The blessing of the splendid farm family is married to the world

Chapter 196 Gold
"Lord Zong, you are here."

Zong Che came out of the kitchen, wiping with a towel in his hand, obviously doing work in the kitchen just now.

Xia Yunfeng was taken aback for a moment, then walked over familiarly, and said, "I never thought you would cook at home."

The servant who came in Tongbing earlier was already in a hurry, and said, "Master Xia, didn't I tell you to wait in the living room outside?"

Xia Yunfeng asked: "What's the matter, I am a magistrate, and I have to wait to see Zong Dujun?"

He said it in a joking tone, but it can be seen that this person still doesn't accept Zong Che until now.

Zong Che said with a smile: "From the perspective of the official status of the court, we are equal. It's just that it's better to talk about some reason when visiting guests. The family is busy, so if you have anything to do, Master Xia, just talk about it here."

Xia Yunfeng immediately remembered that during the time when the plague closed the city, this kid was domineering, and now he was more polite, and said with a smile: "I'm not here for business? I heard that there is a girl in the flower building who listed tonight, and I received two posts , I don’t know how to send one to you and send it to me.”

An Xu divided the bamboo tube ice that had been frozen into crushed ice into the cups, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but glanced out.

To invite Zong Che to Hualou so openly, why don't you take her as a dish?

Putting down the bamboo tube and spoon, An Xu came out and asked, "What post?"

"——The Zong Dujun may not know it. That girl is the daughter of Qing'er, the chief oiran in the city more than ten years ago. It's really——"

He didn't say anything later, he looked at the woman who suddenly came out of the kitchen, feeling a little disappointed.

Although this lady has not yet reached the age of the yellow-faced women, her temperament is already very similar to those yellow-faced women.

"It's like this. Hualou has always been under the jurisdiction of the government. It is a common practice to send posts to each government office first whenever there is an important event." Xia Yunfeng smiled and said: "I have never seen Mr. Zong go to Hualou. Mrs. Zong is not Do you want to take care of this little thing?"

An Xu asked Zong Che, "Is this a trivial matter?"

No wonder Daming's Yanyue place is so prosperous. It turns out that it is supported by this group of high-ranking men who enjoy themselves.

Lord Xia looked at Zong Dujun, who was also the commander-in-chief of the three armies outside, and said very seriously: "Gambling and whoring are two major cancers. Taking the lead in going to brothels for officials is the worst of all evils."

Lord Xia's eyeballs are about to fall out of his sockets, why is he the chief of all evils?

We just invite you to go shopping in brothels and find beauties to relax and relax.

Zong Che said to An Xu: "I have already issued a death order in the barracks. Once anyone who gambles and whores is found, he will be sent back to his place of origin immediately."

wait wait wait.

Xia Yunfeng hurriedly stopped him and said, "Lord Zong, what are you talking about?"

"This is a major issue that affects the development of Huoliang City, so I have to take care of it." Zong Che said earnestly, "Master Xia is also at this age, it's better to keep healthy."

Xia Yunfeng didn't quite understand what he said until he was sent out?
Isn't it just a brothel?It has nothing to do with development.

He was about to get on the sedan chair and leave, Xia Yunfeng suddenly figured out, what kind of shit is gaining Liangcheng's development, it's actually because the kid surnamed Zong is afraid of his wife.

What a wonderful blessing I don't know how to enjoy, I flicked my sleeves, Xia Yunfeng got into the sedan chair and left.

Zong Che also doesn't quite understand these people who like to go to brothels. Don't these people feel dirty when facing a group of women who are specially trained to flatter men?

When he was younger, Zong Che didn't dislike other women like this. After he fell in love with An Xu, he really didn't even feel like seeing other women.

In short, it is irrelevant, she is fused with her flesh and blood, and everything else is irrelevant.

However, this reminded him of one thing. When Xu'er organized the blind date banquet before, he said that there are not many free women of marriageable age in the city and outside the city. A brothel.

The crushed ice tea was ready, Zong Che only gave An Xu half a cup, and let the rest be served to An Chong and the others.

An Xu looked at the small half cup of tea: "I've been busy for a long time, this is all I have?"

"I have eaten too much cold food today," Zong Che changed the subject, "By the way, Xuer, did you investigate the number of women aged between fifteen and thirty in Huoliang City earlier, let me see."

An Xu mentioned it to him before, but he has been busy with things in the barracks, so he only glanced at it briefly.

An Xu asked: "Why do you remember watching it at this time? The brothel stimulated you."

As she spoke, she walked into the room, took out a folder made of a hard shell that was placed on the bedside desk, and put a warm, explaining embrace on her back.

Zong Che's nose stuck to her neck and sniffed back and forth several times.

An Xu was tickled, and hid to the side, asking, "What are you doing?"

"Let me smell it, does it have the sour smell of vinegar?" Zong Che said with a smile, kissing the back of her neck with his lips lingeringly.

An Xu choked, and said, "I don't like to be jealous. Did you smell it?"

Zong Che hugged her whole in his arms, and his voice was full of laughter: "No, it only smells like milk."

There is no shortage of milk in the prairie, and An Xu drinks milk tea almost every day, but he still blushed when he heard this.

Said that there was something serious to do, although Zong Che was eager to stir, he stopped it in time, lest the fire would become less and more serious, and he would not even think about doing any serious business this afternoon.

He hugged An Xu on the soft couch outside to read the documents she made after she arrived in the grassland. There is a temperature change table, and even a table for how long the kang in my tent can keep warm.

As for the list of married women in the city, it is even more detailed. There are numbers for each age group, and there is a list of married, unmarried, and widowed. At the bottom, there are two pie charts.

How many marriageable women and where they are are all clear at a glance.

Zong Che held An Xu in his arms, and when he saw this women's statistical table, he frowned: "Out of the 3 population in Huoliang City, there are only 1 women, and even fewer of them are married. That is to say, there are many people who are single?"

An Xu nodded, but she didn't ask anyone to check the exact number of people, but it must be quite a lot. In addition to the many troops stationed outside the city, the ratio of men to women here is seriously unbalanced.

Zong Che didn't expect the problem to be so serious, "At first, I wanted to wait until Huoliang City was fully controlled before opening those Hualou gambling houses. Now it seems that we should start with these two places first."

With so many people unable to start a family, how can the population of Huoliang City increase?

This is an important issue concerning the future.

An Xu said: "If you move them, won't it cause some chaos?"

Behind the gambling houses and flower houses are generally people with more background.

"It's okay." Zong Che kissed her on the cheek, "Let's start while we are in Fucheng for a few days."

Then the Hualou street, including Zhenxialou, which was very lively tonight, was besieged by heavy soldiers.

Miss Dandan never expected that an invitation would bring such a catastrophe to Zhenxialou. The old bustard was arrested at that time and sent to the prison together with the men who came to prostitute.

As for those women, they registered with a few women workers who were said to be from the sock factory, and they were handed back the probation deeds they found from the old bustard on the spot, and they were asked to pack up their things and make a living by themselves.

They didn't even arrive the next night, and all 33 Yanyue venues, large and small, on the entire Hualou Street were closed.

Half of the officials and sons of rich families in Huoliang Mansion were in prison. Some people cursed and threatened to sue them, but in the end they had no choice but to take out a sum of money before New Year's Eve, and the family members redeemed them.

It wasn't until the 28th of the twelfth lunar month that An Xu and Zong Che brought An Chong and the three of them back to the barracks from Fucheng.

After arriving at the barracks, the first thing Zong Che did was to inspect the camps, but An Xu's first thing was to open the dozens of small boxes he brought and count the gold.

She now has a deep understanding that when it comes to what makes the most money in the Ming Dynasty, it is undoubtedly to be an official.

It was only a few days ago that they caught the gambling house Hualou. In just a few days, they received a ransom of thousands of taels of gold.

Zong Che decided that it was ten taels of gold to redeem a person, and that kind of pure gold was needed.

Because of the huge amount of ransom, nearly [-] families are still locked in the prison, and there is really no way to raise the money.

An Xu took the trouble to transfer the gold ingots in the box one by one from the small box to the big box in the barracks that was carried by someone.

She was counting when Zong Che went out, and Zong Che came back after turning around. Seeing that his wife was still counting, he couldn't help laughing.

"How many, is the number wrong?" He walked to the side and asked.

"It seems to be right," An Xu rubbed his eyes, counting gold is only bad at all, it's too eye-catching, and she has also become addicted to counting gold, and Zong Che will do the rest.

Zong Che laughed and said, "You also have times when you are such a money fanatic?"

An Xu sat on the soft cushion and leaned against him to watch him count, "I just haven't seen so much gold all at once. By the way, what are you going to use for this gold?"

Zong Che thought for a while and said, "In order to prevent someone from suing the imperial court, half of it will be sent to the capital to honor the emperor, and the remaining half will be used for corvee service after the beginning of spring."

According to the current rules, one must bring his own dry food for conscripts, but the envoy fee will not be too small. The few hundred taels of gold are probably not enough to build a canal that is a hundred miles long.

Moreover, if the canal is built here, it will be unusable for more than half a year in a year, and it will cost a lot of money to maintain the canal.

However, if the official road to the south is directly widened or shortened, it will also cost a lot. What's more, no matter how flat the road is, the fastest horse-drawn carriage can only be [-] miles a day, and it can't transport too many things.

Under the balance of the two, building a canal has the advantage of supplementing the water source here.

Zong Che told An Xu about these considerations. An Xu knew about faster transportation, such as trains, automobiles, and high-speed rails, but she only knew what it was but didn't know why.

Besides, she felt that Zong Che had considered more comprehensively and supported his decisions with both hands.

(End of this chapter)