The Golden County Magistrate

Bai Lu looked at the carriages slowly approaching in amazement. After a while, he suddenly came to his senses and blurted out, "Master Chen, are these the silver notes I gave you last time?"

Chen Yan said with a smile, "Of course! I've waited for so long, and finally got them back!"

Bai Lu cried out, "Are you crazy? You didn't even send a guard for so much silver?!"

That's more than 500,000 taels of silver!

Even if the official silver of the court is only a few thousand taels, it must be accompanied by escort soldiers.

If it is a hundred thousand taels of official silver, at least a 200-man escort team must be sent.

Just like the relief silver sent to Jizhou this time, it was sent twice, and each time it was escorted by 2,000 Zhili soldiers.

After all, the war in the Great Zhou Dynasty has just ended, and the situation in the world is not stable. There are many bandits, and they may be robbed on the road at any time.

But these carriages in front of them only have drivers, and there is not even a rider on the left or right!

If someone really wants to rob, why not throw it away clean?

"Miss Bai, you are so forgetful. I have already said that no one in Qingshan County would do such a thing." Chen Yan said easily.

"Why?" Bai Lu was puzzled.

"Let me put it this way, there are two types of people who want to rob silver."

"One is a natural bandit who is greedy by nature."

"This type of people has been almost wiped out in Qingshan County. It can be said that there are basically no such people."

"The other is forced to take risks for livelihood."

"But the people in Qingshan County live comfortably and eat well. Even women and children don't have to worry about their livelihood."

"Tell me, why do they have any reason to take risks?"

"Of course there is another reason. Everyone knows that only my silver will be transported in this way."

"In Qingshan County, who dares to touch my things?"

Chen Yan said leisurely.

Bai Lu frowned deeply, wanting to say something but stopped.

This is too arrogant!

But thinking about the strength of the Nafu Camp, this arrogance does not seem so difficult to understand.

At this time, the carriages had arrived in front of the county government office, and the twelve carriages stopped one by one, which was a spectacular sight.

The driver of the first carriage jumped off the car and saluted Chen Yan: "Sir! The silver you asked to exchange is all here!"

Chen Yan said impatiently: "Quick! Open it and let me see it!"

The driver was also a little stunned: "Sir, it's here?"

Chen Yan glared at him: "Nonsense! Hurry up!"

The driver did not dare to disobey. At an order, all the drivers started to move all the boxes of silver in the car and placed them neatly outside the gate of the county government office.

Bai Lu was stunned. What did this guy mean? Show off his wealth? Putting the silver here, isn't it tempting people to steal it?

The people around him had already surrounded them at this time, three layers inside and three layers outside, and surrounded them tightly.

"Open them all!"

Chen Yan shouted excitedly.

All the drivers worked together to open the lids of all the fifty or so large boxes.

Instantly, silver light flashed in front of the county government office, shocking everyone into silence!

"Haha! It's all white silver!"

Chen Yan laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. He touched this box and that box, as if he was looking at his precious treasure.

Bai Lu was also dazzled by the sight, and her heartbeat seemed to speed up several times.

She was Tang Yun's bodyguard, so she had naturally seen countless big scenes.

But this scene? I've never seen it before!

The official silver escorted by the court was all packed in boxes, sealed tightly with seals, and not shown to idle people at all.

What they were afraid of was that someone would stare at them and cause trouble.

This Lord Chen was so good, as if he was afraid that others didn't know that he had money!

"This is... too much..."

Bai Lu murmured, almost unable to resist the urge to touch it.

Even if this silver is divided equally among the people present, I am afraid they will not be able to spend it all in three lifetimes!

If she is given it, how much fairy fat and jade dew can she buy at Tian's Beauty...

No!

If she has so much silver, she will buy all the Tian's Beauty directly!

After a long while, Chen Yan was satisfied and asked the driver to cover the box and move it back to the carriage.

"Send it to Li County Magistrate for me, he will take care of it."

"Yes!"

With Chen Yan's order, the carriage slowly left and went along the long street.

The onlookers did not leave with him, and they still stood in front of the county government and talked about it.

"Isn't it enough? Let me go!" Chen Yan shouted.

"Sir, why are you exchanging so much cash?" Someone who was curious couldn't help shouting.

"Isn't this nonsense? The Qingshan Silver Shop in this county is about to open, how can we do without cash?" Chen Yan replied without thinking.

"Ah? Our county is finally going to open a silver shop?!" someone asked in surprise.

"Yes, not only will it open, but we don't need to deposit money in a bank!" Chen Yan said without hesitation.Answered in a troublesome way.

"No need for counter silver? Sir, are you deceiving us?" Another person exclaimed, "How can a silver shop not accept counter silver?"

Bai Lu was also very surprised.

The so-called counter silver is the fee paid by the customer in proportion after depositing silver money into the silver shop.

Most silver shops will collect 40 coins of counter silver for depositing one or two taels of silver.

After all, they have to make money, right?

There are two main uses for silver shops. The most important one is to keep money.

There is too much silver at home, which is inconvenient to store. People are afraid of thieves, so they deposit silver into silver shops in exchange for silver notes, which are convenient for storage and hiding.

Naturally, it is natural for silver shops to help keep it and charge a safekeeping fee.

Another use is to deposit and withdraw money in other places.

It is inconvenient for merchants to carry a large amount of silver to do business in other places. If they encounter robbers, they will be in trouble.

It would be much easier to change it into silver notes.

However, no matter what the purpose is, only rich people need to use it, so ordinary people rarely patronize silver shops.

Now this Lord Chen actually said that depositing silver does not require paying the counter silver. What is his intention?

At this moment, Chen Yan said a few more words leisurely, which made everyone, including her, drop their jaws.

"Not only does it not charge the counter silver, but the deposit can also return interest regularly!"

"What is interest? Simply put, you deposit one tael of silver in our official silver shop, and after a month, you can withdraw it and get one tael and forty coins!"

"If the amount of silver deposited is huge, the interest can be increased!"

The people outside the yamen were completely quiet.

Hundreds of eyes looked at Chen Yan in disbelief.

One of them was Bai Lu's.

Is this crazy?

Opening a silver shop not only does not charge custody fees, but also pays money? !

I have never heard of it!

Could it be that this guy really thinks he has too much money and wants to give it away?

After a while, someone hesitantly asked, "Sir, are you telling the truth?"

"If you don't even trust me, then no one in this world can be trusted!"

"I am a famous honest and reliable young man. How can I cheat you of your small money?"

"Besides, you know where my money is."

"If you really lose money, why don't you just go and get it back yourself?"

Chen Yan puffed out his chest and said proudly.