The money in the house was emptied, and the treasure basket was immediately returned at a rate of 400 taels a day. Two months later, the silver box was full again. During this period, County Magistrate Chen sent people to ask for it twice more. Nothing.
The solution was to build a century-old academy, and the materials used had to be refined, which was naturally time-consuming and labor-intensive. At the same time, in order to expand its influence, the county magistrate spent a lot of money to invite great scholars from other places to give lectures at the academy, and the county government could not spend the money.
There is no airtight wall in the world. Magistrate Chen turned money like running water without collecting money from the people. This strange thing reached the ears of the prefect of Jianhai. Prefect Liu was having a headache because of the deficit of the prefecture government, so he sent someone to inquire.
I was deeply surprised to learn that the benefactor was Xu Shan, but Xu Shan’s business could not support such a big scene. So I came to Xianju in the name of inspection and privately sent a message to the yamen of Xianju County to ask questions.
Someone who participated in the private trial of Xu Shan and his wife in the county magistrate's backyard knew the truth, and for the sake of his own future, he reported it to the prefect in private. It turned out that Liu Zhizhou had an idea, summoned the master, and gave such instructions.
The master worked hard and rushed back to Linhai overnight. He found a master painter and drew a pattern of an archway. He also wrote a letter with the four characters "Ji Shan Ren Jia". He also drafted a commendation document from the state government and returned to Xianju overnight. The prefect stamped it with a big seal. Chapter 1
Early the next morning, the prefect and his yamen servants came to Xu Shan's house and read the commendation order from the state government to Xu Shan: "There is a kind man Xu Shan who would like to express his gratitude to the court. After hearing the news, the state government hereby commends him."
, you can build an archway to make this righteous deed a good word."
After saying that, he handed Xu Shan the drawing of the archway and the order from the prefecture. He took the bamboo basket and put it in the official sedan and carried it away. This was the order from the government. There were only a dozen clerks in Xushan's shop, and the prefect's
There were more than thirty yamen servants. In addition, Xu Shan hid the secret of the treasure basket from the clerks. The clerks were all excited that the court had given such a great honor. They did not expect anything else. Xu Shan had neither the courage nor the ability to confront the prefect.
I could only watch helplessly as the treasure basket was taken away.
"The people do not fight against the officials"
Magistrate Diao has deep plans,
Fake government orders and pass on treasures.
All the walls in the world are ventilated,
The yamen servant reported to the magistrate,
Businessmen have no power and do not fight against officials.
Seeing the treasure basket enter the state government office.
There is no choice but to leave sadness,
I looked at the monument with tears in my eyes.
There were still two hundred taels of white silver in the basket. Although I heard from the Yamen servant that it would become six hundred taels, I didn't feel at ease until I saw it with my own eyes. After carrying it to the inn, the prefect closed the door.
The master and I lit candles and stared intently, with an hourglass beside them. Hour after hour passed, but there was no change in the silver in the basket. Just as they were half-believing, a rooster crowed, and the treasure basket flashed
A white arc of light appeared, and a basket full of silver appeared. The two of them counted twelve large ingots, a total of six hundred taels.
Good baby, good baby, what if we use it to turn it into gold? Gold is twice as heavy as silver and ten times more expensive. In this case, we can turn it into eight hundred taels of gold at a time and make a lot of money. Prefect Liu and the Master stared at each other.
He calculated in his mind with the silver, eight hundred taels of gold a day, which is 24,000 taels a month, which can be converted into 240,000 taels of silver. While writing a memorial to report to the emperor, he spent some time privately from the government office to Lin'an.
It only takes a month to go back and forth, and the day when you will be promoted and make a fortune, and gain both power and money is just around the corner.
While the prefect and the master were discussing how to get promoted and make a fortune, the guest began to ask for food again: "Yesterday's tofu balls were delicious. Apart from this, can you recommend a lighter special dish?"
Jin Huabin looked at the dishes on the table and saw that there was still one soup missing, so he replied: "Give me a piece of "Man Chao Huan, Five Dragon Gods and Fourteenth Night Soup", it can be used as a dish and as a soup.
Pork and chicken chops, boneless chicken feet, soaked dried cuttlefish. Cut into cubes for seasoning, rice vinegar and cooking wine. Winter bamboo shoots and mushrooms, yam and carrots, tofu soaked in oil. Pea rice cake, rice noodle crumbs, but it depends on your preference.
Heat the oil in the pot to 80%, put the chopsticks in without soaking, add the meat and stir-fry first. Add the vegetables and stir-fry until they are raw. Fill the pot with Wulong Shenshui and bring to a boil. Pour the sweet potato starch slowly. Add the chopped green onion and coriander to enhance the flavor and win customers.
Excellent.
The soup is just a soup, why is it from the Fourteenth Night? Because Fang Guozhen and Zhu Yuanzhang were competing for hegemony during the Yuan Dynasty. He was afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would take advantage of the holiday paralysis on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to launch an attack and advance the festival by one day. Why the Five Dragon Gods? Because Fang Guozhen was a pirate.
, believe in this.
The biggest advantage of sweet potato flour soup is that it has a very good thermal insulation effect and does not get cold easily in winter. Everyone used it to warm themselves and continued to listen to Jin Huabin's story. In the early morning of the next day, Magistrate Liu ordered the sedan to be picked up, and that night, they came to Linhai
, carefully carried the treasure basket into the house, placed it on the desk, and then burned incense and paid homage.
"It's just a basket. It deserves to be enshrined like an ancestor." The lady walked out and said carelessly: "What's so big about this?"
"Don't offend the treasure basket." Magistrate Liu covered his wife's mouth and said, "It can turn into money. No matter how much you put in it, one will turn into three tomorrow. Master and I saw it in person last night."
"Really? Let me take a look at it tonight and put in four hundred taels of gold?" Madam looked at the four gold ingots beside her. Knowing what Magistrate Liu was thinking, she was busy helping put them in.
Although he had stayed up all night last night, the temptation to turn into gold was so strong that it stimulated his nerves. He and his wife stayed up all night again as if they had been given blood. After the fifth watch, there was a sound
After the rooster crows, golden light flashes, and a basket full of gold appears. The prefect rushes forward excitedly, lifts the basket and wants to pour the gold out, but with a bang, the bamboo basket cannot bear the weight of such heavy gold, and the bamboo basket goes through the bottom in one go.
In ancient times, there was a system of sixteen taels. Think about it, one thousand two hundred taels weighed seventy-five kilograms. How could a bamboo basket withstand such a huge force?
Magistrate Liu was so frightened that his face turned pale. The treasure basket was ruined like this? He had already written a memorial to the emperor about this. Now when the emperor is angry, he will definitely smash himself and his family together. That is to ask a master craftsman.
After repairing it to the original state, the ability to turn gold into silver cannot be restored. Thinking of this, a mouthful of phlegm came up, blocking his heart, and Magistrate Liu went crazy from then on.
"Misfortune Falls from Heaven"
With memorials, report to the court,
Thoughts in the dream about officialdom and wealth,
The prefect was greedy and exchanged silver for gold.
The bottom of the basket is too heavy to bear.
Misfortunes fall from heaven and treasures turn into waste,
His face turned pale and he was panicked.
Anxiety, madness and phlegm confuse the heart and orifices,
To save your life, ignore the truth.
The prefect ran out of the office in a frenzy. The prefect's wife cried and said that the treasure basket was harmful to people and was a monster. When the master went in and took a look, he understood the truth and hurriedly covered her mouth and said: "Don't say anything, treasure."
If outsiders know about the basket, your family will be raided. The current plan is to make up for the shortfall in the national treasury with the gold produced. It is a mistake for me to go to the court and show you the treasure basket last time.
It was written by a man who was crazy and gibberish."
The wife of the magistrate was an official. She heard the master's reminder and knew the powerful relationship. She hurriedly shed her tears and wrote the seal with the master and took care of the aftermath in the house. Paper cannot contain the fire. Although the treasure basket was destroyed, the treasure basket produced silver.
It still spread.
This is the end of Flower Basket Story, and the story continues.