Unparalleled Fortune in Qing Dynasty

Chapter 127
"Fu Jin, I figured it out..." Ru Lan said tremblingly.

Tong Cheng'er said, "How much money?"

Ru Lan continued to report a number with a trembling voice: "Two hundred and fifty-six thousand taels of silver."

Tong Cheng'er's eyes widened, with a look of incredulity on her face: "How much did you say?"

Ru Lan: "Excluding costs such as shop labor and other costs, the net profit is 2506 million taels of silver."

Tong Cheng'er's mind was blank right now, and then it was as if fireworks exploded in her head. Wasn't it a surprise?

That was 2506 million taels of silver.

Ama Erniang loves her, and Erniang is good at business, so the family is very well-off. Excluding all kinds of dowry, the silver at the bottom of the box alone gave her a full 50 taels.

This 50 taels is already a lot. You must know that Kangxi only gave his son more than 20 taels of money to build a mansion.

In addition to the 50 taels at the bottom of the box, the rest of her dowry was 67 taels of silver. It can be said that Tong Cheng'er married Yinzhen with a dowry of a million.

The results of it!The sum of her dowry is actually not worth more than the two shops Yinzhen gave her.

Tong Cheng'er was already prepared when she asked Rulan and Ruxue to settle accounts. After all, Yinzhen once told her a number, but that number more than doubled in less than half a year.

She was pleasantly surprised and a little scared at the same time.

She has no place to spend so much money!

Her quality of life has always been excellent, but she has no special hobbies, and it doesn't cost a few dollars to read the storybooks. It costs a little more to pet the cats than to read the storybooks, but even if you treat a few cats as masters, it still costs a lot. Not too much.

In his previous life, he was not only a non-chief but also short of money, but in this life he has to worry about how to spend the money.

How could she be so happy with this damn sweet distress!

Tong Cheng'er said to Bai Bai in her arms: "Tell me, how do we spend the money?"

She is now married to Yinzhen, Yinzhen is the elder brother of the prince, she is his Fujin, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be responsible for part of the food and clothing, and it seems that she doesn't have much money to spend.

In the end, Tong Cheng'er suddenly blurted out: "The silver should not get moldy if it is stored!"

Rulan and Ruxue burst out laughing with a "puchi".

To be honest, although the two of them were also surprised by the amount of money, they didn't expect Fujin to react like this, it was so cute.

Then Ruxue suppressed a smile and said: "Fu Jin, silver will not go moldy."

Tong Cheng'er thought to herself, silver seems not to be moldy, but the surface will be oxidized, and the oxidation will turn black...

Thinking about it this way, Tong Cheng'er found that it seemed a bit "wasteful" for so much money to be piled up in the warehouse and not circulated.

"How do you think this money will be spent?"

Ruxue and Rulan: ...

They were really stumped.

It is not difficult to spend money, but with so much money, the general expenses are nothing.

Ru Lan and Ru Xue didn't expect that one day they would worry about not knowing how to spend their money.

Tong Cheng'er stroked the cat, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was a waste of her brain. Since she couldn't think of it for the time being, she should put it aside for now, and spend it when she thinks about it.

Here, Tong Cheng'er is distressed that she has too much money and doesn't know how to spend it, while on the other hand, Yinzhen has entered the household department as an errand.

In fact, he had also dealt with the household department before, and he knew several people who held real power in the household department. Someone will perfunctory him.

Therefore, Yinzhen can get any documents and files he wants, and no one will refuse to give them.

Looking at the information of the Ministry of Households, Xu Zhen was not surprised at all. The Ministry of Households is still the same Ministry of Households, and the biggest problem is the problem of non-repayment of borrowed money by officials.

It is still in the early years of Kangxi, and the situation in the household department is not as severe as in the dream when Yongzheng was about to urge all officials to return the money.

Yinzhen called the official in charge of account management from the household department to him: "Now there should be 600 million taels of silver in the account. I have seen many IOUs from civil and military officials. Now tell me, how much silver is there in the treasury?"

The official was taken aback when he heard the words, he really hadn't paid attention to this problem.

The past two years have been relatively peaceful, so the Ministry of Household Affairs did not allocate too much money for disaster relief except for normal expenses. There is quite a lot of money on the books, so it didn't pay much attention to how much money was left in the treasury.

"Fourth elder brother forgive me, the slave is not responsible for the account of the treasury." So I don't know.

Yinzhen frowned, this man didn't even know how much money was left in the treasury, nor did he know what to eat.

But when he first arrived at the household department, he fined people when he came in, which is not good.

After a while Yin Zhen said: "Since you don't know, then go ask and check now, and give me the result in an hour."

Hearing this, the official replied in cold sweat, "Your slave will go check it out now."

Xu Zhen continued to read the files, and when he was done reading, he ordered his officials to start writing to calculate the amount of loans from civil and military officials according to the year, one number per year.

After they figured it out, Yinzhen saw that the loan was increasing year by year. At the beginning, the people who borrowed money might be because their families were really in trouble, but later on, the amount of money borrowed was not only enough to support the family, but also to support two children. It's enough for every home.

Then Yinzhen ordered them to write down the excuses for the officials to borrow money.

The two officials obeyed and wrote.

After writing it out, Yinzhen saw it, and as he expected, the reason why the family was poor was getting more and more every year.

Such as:
The daughter-in-law couldn't afford the dowry, so she borrowed 1 taels of money as the dowry.

There are many children, and the cost of studying is high. I borrowed 5000 taels of silver.

The house at home is too dilapidated, so I borrowed 1 taels of silver to buy a house.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are at odds, so they have to live separately and buy a house and borrow 1 taels of silver.

……

The list goes on and on.

Yinzhen has been in business by himself, and it's not that he doesn't know the current prices. As long as he is not a prince or nobleman, two or three thousand taels of silver is enough for ordinary people to marry a daughter-in-law.

Furthermore, to buy a house, housing prices in the capital are expensive, but a family living in a house of several thousand taels will not be crowded.

How is this poor!This is obviously because Huang Ama doesn't urge to pay back the debt, and these people start to be unscrupulous.

This is an addiction to sucking the blood of the treasury.

In the afternoon, Yinzhen knew the real amount of silver in the national treasury, and there were still 800 million taels of silver, which was half of what was on the books.

In the dream, Yongzheng realized that the Ministry of Households had a serious problem of borrowing money. At that time, there were almost less than one million silver left in the treasury.

That's pretty much the case these days.

Looking at these things, although I knew in advance that I was mentally prepared, I still couldn't help but get angry.

Yinzhen has been busy all the time, until Su Peisheng came to remind him: "My lord, it's already you hour."

It's time to go home.

Yinzhen put down the file and rubbed his forehead: "It's already so late."

After all, he packed up some files and asked them to take them with him. He had to continue reading at night, he had to digest these things from the Ministry of Accounts, and then write a memorial.

He had to let Huang Ama understand that his kindness was due to his kindness, but he couldn't make people's stomachs too big, otherwise the treasury's money would not be enough.

Yinzhen was sitting in the carriage with a lot of preoccupations. On the way back, he couldn't help but think of the dream last night. He couldn't remember it in his busy mind. Now that he calmed down, his mind was full of those pictures, which were too clear, so clear Yinzhen couldn't turn a blind eye.

Now he not only wants to borrow money, but also has to make a choice.

Do you want to get involved in the matter of seizing the throne?

(End of this chapter)