Great Qing Xiangguo

Chapter 69

Chen Tingjing was promoted to the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was still in charge of money and legal affairs. His younger brother Chen Tingtong also released the prefect of Xuzhou.This is a great joy.Chen Tingjing finished his work at Baoquan Bureau and returned home at noon.Mingzhu, Samuha, Kerkun, Gao Shiqi, Xu Qianxue, Xu Da and other colleagues, and dozens of colleagues, students, and fellow villagers came to congratulate.The house was bustling for half a day before the darkness slowly dissipated.

The guests were all sent away, and Ma Ming came back and said, "Master, I have been to Uncle Wu's house, and if I really ask, he dare not say a word about Xiang Zhong." Chen Tingjing felt that Xiang Zhong was suspicious, and told Ma Ming to go again Look for Uncle Wu.Liu Jing came over and said that he had been waiting outside the warehouse of the Baoquan Bureau all day, but he hadn't seen any old bronze wares, so he had to wait for a few more days.

Just as he was talking, Dashun came in and said that the second master was here.Chen Tingjing called his younger brother to the study, and his family brought tea.Naturally, many guests came to Chen Tingtong's house, they all came to congratulate, and they left just now.The two brothers said some words about the greatness of the emperor's grace and the glory of the ancestors, and started a family routine.Chen Tingjing suddenly saw his younger brother sighing, so he asked him what was the matter.Chen Tingtong had no choice but to say, "I'm a little tight."

Chen Tingjing said: "You are a big family, the official salary is indeed not enough, but the family also gives you a lot of money every year!"

Chen Tingtong said: "I don't agree with you, your father-in-law's family has business in the capital."

Chen Tingjing then said: "Tingtong, I will ask Dashun to take 200 taels of silver and send it to your home tomorrow."

Chen Tingtong said: "Where is 200 taels enough? You know the official rules. I let go of my foreign post and have to pay special respects to Liang Jiang's officials in Beijing and other important people. How can I deal with it without thousands of taels of silver?" Got it!"

When Chen Tingjing heard this, he just shook his head.Chen Tingjing naturally knew about such bad rules, and he had also received all kinds of filial piety from others.Being an official in the capital is really hard, without those incomes such as charcoal respect, ice respect, bie respect, Yin Jieyin, etc., it is impossible to survive.Chen Tingjing's family is fairly well-off, and he doesn't expect money from others, but if you insist on not accepting money from others, it will be difficult to survive in the officialdom.If you don't reach out and ask others for money, you are already talking about your conscience.

Chen Tingjing was silent for a long time, and said: "You are free from vulgarity, how about not seeing off your respect? You can't borrow money for this again?" Chen Tingtong just kept silent after hearing this.However, Chen Tingjing remembered that Gao Shiqi lied to his younger brother to give money, which almost caused a catastrophe.

After a few days, Liu Jing found out that it was Quanyi Liji Bank who sent the old bronze wares to Baoquan Bureau.Chen Tingjing asked not to startle the snake for the time being, but ordered Baoquan Bureau not to buy old bronze wares.Xiang Zhong called Su Ruzhai home that night and told him not to send old bronze wares to the Baoquan Bureau, otherwise something serious would happen.

Su Ruzhai became anxious, and said, "Master Xiang, what should I do with my copper?"

Xiang Zhong said lightly: "Make money!"

Su Ruzhai was so frightened that he didn't dare to vent his anger when he looked at Xiang Zhong.

Xiang Zhong smiled and said, "You boss Su dares to destroy money, so don't you dare to make money?"

Su Ruzhai said with a mournful face: "Although I say that, making money is a serious crime after all, I'm afraid even thinking about it."

Xiang Zhongdao: "I expect that after Chen Tingjing changed his mind to minting money, the new money would be popular in the market. You are a banker, so you are afraid of having too much copper money? If you don't dare, you can keep those copper pots and pots and play with them slowly. Come on."

Su Ruzhai thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, the younger ones will make money! The younger ones are supported by you, Master Xiang, so I have nothing to dare."

Xiang Zhongdao: "Just do it if you dare. I'll send you the new money models from the Baoquan Bureau, and I'll ask some trustworthy masters to help you. As long as you don't treat them badly in terms of wages, it's fine to keep them."

Xiang Zhong stopped talking, smoked a hookah for half a day, and said, "You still have to do something for me."

Seeing that Xiang Zhong was very mysterious, Su Ruzhai didn't dare to ask more questions, but waited for his orders.Xiang Zhong said: "Go and find Chen Tingtong, Chen Tingjing's younger brother!"

It turned out that a few days ago, Chen Tingtong went to say goodbye to Samuha's mansion as usual, and the size he brought with him was very shameful.Samuha was very annoyed and told Kerqun.Ker Kun is very cunning, he guessed that Chen Tingtong must be short of money, otherwise how could he break the official rules?He secretly asked Xiang Zhong to make do with it, and asked Su Ruzhai to lend money to Chen Tingtong.Xiang Zhong spoke in detail, and seeing that Su Ruzhai was silent for a long time, he said, "Are you afraid that Chen Tingtong will not pay you back if he has no money? Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflake silver!"

Su Ruzhai said: "It's not that I'm worried about this, but I don't understand what you mean, Mr. Xiang. Chen Tingjing makes things difficult for us all the time, why should he lend money to his brother?"

Xiang Zhong said: "You just treat this as a business, don't worry about anything else."

On the second day, Su Ruzhai came to visit Chen Tingtong, kowtowed respectfully and said, "Little Su Ruzhai pays tribute to the magistrate!"

Chen Tingtong heard someone call the magistrate for the first time, and his heart was full of joy, but his face pretended to be indifferent, and said: "Sit down and watch tea!"

After all the courtesy, Chen Tingtong asked: "You and I have never met before, so I don't know what's the matter with you?"

Su Ruzhai said with a smile: "The young one runs a bank called Quanyi Liji. The young one is a businessman, and I know some friends in the official circles. Recently I heard that Mr. Chen has been released from work. I'm here to congratulate you."

Chen Tingtong said: "Oh, is that so? Thanks."

Su Ruzhai was very flattering, and said: "I heard my friends talk about the magistrate, and I admire him very much. The magistrate will definitely be a big official in the frontier in the future."

Chen Tingtong listened very well in his heart, but his mouth was very humble. He said: "Where is it? This time, Chen is entrusted by the emperor's grace, and he is sent out to be a magistrate. He only wants to do things in Xuzhou well!"

Su Ruzhai talked a lot of flattering words before turning around to get to the point, and said: "If you need something small, the magistrate, feel free to ask. If you can't help with anything small, if you want to mobilize some money, you can still do it. "

Chen Tingtong said: "Boss Su is so benevolent, Mr. Chen is very grateful. It's just that you and I don't know each other, so how dare I touch your money?"

Su Ruzhai said with a smile: "I'm not afraid that Mr. Chen will look down on you. The small one just wants to impress you! It's not easy for us to do business. It's inevitable that there will be big and small things. Many friends have many ways. Besides, the money in the bank is to be borrowed anyway. out."

Chen Tingtong naturally knew that according to the last emperor's legacy, officials would be punished for borrowing thousands of taels of silver from wealthy families.But when poor Beijing officials are released, who hasn't borrowed money from others?There was a bank that specialized in this kind of business. When they heard that a Beijing official had let go of his foreign post, they came to lend money.Chen Tingtong had listened to his brother's words and didn't want to borrow money as a farewell.But he paid homage to several adults in the past two days, and his face was really ugly.Seeing someone coming to lend money today, I thought it might be God's will, and said: "Boss Su is a straightforward person, so I will borrow 1 taels of silver from you."

Su Ruzhai kept bowing and bowing, and said, "Thank you Mr. Chen for looking down on the little ones, and I will send the money to your house later."

(End of this chapter)