Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 334 Zhu's Money Shop
Another two days passed, and it was time for Ming Ren's big ship to arrive in the capital. Fan Ning decided to tidy up his mansion.

During this period of time, he has been living in Zhu Yuanfeng's residence. He is alone, and living in his own empty house is too deserted.

"Officer, didn't the master of the mansion give you the carriage? Why do you still need to take the ox cart?" Seeing Fan Ning standing at the door waiting for the ox cart, the second butler of the Zhu Mansion couldn't help asking a little strangely.

Ever since Fan Zhongyan taught him a lesson, Fan Ning also realized that he was a bit ostentatious. Zhu Yuanfeng was not an official of the imperial court, and no one would point at him when he rode in a gorgeous carriage.

But Fan Ning is different, he is an official of the imperial court, if he is too ostentatious, he will be impeached by the censor, and it will damage his reputation, so it is better to keep a low profile.

Fan Ning said with a chuckle: "Recently, the imperial court has been stricter in investigations. Since we are eating from the imperial court, it is better to keep a low profile."

This Butler Jiang is nice to him, and Fan Ning doesn't want to fool him.

Steward Jiang suddenly realized, shook his head again and said: "Actually, what does it matter, those rich and powerful children don't go in and out by carriage, they are far worse than you."

"The problem is that I'm not a son of a wealthy family."

Fan Ning smiled, remembered something again, and asked, "How is Xiaodong now?"

Xiaodong was his former little maid. He married not long after he went to Kunzhou. He married a small family in the capital who made tofu. Fan Ning wanted to know how she was doing now. After all, she had served him for three years.

"Xiaodong! She is now a mother. She gave birth to a son at the beginning of last year and brought it to everyone to see. The master even named the son. It should be very good. A mother is more expensive than a child. I heard from Xiaodongniang that the family dotes on her very much. of."

Hearing that Xiaodong is doing well, Fan Ning is relieved.

At this moment, an ox cart slowly approached and stopped in front of Fan Ning, only to see that there were four or five people sitting in the ox cart, which made Fan Ning feel a little uncomfortable. The place is different, the ox cart will inevitably take a detour, how long will it take to reach my mansion?

Butler Jiang smiled behind Fan Ning: "Officer, why don't you ride a horse! It's too slow to ride an ox cart."

Riding a horse is fine, Fan Ning nodded, and waved to the ox cart, and the ox cart continued to wobble away.

Not long after, Steward Jiang brought out a horse, and the steward understood Fan Ning's desire not to show off. He didn't choose any of the tall horses in the mansion, and found a very ordinary horse with a strong foot.

Fan Ning looked at this horse. It was short, with mixed coat, big belly and short legs. It was a thousand miles worse than his horse king. It was a bad horse, but he could still ride it in the capital.

Fan Ning got on his horse, and the housekeeper was very good at doing things. He turned around and told a servant: "Follow my lord!"

Fan Ning did not refuse, he really needed a follower to help him watch horses and so on, so he cupped his fists and smiled at the housekeeper, "Thank you very much!"

Fan Ning urged his horse and left Zhu's mansion, heading for the inner city, the servant trotted behind him, this was his professional job, after running for five years, he had already gotten used to it.

Seeing that he was following him well, Fan Ning felt a little curious, so he sped up the horse a little bit, and then turned his head, seeing that the young man was still walking unhurriedly, without being thrown off by the horse at all, Fan Ning slowed down the horse and praised: " Nice run!"

The boy leaned forward and smiled, "I have been with the master for five years. He rides very fast, and we can all keep up. My uncle can ride faster."

Seeing that there were many pedestrians on the road, Fan Ning couldn't ride fast, so he just sped up the horse a little.

Zhu Yuanfeng's mansion was in the northeast of the outer city, and Fan Ning's mansion was in the south of the outer city. Although they were both in the outer city, it was quite a detour to go to the outer city. Quickly turn to the spacious Royal Street. Although there are many people here, the road is spacious and the road is very smooth. It is much more comfortable to ride and run.

The two went south along the Royal Street, and they came to Zhuque Gate not long after. At this time, Fan Ning suddenly saw the Zhu's Money Shop located to the east of the Suzakus. Check it out!"

Fan Ning turned his horse's head and ran towards the money shop in the east. The Zhu's money shop on Yujie Street was the main store. The Zhu family was superstitious about the same surname of Zhuquemen, so they spent a lot of money to buy a piece of land here and built Zhu's money shop. The main store of the money shop is Zhu Yuanfu's property. Zhu Yuanfu told Fan Ning that the twelve money shops in the capital were Zhu Pei's dowry. What happened a few days ago.

The horse was handed over to the boy, and he led it outside. Fan Ning walked into the money shop. Quite a few, most of them are merchants who withdraw and deposit money.

With the development of the commodity economy, money shops appeared in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. At that time, they were called cabinet workshops. It was mainly because it was inconvenient to carry copper coins. The delivery of money for large businesses would be carried out in cabinet workshops. Money shops in the Song Dynasty were also mainly for depositing money and lending money.

Moreover, saving money not only has no interest, but also pays a little storage fee to the money shop, but the storage fee is not much, and the money shop mainly relies on lending to make profits.

Other well-established money shops have been approved by the government and can exchange gold and silver. Zhu’s money shop can exchange gold and silver. Of course, if they exchange according to the official price, everyone will go to exchange silver, and no one will use copper coins.

The official price stipulates that money should be exchanged for one or two taels of silver, but in fact, going to a money shop to exchange for silver requires at least two hundred cash more. It is called a handling fee in name, but in fact it is a silver exchange at a premium, and it will be more expensive if you go to the black market to exchange silver.

The money shop uses the official price to exchange a certain amount of silver from the government, and then converts it to the merchant at a higher price. The difference between the prices is the profit of the money shop.

Therefore, the money shops that can be ranked in the top ten in the capital are profiteering, with deep background, strong capital, and good reputation. Everyone is willing to store their money here, and businessmen are also willing to borrow money from them. Zhu's money shop is among the top ten money shops in Beijing. Ranked fifth, the profit for one year is unimaginable.

The shopkeeper inside knew Fan Ning, and when he saw the uncle coming, he hurried out and invited Fan Ning to the shopkeeper's room for tea.

"Shopkeeper Yang, I'm here to ask something." Fan Ning took a sip of the tea ceremony.

Shopkeeper Yang smiled and said, "The official is here to ask about the half jade pendant!"

Fan Ning gave half of the jade pendant to Ouyang Qian's maid, and asked her to give it to Ouyang Qian. He was still a little worried, after all, he could take away 5000 taels of silver with that half jade pendant, and he was afraid that the maid would be greedy.

Fan Ning lifted his spirits, "Someone came to get the silver?"

Shopkeeper Yang nodded, "I came the day before yesterday, and I personally received it, but the other party only took 300 taels of silver, sir, is that jade pendant okay?"

"There is no problem with the jade pendant, but I want to know who is going to get the silver?"

"It's an eleven or twelve-year-old lady, probably a maid. Her master didn't come in outside. I went out and asked the master. She is a very pretty young woman, about 20 years old, and she is sitting alone in a bullock cart without anyone accompanying her." On, she said it was the jade pei given to her by the officials."

"But there is a red mole between the eyebrows?"

"Exactly!"

Fan Ning felt relieved, it was Ouyang Qian, and Fan Ning couldn't help feeling a little sad. With Ouyang Qian's character, if life was not really difficult, she would not come to get the money.

Of course, Ouyang Xiu would not abuse his daughter, but his wife might not. If Ouyang Qian was wronged, she would not tell her father easily.

Fan Ning sighed secretly in his heart, and he took out the other half of the jade pendant, which contained the 5000 taels of silver that Fan Tiege gave him as a dividend. Go to the jade pendant, a total of 5000 taels of silver, as long as the young woman comes to get the silver, you can give her as much as you want, no one else can."

Although shopkeeper Yang didn't know who the young woman belonged to Mr. Zhun, he was by no means a meddlesome person. He nodded, "Sit down for a moment, I'll deal with it now!"

The money shop has an account book, which is usually indexed by surname. For big customers who have saved more than [-] guan, there is also a special registration card. The shopkeeper Yang quickly found Fan Ning's card.

Fan Ning originally had 2 taels of silver in his savings, but his father Fan Tiezhou took away 1 taels for the wedding, and this time he gave the woman another 1 taels of silver. Fan Ning himself only had 2000 taels of silver left.

Shopkeeper Yang vaguely guessed that this woman must have a special relationship with the uncle-to-be, otherwise she would not be so generous.

But shopkeeper Yang didn't expect that Fan Ning has taken money lightly now. He owns 2 yuan of top-quality Tian Huangshi.

What's more, Mingren and Mingli brothers still have 3% of the gold, which is at least [-] taels of gold, which belongs to Zhu Pei in name, but in fact it belongs to Fanning.

Coupled with the sky-high dowry that the Zhu family will give to Zhu Pei, Fan Ning's actual wealth is unimaginable. 1 taels of silver are hard to reach in a lifetime for ordinary people, but it is really drizzle for Fan Ning.

(End of this chapter)