Chapter 5: Hell Difficulty (3)

After only a quarter of an hour, Chunmei led Zhao Fugui into Zhao Kang's bedroom: "Young master, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

Zhao Kang asked: "I just want to ask how much money and how much grain we have now, and how much money and how much grain does the county government of Fugu County have?" ”

Zhao Fugui replied: "We still have six hundred taels of silver, and two hundred taels of grain." As for the county government, the grain in the county government's warehouse was moved to the house by the young master a few days ago, and it was the two hundred quintals of millet. ”

Zhao Kang thought to himself: His predecessor was really a shameless and corrupt official, and he dared to directly move the grain in the county warehouse to his home. In the twenty-first century, this would have been punishable by life imprisonment.

Zhao Kang asked a little puzzled: "I should not be in Fugu County soon, didn't you tell me yesterday that I only had eighty taels of silver when I set off from the capital?" So where did the six hundred taels of silver come from now, and how high is the salary of our county order in the Ming Dynasty? ”

Zhao Fugui said, "Young Master, have you forgotten? On the first day of your tenure, you will ask the squires of the whole county to come and catch you the wind, and when you have passed the three rounds of drinking, you ask all the squires to give you a poem in praise, and if you can't make a pillar of incense, then you will be fined ten taels of silver. As a result, none of the more than sixty squires in the county could make it, and we received nearly seven hundred taels of silver that day. Just because of these more than 600 taels of silver, those villagers still call you behind their backs......"

Speaking of this, Zhao Fugui's voice became lower and lower, and finally glanced at Zhao Kang quietly, and saw that Zhao Kang's face was not very good, so he didn't dare to say any more.

Zhao Kang saw Zhao Fugui's empty face and said, "Call me something, don't be afraid, say it!" ”

Zhao Fugui gritted his teeth and said in a heartfelt manner: "They all call you Zhao Papi!" Because last month you said that in the future, every displaced person and refugee who enters the city will have to pay the refuge tax in the city, and those who have no money to pay the tax will have to take off all the good clothes to support the governor of the three sides, Zheng Chongjian, and Lord Zheng to exterminate the rebels. ”

Zhao Kang almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood, he had never seen such a shameless one, but he had never seen such a shameless one. It's just that I'm the most shameless one. At this point, Zhao Kang could only divert the topic and continue to ask: "Do I have any family heirlooms or anything like that?" For example, jade pendants, gems or something? ”

Zhao Fugui said: "Originally, there was, but when you were in Beijing, young master, you gave the ancestral Hetian beautiful jade jade pendant to the little peach of Yihong Courtyard as a love token." So...... So now there is none. ”

Zhao Kang has the urge to commit suicide, this ex is really a superb scumbag. I could only ask with my last hope: "Then can we exchange all the six hundred taels of silver for gold?" ”

Unexpectedly, this sentence frightened Zhao Fugui a lot: "Young master, are you ..... Think...... Want to run? Don't, young master, this is going to kill your head! You can't run away! I heard that the rebels have all been driven to Henan and Huguang by the former governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, and Huguang, so we should be relatively safe in Fugu County for the time being. ”

Zhao Kang said angrily: "Run peat, young master, I'm going to buy food!" ”

But Zhao Fugui and Chunmei next to him obviously didn't believe it: "Young master, in the entire Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, I estimate that you can't even buy a grain of grain, and those who don't have food either starve to death or join the rebels, and the squires who have grain are all collecting grain and selling it at a higher price." ”

Zhao Kang said: "The conscience of these people has been eaten by dogs, and this kind of thing can be done, it is really darker than the stones on the coal mountain in this Fugu." ”

At this time, Zhao Fugui next to him reminded in a low voice: "Young master, don't say that, this is no way, this year, drought, waterlogging, insects, ice and various disasters have struck, no one knows how long God will torture our people in the Ming Dynasty, and the collection of some grain and grass is also to prepare for the disaster year." Otherwise, young master, your family has a big business, if you really run out of food, then it will really be over. ”

"Besides, in his hometown of Suzhou, didn't the master do the same? The year before last, the insect plague in Shaanxi, the emperor sent people to Jiangnan to collect grain, and the lord and the squires in Jiangnan refused to sell the grain, until the emperor finally made an order, and only sold the old grain at home at a high price of four taels or five dollars per stone. At that time, it was still the young master, you went to collect the silver, and on the way back, you also told the little one that the grain was sold too cheaply, and it should be sold for five taels and one stone. Have you forgotten, young master? “

"Also, if the young master really wants to buy food, isn't it more convenient to use silver? Although gold is valuable, it is not recognized in many places in our Ming Dynasty, only silver and copper coins. ”

Zhao Fugui's words almost choked Zhao Kang to death, this predecessor of his is really a scumbag, well, not only this predecessor, but his family is a scumbag.

"I'm going to trade with foreigners, you know? Do the UK, France know? Master, I want to do business with foreigners. They know only gold, not silver! ”

"Is the young master talking about the red-haired ghost? England and France have never heard of it, but I have heard that those red-haired ghosts are from Portugal. But I only saw it when I went to the exam with the young master in the capital, where did the foreigners come from in this place where birds don't poop and chickens don't lay eggs in northern Shaanxi? ”

Zhao Kang saw that Zhao Fugui, a little guy, dared to doubt himself, and he didn't know how to explain it, so he had to say angrily: "Get out, young master, what do I want you to do, give you three days, go and exchange sixty taels of gold for this young master to come back, young master is of great use!" Also, go to the city and find a big warehouse, and if you can't find it, go find someone to repair it for me, it needs to be big, understand? ”

"Okay, young master." Although he doubted Zhao Kang's intentions, Zhao Fugui still had no choice, the class difference was there, as an ordinary follower, how could he dare to question what the master wanted to do.

Seeing Zhao Fugui go out, Zhao Kang said to Chunmei again: "You go and find some paper and pen for the young master, young master, I have to make some plans for my future career." ”

Ten minutes later, Zhao Kang sat upright at the desk, facing the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table in a daze. These things are unfamiliar, they are not unfamiliar, I often hear about them, if you want to say familiar, Zhao Kang is the first time to use them.

Chunmei sensibly stood next to Zhao Kang and sharpened the ink, and Zhao Kang clumsily picked up the brush and wrote it down with the novice's unique "chicken claw body":

1. Grain, visual inspection requires a lot.

Second, there are also a lot of weapons, and there are also a lot of visual inspections.

Third, the visual inspection of clothing is also a lot.

Fourth, in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, I have to go back to Du Niang to check what will happen this year and after this year, so be prepared.