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"Don't think he is a first-five-rank official. Even those who are second-rank and third-rank commanders and generals must be humble in front of others, and act like slaves, and dare not say a serious word. Hey, let alone them, even those arrogant and domineering chieftains in the southwest region must honestly serve the rituals. Otherwise, your dead father is not allowed to be buried, and the title you should inherit will not be sure when will you come down."

Lian Zining nodded. Even if he knew about the function of the Ministry of Personnel Examination before, he would not have expected that its power was so powerful. The fifth-rank officer could actually make the second-rank and third-rank generals talk with a smile. Until now, he had an intuitive understanding.

The rat whispered a sip of tea and said, "Mr. Lian, do you know the book "The Secret History of the Prime Minister"?"

Lian Zining naturally didn't know that, and shook his head again. The rat whisper was choked and said dryly: "There is a story about a corrupt official. The corrupt official embezzled eight million taels of silver. The mansion in his family is comparable to the Forbidden City. He has raised countless beautiful wives and concubines. Hehe, the ritual of Zhou Gong every morning and evening is very happy. Hehe, the detailed descriptions are different, and the corrupt official in this book

The allusion is He Sanyuan, the doctor of the Wuxuan Qing official department. It is said that it was written by He Sanyuan's enemies. He Sanyuan was just a Jinshi and a Jinshi. He relied on licking the butts of the cabinet's three assistants to achieve this position. In just three years, he became a rich family. It may not be as much as eight million as in the book, but there are always four or five million taels. This also shows how fat this person is?"

Eight million taels of silver? Lian Zining looked at the ceiling blankly, and could no longer measure how huge this number was. In some idiotic TV series in later generations, they could not figure out the purchasing power of silver. Especially with contemporary TV series as extreme, there were two steamed buns, a bowl of soup, 5 taels of silver, and a young lady lost 10 million taels of silver in a gambling. This shows how ignorant and unscrupulous Chinese creators have reached. You must know that the annual treasury income of the treasury only reached 2 million taels during the Wanli period, and it was a number that was only found after Zhang Juzheng's reform.

Even masters like Jin Yong did not seem to have conducted in-depth research on the currency value of silver. Everyone should remember that Guo Jing first met Huang Rong and was slaughtered by her. As a result, "I settled the bill in a while, and it was 19 taels, 7 cents, and four cents in total."

You know, Lian Zining made this small fortune, and Cheng Yu’s monthly food and clothing cost was only one tael of silver! One tael of silver, two stones of rice, three hundred and seventy-seven six kilograms, and six hundred and sixty yuan, which is the value of one tael of silver.

When he arrived here, Lian Zining truly realized how valuable a tael of silver was, what about eight million taels?

However, Lian Zining was very human after all. He quickly broke out from this shocking emotion and asked back: "Shopkeeper Tong, why did you tell me about these things?"
Chapter completed!