Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

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Five taels of silver equal one catty, ten taels of silver equal three catties.

Hearing this, Shen Zheng's expression kept changing.

Sure enough, the business principle of "five dollars for one, ten dollars for three" cannot be avoided anywhere.

But ten taels is not ten yuan! If we only consider the purchasing power of money, it has increased thousands of times!

"This thing is too expensive. I can't accept it for free." Shen Zheng put the raisins back into the jar with one hand and started searching his pocket with the other.

The New Year’s money given by the old men came in handy!

If it were her, she would never be willing to buy such expensive raisins, but who made Wang Guangjin buy them anyway?

This action of hers frightened Wang Guangjin so much that he jumped away and waved his hands repeatedly: "Sir, you are embarrassing me! If I have to pay for the food and toys I bring to you, how can I go home with dignity, and how can I continue to stay in Tongan County?"

"That's different." Shen Zheng shook her head seriously: "If you only brought some small things, I would take both the gift and the things, but a few taels of silver per pound of dried fruit? That's really too expensive."

She had lucky money from the old men in her pocket and rewards from the emperor in her warehouse. In terms of price, these dried fruits were nothing compared to her "assets".

But she just couldn't accept this "little gift" with peace of mind!

Seeing that Shen Zheng really took out the silver and money, Wang Guangjin retreated all the way and went straight to the cave entrance.

"My Lord, I will leave first..."

"Stop!" Shen Zheng picked up the silver and tried to chase after him, but Liang Fu grabbed her sleeve, shook his head at her, and said to Wang Guangjin, "Come back first. I will help you persuade Lord Shen."

Wang Guangjin looked at Liang Fu suspiciously, and when he saw that he didn't seem to be lying, he moved his feet back to the backyard but did not go over.

Seeing his cautious look, Liang Fu smiled and said to Shen Zheng: "Sir Shen, everyone expresses their feelings differently."

Shen Zheng looked at him in confusion.

He waved and called Wang Guangjin back. "President Wang is a businessman. All he has is money. Using money to express his feelings is the best and most direct way he can think of. A few dozen or a few hundred taels of silver will not hurt him."

Shen Zheng stood there in a daze, blinked, and didn't say anything.

Liang Fu added: "You are a county magistrate, an official, so what you have is power. When you want to express your feelings to the people, do you also subconsciously want to use your power to provide them with convenience?"

"Do you think that if you hadn't set the price for rice seeds, if you hadn't had the cotton loom in your hands, if you hadn't proposed movable type printing, would the people have been able to enjoy all kinds of preferential treatment?"

Shen Zheng opened her mouth, and Liang Fu continued, "You don't have to think about it. The answer is no. Then can you tell me how to measure the value of this? How to calculate what the people owe you? And how to return it to you?"

Wang Guangjin, who was standing by, seemed to have really heard it and began to think with his head down.

What he had gained from adults in the past year was far more valuable than those raisins.

But Shen Zheng was different from him. She frowned and shook her head, saying, "If it weren't for the support of the people, I wouldn't be where I am today. So the people never owe me anything. This is what I should do as an official."

Liang Fu heard her answer, pointed and chuckled, "Do you understand his intention? He just wants you to taste the green raisins. This is not bribery or bribery. If it is related to bribery, it is too shabby."

Wang Guangjin nodded.

How could one please an official with raisins? He just wanted to give the official a taste.

"I..." Shen Zheng looked at the can of raisins and sighed, "I didn't think of it as a bribe, I just thought it was too expensive, that's all."

Wang Guangjin whispered: "It's not like I buy it every time..."

"You..." Shen Zheng laughed: "Then it's settled, just buy some green raisins this time and try them!"

She grabbed a handful of green raisins and handed them to Wang Guangjin, asking, "Did you taste them over there?"

Wang Guangjin took the raisins and smacked his lips. “I tried just one, but the boss wouldn’t let me have another one. How stingy… But it tastes really good, much sweeter than the purple ones.”

The three of them each held a handful of raisins and ate them while looking at the other things in the box.

The last bag of seeds Wang Guangjin brought back were carrots.

Liang Fu also said that he had heard of it but had never eaten it.

Shen Zheng asked Wang Guangjin to keep all the seeds away from light, and wait until the planting season comes to plant the seedlings in the fields.

She was very curious about what the cucumbers, celery, carrots and watermelons that had not been cultivated and improved would look like, what they would look and taste like, and what the yield per acre would be.

As for the Ministry of Revenue, are they already improving seeds?

On this side, Shen Zheng was silently pondering with all kinds of doubts, while on the other side, Wang Guangjin had already started taking out the other items he brought for Shen Zheng from the next box one by one.

When Liang Fu saw one of the objects, his eyes suddenly widened and he kept winking at Wang Guangjin.

Wang Guangjin was still immersed in the joy of "the adults are about to see the gifts I brought" and did not notice anything.

"My Lord!" He called Shen Zheng, and excitedly introduced the gifts he brought back to her. "Take a look! When I was in Ximi Mansion, I felt that these things were particularly suitable for you, especially this bronze mirror, which has intricate carvings and colorful stones on the back. It is a design that combines the characteristics of that place!"

As she spoke, a ray of light flashed across Shen Zheng's eyes, and Wang Guangjin was holding up a bronze mirror towards her.

Shen Zheng just came back to her senses and looked up subconsciously.

All of a sudden.

"..."

"..."

"......Aren't you just stabbing a knife into your master's heart?" Liang Fu's face wrinkled and he snatched the bronze mirror into his arms.

Shen Zheng's mouth twitched slightly, and she forced a smile: "Thank you, I will use it to take pictures when my hair grows longer."

"...Haha, haha." Wang Guangjin didn't dare to look at her, and wanted to burrow into the ground. "My lord, I was wrong... It's actually not strange for you to do this. Look, I just talked to you for such a long time, and I didn't find it strange..."

"Alright." Liang Fu made a gesture to silence him: "If you say anything more, even if Lord Shen doesn't beat you, I will."

Wang Guangjin realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he lowered his voice and introduced the items one by one: "This is the fashionable jewelry style for girls over there. I brought a set for you and your mother Wanying. Don't worry, this is not expensive..."

"This is a wool carpet placed next to the bed. It will keep your feet warm when you put on your shoes..."

"And this! Don't you like drinking tea? This is the painted pottery cup over there. I think it looks nice and I think you will like it..."

"Oops, I almost forgot about this!"

"Wine! It's also a specialty of Ximi Prefecture! It's even more fragrant than our plum wine!"