Just as Weng Yue's eyes were looking, in the second hall of the county office, a man with gray hair was sitting behind the table, he flipped through the account book in front of him with one hand, and held a handkerchief in the other, but he didn't care to wipe it, and after a short while, a layer of sweat had oozed out of his face and forehead, and he was falling down in large grains, and soon the neck of the green official robe was soaked.

Sitting across from him were two staff members dressed as literati, both staring anxiously at their master's house, waiting for the other party to finish the account book quickly.

The account book is not thick, and it looks fast, the green-robed official turned it over, his face sank on the other side, and when he saw the last vertical number, he couldn't hold it anymore, raised his head and asked the person sitting on the right with a gloomy face: "When will the deed you signed with the Li family on that day be completed?" ”

The staff had anticipated this question, and hurriedly took out the manuscript of the deed paper in his hand, pushed it in front of the official, and pointed out a few words circled in it: "The day is August 12." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the green-robed official's face darkened, and he turned his head again and asked the person sitting on the left: "How is the price of grain and grain in the left recently?" ”

The man immediately replied: "In June, the county is 80 wen 1 dou, but a few days ago I went to ask, but it rose to 83 wen 1 dou, only said that if you buy more, you can drop to 72 wen ......."

The green-robed official frowned and said, "At most, I can only buy thirty or forty thousand stones, and if there are more, I will have to go to other places for transportation, and the price of grain will also rise." ”

No matter how the grain bank quotes at this time, once the supply exceeds demand, the price of grain will definitely rise, and then it will not be possible to say that it cannot be bought at the regular price of 80 wen a bucket, and it may not be possible to buy it even if the price is increased to 90 wen.

Besides, if the price of grain in the county fluctuates too much, Yongqiu County is already in the land of Gyeonggi, how can it get rid of the eyes of the Imperial City Division and the Transshipment Division, and then it will be stabbed by someone with a heart.

The staff member on the left said: "If you go fast, go to Yanjin and Yuanwu County to collect it, and you can't say that you can't catch up, and you can barely get one or two hundred thousand stone ......."

When he said this, he stopped talking, and he didn't dare to say anything more than the last half of the sentence.

The 17 counties and towns in Gyeonggi are too far away to come back, and they are afraid that the grain will be transported back, so the people from the Criminal Division have already entered the inspection site, so they can only find a nearby place to buy grain. However, the difference in the grain in the regular closing position is 370,000 stones, even if you barely make up 120,000 stones, it is a drop in the bucket, and it is not helpful.

What the staff can imagine, how can the green-robed official not think of it, but he knows the news too quickly, and he doesn't have time to make thorough preparations, at this time, he heard the staff mention it like this, his face fell, and he was about to speak, but he suddenly heard a knock on the door outside, and then, someone shouted outside the door: "County Zun!" The villain is back! ”

There was no need for the green-robed official to speak, one of the staff members had hurriedly opened the door, and soon, an errand officer came in from outside, the person hurriedly walked to the table, and said to the green-robed official: "The villain has already visited the quality warehouse and the cashing warehouse of the commercial offices in the three counties on the left and right, because he has no time to go to the market to change affairs, and he does not dare to go to the sub-business-these places are all official camps, and they can only make up 20,000 yuan, and as for the silver, they can make up more than 100 at most, because the silver is too poor, and I don't dare to call the shots, so I took a piece back. Give the county a ......"

As he spoke, he took out a few dimes of silver from his arms, lined them up on the table, and asked, "County Zun, such a good color, but do you want to change it?" ”

——It turned out that the green-robed official was Chen Ducai, the magistrate of Yongqiu County.

The messenger put the silver on the table, and a staff member hurriedly took a small scale, and then looked for the new silver in the warehouse, weighed and compared each again, and looked up at Chen Ducai and said, "Official, the difference is less than two cents." ”

Chen Ducai was born in the garden, he was poor when he was young, and his family also went to the street to do business, at this time he heard the words "less than two cents", and in just a moment, the total number was calculated in his mind, and he hesitated for a while.

The official silver that enters the treasury of Tibet requires that the error of one ingot of silver should not exceed half a centimeter, which is less than two centimeters does not sound like much, but if the number of silver ingots goes up, the difference will be ugly.

However, at this time, time is in a hurry, and I want to look for a better pattern silver, but I can't find it for a while......

The grain is not enough, so I have to take the old grain of the year before the year and the old grain with the wet water to fill the number, it is really not good, the mildew has to be bought to fill in, the silver is not enough, and the color difference can only be recognized, and the number must be closed.

He made up his mind in his heart, knowing that he would definitely not be able to avoid this time by taking the right path, so he accepted his fate, raised his head, and said to the errand officer: "Regardless of the quality, as long as the difference is less than three cents, I will redeem it first." ”

He turned to a staff member and said, "Go to the back office and get the deed of my Baokangmen tile and Junyi Qiaofang." ”

The staff hurriedly took the order and left.

Chen Ducai then said to the officer: "After a while, you went to the deed, and since you went to the outside warehouse, you first pledged the deed, and first made up for it with the money, if it is not enough, come back and tell me." ”

After speaking, he said to another staff member: "No matter the price, before the criminal division comes, the short number of the treasury must be made up, even if the quality is a little different, but the amount is not too far apart." ”

At one time, everyone in the second hall was ordered to leave, and Chen Ducai was left to sit on the seat alone.

He counted all the things in his heart, and looked at the account book on the table, which circled the problematic places one by one, and after checking, he felt that he had made all the arrangements, and there were no mistakes or omissions at that time, so he was relieved.

As soon as he rested, he noticed that his head and face were covered with sweat, and his eyes were so muddy that his eyes were separated, and his eyes hurt from pickling, and he hurriedly wiped the handkerchief in his hand like pickles on his face, but he didn't know why, and while he wiped, he felt a little angry and a little uneasy in his heart.

- The Criminal Investigation Division used to patrol every year, which is not a big deal, but this year is too unreasonable!

Normally, it will not be inspected until at least August, even if it is earlier, it will not be so much in advance, and besides, there is always only from near to far, how can there be a saying from far to near!

Even if it's a month late, I will never be as embarrassed as I am today!

What was the reason why the newly appointed deputy envoy for punishment had his brain in water, and he didn't follow the previous rules and was in a hurry to come to Yongqiu County first? Could it be that the other party heard that something happened in the closing of the position? Or is there someone behind who is behind it?

If it is really found that something is wrong, the copper will be fined, and I am afraid that the basket will be stabbed and my family will be degraded and punished......

Born in poverty, the whole clan opened the bed board to find the copper plate, only to give him enough money to go to school, ten years of hard study, how much hardship he suffered when he was young, how tired, and later became an official, and it took a lot of hard work to get to this county that managed to close the position.

My family is nearly sixty years old, and I don't have much time to waste, and if I don't hurry up to protect my official position and money, what will happen to that big family in the future? Do you want to go back to picking dung and planting vegetables?!