Baidu otaku as Chongzhen

Chapter 339 Performance
On July [-], the first year of Chongzhen.

In the inner city of Beijing, Chongwenmenli Street, Huanghuafang, Shidaren Hutong, this alley has been martial law today.The stricter the martial law, the more curious people became, and they came forward to see what was going on, and more and more people gathered at the entrance of the alley.

"I said, what's going on here? Why is martial law enforced today? It looks like there are a lot of officers and soldiers?" A person standing at the entrance of the alley and watching the excitement asked with his mouth open.

In the crowd, another person immediately replied: "Hey, what could be the matter, isn't it just that there is a Baoyuan Bureau in Master Shi's alley now? People want to pull silver coins after martial law." An "insider" immediately revealed the news road.

The onlookers heard the "insider information" and immediately started talking about it.

"I said, big brother, no way, even if the Baoyuan Bureau pulled silver coins, it wouldn't be martial law. The silver coins weren't pulled that day? This martial law, how many silver coins does it have to pull?" The person who opened his mouth saw It is the nature of the people of the country to know the inside story and immediately ask questions curiously. It is the nature of the Chinese people. Even if it is a war, ordinary people will move a bench to watch on the battlefield, which can be described as fierce.

"Hey, I still have to ask, how many officers and soldiers are needed to pull a little silver coin? Or Jin Yiwei, who can command Jin Yiwei except the current emperor?" The "insider" explained again.

When the masses heard it, they looked the same as before.

"I said, no wonder, it turned out that the Holy Son of Heaven was pulling silver coins in such a big battle today! Tsk tsk, I don't know how many silver coins to pull. It looks like it will take more than a dozen carts?"

The "insider" didn't reply, and another "insider" interjected: "A dozen cars? A dozen cars is worth martial law? You underestimate Sheng Tianzi too, did Sheng Tianzi act so petty back then? One of my brothers My aunt's brother-in-law works in Jinyiwei, hehe, guess how many cars are prepared this time?" The second "insider" continued to break the news.

The crowd was also whetted by this person, and booed one after another.

"I said big brother, there are fifty carts..." An aunt listened to other people's chats, her eyes lit up, and when she saw someone asking to guess how many carts of silver coins there were, she immediately reported the number of carts that she thought was the most.

The second "insider" shook his head with a look of contempt.The aunt who guessed fifty cars was embarrassed. She guessed the most number of cars, and others shook her head in contempt. It was obvious that she guessed less.

"I said big brother, shouldn't there be [-] carts? [-] carts, they are all the kind of big carts that pull a thousand catties..." An old man also listened enthusiastically, and followed others to boo, guess how many there are this time? car.

The crowd stared at this "insider" with scorching eyes, to see whether he said too much or too little.

The second "insider" continued to shake his head contemptuously, but this time, he said a few words: "This uncle is right, the car is a big cart, not a cart that pulls a thousand catties, hehe, say Come out and scare you to death, all of them are pulling two thousand catties of carts..." The insider said with a mysterious look.

Ah!
The crowd exclaimed!
"Two thousand catties, oh my god! How many silver coins does this cost?" The old man who guessed the one thousand catty cart exclaimed, and was indeed frightened by the two thousand catty cart.

Among the masses, there are quite a few people who don't care about what is decent or not, and start to settle accounts with their fingers.

"Eighty carts, one cart is two thousand catties, so there must be 16 catties, at least two or three million taels of silver..." A man who looks like a bookkeeper is quite proficient in arithmetic, and he calculated the data first.

"Old Zhang, I did my calculations correctly. At least there are more than 200 million taels of silver. If I exchange them for silver coins, I'm afraid there will be three or four million taels of silver..."

……

In the crowd, there was a lot of discussion at first about how much this batch of money was, and the scene was very lively.

"No, old Zhang, you are counting eighty cars, maybe more than eighty cars, right, big brother, you can tell the exact number, how many cars are there..." Someone in the crowd noticed that eight The number of ten cars is not very accurate.

The crowd turned their fiery eyes on the "insider" again.

The insider was also complacent: "Ahem, um, actually, my brother's aunt's brother-in-law told me how many cars there are when drinking, but he also said that this seems to be a secret and must not be revealed." Let it out, otherwise there will be trouble..."

When the masses heard that there was no specific news, they were very disappointed, and many people even made contemptuous voices.

The insider said again: "However, it will never be less than this number..." After finishing speaking, the second insider raised his hand, pinched the index finger with his thumb, and raised up the other three fingers.

Ah!
Oh……

The crowd exclaimed again.This number is three fingers, that is to say, it will not be less than one hundred cars...

Everyone's eyes brightened completely.It brightens up the surrounding light a lot.

"I said, how many silver coins do you need for this? Do you need a hundred carts to pull it? The Holy Son of Heaven really does things differently! It's grand, nothing to say!" The crowd said enviously.

"That's natural. The money of the Holy Son of Heaven is endless. The Holy Son of Heaven has mountains of gold and silver in his family. If you don't have money, you just need to move a little from the mountains of gold and silver... You don't even look at who transported it." Silver, if there is less silver, the Holy Son of Heaven still doesn't like it..." A crowd immediately echoed.

"Tsk tsk, if only some of the money could be shared with me, I won't have to worry about it for the rest of my life..."

"I said, these silver coins can't be fake, right? Does the emperor have so much money?" A man dressed in rich clothes asked doubtfully. I came here specially to take a look at the silver coins. When I first arrived, I saw a lot of onlookers, who were also talking about this matter, so I listened to it and prepared to ask about the situation by the way.

This statement has stabbed a hornet's nest.

"Hey, let me say, you look well dressed, and you are also from a wealthy family. Why haven't you seen what money is? Can the Holy Son of Heaven have no money? You don't think you need to pay for the 1000 million taels of silver for disaster relief. Yes? The Holy Son of Heaven can even take out 1000 million taels to help the people in the world, so what are these millions of taels..." Among the common people, some people immediately defended the emperor. It made the common people feel warm. Since they can use so much money to help others this time, in the future, if they suffer disasters, the Holy Son of Heaven will also help him, so of course he has to speak for the Holy Son of Heaven.

"that is……"

"that is……"

Immediately, the crowd applauded and condemned the person who questioned the emperor.

The rich man also followed the crowd's accusation and remained silent.

Seeing that those who dared to question the emperor's lack of money fell silent, the masses pretended to be victors and were very proud.

At the entrance of Mr. Shi’s alley, there are already three floors inside, and the three outside floors are full of people, all of whom are here to make fun of it, and to see the money. In fact, if the car hadn’t been overturned in advance, they wouldn’t have seen it at all. Any money, that is, herd mentality, really can only watch the excitement.

Mr. Shun taught several young eunuchs to "act" in Baoyuan Bureau.

"Oh, don't grab it, don't grab it, these silver coins are sent by His Majesty to the bank as security for military tickets, you goddamn, dare to snatch His Majesty's silver coins, you are getting impatient..." one The little eunuch spoke softly, while waving the whisk with his hands, "shouted" in a motherly voice.

Eunuch Shun watched from the side, nodding his head. The performance this time was almost the same as the situation after the convoy was hit in his mind.

"Okay, Xiaoxuanzi, this time, it's almost done, let's start now, they can't wait outside, remember, you follow the convoy transporting silver coins, if you get hit there, you go there, when the time comes There will be people robbing silver coins, you just pretend to be angry and scold those people, it will take some time for the officers and soldiers to rush over, so you have to say these words, understand?" The task given to him by the emperor, he said again I found two confidantes to perform this event, and we must do well what the emperor asked us to do, so as to save face for the emperor's military ticket.

"If you go back to your father-in-law, I will remember it, Bao will definitely do nothing wrong." The little eunuch called Xiao Xuanzi immediately said in a low voice.

"Okay, let's go now." Seeing that everything was ready, Eunuch Shun set off immediately.

……

The convoy of the Baoyuan Bureau finally started. The convoy moved slowly like a long dragon. They were all large carts that could hold more than [-] catties. I can't see what it is at all, and the car is creaked under the weight of these things. It can be seen that the things on the car are by no means light.

At the entrance of Mr. Shi's alley, I don't know who led the way. From the first car that passed by, someone shouted numbers, and after one or two carriages passed by, they shouted. Unknowingly, the crowd also shouted, because this car There are too many points, and counting cars is also something worth showing off.

"98..."

"99..."

"one hundred……"

The crowd quickly counted over one hundred, and looking at the back, the convoy was still a long queue.

"No way, it's already over a hundred, why is it still so long? It seems that it's only halfway through, and this car is too much..." Many people among the crowd said in surprise. Some people say one hundred cars, but they thought it was a lot, but who knows, after counting one hundred, there is still a long queue behind, and there are quite a lot of cars.

The convoy is still creaking and moving forward slowly, from Shida Renren Alley of Baoyuan Bureau into Chongwenmenli Street, to Dashiyongfang on Chang'an Avenue, Liuqili Road, along the way, follow the fresh, lively, and curious There are already more and more people, because it is rumored that millions of silver coins have been transported to pass by this time. This kind of rarity, whatever, you have to take a look.

On Chang'an Avenue, somewhere among the crowd watching the excitement, someone spoke up.

"I said, are these silver coins shipped?"

"Needless to say, what came out of the Baoyuan Bureau wasn't silver coins?" an "insider" immediately replied.

"So many silver coins, who owns them?"

"It goes without saying, who else can use the Jinyiwei, besides today's emperor?" The insider said immediately.

This group of spectators listened with sharp ears when they saw someone chatting and breaking the news.

"That's true, I can see it too, only the Son of Heaven has so many silver coins..."

"No, I heard from a colleague of my brother-in-law's friend that this time, so many silver coins were transported to the bank, and they were specially used to exchange for military tickets." The insider continued to break the news.

Many people in the crowd looked at this insider with astonishment.

"I said big brother, how do you know?"

"Hey, how else do you know? The colleague of my brother-in-law's friend drank too much and boasted about it, saying that His Majesty is mobilizing a large amount of silver coins, which are going to be used as security silver for military tickets, and used to exchange silver coins for military tickets Woolen cloth……"

Ah!
The crowd exclaimed!Such a large amount of silver coins as the guarantee silver for the military ticket is really unexpected.

"I'm afraid there are several million silver coins."

"That's right, I heard from my brother-in-law's friend's colleague that this time, there are forty-five million taels of silver, and they will be turned into silver coins..." This insider continued to explode the news.

"Brother, I said, so many silver coins are exchanged for military tickets? Isn't that too much?" A sober passerby asked.

"Too many, not many. I heard that there may be a big move in Shaanxi. The Holy Son of Heaven has prepared so many silver coins to be used as military expenses. Otherwise, it is impossible to spend 600 million silver coins at once. Don’t you think so?” The insider continued to break the news.

"That's not bad. The harvest in Shaanxi this year is abysmal! Although there are tens of millions of taels of silver from the Holy Son of Heaven to help immigrants, there have always been rebellions after major disasters. This time, I'm afraid it will be no exception! The Holy Son of Heaven probably I have made preparations in advance... I heard that the north is not peaceful, I am afraid that so many silver coins will be minted this time, and it is also intended to deal with the north..." This person has a lot of knowledge and basically agrees with what the "insider" said, And I also imagined the possibility of something happening in the north.

The people who listened to the gossip nodded after hearing it, thinking it made sense, and when they go back later, they can brag to the neighbors in the neighborhood.

"No, I heard from my brother-in-law that the bank will go to Shaanxi to open a branch this year, and my brother-in-law's friend will also go there. Otherwise, how could I know about such intimate things..." The insider continued.

"Oh, I didn't realize that your brother-in-law's friend is from the bank. That's a good place! There's a lot of money, a lot of money! Be polite, be polite." Someone immediately made friends with this "insider"...

……

The convoy turned onto Chang'an Avenue, and an out-of-control carriage rushed towards the silver convoy.Here comes the main event.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, the horse is frightened! Get out of the way, the horse is frightened!" The man driving the carriage, standing on the horse, shouted wildly...

The spectators cheered and watched even tighter. They almost followed the carriage and ran forward, ready to see how this guy would end this time. On one side was the emperor's silver coin convoy and on the other was Crazy Horse.In an instant, Chang'an Avenue was completely surrounded.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, the horse is frightened..." the man driving the carriage still shouted wildly.

The silver transport team that opened the way in front saw a two-horse carriage rushing towards them, and they couldn't help but immediately give way to let the carriage continue to run wildly.However, the leader of Jin Yiwei began to sweat on his forehead, drew out his knife and shouted, "Don't hit the money cart, or..."

The man driving the carriage seemed to have heard the call of the Jinyiwei officer, and his driving skills were also excellent, he just drove the carriage to avoid the previous few carriages.

However, the horse was really frightened, and it was hard to control. It avoided the first few carriages, but the ones behind couldn't dodge it, because the surrounding crowd was so enthusiastic that the road became narrower and narrower.

"bump……"

Inevitably, the carriage was loaded with a silver carriage, which was smashed to pieces... The box containing the silver coins on the carriage rolled down, and the lid of the box was lifted, and the silver coins were spilled upside down with a "wow". one place.

The carriage that the man was driving Crazy Horse seemed to have been specially reinforced. After knocking down the first silver cart, he hit the second and third silver carts one after another...

"Wow..."

"Wow..."

"Wow..."

Boxes of neatly packed silver coins spilled out of the boxes.All over the street.

Quiet!

Absolutely quiet!
Only the sound of breathing gradually increased.Under the sunlight, the silver coins in that place were shining silver, making them indescribably alluring.Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of the escort, was dumbfounded and demented. He didn't know what to do. On the one hand, this was something he was responsible for escorting, and it belonged to the emperor. On the other hand, there were too many silver coins.

The crowd began to commotion, began to push and push.Shouting and cursing, compared to this, the crowd approached the silver coins in wave after wave. The people in the front were almost crying. The knife in the front was Jin Yiwei's knife, and a group of people in the back were pushing...

"Pick up silver coins!" Someone shouted... Then, the line of defense that the Jin Yiwei guards were struggling to maintain completely collapsed, and the crowd swarmed towards the silver coins that were scattered by the collision. Bending down to pick up silver, putting handfuls of silver coins into his pocket...

A sissy shouted hoarsely: "Don't take it, don't take it, these silver coins are the silver coins that His Majesty gave to the military ticket, you group of gods, dare to rob His Majesty's silver, are you impatient? It's all silver for the military ticket..." Just like during the rehearsal, this little Xuanzi appeared in the right place, and naturally called out the content related to the military ticket, using all her strength to Whisk and whip those who pick up silver.However, many people who were beaten saw that an eunuch was beating themselves with a "feather duster" and shouting funny, so they didn't bother to argue with him and continued to squat down to pick up silver coins.

The Jinyiwei Baihu who opened the way in front blushed, raised the Xiuchun knife that had come out of the body, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me, this group of people who have suffered thousands of knives dare to snatch our Jinyiwei's things. I'm getting impatient..." After that, he rushed towards the overturned silver trucks fiercely, slashing at the crowded people with the back of his knife while rushing.

Only then did the crowd recede like the tide, and they moved out of the way. By the time the Jinyiwei's hundred households "killed" the overturned car, seven or eight silver coins on the ground had already been picked up, and only some were scattered on the ground. .

This Jinyiwei family looked at the overturned carriage, the empty box, and the silver coins had disappeared. Looking at the crowd, the people who picked up the silver coins slipped away along the "tide", and the rest were all As if I didn't take the money and it had nothing to do with me, this Jinyiwei Baihu was so angry that he sat down on the ground and burst into tears.He was finished, escorting silver coins to the emperor, he thought it was a good job, but he didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, let alone the black gauze hat on his head this time, he might not even be able to keep his head.It was really "sad" and cried.

(End of this chapter)