Chapter 671

Keqing parted her lips and said.

"Where?"

"It's the seven Zhuangzi (manors) newly purchased from the Ningguo Estate."

"Including the other three newly purchased Zhuangzi."

"Ten Zhuangzi, after the Shaoshang sisters read the account books, they found that they all have problems."

"Although it is the previous financial affairs of the Ning Estate, etc."

Hearing this,

Jia Hui could be said to have no surprise at all.

After all, even the imperial court is blatantly corrupt, and embezzlement is rampant.

It would be strange if these guys didn't play tricks.

Therefore, Jia Hui asked: "Is the Zhuangtou (manor head) called Wu Jinxiao?"

"Husband, the Zhuangtou of the Black Mountain Village of the former Ning Estate is indeed surnamed Wu."

The twenty-fifth concubine Cheng Shaoshang nodded slightly in agreement.

Because Cheng Shaoshang had stayed in the Zhuangzi for ten years,

so Qin Keqing directly handed the task of managing the Zhuangzi to Cheng Shaoshang, and also her cousin, the twenty-sixth concubine Cheng Yang.

The two sisters are responsible for the Marquis Wushuang estate together.

The current ten Zhuangzi.

Jia Hui looked at Cheng Shaoshang upon hearing the sound, and saw that this woman of his looked very similar to Sang Qi and Bai Fengxi, mainly because their temperaments were not quite the same.

Sang Qi was obviously cuter and more lively.

Bai Fengxi was a dashing martial arts girl.

She was superficially pitiful, scheming inside, but actually still a kind one.

Her eyebrows were curved and thin, and a pair of eyes were big, very spiritual.

A small mouth was red and bright, clever and cute, and a round face, skin white and soft, a light green dress, different from the general white, young, and thin, although her skin was white and soft, her face was beautiful, and her figure was beautiful and graceful, which could be called the ceiling of the slightly fat world.

Because Jia Hui developed her well,

now her long hair was also draped, looking very feminine, and her temperament had a few more points of maturity.

Conversely, in sharp contrast to her was her cousin Cheng Yang.

A light pink dress.

She had always dressed very plainly.

At least compared to Fengjie and other women.

And not these big maids like Ping'er.

But plain does not mean not good-looking.

Simple but generous.

Because she was very beautiful, whatever she wore was good-looking.

Her figure belonged to the petite and exquisite type, compared to Jia Hui's women.

Giving her a gentle and delicate beauty.

Different from Cheng Shaoshang's pretense.

She was truly delicate.

Also a head of black long hair draped down softly.

Her skin was so smooth that it could be broken by a blow, just like a fairy descending to the world.

Same as Cheng Shaoshang.

She had been developed by Jia Hui for half a month.

But she was very tasteful!

Like a typical virtuous wife and good mother.

After hearing Cheng Shaoshang's words, Cheng Yang gently added: "Yes, Husband, he traveled for more than a month at the end of the year to enter the capital to pay rent, and complained to us, saying: 'The harvest is really not good.'"

Jia Hui sneered, not being fooled by the other party at all.

This Wu Jinxiao is not an old rural woman like Granny Liu, nor is he like Zhou Rui who directly manages the fief for the Jia family.

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But renting the farmland of the Ningguo Estate, signing a contract with the master to hand over rent and rent, is equivalent to the manor manager.

In fact, Wu Jinxiao's duties are similar to Zhou Rui's.

The difference is that Zhou Rui's authority is above him, and he is in charge of the area; Wu Jinxiao is the specific person in charge of the farmland.

However, Zhou Rui is responsible for the farmland of the Rongguo Estate.

And Wu Jinxiao is in the Ningguo Estate, equivalent to the head of all the long-term workers, he knows farm work, and is good at dealing with the Ningguo Estate, climbing up the relationship.

Such a person is not simple.

In Jia Hui's eyes, he belongs to the truly powerful role among small characters.

And his brother is also responsible for the farmland of the Rongguo Estate.

That is, working under Zhou Rui.

Therefore,

Wu Jinxiao and his brother

actually specifically control the harvest of the farmland in the Jia family's fief.

"Husband, this is the bill he offered."

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The bill, kept by Cheng Yang.

She respectfully presented it to Jia Hui with both hands.

Jia Hui finished reading the bill carefully.

The bill listed the accounts very clearly: "Thirty big deer, fifty roe deer, fifty deer, twenty Siamese pigs, twenty soup pigs, twenty dragon pigs, twenty wild boars, twenty domestic bacon pigs, twenty wild sheep, twenty green sheep, twenty domestic soup sheep, twenty domestic wind sheep, two hundred sturgeon, two hundred catties of various miscellaneous fish, two hundred live chickens, ducks, and geese each, two hundred wind chickens, ducks, and geese, two hundred pairs of wild chickens and wild cats, twenty pairs of bear paws, twenty catties of deer tendon, fifty catties of sea cucumber, fifty deer tongues, fifty ox tongues, twenty catties of razor clam dried, two bags of hazel, pine, peach, and apricot kernels each, fifty pairs of big prawns, two hundred catties of dried shrimp, hehe, there are so many, we don't need to buy a lot for the New Year!"

"In addition, there are one thousand catties of top-grade silver frost charcoal, two thousand catties of medium-grade, thirty thousand catties of firewood charcoal, two dan of imperial field rouge rice, fifty hu of green glutinous rice, fifty hu of white glutinous rice, fifty hu of powder rice, fifty hu of various miscellaneous grain, one thousand dan of regular rice for lower use, one cart of various dried vegetables, red selling grain and livestock."

"Various items folded into two thousand five hundred taels of silver."

"Hey, there are also tribute items for the outer gate, two pairs of live deer, four pairs of white rabbits, two pairs of live pheasants, two pairs of Western ducks."

After reading,

Jia Hui, who saw it for the first time, felt that there were still quite a lot of things.

However, he was not fooled.

He didn't believe that this Wu Jinxiao was so honest.

He was certain that there must be a lot of embezzlement in it.

Cheng Shaoshang had only one view, and said with dissatisfaction: "Husband, this Wu Jinxiao is a flattering old guy, experienced in the battlefield, coping freely, speaking without leaking, and slick to the extreme. But I can be sure that what he said must be problematic, things shouldn't be so few, things should be at least five thousand taels."

"How did he say it?" Nine.

【464】 Cheng Shaoshang who repays resentment with straightforwardness, the vigorous and resolute Cheng Yang sisters

"He said the harvest this year was really not good. It rained from March, continuously until August, and it didn't clear up for five or six days in a row; he also said that a bowl-sized hail in September, near two or three hundred miles, hit and injured thousands and tens of thousands of people, houses, and livestock and grain... But in fact, it's just fooling us for not understanding the weather, not understanding the farming time, and not understanding the crop harvest!"

Cheng Shaoshang sneered endlessly.

"In fact, it's impossible to be like this. I have already investigated. Farming in the countryside depends on the weather, this is normal."

"It's also normal to have a poor harvest, but it's impossible to have a poor harvest every year, a poor harvest year after year; what's more, if the poor harvest is serious, it must be large-scale, either due to natural disasters or man-made disasters, and it won't be limited to the Jia family's fief."

"I stayed in the Cheng family's Zhuangzi for ten years, although the scale is certainly not as big as the Jia family's."

"I dare say, the weather this year is definitely not as bad as he said."

Cheng Yang nodded in recognition, and then said to Jia Hui: "Husband, the reason Wu Jinxiao is still doing it himself at such an old age '960', now that the Ningguo Estate has fallen, the Zhuangzi is ours, and he sent New Year's goods to our Marquis Wushuang estate, the purpose is to continue to take advantage of our Marquis Wushuang estate and pay less tribute."

"If someone else was sent, even his own son, he wouldn't be at ease, fearing that the truth would be leaked."

Jia Hui asked: "Where is he?"

"Still in the city, waiting for our reply."

Cheng Yang replied.