After Jiang Chao finished speaking, Yao Yungui, Ma Rushan, Jiang Sheng, and Tan Jiaxing scolded in unison: "What an incompetent official, such a dereliction of duty, but everyone in our state capital will be punished with you, it is really an unlucky ghost broom star in this state." This matter must be punished by you, so that the hatred in your heart can be relieved. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan hurriedly stabilized everyone's emotions and said calmly: "This is not the time to blame Wang Daokuan, everyone should think about how to deal with this matter first, so as not to involve our state government." ”

Everyone fell into deep thought, wondering what to do.

Yao Yungui was still a little anxious, and remembered that Jiang Yuanyun was a businessman begging for food in his hands, and it was not impossible for him to be accommodating with the rules, so he arched his hand and said: "If the 100,000 taels of silver tickets are really burned, the lower officials will let Jiang Yuanyun reopen the 100,000 taels of silver tickets to be paid, and the matter will not be over." ”

Before Sun Zhaoyuan could speak, Wang Daokuan hurriedly said in the hall: "Yinzhuang has rules, only recognize the silver ticket and do not recognize the person, the silver ticket is opened, even if it is lost and burned, it will never be opened again, this is to prevent others from pretending to lose the silver ticket, Yinzhuang reopened the silver ticket, and others took two silver tickets to exchange money, and the silver village lost a lot." One or two silver tickets and silver banks will not be opened again, let alone these 100,000 taels. ”

Yao Yungui said: "Wang Daokuan, this official will ask you, is this silver ticket guaranteed to be burned, if you guarantee that it is burned, this official will dare to make a guarantee, then Jiang Yuanyun will definitely reopen 100,000 taels of silver tickets." ”

Wang Daokuan's face was flushed, and he couldn't answer yes, and he couldn't answer no. This Wang Daokuan went to Jiang Yuanyun a few days ago, asked Jiang Yuanyun to open 100,000 taels of empty silver tickets, and deceived Jiang Yuanyun to tell Jiang Yuanyun that Sun Zhaoyuan didn't know why he wanted to go back to check the silver treasury, and opened 100,000 taels of empty silver tickets, and when the inspection was completed, he would return the silver tickets with interest. Jiang Yuanyun and Wang Daokuan have done this kind of exchange many times, and there will be no mistakes in the future, so he ordered the Yinzhuang guys to open 100,000 taels of empty silver tickets to Wang Daokuan. Wang Daokuan did not put the 100,000 taels of empty silver tickets in the silver treasury, but found someone to make 100,000 taels of fake silver tickets and put them in the silver treasury, and the one that burned the fire was the fake silver ticket. Wang Daokuan's idea was to burn the fake silver ticket and let all the officials in Yunxi Prefecture take the blame together, because everyone couldn't run away if there was such a major incident, these state officials would find a way to cover up the matter, and maybe even directly order the bank treasurer to directly erase the 100,000 taels of silver from the account, and his long-term theft would be covered. After a few days, the really empty silver ticket was returned to Jiang Yuanyun intact, and the matter was over.

Wang Daokuan's wishful thinking crackled, but he didn't want to, Yao Yungui directly asked Jiang Yuanyun to make up 100,000 taels of silver tickets, but Jiang Yuanyun's silver village didn't really receive 100,000 taels of silver, where could he make up for it? If it is really made up, when the imperial court takes the silver ticket and asks Jiang Yuanyun's silver village to withdraw the silver, Jiang Yuanyun will lose 100,000 taels of silver? Jiang Yuanyun is willing to take a break?

Sun Zhaoyuan also saw it in his eyes and asked, "Lord Wang, is there any guarantee that this silver ticket will be burned?" ”

If Wang Daokuan didn't answer yes at this time, his deficit would not be able to hide it, and he could only say yes weakly.

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "In this case, please ask Lord Yao Yungui to ask Jiang Yuanyun to open another 100,000 taels of silver tickets to end this matter." ”

Yao Yungui arched his hand and said: "This matter is not difficult, please rest assured that Lord Sun." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said again: "Then according to your lords, the silver treasury is on fire, how should this matter be handled?" ”

Jiang Chao said: "The best way to deal with this matter is to report it to the Ministry of Industry as soon as possible, send craftsmen to repair the silver treasury, and then ask the officials to dismiss the people of the treasury and inquire about it, so that they can be regarded as having an explanation to the imperial court." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan listened, and did not nod yes, but shook his head and said: "This matter is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster, I think it has been too hot recently, causing a fire in the furniture and wood, these silver warehouse people, etc., are also very innocent, if they are all dismissed because of this matter, they will be punished too severely." ”

Jiang Chao asked: "Then please make it clear to Lord Sun, how should this matter be handled?" ”

Sun Zhaoyuan pretended to be pondering for a while, and said: "Since this matter is a natural disaster, it will be dealt with according to a natural disaster, and reported to the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court, and the Ministry of Industry will repair the treasury. ”

Jiang Chao said: "Since Master Sun has an idea, then the lower officials and others will follow it." "This is to get rid of responsibility, anyway, something happened, and it was your Sun Zhaoyuan's idea for the court to ask for the guilt, and I, Jiang Chao, as a picket, should put forward the opinion, so I have no responsibility."

Sun Zhaoyuan instructed again: "According to the laws of the imperial court, if the silver treasury in Yunxi Prefecture is damaged, the treasury silver will be sent to Yong'an Prefecture, and after the silver treasury is repaired, Yong'an Prefecture will be transported back." ”

When these matters were discussed, they went home to their respective families. Only the king was wide and left alone in the council hall. This matter has reached this point, and I don't know how it will end. The state government has lost so many silver taels to dispose of it, and Yao Yungui asked Yao Yungui to propose this method that made him offend Jiang Yuanyun, and Jiang Yuanyun still didn't hate him to the core.

However, two days later, Jiang Yuanyun's eyeliner reported the matter to Jiang Yuanyun, Jiang Yuanyun listened to it, and hurriedly rushed to Luyang Mansion to report the cause and effect of the incident to Yao Yungui.

Jiang Yuanyun said hatefully: "This Wang Daokuan, he said that I would give him a short silver ticket that day, and he would return it in a few days, but he set up this bureau and wanted to swallow me 100,000 taels of silver." Master Yao, this silver ticket is absolutely irreplaceable, although my Jiang family has a lot of money, but the cash in his hand is at most 500,000 taels, and the rest are houses, inns, or other businesses to make a living. If you go to these 100,000 taels, your vitality will be greatly damaged. And if you open a silver ticket again, it will break the rules of the industry, and those peers are afraid that they will think that I am a thorn in the flesh in the future, and if they do business in the future, they are afraid that there will be many misunderstandings. ”

Yao Yungui groaned for a while and said, "This matter is very important, but you didn't report it to me earlier?" After so many years of life, you never told me that Wang Daokuan borrowed your silver to go to the treasury to replenish the amount. ”

Jiang Yuanyun hurriedly apologized and said: "Lord Yao, don't be surprised, just because Wang Daokuan said that this matter is an important matter for the imperial court, if it is leaked out, I am afraid that it will not be good for anyone, so I have not mentioned it before." ”

Yao Yungui snorted: "So there was an accident at this time, and I wanted someone to deal with the aftermath before I remembered me." ”

Jiang Yuanyun hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, villain don't dare." ”

Yao Yungui said: "You didn't tell me about this matter earlier, I just mentioned this method, and you have made a guarantee in front of everyone, you will definitely make up the silver ticket." You say, what should be done about this? ”

Jiang Yuanyun listened to Yao Yungui's words, and naturally knew what Yao Yungui meant in his heart, firstly, because he was angry that he did not communicate with him beforehand, and secondly, because his words had already been released, if he couldn't do it, there would be nowhere to put his face. Jiang Yuanyun had no choice but to say: "Since this is the case, I will do this big thing and end this matter." ”

Although Jiang Yuanyun made up the silver ticket and confessed to it, he held a grudge against Wang Dao Kuan in his heart, and secretly said in his heart that this revenge must be avenged.

Sun Zhaoyuan made everything clear, and sent the treasury silver to Yong'an Prefecture, and when the silver arrived at the boundary of Yong'an Prefecture, Wang Youming immediately lent all the silver and sent people to Yunxi Prefecture to buy grain and grass.

Wang Youming is a person who has lived in Huanhai for a long time, and knows that if he goes to those big merchants to buy grain, the price of this grain will be at least fifty percent more expensive, and if he buys grain directly from the grain depot in Yunxi Prefecture, it will cost a lot less. The grain depot of Longdu Mansion sold the grain and grass, as long as the money went into the silver treasury and the amount was right, the imperial court could also allow the sale of grain. The silver that sold grain and grass, and because there was no silver treasury to hold it, it would be sent to Yong'an Prefecture for safekeeping by Wang Youming. In this way, the silver, grain and grass are in Wang Youming's hands, and the battle between the three kings naturally has a better chance of winning. Because it was the embezzlement of the treasury of Yunxi Prefecture, those personnel sent over were not easy to dress up as non-commissioned officers, so they only pretended to be ordinary passers-by and entered the territory of Yunxi Prefecture.

The person who is the leader is Xu Youde, the general of Yong'an Prefecture. Xu Youde received this secret order, and was afraid that the misappropriation of treasury silver would be reported, and when he entered the boundary of Yunxi Prefecture, he divided the 1,000 people who transported grain and grass into 100 teams, and each team went to Longdu Mansion and hired local people to transport 10,000 catties, which could transport 1 million catties of grain and grass at a time.

After getting Yunxi Prefecture, these grain collectors gave the silver tickets to the grain depot officials, bought grain and grass, hired porters and carriages, and traveled day and night to Yong'an Prefecture. Entering the territory of Luweifu, Xu Youde kept receiving reports from the sergeant in front of him, and there were people on the bridges and roads on the road who collected tolls for crossing the bridges.

Xu Youde hurriedly went to check, and said to the little clerk who collected the money: "This official, why do I have to spend money to cross this road and this bridge?" ”

One of the officials said: "You guys, this bridge was built by a wealthy local family who saw that it was inconvenient for the people to come and go, but the cost of building it could only be collected from the people who came and went to make up for the cost of building the bridge." Seeing that you are merchants who transport grain and grass, this price is charged according to the number of loads of grain and grass, and the cost of a hundred loads of grain and grass requires two taels of silver. ”

Xu Youde said: "I entered Yunxi Prefecture from Yong'an Prefecture before, why didn't I pay a fee?" ”

The little official said: "I just go out, no matter what I go in, I charge unilaterally." ”

Xu Youde said again: "I have traveled all the way, and I am afraid that there are hundreds of places with fees of this size, so if I transport 50,000 loads of grain and grass, won't it cost 1,000 taels of silver?" ”

The little official said: "If you really have 50,000 loads of grain and grass, I'm afraid you will still have to spend so many silver taels." ”

Where can Xu Youde pay for this road with so much silver, and if he wants to break through the crossing, he is afraid that this little official will recruit all the soldiers of the state capital quickly, then it will be a big deal. Hurry up and let those transporters rest in place, and ride all the way to Luyang Mansion to move Sun Zhaoyuan, the rescuer. At this time, only Sun Zhaoyuan came forward to reconcile, so that they could cross the boundary of Weifu without spending money. Otherwise, the extra money for the passage will really not find a source.