Before the announcement of the family visit was announced, the trio of Xue Hong, Chen Chen, and Zhu Hui had already begun purchasing large quantities of wood and stone from outside the capital.
Sure enough, within a few days of the title of concubine in Yuanchun, Emperor Longqing's imperial edict came down.
"Anyone in the harem who is concubine or above can go home to visit relatives during the Lantern Festival next year.
But there must be a separate home for relatives in the home that complies with the regulations. Otherwise, the relatives will not be allowed to have relatives."
As soon as this statement came out, it caused a sensation in half of the capital.
At least half of Emperor Longqing's harem were from the noble lineage. After all, his foundation was unstable when he first ascended the throne. There was no other way, so Emperor Longqing chose to sacrifice his sex life to stabilize his throne.
Nowadays, as soon as the imperial edict of visiting relatives comes out, the nobles are the most excited, and everyone is busy buying materials to build a villa for visiting relatives. As long as they have some brains, see the reaction of the queen's family, study, and think about it, they will find this obvious. It’s just a big hole!
Is there any significance in saving this marriage? Will returning to the palace after the marriage will be upgraded, or will it bring benefits to the family?
Isn’t this money spent in vain?
As soon as the royal decree came out, Xue Hong and his trio celebrated that night. Wouldn't this make a huge fortune?
Facts have proved that the three people's ideas were right. On the second day after the imperial edict was released, the price of various building materials in the whole capital skyrocketed!
The stone that originally cost one tael of silver ten square meters has become five taels of silver ten square meters, and it continues to rise.
Xue Hong invested about fifty thousand taels of silver, which is Xue Hong's entire net worth at present.
Chen Chen directly took out five hundred thousand taels of silver.
The most awesome one is Zhu Hui, who shamelessly borrowed 100,000 taels of silver from his uncle and wrote an IOU. He also got 10,000 taels of silver from Queen Yin by rolling around on the floor.
As for why Zhu Hui didn't take money from his own palace? Don't ask, it's just because he set up a good father and squandered all his son's money.
This time, the net profit will more than quadruple! The three of them will definitely make a lot of money.
The trio walked around the capital as usual, and then went straight to Chen Chen's family's property.
I saw all kinds of materials coming in and out, and people coming and going.
Suddenly, conflicts broke out among the people queuing up to buy materials.
"In our family, the concubine Jing wants to use this material for her wedding. Can you tell us whether it is available for sale?"
The shopkeeper of the Chen family gradually apologized: "I'm sorry, this guest, the last stone and wood have been bought, and it will take half a month for the new materials to be shipped in."
Mr. Li Guogong's housekeeper sneered: "Don't talk to me like this! If you delay my wife's wedding, believe it or not, sir, I will demolish your shop!"
Shopkeeper of the Chen family: "I'm really sorry, my guest, but we really can't get the ingredients out of our store!"
The butler of Duke Li Guo looked sharp-tongued, and suddenly the conversation changed: "Why are you so unethical? Sir, I am the steward of Duke Li, so you just let me go all the way in vain?"
The shopkeeper of the Chen family suddenly saw Xue Hong, Chen Chen, and Zhu Hui approaching, and thought to himself: Keep going, our young master is here.
"Isn't it amazing to govern the Duke's Mansion?"
Butler Li Guogong turned around with an arrogant look: "Who is it? Lian Li..."
Before he could say anything, he saw Xue Hong and three others, two wearing python robes made by the Marquis, and one wearing a python robe for a prince, and they were about to kneel down in an instant.
Zhu Hui raised his hand and pointed at the housekeeper's acupuncture point, and the housekeeper's posture was fixed at the moment of bending over.
Zhu Hui took out the gold pocket watch from his pocket, looked at the time, and ordered: "Come two people, beat him for more than an hour, let him breathe, and then throw him to the door of Duke Liguo's Mansion."
"It's really shameless, blackmailing and showing prestige, and it's all on my head.
By the way, let’s send a message to Duke Li Guo’s Mansion. This shop is opened by me, Marquis Bowen and Marquis Ying. If you don’t give an explanation to the three of us... humph, you can figure it out yourself!"
"Ready...to start the fight!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two strong men came over carrying a wooden rafter each.
Chen Chen: "Wait a minute! What if you beat someone to death with this blow? We are honest businesses and never bully others."
The strong man scratched his head: "Then what do you mean, Lord Marquis..."
Chen Chen pointed to the bluestone bricks next to him: "Use this to make it less rough. By the way, remember to wash the floor after you finish."
The three of them walked out of the store. Zhu Hui saw that the people queuing up to buy materials had their eyes on the three of them. They stood up and shouted.
"Who else!!!"
"Is there anyone else making trouble?"
Everyone quickly said they didn't dare.
…
In the Xue Mansion, Mrs. Wang actually came to the door in person.
Why? Borrow money!
In the original work, the reason why Jia's family built a villa for their relatives was not only to empty out the treasury, but also to rely on the millions of family assets that Lin Daiyu brought over to make the family exhausted.
In this life, Lin Ruhai's family is living well. Lin Daiyu is not in hand now, so she can't control Lin Ruhai at all. She asked the door to borrow money, but Lin Ruhai took 30,000 taels to the Jia family for the sake of his wife Jia Min. He also told her that this money should be used to honor Jia Mu and there was no need to pay it back.
But these 30,000 taels of silver are not even enough to buy a provincial villa. How can everyone in the Jia family be satisfied?
In desperation, Mrs. Wang thought of the Xue family who was now the emperor's merchant.
Although the Xue family declined for a few years over the years, it later revived because of Xue Hong. Xue Pan has become more and more capable in the past two years, and he probably saved a lot of family property.
Mrs. Wang also thought of a way to defeat the wolf with nothing! That is to get engaged with the Xue family! Let Baoyu marry Baochai!
Today's Xue family is different from what it used to be. Not to mention the Duke of Wen who has already left the clan, Baochai also has the status of a county prince and enjoys royal treatment.
With this status, Baochai was able to marry into 99% of the families in the capital.
What's more, the wealth accumulated by the Xue family's royal merchants in the past generations is unimaginable by others. If they just take it out casually, it will be enough to help Jia's family build a villa for relatives.
Originally, Baochai was worried that Aunt Xue agreed to Mrs. Wang's offer as soon as Mrs. Wang told her about it.
Unexpectedly, Aunt Xue kept talking about all this and refused to agree to the engagement for Jia Baoyu and Baochai.
Aunt Xue: "Baoyu is naturally an excellent child, but now Baochai, I still want to keep her by my side for two years. Since my sister came today, I also heard about my sister's family, Concubine Lan.
As an aunt, I have the unshirkable responsibility, but now most of the family's assets are used for business with Houjin, and my sister can't contribute much regardless of the family property.
I have simply saved some money over the years, and here is fifty thousand taels of silver. It is a token of my gratitude, not to mention that I will not pay it back. It is all my gratitude to my empress."
Mrs. Wang, who had not achieved her goal, was naturally unwilling to give up. But after all the talk, she probably wouldn't be able to get anything out if she continued to waste it.
Mrs. Wang could only force a smile and walked away with the banknotes.
After Mrs. Wang left, Mrs. Xue took Baochai's hand and said deliberately: "My son, you are not young anymore. It's time to talk about marriage."
Baochai was very shy when he heard this: "Mom... my daughter is still young, and she still wants to serve her for a few years."
Aunt Xue sighed: "Well, dear girl, what kind of husband do you want? Tell your mother, and then she can help you find one!"
Xue Hong's figure quickly appeared in Baochai's mind, with a peach-shaped face and a murmuring expression.
Aunt Xue asked tentatively: "But are you looking for a handsome man with a handsome figure?"
"Or are you looking for a good man who is full of knowledge and has the ambition to help the world?"
"That won't work either... Are you looking for a young talent who will become a marquis or prime minister in the future?"
Baochai listened and suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked up and saw Aunt Xue's playful eyes: "Mom... you..."
Aunt Xue stretched out her hand and held Baochai tightly in her arms: "My dear, how can I not understand your thoughts? You like Hong..."
"mom!"
Baochai's face was so red that it was almost bleeding.
Aunt Xue: "Okay, okay! Mom won't say anything anymore. It's a good idea that wealth should not go to outsiders. People like Hong'er are hard to find in the world, so mom will naturally support you."
"But Mom would like to advise you. I don't know how many people are staring at Hong'er right now. Even His Majesty might want Princess Shang to give him...
Sometimes, you still have to cut through the mess quickly!”
(The author looked at a picture,
Suddenly I feel that all of us writers who write Red Mansions fan fiction should be sentenced to life imprisonment, including me!! Little Baochai is so adorable!! I wonder if the author will have a daughter in the future, and whether she will be as cute!)