Chapter 467: Storage Capacity
Just as the prefect Tao was about to make an excuse for Liu Peng, Ai Qinghai added: "By the way, Tao Fujun, you have to persuade Inspection Liu to do a good job. He is a little underestimated about the current situation in Dengzhou. He thought that 10,000 or 20,000 silver dollars could solve the problem, but you have also seen how many ten thousand stones of rice beans were transported from Liaodong..."
Ten or 20,000 taels of silver, not to mention solving the bulk rice beans transported from Liaodong, there is no way to solve the current shortage of money that Dengzhou Prefecture is facing. Therefore, after Ai Qinghai said this, Tao Zhifu felt more and more desperate.
I have to find a way to let Liu Peng come back from Laizhou early, and he had to put more money on it. Master Tao suddenly lit up his eyes and patted his thighs and said, "Boss Ai, please hurry to Laizhou Prefecture and invite Inspection Liu back as soon as possible."
Ai Qinghai said, "I'm afraid it's not easy to invite me!"
Tao Zhifu laughed: "Okay, please, this time it's very good. Just tell Inspection Liu that I want to recommend him to Zhaoyuan to be the county magistrate. Didn't he always want the position of this county magistrate? Now that my dream has come true, why don't he come back quickly? If he doesn't come back, he may have to change the position of Zhaoyuan County magistrate."
Speaking of this, the prefect Tao said again: "Even the old prefect Wang can't stop inspector Liu from rushing back. He can't stop inspector Liu from being promoted and making money!"
There are naturally a hundred unreasonable reasons for the magistrate Wang to force his stay in the guest. Liu Peng is just a ninth-rank inspector. He cannot go to Laizhou Prefecture City for a walk, but the next thing is related to Liu Peng's future. Even if the magistrate Wang has a hundred reasons, he cannot keep Liu Peng.
Therefore, Ai Qinghai nodded repeatedly: "It's still the Lord Mingfu who thinks it carefully, but the villain dares to ask, are you, the county magistrate, really kept for Mr. Liu?"
Ai Qinghai's dialect was a bit doubtful about the credit of the Prime Minister Tao, but he had a reason to ask this question. The Prime Minister Tao has been trying hard to suppress Liu Peng for the past six months, at least he could not let Liu Peng take office as the magistrate of Zhaoyuan County.
After all, according to the normal promotion process, ordinary people need to go through at least two or three exams to be promoted from inspection to county magistrate.
Under normal circumstances, it will take at least ten years to be promoted from a ninth-rank inspection to an eighth-rank county magistrate, and Liu Peng is a clerk and is even more discriminated against. Generally, when he reaches the inspection position, he cannot move up. Even if Liu Peng is well-informed, he may still be on the spot for twenty years.
Therefore, this severe drought that had not been encountered in hundreds of years is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Liu Peng. If you miss this opportunity, Liu Peng will have to wait for at least another ten years, so Liu Peng is determined to win. Tao Gong even thought that the reason why Liu Peng went to Laizhou Prefecture at this critical moment was that he refused to give up the position of Zhaoyuan County Magistrate.
But due to the situation, no matter what Liu Peng thought, the prefect Tao must bow to reality: "I, Tao Lang, first, said one is one, and two is two. Just tell Inspection Liu that I have written a good question book, and there is absolutely no problem in the mansion. The key to the next lies in the province!"
There is no problem in the capital. Liu Peng has the support of Yao Changgong, and the position of a county magistrate is irrelevant. The key is what the province thinks, whether Liu Peng can do the job of the governor Qian Shiwan, but Master Tao thought he had done his best, but Ai Qinghai turned his back: "My Lord Mingfu, this is not possible. You must convince the province so that this matter can be done smoothly."
Ai Qinghai's worries are naturally affectionate and willing to the people. If the prefect Tao supported Liu Peng as the prefect of Zhaoyuan County Magistrate but actually interfered with it, then Liu Peng could only see the county magistrate sighing.
But when Master Tao heard this, he was furious and said, "I, Mr. Tao, is such an ignorant person? Tell Liu Peng, I will do my best to do my best to help him do my best to do this."
Ai Qinghai immediately became excited: "Okay, I'll go and notify Inspection Liu. By the way, I think it's best to bring one or two old friends from Inspection Liu when I'm in Huang County, so that it's more convenient to do things like that!"
Master Tao was very concerned about such small details, so he immediately asked: "Which old friend of Inspection Commissioner Liu? Tell me, maybe I know you too."
Ai Qinghai immediately said, "Master, you should know that inspector Liu has a personal wife from the Beishan Gu clan, and the Beishan Gu clan is the best in Gu Kunlin and has the best friendship with Miss Gu Mengyu. This Gu Kunlin and I are friends of life and death."
This is pure nonsense. Gu Kunlin and Ai Qinghai are just friends for several times, but now the Prime Minister Tao put all his hopes on Ai Qinghai: "Okay, okay, tell Gu Kunlin that as long as this matter is done, I will naturally let the mansion take good care of his business!"
But with Gu Kunlin's help, Master Tao still felt that it was not safe: "Boss Ai, you should bring more reliable old friends over there. By the way, you should also invite Magistrate Cao to come and invite Inspection Commissioner Liu back as soon as possible. This matter is of great importance, don't be careless!"
After seeing Ai Qinghai away, Master Tao felt worried. After thinking for a long time, he didn't care about his identity and ordered the people below to inform him to go out for inspection Liu Pengliu to return soon. The Beihai Money House will soon be fully loaned. Please be sure to keep your guard.
Just saying this, Master Tao was still worried. He ordered Butler Xie San to say: "Tell everyone, I have decided to recommend Liu Pengliu to the position of the Zhaoyuan County Magistrate."
Butler Xie San immediately said, "Master, this is the blessing of Inspection Commissioner Liu!"
However, Master Tao did not have much expectations for the effectiveness of this news, but it was different from his imagination. After the news spread, the entire Dengzhou city returned to peace. Thousands of hungry people temporarily stopped the riots, and the local brave men of Dengzhou camp also maintained a wait-and-see attitude.
Only thousands of refugees from the Wind Sect in Pingshan were still looting villages everywhere, but lost the support of the citizens and local heroes in the city. Their actions were greatly hindered. What made everyone even more happy was that the price of rice finally returned to the right track of one stone and three taels of silver.
The reason why I am back on track is that the price of the Rice Industry Association is always a stone of rice and three taels of silver. However, in the past few days, the rice shops raised the price without authorization, and the rice price rose to nearly four taels when it was the highest. Before Liaodong rice came in, it cost at least three taels and six cents, but now the actual transaction price has finally returned to the right track.
This riot also scared the Liaodong merchants. They did not expect such a commotion to occur in Dengzhou. Moreover, the riots of hungry people in the city once caused them to suffer losses. Although they only lost more than a dozen stones of rice, they had to admit that storing rice beans in the open air was a very bad choice.
But they couldn't find a suitable warehouse at all. They shipped too many rice beans. Although some of them were sold on the spot, the rice beans they still had nearly one million stones in hand. They were crowded with them, both in Penglai Water City and some temporary warehouses in Dengzhou.
They temporarily built many rain-proof greenhouses, but everyone knows that although such greenhouses can barely shelter from the wind and rain, they can only be used as temporary transit warehouses. All the grains preserved over time may rot. Now a batch of suitable warehouses must be found to store grains.
But after wandering around the city for a long time, they found that the grain warehouse they could find could only store up to 8,000 stones of rice beans. For nearly one million stones of rice beans, it was a drop in the bucket. Moreover, these warehouses were scattered in several places, which were far apart and extremely inconvenient.
The most suitable and only best choice in Dengzhou City is Hefengcang. Now most of the corn and grains in Hefengcang have been cleared, and most of the Kurong has been vacant. This is the best choice. However, although Liaodong merchants think so, Hefengcang is unwilling to do this. They fight with the mansion directly and even take the prefect Tao back in person.
Hefengcang was justified. Hefengcang was not only a prefecture warehouse, but also a Weicang of Dengzhou Wei. The salary of millions of soldiers and civilians in Dengzhou was stored here, and the responsibility was particularly heavy, so they did not dare to hand over the Hefengcang warehouse to a group of merchants for stewardship.
This matter is of great importance and must not be careless. If the mansion must do it recklessly, then Hefengkuang will definitely give the mansion a face, but the mansion must take the responsibility and send Hefengkuang a black and white official document. At that time, Hefengkuang will be able to escape unscathed in the court.
However, although the Prime Minister Tao wanted to get rich, he did not want to take responsibility at all. After a few disputes with Zhao Xianxing, Zhao Xianxing, the ambassador of the warehouse, must take responsibility at the time. Tao Tai naturally shrank as soon as possible. He no longer asked He Fengcang to accept rice beans from Liaodong merchants, but handed over the pressure to the reserve warehouse.
The warehouse officer in the preparation warehouse was not an official position, but was actually just an official. He could not withstand the pressure from Tao Gong, and immediately vacate the warehouse and let the rice valley in Liaodong be deposited in.
However, they only freed up all the warehouses, but only 32,000 stones, which could not meet the needs of Liaodong merchants. Liaodong merchants knew that the reserve warehouses had always been leaking everywhere, so they had to send people to stare at the reserve warehouses.
Under the current circumstances, the Liaodong merchants suddenly became embarrassed. Even Jin Baiwan, the initiator, did not expect that the situation would worsen so seriously. He could only cheer everyone up: "Everyone hold on for another three or five days. The prefect Tao has already come to Laizhou to invite Master Liu Peng and Liu. As long as Master Liu comes back, the Beihai Money House can release at least 200,000 to 300,000 silver dollars, and everyone's rice beans can be sold well!"
"So what if we have 200,000 taels of silver, we have nearly one million stone bean rice!" Tong Guoyong said this. He is from the Tong family in Liaodong, so he doesn't give gold a million face at all: "If we want to make money, this Liu Shao has to release millions of bank tickets!"
Someone immediately replied: "That's definitely impossible. It is said that this young master Liu will give up at most 100,000 taels at a time. This time he even planned to put up 100,000 taels and 200,000 taels. The number of 200,000 to 300,000 taels is still what Master Tao said, and Mr. Liu hasn't agreed yet!"
Chapter completed!