After leaving the Transshipment Office, Du Zhongxiao was puzzled by Zhang Yao's attitude towards him. As a small military official, Zhang Yaozuo's attitude was too enthusiastic. No matter how polite and polite, he should not be so humble. Not to mention the identity of a relative, a person who is waiting for the system, he should not be like this.

After pinching, he finally gave him a heavy small cloth bag. Du Zhongxiao was full of doubt and returned to the inn.

When he returned to his residence and opened the small cloth bag, Du Zhongxiao couldn't help but laugh. The bag was filled with a bag of money. It was roughly calculated that nearly a hundred guan, which was more expensive than the gifts given by Du Zhongxiao. The money was specially made in the palace for rewards. It was thought that it was given to Zhang Yaozuo by beauty Zhang, and he gave it to Du Zhongxiao.

After looking at the money, Du Zhongxiao finally understood Zhang Yaozuo's thoughts. It was not right to pay attention to young officials and encourage them to advance. It was because he was too lonely. Du Zhongxiao, a Jinshi who was a full-time Jinshi, entered the museum in his early twenties, and had a promising future, came to visit him, which made Zhang Yaozuo very pleased. Zhang Yaozuo had no other thoughts today, just was very happy. Zhang Yaozuo didn't even see the gift Du Zhongxiao gave.

Zhang Yaozuo was born in a humble background and studied poetry and became a Jinshi. When he was an official, he worked diligently and must have been full of longing. One day he became a high-ranking official and became famous all over the world. In recent years, he has been promoted step by step, but his dream when he was young has come true, but the result is not as he thought.

With Zhang Yaozuo's qualifications, it is no problem to achieve his current official position. He must have thought that although he had benefited from his niece, his qualifications would definitely be recognized by everyone. I am afraid he did not expect that from the day he was promoted to the time of his reign, he was subjected to cold violence by officials in the court. Because he was a relative of the foreign affairs, most of the officials in the court did not come with him. No one had seen any contributions to the official position. Whenever there were minor mistakes, the court would be full of storms.

This official was boring, and because others were hiding from him, he was a little lonely. This is why Du Zhongxiao visited and was so polite. In the past, officials who passed by either flattered or ignored him with arrogance. They were as purely polite as Du Zhongxiao and were polite to visit. There were not many officials who had no requests.

After thinking about this, Du Zhongxiao felt relieved and took the bag of money safely.

In fact, Zhang Yaozuo was born in a poor family. After being a Jinshi in high school, he was better than the officials and was good at filing cases. He was a capable official. It was precisely because he had no backstage before and was always cautious when he was an official. Zhang Meiren was noble and noble. After he was promoted quickly, he did not bully other officials. Instead, he was bullied by officials in the court. After encountering cold violence, he became more and more cautious.

Shisanlang came in and said to Du Zhongxiao: "Official, will we go on the road tomorrow?"

Du Zhongxiao nodded and said, "Let's go on the road tomorrow and go back to the capital as soon as possible. - By the way, I have a few money to reward you."

After saying that, Zhang Yaozuo took ten money from the cloth bag, lined it up on the table, and said to Shisanlang: "Please pack the ten money here carefully and wait until you go home to honor your parents."

Shisanlang took a money in his hand, weighed it, and then looked carefully before saying, "Official, is this money worth it?"

"Full of pure gold!" Du Zhongxiao nodded. "The money in the palace here is specially used for rewards, so how can it be fake!"

Shisanlang curiously held the money in his hand, looked around and said, "It's actually gold, I haven't seen gold's money yet!"

Every New Year Festival, the palace will make a batch of gold and silver coins, which are the same as ordinary copper coins, but the materials are replaced with gold and silver for rewards. This kind of gold and silver coins are different from gold and silver coins in other places. To be honest, it is similar to commemorative coins in later generations. It happened in the capital that people in the palace used gold and silver coins as ordinary copper coins to make merchants rich. Of course, normal use is based on the same weight of gold and silver.

When making new iron coins, Du Zhongxiao once thought about why China did not use gold and silver coins in European history? Later, when he learned about the existence of this kind of gold and silver coins, he realized that there was only one reason, which was not suitable. China is a unified big market, and Europe is full of small feudal lords, and it is difficult to unify the currency. They need to use gold and silver coins.

Precious metals such as gold and silver are suitable for international trade and the demand for unified large markets is not so strong.

After leaving Luzhou, Du Zhongxiao took the route to Xiangzhou, crossed the river from the Amway Army through the White Horse Floating Bridge in the Yellow River, and headed to the capital.

As soon as he entered Xiangzhou, the Mu County Magistrate of Linlu County brought troops to greet him, and the ceremony was polite.

Du Zhongxiao returned the gift and was about to leave when someone suddenly shouted in the crowd: "Official, I'm here! I'm here!"

Du Zhongxiao looked closely and found that it was Tao Shiqi, so he hurriedly ordered County Magistrate Mu to come closer.

Tao Shiqi arrived in front of Du Zhongxiao's horse and bowed and bowed: "I got the news a few days ago that the official was going to return to Beijing from here, and I have been waiting here for a few days. I finally waited today, but I hate that these birds are not allowed to come forward!"

County Magistrate Mu was a little embarrassed and hurriedly said, "The people below don't know that you know the doctor, so don't blame me for offending you."

With Du Zhongxiao supporting him, Tao Shiqi was confident and said, "I came to Hedong Road with the officials. I got the recommendation and went to Xiangzhou to become an official. Who doesn't know? You just pretended not to know."

The Mu County Magistrate was not much older than Tao 17th, and Du Zhongxiao was beside him, so he had to apologize.

After getting on the horse, Tao Shiqi and Shisanlang were side by side and followed Du Zhongxiao.

After walking for a while, Shisanlang saw Du Zhongxiao talking to Mu County Magistrate in front, quietly took a piece of money from his arms, stuffed it into Tao Shisan's hand, and whispered: "I haven't seen you for many days, I'll give you a good thing."

Tao Shiqi picked it up and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Is this money? Where did my brother get it?"

Shisanlang made a silent gesture and whispered: "Don't shout loudly if you are rewarded by officials."

Although Tao Shiqi was a little reluctant, he still sent the money back to Shisanlang and said proudly: "Now I am an official, and I can take your money with my salary? When I arrive in Xiangzhou, I will treat you to wine!"

Shisanlang said, "I have several more, just use them for fun. As for drinking, you can't escape."

The two of them have been separated for a long time, and they are extremely intimate at this time, talking about their experiences over the past few months.

Tao Shiqi said: "There are iron ore everywhere in Xiangzhou and countless iron production. After I arrived here, I built several artillery pieces. The governor Li Xianggong attaches great importance to it and has been very happy for several months. Unfortunately, Li Xianggong died of illness two months ago and a new governor Yang came. He still didn't know his temper."
Chapter completed!