prosperous age

Chapter 130 Chapter 129
After breakfast, Wei Guangde asked someone to clear the table, and Father Wei took him to Zhang's residence.

Wei Guangde was chatting with Zhang Hongfu in a flower hall, while his father went to Zhang Tongzhi's study with his uncle. I don't know what they were talking about, but Wei Guangde also guessed something.

However, during lunch, the adults of the Zhang family, uncles, and fathers were not there, saying that they had gone to the yamen to do business, and Zhang Fugui invited them to have dinner together.

The old man followed him to the commander's yamen, Wei Guangde still knew something about it, today is the day to reward meritorious deeds, presumably the old man's appointment document will be in his hands today.

In the afternoon, after receiving the news from the Commander's Yamen that there was another banquet tonight, Wei Guangde and Zhang Hongfu simply slipped out to have some fun outside.

The ones who are looking for tonight are also a few young masters from the guard, and the people in charge of the family are all attending the banquet in the commander's yamen right now, so nobody cares.

"By the way, what kind of official position is that general?"

Wei Guangde knew the position in the guard, but he really didn't know what kind of official the general was.

"General, those who have the authority to lead the army are about the same level as the commander of the guard."

Someone heard Wei Guangde's words and replied casually, "There are no such officials in the interior, but only in border towns. They are for leading troops to fight."

"What do you mean by that?"

Zhang Hongfu was very curious when he heard Wei Guangde ask about the general.

"I heard from my father that there is a new general in Zhejiang named Yu Dayou, who is only in his 40s."

Wei Guangde replied.

"That's not unusual, it's normal."

Zhang Hongfu laughed casually.

"But he climbed up from a hundred households in his 20s, and he said it was very powerful."

Wei Guangde explained.

"Then this person has an extraordinary background, a hundred households, he was promoted to the first level of commander in 20 years, from the sixth rank to the third rank, transferred from the north?"

Someone asked in surprise.

"do not know."

Wei Guangde shook his head, he really didn't know about Yu Dayou's background, he only knew about this person, and Father Wei didn't elaborate.

"I have been promoted to the sixth level in 20 years, and I have been promoted to the first level in more than three years. There must be someone behind."

Zhang Hongfu said while thinking, "There is no fighting in the south, and it is also in Guizhou, Guangxi. I heard that there are rebellions there from time to time."

Military position, to be honest, if there is no war, it is very difficult to get promoted.

But if there is a war, it also means that there is a risk of losing one's life.

In fact, in the Ming army at this time, except for the frontier army, there was no other way, and the officials in the inland guards were rarely promoted, and most of them were inherited from their fathers, and passed down from generation to generation.

It is possible to be promoted to an official position, but many military officers will try their best to stop the transfer.

To be promoted is to be promoted in this guard, so it is naturally the best.

But once he is transferred to another place to work, no matter how high the rank is, it is very likely that his family will no longer be able to get his hands on that hereditary position.

"Forget it, it's better to guard our own one-acre three-point land, I don't want the old man in the family to be promoted."

Someone said with a sigh at this time.

"That's right, it's pretty good. I hope we don't send our Jiujiang Guards out to fight in the future. Many people died this time."

"They continue to be their officials, we can enjoy life, haha."

"By the way, what kind of business is more profitable now?"

After they started chatting, Wei Guangde suddenly remembered his own business and asked.

"What kind of business? Doing business now, small businesses don't make money, and big businesses need a lot of capital."

Someone next to him answered.

"Do you still have spare money to start a business?"

Zhang Hongfu glanced at Wei Guangde and asked strangely.

In his opinion, shouldn't Wei Guangde at this time use these two years to study hard and prepare for the provincial examination three years later?

In fact, Wei Guangde asked this question because his father said in the morning that he would give him 1 taels of silver. It is impossible for him to be a miser and hide the silver at home.

There are too many financial advertisements in later generations. Even if there were no financial advertisements, he would have a house to rent out.

Because of the influence of future generations, the current Wei Guangde naturally hopes to find a channel so that the money in his hand can make money for him.

However, he has never thought about doing business to make money.

There were a lot of people today, so Wei Guangde just asked casually, although he didn't expect them to give him any enlightenment, but if there is any date, there is a shot, in case there is any business to do.

However, Zhang Hongfu's words made it difficult for Wei Guangde to answer for a while, so he could only perfunctoryly say: "I have a few hundred taels of silver, and I want to start a small business to make money."

"A few hundred taels, it's barely enough to open a cloth store and grain store, but it's hard to say whether it will make money or not. There are no regular customers. Even if you take over someone else's old store, the business may not be very good."

"What kind of business is it? You can buy tens of acres of land for a few hundred taels of silver. Wouldn't it be great to collect rent every year? Anyway, you are also a scholar."

"It's easy to buy land, and you get income every year. If you want to do business, you'd better find a family member to operate it. You are a scholar, so you shouldn't be tainted with money."

Everyone was chattering, and they were surprisingly unanimous about Wei Guangde's desire to invest with money, that is, to buy land and collect rent.

Regarding the matter of buying land, Wei Guangde had long since given up hope.

In fact, two months ago, in the letter that my father wrote back after he learned that he was a scholar, he had already ordered Wei's mother to help Wei Guangde buy a field.

But for the land these years, despite the drought in Jiangxi this year, the land price is still showing signs of rising, which means that there is a price but no market.

People who own land, if they don't need money urgently, who will sell the land.

What's more, in Chinese people's thinking, land is family property, and only prodigal sons will sell property, and only real prodigal sons will have land flow out.

In these years, land is worth much more than real estate.

It is also because of this that the Wei family wanted to buy land for Wei Guangde, but they have not found a seller so far, and it is not suitable.

That's why Wei Guangde thought that if he couldn't buy land, he could do business.

During this period of time in Jiujiang Mansion, he could see the bustling business on the street.

No matter what era, the richest people are always businessmen.

After eating and drinking, everyone dispersed and went home.

Wei Guangde and Zhang Hongfu went along the way, they walked on the road, Zhang Hongfu asked for no reason: "Guangde, if you really have those few hundred taels of silver and want to make some money, you might as well put it away for your mother and son."

"Mother's money? Usury?"

Wei Guangde said in surprise.

"Of course, if we have spare money, we will give it to someone to help release it. The money will be safe soon."

Zhang Hongfu said with a smile: "The small money is handed over to the casino. The gamblers over there don't need much money. They only borrow a few taels or tens of taels of silver. They use houses to pay off debts. There are fewer people with land now.

If you have a lot of money, then find a pawn shop. If you really need it, I will help you find someone for this matter, and I will never let you show up. "

"Are you familiar with this line?"

Wei Guangde asked in surprise.

"My second uncle did this at first, hehe"

Zhang Hongfu said nonchalantly, "Later, as I got to know more people, some businessmen asked him to help with other things."

(End of this chapter)