The August drizzle beats on the window edge, making the atmosphere even more eerie.

After finishing the delivery of the counter business early, Zhang Changgeng came to the back room of the Futai to meet Gu Fengming, Ye Da Cabinet and a few capable guys are not in Guiyang now, there is no need to scruple about some words, and it is more convenient to talk here afterwards when a few accounts should be paid to the front.

Gu Fengming knew that Wang Xingping came to check the accounts in the morning, but he deliberately hid, who knows what his idea was.

But the accounts have always been under the management of Ye Yiwei, that is, during this period of time, Ye Da Cabinet went to the south, and he was temporarily arrested, in fact, it is not common sense to say this, now the entry and exit of the treasury and the accounts are under the control of Gu Fengming, it would be strange if the owner did not come to see it often, because he heard that Wang Xingping came over, and Gu Fengming also avoided it with interest, in order to avoid suspicion.

"The owner came to check the accounts in person in the morning?" Gu Fengming hunched his back to brew the tea, and rarely brought a bowl to Zhang Changgeng in person and handed it to his hand.

The lackeys of the Gu family were flattered, and answered while taking it, but they didn't care about being burned by the tea soup.

"It's true that I came here in person, and there are a few helpers."

"Help?"

"It's those furnace workers recruited from Sichuan, and one of them surnamed Ding has been following the owner for the past few days."

"Oh, it turned out that they were talking about it, and the owner of the account on the cabinet had seen it himself?"

"I've looked at the general accounts."

The people who came were the young master of the Wang family and a few companions, Wang Xiaoliu could recognize a few words, he knew a few words better than others, as for the middle-aged man surnamed Ding, although he still didn't know the roots, but the origin of a furnace household, it was expected that he couldn't understand the four pillars of accounts. In addition to the owner, the eight big characters of 'old management', 'new income', 'expulsion', and 'real' will not believe it in Zhang Changgeng's heart.

"What did the owner ask?"

"I only asked who handled the account."

"How did you talk to him?"

"The villains are all truthful, the money and grain accounts used to be handled by Ye Da Cabinet, but in the past few days, Ye Da Cabinet has been doing it by the second cabinet, which is also explained by the previous owner himself."

"And what did the owner say?"

"The proprietor said that this account was well done."

"Oh? That's what he said? ”

Gu Fengming asked as he looked at the cup in his hand, his mood was like a few pieces of fresh nectar left at the bottom of the cup, which slowly rolled up after brewing in boiling water.

"That's true, and it also said that the things on the counter are all thanks to the dedication of the second cabinet these days."

However, Zhang Changgeng thought about it again after speaking, and said: "But I don't think the owner's face is good-looking, come to check the accounts at this time, will it be ......?"

Zhang Changgeng's thoughts were interrupted by Gu Fengming at the right time, no matter whether Wang Xingping was suspicious of Ye Yiwei or not, it was best not to ask, and if he instigated it, he would fake it. The young master of the Wang family is not a fuel-efficient lamp in terms of his actions during this time, and he acts suspiciously, but fortunately, his mind is not calm enough, he just needs to arrange things, and it seems that it is not difficult to bring down Ye Yiwei.

Now it seems that at least the trust he has gained is much higher than that of the boss of the Ye family, and if you think about it, although he uses his cronies more, he does not put his children and nephews by his side to do things, either as a small official in the yamen, or in the property of his wife's family. However, this Ye Yiwei not only has his son by his side to do things, the last time the young owner talked about asking him to recruit his nephew into the business to do things, he really agreed, and he didn't look at what kind of mental skill Wang Xingping was.

Gu Fengming said in his heart that this young owner is not stupid, he knows how to check the accounts, but he is a little tender after all. On weekdays, he and Ye Da Cabinet are in charge of the treasury and the other in charge of the accounts, and when Master Wang was there, he came up with such a method to contain it in order to prevent the people below from doing tricks.

It's a pity that this son personally ruined Lao Tzu's calculations, and actually sent Ye Yiwei and a few capable Ye family boys to the south at this time, which just gave him the opportunity to get his hands on it. If it is said that on weekdays, it is nothing more than a little trick in the inventory, but this time Wang Xingping personally opened the locks everywhere and delivered the key to himself, but it was in Gu Fengming's arms.

As usual, the period before the autumn harvest is the time when the price of grain is high and the price of grain is high, but as long as more than this month has passed until the autumn harvest opens, the price of new rice will immediately fall back to a better place.

And the time given by Wang Xingping was just right, if he hadn't rushed back in a hurry, recruited furnace workers and selected a site for Qiye, and sent Ye Yiwei to Guangdong to find a craftsman, Gu Fengming would have suspected that this was a special time to target himself, after all, I heard that something happened in Banzhou is not small. But now at least this suspicion has almost disappeared, if Wang Xingping here is checking the accounts on the counter, and the grain depot over there is completely ignored, it will make people suspicious, but this is not to send a few furnace workers to help guard the warehouse, which shows that he does not have much trouble with himself, at least he does not have to deliberately hide it.

But someone guarding the warehouse does not mean that they can't do anything, the grain depot also has transactions on weekdays, and what do those furnace households know about the business? Besides, you can't be staring at the warehouse all day long, you always have to do things, after all, you were recruited to start iron smelting, not to be a warehouse, these days, there are all kinds of smelting workshops in Guiyang City, and these people are not less than running with Wang Xingping.

Gu Fengming thought of taking advantage of this short period of one month to vacate the old grain in the warehouse for some cash, and wait until the autumn harvest to replenish the discounted new rice back to the warehouse, so that there would be a few percent of the profits to share, but the ghost did not realize it, but the capital was used by the Wang family. In fact, it is the same way as the private affairs of the official warehouse at this time, just like Wang Laiting caused a disaster because someone resold military rations.

However, compared to when his nephew He Jin gave him this idea more than ten days ago, now Gu Fengming basically no longer worries about any problems, after all, the granary of the Futai is neither an official warehouse, nor is the grain in it an official grain, even if it is over, there will not be much risk, anyway, Ye Yiwei is not there, and there are many family members around him, even if there are some differences in the treasury, they can still avoid it.

Whether it is Sichuan or Huguang, there is no shortage of grain, and the south can only be sold to Guangxi, but although Guangxi has heard that it has suffered a disaster this year, it has already reached the time of opening the sickle after autumn, and the local grain merchants who cannot afford to sell it there naturally refuse to collect grain. After calculating it, Zuo didn't put his idea on the toast of Shuixi and Shuidong, so since the idea was to be counted as He Jinti, he naturally thought of his brother-in-law He Degu. He Economy has a lot of trade with the heads of various ministries, and some of the evildoers have to ask him to sell the stolen goods, because this matter has been killed by Wang Laiting last time, and he has eaten a lot of hangings.

This time it was so easy to make money, or to make up for it from the Wang family, Gu Fengming felt funny when he thought about it.

Today, Wang Xingping said that he was looking at the accounts, but he didn't know that as early as Ye Yiwei left, the grain was constantly being transported out of the warehouse, and now a total of nearly 8,000 stone of grain and rice has already been sent to the Gu family in the Zhuangzi outside the city for temporary storage, just waiting for He Degu to find a good toast buyer to trade. As for the money, Gu Fengming doesn't have to worry at all, Guizhou Xuanwei Si's family has a big business, and the toasts in Shuixi don't have to make up for tens of thousands of taels of silver in order to buy grain, which is only a few thousand taels in total, Gu Fengming even thinks that the Yu and Liumu families on the Yachi River alone can easily raise money, after all, it is the most scarce food at the moment, and after all, it has to be said that it all depends on a good governor from Guizhou now to make the toasts cry, otherwise it will not be his turn to easily get the more than two thousand taels of earnings.

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Autumn is getting stronger in the backyard of the governor's yamen, a few weeping willows by the pond have turned a little yellow, and a few carp are floating in the pond, jumping in the water waves against the autumn colors, just like Zhang Heming's mood at the moment.

Nanwang Mountain, Hongbian Twelve Horse Heads, several successive victories, even a few days ago in Banzhou a great victory, although the first level was returned to Sichuan, but at that time several people who killed thieves were from Guizhou, one of them was the command of Chishuiwei, which was his face.

Wang Xingping heard Zhang Rulin mention the chief official of this province, saying that when he was young, he was delayed for many years because of his father's illness, but he was also an enterprising person, although he was over sixty years old, he was blindly the main battle, and today he summoned himself to recruit young talents.

Two Taishi chairs are set up side by side, with a few fruits and snacks simply placed on the hand table in the middle, a homely robe and an idle casual clothes make the old and young in the backyard look not like Shangguan and scholars, but more like grandchildren who are sitting idly talking about tea and talking about themselves.

"When the old man inspected the school last month, he heard Zhang Yuruo [note: Zhang Rulin's number] mention Tiancheng you in front of several school officials."

"Oh, by the way, your teacher Ma Jinshi was also there at the time."

After meeting, Zhang Heming started a relationship, but Wang Xingping did not flatter according to common sense, the more senior officials are, the more they don't like this set, and they can be more valued by people in ordinary discussions, even if the old man he faces is the governor of a province.

Wang Xingping pretended to be puzzled, "Mr. Ma is at home in Xiamaijia Village these days, not in Guiyang City." ”

Since returning to Guizhou, Ma Wenqing has not been in Guiyang City these days, but returned to the Xiamaijia Village outside the north city, five years ago Ma Wenqing let his family build a temple in the township, and some land, so he reads and worships the Buddha at home every day, and he is also at ease with Wang Xingping's words to Zhang Heming, in fact, Zhang Heming's identity will not lie, so it is Wang Xingping's language and mind to hand the words to the other party.

Zhang Heming has been in a good mood these days, and he laughed when he heard the words, "There are not many scholars in Guiyang Mansion who are idle, so this time I intend to invite your teacher to come back to give lectures, so I can bring more culture to Guiyang City, so I asked Zhang Yuruo to summon him that day." ”

"I'm ashamed to say that Xingping has joined Mr.'s disciple since he entered the sect, and he hasn't had much time to listen to Mr.'s teachings."

"Tiancheng, you are also the unity of knowledge and action, it is Mr. Yangming's teachings, where can you say that there is something wrong?"

Zhang Futai can't be said to be wrong if he gets cheap, of course Wang Xingping understands the meaning of Zhang Heming's words, his attitude and smile speak for themselves, without this act of combining knowledge and action, there is no doubt about whether there is this summons, Wang Xingping thought to himself.

Zhang Heming is sixty-seven years old, but his spirit is still strong, he just took a nap and woke up from a nap and saw Wang Xingping, who can be his great-grandson, and he liked it, not to mention that when he heard this name in the past few months, he was always surprised.

"It's just that it's really hateful."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Fujun suddenly changed his painting style and scolded Shaomin.

"It's a pity that Tiancheng is very talented, but you have to delay the time in the field for several years."

Now I understand it, it turns out that this person is using these words to show comfort.

It is true that as Zhang Heming said, because of the filial piety of Wang Laiting, Wang Xingping really has to wait for at least two more years if he wants to participate in the imperial examination, which is not a big deal in Wang Xingping's own opinion, after all, he is young. But in the eyes of the scholars who care about the younger generation, it is really a pity, how many outstanding officialdoms are delayed because of Ding You? Zhang Heming has obviously seen more.

But is Wang Xingping the kind of 'offspring' that makes people easily show favor?

Of course not, he got up and thanked: "If it takes a few more years to build a solid foundation of learning, he will be better able to achieve success in the imperial examination, and Mr. Isn't it also hard to study for six years to enjoy the honor of being a little first." ”

This is to talk about Zhang Heming's itch, he is Wanli 14 years to participate in the examination, but because of his father's sudden illness and returned from Beijing, a full delay of six years before becoming a jinshi and awarded the official, if there is no six years of waste, he should be able to go further, maybe he, the official of the right capital imperial history, can be replaced by the right squire of the military department or even the military department.

The official position is secondary, Zhang Heming is happy that this young man is so knowledgeable, and he also knows his story, and he feels closer.

happened to think that Zhang Rulin had mentioned to him that Wang Xingping was going to set up iron smelting.

"I heard that Tiancheng, you want to start an iron smelting when you go back to Guizhou this time."

"The matter has not been done yet, but it has spread that even the gentleman knows about it."

In fact, Wang Xingping came back and told Wang Mingde, Zhang Rulin and many other people that he wanted to spread the word and know it everywhere, and he took the initiative to do it.

"This is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, what is there to be afraid of people knowing? But what's the inconvenience? Why haven't you started it? ”

Zhang Heming also heard that Wang Xingping wanted to build weapons for the officials, which was all in line with his thoughts, so he was naturally happy to say it.

Wang Xingping also told the truth, saying that the local furnace households in Guizhou were not yet usable, and they had already sent people to Foshan Town in Guangdong to find a skilled craftsman, and by the way, they also had to look for people who were good at firearms in Aoyi to make new-style arquebuses in Guizhou, and the so-called Aoyi was the Portuguese entrenched in Macao.

Although he has said on many occasions that he wants to start iron smelting, but the idea of creating a new musket Wang Xingping did not mention it to more people, Zhang Heming once served in Shandong, and in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, he was in Shandong Licheng [Note: Licheng is attached to Guo County of Jinan Prefecture] Governor of the county, at that time, it was the time when Yang Yinglong in Banzhou was in turmoil, and the imperial court urgently dispatched to aid the southern expedition of the Korean ministry. In particular, Liu Wei, who had already been promoted to the post of chief military officer in Sichuan, and his troops and horses had been fighting in Korea for a long time, and the level of firearms and equipment was the choice of the Ming border army, and Zhang Futai also had an intuitive understanding of the powerful power of advanced firearms.

Later, he successively served as the head of the Nanjing Military Department, and he was exposed to the knowledge of military engineering, but the iron smelting in Guizhou was not as much as that of other provinces, and the imperial court did not pay enough attention to the combat power of the young people in the southwest, so the official and military firearms and equipment in Guizhou were really insufficient.

However, not long after he closed the territory of the new calendar, he was more worried about money, food and peace, and put the improvement of armaments and equipment on the back.

But Wang Xingping's immediate appearance seemed to remind the old man, and Wang Xingping talked about the principle of iron and passing things, and it was quite feasible to break into it, how not to make Futai happy.