After time travel, my best friend and I exchanged supplies and became a rich woman

But after waiting for about a moment, Yin Jingcheng gave Chen Dongyue some not-so-good news, "It can be completed within a month, but because we need to add more manpower and rush to prepare materials, the budget will probably be 30% higher than what we did before."

"Twenty thousand taels more?!" Chen Dongyue couldn't help but screamed.

Their original budget for building this city wall was 70,000 taels.

Later, because Chen Dongyue's manor had solved the problem of at least one-third of the length of the city wall, the budget was changed to 40,000 taels.

but! !! !!

In order to meet deadlines, Prefect Meng wanted to complete the new city wall before the official performance evaluation in October, so he added an additional 20,000 taels to the budget.

The budget keeps changing, which is somewhat confusing.

"Oh, then I was wrong." Yin Jingcheng glanced at the account book in his hand and murmured.

Chen Dongyue patted his chest and thought to himself that it was fortunately not twenty thousand taels, otherwise...

"That should be 50% more budget," Yin Jingcheng added.

Chen Dongyue was so scared that he almost fell off the city wall.

She screamed, "Why?! The construction period was accelerated and only the labor was increased, but no materials were added. How could the budget be so much higher?!"

"Director Chen~~~~~" Yin Jingcheng said earnestly: "The urgently needed materials are definitely much more expensive than the ones that can be ordered. This is one reason. The second reason is that most of the workers we use now are prisoners doing corvée labor.

We don't pay these people any wages. We just need to provide them with two meals a day, some tools and other supplies.

But the number of prisoners is limited after all! It is too late to impose conscription again.

Liaozhou Prefecture is very large, and it would take ten days to half a month for the notice of conscription to be issued from the prefecture to reach the counties, townships, and villages.

Add to that the trouble of recruiting people from the east, paying money from the west, and so on...it would be considered fast if we could get all the people together within two months.

If you want to gather enough labor within a few days now, you can only hire a laborer.

In Liaocheng, the wage for a laborer is 18 wen a day, including one meal.

A skilled worker like a bricklayer is paid 25 cents a day, including one meal.

I have calculated the manpower, at least we have to use it......"

"Ahhh~~~~~" Chen Dongyue covered her head and interrupted Yin Jingcheng's reimbursement. "Please arrange this matter immediately. I'll find a way to deal with the money."

"Thirty thousand taels..." Yin Jingcheng was a little hesitant, "Can you really gather all that in a short time?"

After all, out of the government's budget of 60,000 taels, the prefect has only raised 30,000 taels for him.

The additional thirty thousand taels will probably be given after the project is completed.

Chen Dongyue shook her head, "I'm not sure, but... let's give it a try."

There are so many wealthy businessmen and officials’ families in the city, but she just doesn’t believe it... Oh, it’s hard to say.

It’s not so easy to cheat rich people out of their money.

..........

"I can pay~~~~" The speaker was the mistress of the Shao's Grain Store, Madam Shao II, "but our family wants to replace the glazed doors and windows. After all the calculations, just replacing the windows of the master bedrooms in the main courtyard will probably cost around 3,000 pieces of glazed glass.

But fifty taels for a piece of colored glass is really too expensive. Even if my family is rich, I really can’t afford it…”

Chen Dongyue glanced at Madam Sun beside her.

Madam Sun laughed and said, "Madam Shao, you and I have known each other for quite some time. I am also a straightforward person, so please don't blame me if I say something inappropriate.

I heard that...when there was a famine in our city two years ago, your Shao's Grain Shop made a lot of money.

Eh? By the way, it seems that you had been in frequent contact with the wife of the grain chief Jia Zhongcheng at that time......"

"Hehehehe." Mrs. Shao's laughter was awkward and harsh, like a rusty iron door.

She interrupted Madam Sun hastily, "Madam Sun, please don't misunderstand. We are legitimate grain merchants. That Jia Zhongcheng is at most an acquaintance of our Shao family.

Well... contributing to the construction of Liaocheng is indeed a good thing. How about this, the Shao family contributes 10,000 taels of silver, what do you think...?"

"Hehehe, Madam Shao is still very generous." Although Chen Dongyue said this, the smile on her face was faint.

Mrs. Sun immediately understood.

She fiddled with the cup in her hand for a while, and then she said softly, "Our master is worried about the year-end performance evaluation. I heard that he is discussing with the master whether he should take another look at the files of Xingmin Warehouse to see if there are any fish that have slipped through the net."

"Twenty thousand taels." Madam Shao gritted her teeth and said, "Twenty thousand taels, the Shao family will pay twenty thousand taels."

"Hahahahahaha," Chen Dongyue laughed sincerely this time, "Second Madam Shao is really too polite.

You are a generous person, so we certainly can't treat you unfairly.

How about this! Since you purchased a large quantity of colored glaze, we will give you a discount.

We will give you a discount of five taels of silver for each piece of colored glaze, what do you think? But please don’t tell anyone about this, Jin Ning Fang has never sold it to anyone at this price.”

"Okay, okay," Mrs. Shao nodded repeatedly, "This way, it's good for you, it's good for me, and it's good for everyone."

One piece is five taels cheaper, so one thousand pieces are five thousand taels cheaper.

If they wanted to replace the glass in the master bedrooms of all the masters in the Shao Mansion with colored glaze, they would need at least four to five thousand pieces of colored glaze.

By this calculation... isn't the loss of the twenty thousand taels today recovered?

Although she was threatened by Madam Sun, Madam Shao II felt somewhat resentful.

But those who do business cannot really go head-to-head with officials.

In addition, this loss was immediately compensated by Chen Dongyue’s discount.

So when Mrs. Shao left Jinningfang, she still had a smile on her face.

The additional ten thousand taels are easy to deal with.

Anyway, Chen Dongyue was like a monk begging for alms. She went to the Wang Palace to ask for some, to the government office to ask for some, the Sun Mansion gave some more, Dadunzi gave some more, and she paid some herself. Within a day, she had collected all the money.

Three days later, when Chen Dongyue put a stack of banknotes in front of Yin Jingcheng, Yin Jingcheng was shocked.

He couldn't help but sigh, "Director Chen, if you were our prefect, then our Liaocheng would definitely be more prosperous than the capital!"

Let’s talk about execution.

Just like the spirit of repairing the city wall even at its own expense.

Who can be better than Chen Dongyue?

But Chen Dongyue shook her head frantically, "Ah no no no no no no, it's too troublesome, I can't do it. I just want to be a street urchin."

After saying that, she even stood on the half-built city wall, looked at the ground in the distance that was deformed by the sun, and said slowly: "Xianyu's dream has always been... eh?!"

"What's wrong?!" Yin Jingcheng looked at the place where Chen Dongyue was looking with great vigilance.

what! ! !

Help! ! !

Why did a group of people suddenly come? !

He looked dusty and ferocious!

He really doesn't want to encounter bandits again!

"Chen, Director Chen!! Let's run, the bandits, it seems the bandits are really coming." Yin Jingcheng was so scared that he turned around and was about to run.

But Chen Dongyue slowly said: "Hey...if I'm not mistaken, the person who came seems to be, should be, vaguely, probably, possibly..."

“What!!!!” Yin Jingcheng was about to collapse.

"He's my man." Chen Dongyue's voice was mumbling.

Why did Song Ke suddenly come back? !

Are we really going to have a war?!

Chen Dongyue jumped off the city wall with a swoop.

Yin Jingcheng was left standing there in a daze.

This...isn't it too enthusiastic?

No matter how poorly the city wall was built, it was at least three or four meters high!!!

I didn't expect that Director Chen looks like a hermaphrodite on a daily basis, but... she is thinking about her man.