Bai Shi looked at his daughter's confused appearance and said, "Hui'er, you are smart about everything, but you don't understand things in officialdom. Your father is now a feudal official. He had nearly 100,000 taels of silver a year. ”

This is exciting news, Chen Wenhui never knew that being an official could make so much money. Bai looked at his daughter's appearance and knew that it was time to make up for this lesson for his daughter, after all, according to the current situation, her daughter must also marry into an official eunuch family in the future, and she may also marry into the royal family, so these are even more important to understand.

Bai said: "Your father, as a thorn in history, has nearly 10,000 taels of silver every year, not counting this, and the fire in a state costs silver." This is the default of the imperial court to officials to maintain integrity. In addition, there are multiple ways to get money as a thorn history. One hundred thousand taels of silver in a year is the least. If you scrape the ground like the previous Huzhou thorns and set up all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, it will not be 100,000 taels a year, 300,000, and 500,000 are normal. For example, the predecessor of the assassin is said to have an income of more than 400,000 taels a year. ”

Chen Wenhui asked: "What is fire consumption silver?"

Chen Wenlin said with a smile: "Our officials in various places collect taxes from grain or cloth, and except for a part of this, the rest must be exchanged for silver. There is some price difference in the middle, and this is the money for officials at all levels. Also, after the silver is collected, the fineness is different, there are five changes, there are seven changes, so that they must be unified before they can be transported to the capital. This process of unification was to re-refine silver with fire, so that there would be loss, and this was allowed by the imperial court. This loss is called fire consumption, and a large amount of silver is also produced in the middle, that is, fire consumption silver, which is generally distributed to officials at all levels. As the largest official in a province, he naturally has the most income. Now there is another level of official above this, that is, the governor of the three provinces, and this is to share the silver of the three states. Adding up to a lot, it's naturally a big head, so. In the future, the four princes will have a lot of silver. It's just that this year there aren't many of them. After all, he came too late, and he could only get a share of the autumn harvest silver. But that alone was enough for him to live a fat year. Therefore, Haimao's one million taels is not a problem at all, even if Haimao doesn't earn a penny, he can pay back the one million taels. Therefore, at that time, he was reluctant to take the girl of the Wang family as a concubine. ”

Now Chen Wenhui understood that it was Yaozhen's wishful thinking from beginning to end, and Liu Yan didn't need her help at all. Bai then said, "Your father went to the capital before. A total of more than 50,000 taels of silver were spent, and this is the silver from the capital, and now your father has returned the silver after getting the fire, so. We got the silver from the capital in advance, and of course we have a lot more money on hand. ”

Wen Hui nodded. Bai also said: "This year, in addition to our family's business, there are also cooperative businesses that have made a lot of money. The first is the soybean oil business, and now the Wang family's soybean oil business is all over the south of the Yangtze River. It's growing fast. Originally, his family had a lot of industries and developed quickly, and because of the promotion of soybean planting, soybean oil production became more and more, so we got about 100,000 taels of silver for this alone. And the Lan family's cotton cloth business is also very good. And we also received twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver. This is because most of the money is invested in the new expansion of the cotton business, or more is shared. We also have a share of the bank's business, and we can probably get more than 60,000 taels of silver this year, and it is estimated that it will be doubled next year. These pieces of silver have been delivered. Therefore, the family will hold a happy event for your eldest brother, and the silver for a few of you is ready-made. I'll have someone deliver it to you two in two days. It would be nice for you to help the family more these days. ”

Wen Hui heard her mother say this, so she had to nod her head in agreement. But I am also very happy in my heart, after all, this family is getting more and more prosperous. And I was worried that I had no money, and I had to deal with the monthly guard silver and build a glass workshop, and the silver was settled, but this produced another thing, that is, there was a lot of silver left, where should I invest it? Wen Hui still has the thoughts of her previous life in her bones, she doesn't like to save money, and thinks that saving money is constantly depreciating, and only constantly investing money is the king. But this world is not the previous life, you can take money to speculate in stocks, to copy futures and other investment channels, there are too few investment channels here, and I really can't think of any way to invest for a while, so I can only put it first, and first do the big brother in front of me.

In fact, Wen Jun is just a marriage, and there are not many places that need help, after all, this is not an official wedding, and he is busy at the wedding. It's just that after that, the bride's family will be busy, because the dowry has to be prepared. Among them, the production of various furniture is a big project. On the contrary, it is much easier for the groom's family to take out the bride price. When the Bai family arrived at the day of getting the bride price, he suddenly prepared a bride price of 50,000 taels of silver. This is really a big deal, and many years later, the people of Qingyang City are still talking about it.

Wen Hui is about to take over the affairs of the eldest brother before she is free, that is, to recruit craftsmen with the second brother. Because as soon as the marriage is completed, the three brothers and sisters will go to Huating County to build a new city and carry out maritime trade.

Wen Hui and Wen Lin ran to many places non-stop, recruited many craftsmen, and spent a lot of money. It's just that this money is not from the Chen family, it belongs to everyone in Haimao, what Wen Hui has to do is to let the maid Qiubi keep the accounts, and wait until she goes to Huating County to report the accounts.

When Wen Hui is idle, she will also think about her glass workshop, and it is estimated that it will be shelved, after all, Meizhen is now a bride-to-be, where can she have time to manage this, it seems that her money-making plan will also be shelved. What a disappointment.

Unknowingly, when Wen Hui and Wen Lin returned to Qingyang City that day, they received a letter saying that Meizhen was looking for her and asked her to go to the workshop. Wen Hui hurriedly went. When I arrived at the workshop, I was stunned, and the workshop had already started.

Wen Hui and Meizhen sat down in the account room, Meizhen saw that Wen Hui's face was a little red, Wen Hui smiled and said, "Sister, am I called sister or sister-in-law now?" ”

Meizhen said with a straight face: "I have always thought that my sister is a serious person, and I want you to come to discuss something with you, who knows that you make fun of me like this, it's true." ”

Wen Hui was not angry at all, and sighed in her heart, no matter how strong and intelligent a woman is, she is a woman, and she is starting to be shy when it comes to marriage. Wen Hui smiled and said, "Is it not serious for me to call my sister-in-law?" Is it not proper to call other people's sisters-in-law in the world? I really don't know that seriousness is meant to be like this, and inseriousness is meant to be like that. ”

Wen Hui's words made several maids unable to hold back their laughter. Mi-jin's face blushed even more. Wen Hui saw that it was almost over, so she stopped joking and began to say: "Okay, good sister, don't talk about this, you say it quickly, why did you call me over?" ”

Meizhen glanced at Wen Hui with disgust, took out a delicate box from the table, opened the box, and Meizhen took out a delicate oval mirror. The quality of this mirror is very good, and it is the same as what Wen Hui used in her previous life, and it is very clear to shine on people.

Wen Hui was very satisfied, how the maids around her were amazed. Meizhen originally thought that Wen Hui would praise her, but how did she know that Wen Hui was just showing appreciative eyes, had Wen Hui seen such a good quality mirror before?

Just thinking about it, Wen Hui asked: "Sister, I thought I was busy for a while, and you didn't manage these things?" Who knows, you not only built the workshop, but also produced such a good quality mirror. What a capable person. ’

Meizhen smiled and said, "This is thanks to the recipe you provided earlier. With this recipe, plus my masters are engaged in glass processing skills for several generations of masters, their own technology is very good, now with your recipe, all of a sudden it is like piercing the window paper, and it is integrated to create a crystal clear glass, and then use this crystal clear glass to create such a clear mirror. ”

Wen Hui thought about it, this glass has been made for hundreds of years, the craftsmen have been passed down from generation to generation, and they have already accumulated a lot of experience, and now she has provided the recipe, and she has completed the final evolution, and she will naturally be able to make such a good glass and mirror as quickly as possible.

Mi-jin continued, "I invited my sister over today because the mirror has already been made, are we going to ship it to the store and sell it?" We have already built a store in Suzhou City, and our store in Qingyang City has also been decorated, all of which are decorated according to what you said, is it possible to open now? ”

Wen Hui said: "I don't have any experience in this area, my sister has managed the silver building for so many years, and she must have had a case for these things a long time ago, so she simply handed them over to her sister to do a good job, but this store must have cost a lot of money, you first bring me the account book to see, and I will send my share of the silver over when I turn around." Next, I just waited to collect the money. When our mirror becomes famous, we will also open a store in the capital. By the way, the pricing of this mirror must be high, anyway, the Great Chu Dynasty is our family, we must have a high price and take the high-end route. By the way, is there anything else besides the mirror? ”

Meizhen hurriedly opened another box, only to see that the box was a set of glass cups, lotus leaf style, crystal clear, exquisite workmanship, and it was liked at first glance. Wen Hui couldn't help but take a serious look at it in her hand, and found that this glass cup was even more exquisite than the glass made in a certain country in her previous life, and she couldn't help but love it.

Meizhen said: "There are a lot of such glasses, there are glasses, there are glasses, all of which are such high-quality glass products, which are by no means the same as those on the market now." I had people make matching wooden boxes to raise the grade. ”

Wen Hui agrees with this, this good horse also needs a good saddle. Wen Hui said: "Sister, I want some of this thing, I will go to Huating County with my brother in a few days, I want some to give away, and I also want a few mirrors, keep them there to give them away." ”

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