Although Lu Zhaoshen's legs and feet are inconvenient and his speech is slurred, he still understands very well in his heart that if there is no Zhang Yuan's help this time, Qingpu Lu's family will definitely not be able to keep the 600 acres of mulberry forest in Sheshan, and Lu's silkworm households and weavers will not be able to stand the harassment of the villains and will flee, and the Qingpu Lu family will be in a state of collapse from now on, and now, the second son Lu Yangfang is acquitted, although the land deed of 600 acres of mulberry forest has not been recovered, but it is obviously impossible for the Dong family to force the mulberry forest again, and those mulberry forest field deeds can be reported to the county master book as lost. Because all the mountain and forest land deeds in the county are registered in the county household house, the lost land deed can be re-issued after the county household house is examined and released on bail, and the transfer of the land deed must be reported to the county household house for the record in addition to the endorsement of the head of the family and the eldest son, which is also the reason why the Dong family got the land deed brought by the Lu family's traitor Chen Ming but could not rely on this to seize the mulberry forest, and had to set up a set of gambling debts to force the Lu family to hand over the mulberry forest - after this incident, Lu Zhaoshen also knew that the second son Lu Yangfang was a loser and could no longer entrust family affairs. He himself obviously can't be a director now, so he summoned the housekeepers and servants early this morning, and invited the elders of the clan, announcing that in the future, all major affairs in the family will be managed by the eldest son Lu Tao, and the affairs in the house will also be handled by the eldest daughter-in-law Zhang Ruoxi. ”

Lu Yangfang was so ashamed that she was ashamed, and her body was so thin that her bamboo-like body was shaky.

That night, Lu Tao invited the Zhang Yuan brothers to a banquet in a restaurant not far from home, as well as more than 20 Qingpu students such as Yang Shixiang and Hong Daotai. ”

Lu Tao didn't know about the Han Society, but after hearing what Yang Shixiang said, he said happily: "Am I the vice president of the Qingpu Branch of the Han Society, great, if there is something in the society in the future, I will do my best." ”

Hong Daotai said: "The current members of the Han Society are all living beings, and there will be many people who will be lifted after the autumn of next year, and in the spring of the next year, there will definitely be Jinshi, and at that time, our Han Society will also enter the court." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "If there are many Chinese-style people in our Han Society in the township test next year, the Han Society will be famous, and there will be more people who want to participate in the Han Society. ”

Yang Shixiang nodded and said: "What Brother Jie Zi said is extremely true, it is better to lack than to abuse, not to pay attention to entering the multi-powerful people, but to have knowledge." ”

After the night banquet was dispersed, Zhang Yuan invited Yang Shixiang to discuss alone, and the bartender poured pineapple tea for the second and then withdrew, Zhang Yuan explained to Yang Shixiang that he wanted to set up a Hanshe bookstore to explain to Yang Shixiang that the shareholding system was adopted, and the heads and vice-presidents of each county could be shared, with ten taels of silver as one share, each of which could be purchased with multiple shares, tentatively set 1,000 shares, that is, 10,000 taels of silver, Yang Shixiang's bookstore could be converted into silver shares, and a contract was signed to clarify the rights and responsibilities, and dividends were distributed according to shares every two years.

It is very common to open a store by a few partners and out of the bank, profit sharing, and risk sharing, which is a very common thing after Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, so Yang Shixiang can understand this kind of shareholding and dividends, but as for him, he actually doesn't want to partner with him in his heart, and would rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow, but he also knows that Zhang Yuan was the first to discuss the establishment of the Hanshe Bookstore This is a good intention, with Zhang Yuan's current prestige and Qingpu Lu's financial resources, it is not difficult for Zhang Yuan to set up a bookstore, how can his Yang's bookstore compete with the Hanshe Bookstore at that time, Yang's bookstore made a profit of more than 400 taels of silver last year, and a large part of it relied on the volume "Zhang Jiezi's Selected Commentaries on Songjiang Shiwen One Hundred and Twenty Articles" edited by Zhang Yuan, and in previous years, the bookstore generally made a profit of one or two hundred taels - Yang Shixiang has a very good business vision, he knows the future of Hanshe Bookstore, and the income of Yang's bookstore after folding silver and participating in shares is definitely more than now, so after a little thought, he agreed that he would take the lead in establishing Hanshe Bookstore and negotiate with Xia Yunyi and Pan Ruofu to see how many shares of silver are willing to be contributed by the six heads and vice presidents of Huating and Shanghai. Zhang Yuan said that their three brothers of the Zhang family will give 3,000 taels of silver, and how much silver can be folded in the Yang bookstore Ming said that he asked an experienced county household old official to estimate - when the second drum was handed over, Zhang Yuan said goodbye to Yang Shixiang in the restaurant, returned to the Lu Mansion, and thought: "The ten wooden boxes of the Dong family should be opened and seen, and I promised to give 3,000 taels of silver to invest in the Hanshe Bookstore, and the silver must come out of this box." ”

A few days ago, Lu Dayou and Mu Jingyan sent these ten boxes to Qingpu and handed them to Zhang Ruoxi, Lu Dayou told the young grandmother Zhang Ruoxi the origin of the box, Zhang Ruoxi put the ten boxes in his bedroom for safekeeping, at this time I heard Zhang Yuan want to see the box, so he let in and moved the ten wooden boxes to Zhang Yuan's room - the small window is quiet, the summer night sky is full of stars, there are only Zhang Yuan and Lu Tao, Zhang Ruoxi and his wife in the room, Mu Zhenzhen stood by the door, Zhang Yuan told his brother-in-law Lu Tao and sister Zhang Ruoxi about the establishment of Hanshe Bookstore, Lu Tao said: "That's good, I am the vice president of the Qingpu branch of the Han Society, and I will also give 1,000 taels of silver. ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "I can only let my brother-in-law give 1,000 taels, if you want to give more, you can't do it, tentatively set 10,000 taels of silver, and you have to leave some shares for other heads and vice presidents." ”

Zhang Ruoxi said: "If you want to have more, you can't do it, will this bookstore definitely be able to make money?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Of course, Hanshe Bookstore will be the largest bookstore in Jiangnan and even in the entire Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhang Yuan has great confidence in this, more confident than he will be in the township examination next year, he is familiar with the novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and he is very clear about the reading interest of the times. ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "How dare you waste your studies, my brother will leave to study hard in Nanjing Guozijian after two years, these things are mainly held by Brother Shi Xiang, and now that the Lu family has no external trouble, the Shengmei Silk and Cotton Cloth Company should open as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Ruoxi heard the three words "Shengmei", and said with a radiant face: "I paid attention to the specialties of Songjiang, the embroidery of Xiasha Town, the spinning of Jinshanwei, the dyeing cloth of Zhujing Town and Fengjing Town, the weaving standard cloth of Sanlintang, Zhoupu Town is famous for the rice market, and the towns of Xinchang, Datuan, Batuan, and Xingtou are famous for their salt industry, and the rest of the hosiery shops, shoe shops, dyeing workshops, tooth shops, merchants, etc., are countless, but most of them are cramped in the local area, and there are no big businesses like our Shengmei to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Nanjing—— ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "My sister is also a very ambitious person, and the Shengmei has not yet been seen, so there is no one to talk about." ”

Zhang Ruoxi said half ashamedly and half annoyed: "Xiao Yuan, look at it, within three years, the Shengmei will be famous in the south of the Yangtze River." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "I believe in it, my sister has always been able to do a thousand, my brother-in-law has my sister, a virtuous helper, Shengmei will be rich, and I will also participate in Shengmei." ”

Zhang Ruoxi smiled and asked, "How much silver can you afford?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "How much I can give depends on what kind of gift the Huating Dong family has prepared for me——"

Mu Jingyan found an iron chisel, pried off the copper locks on the ten wooden boxes, and retreated.

Zhang Yuan opened a wooden box, the silver light was dazzling, the box was a good ingot of silver, there were five layers of wooden shelves, each layer of wooden frame stacked twenty ingots of silver, are twenty taels of silver, five layers is two thousand taels, there are six such silver boxes, a total of 12,000 taels of silver, Zhang Yuan knew that the gentry and wealthy families of the late Ming Dynasty liked to hoard gold and silver, and a lot of silver was melted into a large ingot collection as soon as it entered these large households in order to retain their descendants, and no longer entered the circulation channels, which caused a shortage of silver in the market and seriously affected the development of the commodity economy. This Huating Dong family can collect nearly 15,000 taels of silver to take away in a hurry, it can be seen that the wealthy, the Dong family also has a large number of fields, shops, and pleasure boats, this fifteen thousand taels of silver is less than one-tenth of his family property - there are a total of ten boxes, Zhang Yuan opened another one, this time it is dazzling gold, the competition is full of a box of gold ingots, ten taels of ingots, there are eighty ingots, that is, one thousand six hundred taels of gold, the gold and silver exchange ratio in the late Ming Dynasty is about one to eight, and this thousand six hundred taels of gold is worth 13,000 taels of silver - Zhang Yuan is also difficult to calm down at this time, Holding his breath, he opened a wooden box again, this box was full of jade, all wrapped in thick and soft cotton cloth, Zhang Yuan took out a few pieces and looked at them, a pair of purple jade cups, a pair of jade coral bottles, a jade flower feather bud, two jade Buddhas, there are still a lot of jade in the box, Zhang Yuan has no time to look at them one by one, let Mu Zhenzhen take out these jade cups, jade bottles and re-wrap them back into the box, he opened the eighth box, this box is gold, there are gold flying fish pots, gold claw ear round cups, gold phoenix wearing flower plates and other gold utensils, as well as a lot of jewelry, It is estimated that there are also thousands of taels of gold - the ninth and tenth boxes are lighter, it should not be gold, silver and jade, open one, the books are full of books, all of them are precious ancient books, the Song version of "Customs and Customs" two volumes, the Song version of "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record" a total of six volumes, the Song version of "Hidden Void Yanyi" four volumes, the Song version of "Spring and Autumn or Question" five volumes...... In addition to the Song version of rare books, there are also many Yuan edition books, such as the Yuan version of "The Gathering of the Mean", "Zhu Zichengshu", etc., in addition to some manuscripts - Zhang Yuan knows how precious these Song and Yuan books are, especially in later generations, after war, Song and Yuan books are as few as the morning star, and the surviving ones are all unique books, so these books and jade must be well preserved for future generations, and the inheritance of culture is sometimes more important than life - the tenth box is also books and some precious stationery, Weiyang Palace tile inkstone, Su Dongpo's Yaocheng inkstone, white jade inkstone, etc., there is also a rosewood box, open the lid to see, but it is a thick stack of land deeds, house deeds, a little inspection, found that Lu's 600 acres of mulberry forest field deeds are placed on the top layer......——————————————————