After the marriage, the cousin was spoiled by the whole family of the Marquis's Mansion

Chapter 178 Military Rations Case

Dong Zhengxue asked Ji Yunzhang to come out of his home, and then he found an excuse to leave.

Ji Yunzhang frowned as he looked at the piles of account books in front of him.

"what is this?"

"Mr. Dong asked me to come here to discuss Hua Hong, where are the others?"

The accountant wiped the sweat from his forehead. He couldn't say that the young master deliberately led you away to deceive your wife.

"The young master, he, he has something to do, he will be here soon."

Ji Yunzhang picked up an account book and handed it to Manager Zhou, "Take a look."

The accountant didn't know what these things were, he only knew that the young master had specially ordered someone to move them here so that he could support the owner of the Ji family's granary.

"This is what the young master brought over. He said you will understand after you see it."

Manager Zhou was flipping through the account book, and his brows furrowed more and more.

This is a false account.

If he didn't know everything about collecting, storing and transporting grain, he wouldn't have been able to discover the problem for a while.

There are generally two types of food supply for the army: military farming and transportation.

Where there is land, the military will store land for storage, and when there is no war, the country will be self-sufficient.

But the Northwestern Army stationed at the border was in a desolate desert and had to rely on transportation from the imperial court.

The imperial court would purchase its transit grain from the public, which gave rise to grain merchants doing grain business.

This will create corrupt officials and unscrupulous grain merchants who embezzle military rations, and the soldiers on the border will be the ones who suffer in the end.

Manager Zhou leaned over to Ji Yunzhang and whispered, "Fake accounts."

Ji Yunzhang's eyes flickered slightly, and a faint smile appeared at the corners of his lips. For the first time, he realized what it meant to get something without any effort.

He had done so much for Your Majesty in the past and had seen many people and things.

But this is the first time I've seen someone so stupid.

"There are too many account books. Since Master Dong is busy, let's take them back first."

There are as many real accounts as there are fake accounts.

From these false accounts, one can imagine how much money someone has embezzled.

"No!" the accountant said hurriedly.

"What?" Ji Yunzhang narrowed his eyes in displeasure. "Mr. Dong, are you playing a trick on me again and again?"

"You are the ones who came to us, and the Ji family has agreed to cooperate. Now the purchase contracts with the farmers have been signed, and Ji has already paid the deposit."

"Mr. Dong hasn't even discussed the profit sharing or the price yet."

Manager Zhou also threw the account book down and said, "That's right, you won't talk about the price, and you're not here. Now you can't even take the account book away to see if you're sincere."

The accountant was also sweating profusely. If he had known this earlier, he would not have done such a thing. He did not get any benefits but ended up in trouble.

"The young master has instructed that the account books cannot be taken away. You two stay here and watch over them. The young master will be back soon."

"The young boss also said that as a token of his apology, he will give you 30% of the profits when the time comes."

"30%?" Ji Yunzhang smiled. "Your young master is really generous. You are an accountant. Do you know how much 30% is?"

The accountant naturally knew how much money it was, more than 100,000 taels of silver. Normally, the boss would be reluctant to take even 10% of the price. In order to deceive Master Ji, the young boss asked for 30%.

I just hope the boss can hurry up.

The young master of the Ji family, who has never appeared in the granary in the past three years, is not easy to appease!
When the accountant was racking his brains to think of what words to use to delay time, a group of burly men rushed in.

The middle-aged man in the lead was scowling with anger. When he saw two strangers in the pile of account books, his expression was more interesting than that of a magician on the stage.

The moment the accountant saw the middle-aged man, his face turned pale, his legs softened, and he fell to his knees. "Boss..."

Ji Yunzhang looked at the angry middle-aged man without changing his expression.

"If the young master doesn't show up, the big master can do it."

Dong Changhong suppressed his anger and looked at the accountant, "What's going on?"

"Yes, it's the young master..."

When Dong Changhong heard that it was Dong Zhengxue's name, his chest heaved violently several times. If he had not been in good health, he would have been angered to death by this little son sooner or later.

"Carry the things back, be careful."

Two big men came up immediately and tried to carry away the pile of account books.

Ji Yunzhang stretched out his hand and pressed on the account book, "Move away? Is the Dong family playing a trick on me?"

"Ji?" Dong Changhong raised his eyes and looked at the handsome, calm and noble young man in front of him.

Three years ago, a family moved into Jinpeng, who were also in the grain business. They were all individual traders from the surrounding area. Last year, his youngest son did something stupid and sold the old rice to Jinpeng's merchants. Almost all of the merchants exchanged their grain for the Ji family's grain.

Not only did they lose the merchant, they also brought people to cause trouble, and finally ended up in court!
He always warned that the most important business was not here. If a merchant was lost, it was lost. Don't make a big mess and lose the big for the small.

How come he's been living peacefully for so long now, and now he's involved with the Ji family again? !
Dong Changhong pulled the corners of his lips and managed a smile, "Master Ji, my son is immature. If he has offended you, I will apologize to you on behalf of my son."

Ji Yunzhang snorted lightly, "Apologize? An apology can recover Ji's losses. Ji can also apologize to Boss Dong."

Dong Changhong took a deep breath and then shouted at the accountant who was kneeling beside him, "What on earth did that prodigal son cause me again?!"

The accountant shrank back and dared not speak.

Ji Yunzhang raised his eyes slightly and looked at Dong Changhong, "Your master said that he wants to cooperate with the Ji family to sell military rations."

Dong Changhong gasped and almost fainted.

He calmed himself down before continuing, "Master Ji, you are kidding. Military rations are the war funds of the imperial court and the most important weapon of the country. How could the Dong family have the ability to get involved in them?"

Ji Yunzhang chuckled, "So, Master Dong deceived me time and again just for fun?"

"Or--"

"Mr. Dong, are you still angry about what happened in court last year?"

Dong Changhong's eyes lit up, "Yes, it happened last year."

"The boy has been spoiled by his mother, and he will take revenge for any slight."

"If my son brings any loss to the Ji family, the Dong family will bear the full responsibility!"

Dong Changhong raised his hand, and a long attendant behind him took out a stack of silver bills from his pocket and handed it to him.

"Master Ji, here is thirty thousand taels. I'll give it to you first."

"Please go back and calculate the loss, Master Ji. If it is enough, Dong will definitely treat you to a drink next time to make amends."

"If it's not enough, Master Ji, bring the evidence and I will make up for it together!"

Ji Yunzhang took back his hand that was pressing on the account book, "Boss Dong is really generous."

He then casually said, "Although Mr. Dong deceived me, I still got some different news——"

"Come to think of it, Yanjing Jihou is also a distant relative of our family. I also started the grain business with Yanjing Zhong's Grain Store."

Dong Changhong's eyelids twitched, and he looked at the young man again.

The Ji family led the Northwest Army to collect taxes at the border for decades, and the Zhong family's grain store was in Yanjing for more than ten years.

If he is really a distant relative of Marquis Ji, it is not impossible for him to get some fragmentary information.

"Sir, what's the news..."

(End of this chapter)