Houses in the capital are already very sought-after.

Not to mention the best location in the capital, the closest to the palace and the imperial palace.

As a status symbol.

The price is low or easy to buy, that doesn't matter.

If it weren't for Dongcheng District, only those who had a meritorious name or a knighthood would be eligible to buy it.

It is estimated that it has long been bought out by those wealthy businessmen, but even if there are many restrictions on buying a house in Dongcheng District, it has not been able to control the high price and sought-after here.

Now there is an opportunity to buy.

That is mainly because a few elderly officials have retired after reporting on their work this year and returned to their hometowns, and more than a dozen of them have been found to be corrupt and exiled to northern Hebei because of the previous problem of raising grain funds from the household department, so more than a dozen houses have been vacated and sold in Dongcheng District.

Wen Junhuai and Wen Junsi and the three brothers had a lot of effort, but they couldn't grab four sets of neighboring yards, and they only bought two sets of three-entry courtyards and a set of two-entry small courtyards in total, and the distance between them was still very far.

The farthest ones are almost one south and one north.

But this can't be helped, who made the yard over there too sought-after, and their family doesn't have the background to be able to overpower everyone else, and if they can buy three sets, they will already lose a lot of favors, how can they ask for more, ask for the yards to be close to each other or something.

However, three sets of yards are obviously not enough.

In the end, it was the third Wen Junjue who said that he was going to take the exam next year, if he was successful, maybe he would have to go to other places to be an official, if not, it would be good to live in the original place, so it would be quiet, and he could spend another three years reviewing, so he withdrew from the competition for three sets of courtyards in Dongcheng District.

This allowed Qiao Mu to have a second courtyard to live.

Although she is a little smaller, she has two or three maids outside by herself, and it is enough for the servant to live.

After Qiao Mu moved and lived in Dongcheng District, she was idle every day, either to go to the theater, to the teahouse to listen to the story, or to go to the girl's house only two streets away from the courtyard where she now lives, to see her granddaughter.

By the way, through his daughter's connections.

I am familiar with a small circle of nobles around me.

It's okay to go to a party or something.

That's a very interesting thing, too.

The most important thing is that you can also meet a lot of young and beautiful girls and guys, and in the future, they are all for their grandchildren to save for their own relatives, although it is a little difficult to marry with the sons and daughters of those noble families, but these noble families do not have seventeen or eighteen concubines.

It's also quite good to marry these people.

After all, the sons and daughters of these noble families may be ugly, but the concubines and concubines are basically not too ugly, because many noble families are used to implementing the ancient tradition of marrying wives and virtuous people and taking concubines.

There are beauty genes that act as a conciliator.

As long as the luck of those concubines and concubines is not too bad, they are basically not ugly, and even the probability of handsome men and beauties is far greater than that of the descendants.

Moreover, the vast majority of the noble families and concubines are very clearly distinguished, and those concubines and concubines are basically raised by the master mother to be stable and behave properly.

As long as you inspect it in advance, nothing will go wrong.

That's a good marriage.

Not how good it is, but at least it's safe.

Of course, this is talking about a more regular Xungui family, if it is a family like Jia Shi Wang Xue in the Dream of Red Mansions, it will be funny.

Marry with such a nobleman.

I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll not die fast enough.

I'm afraid that my home won't be messy enough.

Qiao Mu's small life is leisurely, and her grandson who travels through it is also constantly tossing.

But this time, Qiao Mu didn't bother to look at him.

In the past, Qiao Mu stared at him, mainly because he was afraid that he would make something out of place, or something that their family was destined to not keep.

Turning back is coveted.

Broke the family and killed people or something.

Now that he has cooperated with the emperor, he will get out technologies such as glass and cement, as long as he can always provide benefits to the emperor, then there will basically be no worries about life, so Qiao Mu naturally does not need to spend time staring at him.

Just let him toss around.

As long as his family can always make money for the emperor.

And do not do anything rebellious.

So the next ten years will be stable.

The reason why I only said the next ten years was mainly because Qiao Mu could only be sure that they would be okay when the emperor was alive, but if there was a change of term, it would be difficult to say.

After all, once a son of heaven and a courtier.

A lot of things are hard to say.

Although he didn't know how glass was made, he knew that the raw material of glass was silica, and he also knew that firing glass required a higher temperature than ordinary ceramics, so even if he didn't know anything about the specific firing process and some additives, he gradually found some rules in the continuous experiments of those craftsmen.

I made some bubbles of tinted glass.

And this is generally referred to as glaze.

Even if these colored glasses are not as clear as the pure colorless transparent glass he imagined, the price is still expensive, and a set of utensils can be sold for hundreds or thousands of taels.

In less than half a year, it made a profit of nearly eight million taels.

Of course, most of them are sold to foreigners, not that those ministers in the country have no money, mainly because the emperor just raised donations last year, and many of them have cried poor, if they suddenly spend a huge amount of money to buy a large number of glass utensils back, isn't it a slap in the face of the emperor.

So they can only grit their teeth and not buy it.

Or secretly buy a few pieces to use at home for yourself.

But even so, the income from these glazed products, as well as the income from the previous essential oil handmade soap, was enough for Emperor Wen Su to treat Wen Junhuai and their family differently and give benefits.

If it weren't for the fact that the matter of cooperation was discussed by them in private, it would not be easy to cross the clear road, and Emperor Wensu wanted to remove the Shaofu steward and let them take care of their family.

The so-called Shaofu Steward is actually dedicated to managing the finances and daily expenses for the royal family, and it was good that there was no comparison before, and a Shaofu Steward who has no earning ability can not see how bad it is.

But now there is a comparison between the Wen family.

With Wen Junhuai's father and son to make a comparison.

Think about it, on the one hand, there is a capable person who earned him more than five million taels of silver in less than a year, and on the other hand, there is a person who can collect the income of the imperial village and some fixed income of the royal industry, which can be done by an individual, and the income of ten years has not increased at all, which one does Emperor Wensu prefer, and which one does he value more?

Anyone who is not stupid likes the previous one.

Therefore, it didn't take long for the second year to try, and Wenfu and their families lived a life of protection from the Yulin Army in and out.

Of course, not open-faced protection.

Just protect privately.

Emperor Wen Su didn't have the idea of monitoring, he just felt that the Wen family, a big treasure who could make money for him, couldn't be harmed.

Therefore, it is natural to order people to protect it.