"Thank you, Mr. Chen, for helping me. Don't worry, as long as you are given a few days, Yan Yu will definitely pay back the money!" Zhang Yanyu saluted Chen Ying.

Chen Ying said: "How could you borrow Yu Zhengyang's money? Don't you know that this is a bottomless pit?"

"Oh!" A sigh revealed Zhang Yanyu's deep helplessness. "It was the money borrowed by his father, and his father paid the debts and sons. Yu Zhengyang did nothing wrong."

"Who is Lingzun?"

"Returning to the Lord, my father taught directly to the four primary schools in the past, and he is now a doctor of learning calligraphy in the Imperial College."

Seeing Chen Ying not quite understood, Zhang Yanyu explained to Chen Ying. These four schools are not primary schools in the later sense, but one of the three schools written by the Imperial College in the Imperial College. The Imperial College and the Imperial College were established as the highest institution of learning, while the Four schools are the royal schools that specialize in cultivating royal children. To put it bluntly, they are professors who teach royal children. Moreover, Zhang Wencong's rank is not low and belongs to the sixth-rank Beijing official.

"It turns out that Brother Zhang is still a descendant of an official!"

"What official has been poor and destitute after him."

"There was a major accident at Brother Zhang's mansion?"

Zhang Yanyu shook his head.

Chen Ying was very surprised that although the salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty could not be compared with those of the Song Dynasty, it was also very considerable in ancient times. With Chen Ying's current official position, he was a fifth-rank official, and could receive a salary of 180 stones, a salary of about 43,000 yuan, and a service fee of 60,000 yuan plus 60 acres of land. The annual income is about 600,000 yuan for later generations.

Of course, Zhang Wencong, a sixth-rank official, had a lower income, but his annual salary was about 330,000 yuan. Although such income was not considered rich and noble, at least he had no worries about food and clothing.

After Zhang Yanyu's explanation, Chen Ying finally understood what was going on.

It turned out that in September of the first year of Wude, Zhang Wencong wrote a poem, "The name is the best, the school is the best, the school is the best. The map is the four sacred, the astronomy is the five sacred. The square flow is the jade, the round and the round and the pearl light are the only one in Mengyuan, and the only one in the Mengyuan family is the most beautiful. "I don't know what happened. This poem actually came to Li Yuan's ears.

Li Yuan liked this poem very much, and at that time he rewarded Zhang Wencong with six swords of rice paper and Hui ink. The trouble came. Zhang Wencong was a very pure person. He liked to write and couldn't put it down. He had to finish writing at least one sword of paper every day, no matter it was windy or rainy.

It turned out that he could barely afford it for him to write with jute paper and pine ink. However, since he used the rice paper and Hui ink rewarded by Li Yuan, Zhang Wencong was fascinated by rice paper and Hui ink. He did not use rice paper or Hui ink, but both rice paper and Hui ink were considered luxury goods in this era.

At the beginning, in order to meet Zhang Wencong's needs, Zhang Yanyu's mother just squeezed some money from her teeth to buy paper and ink for Zhang Wencong. However, now a knife of rice paper costs 1,300 yuan, and Zhang Wencong will use up all of them in one day. The originally poor Zhang family was written by Zhang Wencong in just one month.

In desperation, Zhang Yanyu's mother sold what was supposed to be sold, but she still couldn't fill the hole left by Zhang Wencong. However, Zhang Wencong would lose his temper without rice paper at home. In order to meet his father Zhang Wencong's needs to write, Zhang Yan just borrowed money from Yu Zhengyang.

However, it would be fine if you don’t touch usury, but if you just meet us, your family will be destroyed. Zhang Yanyu can’t get back to Yu Zhengyang, just hide from Tibet.

When Chen Ying heard Zhang Yanyu's story, he was speechless. He thought about whether Zhang Yanyu was sick or because someone at home was gambled, but he really didn't expect that Zhang Yanyu actually borrowed usury to buy rice paper for his father.

However, according to Zhang Wencong's way of playing, most people really can't afford it. Not to mention that he is only a sixth-rank official, even if he is promoted to the third-rank in the future, his annual income will be equivalent to one million yuan. However, the prices in the Tang Dynasty were very low and the value of copper coins was very high. If the money was converted into a consistent amount of about four or five thousand yuan, it would be equivalent to more than two hundred coins, which was not enough to spend half a year.

Chen Ying had no choice but to look at Zhang Yanyu with a sympathetic look.

Chen Ying was short of people and wanted to win over Zhang Yanyu, but the price of winning over Zhang Yanyu was too high. Not to mention that he is just a fifth-rank official now, even if he is a government office in the future, he will not have to use someone like Zhang Yanyu.

Unless the price of rice paper can be lowered. But now I can only think about it, and Chen Ying doesn’t have the energy either.

Chen Ying found that there were a few people in front of his mansion who were sneaky, unlike good people. When Liang Zan saw Chen Ying paying attention, he explained: "Which mansion should be from this? Should I catch it and ask?"

Chen Ying shook his head, it was better to have less trouble than just one thing. Moreover, after Wei Zheng made a fuss, the whole of Chang'an became even more confident that he was Li Xiuningzhao, and no one was looking for his bad luck. As for Chai Shao, Chen Ying was a little dissatisfied.

Since you are fucking wronged me, you might as well give you some eye drops.

It is definitely a lie to say that Chen Ying has no feelings for Li Xiuning, but Chen Ying is self-conceited without Wei Qing's ability and wants to embrace the beauty, unless he can become a person like Wei Qing, who can make the emperor spend a lot of effort to win over. Supporting Li Jiancheng in Lingzhou will definitely not be too slow. Therefore, there will not be too much time left for Chen Ying, so after thinking about it, Chen Ying feels that he should visit Li Xiuning before leaving.

When visiting Li Xiuning, he naturally couldn't go empty-handed. However, he had already seen the gift list in Chen Ying at this time, and there was nothing worth taking action. In fact, although Chen's mansion was a new crown in Chang'an, this new crown was still too far away from the court. Those who came over to curry favor with Chen Ying were almost all insignificant officials...

Chen Ying walked to the door and looked at a young man with a few patches of clothes, but washed clean and thin faces came over. The weather was cold at this time, and the young man was trembling in the cold wind. "No one here goes to Dongshi to buy things. How much does it cost if you can help us take a trip?"

"See what you buy?"

"Are you literate?"

"Can you know a few."

"Then wait a moment," Chen Ying went into the house and wrote a list and handed it to him. "Look, buy all these things and send them to the store to come to the mansion to get the money. How much extra money do you have to charge?"

"There are not many things, but they are very expensive! If you don't have time to buy them, the younger ones can run errands and let their shop deliver the goods for you to choose!"

Chen Ying thought that this method was the best, and sat at home and waited for customers to deliver the goods to the door. Isn’t this equivalent to Meituan takeout in later generations?

When the lights were at night, four or five merchants brought goods to their doorsteps. Chen Ying chose a good Hotan mutton fat jade bracelet. The mutton fat jade was slowly hyped up during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the price of Hotan mutton fat jade was not expensive. The piece Chen Ying chose was white, with a warm color and a great feel.
Chapter completed!