Paper?

In such a huge box, it was just a pile of useless waste paper?

What are written on these papers?

The lens is pushed closer.

Sun Zheng picked up a piece on the surface and looked closely. This piece of paper turned out to be a piece as a ticket!

What is to be a vote?

That is, written certificates for exchanges for things in pawn shops in ancient times!

"Teacher Sun, what is written on this ticket?" Teacher Huang asked.

Sun Zheng opened the ticket as a ticket, and there were many words written on it.

However, most of the text is the agreed rules of pawnshops, just like the current contract terms.

Sun Zheng did not read these terms, but stared at the most eye-catching words and read them out!

"Put your jade bracelets as three hundred taels of silver!"

...

"A pair of jade bracelets, three hundred taels of silver, should the pawnshop make a lot of money."

"I must have made a profit. Will the pawnshop do business at a loss?"

"Have the Yue family started selling their property since ancient times?"

"In fact, it's normal. Few families can last forever."

"But this is too much of a profiteer. How can the money from pawnshops be sold directly?"

"If a pair of ancient jade bracelets remain until now, it will definitely be a sky-high price!"

“It’s such a pity!”

...

The barrage of the live broadcast room kept flooding the screen, expressing their opinions and lamenting the decline of the Yue family.

For three hundred taels of silver, anyone will feel a pity if they sell something that can be used as a heirloom.

but……

Sun Zheng did not stop and picked up the second piece of paper.

This is a contract!

"This is a contract to purchase grain, which says that a total of ten stones of rice was purchased, and it cost 900 taels of silver."

"The purchaser is called Yue Xiangling."

Sun Zheng said.

He is now accustomed to the style of the show, not only showing it to the people around him, but also taking a close-up shot.

"That... Teacher Sun, I'm sorry, how much pound of rice is a stone of rice?"

I asked timidly.

He was not familiar with these ancient units of measurement and felt that he knew too little about Chinese culture, so he felt a little embarrassed.

But in fact, most people know the unit of stone and also know that its pronunciation is the same as the stone, rather than the stone of stone.

As for how many pounds a stone is equivalent to now, few people know it.

In fact, even Teacher Huang does not fully understand the proportions, because the proportions of each dynasty have certain differences and are easy to remember them incorrectly.

"These two contracts are both in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. According to the weights and measures of the Yuan Dynasty, one stone is equivalent to about 150 kilograms now."

Sun Zheng replied.

"I'll do it... One hundred and fifty kilograms per stone, ten stones are one thousand five hundred kilograms..."

Yixing gurgled a few words as if he was talking to himself, then suddenly widened his eyes and said in surprise: "One thousand five hundred kilograms? How many people did the Yue family back then? Why did they buy so much rice at one time?"

"This...is hard to say... let's continue to see."

Sun Zheng shook his head.

Perhaps for today's families, it is a bit exaggerating to buy 1,500 kilograms of rice at a time.

But it was normal for ancient big families, because ancient big families would store some food in the granary for emergencies.

But Sun Zheng did not explain this truth to Yixing because there were too many bills here!

Without reading the bills, there is no way to presume the role of these foods.

In the live broadcast room, the audience also started a heated discussion about this matter.

"Buying so much food at one time doesn't feel like it's for home use, right?"

"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were many peasant uprisings, and I guess their families were secretly sponsoring the uprising army."

"This is possible. Perhaps the Yue family itself organized an uprising army, but it is not clear."

...

Zijun.

It basically became a relatively unified guess for barrage.

Sun Zheng’s subsequent discoveries seem to confirm this conjecture.

Grain purchase contract.

A contract to buy livestock.

Pawn gold and silver jewelry as tickets.

...

Most of the paper in the box was turned out, almost all of which were used as tickets or vouchers for purchasing food.

Of course, this does not become the key evidence for the Zijian army.

The key evidence is that the transaction time of these notes is very close and the amount of food purchased is also very large.

As of now, the food purchased is enough to supply tens of thousands of people with two or three months of food!

No matter how large the Yue family has, it will not squeeze out tens of thousands of people in a small courtyard, right?

"It seems that the Yue family is indeed sponsoring the rebel army, or forming an uprising army itself!"

"Yue Xiangling, it must be a woman, she is really a hero among women!"

"Before the troops move, food and grass will come first, and the women in Yue's family are also good!"

The barrage praised them.

But what no one expected was that Sun Zheng actually stood up at this time and refuted everyone's views.

"I can especially understand the feeling that everyone expects the Yue family to go to fight to kill the enemy or to support the rebel army."

"But from a professional perspective, I don't think this food is used to invest in the army."

"I think everyone knows a saying, "Before the troops move, food and grass will go first."

"This sentence reflects the importance of logistics, but if you want to march and fight, conquer cities and territory, logistics needs more than food."

"Weapons, armor, clothes, siege tools... are all in the ranks of baggage and are indispensable."

"Don't just see Zhu Yuanzhang successfully overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and the uprising was successful."

"Behind his success, there are actually countless suppressed peasant uprisings!"

"Why are peasant uprisings easily suppressed? It's not because of insufficient military equipment and poor training!"

"What the peasant uprising army needs most is not only food, but also equipment!"

Everyone was speechless.

How passionate and just an uprising sounds.

But it is impossible to do anything with just a passion and justice.

War is not a game.

There is no chance to keep coming back.

Once the preparation is insufficient, the officers and soldiers will be suppressed and the only one who is waiting for the rebel army will be death!

If the Yue family really wants to be a military army, how could they not know this?

Why did they only fund food, no weapons, armor and other things?

Can you fight a good war with a full meal?

This is obviously unrealistic.

Sun Zheng didn't say anything, but continued to search.
To be continued...