When Ji Xiaotang walked into the study, County Magistrate Xie was talking to Master Ji Er in an official uniform. ￠￡￡. When Ji Xiaotang came in, both of them stopped talking and looked at Ji Xiaotang with a smile.

Ji Xiaotang stepped forward to salute County Magistrate Xie. County Magistrate Xie hurriedly reached out to help him, so that Ji Xiaotang would not have to be too polite.

"Xiaotang is more and more like a big girl." Xie Zhixian looked at Ji Xiaotang and smiled lovingly. "I envy Brother Ji. Although Xiaotang is young, he can be the leader of Ji. Unlike Huaijin, he still has to worry about everything for him."

"Brother Ziqian has given me a prize, haha." Master Ji Er laughed and asked Ji Xiaotang to sit down. "Uncle thanked you to borrow food. Xiaotang, how much surplus food is left at home?"

"Uncle Xie's family also lacks food, why didn't he listen to Brother Huaijin's mention?" Ji Xiaotang said in surprise, "Since Uncle Xie's family wants food, why do you say borrowing words? Of course, we have food and use it, and Uncle Xie and Uncle."

"Xiaotang said this to me so warmly." County Magistrate Xie smiled, "It's not that my uncle's family wants to use grain. Uncle this time, it was because the court had the will to ask county officials from all over the country to raise grain. In Qingyuan County, I thought of your father the first thing I thought of."

"So that's how it is." Ji Xiaotang quickly exchanged a glance with Master Ji Er after hearing what County Magistrate Xie said. "You, I would like to ask Uncle Xie, what is the specific constitution for the court to raise food?"

In addition to the taxes that should be paid every year, the court had to raise grain from the big households, and it was not empty talk, just a word.

When Xie Zhixian was old when he heard Ji Xiaotang's question, he couldn't help but nodded in his heart. Although Ji Xiaotang was young, he was well-versed in history and was very knowledgeable about the world. No one could fool the world easily. It's no wonder that Master Ji Er and Mrs. Ji Er were relieved to let her housekeeper, and they had to discuss such major issues at home and make an idea.

County Magistrate Xie had just proposed to Mr. Ji Er to borrow grain. Mr. Ji Er did not comment. He only said that he did not know how much surplus grain there was in his family and needed to ask Ji Xiaotang, who had asked the butler.

Of course, this is not something that can be hidden from the magistrate Xie. Master Ji Er doesn't like to worry about these common affairs, but nowadays, Master Ji Er can't be confused about the major issues like grain. He asked Ji Xiaotang to ask how much surplus grain there was, but in fact he meant to ask Ji Xiaotang to discuss it.

"I have told your father just now," Xie Magistrate thought this way, but he refused to show it at all on the surface, and he still smiled very kindly. "... The court raised these grains and planned to send them to the north as military rations for border troops. Now the Northern Barbarians are ready to invade in time, and there is not enough food and grass in the border troops. Although we cannot go to battle to kill the enemy, every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and as the people of the Qin Dynasty, he should also do his part."

"The court did not ask for this grain for nothing. It purchased it at the price. When the grain was delivered to the north and received the receipt, it could come to the county government to collect the price of silver." After Xie Zhixian talked, he added this sentence.

County Magistrate Xie said it was high-sounding, but Ji Xiaotang was not an ignorant woman who was ignorant of the world.

The so-called purchase at a price is actually a purchase at a low price. ∏∈. For example, when Xie Zhixian raised grain in the Ji family, the county government will only send a few servants. When transporting the grain from Qingyuan to the location of the northern border army, the Ji family needs to send people and vehicles. The amount of grain is based on the number of losses on the road and the number when reaching the destination.

And these grains purchased at low prices can eventually become military rations in the border army, and most of them will be fed to others and resold at high prices.

This kind of private corruption has been around for a long time and has almost become a regular law, and the more natural disasters it encounters, the more rampant it becomes.

Moreover, Ren'an had a severe drought, and the local area was already in short supply of food. This court's order was aggravated by Ren'an. The sudden outbreak of civil unrest in his previous life due to the severe drought, which led to famine and subsequent public chaos in his previous life was largely inseparable from this matter.

"The court has a destiny, Uncle Xie comes in person, and the Ji family should do their best. I wonder how much food Uncle Xie plans to demand?" Ji Xiaotang lowered his head and thought about it, and then asked the Magistrate Xie.

Ji Xiaotang asked this, and Xie Ziqian's face also showed some embarrassment.

"There are generally severe droughts in the north. Compared with that, the situation in Ren'an Prefecture is better, and the disaster in Qingyuan is the clearest." Xie Magistrate said slowly, "Therefore, the share distributed by the imperial court is quite large."

"The court has a destiny and ordered Qingyuan County to raise 50,000 dan of grain, but it was forced to replace it with money. I led the county government to clean up Qingyuan's land booklets overnight. It should be 12,000 dan of grain on the Ji family..."

When County Magistrate Xie said this, he looked at the faces of Master Ji Er and Ji Xiaotang.

"It's indeed a little more, but the country is in trouble. I decided to make a decision, only ten thousand burdens, but I have to prepare for the North Transportation today."

"So much!" Ji Xiaotang raised his eyebrows slightly.

Ten thousand harbors of grain, let alone this year's famine, even in previous years, it would not be possible to raise it in a short while. Of course, this amount is not a problem for the Ji family today, because the Ji family had already been garrisoning grain two years in advance.

However, this matter is a secret and is unknown to outsiders. This batch of grain also has other important uses, and Ji Xiaotang never intends to take out the grain now.

That was the life-saving food for the Ji family and the people of Qingyuan.

"Dad, can you show me the imperial court's grain raising documents?" Ji Xiaotang asked Master Ji Er.

Master Ji Er smiled helplessly.

"You kid, I don't have any food raising documents here." Master Ji Er said this, but his eyes looked at Magistrate Xie.

County Magistrate Xie had already understood and hurriedly took out a document from his sleeve.

"Just about to leave it to Brother Ji, Brother Ji ordered someone to call Xiaotang. ￠￡,”

"She was the first time in charge of her family, so she was so childish and serious. Brother Ziqian, don't mind." Mr. Ji Er said this, but he had already taken the document into his hands.

Master Ji Er read the document and handed it to Ji Xiaotang without saying a word.

Ji Xiaotang also read the documents from beginning to end, and there was no difference between the documents and what County Magistrate Xie said.

After reading the document, Ji Xiaotang respectfully returned the document to Master Ji Er, who turned to Magistrate Xie. Ji Xiaotang asked the girl to deliver the account book.

The account book was sent, but Ji Xiaotang did not hide it from the county magistrate Xie, so he simply handed the account book to the county magistrate Xie to read.

"Who would have thought that this year's annual growth would be like this? The grain in previous years had been exhausted, and only this is the harvest this year. I planned to save some of my own and give all the remaining porridge. Now it seems that even if I don't keep a grain of food at home, it will not be enough to fill the 100,000 yuan." Ji Xiaotang said slowly.

"I don't care about these things on weekdays, and this situation is ten times worse than I thought. What should I do?" Master Ji Er also said.

At this time, County Magistrate Xie had already read the account book in a glance. He seemed not to care, but in fact he had already kept all the number on the account book in his heart.

"Brother Ji, the food from previous years has not been saved at all?" Xie Zhixian asked Master Ji Er.

"It was still a bit, but last year Xiaotang and her uncle quarreled to invest money in the Wanjia Fleet. I had no choice but to let the subordinates sell the grain and raise some money. I thought that it was only these family backgrounds, and they would go with their uncle and nephew. Who knew that they would encounter the year of this year! Now that we have money, it is difficult to buy a lot of food, and it is too late to regret it."

Master Ji Er looked very upset.

Xie Zhixian knew about the Ji family investing in the fleet and opening foreign goods shops. Moreover, there was no flaw in the account book that Ji Xiaotang showed him and the words of the Ji family father and daughter.

The expression on Xie Zhixian’s face became even more embarrassing.

"I also know Brother Ji's difficulties. It's not the one who makes things difficult for me. This is a major family and country. If I could make the decision, I wouldn't have come to find Brother Ji." County Magistrate Xie said it very emotionally.

Ji Xiaotang looked at Xie Magistrate and then at Master Ji Er. She knew that Xie Magistrate came with the imperial court documents this time, and if he didn't give him the food, he would definitely not be able to get over it.

"Uncle Xie, I don't think the document stipulates that you can pay enough food once. So can you be lenient for a few days to allow us to find ways to raise food? If you want it now, even if you take out all our stored food, it will not be enough."

"Oh, that's how..." County Magistrate Xie was a little hesitant.

"Please be kind to Uncle Xie." Ji Xiaotang said immediately.

"Xiaotang said this, I had to do my best, just..."

"We will not make Uncle Xie embarrassed, and will immediately start to beat people out to buy food. Before that, according to the days that Uncle Xie said before, we will first find a way to raise three thousand dans of food to send to Uncle Xie to the north, which can also solve the urgent problem." Ji Xiaotang turned around, discussed with Master Ji for a while, and then turned around and said.

"Brother Ziqian, you know me. Naturally, you spare no effort in this kind of thing. There is really no way to do it. Brother Ziqian first accepts this batch of food and asks me to find a way for the rest." Master Ji Er also said sincerely.

County Magistrate Xie thought about it and found that this was indeed all the stored grain that the Ji family could take out. The rest of the food Ji family also needed to spend money to buy. The current price of grain is almost the same every day. Even so, it is not easy to buy enough of the remaining seven thousand dans of grain.

The Ji family is going to lose money this time. According to his calculations, the Ji family will not have too much money now. They have to buy the remaining 7,000 dan, where does this money come from...

Xie Zhixian couldn't help but lift the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Okay, let's do it, Brother Ji and Xiaotang." County Magistrate Xie agreed happily.

After deciding on the matter of food, Xie Magistrate did not stay in the Ji family for a long time, but quickly said goodbye and left. Now, unlike the past, he also had to go there in person to ensure that the grain was collected on schedule.

After seeing off Magistrate Xie, Master Ji Er and Ji Xiaotang returned to the study and sat down.

"Three thousand dans of grain..., forgot..." Master Ji Er wanted to speak at Ji Xiaotang, but stopped, and only sighed softly, his face full of heavy weight.

"Dad, do you think it's too much?" Ji Xiaotang asked, "I think it's too much, but if it doesn't, Uncle Xie won't let us go."

"You're talking about it." Mr. Ji Er also understood this truth, and asked in a low voice, "Xiaotang, do you see any flaws when you look at the document?"

When Master Ji Er asked this, Ji Xiaotang knew that the father and daughter had thought of going there.

"There is no major problem on the surface, unless Uncle Xie is so brave that he fakes the documents." Ji Xiaotang said that it was because he did not see the problems in the documents that Ji Xiaotang was willing to give these three thousand dans of food.

"I just suspect that he faked the documents." Mr. Ji frowned and said.

"How do you say this from Dad?"

Mr. Ji Er also worked as a local parent official and handled the matter of raising food and grass in this way. It was just that because the border is in urgent need, many things cannot be generalized as usual. However, Mr. Ji Er still realized that there were many things wrong with raising food and grass in County Magistrate Xie this time.

But he was not sure that this was a problem for Magistrate Xie, because it might have been a foolish move by the court.

"Dad's doubts need to be verified slowly, but we must not refuse to give this first batch of food and grass." Otherwise, we will be charged with disobeying the imperial orders.

"Dad, I'm just worried about whether this batch of food and grass can be sent to the border in the end." After a pause, Ji Xiaotang said again.

"Xiaotang, what you mean is..." This time, Master Ji Er was surprised.

Ji Xiaotang did not answer immediately. She narrowed her eyes slightly and remembered her previous experience.

It was also at this time that Xie Magistrate also came to ask for food and grass. At that time, the Ji family was in a turmoil, but they still had some family fortune. Master Ji Er was encouraged by Xie Magistrate, so he took over the big deal. Not only did he hand over all the stored grains at home, but he also spent a lot of money to purchase a large amount of grain, and sent all the loyal and strong servants in the family to transport grain to the border.

This righteous act, coupled with the plot of Master Ji San being conspired by a character, eventually crushed the Ji family.

The food and grass that the Ji family raised with all their strength was not sent to the border in the end. The food and grass had just left Ren'an Mansion and was robbed at the junction of Ren'an Mansion and Datong Mansion.

None of the people sent by the Ji family were able to come back alive.

This time, Master Ji Er was vigilant and did not offer all the Ji family's family's assets. Will the final destination of this batch of food and grass still be the same as in the previous life?

"Dad, I want to write a letter to my grandfather." Ji Xiaotang said to Master Ji Er.

...

Three days later, the Ji family had prepared three thousand dans of food. At the same time, the Mu family happened to beat someone to bring a truck of fresh fruit to Mrs. Ji Er. The person who escorted the vehicle was a manager of the Mu family.

Mrs. Ji Er asked someone to collect fresh fruits, so she called the manager to the house to speak.

The manager got into the house, took off the big hat on his head, and laughed out loud.

"Uncle." Ji Xiaotang shouted happily.

Mu Hong had already received Ji Xiaotang's letter, but was not assured to hit someone and sent the letter back. Therefore, he took the opportunity to send autumn fruits to Mrs. Ji Er to ask Mu Jiahao to come in person and bring Ji Xiaotang a word.

"The letter has been received and acts according to the plan."

Ji Xiaotang's heart finally fell to the ground. Mu Jiahao brought the message, refused to stop for a moment, and immediately returned to Ren An.

The team that escorted food and grass in Qingyuan also came out.
Chapter completed!