I want to be emperor

Chapter 1078 Sun’s Manor

In the summer and May of the 50th year of Chengshun, in the northern suburbs of Xicheng, Songjiang Prefecture, in Sun Manor.

The early morning sunshine has spread all over the land, and the gardeners in the manor are taking advantage of the cool morning period before the strong sun to do pruning work in the garden.

The sprinkler head in the grass rotates rapidly, spraying water mist on the soft grass and some small flowers on the grass. When the water mist is sprinkled into the sky, the sunlight passes through it, glowing with seven colors of light.

In the side building of the manor, the chef is quickly preparing many foods for breakfast, including steamed buns, fried dough sticks, soy milk, porridge and various pastries.

In the main building, two maids were mopping the floor and wiping the table. They opened the large floor-to-ceiling curtains in the living room, allowing the sunlight outside the window to filter in through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, illuminating the entire huge living room on the first floor.

A middle-aged woman wearing silk Hanfu put her hands behind her back and touched here and there from time to time. If she found anything that was not in place, she immediately asked someone to deal with it.

After cleaning up, the middle-aged woman left the main building with several maids.

Afterwards, two young maids wearing silk new Hanfu skirts walked gently up to the second floor carrying warm water bottles, face towels and other toiletries, and then waited slowly in front of the huge master bedroom on the second floor.

In the room at this time, Sun Xu also woke up according to his biological clock. His slight movements after waking up also woke up Sun Mengshi next to him. Although he was getting older, Sun Mengshi, who was still beautiful, opened his eyes in a daze. Open your eyes.

Sun Xu said: "I'll get up first and go to the company later. It's still early, so you can sleep a little longer."

Sun Mengshi listened in a daze, then turned around and fell asleep again.

Sun Xu looked at this scene with a faint smile on his lips. Even though fifteen years had passed between the two of them, and Sun Xu had become rich and powerful during these fifteen years, Sun Xu always felt that the Meng family was My perfect match... Sometimes I even feel that the reason why my life is so smooth is because I married her.

He got up gently, then pulled the drawstring on the bedside. After a while, the door of the room was gently opened. The maid waiting outside the door came in and briefly washed and dressed Sun Xu.

With the growth of wealth in recent years, Sun Xu's life enjoyment has gradually moved closer to that of other rich people. The most obvious feature is that he moved out of the small building where he lived for ten years and then spent more than 70,000 yuan to purchase it. This single-family villa has a total area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters and a construction area of ​​more than 2,000 square meters.

This kind of villa with more than 70,000 Chu Yuan is something ordinary people dare not think of... because even an ordinary three-bedroom house in Songjiang City costs only 700 to 800 Chu Yuan, or around 1,000 Chu Yuan.

The value of this villa can buy at least 70 three-bedroom apartments in ordinary areas in the city...

And don’t look at it, which is only over 10,000 square meters. Calculated, the length and width are just over 100 meters each... Many wealthy people have estates in the countryside that are larger than this.

But... this villa is in Songjiang City, and it is in the northern suburbs of Xicheng with a good environment. This is a traditional upper-class community in Songjiang City, and the housing prices here have always been relatively expensive.

In the countryside, with more than 70,000 Chu yuan, you can build a very large manor covering an area of ​​several thousand acres... But here, you can only buy a villa covering an area of ​​20 acres.

The prices of houses in different places vary greatly. There are very few people who can own such a 20-acre villa in Songjiang City. They are basically millionaires...

For ordinary people, even if the house is given to you for free, you can't afford it... If nothing else, the annual land tax alone costs hundreds of dollars... Ordinary people don't eat or drink, and their annual income is not enough. Pay the land tax on this house.

Not to mention that such a large villa estate also needs maintenance, and the maintenance cost is not low... In addition to the maintenance cost of the house itself, the cost of hiring people is quite a lot.

When Sun Xu lived in an ordinary single-family building before, he only hired four people, a carriage driver and attendant, a cook, and two maids.

But now... more than a dozen people have been invited, including a driver, an attendant, a housekeeper, a cook, two maids, a gardener, and several ordinary maids who do odd jobs. In addition, there are A tutor who is employed permanently but does not live at home.

These people's annual salary alone is more than a thousand yuan.

To be honest, even Sun Xu ten years ago never thought that he could live such a wealthy life... Ten years ago, Sun Xu's income was already quite high, with an annual income of several thousand yuan. A high-income person, but an income of several thousand yuan cannot sustain this kind of life.

And now, just the share of the smokeless gunpowder stabilizer patent collected while lying down is more than 100,000 yuan... and the patent period is as long as fifteen years!

In addition, the artificial raw silk and synthetic plastics developed, produced and sold by his Sun's Material Company are also typical high-tech products, which now bring him almost 100,000 yuan in profit every year.

Moreover, the market for artificial raw silk and synthetic plastics is still gradually developing and expanding.

So even though his Sun's Materials Company is small in scale, with only one or two hundred employees now, it has earned him a lot of money.

With an annual income of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, Sun Xu's disposable assets are much better than those of ordinary millionaires... Many so-called millionaires' net worth is basically reflected in company stocks, houses and other fixed assets that are difficult to realize. However, the assets that can be used on hand are actually far less than that, and even less can be used for daily expenses.

But Sun Xu is different... He earns hundreds of thousands a year. These are disposable assets. If you want to enjoy them, you can spend the money.

Unlike other rich people who want to buy a manor, they have to pledge company stocks... If the turnover is not smooth, sometimes when money is needed, even tens of thousands of dollars will not be available.

And it was the huge and stable annual income that gave Sun Xu the confidence to buy a manor and hire more than a dozen servants...

Of course, he himself doesn't have much need for these so-called enjoyments, but his wife likes them.

Although he didn't say anything clearly, let alone express this need... But after so many years of getting along, it can be felt through some daily chats that his wife is also very envious of those so-called wealthy wives.

Living in an ordinary small single-family building, she is at best a decent wife from a high-income group... But living in a large villa like a manor and enjoying the service of more than a dozen servants is something only wealthy wives can have. Enjoy.

So when his wealth grew rapidly, Sun Xu paid more attention and finally selected this large villa for sale and purchased it.

He still remembers the shock and joy his wife Meng showed after entering the manor...

That’s good!

Under the service of the maid, Sun Xu, who had freshened up and put on professional attire, went downstairs. At this time, the middle-aged housekeeper brought breakfast to the maids and put several letters and newspapers delivered in the morning on the on the desktop.

Sun Xu did not read the newspaper, but picked up one of the letters. After opening it with a paper knife, he took out the letter paper and read it... There were no telephones in the Dachu Empire these days, let alone the Internet. People still need to rely on letters for daily information communication.

Even if a telegram is sent, after the telegram is received by the terminal telegraph office, the telegram will be recorded and put into an envelope, and then delivered through the postal system. The emergence of the telegraph made people's long-distance communication more convenient and more frequent.

Without telegrams, it would take ten and a half days to send a letter. If the letter was sent across provinces or even across the ocean, let alone it. It would be normal for it to take several months to receive the letter.

But with telegrams, people in the Americas can directly send a telegram. After the telegram reaches its destination, it will be formed into a message and then delivered, so this time can be shortened to two or three days.

Of course, telegrams are more expensive. If you are not rich and it is not urgent, then the information will still be transmitted through ordinary letters.

The long-distance delivery of ordinary letters is done by train or ship, which is actually quite fast.

The delivery of letters has become more convenient, and with the help of telegraphs, people in the Chu Empire communicated very frequently by letters. Some people with many relatives, friends or business partners would receive a lot of letters every day... The first time they wake up every day One thing is to read the letter~

Generally speaking, you can directly understand it as the Chu people's version of instant messaging...every day I wake up and check if there is any information...

Of course, some modern people see it in vain. Apart from various spam notifications, no one sends him messages at all...

As a businessman, Sun Xu had been to the Imperial Palace of Jinling City, participated in court meetings, met with decent people, all kinds of messy friends, business partners, and even relatives whom he would never get to know in eight lifetimes.

Naturally, I received more letters.

I read several letters in a row, and they were all ordinary letters with little nutrition.

However, one of the letters made Sun Xu frown slightly. The letter was a telegram sent by his younger brother Sun Yang from Jinling. Sun Yang informed in the telegram that his wife Sun An suffered a brain disease and was urgently sent to the hospital. The situation after treatment was not optimistic.

He could feel the sadness in Sun Yang's telegram...

And what makes him send a special telegram to inform him is that the situation has reached an irreversible point.

This life is unpredictable... Sun Xu has also met Sun An many times. She is a gentle woman who comes from a gentry family, and she is also a new-era woman who has attended a higher girls' school. The two went to college in Sun Yang. We met and fell in love.

After graduating from Shaanxi-Gansu University, Sun Yang took part in the official examination and joined the Ministry of Etiquette. Later, the Sun family formally proposed marriage to the An family, and this marriage was finally achieved.

When Sun Yang and his wife got married, Sun Xu also returned to his hometown with his wife and a pair of children to attend the wedding.

In the following years, although the two brothers and their families lived in Jinling City and their family lived in Songjiang, they would always get together if they had time. Either I come to your place or you come to mine.

I didn't think that Sun An was weak or unlucky before, but I didn't expect to hear such bad news a few years later this year.

He thought for a while, this time he might have to go to Jinling!

After a simple breakfast, he did not go out immediately. Instead, he went upstairs with the telegram from Sun Yang. At this time, his wife Sun Mengshi had already gotten up and was combing her hair under the service of the maid.

Sun Xu handed over the telegram and said at the same time: "The telegram from Jinling said that An's illness is serious!"

Sun Meng was still in a daze at first, squinting and asking the maid to comb her hair. But as soon as she heard this, she suddenly woke up and exclaimed while receiving the telegram: "What's going on? My sister-in-law is like this." He's only thirty, why did he fall ill all of a sudden at such a young age?"

After briefly reading the telegram, Sun Mengshi said: "Such a big thing has happened. We have to go over there. It's not easy for him to handle it alone with a child!"

Sun Xu said: "I'm going to take a look. I'll go to the company to handle the matter later, and then we'll leave at noon!"

Sun Mengshi said: "Well, I'll pack my things right now, and then ask someone to invite my mother to stay for two days and help look after the children!"

The couple's peaceful morning was shattered.

Sun Xu then went out to go to the company. After exiting the gate, Jiao Tiancheng was already waiting at the door with his started vehicle.

Seeing Sun Xu come out, Jiao Tiancheng, who was waiting next to the car, immediately stepped forward, opened the door and let Sun Xu get in. Sun Xu's entourage also got in from the other side.

Jiao Tiancheng then returned to the car, and then drove the Tangshan brand luxury car slowly out of the manor, and finally entered the asphalt road in the community, heading steadily towards Sun's Materials Company.

The car was driving on the main road. There were not many cars on the road at this time, but there were a lot of horse-drawn carriages. After all, this would be the morning rush hour for work, and many people were rushing to go to work.

Although cars are already very popular... but this popularity is still limited to a small area. There are only about ten or twenty thousand cars in Songjiang City, which is not a lot.

Nowadays, the main vehicles driving on the roads in Songjiang City are horse-drawn carriages, and even for many years to come, the horse-drawn carriages in Songjiang City will still maintain a relatively high level.

After all, the current car prices are still too expensive. As a small car, ordinary people cannot afford it or use it. It is exclusive to the rich and powerful.

As an ordinary freight vehicle and public passenger vehicle, the cost of use is also quite expensive, at least it has no obvious advantages over current horse-drawn carriages.

So despite the fact that the current annual output of automobiles in the Dachu Empire exceeds 100,000 a year, this output has only just been reached... and the automobile industry has only been developing for a few years, and it only takes three or four years for automobiles to be mass-produced.

The total production of various ordinary civilian vehicles in the past three or four years is estimated to be only a few hundred thousand.

More than 200,000 vehicles are still too few compared to an empire with a population of more than 700 million and territories all over the world.

However, as long as this development momentum continues, as automobile technology further matures, costs further reduce, and sales prices gradually decrease, automobile production and sales will also increase year by year, and the number of automobiles will also increase rapidly.

And all this requires is time.

(End of this chapter)