In the government office signing room, the tea was cold and the conversation continued.

"Why is this?" Although I already had my own guess, I still hoped to hear what the parties involved said.

Chen Hongchang wiped the sweat beads on his forehead and said, "I also found it strange, so I paid attention to it and asked from many sources that I realized that many people bought this cake, not for themselves, but for gifts to relatives and friends. Moreover, the recipients may not necessarily eat it themselves, because everyone has personal relationships, and if you want to give gifts, they should choose Wanfuji first." As he said, he said proudly, "Our Wanfuji's pastry cakes are exquisitely packaged, exquisitely used materials, and unique methods, and are recognized by Suzhou people."

He nodded silently and signaled him to continue, then listened to Chen Hongchang: "So the buyers don't eat them, and the gifts don't eat them, and they can even pass them on forever... But the problem is that the pastry cakes will grow hair and change their flavor after being stored for a long time, and they can't give them to others." He said with a smile: "Besides, carrying the huge cake box to someone else's house is both inconvenient and eye-catching."

Hearing that he said this, Chen Hongchang couldn't help but look at the cake box on the table, which made Chen Hongchang nervously: "This is produced by a villain, and of course it is not eye-catching to respect adults."

Chen Sixiao did not answer, but said, "So many people bought this kind of white strips and gave them to others. Anyway, whoever wants to eat crispy cakes can go to your house to exchange them. If you want to continue, don't exchange them, so that you will not be afraid of rottenness, right?"

Chen Hongchang really admired: "Sir, so amazing."

Silent smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "What's next?"

Chen Hongchang took a deep breath and whispered: "Later, I thought secretly that I had to use oil and noodles to make a box of crispy cakes, and I had to use artificial labor. I couldn't get hundreds of boxes a day. But this kind of white strips can be used to collect money without investing. Wouldn't it be profitable?"

Chen Hongchang frowned slightly, pursed his lips and did not blame him. He then heard Chen Hongchang say, "So I started printing cake coupons with my private seal and sold them on the storefront. The benefits of selling cake coupons are really tempting... First, the cakes can be collected in advance before they are released, and I don't have to worry about asking for credit as before. Second, the money for selling cake coupons can be used to do other businesses, and no profit is required, which means that others lend me money in vain. Also, the cake coupons in the hands of customers will always be partially lost or damaged, and these unchanged cakes will be earned in vain."

"So the owners of those cloth shops, butchers and rice shops were jealous when they saw it, and they rushed to imitate and started selling cloth coupons, meat coupons, rice coupons?" asked silently.

"Yes..." Chen Hongchang whispered.

"The abacus is indeed smart." Silently said: "If you can control your desire to make money within a certain limit, it is a genius' creativity."

"Yes..." Chen Hongchang covered his cheek with his hands and said, "But later the development of the situation exceeded my expectations. Because the face value of the cake coupon was not indicated on it, the price was paid at the time of purchase, and there was no need to refund more and make up when picking up the goods." After a while, he explained to the silence: "The cake is made of grain, and the price changes with the price of grain. Originally, Jiangnan was a land of fish and rice, and the grain harvest was almost every year, but in recent years, the military disasters were severe, and the Japanese came and went without a trace, which caused the price of grain to fluctuations, which also made the price of cakes several times different from the price of cakes. Some smart people saved the cake coupons at home and sold them to others when the price of cakes increased."

Fearing that Chen Si did not understand the mystery, Chen Hongchang asked carefully: "Do you know what's going on?"

"Chasing for the rise and selling the fall." Silently said lightly.

Chen Hongchang was completely convinced. It seems that although this Master Guan is young, he is extremely smart.

"Yes, it's just chasing the rise... and selling the fall." Chen Hongchang nodded and said, "But there are also impatient people who disdain to wait for the situation. They started buying and selling short by betting on the harvest of the next year. If the next year is a good year, the current cake coupons will fall; if the next year is a waste, the current cake coupons will rise."

"Not only cake coupons, but other coupons on the market are also used to speculate. Among them, those pawn shops and ticket accounts with strong strength are profitable. They not only rely on their strong capital to get a share of the pie and easily manipulate the price, but also accept the mortgage of various coupons of the people and make profits."

After Chen Hongchang finished speaking, he asked silently: "Have you ever thought about such a danger?"

"Thinking about it," Chen Hongchang said, "If all the cake coupons released by our store are to be cashed out, it will take fifteen years without accepting new orders... and we are still conservative, and the coupons released by other stores will not be paid out in 50 years." He said, "Once there is a run, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Since you know the danger, why don't you stop?" asked silently.

"Can't stop," Chen Hongchang looked at the silent with his eyes begging: "Now we just want to stop, and those strong pawnshops and silver boxes are not allowed."

"Do they threaten you with force?" asked silently: "Don't worry, let's talk about it, I will make the decision for you."

"No force threatening," Chen Hongchang said bitterly: "They hold a lot of coupons in their hands and threaten us privately. As long as anyone dares to ignore the manipulation, they will kill any one of them... Their silver bank is backed by noble officials, so how can our small account compete with them." He said with a long sigh: "Actually, now, the entire Suzhou City has been kidnapped by them. They have the final say on how much the things are worth and how many coupons should be issued."

"If this continues, sooner or later, the prices in Suzhou City will collapse completely. These tickets will be worthless, and everyone will suffer heavy losses. The angry people will peel us up." After saying that, he knelt on the ground and said, "The villain is greedy for a moment, and has embarked on this path of no return. He is willing to bear all the blame, but..." He kowtowed and said, "The Story of Wanfu is the hard work of the villain's ancestors for hundreds of years. Please help protect the sign and reputation, otherwise the villain will be in the dark."

"I thought of your ancestors for a long time, so I shouldn't just think about money," he cursed silently, "At you get up, I will not sit idly by."

"Thank you!" Chen Hongchang said in surprise: "If you can get rescued, the villain is willing to give up his ill-gotten fortune in the past few years." He also said: "If necessary, the villain can meet with several owners of the ticket number and pawnshop on behalf of the adult."

"This matter must be discussed for a long time." Silent said slowly: "Don't alert the snake."

"Then if they ask me, what do the adults ask me for, and how should the villain reply?" Chen Hongchang asked.

"Just say," said silently: "I recognize my own family..."

When Chen Hongchang heard this, he was immediately excited and burst into tears. He knew that the adults said that he would definitely save himself, otherwise how could he recognize relatives? He kowtowed to Chen Si repeatedly: "Nephew Hongchang, I've kowtowed to my cousin."

I thought silently that you really know how to climb along the way, and couldn't help but smile and said, "I dare not take it..." but I didn't refuse at all.

The reason why he recognized this family was to protect Chen Hongchang because this person was the first iconic figure to issue coupons. If this person fell, Suzhou's "ticket world" would definitely trigger a trust crisis, and then a chain reaction, causing a major earthquake!

After Chen Hongchang left, only Chen Silent was left in the entrustment room. He stood in the hall with his hands behind his back, looking at a simple and white central hall on the wall, and wrote a letter saying: "Be worried about the world first, worry about the world first, and be happy about the world later." Looking at the inscription, this was left by the prefect, and he was too lazy to take it off.

Looking at the two lines of big words, his silent thoughts flew out of the sky. In the past, he could not imagine that such a precursor financial transaction had already appeared in the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century. If it continued to develop smoothly, it might be formed into a securities and futures market of a certain scale, right?

But if you are a little more rational, you will know that this short selling, full of speculation and luck, as well as non-performing asset mortgage loans, is more likely to trigger a small financial crisis, which will cleanse Suzhou Prefecture’s wealth while also stifling this gratifying gadget in its infancy.

These days, Chen Si has figured it out. With his own strength, he can never challenge the order of the entire society. Without a big era, a big trend, this damn imperial power is supreme, the landlord rule, and the consciousness of small peasants will not be changed by anyone.

So what he should do is to take care of some things that have already sprouted or even existed to grow up; to pierce some window paper that blocks people's sight; to kill some potential dangers, and to do these three things well, he will be worthy of his heart.

Let the rest be left to this great era with all possibilities!

The dead end that had been entangled in my heart was finally untied. I felt my whole body full of strength in my silence. I suddenly heard a gurgling sound. When I looked down, I realized that it was the sound in my stomach. I couldn't help but smile and said loudly: "Come here, the master is going to have a meal."

The maids had been waiting outside with plates, but they did not dare to enter the sign-in room without being summoned. After hearing the silence, they delivered exquisite dishes like flowing water.

In the afternoon, I had enough food and drink, and had a lunch break. I came to the second hall in silence and spirits to continue working. The door of the second hall is called Yin Gong Gate. Yin Gong comes from the "Shangshu" "Tong Yin Xie Gong", which means that colleagues should work together and cooperate sincerely. Because this is the daily office of the prefect, and the important institutions of the government office are mostly arranged around this place, such as the Grain Catching Hall on the east side, the Criminal Hall on the west side, the Tax Division on the southeast side, and the Shumo Station on the southwest side.

The subordinates had been waiting in the second hall for a long time. After asking about the case, Chen Si ordered the Book Office to collect the notes written by everyone. After a few glances, he frowned slightly and ordered the Book Office on the other side to say, "Get a blackboard and chalk."

The Book Office quickly went to the ear room to get it. According to the requirements of Silence, he was on the side of the case. Silence ordered the two Book Offices to sing and write, and wrote all the contents on the note on the blackboard.

After finishing the reading, he looked at the blackboard silently and said with a smile: "You are really enthusiastic. The tax department in Beppu only cares about collecting taxes, but our tax ambassador is also responsible for the public security, horse government, and inspections on the market... so many things do you have to do with the inspection department?" As he said that, he looked at the inspection department and said: "Oh, it turns out that the inspection department is working part-time in warehouses, rivers, canals, ditches, and roads."

Then we counted the departments and houses, and all had serious problems of confusion of power and responsibilities. For those who were short of poverty, several departments often claimed to be responsible for them, but no one took care of those who were short of poverty, as if they never existed.

Looking at the people who were smiling embarrassedly, silently and smiled brightly: "Everyone is very active. With everyone sharing the burden, I will feel much more relaxed."

Everyone said yes, but they laughed in their hearts and said: "It is you who always take the blame." On the one hand, it is to deceive him in his youth and have no moral integrity. On the other hand, it is because there is no job responsibility system at this time, and everyone's rights and responsibilities are extremely unclear. When they have errands, they are quarrel with each other, and they are quarrel with each other when they have problems. In the end, they can't tell them clearly and they have to take the blame, be punished, or even be transferred and demoted.

Someone asked, isn’t it that ‘the official is high and the first level to crush someone to death’? How could it be that the prefect took the blame for his subordinates? Or is it the problem of the term of office of the official seal officer being too short. If it was like in the early years, all the subordinates who had worked in office for nine years, would be treated as smooth and thorny.

But now officials are transferred every three years, and even change in less than three years. In this way, the Duke has changed one after another, but most of them, the subordinates of the Duke have lived here forever. The officials are only perfunctory to the Duke like a lantern, just like sending a god away, and sending one away is one.

But silence is not easy to play with. He pulled his face and said in a deep voice: "You may not know that my father, from a small scholar in Shaoxing Prefecture, has been gradually becoming a magistrate of Shaoxing. Under the influence of his eyes, I know this matter in the yamen." He said with a sneer: "I had known that you would call the errands outside the yamen as the Wuwei Shop, the 'sour' school officials of the School Office, the 'sweet' are all kinds of taxation, rivers, slaughtering ambassadors, etc., "bitters" are stations, boats, and "spicy" are patrols, and city defense; "salty" are Yin and Yang Shops and clinics, etc.... Everyone is afraid of heavy things, and likes sweetness and hates bitterness. I didn't expect that the same is true for our Suzhou Prefecture."

When the officials heard that the adults were actually a wise man, they couldn't help but regret it. They said, "The main reason is to share more burdens for the adults. If the work is done, it's not all that is the only one who can do it. We are the ones who are here to run more and get tired."

"It sounds nice." If you want to do something practical, you naturally cannot let your subordinates be perfunctory. He frowned and said in a more stressful tone: "What if you miss the job? It's all my fault. This will make you neither motivation nor pressure, and just focus on making money. It is obviously inappropriate."

‘I didn’t expect to understand it very well…’ Everyone was surprised, but they still thought indifferently: ‘But what should be done?’

But he heard the silent voice raised his voice and said, "So, I will implement a set of assessment methods in the government office, redistribute your responsibilities according to the regulations of the court, set a deadline for what should be done, and register them on two books separately. One book is left for me, and the other book is the one you hold. Each of the corresponding things you have completed must be logged out. Otherwise, it must be declared truthfully. I will check once a month, fail to complete the salary penalty and fail to complete the demotion twice. If there is a third time, congratulations on your release and will not be used to go to work in the future."

Everyone was in an uproar, thinking that this would not force us to death. I gave each other a wink and said boldly: "Sir, we don't care if you do this, but when you take office, you are unconventional, which may cause unhappiness to the top..."

Silently sneered, bowed to the northern capital and said, "The emperor's kindness is so great that I granted the right to deal with the officials under my jurisdiction to the momentum. You only need to file a record later... Hu Butang also supports this matter."

Everyone was stunned, but their arms could not resist their thighs, so they had to comfort themselves: 'According to the past rules, the new official took office for three fires, and was ambitious, and did whatever he should do after the burning, so they gritted their teeth and thrust over, right? Then they all cheered up and took on the errand.

Gui Youguang was quite supportive and asked in a low voice: "Main Lord, will this regulation be implemented in the prefectures and counties below?"

Silent shook his head slowly and said, "No need." Of course, he will implement it sooner or later, but now he has not set up authority and has not seen any results. It is not the time to promote it. It is better to try it under your nose first, and then look at the results.

He asked the officials to go back and wait for the summons, and left the back hall in silence. Then he saw Sanchi looking at the door. When he saw the adults coming out, he hurried over and said, "Eunuch Huang is here."

Silent moved slightly and said, "Take me over." Then he followed Sanchi to the outside signing room and saw four little eunuchs in purple standing at the door.

"Eunuch Huang is here, I am in a position to welcome you. I am forgiven for your crimes!" Silently adjusted his mentality and walked in with a cheerful smile.
Chapter completed!