"Childe, childe...... I finally have a surplus today......"

Zhao Mengting, who hadn't slept well for many days, hurriedly took the account book to find Xu Qian, with a smile on her pretty face, who had never shown much emotion.

Xu Qian was pretending to read in the study room in the newspaper building, but in fact he was lazy to sleep, he seemed to be very calm and calm on the surface, as if every qiē was a floating cloud, but the first time he did such a thing, he was still very nervous in his heart.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Zhao Mengting standing happily in front of him, rummaging through the account book in her hand, and said, "The newspaper has sold newspapers for so many days, and there is finally a surplus." ”

Xu Qian cheered up and said, "Really? How much did you earn? ”

Zhao Mengting said: "I sold 26,000 copies today, and after removing all kinds of expenses, I earned seven taels of silver. ”

"Seven taels ......" Xu Qian suddenly languished again.

After all, the printing cost of this era is too high, if you sell a thousand copies, you have to paste a few hundred taels of silver every day, after all, although the labor is cheap, but the engraving and ink are very expensive, unless the sales increase to 50,000 or 100,000, it is not easy to earn silver.

Xu Qian sighed in his heart: "It's not easy, I finally made money." ”

Zhao Mengting began to settle accounts for Xu Qian again, and encouraged: "In fact, if it is open source and reduce expenditure, there is a surplus of twenty taels per day. ”

Xu Qian was about to answer, when someone outside said, "Childe, childe, someone sent a gift, saying that it must be delivered to Childe's hands." ”

When Xu Qian arrived in this era, no one had ever given a gift, so he immediately shook his spirits and said, "Come in." ”

The one who came in was a small editor, and the newspaper has expanded to more than a dozen people from compilation to editing, don't look at the name is very domineering. If you add a university scholar, you will just get together with the Hanlin Academy, but in this year when everyone who serves tea and water dares to call it a doctor, in fact, there is nothing unusual.

This editor Xiu held a box and said with a smile: "Childe, that person is very strange, he sent something, but he refused to come to see Childe, only said that Childe would understand when he saw it." ”

Xu Qian was also curious in his heart, and said, "You can show it to me." ”

The editor handed the box over. Xu Qian seemed to think that it was not good to see this editor on the spot, so he said to him, "You go out and do your work." ”

After the compilation was gone, Xu Qian took a deep breath before opening the box, and there was a whole box of treasure money inside.

Think about it, this pile of money. Zhang Zhang is worth a lot of money, not less than 100,000 silver taels.

Of course, this is the algorithm on the books, because the imperial court prints this Ming treasure banknote more diligently, so this so-called banknote has a lot of moisture, but even so, it is really exchanged. I'm afraid that I can also exchange it for seven or eight thousand taels of real money.

Seven or eight thousand taels of silver......

Xu Qian's breathing accelerated, and his heart was surging.

Big, big.

Zhao Mengting was also confused, and said in surprise: "Who sent such a large sum of silver?" The giver is inevitably too generous. ”

Zhao Mengting said so. Xu Qian calmed down, searched in the box, and finally found a note, and he took it to look at it. It reads: "Xu Gongzi's name has been famous for a long time, and a little gift is not enough to worry about." Chun'an Shang Yu respectfully. ”

Chun'an merchants, Xu Qian frowned, Chun'an merchants are definitely wealthy families, and there has been a champion on the ancestors, it seems to be called a merchant or something, this merchant is definitely a first-class wealthy family in Zhejiang.

But the question is, how can merchants be so rich? Even if you have money, there is no need to give it away like this.

Xu Qian looked at these treasure notes, confused.

Zhao Mengting said suddenly: "I have heard for a long time that Chun'an merchants have thousands of acres of fertile land, but ...... But where did all this money come from? ”

A word woke up the dreamer, although the treasure money issued by the imperial court was flooded, but all normal people did not dare to save so many treasure money, the reason is very simple, because this thing depreciates relatively quickly, and the officials' money is generally issued with treasure money, so the holders of treasure money are officials, but the problem is that a county order will issue dozens of taels of treasure money for a month, and at present, even if a cabinet minister does not eat or drink for a lifetime, he is afraid that he will not be able to save it.

Xu Qian couldn't help but say: "I understand, this merchant must be doing some business in secret, only those who do large-scale business have to trade with treasure money, Mengting, your family is also in business, am I right?" ”

Zhao Mengting nodded and said: "Yes, sometimes you have to buy some medicinal materials, and it is inconvenient to carry too much silver, so you will exchange some treasure money and trade with others." ”

Xu Qian couldn't help but say: "Then let me ask you, a person has 100,000 treasure bills, how big is the business of this person?" ”

Zhao Mengting frowned and said: "My family is only doing small business, and it is only a thousand taels of silver in and out a year, and I am afraid that the treasure money on hand will not exceed five hundred taels, and this merchant has 100,000 yuan for gifts with this treasure banknote alone, and his family's business is really staggering." ”

Xu Qian also frowned, circling around this pile of treasure money, if he said that he was not tempted, it was fake. He was never a saint, and of course, he was never a bad person, at most he was a hypocrite.

A person who does such a big business, although there are many wealthy businessmen on the table in Zhejiang, but this kind of casually taking out 100,000 treasure banknotes is unheard of, unless this businessman is doing some kind of business with a lot of profits, and there is such a big investment in a month casually, this money will not be put in his eyes at all.

What kind of business is so profitable? Xu Qian's heart suddenly struck, and he thought of a possibility - smuggling.

If so, then it's easy to explain.

Merchants used the influence of their families to secretly violate the sea ban and carry out smuggling activities for a long time in order to make huge profits. And if you want to smuggle, it will inevitably be related to the Japanese Kou, Xu Qian's Ming Pao trumpeted the danger of the Japanese Kou, and even attracted the attention of the imperial court, which was absolutely not allowed by the merchants.

Because once the imperial court is suppressed, smuggling activities will be investigated and dealt with more strictly, which will bring a big blow to merchants.

Not to mention, once the Japanese are suppressed, the business collusion with the Japanese may even be exposed, and the business will naturally not allow this kind of thing to happen.

Therefore, if you want the court to continue to turn a blind eye, you must stop the current noisy discussions, and let Ming Bao shut up.

"Original...... This is hush money. Xu Qian sneered, feeling very sarcastic.

Zhao Mengting said: "What does the son plan to do with these treasure money." ”

Xu Qian swallowed his saliva, but he wanted to accept this ill-gotten gain, but he knew in his heart that it was the established national policy of the Son of Heaven to suppress the Son of Heaven, although on the surface the Son of Heaven did not make a statement, but once the Son of Heaven got the power, he would definitely take action. It is really unnecessary to get involved with the merchant and ruin his future just for such a treasure banknote.

He smiled coldly and said, "Go and invite my uncle." ”

Zhao Mengting nodded her head and went out with the door closed.

Xu Qian's gaze was still inseparable from this pile of treasure money, and seeing that there was no one left and right, he quickly pulled out dozens of treasure bills with a denomination of one hundred taels and stuffed them into his sleeve, and then pretended to be nothing and pretended to pick up the book to read, looking indifferent to the wealth.

When Zhao Mengting and Xu Shen came, Xu Qian said righteously: "Look at it, look at it, what kind of person does this surnamed Shang think of me, does he think I'm a greedy person?" Hmph, it's a shame that they are still well-informed people, and they actually do such a thing, I, Xu Qian, are upright, and money is a floating cloud in my eyes, uncle, you take a few people to send these ill-gotten gains back to the merchant with great fanfare, and tell them, the friendship of gentlemen is as light as water, and it is only 100,000 silver coins, although my Xu Qian family is poor, I can't look down on it! ”

Xu Shen was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Ten ...... Lakh...... I said eldest nephew, you ...... Are you crazy? ”

Xu Qian said righteously: "It's not that I'm crazy, it's that the merchant is crazy, uncle, you do what I tell you, don't ask more." ”

After hearing this, Xu Shen had to carefully pick up the box, and felt that he was not at ease to go out with so much money, so he called many people to accompany him and went to the merchant's annex in Hangzhou.

Xu Qian breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a little pain in his heart, but he thought that he still had dozens of treasure notes hidden in his sleeve, and his mood became happy again, anyway, the money was sent back, and when people found that the money was less, Xu Qian was not afraid that they would come to the lawsuit, after all, Xu Xiucai, who was not moved by money, couldn't even look down on 100,000 treasure bills, would he still take advantage of you?

Xu Qian is worried now that the gift is given, if this merchant really does this kind of business secretly, it will never be possible to give up, first salute and then soldier, since the gift is not successful, I don't know what tricks will be used next time.

Zhao Mengting said on the side: "Are you hungry?" I'll go get you a bowl of noodles. ”

Xu Qian shook his head, didn't have the heart to eat at all, and said, "You go and get busy with yours, I'll sit down." ”

As a result, he didn't sit for long, and someone came to tell him that there was a scribe from the Tixue Yamen who had come to invite him over, and that the Tixue Master had something to say.

On the ground in Hangzhou, he is not afraid of anyone, but he is afraid of this promotion, and the township test is about to arrive, if he can have a good relationship with the adult of the school, there will be a lot of benefits, Xu Qian hurriedly straightened his clothes and said, "I'll go." ”

Quickly out of the newspaper office, he saw a scribe waiting for him outside, this place is not far from the Tixue Yamen, the two of them quickly arrived at the Tixue Yamen.

The scribe invited him in, Xu Qian was not polite, and when he walked into the hall, he saw that the new student in Minglun Hall was eating tea and laughing with an old Confucian student, Xu Qian stepped forward and said, "The student has seen the adult." ”

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The third chapter is delivered, classmates, the tiger worships the ticket, so let's reward a little, among the old authors, it is the tiger's most ugly results, and he doesn't even have the confidence in the code word.