After coming to a conclusion at the banquet, a group of grain merchants said that since the county honourable father had thrown in the peach, we naturally had to be smart enough to repay the plum.
For how to report Li, they also quickly reached a consensus at the banquet, in accordance with the size of the grain shop, a group of grain merchants will be divided into large, medium and small three grades. All belonging to the small grain merchants, send a gift of 800 taels of silver; all belonging to the middle grain merchants, send a gift of 1500 taels of silver; large grain merchants will send a gift of 2500 taels of silver.
Of course, these are only the first batch of thanks, and then at the end of each month, they again in accordance with their respective grain shop operation, take out twenty per cent of the net profit, as a gift of thanks, sent to the Yamen.
Can’t give up the child, can’t catch the wolf! This truth, they merchants know very well. Thank you gift although more, for them is not a small number, but compared with the future earnings, what is it!
With the endorsement of the county honourable official document, they can open their hands and feet to sell food to make money, no more worries, do not have to worry about the day to be arrested and sent to prison, military, or beheaded on the spot, make an example of the chicken!
Compared to the grain merchants in Taizhou and other counties, they are already in paradise.
Of course, although there is already a constitution on how to repay Li, but in order to be on the safe side, a group of grain merchants elected a grain merchant to cast a stone and first go to the county office to send a thank you gift to Zhu Pingan, to go and test the water for the crowd.
Lu Boss stood out from the high vote, “honoured” to be the stone to throw the stone.
“Ahem, can’t you send another person to accompany me? Boss Tai, you and I are brothers, can you accompany me for a walk?”Boss Lu looked bitterly at the crowd of grain merchants, especially Boss Tai.
“Get lost!”Boss Tai rolled his eyes.
“Fatty Lu, don’t dawdle, go quickly, go and come back quickly, all of us are anxiously waiting for your reply. If you don’t go, the 30% thanks we pledged for you this time won’t count.”
The crowd of grain merchants saw Boss Lu dawdling, and couldn’t help but half threatening, half joking, laughing and cursing as they urged.
“Wind Xiao Xiao Yi Shui Cold, Fatty I go to Ruoxi, soon return. The shopkeepers wait for my good news ah.”
Hear the grain merchants threatened to take back to help him recognise 30% of the thanks, money-loving as the life of the land shopkeeper suddenly no longer dawdle, waist is not sore, back does not ache, all the way trotting to go to be his asking stone.
A group of grain merchants while drinking and chatting, thinking of the wealth within reach, while waiting for the news of the Landlord.
Soon, the crowd had only passed three rounds of wine when they heard a sound of footsteps, and then they saw the figure of Shopkeeper Lu.
Crap!
How did Fatty Lu come back so quickly, is this just boarded the door of the county honourable and was kicked out?
The crowd of grain merchants heart immediately gave birth to a trace of an unsettling premonition, worried that Fatty Lu will do things badly, feeling that things have developed beyond their expectations, beyond their control ……
“Lu fat man, you dog said how to come back so soon, you send the gift, the county honourable received it or not?”
A crowd of grain merchants and anxious and nervous asked.
Lu boss first nodded, but not waiting for the crowd of grain merchants face emerged joy, Lu boss then shook his head, big fat face are shaking a shake, straight shake a crowd of grain merchants are on fire up.
“Crap! Lu fat man, you first nodded, and shook his head, what exactly is the meaning? I’m not sure what I mean! You send over the gift of thanks, the county honourable whether to accept or confiscate ah! Give us an answer. This is no time for jokes, if you don’t behave properly, you’ll return the 30% of the thanks we helped you with.”
The crowd of grain merchants were instantly confused, thinking that Boss Lu had tricked them, and immediately said to Boss Lu with an unpleasant face.
In a crowd of grain merchants watched, Lu Boss again first nodded, then shook his head, see the crowd face is not good, Lu Boss himself also anxious red face, hands a spread, “Oops, I …… I also do not know the county honourable receive or not receive!”
“What do you mean? What do you mean you also don’t know the county respect to collect and confiscate? The one above your neck is a pig’s head ah, you send your own thanks, the county respect in the end to collect and confiscate, such a simple thing, you can not distinguish it? You usually don’t have to be so serious, but now is the time to joke with us!”
The crowd of grain merchants were all angry and laughing, the ones with a quick temperament all started to roll up their sleeves, with a look of wanting Boss Lu to look good.
“Aigoo, what I said is true, I really didn’t joke with you guys.”Boss Lu blushed, anxiously explained.
“Okay, everyone calm down. Boss Lu, don’t be in a hurry, sit down and have a cup of tea, and give us all a slow explanation of the situation you met with County Honour.”Boss Yang waved his hand, signalling for the crowd to be at ease.
Boss Lu sat down and drank a cup of tea, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, took a breath, and told all the grain merchants about his trip to the government office to send a gift, “I went to the county office, and asked the officer in the ear room of the county office to pass on the message, and then I met the county magistrate without any problems. After seeing the county honourable, I kneeled down and bam bam bam kowtowed three times, the county honourable couldn’t even pull ……I first expressed my gratitude on behalf of our Jingnan grain merchants to the county honourable for supporting our grain house business, and then handed the county honourable the 1,500 taels of silver notes under the table ……”
The moment to witness the truth came!
After the crowd of grain merchants heard this, they couldn’t help but sit up straight and looked at Boss Lu without blinking.
I did not expect the land shopkeeper said here to pause, heavy grain merchants can not help but angrily urged, “Then what?”
“Then ……County Zun was very unhappy, with a serious face, righteously rejected me. The county honourable said that he defines the grain is for the sake of the public, is it not to seek this personal gain, let me take back the silver ticket.”
Boss Lu paused and continued.
What!!!
The county dignitary had refused?
The county elder did not accept the thank you gift? This was a bit troublesome! Two thousand and five hundred Wen per stone, this policy can’t be changed.
The grain merchants were nervous when they heard this. How could they not be nervous when the county dignitary did not accept the thank you gift.
“Fatty Lu you silly ah, county honourable let you take back, you take back ah! Liu Bei still has three visits to his cottage!”
“The county respect is reserved, worried about being known by others ……”
A crowd of grain merchants sighed and complained to Boss Lu.
“Of course I can’t take it back. I told County Honour that I carried this silver ticket all the way in my arms, no one saw it, and there’s only County Honour and me in this room, there’s no way a third person would know about it.”
Boss Lu shook his head vigorously and defended.
“Well, that’s decent, then?”The crowd of grain merchants praised Boss Lu and then asked.
“Then the county dignitary got even more angry, saying that heaven knows, earth knows, you know and I know, how can you say that no one knows! Determined not to accept.”Boss Lu went on to say, “I insisted again and again, and the County Honour stubbornly refused to accept it, and almost threw me out.”
“Ah?!”
“How could this be?!”
When the crowd of grain merchants heard that Zhu Pingan insisted on not accepting the thank you gift, they were confused, this was different from what they thought.
Anxious and angry again.
“However, just when I was so disheartened that I was about to give up. County Zun asked me, Fang now Jingnan suffered severe flooding, the victims are displaced, waiting for food, are you willing to donate money for the victims of Jingnan? I naturally said yes. Then, the county governor took out a donation agreement, let me sign on it and press the handprint. My fifteen hundred taels of thanks became a donation in a haphazard manner.”
Boss Lu touched his head and continued, until now his mind was still a muddle.
The mountain is heavy and there is no way out, the darkness is bright, the crowd’s eyes immediately lit up when they heard this!
“The county honourable gentleman can really be an expert ah, in this way, there are no traces, impeccable. Hahahahaha, Boss Lu, you did a great job.”Boss Yang smiled and patted Boss Lu’s shoulder, praising him.
“Boss Yang, are you saying that I sent it into being?!”Boss Lu’s eyes lit up.
Boss Yang smiled and nodded, then said to the crowd of grain merchants, “Gentlemen, next, it’s time for us to go to the county office to donate the good money.”
Thus, one after another, a group of grain merchants in Jingnan went to the Yamen to pay a visit to Zhu Pingan and enthusiastically donate money to charity.
