After rebirth, I tortured the scum and strived to become the empress

Chapter 23 The plan failed (please collect it)

As expected, this is an expense record, and he flipped his hands quickly, without blinking his eyes, and looked at the expenses on the ledger one by one.

I saw that the first item of expenditure is:
"To support the poor and orphaned family members, the monthly expenditure is 5 taels of silver.

Next:
The master’s fixed monthly silver: the old lady: 1000 taels; the eldest son: 1000 taels.

Seeing this, Shen Qingjun found it funny. Can Mother Xiao and Xiao Han spend 1000 taels of silver a month?
In the previous life, it cost more than 1000 taels for Xiao's mother to buy jewelry and Xiao Han to treat a guest.

Moreover, what is "subsidizing the poor and lonely elderly in the family"?I'm afraid he is giving money to Emperor Chen Mo!

Shen Qingjun continued to look down, other fixed expenses;
Staff and guest minister: 500 taels, 300 taels, 100 taels...

Bodyguards: 20 taels, 15 taels, [-] taels, [-] taels... Maid woman, servant boy: clothes for four seasons
Just the names and surnames who served them had recorded a full six pages.

Moreover, these expenses only list the payment standards and do not have specific amounts. This is bullying and she doesn’t understand, right?

In particular, the guards of the trilogy looked at only five taels, ten taels a month, and at most no more than 20 taels, which seemed to be not many.

However, since the Xiao family is known as a thousand-year-old family, will they have few bodyguards?
There are also maids, women, and servants, because they are slaves who sell themselves and have no monthly money.
It seems that they only need to prepare four-level clothes for them, but in fact their expenses are not small,
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all covered, and rewards will be given to the hosts during festivals or happy events;
Moreover, slaves who gain face will be rewarded every month. This reward is much higher than monthly money.

For example, her four maids in spring, summer, autumn and winter, she gave more than 20 taels a month.
There are other little maids, even rough ladies, who are also rewarded.

The most important point is that slaves have to pay taxes, and they are heavily taxed. Otherwise, Emperor Shao Wu would have restricted wealthy families from raising slaves.

And the tax needs to be paid by the master's family. After all, the slaves belong to the master's family physically and mentally.

What's more, on the face of Xiao Jiaming, it seems that there are only their mother and son, but in fact there are thousands of maids and servants.
Calculating this, the cost is not small!
Moreover, Xiao's mother is kind, Xiao Han is generous, and the Xiao family is noble. They will never reduce their servants or be harsh on their servants.

Of course, it is very common for a large family to have thousands of bodyguards and tens of thousands of maids and servants.

Because the aristocratic family has a big business and many people are raised, but their industrial land is more,

With only one year's output from their fields, they can be self-sufficient and have a good surplus.

What is abnormal is the Xiao family. Although they have property, they are not self-sufficient at all.
Although the fields are vast, most of them are in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, the staff, guest ministers, bodyguards, maids and servants raised far exceed their status and ability to support.

In my previous life, when I first started to run the family, I was in a hurry and struggled to support myself.
So I tactfully suggested to him whether to reduce the population,
It's a pity that he made a lot of anger, saying that she was incompetent and unbearable as a big wife,

Xiao's mother also accused her of being ignorant. The only reason for the family is to increase the population, and there is no such thing as reducing the population.

The mother and son disagreed life and death. As for how to maintain such a large expenditure, they didn't care.

"This family is entrusted to you, you have to find a way to take care of it yourself," I'm afraid they all thought the same way.

It has to be said that Shen Qingjun guessed accurately the thoughts of the Xiao family's mother and son.

Of course, in addition to this, there are other reasons why the mother and son of the Xiao family are unwilling to reduce the population:

One of them considers himself the "Empress of the Great Chen" and the other the "Prince of the Great Chen".

They already feel aggrieved with only so few people serving them in the Xiao family, how can they reduce the number of people.

Thinking about the previous life, it seems to be the day of serving tea,

The same is true of Xiao's mother, who smiled and handed over the "power of housekeeper" to her new daughter-in-law,
She was so moved that she vowed to take good care of the house,
After all, the phrase "a daughter-in-law who has survived for many years becomes a mother-in-law" is not for nothing.

In Nanchen of the Great Wei Dynasty, how many daughters-in-law had to endure half their lives, and even when their children grew up, they still did not get the power to run the family.

Therefore, I feel that Xiao’s mother is really a rare good mother-in-law in the world. Even after that, she was picky about herself.

They all consciously think of it as her "tempering" her, how many things she has endured, and how many sufferings she has suffered.

I didn’t think much about it in my previous life, and happily took the account book and key.
It wasn't until later that I realized how big the Xiao family's hole was.

It was so big that her dowry could not be filled even if it was filled in, and she was forced to go out to do business in person, which was barely enough.

You know, although the aristocratic family has properties all over the country, the core children of the family are not engaged in such lowly professions as business.

It is usually taken care of by people from the Pangzhi tribe, not to mention that it is unheard of for her mother to end herself as the head of the house.

In fact, she also knew in her previous life that she shouldn't do business in person.

However, the Shen family is already sparsely populated, and there are some distant relatives who are all useless;
What about the Xiao family?There are people in the Xiao family, but given Xiao Han's identity, the Xiao family didn't quietly kill him because he was not weak because of the secret guards around him.
It is even more impossible to send someone to help him.

Sending servants, although business is a cheap business, but the servants are servants, and their status is not enough.

In addition, after their mother and son handed over the house to her, they sent someone to tell her how much money they wanted to spend,
Expenses go up every day, and they don't have that much money without even thinking about them.

But if they want it, she has to have it, otherwise she is incompetent and can't manage the family well.

What's ridiculous is that he was devoting himself to the livelihood of his Xiao family,
In the first place, it became an excuse for him to abolish the empress, but his imperial decree still reads:

"Shen's Qingjun, greedy for money...competing with the people..."

In this life, whoever she loves, anyway, she has nothing to do with it.

Slowly waiting for Shen Qingjun to read the account book, Xiao's mother said:

"How does Qing Jun feel?"

Shen Qingjun put down the account book, "After reading these accounts, my daughter-in-law only feels that the Xiao family has a great business!"

"Then Qingjun, do you want to take care of the Xiao family? I have been in charge of this family alone for too long.

Finally, when Han'er gets married and has a new wife, I won't be that annoying housewife.

Here today, I will hand over the power of the family to you, Qingjun. "

Mother Xiao looked at Shen Qingjun as if I was the kindest mother-in-law in the world.

Then she motioned to Xie Momo who was standing beside her to give Shen Qingjun the key to the warehouse she had prepared earlier.

'Sure enough, people are the most hypocritical creatures, and they like to use high-sounding reasons to cover up their dirty hearts.

The mother and son of the Xiao family are the best among them. '

"You want me to fill your holes and look like I'm doing favors!"

But for today's scene, when Xiao Han was dawdling and wanted to rest in her room yesterday, Shen Qingjun,

She knew it and was ready.

These two mother and son like to use ethics to suppress others. Fortunately, their more than 20 years in the previous life were not in vain.

Know how to fight them,

Seeing her low cough, Madam Wu stood up knowingly.

(End of this chapter)