I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 28 Undercurrent is turbulent
Liu Zhi subconsciously exclaimed: "Here comes someone!"

Before anyone came, Wu Wai calmly took out a stack of white "paper" from his sleeve.

It's not a blank paper either. There are words on the paper, and the words are quite dense.

Liu Zhi's attention was instantly attracted by this stack of "paper": "Is this...a banknote?"

Banknotes were first officially issued by the Northern Song Dynasty, and existed in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, the only officially issued banknotes were during the Shunzhi, Xianfeng and Guangxu years.

This thing had to be issued initially because of the lack of silver reserves in the Qing Dynasty. Later, it became somewhat overpopulated and was stopped immediately.

However, private banknote circulation has always existed.

It is usually used as the price of large private business transactions, or as a place for some officials to hide their wealth.

Gentlemen generally don't keep banknotes. They bury them directly in the cellar.

Liu Zhi recognized the stack of white "paper" at a glance. It was a banknote.

Even with his wealth, he has never used or seen this thing.

But the paper used for banknotes is different, usually Korean paper or white paper.Its surface is as smooth as jade, which is not comparable to ordinary paper.

There is also a kind of rice paper, which is almost the same.

But Liu Zhi would not think that the other party would take a stack of rice paper full of words and show it to him with confidence.

Are you making fun of yourself?

"Brother Liu has such good eyesight!"

Wu Wai praised, "These 500 taels of silver notes can be regarded as a meeting gift from me to Brother Liu. I hope Brother Liu will never refuse!"

500 taels? !

Liu Zhi's breathing suddenly became heavy. Such a large amount of money has already caught up with his entire net worth.

"...What exactly do you want to do?"

Liu Zhi took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

Wu Wai smiled slightly: "Don't do anything, just make friends, just make friends."

After hearing this, Liu Zhi took a deep look at Wu Wai, then stretched out his hand to grab all the banknotes on the table and put them into his pocket.

After all the money was put into his pocket, Liu Zhi said: "I am just a small manager at the dock, and he is on duty, so I can't help you much..."

Wu Wai cupped his fists and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, we are just making friends with Brother Liu, so we won't make it too difficult for Brother Liu."

I wait?

Isn't this even a cover-up?

Liu Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly, and was a little curious: "Why are you looking for me?"

Wu Wai said: "My king originally wanted me to visit one by one, but I didn't expect that Brother Liu is such a sweetheart. It saves me and others a lot of trouble, and if I make too many friends, there will be some trouble." .dont you agree?"

When Liu Zhi heard this, he was even more speechless: "...Brother Wu is such a good man. Just like that, aren't you afraid of being discovered?"

Wu Wai said: "What is there to be afraid of? We are the Nan'ao Navy, not the Fujian Navy. We are not under the control of the officials in Fujian Province."

Okay, now Liu Zhi understands.

It is nothing more than pretending to be Nan'ao Town. In terms of jurisdiction, Nan'ao Town is under the mutual administration of Fujian and Guangdong.

In a sense, they don't care about each other.

Now that the only governor with some jurisdiction has claimed to be ill, these rebels are naturally more emboldened.

But it’s none of his business, how much he gets paid, how much he does.With the little money the court gave him, if he fired two shots into the air before the battle, he would be considered the emperor.

……

Quanzhou Prefecture at that time.

Yongchun County.

In an ordinary tea shop, there was such a group of people gathered together.

"How's it going? What's going on?" One of them, wearing coarse cloth and a straw hat on his head, about thirty years old, seemed to be a farmer, asked impatiently.

The person he asked about was slightly better dressed and looked like a waiter in a restaurant: "I found out, there is a rebellion in Taiwan Mansion..."

When it came to the second half of the sentence, the young boy deliberately lowered his voice.

"what?!"

Several people present looked shocked.

But the strange thing is that no one feels afraid.

The straw hat peasant hurriedly asked: "What's the specific situation? There is really a rebellion over there at Taiwan? When did it happen? Could it be that this is the reason for the deployment of troops in the county in the past few days?"

"It's true."

The boy nodded first and then said, "I heard about this from the merchants who came to and from the hotel. It seems that there was a remnant of the Ming Dynasty at Taiwan who claimed to be a descendant of Prince Zhu San and raised an army. The rebellion against the Qing Dynasty caused quite a big fuss, and the officers and soldiers who even killed were defeated."

"It is said that even the governor was alerted. Tens of thousands of cavalry were mobilized a month ago to suppress the rebellion. It seems that troops were also mobilized from Zhejiang. I don't know what's going on now?"

This was obviously an exaggeration by the merchants along the way, and tens of thousands of cavalry were mobilized. There were not that many cavalry in the entire Fujian Province.

However, this about King Zhu's rebellion is not bad, but the information is a bit delayed.

This is normal. They are just a group of businessmen. They can only rely on hearsay and observations along the way. How accurate can it be?
"Harm! I only regret that we found out too late, otherwise..."

Hearing this, the farmer clenched his fists and sounded quite resentful.

On the side, another man of the same age as him spoke with relief: "Second brother, don't be discouraged. After all, Taiwan is alone overseas, and it is inevitable that news will lag behind. Moreover, if it is as Zhang Dezi said, it should not be so easy over there. Defeat. Wait a little longer and let Zhang Dezi investigate further."

At this time, a younger man also interjected: "Yes! Brother Wang and Brother Xu are absolutely right. It's a pity that the government is under martial law now. Otherwise, you can ask someone to contact the people on the other side of Taiwan. Brother, see what’s going on?”

The farmer, the second brother Wang, nodded and said bitterly: "Oh, if Boss Chen hadn't fallen into the government's poisonous scheme back then, how could we have fallen into this situation now? We still have to put our hope in those outsiders. "

The boy Zhang Dezi said weakly: "Second brother Wang, those people say that guy is a descendant of the third prince Zhu..."

The second brother Wang sneered: "The descendants of the Third Prince Zhu are just someone's trick to fool people. Ever since what happened 12 years ago, how can there be any descendants of the Third Prince Zhu in the world?"

"Twelve years ago? Second brother Wang met the third prince Zhu?"

"I……"

"Okay, don't say any more."

Then Third Brother Xu stopped the topic in time, "Right now, it's more important to inquire about the news. Zhang Dezi, go back and take a closer look first. Huang Wu, you call our brothers first and tell them in advance. If there is really It’s done, I can’t wait to take advantage of this opportunity..."

"Little brother understands!"

"Okay, Third Brother, take a look!"

Upon hearing this, Huang Wu and Zhang Dezi no longer cared about Prince Zhu's affairs.

After a brief summary, a few people left the small tea shop in a hurry.

There were very few people coming and going around the tea shop. , no one paid attention to these people who obviously behaved abnormally.

The owner of the tea shop didn't pay attention after seeing a few people leaving. After a while, he came over to clean the tables and chairs.

(End of this chapter)