The Evil Emperor Pursues His Wife: Sheng Chong Shifei

Chapter 226

All the people in the imperial court suggested casting big money. Emperor Chu Huaitian issued a decree to inquire about politics. Shangguan Qing hid at home under the pretext of being "depressed" and became ill, and refused to answer the emperor's inquires about politics.Without Shangguan Qing's order, the craftsmen of Qianjian would not dare to start casting big money at all. They remembered Shangguan Qing's big cleansing before he took over Luantai Division, and those who disobeyed did not end well.The most frightening thing is that Shangguan Qing didn't do it himself, everything happened silently.

Xiyue came to see Shangguan Qing secretly, because Shangguan Qing was ill, and the monthly salaries of the wives in the capital had also been turned into raw materials, which would shrink by half if they were sold. She was entrusted by several relatives and friends to inquire about the situation.

Shangguan Qing only said that money should not be handed out badly, but refused to say anything else, and brought the topic to beauty.

Emperor Chu Huaitian finally came out after watching the excitement for more than a month. If he didn't come out to speak again, he asked Shangguan Qing to loosen his purse, and the families of middle and lower courtiers would starve to death.

The emperor issued a decree to confirm that the building of the craftsman was the imperial road, and those who destroyed the imperial road were regarded as delaying the military opportunity and were sentenced to beheaded and executed.The gangsters who were let go by Shangguan Qing before were caught and beheaded one by one, including the whole family. Their heads flowed into rivers, and the ground at Caishikou was dyed black and purple.

However, the daily expenses of the imperial court were not relieved. It was not until certain clansmen were demoted to common people due to mistakes that Shangguan Qing let go of the money bag to give blood transfusions to the household department and the clan's house.

This time, the Department of Craftsmanship purchased the materials in the inventory of the household department, and paid for the goods in the ratio of one-sixth silver, one-sixth gold, and four-sixth salt rolls.

The Ministry of Households kept the gold and silver in the treasury, and the monthly salaries of all officials in the capital were distributed in salt rolls.

The officials suddenly discovered that the Jingcheng Craftsmanship Division had undergone great changes in the past two months. The original wall was replaced by a long series of identical brick buildings. The houses in the house are all connected, and there are all kinds of items produced by the Craftsmanship Division, as well as daily groceries that are in short supply. There are two water signs on each commodity to mark the price of silver coins and the price of salt rolls. Rolls can buy all the essentials.

The middle and low-level officials inside and outside the capital were entrapped for two months, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief. The first thing they did when they got their monthly salary was to go to the department store run by the Craftsmanship Department to buy food and go back to improve their meals. But what made the officials depressed was , The prices of goods in department stores are generally higher than those on the market. They don't trust the credit of the imperial court, so they spend all the salt rolls they get for a day, and take the whole truckload of goods home.

Originally, there were still some vacant spaces in the department store, but they were occupied by commercial firms from all over the country in less than half a month. More commodities were put on sale in the department store, and the prices of the commodities dropped to the market prices. The officials who had run out of salt rolls stamped their feet and beat their chests. They only need to wait for half a month, so they don't have to buy high-priced goods.

Some disadvantaged officials impeached Shangguan Qing as a traitor, but without Shangguan Qing's self-defense, the prime minister threw the impeachment back.

Nian Ci put away the organized account books and handed over a copy of the general ledger to the Shangguan.Because of the double-entry bookkeeping method and various annotation charts, the profit and loss of the Jiangzao Division this month is clear at a glance.

The salt rolls are sent out as a monthly salary, and then recovered through transactions, the book income is as high as 70.00%, which is still a profit in just one month.

While checking the accounts, He Ye came in to inform Princess Xiyue that she had arrived, and Shangguan Qing stood up to greet her outside.

"Sister Xiyue, why are you here?" Shangguan Qing had a lot of contact with Xiyue, and the two had a very good relationship, and they were called sisters in private.

"Of course I miss you."

Xiyue walked in holding Shangguan Qing's hand, took a sip of the tea soup brought by the lotus leaf after she sat down, and said: "I'm going to be bored to death these days, those people surround me asking questions, He also said that the salt rolls given by the imperial court look beautiful, but they can’t be used for food and drink, so let them sell salt goods.”

The people Xiyue was talking about were the famous princesses and princesses of the state of Chu. Ordinary clan daughters didn’t get much monthly salary, and they could spend it by changing hands. Only they got a lot of monthly salary, and they were a little at a loss.

Shangguan Qing smiled and said: "I have asked the female officer to go door-to-door to explain, why don't you understand?"

When paying the monthly salary with salt rolls, Shangguan Qing sent people to go door-to-door to explain that Luantai Division used to distribute [-]% of the monthly salary in silver and [-]% in kind. If something is missing, I can use salt rolls to buy it in a department store, which saves a lot of trouble for both public and private conveniences.

Xiyue smiled and said: "They are used to taking things. What was missing before, the Luantai Secretary would make up for it alone. Now you distribute them all according to the regulations. They are much less and more beneficial."

"I added [-]% to the nobles in terms of the regulations. I am not satisfied with this, and there is nothing I can do. I will send them all according to the regulations next month." Shangguan Qing made a very sad look.

Xiyue said anxiously: "Don't do it, if I come to you, you will reduce their monthly salary, and they will kill me hard."

"I did it, why are they so cruel to you?"

"There is a reason for the women's grievances. They dare not hate you, they can only hate me."

While the two were talking and laughing, they had already pointed out Shangguan Qing's current status. People joked that Shangguan Qing was a female minister, also known as the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Take the department store of the Jiangzao Division as an example, only half of it is owned by the Jiangzao Division, and the rest are shops leased by commercial firms in various places, which greatly enriches the variety of goods. Thousands of points are exchanged for a stone of large salt rolls, and the difference of [-] points is the transportation damage to the merchant.

It is this one-twelfth profit that makes merchants flock to it.The merchants understand that they can make money on both ends of the trade, especially expensive luxury goods, each of which can make a lot of money.

Shangguan Qing used salt rolls as leverage to move a huge industrial chain, and the salt rolls that were the core of the transaction became real currency.

Xiyue simply adored Shangguan Qing's ability, it was amazing that she could turn colorful pieces of paper into real money.

Xiyue pushed the salt rolls on the table in front of Shangguan Qing, and Shangguan Qing saw clearly that it was a large salt roll of one hundred shi, and there were [-] shi in total.

Because each rock salt shipment is 120 catties, the craftsman discovered the salt rolls according to the quota of one point for every two salt shipments. When people calculate large salt rolls, they also consciously use [-] as an integer.

Xiyue said: "I was entrusted by someone, and I would like to ask Dazhi to give me a few days' grace."

Shangguan Qing asked: "Is it His Highness?"

Xiyue nodded, and Shangguan Qing said with a smile: "The Fourth Highness is true, he went to talk to His Majesty, as long as he opens a note, my account will be settled."

"He was thinking about that seat, but he didn't dare to ruin the image of a good son in the heart of the emperor for 20 gold."

Xiyue is also a transparent person, she has seen through the twists and turns in Chu Qiankang's heart long ago, she said: "The clan that was demoted a few days ago was found out by the fourth child."

"This is a great favor."

(End of this chapter)