen Qing was startled, and quickly pushed Yu Lian away, and Yu Lian ran back like a frightened deer.

Chen Qing was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep. He really didn't expect this little lady to develop so well. In just a few years, the former yellow-haired little girl has grown to maturity.

Yu Lian got under the quilt, saw Yu Ying covering her mouth and sniggering, she hated and got angry, and pinched her, "You little hoof!"

"You're the one to die! What are you doing in such a hurry, without looking at the place, wrapped in a light gauze? If Madam sees you, I'll beat you to death!"

Yu Lian curled her lips, but said nothing.

Yu Ying approached her again and asked with a small smile, "Did you get it?"

"No! Didn't you ruin something?"

At this moment, Lu Xiu got up, and Yu Lian quickly pushed Yu Ying, "I'm not wearing any clothes, you go!"

Yu Ying had no choice but to get up and go in to serve.

Yu Lian burrowed into the quilt exuberantly, she knew that she was about to succeed.

……

The next day was a rest day, which was also a rare rest for Chen Qing. In the morning, he played with his son in the back house. His son Chen Ji was already one and a half years old, and he could already talk. Asking this and that at night, non-stop all day, is really a headache.

When his son Chen Ji was one year old, he caught a week, and what he caught was Li Qingzhao's poetry collection. Li Qingzhao was really overjoyed. He spent two days drawing a portrait of the child and hung it in his study.

Chen Ji likes to watch fish by the pond the most, especially one of the red carp, which he even touched with his little hand.

"Father, mother said that there are many big fish in the sea, what does the sea look like!"

"The sea is to the east, and it's very big."

"Is it a big fish pond?"

"That's right! It's a very big fish pond with the biggest fish in it, bigger than our house."

"Daddy, I want to see Big Fish!"

"Okay, when you grow up a bit, daddy will definitely take you there."

"I'll grow up tomorrow."

"Not tomorrow, but after you study."

"Grandma said, teach me to read tomorrow!"

Chen Qing couldn't help but hugged his son, kissed his little cheek and said with a smile: "Daddy will catch you a big fish tomorrow, it's as big as a table, okay?"

"it is good!"

At this time, Lu Xiu shouted: "Husband, it's time to eat!"

"Daddy is hungry, let's go eat."

"My stomach is also hungry. Listen, it is purring. It says, it's time to eat! It's time to eat!"

Chen Qing laughed heartily, he really loved his son, and walked towards the dining hall with him in his arms.

……

After lunch, Chen Ji was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, and was carried to sleep by the nanny.

Lu Xiu was also a little tired, so she went back to her room to rest.

Chen Qing came to his inner study.

As soon as he sat down, he smelled the fragrance of roses, and saw Yu Lian coming in with a cup of tea, smiling.

"Madam said she was a little tired and asked me to bring tea to the master."