Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

At the same time, an old acquaintance, Sun Chen, came to Cangzhou.

Seeing this close classmate, Su Mu's eyes widened in surprise: "Zixiang, why are you here?"

Sun Chen hadn't seen Su Mu for more than half a year, and he was very happy to see him. He laughed and said, "Mr. Lin said that Ziqiao lacks manpower, so he came here. Why, you don't want to use me?"

Su Mu rubbed his hands: "Why don't you come? I'm too happy to be happy! However, you are a scholar, if you stay with me, I'm afraid your studies and future will be delayed."

Sun Chen: "What is the academic future? I have already figured it out when I return to Baoding this time. There are not many people in the world who are astonishingly talented like Ziqiao. There are thousands of scholars in the world, and they are all ordinary people after all. It is one out of a hundred for a child student to be selected as a scholar, and one out of ten for a scholar to be promoted in the examination. As far as I am concerned in Baoding Prefecture, there are tens of thousands of students, but only ten people can be selected for the promotion every three years. It's a pity that my Sun Chen is not one tenth of that, let alone a Jinshi. It doesn't matter if you fail to win the Juren, but this life has to go on. After all, Sun Chen has a wife and children who need to support his parents. In order to support me Studying, the family is already extremely poor. Now, it is time for Sun Chen to repay them."

Speaking of this, Sun Chen was emotionally moved, and the circles of his eyes turned red: "This time, Sun Chen planned to work in a business in the clan. This time, Boss Lin went back to Baoding to hire someone. When he heard that it was Zi Qiao, you had a hair growth, so he naturally fell in love with him." Here you come. Zi Qiao, don't think I'm an idler. Among the six arts of a gentleman, I'm not bad at arithmetic, why don't you try it now?"

After finishing speaking, he picked up an abacus and started fighting quickly.

Su Mu grabbed his hand and said with a smile: "Don't try, don't try, I still have two semicolons here, and you are in charge of one. In the future, semicolons will be opened in Beijing and Nanjing, and it will be unavoidable I want you to host it."

Sun Chen said with a smile: "My salary is not low. In fact, most of the children trained by our Sun family will be sent out to take charge of the family's property if they fail to take the imperial examination when they grow up. Up front."

Su Mu: "Naturally, in fact, my salary in this bank is the second best. The bonus at the end of the year is the big one. By the way, one more thing, I use the name Mei Fugui in Cangzhou, remember to keep it secret. :"

Just as he was about to explain, Sun Chen nodded, "It's best to use a pseudonym. Ziqiao, you're going to be a Jinshi in the future. If you do business, I'm afraid your reputation will be ruined."

After finishing speaking, Su Mu called Taikang and Zong Zhen over, and introduced Sun Chen to them. From this moment, Sun Chen officially became the core decision-making executive of Cangzhou Development Bank.

When Sun Chen saw Taikang's beauty, he couldn't help but feel shocked. After he came down, he quietly asked Su Mu: "This is Zi Qiao's confidante. How can the Hu family say Miss Hu is not a good match. Her father There are people who are so popular now, you should be more careful in everything."

Su Mu smiled bitterly, there is really no way to explain this matter.

At this time, someone suddenly posted.

I took it over and saw that it was Guan Jizong, the governor of Cangzhou, who said on the post that he asked Su Mu to come over and talk about something.

Su Mu and Guan Zhizhou haven't seen each other for a while. Speaking of which, they had a good relationship when they were in the inspection department.Master Guan also defended Su Mu a lot, and this time he posted a post to invite him, and his tone was very polite.

In fact, the current Su Mu looks like an ordinary person on the surface, he could have directly sent the government officials over to send him to the state government for questioning.

Since he had done enough courtesy, Su Mu felt embarrassed not to go, so he immediately changed into a new dress, took a sedan chair and went to the state office.

"I have seen the old man."

"Hehe, you are here to inspect Mei, how are you doing recently?"

"My lord, Mei Fugui is now a servant in the Yan Division, and he is no longer a member of the state government. Don't bring it up again once the inspector says it."

"Mei Inspector, hehe, I used to be used to it, and I can't change it. Free courtesy, free courtesy, it's all from my family, so there's no need for it." Guan Zhizhou laughed.

Su Mu straightened up and sat on the chair.

The two talked for a long time, and Guan Zhizhou asked in detail for a long time how Su Mu was doing in the Yan Division, and said, Mei patrol inspected you to be under the cover of the Yan Division, which is a good way out, and so on.

After listening to him for a long time, Su Mu felt a little impatient, but he was too embarrassed to interrupt Mr. Guan.

After nagging for a long time, Master Guan pointed to a stack of files at hand, and said, "Inspector Mei, the official called you here today because there is actually a business. I heard that you recently set up some kind of development bank with Mr. Wu Shiqi." …Well, it’s a good thing, after all, it’s also for the imperial court’s urgent need. However, there’s so much movement around things like salt tickets, someone will sue you.”

Su Mu was startled, took the file and looked at it for a long time before he let out a cry of bad luck.

It turned out that this was a civil dispute.

The thing is like this, there is a rich family in Cangzhou City.He had a nephew whose parents both died, so he had no choice but to go to his aunt's house for refuge.Because the profit of salt tickets is really attractive.The boy was moved and wanted to make a fortune.But he had no money at hand, so he begged his aunt.For some reason, I borrowed the house deed from the old lady, went to the Development Bank to borrow 100 taels, and bought a salt ticket to exchange salt for profit.

After the incident, the family had a great time.In the end, the nephew also injured his uncle, causing a human tragedy.In the end, the uncle sued his nephew to the state government in a rage, and incidentally added the name of the Development Bank to it.

It was not a big deal, but for some reason, a few squires found out about it, so they went to the Yamen, saying that the salt ticket made by the Development Bank had ruined the morals of the world, and asked the Lord Zhizhou to issue an order to seal it up.

Su Mu shook his head, put down the file, and asked, "Master Guan, how do you plan to solve this case?"

Guan Zhizhou stroked his snow-white beard and pondered for a moment, then said: "The salt ticket and the bank are the affairs of the Yan Division, and I have no control over that. As for this case, it is a matter of asking the defendant to return the deed to his aunt." gone."

Su Mu's heart relaxed, and he bowed his body: "Thank you, sir."

Guan Zhizhou: "Just one thing, if that person comes to mortgage and borrow money to buy tickets in the future, you will not give him any more money after inspecting Mei..."

Su Mu nodded: "That's right. After I go down, I will tell the people in the bank that I will not accept this person's loan application in the future." He took up a pen and wrote down the person's name. The blacklist system is still necessary Yes, Su Mu doesn't want to be caught by the moral gentlemen and make a big fuss because of this kind of thing.

He was still wondering, Guan Zhizhou invited him here today, why is it so difficult because of this mustard case?

Guan Zhizhou said slowly: "Inspector Mei, I don't understand the matter of the salt ticket. However, some gentry want to buy some, not for the profit of exchanging salt, but for the convenience of carrying it. They entrusted the official Let me ask, can you buy some, and will there be any dividends at the end of the year?"

Su Mu cheered up: "Naturally, [-]% profit can be exchanged for cash at any time."

"That's good, I'll let them find you by themselves."

After returning from the yamen, on the second day, a group of country gentry saved money for tickets, and the total amount reached an astonishing 10 taels.

The big one finally came in.