This year, a new prefect surnamed Zhou came to Jingxian County in the south of the Yangtze River. When he took office, he spent a lot of money. For a time, the people of Jingxian County secretly called him "Fugui Prefect County."

There is a opera troupe in Jing County City, singing Huangmei opera in Jing He Opera Garden for many years. People in Jing County City often go to Jing He Opera Garden to watch plays.

This afternoon, there was another good show at Jinghe Theater. As the plot unfolded, fans below the stage were fascinated. At this time, a cheer suddenly sounded: "Okay!

The theater fans were watching the excitement when they suddenly heard this "good" sound, and they couldn't help but feel disturbed, so they frowned one after another, and some of the theater fans were even ready to reprimand the cheering person. But when everyone followed the sound, they immediately became silent, because the cheering person turned out to be Fu County - I don't know when, Fu County also came to Jinghe Theater to watch the play.

He saw Ku County sitting there carelessly, listening to the play while shaking the folding fan. The yamen beside him handed tea and melon seeds from time to time. When he heard the joy, he also hummed a few words...

After the play was over, the fans were about to leave Jinghe Theater when suddenly Kongfu County shouted at a yamen: "Go and call the actor who sang Xiaosheng!"

When the fans heard this, they all stopped in their tracks and wanted to see what Ku County had ordered someone to call the actor who sang Xiaosheng to do. Some fans couldn't help but guess in a low voice: "Ku County doesn't want to find fault with the actor who sang Xiaosheng, right? To be honest, he sings well."

Just as the fans were sweating for the actor who sang a small song, the actor had already arrived in front of Koo County. Koo County praised the actor, then took two ingots of silver from the hands of a yamen, stuffed them into the actor's hands, and said, "This is what I gave you!" The fans looked up and saw that the two ingots of silver were actually two hundred taels.

It was common for actors to sing well and fans to give some money, but usually only a few copper coins were rewarded, at most one or two taels of silver. For example, in Fu County, two hundred taels of silver were rewarded at once, which was something that had never happened at Jinghe Theater.

As soon as this matter spread in the city of Jing County, the people all said that Fu County was really generous and would really waste money, but what they didn't expect was that Fu County was generous and would waste money.

One day, half a month later, Fu County led a few yamen to stroll around. As he strolled around, he looked up and saw a Liu Ji satin shop on the street, so he walked in.

After staying in Liu Ji's satin shop for half an hour, Ku County looked at the various satin in the shop with interest, and said, "Not bad, really good." After watching the various satin, Ku County asked Shopkeeper Liu to take out three horses of each kind of satin and wrap it. The onlookers were drumming in their hearts: This week, Sheriff County shouldn't use his power to take those satin for free, right?

At that time, he saw Fu County pointing at the abacus on the counter and saying, "Shopkeeper Liu, do the math!"

Shopkeeper Liu crackled on the abacus for a while, and after calculating the account, he announced the number loudly: "One thousand taels!"

Ku County took out a silver ticket from his bosom, put it on the counter, and then ordered a few yamen to carry the bundles of satin back to the county yamen. The onlookers rushed into the shop to see that the denomination of the silver ticket was exactly one thousand taels, and immediately everyone started talking. Some said, "This Zhou District is really big, and he bought one thousand taels of silver satin at once!Some said, "This Zhou District is really big, and he paid silver without even paying the price. It's too cheap for Shopkeeper Liu." Hearing these discussions, Shopkeeper Liu, who had made a lot of money, narrowed his eyes into a crack.

The news that Fu County bought a thousand taels of silver satin in Liu Ji's satin shop quickly spread in the city of Jing County and reached the ears of Shopkeeper Ma.

Ma's shopkeeper opened an antique shop. This morning, one of his real-world friends saw that he did not open door of the shop, but was walking in a hurry on the street, so he asked him why he was not doing business in the store and where he was in a hurry. Shopkeeper Ma said seriously, "I am rushing to do business!"

Real-world friends asked curiously, "Where do you go to do business?"

Shopkeeper Ma replied, "I'm going to the county yamen to do business in Fu County."

Real-world friends were even more curious: "What business are you doing in the county yamen?"

Shopkeeper Ma smiled mysteriously: "Of course it's the antique business! I plan to invite Fu County to visit my antique store, if he likes the antiques in the store, I will make a fortune! Fu County has a lot of silver and is generous. He rewarded the actor with 200 taels of silver and bought 1,000 taels of satin in Liu Ji's satin shop. I have heard all these things. The silver in Fu County is really good to earn, I can't let go of such a good opportunity." Say that, Shopkeeper Ma happily on his way.

From that day on, the shopkeeper Ma went to the county yamen every day. One morning more than ten days later, he finally got his wish: Fu County led several yamen servants to appear in his antique shop.

Shopkeeper Ma followed him and praised his antiques from time to time. As he listened, Shopkeeper Ma nodded his head.

Finally, Fu County stopped in front of a large porcelain vase. Shopkeeper Ma took the opportunity to remove the large porcelain vase from the antique shelf and put it on the table for Fu County to appreciate carefully.

After admiring half a stick of incense, Zhixian looked up and asked the shopkeeper Ma, "How much silver does this porcelain bottle sell for?"

Ma, the shopkeeper, quickly stretched out his palm: "Five thousand taels!"

Fu County nodded: "Not expensive, not expensive!" Saying this, he took out 5,000 taels of silver from his arms and handed it to the shopkeeper Ma, and then ordered the yamen to carry the porcelain bottle back to the county yamen.

The fact that Shopkeeper Ma had successfully earned a large sum of money from the hands of Fu County made many merchants in Jing County jealous. They went to the county government office one after another and invited Fu County to their store to "be a guest."

The commoners were discussing one after another how much money he had brought with him when he came to Jing County to take office. He'drobably already spent all his money, right?

The worries of the commoners soon became reality. On that day, Fu County was drinking in the largest restaurant in the county, the "Drunken Immortal Restaurant", and he was half drunk. He suddenly patted himself on the back of the head and said angrily, "A few days ago, I almost spent all the money I brought from my hometown. If my hometown doesn't send silver, I won't have any money to spend!"

As he spoke, he asked the shopkeeper of the restaurant to bring the four treasures of the study, wrote a letter to his family in public, and then asked the yamen to send him to his hometown in Hangzhou immediately, and asked his hometown to send him 100,000 taels of silver. Seeing this scene, the people at the table who accompanied him to drink were astonished: Zhou Zhixian is too good at spending money this week, and his family is too rich!

More than ten days later, more than ten men rode horses and escorted a carriage into the county seat of Jingxian County. After a while, they arrived in front of the county yamen. By this time, Fu County had already welcomed him.

At that moment, an accident happened. The two men lifted a box, probably not grasping it firmly, and the box fell heavily to the ground. The box fell apart, and a pile of white silver ingots rolled out.

The news that the hometown of Ku County sent Zhouzhi County 100,000 taels of silver quickly spread in Jingxian City. The merchants were so happy that their faces seemed to be blooming. In their opinion, the silver would soon be earned by them.

On the third night when those wooden boxes were being carriedarried into the county yamen, a group of people quietly entered the county seat of Jing County and surrounded the county yamen.

The group of people were bandits on Hutou Mountain more than 100 miles away, and they quickly pried open the gate of the county yamen and entered the county yamen compound. At this moment, suddenly saw a large number of torches lit up around the county yamen, and the officers and soldiers surrounded the bandits and fought with the bandits. After more than half an hour, all the bandits were captured. Seeing this scene, Ku County said to himself, "If I don't pretend to be so generous, how can I bring you into the city, and how can I destroy your bandit trouble..."

It turned out that the terrain of Hutou Mountain was dangerous and complex, and the bandits had been entrenched on the mountain for many years, and the government had not been able to exterminate them. After taking office in Ku County, he knew that if he led the officers and soldiers to attack Hutou Mountain hard, it would definitely be in vain like several predecessors. So, he pretended to be lavish and very rich, enjoying the theater, buying satin, and buying antiques... Finally, he created the illusion of transporting 100,000 taels of silver from his hometown, and finally led the bandits down Hutou Mountain.

The bandits had set up spies in the city of Jing County, and the news that Koo County was very "rich" had long been spread to Hutou Mountain. When the news that Koo County's hometown had sent Zhouzhi County 100,000 taels of silver reached the bandit leader's ears, he could no longer sit still, so he took advantage of the night to go down the mountain and enter the county government office, wanting to snatch the 100,000 taels of silver, but he was ambushed by the officers and soldiers...

In fact, although his hometown in Ku County was the wealthy Hangzhou Mansion, his family was very ordinary, so how could he have so much silver to spend? Of course, his family did not have 100,000 taels of silver to ship to him. He spent all his money on entertainment, buying silk and satin, and buying antiques, and the rest of the ten large wooden boxes were filled with stones except for the broken one filled with official silver.

The day after the bandits were exterminated, Koo County personally got the money back from Shopkeeper Liu, Shopkeeper Ma, and the others, and put it back into the county yamen's bank. He also personally returned the satin, antiques, and other things to the original owner. Although Shopkeeper Liu, Shopkeeper Ma, and the others didn't make any money, they didn't complain about it because Koo County exterminated the bandits and ensured the peace of the place.