During this period of time, the Wu family is Wu Dashan marrying his daughter, and Wu Lixia is opening a shop, which is very busy, and the Chen family is also at the end of the year, and the Bai family has begun to take inventory, and the shopkeepers and business housekeepers have come back to reconcile. Chen Wenhui also followed her mother to get busy.

On this day, the accounts were finally finished, and Bai and Chen Wenhui were relieved. It happened that Chen Yuanheng came to take a look, and when he saw that their mother and daughter were tired but shining, he smiled and said, "I must have earned a lot of money this year, just look at your bright eyes." ”

Bai Shi laughed when he heard this: "Hey, far away from the capital, I have become more and more tacky, can I deal with silver every day?" ”

Chen Wenhui said: "What's wrong with dealing with silver? What's wrong with cheesy? There are a lot of people who can't deal with silver. ”

The Chen couple laughed when they heard their daughter's words. Chen Yuanheng asked, "Madam, is the situation good this year?" ”

Bai handed the account book to Chen Yuanheng and said, "Okay, there are more than 1.8 million taels left." ”

Chen Yuanheng frowned and said, "Well, why are there only these?" I thought it would be more? ”

Chen Wenhui said: "With so much silver, isn't my father still satisfied? ”

Chen Yuanheng said to his daughter with a smile: "If we use so much silver for our family of five, we won't be able to use it up in a few lifetimes, but there are more than 1,000 counties in the entire Chu Dynasty, and we only have more than 1.8 million taels, isn't it less?" ”

Bai said: "Actually, the money from selling technology is not only this, we also took out 500,000 taels to open a branch in the capital." The total number of sold technology is more than 2 million taels. In addition to selling technology, we have made more money this year than last year. I used the money I earned to buy four Zhuangzi in Deqing, each of which has about 1,000 acres of land, and also bought many shops in Deqing, so that even our business is not profitable, just relying on the annual harvest of Zhuangzi and shops, it is enough for our house to live richly. ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded and said, "Madame is right to do this. This is the accumulation of grain to prevent hunger. ”

Bai Shi said: "I still want to take out this million taels of silver and go to the capital to buy shops and granges after the New Year, after all, we are going to return there in the future." And also. We also have to buy land and shops around the provincial capital Qingyang City, anyway, we don't need so much money now. ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded and said, "What Madame said is very true. What are you doing with all the money? It is better to take it and buy a field and pave the surface. It's just that you can't buy more, you can only buy 800,000 taels. ”

Bai Shi was surprised: "Why? So what do you do with the remaining one million taels? ”

Chen Yuanheng smiled bitterly and said: "We have made a fortune, everyone in this Great Chu Dynasty knows, after all, a county sells for 10,000 taels, and a thousand counties are 10 million taels." It's almost enough to catch up with the annual income of the state treasury. ”

Bai Shi pouted and said, "But where are there so many, we sold these more than two million taels in advance, which were bought by more than 200 neighboring counties." There are many people who buy it back and not only run their own chicken farms. And sell the technology. We sold it for ten thousand taels, and they sold it for five thousand, eight thousand, or three thousand. So, now where can we make more than 10 million. It's good to be able to earn more than 2 million. ”

Chen Wenhui thought to herself, yes, the worst thing in this era is that there is no patent law. If others want to learn technology, they don't have to pay anything.

Chen Yuanheng nodded and said, "Yes, I also know this situation. Those people in Asari also know, but everyone also knows that we can't make 10 million, and there are always millions. So, there are a lot of red eyes. ”

When Bai Shi heard this, he frowned and said, "Hey, this has no money, life is sad, this is rich, and people are jealous, it really makes people not know what to do?" ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "The only way now is to break the wealth and eliminate the disaster." ”

Chen Wenhui was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Father, what do you mean by disaster?" What calamity do we have now? ”

Only then did Bai Shi hear the meaning of his master's words, and he was also taken aback, and asked, "Is there a courtier who framed the master?" ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded and said, "I received news from the capital today, saying that I am now a hot spot in the court. First of all, our assassin Shi took a copy of me, and listed the things I had done in office, of course, all of which were good things and bad things. For example, when I gave loans to the people, Lord Assassin Shi said that I was usury, exploiting the people, and seeking personal gain. Also, I helped the victims, and Lord Thorn said that I used the victims to work for my family's garment shop and exploit the victims. Also, when I built a market, Lord Thorn said that I had inflated the prices of the houses, which had displaced the people in the city. ”

Chen Wenhui was angry when she heard this, and said, "Isn't this reversing black and white? ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded and said: "Yes, this is a real reversal of black and white, but Lord Assassin Shi also provided witnesses, and I don't know where to find the people, who wrote some pleadings, and wanted to sue me." ”

Bai Shi's face turned pale when he heard this, and he said, "What should I do then?" Master, doesn't the emperor want to ask the master about his sin? ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "This is not counted, after the assassination history joined me, the imperial historians of the queen of the court and the central government all went to the book to join me, and I heard that half of the emperor's imperial case was involved in me." ”

At this time, Bai Shi and Chen Wenhui were taken aback, and were about to speak, when two people suddenly broke in outside and exclaimed, "Father, are you telling the truth?" So what do we do? ”

Chen Wenhui saw that it was his two elder brothers who came back. I saw that the two brothers looked anxious. Although they are still young, they are born in aristocratic families and still know some things in the court.

Chen Yuanheng smiled: "Why are you so nervous." What's this, no matter what they say, the decision is still up to the emperor. As long as the emperor believes me, the more they say, the more wrong they will be. ”

At this moment, everyone was confused, and Bai asked, "Master, what does this mean?" How could the emperor believe the master? ”

Chen Yuanheng smiled, raised his hand to let the people in the house retreat, and whispered: "Concubine De gave me a letter, but this is not the kind of secret letter in the past, it is a normal letter, or it was sent from the post station in an urgent manner." This shows that this letter is a letter known to the emperor. The letter on the concubine Niangniang said that she is in charge of palace affairs, the annual expenses in this palace are too big, especially for the New Year, the silver is spent like flowing water, but now the treasury is empty, and the war in the northwest still needs money, she as a harem, also wants to share the worries for the emperor, so she began to save expenses in the palace and dismiss the palace people, which is not enough, she asked me to support her 500,000 taels of silver, so that she will not be like the treasury to ask for silver for the New Year this year, and it can be regarded as a contribution to the emperor. ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other. Chen Wenhui scolded in her heart: What is it? Isn't this the emperor asking them for money? The emperor is rich in the world, and he can't afford to support his own harem, so he reached out to their family to ask for money, where is this? Your emperor's harem, what's going on with our family? Why use our money for the New Year?

Bai stammered: "So all the expenses in the palace this year will come from our small family?" ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded, Bai remembered the situation in Beijing, and said: "Then we bought all the brilliant lights, the rich dinners, the heads and face jewelry of the nobles, and the cloud-like skirts in the palace during the Chinese New Year this year?" ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded again, and the Bai family was dumbfounded.

Chen Wenjun looked weird: "The treasury actually needs our family to take silver to help?" ”

Chen Wenlin said: "Father, is this a knock? ”

Chen Yuanheng hurriedly covered Chen Wenlin's mouth and said: "Don't say this, don't think about it, this is the honor of our family, this is the reward of heaven." ”

Chen Wenhui squinted her eyes, she was really more ruthless than a robber, and after the robbery and extortion, she would make the family grateful to Dade.

Chen Yuanheng said: "This is to spend money to eliminate disasters. I mean, in order to solve the matter of this assassination of Shi Shen and me, it is better for Mrs. to hurry up and prepare, remit 500,000 taels to the capital, and hand it over to Concubine De. ”

Bai nodded helplessly.

Who knew that Chen Yuanheng said again: "Well, there is also 100,000 taels to be prepared to go to the capital and hand it over to my father." ”

At this moment, Chen Wenhui was angry: "Why? We have been here for so many years, and my grandfather has not bought us anything except to write to greet us, so why is he asking us for money now? ”

Chen Yuanheng said apologetically to the Bai family: "Madam, the world that supports our parents, we have money now, so we naturally want to give a little to my father." Now that my father and two elder brothers are idle officials and have no oil and water, life is not good in the house, so let's give them some. ”

Bai Shi had no opinion and said: "Anyway, we are not short of this money, so let's give it to my father." ”

As a result, Chen Yuanheng said again: "I also have to send 300,000 taels to the patriarch." ”

"Huh?"

At this moment, the Bai clan jumped up: "The patriarch also asked us for money?" What is the reason for this? Have we not received the favor of the tribe? ”

Chen Yuanheng sighed and said: "Our Chen family has a big family and a big business, and there are many places where we need money. ”

Chen Wenhui thought about it, and remembered that she had said that she would buy sacrificial fields for the clan, so she asked: "Father, is the clan going to buy sacrificial fields?" ”

Chen Yuanheng sneered and said: "Our Chen family's heaven and earth are connected, and there are so many that it is incredible, what kind of land do you want to buy." There are many people in our Chen family, there are thousands of people, our family is only a small branch, or because the eldest sister entered the palace to be regarded as barely able to speak in the clan, there are actually many people in the clan who are sitting on property and do not like to be out of office. We are often ridiculed by them because we are officials in the court. ”

At this moment, Chen Wenhui was even more angry: "Then why should we give them money?" Black Paws make money and don't give White Paws flowers. They look down on us, and we don't give it yet. Hum. ”