Hope for luck

Chapter 81
Someone asked someone to send a letter in, which aroused Gao Qiyuan's interest. After receiving the letter and looking at it, his face changed slightly.

Looking at the followers who were still palming their mouths, Gao Qiyuan scolded softly:
"That's enough, who are you showing it to? I'm blind if I'm a master? Let me ask you, how much did the person who entrusted you deliver the letter benefit you? And what does it look like?"

Seeing this, the servant who delivered the letter turned pale, because only he knew that his slapping was indeed for Gao Qiyuan to see.

Now that Gao Qiyuan saw through it, he felt a little horrified, and quickly talked about what happened to him:

"Yes...the man gave the youngest five taels of silver, a tall man with a square scarf on his head, a pale face and thin face, and said that as long as he delivered the letter to the master, the master would be happy after reading it, so the little one didn't think much about it. Quickly took it over...Master, I know I made a mistake, so I won’t dare to do it again next time!”

After hearing this, Gao Qiyuan narrowed his eyes, and then his eyes became very sharp:

"Drag it on, take the [-] big boards seriously, and then send it to the stables to feed the horses!"

After finishing speaking, Gao Qiyuan walked towards the mansion without looking back, and no matter how the servant cried and cried for being wronged, he didn't have the slightest intention of showing mercy.

At this moment, what he was thinking about in his mind was the contents of the letter held in his hand, and his thoughts were quite complicated.

The followers who followed him did not dare to be disrespectful at all, and followed him step by step.

After a while, Gao Qiyuan came to the Outer Court Academy, which is also the only master in the mansion who has his own outer study.

While thinking, Gao Qiyuan sat at the desk, picked up the letter in his hand and read it again, frowning and thinking.

After a while, Gao Qiyuan stretched his brows and shouted outside:
"Gao Nan, come in!"

As soon as the words fell, a figure, dressed as a follower, about 40 years old, walked in quickly and respectfully, bowing and saluting:
"master!"

"Take a few people to Dongshan to see what's going on in Dantang County now!"

Gao Qiyuan ordered in a deep voice.

This servant named Gao Nan quickly agreed without asking any other questions.

"Also, if Dantang County is really all right, let Gao Pan come back, say that his mission has been accomplished, and I promise to reward him!"

Gao Qiyuan continued, after thinking about it, he continued:
"Remember, you must observe more and make sure that there are no other hidden worries in Dantang County before you let Gao Pan know? Otherwise, you said that you just need to visit him and you will know?"

"Yes, the villain will definitely tell Fifth Young Master the truth, but, master, what if Fifth Young Master doesn't want to come back?"

Gao Nan thought further and hurriedly asked.

This made Gao Qiyuan's eyes instantly darken:

"Not coming back? Hmph, I can't help him. If he wants to stay there, let him stay there. It's not necessary to come back anyway. But, tell him, he will definitely not be able to be the county magistrate!"

After Gao Nan heard this, he still agreed very calmly, as if this was a very common thing, or maybe, in his heart, whatever Gao Qiyuan said, he would just do it!
"Well, go, go now, don't let the master down!"

Gao Qiyuan stared at Gao Nan solemnly and said.

"Master, don't worry, the villain will save you, and I will definitely not disappoint you!"

Although Gao Nan didn't know what kind of result Gao Qiyuan wanted, but this Gao Nan was also shrewd, no matter what, he had to express his attitude first.

After finishing speaking, Gao Nan bowed and retreated, while Gao Qiyuan squinted his eyes and stared at his leaving back in a daze. It took a while to recover, and shouted again:
"Come on, call the second young master to see me!"

As soon as the words fell, a servant who was waiting outside came in to reply:
"Returning to the master, the second young master left the city early in the morning, and went hunting outside the city with the young masters of Lu Guogong's mansion and Shan Guogong's mansion!"

Gao Qiyuan was very dissatisfied after hearing this:

"I've been fooling around all day long, let him come to see me as soon as he comes back!"

After speaking, Gao Qiyuan got up, walked out of the outer study room, and headed towards another courtyard in the outer courtyard of the Gao family.

As for the people in the yard, when they saw Gao Qiyuan coming, they quickly greeted him and ordered them to prepare.

It turned out that this place turned out to be a theater, built privately by the Gao family, and the theater troupe was also privately supported by the Gao family, and they only sang for the Gao family.

As soon as Gao Qiyuan came, someone came forward and asked Gao Qiyuan what play he wanted to listen to today, and they also held a play card for Gao Qiyuan to choose.

Gao Qiyuan picked a sign at random, and said flatly:
"Let's just go out!"

As he said that, he sat up on the viewing platform opposite the stage. The stoves had already been lit by servants around him, and the tables in the stands were also filled with melons and fruit snacks.

At this time, the capital was already a bit cold, but Gao Qiyuan wanted to listen to the opera, so the Gao family opera troupe started to operate.

And those who looked at them were Gao Qiyuan alone, and a group of respectful followers behind Gao Qiyuan.

It's just that these servants find it difficult to appreciate the beauty of this opera, only Gao Qiyuan is fascinated by it.

……

In Dantang County regiment training camp.

At this moment, Gao Pan is inspecting the results of many village brave training.

After half a month of training, this group of Xiangyong has gradually taken shape. After Gao Pan took over the regiment training camp, he recruited some people to come in, making up 500 people. At this moment, the entire regiment training camp also looks a bit large.

The most important thing is that everyone is wearing armor, holding regular officers and soldiers' weapons, and their uniform movements really make Gao Pan feel quite imposing and formal.

Although the armor everyone wears is the simplest type, in Gao Pan's opinion, the current attire is already very good, and it should be more than enough to deal with bandits.

"My lord, you really shouldn't be so clean and honest. You can do a lot of tricks on this autumn grain, and then turn it in!"

At this time, Yin Weian who was following behind Gao Pan said in a low voice.

After Gao Pan listened, he became interested, and quickly turned to look at him and asked:
"Tell me, what else can you do?"

Seeing Gao Pan's interest, Yin Weian quickly said with a charming smile:

"My lord, take this silver as an example. My lord should send someone to recast it into silver ingots. The loss left during the recasting will belong to you, my lord!"

After Gao Pan listened, he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:
"How much silver can this have? Not advisable, not advisable!"

"My lord, don't underestimate this loss. It's unknown if it's more than [-] to [-] percent. That's a few hundred taels!"

Yin Wei'an looked like a money fan, and said regretfully, as if he felt that Gao Pan had lost a lot, and continued:

"Compared to the household registration population reported by the adults, it is actually possible to conceal some of them. In this way, the adults can secretly collect the taxes and taxes of the concealed numbers into their pockets!"

When Yin Weian said the last thing, he narrowed his eyes with a smile, looking very docile and harmless.

But this made Gao Pan feel a little disgusted. Perhaps for local officials in this era, only by starting with taxes can they intercept more wealth.

As the so-called three-year Qing magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflake silver, is really not just talking. After hearing what Yin Wei'an said, Gao Pan knew that there is such a way to pay taxes.

(End of this chapter)