Chapter 420: Digging for Private Money

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After dinner, Lü Bocheng really handed over his private silver.

Su Qingmei was dumbfounded when she saw it.

"My wife, I gave it all to you." Seeing Su Qingmei's surprised face, Lü Bocheng hurriedly expressed his attitude.

"You really gave it all to me?"

Lü Bocheng kept nodding: "Really." After thinking about it, he shook his head again.

Su Qingmei breathed a sigh of relief. Just said, this number is obviously wrong.

Then I heard Lü Bocheng say: "I still left a few dozen taels of loose silver in my purse. You can't take it all. What if someone asks me to treat him to a little wine and I can't pay, how embarrassing."

The big part has been given, my wife won't let him keep even a few dozen taels, right?

But think about it, before he went to the battlefield, he only gave his wife a dozen taels for household expenses, and these dozens of taels seem to be quite a lot.

"Otherwise, I'll give you some more? I'll just keep ten taels." Lu Bocheng held the purse tightly, somewhat reluctant to part with it.

Su Qing'an's eyes widened: "You are a governor of five states, and you only have these two thousand, more taels? In the past few years, you sent home a hundred taels of gold."

"That was because the court paid me a salary before, and I could get some bonus silver from time to time. Now I eat by myself, who will pay me a salary! I can save all this, or I am frugal."

Su Qing'an was stunned.

What is this situation? Being a boss poorer than an employee? It's unheard of and unseen.

"Didn't you have spoils of war before, but now you have none? You have fought a lot in recent years."

"Yes, but I gave them all to the quartermaster to exchange for silver." Lu Bocheng said it with a sense of righteousness. It's not easy for him to support an army of more than 100,000.

Su Qing'an stared at him blankly, this... what can she say.

He slapped his forehead again and said, "Oh, I forgot that I had secretly left some. My lady, wait for me, wait for me..." After saying that, he turned around and ran to the inner room.

Su Qingmei followed him in. She was quite expectant.

As soon as she entered the inner room, she saw that guy actually crawled under the bed! She couldn't stop him in time.

"What are you doing!" She had to squat down and ask him.

"My lady, keep your voice down." Lu Bocheng said to her under the bed.

Is there any treasure hidden? There are still a lot? Su Qingmei couldn't help but keep silent.

In less than a while, Lu Bocheng came out from under the bed with a jar.

Su Qingmei's eyes lit up.

When Lu Bocheng wiped the jar clean and poured out the contents, Su Qingmei was too lazy to say anything.

A small box of pearls, not small, each as big as a finger, but there were only a dozen. A few pieces of jade, the water head looked pretty good. There was also a round jade the size of a fist, and the rest were gold of various shapes.

These things filled half a jar in total.

"How come you still like to hide gold? Which piece of jade is not more valuable than your gold?"

"Jade is valuable, but it can't be sold. These pieces were returned to me by the quartermaster because he felt that I lost money."

That's really hard for you. Tsk tsk...

"Gold can still be used as money. It's a pity that when I escaped from Fengxiang, I didn't take out the jar of gold hidden in the tent, and I don't know who got it in the end. It hurts to think about it. But, my lady, look, this round jade, the quartermaster said it was chalcedony, it's valuable! Others offered too low a price, so he didn't want to sell it."

"Except for these gold..." Su Qingmei weighed it briefly, it was probably worth a few hundred taels of silver, and the box of pearls and jade was probably not worth much now.

He said, "Put the rest back into the jar and bury it. Keep the gold for spending."

"Don't you want to leave some for my son?"

Su Qing'an glared at him, "You don't have a penny in the account of the mansion now, and you still want to leave it for your son! Don't the people in this mansion need food and drink?"

Lu Bocheng touched his nose. Then keep the gold for spending. You can't spend your wife's money.

While putting the jade into the jar, he said, "Why don't you bury it back? Madam, can you use these pearls and jade to make jewelry?"

"I don't want it. I don't know who used it. I'd better keep it and sell it for money when the world gets better in the future."

"That's fine." Lu Bocheng put the jade and pearls back into the jar and buried it under the bed again.

Su Qing'an couldn't complain about his way of hiding money. But think about it, there is no safe, and the underground under the bed is really the safest.

After he came out, I dusted him off and asked him, "Don't you get paid?"

"No, I have food and drink, and I have money, why should I get paid? It's all in my pocket, why bother? Besides, if the army is out of money, won't they ask me for it? Then I will have to pay out my private money?"

Su Qingmei was stunned. What kind of theory is this?

If the boss doesn't get a monthly salary, doesn't he get a year-end bonus? And how can public and private be mixed up.

"You can't collect taxes in several states? There is no income in the government office?"

"Yes, but it's not enough for the food and drink of hundreds of thousands of troops. Besides, each state has to feed the people, so it's better to save a little."

Su Qingmei was completely speechless.

Quite helpless: "I'll go buy a field and a shop tomorrow, but I can't count on you to support the family."

When Lu Bocheng heard this, he quickly pulled her back and rubbed her hand in his palm: "How can I let you support the family? I have money now. Didn't I give you three thousand taels just now?"

"Three thousand taels, a lot?"

Lu Bocheng nodded blankly, isn't it a lot? My wife's appetite is so big? I can't afford it.

"When I left, I only left you a dozen taels. Look, you have raised my son."

"If I rely on your ten taels, my son and I would have starved to death!"

Lu Bocheng didn't dare to look at her, and touched his nose again: "Many people who retired from the army, when they returned home, some people only had the ten taels of silver given by the army to settle down."

My three thousand taels are many times more than others. But Lu Bocheng didn't dare to say this, for fear that his wife would rebuke him.

Su Qingmei didn't plan to talk to him.

Pulling his hand out, he rested his hand on the table and thought about buying a field and a shop. What kind of business should I do when buying a shop? Should I hire people to plant the field or rent it out?

"My wife..."

"Don't bother me."

"How about I get paid like them in the future? I'll go to the army tomorrow and tell them?"

Su Qing'an glared at him: "Are your states so poor? Do you, a governor, need to not get paid and live frugally?"

When Lu Bocheng heard her talk about this, he nodded repeatedly and complained to her.

"It's poor. Last month, the army was short of money and asked Chuzhou for money. Chuzhou said it had no money and only gave 100,000 taels. 100,000 taels can't last for two months. I'm so worried. I thought Chuzhou produced salt and was richer than other states, but I didn't expect that the government still couldn't come up with money."

Lu Bocheng looked worried. Do we have to use the captured cities to exchange money with others to feed the army?

Wouldn't that be helping others to fight for territory?

So worried.

Su Qing'an now knows that the modern Yancheng is under the jurisdiction of Chuzhou at that time.

Yancheng is called Yancheng because it is surrounded by salt fields. Its coastal tidal flats cover hundreds of thousands of hectares, accounting for 70% of the tidal flats in Jiangsu Province, but the Chuzhou government said that Chuzhou has no money?

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