The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 3 Datong Auntie and Yangzhou Shouma

Chang Feng led Huzi and came to Cai Zhong's study with the others.

Release the tiger cubs.Huzi turned left and right in the study, sniffing.Suddenly, Huzi stopped in front of the south wall and started barking wildly.

Chang Feng walked over and tapped the treasure ring on the wall. When the treasure ring made a familiar sound again, Chang Feng laughed and said, "It's not new to store silver in the wall."

Digging under the bedroom bed to store silver is called "hoarding".

There is interlayer Tibetan silver on the wall, which is called "wall Tibetan".

To break the wall, you need a sledgehammer.

The job of swinging the sledgehammer has always belonged to Fatty Xu.He is seven feet tall and weighs over 200 kilograms.He is a famous strongman in Jinyiwei.

"Ah bah!" Fatty Xu spat hard on his hands twice, and swung a sledgehammer to slam it against the south wall.

"Boom".A big hole was smashed into the south wall.Two taels of small silver zippers flowed out of the hole like water.

"Ding, ding, ding".Every piece of silverware made a crisp sound when it fell to the ground.

Fatty Xu continued his efforts and smashed another ten hammers.

The entire wall of the south wall was smashed open.There are a lot of two taels of small silver coins neatly stacked inside.

Chang Feng picked up one, only to see that Xiao Yinkai's signature was "Fuyuan Haozhu".

Fuyuanhao is one of the three major banks in Beijing.It seems that these silvers are not official silvers, but municipal silvers.

Fatty Xu said: "The city bank? It seems that Cai Zhong didn't get it by embezzlement, but by accepting bribes. This is talking about embezzling the official bank and taking bribes from the city bank."

Chang Feng smiled slightly: "Wrong! These are also official silver. How do you see the difference between this silver and ordinary silver?"

Fatty Xu picked it up and looked at it carefully.I saw a little bit of gold on the white silver.

Fatty Xu said: "The fineness of this silver is very similar to the 50 taels of silver ingots that the Ministry of Households distributes to our ancestors every twelfth lunar month."

Chang Feng talked eloquently: "That's right! This is Jinhuayin. As the name suggests, Jinhuayin contains gold in silver."

"This is not the gold deliberately added by the silversmiths. It's the silver mines accompanied by gold mines."

"There is a system in the Ming Dynasty, and gold flowers and silver are not allowed to circulate in the market. They are collected by the governors of each province and donated to the treasury. They are used for the emperor's rewards or to discount the military officer's monthly salary."

Fatty Xu was a little strange: "Since it can only exist in the national treasury, how could it become a city bank with the name of a private bank?"

Chang Feng said: "It's simple. Cai Zhong must have embezzled the golden flowers and silver in the national treasury, and then melted them into market silver to cover up people's eyes and ears. In the future, they will be used as gifts to relatives and friends, to buy houses and land to raise sisters and children to enjoy operas."

Fatty Xu slapped his head: "I mean! My father has been complaining for the past two years that the silver ingots enshrined to my ancestor King Zhongshan in the first month have not been enough."

"Because it was rewarded by the imperial court, it is not easy to complain to the head of the household department who is in charge of distributing money."

Chang Feng analyzed: "Most of the nobles in the capital may have the same mentality as your father. I am sorry to complain about the insufficient amount of silver given by the court."

"Cai Zhong took advantage of your mentality. He fiddled with the amount when casting the gift silver. He put the part that was withheld in his own pocket. He also made the bank recast it into an unobtrusive two-and-a-half small coin."

Fatty Xu scolded: "He's got a leg. He's really good at making money."

Everyone began to count the number of silver coins hidden in the wall.

After the counting was completed, Chang Feng called the captain who recorded the accounts: "Note, at the mansion of Cai Zhong, the right servant of the household department, two taels of gold and silver 710 and five taels were copied from the study. The total is 30 taels."

Recording the school lieutenant's second count.Chang Feng signed the account book, and everyone packed the gold flowers and silver into boxes and sealed them.

Fatty Xu asked the accounting officer: "How much real gold and silver have you copied out?"

The accounting officer replied: "Silver ingots, silver pegs, and gold pegs, the total is 690 taels."

Chang Feng took a deep breath: "It's still far from the number of [-]! Our badges are still hanging in the air, if we don't have them, we won't."

The two of them got out of the study.I saw the soldiers of Wucheng Bingma Division escorting eight women passing by.Those eight women had completely different charms.

Four of them were in their 20s.Plump.Quite mature charm.

The other four looked only thirteen or fourteen, young girls, charming and charming.

They were crying.The soldiers on the side urged impatiently: "Hurry up!"

Chang Feng stopped the group of people.He asked the soldiers: "Who are these women?"

The soldiers smirked: "Hey, if you go back to your job. These are domestic prostitutes supported by Cai Zhong. The commander asked us to take them to Xikuayuan for easy supervision. The Secretary of Jiaofang will pick them up in the afternoon."

Chang Feng asked one of the crying women, "Where are you from?"

The woman said with a strong Shanxi old mature vinegar accent: "I am from Datong, Shanxi."

Chang Feng asked another timid girl, "Where are you from?"

The girl whispered softly to Wu Nong: "I am Yangzhou Bank."

Chang Feng and Fatty Xu exchanged glances.

Fatty Xu sighed: "Auntie Datong, Yangzhou skinny horse! Cai Zhong is a wolf, it's like a toad marrying a frog, ugly and fun!"

Aunt Datong and Yangzhou Shouma are the favorite domestic prostitutes of rich and noble families in Beijing.

In this era when there is no difference between women and objects, beautiful women are often traded as goods.

Datong mother-in-law and aunt, as the name suggests, are Datong women.

Traffickers bought them when they were ten years old."Sit in an urn" every day.

The traffickers will choose an urn that matches their age, and ask the girls to sit with their legs on the rim of the urn.Every day they have to sit in the urn for more than three hours.

This continued for six full years.The bodies of these girls will develop differently from ordinary people.

Six years of "sitting in an urn" was completed.They will become qualified Datong mothers-in-law.He was sold to Beijing and Jiangnan by human traffickers.

Literati commented on "Datong mother-in-law and aunt", saying: There are many doors and multiple households, and winding paths lead to secluded places.

The old people commented on "Datong mother-in-law and aunt", basically in one word
From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times, in Datong, women must not be called "mother-in-law".If you yell, you can't run away with a big pussy.

On the market, a Datong mother-in-law's deed of sale ranges from 200 taels to 300 taels.

Yangzhou Shouma is a five-year-old girl selected by Yangzhou's "grandmother".Since childhood, he has learned piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing.

On the thirteenth day, if you follow the seven standards of "thin, fragrant, small, sharp, curved, upright, and soft", you can write poems and paint, dance like a fairy, and sing around a beam for three days.They will become qualified lean horses.

In the market, a Yangzhou skinny horse needs three to four hundred taels for a contract of sale.

In addition to Datong mother-in-law and Yangzhou thin horse, there are two other schools of flower industry in Daming: Taishan girl and West Lake boat girl.

The four schools have basically dominated the flower industry of Ming Dynasty.

Chang Feng said to the soldiers: "If the secretary of Jiaofang comes to pick up people in the next afternoon, you tell them that these eight women are temporarily detained by Jin Yiwei! Let them wait."

With an expression of "I understand", the soldiers led the eight women to Xikuayuan.

Fatty Xu said: "I'm talking about Lord Chang. You detain these eight women, don't you plan to give them to the commander for promotion?"

Chang Feng shook his head: "Although I'm looking forward to promotion, I'm not ashamed to use the lowly method of giving away a woman."

Fatty Xu's complexion changed: "Ah? Don't try to keep it to yourself! This is a violation of Jinyiwei's family rules! At that time, what will be lost is not the waist card, but the head!"

Chang Feng shook his head: "Woman, I'm only interested in Xiaoyan. Let me tell you, Commander Jun Ling only said that we should search for 3 taels of silver. But he didn't say whether it can be exchanged!"

Silver is white.

The so-called "color folding" refers to converting the prices of houses, land properties, antique calligraphy and paintings, domestic prostitutes, etc., and adding the real gold and silver copied out to calculate the total.

Fatty Xu slapped his head: "Zhe Se? I didn't expect that."

Chang Feng said: "Those eight women are worth at least 2000 taels. So I'll hold them up first."

"If we copy out 3 taels of silver, we will hand them over to the Jiaofang Secretary. If there is not enough, we will use them as a discount."

(End of this chapter)