Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 480 Residual Coins
"What's going on here?"

Mother Li was startled when she heard the screaming outside.

"Shan'er, I heard the old lady of the Wang family who sells noodle fish in the north is crying. What's the matter?"

Mother Li is very familiar with the voices outside.

"It seems to be her house, mother, you put the food on the table and eat first, I will go to the door to have a look and come back!"

When Li Shan heard the crying, he felt that something serious must have happened, so he decided to go outside to see what was going on.

Arranging for his mother to enter the house, Li Shan quickly arrived at the door.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw a crowd of people gathered at the gate of Wang's house in the north, and the crying of Mrs. Wang came from inside from time to time.

The Wang family is an old household in the capital. The family has been selling noodles and fish for generations. After several generations, although they are not considered rich, they are still considered well-to-do.

It’s just that in the current generation, Old Wang is too lazy to do anything, and he has also developed a habit of gambling. The family’s belongings have been spent in a few years, and the family has moved from the original larger yard to the current poor. alley.

Yes, the Hutong on Li Shan's side is nicknamed Poor Man's Hutong.

The reason is that the people who live here are basically poor people, and many families live in one courtyard.

Those with good economic conditions will gradually move out of here, but once a person is poor, it is often very difficult to turn around.

Li Shan's parents are so poor and still don't want their children to give up studying. This is the reason. In this era, reading is relatively easy to turn around. As for other methods, it is really difficult.

The days of the Wang family have been really miserable these past few years. Li Shan saw with his own eyes that the weather had turned cold, and Wang Laotian's grandson and granddaughter were all wearing tattered single clothes, with dirty snot hanging from their noses.

But the better thing is that a few months ago when Lao Wang came out of the casino at night, he stumbled, and he might be too old, so he died.

After Lao Wang died, without this bottomless pit, Mrs. Wang and her son were still selling noodles and fish in the vegetable market. Although life was not rich, the family gradually recovered, and at least the successor took care of food and clothing.

Li Shan has a good impression of Mrs. Wang. Although this old lady speaks loudly and is a little aggressive, she is still honest. In the past few years, his family was in trouble. Mian Yuer occasionally donates a few bowls to their family.

If it was another family, Li Shan would at best know about it and not care about so many things!

It was Mrs. Wang's house, so he squeezed over to see what was going on.

"My mother! What bad luck is this! My God! It makes us live like this!"

When Li Shan squeezed in, he saw Mrs. Wang crying with snot and tears, and there was a basket on the ground with a pile of rotten pieces of paper in the basket.

"Oh! That's true, it's a lot of money! That mouse gave it to me, what do you think?"

Someone exclaimed.

"It's the mouse that's really hateful!"

"But this is too careless. I specially made a strong box for our family's money, just because I was afraid that the bad thing would bite. Once bitten, it would be a hard-earned money, and the loss would be too great!"

"Their family just accidentally stuffed it into a crack in the wall. Isn't that place a place where mice infeste? Really, what's the difference from stuffing it into a mouse's nest!"

There was a lot of discussion in the crowd.

Through the stories of those people, Li Shan finally understood what was going on.

The original Mrs. Wang's family had worked hard to save some money in the past half a year. Mrs. Wang stuffed the money, many of which were Daming coins, into the cracks of the wall for treasury, not wanting to be bitten by mice.

Who would want this bad money?
Anyway, I haven't heard of money being rotten or something wrong and someone wants it.

It is the previous silver, some people accidentally stained it with water and rusted it, and some people will refuse it when they use it again. Even if they ask craftsmen to polish it, the weight may be reduced during polishing, which is not a small loss.

In addition, you have to pay for polishing.

Not to mention that these coins are rotten, it is equivalent to throwing them away, and such a long time of hard work will be in vain.

Seeing that there were a lot of coins in the box, there must have been a lot of losses. No wonder Mrs. Wang was crying.

Mrs. Wang was crying, saying that the family was reluctant to eat or drink, and wanted to save the money, hoping to rent a large stall for business and improve their living conditions.

Although their family is doing business in the vegetable market now, it is actually a mobile stall, which is very inconvenient and hard work. I thought I could rent a fixed stall after saving money, and the business would improve a bit. Now it seems that half a year of hard work has paid off. up.

I heard that there is still a lot of money that they plan to buy materials, and now it is folded in. It is not easy to turn over.

"Mother Wang, was the money bitten hard? Let me see!"

Seeing that Mrs. Wang was about to collapse, Li Shan couldn't bear it, so he squeezed forward and asked.

At first, everyone thought it was a casual greeting from the people around them, but when they saw the person clearly, they all consciously took a step back.

This is Mr. Li. Now I heard that he works in Daming Bank. I heard that because of his good work, he is very appreciated by his superiors.

In their eyes, Li Shan is now a half official with a golden job!
Still useful for reading!Look at that kid from the Li family, he was a poor scholar before, but later he was just a boy in a pawn shop, he can read and count, and he turned over immediately after seeing it!

After learning that Li Shan is now working at Daming Bank, people around him talked a lot.

The poor boy who was inconspicuous and invisible before, now seems to be covered with a halo. Many people can't help but lower their bodies when they see him. This is someone who has seen the emperor, so it is different!

The chauffeur and nanny of a great leader is also a remarkable existence!

"Brother Shan! Brother Shan! How do you think I, an old woman, should live?"

When Mrs. Wang saw Li Shan, it was as if she had seen a savior.

According to the past, her situation is basically hopeless, but for people at the bottom, seeing someone who is higher than themselves can easily form a feeling of dependence and asking for help.

Li Shan ignored Mrs. Wang, picked up the box, and saw that there were indeed a lot of bitten Daming coins in it, not many large denominations, but small denominations. Although there were many bites, the size It's not too big, and many of them can be put together, but it's hard to have a complete one, and many of them lack a small part, such as corners and the like.

"What's the use of putting this together? It's all rotten!"

"That's right, even if they can be put together, I'm afraid people won't recognize them. Where can this money be spent!"

The crowd was talking.

"Mother Wang, I'm not too sure. I can't do anything about your rusty silver. You can find someone to polish it. I suggest that you first check the Ming coins according to the completeness and put them together first. Is there any other way? Tomorrow I'll ask you when I'm on duty, but I can't be sure, just don't throw away these things, and don't cry here, it won't solve the problem. It's a cold day, and if you get sick again, it will cost you money !"

Li Shan persuaded.

When they were trained earlier, one of the important items was how to recover damaged Daming coins.

Li Shan is a smart person, and he lived in the capital since he was a child. Although his family is considered poor in this capital, it is undeniable that because of the geographical advantage, he has more knowledge than ordinary people in other places, and he is still working in some shops. Bookkeeping.

But even so, he was still amazed, as a bank, they would actually recycle damaged coins?
What exactly is this operation?
He didn't understand very much, but he still carefully recorded those contents during the training. If more than half of the damaged coins can be exchanged for new coins, if only half, then only half of the coins can be exchanged. As for less, then only half of the coins can be exchanged. Destroyed!

He memorized those contents by heart, and even recited those contents casually. In order to stay and work in Daming Bank, he spent a lot of effort to familiarize himself with the working process.

In Daming Bank, he dare not claim to be one of the best in work business, but he is confident that he can be counted among the top few.

Although his classmate Xiao Hu also passed the exam, but because he was not too proficient in business ability, he was assigned to a semicolon in another place to continue training and familiarize himself with the business.

It's just that Li Shan, who is an outstanding graduate, actually doubts this regulation.

According to those banks in the past, those bosses wished that all the private money would rot and become poor, and then come to borrow money from themselves, how could they exchange their own new money for the damaged money!

It's like exchanging your own pure silver for some inferior silver. Isn't that something wrong with your brain?

Therefore, even though he memorized those businesses, he never thought that he would use them.

And this Daming Bank has never done this business since it opened!
Is this even going to work?

Li Shan couldn't be sure, he just thought about meeting the leader tomorrow to ask!
……

When he was on duty the next day, Li Shan hesitated for a long time before reaching the main office of Daming Bank.

Now Wang Qiong, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and several subordinates are sitting in Daming Bank.

Although there are many jobs in the household department, Daming Bank is the top priority now. The emperor has made a decree that all tasks of Daming Bank must be ranked first. It is a hit, as long as it succeeds, it does not need to fail!

Wang Qiong has been working overtime here a lot these days. To be honest, he is not too young, and sometimes he is really powerless.

Fortunately, everything has been on the right track at Daming Bank recently, and he recovered after a good rest these days.

Li Shan knocked on the door, Wang Qiong was a little surprised to see the person coming.

He has some impressions of this Li Shan, although it is only a resource of the bank, he heard that he did not go any further after being a scholar.

As people who were born in the imperial examination, many people have a chain of fame and fame in their bones, which can also be said to be circle culture.

For example, there is a circle of scholars, a circle of candidates, and naturally a circle of Jinshi. Each circle forms a certain cultural interval, and of course it also forms a so-called chain of contempt.

I just feel that people who are one level lower than me are naturally not at the same level as me.

The emperor established the Daming Bank, and will set up branches in various places in the future, which requires a lot of talents.

And those Jinshi admitted every year are naturally not enough.

The emperor wanted to recruit some talents and pay them monthly to help them do things.

Wang Qiong and the others think this method is also feasible, but when recruiting talents, everyone has different opinions.

The officials believed that since they wanted to recruit talents from the National Bank, it was natural to choose someone who was at least from Juren background.

The emperor's lack directly stipulated that as long as there are people with a reputation of being a scholar or above, it is enough, and he also said that the results of arithmetic are the main results.

But despite this, the final admission results are still many candidates. After all, those who can reach the stage of juren are naturally more elites, and those who can understand the advantages of this position earlier, naturally apply more actively.

Of course, it is undeniable that many talents have also been discovered among scholars, for example, Li Shan is one of them, and his level of accounting and currency inspection is amazing.

Therefore, Wang Qiong was quite impressed with Li Shan, but what did this person come to the office early in the morning.

"My lord, this Master Li has something to report."

After the entourage around Wang Qiong communicated, Wang Qiong let Li Shan into the office directly.

"What's the matter?"

Wang Qiong glanced at Li Shan who came in and asked.

"My lord, it's like this. When I wasn't training before, I remember that there was one item that seemed to be recycling damaged Daming coins. We haven't done this work yet. I have a neighbor whose Daming coins were bitten by mice, and some of them were still damaged. It can be matched, but some corners are missing. They want to recover some losses, so I want to ask us... can we recycle here? I don’t know the situation very well, so I just ask for help.”

Li Shan asked cautiously.

Although he is regarded as a non-staff member, he also knows that the boss who now sits at Daming Bank is actually Wang Qiong, the Minister of the Household Department. This famous Wang Shangshu is a person he has never been in contact with before. Prepared, but I still feel a little nervous in my heart.

"You said there are damaged Daming coins and want to exchange them?"

If Li Shan hadn't mentioned this matter, Wang Qiong would have almost forgotten about it.

Yes, the emperor obviously said that this was the bank's policy. Although Wang Qiong knew the ability of the new emperor, he still felt a little weird about this regulation. He didn't know what it was for.

Isn't the court taking advantage of not recycling?
What's more, the responsibility lies with those people!

You said that the coins should not be put in the box. For example, those in Wang Qiong's own house are stored in an iron box, and those rats are not given a chance at all.

It can't be blamed that Wang Qiong doesn't understand people's sentiments. He was born in a good family and became famous at a young age. Naturally, he has no worries about food and clothing. An iron box is a very common thing for him.

What he didn't understand was that among the poor people, those iron products were actually considered luxuries.

It is difficult for ordinary people to use iron pots, let alone use iron boxes to store money. Some people save the money at home and are not as expensive as iron boxes!

But this was just a complaint in his heart, and he was surprised that such a thing really happened.

This... will this not affect the issuance of banknotes?

You must know that the emperor attaches great importance to this matter. Recently, he has let others be responsible for many things in the household department, and let him take charge of this matter exclusively. He really doesn't want to have any problems.

If this matter gets out and has a big impact, will the people feel that this banknote is inconvenient to use? After a long time, will this Daming coin be reduced to...

When Wang Qiong thought of this, the veteran of the two dynasties actually became a little nervous.

Do you want to change this Daming coin?

If you don't change it, the emperor has stipulated this policy.

If it is changed, will it cause bad influence if the news gets out?
Grandma's!How can it be more smooth to encounter such a thing, what a fucking worry!
"Did you tell them they could change it?"

Wang Qiong asked in a harsh voice.

"No...no! I...I just told them to help and ask, but everyone didn't give any hope. I...I'm not too busy. I was just thinking about the training. His Majesty seemed to emphasize this point. I'm worried. ..."

Li Shan looked at Wang Qiong's serious face, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his body.

"You go down first! Let's discuss this matter before making a decision!"

Wang Qiong glanced at Li Shan and said in a deep voice.

……

"My lord, how do you do this?"

As soon as Li Shan walked out, several subordinates around Wang Qiong asked in unison.

Although this matter is small, it seems a little tricky. If it is not done well, it will be very troublesome. If you don't do it, wouldn't it be...

(End of this chapter)