After dressing as a widow

The hustle and bustle of Guangshun Lane can be seen with the naked eye. Whether it's the ladies and men who come to work there every morning, or the voices coming out of it, the people around can't resist asking.

Soon most of the people knew that the business in Guangshun Lane was run by Zhizhou’s uncle, who specialized in making rouge and gouache. There were more than 70 workers just recruited. Not only did they earn 150 Wen a month, they also took care of lunch meal.

Some people also said that Boss Lin also collects grass, which costs a penny and a catty, and many people in the city went to dig it.

When Lin Zhen was busy, Gu Lin was similar to him. After returning from the river mouth of Dongyang County, he vigorously publicized the Lizhou bond in the state capital. With his previous decree on farming this year, those who didn’t trust it at first thought that He is a slight change of thinking of the rich who want to take money out of their own pockets.

Today, the wealthy households and people with small family backgrounds in the city gathered in the government office at the appointment of Gu Lin, the magistrate.

Lin Zhen stopped what he was doing and changed his clothes. When he arrived, he only saw dozens of people sitting in the main hall, and the top seat was still vacant.

He scanned around and sat next to the horse shopkeeper whom he had met several times.

Shopkeeper Ma saw that it was him, with a smile on his face: "Boss Lin is here."

"Boss Lin has gained a lot of fame in the state capital recently. The business on Guangshun Lane is booming. Many people want to see Boss Lin's products."

"It will be fine in three or four days. At that time, some of the goods will be sold in the state capital, and most of them will be transported to the estuary of Dongyang County and shipped to Kyoto." The estuary of Dongyang County was abandoned before, and occasionally there are merchants here There are some goods in short supply that the common people need, such as salt, sugar, and seafood.

But it was all in private, the loophole left by Xu Zhizhou turning a blind eye.

Shopkeeper Ma said: "The river mouth in Dongyang County is going to be used again?"

Lin Zhen nodded: "The grain seeds planted by the common people this time are also transported from there. In the future, our Lizhou will get better and better, and the estuary in Dongyang County may be more lively than before."

The horse shopkeeper listened to his ears and took it to heart.

Most of the other people in the main hall had never seen Lin Zhen before. Hearing that shopkeeper Ma called him Boss Lin, they thought of the newly opened gouache shop in Guangshun Lane that had been rumored in recent days, and couldn't help looking at Lin Zhen.

When he saw his unusually beautiful appearance and his brother's gender, he couldn't help feeling a little contemptuous.

Suddenly, Gu Lin, who was surrounded by fellow prefects, officials, and judges, walked in, and everyone in the main hall stood up and saluted: "See Lord Zhizhou."

"No need to be too polite." Gu Lin asked these people to get up, looked around Lin Zhen in the crowd, and sat on the first chair of the grand master.

The acquaintance who was busy with Gu Lin said, "Your Excellency invited you here today because it is really beneficial to Lizhou, and I want to tell you something beneficial to you."

"Everyone knows a thing or two about state bonds, right?"

Can you not understand, two days ago, someone from the yamen came to the door to distribute a piece of paper and told them a lot, but at that time they all thought that the new magistrate was trying to scrape money from them, He said a lot behind his back.

A man in his fifties with a big belly and a round face stood up and saluted Gu Lin first, and then saluted the officials and friends, and said: "Master Zhizhou, Master Tongzhi, I really can't make a fuss about Lizhou bonds. I understand, why don't the two adults first talk about how much money we want to pay, so that I can prepare myself."

As soon as the Tongzhi official heard this man's words, he knew that he didn't listen carefully to the explanation of the Lizhou bond that the people in the yamen said, or in his heart he felt that the people in their yamen were making money, and said in a dull voice: "Look. All of you here still have many misunderstandings about out-of-state bonds, so today I will tell you what out-of-state bonds are.”

"This is a method that Gu Zhizhou came up with in order to raise grain seeds so that the common people have grain seeds to grow this year. The people in our yamen calculated the output of Lizhou for three years, and based on this, we came up with A figure that a state government can bear is converted into the amount of silver, and the silver is raised from the big guys, and used as the cost of purchasing grain seeds, Quyuanli and other items this time."

"But this does not mean that you will come and go. You have purchased a corresponding amount of out-of-state bonds, and you can get back the principal and the interest promised by the Yamen as soon as October this year."

To be honest, the rich households and small officials in the city were ready to cut their flesh and blood when they were called by Gu Lin. Gu Lin is an official in charge of the government of a state. Broken teeth have to be swallowed in the mouth.

At this time, they thought of Xu Zhizhou's good fortune. Xu Zhizhou never did such things, but now the big guys are sitting here, listening to the official friends sitting next to Gu Lin, telling them clearly that they can get their money back in October this year at the earliest. Gold, and still get a certain amount of interest, someone said immediately: "Isn't this a loan?"

All the people present here are people with money at home, and they have more or less been in contact with this thing. The water in this thing is very deep. If you meet someone with a bad heart and a bad hand, you will first lend you money, and then try to make you repay it. When paying back the money, they forcibly seized the family property.

But now the yamen borrowed money from them, and they became creditors of the yamen.

The official friend who had already received Gu Lin's order said: "You lend money to others, and you still have to worry about whether those people will run away or not, but our yamen is here, and you can watch it at any time. Probably not."

"So the interest rate will naturally be lower. From the date of your purchase of out-of-state bonds to the same day after May, you will get [-] cents for [-] cents, and in October next year, you will get [-] cents for [-] cents. Money."

The rich man who was the first to stand up did some calculations in his heart. Naturally, the interest is not as good as giving money to others outside, but as the official friend said, giving money to others outside is risky, and they have to give it to others. Gu Lin, who knows the face of the state, if the Yamen can repay their principal and interest by October as they are now saying, they will not be unacceptable.

As the words of the officials and friends fell, the people in the yamen brought up the bonds. The four characters "Lizhou Bonds" were written in the middle of the thicker than ordinary paper, and there were blank lines for filling in the purchase amount and signatures for the buyers.

Wealthy households who have been persuaded look at me and you.

"I bought Lizhou bonds of 1 taels of silver. The repayment date of the principal and interest is scheduled for October next year." Lin Zhen stood up from the shopkeeper Ma and walked to the people in the yamen who handled the bonds.

The two handlers looked at Lin Zhen, then looked back at Gu Lin, this is the uncle of the adults, what should I do?

Lin Zhen stood in front of the table and said, "This is Dayu's largest bank, Changlong Bank's bank notes, a total of 1 taels, you can distinguish the authenticity."

There are ten bank notes of 1000 taels each.

Gu Lin stood up from the grand teacher's chair, walked over here, and after the two bond handlers stood up to make room for him, they wrote down 1 taels of silver on the newly made bond in the Yamen, and then signed their own at the bottom. Name: "Here, fill in your name."

His slender fingers pointed at the place next to his name, Lin Zhen smiled and wrote his name neatly.

Even though he has been here for so many years, he still uses charcoal more often. The characters written with the brush can only be said to be readable, but compared with Gu Lin's characters, it is even uglier.

The man from the yamen stood up and immediately opened the box of ink pads, "Boss Lin, please put your handprint on it."

Lin Zhen dipped his thumb on the inkpad, and pressed it on the dried name.

The man from the yamen said: "You also need to click a clear one next to the name, so that you can compare it when you come to exchange in the future."

Gu Lin handled it personally, and the speed was very fast. In two or three minutes, Lin Zhen got the out-of-state bonds purchased with 3 taels of silver. Interested in stamping a list missing the seam, one is a document kept by the Lizhou government office.

And those two people who didn't know how to handle the yamen for him at the beginning even registered his basic information in a booklet, describing his face and body.

1 taels of silver is not a small sum anywhere, and some wealthy households who come here have less than that much.

Seeing that Lin Zhen actually exchanged the bank notes for Lizhou bonds, no one spoke for a while.

In the past two days, shopkeeper Ma, who has made several trips to the government office and knows about Lizhou bonds, is the second one. He doesn't buy much, 300 taels.

His old neighbor was the third, and bought the same one as him.

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It doesn't matter whether you are 100% willing or not, but the scene is getting hotter. There are 1000 taels or 2000 taels more, and 200 taels or less.

Lin Zhen still wanted to distill the dew, nodded to Gu Lin who personally handled Lizhou bonds for himself, and walked outside.

The 1 taels of silver was all he could come up with, except for what he had spent these days and what he would spend in the next two months.

The first batch of Yurong powder and Hualu lipstick are about to be shipped, and they can make a lot of money if they are shipped to Kyoto. The 1 taels are considered to support the cause of the little boy.

And this year's autumn harvest in Lizhou will definitely be a bumper harvest if there are no accidents, and he will not lose money.

They asked Zhou Zhengchu and the others to bring a few barrels of flower dew over, and Lin Zhen walked towards the house beating his arms and yawning.

Together with the two distillation equipment, there are more than a dozen barrels of toilet water pulled out from the government office, which can almost fill the two thousand porcelain bottles he ordered.

He can finally rest.

As soon as he walked to the corridor, Lu Lu, who was waiting for him, came from the yard and said, "Boss, the food in the kitchen has just been prepared. You can go wash up and have a meal, and then hurry up and rest."

"Yeah." Lin Zhen was really sleepy, so sleepy that if he wasn't hungry, he would fall asleep on the bed right now.

He yawned again, forcing some physiological tears from the corners of his eyes, and then he patted his face to wake himself up, went to the room to wash his face and brush his teeth.

Suddenly, just as he was covering his face with the veil for fumes, he took off the veil with one hand, and his upturned posture allowed him to see Gu Lin standing in front of him.