You all go slowly, we won’t see you off, we still have to go post official documents by order of the county honourable.”
The two messengers sent a group of dizzy-headed grain merchants to the outside of the county government office and separated from them, one carrying a paste bucket and the other holding a stack of official documents stamped with the governor’s great seal.
“You are busy, you are busy …… don’t need to care about us.”
A group of grain merchants until they walked out of the county office, still dizzy, as if they had drunk two pounds.
The two messengers first posted an official document outside the wall of the county office, then went to other places to post it.
“Hereby from today, every stone of grain within Jingnan County is two thousand and five hundred texts ……”
A group of grain merchants stood in front of the just posted official document, looking at the black characters on white paper and the bright red county governor’s seal, until this moment, they could no longer believe it, but also finally determined that it was true.
“The county …… county honourable father really defined the Jingnan grain price as two thousand and five hundred for a stone of grain!”
A grain merchant could hardly contain his inner ecstasy, reached out and touched one word at a time, greedily sniffing his nose and sniffing hard at the ink, and then jumped up with joy!
“Look at your bear-like ……”
The rest of the grain merchants snorted, but they weren’t much better, grinning like a flower.
“Other places are strong suppression of grain prices, severely punish our grain merchants, once found to inflate the price of grain, light will be jailed and copied, sent to the army, heavy will be beheaded on the spot, to control the price of grain by thunderous means. Why is our county honourable father not only not curbing grain prices, but doing so instead?”A grain merchant, after his ecstasy, said to the crowd in a very confused manner.
“What, do you wish the county dignitary to chop off your and my heads?!”At once, a few grain merchants gave him a blank look.
“No, I just can’t figure …… it out,” that grain merchant resentfully shrunk his neck and laughed with him.
“Actually, I’m also confused right now, I can’t figure it out ……” Boss Lu scratched his head.
At once, several more grain merchants took a stand and agreed, they all really couldn’t figure it out either.
“Ahem, this is not the place to talk, would you all be so kind as to go to the old man’s house for a casual meal?”The largest grain merchant in Jingnan – Yang Ji Grain Bank’s Yang Boss, coughed, attracting the attention of the crowd, then stroked his florid white beard, meaningfully said to the crowd.
“Surely I wish to do so, but I dare not invite my ears.”A crowd of grain merchants have clasped their fists and said, there is no one who should not.
At once, a crowd of grain merchants surrounded Shopkeeper Yang, laughing all the way, heading to Shopkeeper Yang’s residence.
Soon, a few tables were set up at Shopkeeper Yang’s residence, and the grain merchants were seated in groups of guests and hosts.
In Shopkeeper Yang’s residence, the grain merchants had nothing to worry about.
“Shopkeeper Yang, just now you said that the county office is not a place to talk, but in your residence there are no more scruples. At a time when other places are tightly controlling grain prices, why did our county honourable father issue an official document rigidly defining the grain price in Jingnan at two thousand five hundred per stone, ah? County Zun so, for us is naturally a great joy, but we are really confused, lest we spoil this great situation. Your oldest is the most knowledgeable, is our county famous Zhuge, you old is not guessed what, but also please for us to solve the confusion.”At the wine table, a grain merchant got up and asked for advice.
“Yes, Shopkeeper Yang, the county honourable father defined the grain price at 2,500 Wen per stone with an official document, which is naturally a great joy for us. It’s just that we are really confused, lest we spoil this great situation.”
Many grain merchants followed.
“When things go wrong, there must be a reason.”Boss Yang stroked his beard and said with narrowed eyes.
“Please also ask Boss Yang for advice.”The crowd of grain merchants clasped their fists and said.
“All of you are overstated, enlightenment can not talk about, this is just a little bit of the old man’s conjecture, the old man for the time being, all of you for the time being to listen to, do not speak to outsiders as well.”Boss Yang waved his hand and said.
“Yang shopkeeper’s rest assured, we are not that mouth broken people, out of your old mouth, into our ears, in addition to the seat in addition to me, there will not be a third person to know.”
A crowd of grain merchants all took a stand and said.
“Do you all still remember the official position of the county dignitary?”Boss Yang narrowed his eyes and asked meaningfully.
“County Zun’s official position? Isn’t County Zun our Jingnan governor?…… No, no, no, I almost forgot, County Zun is already the Commander of the Zhejiang Tidings and Pressure Division and the line Jingnan governor.”
After the crowd of grain merchants blurted out, they only then remembered that Zhu Pingan had already been promoted for his anti-Japanese efforts.
“Commander of the Zhejiang Tidings Inspection Division, line Jingnan governor …… Everyone, can you understand? Our county respect is actually the fifth rank of the Zhejiang Tidings Procuratorate Commander, only because Jingnan can’t be one day without a governor, this is the temporary ‘line’ of the seventh rank of the Jingnan governor only, as long as the new governor arrives in office, our county respect can be appointed as the Commander of the Zhejiang Tidings Procuratorate Commander. Our Jingnan small pond, but also just his temporary resting place.”
Shopkeeper Yang stroked his beard and said to the crowd with deep meaning.
Which of the businessmen are not eight-name, Yang shopkeeper so said, a crowd of grain merchants are all enlightened.
“County Honour is already on the green clouds, even if this small pond in Jingnan is flooded, it won’t have any effect on County Honour. Besides, before the flood happened, County Honour has already mobilised the whole county to prevent flooding and flood control, also because County Honour has this vision, this flood I Jingnan did not lose a single person, just based on this great merit, County Honour has already been invincible in this flood.”
Shopkeeper Yang slowly said.
When the grain merchants heard this, they all nodded their heads, yes, the county governor had already been promoted long ago, and he also took precautions in advance before the flood, so that Jingnan didn’t lose a single person, which was already a great merit. Therefore, the County Dignitary dared to define the price of grain in Jingnan as two thousand five hundred Wen per stone.
“Elder Yang you are right, it’s just that if the county elder is like this, it won’t benefit the disaster relief, so what’s in it for him?”
A grain merchant asked suspiciously.
“Benefits? Oh, the benefits shall then be on us.”Yang Lao kindly laughed.
“What do you mean?”The grain merchant was puzzled.
Without Yang Lao answering, the grain merchant next to him snatched the answer and snorted, “You’re stupid, Yang Lao has made it so clear! County Honour has set the price of grain at 2,500 Wen per stone, allocating this heavenly benefit to us, shouldn’t we show something to County Honour? Don’t you understand the reasoning of reciprocating courtesy and returning favours?!”
“What? You mean the county honourable …… Impossible, the county honourable has a reputation of being a green sky, not such a person.”
The grain merchant came to a sudden realisation, only to then shake his head again, expressing doubts about this conclusion.
“You can’t know a person’s face without knowing his heart, so how do you know that the county honourable gentleman isn’t such a person, Shopkeeper Zhang? Besides, Shopkeeper Zhang, you’re still a famous benefactor in your town, you don’t have any idea how you actually are in your own heart, do you need us to dismantle it one by one for you?”
Next to a person who knows the real bottom of the shopkeeper Zhang, snorted at the words, said to him.
At once, Boss Zhang’s face turned red and he stopped speaking.
“Before the county respect has not been promoted, naturally cherish feathers, whitewash fame, now the county respect has been promoted to the Commander of the Zhejiang Tidings and Press Attorney Division, why do you still want to work hard to disguise in this small place in Jingnan? To camouflage, also to Zhejiang Reminder of the Secretary of the Division, and then hard to camouflage to go! Besides, these days, if you want to be successful in government, you have to go up and down the ah, these all need silver. Our county honourable young is already a five-piece officer, a look is not a pool, certainly not satisfied with the five-piece Commander of the Imperial Penalty, surely want to go up again, to the capital to move, these are all to silver!”
“That’s right, the world is all about profit, the world is all about profit, the county honourable nature is no exception!”
“Promotion and wealth, promotion and wealth, the county dignitary officer has been promoted, naturally he will be rich.”
The crowd of grain merchants nodded their heads, deeply convinced.
