Xue Mu stood in front of the gate of the General Military Mansion, watching those people from Xinpingbao leave, then turned and returned to the General Military Mansion.
Returning to the General Military Mansion again, he did not go to see the General Soldier Yang Guozhu, but went straight to the official office.
"Mr. Xue." When the clerk in the office saw Xue Mu entering the room, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
Although he also works in the General Military Mansion, Xue Mu is a staff member of the General Military Mansion. Even if he does not have any official status, his status is much higher than those of them who work at the yamen gate.
Xue Mu glanced at the two wooden boxes next to the door of the official building and asked, "Are everything ready?"
"Put them all in the box." The clerk pointed to the two wooden boxes next to him.
Xue Mu walked over, stood between the two wooden boxes, leaned down, and opened the lid of the wooden box with his left and right hands at the same time.
An ingot of silver ingot was revealed in the wooden box.
The clerk next to him stood respectfully.
He took people to put the money into these two wooden boxes, and he knew the amount best.
"Find a few people to carry the wooden box and follow me." Xue Mu then closed the lid of the wooden box, got up and walked out.
The clerk waiting aside waved to the soldiers of the General Military Mansion outside the door and said: "You guys, follow Mr. Xue with the wooden box."
The soldiers outside the door walked into the house. The two of them had a wooden box. They each lifted the wooden box and followed Xue Mu.
There is a side entrance to the General Military Mansion, near the stable.
Xue Mu walked out of the side door with a few soldiers carrying wooden boxes. There was already a carriage waiting in front of the door.
"Carry the wooden box to the car." Xue Mu directed the soldiers carrying the wooden box to work.
The soldiers carrying the wooden boxes honestly moved the two wooden boxes onto the carriage.
Xue Mu stepped on the wooden stool on the ground, got into the carriage, then stretched out his head and said to several soldiers: "You guys follow the carriage."
The driver took the animals and walked onto the street.
Several soldiers followed the carriage and moved forward step by step.
The carriage was walking down the street, and pedestrians on the road saw soldiers following the carriage. They understood that the people sitting in the carriage were rich or noble and were not something ordinary people could mess with, so they all moved out of the way to let the carriage pass first.
Soon, the carriage stopped at the back door of the governor's office.
"Sir, we've arrived." The driver who stopped the carriage said respectfully to Xue Mu in the carriage.
Xue Mu lifted the curtain and took a look outside. After confirming that he was right, he bent down and got out of the carriage, and jumped out of the carriage.
Only then did several soldiers lift the two wooden boxes from the carriage.
The back gate of the governor's Yamen was guarded by people from Fubiao camp.
Xue Mu walked over, raised his hands and said, "The General Military Mansion has sent the tax money for Xinping Fort. Please go in and report it."
As he spoke, he stood aside and gave up his position, revealing the wooden box carried by the soldiers behind him.
The guard in front of the door glanced at the two wooden boxes behind Xue Mu, and then another guard beside him said: "Take them in."
With guards leading the way, Xue Mu and others entered the governor's Yamen smoothly.
The guard took the people to a vacant room not far from the back door, told them to wait here, and left the room.
This was not the first time that Xue Mu came to the governor's Yamen to deliver money. Every time he came, he was assigned here, so he walked directly to a seat in the house and sat down.
"Stop carrying it and put the box down!" He nodded at the soldier carrying the wooden box.
Several soldiers then put down the wooden box and stood beside it.
Xue Mu, who was leaning back on the chair, narrowed his eyes slightly and waited patiently for the person from the governor's Yamen to hand over the tax money.
Not long after, there was suddenly the sound of chaotic footsteps outside the door.
Hearing the noise, Xue Mu opened his eyes and looked towards the door.
At this time, a scholar wearing a long gown walked in from outside the house.
"Brother Xue, I've kept you waiting for a long time." The visitor approached Xue Mu with a smile on his face, while holding his hands in apology.
When Xue Mu saw the visitor, he stood up from his seat and greeted with the same smile: "Brother Hu."
"Stop standing up, sit down, sit down." Hu Mingyi took two steps and asked Xue Mu to sit down together.
After the two people took their seats respectively.
I heard Xue Mu say: "The people from Xinpingbao sent this month's tax money. I asked someone to send over the portion given to Governor Li, and asked Brother Hu to count it over."
As he spoke, he pointed to the two wooden boxes on the ground.
"You guys, put away all the wooden boxes that Mr. Xue sent." Hu Mingyi said to the few people he brought.
Several servants from the governor's yamen opened the wooden box and began to take out the silver inside and count it.
Next to him, the accountant from the governor's office was counting the amount of money in the wooden box.
"It seems that the amount sent this month is a lot more?" Hu Mingyi looked at the coins being counted and turned to Xue Mu, who was sitting beside him.
He takes over the money sent to the governor's office every month from the General Military Mansion, so as soon as he takes the money out of the wooden box, he can tell at a glance that there is more money than last month.
Xue Mu on the side smiled and explained: "The General Military Mansion still sends money to Li Xun Mansion in accordance with the previous ratio. It's just that this month Xinpingbao sent more tax money, so it seems to be more than before."
"So that's it." Hu Mingyi nodded understandingly, and then said, "Is the newly expanded border army camp at the General Military Mansion short of money? If there is a shortage of money, you can get it from here first, and everything must be based on the border. The needs of the army should come first, and major events of the imperial court should not be delayed."
"That's enough, that's enough. It's been reserved. The money is enough." Xue Mu said quickly.
He knew in his heart that even if the newly built border army camp was really short of money, he could not touch the governor's money. What Hu Mingyi just said couldn't be taken seriously.
"As long as it is enough, the governor told me today that the affairs of the border army cannot be delayed, especially the newly expanded camp, which will be of great use in the future." Hu Mingyi stroked his beard.
Scholars like to grow beards, and many middle-aged people grow their beards very long.
Xue Mu nodded and said: "Brother Hu, please tell Li Xun's Mansion that the General Military Mansion will never delay the matters assigned by the court, and the newly expanded border army camp will be watched by our General Soldier personally, and no one will be free of pay." No."
It is no secret that the officials of the DPRK and China deliberately allowed the generals to do this in order to weaken the generals' strength.
"With General Yang personally taking action, I think the soldiers and horses coming to this camp will be our elite border troops in the Ming Dynasty in the future." Hu Mingyi said with a smile, "If Liu Heng knew that the Xinpingbao Commercial Market he worked so hard to manage would become The imperial court must have regretted the expansion of the frontier army's food, salary and wealth channels, and should not have acted as someone else's wedding dress."
Xue Mu, who was sitting on the side, laughed in agreement and said, "The tiger-character flag is against the imperial court. Liu Heng deserves this end."
