It is not enough to fight a war with men and weapons, you also need money.
So there is a small box on the shelf in the stone room, which contains banknotes and some gold bricks.
That was the war reserve Jin Feng prepared to prevent accidents, and it was also the capital for his comeback.
But once war broke out, it was still unclear whether the silver notes could be exchanged. Jin Feng had planned to go to the county to exchange all the silver notes into gold.
It saves trouble now.
"Master, how many boxes should you move?"
Guan Xiaorou saw Jin Feng open the door inside and guessed his plan.
Jin Feng thought for a while and said: "There are a lot of places to use money recently, so let's move three boxes."
Nowadays, houses are being built everywhere in Xihewan, and veterans are being sent to Maomao Mountain and Hutou Mountain in batches for training. The money is spent like water. There are other uses for the money, and Jin Feng can't move them all in.
"okay!"
Counting and moving silver is one of Guan Xiaorou's biggest hobbies. She agreed and reached out to move it.
But it didn't move.
The density of gold is almost twice that of silver. The same box can only hold 500 taels of silver. Guan Xiaorou can move it with gritted teeth.
But after loading the gold, one box was more than nine hundred taels, and it would not be so easy for her to move it.
"Fool, gold is almost twice as heavy as silver, and this box is almost a thousand taels," Jin Feng said with a smile, "You can't move it, let me do it."
"I will carry it with the boss."
Guan Xiaorou couldn't help but roll up her sleeves.
Jin Feng had no choice but to let him do it.
Tang Xiaobei was still carefully checking the bill sent by Luo Lan, and knowing that she didn't have the strength, she didn't join in the fun.
After carrying the box, Jin Feng locked the iron door again and asked Guan Xiaorou to call Zhang Liang.
When Zhang Liang arrived, he saw dozens of large and small boxes on the ground outside the warehouse.
Jin Feng was opening them one by one, checking them, and then marking them with dye.
Seeing Zhang Liang coming, he raised his head and said, "Brother Liang, I have marked these boxes. You arrange two teams of people to carry the red ones to the warehouse and send the white ones to the full warehouse."
In addition to the gold, Tang Fei brought back these boxes from the capital.
It's just that he was afraid that there would be problems with the gold, so he didn't dare to go elsewhere first. Instead, he brought people directly to the back mountain.
After handing over the gold, Tang Fei said that he would send the box to the iron smelting workshop, but Jin Feng considered that they were eager to return home, and some of the items in the box were relatively valuable and could not be used for a while, so he asked Old Tang and the others to unload the items.
The warehouse door.
"good."
Zhang Liang gave instructions to his deputy, and then ran over to help Jin Feng.
When Jin Feng opened the lid of the box, Zhang Liang took a look inside.
He thought Jin Feng was going to put some treasure in the warehouse, but he saw that the box was full of stones.
"Sir, are these stones unusual?" Zhang Liang asked curiously.
"Brother Liang, do you know him?" Jin Feng raised his head in surprise.
"I don't know, but you asked Old Tang to bring them all the way back and lock them in the warehouse at the back of the mountain. They must not be ordinary stones." Zhang Liang replied with a smile.
"Well, these stones are all minerals. Even though they look ugly, they cost tens of thousands of taels of silver."
Jin Feng said with some distress.
"Ten thousand taels of silver?" Zhang Liang glared: "Can they refine gold?"
"You can't refine gold, but you can refine something more precious than gold."
Jin Feng smiled mysteriously: "By the way, I asked you to send someone to inquire about the saltpeter mine. Do you have any news?"
"Not yet." Zhang Liang shook his head: "But there are a few groups of escorts coming back recently, maybe we can find out."
"That's okay."
The two chatted casually for a while, and then Zhang Liang's deputy came with two teams of veterans.
One team sent the boxes marked in red into the warehouse where the copper coins were kept, while the other team carried the remaining boxes onto pallets and sent them to the iron smelting workshop.
After all the hard work, Jin Feng was so tired that he was sweating profusely.
When she got home, Runniang had already boiled the bath water, so Jin Feng went straight into the bathhouse.
Guan Xiaorou went to bring him a change of clothes, but she didn't come out until half an hour later.
"Master, if you do this again next time, I won't send you any clothes."
Guan Xiaorou twisted the water from her hair and said angrily.
After saying that, he discovered that Qing Mulan had arrived at some unknown time and was sitting at the stone table, looking at them with a half-smile.
Even though he made a strange "tsk tsk" sound from his mouth, he deliberately raised his head and glanced at the sun.
Guan Xiaorou stamped her feet in shame, covered her face and entered the house.
"Sir, you are very elegant." Qing Mulan sighed: "I am miserable, eating and sleeping outside every day..."
"Stop talking to me in a weird way. Did I ask you to suppress bandits?"
Jin Feng didn't tolerate her and asked directly: "If you have something to talk about, if you have nothing to do, go somewhere to cool down and stay."
"you……"
Qing Mulan subconsciously wanted to slap the table, but when she thought of her purpose, she took her hand back.
The crackdown on bandits has been going on for some time, and it was indeed very fruitful at the beginning.
Qing Mulan followed Jin Feng's suggestion and launched a blitzkrieg. In just five days, five thousand-man bandit suppression teams eliminated seven bandit groups harvesting grain in the five counties surrounding Jinchuan.
But the remaining bandits in the five counties also got wind of it and all fled into the mountains.
Then Xiaoyu mobilized the masses and grabbed the tail of several groups of bandits. However, the bandits were more familiar with the terrain. Among the several groups of bandits, Qing Mulan and the others only caught up with one group.
Since then, Qing Mulan has been leading the bandit suppression team in circles with bandits in the mountains.
"Sir, the bandits have been hiding the cat with us for more than a month. Please help me think of a way."
Qing Mulan scratched his head irritably: "We have almost finished the food we seized from the bandits."
Jin Feng suppressed bandits in Jinchuan and gained a lot every time, so Qing Mulan felt that she could make a lot of money this time by suppressing bandits, and at least she could support fighting with war.
In the end, reality taught her a lesson.
The first seven groups of bandits that were defeated did provide her with a lot of food and more than 20,000 taels of silver.
But there will be no such good things later.
When the bandits fled into the mountains, not to mention their money, they even took away the food.
The army of more than 5,000 people now lives on the food and money captured for the first time.
It’s pretty good that I’ve persisted until now.
In fact, before the bandit suppression began, Qing Mulan approached Jin Feng several times and asked him to take command, but Jin Feng refused each time.
In addition to being busy with other things, the most important thing is that Jin Feng thought that this kind of problem would arise at that time.
The bandits are so familiar with the terrain that it is really difficult to destroy them in unfamiliar territory.
However, Jin Feng is a person who does not give up easily. In his free time recently, he has been thinking about how to solve this problem.
In fact, even if Qing Mulan didn't come today, he would still send someone to inform her.