"Okay," Yang Yingming said, "I must pour a few more cups of this kid and take out his real bottom." ”

Xu Zi first glanced at this tooth general, and said: "The good obstacle knife is more than a dozen runs, and the long one is much cheaper, five or six runs are very good, you ask him, we buy a lot of goods, can it be cheap, just ask me about the price." ”

"Don't worry." Yang Yingming said: "I was not very good in the house before, but if I inquire about people, news, and business like this, just hand it over to my subordinates, if it is not done well, or if I eat benefits in it, the prince can use a sack to load me to Shen Minjiang." ”

"That's what you said." Xu Zixian said: "I will believe you, but I want to tell you, I will definitely check the accounts and verify it in many ways, you must be careful yourself." ”

Yang Yingming really wanted to make some gains in this big deal, and when he was warned like this, he was immediately vigilant.

The means of the prince is to divide and conquer, and many parties have checked and summarized, and it has been seen these days that not only Li Yi is law-abiding, Kong He and others also have their own rules, but there is no need to worry too much, there is always a way.

At the moment, there was still a smile on his face, Xu Zixian didn't say much, and everyone still went to the sect street.

Fuzhou City is the largest city on Fujian Road, with a radius of more than 40 miles, more than 10 main roads in the city, more than 70 auxiliary roads such as Zongmu Street, more than 200 alleys, and about 500,000 or 600,000 residents in the city.

Xu Zixian calmly rode on the horse, slowly walking on the densely populated streets, under the horse's hooves is the bluestone road, the horseshoe and the stone slab rub, making a crisp sound, all around are commercial houses and shops, almost countless, look at it, the color of the merchants everywhere, most of them are wearing white and colored robes, there are also a small number of Oriental and Nanyang merchants, there are also obvious people dressed as Japanese merchants, are in and out of the commercial houses along the street to look at the goods, talking about business.

There are many businessmen who don't even have a general account of their own, and there are many businessmen who know how to speak Chinese, and even speak the Ba Min dialect. More often than not, the commercial houses have their own general affairs, and the indigenous dialects of Oriental countries, Tianfang, and Japanese languages, and the large commercial houses are equipped with general affairs that understand these languages.

There are some smart generals, one person knows the languages of three or four countries quite ordinarily, and their income is relatively high, and the income of more than ten to twenty yuan a month is enough to make these smart people quite comfortable.

The small food shops along the street emit an attractive aroma, and many people who get up late go to the small shop selling soup cakes at the entrance of the alley to bring hot water home, freshen up and eat in the store.

Xu Zi glanced at it first, and the snow-white soup cakes (noodles) were tumbling in the boiling white soup pot, exuding the unique aroma of mutton soup.

There is no curfew in Fuzhou, many people will sleep quite late, there are many places and ways of entertainment in the city, it may be in the sumo shop to watch the show, gambling money by the way, you can also stay up in the casino to play money until the second half of the night before going home, you can watch the play, play chess, play games, throw pots, you can also watch juggling, watch horse racing, polo, or watch Keju, there are a lot of fancies, many games are still open in the middle of the night, and even the restaurant brothel is all night long!

At this time, in addition to middle-class families, taking a bath at home is a luxury, and it is also the mainstream of bathing in the bathhouse.

Sitting in the hot pool, the whole body is refreshed, and the fatigue of the day disappears without a trace.

The bath fee is only a few pennies, so not only men go, women also take their children to the bathhouse every few days, it is too troublesome to wash at home, the house price in Fuzhou is also expensive, the average person is a courtyard door, three north houses and two partial rooms, this is a very good residence, many civilian families are two or three rooms along the street, living a family, it is really impossible to move, and even there is no place to burn water.

Fortunately, the business is developed, the life is really convenient, the bathhouse at night, you can go to the soup cake shop in the morning to get hot water, it is just a penny to do a trivial matter, the whole bucket of hot water, enough for a family to wash their teeth comfortably, and go out decently.

Xu Zixian watched all this, and also felt all this.

No matter how heavy the burden of the people is, how difficult the people are, the people who can live in Fucheng are still richer after all, and it can also be seen from the people of these Fucheng that when the burden of the people of the Great Wei Dynasty was not heavy a few decades ago, how the people lived, this kind of life is of course nothing to the people of later generations, but for ordinary people in this era, the rich and peaceful life a few decades ago is really a godsend.

No...... Xu Zixian shook his head slightly, it's not a godsend, everything is created by the people themselves, as long as there are qualified rulers above, just like the current situation, from Wuzong to Chengzong, and then to Emperor Chongde, the situation of Great Wei is not as good as a year......

With a slightly heavy mind, Xu Zixian and the others finally arrived in front of the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

The courtyard has changed a lot, due to the abundant financial resources, more manpower, Xiaomei and Xiuniang took people to renovate the inner house, even the back garden has been renovated, it looks thriving, the outer house has been renovated, the damaged places have been repaired everywhere, new bricks and tiles have been replaced, wooden doors, wooden pillars, windows, and beams have been repainted, and some new furniture has been replaced, it looks not much different from the Houfu Villa that has been good in those days.

As for the barracks outside, it was a magnificent building built by Fu Qian and Liu Jiusi and others, which cost a lot of money, and it also showed Xu Zixian's identity and authority.

The entire Nan'an town has undergone earth-shaking changes, a few months ago Xu Zixian's brothers and sisters were still a joke in Nan'an Town, but now they are the backbone of several nearby big towns, when the family, the prestige of Xu Zixian, the prince of the Hou Mansion, has been pushed to a very high level, and even when the little sister occasionally goes out, she also deeply feels that the attitude of the businessmen and people in the town has changed greatly.

And at this moment, when the brother and sister stood in front of the gate of the Hou Mansion, they still saw the depression and dilapidation.

"Brother." Xiaomei turned her face and said, "If it's not too short of money, it's better to take the money out and renovate the Hou Mansion, right?" ”

"For the time being, we still have to wait...... Xu Zixian said with a wry smile: "There is a lot of money coming in, and there is also a lot of going out." ”

Now he can collect 15,000 yuan a month, and he uses up half of the labor time of many official and hidden households. Xu Zixian also talked about the rules, he would not extend the service period, and if he still hired the workers in the next step, he would have to spend money to hire workers, and the expenses would definitely skyrocket.

With an income of less than 200,000 yuan a year, he has to train 1,500 infantrymen, and when he comes back from buying a horse, he will train another 100 cavalry, according to Xu Zixian's assumption, he will be more elite than the imperial forbidden army, and the money invested is definitely huge.

By next year, the main expenses for qualified regimental training will be more than 5,000 guan per month for food, 3,000 guan for more than 100 horses, and 8,000 guan a month for the food and drink of war horses and the martial arts, regardless of the salary.

If you take the path of elite soldiers, a soldier will always put 500 yuan per month, which is the military salary on the surface, which is the same as the box army. However, Xu Zi first planned to issue subsidies under various names, at least five times a month per soldier, so that he could raise elite soldiers who were loyal enough and capable enough.

Reluctant to make money, don't invest a lot of money, and always get something half-baked, this is Xu Zixian's personal conclusion, not necessarily all right, for example, sometimes throwing money may not be able to smash elite soldiers, but Xu Zixian can be sure that if you don't spend money, you will definitely not be able to produce elite soldiers.

"Waiting for the machine to be shipped back," Xu Zixian calculated: "I have to buy a large amount ......of cotton, and then give it to the women of the village to spin cloth, this thing is done, and I will collect thousands of more yuan per month, and when the debt is repaid, I will allocate a few thousand yuan to repair it." ”

"Brother just remember," the little sister's face was full of relief, and there was a touch of pride in the depths of her eyes, a little stunned.

"Father will be proud of us." Xu Zi could see the little sister's mind first, no matter how good everything was in front of her, her father and mother couldn't see it.

The little sister nodded and said no more.

The brother and sister entered through the side door together, and several of the remaining teeth came to greet them.

There are many more miscellaneous servants in the mansion than before, Li Yi sent more than a dozen people to the main house of the Hou Mansion to serve, although there are many dilapidated places, but at least they are clean and tidy.

The sacrificial utensils and items were also prepared, and the brother and sister went to their respective residences to change into plain robes, and went to the Houfu family temple dedicated to their ancestors together.

The family temple is usually not open, but today it is an exception, and the next time it opens is the most solemn year-end worship time on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The heirs of the Hou Mansion of Nan'an are thin, and they are all in a single lineage, and the little sister is not married, so she can also enter the family temple and participate in the sacrifice.

Surrounded by a group of tooth generals and deacons, Xu Zi first completed the relatively simple ceremony, and finally held the jue sacrificial wine, incense and prayers. The siblings ignored the statues and portraits of their grandfathers and grandmothers, and just stood in front of the portraits of their fathers and mothers and the statues.

Xu Zixian stood under the portrait of Xu Yingbin, a little confused in his mind, and even a little nervous.

Is he still Xu Yingbin's son? From the status, everything recognized by the world, and of course, this body, the blood flowing from the body, of course, from these.

From an emotional point of view, the memory of the Trinity is quite complex and chaotic, which makes Xu Zixian's personality and emotions confused for a long time at the beginning of his awakening.

Now that they are finally fused together, Xu Zixian originally thought that he was Xu Zixian, a college student in later generations, but slowly he realized that Xu Zixian, who was depressed, Xu Zixian, who was a young man, all aspects of memories, thinking habits, and routines of doing things were not purely something that people from later generations could do.

Since you can't tell the difference, don't divide it.

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