At the beginning, his wife came to him, and he became rich by selling kidney treasures.

late at night.

In the study room of the Ren Mansion, Li Shiji and Shen He were reviewing questions late into the night. Ren Hao was sitting at the doorway, bored, enjoying the cool air and staring at the night sky in a daze.

He couldn't remember the last time he gazed at the night sky.

Just when Ren Hao was about to fall asleep, a voice woke him up: "Master."

"Well, has all the food been distributed?" Ren Hao woke up, sat up and asked.

"All of them have been distributed according to the master's instructions. Not a single one has been left out." Cai Lun said in a very soft voice, and took out three ten-liang wine coins from his sleeve.

Ren Hao took the three wine coins and immediately felt something strange.

Not to mention that the texture on the coin is unfair, even the weight is wrong, it's surprisingly heavy.

"Is it made of silver?" Ren Hao felt the weight and immediately found out that the wine coin was made of heavy silver.

Sunken silver is usually old silver from several years ago. Compared with new silver, old silver is not as bright and shiny as new silver, but is a dark gray and has no luster.

Although this kind of sunken silver is also circulated in the market, after deducting the cost of firing and labor, its value is only half of that of new silver.

Cai Lun beside him nodded and said, "Master, today someone used a fake wine coin made of sunken silver to exchange for wine in the store. How should we deal with this?"

How to deal with it?

Ren Hao suddenly laughed. He expected that someone would rack their brains to imitate the wine coins, but he never expected that there would be no silver to replace tin, so they would directly use sunken silver to imitate.

"Just pretend you didn't notice and take them all." Ren Hao returned the three wine coins to Cai Lun.

Although these are sunken silver, they are all real and valuable silver.

How can I refuse when someone gives me money?

"You should keep a close eye on it recently and find out who is using sunken silver to imitate wine coins." Ren Hao thought for a moment and then said.

"Okay, sir." Cai Lun nodded and asked what to do with the silver in the cellar.

The cellars in this mansion and the store are almost full.

Cai Lun's style is completely regular.

There are now 3,000 kilograms of silver and 5,000 kilograms of copper coins in the silver cellar in the palace.

The store's silver cellar holds a total of 2,000 kilograms of silver and 3,000 kilograms of copper coins.

There are 500 kilograms of gold in total.

The reason why we use kilograms to calculate is to facilitate storage.

All the silver, copper coins, and gold collected were melted into bars according to Ren Hao's instructions.

Each one weighs one kilogram.

"Go find General Wuming later and ask him to lead his brothers to take out all the silver and copper bars from the cellar and prepare to transport them to the palace tomorrow morning to fill the national treasury."

"As for the gold and the extra silver and copper bars, we just need to keep them." Ren Hao thought for a moment and gave the order.

A total of five tons of silver bars and eight tons of copper bars are enough for the national treasury to use for more than a year.

He will send these to the palace tomorrow to see what those ministers who were initially pessimistic about him have to say.

"Okay, sir. I'll do it right away." Cai Lun nodded and did as Ren Hao said.

After Cai Lun left, Ren Hao stretched and went to the kitchen to cook two bowls of wontons.

After all, Shen He and Li Shiji had worked hard in reviewing the questions, so I prepared some midnight snacks for them as a reward.

"Come and eat something while you're busy." Ren Hao brought the wontons to him and greeted him.

Li Shiji and Shen He both put down the paper rolls in their hands, picked up the bowls and started eating.

After two bowls of wontons, Ren Hao asked, "How much have you reviewed?"

"The review will be almost finished." Li Shiji rubbed his eyes, and then asked Ren Hao about the ranking issue and how to rank them.

He and Shen He reviewed more than 200 papers, and there was only one talented person who got all five questions correct.

There were only five people who were talented enough to answer all four questions.

There were only fifteen people who were able to answer all three questions.

There was no statistics on the number of people who answered two questions correctly and those who answered one question correctly, and they just caught all of them.

"The one who got all the answers right, as well as the talented people who got four and three answers right, will all be hired. As for the remaining nine, we will look for the answer in their solutions."

"Whoever has the better solution will be chosen."

"Tomorrow morning, post the list of the top 30, and stop recruiting talented people from the capital." After Ren Hao gave the two instructions, he suddenly felt something was wrong and that he was being too arbitrary and domineering.

"What do you think?" He changed the topic and asked the two of them, and he could also make some suggestions or something.

But Shen He said he had no objection and would follow Ren Hao's arrangements in everything.

and so.

"You've already made your decision, how dare we make any suggestions?"

"Just do as you say." Li Shiji curled his lips. Everything had been decided. What was the point of them making suggestions? Wouldn't that just be making fun of them?

"I really want to hear your opinions or suggestions." Ren Hao smiled awkwardly.

"Our suggestion now is that you, Mr. Ren, please move aside and don't disturb us while we are reviewing the questions." Li Shiji pushed Ren Hao out of the room without any hesitation, and then concentrated on reviewing the questions and examining the papers.

Seeing this, Ren Hao had no choice but to give up and go back to his room to sleep with his wife.

He originally wanted to look for Xu Yating, but when he saw that there was no candlelight in Xu Yating's room, he did not disturb Xu Yating and went to Su Wan'er's room instead.

"Ma'am, are you still awake?"

Ren Hao pushed open the door and looked at Su Wan'er who was sitting by a candle doing needlework.

"I couldn't sleep, so I thought of sewing a pair of cloth shoes for you." Su Wan'er smiled at Ren Hao, put down the cloth shoes she was sewing, and helped Ren Hao undress.

Ren Hao also smiled and helped Su Wan'er untie her belt.

Su Wan'er blushed immediately and said timidly, "Husband, I...I haven't finished sewing your shoes yet, you should go to bed first."

"You can sew the shoes anytime, but you can't delay sleeping for a moment." Ren Hao blew out the candle and carried Su Wan'er to the bed.

……

About three hours later, just when Ren Hao felt that he had just fallen asleep, Su Wan'er beside him shook his arm.

"Husband, aren't you going to the palace to attend the morning court this morning? It's already morning, it's time to get up." Su Wan'er sat up and kept shaking Ren Hao's arm.

"Forget... forget it. I won't go today. I'll go tomorrow."

Ren Hao turned over because he was so sleepy, he really didn't want to get up.

"No, husband, you have to get up quickly. Didn't you tell me when you went to bed before that you must wake you up no matter what?" Su Wan'er shook Ren Hao's arm again, but Ren Hao did not respond.

In desperation, Su Wan'er had to use the method Ren Hao taught her and pinch Ren Hao's nose.

Ren Hao couldn't breathe for a moment, and immediately exhaled through his mouth.

Su Wan'er had no choice but to reach out and cover Ren Hao's mouth.