Tang He didn't expect him to do this part-time, so he was very surprised.
Man Bao shook his head while looking at County Magistrate Tang, and sighed, "Brother Tang, you are so disrespectful. You are a county parent official anyway, how can you ignore such an important matter?"
"Is it important to buy you eggs?"
"This is farming, do you know, farming is the foundation, how can it be unimportant?"
Chang'an County is even more difficult to manage than Huayang County. Mr. Tang is so busy that his head is bald every day. It seems that the affairs of the court have little to do with him as a small county magistrate. After all, he can't participate in politics, but everything Everything has something to do with him.
For example, when an official went to the Chunfeng Tower, the Yushi impeached him, and the Ministry of Officials might pull the Yushitai to conduct a major inspection of official style, and the various entertainment venues in the capital might have to be inspected.
Unfortunately, most of the capital city belongs to Chang'an County, and most of the prosperous places like Huanchang are under his rule, so do you think he is busy
After finishing his work, he had to be careful not to let the Wannian County on the opposite side see the joke.
So why should he bother with two thousand eggs
County magistrate Tang suddenly remembered something, and said: "And your job field is not within the scope of Chang'an County, isn't it from Yongzhou?"
Man Bao blinked and slapped him backwards, "Brother Tang, you have to have a heart of universal love, you know? Although you are only a magistrate of a county now, you will definitely be a county magistrate in the future, and even the whole country, ahem, no , is the prime minister, so you can't just look at the people in one county now, you have to think long-term and love more broadly."
County magistrate Tang said: "There are quite a lot of fallacies, but if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government. To put it bluntly, you just want to go through the back door. If you have the ability, you can go to the governor of Yongzhou to find eggs for you?"
Mrs. Tang who was at the side couldn't help but glanced at him, and asked indifferently: "Are you going through the back door of three taels of silver?"
Magistrate Tang choked, as if he really couldn't say that, as if his labor was cheap.
Yang Heshu interrupted their meaningless quarrel and said, "Okay, I'll take over this matter, if you keep arguing, I'll let you take over."
Tang He and Man Bao immediately shut up.
After eating and drinking, Man Bao left two prescriptions, one for Cui Shi and one for Ying Yue, and then he left.
Yang Heshu didn't keep her any longer, and asked Wan Tian to send her out.
As soon as Man Bao left, Magistrate Tang couldn't help asking Yang Heshu, "Can you really buy two thousand breeding eggs at once?"
Yang Heshu said: "It's not too difficult."
He said: "There is a way to buy it from the Ministry of Households."
Magistrate Tang was at a loss, "Why would the household department take care of such a thing?"
Yang Heshu glanced at him and said: "There are so many imperial guards raised in the West Inner Garden, and they have to allocate funds from the household department every month. Their purchases have a way to buy eggs, and there are purchases in the palace. At the beginning of Zhuang Zichu, there are more or less contacts with the household department, and two thousand eggs, even if they are breeding eggs, are just a matter of one sentence."
It is difficult for Zhou Lijun and others to buy outside, because the eggs in the market are sold loose, basically they are chickens raised by farmers, and there are not many.
She wanted 2,000 eggs at once, and she also demanded that they must be breeding eggs. Naturally, it was difficult, but for Yang Heshu, it was really not that difficult.
The order went on, but within three or four days, someone brought eight baskets of eggs to the side door.
There were two hundred and fifty eggs in one basket, and the person who delivered them added a few more to avoid knocking.
Wan Tian came out to follow up, looked down, he couldn't see the good or the bad, but seeing that he was not small, he thought it was good, he asked, "Are they all eggs?"
"It's breeding eggs. According to the adults' instructions, there are more hens and fewer roosters. The younger ones have checked them."
Wan Tian then took out a piece of silver and said, "If we fail to hatch chicks, or if we hatch more roosters than hens, we will not take it lightly."
"Don't worry, my lord personally ordered it, and we wouldn't dare to fool us if we had a hundred guts. If you don't believe me, you can find a knowledgeable person to take a picture, and you can see that these eggs are all good eggs without hatching."
Wan Tian was satisfied and gave him the silver.
The steward took out a small scale to weigh the silver, and seeing that it was exactly three taels, he took out three strings of copper coins from his pocket and returned them, and said with a smile: "Master Wan, because I'm afraid that the hands and feet of your subordinates will be heavy, so the little ones return the money." There are two extra eggs in each basket, so as not to break the number, this is the change for you, take a look."
Wan Tian knew that today silver is exchanged for copper coins at one to one thousand one.
He took it, and directly gave him another string of money, saying: "You are thinking of adults, and our adults will naturally not treat you badly. You have worked so hard to make this trip, and this string of money is our adults' reward. , take it and spend it."
The farmer took it with both hands, smiled so hard that he couldn't see his teeth, and bowed again and again to thank him.
After he left, Wan Tian called someone, drove the car over, put the baskets on the car and transported them to Zhou's house.
Coincidentally, Lao Zhoutou and the others came back to the capital from Pu Village today to prepare for Liu Lang's wedding. They were stunned for a while when they saw the eggs they sent, and then Lao Zhoutou asked people to unload the basket, while refusing: "Why? How can it cost Mr. Yang? And even if the sixth child holds a happy event, it won't take so many eggs."
Wan Tian was stunned for a moment and then said: "Master Zhou, Miss Man entrusted our lord to buy these eggs, don't you know?"
Old Zhou was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "Why does Man Bao buy so many eggs?"
Wan Tian naturally knew about it, but seeing the shocked look of old Zhou Tou who seemed to know nothing, the words spun around in his mouth and still didn't come out.
He said with a naive smile, "I don't even know, but I know that these are eggs that Miss Man wants to buy. By the way, this is the remaining money. My lord asked me to return it to Miss Man."
After giving the money to Old Zhou, Wan Tian fled away, "Master Zhou, I brought the eggs, so I'll leave now."
After speaking, he took the servants and ran away.
Master Zhou heard that he specially emphasized "breeding eggs", but he didn't understand that Man Bao planned to buy them to hatch chickens.
Raising chickens is actually quite good. Not only do you have eggs to eat, but you can also kill a chicken during the holidays.
But looking at the baskets lined up in two rows, it was obvious that with so many eggs, it was impossible for them to hatch all of them and raise them by themselves, so it was very clear who would raise them.
Old Zhou looked down at the two strings of money in his hand, looked left and right, saw that no one had noticed, immediately put them in his arms, and then began to pinch his waist and mutter: "A big spender, what's so good about a big spender? "
While chanting, he shouted loudly, "Boss, fourth, fifth—"
Thursday Lang and Friday Lang went somewhere, only Zhou Dalang responded, and the old Zhou Tou shouted: "Come here and move the basket back, let your wife carefully select if it is a breeding egg, and find a way to hatch it later."
When Zhou Dalang came out of the yard, the old Zhou Tou had almost walked into the yard where he lived. Zhou Dalang took a look into the corridor and could only see his blurred back.
Zhou Dalang went to look at the baskets placed in the yard, he was a little strange, why did his father leave the eggs here