Chen Wenhui was busy for a few days, and finally straightened out the accounts. After straightening out the accounts, Chen Wenhui threw all this qiē to Lu Ya to deal with, and he looked at the accounts sooner or later, and then regained his freedom.

In addition to chatting with Princess Lichuan for a while every day, Chen Wenhui went to the Gyeonggi area to build Yangshan Hall with the officials of the Ministry of Industry, Liu Yan and Liu Jingyuan. thought that there was money donated by Wen Hui and Mingzhu, as well as the 600,000 taels of silver from the concubine, although the property donated by those ladies was not realized, but it was more than enough.

Therefore, the construction of Yangzentang and the hospital is very smooth.

In addition to watching the construction site, Chen Wenhui has asked people to hire people, some of them are bought, some of them are hired, and these manpower are temporarily handed over to a courtyard of the princess's mansion to settle down, and people are sent to train every day.

The content of the training is all pearls, and Wen Hui and Liu Jingyuan discussed it together.

Chen Wenhui finished these, took time, and looked at the progress of the Hei family, those shops were almost renovated, Chen Wenhui suddenly had an idea, and said to Tang Guanghui of the Hei family: "Tang shopkeeper, most of our shops are facing the wealthy class, just two days later, the noble ladies will have an internal subscription meeting in the auction house, I will introduce those ladies to our shops at that time, right?" Hurry up and try to open the business two days after the internal subscription meeting, and I will invite these ladies to come. Well, everyone will be issued a membership card, and if you come on the opening day and buy anything, you can upgrade it to a VIP card. In this way, you will get a 10% discount on everything you buy in the future. What do you think? ”

Tang Guanghui was very curious and said: "Membership card, I really haven't heard of it, what is it?" ”

Chen Wenhui talked about the style and purpose of the membership card.

Tang Guanghui said: "This method is very good, first, you can give members discounts, who doesn't like to take advantage?" Second, we can also fill in the information through guò members. Knowing who the members are and what their preferences are, so that you can introduce products to them next time, is really a good way to make money. ”

Chen Wenhui saw that Tang Guanghui was very receptive to this idea. began to discuss the style of the membership card with Tang Guanghui, and after finalizing the draft, he hurried up and asked someone to make zuò.

Soon it was the tenth day of the first lunar month, and the ladies who donated in the Zhongcui Palace came to the Splendid Teahouse, which has been renamed the Splendid Auction House. The ladies took the posts and went into the middle of the teahouse, which was divided into five areas, according to Wen Hui's requirements, with a cloth area and an antique area. Calligraphy and painting area, jewelry area, shop, field production area.

These ladies and gentlemen began to look at the items they had donated and so on in the middle of the hall. The auction house specially uses the maids of the Qi Mansion to be the pawn. All of them are like flowers, gentle and polite, and these ladies are very relieved.

Chen Wenhui also arrived with her mother. Looking around, I saw that the upstairs was a private room, separated by a layer of shark yarn curtains, which were made of precious shark yarn, which was cool and clear. The outside looks hazy inside, but the inside looks clear. This kind of shark yarn curtain is very precious, the Qi family is really a big business, hands and feet are all over the sky, and they can actually buy so many shark yarn curtains.

If you look at the surrounding settings, everything from porcelain for drinking tea to lounges for relaxation is exquisite. The lounge is all rosewood furniture. Luxurious and low-key, exquisite workmanship. There are also those porcelain used, all of which are white porcelain, elegant and inconspicuous. It looks very clean.

Chen Wenhui smiled and whispered to the Bai family: "This Qi family is really suitable for being an auction house." This arrangement. The decoration of these things can probably only be purchased by people like the Qi family who have spent several lifetimes on eating and drinking. ”

Bai smiled and said: "You are young, you have not experienced it, several families in the capital who are still princesses are like this, rich and luxurious." It's just that such a family is also a little bad, when the princess is gone, generally, such a family will fall apart. ”

Chen Wenhui asked strangely: "Why is the princess's family like this?" ”

Bai said with a smile: "The emperors of the past dynasties have been very good to the princesses, because the prince may seize the throne and may rebel, and the emperor is very guarded. Because the princesses are women, how can they threaten the rule, of course, they are pampered. Moreover, our royal family in Da Chu is very strange, there are very few princesses, and there are only a few in each generation, so each of them is the emperor's favorite daughter, and they all give a large dowry after getting married. Of course, the emperor's family is the richest, but if the emperor has ten or eight princesses, can everyone give so many dowries? However, until now, there are very few princesses who have lived to get married, and I don't know why. For example, among the children of the former emperor, there are only two princesses, one is the eldest princess, who is the mother-in-law of your third aunt, and the other is the princess Jingzhen of the Qi family. In our dynasty, now, there is only one princess who is married, Princess Lichuan, although there are still a few princesses in the palace, but they are all young, and I don't know if I can live to get married. ”

Chen Wenhui never knew this, this is probably the royal secret.

Bai said: "Back then, when Princess Lichuan got married, I saw it with my own eyes, and the dowry was rich, because the emperor was the only one who got married, so the preparations were luxurious, and the imperial historians didn't speak." However, I heard from your grandmother that Princess Lichuan's dowry is still far worse than that of the eldest princess and Princess Jingzhen. You can be regarded as knowing why the Qi family is so rich, right? Since the Qi family became the master, they don't seek to be motivated, but they are just dressing and eating, and they are attentive to the use of utensils, can they do it well? ”

Chen Wenhui suddenly realized and said: "No wonder, the emperor specially gave a part of the proceeds of Shanghai City to his daughter?" I thought it was the reason why Princess Lichuan was so favored? ”

Bai said: "It is one thing to be particularly favored, in order to make up for the fact that when the princess got married, the dowry was less than that of the aunts, and on the other hand, otherwise, the princess has been rich in Shanghai City in recent years, why didn't she speak out from the imperial history?" ”

It turns out that there is this reason, it is really the emperor's daughter.

Bai said: "Actually, the daughter of the patriarch of our Chen clan also has this treatment when she marries, that is, it is slightly less than that of the princess. It's really the daughter of our Chen family, even if she is married, and her descendants are also working hard, they still go to the battlefield to fight. ”

Wen Hui nodded, no wonder, he has become a county lord, and his family feels normal, it turns out that the people of the Chen family originally thought that their status and the royal family must be no worse. A county lord, but the third level, is now the daughter of the head of the Chen branch, in terms of identity, it should be equivalent to the county lord, the emperor gave himself a county lord position is actually really low.

Despite this, Chen Wenhui is still very happy. I went shopping with my mother, and I really found a lot of good things during this visit. Those noble ladies of Da Chu gave up some precious things. After all, this is not dedicated to charity, it is dedicated to the concubine, can you take out bad things?

Just looking at it, suddenly a voice appeared, only to see the position of the stage, there was a team of maids, in the middle stood a luxuriously dressed lady, she stretched out her hand very politely, only to see, please out of a gorgeous golden branch jade leaf, it is the princess of Lichuan.

Princess Lichuan stood still in the middle of the stage, looked at the ladies who were admiring these items and said: "Princess Ben, thank you ladies for coming to participate in the internal subscription meeting. This princess and the concubine thank you again. ”

After saying that, he gave a blessing. The ladies and girls in the audience returned the salute one after another.

Princess Lichuan said: "These things have now been put on display, including jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, land paving, and fabrics. The price has already been indicated. If you like something, please tell the maids around you, and if the maids are registered, you can pay the money and take it. After today's internal subscription meeting, the remaining things and some treasures acquired by the Qi family will be held in three months, a big auction, auction. Adults from all of you can also participate. By the way, the palace also wants to announce a news, on the same day, the concubine donated her dowry when she was married, and now it has been sold to the house and shop, and some jewelry, antiques and the like are all here. The houses and shops that were sold were worth a total of 600,000 taels of silver. ”

Speaking of this, Princess Lichuan paused and looked at everyone in the audience.

The crowd was amazed to hear that there was so much silver.

Princess Lichuan continued: "The noble concubine has donated all the 600,000 taels of silver to the hospital and Yangshantang. ”

As soon as this sentence was said, there was a lot of discussion below, this time the concubine Niangniang's big hand was really unexpected by everyone. Originally, everyone thought that the concubine didn't say the specific number, but only said the dowry worth 100,000 taels, and thought that the concubine was fooling them into donating things, what about the money? I must have taken out those crude benzene guys who didn't need them, outdated things, who knew that the house and shop alone were sold for 600,000 taels of silver, what a huge amount of money. That's it, I just said that it was 100,000 taels, then donate 100,000 taels, and the remaining 500,000 taels can be collected by myself, why did you donate it all at once?

It seems that this time, the concubine Niangniang is really going to do good deeds, and she is not spending so much money at all to gain fame as they thought before.

Thinking about it this way, everyone is not calm, originally everyone thought that the concubine Niangniang was acting and gaining fame, so they donated some property to their liking, but now they see that the concubine Niangniang is so attentive and has made a bloody investment, and it has been rumored recently that the emperor wants to set up the concubine Niangniang as the queen, so are the things he is donating now too little?