A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 11
The end of the universe is programming.

As soon as the fingerprint was pressed and the document was signed, Wu Huaiyu officially became the history of the money-catching order in Sanyuan County.

Although it is not a money-grabbing order history like the various divisions of the capital, it has also become a miscellaneous official in Sanyuan County, commonly known as an official.Compared with the clerks responsible for documents such as recorders, sihuzuo, judizuo, and Shi in the county yamen, Huaiyu's informal official history only needs to concentrate on making money, and he does not need him for the affairs of the yamen participate.

"Congratulations Takejiro."

All the miscellaneous and miscellaneous subordinates in the county government came to say hello. Sanyuan County used to be an upper county, but after it was separated from Huachi, it was only reduced to a lower county. Four of them have internal grades, and the rest have none of them, even if they are recorders.

Aristocrats or decent scholars in the Sui and Tang Dynasties looked down on Ling Shi, thinking that he was a turbid stream, with a humble status, a small salary, and no bright future. .

But in the local area, especially in the eyes of ordinary people, these miscellaneous tasks have actually made them very envious.

Although there are no foreign products, they still wear crimson official uniforms and crimson clothes.

"Sanlang, this is for you."

Zhao Shuli brought Wu Huaiyu a set of red clothes, the official name is Jiang Gongfu, which is the official official uniform of the third rank and above, and the crimson dress for the rank below the third rank.

Both sets of clothes are crimson red, darker than vermilion, dark red.The blush of the fourth and fifth rank officials of the imperial court is on the contrary, lighter and more vivid than vermilion.

Huaiyu didn't understand these things, but Huaiyi pointed out that the brothers were not those Lingshi of the Jingsi, but that they didn't have any miscellaneous duties in official affairs.

"Wu Baiqi, please don't worry, they are all dressed like this. Our Sanyuan is a county, but the records, assistants, and historians all wear crimson official uniforms, and the calligraphers wear crimson uniforms. Those who work in miscellaneous jobs wear yellow clothes. The county officials such as Bai Ding and Zhongnan are dressed in soap colors..."

Zhao Shuli is wearing a crimson robe, which is simpler than the crimson official uniform. It is a dark red robe with slim fit and straight sleeves. The robe of the crimson official uniform is much larger and comes with several other clothes and leather straps etc.

When he looked at Huaiyu's official uniform, he was a little envious. He was actually not an official knife and pen official, but an official civil official in Sanyuan County. There is a history, plus account history, there is a city, there is a city, there is a history, there are two handsome, there is no market, there is a shortage.

There are only a few official establishments, but in fact there are thousands of households in a lower county. These people are in charge of clerical work, so there are actually non-staff officials. If not, they will be given two rations. If there is enough money in the public farm, they can also share some benefits, and the rest will be earned by themselves, such as paper money and so on.

What they wear in the yamen is narrow-sleeved crimson gowns. The straight and narrow sleeves can be distinguished from official officials such as Zuoshi at a glance.

The history of Huaiyu and other nine money-catching orders is not officially compiled, but they generate income for the yamen. Even the county magistrate and other chief officials point out that the public money can pay interest on time to increase their income. Naturally, they are a little detached, not to mention that these people are different from ordinary non-staff officials, most of them are the children of officials of the sixth rank and below the third rank.

Huaiyu understood that he was enjoying the treatment at the department level.

Officials in red clothes, officials in yellow shirts, and soap servants, these are the three major classes of the county government. Officials in red clothes are those who wear red clothes. They are basically also called knife and pen officials. They are in charge of documents. There are also those who wear crimson clothes outside the weaving, which are easy to distinguish and are collectively referred to as miscellaneous tasks.

Those wearing yellow clothes are called miscellaneous staff. They are similar to the three classes of government servants in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The state government also has a knife and is a guard.

However, there are only six officials in the official prison of the county government, four people who ask questions, and eight people who are straight, so in fact these people in yellow shirts are the team leaders, and each of them also has a group of Baiding and middle-aged men recruited from the county. The servants, those people wear soap clothes, the lowest level.

Clerical officials with knife and pen are obviously higher than those who run errands.

Zhao Shuli helped Huaiyu change into Jiang Gong's uniform, which looked like a groom's official.

"For example, when common people get married, they are allowed to borrow from superiors."

The so-called borrowed clothes are also similar to low-level officials wearing high-ranking officials' clothes, such as Ci Fei who is not satisfied with the fifth rank, and Ci Zi who is not satisfied with the third rank.Similarly, common people have no rank, and they are normally not allowed to wear high-grade official clothes, but marriage is a big day, so the common people are allowed to wear the crimson official uniforms of foreign officials, which is exactly Huaiyu's current body.

"Erlang is the son of a high-ranking official. In the future, he can borrow clothes for the big wedding, but he can wear a blue royal bow dress and a black hat with a hanging tassel on his head."

The common people are called false clothes, and the children of honorable officials can be used to take them.

Putting on the Jiang Gong uniform, paired with a black Jiepei, and tied around the waist with the seven-ringed belt of copper and seven rings given by the King of Qin, and then tied with the golden knife given by the King of Qin, a group of red-clothed officials in this yamen Among them, officials in yellow shirts, and soap servants, they immediately stand out from the crowd and become different.

The two Si Huzuo went to the warehouse to fetch fifty guan gongs in person, and they went to the county for Liucao affairs. There were only Huzuo and Fazuo each. In the yamen, the power is actually very powerful, but even the county magistrate Zhang with a strong background is so polite to Wu Erlang, how could they not understand.

"Our County Captain Zhao recently went to Chang'an on business..."

In Jing County and Chang’an Wannian County, there are six county lieutenants each, and one county lieutenant is in charge of one cao. In Shang County, although there are only two county lieutenants, there are four each in Sihu Zuo and Fa Zuo. One of the six Cao Cao joined the army.

There is a county lieutenant who is specifically in charge of judicial catching and thieves, called the thief catching lieutenant.

But in Xia County, there is only one county lieutenant, who is in charge of Liu Cao's daily affairs, which is equivalent to an executive deputy county magistrate.The county lieutenant was away, and Si Huzuo was directly responsible for handing over the money to Huaiyu.

Copper coins with holes in the outer circle and square inside filled a large box in bunches. It was the first time Huaiyu saw so many copper coins.

"These are all new coins, and each one is Kaiyuan Tongbao coins minted by Chang'an Qianjian. There is not a single five baht old coin or private money."

Huaiyu stepped forward, these coins are very attractive, but they are not the bright yellow brass coins as imagined, nor are they turquoise. Picking up a bunch, they are very heavy. Each copper coin is made of fine copper, very shiny, not yellow Not blue and slightly white.

"Kaiyuan Tongbao is made of copper, tin and lead. It looks bluish-white. This is a good coin of excellent quality." Wang Huzuo, a goatee, picked up a coin and held it up, his eyes full of appreciation. Tongbao coins are eight cents in diameter, weighing two stalks and four, ten wen weighs one tael, and one thousand wen is consistent, weighing six catties and four taels."

"I have been an official in the yamen for more than [-] years. I have handled countless coins, but none of them are as exquisite as this one. Look at the four characters Kaiyuan Tongbao read directly on it. How well written it is. Xun wrote it, it is the master of calligraphy in the world."

Wang Huzuo gave Huaiyu [-] gongs, all of which were good money.

Check and draw.

This money already belonged to Huaiyu, who was responsible for the operation, and he had to pay the interest of [-] yuan in time every month.

Huaiyu wasn't under any pressure, he thought it shouldn't be a big problem.

"Erlang, this Kaiyuan Tongbao is very exquisite, but the amount of coins minted by the imperial court is not much. Each coin furnace can mint more than [-] coins a year, but since the Kaiyuan Tongbao was minted, there have been no more than [-] furnaces a year at most."

The annual coinage is less than [-] guan, which is obviously far from enough for Datang.

"Erlang is receiving this good money now. You can use this money to exchange some other old money in the market, and you can get more money, and then use it to lend money. When you get back the principal and interest, you can also collect Kaiyuan. This entry and exit can make a lot of profit.”

Zhao Shuli came up with another idea, which was completely treacherous.

It is market instinct that bad money drives out good money. Wude Kaiyuan Tongbao has high copper content, but the circulation is small. There are still many other old money in the market, and the quality is far inferior to Kaiyuan. People will naturally collect good money, and even Take the initiative to exchange good money for storage, this is the arbitrage space.

Lending old money, but collecting good money when the principal and interest are recovered, this is bullying others, or even raising interest rates in disguise.

This old Zhao has a bad stomach and a bad seed with pus on the soles of his feet, but he can't blame others for his profit.

300 yuan, more than 64 catties, Huaiyu divided into five bags, each bag was [-] yuan, [-] catties.

The money strings in the bag made a nice sound of jingling, and the peasants who carried the money were all excited, as if they owned the money.

"Who is Erlang going to give the money to? I know some businessmen, and I can introduce them to Erlang." Zhao Shuli said with a smile.

Huaiyu just smiled, "Thank you Brother Zhao, let's talk later."

Goatee Wang Huzuo over there also came over, "If Erlang has a way to lend money conveniently, if the capital is not enough, we still have some."

Huaiyu was stunned for a moment and could hear the meaning of the old man's words. He wanted to hitch a ride, whether it was his own money or public funds, he wanted to borrow money from Huaiyu, and the interest would definitely be shared with Huaiyu.

This Zhao scribe is the same as Wang Huzuo. One said that he wanted to introduce merchants to borrow money, and he definitely wanted to benefit from it.

These officials in red clothes, knives and pens look humble, but in fact they are all treacherous and ruthless.

After saying hello and farewell to this group of new colleagues from the county government, such as Zhuyi officials, yellow shirt officials, and soap servants, Huaiyu couldn't wait to leave with the money. He really didn't like this group of people in his heart.

On the way, Zhao Cheng's family ran quickly behind the horse, as if they also had a share of the copper coins on the horse's back.

Huaiyi was concerned and asked Huaiyu what plan he had, the interest of four thousand yuan per month is quite a lot.

"Brother, I plan to use this money to run my own business."

"Business?"

"Use this as capital to buy medicinal materials, and then prepare wound medicine for sale. My brother has also experienced the effect of my wound medicine. Cheng Dalang spent a lot of money on medicine, so he probably won't worry about selling it after making it." Huaiyu was very confident.

In what era, this medicine is also a profiteering trade, after all, it is not the price to ask for medicine.

(End of this chapter)