Sun's wife was also happy to hear this, but she still said unhappily: "Just because he is so ruthless and unrighteous to our daughter, I won't praise him." ”

Yu Niang couldn't help but say: "Brother Han is not what you said, he also has a hard time." ”

"Okay, I don't care about you." Wife Sun smiled angrily and said, "Look, it's better to raise a son and a daughter, and now my heart has followed outsiders." ”

Sun Anle said with a smile: "Girls are outgoing, no wonder their daughters." However, Zhang Han and Jingting told me that he is now concentrating on many major things, and the affairs of his children have not been followed up for the time being. In my opinion, Zhang Han is not a ruthless and unrighteous person, but he must also give us an explanation for this matter. ”

Sun Anle was still a drunkard just now, but at this time, he was domineering for his daughter.

Yu Niang said: "As long as I can be with Brother Han, I don't care about my status." ”

Sun Anle was furious at first when he heard this, and he wanted to scold when he stood up, but when he saw his daughter's delicate face clear, his anger gradually subsided, and he shook his head and said, "It's worthy of being my daughter, and I say this kind of thing." ”

Yu Niang raised her head and said: "It was my father who taught me, and I said generously that I am not from the Sun family." ”

"Good." Sun Anle said: "But no matter what you think, at least the Zhang family has to give the title of a flat wife, otherwise I would rather die than ask you to be a concubine for others, and this time, no matter what, you are not allowed to steal to see Zhang Han, let alone do anything that violates the etiquette law, otherwise ......"

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Yu Niang really had the idea of stealing Zhang Han, but she didn't think about anything that violated the etiquette and law, she blushed, turned around and left.

"You old unscrupulous." The grandson's wife scolded: "What do you say to your daughter?" ”

"Hmph, I should have done that to her." Sun Anle snorted happily.

……

Fan Yongdou walked into the inner house with a black face.

The courtyard of his house is very large, and the courtyards are stacked on top of each other, although the scale cannot be compared with the buildings such as the Qiao family's courtyard in later generations, it is also a large-scale huge courtyard at this time.

There are not only residences, but also small temples, theaters, large patios, carved flowers, birds and human patterns everywhere, the ground is covered with blue bricks, and countless servants are busy working in one house after another.

The Fan family's current assets are more than two million, which was a terrifying number at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It is estimated that it will not be until the last years of Chongzhen that Zheng Zhilong, who has tens of millions of family properties, will surpass the Fan family.

In the areas of Jiangnan and Guangzhou, Fujian, there are many giant businessmen with a net worth of hundreds of thousands or even millions, and there are very few who exceed one million or even reach the amount of two million.

In the north, except for those princes, the Fan family is already a well-deserved giant.

"The proprietor is here."

A shopkeeper stood up to greet him, and a dozen other people stood up together.

This is Fan Yongdou's inner house study, and like the big officials he has dealt with, Fan Yongdou likes to meet his closest subordinates and distinguished guests in the inner study.

His study is very exquisitely built, three generations of nobles, the Fan family has been developed for several generations, there are no more antiques in the house, not crowded or simple, the calligraphy and paintings on the wall just show the owner's taste and identity.

The furniture is also made of the finest wood and the finest workmanship, and everyone is comfortable to sit on.

All of this was originally called Fan Yongdou's most comfortable place, but now he was so distraught that he almost completely failed to notice any details in the house.

Fan Yongdou sat down and said distraughtly: "Everyone talk about it." ”

A shopkeeper said first: "The price of grain in Jinzhou and Shaanzhou has begun to rise, and one stone has reached five yuan, counting the loss and manpower sent out all the way, we will get eight yuan and one stone for one stone of grain to Guihua City." ”

"From Yuci, Taiyuan will take it away, and you will get seven dollars."

Li Mingda said: "Walking from Xinpingbao, it's about the same. ”

"I only have less than 10,000 silver left in my shop, so I have to quickly allocate the silver, and there are several big purchases to give people cash."

Fan Yongdou looked at the tent, and the tent said: "There are less than 300,000 yuan here in the main shop, and more than a dozen branches all want silver, and the proprietor has to allocate silver again, the account has been done, and the proprietor can check it at any time." ”

Fan Yongdou said distressedly: "Who doesn't believe your account, I will transfer the silver to the shop when I turn around." ”

Another shopkeeper said: "Our goods are sold cheaply when they arrive in Beiyu, which is really not cost-effective, proprietor, can we raise the price?" ”

"Price increase?" Another said: "As soon as we raise the price, didn't Zhang Han smile crookedly?" ”

A shopkeeper scolded: "Recently, he Yusheng has not shipped much, but they are desperately eating our goods, this is really ...... fucking"

Li Mingda said: "At the beginning, we were looking at jokes, how could there be such a business, let's sell him to buy, and the fighting spirit is not such a fighting spirit, now we understand that we are not doing ordinary business, it is a smuggling business in cooperation with the Beiyu, in the past few months, the imperial court has become more and more tight on the official market, Liaodong has sent a new strategy, the horse market has completely stopped, the Tartars over there are in a hurry to jump their feet, and the Beilu on this side of the Naturalization City is also in a hurry to buy goods, and now the price can be raised, but as soon as the price is raised, Zhang Han is cheap to buy our goods, let's raise the price." , which is equivalent to giving Zhang Han the silver for nothing, thinking about this makes me feel angry. ”

Someone said angrily: "I can't wait to slaughter that thief." ”

The more Fan Yongdou listened, the more chaotic his heart became, and he felt that the flames were rushing upwards one after another, and his face became darker. What these people say is the truth, and now that the summer tax has long been over, the grain merchants in various localities have a tacit understanding that they will desperately lower the grain price when collecting the tax, and the price of the grain collected is very low, and they will strip a large part of the profits from farming land from the peasants, and then after the tax is collected, they will slowly increase the price, and the grain price will be the highest before the year and at the beginning of spring.

This year's annual harvest is very bad, no matter how much the grain price is suppressed, it can't be lower, at this time, the summer tax is over, and the grain merchants around the country began to raise prices, which is the general trend, no matter how powerful Fan Yongdou is, he can't reverse this general trend, even if the Fan family himself, if he doesn't want to open up a source of smuggling goods and Zhang Han's fight with Yusheng, in fact, the price should be raised at this time, and in the spring after the year, these grain merchants with a large amount of grain in their hands are the most comfortable time to make money.

It can be said that this kind of business makes a steady profit, and it is similar to putting money in India, but it only needs a little business and some technical content, unlike those relatives and gentry who put money in India, and they have no image to make money.

"There are also iron tools, the whole Lingqiu Iron Yard is controlled by Zhang Han, what kind ......of chamber of commerce did you get?"

"Chamber of Commerce? That Tianchengwei's Chamber of Commerce is not a joke, what directors of those chambers of commerce, don't they also follow our Fan family's saddle before and after. ”

"Lingqiu's is different, I inquired, the rules are much stricter than Tianchengwei's, according to the size of the iron yard, Zhang Han holds the largest share, he has the final say in everything, the proprietors of those iron yards dare not listen to him, now Lingqiu does not send iron to naturalization, Beiyu is in a hurry, we have to pinch our noses to buy high-priced, the same iron, they sell it to us to be three percent higher than to others, damn this iron to the grassland, they don't want it!"

Li Mingda got more first-hand news in Xinpingbao, and he said in a deep tone: "I heard that there is a skilled iron on the Lingqiu side, Zhang Han went to Lingqiu a while ago, if it is really as they said, the quality is not under the Fujian iron, I am afraid that its benefits are not small." ”

"Even so, Zhang Han's hands will only be tighter than ours!" A cousin of Fan Yongdou said on the side: "I inquired, and Yusheng's account bureau did not receive much silver, everyone used his account bureau is not fake, it is a safe and convenient picture, the silver can be called for him to earn, but he wants to put everyone's silver in the account bureau to keep, no one has believed him for the time being, so long, there are very few people who save silver...... It's useless to give interest. ”

When Fan Yongdou heard this, his heart gradually calmed down, and he said: "Zhang Han's inventory is useless, and now Tatar also understands that our two families are fighting and want to fight to win or lose, so even if Zhang Han wants to ship at a low price at this time, as long as we are here, he will not be able to get out of the goods, and people will not know which one to continue doing business with when they win or lose." The account bureau can't absorb the silver, and they and Yusheng only have a lot of money, it's nothing more than his account bureau and mule and horse shop making some money, and I heard that he was also a patrol inspector and was training to fight bandits, this person was dizzy. Such an opponent, it is nothing more than time for us to win, everyone should not panic, what should we do after we go back, my Fan family has been in business for several generations, and I will not lose in the hands of such a shallow foundation. ”

Everyone was a little flustered before coming here, and when Fan Yongdou said this, their minds were settled, and everyone stood together and said goodbye to Fan Yongdou.

After everyone left, Fan Yongdou called a maid and asked, "Where is your mistress?" ”

"The mistress went to the temple to burn incense."

"Why do you always burn incense lately?" Fan Yongdou was a little angry and said, "Didn't you just go to Xiaowutai last month. ”

"Last month was a Buddhist temple," the maid said timidly, "this time I went to the Guandi Temple in the city." ”

"Oh." Fan Yongdou got up and said to himself, "Can't delay, I'll go find her." ”

When he arrived at the gate, Fan Yongdou saw his cousin Fan Yongming, he shouted, and Fan Yongming hurried over.

"Fourth," Fan Yongdou said: "The silver in the public has been allocated, do you have any money there, take it out for a while." ”

"What?" Fan Yongming was taken aback and said, "The silver in the public is gone?" ”

"Hmm." Fan Yongdou looked left and right, and saw that no one was close, and said in a low voice: "There are less than 100,000 left!" ”

"We haven't paid the money from the village in various places yet?"

"How many months has it been?" Fan Yongdou said: "It will take two months at the earliest, and this year's annual income is not good, and the silver handed in will not be too much!" ”

The assets of the Fan family are nearly two million, but most of them are in the inventory of the shop, and there are Zhuangzi scattered in Shanxi and Beizhili, each Zhuangzi will pay the income of the year at the end of the year, and the silver taels handed in will be 100,000 taels in a year, and the annual success is not good, and it is estimated that even 100,000 may not have.