Chapter 8: Preparation. Happy birthday to Hua Luo Weiyang sister paper!
At night, Lou Zheng was alone in the room sorting out the information he knew today.
In fact, there are many people under General Lou who can be used, but most of them are illiterate soldiers, although they are sincere, but they are not engaged in business.
Lou Zheng has seen a lot of such examples today, a blacksmith shop that can obviously make money, but it loses money every month, and the family can't eat enough.
Strictly speaking, they are not real craftsmen, and General Lou is only treating the symptoms but not the root cause by placing this group of people, so it is better to let them go back to their old profession and take out these shops for the right people.
General Lou has more than 20 shops and workshops in Liangzhou City, which can be opened to check the account book, and half of the income is not accounted for all year round, even if there is an entry, it is a drop in the bucket.
General Lou also has to pay these shops and workshops every year.
Lou Zheng sighed, he didn't find out about his family, and he knew that his father's old subordinates were living such a life.
Many of the children of the old subordinates had patches on their clothes.
Lou Zheng worked overnight to improve the shop and workshop, and put aside two brick kiln workshops and an iron-striking workshop separately.
Late at night, Steward Wu got up at night and took a look, and it was the fourth watch, and he found that the candle in the little lady's room was still on.
He wanted to take a look, but he was an old man after all, so he could only shake his head helplessly, ready to tell the general about it early tomorrow morning.
Early the next morning, I heard that the medicine slave said that his daughter had not gotten up yet, and I wanted to teach my daughter a lesson, but I felt sorry for my daughter to stay up late. Before going to the barracks, he went to Lou Zheng's room to take a look, asked the medicine slave to take care of Lou Zheng, and left the Dashuai's mansion.
It was almost ten o'clock in the morning when Lou Zheng got up.
After having breakfast in a hurry, I went to the front yard to find Steward Wu.
In the study of General Lou in the front yard, Lou Zheng pushed a small wooden box in front of Steward Wu.
Steward Wu opened the wooden box suspiciously, and saw that there were some jewelry and jewels inside, and some scattered silver taels.
Surprised, she asked, "Little lady, what are you going to do?" ”
Lou Zheng smiled, "I have to ask Uncle Wu to take these as pawns, and then exchange them for silver money." Buy some of the goods I specified. ”
Lou Zheng took out these jewelry and jewelry, which can only be regarded as average. The commerce of Liangzhou City is underdeveloped, and the people's wisdom is limited, so no matter how good the jewelry is, it can't get the price it should have, but these general ones have a good price. These jewels. Some were brought by Lou Zheng from Yaowang Mountain. Some were given by General Lou. As for the rest of the top jewelry. Lou Zheng has other plans.
Steward Wu's eyes widened in surprise, "How can this be?" These are the private property of the little lady. There is still a lot of money allocated by the general of the marshal's mansion! How can you use the jewelry of the little lady. ”
Lou Zheng's face sank, "Uncle Wu." I'll let you help me change it, just help me change it, these are not used to supplement the house. ”
As he spoke, Lou Zheng handed an envelope to Steward Wu, "Eighty percent of the silver money obtained in exchange will be used to purchase the items written in the envelope, and the remaining twenty percent will be kept." ”
Steward Wu glanced at Lou Zheng, and only felt that today's little lady was a little different, although she was young, but she was exuding a kind of magic, a kind of magic that people would consciously obey after listening to her words.
Open the envelope and take out a thin piece of rice paper from inside, which is full of goods that need to be purchased.
There are thousands of blue coarse cloth alone, not counting all kinds of wood, cotton and linen.
"Little lady, you are ......" Steward Wu's eyes glared at the boss.
Lou Zheng smiled at this time, "Make new clothes for the soldiers in the barracks!" Uncle Wu, haven't you already guessed it? ”
"But the little lady ......"
"Uncle Wu, don't be, the border army is Daddy's, I'm Daddy's daughter, Daddy is in the most difficult time now, how can I not try my best to help as a daughter."
Steward Wu burst into tears when he heard Lou Zheng's words, even if he didn't say anything to the people in the house, it turned out that the little lady knew that she saw it in her eyes.
Seeing that Steward Wu opened his mouth to say something, as if he was hesitating, Lou Zheng smiled and said: "Uncle Wu, I know what you want to say, things have to be solved one by one, this is my own decision, my father will definitely agree, you don't have to worry about this." ”
Steward Wu wiped his tears and nodded with satisfaction, "Little lady is righteous, the old slave first thank the little lady for those soldiers in the barracks." ”
"Okay, Uncle Wu, you go and get busy, by the way, I don't know which housekeepers were taking care of the housekeepers in the house before."
This Wu housekeeper is all Men'erqing, and he was busy telling Lou Zheng about the work of the housekeepers Aunt Xie and Aunt Huang.
"These two women are also more prestigious among the mothers-in-law of the generals, and they help Zhang Luo with everything on weekdays, they are two capable women."
Lou Zheng nodded and asked the medicine slaves outside to go to the backyard to call Aunt Xie and Aunt Huang.
Steward Wu walked out of the study, looked up at the warm sun above his head, and for some reason he had confidence in his heart, and at the same time, he lamented regretfully, why is the little lady not a little son, so that the general really has to rely on, and his daughter's family is worse after all!
Lou Zheng met Aunt Xie and Aunt Huang in the study.
The two women stood a little cramped in the study, wondering what was the matter with the little lady looking for them today.
They received a notice yesterday that the home of the marshal's mansion is now the little lady of the general, and everything is at the disposal of the little lady.
Although the two of them are also powerful mothers-in-law on weekdays, in front of real nobles, the two are only lowly women, not to mention that Lou Zheng naturally exudes a noble temperament.
The medicine slave sent barley tea in as Lou Zheng had ordered.
Lou Zheng smiled lightly and said: "Don't be nervous, two aunts, I just asked you to ask about some parents, you sit, have a cup of tea first." ”
With Lou Zheng's words, Aunt Xie and Aunt Huang settled down.
In the past, there was only one master in the marshal's mansion, that was General Lou, when the little lady didn't come to Liangzhou, the general couldn't come back a few times a month, and the huge marshal's mansion was only lived by them.
The Shuai Mansion is not much for a month, and they are all reserved and guarded by the Shuai Mansion, and they have never cheated and played tricks or filled their pockets.
What these ladies in charge of the military household are most afraid of is not to endure hardship, but that General Lou does not want them.
Now their family can live under the blessing of General Lou, and the old guards are also used to listening to the general's words.
The reason why the two women in charge of the house were afraid just now was that Lou Zheng would send them out in order to reduce the use of the house.
Now Lou Zheng has given them a reassuring pill, and of course they are at ease.
"I don't know, what the little lady wants to know, as long as it's something in the mansion of this big handsome, almost all of them know about the slave family."
(To be continued.) )
PS: I wish Hua Luo Weiyang sister a happy birthday! I'm sorry I couldn't add more! Something delayed QAQ tonight