Xia Huai'an looked at Main Bookkeeper Zhou and smiled meaningfully. "You, come lend some silver to Xia Family Village."
"Me?" Main Bookkeeper Zhou was momentarily stunned, then shook his head repeatedly. "Putting aside the fact that your subordinate is not a corrupt official, even if I had been corrupt my entire life, I still couldn't scrape together a few million taels of silver! The total tax revenue collected across the entire prefecture of Bazhou in a year is only about two to three million taels!"
Xia Huai'an smiled. "I didn't ask you to lend a few million taels. How about just three taels of silver? Would that work?"
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