When the Daxing Emperor Zigong moved into the imperial mausoleum, the queen mother, the new emperor, the empress, the prince and other cadres naturally had to be sent off in person, and the civil and military officials, the royal family of the clan, and the nobles and lords also had to accompany them. Zhao Wei is the Marquis of Jiannan, and Zhang is also the Duchess of Jiannan County, and they have a decree from the imperial court, and they all have to participate in the spirit sending ceremony. The Zhao family had already started preparations a few days in advance.

What clothes to wear, what kind of car to ride, what kind of horse to ride, what people to take to wait, what luggage to carry, where to settle down along the way, etc., etc., all have to do their homework in advance. The population of the second room of the Zhao family is small, and if the owners are all out of the house, there will be no one in the family who can hold the scene. Although there is Mama Lu, Mama Lu is still a subordinate at present, and there are some things that cannot be replaced by the master, and the ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhang family discussed it and decided to keep Zhao Xiu at home to take care of the family.

Zhang and Zhao Wei went, it will take at least five or six days to turn around, Zhao Xiu is alone at home, familiar with housework, and there are Lu Ma and Wang Fulai and others to help, it is not troublesome, in his spare time, he will practice calligraphy, practice boxing, and make clothes, it is really boring, and he can also take out the account books at home and make a plate in private.

Several new shops have been opened in the family.

A tea shop, focusing on tea produced in the south of the Yangtze River, of course, there is also white tea produced in the Zhao family's own tea garden, taking the high-quality route. Business is tepid at the moment, but the reputation has been made. This kind of business is not a huge profit, but a long-term stream. Zhao Qixuan personally sat in charge, there was no problem with the supply of goods, and with Jiannanhou Mansion as a backer, the shop was running quite smoothly.

A silk cloth shop also sells all kinds of clothing produced in the south of the Yangtze River, silk and satin, and of course, the muslin cloth from the Songjiang weaving field of the Zhao family is indispensable. Although Zhao Qixuan is also watching the business of this store, the daily operation is to choose another shopkeeper, who is a person from Suzhou and has decades of experience. In the first few days of opening, the new store has already started its signature in a short period of time because of the various preferential promotions that are more eye-catching. Although the promotion period has passed, the business volume is still very high, and the shopkeeper has sent people back to the south to transport a batch of new materials over the next few days, so as not to sell them out of stock at the end of the month. Zhao Xiu calculated the income and expenditure reported by this shop in the past two months, and estimated that he would be able to earn back the upfront cost of opening the store next spring.

The foreign goods shop is taken care of by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the sixth room sent a cousin of the branch to support the Nanhui port, and the operation of the store on weekdays, the second room of the Zhao family is not asked, and it will only be shot if there is trouble, and in addition, it is waiting for the dividends under the year.

Because the Zhao family originally cooperated with the General Zhuguo Mansion to do foreign goods business, but now with the intervention of the Internal Affairs Office, the shares occupied by the General Zhuguo Mansion have been reduced to one share. Zhao Wei took into account the friendship between the two families, and in order to make up for the loss of the Zhuguo General's Mansion, he signaled to the six rooms and opened a shipping company with the Zhuguo General's Mansion, specializing in Cao Yun trading. The Zhuguo General's Mansion has the connections of the Caoyun Yamen, and the six houses have to transport several ships of goods to the north every month, or transport some local products from the north to the south to sell, and they have to use boats back and forth. The General Zhuguo Mansion found that the profits of this business were also high, and in addition to borrowing his family's name to dot the yamen along the canal, there was almost no need for his family to bother with anything, and the specific operation was covered by the Zhao family's six rooms, and his family was almost waiting for dividends, so the two sides were happy. The relationship between the Zhao family and the Cao family is also better.

In this Caoyun business, the second room of the Zhao family is not very touched, but it will also be borrowed when transporting goods, which is naturally an internal preferential price. Strictly speaking, there are not many shops under the name of the newly built Nanhou Mansion, and the main industries are all granges. With the autumn harvest approaching, there is also good news coming from Zhuangzi everywhere. Wang Fulai has already packed his luggage, and when Zhang and Zhao Wei return, he will go to Zhuangzi to check the accounts and collect grain. Zhao Xiu calculated his approximate income this year, and found that he didn't have to use his old capital to repair the old mansion of the Hou Mansion, and he breathed a big sigh of relief.

The money at home is not tight, and her grandparents and grandchildren can be more comfortable in the capital for the New Year. Now it's the golden autumn season, winter clothes should be made, charcoal for heating should be bought, and there are still many places to use money.

The Zhang family now doesn't care more and more about the housework at home, and they are handed over to Zhao Xiu to take care of it on weekdays, and then send Lu's mother to assist. If there is something difficult to decide, or a major festival etiquette, she will go out again. Even if there was a small mistake in Zhao Xiu's housekeeper, she just pointed it out, but her granddaughter made up for it by herself. Zhao Xiu is a little sloppy now, and he doesn't dare at all.

After checking the accounts, Zhao Xiu sighed lightly, and was about to fold the account book, but found that there was a thin small account book underneath, and when he picked it up, it turned out to be a special account book for the newly opened study shop that was handed over to Zhao Ze to take care of.

Zhao Qixuan searched around the capital, and finally settled on a small shop in the area of the capital City God's Temple in the west of the inner city. It is a bustling business district, with markets on the first, fifteenth and twenty-fifth days of the Lunar New Year, and the streets are very bustling for three miles, and the prices of the shops are naturally not cheap. The store he chose was located in the middle of the street to the west, not facing the street, but walking a dozen or so steps into the alley, which was a quiet place, but as a small shop that bought and sold stationery supplies and books, the address was already very good. Including the yard at the back of the store, Zhao Qixuan spent three hundred taels to buy it. The contract was sent to the yamen as soon as possible, and then handed over to Zhao Wei. Zhao Wei handed it over to his sister Zhao Xiu for safekeeping.

The store is very small, Zhao Xiu has seen it, and it is estimated that it is about ten square meters, which is about the same size as the gate house in the Zhao family's small house, with a few shelves and a small counter, it is already full. There is a door behind the counter that leads directly to the backyard, there is a small patio in the backyard, south of the patio is the courtyard wall, next to the back room of the spice shop next door, there are four rooms in the east, west and north directions, each is not big, one is close to the front store is used as a warehouse, one is used as a kitchen, can only boil tea, make some simple meals, the remaining two clean up, the big one can be used as a room for Zhao Ze, and the small one can barely squeeze a bed, just for his old servant. On the second day of the delivery of the store, Zhao Ze got the letter and took Lao Zhangtou to live. The place is small, and the environment is not as comfortable as the house on the other side of Zhang Shanjia Hutong, but he feels much more relaxed when he lives there than at home.

After inspecting the market in the capital, the treasurers of the sixth room finally decided not to open the grain shop, and switched to the north-south grocery business, transporting two ships of goods from their hometown in Jiangnan to the capital every month, all kinds of clothing fat powder, pickles and local products and even stationery supplies, and the mid-to-high-end products in their Chinese room supplies were left for sale in their own shops, and the middle and low-end ones were sold to Zhao Ze's study shop, which was not troublesome. Zhao Ze was not picky, but he was going to run a shop for the second room, so he also carefully selected the goods, carefully arranged the storefront, and looked for an auspicious day to prepare for the opening.

It wasn't easy for him to open his shop. Niu's actions were really guessed by Zhao Xiu, Zhao Wei and Zhao Qixuan. As soon as she heard that the second room gave Zhao Ze a hundred taels of silver as the capital, she immediately asked her grandson to hand over the money to her for safekeeping, and then no matter what Zhao Ze said, she refused to take it out again. Her original plan was to let Zhao Ze buy the goods on credit, and when they were sold, she would make up the payment, or even if she didn't make up for it, she would continue to owe it, both horizontally and vertically surnamed Zhao, why should her family pay so much attention to it? Let Zhao Ze bring his brothers and servants to do the decoration of the store, call a girl to clean up, and the guy doesn't have to hire it, Zhao Ze himself has hands and feet, and the old servant can also send someone to help, find a good day, buy a firecracker and burn it at the door, even if it is open. Even this firecracker, you can pick the cheapest, and a few big bucks will solve it. Zhao Ze has it himself, even if he doesn't, won't Zhao Qixuan help out? She didn't have to dig out of her pocket, the abacus was extremely loud, and she didn't plan to pay a penny out of her pocket at all.

Fortunately, Zhao Qixuan said that he was not allowed to take credit. If you don't give money, there will be no goods, and the store will naturally not be able to open. If the store can't be opened, how can we talk about wages? Not to mention the profits earned later, as well as the dividends under the year. As soon as Niu heard Zhao Ze say, his heart hurt. Although she was very dissatisfied with such a small shop, she also knew that in previous years, when she was still helping the housekeeper in Jiannanhou Mansion, the steward in charge of purchasing could get a lot of oil and water, even if she was only responsible for buying paper, ink, pen and inkstone. Over the course of a year, there are two or three hundred taels to say the least. Nowadays, although this shop is small, it is located in the prosperous area of the inner city, and it is still sold in the sought-after Jiangnan Study, and the business must be good. Does she want to give up her future profits for a little money? In the end, she reluctantly took out fifty taels of silver.

The goods bought for fifty taels of silver have not even filled the small storefront. But Zhao Ze didn't say anything, took the old Zhang Tou and the two of them to tidy up the shop, bought a hanging of firecrackers and burned it, and officially opened for trading. Although he is stupid, but he is an ink, often come to the capital around the city of the temple to visit the book market to see the goods, he can tell the reason for all the products, but also provide his own personal experience to the customer's reference, the customer will be convinced of him, not because he is young to look down on it, so the business is not bad. After a long time, I gradually made some word of mouth. There are also people who know his details, and they are curious to watch, and naturally gossip is indispensable, but he blushed and endured it, and always greeted the guests politely, and others were embarrassed at first. After a month, the business volume turned out to be good. The old guy sent by Zhao Qixuan to instruct him was only stationed in the store for half a month, and then he let go.

Seeing that Zhao Ze's business was good, Niu Shi was not as picky as before, so he gave him an extra few dozen taels of silver to buy goods in the second month. But she always treats this shop as her own, Zhao Ze lives in the store on weekdays, and only after five or six days, when there is no market, she can only take time to go home, she always catches him and asks about the details of running the store, and when she learns the price of the products he sells, she is immediately annoyed: "How can it be sold so cheaply?" No wonder your business is good, it turns out that you are asking others to take advantage, but it is just a false fire! Then she listed the same goods, said the price she had in mind, and asked him to change it.

Niu's is not unfounded to change the price of goods, when she used to be a housekeeper, the people who bought stationery supplies at home used this price to report her. However, there is naturally a lot of water mixed in this, otherwise how can the people who buy it save two or three hundred taels of private houses in a year? Niu didn't know if it was true or fake, so he only asked Zhao Ze to sell things at this price.

How could Zhao Ze agree? If the shop is his own, maybe he still has to chant filial piety first, and listened to Niu's words, but the shop is a second-room shop, and he can't mess with Niu's. Even if Jiangnan goods are in demand, they are not a unique business in Beijing, those are low-end stationery supplies, which are more expensive than the high-end ones, who will come to the door? The reputation of the shop has been ruined, and everyone is done playing. Ignoring Niu's swearing, he withstood the pressure and insisted on making small profits on the basis of the cost price given by Liufang, and the reputation of the shop soon began. No matter how reluctant Niu is, there is nothing he can do. Zhao Ze and Lao Zhangtou didn't listen to her, could she still run to the shop to make a cameo appearance?

The business of the study shop is on track, Zhao Ze has a monthly salary, pays four taels of silver to go home, keeps one or two for his own use, and lives in the store with the old Zhangtou master and servant. The second room is even more relaxed. Under Zhao Xiu's reminder, whether it was Zhao Wei or the people in the family, they all intentionally or unintentionally spread the news that Jiannanhou Mansion handed over a small shop to Zhao Ze to take care of, the small shop was not worth anything, but it was the kindness of Jiannanhou Mansion, and even Feng Yushi admitted that the new Jiannanhou was not a mean person. Niu wanted to find the stunned Yushi to go to Zhao Wei, but no one cared about it anymore. Both Zhang and Zhao Wei have a good reputation for benevolence.

Zhao Xiu thought, when things came to this point, the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family had no excuse to come to the door to entangle and fight the autumn wind, so they must be able to settle down, right?

Unfortunately, it backfired. Zhang and Zhao Wei had only been out for three or four days, and before they could turn around, Zhao Yan suddenly came to the door. RS