Rong Bai rushed over with a "Wow!" and opened box after box, instantly being overwhelmed by the golden light.
"This, this..." He held a gold brick in his right hand and jewels in his left, his eyes practically disappearing from his smile.
"I thought my family's warehouse was good enough, but compared to Du Hong, it's nothing at all."
“That goes without saying.” Luo Xi looked up and scanned everything: “This is not Du Hong’s private treasury, but the treasury of the entire Nanyue County.”
"After occupying the prefectural city, I moved all the things that Du Hong and those corrupt officials had hidden in their private treasuries here. It would be strange if there weren't many."
"Sigh, I was too narrow-minded back then. Officials really do earn more." Rong Bai sighed, holding his things.
"Is that profit?" Rose scoffed, "It's more like greed."
Rong Bai's smile froze instantly: "Damn it, he's extorted a lot from my Rong family."
So now he's only looking at his own money.
Sure enough, after a short while he found several familiar boxes in the pile of treasure. When he opened them, he found that they were full of the treasures he had packed in before.
"Boss, can I take it back?" Rong Bai asked with a grin, holding a jade carving.
Without saying a word, Luo Xi simply pulled the jade carving out of his arms, put it back in its original place, and closed the lid.
Rong Bai: "..."
Hmph, the devil may be one foot tall, but the righteous are ten feet tall!
Judging from the boss's attitude, he's going to put the warehouse in his hands. What will happen after he leaves? Heh...
“I will conduct spot checks at any time. If the items don’t match up…” Luo Xi glanced at Rong Bai indifferently.
Rong Bai: "..."
It's a ghost!
He probably just thought about it but didn't say it out loud, right?
After leaving the silver vault, Loxi led his men to see the granary, armory, and warehouses for cloth, ceramics, spices, and other items.
At first, Rong Bai would rush over and fawn over it, but later she became completely numb to it.
There's just too much stuff!
The warehouses were all packed full of good stuff.
"Big, Big Boss, are you really going to let me take charge?" Rong Bai's eyes were still wide open at this moment, and he asked blankly.
"What, no confidence?" Luo Xi pretended to take back the ledgers and warehouse keys: "Then forget it, I'll find someone else..."
"No way!" Rong Bai snatched it away, saying, "I have confidence, I have confidence."
Even if we don't have it, we must have it now.
He stood ramrod straight, holding the things in his arms.
Loxi chuckled and instructed, "I'm leaving this to you. I won't interfere with anything, from the flow of funds to the allocation of personnel, but there's one thing..."
She looked at him seriously: "If anything goes wrong here, I'll only come to you. Don't let me down."
Rong Bai's smile faded, and he said with a hint of self-deprecation, "Big Boss, do you know? Don't be fooled by my seemingly glamorous life as the young master of the Rong family. In private, who would even give me, Rong Bai, a second glance?"
“They all looked down on me because I came from a lowly merchant family and was tainted by money.”
He looked at Rose gratefully: "Only you never look at me with prejudice and treat me like a friend. Every time I visit, you treat me to the best food and drinks."
"So... regardless of whether it's for public or private reasons, I will do this well." Rong Bai gripped the key in his hand and smiled brightly.
Delicious food and drinks?
"Did you just eat all the pastries on my table again?" Luo Xi stared intently at Rong Bai... with pastry crumbs sticking to the corner of his mouth.
She had only eaten one piece.
"Um... this..." Rong Bai's eyes darted left and right: "Big, Big Boss, I remember I have some things to take care of at home, so, so I'll head back first. No need to see me off, hehe, no need to see me off..."
He had barely finished speaking when he had already slipped away quite a distance.
Luo Xi wasn't going to give up so easily. It was always the same. Whoever came, she would be forced to eat her snacks. Whether it was Jiu Xian, Rong Bai, or even Chu Zhe, they were all the same.
She pushed him away with her palm.
Suddenly, dust and fallen leaves on the ground danced without wind, rustling down onto Rong Bai's head. When everything calmed down, Rong Bai was covered in dirt from head to toe, with a withered leaf still clinging to his bangs.
Rong Bai: "..."
She blinked her fly-leg-like eyelashes and whimpered, "...Boss, is it really necessary?"
And then he opened his mouth, his mouth full of dirt: "Cough, ptooey..."
Luo Xi snorted coldly: "As if!"
After saying that, she gave him another glare before striding away.
"Hiss—" The shoulders of the guards at the door kept shaking as they struggled to suppress their laughter.
"Shut up!" Rong Bai glared at him.
With money, things became much easier. Rong Bai immediately used his family's connections to start buying medicinal herbs. Since they were all common herbs, they were easy to buy even in a famine year. In addition, the higher prices he offered made the process even faster.
In just a few days, the medicinal herbs on the list have been delivered to Chu Zhe's medicine workshop one after another. They are just waiting for the medicine and the people to arrive before they start working.
On the other side, the various academies.
After school, the medical and arithmetic classes were all called together and kept after school, where they all discussed it amongst themselves.
"What happened? Why were we left alone? Are they not going to offer these two courses? What should we do? I don't want to leave."
"It can't be that bad. Arithmetic and medicine are two major subjects. How could they possibly stop offering them?"
"Then tell me, why did the master single us out?"
"this……"
The uncertainty about the future made the students in the room anxious, especially those who were older and desperately wanted to learn something to support their families.
"Don't worry, this course was personally ordered by the Boss, we should trust him."
"That's all we can do, but..."
"Ahem, quiet down." At this moment, the teacher walked in.
He looked up and scanned all the students in the room: "Don't worry, today, only good things are happening."
"Really?" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but after a moment they asked curiously, "Master, what good news is it?"
The master didn't keep them in suspense and said with a smile, "The chief is preparing to produce some commonly used medicines for sale in various places, and needs a large number of pharmacists, managers, and accountants."
"So, your chance has come. As long as you pass the assessment, you can serve the boss and receive between five and ten taels of silver per month."
What?
The room erupted in chaos.
The Master had mentioned this when they first arrived, but they were all skeptical. Could it really be true?
And they arrived so quickly?
“But, Master…” A medical student panicked: “I have only been studying for half a year and only know the basics of medicinal herbs and pharmacology. I don’t know how to treat diseases.”
The other medical students calmed down as well: "Yeah, yeah, what are we going to do?"
They were all so anxious they were scratching their heads.
Those who studied arithmetic were much more at ease: "Haha, we're the best off. With the numbers created by our leader and the catchy rhymes, we can do accounting without any problems."
"Yes, I don't know how the boss can come up with such a useful method. It's really convenient."
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