I want to ruin the country

Wang Liuqi asked Meng Fanggui,

"Cousin, I know your family's background. It's not that wealthy. How come your life is so prosperous now?"

Meng Fanggui felt that the time was ripe and planned to confront Wang Liuqi.

Meng Fanggui looked at him with a half-smile.

"Cousin, you really don't know?"

Wang Liuqi was baffled.

"What do I know?"

Meng Fanggui chuckled,

"My dear cousin, if you rely on a few dozen taels of silver and a few dozen bushels of grain a year, let alone marrying these concubines, you can only barely survive by starving!"

Wang Liu said strangely,

"My cousin has other income!"

Meng Fanggui laughed heartily.

"I shouldn't say this, but it's not easy for my cousin to get rich. You're begging with a golden bowl in your hand!"

Wang Liuqi was not stupid either, he said,

"Cousin, my cousin is too timid to joke with his head!"

Meng Fanggui laughed and said,

"What are you talking about, cousin? How can you say that you're going to lose your head? If you don't have the people to feed you, what's the point of having more money?"

Wang Liuqi waved his hand.

"Cousin, don't joke around. Money doesn't come for free!"

Meng Fanggui said,

"Cousin, you really don't know the mechanism here?"

Wang Liuqi asked,

"What mechanism?"

Meng Fanggui asked in a pretentiously profound tone,

"Has our warehouse been short of grain since you took over?"

Wang Liu said strangely,

"Cousin, you're asking even though you already know the answer. The numbers in your account book are correct, so how could there be a shortage of food?"

Meng Fanggui said,

"Come on, didn't my cousin go to the warehouse to weigh the grain?"

Wang Liuqi disagreed.

"Then how do you weigh it? As long as you have plenty of food in your account, what else can you do?"

Meng Fanggui said,

"There are so many things to do. I don't even know how much grain is in the warehouse or if there's any shortage!"

Wang Liu said strangely,

"What do you mean?"

Meng Fanggui said,

"The people down there are carrying some food out on my back. How would we know where it's going?"

Wang Liuqi was surprised.

"Isn't that a deficit?"

Meng Fanggui disagreed.

"My cousin just said it right. As long as there's enough money in the account by then, that's all that matters!"

Wang Liu said strangely,

"It's in the account, but not in the warehouse. Will there be any trouble in the end?"

Meng Fanggui said,

"How could something go wrong? The grain wasn't shipped out all at once. Who knows how much is left in the warehouse?!"

Wang Liu said strangely,

"You're just going to allow them to enrich themselves like this?"

Meng Fanggui said,

"How can you order people around if you don't have any benefits? Besides, we're the ones making the most money, so it's not too much for them to have some soup!"

Wang Liuqi was puzzled.

"We'll get the lion's share?"

Meng Fanggui said,

"There's a lot to learn in there, so I'd better not talk about it!"

Wang Liuqi's curiosity was aroused, and he said,

"Cousin, please tell me!"

Meng Fanggui said,

"You really want to hear it?"

"Of course!"

Meng Fanggui said,

"Do you know how much money your predecessor took away?"

Wang Liuqi asked hurriedly,

"How many?"

Meng Fanggui stretched out his fingers and gestured,

"We made hundreds of thousands of dollars in three years!"

Wang Liuqi exclaimed,

"Ah, how did you get it?"

"Just trade. Sell the good rice at a high price, and spend a few coins to buy coarse rice to make up for the loss. That way, you'll have a ton of money!"

Wang Liuqi was horrified.

"If something goes wrong, won't you lose your head?"

Meng Fanggui laughed and said,

"If our heads were cut off, would we still be able to sit together?"

"Can you still do this?"

Meng Fanggui chuckled,

"Haha! These days the brave die of excess while the timid die of starvation!"

At this time, the servant reported that there were guests visiting.

Meng Fanggui said,

"Cousin, let Yunjin drink with you first. I'm going to meet the guests up front!"

After Meng Fanggui left, Yun Jin poured wine for Wang Liuqi and rubbed against him intentionally. Yun Jin flirted with him and said some nonsense.

When a man chases a woman, there is a mountain between them; when a woman chases a man, there is a layer of gauze between them. Wang Liuqi was aroused by Yun Jin and became more and more excited. The two of them rolled together.

Meng Fanggui appeared at the critical moment, and Wang Liuqi was panicked and didn't know how to face his cousin.

Meng Fanggui's face began to darken.

"Cousin, how could you do this?"

Wang Liuqi hesitated and didn't dare to look Meng Fanggui in the eye!

Yun Jin cried and said,

"Master, you haven't been to my room for a month or two. Why don't you just let me stay with you and marry another wife?"

Wang Liuqi didn't expect Yun Jin to have such thoughts. He looked at Meng Fanggui.

Meng Fanggui said,

"We are real relatives. It doesn't matter if I send you to him, but can he afford to raise you?"

Yunjin Road,

"Lord Wang is a higher official than you. If you can afford it, why can't he?"

Wang Liuqi was not stupid, his mind was now completely focused on Yunjin, and he said hurriedly,

"Cousin, as long as you give me Yunjin, I'll do whatever you say!"

Meng Fanggui finally dragged Wang Liuqi into the water.

The next thing was a piece of cake. Meng Fanggui was responsible for selling the grain, but Wang Liuqi was timid. He told Meng Fanggui,

"Cousin, leaving the warehouse empty is absolutely unacceptable. Using someone else as a substitute is still acceptable!"

Meng Fanggui smiled and said,

"Don't worry, cousin. How could I harm you? We are on the same boat. You can't run away, and I can't jump!"

They sold more than 100,000 dan of grain from the warehouse and bought some of the worst quality and moldy rice from the market to fill the warehouse.

What is unexpected is that before they could fill all the holes, food prices soared.

The price of brown rice is not much different from the price of good rice they sell, so they can only wait for the price of grain to fall before buying grain to fill their warehouses.

As a result, there was a shortage of more than 40,000 stones in the warehouse!

At this critical juncture, Ma Zheng, a doctor from the Ministry of Revenue, stood up.

And after he came, he didn't leave. He personally supervised the transportation of grain here.

Ma Zhengqi watched as the warehouses were cleared out one by one, and he also checked the quality of the grain. I wanted to invite him out for a drink, but he refused to go!

This really scared Wang Liuqi, Meng Fanggui and others. This hadn't happened in many years!

Of course, there was no problem in the first two days. The rice shipped at the beginning was some good rice, so there was no problem. But there was too little good rice, so it could be shipped out in two or three days.

Meng Fanggui was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he decided to kill Ma Zhengqi. However, Ma Zhengqi was very cautious and brought guards to protect him closely, so they had no chance at all.

They also took silver to bribe Ma Zhengqi, but Ma Zhengqi refused to let them in with righteous words.

"Our elders have said that anyone who accepts money without a clear conscience should clean their necks and wait for the beheading. I haven't lived enough!"

Knowing that something was fishy, ​​Ma Zhengqi became even more concerned. On the fourth day, he flew into a rage when he saw the sacks of rice.

"Supervisor Wang, this rice is moldy, can people eat it?"

Wang Liuqi hurriedly tried to cover up the problem.

"Master Ma, with so many warehouses, it's inevitable that some of the grain will get moldy!"

Ma Zheng said angrily,

"This is all the rice we're loading today. It's not only moldy but also the worst kind. This couldn't have been the rice you put into the warehouse!"