After Wang Wenwu replied to Aigean's letter, since he received the news from the treasury, he asked Wang Wenwu to receive his wages.

Wang Wenwu was stunned, thinking about it in the room, but still found nothing, but who doesn't like money!

Wang Wenwu dressed neatly and went to the warehouse, and the shopkeeper Tong also saw the Hu steward, who was tall, tall, and had a fashionable beard, but he didn't have much beard and was not very good-looking.

Steward Hu knew that there was a steward Wang who was on vacation, and he had never seen it, but when he saw this hairless boy with his own eyes, he said that he was the steward of the king.

After confirming it a few more times, Steward Hu admitted that the hairless kid in front of him was the same level as himself.

Steward Hu said with a smile: "Steward Wang, his surname is Hu, his name is Guowei, and his character is virtuous."

Wang Wenwu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, this person still has a name, but he is still a showman, so he asked: "Virtue and exercise, good words, but I am only shallow in learning, and I can't hear where this comes from!" ”

Wang Wenwu's words seemed to scratch the itch of Hu Guanshi, and he immediately shook his head and explained: "Seeing that you are not in a big grade, I think you came from the new school, and it is normal not to know. …… Therefore, power cannot be tilted, the masses cannot be moved, and the world cannot be shaken. Born by the yes, dead by the yes, the husband is the virtue of the exercise. ””

When Hu Guowei said the passage of "Xunzi Persuasion", his proud expression was really impressive.

Listening to Wang Wenwu's sycophancy, Hu Guowei was modest, but the corners of his mouth were already behind his ears.

immediately said that he wanted to take Wang Wenwu to meet the current guys, although Wang Wenwu didn't know that a few of what Hu Guowei said was true, but it did not prevent him from getting to know the new guys.

The accents are all straight, thinking that these marshals not only like to use their own countrymen in the army, but also like to use their own countrymen for business, Hu Guowei took Wang Wenwu around, compared with Wang Wenwu when he was there, but the people changed, and there was no change in the others, during which Wang Wenwu knocked on the side and asked Hu Guowei what he was going to do.

Hu Guowei said it there, and Wang Wenwu couldn't figure it out at all.

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it, after all, it doesn't affect the salary, Wang Wenwu returned to the courtyard, and the yard was finally cleaned up again. Steward Zhang's Wang Wenwu didn't plan to go recently, and no one cared about Wang Wenwu after the salary, and the more BJ City lived, the more panicked he became, and Wang Wenwu simply ran back to Tianjin.

As soon as he entered the door, Aegean asked, "Master, are we going to meet BJ City!" ”

Wang Wenwu called everyone over and said, "You all still live in Tianjin, and I'm a little unsure about BJ, I've been buying a house in the concession in the past few days." ”

Huaihua asked, "Master, what is the situation?" ”

"You don't need to go to work, but you get paid!"

Chunni said: "Master, isn't it good to get money without doing anything?" ”

Huaihua said to Chunni: "Then will you let your buddy not do things, will you give him back the money?" ”

Chunni shook her head, and Huaihua continued: "That's not right, master, or you should resign!" Don't make any more moths! ”

Wang Wenwu nodded and said, "Let's wait until I buy a house here first!" ”

Seeing that Huaihua was going to persuade again, Wang Wenwu waved his hand and signaled not to say any more.

Wang Wenwu went out the next day to actively inquire about the house, but in this era, people like to rent, even the developer is, the developer builds a house, does not sell, just stays in the hand to rent, the practice of developers in modern society is to sell a piece of land, build it, sell it, but the developer of the Republic of China is to sell a piece of land, build it, rent it out, and rely on the rent to return funds.

However, the majority of developers do not follow the path of modern developers for the following reasons:

The first is that the situation is unstable, everyone is precarious, and there is no reason to spend most of their life savings to sell the house, who knows if there will be a war at home, whether there will be a cannon to lift the house, so they would rather rent than sell the house.

Second, there are too many taxes and fees, take Wang Wenwu's own experience of selling a courtyard house in BJ, the deed tax is 9% of the purchase price, the transfer fee is 1% of the purchase price, the China Securities fee is 3% of the purchase price, the municipal fund is 5% of the purchase price, the construction donation is 1% of the purchase price, the land protection stamp fee is 2% of the purchase price, and the transfer tax is 2% of the purchase price. Combined, these taxes account for 23% of the purchase price. For example, if you spend 100 yuan to buy a suite, you have to pay another 23 yuan in taxes in order to transfer the ownership, which is very not cost-effective.

Finally, it is a Chinese tradition to rent and not sell, whether it is the Tang and Song dynasties or the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are strong landlord tendencies: landlords buy fields in order to rent them to tenants all year round; The developer built the house to rent it out to tenants all year round.

Landlords in ancient China did not like to sell land, and developers in ancient China did not like to sell houses.

This tendency to rent and not sell at the same time as ancient developers and ancient landlords is rooted in Confucian tradition and clan consciousness: Confucianism celebrates the conservation of property, and houses and land are constant property; The clan takes the preservation of the ancestral industry as the object of praise.

All the industries of the previous generation, whether they originate from ancestors or from development. They all have to be defended, otherwise they will be ruined, they will be scolded by public opinion, and sometimes they will be imprisoned because of the first complaint of the clansmen.

Until the period of the Republic of China, Chinese people bought and sold houses, and the seller was still called "broken party", "broken" means broken house, and selling a house is equivalent to breaking a house. Very taboo.

However, let Wang Wenwu find land for sale in the French Concession, since it has not been built, then build it yourself!

After negotiating with others, we went to the Tianjin French Concession Public Discussion Bureau to go through the formalities, since the three acres of land in the French Concession belonged to Wang Wenwu, of course, it was not comparable to Sun Muen's house, after all, the house was on the side of the road, but the land area was much larger than Sun Muen's.

The rest is to find someone to build a house, Wang Wenwu took Aiqin and Huaihua and his party, picked and chosen, and finally quoted an offer of nearly 50,000 silver dollars, which startled Aiqin and Huaihua, and confirmed it with people several times.

Wang Wenwu made a decision, and since the decision, Aiqin and Huaihua have been absent-minded for several days.

Aiqin and Huaihua both calmed down after confirming with Wang Wenwu a few times that they were so rich, but the expenses of the two gradually increased, Wang Wenwu didn't say anything, after all, he has been living with money, and he will talk about it later!

When it was time to pay wages again, Wang Wenwu returned to BJ's home in advance, and through BJ's connections, Wang Wenwu could quietly exchange a batch of kerosene for money every month, which is also the reason why Wang Wenwu was reluctant to leave BJ.