Da Wei Chun

Chapter 65 Shameless

After the twentieth day of the first month, the sky became warmer and warmer, and even the snow in the fields showed signs of melting in a large area.

After lunch, Hu Baozong asked a few servants of the Song family to carry the soft couch out and lean against the wall, then took a copy of "Records of the Three Kingdoms" and read the book in the sun.

Would you like to enjoy it?
Li Chengzhi snorted secretly.

Hearing the movement, Hu Baozong raised his head and saw that it was Li Chengzhi, his face suddenly filled with joy.

He hadn't seen Li Chengzhi for nearly ten days.

I don't know why, I've only known Li Chengzhi for less than a month, but I feel like they have been friends for decades.

Those "remarkable people" and "talents" that Hu Baozong thought in the past were compared with Li Chengzhi at this time, like clouds and mud...

So every time I think of the night when I had a confrontation with Li Chengzhi, Hu Baozong's guts turn green with regret.

Fortunately, Li Chengzhi is more generous...

Hu Baozong put down the book and asked curiously, "It's rare that you have time to go down the mountain. How is your armor forging?"

Li Chengzhi reduced the number tenfold: "Forty pairs were forged in ten days!"

"Forty pairs? Not bad..."

Hu Baozong was boasting in his mouth, but he was somewhat disapproving in his heart.

What Li Chengzhi collected was mature iron material. Compared with the blacksmith who made it from iron ore, it was many times easier.

I heard that there are nearly a hundred strong men who can be blacksmiths with a hammer, and only forge four sets of armor in one day. What is there to praise?
And the after-effects are also great: if the court responds quickly and can pacify the chaos before and after the Grain Rain, then this year's agricultural affairs will not be delayed.

At that time, see what kind of land Li Chengzhi uses.

This is going to be deserted, but hundreds of thousands of acres...

"How is your recuperation?" Li Chengzhi asked tentatively when the maid finished serving tea.

Aware that Li Chengzhi's tone was wrong, Hu Baozong became vigilant: "You want to drive me away?"

He really didn't want to leave, because Li Chengzhi had not yet killed the Yinzhen that Li Chengzhi had promised him.

The second is that you can't go if you want to.

Liu Huiwang was coerced by more and more chaotic people, and the scope of looting and killing became larger and larger, and it had already spread to the vicinity of Jingyang City.

Although the county town was not completely besieged, the road was cut off long ago, and without hundreds of soldiers to protect it, how could Hu Baozong dare to take the road...

"How is that possible?" Li Chengzhi suddenly exclaimed, "I can't wait to treat you as an immortal..."

When the gods make offerings?

As soon as he heard this, he knew that Li Chengzhi should have something to ask him, but Hu Baozong didn't say anything, just looked at him sideways.

In my heart, I was thinking: This bastard is here to coax Grandpa again...

Can't scare you to death?

Li Chengzhi sneered secretly, reached into his arms, took out a copper ingot, and handed it to Hu Baozong.

Facing Hu Baozong, it happened to be the bottom of the gold, and he was suddenly surprised: "Jin Jin?"

Before the Tang Dynasty, if only "gold" was mentioned, it meant copper.

In the historical records, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "rewarded officials with tens of thousands of catties of gold" at every turn, and he was talking about copper.

As for gold, as long as it is mentioned, it must be called "gold".

This thing is more expensive: one or two gold beads can be exchanged for ten pieces of silk!
The price is equivalent to 160 times that of copper.

So very few people mix gold into copper.

Occasionally, there are noble ladies and daughters of noble families who like this kind of gold with pink color.
No matter how heavy this piece is, it can be pinched with a fingernail to make a mark, which means that it is pure copper mixed with gold, and it is more than enough for his two-year salary.

Such a generous shot?

Hu Baozong looked at Li Chengzhi suspiciously: "What do you want me to do?"

Think you are bribing him?

"What are you doing with the Spring and Autumn Dream?" Li Chengzhi sneered, snatched the copper ingot, and then sighed in disappointment, with a trace of sadness on his face.

"I figured it out, I still don't have enough food!"

"Shit!" Hu Baozong spit out a word.

It should have been enough.

The Song family's grain storage alone has tens of thousands of stone, plus the Li family's, and the collection from the households, it should be at least [-] stone or more. If it is strictly controlled, it will be halved every day or only Offering [-]%, it is not impossible to eat the beginning of autumn.

But what did Li Chengzhi want to do with cash-for-work?
At least [-]% of the males who can become an army and can go to work are required to train and work at a high intensity every day, and their food intake has more than doubled.

As far as these grains are concerned, let alone the beginning of autumn, it would be good for Li Chengzhi to persist until the beginning of summer.

At that time, if the chaos has not been settled, what will he do?
"So what?" Hu Baozong pointed to the copper ingot on the table, and sneered, "Do you want to use this lottery to buy grain? How many kilograms can you buy with this piece?"

"More than that?"

Li Chengzhi stretched out his palm, thought about it, and only gestured with four fingers, "There are four thousand catties!"

Hu Baozong's eyes snapped: "It's all like this kind of bonus money?"

Li Chengzhi nodded.

With a "snap", Hu Baozong jumped up directly, perhaps tugging at the wound, or maybe he was frightened, only to see him take a deep breath, and asked with a grin, "Where does your family get so much gold? "

Li's family has [-] catties of copper, which is not unusual for him at all.

The Li family’s 3000 mu of fertile land alone can earn at least [-] shi a year. Even if the tenants keep [-]% and the host family keeps [-]%, there should be [-] shi a year.

If you change it into copper, it is [-] jin, and you can save [-] jin in four years.

Hu Baozong was surprised that, looking at the thick layer of color at the bottom of the copper ingot, how could there be a tael of gold in one piece? After calculating, the value of gold in this ingot is actually more expensive than copper?
How much gold is needed for 400 yuan?

This is the real priceless good stuff...

Li Chengzhi smiled without explaining.

One or two more?
It would be nice to have money.

Gold is denser than copper, and will sink to the bottom of the copper liquid after being melted.However, the melting point is lower than that of copper, which naturally solidifies earlier than copper, so it will all cover the bottom layer of the copper ingot.

But because it is small, it is a rose color. If the content is higher, this layer should be all golden yellow.

"It's all handed down by my grandfather Naizhi, I don't know how many!" Li Chengzhi replied vaguely, and then asked, "Li Song told me that the price of such copper ingots is bronze ingots containing [-]% lead. Double the amount, wouldn’t that one pound be exchanged for four stones of grain?”

More than four stones, even six stones are not difficult to exchange, and even eight stones may be requested.

Hu Baozong looked at Li Chengzhi with a strange expression, as if to say: He is really a prodigal...

Li Chengzhi would have been wrong, and thought that Hu Baozong was surprised that he was able to use up his family wealth to buy food and use it to support seven or eight thousand Song villagers and monks who had nothing to do with him?
How big of a mind and tolerance is this?

Li Chengzhi sneered: "Don't think of me as being so noble, I was forced to be helpless, so I had to be so generous. Going deeper, this is actually helping your Hu family to eliminate misfortune, so these four thousand pounds Bronze, just take it as if I borrowed it from you..."

lend me?
It means that the money for buying food is from the Hu family?

Hu Baozong's eyes popped in shock: "Why?"

This is four thousand catties of prize money, at least it can be worth ten thousand catties of bronze. With his little salary, he will have to eat or drink for 1000 years...

Li Chengzhi smiled mournfully: "I'm still alive with Yinzhen!"

It means that as long as Yinzhen does not die, the Chaoxuan Temple chaos will be inseparable from the Hu family.

The responsibility of buying grain to feed the monks and the villagers of the Song family belongs to the Hu family.

Hu Baozong's head was about to smoke.

He gritted his teeth and looked at Li Chengzhi: "Can you stop being so shameless?"

(End of this chapter)