Naturally, so much salt was not only supplied by Beihai County. After the salt was sent out in the first quarter, the people who went out to deliver the salt brought back a lot of copper coins.
Because gold and silver occupy less land and are of high value, government offices in various places do not need to use it to settle accounts. Naturally, good things must be on the cutting edge.
Especially for such a valuable commodity as salt, when they went to the wharf to transport salt, they directly pulled carloads of copper coins there.
So the official ship brought back two ships of copper coins, and one official ship did not come back. They were going to Chaozhou and further away, and they were not sure when they would come back.
As soon as the ship entered the port, Fang Xiancheng immediately went to look for Bai Shan, "My lord, the ship is back."
When Bai Shan, who was surrounded by people begging for money, heard this, he hurriedly cupped his hands with the crowd and said, "Don't be in a hurry, the county knows you are impatient. Originally, I wanted people to go back to the county government to get the money, but the county government left Long The pool is not close, and it will take two days to go there and back, but fortunately, the official ship is back now, and there is money on it."
He said: "If you can trust me, just wait here, and I will settle the wages and material costs for you after I finish the calculation. If you don't trust me..."
He paused and said, "Why can't you trust this county? If you can escape, monks can't escape the temple. The one who owes you money is the Beihai County Government. If I can escape, can the Beihai County Government still escape?"
All the foremen and businessmen were heartbroken when they heard the words, and couldn't help muttering: "Then we can't occupy the Beihai County Government, right? Isn't that a rebellion?"
Bai Shan heard it with the tip of his ear, and said speechlessly: "Then there are so many shops on the wharf, the Beihai County Government really doesn't have any money to give you, so you just take up one or two shops built during this period, it's not enough to pay off the debt ?"
The foreman and the merchants were overjoyed, and quickly asked: "Master Bai, can you use the shop to pay off the debt?"
"No," Bai Shan said angrily, "It's not that I can't afford the money. It was agreed that all the wages will be settled within half a month after the shop is built."
He said: "I just checked and accepted it yesterday, and today you are afraid that I will run away and surround you. The county has not breached the contract, so how can you say that you are paying off the debt?"
Everyone immediately stopped talking.
Bai Shan turned expressionlessly and went to the pier with Fang Xiancheng.
As soon as the two of them left, the debtors gathered together, "I just said that Mr. Bai doesn't seem like a person without money, and you are too impatient. Now, it's alright, did you offend him?"
"Short hindsight, Zhuge Liang, today you are the most troublesome one. Didn't you say that the richness of Bai County Magistrate means that Beihai County is rich? You also said that public is public and private is private. Bai County Magistrate can't take his own money. Come out to pay the debt of the county government."
"That's right, Beihai County is poor as you said."
"Bah, who said at the beginning that Beihai County has spent all the money, and there is no penny in the account?"
While they were passing the buck to each other, Bai Shan and Fang Xiancheng walked quickly to the pier, and the two went straight to the front, waiting for the boat to slowly enter the berth and dock on the shore.
Bai Shan looked at the big boat slowly coming to a halt, and said expressionlessly: "Check it out, where do they get their news from?"
In fact, their news is not wrong, the Beihai county government has indeed run out of money, and now there is no money in the accounts.
If the wages and food for the wharf, saltworks, and Guantian Zhuangzi were not allocated in advance, the county government would have to pay on credit next month.
Bai Shan has found a good partner.
He and Zhou Man first tried to find a way to borrow some from their own homes to the county government, and then borrowed from Yin or Bai Erlang if they were not enough...
But the construction of shops and roads at Longchi Wharf is too costly, even if all the money they brought is filled, it may not be enough.
Don't look at how confident he is on the surface, but he is actually very guilty in his heart.
Fang Xiancheng naturally knew the situation of the county government, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, "I'll check when I get back."
He paused and said: "There is still no movement from the county government. The news should have spread here in Longchi. There are few people here, so it's not difficult to check."
Bai Shan just nodded.
In fact, Fang Xiancheng already had someone to suspect, he lowered his voice and asked, "Could it be the Song family?"
Bai Shan: "I don't make guesses, I speak with evidence, yes, yes, no, no."
He paused and said, "If it's really the Song family, the county won't tolerate it this time."
Fangxian Cheng knew what he said.
Bai Shan didn't want to do everything. Although the Song family is domineering, they have been operating in Beihai County for many years. They have made credit and hard work. He has already torn a piece of meat from the other party and obtained enough benefits, so there is no Continue to shoot, the two sides have maintained a superficial peace since last summer.
Even when the county government and Qingzhou City have any activities, Bai Shan still likes to bring the Song family with him. What's the benefit, such as the pavement construction of Longchi Wharf, he will still call them.
He felt that the two sides got along well this year, if they could still stumbling him behind the scenes, it meant that there was no way for them to reconcile.
Since the reconciliation can't be done... Bai Shan pinched his fingers, and those old accounts had to be dug out and settled together with the new ones.
The two of them said a few confidential words before the coolies came up, and when the boat approached, the people on board put up the planks of the boat, and the coolies ran up to take the order noisily.
But they didn't dare to get too close, they only dared to stand ten steps behind them.
Liu Canjun stepped off the boat, his eyes lit up when he saw Bai Shan, and he immediately stepped forward, "Master Bai—"
He laughed loudly and said: "Fortunately, everything has been delivered to the place, and everything you asked for has also been shipped back."
He handed a stack of accounts to Bai Shan, and said with a smile, "Here, this is based on the accounts you listed."
Bai Shan flipped through the pages, and saw that there were only numbers written on it, and there was no total number at the end, so he could only flip through the pages one by one, doing quick mental calculations, and heaved a sigh of relief when he got the total number. Money is close.
This money is enough to spend in Beihai County for a period of time.
Bai Shan laughed, closed the account and said: "Thank you Liu for joining the army, I'll let people go up and unload the goods."
He looked sideways at the coolie behind him.
Fang Xiancheng went up to count people, and the people he counted lined up one by one honestly, followed by Fang Xiancheng's officials also came up to organize.
These people are not long-term workers on the pier, but coolies gathered from various villages because of the completion of the pier. They are carrying things on the pier, and they also carry things for the shops in Longchi, clean up, etc.
Many shops in Longchi are newly opened, and there are many things to do, such as moving tables and chairs, building stoves, etc., so they can earn a lot of money.
Although it is all hard work, it earns more than farming and day labor in the village.
And with so many coolies working here, it cost money to eat, drink, sleep and live, which made Longchi more popular.