The old man had two or three drinks with me, when suddenly four or five night owl young people came. The old man hurriedly put down his glass and got up to greet the guests.
I took a bite of the dish and lowered my head in thought.
Yes, there is a name recorded in the old Guangxu Chun'an County Chronicle. This person is called Fang Weixun. He was a Jinshi in the late Ming Dynasty and later became a tax collector. If I have not remembered, this person is from Fuxi, and Fuxi is very close to Fude.
County annals are not omnipotent, but sometimes there are clues to the historical truth hidden in county annals.
I immediately called Xiaoxuan.
"Xiaoxuan, go to my tent. I have a copy of the Chun'an County Chronicle in my bag. Go look for it quickly!"
Three minutes later, Xiaoxuan said: "I found it. Your book is really bad."
"How can it not be broken after a hundred or two hundred years! Turn to page...turn to page 29! Look if there is a triple bridge painted on it!"
"yes."
"Look at the lower right corner! There is a person named Fang Weixun! It was this person who donated money to build the triple arch bridge! Look at the year and month marked at the back?"
Xiaoxuan whispered softly: "It was winter in the 17th year of Chongzhen. What happened? Where are you? Why did I hear a woman talking?"
"No! I'm alone in the hotel! Where is the woman! You heard wrong!"
I quickly motioned to Sai Xishi beside me to shut up.
"Really? You didn't lie to me?"
I said excitedly: "I lied to you, I'm a bastard!"
Sometimes I had to tell a white lie to fool Xiaoxuan and then hung up the phone. I was so excited that I slammed my palm on the table.
In the winter of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen had been hanging on Meishan for several months!
The tax collection system of the Ming Dynasty was a "two-tax system", that is, it was collected twice a year, divided into summer tax and winter tax. Summer tax was paid one after another around June every year! Chongzhen hanged himself in early April! Then I can draw a conclusion after calculation!
As a tax collector, Fang Weixun must have been hanged by Chongzhen on his way back to the court after collecting taxes, and the Ming Dynasty fell!
If the country is ruined, then who will give the taxes he collected?
The old man just said that there has always been a legend of silver hidden in the brick tower in Laofude Village, and I immediately associated the two together.
Don’t underestimate the legends in these villages. Many of them have basis and origin, such as the legend of the Ekou Saiwang Treasure.
In the middle and early Ming Dynasty, no money was collected for tax collection. Instead, taxes were collected in kind, such as pork, grain, cloth and silk, iron and copperware. Anyway, families were given whatever they had, and then the government sold these into money.
This was done because they were afraid that if all the money was collected, the people would concentrate on selling grain, which would lead to a collapse in grain prices. In particular, the domestic silver production was seriously insufficient that year.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after the "Longqing Switch", a large amount of silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty through maritime trade. It was also from this time that tax collection began to collect silver again. The government recast the broken silver handed over by the people in a unified furnace, and cast it into Fifty-two large silver collars, this is what the industry calls serious snowflake silver, and the quality is excellent.
Under the background of that year, it is very possible that Fang Weixun received more than 100,000 taels of tax silver. After the Ming Dynasty died, he could only keep this batch of summer tax silver for himself. He built bridges and paved roads, but in the end he couldn't spend all the money, so he buried the remaining official silver deep underground in the name of building a brick tower!
In addition, I also found that its name, Fude Tower, may also hint at a mystery.
Think about it, what is called "imparting virtue".
Fu means tax! And De is homophonic to "get"!
A silver boat costs fifty taels, and one hundred thousand taels equals two thousand. Even if it takes half of the time to repair the bridge and pave the way, there will still be one thousand left!
I have sold two of these silver boats before, and the average price of each one is around 70,000 to 100,000 yuan. I will calculate the lowest price of 70,000 yuan. One thousand boats is a full 70 million yuan. This is really a big deal for me. If you find it, you will make a fortune!
"No, boss, I feel dizzy. I might be a little drunk!" Sai Xishi suddenly covered his head and leaned over.
I pushed him away and said loudly: "Stop lying to me? Don't pretend to be drunk with me! Your drinking capacity is no less than mine."
"Oh, I find that you are really boring as a man. When a girl is drunk, don't you know how to care about her and cherish her?"
Sai Xishi said with a smile: "Boss, don't mix interests or feelings. I am a woman, and my physical needs also need to be solved by men. Besides, my nickname is Sai Xishi. It's not in vain. You Don’t you really want to try my Shaoxing Eight Jue Kung Fu?”
I asked in surprise: "What kind of Kung Fu? Shaoxing Eight Jue Kung Fu? I think you are weak and weak, but you still know how to do martial arts before you come out?"
Sai Xishi immediately rolled her eyes. She looked at me and said, "You want to make me angry to death to be happy, right?"
"No, beauty, if I said anything wrong and offended you, I will apologize to you. Are you really good at martial arts?"
"You...you're so mad at me!"
"I don't want your 600,000 yuan anymore! I'll go back to Zhuji tomorrow! I want to tell the big boss about your fishing for cultural relics in Qiandao Lake!"
"Don't! You must not do this!"
Sai Xishi snorted coldly: "Please."
I said with a cold face: "Just because I'm afraid of Watermelon Head doesn't mean I'm afraid of you as a woman. Don't bully me too much. If you really piss me off, I can make you unable to speak forever."
Sai Xishi suddenly took out a mobile phone from her arms. She smiled and said: "I have recorded all the conversations between us since we met. I just went to the toilet and sent the backup to my friend. To remind you, in the recording But there was a conspiracy conversation between you and Li Xiangling."
My face turned dark instantly.
Watermelon Head is a ruthless person. Even Brother Tian told me not to mess with this person before. I am not strong enough to fight against this person now, so the principle I adhere to in dealing with things is to avoid it if I can.
Sai Xishi held her head high, pointed at me, and said in a bold tone: "I'm going to make a decision for you today. I just want to play with your little earth. There is no man I want to fall in love with that I can't get."
My face turned from black to red, and then from red to white.
"Haha! Hahaha!"
"why are you laughing?"
"I laugh at your ignorance! Do you really think I have spent all these years in vain?"
I took out a mobile phone battery from my pocket and shook it in front of her eyes with a smile.
"you!"
"How did I guess that?"
"Beauty, who told you to look at your bag all the time when you have nothing to do? It's hard not to make people suspicious."
At that time, most mobile phones were charged with batteries and a universal charger. In fact, from the moment she walked in the door, I was always on guard against this woman.
"Speaking of which, you are really good at martial arts. What are your eight unique skills?" I asked for the third time.
Sai Xishi said with a cold face: "There is a toilet over there. Come with me and I will let you try my Eight Jue Kung Fu. If you can hold on for more than five minutes without trembling, I will lose."
I laughed and said, "Actually, I know even if you don't tell me, this Eight Jue Skills should be the Eight Jue Shou, right? It's the Sanshou used in conjunction with Xingyiquan. It's called shooting, grabbing, splitting, teasing, cutting, hitting, and picking. , Take, it is also similar to the San Shou used in Xingyiquan, as well as the Fanhua Shou, the Forty-Eight San Shou and the Lian Li Shi Shou, are what I said correct?"
After listening to my words, Sai Xishi's face was instantly covered with frost.
She took a deep breath, looked at me and said, "Xiang Yunfeng, I can see that you are an idiot."
