Wang's compound.

Among the three brothers of the Wang family, the eldest Wang Beech is a businessman, the second Wang Hua is the official of Datong Mansion, the two have already married, Wang Beech married his wife Yao, and he also sang a small song in the early years, and the second Wang Hua married a young lady of Taiyuan Mansion who was a nine-grade governor, although the grade is not high, but it is also a lady of the official eunuch family.

Fortunately, the Wang family has been in business for generations and does not respect Confucianism, let alone science, otherwise, with the background of Yao and Chen Yuanyuan, it is impossible to marry into the Wang family, let alone live in a high house like Yao.

Because of their similar backgrounds, since the day Chen Yuanyuan walked into the Wang family compound, he has been taken special care of by the Yao family.

At this time, Yao was playing with Chen Yuanyuan in the warm pavilion.

Chen Yuanyuan is seven months pregnant, and her belly is already very high.

Yao Shi took Chen Yuanyuan's little hand and complained: "The third child is really, he took care of the war, and he took the young girl away, but he didn't find another girl for you?" It's not that our Wang family can't afford to hire people, and besides, you're seven months pregnant, so how can you do it if you don't have a waiting maid by your side? ”

"It's okay, sister-in-law." Chen Yuanyuan said softly, "I didn't let him find it." ”

"No, it's such a big belly, it's not okay if no one serves you." Yao said resolutely, "From tomorrow onwards, I will let Lian'er come to your room to serve." ”

Chen Yuanyuan still wanted to excuse himself, but Yao couldn't help but say: "This matter is so decided, sister-in-law is in charge." ”

Chen Yuanyuan said helplessly: "Then, Yuanyuan thanked my sister-in-law." ”

"Thank you for everything, it's all your own family." Yao reached out and touched Chen Yuanyuan's belly, and said with a smile, "Ouch, look at the appearance of your belly, you must be a big fat boy, the second master is a scholar, and the second master will ask the second master to name the child." ”

While the two were talking, Wang Ze, who was just ten years old, suddenly jumped in and shouted happily: "Mother, third aunt, third uncle is back." ”

Wang Ze is the only son of Wang Ze and the eldest grandson of the Wang family.

Wang Ze's voice fell, and Wang Pu strode into the warm pavilion.

Yao got up and complained: "Third child, you are really, Yuanyuan's body is already seven months pregnant, why don't you find her a maid ring?" ”

"Yes, yes." Wang Pu hurriedly responded, "Sister-in-law has taught me a lesson, and the younger brother will find a maid ring for Yuanyuan when he turns around." ”

"Okay, the third child is back, and my sister-in-law won't disturb your little couple's intimacy." Yao Shi walked a few steps to the door, and suddenly turned back and said, "By the way, the third brother, your eldest brother has been thinking about going to Jiangnan for the past few days, and I don't know which fox spirit in Jiangnan is waiting for him, he is about to lose his mind, you can take a moment to go over and see him." ”

"Okay." Wang Pu hurriedly said, "I'll go over when I turn around." ”

Yao smiled: "Then you chat, sister-in-law will leave first." ”

When Yao took Wang Ze away, Wang Pu turned around and grabbed Chen Yuanyuan's little hand, his eyes became softer than ever, and he said slowly: "Lady, I haven't been home for more than half a month, don't you blame me?" ”

Chen Yuanyuan looked at Wang Pu affectionately and shook his head gently.

"Xianggong, where is the young girl? Why didn't she come back with you? ”

"Then little Nizi, she's outside."

"Why don't you let her in?"

"Ahem......" Wang Pu said embarrassedly, "Our husband and wife talk privately, how can we let that little girl listen." ”

Chen Yuanyuan smiled and said, "Sooner or later, the young lady will be a person in the Xianggong house, so what do you want to avoid." ”

"Ahem, this ......," Wang Pu said, "isn't this raw rice still cooked yet?" ”

Chen Yuanyuan covered his mouth and chuckled: "Why don't the slave family let the young lady in now and cook the raw rice to maturity?" ”

"Okay, little hoof." Wang Pu pretended to be angry, "You dare to ridicule your father-in-law, see how I clean you up." ”

Saying that, Wang Pu reached out to pinch Chen Yuanyuan's thighs, Chen Yuanyuan was afraid of itching, especially afraid that Wang Pu would pinch her thighs, so his legs were weak at that time, and he smiled coquettishly: "Xianggong spares his life, the slave family doesn't dare anymore." ”

Wang Pu gently hugged Chen Yuanyuan into his arms, suddenly sighed, and said apologetically: "Lady, it's really difficult for you, since you followed me, I have been busy crusading and begging, and I rarely have time to accompany you at home, this time really made you feel wronged......"

"Xianggong, the slave family is not wronged." Chen Yuanyuan looked up from Wang Pu's arms and said affectionately, "Really." ”

Wang Pu's heart slowly swelled up with a strange tenderness, Chen Yuanyuan is not only beautiful, especially rare is empathetic, her first thought is always Wang Pu, and then herself, she loves Wang Pu far more than she loves herself, she can meet such a woman in her life, what is there to ask for?

"Oh, yes." Chen Yuanyuan suddenly remembered what Yao said just now, and said softly, "Sister-in-law just said that the eldest brother has been waiting for you for the past few days, so there must be something important, you better hurry up, the slave family also just asked people to prepare wine and food, and wait for you to come back and eat together in the evening." ”

"I'll go over here." Wang Pu leaned over and kissed Chen Yuanyuan's red lips lightly, and said softly, "Wait for me to come back." ”

"Hmm." Chen Yuanyuan hummed softly, and a hint of a smile suddenly appeared in her beautiful eyes, and said, "Now you can let the young lady in, right?" ”

"Young girl." Wang Pu raised his head and shouted outside, "Madame let you in." ”

"Ambiguous, here it is."

There was a crisp response from the young lady outside, and in the sound of broken footsteps, the young lady who had changed into a red makeup had already entered the room with a burst of fragrant wind, and Xiao Nizi saluted Wang Pu and Chen Yuanyuan, and smiled sweetly: "The little maid has seen the general, and has seen the lady." ”

Chen Yuanyuan beckoned and motioned for the young lady to sit beside her, and the two women held hands and whispered.

Wang Pu wanted to stay and listen to what they had to say, but they didn't seem to pay attention to him, so they walked out of the warm pavilion a little stupidly and ran to the courtyard of the eldest brother Wang Beech.

When Wang Pu entered the house, Wang Beech was frowning and smoking a dry cigarette, and Yao was lighting a cigarette for him with a fire twist.

"Big brother, sister-in-law."

Wang Pu said hello.

"Ouch, you're here, the third child." Wang Beech quickly got up from the chair, stopped smoking his cigarette, and said excitedly, "Sit, sit down." ”

"Then you two are talking."

Yao knew that the two brothers had something to talk about, so they withdrew very interestingly.

Wang Pu said: "Big brother, little brother is here to make amends to you today. ”

Wang Beech said: "They are all their own brothers, what kind of crime do you pay for." ”

Wang Pu said: "It is said that Xiao Qi should have accompanied you to Jiangnan a long time ago, but you have also seen it, big brother, first with troops against Mongolia, then with thieves, and finally with Jiannu Kouguan, this army is in chaos, now is indeed not the time, and Xiao Qi and they really can't get away." ”

"Yes, big brother knows." Wang Beech nodded again and again, "There is no hurry to go to Jiangnan." ”

Wang Pu said: "But it's fast, in half a month at most, you will be able to leave for Jiangnan." ”

"Oh?" Wang Beech said happily, "So you already have a way to deal with the Jiannu outside the city?" ”

Wang Pudao: "Just 500,000 catties of nitrate have been transported into the city, and the gunpowder bureau will be able to produce 50,000 catties of gunpowder in five days at most, and the firearms battalion has ammunition, so the Jiannu outside the city is not to be afraid!" Also, the younger brother has formed an alliance with the thieves of Lei Gongshan to deal with Jiannu together, and this time, the tens of thousands of Jiannu who remained in Datong are in a catastrophe. ”

"The third." Wang Zel frowned and said, "It's not that the eldest brother said you, is it too hasty to form an alliance with the thieves?" Let's not talk about what the court and the Long Live Lord will think if they find out? If you let the imperial historians in the court participate in your copy, then you will not be able to eat and go around; Also, that's a thief who robs a house, can you believe it? ”

"Big brother, don't worry." Wang Pu smiled and said, "The court and the little brother over there have their own ways to deal with it, as for the thief, hehe, when have you ever seen the little brother suffer?" ”

Wang Zelkova thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's right, since I was a child, I have seen you make a profit, let's just say that Chongzhen built a slave in the eleventh year of Kouguan, everyone else is a lost official, and a beheaded, but the third is the only one who has been promoted several levels in a row, and directly from the guerrilla to the general soldier, hehe, I really haven't seen you suffer a loss for so many years." ”

Wang Pu said: "Big brother, in the next few days, the younger brother is estimated to be busy fighting with Jiannu again, and there may be no time to discuss with you, taking advantage of the time now, eldest brother, you might as well tell the younger brother about your plans after arriving in Jiangnan, right?" What are you going to do with that money? ”

Wang Beech said: "The most profitable business in the world is nothing more than salt transportation and silk tea, but the salt is controlled in the hands of the government, and the Silk Road and the tea road are controlled in the hands of Zhejiang merchants and Huizhou merchants. ”

"No, big brother, you're wrong." Wang Pudao, "The most profitable business in the world is neither salt transportation nor silk tea, but ticket numbers." ”

"Ticket number?" Wang Zelkova was stunned and said, "What is a ticket number?" ”

Wang Pu said: "Big brother, you always know about Qianzhuang, right?" ”

"I know that." Wang Beech said, "Isn't the money village a money shop, people use silver to exchange copper money, or want to exchange copper money for silver, and the money store will make some difference from it. ”

Wang Pu said: "Of course, you can't make money from such a small fight. ”

Wang Zelkova said: "Then I don't understand, can this money store still be big?" ”

"Why not?" Wang Pu asked rhetorically, "Big brother, you are a businessman, and you often go to Jiangnan to sell silk and tea in peaceful years, what is the biggest inconvenience when you say you are doing business?" ”

Wang Zelkova thought for a while and said, "The biggest inconvenience is to carry too much cash, which is too unsafe. ”

"That's right." Wang Pu said, "If there are two money houses in Nanjing and Datong, big brother, you deposit the silver into the money bank in Datong, and then the money bank in Datong opens a bill for you, and you take this bill to Nanjing, you can spend the money you deposited in Datong from the money bank in Nanjing, do you say it is convenient?" ”

"Huh?" Wang Zelkova scratched his head and said, "If there is such a good thing, it will really be a blessing for the merchants of the world." ”

Wang Pu said: "You deposit silver from a certain place, and then spend on other grounds, this is called foreign exchange, that kind of money is called a ticket number, and that bill is called a silver ticket, you can only go to the country with that silver ticket, do you say it is convenient?" If the bank wants to charge you 1% of the water, are you willing to do it? ”

"Yes, of course I do." Wang Beech said, "What is one percent of the catchment? If you escort the cash silver on the road, not to mention the risk, just hiring a dart master and bodyguard requires a lot of silver, as well as the dart people, mules, camel team to eat and drink, that is also a lot of expenses, really to have the third child you said the ticket number, reputation and reliability, who is not willing to deposit the silver into the ticket number? But how much does that one percent of the sink earn? ”

Wang Pudao: "Big brother, don't underestimate this one percent of the water, the Ming Dynasty merchants are all over the world, the silk of the south of the Yangtze River, the tea of Fujian, the medicinal materials of Yunnan, these are the best-selling goods that are marketed in Kyushu Wanfang, and the annual payment is hundreds of millions, from which one percent is extracted that is millions of taels!" ”

Wang Beech said: "The third child, will there be such a situation, for example, the ticket number in a certain place only sees someone to deposit silver, but does not withdraw the silver, and the ticket number in another place only sees someone to support the silver, and no one comes to deposit the silver, then we still have to transfer the silver between the ticket numbers, and we have to risk the silver being robbed?" ”

"No, it won't." Wang Pudao, "Our Ming Dynasty is rich in products, and all places have local characteristics, such as silk and tea in Jiangnan, but there is no sorghum and vinegar there, we are rich in sorghum and vinegar in Shanxi, but there is no porcelain, Jiangxi is rich in porcelain but no medicinal materials, Yunnan is rich in medicinal materials but no silk, so there are businessmen who do business here and there, there will inevitably be businessmen who do business here, and silver only goes in and out of the ticket number in various places, and there is no need for large-scale adjustment between places under normal circumstances." ”

"Seems to make some sense." Wang Zelkova rubbed his head and said, "I have to think about this, I have to think about it." ”

Wang Beech was born in a merchant family, quite a businessman's mind, after Wang Pu so little plucking has already comprehended the doorway, but it is difficult to accept this new thing for a while, and when he comes to his senses, he will definitely find the great benefits, and praise it.

Wang Pudao: "Of course, at the beginning, you don't have to be too anxious, you can use that money to open ticket numbers in Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and other major cities in the south of the Yangtze River, first familiarize yourself with the doorway, and when you are familiar with the doorway, the strength of the ticket number has also grown, and then open the branch to Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Kunming." ”

"The third." Wang Zelkova suddenly asked, "Where did you know this idea?" ”

Wang Pudao: "When I returned to Daming, the younger brother rescued two Western ghosts from the sea, and it was those two Western ghosts who told the younger brother. ”

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Wang Pu Nuan Pavilion.

Chen Yuanyuan and Nen Niang talked and talked about Wang Pu, and suddenly asked, "Nen Niang, do you have a ...... with Xianggong That one? ”

The young lady's pink face turned red in an instant, and a head hung down to her face, and she replied shyly: "Madam, what do you want the little maid to say?" ”

Chen Yuanyuan is a person who has come over, and he knows it when he looks at the demeanor of the young girl.

Although Wang Pu and the young lady have been grinding for the end, they have never taken the beautiful girl of the young lady into the room.

Chen Yuanyuan's heart was a little happy and a little distressed, she was happy because Wang Pu was very affectionate to her, and she was not even moved by such a pretty and lovely little girl as a young girl, she was distressed but she felt sorry for Wang Pu's body, Daddy Li said that if Wang Pu did not have a woman to wait for a long time, he would get sick.

Chen Yuanyuan was anxious to let Wang Pu accept the young girl, but he didn't want Wang Pu to get sick.

Of course, if Wang Pu really accepted the young girl, Chen Yuanyuan would still be a little jealous in his heart, although she was empathetic and generous, but she was also a woman after all, as long as she was a woman, she would have a jealous surname.

But Chen Yuanyuan is a woman who lives in the late Ming Dynasty after all, this era is a typical patriarchal era, it is normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, plus Chen Yuanyuan was born in the dust, born with a surname and kind, she knows how to be content, knows how to cherish, she has never thought of being a house, let alone a pet.

"Young girl." Chen Yuanyuan gently took the young lady's little hand and said softly, "Father Li said that if Xianggong doesn't have a woman to wait for him for too long, he will get sick." ”

The young lady lowered her head, didn't dare to look at Chen Yuanyuan's eyes, and said shyly: "But the general...... Little maid ......"

"Don't worry." Chen Yuanyuan covered his mouth and chuckled, "I'm to blame for this, but I'll make sure you get your wish tonight." ”

As he spoke, Chen Yuanyuan whispered softly to the ear of the young lady, and the young lady hummed softly, two red clouds surged on the white pink face again, and the corners of the eyebrows and eyes were already swaying with a trace of spring.

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(To be continued)