The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 47

Jia Zhen knew Tang Qing'an's plan.

Tang Qing'an made a speech to himself at the beginning, speculating about the future situation and how he would deal with it. Although Jia Zhen still didn't quite believe it, the whole of Northern Liaobei would fall into the hands of the barbarians.

You must know that there are millions of soldiers and civilians in the area, how can they be so unbearable?

But just in case, there are only a few pieces of money left and right.

It's just that this person has a hundred households, and 200 taels of silver can be enough for twenty or thirty households of ordinary people for a year.

He used it generously, and even spent it in a few months.

Although the family spends thousands of taels of silver a year, what is the situation?What is this person like?
"How much do you want?"

"500 taels."

Jia Zhen glared, this kid really dared to open his mouth like a lion.

"I have more than 200 mu of land in Donghai Fort as mortgage, with an annual interest of one cent, and three years to guarantee the repayment." Tang Qing'an said hastily.

"Two hundred acres of land?"

Jia Rong looked at Tang Qing'an in disbelief. This talent has been in Donghai Fort for a long time, and he has acquired two hundred acres of land under his name.

How did he get it?Jia Rong couldn't imagine it.

Jia Zhen dealt with various families, but she knew some secret tricks, and probably guessed how Tang Qing'an got the land.

The left and right are just embezzling military fields, and they are all old calendars.

"Forget about the interest. I will lend you 500 taels of silver. If you do well in Liaodong, you don't have to pay it back. If you don't do well, you don't even want to ask for anything from the house in the future."

Tang Qing'an asked for 500 taels of silver, which was used as the principal, but he didn't want to reveal the inside story to Jia Zhen.

He didn't want to involve the Jia Mansion in the matter of the horse market, because the Jia Mansion was too powerful, and if he brought the Jia Mansion in, he would lose the dominant power.

The Xue family is different, the imperial merchant is also a merchant.

"When are you going to go back? I'll ask Yu Lu to get the money from the account for you."

"Since Mrs. Xue has come to Beijing, I have to say goodbye no matter what. I will return to Liaodong when I see the Xue family."

Jia Zhen wasn't angry, and the Xue family didn't have a family, only orphans and widows were left. On the contrary, she was even more sure that Tang Qing'an knew how to repay her kindness.

"Since that's the case, when you go back, come to the mansion to get the silver. After all, it's not a small amount. You should be careful when you go alone."

After finishing speaking, Jia Zhen took another look at Tang Qing'an, and suddenly had an idea, and asked how old Tang Qing'an was.

Hearing him, I saw that his clothes didn't fit well. After all, he lacked a caring person to take care of him.

After Tang Qing'an left, Jia Zhen went to Rongguo Mansion to meet Jia's mother.

At this time, Mrs. Jia has passed on the lunch, and Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Li, Wang Xifeng and other daughters-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, and all the ladies are here.

Aunt Xue was also called to have dinner together. Together with her daughter, Jia Baoyu was the happiest in the room.

Rongguo Mansion is different from Ningguo Mansion.

Rongguo Mansion attaches great importance to the rules because of Jia Mu's presence. Except for the special circumstances of the New Year, Jia Zhen and other men are more cautious when they can see the women and ladies in the mansion.

So when she heard that Master Zhen from that mansion was coming, Mother Jia asked all the daughters-in-law to go back, leaving only the ladies and Baoyu in the inner room.

"Old lady, how are you these days?"

After Jia Zhen came in, she greeted with a pleasant smile.

"Your daughter-in-law comes to serve me every day, you don't know if I'm good or not." Mother Jia also laughed.

Jia Zhen is not only the head of the family in Ningguo Mansion, but also the patriarch of Jia Mansion, but she is very respectful to Jia's mother in Rongguo Mansion.

He often ordered his daughter-in-law to come to Rongguo Mansion to serve the old lady, so the old lady was also very satisfied with Jia Zhen, and her words were not very formal.

"I'm going to bother the old lady today."

Mother Jia let him sit down first, and then ordered the maids to serve tea to Master Zhen, and Yuanyang, the eldest girl in the room, came to serve the tea in person.

Jia Zhen took the tea and glanced at all the maids in the room. When Jia Mu saw this, her heart became clear.

"My house has taken in a man who works in the Liaodong Army. This man is talented and young. Even my father praised him as a first-class talent..."

Before Jia Zhen finished speaking, Jia's mother had already figured it out, and she was not wrong in her prediction.

"It's rare, it's been so many years." Jia Mu's eyes were slightly red, and the maids beside her were extremely surprised, and hurriedly handed over the silk scarf.

Jia Zhen also lowered her head, feeling silently.

When grandfather was alive back then, the eldest girl in the mansion donated a lot. At that time, Mother Jia was still in charge of the house.

The big girls she brings out are the most intelligent and sensible, so they will pick girls from the old lady's room.

It wasn't until after my father stood in the wrong team that year that the two governments gradually distanced themselves from the military that they stopped this behavior.

"Could it be?"

Mother Jia glanced at Yuanyang, Yuanyang didn't understand what it meant, but felt bad, and waited on the side without changing expression.

Jia Zhen nodded, affirming Jia's mother's guess.

Seeing this, Mother Jia was a little excited and sentimental, and it took a long time before she gradually calmed down.

"How old is that man?"

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"It's true that young people are not good at lust." After Jiamu finished speaking, she looked at the maids in the room and fell on a new girl.

This girl was sent to the house by Nanny Lai to honor her. Although she is young, her demeanor overwhelms all the big maids in her room.

It's just that she's a little younger, and as a dowry girl, I'm afraid she won't be able to serve Madam well.

"Whose family do you plan to marry?"

Mother Jia thought it would be a girl from some other room.

"I have to ask my father about this candidate. This person is not from our mansion, but he is deeply involved in our mansion."

Jia Zhen spit out a name softly.

"Qin Ye's family."

Mother Jia's complexion changed drastically.

"How dare you get involved? Our family has been stable for a few years, and we have forgotten our scars so quickly?"

It is not good for Jia Zhen to say some things in front of the people in Jia Mu's house, especially for her own son, and now they are passed on to others.

It seemed to him that his father's idea was a hot potato, rewarding Tang Qing'an as his wife would solve this problem and win him over.

It's just that the "trouble" has nothing to do with Jia's mansion, so we have to pick a smart girl in the mansion.

Tang Qing'an didn't know that Jia Zhen had the idea on her own head, so after waiting for a day, a clerk from Xue's family came and led him to see Mr. Da Lan.

He has lived in Xue's family for more than ten years, working for Xue's parents' house, especially after the death of Xue's uncle, he became the messenger between Aunt Xue and the shopkeepers.

Tang Qing'an rushed back from Liaodong to meet the shopkeeper of the Xue family. Aunt Xue was a shrewd person, so of course she knew that the matter was serious.

The Xue family is an imperial merchant, helping the royal family to manage the imperial stores everywhere.

The Huangdian was also inherited from the Ming Dynasty by the Dazhou Dynasty. Its specific business was either a tea shop, a tooth shop, a warehouse, or a flower and wine shop where prostitutes lived, and some were used to collect commercial taxes.

The Xue family took over the warehouse, some tea shops and so on.

Huangdians are mainly located in cities and regions with convenient transportation and convenient transportation.

Such as Jiumen, Mingyu, Jiqing Erfang, Rongfu Street, Lugou Bridge in the capital, Zhangjiawan, Hexiwu, Linqing along the canal, and Xuanfu, Datong, Shanhaiguan, Guangning and other important military towns in the north.

About 1 pieces of mink fur, 140 million pieces of various cloth, and about 6000 bales of cotton are sold every year.Among them, about 1 boxes of tea were imported from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, as well as 50 pigs and 30 sheep.

In addition to supplying the royal inner city for enjoyment, the rest are sold, and three to eighty thousand taels of silver are handed over to the inner treasury every year.

Among them, many eunuchs have been raised, and the Xue family can only get one or two of them, not all of them. It is serious to use the power of the imperial shop to do their own business.

For example, Zhang Dehui, the general manager in front of him.

In the original text, Zhang Dehui will collect information and predict the prices of various commodities in the coming year, so as to take the guys to buy and sell, and make profits for the Xue family. .

Later, Xue Pan was beaten because he wanted to do business with him far away, so as to avoid the ridicule of the children of the aristocratic family in Beijing.

That's why Tang Qing'an wanted to cooperate with the Xue family. The Xue family had a royal shop, was in charge of the warehouse, and bought goods everywhere in the name of the royal family. Using this as a cover, the smuggling could go smoothly.

"Long time no see you kid. Goodbye, you are an official. You are really doing well." Zhang Dehui was in his 50s, and he was not polite when speaking angrily.

"Master Hui, you are still so strong."

In the original text, this person is over 60 years old and is still traveling all over the country for the Xue family. Even though he has made a lot of money from it, his loyalty to the Xue family cannot be said to be unreasonable.

"My wife said that you came all the way from Liaodong. You must have something to talk about. Don't be too polite, let's talk about it."

(End of this chapter)