Chapter 179: The Qi Family's Request
People come and go in the big tent room of Qi Mansion, people continue to hand in the account form, receive silver tickets, the account room is doing things in a hall, hundreds of account room gentlemen are nervously accounting for the accounts, the abacus beads are crackling non-stop, it is about to be the end of the year, the account rooms are extremely busy.
More than 100 bookkeepers are divided into ten groups, each group has a steward, then there are three chief stewards, and finally there is a chief steward, sometimes someone gets up, and hands over a calculated account table to the steward of the group, and the small steward reviews and summarizes it, and then gives a table to the chief steward, and the chief steward finally reviews it again and hands it over to the chief steward.
The chief steward picked up the account sheet and looked at it carefully, asked a few more questions, and then got up and walked next door.
Next door to the account hall is a small room, in the room, Qi Fengwu is sitting at the table, facing the light, squinting at a new silver ticket, this is the new silver ticket that has just been printed, using the anti-counterfeiting technology invented by Luo Yu, the ghost genius they hired.
This anti-counterfeiting technology Luo Yu developed three years ago, today for the first time used in Qi Dafu's new silver ticket, the previous Qi Dafu silver ticket is a color bar anti-counterfeiting, coated with a layer of special glue, in the light will appear seven color illusions, but there are two problems here, one is that the color bar is not very clear, need a special money bank guy to identify.
Secondly, the old silver ticket has one of the biggest weaknesses, that is, afraid of water, the silver ticket is soaked in water, it is easy to dilute the glue on the silver ticket, the color bar will disappear, more than five hundred taels of silver tickets have a number record, but the small silver ticket below one hundred taels has no number record, lose the color illusion, it is likely to lose the real surname, this kind of thing has been encountered several times, although the Qi family finally admitted, but this is not the solution after all.
The new silver ticket overcomes the weakness of being afraid of water, and the water does not fade, not only that, but the color bar is more clear and easy to identify, and you can clearly see the seven color illusions when you shine on the light.
Qi Fengwu praised the new silver ticket, this is the real anti-counterfeiting technology, there are no loopholes, and ordinary people can identify it.
At this time, the chief manager of the accounting room walked in and handed an account sheet to Qi Fengwu, "Miss, it's calculated." ”
Qi Fengwu came to the account room to understand how much Qi Dafu's savings were affected after the run subsided, she took the account table and checked it carefully, and the general manager explained on the side: "The impact is mainly in Jiangning and Weiyang counties, and the savings of ordinary people have dropped sharply, leaving only three percent of the past, which will take time to recover slowly, but the savings of merchants have increased significantly, mainly from the other two major money banks transferred from large merchants, and the amount of merchants is very large, so it shows that our total savings have increased significantly." ”
Qi Fengwu nodded slightly, returned the account sheet to the chief manager, and said to him, "Copy this account sheet to the fourth uncle and grandfather." ”
The chief manager took the account sheet, was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "I heard that the young lady is going out of the cabinet, and everyone is very nostalgic. ”
Qi Fengwu smiled faintly and said, "You should be celebrating each other, right?" When I'm gone, no one will be so fierce in checking your accounts. ”
"Nope! No! Everyone is really nostalgic, in the past four years, Miss has sorted out a lot of old foolish accounts, and many people have removed a big stone in their hearts, so that they can explain the accounts in their hands clearly when they retire and recuperate, and everyone is very grateful to Miss. ”
Qi Fengwu was silent, but it was really difficult for her heart to give up, if she was a man, she could manage the accounts for the Qi family for another twenty years, but it was a pity...... The general ledger hurriedly said: "Miss, the male should get married, the female should get married, this is a happy event, and more importantly, the young lady founded the Qi family's supervision room, even if the young lady is not in the future, the people in the supervision room can continue to check like the young lady." ”
Speaking of this, the general ledger took out an abacus made of silver and handed it to Qi Fengwu, "This is a congratulatory gift from our one hundred and twenty account offices to Miss, it is a little bit of our heart, please accept it!" ”
Qi Fengwu took the silver abacus, she was very moved in her heart, at this time, there was a rush of footsteps at the door, Qi Fengwu's personal maid A Luo ran in, "Miss, Miss Su is here." ”
The general ledger hurriedly retreated, and Qi Fengwu stretched her voice and said to her: "How many times have I told you, you can't call Miss Su, you just can't remember, now you want to call her princess, you know?" ”
"I remember!"
A Luo agreed, and hurriedly said: "Princess Su is in our mansion, isn't Miss going to take a look?" ”
"Where is she now?"
"In the inner courtyard, with the old lady, I heard that there are also the lady, the fourth lady and the seventh aunt."
Qi Fengwu thought secretly, "It is estimated that Jiutian is here to officially talk about marriage, and I don't know how they are talking." ’
Qi Fengwu's heart was a little chaotic, she completely lost her calmness when she looked at the silver ticket and account sheet just now, Su Han came to the door, which meant that her marriage had officially opened the curtain.
Her heart was pounding, she thought for a while, and said to Ah Luo: "You go and inquire secretly, how is the situation of the final discussion?" Then tell me. ”
Ah Luo said yes and ran away, Qi Fengwu fidgeted, and finally she picked up the silver abacus and went back to her house.
......... In the inner room, the conversation between Su Han and the old lady continued, the two sides talked very happily and frankly, some of the most important conditions have been achieved, the Qi family proposed Qi Fengwu as a partial concubine, and it is the left concubine, in the royal system of the Daning Dynasty, the heir and the prince have two partial concubines, called the left and right concubines, if the main concubine dies, the left and right concubines can be corrected as the main concubine, in terms of status, the two partial concubines are the same, the prince's partial concubine is the second grade, and the heir's partial concubine is from the second grade, although the grade of the two partial concubines is the same, But the order of inheriting the main concubine is different, the left concubine is the first, the right concubine is second, and the Qi family wants the left concubine.
This is the most critical point, Su Han agreed, agreed to this, and everyone had a very pleasant conversation below.
Qi Fengwu's mother Li said with a smile: "Princess, there is one thing that has always been my wish, I hope that Feng Wu can also be beautiful when she gets married, and she can make a sedan chair to go around the city, beat gongs and drums and send it to the palace to get married, I don't know if this can be accommodating?" ”
All the people in the room looked at Su Han, this is also their common wish, although they also know that their requirements are a bit excessive, the words of the matchmaker, the sedan chair to marry, the church to marry, etc., this is the power that only the wife of the main house can enjoy, and the general concubine in the partial room is a sedan chair sent into the house at night.
But the Qi family wants to save face, of course they hope that the daughters of the Qi family can also marry in a beautiful manner, and they don't want people to underestimate the Qi family, in fact, it is not unceremonious to marry in a partial house, and the Daning Dynasty also allows it, and there are many precedents, the key is whether the wife agrees, many wives are worried about affecting their status, and they will not hesitate to refuse, and marrying in a partial house will put the wife in an embarrassing and ridiculed situation, because on the day of marriage, the wife has to avoid it.
Su Han has also thought about this repeatedly these days, from her original intention, she is not very willing, she can't accept it emotionally, but in order to make the relationship between her husband and the Qi family closer, she decided to sacrifice her dignity and let Wujin marry Qi Fengwu with the greatest sincerity.
She smiled and said: "Ordinary people will not agree, but in order to reflect the sincerity of King Hei Liang's Qi family, and in order to make the alliance between the two families stronger, I can promise to let Feng Wu enter the door in the way of marrying, not only that, but also marry Feng Wu according to the normal six rites." ”
The ladies of the Qi family were overjoyed, and the old lady hurriedly said: "The princess is ashamed, the Qi family is also a person who knows etiquette, and I don't want to have excessive requirements, we will not invite guests to this marriage, that is, our own family members will participate, in addition, Feng Wu's grandfather means that the six ceremonies are too long, and they are reduced to three ceremonies, matchmaking, personal welcome, and worship can be, and there is a dowry, and the Qi family will prepare ......"
Su Han waved her hand to stop the old lady, and she smiled: "Old lady, let me interject a word about the dowry." ”
"Princess, please speak!"
Su Han smiled slightly: "Basically, I agreed to the Qi family's request, but for the dowry, I hope the Qi family can agree to my request." ”
Everyone looked at each other and said together: "The princess makes a request." ”
They think that the man's family is going to open his mouth, but fortunately, the Qi family has strong financial resources and can promise each other.
Su Han saw that everyone's expressions were a little nervous, knowing that they had misunderstood, thinking that she would ask for money, she secretly shook her head and said lightly: "This is also the meaning of King Hei Liang, Feng Wu's dowry, except for her own things, the rest of the Qi family does not want to marry." ”
Everyone was stunned, this is equivalent to not wanting a dowry, how can this work? They have never heard that if they marry their daughter's mother's family does not give a dowry, if it is an ordinary family, it means that the daughter has no status after marrying into her husband's family, and no matter how poor the family is, they will find a way to prepare a few pieces of silver jewelry for their daughter, and the other party actually does not want a dowry, and it is the dowry of the Qi family, which is the most lucrative dowry in the world, no less than the emperor's dowry.
Or Qi Linglong reacted the fastest, she suddenly thought of Su Han's dowry, it is said that it was a dowry of 10,000 books, she understood, how can there be a dowry in a partial house that exceeds the main wife, the other party has promised that the media can be married, if the dowry exceeds the main house, it will be really a bit deceitful, the other party is taking into account the dignity so much that he doesn't want to say it so clearly, the Qi family should be self-aware.
She hurriedly said: "The dowry, according to the princess's will, except for Feng Wu's own things, the Qi family does not accompany the marriage." ”
Qi Fengwu's mother Li didn't react, she felt sorry for her daughter, how could she not give her daughter a dowry? She still wanted to fight for it again, but Qi Linglong kicked her lightly under the table, and she said again, but the old lady reacted, and she hurriedly apologized: "It's our Qi family who didn't think it through, and we must do it according to the princess's wishes, but even Feng Wu's own things have a lot, I hope the princess can be Haihan." ”
The dowry is indeed Su Han's last dignity, the Su family is poor and can't give her too much dowry, Su Han will never complain about her father and grandfather, but she doesn't want the whole family to be full of Qi family's dowry, this is her bottom line, and Wu Jin does not hesitate to support her request.
Su Han smiled and said: "Feng Wu's things naturally have to go with her, I won't care about this, so it's decided, tomorrow I will invite a matchmaker to come to the door, and then we will set the nearest auspicious day, the sooner the better, if it is late, someone in the court will obstruct and interfere with this marriage." ”
(To be continued)