Chapter 12 The beginning is difficult
After Xu Zi put down his pen first, he was about to go to dinner with his little sister, Xu Ming came to report, and Mr. Kong and Kong came.
Xu Zixian didn't change his robe, and invited Kong He to sit in the study, and the little sister avoided it first. The little maid Yiran brought the tea tray and came up to serve tea.
After Kong He waited for Yi Ran to go out, he took out a roll of account books from his sleeve and said with a smile: "Shizi, fortunately, I didn't disgrace my life, and finally found some evidence, which can be regarded as grabbing the bezoar dog treasure ...... of the Li family's father and son."
Xu Zixian took the account book with a smile and swept it slightly...... Kong He's ability is really not bad, and Li Cheng can't check how much benefit he has made in the hermitage, and even how many hermits can't be strictly investigated now, this is a matter of the future.
Kong He found out that the Li family father and son used more than 600 official village households, and more than 1,000 Dingkou took turns to do things for themselves.
The Hou Mansion employs people for 40 days a month, and less than 400 people enlist in a year, and the rest are called by the Li family and his son to do short-term work, twice a year in summer and autumn, summer and autumn planting, and ordinary farmers who are short of manpower will also hire short-term workers, at least 60 yuan a day...... In addition, the commercial houses and shops in several nearby towns need short-term labor, and they also take the official village labor to go to the top, and several shops have this form of cooperation with the Li family father and son, and the commercial bank shop gives less wages, and the Li family father and son put this kind of labor on the top of the money, and they are safely in the pocket.
The Zhuang households of the official village did not dare to refuse, this kind of forced labor was only forty days, if they offended Li Cheng, the manager was removed from the status, although the miscellaneous labor of the official government was also forty days, it was much more bitter than this kind of forced labor.
Although digging the river and building the road contributed, but it was in the hometown, the most afraid of being transferred to the city as a prison, a husband, or a sedan chair, a doorman, a warehouseman, dozens of days not allowed to go home, the food is also poor, and even as a post passer, a shop for the express shop, or in front of the ya, the drudgery of escorting the military prisoners, it is really necessary to take off a layer of skin, but most of the people who go out are more than 40 days, and it is very common to get double the time to come back.
"Sir, it's hard work." Xu Zixian took a glance and knew that the Li family father and son had made a lot of money, and thousands of people had been taking turns to make money for him, could it be less?
Kong He's accounts clearly calculated that Li Cheng could make at least five or six hundred thousand yuan a year in this matter, and millions of dollars in more than ten years.
Xu Zixian was secretly angry in his heart, his father had been an official for a few years, and he was not as good as Li Cheng, a domestic servant, which was really too deceitful.
Of course, Li Cheng will hand over some of it, but that was many years ago, and in the past few years, under the pretext that there are homeless people robbing business, the exemption money has been reduced by more than 70%.
All this money fell into the hands of Li Cheng's father and son, and the retainers lived more nourishingly than the master, which is ridiculous to say, and if you think about it, of course, it makes people angry.
Kong He said: "The father and son of the Li family built a large compound in Jiazizhuang, with five wooden and bone gates, dozens of rooms inside, a front house and a back garden, and a large house with a few entrances, and they lived a good life. ”
Xu Zixian sneered: "No wonder I heard that Li Cheng has more than a dozen concubines, Li Fu has two concubines at this age, and they are very rich." ”
"And the headscarf shop, shoe shop, blacksmith shop, grocery store in the town." Kong He said: "Just these four shops can't be opened without hundreds of thousands of dollars." ”
"I didn't expect that my Hou Mansion was not luxurious, and I lived a simple life, and I actually raised such a big mouse at home."
Xu Zixian secretly thought, in this way, Li Cheng is really a fat sheep, his house is worth at least one million dollars, and several shops are also millions of dollars, I am afraid that there is still a lot of cash in his hand, and there will be a large amount of land, and his family assets are at least five or six million yuan...... Of course, this sounds very scary, if at the current price of money, one thousand dollars is worth one tael of silver, Li Cheng's family property is only five or six thousand taels of silver, and the net worth of the small landlord in the Ming and Qing dynasties is almost the same, which is not too amazing.
But after thinking about it, Xu Zixian also covered his face...... His family is the marquis of the clan, he estimated that the mansion is in Fuzhou Fuzhou, and it is worth at least 10 million yuan, but this is a mansion given by the royal family, and it must be paid back after the lord leaves the sect, which is not his own property.
The courtyard is its own, Nan'anze Town is also very prosperous, this courtyard is surrounded by official villages, easy to manage and supervise, the scenery is also good, it was originally the first generation of Nan'an Hou built as a villa, the scale is not large, it is better than small and chic, three million dollars are afraid of the value, it is almost this price.
There are still a lot of utensils in the mansion of Fucheng, and so is the other courtyard, but the imperial gifts cannot be sold, and no one dares to buy them, and the ordinary utensils have been sold a lot for two generations of Nan'anhou, Xu Zixian is also crying and laughing, his ancestors are really not good at business, guarding Jinshan to beg for food.
In addition, the official village was given by the emperor, and it could not be resold or recovered, and it was a real hardcore crop, but the income of more than 100,000 yuan a year was too little.
In fact, after a little combing, the foundation of the Hou Mansion should be able to provide an income of more than one million dollars a year, and the eldest husband should raise a three-foot sword to calm the world, but the top priority is not to be shy, otherwise it is inevitable that the hero will be short of breath and his children will be long.
Kong He didn't interrupt Xu Zixian's train of thought, and sat quietly on the side drinking tea.
This shows that this is a smart person who knows how to speak when he should speak, and keeps silent when he shouldn't.
"Mr. Kong......"
"Shizi, please call me Xuanping."
"It's okay, Brother Xuanping, Li Cheng and his son have to be eliminated, but the whole body will be affected by one shot, and before that, I have to make a little preparation and delay for a long time...... Xiuniang is a person from Yizi Guanzhuang, and her father Xie Quan should be easy to find, so I will ask Brother Xuanping to bring 5,000 yuan to do something important for me. ”
Kong He arched his hand and smiled, and said: "The audit has been completed, and I am idle and have nothing to do. ”
After Kong He left, Xu Zixian pondered for a while, feeling that the matter was quite urgent, and the matter of the audit was likely to leak out, he pointed out Li Cheng and his son before this, if he understood a person like Li Cheng, I am afraid that he would definitely not back down, and he should take the steps arranged by Xu Zixian to go.
Step by step to force Li Cheng, and then master the villages and hidden households, this is the first step, there must be a capable master around you, and build a team of tooth generals, this is the second step. Then we have to prevent Li Chenggou from jumping over the wall in a hurry and attacking by force, which is the third step.
Before that, there was at least 10 million yuan of start-up capital, and now there are only tens of thousands of dollars in deposits in other hospitals, which is really too far away.
Xu Zixian felt difficult, but there was not much fear and hesitation, like the beginning of the game, in fact, it was the most interesting when he was poor and white, if he used a modifier to give you millions of dollars, and his subordinates with a hundred intelligence, force, and political value gave you dozens, this game is not fun.
Of course, Xu Zixian also understands that his current situation seems to be leisurely and chic, but in fact, the crisis is coming step by step, and everyone will be worried about losing the country in a few years, and it will be too late to start developing his own power at that time.
You can relax your mind, similar to a game, but if you really treat this thing as a game, I'm afraid it will end very miserably.
Xu Zi thought for a while, then picked up the pen again, signaled Xu Ming and Yi Ran, who had come to remind him to go to dinner, waited, pondered for a while, and began to write articles.
After a while, the little sister also rushed over, and sat with the little girl and the little maid, the three of them supported their chins together, looking at Xu Zixian's writing and composition one by one, the little sister had a smile in both eyes, and suddenly thought, if the father is still there, seeing the brother grow up like this, I don't know how happy I will be.
After a while, the little girl couldn't help but think again, the eldest brother seemed to rarely think of her father, and rarely mentioned it, it seems that the man is ruthless, but almost three years have passed, and the filial piety period is full, and the eldest brother can't think of it and can't blame him.
I just hope that the eldest brother can really get ahead, and when the time comes, when he goes to his father's grave to sweep the grave, he has something to say to his parents.
The girl is precocious, and this is even more true of the girl in this year, Xu Zi was afraid that he couldn't imagine that the little sister was sitting on his left side, and he was actually thinking about these things.
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Soon after Wei Yi returned to the city, he received an invitation from Zhao Wangfu at his home, and it turned out that the sixth prince Xu Ziwen had opened an elegant gathering and specially invited him to the banquet.
Xu Ziwen's elegant collection is not to say that it is in Fuzhou, the entire Fujian Road and even the territory of Dawei are more famous.
Several places of cultural and educational prosperity in the Great Wei Dynasty are the first to recommend Jiangnan East Road, where Jiangling Mansion is located, then Fujian Road, then Zhejiang North Road, and then Jiangnan West Road.
These four places can be described as outstanding people, it is the most prosperous place of culture and education in the Great Wei Dynasty for more than 200 years, and how many well-known ministers, Confucians, celebrities, painters, and poets are all from these places.
Even if there are tens of thousands of civil and military officials in the Jingshi, a large number of clan nobles and many famous people, when it comes to the prosperity of culture and education, it is still inferior to these places, and when the Chinese officials ask about their origins, six to seven out of ten are from these places.
Later, the imperial court deliberately suppressed, first the prime minister did not use Fujian passers-by, and then came down to transfer the envoys not to use Zhejiang and Jiangnan people, and at the beginning of the country, it was still north of the Yellow River to open the north list, and the standard of taking scholars was much more relaxed than that in the south, so that the officials on the north and south sides maintained a more balanced number.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China for a hundred years, the north gradually caught up, and the north and south lists were canceled, but the number of jinshi in the north was still not as good as that in the south, and it was much easier for the north to show talent and raise people than in the south.
Fujian Road is the second place in the ranking of culture and education, for more than 200 years, I don't know how many famous ministers and Confucians, Zhao Wangfu has strong financial resources, the sixth prince Xu Ziwen and Xu Zixian are the same four products Mingwei generals, few and smart, at the age of six to mention the pen can write, at the age of fourteen won Xiucai, seventeen years old impersonation won the lift, although not counted, but everyone knows that Xu Ziwen can enter the Chinese as long as he enters Beijing to participate in the lock hall test, but this entry is not too important to the Zhao Royal Mansion, the clan civil officials can only start with the county, and the Fuzhou Tong judgment stops, Zhao Wangfu is not short of that bit of officials, so Xu Ziwen has been staying in the mansion, recruiting literati and ink writers for his father King Zhao, and the elegant collection in his mansion has indeed played a big role.
If it weren't for the fact that King Zhao was the father of the Son of Heaven and had always stood on the side of the Son of Heaven, ordinary princes would not dare to be so high-profile.
Wei Yi's family background is just an ordinary official gentry, but he finally climbed into the circle of Zhao Wang Yaji, and in retrospect, it was really a difficult journey.
This kind of elegant gathering is the gathering of high-level elite circles in later generations, but this kind of gathering in later generations is famous for fine wine and tender models, and at this time, the elegant gathering still has to take out the real thing, otherwise it will only be mixed in the periphery and will not be treated by everyone when it goes in.