During the Chinese New Year, the yamen was sealed, many shops were not opened, and even the boats on the pier were fewer than usual, but the "Fengzhengdi" behind the Huguang Hall and the Huguang Hall was very lively.

Pan Er followed Han Xiufeng to Hubei, not only turned into the alternate governor of Hubei, but also came back with an official document stamped with the governor of Hubei and the governor of Hubei to set up a donation and transfer sub-bureau, using the Huguang Guild Hall as a temporary government office, inserting "quiet" and "avoidance" wooden signs at the gate, and even letting several regiments change into the clothes of the officials, or holding waist knives, or holding water and fire sticks on duty at the door.

His salary raising is different from Qian Junchen's salary last year, which has just been transported back from the bones, it is not empty talk, as long as he takes money or even rice, he can receive a donation license, go up to the fourth grade Taoist, down to the civil and military supervisors, and donate it all in his place. Hua Ling, Lan Ling and all kinds of grace can be handled here, and even civil and military officials below the fourth rank who have been dismissed can come here to handle donations.

For Huguang businessmen who do business in Ba County, it will be more convenient to donate an official body to do this business, not to mention that this is not only a matter of honoring the ancestors, but also to repay their hometown, so after confirming that the news is true from Jiang Zonghai and Guan Yunzhong, the Huguang Guild Hall suddenly became crowded!

Although Pan Er brought back two assistant committee members from Wuchang who could speak and write, he was still too busy. And when it comes to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Liangguang, especially the local "patrons", it is not appropriate for him, an official from Huguang, to come forward, so the former government yabing room by Cheng Duan Jiqing and the former county yabing room by Cheng Wang Zaishan, from today onwards, they are also busy, sitting in the main hall of "Fengzhengdi" at the back of the hall, helping to handle the donation matters.

Fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and the first "customers" are the rich man Yang and his son-in-law Yang Xingming, who did not do a good job of the father and son, and others can only wait outside.

Forty stone rice plus five taels of public money can be donated to a prisoner, where can I find such a good deed?

Rich Yang felt that he had picked up a big bargain, looked at the blank donation license that had just been turned out and covered with the household guard, and Duan Jiqing, who was about to fill it out with a pen, said excitedly: "In-laws, the silver is ready-made, I will hire a boat to transport this rice after I go back!" ”

"Don't worry about rice, no matter how fast the first batch of salt and grain is, it will not be shipped until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, you just need to send it before it is shipped." Thinking that this was not only Pan Er's errand, but also a matter assigned by his son-in-law, Duan Jiqing raised his head again and said, "My family, this is the military rations to be sent to the Hubei army." Whoever dares to mix sand and stones, or dare to be shoddy, will lose his head! ”

"You can rest assured that it will be all new rice from last year."

"Okay, you sit down first, and I'll help you fill in the license and official documents first."

The format of the license is similar, not long, and it is quickly filled. The official document is a bit long, to be exact, it should be "Guan Wen".

If you are an ordinary person, you really don't write, but it is difficult for an old official like Duan Jiqing, he finished the draft last night, and asked Wang Zaishan to help him think about it early this morning, so "the pen is like a god", in the admiring eyes of his father-in-law and son-in-law, he waved his pen and wrote in one go.

The Qin faction handled the five titles of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Jin and other provinces to donate and transport the heavy bureau, that is, to select Zhizhou Pan, who was the governor of the transfer.

According to this bureau, the Hubei Governor of Huguang Pavilion was instructed to promote the collection of donations from Daozhou County and Lingzhi to help military supplies. When the bureau is persuaded to handle the case.

According to Junxiu Yang Baifu, a native of the Jiangbei Department of Chongqing Prefecture, Sichuan, he went to the bureau to report the donation to the prisoner, in addition to redeeming the donation, filling in the license, and consulting on the case on the first day of the month, the student's place of origin was checked

Guizhi, the corresponding preparation is transferred, and it is moved for this purpose.

Your office, please check the photo, register and implement.

It is necessary to move to the one

Count open

Yang Baifu, forty-nine years old, in the middle of the body, white face, short beard.

three generations

The great-grandfather is noble, the ancestor is rich, and the father is prosperous

Move right, the main hall of Jiangbei Hall in Chongqing, Sichuan

On the ninth day of the first month of the seventh year of Xianfeng, moved.

……

Duan Jiqing put down his pen, picked up the official document and blew the ink, and then turned around and handed it to Wang Zaishan.

Wang Zaishan looked at it, confirmed that the format was fine, and it was not wrong to miss the words, put it down and said with a smile: "Duan Jingcheng, fill in Xingming's as well, fill it in and I'll send it to the front for printing." ”

"I almost forgot, and Xingming, just fill it in."

Yang Xingming was also excited, and couldn't help asking: "Dad, is this official document going to be sent to the yamen of Jiangbei Hall?" ”

"This is natural, if the master of Jiangbei Hall doesn't have this official document, how can he help you register. If you don't have this official document, or if you have it but it hasn't been handed over to the master of Jiangbei Hall, if you donate it, it means that you don't donate. ”

"But he knows that we are not from Hubei, have never been to Hubei, and have not donated in Hubei, will he accept it, will he help us register?"

"Yes, in-laws, what if he doesn't let me?" Rich Lord Yang asked worriedly.

Without waiting for Duan Jiqing to speak, Wang Zaishan smiled confidently: "He has only been in office for a few years, whether your father and son have been to Hubei, where will he know." If you say you've been there, you've been there, and as for whether you donated it in Hubei, he said it doesn't count, but let's have the final say. ”

Seeing that their father and son were still a little worried, Duan Jiqing took over the conversation: "In-laws, you can rest assured." He knows what the relationship between you and me is, and he also knows that Zhixing is now not only the official residence of Taifu Temple Shaoqing, but also still a 'small military aircraft', so even if he sees through it, he will not say it. ”

"Then when Changsheng runs out of seals on this official document, I will take it back and send it to the yamen?"

"I don't want you to send it."

"If I don't send it, who will?"

"This kind of thing is not in a hurry, and there are more official documents to be transferred in a few days, so we will send them to Badong, Hubei Province, which is the closest to us, and then transfer them to the Yamen of Jiangbei Hall by mail from the Ministry of War, which is called official business!"

"Yes, yes, it's good to do business."

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At the same time, Pan Er's side has already collected donations from two Taoist priests and three prefects, and these five who are willing to spend a lot of money to donate the fourth product and the fourth product are all wealthy Huguang merchants, and one of them is even a salt merchant.

After sending off the five "big customers", Pan Er simply asked the two assistant committee members from Hubei to receive the "little customers" who were waiting to report donations, and then walked to the flower hall on the left and asked: "Zhan Kui, how is the affairs of the treasury?" ”

Chen Zhankui, who had just gone out for a run, hurriedly got up and said: "Master Pan, I finally found two after running all morning, one is in the Chaotian Compartment, the other is in the Nanji Compartment, the one in the Chaotian Compartment is not small, the front and rear rows, add up to a total of periods, can store a lot of meters, but it is a little far away from the dock." The one in Nanjixiang is on the edge of the wharf, but there are only two small rooms, which cannot be stored for many meters, and it is too close to the river and easy to get wet. ”

"Then rent the one in the skyscraper."

"Okay, I'll do it."

"Wait." Pan Er looked up at the Huguang merchants who were waiting in the courtyard to report donations, and asked in a low voice, "When will the brothers of the Jade Emperor Regiment, the Dizang Regiment, and your Wenjing Regiment come back?" ”

"I told them a year ago that it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and you can rest assured that they will only be sooner rather than later. If you don't come back on the fifteenth day of the first month, you can ask me. ”

"It's too late on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I plan to send a batch of salt and grain to Wuchang on the fifteenth day, you quickly send someone to bring them a letter, so that they can come back before the fourteenth. On the firearms regiment, I told Mr. Jiang that 10 ships of salt and more than 50 ships of grain could only be relieved if they were transported by themselves. ”

Chen Zhankui was stunned, and couldn't help asking, "Master Pan, are we rich?" ”

"What's the money?"

"I mean, there's no money to buy that much salt."

Pan Er reacted and couldn't help laughing: "You have also seen it in the past few days, there are many people who come to report donations. Before coming back, Lord Zhongcheng explained that as long as he could raise money, he would quickly buy salt and grain and send it to Wuchang, so we couldn't wait. ”

"Understood!"

At the same time, Li Zhuang, the prefect of Chongqing, was complaining to Wang Tingzhi of East Sichuan Province, and even brought a submission that he asked his friends to help prepare last night.

"Sichuan and Hubei are bordered, and the cost of Huguang's donation is slightly lower than that of my Sichuan. The small people are concerned about the baht, and the rate is more and the cost is less. So that my Chongqing Mansion is handsome, and I seek the near and far......"

"Brother, the official knows about this."

"My lord, the lower officials know that Pan Changsheng has come to visit you, and he also knows that he came back with the official documents of the governor of Huguang and the governor of Hubei to apply for donations. He only wants to raise 350,000 taels and buy some salt and grain to send to Hubei, but he clearly knows how much he can raise. ”

Wang Tingzhi can understand Li Zhuang's mood, in fact, watching Pan Er collect donations under his nose, not only accepting donations from Huguang businessmen, but even asking Han Xiufeng's father-in-law to come forward to accept donations from Shanxi businessmen and even local Junxiu, donations that should have belonged to Chongqing Prefecture and even Sichuan, just like this, continue to flow to Hubei, as Wang Tingzhi of East Sichuan Province, is not a taste in his heart.

But this matter not only involves Han Xiufeng, the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, who is walking extra on the military plane Zhangjing, but also involves the governor of Huguang who has just recovered Wuchang and Hanyang, and Hu Linyi, the governor of Hubei!

Thinking that no one could be offended, and no one could afford to offend, Wang Tingzhi could only say helplessly: "Since my brother knows that Pan Changsheng has come to visit this official, he should also know that Hu Linyi sent Pan Changsheng out of the province to set up a bureau to handle the donation and transfer to ask the emperor for permission." The emperor nodded, can you and I still drive him away? ”

"But if it goes on like this, who will report the donation in my Chongqing Mansion?" The more Li Zhuang thought about it, the more depressed he became, and he couldn't help but say: "My lord, it's not that the lower officials are alarmist, if you don't hurry up and think of a way, I'm afraid it's not just my Chongqing Mansion that will suffer, but the entire eastern Sichuan and even the entire Sichuan!" ”

It's the same as buying and selling, where it's cheaper, people will naturally buy it.

How could Wang Tingzhi not know that if Pan Er continued like this, the silver that should have been collected and donated in Sichuan would continue to flow to Hubei, and at that time, not only would Li Zhuang, the prefect, not be in office for a long time, but I am afraid that even the feudal tais far away in Chengdu would lose their official positions because of the poor handling of donations.

"Otherwise," Wang Tingzhi weighed it, picked up Li Zhuang's submission and said, "This official will jointly sign with you and report to the feudal department." If the lord of the clan knows about it, he will definitely find a way, and even if he can't think of a way, he will report it to the lord of the platform. ”

"That's all there is to it."

Thinking that Pan Er could be called "making money every day", Li Zhuang sighed helplessly: "It will take a month for this official document to come and go, if the lord of the clan and the system have no good way, they can only ask the emperor to take back his life, and it will take half a year to say the least." And in the past six months, how much blood will the surnamed Pan have to suck from my Chongqing Mansion and how much silver will he take away from my Sichuan! ”

Wang Tingzhi also felt that it was not a matter to go on like this, and muttered: "Why don't I send someone to invite Pan Changsheng to come over, talk to him well, let him be more restrained, and don't go too far." ”

"Everything is up to my lord, the surname Pan has Han Xiufeng's support, and he holds the chicken feathers of the governor of Huguang and the governor of Hubei as an arrow, he is really fearless, and only if you come forward to control him, my lord."

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