Before dawn, Wang Fu was dressed neatly early and came to the front yard to check the things on the car. The car was full of fresh mutton that had just been killed. All of these muttons were sent to the palace. As a meat merchant designated by the Shang Food Supervisor of the Palace, Wang Fu has been cautious for more than ten years, fearing that the mutton sent to the palace would make a mistake. If he loses his job, he might even be punished.

"Which mutton is this? Why didn't he even put the blood clean?" Wang Fu soon found a car of mutton and asked with a stern face. Although Wang Fu is a meat merchant, he is not a butcher. These meats are slaughtered by various butchers in his next family. If there is any problem, he will directly return the meat.

The manager next to him immediately ran up, looked at the marks on the car before answering: "Master, this is the mutton from the grandson Yidao family outside the city."

"Oh, the skill of Old Sun killing sheep is beyond words. Unfortunately, his ability to teach his son is too poor. It seems that the name Sun Yidao is a great person to his son!" Wang Fu sighed and said, Sun Yidao is a fool. It is said that killing sheep and pigs is just a single sword, and he never uses a second sword. His skills are quite skillful. Unfortunately, he died at the beginning of this year, so his son replaced him, but his son's skills are much worse. The mutton has not even been completely discharged, and sending it to the palace will definitely implicate him.

"Master, then these lamb..." The manager said in a dilemma at this time. According to the rules, the lamb must be beaten back and the butcher himself bears the losses. However, judging from the appearance of his master, he seemed to be quite nostalgic to Sun Yidao.

"Stay this car of mutton at home and eat it yourself, and you can still pay the money to the Sun family, but tell them, this is only once, if the mutton is the same next time, then Old Sun's face will be useless!" Wang Fu pondered for a moment and immediately ordered.

The manager agreed immediately, and then asked someone to pull the cart of mutton to the kitchen. It didn't matter if there was a cart of mutton, because they usually prepared more mutton they gave to the palace, mainly because they were afraid of encountering the current problem. After all, there was a fixed amount of mutton needed in the palace every day, and it would not be possible to have less.

Wang Fu checked the mutton again and confirmed that there were no other problems. He had been persisting in such a thing for more than ten years, which made him never have any problems with the mutton in the palace, so he was able to always be the designated meat merchant in the palace.

Of course, in addition to providing mutton to the palace, some big restaurants in Tokyo will also buy mutton from Wang Fu, and the price is definitely not cheap. After all, the price of mutton to the palace is high, but the cost is also high, but the profit is not much. The real money is actually his name as the royal mutton, and the mutton that the restaurants want is the big one.

It was just dawn, but the snow was getting heavier. Wang Fu rubbed his old waist and went to the small hall next to him to burn the fire to drive away the cold. After a while, he heard the sound of a carriage outside, which made him hurried out to greet him. Sure enough, he saw a big eunuch walking in with the help of several eunuchs.

"Chang Gaoban, you are here. The mutton is ready this time. Do you want to test it?" Wang Fu smiled and saluted the eunuch. Gaoban was one of the official positions of the eunuch. Although the rank was not high, he was one of the eunuchs of the high eunuchs. He was mainly in charge of the purchasing matters of Shangshijian and had an old acquaintance with him for more than ten years.

"Brother Wang, I can't worry about doing things. If the mutton you have passed by, it would be strange if something goes wrong." Chang Gaoban also smiled at this time, and was immediately invited by Wang Fu to have tea and rest in the small hall next to him.

Although Changgao Class is not of high rank, it has great power. Especially for merchants like Wang Fu who are responsible for offering sacrifices to the palace, Changgao Class is the person they need to curry favor with the most. However, Changgao Class is old now and doesn’t leave the palace very much, but today is different. Because the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and today is also the day to pay the bill once a year, so Wang Fu had already expected that Changgao Class would come and prepared good tea in the hall.

I saw Chang Gao sip tea, chatting with Wang Fu for a few more words, and then I got to the point: "Brother Wang, according to the rules of the palace, our accounts are settled once a year. I have brought this year's account book. Do you want to see if the number is correct?"

As Chang Gaoban said that, he took out an account book from his sleeve and handed it over. Wang Fu hurriedly took it. After looking at it, he immediately smiled and said, "The accounts of Shangshijian are still so clear, and the number will definitely not go wrong!"

"Okay, since there is no problem, I will settle the money!" Chang Gaoban suddenly smiled, but Wang Fu did not notice. The other party's smile seemed to be a bit weird.

When Wang Fu heard that he wanted to pay the bill, he immediately looked at the door, because according to his experience, at this time of year, Chang Gao's class would bring a large amount of property, including copper coins and gold and silver. Usually, the eunuchs needed to be carried in, but today the eunuchs seemed to be a little fewer eunuchs brought by Chang Gao's class?

However, what Wang Fu did not expect was that there was no entry at the door. Instead, Chang Gaoban suddenly reached out and took out a thick stack of paper from his arms and put it in front of him and smiled: "Click it and see if the number is correct?"

"Jiaozi?" Wang Fu couldn't help but frown when he looked at the stack of banknotes in front of him. He occasionally used Jiaozi when doing business, but the amount was usually not large, but the annual account in the palace was not a small amount. It was the first time he had seen so many Jiaozi.

"This is not called Jiaozi, but Qianchao. Not only you, but all accounts in and out of the palace will be settled with Qianchao in the future. And as long as you take it to the Tokyo Money Store on Xijiaomen Street, you can change it to copper coins at any time." Chang Gaoban looked at Wang Fu's surprised look and couldn't help but smile. In fact, he was a little suspicious of Qianchao, but the superiors ordered it, and they could only do this.

Wang Fu had never even heard of this money book, and he thought not to accept it, but Chang Gaoban was not the one he dared to offend. In desperation, he had to grit his teeth and smile and said, "So that's it, but this is the first time I have heard of this money book. Since it can be used in the palace, it probably has a big origin, right?"
Chapter completed!