What Duan Jiqing said about sitting for a while and going back was not going back to his own house, but to the pawnshop inside Nanjimen and the tea shop next to the pawnshop.

When people mention the city gate of Ba County, the first thing that comes to mind is Chaotian Gate, which is "received officials and welcomed the saints". In fact, although Chaotian Gate is lively, the Taotai, the Taitai and the county magistrate often go to Chaotian Gate Wharf to welcome and send passers-by officials, but if they really "received officials and welcomed the saints", they would not go to Chaotian Gate.

Because no matter where officials come to Chongqing Prefecture to serve as officials, they have to go to Chengdu to visit the Mausoleum, Fantai and Nitai, and then go from west to east to Ba County, and enter the city from Nanjimen, located in the southwest corner of the county. If there is an imperial edict, the deacon's servants will prepare Longting and go to Futu Pass to greet him, Zhentai, Daotai, Dutai and Taiye City of the County to Lianglu, set up incense tables and kneel on the left side of the road, and welcome the officials and officials who come to Nanjimen to enter the city from Nanjimen.

However, such a lively scene is no longer visible now, and it is probably not visible in the future, because in the 15th year of Daoguang, the court no longer appointed officials to send edicts to pass the edicts, and all edicts were transferred to the Ministry of War.

In short, Nanjimen is as lively as the entrance of Nanjimen. Most people may not be able to rent a shop in Nanjimen, let alone two shops.

The two shops that open a pawn shop and a tea shop were originally built on a small tea stall outside the Youying Bureau in Chongqing Town. When the former Youying Guerrilla saw that the city entrance was good, he drove away the people who set up the stalls. Then he bought some bricks and tiles and other materials for the soldiers of the Youying to build a row of shops.

Half a year ago, the guerrillas were transferred to other places to be the gang general. Duan Jiqing often helped the women and children in the camp to send messages and money and had a good relationship with the guerrillas. Pan Er's father wanted to go to the city to do business, so he spent 840 taels to plate the shop from the guerrillas.

At that time, I was just thinking about the good market entrance and felt that I had taken advantage of it.

Looking back, this advantage is not that easy to take. The guerrillas originally wanted to make money and didn't cover it well. The materials were not used well. The soldiers who were ordered by his slaves did not work hard. The row of shops looked good from the outside, but in fact they were not strong at all. The ground dragon turned over and collapsed with a loud bang, smashing Pan Er's father to death.

Now the shop has been rebuilt in the past two months, using the best materials, and invited the best carpenters and bricklayers. Even taking advantage of the opportunity of the land dragon turning over many places that collapsed and rebuilt, I spent 100 taels of silver to ask the county magistrate to testify as a land deed, and it has truly become the three families of Han, Duan and Pan.

The pawnshop took over the pawnshop became Pan Er's elder brother Pan Changxi. Pan Er's younger brother Pan Changgui did not enter the city and stayed in Zoumagang to take care of the pawnshop in his hometown and the more than 200 acres of land in the countryside. After Pan Er became Shangguan, the two brothers no longer mentioned the separation of the family. Just like the three brothers of the Han family who were waiting for Han Si to come back, they were also waiting for Pan Er to come back to lead the family.

As for the tea shop next to the pawn shop, because there is Yang Caizhu's stock in Jiangbei Hall, the eldest son-in-law Yang Xingming is now the shopkeeper. Although it has been a few days since the reopening, the New Year is coming, and the tea business is doing well. It is getting dark and the shop is still on. Yang Xingming is making plans. Han Er and Han San are busy making tea, including tea.

"Dad, this pot of tea has just been brewed. You can sit down and have a drink of tea first, and I will be fine here soon."

"Mr. Duan, I will carry a stool for you."

"Don't worry about me, you guys are busy with yours." Duan Jiqing leaned over and smelled the tea that he had just unpacked, and turned around and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"I've eaten it, I've eaten next door," Yang Xingming smiled while packing the account book: "Pan San asked someone to bring dozens of kilograms of bacon and a bag of winter bamboo shoots. Pan Da asked his wife to make some, and called us to go over and eat together, and drank a few glasses of wine."

"Pan San is also sensible. If his father knew that all three children were so sensible, he would be very pleased."

"Dad, look at what you said. I saw that he was quite reasonable."

"Yes, it seems that Pan Er was not very sensible before."

Yang Xingming couldn't help but laugh: "The ignorant one has become an official, and the sensible one has done business at home."

"So this person can't be too honest. If he is too honest, he won't have any big prospects." Duan Jiqing picked up the tea, thought about it and sighed: "In order to collect the debts owed by Zhixing's uncle, Pan Er followed Zhixing to the capital to invest in the capital. Now his father has left, and he has to come back with Zhixing. Think about it, it's really God's will to mess with people."

Speaking of his brother-in-law, Yang Xingming walked around the counter and said, "Dad, the shopkeeper Yang from Rishengchang passed by the door in the afternoon. I pulled him and asked again. He said that the letter you gave Zhixing to help him walk for 600 miles. Logically speaking, Zhixing should have been kept in a hurry."

"What's the difference between days earlier and days later? Anyway, as long as you keep it, you have to get a vacancies back to mourn." Thinking that the second son-in-law finally got into a "little military aircraft" and had to step down and return to his hometown. After the filial piety was over, he had to wait for a time to return to Beijing. He didn't know that he would have to wait until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month to make up for the vacancies, Duan Jiqing couldn't help but sigh.

When Han Er and Han San saw him sighing, he was so scared that he dared not speak.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

Immediately afterwards, two middle-aged Confucian scholars with extraordinary temperament appeared at the door of the shop, and two family members who were lanterns stood behind them.

Duan Jiqing recovered from his senses and quickly stood up to greet him: "Mr. Cui, Mr. Yang, where are you two planning to go?"

Cui Huanzhang, a famous 29th year of Daoguang in Ba County, bowed his hand, crossed the threshold and walked into the shop and looked at him with a smile: "Brother Duan, Brother Ziyun and I don't plan to go anywhere, we are here to find you."

"Look for me?"

The same year as Cui Huanzhang, Yang Liqing followed in and bowed and smiled, "It's just the Zhixing guy who came to find you, the first one, but my brother and sister said that you came here, and Shida and I chased him here without stopping!"

"Do you two have something to ask me for?" Duan Jiqing asked subconsciously.

"Rongyuan, don't you know that the Emperor ordered Zhixing to return to his hometown to help with the group training?"

"The emperor ordered Zhixing to come back to help with the League Training. Zhixing became the Minister of the League Training?"

"It seems you really don't know." Cui Huanzhang, who went to Beijing to take the exam last year but failed to perform Chinese style, stared at him and said excitedly: "The Taoist Administration and the government office have just received the emperor's decree. The emperor not only ordered Zhixing to return to his hometown to help with the group training, but also rewarded Zhixing with the fourth-rank top position and the title of prefect!"

Yang Liqing also said excitedly: "As far as I know, the court has appointed many ministers of the regiment in the past two years, but our Chongqing Prefecture and even the entire Sichuan Zhixing are the first one! Ten times, the court received Yang Hanxi, Tailor Shu and other thieves and bandits who caused rebellion. The 600-mile report of the fall of Tongzi County. Thinking that Ba County is not far from Tongzi, Zhixing happened to return to his hometown, Dingyou, so he asked Zhixing to come back and organize the regiment to quell the rebellion while Dingyou."

If there is an errand, it is not just Ding You. When Duan Jiqing thought of his son-in-law even going from a fifth-rank rank Tongzhengsi to a fourth-rank rank registered prefect, he was ecstatic and excited and unable to speak.

"I heard that the emperor ordered Zhixing to bring ten civil and military officials back to organize a group training together," Cui Huanzhang took the tea from Yang Xingming, who was also very excited, and said with a gaze: "As soon as I heard about this, I went to the government office to inquire. As a result, I heard from the people in the government office that this incident alarmed Lord Cao. The government office went to the Dao Office in the afternoon and did not return to the government office until now."

"The Huguang Guild Hall is already in full swing. When we came from Zhixing, we saw that the entrance of the Guild Hall was full of sedan chairs and rods. The customer chief of the Eight Provinces must be in a hurry and must be busy discussing countermeasures."

"Rongyuan, you must not miss the opportunity and never come again. If we want to turn over, we rely on our ambition to make a comeback!"

Seeing Duan Jiqing thinking, Yang Liqing said anxiously: "Although Lord Duan is highly respected, he can attract great influence. Many words are inconvenient to say, and many things are not convenient to do. The ambition is different. He is now a regiment training minister appointed by the court, similar to the imperial envoy. As long as he wants to manage, he can manage it. Even if Lord Cao and Du Futai want to favor merchants in the eight provinces, they cannot favor it."

Duan Jiqing didn't dare to agree to them before his son-in-law came back, and he wouldn't be so stupid that he would give up. He forced himself to suppress his excitement and bowed: "Master Cui, Master Yang, tell me what's going on in such a big matter? If we wait until Zhixing comes back, we will make a long-term plan."

"This is natural. It's useless to worry about Zhixing before he gets home."

...

Duan Jiqing's excitement could not calm down after seeing off the two juren.

When his brother-in-law became the Minister of the League Training, Yang Xingming was as excited as he could not help but ask: "Dad, Mr. Cui and Mr. Yang said whether the 'Sanli Gentleman' can turn over depends on his ambition. What does it mean?"

Thinking that his eldest son-in-law had been staying in Jiangbei before, he was not very clear about the situation in Ba County. As an ordinary citizen who had neither fame nor had a bad reputation in the yamen, it was normal that he did not know about these things. Duan Jiqing patiently explained: "If the imperial court really wanted to go back to his hometown to help the group training, he would not be able to avoid the Baojia Bureau. The gentry of the recommended bureau was all served by the guest chiefs of the eight provinces. Our local gentry could not speak at all and could not get involved. Therefore, Mr. Cui and Mr. Yang felt that this was an opportunity for local gentry to turn over."

“Didn’t Mr. Cui and Mr. Yang say ‘Sanli Gentleman’?”

"That's because in the early Qing Dynasty, our Ba County was divided into Xichengli, Yili, Kaiseki and Jiangbeili. Later, Jiangbeili was established, and Jiangbeili was included in Jiangbeili, leaving only three miles, so the local gentlemen called themselves the "Sanli Gentleman".

"The Sanli Gentleman is a local gentleman?"

"Yes." Duan Jiqing nodded slightly.

Yang Xingming thought about it and asked again: "So do Mr. Cui and Mr. Yang want to be the gentry of the Baojia Bureau?"

"They not only want to be the gentry of the Baojia Bureau, but also the gentry of the Lijin Bureau. Because the Lijin Bureau in our Ba County is different from the Lijin Bureau in other places. In order to prevent the clerks and yamen runners from getting enough pockets, the county magistrate asked the customer chief of the eight provinces to serve as a member of the Lijin Bureau and the Prime Minister to set up a card to draw a lottery."

"Then aren't Baojia Bureau and Lijin Bureau one by one?"

"Not only one family, even the village heroes of Baojia Bureau were recruited from Chaling by the Eight Provincial Administration. They helped set up cards and draw liters for free, and some helped the same army defend the city and quell the rebellion. The group training and Baojia are the same thing. If Zhixing really does organize a group training after he comes back, he will definitely use Lijin and will definitely have a rift with the eight provincial administration coach."

Yang Xingming reacted and murmured: "Daotai, the magistrate of the county and the county are really good. Since we come to our Chongqing Prefecture as an official, why don't we use local gentlemen from Chongqing Prefecture, but we just want to use merchants from eight provinces!"

"This is not as simple as you think."

"Why isn't it simple?"

"You know how much regular tuition is only a year in Ba County. You can't believe it when you say it, because there are many mountains and few lands, even if you can collect all the money, it will only be more than 10,000 taels a year. This is even the cost of fire."

"Lijin is different. It is not about the local people's draws, but all collected from merchants from eight provinces. Although the Lijin Bureau was established last year, it has three Likas, one located in Tangjiatuo, downstream of Chaotianmen, one located in Xiangguo Temple on the Jialing River, and the other located in Huilongshi, upstream of the Sichuan River, but in fact, these three Likas cannot draw much Lijin, and it is mainly collected by the various stores of the Eight Provinces' Train Gang. Every time the goods are worth one or two, it seems that the draw is not heavy, but it can draw 10,000 taels per month!"

Duan Jiqing took a sip of tea, then sighed helplessly, "If I were the county magistrate, I would have to rely on them. After all, there are more out of the country than the locals. After all, out of the country is richer than the locals. I hope the local gentry can get a few taels of gold."

"You can get 10,000 taels in a month, but you can get 120,000 taels in a year?" Yang Xingming asked in surprise.

"Other than Master Cui and Mr. Yang, they wouldn't be so jealous."

"Where did the Lijin you have drawn?"

"At the end of the month, the summary will be handed over to the Lijin Bureau, and the Lijin Bureau will then transfer to the Road Administration. The Road Administration will help you to divide it. 40% stay in Ba County, and the Baojia Bureau will provide the expenses for the Baojia Bureau, and 60% will be transferred to Chengdu."

"Dad, I bet that the Lijin Bureau will draw more than 10,000 taels of lijin every month, and the 40% lijin collected from the Dao Bureau will not be used to purchase weapons and recruit village heroes. The customer chiefs of the eight provinces are both the Lijin Bureau and the Baojia Bureau. They will definitely not get less!"
Chapter completed!