The old lady is reborn

After Dou Yang and Li Bing came out and got on the carriage, Rong Huaian went to the blacksmith shop and said that people from the Jingzhao Yin Police Station wanted to meet the owner of the shop.

The boss came with a smile on his face. He said that they had met once before when he brought Dou Yang here to find a job.

At that time, the boss was impressed by Dou Yang's skillful silk weaving skills and asked him to work at the gold and silver shop first. After he finished a batch of work, he could return to his favorite blacksmith shop.

At that time, he was very kind, even to a young boy like Dou Yang, and to people who came to him to look for work. He really demonstrated the business philosophy of "harmony brings wealth" from his temperament to his words and deeds.

When we met again today, he was still the same, considerate and polite. Huai'an asked, "You have opened this shop for many years, right?"

Dongjia: "When I first started here, I was in my early thirties, but now I am already at the age of knowing my destiny."

Huai'an nodded and said, "I'm sorry to bother you today. The Jingzhao Yin is investigating some old cases. Three of them are related to your shop."

The boss: "I wonder what kind of case it is?"

Huai'an: "A blacksmith, a night watchman, and an accountant died in your shop."

The owner was quite calm after hearing this: "I have run this shop for nearly 20 years. Not to mention such a big shop, there are hundreds of employees and craftsmen who make a living here, plus the cooks in my kitchen.

Even if it's a larger family, with 40 or 50 people living together, and three people dying in 20 years, it's not a big deal, right?"

Huai'an said, "If they died of natural causes, it wouldn't be a big deal, but the three people in your store were killed by gangster killers. Someone deliberately wanted their lives."

"That's strange. May I ask the officer, have you found out the reason?"

"I found a sentence that I don't quite understand, so I came to ask the boss for help.

What does it mean that 'gold is iron and iron is gold'? "

The owner was stunned for a moment: "According to me, gold is gold and iron is iron. It is really hard to understand what you said."

Huai'an asked again: "After you get the license to run your shop, how much gold and silver can you get from the government every year?"

The imperial court implemented gold control. A shop that sold gold and silver products had to purchase a fixed amount of gold and silver bars from the court each year to make its goods.

When you start operating under the brand name, this quantity has already been given.

This amount of gold and silver was called official gold and official silver, and was purchased from the imperial court's gold and silver treasury every month. The total amount purchased in the twelve months of the year could not exceed the total amount approved for a store.

In other words, no matter how much gold and silver jewelry, gold and silver ornaments, and other gold and silver products, such as gold and silver tableware, you produce in a year, the total amount of gold and silver used by a gold and silver store in a year is fixed.

Of course, if the customer brings a gold bracelet, has it weighed on the spot, and asks the store to melt it down and make a gold necklace, gold earrings, etc., this amount does not need to be counted.

Now Huai'an asked him about the amount of official gold and silver sold in this store, which is a crucial number for any gold and silver shop or gold and silver jewelry store. However, the owner seemed reluctant to answer for a long time and kept making excuses.

Finally, he said, "It is impossible to violate the laws of the country. The monthly account books can be checked."

The amount of gold used by this shop may have exceeded the official gold quota. It is unlikely that any problems would be found in the account books, so everything must have been done properly.

If a gold and silver shop wants to do more business, exceeding the quota itself is not a big deal.

For example, if Shop A's business was good, the government funds were not enough, while Shop B's business was bad and the government funds could not be used. Then there was some misappropriation of funds between the two shops, and the court turned a blind eye to it.

But if it doesn't come from this source, the source of gold exceeding the quota is a big deal.