In the next few days, the grain stores were busy with all fours, and the grain of 9,000 stones had to be unloaded, inspected, weighed, and put into storage, which could not be completed in a day or two.

The owners of three grain stores in Fuyang County finally appeared. The shopkeeper sang with a white face, and the owner naturally sang with a red face. After Zhou Yang learned about the situation, he didn't know how many good things he said to the grain merchants. The three of them also held a banquet in the best restaurant in the county for three days in a row, and compensated the grain merchants. When they parted, they bought them rich New Year's goods......

Although the income of the grain merchants has not increased, the wounded hearts have been soothed after all, and the damaged faces have been repaired a lot. In addition, Zhou Yang and the others are indeed bankrupt and have a lot of loans, which makes it difficult for people to say anything...... Besides, it's almost the New Year, and no one wants to go home with a stomach full of grievances, and the attitude of the grain merchants has finally eased a lot.

In the silky winter rain, Wang Xian stood on the second floor of the Linhe Restaurant, watching the empty grain ships sail away from the dock, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It's great to be able to use official errands without using official errands." Sima Qiu, who was standing on the side, said with a happy face: "The gathering of grain merchants from more than a dozen counties in Fuyang has attracted the attention of the entire Hangzhou Prefecture and even Zhejiang Province...... It's a sweat. "The use of official errands will make people realize that there is a shadow of the government behind this matter, and then wonder if there is something big wrong with Chang Liquidation. With the bad relationship between the sub-patrol road and Fuyang County, it will definitely be thoroughly investigated, and it will be revealed when it is investigated.

But under Wang Xian's command, the whole process has been performed by the grain merchants, whether it is a white face in advance or a red face afterwards, no one from the government has come forward, and some fatal conjectures have been successfully avoided.

Now even if the people who patrol the road are not afraid, because the six thousand stone new grain has entered the Yongfeng warehouse, looking at the warehouse full of white flowers, Wei Zhixian still wishes that someone would come to check and make a name for him......

"However, the price of grain in Fuyang after rì is afraid that it will be pushed up." Sima Qiu was a little worried: "The grain merchants will definitely have to make up for it in the future." ”

"It's okay, I told the grain merchants of Zhou, and I went to Changsha to buy rice after the New Year," Wang Xian said softly: "Originally, it was said that 'Suhu is ripe, the world is full', but now more and more farmland in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been replanted with cotton mulberry, and they have to buy grain from Huguang and Jiangxi to eat, I am afraid that it will be changed to 'Huguang is ripe, the world is full'." ”

"You kid," Sima Qiu was no longer surprised by Wang Xian's superhuman insight: "I heard the same thing from the household department in Beijing, and after you came to Zhejiang, you were the first to say this." ”

"I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain." Wang Xian smiled faintly, and handed the two pieces of paper to Sima Qiu without fireworks.

Sima Qiu glanced at it and saw that there were two field deeds, one was from Jianchang, Jiangxi, his hometown of Wei Zhi County, indicating 80 acres of paddy fields, and the other was from his hometown Wuxi, indicating 20 acres of paddy fields. The number of acres, the number of blocks, and the affiliation of boundary pillars are recorded in detail and clearly on the two land deeds, and the name filled in under the field owner column in the former one is Wei Yuan, and the latter one is Sima Qiu.

Sima sought knowledge, which was a common practice for him and Wei Zhixian this year. Because the magistrate is frugal and simple, he is honest and honest. Wang Xian bought him land in his hometown, and he was deeply interested in the scholars and doctors, and then the breeze on his sleeves and the retreat were good.

As for Mr. Sima, he naturally has an out-of-pocket income. Wang Xian was able to rise to the top, and thanks to Sima Qiu, he also bought a share of land in Wuxi for him. One acre of paddy field costs almost fifteen taels of silver, and twenty acres is three hundred taels of silver. No wonder people say that when the master is 'come to Xiao Suo to go to Shifeng', I thought that I would have a second pole and drink the northwest wind with him, but I didn't expect to become a small landlord in less than a year.

Mr. Sima had never seen money, so he looked at it again and again with a field deed, and then carefully put it in his arms, and looked at Wang Xian gratefully: "Thank you so much, brother." ”

"Ahem...... 'Wang Xian is dizzy, Qian Bao's face is big, and he still called himself 'virtuous nephew', "Mr. don't have to thank me, this is a common practice in the yamen, and the old man of Xia Zhi Dao is incorruptible, which has been reduced by half compared to Chen Zhixian." ”

Wang Xian's words are true, and later generations have shown that the income of court officials is low, so the income of officials is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, which is typical nonsense. Because the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty never relied on that meager fortune, they relied on common practice.

Even Hai Rui, a famous Qing official later, would take a commission from the government's various incomes when he was the magistrate of the county, and he had an income of more than 2,000 taels of silver a year. Because all the non-establishment personnel in the yamen are paid by him, and there are all kinds of ushers sent to ...... Without this income, which is more than 100 times that of the official salary, he would not be able to run the entire county government at all.

As a matter of practice, these incomes are reasonable and legitimate. After deducting a sum of expenses, at the end of the year, when the accounts are settled, if there is a balance, it will not be transferred to the next year, but will go into the eunuch bag of the county and become his private income.

Therefore, knowing how much the county's harvest is in a year, see if he is ruthless, and see if his subordinates can make careful calculations. Wei Zhi County's name of courting the people is very light on the people. There are so many left, naturally thanks to Wang Xian.

"There are also Bing Jing for the prefect's yamen, the political secretary, the judge, the patrol road, and the guard road, which have also been prepared." Wang Xian was a little depressed and said, "Let the eldest master just rest assured." ”

"That's good, that's good." Sima Qiu patted Wang Xian's shoulder and said, "Zhongde, you are really a natural Sihu, you can keep the soup from leaking at a young age!" ”

"Mr. praised ......" Wang Xian could only smile bitterly, and to say something from his heart, the errand of the household is fat, but he doesn't want to do it at all. for the common customs of all people up and down shall pass through his hand. When there is nothing to do, people call him the God of Wealth, and when something happens, he is the scapegoat, such as Li Sheng......

In order not to give people a handle, he had to dig out his mind to make false accounts, just like Li Sheng did at the beginning...... Although at the level of his fake accounts, the Ming Dynasty basically has nothing to see through, but the fake is the fake, and when others really want to fix you, the three words 'unnecessary' are enough.

Not to mention the tiredness......

But it has only been a few months since I entered the house, and it is too early to move the nest, so I can only continue to work carefully for a few years before making plans. Fortunately, this errand is indeed fat......

Wang Xian has been working seriously for less than two months, and at the end of the year, he has more than 100 taels of silver. You must know that when Wang Gui worked in the paper mill, he was still a foreman, and he only earned twenty or thirty taels of silver when he got up early in the morning and got dark a year, which was really unreasonable.

Back at Yamen, Wang Xian went to sign the detention room and handed over to Wei Zhixian. Although he didn't know that he had more than eighty acres of fertile land, Wei Zhixian was still very happy, since he had Yongfengcang's heart disease, he was restless and worried, and he was nervous when he heard the door, thinking that he had an incident in the east window, and the people who patrolled the road came to investigate the case.

Wei Zhixian had no doubt that he would have to go crazy if he continued like this. But now, thanks to Wang Xian's blessing, he went to this big heart disease, which is called a relieved and refreshed person!

"Zhongde, this time for the teacher to spend the New Year with peace of mind, it's all your credit!" Wei Zhixian twisted three strands of long beard and said with a smile, "I really can't imagine that in less than ten days, I can get rid of the teacher's heart disease!" ”

"The students didn't do anything." Wang Xian said humbly: "It's still the teacher who suppressed Zhou Liangshang and them, otherwise they wouldn't be so obedient." ”

"Ha Lu Ha ......" subordinates who do not take credit are the favorite of their superiors, Wei Zhixian looked at his students, and the more he looked at them, the more he liked them, "The method you used is too ingenious." I still can't understand why those grain merchants are so obsessed with it, and then they are falling for the price. ”

"In fact, students are also learning from the ancients." How did Wang Xian explain the 'prisoner's dilemma' to him, so he had to say it another way: "When Fan Wenzhenggong was in our Hangzhou, he used this method to stabilize grain prices. ”

"Oh?" Wei Zhixian is well-informed and strong, and when Wang Xian mentioned it, he immediately remembered that there was indeed such a thing. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Hangzhou, there was a severe shortage of grain, and even unscrupulous businessmen took the opportunity to hoard and coax up, so that the price of grain doubled, and the momentum is still unabated. However, Fan Zhongyan, who was the governor of Hangzhou at the time, did not take conventional means to release grain, but sent people to post notices along the canal to widely publicize that the government had begun to purchase grain at twice the market price.

Seeing that it was profitable, grain merchants from all over the country 'rushed to advance' and transported grain to Hangzhou for sale. Soon, the market in Hangzhou was full of food again. The so-called scarcity is expensive, and if there is more grain, the price will naturally fall. In the year of the great famine, there was no sign of famine in Hangzhou......

"I see!" Wei Zhixian suddenly realized, but he was overwhelmed with emotion. He is familiar with allusions, but when it comes to the end, there is no way at all, Wang Xian has not read for a few days, but he can always learn and use it, it seems that he is really stupid to read......

"It's also rare that you can think of Fan Gong's method." Wei Zhixian praised.

"It's a pity that Fan Gong understated it without a trace of pyrotechnics." Wang Xian smiled bitterly: "The student used it, but it was a scoundrel. ”

"Hahaha." Wei Zhixian smiled and said, "Fan Gongna is a saint, can you compare with him?" Besides, the historian is the Venerable, and he wants to use chūn autumn brushwork, who knows if he was like you at that time, putting on a scoundrel face? ”

"Hey, hey." Wang Xian saw that Wei Zhixian was in a rare good mood, and took the opportunity to say: "The student has something to ask the teacher to decide." ”

"Speak." Wei Zhi County's first road.

"Now there is only one student in the household, and it is very difficult for each rì. This year, it seems that the pen will be closed, but it is okay. The teacher will see if it is possible to come back next year and make up for it. Wang Xian said with a smile: "The horizontal and vertical are the imperial court's fortunes, and the savings are not their own." ”

"Vulgar! You can't be a saint for eight lifetimes! Wei Zhixian scolded with a smile: "Are you saving money as a teacher?" I'm here to give you a foothold in the house! Said with a smile and said: "After the New Year, the teacher will promote you to be a household, so that you will be counted as the second year, which is reasonable." After a pause, he said, "As for the two wardens, you can recommend one ......."

In other words, there is one left, I want to be a favor. But giving Wang Xian a place is already a great reward.

"Thank you, Master!" Wang Xian was overjoyed