Bai Fu and his men were busy in Bai Minghe's study for a day.

Bai Minghe was in the side courtyard. This small courtyard, which was originally almost abandoned because Bai Minghe's family was small, was renovated. Old man Tao almost fainted after looking at the four hu of pearls.

Bai Minghe sat at the door, tasting tea, and watching Old Man Tao take people to pick pearls.

Next to Bai Minghe, Huaiyu moved a small stool to sit on the left. Zhu Jianshen and Bai Yinglan squeezed on the right. All their eyes were fixed on Old Man Tao's hands. Old Man Tao would put them in the brocade box if they had handed them himself, and all the ones picked out were in complete sets.

After picking more than thirty golden quarter beads, Old Man Tao's hands were trembling.

When I was piled up from the pearls, I picked out another golden one. Old Man Tao used a special, balance-like structure, but just to weigh the pearls. He weighed it first, then used a board made of hardwood, gestured through the holes with the pearls, shook his head gently, and placed it aside.

Zhu Jianshen's little hand that was holding Bai Minghe's arm tightened.

Bai Minghe looked down at Zhu Jianshen and couldn't help but praise him. It was really not easy to be able to restrain his desires at this age. So he spoke, "Old Tao, is that one bad?"

"It's not bad if you want to go back to the adults. It's just that the old man wants to match one hundred and eight regular quarter beads. This one is enough, but not round enough. It can only be the second quarter beads, so he picked it out and put it aside."

"I want this one, please remember it. I will take the money to make up for the public account in the future." Bai Minghe said.

What is public accounts and private dealers? In the eyes of these people, these are all from the white-name cranes. Just the Dusi Yamen, don’t think too much about this pearl. Not to mention one, it doesn’t matter if the white-name crane takes away a whole box.

The rules were ordered by the white-known crane, so the white-known crane wrote a note and exchanged it for this pearl.

After taking the pearl and handing it to Zhu Jianshen, Zhu Jianshen was so happy that he stuffed the pearl into Bai Yinglan's hand. Hearing Bai Minghe said, "Go and have fun!" The two of them held their hands and ran away quickly.

Bai Yinglan now understands the rules and knows what he can take and must not touch anything he wants.

This pearl is one of the types that must not be touched.

"Huaiyu, after these things are put on the public account, I will choose a bunch of them for you. Later, you ask Qinghe to come over and ask her to help out with a few expensive sets. I will send them to the capital!"

Huaiyu nodded. Since she was a woman, how could she not like this?

The next day, it was the day when Bai Minghe met with the merchant. The first ten selected merchants were brought to Bai Minghe's study by Bai Hong.

As soon as they entered the study, the merchants were all shocked.

Although the screen was moved away, a half-human-high jade replaced the original screen. None of the businessmen could afford to pay for it.

A scream scared most of the businessmen. A businessman pointed at his feet.

The ground was soft and yellow, with pieces of gold spread on the ground, replacing the original wooden boards. Two businessmen even reached out to touch it. It was full of gold.

There are no chairs or tables. Large small-leaf red sandalwood logs are placed there as stools. The tables are piled up with yellow rosewood. There are several goldfish in the fish tank in the middle of the study, and the water used to lay the bottom of the water are all gems the size of pigeon eggs.

This is not the most conspicuous thing in the whole house.

The most conspicuous thing is the one-person-high blood coral, and then the pure gold paperweight on the table.

Although it was just a piece of paperweight, it was not as good as the gold bricks on this land, but the literati had gold as paperweights, which was definitely a blasphemy.

The businessmen have a low society and use money to fill their storefronts in order to calm down this contempt for merchants.

But no matter how rich he is, he has never been so stupid as Bai Minghe...

Not to mention these businessmen, even the white-known crane almost vomited when they entered the house. Is this a decoration? This has something to do with luxury and fancy, and this is a brainless person.

Cough! Bai Minghe entered the house with a clear cough, and his feet were soft on the pure gold ground. This feeling was really good.

"Everyone, I, Baiminghe, is very poor. I am so poor that I only have gold, silver and jewelry left." Baiminghe's opening remark almost made several people vomit.

Before the Ming Dynasty, merchants were forbidden from the imperial examination. However, the Ming Dynasty allowed merchants to study and could also participate in the imperial examination.

The ten businessmen present, one with the status of a juren, and the other nine have the fame of scholars, are real scholars.

The vulgarity of Baiming He and the words that only wear gold, silver and jewelry left, made them feel strongly disgusted with the identity of Baiming He as the magistrate. In the hearts of these ten people, even if the magistrate is extremely greedy, he will at least pretend to be a gentle scum in his face, rather than the vulgarity of the red fruit like Baiming He.

"If you want money, get the bill!" Bai Minghe sat in the chair carelessly.

Qinghe was with her side, and she was really amused and crying. If she had known that she would be responsible for the house, the individuals Bai Fu brought were all martial artists. What is gorgeous is probably in their hearts, just using gold to pile up a house directly.

Since this is already the case, Bai Minghe has to hold on even though he grits his teeth.

The first businessman stepped forward, knelt down, and then held the bill in both hands. Qinghe took it and handed it to Bai Minghe.

Merchants have low status. Even if they have the status of a juren, once they face Bai Minghe, the seventh-rank magistrate, in business, the kneeling ceremony is enough to say that they will not kneel. People with fame and fortune see that the magistrate can not kneel, and the officials who go upwards still have to kneel. However, in front of Bai Minghe, they cannot kneel.

It’s not because Bai Minghe owed them the money.

But no one can figure out what kind of official Bai Minghe is, able to control tens of thousands of troops and build Hepu County into a place where military martial law is martial law. No one can figure out the identity of Bai Minghe.

When you can kneel or not, you still look more respectful when you kneel.

Bai Minghe opened the account book and saw it, and was stunned. He asked immediately: "Your silk, Hang silk is right, it's a total of 1,600 dan. It's a account that is settled at 268 taels of silver per dan. I'm not mistaken!"

"If you want to go back to the master, this is only the first batch. The second batch has been transported to Hepu Dakuang for a total of 260 taels per levee, which will save the 8 taels a fraction of the 8 taels." The merchant had already stood up and answered respectfully.

The white-known crane continued to flip, and there were some other goods, such as tea, cotton, wine and other items. They were at least one percent lower than the Ming Dynasty price list prepared by several juren.

The white-name crane took out the list of the main goods from his pocket.

"I have always thought that ordinary silk in Hangzhou should be 298 taels and 8 cents per tumble."

"The price that the adults said is correct. If the adults only have one tumble, the price will be delivered to the door, and the small ones can be exempted from eight cents. A silk shop in Guangzhou City can be no more than one hundred tumbles a year, and it is normal for the small ones to be exempted from eight cents. This time, the Dusi Yamen came to negotiate the price personally, and all the goods were all sizes and gave 100% of the profit. Since the small ones should pay, they would not regret this price. They just offered to pay the silver bill."

Bai Minghe didn't understand anything anymore.

"Why must cash in?"

"Since the adult asked, the young one would tell the truth. During the Taizu period, one tael of silver could be exchanged for one thousand pieces of money. But now there are too many inferior money. One tael of silver in the capital can be exchanged for one thousand eight hundred pieces of money on the black market. If it is in Nanzhili, it can reach a maximum of 2,600 pieces of money, and the worst is 2,400 pieces of money. At least..., the adults understand!"

Ordinary people dare not evaluate whether banknotes are good or bad. Anyway, banknotes are already waste paper in the eyes of merchants.

The white-known crane laughed, laughing loudly.

Bai Minghe's smile made these businessmen completely unaware of it, even Qinghe didn't understand why.

Only Bai Minghe himself knew that Bai Minghe's original understanding was that these people only had money, just like in modern times in later generations. They only needed to receive cash, even accept bills of exchange. They didn't have to be willing to use assets to pay the bills, because they would definitely suffer losses.

These merchants only need money, but it turns out that money is worthless and money is even more wasteful.

After laughing, Bai Minghe said, "I don't have any money, and I only have tens of thousands of taels. It's just enough for my family to eat and drink. Therefore, it's impossible to settle the bill with money."

"Gold is OK, I'm willing to pay seven thousand taels of jade!"

"The youngest wished to pay 7,500 taels. During the Taizu period, there were jadeites from Yunnan to Nanjing. At that time, the size of a fist was worth 300 taels of silver. The adults had a very good color and water head, even 8,000 taels of silver, and the youngest were willing to buy it."

So that's it. It's not just about cash, but about hard currency, no bad money, and no money.

"Forget this, I will contribute as a tribute. If you want the remaining small ones, you can buy them. The misunderstanding has been resolved. I thought you only need money, but I thought you were making things difficult for me, obviously not. Since that's the case, I will serve as an official today, and I will ask you to have a drink and discuss some business by the way."

As soon as Bai Minghe said this, the atmosphere inside the house immediately changed.

From the somewhat hostile attitude just now, at least it has become something that can be discussed. Whether it is Bai Minghe or these businessmen, they all think that they can sit down and communicate and talk to each other.

I changed my room and it was a restaurant where Bai Minghe entertained guests.

There are some calligraphy and paintings hanging around, almost all of which are from Qinghe. There are two calligraphy and paintings that are the hard work of Lu Qiyuan and Tao Liwen. The most accurate one is Zhu Jianshen’s calligraphy practice. As the first complete poem written by Zhu Jianshen, the white-name crane is hung in the middle.

There are orchids around, and the furniture is mainly simple. This is the style of Qinghe.

"Sir, why is this room very different from the style of the adult study?" A businessman asked, Pure and Jing were curious.
Chapter completed!