The court did not understand the emperor's imprisonment of Hua Yu, Tang Yin, and Xu Jing after the incident, and thought that the emperor intended to shield Cheng Minzheng, and that the engineering department gave Shang Heng and supervised the imperial history Wang Sui to write to the Hongzhi Emperor, please release Hua Yu and put Cheng Minzheng in prison, and the emperor will keep the twists and turns again. ⊙，

Cheng Minzheng is reserved as an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, even if Cheng Minzheng is not allowed to enter the cabinet, Xu Qiong is not young now, and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites needs to be filled, and Cheng Minzheng has been recognized by Emperor Hongzhi whether it is talent or ability to be an official.

And Emperor Hongzhi also saw that this case involved internal disputes in the imperial court, and he really didn't want to lose a capable officer for the anger of Pingshizi, but the pressure on him from the courtiers was too great, and Emperor Hongzhi meant to delay it again to see if public opinion would have room to turn.

But it is obvious that the courtiers don't want to give the emperor this face, and the transcripts of attacking Cheng Minzheng are still endless, especially after Xu Jing was tortured, he revealed that he had bribed the servants of the Cheng family and exposed it.

During this period, Shen Xi went to the Hanlin Academy as usual, and what he had to do every day was to sort out those boring legal codes.

However, labor is also rewarding, at the beginning of April, Shen Xi's first rice was in place, he went to the Hanlin Academy for less than ten days, but according to the salary received for a whole month, not silver and copper coins, but white flowers, from the six grades of the Hanlin Academy historian to repair the monthly salary is eight stone rice, that is, about nine hundred catties, according to the market one stone of rice is almost six or seven hundred Wen, Shen Xi's monthly salary is five or six taels of silver.

In the Hanlin Academy, this is already a high salary, those Shu Jishi are according to the official rank of the nine grades, only five stone rice a month, in addition to supporting the family, but also to be a guest, that is really called a hard life.

In the afternoon of this day, the people who worked in the Hanlin Yuan could choose whether to take it back and sell it themselves, or to take the silver and copper plates back directly from the household department at a discount.

Finding someone to sell rice by yourself will make things much more complicated, you need to find someone to carry it, and you have to watch the sale in person, which is a bit of a loss of face for the Sven people.

However, the quality of the rice produced by the officials is good, and it is not mixed with sand, and it can be sold at a high price at the rice grain store, especially when the price of rice has risen recently in the city, which is much higher than the official price.

Zhu Xizhou and the others were accustomed to bringing back only enough rice to support their families, and the rest was discounted for silver in Hanlin Academy......

Shen Xi looked at it, and decided that it was better to take the rice back to himself, so in the eyes of everyone, only Shen Xi got the full amount of rice, and the eight stone rice was not short of two catties, but if Shen Xi wanted to move home, he had to spend money to hire a carriage, and then ask someone to carry the rice into the car, transport it home for storage first, and then go back and assign Zhu Shan and Ning'er to go out to sell rice.

This attracted the ridicule of his colleagues, and many people did not appreciate Shen Xi's "ignorant Sven" style, and felt that Shen Xi was grandstanding, which made the colleagues of the Hanlin Academy lose face.

Shen Xi ignored these voices, he only knew that he had to live in the capital, he couldn't do it if he wasn't careful, he couldn't be sloppy with open source and reduce expenditure, even if he only made a few more copper plates, he had to work hard for it.

The next day, the rice was sold, which was more than the usual amount of money compared to the silver directly discounted in the Hanlin Academy, and Shen Xi suddenly changed from about five or six taels a month to seven taels a month.

When they got together for lunch in the dining hall that day, Zhu Xizhou joked with a smile: "Shen Xiu, the first few **** transported the rice back, but it should be sold earlier, so as not to attract insects and mice, seeing that summer is coming, it is not good to lose it in vain." ”

In these years, there are no pesticides and rat repellents, and snakes, insects, rats and ants are definitely the enemy of human beings, and they cannot be prevented.

Shen Xi nodded and replied, "I sold it two days ago." ”

Zhu Xizhou was a little surprised, he thought that Shen Xi was young and didn't understand the rules of officialdom, so he would transport the grain home, and he was afraid that Shen Xi would not have enough experience, and he only knew how to do knowledge and did not know how to sell rice and other mundane things, so he wanted to provide some help, but he didn't expect Shen Xi to sell the grain so quickly.

Zhu Xizhou thought for a while and asked, "On the market, how much is the value of new rice?" ”

This time it was Shen Xi's turn to be surprised: "Brother Mao Zhong doesn't know?" Recently, the price of rice and grain in the city has risen day by day, and the price of a stone of new rice, even if it is a grain harvest, is above 700 yuan. ”

Zhu Xizhou didn't reply, but the "little old man" Wang Zan next to him widened his eyes: "Really? ”

Only then did Shen Xi know that these Hanlin were really dead students, and they didn't even know the value of firewood, rice, oil, and salt in the world. He roughly talked about the prices of all kinds of grain on the market, and Zhu Xizhou and Wang Zhan's faces were somewhat ugly, obviously they didn't know that they would lose nearly 20% of their money by directly discounting the grain in the Hanlin Academy.

"I knew ...... earlier"

Zhu Xizhou almost blurted out, but he didn't say the rest of the words. Obviously, he also had the intention of taking the grain down and transporting it to sell himself.

Shen Xi said: "It's better to sell the rice yourself, don't ask for others, and the family can live a better life." In this capital, where everything needs money, it is too difficult to settle down. ”

Shen Xi was telling the truth, and even people like Zhu Xizhou and Wang Zhan, who were usually free and easy, felt that Shen Xi's words were very reasonable. Zhu Xizhou said: "After that, I also asked someone to bring the rice back and find a grain shop to sell it myself." What do you think? ”

Compared with Zhu Xizhou, Wang Zan has more pressure to support his family, because he is old and young, and the whole family depends on him to support him.

As soon as Zhu Xizhou and Wang Zan told Shen Xi about selling rice to the outside world, and found someone to sum up, even if Zhong Hanlin took care of face, he felt that he had been wronged and loser, and they all said that they would transport the rice back and sell it themselves in the future. Those who had already received the money at a discount actually wanted to return the money to "redeem" the rice and grain, and then sell it on the market for money.

The scholar is extremely sarcastic when he laughs at others' doors, but when he picks on the door himself, he does everything he can.

It stands to reason that you have come back with a discount of money, and you will not return or exchange the money and goods, but when you hear that the price of rice on the market is high, you want to cheat, which makes it difficult for the officials in charge of the household department?

But the officials of the Hanlin Academy are close ministers of the emperor, and if any Hanlin is called by the emperor to bring up this matter when he goes to the feast, then the matter will be very involved. The emperor gave the minister rice, but the household department gave it into silver, which was obviously ignoring the emperor's decree.

If it is a normal exchange, it is fine, but these people in the household department have unclean hands and feet, and the folding of silver seems to be for the convenience of the court officials, but in fact, it is to fill their own pockets.

The official salary of the Ming Dynasty was issued in the form of rice, because the Ming Dynasty did not have a job, and the officials all relied on this little rice to support their families.

However, compared to the magistrate, the Jingguan is still good, after all, the Jingguan lives at the feet of the Son of Heaven and is not so tired.

In general, it is not to send rice, but to send Ming treasure money or silk cloth, so that the officials themselves can sell to the buyers, and there is no way to exchange silver money directly from the imperial court.

When it comes to the people, things such as Daming treasure banknotes and silk cloth are not necessary for the market, and they are ruthlessly killed by the market, and the officials' already small fortunes are further deducted.

Since ancient times, the Ming Dynasty is the most bitter when the Qing officials, you can't live if you are not greedy, you are greedy and you are guilty of the big crime of peeling and cramping, when a minister is afraid of being caned, the innocence of the speaker is simply an empty word, the door of the edict of Dongchang and Jinyiwei is open for officials at any time, the edict is a ghost gate, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out, and the weak civil officials enter the edict prison and are severely tortured to death......

Shen Xi just did something he thought was right, which brought about a chain reaction in the Hanlin Courtyard, and at the same time, he was also hated by the household officials.

Where did the stinky boy come from, in the first month of taking office, he went against the established unspoken rules of the imperial court, and you just made trouble alone, but now it's good, the people in the entire Hanlin Academy don't want us to get oil and water, just wait to wear small shoes!

Zhong Hanlin redeemed the rice he folded out, and the next step was to sell rice, but these people basically had never done business, and they only knew how to pay money with one hand and deliver goods with the other, and they didn't know anything about bargaining, let alone looking for a way to shop around.

Scholars originally disdained this, because in the eyes of scholars, doing business was something that only the lower nine ranks did.

Faced with bags of rice grain, these pampered and noble Hanlin officials were worried, they only knew that the grain outside was easy to sell, but they could ask their families to go out and inquire, but this was not the case, the grain shops in the city did not accept small batches of rice at all, and even if the price was not as high as Shen Xi said.

The emotion is to deceive us to offend the people in the household department and redeem the rice, but we can't sell it and trick us, right?

Shen Xi never thought that the people of the Hanlin Academy would be so messy and brutal, and he had to bear the burden of right and wrong alone, and he only blamed these people for offending the people of the household......

If you want to sell grain at a high price, you are going to smash the jobs of the people in the household department, and only by blocking the road of these Hanlin people can you prevent selling grain on your own into an atmosphere of officials in the DPRK and China.

"In the past two days, I asked my family to inquire about the rice and grain shops in the city, but the price is different from what you said."

At this time, Zhu Xizhou was also a little anxious, although this matter was caused by Shen Xi, but it was he and Wang Zhan's head, now the rice can't be sold, and Zhong Hanlin doesn't want to pile up the grain at home to provoke insects or mold, if the grain is sold to those moths in the household, not only will it be ridiculed, but even the price will be discounted.

Shen Xi's tone was flat: "You guys are all going to those big rice and grain stores in the city, right?" ”

Zhu Xizhou was stunned and asked, "What's the difference?" ”

The big difference is that the big rice and grain stores themselves do not accept bulk goods, and most of them are involved with the household department, and even have secret collusion with the people who steal grain from the government treasury, and these people will not break the rules for a little profit.

Those small rice grain lines are different, the rice of the Hanlin Yuan is almost the best quality among the Beijing official rice, the millet grain shop collects seven or eight stone grain at a time, it is a big deal, not only the price is high, and the smile greets, so that you want to sell it a second time after selling it once.

"Go to the millet grain shop, if you don't know where to find it, I'll introduce you to a few." Shen Xi said, writing the names and locations of several rice grain shops on the paper, these rice grain shops are more or less related to Zhou Fatzi, and he is not afraid of not giving face.

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