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Chapter 19 Bribery
"Go to the Huo family food store." Cheng Jinzhou walked out of the room, straightening his sleeves, and said to Shi Yan.

"But you want to buy food?" Shi Yan turned around and closed the door.

"Well, 200 shi of grain." Cheng Jinzhou continued to flick his sleeves.

Shi Yan sighed softly, looked at Shi Mo next to him, and said with a smile: "Third brother, I'm afraid I won't be able to buy 200 shi of grain today. It's already afternoon, and the Huo family can't store too much in one place." Food, plus the time to report to the Yamen..."

Even if the yamen is run by the Cheng family, it will take time to go through the process.

"It's been so long." Cheng Jinzhou said to himself.He felt like he was in a casino, eager to show his hole cards, even if he would pay a high stake for it.

Shi Yan looked at Cheng Jinzhou's face, and said in a low voice: "Third brother, it's actually more cost-effective to get so much food from our own granary."

"The granary in Gongzhong?" Cheng Jinzhou didn't want to involve his family before, so he just bought grain from a grain store outside.

As Cheng Jinzhou's school boy, in this different world, Shi Yan completely thought of Cheng Jinzhou: "No matter how expensive the food at home is, it is always my own, and my wife also agreed to give you a monthly grain. Could be more.”

The last sentence is the punchline.The Cheng family is a truly big family. In terms of number, it may be larger than the large companies of later generations, and the growth of corruption is completely proportional to the number of people.

Cheng Jinzhou understood immediately, he laughed, slapped Shi Yan vigorously, and said with a smile: "Okay, I will leave this matter to you."

When it came to bribery, he naturally had to keep himself clean, and he didn't feel awkward about stealing money from his own family at all.

Shi Yan was only 16 years old, and he was quite hesitant when he suddenly got the important task of 40 taels of silver.When he gave his opinion, he didn't think so thoroughly.

Cheng Jinzhou counted out 5 golden melon seeds, and said with a shrewdness beyond his age: "The account is clear, and there will be a reward when you come back."

5 golden melon seeds are 2 taels of gold, which is about 40 taels of silver. Since there is a bribe, the final price will naturally be lower. Before Cheng Jinzhou offered bribes, his subordinates messed up.

Shi Yan carefully put the golden melon seeds into his bosom, bent over, and backed out through the small door, feeling heavy in his heart.

Cheng Jinzhou was immersed in the strong purchasing power of gold. The national currency of the Great Xia Dynasty was still copper coins, and silver was also an important means of circulation, but gold was more like an excellent reserve currency.A handful of yellow-orange golden melon seeds are extremely eye-catching, no matter the meaning they represent or the shape and color themselves.

After leaving the east gate of Shaonan City, the Cheng family's granary is located in Hongri Village.

This place is also called Liangzhuang by the locals. In addition to Cheng’s granary, Shaonan Prefecture’s Yicang—that is, the government’s allocation and storage of grain is also located here. Not far away, there is a battalion of soldiers guarding the state capital. One-third of the army's stock.

The southeast is where the food lifeblood of the Great Xia Dynasty is located. A single state capital in Shaonan has 200 million mu of grain fields, which is more than the number of many prefecture-level cities in the 21st century. Compared to the proportion of reclamation, this is a very large number .

Although the yield per mu in this era was very low, and the overall amount of grain reserves in the granary was not as good as that of later generations, the amount of grain stored around Hongri Village was still outrageous. The Great Xia Dynasty regarded this place as a strategic grain reserve base. processed.

Due to the special status, the steward of Hongri Village is not a servant, but Cheng Mai, the second generation son of Cheng Jiaqing's branch.After all, he is still Cheng Jinzhou's cousin, but his blood relationship is much weaker.

Shi Yan rode a donkey all the way, and when he reached the gate of the village, he was still hesitating what to do, but he saw a gatekeeper beckoning to him kindly.

Shi Yan just heard about bribery from the old people.Suddenly he spit it out, and now he firmly adheres to the key point of watching more and talking less, leading the donkey over with a smile on his face, and bowing to him with a smile: "You've been invited, what's the matter?"

"Which family is here to ask for food?" Menzi smiled, his attitude was not at all like that of servants serving in the city, and he could not smell the slightest arrogance.

"Qingzi supports the third room, I am the third young master's book boy, and my name is Shi Yan."

"School boy, what is it called? It has a bright future." Menzi smiled brightly, stretched out his hands and said, "How much food do you want?"

Shi Yan was a little surprised as to why he stretched out his hands and whispered: "I want 200 stones."

"Oh, I have a lot of appetite." A few people who were still staying in the room suddenly popped up. A middle-aged man in a green coat and short jacket touched his bald forehead, rubbed the scab on his neck, and shook his head. He swayed out, looked at Shi Yan and said, "You didn't even bring a car, how did you get the 200 shi grains out?"

"The car in Zhuangzi..." After half a sentence, Shi Yan knew that he had made a mistake, and then smiled and said, "I always have to buy it before talking about it."

The first door still stretched out his hands, squeezed his eyes and said: "200 shi grains, usually you have to report to the yamen, if you want us to transport it, the price will be higher."

"It depends on whether you put your left hand or your right hand." Menzi rubbed his fingers as he spoke, and several people behind him laughed tacitly.

How could Shi Yan not understand, he just didn't expect that the Ding Jias in Hongrizhuang were so arrogant, they almost didn't even cover it up.He didn't care so much, and said in a strange tone: "Which hand is cheaper?"

Menzi retracted his right hand.

Shi Yan carefully took out a golden melon seed from his bosom, and put it on Menzi's left hand.

"50 stone." The bald head reported the number later, and the two seemed to be whispering to each other.

The golden melon seeds commonly used by the Cheng family were rarely seen by these servants of the Waizhuang. Someone picked them up in one bite, ignoring the sweat of the two of them, bit them down hard, and said: "It's so soft. .”

"Can it be softer than the little lotus's?" The others immediately started laughing.

Shi Yan remained unmoved, put his hands on his chest, and said, "I will pay for the delivery."

"Follow me to get the goods." Seeing Zhen Jin, the bald head became serious.

The granaries in Hongrizhuang vary in size. The bald head picked up the big granary and directed the workers resting next to him to load the 50 shi of grain into the cart. Shi Yan felt relieved and took out two golden melon seeds Said: "One tael and 2 qian gold, take 200 stone grains."

"4 pieces." The bald head has seen the world, knows the weight of golden melon seeds, and stretches out 4 fingers slowly.

4 grains are worth 32 taels of silver, which is already 20% cheaper than the shops outside. Of course, the quality is also quite poor. The ones taken out of the warehouse inevitably have some old grain, but Cheng Jinzhou doesn't care.

When Shi Yan saw that there was a door, he immediately became energetic. After some persuasion, Bald Tou gave up another 2 taels of silver and finally loaded all the 200 shi of grain into the car.

30 taels of silver can save several second-class men's monthly money, but it is unknown how much the bald head will take away from it.

At this time, Shi Yan realized that his whole body was drenched with sweat.

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(End of this chapter)