Bai Fu and his people were busy in Bai Minghe's study for a day.

And the white crane is in the side courtyard, which was originally abandoned because of the small number of people in the white crane's family, and the small courtyard where the subordinates lived, was renovated. Old man Tao looked at the four pearls and almost fainted from a stroke.

Bai Minghe sat at the door, sipping tea, watching Old Man Tao lead people to pick pearls.

Next to Bai Minghe, Huaiyu on the left moved a small stool to sit. On the right, Zhu Jianshen and Bai Yinglan were huddled on a small stool. The eyes are all fixed on the hands of the old man Tao, and the old man Tao himself will put them into the brocade box, and all the ones that are picked out are complete sets.

The golden four-point beads have picked more than thirty grains, and Old Man Tao's hands are trembling.

When picking out a golden one from the pearl pile, the old man Tao used a special, balance-like structure, but it was just a measuring instrument for weighing pearls. Weigh it first, then use a board made of hardwood, make a pearl in the holes, shake it gently, and set it aside.

Zhu Jianshen's small hand on Bai Minghe's arm tightened.

Bai Minghe looked down at Zhu Jianshen, and couldn't help but praise, it is really not easy to restrain his desires at this age. So he said, "Old Tao, isn't that one bad?" ”

"It's not bad to go back to adults. It's just that Xiao Lao'er wants to match one hundred and eight positive four-point beads, this one is enough weight, but not round enough, it can only be a four-point bead, so he picks it out and puts it aside. ”

"I want this one, you take it account. When I returned, I took the money and put it into the public account. The white crane spoke.

What is a public account and what is a smuggler. In the eyes of these people, these are all white-named cranes. It is the Yamen of the Metropolitan Division. Don't think too much about this pearl, let alone one. It doesn't matter if the white crane takes a whole box.

The rules were set by Bai Minghe, so Bai Minghe still wrote a note. Got this pearl.

got the pearl and handed it to Zhu Jianshen, Zhu Jianshen was so happy that he stuffed the pearl into Bai Yinglan's hand. I heard the white crane say, "Let's go play!" The two held hands and ran away quickly.

Bai Yinglan now understands the rules, and knows what she can take and what she must not touch.

This pearl is one of those types that should never be touched.

"Huaiyu, after these things are in the public account, I will choose a string for you. After a while, you call Qinghe over and ask her to help make a few sets of valuables. I'm going to send it to the capital! ”

Huaiyu nodded, since she is a woman, how can she not like this.

The next day, it was the day for Bai Minghe to meet with the merchants, and the first batch of ten merchants who were selected were brought by Bai Hong to Bai Minghe's study.

As soon as they entered the study, the merchants were stunned.

Although the screen was removed, a half-human-high jade took its place. How much this thing is worth, even these merchants can't estimate the price.

An exclamation startled most of the merchants. A merchant pointed to his feet.

The ground was soft and yellow, and pieces of gold were laid on the ground in place of the original planks. Two merchants also reached out and touched it, and it was full of real gold.

No chairs, no tables. Huge rosewood logs are placed there as stools. When the table is made of rosewood piles remembered. In the middle of the study was a fish tank with a few goldfish, and the water was full of gems the size of pigeon's eggs.

The whole house. And that's not even the most conspicuous.

The most conspicuous thing was the one-man tall blood coral, and then the pure gold paperweight on the table.

Although it was just a piece of paperweight. It's not as good as the gold bricks in this place, but the literati will have gold as a paperweight, which is definitely blasphemous.

The merchant society is low, and they use money to fill the façade in order to flatten this contempt for the merchant.

But no matter how rich you are, you don't have such a ...... as a white crane. Brain-dead!

Not to mention these merchants, even the white-named crane almost vomited when he entered the house, is this considered an arrangement? This has a relationship with luxury and hair, this is brain-dead.

Cough! Bai Minghe coughed and entered the house, his feet on the pure gold ground were soft, this feeling was really good.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm very poor. So poor that all that was left was gold, silver, and jewelry. "The opening remarks of the white crane almost made several people vomit.

Before the Ming Dynasty, merchants were forbidden to take the imperial examination. But the Ming Dynasty allowed businessmen to study, and they could also participate in the imperial examination.

Of the ten businessmen present, one has the status of a lifter, and the other nine have the fame of showing talents, and they are real scholars.

The vulgarity of the white crane, coupled with the words that only gold, silver and jewelry were worn, made them have a strong disgust with the identity of the white crane as the magistrate, in the hearts of these ten people, even if the magistrate is a person who is greedy to the extreme, at least he will pretend to be a sven scum in terms of face, not the vulgarity of the red fruit like the white crane.

"Ask for the silver, bring the bill!" Shirana Crane sat down in a chair with a big grin.

Qinghe accompanied the side, really crying and laughing, I knew that she was responsible for the whole house, and the individuals brought by Bai Fu were all martial artists, what is gorgeous, I am afraid that in their hearts, it is gorgeous to pile up a room directly with gold.

Since this is already the case, the white crane grits his teeth and wants to hold on.

The first merchant stepped forward, knelt down, and then held the bill in both hands, and Qinghe took it and handed it to Bai Minghe.

Businessman, lowly status. Even if they have the status of lifting people, once they face the white crane in business, the seven-rank magistrate, this kneeling salute is to say that it is okay not to kneel, and people with meritorious names in the Ming Law can not kneel when they see the county, and the officials who go up still have to kneel. It's just that in front of the white crane, they can't help but kneel.

It's not because the white crane owes them silver.

It's that no one can figure out what kind of official Bai Minghe is, who can control tens of thousands of troops and make Hepu County a place under martial law by the military, so no one can figure out Bai Minghe's identity.

In the case of kneeling or not, it is more respectful to kneel.

Bai Minghe opened the account book and looked at it, stunned. At the moment, he asked: "Your silk, Hang Si, right, a total of 1,600 quintals." It is an account of two hundred and sixty-eight taels of silver per load, and the official is not mistaken! ”

"If you go back to your lordship, this is just the first batch. The second batch was already on the way, and it was transported to the Hepu warehouse for a total of 260 taels and 1 loads, which was exempted from the fraction of the eight taels. The merchant had already stood up and replied respectfully.

The white crane continued to rummag, and there were some other goods, such as tea, cotton, wine and other items. are at least one percent lower than the price list of the Ming Dynasty that he let a few people help him prepare.

Shira-naka pulled out the list of the main goods from his pocket.

"This official has always thought that the ordinary silk in Hangzhou should be two hundred and ninety-eight taels and eight dollars a load."

"The price said by the adult is not wrong, if the adult only needs a load, this price will be sent to the door, and the small one can be exempted from eight dollars. A silk shop in Guangzhou City does not exceed 100 taels a year at most, and it is common for small ones to be exempted from eight taels. This time, the Dusi Yamen came to negotiate the price in person, all the goods were one-size-fits-all, and all the profits were made into one, and since the small ones should be paid, they would not regret this price, but the small ones were cashed out. ”

The white crane was a little incomprehensible.

"Why do you have to cash it?"

"Since the adults asked, the little ones told the truth. During the reign of Taizu, one tael of silver could be exchanged for a thousand coins. But now there is too much bad money, in the capital one or two silver can be exchanged for 1,800 yuan on the black market, if in Nanzhili, the highest can reach 2,600 yuan, and the worst is 2,400 yuan. At least the money ......, adults understand! ”

Ordinary people don't dare to evaluate whether banknotes are good or bad, anyway, in the eyes of businessmen, banknotes are already waste paper.

Shira-Ming Crane laughed and laughed.

Bai Minghe's smile made these merchants completely incomprehensible, even Qinghe didn't understand why.

Only Bai Minghe himself knows, and the original understanding of Bai Minghe is that these people only need silver, just like the modern times of later generations, as long as they accept cash, not even acceptance bills. Not to mention things like being willing to take assets to top the account, because you will definitely suffer a loss.

These merchants only need silver, because the money is no longer valuable, and the money is even more waste paper.

After laughing, Bai Minghe said: "The official has no silver, and there are only tens of thousands of taels, which is just enough for the family to eat and drink." Therefore, it is impossible to settle the bill with silver. ”

"Gold is fine, my lord's piece of jade jade, I am willing to give seven thousand taels!"

"The little one is willing to give seven thousand five hundred taels. During the Taizu period, there was jade jade from Yunnan to Nanjing, and at that time, a fist-sized piece was worth three hundred taels of silver. The color and luster of the adults are excellent, even eight thousand taels of silver, and the small ones are willing to buy them. ”

I see, not just cash, but hard currency, no bad money, no money.

"Forget this piece, the official will offer it as a tribute. The rest of the small ones, if you want, you can come and buy them. The misunderstanding has been resolved, and the official thought that you only needed silver, but he said in his heart that you were embarrassing the official, but obviously not. In this case, today, I would like to invite you to have a drink and talk about some business by the way. ”

As soon as Bai Minghe said this, the atmosphere in the room immediately changed.

From a somewhat hostile attitude just now, at least it has become something that can be discussed, whether it is Bai Minghe or these businessmen, they all think that they can sit down and communicate with each other, and talk to each other about what is in their hearts.

Changed to a room, and this is a restaurant where Shirana Tsuru entertains guests.

There are some calligraphy and paintings hanging around, almost all of which are from the hands of Qing He, and two calligraphy and paintings are the fruits of the hard work of Lu Qiyuan and Tao Liwen. The most central one, but Zhu Jianshen practiced calligraphy, as the first complete poem written by Zhu Jianshen, the white crane hung in the middle position.

There are orchids all around, and the furniture is mainly plain. This is Kiyohe's style.

"My lord, why is the style of this room so different from the adult's study?" A businessman asked, pure is curious.

"That's a couple of ruffians who cleaned it up for me!" Bai Minghe also doesn't want others to say that he is rich and stupid. (To be continued......)