Chapter 70: The Old Lady of the Ruined Hou Mansion (4)
Inside Wenxi Hall
Qiao Mu was listening to the reply from the newly found manager Min Hai who was responsible for the house search. He looked up and saw Wen Qilian and his group of people walking in with anxiety, raising his hand to signal Min Hai to stop:
"When you come, just sit down when you come.
The girls behind him helped bring a few more chairs and gave each of them one. I know you were surprised, but don’t worry first, I have something to do, just listen quietly first."
After saying this, he said, "You continue to talk about how many things you have retrieved from them this time!"
Min Hai immediately understood that this was the old lady asking him to repeat the things copied from the slaves in the mansion in front of these people in the hall.
Hurry up and said:
"Reply to the old lady's words, this search has collected 200,000 taels of silver and 6,000 taels of gold, 21 shops in the capital, two yards in three, eighteen yards in two, 38 yards in five hectares, 16 yards in ten hectares, four 20 hectares of farms, and one 50 hectares of farms.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
In addition, there are eight boxes of jewelry, six boxes of antiques, three boxes of calligraphy and painting, and six items given by the emperor…”
When talking about the gift of the imperial gift, Min Hai couldn't help but lower his voice, because this thing is really a very tricky thing, and it cannot be used and thrown away. You must have something to offer at home. If you lose the gift of the gift of the imperial gift, no matter who is taken away, the master's family will be a serious sin.
Fortunately, it was retrieved this time. If it was not found, and it was not found, or even sold, once it was exposed, it would be a serious crime if it was exposed.
Wen Qilian and the others, who were just wondering what happened, had already opened their mouths in surprise, widened their eyes, and looked disbelief. They couldn't blame them for being so surprised. When they got married, the legitimate son only spent more than 10,000 taels to buy a betrothal gift, and the dozen or so concubines only had about 5,000 taels. Although they each had a lot of private houses in their hands, even the total private houses in Wen Qilian's hand was only 20,000 taels, let alone a shop and a farm, he had no one in his wife's dowry.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
Let’s hear how many houses were searched.
Good guy, it seems that the only ones in the whole mansion are the poorest, and some of the servants below may be richer than them.
After being surprised, they naturally share the same hatred of the enemy.
After all, although those servants are greedy for the money in the public treasury, the money in the public treasury will be distributed to them. No matter how much each person can share, the money in the public treasury can only be divided by everyone if there is a situation. If there is nothing at all, they will be nothing.
"Now, you should understand why I do these things. I don't want to hear you say that these servants must be sold. You can pretend to be deaf and dumb to me, just pretend that nothing has happened. Don't leak the news to me. No one of you can afford the crime of losing the gifts. Fortunately, it's been retrieved.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
Those servants really opened their eyes. It would be fine if they embezzled money, but they even dared to move the gifts from the imperial gifts. The old man saw that their necks were very hard, all of them were iron necks. Butler Min, you will sell all the tied servants later. Those who copied the gifts from the imperial gifts were sold and sold again. The price didn't matter, just clean them up.
In addition, if you are affected, sort out the things you copied in different categories and get a list. I will divide the house in two days, and then I will divide the things I copied this time together."
After all, Qiao Mu was soft-hearted and was unwilling to commit too many killings. If it were a different person, all those who stole the imperial gifts from the family would have to be killed on the spot. Maybe they would have to implicate one family, because if this matter really started, it would be difficult to escape from the crime. To be less expensive, it would be a dereliction of duty, or to be more serious, it would be a great disrespect, and great disrespect is a sin among the unforgivable sins.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
"Yes!" Min Hai responded.
The eight concubines who came from below, Wen Qilian, were all surprised and asked quickly: "Why did my mother suddenly want to split up? But what's wrong with what we are doing?"
"There's nothing wrong. I just think there are too many people in my family, noisy, and there are so many people that need to worry about. Huiwen is all working alone. It's really tiring. Your father should have split the family when he passed away, but because the mansion really had no money to buy a yard for you at that time, now I've copied a lot of yards from these servants, and it's enough to share one for you. Now, when the mansion has a little money to divide the family, you can't wait until the money is used up before you divide it. Do you think that's the case?"
Qiao Mu's words were truly spoken to the hearts of the concubines. They knew that the situation in the mansion was difficult, but they were poor, so they were reluctant to move out. After all, the salary they were officials was not enough, and the officials they were all clean and yamen, and they had no place to be corrupt. In addition, the things in the capital were expensive, so they could only stay at the Marquis' Mansion for a few more years. If possible, they also wanted to get all the betrothal gifts and dowries from their sons and daughters.
But now there is such a large amount of money in the mansion. If they really divide the family, although they don’t get much, they probably still have thousands of taels of silver. In addition, the yard and the fields that may be distributed, they can still live a life of the family, and save a lot of money every time they ask for monthly money.
If you can be the master of your own country, who doesn’t want to be the master? It was impossible to know that the little assets in your hands cannot be the master or the master. If you make the master, you may starve to death? But if you can really get a lot of things and even the yard, then even if the biggest rent problem is solved, how much can you spend on daily food and drink? They don’t have to socialize with other marquises.
No matter which dynasty or dynasty, the housing prices and rents in the capital will not be low. This is also the main reason why they were unwilling to leave the Marquis' Mansion before. After all, there was no mortgage at this time, and a house that could be built with two or three thousand taels. This is still a little remote. If you want to be closer to the place where you are an official, you may not be able to fight without five or six thousand taels. But how many assets can these illegitimate sons have in their hands and sell them all out, and at most they will raise five or six thousand taels. They have bought a house and drink the northwest wind?
The saying "Dabuyi" is applicable to many officials in the capital.
Chapter completed!