Farming and reading family

Looking at the deserted streets, Gao E sighed that the people suffered no matter how the country rose or fell.

"If you ask him to exchange it into a silver note, he still has to exchange it into silver again." Lu Qingluo thought it would be better to exchange it into silver directly.

"Throw a stone to ask for directions." After saying that, Gao E took Lu Qingluo and Ji Wuyang to Wei Kai's yard.

I didn't come on time this time, so the house needs to be cleaned up before I can live in it.

It was already dark when they finished cleaning the house, and He Jiabei came back with the banknotes exchanged.

He put the 930 taels he exchanged on the table. Generally, the amount could be exchanged for around 970 taels in a silver shop.

"Seventy taels less after just one exchange?" Lu Qingluo was shocked. "This is robbery."

He Jiabei said hurriedly, "It's like this now." He said he didn't take a penny.

Gao E handed He Jiabei a silver note and said, "Tomorrow, find someone registered in Qinzhou City to go to the silver shop and exchange it for silver. Give him five taels of silver as a reward."

Lu Qingluo was even more confused.

"Okay." He Jiabei put away the banknote.

He Jiabei knows a lot of people in Qinzhou City, so as long as he pays, it's no big deal.

He Jiabei asked someone to go to the silver shop to exchange the money, and the four of them parked the carriage on the side of the road and waited.

The wait was a bit long, and Lu Qingluo couldn't wait any longer: "He Jiabei, the person you're looking for won't run away, right?"

He Jiabei was also a little worried: "No, he has a family in Qinzhou City, he won't run away just for a hundred taels of silver."

"That's hard to say." Lu Qingluo said as he was about to get out of the car and go in to look for it.

At this time, two yamen runners entered the silver shop, and Gao E immediately stopped Lu Qingluo.

After a while, two yamen runners came out of the silver shop, each holding a silver ingot. The man He Jiabei had found came out of the silver shop in a panic, carrying a purse.

He directly piled the money bag on He Jiabei: "One hundred taels of silver notes can be exchanged for ninety-five taels at the silver shop. The official took twenty taels, and there was my five taels of reward. There are still seventy taels left here."

Lu Qingluo wanted to hit someone.

Yesterday one thousand taels became nine hundred and thirty taels, and today one hundred taels became seventy taels. He is worse than a robber.

"It's hard work, hard work, hard work." He Jiabei smiled apologetically.

"You saw the official just now. I didn't lie to you. It's because I am a registered resident of Qinzhou City and can explain the source of the silver notes. Otherwise, it would be good enough to get fifty taels." The man was a little proud.

"That's why I came to find you, brother." He Jiabei boasted. "Is this how you exchange silver at a silver shop now?"

"It's already good that I can exchange the 100 taels of silver notes for silver smoothly. I heard that those foreign merchants were arrested and they will have to pay a lot of silver to get them out."

He Jiabei was surprised: "No one cares about this?"

"Who cares?" The man spread his hands. "I heard that Yishunbo's family was convicted of treason, and the remnants of Yishunbo will be beheaded. As long as this reason is given, who dares to say anything?"

Gao E sneered in her heart, this is indeed a good reason.

He Jiabei asked some more questions, and the man told him everything he knew before leaving.

Lu Qingluo sighed: "Fortunately we didn't go to exchange it for silver directly."

With the amount of gold notes Gao E took, she would definitely be arrested directly. Ji Wuyang's real identity could not be made public, which would be a big trouble.

"How do you know there is this problem?" Lu Qingluo looked at Gao E with a serious expression.

"During the meal, the shopkeeper said that taxes had to be paid when exchanging silver. So I was more cautious." Gao E knew that there was a crime called the crime of having huge amounts of property of unknown origin.

Although this crime does not exist in this era, they can find other reasons.

The remnants of Yishunbo are a good reason.

Although she could explain the origin of her property and make the people behave themselves if she mentioned the eldest princess, she didn't want to waste her time.

"Then what should we do?" Lu Qingluo also felt it was troublesome.

"Go to Yingcheng to exchange it." Ji Wuyang suggested.

Gao E thought about it and realized that it would take more than ten days to go to Yingcheng and back, and there would not be enough time to return to Hexian.

"Just buy things directly." Gao E made such a decision.

Du Weiqing asked for six thousand taels, most of which was actually spent on pens and ink, as well as some things used by scholars. It wasn't a lot of stuff, but it cost a lot of money.

Gao E had seen the list prepared by Du Weiqing and simply bought it.

There are also necessities such as cloth, needles and thread, iron ingots, salt, etc.

Gao E had a bold idea and planned to issue the bills herself, which were equivalent to very small silver notes.

Now her family employs a large number of long-term workers, and after getting the money, they also buy these things. If these things can be bought with tickets, she will bypass the exchange process.

Of course, there will be no such troubles in Qinzhou City in the future, and it will be easy to exchange them into copper coins safely.

Some merchants in Qinzhou City have not encountered such a big customer for a long time, and the prices they offer are quite affordable.

When Gao E spent a lot of money, she would pay directly with gold notes, and the other party would also give her a discount on the fire consumption, but it was much more cost-effective than the silver shop.

In this way, Gao E exchanged some banknotes and silver.

Their carriage certainly couldn't carry so many things, so Gao E hired an escort agency.

After three days of this, they finally bought everything they wanted and left Qinzhou City with the escort agency.

The people from the escort agency also had experience. Once they left Qinzhou City, they did not dare to delay at all and left quickly.

When the provincial government received the news and sent people to keep an eye on the situation, Gao E was already on her way back to Hui County.

In the carriage in Huifang County, Gao E reflected for a while. Perhaps the rural life was too comfortable, which made her a little lazy and began to care less about the surrounding environment.

Qinzhou City is in this state now. When she has more silk to sell, she will definitely encounter various problems.

Now that He County is exempt from taxes, these problems have not yet occurred. Once the tax exemption ends, He County will become a fat sheep in the eyes of others.

After thinking about this, Gao E asked He Jiabei to stop the carriage.

"Boss." He Jiabei didn't know what the boss was going to do.

Gao E took out a gold note and gave it to He Jiabei: "Just leave me 500 taels when the time comes, and the rest is all yours."

He Jiabei was stunned, not knowing what the boss was going to do: "Just tell me if you need anything." He happily accepted the gold note.

"Find out the current situation in Qinzhou City, especially the situation of each government office." Gao E ordered.

He Jiabei nodded: "Okay."

He had no intention of running away with the money. It was not a very high amount of money, and he knew the choice between eating a full meal once and having a full meal every time.

"Be careful. If there is any problem, go to the Yan family for help." Gao E warned.

Now Yan Zheng is in her house, Yan Congfang is doing well, and He Jiabei can't cause any big trouble.

"Okay." He Jiabei expressed gratitude.

After giving some instructions, He Jiabei rode his horse to Tanzhou City, and Ji Wuyang drove back to Huixian County.

If you turn a deaf ear to what's happening outside, sooner or later someone will smash your window and you won't even know what's going on.

After returning to He County, Gao E planned to let Wu do this, but Wu was pregnant, and Gao E didn't want to let her do the hard work, so she thought about it and had to go find Mrs. Hong.