Chapter 178: There Are No Tigers in the Mountains
The emperor has been in a good mood recently, and he has never been better since he ascended the throne!
The treasury is empty, and a large gold mine is sent to him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
All localities have been hit by droughts or floods year after year, and the grain harvest has failed! Rice yielding 1,000 catties per mu has appeared! In the future, grain will be produced for three years in a year!
A great omen? In the blink of an eye, the stars are shining!
And all of this is inseparable from the Shengping Hou family.
"I heard that the Shengping Marquis family is preparing to return to their hometown for the New Year?"
"Back to my father, I heard that I will leave for the day after tomorrow. ”
I really can't bear to let them go, the emperor thought to himself.
All the civil and military officials looked at each other, and it was nothing for a marquis who had no real power to return to his hometown for the New Year, how could this be worthy of the emperor's attention, and it was still mentioned in the early dynasty.
"This disaster Shengping Hou's family has made a great contribution, and the Qing family feels that they should give Shengping Hou some reward. ”
Do you want to give a reward to the Marquis of Pingping? Ministers, look at me, I see that you all have this meaning in your eyes: Didn't your family donate anything to the earthquake in Qingping County? Why did the emperor only promote the Pinghou family?
"The Marquis of Shengping is the marquis of the emperor's imperial seal, and he enjoys the court's dedication to the court, and it is also appropriate to contribute something to the people, and the silver and materials donated by all of us are also taken for granted, and they should not be rewarded by the emperor. The right prime minister came out of the queue and replied.
"Hmm. "How could the emperor not understand what he meant, this is to say that if you want to reward you, you should also reward together, and you can't favor one over the other.
I accidentally aroused some hatred for Shengping Hou.
Yi'er said that Shengping Hou and Rui'an County Lord didn't want people to know that she said about the earthquake.
He can understand that a rootless family does need to keep a low profile when acting in this intertwined imperial capital.
The Shengping Hou family is transparent, and if he doesn't want to be in the limelight, he will fulfill him.
He hasn't rewarded them for the gold mine yet, and then he can't reward them for the earthquake, so remember to wait for the next time.
The emperor only hummed and talked about other political affairs.
When the hundreds of officials in the hall saw the emperor like this, they thought that the emperor was deliberately mentioning that he was rewarding the marquis of Pingping, but in fact, the drunkard's intention was not to drink, the real purpose was not to reward them, so that they could speak by themselves.
They're missing out on a great opportunity!
The emperor's mind is really too unpredictable!
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The weather is fine on this day, and Xiao'er's family can finally go home!
This time, half of the way was by water, which saved a lot of time.
It was evening when I went home, and after Xiao'er's family rested, they began to deal with housework and the affairs of the shop and Zhuangzi the next morning.
Liu handled the housework, and Shen Chengyao went to the field and Zhuangzi early in the morning to see the planting of winter wheat.
Xiao'er asked the housekeeper to notify the shopkeepers of each shop to report the situation in the shop this month.
First of all, the shopkeeper of the Four Seasons Restaurant in the town came, and after reporting the business situation, he talked about one thing.
"Uncle Shen and Young Master Shen often come to eat in the restaurant. The shopkeeper was also a little apprehensive when he said this, and he didn't know if he was doing it right.
Xiao'er took a sip of tea and motioned for him to continue.
"The first time they came to eat, they didn't give the silver, and then the next day when they came to eat, I asked the uncle to give them yesterday's silver first and then serve the food. Uncle, they ...... "The shopkeeper is a little hard to say, this Shen Chengguang is the eldest brother of the owner after all, isn't he?"
"Scolding, scolding?" Xiao'er knew the reason for his hesitation and said it directly for him.
The shopkeeper saw Xiao'er's usual appearance, and he was not nervous.
"No, after that, I came to dinner almost every day or two, and when I asked the guy to collect the cash, he scolded him in the restaurant. ”
"Have you received the money?"
"Yes. "He only served the food after receiving the money, so he scolded him.
But he didn't dare not accept it, and one of the staff rules was that no one was allowed to eat without giving silver, including the owner and several young masters and young ladies.
The account and the silver must match, and if they do not, whoever is responsible will be deducted from their monthly silver.
"Well done, you don't have to worry about him scolding when he comes, you will serve the food after paying the money. "Come to eat every day, scold every day, want to hack their house, and ruin the business of the shop?
Whoever opens a shop will have relatives who come to eat every day and don't want to give him money, and they will scold him when they accept his money!
Every day, people come to eat, and the restaurant can't be opened!
"But he's always like this, which is not good for the shop's business. ”
"Is the shop's business bad?"
"Not now. At first, he scolded in the lobby, and the guests had opinions that it was too noisy, and then we arranged him to the most remote private room. ”
Don't worry, he won't be able to scold for long. He is now a regular customer, and the one who gives the silver is the uncle, and he is treated well. She didn't believe that he would be willing to give money all the time to come to her restaurant for dinner.
After reporting to the work, Xiao'er gave the prepared annual gift and bonus to the shopkeeper, and he left with a generous annual gift and fifty taels bonus with a smile on his face.
Then the shopkeeper came up to report the work, and everything went well.
The last steward came up and said that when he signed a contract with the people in the village for the supply of vegetables for the next year, more than a dozen families asked for an extra two cents per pound of vegetables.
"Why do they want to add two more words?"
"They said that Uncle Shen's grocery store will also accept vegetables next year, and each pound of vegetables will charge one penny more than ours, and our shop will not sell it to us if it does not add two pennies. He also said...... "The shopkeeper is a little afraid to say it."
"Xie Bo Dan said it was fine. "It's Shen Chengguang again, she wants to see how much trouble he has made with the absence of their family!
"He also said that our shop collects their vegetables at a cheap price, but sells them at a sky-high price, and makes money by sucking their blood and eating their meat. They asked for an extra two cents per catty, which was also less. ”
"What do you think of this, Xie Bo?" asked Xiao'er without any waves.
Alas, there are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkeys want to be kings.
"Personally, I don't think I can add it, there are more people in this world who can grow vegetables, and there is no shortage of more than a dozen of them. Their dishes, which were handed over later, were getting worse and worse, and there were a lot of rotten leaves and yellow leaves hidden in the middle of each bundle. ”
The vegetables that were originally harvested didn't make much silver taels, so it was even more of a loss.
"Did the shopkeeper find a suitable vegetable farmer?"
"Not yet, but these days, who in the village doesn't know how to grow vegetables? ”
"Indeed!" Xiao'er nodded, "The reason why I wanted to collect the food from the people in the village was to help the villagers live a better life, otherwise there would be a supermarket in the town, and my own Zhuangzi would be able to supply it." Now that they think that my family is sucking their blood and sweat, forget it, these dozen or so families have remembered it and will never sign a contract with them again. ”
The shopkeeper nodded, those people are not worthy of pity, to be honest, missing their owner must be the biggest loss in their lives.