Scholar Liu's house, across the street from Meng's mansion, belongs to two different squares, and enters the city from Qiantang Gate, and arrives in a moment.

In Dasong, civil officials are more popular than military officials, which can be seen from the house. Although Liu Dexiu is a scholar and a county prince, his rank is lower than that of Meng Zhong, who was born as a military general, but his mansion is much more luxurious and larger than Meng Zhong's.

Scholar Liu's Mansion is very satisfied with both the size of the house and the location of Mahanshan.

What he is most satisfied with is the location, the house is on the royal street that runs through the north and south of the entire capital, and it is not far to Dongqingmen to the east, and it is the same distance to Qiantang Gate to the west, about three miles away. And to the northeast of the Genshan Gate, to the northwest there are Yuhang Gate and Tianzong Water Gate, is also generally far away.

This place is a little further away to the Imperial City, but what does it matter? He is an official and does not need to go to court. In this place, there are many official institutions and palaces on the left and right, and the law and order should be good.

"Brother Xian, looking at your appearance, I am very satisfied with this house." Meng Liangheng saw Ma Hanshan smiling all the way, guessing that he must be very satisfied.

"Well, yes, yes." Ma Hanshan glanced at the old man who was waiting by the courtyard gate and said, "That old man, who is the Liu family?" What about the Liu family? ”

After his death, the emperor originally let the four of them be officials in Beijing, but the Shi faction obstructed them, and in the end, the three elder brothers succumbed to the Shi faction and were all given official positions in Beijing. Only the youngest son Liu Minzhong was unwilling to give in and kneel and lick, and was harassed every day in Beijing, and finally returned to Longxing Mansion with his old mother. Meng Liangheng whispered, "The old man at the door is the loyal old housekeeper of the Liu family, and the children have gone to Longxing Mansion with Liu Minzhong, and he is here alone to show the Liu family the house." ”

"Oh, not bad... Very good... There are very few such people left. Ma Hanshan put his hands behind his back and nodded incomprehensibly.

"Alas, human affection is like paper, the world is hot and cold, and there are indeed not many loyal people like him. You see, Liu Zhonghong has been conscientious all his life, and he has been praised for being an official everywhere, and in order to recover the lost land, he has been running ...... all directions. Alas, but now, in order to please the surname Shi, his former colleagues actually scolded him with their conscience. If when Liu Daxue was alive, they had different political opinions and scolded each other, but what is disgusting is that they actually scolded a person who passed away. Meng Liangheng said indignantly.

Mahanshan no longer squeaked, silently watching every corner of the house.

Although he stood on the side of the main battle faction and admired Han Qixuan, a group of Northern Expedition proponents, he was not interested in the factional struggle of the imperial court. Like what Meng Liangheng said, in fact, there is no difference from the struggle in the rivers and lakes, the difference is that the factional struggle in the court is related to a country, while the factional struggle in the rivers and lakes is related to a city and a region.

"Brother Meng, you said that this scholar Liu is the second biggest person in the Korean Department of the Northern Expedition? But why did the history department of the surrender faction kill Han Qixuan, and why did he let him die a good death? After looking at the house, Ma Hanshan lit a pipe in the small pavilion in the backyard and said.

"Hehe, who knows? This Scholar Liu is really powerful, he has several firsts, for example, he is the fastest and most frequent first person to be promoted, and he has held dozens of official positions in his life. He was the first person to die a good death in the Han case, and many of his colleagues and those who followed Han Xiang were killed, including General Xin, who was killed, but he was able to cause Shi to die of illness. Not only that, but he was also the first emperor of this dynasty to drop out of the dynasty to mourn... How many first-class masters don't have such an honor...... Meng Lianghui was full of admiration for Liu Zhonghong, and I don't know if it was because he failed in the struggle but died well or because of his Northern Expedition and critical science.

"Oh, you admire him." Ma Hanshan smiled and said, "You say, you admire him so much, if you negotiate the price, will it be cheaper?" ”

"Such a big house is only three thousand taels, which is very cheap, okay. Brother Xian, Liu Minzhong's life is not easy now, we... You... You don't want to lower the price anymore, okay? Meng Liangheng said anxiously.

On the issue of housing prices, Ma Hanshan feels that this world, like the world in his previous life, is deformed consumption.

A stone of the best rice is only one tael of silver, and the most ordinary one-hall and two-bedroom tiled house of less than 100 square meters, if it is in Lin'an City, it will cost thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy. Even in the suburbs, it costs two or three thousand taels of silver. Even if you build it yourself in the tile pot village, the land does not cost money, but it will cost hundreds of taels.

This kind of consumption is very deformed, in this way, in an ordinary tiled house in Lin'an City, those peasants or those small workers will never be able to afford a house, exactly the same as the era of his previous life, migrant workers, only have the share of building houses, never have the share of buying houses.

Perhaps, this is the other side of the demographic dividend, the population of Dasong, even if it does not count the ceded half of the country, there are 100 million people in Nansong now, so many people, and most of the land and wealth are in the hands of a small number of people, the gap between the rich and the poor is large, and the sales expenses of the rich dominate the prices, so consumption is naturally deformed.

Scholar Liu's house is only 3,000 taels of silver, which is indeed extremely low, about 10% of the normal price, almost a gift.

But why is it so cheap that no one buys it?

Who dares to buy it, now the government and the opposition are scolding Liu Zhonghong.

Three thousand taels of silver is also a lot of money for ordinary people, and those who dare to buy it can only look at the house and sigh, while those who are not ordinary, rich or powerful, they dare not buy it. Spare their lives and reputation, they don't want to be scolded, so as not to be attacked by the Shi Pai. Although those people didn't say what would happen, it was obvious that they didn't want anyone to buy it, and they wanted to force Liu Minzhong to bow his head like his brother.

So, it was purely an ordinary house, and no one bought it for a whole year.

"Could it be that Liu Minzhong has returned to his hometown and is also excluded? Are those who sing praises so immoral? Otherwise, how could he not be able to get by? Three years of 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing Governor's Mansion, and then the Qing official, to the position of Liu Daxue, there is always some family background, and the wealth may not be successful, but a few family members can still live. Ma Hanshan said lightly.

"You're right, but the money that can be moved is used by the three elder brothers to take care of their careers, and then, after they became officials, they forgot about their mother and younger brother... It's really a three-headed brute....... Meng Liangheng scolded people as he spoke, but such people should really be scolded.

"Okay, you convinced me, I'll buy it from them for three thousand five hundred taels." Ma Hanshan said with a smile.

Yes!

Meng Liangheng and Qi Nanyue couldn't help but exclaim, Meng Liangheng thought, is there something wrong with Brother Ma Xian's brain, the owner wants three thousand taels, and he actually wants to buy three thousand five hundred taels?

And Qi Nanyue looked nervous after screaming, he thought to himself, is it the young master's encephalopathy again, why is it ...... today after not getting sick for a long time.

"Ah what? Originally, five hundred taels was a commission for you, but since you pity them so much, I will help you make the decision and give them your commission. Ma Hanshan smiled evilly, walked back to the front hall with his back hand, and shouted as he walked, "Steward Liu... Steward Liu, I bought this house for 3,500 taels of silver, so hurry up and find someone to write a contract ....... ”

Yes!

Yes!

The exclamation started again, this time it was the old housekeeper of the Liu family and Meng Lianghui. But Qi Nanyue smiled, huh, fortunately, the young master is not sick.

"Young master, don't you wait for Mr. Lai to arrive?" Qi Nanyue said with a smile.

"Hehe, no, all this kind of 'criminal' industry, as long as it is cheap enough, buy it all." Ma Hanshan said with a gloomy smile, "I believe that even if there is a problem with feng shui, it is easy to change it with Mr. Lai's cultivation." ”

Is a house closed like this? The house that was listed for a year and dropped from 20,000 taels of silver to 3,000 taels of silver was sold in a moment? The old butler looked at the contract and the prepaid silver ticket in his hand in disbelief.

What made him even more puzzled was that looking at such a smart buyer, why did his brain suddenly get into water, obviously the seller asked for three thousand, but this small buyer actually gave three thousand five.

"Brother Xian, are you really not afraid that the Shi Pai people will deal with you?" Coming out of the mansion of the university scholar's mansion, Meng Liangheng said very worriedly.

"Hehe, they'd better not provoke me, otherwise they won't be able to eat and walk around." Ma Hanshan disagreed, he felt that he was a grass people, as long as he hadn't chosen a side, no matter which faction he was, he wouldn't be able to do anything about himself.

He forgot that although he didn't say out loud that he was standing opposite the Shi Party, buying the Liu family's house was equivalent to standing opposite the Shi Party. Because the Shi faction originally wanted to use this house to force Liu Zhonghong's wife and children to death, and now that he has bought the house, it is equivalent to working against the Shi faction.

Ma Hanshan only thought about buying a house to take advantage of it, but he didn't know that the day after he came to Lin'an, he provoked the traitors and corrupt Confucians of the Shi faction.

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The so-called Lin'an Garden is very large, and the area of this garden is almost one square kilometer in terms of the "modern weights and measures" of the tile pot village.

Seeing the scale of the garden, Ma Hanshan scolded, grandma's, the palace is so big.

In fact, if in his previous life, a private garden or mansion had taken up such a large area, it would have to bring in law enforcement. But in this world, a garden covers an area of hundreds of thousands of square meters, that's really nothing, many royal families, lords' mansions, villas, etc., are very large, and a garden includes a small hill and a few valleys.

However, with such a big garden next to the capital, it is really rich and courageous.

"Mr. Qi, what do you think this place can be used for?" Seeing such a large area, Mahanshan liked it very much.

"Young Master, do you really want to buy it? It's haunted in the house. Qi Nanyue always felt that everything in this garden was gloomy.

"Hehe, what's so scary about ghosts... This place is very good, this is our headquarters in the capital. The tile tank village is the base, and this is the headquarters, hehe, it's really good.

"Young Master... Let's ask for a lot of silver, and we ...... of it. "Ma Hanshan is too good at spending money, and he has spent almost all the money he raised a few years ago.

"Silver? If you don't have it, you can earn it... Ah Niu, contact the owner and find time to talk to him. Ma Hanshan said with a smile, thinking in his heart, the person who can make such a big garden is by no means an ordinary person, you can see it, maybe... This garden can be obtained without spending any money.