This group of foreign suckers had no idea how much one hundred taels of silver was worth in the Qing Dynasty. It didn't matter. Yinreng sent someone to a merchant not far away to buy a scale for a gold bean - the foreigner paid for it.
Yinreng had no intention of cheating them. After all, if they came to the Qing Dynasty to do business frequently in the future, they would soon be able to figure out the Qing Dynasty's weight units.
They have been cheated this time, and next time he wants to extort some "compensation", it will not be so easy to do it!
Half an hour later, Yinreng's eyes were shining as he looked at the gold piled in the big wooden box.
It was the first time in his life that he had seen so much gold.
In his previous life, he had been to the national treasury and seen the gold there neatly stacked. It looked much more shocking than the more than 300 kilograms. But that was from the national treasury. He coveted it but could not take it.
What's going on here now...
It is unrealistic to give all 7,800 taels of gold to the oppressed people. Money is a powerful asset. In this era, even if you have money, ordinary people cannot keep it without status or background.
Instead of giving them gold directly, it is better to give them other assets instead.
for example……
house!
Yinreng began to murmur in his heart.
It was still early at this time, so Yinreng ordered the commander of the imperial guards to leave a dozen people to guard the two stubborn foreigners, and another thirty people to transport the 7,500 taels of gold back to the Zhanshi Mansion.
Yinreng took the remaining men and gold and, following the directions given by Fashishan and the others, marched towards the poorest area of the outer city.
Yinreng and Yinzhen were sitting in the carriage, with imperial guards surrounding them, and the more than three hundred taels of gold were held in Yinreng's arms.
The weight of more than 20 kilograms was just a drizzle for him.
Holding the gold in his arms, Yinreng was in a very good mood and the smile on his face never stopped.
Yinzhen couldn't stand it any more.
"Second brother, why do I feel like you're even more obsessed with money than Old Ten?"
The smile on Yinreng's face froze for a moment, then he looked at him with burning eyes.
"You don't like gold?"
Yinzhen felt a little numb on his scalp when he was stared at by him.
He had no doubt that if he dared to answer that he didn't like it, his second brother would dare to move his private vault today.
"……like."
Yinreng rolled his eyes and looked away.
"Humph, there are only three kinds of people in this world who don't like gold: children, fools, and lunatics."
Yinzhen: “…”
Compared with the inner city, the road surface of the outer city was not very regular, and Yinreng and Yinzhen felt uncomfortable sitting in the bumpy carriage.
Before Yinzhen had time to complain, he smelled a foul odor.
Yinzhen's face darkened instantly, and he pinched his nose and muttered,
"What's that smell?"
Yinreng lifted the curtain and looked outside.
“The smell of swill.”
The outer city is also divided into slums and rich areas. The area around the post station is full of residences of officials and low-level Han officials. The location they are in now should be the Guang'anmen area.
Most of the people living here are small vendors, beggars, performers and people who make a living by doing handicrafts, so the food is naturally not very good.
Yinzhen thought the smell would soon dissipate, but soon he found that the smell had no intention of dissipating, but instead became stronger and stronger.
He could only hold his breath, his face flushed red.
Yinreng glanced at him but said nothing.
It would be a good thing for Yinzhen to pay more attention to the living environment of the people.
After a while, the carriage stopped and the commander of the imperial guards shouted,
"Your Highness, we're here."
The air quality was finally much better at this time. Yinzhen took his hand off his nose and got out of the car.
There was even the aroma of food and the hustle and bustle of the city outside.
Yinzhen was slightly stunned and looked to the side, and found that the place was full of small vendors and hot steam was coming out of the boilers.
He actually felt a little hungry.
The place where the team stopped was a small stall selling wontons. The stall owners were a middle-aged couple with wrinkles on their faces and dark skin. When they saw the army surrounding their stall, they instantly huddled together.
The man protected his wife behind him. Even though he was afraid, he still mustered up the courage to force a smile. He saw two young men approaching him and asked in a trembling voice,
"My Lords, what crime have I committed?"
Yinreng replied with a smile,
"Don't be nervous. We don't mean any harm. We just want to ask if five days ago some foreign barbarians ate wontons at your place without paying and even overturned your table?"
The stall owner was shocked when he heard this and immediately denied it.
"No... no, it's not that they didn't pay, it's me who treated those adults to a meal..."
He was afraid that Yinreng and his men were here to help the barbarians.
Yinreng also knew that this person was afraid, so he pretended to be puzzled and asked,
"No? Could it be that we found the wrong person? Then do you know who was oppressed? We brought those foreigners here today to apologize!"
As Yinreng spoke, he took out a few pieces of gold from the small box in his arms.
When the stall owner and his wife saw the gold, their eyes lit up instantly. The woman pulled her husband over and said to Yinreng,
"We are, we are the ones who were overturned!"
A satisfied smile appeared on Yinreng's lips.
The people watching the excitement around were in an uproar.
Because Yinreng did not order the imperial guards to expel them, many people followed him from the post station.
When I learned that these two young masters asked the foreigners for gold in order to compensate the people who had been bullied by them, my eyes became red.
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