Chapter 80: The Year of the Dead

You really can!

Moutai can also be cut!

There is no decimal point at the end!

Xu Xi charged 20,000 taels one after another, or cut or bought more than a dozen bottles of Moutai.

When it was time to reveal the grand prize winner, Lan Lan took the stage again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is an exciting time. Next, it will be time for the final grand prize winner. ”

Lan Lan smiled and swept her gaze over the faces of everyone in the audience.

Everyone turned their attention to the three most powerful princes in the front row. Lan Lan withdrew her eyes and opened the card in her hand, and a hint of strange color flashed in her eyes.

"Today's grand prize winner is: Grandpa Xu, the Duke of Dingguo!"

Sure enough, everyone looked at it as a matter of course.

Xu Xi nodded at everyone, but his heart was dripping blood, and it was 50,000 taels.

No matter how big the family business is, it can't withstand such construction. But when I think of the value of Moutai, I feel better.

Eight bottles of ordinary Moutai cost more than 20,000 taels, not to mention this limited combination series?

Rounding up is simply equal to prostitution.

The important thing is that he really loves the taste.

The next day, Xu Yingyuan sent the revenue details of yesterday's event.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at it and threw it back.

The income of Universal Premium throughout the year is less than one-tenth of the property of the Fuwang family.

A few days ago, the house was raided, and there were millions of taels of silver alone. All kinds of gold, silver and jewelry, and there are countless of them. What's more, there are also real estate of considerable value and more than two million acres of land. He has a lot of money on hand now.

sent Xu Yingyuan away, and Zhu Youzhen called Cao Huachun again.

"The families of the soldiers who died in the Yongwei Battalion, in the past two days, you have sent someone to offer condolences, and each household will be given five taels of silver, once the food is provided."

"Yes! Long live the slave and maid for their thank you! Cao Huachun couldn't hide his joy.

The families of the soldiers who died in the war have a living guarantee, and he is really happy for them.

In the first battle outside the Guan, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion were killed in the battle, and after returning to Beijing, Zhu Youzhen immediately ordered people to pay pensions to the dead soldiers. According to custom, if someone inherits the position of a soldier, funeral expenses are given. If there is no heir, half of the salary of the parents and wives is given, and if the soldiers are killed, the wives are paid the full salary for three years. And three to six buckets of grain were distributed every month until his death.

Zhu Youzhen knew at a glance that if he didn't intervene, it was estimated that there would not even be a fart for this money and food. Even if there are numbers, it is not enough.

Therefore, in the process of distribution, Tian Ergeng sent people to keep an eye on the whole process, and those who dared to stretch out their hands in this matter were all killed.

Zhu Youzhen's idea is very simple, he can't let these people who sacrificed their lives for the country chill.

Liu Wusan lives in Liujiazhuang, sixty miles outside the city, and his ancestors have been passed down from generation to generation. In his generation, I don't know if God opened his eyes and gave birth to two sons in three years.

The big one is called Liu Qi, and the small one is called Liu Dong, and he is only sixteen this year.

Liu Qi was a soldier in the Yongwei Battalion, and his monthly salary was very high, and Liu Qi was filial, so he saved all the money and sent it home every month. said that he and his younger brother would marry a wife in the future.

Liu Wusan hadn't seen him for months, and he and his wife were looking forward to their son's return soon.

But people didn't wait, and waited for the bad news.

His son Liu Qi died, and died heroically while fighting Jiannu.

The grief-stricken old couple had to accept this reality.

Seeing that the New Year will be over in a few days, Liu Wusan and his family are not happy. Because Liu Qi's younger brother Liu Dong is clamoring to inherit his brother's position and continue to be a soldier.

Liu Wusan is a thousand and ten thousand unwilling, he is the only seedling, if there are three long and two short, their old Liu family will be cut off the incense. Liu Dong saw that his father and mother were unwilling, and he was angry at home all day long.

Twenty-seventh of the lunar month

It's been three poles in the morning, and Liu Dong hasn't gotten up yet.

Last night, he and Liu Wusan quarreled again, and it was still a matter of being a soldier, but Liu Wusan still disagreed.

In fact, Liu Dong had already woken up, and was lying on the bed looking at the roof in a daze.

He missed his brother, and once his brother happened to pass by the door of his house during training, and he glanced at it from afar. It's majestic. Listen to his comrades-in-arms say that he died in battle to save people.

He also wants to be a soldier, like his brother, to go into battle to kill the enemy and defend his family and country.

Just as he was out of his mind, a loud voice came from outside the courtyard.

"Is anyone home?"

Then came the sound of the door opening and Liu Wusan's doubts:

"Who are you?"

"I am Tao Yongning, a thousand households in the Yongwei Battalion, and I was ordered by my head to come and visit the two old people."

Liu Wusan hurriedly invited people into the room, and poured a glass of water after sitting down.

After Tao Yongning sat down, he didn't talk nonsense, and directly explained his intention.

"Uncle, Liu Qi sacrificed his life for the country, and His Majesty has always been grateful for his bravery. Isn't it almost the New Year, so he ordered me to come and visit the old man. This is five taels of silver, and once the rice is thereafter, every year after that. Your Majesty said, you have given birth to a good son! ”

Before the words were finished, Liu Wusan and his wife were already in tears, half of them remembered their son who was sleeping outside the gate, and half of them were moved by His Majesty's thoughts.

And Liu Dong in the house couldn't help it, so he quickly got dressed and walked out!

"General! I want to join you as a soldier! ”

"Oh? You are? ”

"I'm Liu Qi's younger brother, can I go?" After speaking, he looked at Tao Yongning with hope.

Tao Yongning looked at Liu Wusan, who wanted to speak and stopped, as if he understood something, and said to Liu Dong with a smile.

"It's okay to go. But your dad has to agree. ”

Liu Dong's face instantly fell, and he turned his head to look at his father. He knew that most of the time it was no longer a show.

"If you want to go, go there."

Liu Wusan wiped his tears and said to his youngest son.

Tao Yongning was also very happy when he heard it.

"Good! After the New Year, I sent someone to pick you up. I'm going to the next one, so I won't bother you. After speaking, he walked out regardless of Liu Wusan's retention.

After Tao Yongning left, Liu Dong looked at his father, who had always disagreed with him to become a soldier.

"Daddy? Are you so? ”

"Don't embarrass your brother!" After saying that, he went back to the house.

Liu Dong shouted excitedly.

"Mother! Is there anything else to eat? I am hungry! ”

"Don't you get up in the morning?"

"Hey, hey..."

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, Xu Yingyuan sent the account book of the global bank. Since its establishment, the Bank has absorbed more than 3 million taels of savings and gradually won the trust of the people. Xu Yingyuan plans to open a branch in Nanjing later in the future. Zhu Youzhen was noncommittal about this, but told him to cultivate honest and credible talents.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, he summoned Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng, Sun Yuanhua and others respectively, affirmed their work in the past year, and rewarded them with silver taels.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, he summoned five cabinet ministers, and after some talking, he rewarded each of them with a mention of Huiyuan juice.

There is Huiyuan to call the New Year!

On the first day of the first lunar month, the great court meeting was held in the Fengtian Temple.

The festival was held in an extremely harmonious atmosphere. At the court meeting, Zhu Youzhen highly recognized and fully affirmed the work of the courtiers in the past year, and made arrangements and arrangements for the work of the new year. After the meeting, Zhu Youjian rewarded each of the Chinese warriors with a box of three rats New Year's gift package.

He has been in the past few years.

Here we go.