Jia Min of the Red Chamber is very arrogant

Lin Ruhai hurriedly ordered the ambassador of the salt department to take Wu salt merchant to handle it.

Because Zhen Yingjia has lived in Jinling for a long time, the ambassador of the Salt Department is surnamed Luo, and he is an old man in this position.I used to sit in Yangzhou to handle many official affairs, and I know that Wu salt merchants are very difficult to deal with.When Zhen Yingjia first took office, he cooperated with Zhen Yingjia in embarrassing Wu salt merchants, but he suffered a lot. Many servants in the family were scared to redeem themselves, and the wives in the family were always clamoring to sell the house.

He just cooperated and got a little frightened, which was not bad.It is said that Zhen Yingjia donated a large amount of silver to relieve the disaster, and Mrs. Zhen went to various temples to give alms, which was better.Later, Zhen Yingjia didn't dare to embarrass him anymore.

Master Luo originally wanted to remind Lin Ruhai that Wu Yanshang, a great god, cannot be provoked.Unexpectedly, Lin Ruhai was different from other masters of the salt class. He didn't embarrass others, and just followed the rules. Master Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Ruhai had inquired about Wu salt merchant's deeds, and knew that this mysterious salt merchant was actually not embarrassing, and was even very understanding from a certain point of view.For example, for the sake of convenience, other salt merchants often pay the salt tax in silver bills, but the silver bills are the withdrawal certificates of the bank. Some banks only have a good reputation in the Jiangnan generation, and they cannot be exchanged when they are transported to Beijing.Therefore, the servants of the Yanzheng Yamen have to exchange it into silver before it can be put into the warehouse.

Even if some silver villages have semicolons in central Beijing and southern China, they cannot guarantee that there are so many cash banks in central Beijing. For the sake of insurance, the household department does not accept cashier notes.This Wu salt merchant is very upright in his actions. Every time he pays taxes, he always pays the full amount of cash.

Thirty percent of the salt tax is not a small amount. Master Luo led people to collect boxes and boxes of silver, and sent several yamen servants to count it together. However, in order to avoid mistakes, one person counted, three people reviewed, one person registered, and four people sealed it. box, the progress is a bit slow.The chief bookkeeper at the other end led the yamen servants to count, and Master Luo brought Wu Yanshang to the yamen to serve tea.He didn't dare to offend this salt merchant anymore, since Wu Yanshang's warehouse was watched by his subordinates, he didn't dare to leave Wu Yanshang to count them face to face.

Seeing Wu Yanshang and the ambassador of the Salt Department come in, Lin Ruhai smiled and ordered people to watch.After asking a few words about the situation, the ambassador of the Salt Department replied that he was still counting the silver.

Lin Ruhai saw that the ambassador of the Salt Department was not very good looking, and also saw Wu Yanshang's eyes playful, and said with a smile: "Master Luo is too careful, it is too tiring to do it like this, why don't you take me to have a look?"

After hearing Lin Ruhai's words, Master Luo thought that Master Lin had some clever way to save money, so he couldn't help but agree.He thought to himself: Mr. Lin is a child of a noble family who was born in Tanhualang, so there may be some tricks that outsiders don't know.

Lin Ruhai turned around again and said, "If Wu Yanshang is free, you might as well go to the warehouse to have a look." Wu Yanshang put down his teacup and nodded in agreement.

Master Luo saw Wu Yanshang smiling politely, but for some reason, he still felt scared.

When the three of them arrived at the warehouse, the chief bookkeeper, Mr. Sun, took notes with a pen and paper. Except for a few yamen guards, the rest were counting money. A box on the ground was opened, and the white silver ingots were very dazzling.At first glance, it looks like full silver.Looking around, Lin Ruhai saw that the process of counting silver was very careful, and no mistakes could be made, only more than two boxes were counted now.

Seeing Lord Lin, Lord Luo and Wu Yanshang coming together, everyone stood up and saluted the two adults.

Lin Ruhai laughed and said, "It's too slow to count like this." Everyone thought that Mr. Yan Kezheng had some good idea, but Lin Ruhai asked the master book: "Mr. Sun, how many taels is this box?" Lin Ruhai pointed to one Ask about unopened boxes.

Mr. Sun didn't know what Master Lin meant by asking this question, so he answered honestly: "Master, this box is 1 taels of silver."

Lin Ruhai nodded slightly and said: "45 boxes, 45 taels, there is nothing wrong with it." Turning around, he said to Wu Yanshang: "I don't know how I counted them like this, does Wu Yanshang have any opinions?"

Don't talk about how Wu Yanshang reacted, Mr. Luo, the ambassador of the Salt Department, Mr. Sun and the yamen servants who had a lot of money were stunned. The legendary Lin Qingtian was too casual in doing things.Everyone knows that there is no business without evil, if one of the boxes is filled with half a box of stones, how many people in the entire yamen and how many years of offerings can't afford it.

Wu Yanshang was also taken aback when he heard this, and laughed: "Master Lin is very straightforward. Since Master Lin is so reassuring and willing to sympathize with our little merchants, I have nothing to say. Since Master Lin is straightforward, I can't help but be lazy. Go back earlier after completing the formalities."

While Wu Yanshang was speaking, Lin Ruhai's gaze did not leave the faces of Wu Yanshang and the two followers beside him.Wu Yanshang and one of his attendants looked calm and did not see any changes, but the other attendant's face changed slightly, and then returned to normal.However, the change in his face did not escape Lin Ruhai's eyes.

Amidst everyone's stupefaction, Lin Ruhai and Wu Yanshang went to the yamen to apply for tax receipts. Master Luo followed carefully, and Master Sun still led the yamen servants to collect the silver.

Lin Ruhai stamped the official seal on the tax receipt and handed it to Wu Yanshang.Wu Yanshang accepted it with a smile, and went to the warehouse to call his followers.Lin Ruhai had nothing to do, so he also went to the warehouse. Seeing Lin Ruhai walking together, Wu Yanshang took half a step back and followed Lin Ruhai.

When he arrived at the warehouse, Lin Ruhai smiled and asked Mr. Sun: "Mr. Sun, how many boxes have you ordered now? Is there a problem?" Although he was asking about Mr. Sun, his eyes were on Wu Yanshang's face. Change follower.The follower's face became more obvious now, with a hesitant expression on his face, as if he refused to leave.

Wu Yanshang glanced at the follower, his eyes were very sharp, and it was no longer the expression that had been deliberately restrained.The attendant also knew what was going on, and he followed Wu Yanshang decisively and said goodbye.The three of them went to the yard, ordered the chariots and horses to deliver the silver and left.

When Wu Yanshang and his party left, Lin Ruhai ordered Master Sun to make sure to count the money today and hand it over to the household department in the morning.Director Sun nodded yes.Everyone knew that after the silver was handed over to the household department, the affairs of the Yanzheng Yamen were settled. If there was a mistake in the warehouse of the Yanzheng Yamen, it would be the responsibility of everyone in the Yanzheng Yamen.

Lin Ruhai sent Qi He back to deliver the letter, and told his wife that he counted the silver with everyone today, handed it over to the household department tomorrow and returned, and wrote another letter and sealed it to his wife.Qi Yun still stayed at the yamen to guard the outer courtyard, preventing idlers from entering.

Jia Min listened to Qi He's words from the steward, and sighed: "Such a large amount of money, I really need to be careful, but it's too hard for the master to do errands around the clock." He unfolded the letter written by Lin Ruhai and looked at his face. After a slight change, it was immediately put away without showing any signs of expression.He hurriedly ordered people to order some food boxes and finer cloaks and other things, and told the master that although the errands were urgent, he should be careful not to catch cold at night.

Qi He returned to the yamen after receiving the errand.

The official residence is just behind the yamen, but separated by a few walls, Jia Min glanced in the direction of the yamen, sighed helplessly, and continued to take care of Brother Lin Shuo's affairs.On the one hand, he quietly took the key to the warehouse and prepared it.

Although Jia Min had prepared some small meals, Lin Ruhai still ate the meals made by the kitchen lady with everyone, and distributed the small meals from home to everyone.After half of the people here finished eating, they still went back to the warehouse to work, and the other half of the people came to eat.

The Wu family sent 50 taels of silver ingots, one box of two hundred ingots, and 45 boxes of less than nine thousand ingots, so it didn't take long to count.It's just that one person finishes the number, three people check, one person registers, and four people seal the box. A set of procedures requires nine people to sign and sign. There must be no mistakes, so it is slower.But when two groups of people came over after eating, there were only the last five boxes left.

A lot of candles were lit in the warehouse, and the whole warehouse was brightly lit. Five boxes were lit, and four more were lit in a short time, 45 taels of silver, and 44 taels of silver had already been lit.At this moment, everyone was relieved: Mr. Lin is so big-hearted that he gave the tax payment certificate to the Wu Yan merchant without knowing the money. If there are tricks in these boxes, who is the better person here?Who knows that Wu Yanshang is really sincere, and I don't know where Mr. Lin is so courageous, and he doesn't know whether he can see through people's hearts or through these boxes.

Seeing that there were no problems after counting 44 boxes, Lin Ruhai breathed a sigh of relief.Quietly ordered Qi He to go back and tell his wife that there was nothing wrong and the wife could rest.Qi He wanted to ask again, but Lin Ruhai said, just pass the word back like this, the wife will naturally know after hearing it.

After Qi He went back, the woman in charge returned the words to Jia Min. Sure enough, Jia Min's expression became much more relaxed, and he quietly put away the key to the warehouse, no one knew.

But when the last box was opened in the Yamen warehouse, everyone was shocked and rubbed their eyes repeatedly, afraid that they might be dazzled.Amidst the exclamation of the crowd, Lord Luo and Master Sun looked at Lin Ruhai together, their faces were full of surprise, doubt, and admiration, and their expressions were very complicated.The two saw that Mr. Lin had a calm expression on his face, as if he had expected it.

It turned out that the last box was not filled with silver ingots, but full of yellow and orange gold bricks!

Although it is the same box, the gold is nearly twice as heavy as the silver, and the gap between the gold bricks is smaller than that of the silver ingots, so the same size box contains 9000 taels of gold.At that time, one tael of gold could be exchanged for twelve taels of silver, so the last box was worth 19 taels.Lin Ruhai issued a salt tax voucher of 45 taels to Wu salt merchants, but received 63 taels of tax silver.

The Wu family only paid half a year's tax, 5000 taels a month, and 63 taels was nearly eight and a half months' tax.

Lin Ruhai first said in front of Wu Yanshang that there is no need to count them in detail. It turned out that he had a plan and took a big gamble.If there are really some problems with these boxes, it is necessary to subsidize them, so Lin Ruhai wrote to Jia Min that he might need to prepare money, and Jia Min also quietly took the warehouse key and other information.After counting 44 boxes, Lin Ruhai sent Qi He back to say that this end is fine, but he didn't expect that the money was tricky, but it was not short of silver taels, but a full 18 taels more.

When Lin Ruhai and Wu Yanshang were talking about counting the boxes to count the silver, Lin Ruhai carefully observed the expressions of Wu Yanshang and the two followers, just to see how much he had a chance of winning.Later, one of Wu Yanshang's attendants changed his face, and he issued a voucher to Wu Yanshang. The man's face showed a look of reluctance, and Lin Ruhai felt that he hadn't lost the bet, but he couldn't figure out why the man's face changed like this.

When the last box was opened, Lin Ruhai understood everything, so there was no shock on his face, only a sudden realization.And his look fell into the eyes of Master Luo and Master Sun, they only thought that Master Lin was really unfathomable, but they didn't know that there was another mystery in it.

Inside the Wu Family Village, Wu Er looked at Wu Yanshang with dissatisfaction on his face: "Although there is no shortage of silver envoys in our village, it's not like this. It's 18 taels, so it's okay to give it to Mr. Lin like this?"

Wu Yanshang smiled and said: "In our village, many people's family members are also in Jinling, but they have received a lot of favor from Master Lin. Wu Er, I remember that your parents are in Jinling, and they suffered from floods three years ago. Why don't you appreciate Master Lin's kindness to your family's life?"

Wu Erdao: "Master Lin is a good official, but it is not worth giving away 18 taels of silver. We were just testing him. If he is really a good official, he is not as embarrassing as other Yanzheng masters. But the gold Convert it into silver and pay extra tax for February. He was tricked by Zhen Yingjia, so it was a bit difficult. Let's help him by paying the salt tax a few months in advance. Passed through."

It turned out that Lin Ruhai had rescued many people during the disaster relief in Jinling, and many of these people were from the Wu family village.Wu Yanshang is a man with clear grievances and grievances. He mixed a box of gold among 45 boxes.Since it has been shipped, please accept it by Mr. Lin and convert it into salt tax.It is also this year that Lin Ruhai can receive a limited amount of salt tax, and Wu Jiazhuang has the right to repay his kindness for a favor.

But Wu Yanshang laughed: "Master Lin is more forthright than I thought, and he doesn't have the sourness of a scholar at all. I think it's very easy to deal with. You are too small to be a gentleman. , who said Master Lin would be greedy for your little money? You think it is a lot of money, and the basic family background of the Lin family may not take these yellow and white things seriously. Maybe it will be returned in a few days? "

Although Wu Er knew that the Wu family village had some masters, not to mention that there was a patriarch behind the Wu family village. If he really wanted to rob the treasury bank of the Yanzheng Yamen, it was like searching for something, but that time the Yanzheng Yamen collected the tax money and sent it to him the next day. Treasury Department.If Lin Ruhai sent Ku Yin away tomorrow, he would have to waste some effort to get it back.He muttered: "That being said, we will have to waste our time when these silver taels are sent to the household department tomorrow." As he said, he would take people to the Yanzheng Yamen to recover the excess silver taels.

Wu Yanshang said solemnly: "Stop! Whether Mr. Lin is a real gentleman or a fake villain, we will find out in a few days. I think Mr. Lin must be a real gentleman. He is very open-minded. Within three days, he will definitely come to the door or Pay back the silver or make up the tax certificate. If we wait ten and a half months and don't come, we can't blame us for what we do. If you want to make trouble before then, I will punish you with family law!"

After hearing this, Wu Er stopped talking, feeling worried after all.

Early the next morning, Lin Ruhai personally delivered 44 taels of silver with the convoy to the household department for settlement, leaving half of the government servants to guard a box of gold in the warehouse.When he came back, he changed into his normal clothes, took Qi He with him, and rode out on his horse.Qi Yun was left in the yamen to listen to Lord Luo's orders.

Wujiazhuang is a large-scale village in Yangzhou, and it is very easy to inquire about.Unlike other salt merchants who bought good land and built exquisite gardens beside the Slender West Lake, Wujiazhuang was built on a huge piece of fertile land. The scale of the village is very large, and it is self-sufficient in terms of grain and rice.

Although Wu Er was worried in his heart, he did not dare to disobey the owner of the villa, but he refused to accept Wu Yanshang's statement that Lin Ruhai would have a regulation within three days, so he was very careful outside.Wu Yanshang also sent someone to inquire, and he heard that Lin Ruhai came with only one elder on horseback with him, and he was waiting to meet him outside the village.

Lin Ruhai entered Wujiazhuang, and saw three or five-legged farmers and women working in the fields, and walked for another half a quarter of an hour. Everyone he saw on the road was wearing strong clothes, and their martial arts were not weak.Lin Ruhai pretended not to notice, followed Wu Yanshang into Zhuangzi, and after eating excellent tea, he explained the purpose of his visit, saying that the box of gold was probably carried by Wu Yanshang when he loaded the car, and he exchanged it for a box of silver. I have no opinion on whether it should be converted into tax bank.

Wu Yanshang was very humble for a while, saying that it was his own carelessness, but he did not intend to make Mr. Lin go there himself.He also said that Mr. Lin doesn't wear official uniforms, but is sympathetic to the people.There are still a few taels of silver left and right in the left and right villages. If Lord Lin is trustworthy, someone from Wujiazhuang will deliver it to the household department yamen tomorrow. Master Lin can just send someone to deliver the money to the household department. He will pay the taxes and silver for the second half of the year and repay Lin The feeling of adults running for a trip.He also said that the Ministry of Households made the delivery clearly, and it was also enough to go back to the Yanzheng Yamen to get the tax payment certificate, so I could trust Mr. Lin very much.

After Lin Ruhai heard this, there was no reason not to allow it.He directly picked up the silver from Wu Yanshang and delivered it to the household department for delivery, which saved the Yamen from guarding the silver.So humbly, Wu Yanshang personally sent Zhuangzi a few miles away, and Lin Ruhai went home by himself.Because there were still 9000 taels of gold in the treasury, Lin Ruhai only went home to take a bath, changed clothes, and had to go to the Yamen to work hard all night, but it meant doing it by himself.

Early the next morning, the yamen servant escorted 9000 taels of gold to the household department. Sure enough, at the appointed time, the people from the Wu family arrived early, and delivered 29 taels of silver to the yamen servant. They went to the household department to check and deliver it clearly. It was already time not early.Lin Ruhai originally wanted to make up the Wu family's tax payment certificate today, but Wu Yanshang said that there is no rush, Mr. Lin is a scholar, and he has worked very hard these two days, so he should go home first to rest for a night, and then go to the yamen to collect the certificate tomorrow.

Lin Ruhai was not polite either, straddling the horse back home.He had already missed Jia Min and his two elder brothers very much.

Back home, Lin Ruhai told Jia Min about the strange events of the past two days in detail, and Jia Min felt a little scared after hearing this.The master has always been a cautious person, why did he take such a big gamble on this matter.

Lin Ruhai smiled slightly and said that he had already inquired about Wu Yanshang's personality, and he was very forthright.With such a loyal person, the more bold you are, the easier it will be to deal with in the future, so it is not a big gamble.Jia Min had also heard about Wu Yanshang, and thought it was the best thing to do, so she nodded.

Wu Yanshang's move this time really helped Lin Ruhai a lot.Although Zhen Yingjia took [-]% of the salt tax for half a year and returned it to the treasury, he was not corrupt, but the Ministry of Households had a budget for all the money.At the end of last year, a sum of money was sent to the Ministry of Households suddenly, and in time for Emperor Jinghe's fiftieth birthday, the amount of money paid by the Ministry of Rites was slightly over the standard, and there were actually some small stipends.

Now the Ministry of Households is waiting for money for big items such as salt and iron.Other places can pay the same amount, but Lin Ruhai has [-]% less as soon as he takes office. Although it is not his fault, it is also not good.Unexpectedly, Wu salt merchants paid half a year's salt tax in advance, and the salt tax was only [-]% short.In the item of money and grain, it is still the case after Lin Ruhai took office, which is [-]% more than before he took office, so the Ministry of Household Affairs did not shorten the budget because of Zhen Yingjia's troubles.

In the second half of the year, other salt merchants paid [-]% of the salt tax for half a year. In addition, after Lin Ruhai got rid of the old problems after taking office, the income increased by [-]% compared with previous years.Only in the first year of his tenure, he had a lot of troubles, but in the second year of Lin Ruhai's tenure as Lianghuai salt transport envoy, everything went smoothly.Because the Lianghuai salt transport envoy mainly dealt with salt merchants, and the salt merchants flattered him so much that he was more relaxed than when he was the magistrate.After all, the magistrate is still in charge of the trivial matters of the people in the prefecture, while the salt administration is only in charge of the salt affairs of the two Huaihe Rivers.

In the next year, there was nothing to worry about in the yamen. Jia Min is now the second rank official, and she is the highest rank in Jiangnan. Whether she is going out for entertainment or entertaining guests at home, she doesn't have to salute anyone, she is always a gift from others. Know how comfortable.

Except for this time, Jia Min only sent gifts for three festivals and two birthdays to various places, and communicated with Jia Mu and others several times.

Jia Min is well aware of the past life, counting the time, the girls in the Grand View Garden in the previous life will fall into the grass one after another in these years, Jia Min can't help but pay attention.Sure enough, from Jia Mu's letter and the news from various inquiries, Zhen Yinglian, Miaoyu, Baochai, and Yingchun all fell into the grass one after another, and Jia Min looked forward to Daiyu and Brother Cheng more and more.

Mrs. Wu said in her letter that she declined her mother-in-law to bring Yingchun to support her, and her mother-in-law was a little angry.Jia's mother wrote again to complain that Mrs. Wu's filial piety in her room all day is just a lie to her.It seems that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have a rift.

Jia Min knew that her mother loved her grandchildren's habit of having fun around her, so she had to persuade Mrs. Wu that her sister-in-law should hug Yingchun more and talk to her mother, and no one can blame her sister-in-law for keeping Yingchun by her side.He also persuaded Jia's mother, "since the sister-in-law is willing to do it herself, and the mother is happy to be at ease, if she misses her granddaughter and says, won't the sister-in-law bring Yingchun?"

Jia Min thought that Yingchun was very cowardly in her previous life, and now that she is raised by an aunt who has ideas, it might be a blessing for Yingchun instead.At least under Madam Wu's nose, there won't be such a thing as Lei Jinfeng.So I had to go to the two sides to persuade me again.

Another year after the Flower Practice Festival, the second sister-in-law gave birth to a brother. This son was born with jade in his mouth.He also said that the grandson of the Duke's wife had such a reputation back then, and now the grandson of the first relative has such good fortune, I am afraid that he will surpass his cousin.

Jia's mother was so happy that she ordered her family to reward the monthly money. This son did not follow other brothers to name him from Xieyu, but just named Baoyu, and hugged him to support him.Because of the birth of Baoyu, Jia's mother put aside the matter of Mrs. Wu's refusal to bring Yingchun with her, thinking that she loved Baoyu the most.Mrs. Wang got such a big face, she didn't know how she persuaded Jia's mother, and Jia's mother decided to give Jia Zhu the place to go to the Fuzhong Zijian.

Jia Zhu is only the son of Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Industry from the fifth grade, and this number of Yinsheng should have belonged to Jia Lian.There is only one first prize winner in the mansion, and only one yin student quota.Jia Min read the letter, but she didn't expect that everything was the same as in the previous life and hadn't changed.

It turned out that when Jia's mother saw Mrs. Wu in the first place, she didn't fight or grab her. She had high and low eyebrows, and she changed her opinion of Mrs. Wu.In the past two years, Mrs. Wu refused to report the Spring Festival to Jia Mu, who despised her in her heart, and secondly, Mrs. Wang gave birth to Baoyu, so naturally she went far beyond Mrs. Wu.Jia's mother decided to let Jia Zhu go to school, but Jia She had no choice but to do so. Although Mrs. Wu was angry, she had no choice but to tighten the supervision of the East Court.

It was already June when Jia Min received these letters, and it was found out that she was pregnant. Counting the time, this son was Daiyu. Jia Min thought that Daiyu was a little weak in her previous life, so she cared for her carefully. If the fetus is too late, he also put aside the matter of the Rongguo Mansion, and has nothing to do with it.

The author has something to say: Well, let me tell you, Sister Lin will not marry the Wu family, Grandma Wu, Mrs. Wu or something, it’s too ugly→_→Hi!

In order to allow Sister Lin to be born within two days, the Jia family's troubles were skipped in advance. I feel that the last few hundred words of this chapter are just an outline.In this way, sister Lin can be born tomorrow.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, today double (two in one, there is no ←you in the afternoon) celebrates even more.