Xiao Rui and Qin Mingyue entered the carriage as they spoke. After a while, they arrived next to the Hu family's house, Xiao Rui took Qin Mingyue out of the carriage at the door, and Qin Mingyue naturally followed the Yun family sisters.

Qin Mingyue looked at the Hu family's mansion and said, "Well, yes, this place is also good." In fact, Hu Deyan is a person from the capital, but he is an official, and he will return to the capital one day, and there is no need to buy a house in Yilan City, but they are used to enjoying it, and they pay attention to the pleasantness of the landscape, so the house must be arranged with a garden, a view, and flowers and trees. The official office of the governor's yamen is also good, but after all, it is not convenient outside. ”

Xiao Rui sneered and said: "Hu Deyan has been released for more than ten years, and he has been going around in Hu Province, and he has been from the prefect of the fifth grade to the governor of the third grade, so he naturally has to manage it well." If this house was purchased with his own money, I won't say anything, after all, everyone has it. We're no exception. However, his house was framed by a businessman in Hu Province, and the family was ruined, and then the house was occupied. This character, hum, is embarrassed to say that he is a Confucian who pays attention to benevolence and righteousness? ”

Qin Mingyue's face also turned cold: "Yes, I have also read the file on this matter, and I heard that this family was exiled to Nanhai Province by him." I don't know, has the case been retried now, and the family has been cleared, and the family has been turned back? ”

Xiao Rui said: "I have already explained this matter, this case is still what Hu Deyan did when he was a Taishou, and more than ten years have passed." I don't know if the family is still alive. Either way, I'm going to have someone find them and come back and give their stuff back. ”

"In this matter, the ones who have benefited the most are the Fang family and Hu Deyan. Hu Deyan got the house, and the Fang family got the family's business network, shop, and fields in the countryside. The Fang family was generous, and for this matter, they also gave Hu Deyan 200,000 taels of silver. ”

Qin Mingyue snorted coldly and said, "En, it's good if you tell me to go down." Let's move on. ”

When I entered the Hu family's mansion, I saw things in a place, and the gold, silver and jade artifacts were naturally not in Qin Mingyue's eyes. As for those calligraphy and painting books and the like, Qin Mingyue looked at them with interest and said, "Hu Deyan is worthy of being from a great Confucian family, and there is nothing to say about this vision." This calligraphy, painting, and books are all high-quality products, and there are many categories. These were written down, put into the file, and all of them were sent to the Taoist School of Ba Province. In the future, it will be the property of Taoism. I will give an excerpt to the emperor on this matter. Come to think of it, the emperor will not disagree. ”

Xiao Rui said: "Okay, these antiques and the like, you can like them, take them if you like, write them down, my father will not be stingy." ”

Qin Mingyue pursed her lips and said, "What do you want from my country's division?" Why do you have to have something from Hu Deyan? However, after all, he is a scholar, and there are still a lot of pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and the four treasures of the study in this mansion, all of which are good things, so they will all be sent to Taoism. Also, after these other antique jade, porcelain, silk and the like, after they are sold in the future, I want half of the silver to enter Taoism? Luckily? ”

Xiao Rui said: "There is no problem with this. Even if you want it all, you don't have an opinion if you want to come to my father. Taoism was originally supported by the emperor. Entering Taoism is the same as entering the government. Entering Taoism can also train talents for the Great Zhou to help the people, and maybe the father and emperor will be more willing. ”

Qin Mingyue said: "Then the Hu family should also have some gold and silver or field shops, right?" ”

Xiao Rui said: "Hu Deyan doesn't have much land left here, maybe he will return to the capital after all, so he doesn't buy much." As for the shops, there are quite a few, and there are as many as 30 on the most prosperous street in Yilan City. However, their family did not run their own industry, but only handed it over to the Fang family and the Hong family to take care of the business. These were also confiscated. Also, Hu Deyan also arranged about five or six small houses in the city, and I heard that he used them to raise his outer room. ”

Qin Mingyue laughed angrily: "It is said that Hu Deyan has a total of eighteen concubines in this house, and there are still three concubines in the capital, how can there be an outer room in Yilan City?" There are five or six more? ”

Xiao Rui smiled and said, "How do I know this?" I don't understand this at all? ”

Qin Mingyue glanced at him and said coldly: "Show me the title deeds of those small mansions, if it is suitable, give it to Daoxue." It is just right to use Taoism as a teaching house. Ready-made house, tidy up and use. It's convenient. ”

Xiao Rui had long known that Qin Mingyue would say this, and said, "There is no problem with this. ”

Qin Mingyue looked at the jewels on the ground, she didn't need to ask, she knew that this was found in the room of Hu Deyan's favorite concubines, and suddenly she was a little excited, and said: "Hu Deyan's house is good, but this house already has a master." In the future, it will be returned to the family who was wronged. I was looking for a good house to use as a university in Daoxue Lake Province in the future, but it fell through again. ”

Xiao Rui said: "I have already thought of this for you. First of all, Wang Yifan's home is not suitable. He bought his house himself, but the house was not as good as this one, and it was not elegant. I'll keep it and sell it for silver, and I'll give it to Taoism. However, I saw the Fang family's mansion, which covers a very large area, on the edge of Yilan City, close to the city gate, which is very convenient. The terrain is open, and if you want to expand it in the future, it is also convenient and not limited by the city wall. ”

"The Fang family has been scholarly for generations, and the house is very elegant. It's still very big. Today, it has also been confiscated. Why don't we go and see? ”

Qin Mingyue was interested when she heard this, and followed Xiao Rui out of the city to take a look. The Fang family is really very elegant, and the place is also large, twice as big as Hu Deyan's house. After all, this is the ancestral home of the Fang family, and it has been in business for several generations, of course, it is very good.

Outside the Fang family's house, it is the appearance of a town, and it is said that the people living there are distant relatives of the Fang family, as well as the slaves of the Fang family. When the Fang family was at its peak, there were thousands of slaves alone, and the mansion for slaves was of course very large. There is actually the size of a town.

Now the slaves have been sold, and of course the houses are empty. Qin Mingyue was very happy and said: "This place is good, the mansion will be used as a Taoist University in Hu Province in the future." The surrounding buildings can be used as a place for professors to teach, and for students who have come to study in the original way. This house and the surrounding houses, we want Taoism. ”

Xiao Rui naturally agreed.