Chapter 18: To Do Business
"I'm thinking about how to make money to support my family." Yang Dewen said casually.
"Ahh Chen Shuzhen was surprised and hurriedly covered her small mouth with her hand.
She couldn't understand that a person who guarded the shops and courtyards on the bustling central street in Mingzhou City would actually worry about making money to support his family.
Even if she is a weak woman who doesn't know how to operate, she also knows that like the shop in the front yard of Gongzi's house, even if it is rented to a businessman, a month's rent is afraid that it will be hundreds of taels of silver.
The family is full of people, and there are only ten people, and in this five taels of silver, a family of five can live a year with coarse tea and light food, one hundred taels of silver a month, and the family of ten people can really live a very rich life.
"Are you surprised? Would you believe me if I said that less than ten days before you came to this house, my wife and I were still living in the countryside and living without even gruel? Yang Dewen said lightly.
In Chen Shuzhen's heart, she was surprised and didn't know what to say, but in an instant, she remembered her sadness.
When Yang Gongzi was still trying his best to eat a meal of gruel, he was living the life of the eldest lady of the Chen Mansion.
Chen Shuzhen's father was Chen Daotong, the head of the household department of the Great Qin State, and almost all the expenditure accounts of the Great Qin were held by him, and he was the official of Zuo Xiangyi Wenyi.
Zuo Xiangyu Wenyi, loyal to Daqin, has half a grain of sand in his eyes.
And Liu Zhongxian, the right minister of the imperial court, although his name is Zhongxian, is engaged in corruption and perversion of the law, benefiting Liu Zhongguo, the right attendant of the Ministry of Users, and is in charge of the income of the national tax of the Ministry of Households.
The two were originally brothers, and they grew up wearing a pair of pants since they were children.
The two were officials in the same court in the imperial court, and after Liu Zhongxian's promotion, they were placed in the official position of the right attendant of the household department.
The two colluded with each other, bent the law for bribes, and wantonly embezzled court taxes.
In order to completely defeat the traitor Liu Zhongxian, Cen Wenyi ordered Chen Daotong to collect evidence of Liu Zhongxian, Liu Zhongguo, and the two brothers being poor and taking bribes.
As everyone knows, Liu Zhongxian will plan and order his younger brother Liu Zhongguo to dig a trap for Chen Daotong a long time ago, and wait for the two to drill into the trap.
By the time Chen Daotong and Cen Wenyi came to their senses, the evidence that Chen Daotong deliberately made false accounts had already been held by Liu Zhongguo.
So, Yu Wenyi was defeated, but fortunately, the Emperor of Great Qin remembered the old feelings, treated him lightly, and transferred him out of the capital with a holy decree, demoted several levels, and went to the barbarian land in the south, and went to the governor of Yuezhou.
And Chen Daotong, because the evidence of the fraudulent account is sufficient, is a large amount, and he can't say that this huge amount of money does not exist in the first place, went there.
Although Emperor Daqin also felt that things were a little wrong, he couldn't stand the right minister Liu Zhongxian and fanned the anger of hundreds of officials.
In order to appease the anger of the officials and the people who did not know the truth, Chen Daotong was announced to be beheaded, and his family was confiscated, and all his family wealth was confiscated into the treasury, and his family income was sold as slaves.
In order to completely suppress Cen Wenyi's family, Liu Zhongxian knew that although the Chen family had already been beaten into slavery, if it was sold in the capital, it would definitely be bought by officials in the capital, and the officials of the Yi Wenyi family would pay a high price.
In this way, Chen Daotong's family will have nothing to do at all.
Although Liu Zhongxian can also instruct the officials on his side to buy the Chen family's family back and torture them as slaves and maids.
You, Liu Zhongxian, know that if you do this, it will have a great impact on his reputation.
Therefore, Liu Zhongxian ordered people to secretly break up the families of the Chen Mansion and sell them to slave traders in various places.
Now even Liu Zhongxian didn't know that those dependents of the Chen family would be sold there.
After the two learned about each other's past, Chen Shuzhen felt that fate was really ridiculous, and the fate of the two people was like turning a head.
A young lady from a high-ranking official in the capital, a well-known talented girl in the capital, has become a female slave who does not even have her fate in her own hands.
Chen Shuzhen thought that she knew about Yang Dewen's past, but she didn't know that Yang Dewen's secret was impossible to tell her.
It's not that Yang Dewen wants to hide from her, it's that he can't tell her, even if Yang Dewen tells her that he comes from another world, a world with a highly developed civilization.
A world where there are no slaves and everyone is equal, a world where monogamy and husbands and wives are equal, a world where a president who is equivalent to an emperor can be overthrown by the people at any time. Will Chen Shuzhen believe it?
After pouring out their hearts to each other, the relationship between the two seems to have become less indifferent, and there seem to be more topics between each other.
"You said that you used a poem and a poem to win nearly 10,000 taels of silver from the other party, and then spent more than 10,000 taels of silver in three days, what do you think in your heart?
Since you didn't hesitate to spend more than 10,000 taels of silver, there should definitely be a plan for how to make money. Chen Shuzhen said.
"Hmmm! As you know, I bought a thousand acres of land outside the city, and as long as I planted crops in the field, of course I would have an income.
But if you want to plant the land, you can only wait until the beginning of spring next year, so now it has become like this. Yang Dewen said a little depressedly and embarrassed.
"When that boy bought this place, didn't he think that he would run his own shop or rent it out to collect rent?" Chen Shuzhen said a little speechlessly.
"I must have thought about it, I plan to grow vegetables in the field in the spring of next year, and of course this store is used to sell vegetables. But it's still early to sell Shulai.
By the way, I can make some salted chicken and other foods to sell, and I should be able to sell some braised pork, and I don't want to get some barbecue.
By the way, just do it, anyway, the store is your own, no matter how you toss it, you shouldn't be able to lose. ”
The more Yang Dewen spoke, the more excited he became, barbecue wine, the rice wine of this era, and the beer of later generations, are no different, isn't it just right?
That night, Yang Dewen took matters into his own hands and made a table of Lai, what salt-baked chicken, salt-baked phoenix feet, braised pig ears, braised eggs, plus a grilled fish, grilled chicken wings, and grilled leeks. Roasted Bellet.
A table full of dishes is unheard of, unseen, let alone eaten.
"Everyone tastes it to see if it tastes, if it can attract customers to eat it, and after eating it once, will they want to eat it a second time?" Yang Dewen looked at the table he had made and said happily to everyone.
The most shocked person among them is none other than Yu Rong, as the wife who grew up with Yang Dewen, in addition to the more than half a year that Yang Dewen has been away from home, even if he takes the state exam, the time the two of them are not together will not exceed a year.
Yurong didn't know what her husband had experienced outside for more than half a year.
But the former husband, in addition to reading at home, practiced writing, and never knew how to cook, let alone make so many lailai.
Although she hasn't had time yet, try these dishes on the table. But the morning after Xianggong came back from outside, the rice and the inside that the second grandfather asked Miao Miao to send to the house was the rice and lai cooked by Xianggong himself in the kitchen.
The taste of steamed pork, in retrospect, is still very good! Thinking of this, Yu Rong seemed to swallow a mouthful of saliva.