The banquet was held at Chen Wenhui's Zhuangzi. So they secretly drank some fruit wine, drank it, ate it, and talked at the same time.

After chatting for a while, the topic turned to Lan Caiyu, because they were not outsiders, Mingzhu said, "Can you give you a little more of the gold that your mother-in-law hid?" ”

Huang Yuyan and Wan Qiaozhen didn't know about this matter, so they hurriedly asked. This matter was originally not easy to say to outsiders, after all, this is a hidden property, but the case of the Wang family has been closed, and according to the law of Da Chu, even if the property of the Wang family's private collection is found now, it can no longer be confiscated, so Mingzhu has no scruples and says it directly.

Lan Caiyu saw that it was her sister, and she didn't hide it, so she told her what happened. Such a bizarre thing, Huang Yuyan and Wan Qiaozhen listened to it with relish, and when Lan Caiyu finished speaking, Wan Qiaozhen was amazed and said: "This old lady Wang is really a strange person, so wise?" can actually be prepared for danger in times of peace, and in peacetime, he can hide such a large amount of gold, land and the like. Well, now, after the great tribulation, there are still these things that can be used to restore vitality. ”

Huang Yuyan was stunned and said: "This Wang family is really rich, no wonder the emperor took their family, this old lady hides a little thing casually, there are so many, what she hides is comparable to the accumulation of our family for several lifetimes." It is conceivable how rich the Wang family was before it fell? ”

Chen Wenhui said: "The Wang family was originally wealthy, but before the bank was opened, they were already the largest grain merchants in Anseong. Later, a bank was opened. gave the Wang family a chance to get rich, which made the Wang family's family property increase by more than ten times at once, not to mention, the Wang family after Wang Yaozhen married into the palace, especially after the emperor became the crown prince, his power expanded, not only doing business, but also colluding with the government in many places to oppress the people and take advantage of it. Quickly amassing huge amounts of wealth. It can be said that the silver of the Wang family before the raid has surpassed that of our Xiao Chen family, do you say rich? With such a large family property, only 50,000 taels of gold were left in the end. Can it be considered a lot? ”

Huang Yuyan was a little shocked. As an official eunuch girl of a scholarly family. Especially her father was not long in his career, and the Yan family he married was also an ordinary eunuch family, and it was not a prestigious family. So, she really hadn't imagined such a huge fortune. In her family, she is naturally much richer than ordinary people, and she doesn't need to pay baht, but ten taels or twenty taels of silver is also a big amount in daily expenses. Don't even think about 50,000 taels of gold.

Wan Qiaozhen is still acceptable. After all, her previous maiden family, Wanjia, and her mother-in-law's Cao family, were all well-known wealthy businessmen's families in Huzhou, and Wanguan's family wealth was only idle. However, 50,000 taels of gold is also a huge amount of money, how can it be a drop in the bucket like the Wang family, so Wan Qiaozhen is also speechless.

After the two of them were surprised for a while, Huang Yuyan reacted first, and said angrily: "Their Wang family is so rich, so they used to embarrass Sister Caiyu for the living expenses of more than ten or twenty taels of silver a month?" ”

Wan Qiaozhen also remembered Lan Caiyu's previous embarrassment, because her husband's family did not pull out a dime and did not support her and her children, she could only be forced to manage her own dowry and support herself and children.

Wan Qiaozhen was also very angry and said: "No wonder Wen Hui was so angry at that time, it turned out that she had known about the wealth of the Wang family for a long time, so she was even more angry at the Wang family's treatment of Sister Caiyu like this." Ten taels or twenty taels of silver are too little to reward the servants in the royal family, right? ”

Lan Caiyu was not angry, and said lightly: "Rewarding ordinary servants must be the same as ordinary big families, but it is just a reward like a copper coin, but the reward to those big managers is often a reward of thousands of acres of land." I still remember one time, when the second lady had just married, the servants around the second lady felt that they were from an official family, and they were more knowledgeable than the servants of a merchant family like the Wang family. However, the second lady's companion was dumbfounded when she saw that Mrs. Wang once rewarded the maid next to her with 1,000 taels of silver as dowry money. ”

Huang Yuyan and Wan Qiaozhen couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and Mingzhu couldn't stand it and said, "It's really richer than the emperor." The first emperor rewarded the ministers with the property, but it was only 200 acres or 300 acres. I am also a rich man now, before, my maid was married, she was still a first-class maid, and she served closely since she was a child, but she was only given some jewelry, some cloth, and five hundred taels of silver, how can she compare to Mrs. Wang of the Wang family? Alas, his small Wang family is so rich, it's no wonder that he is causing disaster. ”

Wan Qiaozhen and Huang Yuyan both smiled and said, "My sister has a lot of five hundred taels." ”

Chen Wenhui suddenly remembered what happened before. Back then, when the Wang family was still in the end, at that time, his father was just a small county magistrate in Ancheng, but in order to tie up with his father, the Wang family gave more than 10,000 taels of silver as soon as he made a move. At that time, my father borrowed money from the Wang family several times, and the amount was not small, and the Wang family could take it out immediately, which was enough to see that the Wang family was a rich man before.

Later, his family also had money, especially patent money, and he could get tens of millions of taels of assets at once, such a huge amount of money, even as a court official, the father of the Chen family's children did not dare to have it, so he gave some to the emperor and some to the clan land, in exchange for today's status.

But the stupid Wang family has nothing, just a family of businessmen, relying on the fact that there is a Wang Yaozhen in the palace, they dare to do anything wrong, dare to have such a huge amount of wealth, it is really bold, no wonder they will encounter such a catastrophe.

Now, it can be said that both himself and Xiao Chen's family have wealth that is not inferior to the Wang family, but they are different from Xiao Chen's family to the Wang family. They are branches of the Chen family, and they have a certain right to speak in the Chen family, and they have the support of the queen mother and the queen mother in the palace, and the emperor himself is still supported by the Xiao Chen family. Their family still has a large fiefdom overseas, as well as well-equipped elite soldiers.

With such a huge amount of wealth, it is still a little nervous, so Chen Wenhui and the people of the Xiao Chen family are racing against time to expand their strength, in order to protect all the current ones.

This is not the rule of law society in the previous life, this society is the supremacy of imperial power, and everything in this society is theoretically attributed to the emperor alone. Isn't there such a saying? Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. All the land belongs to the emperor, and all the people belong to the emperor.

In such a situation, if you want to protect yourself, how can you not have strength?

The poor Wang family is so stupid, without power, but with such a huge wealth, he has brought disaster for himself. Now, it is estimated that the old lady of the Wang family has realized her mistakes, so now she is making amends and constantly pulling backers for herself, such as Lan Caiyu, such as herself and the Xiao Chen family. Interestingly, Mrs. Wang doesn't seem to have considered the Wang family's concubine Wang Xian in the palace, as well as the prince born by Concubine Wang Xian.

Chen Wenhui thought of this and couldn't help laughing.

At this time, I heard Lan Caiyu say: "In Ancheng, Mrs. Wang sent me new news, because the two boys of the Wang family in the Ren family have died, so she decided to redistribute her money." ”

After speaking, I told Mrs. Wang about the new distribution plan.

Chen Wenhui couldn't help but say: "Mrs. Wang is very fair like this, every boy now has nearly 100,000 taels of silver, which is enough to live a luxurious life." Two girls, in order to please you, she gave your daughter more than 50,000 taels of property, if you add the property you will give to your daughter in the future, I estimate that the dowry of your daughter in the future will definitely be more than 100,000 taels, tsk, this is really a huge amount of money. ”

Lan Caiyu smiled, although she was not rare with the Wang family's money now, but she was still very happy when she thought of her daughter's rich dowry in the future.

Huang Yuyan and Wan Qiaozhen both laughed and said: "This is better than our dowry back then, that is, it is not as good as Xia Hui's dowry, and it is considered the best in the entire Great Chu." I don't know who is so blessed to marry such a rich girl? I don't know if our kid has such a blessing. ”

Mingzhu said with a smile: "Such a dowry is enough to marry into the palace." ”

Caiyu couldn't help frowning and said, "My daughter will definitely not marry into the royal family." The Wang family has a Wang Yaozhen, isn't it enough? ”

Saying this, everyone was stuck, and when they thought of everyone's common good sister, the current stranger Wang Yaozhen, they couldn't help but feel a little congested.

Still Mingzhu looked at the atmosphere and said: "Okay, don't talk about this, you all remember in your hearts, there is a rich woman here, if you have the opportunity in the future, you will definitely come to ask for it, as for whose kid Sister Caiyu will choose as her son-in-law, everyone will have to compete." ”

Everyone laughed at this.

There are no poor people here, where can they really marry someone because of their daughter-in-law's dowry? It's just a joke.

Chen Wenhui said: "Sister Caiyu, what are your plans?" ”

Lan Caiyu said: "I thought about it for a long time, and finally, I felt that I now have more than 100,000 taels of silver in my hand, and before, I spent more than 10,000 taels in order to rescue the people of the Wang family and the servants of the Wang family, but this more than 10,000 taels is just the money from my dowry in the past few years, and it has not touched the fifteen taels of silver that the Wang family gave me and left." To do soybean oil business, with the oil mills worth more than 150,000 taels of silver given by the Wang family before, there is not much money to be invested. Therefore, for the time being, I don't need to use the nearly 200,000 taels of silver for my children, nor do I need to use the 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver for my daughter. ”

"So, I want to discuss with my sisters, can I give my children the money left to them by their royal family to buy an inheritance?"

When he said this, everyone praised him.

Only Chen Wenhui frowned. (To be continued......)

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