On the fifth day of March, it was already late spring. In Luoyang, the grass was growing and the orioles were flying, and the willows were blowing on the embankments. Every day, people come into groups and go out for an outing.
When he arrived outside Jianchun Gate, Wang Xiaolie looked up at the city gate and couldn't help but sigh. When I left Luoyang last year, it was freezing cold, but when I came back, spring was already warm and the flowers were blooming. There are willow trees outside the city gate, and all kinds of vendors under the trees are very lively.
This is one of the five major towns in Henan County, where merchants gather. After Wang Xiaolie settled in Luoyang, he prospered again.
Chen Qiudao and Chen Yuyi led the Henan government officials to welcome him outside the door early. Seeing Wang Xiaolie and Ye Mengde coming, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
Everything went as planned, and everyone entered Luoyang City. After arriving at the government office for a brief chat, Ye Mengde was arranged to stay in a nearby post house, and a banquet was held to welcome the wind in the evening.
In the next few days, Wang Xiaolie was extremely busy meeting officials and handling official duties. On the morning of the third day, Wang Xiaolie was processing official documents in the official hall. Zheng Ke, who was in charge of the bank, came in and stepped forward to salute.
Wang Xiaolie raised his head and said, "When I come back, you ask to see me to do something. You have some free time today, so tell me what you have to say."
Zheng Ke took out two pieces of paper from his arms and presented them to Wang Xiaolie: "Recently, counterfeit coins were found in Luoyang. My subordinates collected some. Please take a look at them, Xuan Fu."
Hearing that it was counterfeit money, Wang Xiaolie didn't dare to neglect it. I hurriedly picked it up and looked at it. Sure enough, it was the same as the Huizi that was popular outside, but it had a strange feeling in my hand. If you look carefully, you can see that the paper pattern is slightly different.
After looking at it for a while, Wang Xiaolie put down the banknotes and said: "The paintings are so similar that there are almost no flaws. However, the paper used to print Huizi is specially made and cannot be bought outside. The same goes for this fake banknote. No matter how similar it looks, The paper used is different.”
Zheng Kedao: "How would the merchants outside know the difference between paper? This is collected by a gold and silver shop. When collecting it, the person who collected the money felt strange, but he couldn't find anything wrong, so he had to collect it. After receiving it, they immediately went to the bank. The people at the bank below couldn't see anything wrong, but they just felt a little strange. Only when they sent it to the top did they finally confirm that it was counterfeit money."
Wang Xiaolie asked: "Are there a lot of fake money like this out there?"
Zheng Kedao: "I have studied for a long time and confirmed that the money is painted, not printed. There are very few people who can paint exactly the same, and the money from the paintings will certainly not be much. So far, all parties have searched, except The gold and silver shop only found more than 20 out of the 100 that were collected by the gold and silver shop."
Wang Xiaolie nodded, lowered his head and thought. After a while, he said: "The person who drew this money is also a talent. Use some snacks to find this person as soon as possible and ask him how much he paid for the painting. If it is not much, the money is here Let it circulate outside and collect it after receiving it from the bank. The most important thing is to find the person who drew the money as soon as possible!"
Zheng Ke said yes.
Wang Xiaolie said: "When we issue banknotes, we will inevitably encounter all kinds of counterfeit currency. There is nothing strange about this. If we pursue no counterfeit currency, it would be abnormal. The key is how to deal with counterfeit currency. In principle, this kind of reliance The method of painting can be dealt with more lightly, because its harm is limited after all. If you encounter counterfeit money using the printing method, you will be severely punished, because its harm is much greater. "
Zheng Kedao: "I understand. So far, only a hundred or dozens of counterfeit coins of this kind have been found. It is indeed not harmful."
Wang Xiaolie said: "Although the harm is not great, we cannot ignore it. The officials are arranging people to go down and find the person as soon as possible."
Zheng Ke said goodbye and left.
Wang Xiaolie stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, and sighed heavily.
Since paper money is issued, sooner or later we will encounter the problem of counterfeit money. It's just a matter of time, and the severity of the situation. You can't think about me issuing banknotes. If you dare to make counterfeit banknotes, it is a heinous crime. You will not be able to atone for your crime even if you die, and you will even be punished severely. Apart from making society nervous, such an approach does no good.
But if counterfeit currency is discovered, we must track it down to the end. If you commit a serious crime, you will be punished severely; if you commit a minor crime, you will be punished lightly.
The key is that once discovered, it must be traced. The investigation cannot be stopped just because the amount is small, the circumstances are minor, or for any other reason. Even if you are not punished, it is a deterrent. If not pursued, there is no deterrent.
What Wang Xiaolie sighed with emotion was that there was really someone in the world who could draw Huizi exactly the same. If we draw a curve of drawing ability, most of us may be far away from being able to draw, but there will always be someone at the top.
Is there only one person in the world who can draw Huizi so closely? of course not. In a way, there should be someone who could draw more like him. It's just that this person drew it by chance and others didn't.
Lu Zongyuan, Yuanwai Shi, Yuanwai Gu, and Yuan Hou were sitting at the table outside the Luohe River, drinking tea and feeling extremely comfortable.
The stone member said: "I didn't expect that Chen Xiaohui could draw so fast without doing other things. In just ten days, he painted more than 70 strings. At this rate, wouldn't he be able to draw two to three thousand strings a year? That's right? For us, this is a huge windfall.”
Lu Zongyuan said: "Yes, more than two hundred guan a month is indeed a lot of money. Spread the money out, mainly to Shi Yuanwai and Gu Yuanwai. There are more than ten guan a month, which can help support the family. .”
In this matter, Lu Zongyuan received 10% of Chen Xiaohui's benefits, which amounted to 20 yuan a month. For Lu Zongyuan, this is not small money. He was a dock laborer, but now he stopped working, so he couldn't make much money a month.
Member Gu said: "More than ten thousand dollars a month is a lot. Member Lu, when will you invite this Chen Xiaohui out and treat him to a drink?"
Lu Zongyuan said: "As a fellow countryman, I like to stay here every day and don't like wandering around. He is a painter, so he has to endure this loneliness."
Gu Yuanwai shook his head: "It's a pity. He has this skill, so he doesn't necessarily make money. If there are more ways, there are many ways to make money."
Lu Zongyuan said: "It's better to paint Huizi, which saves a lot of trouble. Just paint and spend it. How can there be such a business in the world?"
The waiter on the side said: "This is Chen Xiaohui's craftsmanship. Just let him decide what to paint. We all make extra money, what else is there to be dissatisfied about?"
When Gu Yuanwai saw Shi Yuanwai and Lu Zongyuan nodding their heads, it was hard to say anything else.
Hou Yuan is a bricklayer and has no channels to spread money. He can only earn a few dollars a month. Although it is not a small amount of money, it is just a few more good meals, and I am not very enthusiastic about this matter. With the recent construction in Luoyang, masons have a good life.
Several people have made extra money recently and are very excited. Drinking wine, eating meat, and chatting.
Tian Yuanwai has a shop in Jingrenfang that specializes in selling sugar. Wang Xiaolie taught the official shop how to make white sugar. Recently, the method has been spread, and many shops have bought brown sugar and made it in their shops. At night, it is even busier.
Watching several workers dissolving the sugar and filtering it through a filter bucket, the field staff did not dare to blink. It has only been a few days since I learned this method, and I am not very skilled at doing it, and I am afraid that the workers will do it wrong. Now the price of white sugar is more than twice that of brown sugar, which is like picking up money.
A customer came in from outside and looked behind the counter.
The boy hurried up and said: "Sir, our store is closed at night and no longer does business. The moonlight is good tonight. Let's open the door and borrow some moonlight. We don't sell goods."
The customer said: "That's a pity. By the way, is your shopkeeper the field clerk outside? I have something to see him."
The boy turned around and looked at the figure outside the field staff, thought for a while and said: "Here. I wonder what's going on?"
The guest said: "Important things should be discussed in person."
The waiter had no choice but to run back behind the counter. Unexpectedly, the field staff had already heard it. When they heard the boy running in, he said impatiently: "Wait a minute! How can I reply if these candies are not processed well?"
After hearing this, the customer was not in a hurry. He stood in front of the counter with his hands folded and waited quietly.
After finally filtering the sugar solution, the field clerk wiped his sweat and drank a large cup of cold tea next to him before walking out from behind the counter. The guest who looked up looked up and down. Asked: "What's the matter with you?"
The guest said: "Yesterday you went to Butcher Yan and bought ten kilograms of mutton and gave him a regular gift card, right?"
Tian Yuanwai was stunned and said: "He is a butcher. What happened to me going there to buy meat? Who are you?"
The guest took out a bamboo sign from his arms and said: "I am Cao Xing, a policeman from Henan Prefecture. You'd better answer honestly and don't suffer."
The field member was surprised. He hurriedly asked Captain Cao to come to the back room and ordered the boy to prepare tea.
After Wang Xiaoye arrived in Henan Mansion, the powers of these detectives were restricted and they handled the case much more gently. Of course, their income has also increased a lot, enough to allow them to handle cases gently and without complaints.
People are not born what they are. There are people who are born to be irritable, and there are people who are born to complain, and there are all kinds of weird people. But when recruiting people, we should eliminate inappropriate people and recruit suitable people. If any inappropriate work is found during work, it must be removed immediately.
Most people understand this truth and know how to do it. But when you want to do it, you feel that it is extremely difficult, you are hampered everywhere, and you even feel that it is difficult to move forward? Is it really that difficult? If someone talks about the difficulties, they will say that you are ignorant and do not understand the difficulties in the world.
Of course it's not really that difficult. But because you live in this world, you always have seven aunts and eight aunts, new and old friends. If you work for the government, they will ask you to handle things. When should we not pursue it, when should we make it convenient for others, when should we put on small shoes, and so on.
Government officials are nothing more than two things: one is to give money, the other is to restrict their power, and the third is to make it easier for them to do things. Nowadays, the salary of government officials is 20% higher than that of the same type of people in society, and the logistics support is relatively in place. Strictly implement the avoidance method and avoid relatives, friends and old friends when doing things. If you don't avoid it, you will definitely be punished.
In the past, we often said that state-owned stores were ugly, state-owned units were difficult to handle, and so on. Have they always been like this? of course not. Were they like this later? Of course not. It's just like this for a certain period of time and in certain places.
Some people are smart and say that it would be better to change these units from state-owned to private. is that so? Of course not.
By giving officials higher treatment and canceling their gray income, Wang Xiaolie calculated that he did not spend much extra money. It's just that there are conditions, that is, to ensure that the money continues to be distributed and the money that should be collected is collected.
Many times, it is just for the convenience of governing that those in power give up these powers, and it is not necessary. But to do this, we need to control it from the source, starting with Wang Xiaolie. Wang Xiaolie himself needs to be very self-disciplined and very restrained in order to truly execute it.
(End of chapter)
