high official

Chapter 73
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In the next few days, the grain stores were extremely busy, and nine thousand shi of grain had to be unloaded, inspected, weighed, and put into storage, which could not be completed in a day or two.

The owners of the three grain stores in Fuyang County finally showed up.The shopkeeper sang bad faces, and the owner naturally sang red faces.After Zhou Yang and the others learned about the situation, they did not know how many good things they said to the grain merchants.The three of them held a banquet in the best restaurant in the county for three days in a row, apologizing to the grain merchants.When parting, I bought them generous new year purchases...

Although the income of the grain merchants has not increased, their wounded hearts have been soothed after all, and their damaged face has been repaired a lot.In addition, Zhou Yang and the others were indeed bankrupt and borrowed heavily, making it difficult to say anything... Besides, it was almost the Chinese New Year, and no one wanted to go home with a full stomach of resentment. The attitude of the grain merchants finally eased a lot.

In the silky winter rain, Wang Xian stood on the second floor of Linhe Restaurant, watching the empty grain ships leave the pier with a smile on his lips.

"It's really great not to use official posts." Sima Qiu, who was standing aside, said happily, "The gathering of grain merchants from more than a dozen counties in Fuyang has already attracted the attention of the entire Hangzhou government and even Zhejiang province... It really makes people sweat." The use of official messengers will make people feel that there is a shadow of the government behind the incident, and then suspect that there is something wrong with Changping warehouse.With the bad relationship between Fen Xun Dao and Fuyang County, it will definitely be thoroughly investigated, and it will be revealed once it is investigated.

However, under Wang Xian's command, the whole process was performed by the grain merchants. Whether it was a bad face beforehand or a red face afterward, it was useless for the government to come forward, successfully avoiding some fatal conjectures.

Now even if the road patrollers come back to it, they are not afraid anymore, because six thousand shi of new grain has already entered the Yongfeng warehouse. Looking at the warehouse full of white rice, the magistrate of Wei County can't wait for someone to check it out for him. Fame...

"However, the price of grain in Fuyang may be pushed up in the future." Sima Qiu said a little worriedly: "The grain merchants will definitely seek compensation in the future."

"It's okay, I told Zhou Grain Merchant that I went to Changsha to buy rice after the new year," Wang Xian said softly, "It used to be said that 'Suhu is cooked, the world is full', but now more and more farmland in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been transformed into rice." I have planted cotton and mulberry, and I will have to buy food from Huguang and Jiangxi in the future, and I am afraid that it will be changed to "cooked in Huguang, enough in the world."

"You boy," Sima Qiu was no longer surprised by Wang Xian's superhuman insight: "I only heard the same thing from the household department when I was in the capital. After coming to Zhejiang, you are the first to say that."

"I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but because I live in this mountain." Wang Xian smiled lightly, and handed the two pieces of paper to Sima Qiu without any fumes.

Sima Qiu took a glance and saw that there were two land deeds, one was from Jianchang, Jiangxi, the hometown of Weizhi County, which stated [-] mu of paddy fields, and the other was from his hometown of Wuxi, which stated [-] mu of paddy fields.The two land deeds recorded the number of acres, the number of blocks, and the joint ownership of the boundary posts in detail. The name written under the landlord column in the first one was Wei Yuan, and the name in the second one was Sima Qiu.

Sima asked to know, this was a routine for him and Wei Zhixian this year.Because the county magistrate is frugal and simple in daily life, and looks clean and honest.Wang Xian bought him land in his hometown, and he was deeply interested in the scholar-bureaucrat's interest in keeping his sleeves cool and retreating.

As for Mr. Sima, naturally he has made some extra money.Thanks to Sima Qiu, Wang Xianneng was able to skyrocket, so he also bought a piece of land in Wuxi for him.One mu of paddy field costs about 15 taels of silver, and 300 mu is [-] taels of silver, which made Mr. Sima happy from ear to ear.No wonder people say that when masters come, Xiaosuo goes to Shifeng. I thought I was going to be a second-hander, and I wanted to drink the northwest wind with him, but I didn't expect to become a small landlord in less than a year.

Mr. Sima had never seen money before. He held a piece of land deed and looked at it again and again before carefully putting it in his arms. He looked at Wang Xian gratefully and said, "Thank you so much brother."

'Cough cough...' Wang Xian is dizzy, Qian Bo's face is great, just now he called himself a 'virtuous nephew', "Sir, don't thank me, this is a common practice in the yamen, I know the old man is clean, I have already Compared with Chenzhi County, it has been reduced by half."

Wang Xian's words are true. Later generations all explained that the salaries of officials in the dynasty were extremely low, so the income of officials was not as good as that in the Song Dynasty. This is typical nonsense.Because the local officials of the Ming Dynasty never lived on that meager salary, they relied on routine.

Even Hai Rui, a well-known honest and upright official, would draw commissions from various government revenues when he was in Dangzhi County, earning more than 2000 taels of silver a year.Because he is the one who pays the wages of all the non-staff members in the yamen, and there are all kinds of receptions... Without this income that is more than a hundred times the official salary, he can't run the entire county yamen at all.

By convention, these incomes are reasonable and legal.After deducting a sum of expenses, the accounts will be settled at the end of the year. If there is a balance, it will not be transferred to the next year, but will enter the eunuch of the magistrate and become his personal income.

Therefore, how much the magistrate's harvest in a year depends on whether he shaves hard, and on the other hand, whether his subordinates can plan carefully.The magistrate of Wei courted the name of loving the people, but he was very light on the people.There are so many left at the end of the year, naturally I have to thank Wang Xian.

"There are also Bing Jing for the magistrate's yamen, the chief secretary, the inspector, the inspectors, and the guards. They have also been prepared." Wang Xian said a little depressed: "Let the elder just rest assured."

"That's good, that's good." Sima Qiu patted Wang Xian on the shoulder and said, "Zhong De, you are really a born Si Hu, you can keep soup at a young age!"

"Sir, it's absurdly praised..." Wang Xian only responded with a wry smile, and said in his heart that the housekeeping job is as fat as it is fat, but he doesn't want to do it at all.Because the routines of everyone up and down have to pass through his hands.When nothing happened, people called him the God of Wealth, but when something happened, he was the scapegoat, such as Li Sheng...

In order not to give anyone a handle, he had to rack his brains to make fake accounts, just like Li Sheng did back then... Although with his level of fake accounts, the Ming Dynasty basically had no way to see through them, but a fake is a fake, and others are true. When you want to punish you, the word "unnecessary" is enough.

Not to mention tired...

But it has only been a few months since I entered the house, so it is too early to move, so I can only continue to work carefully for a few years before making plans.Fortunately, this errand is really fat...

Wang Xian has only been working seriously for less than two months, and at the end of the year, he will get more than a hundred taels of silver.You know, when Wang Gui was working in the paper workshop, he was still considered a foreman. He only earned two to thirty taels of silver a year, which is really unreasonable.

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Back at the yamen, Wang Xian went to sign the mortgage room to hand over the work to Wei Zhixian.Although he didn't know that he had gained [-] acres of fertile land, Wei Zhixian was still very happy. Ever since he had the heart disease of Yongfeng Warehouse, he was restless and worried. The people on the road came to investigate the case.

Wei Zhixian has no doubts that he will go crazy if he continues like this.But now, thanks to Wang Xian's blessing, he got rid of this big heart disease, and he feels relieved and refreshed!

"Zhongde, it's all thanks to you that you can live this year with peace of mind as a teacher!" Wei Zhixian said with a smile, twisting his three strands of long beard. My heart disease is gone!"

"The students didn't do anything." Wang Xian said modestly: "It was the teacher who stopped Zhou Liangshang and the others, otherwise they couldn't be so obedient."

"Haha..." The subordinates who don't take credit are the favorites of the superiors. Wei Zhixian looked at his students, and he really liked them more and more, "The method you used is really ingenious. I still can't figure it out. Why do merchants flock to them like a demon, and then lower their prices like a demon?"

"Actually, the students are also learning from the ancients." How did Wang Xian explain the 'prisoner's dilemma' to him, so he had to put it another way: "When Fan Wenzheng was in our Hangzhou, he used this method to stabilize food prices."

"Oh?" The prefect of Wei County, Bowen, remembers it strongly. When Wang Xian mentioned it, he immediately remembered that it was true.At the beginning of Huangyou in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Hangzhou, and there was a severe shortage of food. Unscrupulous businessmen took the opportunity to hoard and drive up food prices, so that the price of food doubled, and the momentum remained unabated.However, Fan Zhongyan, then governor of Hangzhou, did not use conventional means to release grain for sale. Instead, he sent people to post notices along the canal, publicizing that the government would start buying grain at twice the market price.

Grain merchants from all over the country saw that it was profitable, and they "scrambled to advance day and night" one after another, transporting grain to Hangzhou for sale.Soon, there was enough food in the Hangzhou market again.The so-called scarcity is expensive, and when there is more food, the price will naturally fall.In the year of great famine, Hangzhou did not see any signs of famine...

"So that's how it is!" Wei Zhixian suddenly realized, but he couldn't help but feel emotional.I am familiar with allusions, but when things come to an end, there is nothing I can do. Wang Xian has not read books for a few days, but he can always apply what he has learned. It seems that he is really stupid in reading...

"You can think of Fan Gong's method, which is very rare." Wei Zhixian praised.

"It's a pity that Fan Gong understated it, without a trace of fireworks." Wang Xian smiled bitterly: "The students use it, but they have a rascal face."

"Hahaha." Wei Zhixian said with a smile: "Fan Gong is a saint, can you compare with him? Besides, historians are taboos, and they have to use spring and autumn brushwork. Who knows if he was like you at that time. Put on a rogue face?"

"Hey." Seeing Wei Zhixian's rare good mood, Wang Xian took the opportunity to say, "Students have something to ask the teacher to decide."

"Speak." Wei Zhixian nodded.

"There is only a student in the household and a staff member, and it is very difficult every day. This year, it seems that the pen will be closed, so that's all. The teacher will see if it is right, and come back next year to make up for it." Wang Xian smiled and said: "Anyway, it is the imperial court. Salary, it’s not my own if I save it.”

"Vulgar! You can't be a saint in eight lifetimes!" Wei Zhixian laughed and scolded: "You want to be a teacher to save money? I just want you to gain a firm foothold in Hufang!" After one year, I will promote you to be a household secretary as a teacher, so you will be counted as the second year, which makes sense." After a pause, he said: "As for the two pawns, you can recommend one..."

The implication is that the remaining one I want to be a favor.But giving Wang Xian a place is already a great reward.

"Thank you, Master!" Wang Xian said happily.

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