After hearing the county magistrate's explanation, the subordinate suddenly realized: "So that's why you deliberately deducted the prisoners' wages to save money to buy food?"

The county magistrate nodded: "Yes, those officers, don't think they have to go to every county station to beg for food and wages. In fact, they carry more money than we imagined.

Those three groups of exiled prisoners were all high-ranking officials in the capital. They must have been very wealthy before they were exiled. These officers must have made a lot of money. They all made a lot of money. We should give them less.

A little food and salary won't stop them from drinking and eating meat!"

The subordinate immediately gave the county magistrate a thumbs up: "You are really smart! I will buy food now!"

When Ying Bao heard what the county magistrate said, he couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

The county magistrates I met along the way were all corrupt or dishonest officials. I didn't expect to meet a good official with such foresight.

It's just that the county magistrate didn't know that the guards did plunder the money of the three families of exiled prisoners. Unfortunately, all the money was taken into her own space by Yingbao.

Nowadays, these officers are not making a lot of money and being rich like the county magistrate said and guessed, but they are living a tight life.

Now that he has deducted the money from the guards, the guards can only starve like the prisoners.

Of course, based on the urine of the guards, it was probably the prisoners who were starving, and it was impossible for the guards to treat them badly.

Ying Bao no longer planned to exploit the county magistrate, but instead left him a box of gold.

Since it is to store food for the people, it is natural to give him more money to buy food.

This box of gold was collected from the house of the magistrate of the previous county. That magistrate was really greedy. He colluded with Huang Yuanwai and was extremely rich.

There are several large boxes in her space.

After the county magistrate finished instructing his men, he turned around and was about to sit back when he saw a box appearing out of thin air on the table.

He exclaimed: "When did there be an extra box here?"

He glanced around, caught a servant and asked, "Did you see who put this box here just now?"

When the servant heard what the magistrate said, he looked at the table and was even more surprised than the magistrate: "Sir, I didn't see anyone there, why did a box suddenly appear?"

Hearing the servant's words, the magistrate's heart couldn't help but sink.

"Open the box!" he ordered the servant.

The servant couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he saw the county magistrate's serious expression.

He carefully reached out to touch the box and opened it bit by bit.

Open it and look inside.

When he discovered that the items inside were shiny gold ingots, he opened all the boxes at once and said to the magistrate with surprise and joy: "Sir, this, this is actually gold!"

The county magistrate was shocked when he saw the box of gold. He quickly went over and took out the sperm one by one, looked at it, and took another bite.

Confirming that all the gold was real, the county magistrate couldn't help but trembled with excitement: "Really, it's all real!"

At this time, he saw a note under the gold and wrote two words: buy grain.

The county magistrate immediately ran to the door to see if he could find any trace of the person who gave the gold.

However, after walking around in a circle, there was no trace to be found. I had to bow in all directions at the door and bowed my hands in gratitude: "I don't know who it is. I would like to thank you! I will definitely live up to you for these golds."

Great trust!"

When the servant saw so much gold, he couldn't help but think about it, and said to the county magistrate: "Sir, with so much gold, it shouldn't be enough to buy food. Anyway, that person won't come to check where your gold is. How about we

Leave half of the gold to renovate our county magistrate's mansion..."

"Diaonu!"

When the county magistrate heard what the servant said, he immediately shouted angrily: "Didn't you see that the person who donated the gold left a message saying that it was for buying grain? How dare you instigate me to steal half of the silver? What are your intentions?"

The servant quickly knelt on the ground, fearful of the soldiers begging for mercy: "Sir, spare your life, I am just aggrieved for you. You use all the money in the house to store food. If there is a famine, the people will have the food you have prepared to provide relief.

But aren't you the one who's having a hard time?

Now it's not easy for someone to give you so much gold to store food, what's wrong with you keeping half of it? Even if you don't keep half, it will be spent on you..."

Before the servant could finish speaking, the magistrate raised his hand and waved: "No need to say any more, since this box of silver is for buying grain, it can only be spent on buying grain!"

After saying that, he ordered his servant: "Go ahead and build a few more granaries and fill them with all the grain to prepare for future famines!"

The servant hesitated for a moment, and wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing, bowed, and turned to leave.

The magistrate also closed the box of gold again and carefully hid it.

When Ying Bao saw this, he couldn't help but smile.

It seems that the gold she gave away was not in vain. The county magistrate is quite upright and a good official.

She returned to her physical body, pretended to wake up, and climbed off her father's body.

They were pulled out of the county government office, and when they were about to leave the city gate, they passed by the rice market and saw the deputy leader leading a few people back to buy rice.

They bought rice, but they were lamenting and talking along the way.

It turned out that when they were buying rice, they heard the rice vendors talking about how the county magistrate was coming to buy all their rice. They planned to discuss raising the price together before the official mission to buy rice arrived.

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The deputy leader said happily: "Fortunately we went early. If we had gone late, the county magistrate would have sold out the rice, or the rice dealers would have raised the price, and we would not have enough silver here."

Several other officers laughed and said in relief: "The county magistrate deserves to be cheated by his people. He deducted our food and wages, and his people raised prices on him. In the end, he is the unlucky one!"

"That's right, that's right, you really deserve it!" All the officers all agreed and cheered, deeply agreeing.

Other exiled prisoners also felt that the magistrate deserved what he deserved.

Yingbao's heart sank.

The county magistrate even used his private money to buy food for these people, but these people actually cheated their own parents and officials, which is really disgusting.

She held her mother's hand and let her spiritual consciousness directly enter the space and came to the market where rice was sold.

Sure enough, I saw that the vendors were changing the price signs.

A pound of rice, which originally cost two cents, was exchanged for four cents.

That’s twice as much!

Some vendors who were unwilling to do this immoral thing were besieged by vendors who were asking for prices, and had no choice but to change their prices.

When they were ready for all this, the people sent by the county magistrate arrived just in time.

Seeing that the prices in the rice market were all the same, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and buy it.

After their money was cleared, Ying Bao stopped being polite and planned to collect all the money earned by these vendors who were asking for prices.

But then I thought about it, and it didn't make much sense to collect the silver from these traders. Since they collected double the money, they should give double the food.

If you let them pay for their insincerity, they will get at least dozens more kilograms.

Thinking of doing it, Ying Bao immediately went to the houses of the rice merchants who were the most popular, stored grain in their warehouses, and looted it all into the space according to the price they received, plus dozens of kilograms of compensation.
Chapter completed!