Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 230
King Zhongshun saw that Shi Zhongkui had a firm attitude, so he was naturally willing to get 1500 catties of eight-treasure wine for nothing.

And if these eight-treasure wines are sent to the south, if they can be sold for a price higher than 20 silver, it means that after being rescued, they will make a fortune, and their mood will instantly improve.

Of course, Shi Zhongkui was not at a loss. It is not so easy to buy a mature farm with ten thousand acres in the capital.

Land is the most stable and most valuable wealth in ancient times.

Food is also a necessity. In addition to being the staple food, the main ingredients of wine making, rice cakes, caramel and other non-staple foods are not worried about being sold.

So the ancients, whether they were officials or ordinary people, bought a house first and land second when they had money.

But the silver can only eat ashes at home, and it can generate a lot of income every year if it is replaced by farmland.

In the future, these good fields alone will be enough to maintain the family inheritance.

Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong were equally happy.

After Shi Zhongkui bought such a large piece of land in the capital, he would naturally try his best to prevent the grassland tribes who were bound to go south this spring, which indirectly protected everyone's wealth in the capital.

Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong even felt that with his ability, it would be a good idea to lead troops into the grassland without being killed by Shi Zhongkui, let alone the grassland tribes.

King Zhongshun was so happy that he quickly called his servant and ordered him to go home to let the chief of the palace, Shi, bring the land deed, and exchanged 1500 catties of eight-treasure wine on the spot.

Shi Zhongkui thought about it and didn't stop it, as long as it wasn't free, the emperor had no right to control this matter.

Besides, I exchanged it with wine, instead of directly taking out 15 or 20 taels of silver, the nature is different.

No matter how jealous the outside world is, they will only be jealous of their ability to brew eight treasure wine, rather than spreading rumors that they have a shady collusion with the clan prince.

Even a discerning person can see that 1500 catties of eight-treasure wine will definitely exceed 20 taels of silver when sold in Jiangnan or Northwest.

This is not to take advantage of King Zhongshun, but to purchase family property at a high price and plan to settle down in the capital for generations.

In the inner house.

Baochai and Yingchun are woken up by Yinger and Hupo, and they are overwhelmed with excitement when they learn that their husband-in-law bought ten thousand mu of fertile land for their family.

This is the same as in modern society, if you buy an entire building and collect rent, even a woman will be crazy about it.

He hurriedly called Xiangling, Pearl and others in to help his sisters dress up.

In the past, it took half an hour to dress up, and it only took half an hour to tidy up.

Baochai and Yingchun each took their own key to the warehouse, and led the people to the warehouse between the back house and the middle courtyard in a hurry.

Seeing that the butler Yu Shun was already waiting outside the warehouse with people, Baochai hurriedly asked, "Is the master still accompanying the prince and the two father-in-laws?"

Yu Shun nodded hurriedly.

After hearing about the establishment of the farm, they were also extremely happy as servants.

Naturally, the [-]-acre farm was handed over to their servants, not to mention getting money from corruption, but just managing at least two or three hundred households, with a population of about one thousand, Yu Shun felt that he had finally made his mark.

Otherwise, if he only manages the front yard of the mansion and more than thirty domestic servants, how can he show his ability as a big housekeeper.

In the future, when I get married, my children can rely on the farm to make a living.

And the twenty soldiers that Shi Zhongkui recruited from Shan Guogong's mansion were even happier.

You don't need to think about it to know that the master's family must allocate 50 acres of farmland to each soldier for farming.

Moreover, the land rent must be [-]% lower than the normal [-]%, or even [-]% lower after meritorious service.

If the main family spends money, supplies food and hires labor, it transforms the ten thousand mu farm into a paddy field for raising rice and fish together.

After the 50 mu of land is cultivated in a year, after paying the rent, the family can leave at least seven or eighty shi, nearly [-] catties of rice and two to three thousand catties of rice flower fish.

At that time, not only will you be able to marry a wife casually, but even if you have three or five children, you can easily support them.

After more than ten or 20 years, my son is also called a soldier of the master family, and can be allocated 50 acres of fertile land to cultivate. Then I will not only be perfect in my life, but also worthy of my ancestors.

With only three or five sons and a dozen grandchildren's credit, when they meet their ancestors down below, they speak with confidence.

Therefore, Shi Zhongkui only exchanged the heirloom farmland for himself, and made his family unite from top to bottom.

Even Ying'er, Hu Po, Xiang Ling and Zhu Zhen now dare to think about having sons for Shi Zhongkui.

Not to mention competing with the heirs of the two wives for this [-]-mu farm, if the master buys other scattered farmlands in the future, his children will have the opportunity to share these farmlands.
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Middle Court, Hanmoxuanli.

After Shi Zhongkui had tea and chatted with King Zhongshun, Dai Quan, and Xia Shouzhong, he saw Yu Shun and Yinger walking in through the back door.

First, she saluted the three of Zhongshun Wang, and then Ying'er walked behind Shi Zhongkui, and whispered in his ear, "Master, Ma'am, someone has already brought out 30 50-jin eight-treasure wine bottles from the storeroom. altar.

It's just that after taking away the 1500 catties of eight-treasure wine, there are only two jars of one hundred catties of medicinal wine used to make mother wine at home. "

Shi Zhongkui nodded humbly, "I will go to the storeroom to put a thousand catties of medicinal wine later, and you tell the two ladies that the spirits used for blending can only be better than the previous ones.

And the conversion ratio has been changed from 1:10 to 1:9. "

Ying'er was immediately unhappy. Previously, 1:10 gave out 100,000 jin, so the extra [-] jin was [-] taels of silver.

But what Shi Zhongkui said, let alone Yinger, even Baochai and Yingchun would not refute it.

Fortunately, when she thought of buying all ten thousand catties of Babao wine, which would cost a million taels of silver, Ying'er's breathing became heavy.

Looking at Shi Zhongkui's gaze is full of affection, wishing to immediately throw himself into his arms and rub his ears and temples together.

"It's the master, Nunu will report to Madam."

Shi Zhongkui glanced sideways at Ying'er, who called herself 'Nu Nu', and immediately saw the love and restlessness in her eyes.

Can't help but chuckle secretly, this woman belongs to the giant dragon, and she feels spring when she hears that her family is going to make a lot of money.

If I let them know, I exchanged tens of thousands of catties of medicinal wine with Chenghuang directly.

After deducting the 8000 catties that have already been used, sold, and prepared to take out, there are still more than [-] catties. I don’t know if Baochai and others will be shocked.

Blinking at Yinger, he waved her to the backyard.

Ying'er bit her lip, bowed her knees and saluted, and finally couldn't hold back a wink before leaving.

Shi Zhongkui, who saw Yinger's expression for the first time, felt itchy in his heart.

Fortunately, Ying'er kept her back to other people, otherwise, when she recovered, she would definitely be embarrassed to see Shi Zhongkui for several days.

However, the desire that flashed in Shi Zhongkui's eyes just now did not escape the eyes of Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong.

These two great eunuchs have served the old and new emperors all their lives, and their eyesight is first-class.

Not to mention that in the palace, there are really not too many concubines, nobles, and court ladies like Yinger just now.

After watching too much, Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong saw the problem at a glance from Yinger's back and her legs that were tightly pressed together when she walked.

Dai Quan laughed and said, "Duke Liu Yuan is a real celebrity."

Shi Zhongkui was taken aback for a moment, and then reacted.

This fucker is saying that he is playing a hooligan.

The celebrity is a good story. In the eyes of the ancients, only scholars with fame and fame are worthy of red sleeves.

Others can describe the same behavior as indecent if they say 'not studying hard and thinking about messy things'.

But Shi Zhongkui couldn't say that Po Dai Quan was laughing at himself.

People boast that they are "celebrities", and if they speak clearly, the only one who loses face will be himself.

I can only smile helplessly.

Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong laughed immediately.

King Zhongshun came to his senses at this time, and couldn't help thinking in his heart, it seems that this world-famous Lord Liu Yuan is not a flawless saint either.

And this, on the contrary, made King Zhongshun feel a lot more relaxed. Since everyone has the problem of widowhood and illness, they will not be so restrained when facing Shi Zhongkui.

After waiting for a stick of incense, the Chang Shi of the palace led the people into Hanmoxuan in a hurry.

After saluting Shi Zhongkui, Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong, the Chang Shi whispered into King Zhongshun's ear, "My lord, it took you seven or eight years to build that farm in Tongzhou, are you really going to sell it to Duke Liu Yuan? "

"What do you know?" King Zhongshun immediately became dissatisfied, and took the box containing the title deed from Chang Shi.

Standing up and smiling, he sent it to Shi Zhongkui, "Boqian, here is the title deed again."

Shi, the head of the palace, couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

My prince actually treated Liu Yuangong so politely, no, this is nothing but flattery.

Then he guessed that there must be something he didn't know, and his attitude towards Shi Zhongkui immediately changed 180 degrees.

Although Wangfu Changshi is a fifth-rank official appointed by the imperial court, and is responsible for monitoring the princes, but the effect depends on who the prince is and how the holy family is.

Like King Zhongshun, Chang Shi is basically his chief steward.

And when necessary, his long history is also used to take the blame.

Therefore, Chang Shi of Zhongshun Prince's Mansion not only had a smile on his face at this moment, but when he saw Shi Zhongkui cast a glance at him, he unconsciously bent down quite a bit.

Only then did Shi Zhongkui take over the wooden box and count it in front of everyone.

Then he handed over the box and the title deed to Yu Shun with satisfaction.

"Take it in the backyard and hand it over to the two wives for safekeeping. When I go to Shuntian Mansion for filing tomorrow, I will ask Shuntian Mansion to issue two land deeds. The [-] mu of fertile land will be divided into two, and each of the two wives will get half of it."

After finishing speaking, Shi Zhongkui pointed to the head of the palace, Shi Dao, "Brother Zun, please follow my housekeeper later to take over 1500 catties of Babao wine.

Tomorrow, I will ask you to work hard again and go to Shuntian Mansion to report this matter. "

The head of the palace, Shi hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted, saying "dare not".

Although he was also a Jinshi, scholars in the world felt a little short in their hearts when they saw Shi Zhongkui, the six-yuan leader.

Moreover, he is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and his grade is indeed the same as that of himself, the chief history of the palace, of the top five grades.

However, it is inevitable for Shi Zhongkui to join the cabinet, and it is also logical for him to concurrently hold the post of six ministers.

And his life is over.

Regardless of the fact that Wangfu Changshi is an official of the fifth rank of the court, and there is a big tree like a vassal king to rely on, it stands to reason that there should be many officials who are willing to be officials even if they break their heads.

But in fact it's the other way around.

Unless King Zhongshun rebelled, and his long history has made great contributions to set things right, otherwise he can only be the chief steward of Prince Zhongshun's mansion in this life, without any hope of promotion.

What's even more unlucky is that according to the rule of "if the king has committed a crime, he will interrogate Chang Shi", if the prince commits a crime, Chang Shi will be the first to be unlucky.

In other words, if you don't report it without telling the truth, everyone will live in peace.

Moreover, Chang Shi does not have any law enforcement powers, so he can only advise.

Over time, only fools reported to the emperor, and the long histories of the palaces naturally became the princes' dogs.

Some people even would rather go to the county prince's mansion to be a professor than to go to the left and right long history that only the prince's mansion is equipped with.

So in the face of Shi Zhongkui who flatters even his own lord, the long history of Zhongshun's palace is respectful.
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After dealing with the farm affairs, King Zhongshun felt that he had a friendship with Shi Zhongkui, and immediately brought the topic to the talisman.

Even one piece of silver is 500 taels as soon as you open your mouth.

In the past, Shi Zhongkui would of course sell it to King Zhongshun who said he wanted ten.

But on the one hand, his mentality has indeed changed, and on the other hand, Shi Zhongkui's limited financial knowledge also made him understand that taking all the money into his own home is never a good thing.

In addition to gold and silver, there are many things that represent wealth.

Smiling, he said to Zhongshun Wangdao, "My lord, I don't have many hobbies. How about borrowing a few famous copybooks from your lord, or the music scores of guqin and flute?"

King Zhongshun felt pain when he heard it. In his opinion, after he sold the Eight Treasures Wine, he would have plenty of money.

Naturally, the calligraphy and paintings of famous artists in my collection are even rarer.

But he also saw from Shi Zhongkui's previous attitude that he didn't buy it with money, but only exchanged wine for the farm, that Shi Zhongkui was taboo to talk about money with others.

It's okay to say he's aloof, and it's okay to say he's hypocritical.

But although money is a good thing, it often means trouble.

The censor doesn't care about exchanging copybooks and playing with each other.

Even they are doing it themselves.

In the end, King Zhongshun could only agree to Shi Zhongkui's request, and then Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong hurriedly stood up and said that they also hid some calligraphy and paintings in their home, but they didn't know the authenticity.

I want to ask Shi Zhongkui to take a look.

Ask people to look at it, of course you have to pay it back.

But it's hard to say when the real product will be delivered.

Moreover, Shi Zhongkui said that it was a copy, and he returned a copy drawn by the artist, and even changed his notes and copied it himself. Everyone tacitly agreed, and the business was done.

This routine has long been no secret in modern society, but in ancient times, it was a secret that only a very few people understood.

After all, even the Imperial Academy has some people who are on a diet, and where there is money left to collect calligraphy and paintings by famous artists, they naturally have no chance to come into contact with such things.

Besides, there is no hard evidence for this kind of thing, and the emperor is not willing to take care of it.

Even, among the tributes he himself receives from the officials below, there are absolutely no shortage of antique calligraphy and paintings.

I am the biggest profiteer, and of course I am even more unwilling to break this rule.

After the business was concluded, Shi Zhongkui personally drew more than a dozen spells in the main hall.

When King Zhongshun, Dai Quan, and Xia Shouzhong saw him draw, golden lights flashed on the talisman paper.

Moreover, the talisman paper, which was just ordinary paper before, was as tenacious as silk after the incantation was drawn, and immediately no longer doubted the authenticity of the talisman.

King Zhongshun held ten evil-breaking and vajra talismans, a little itchy, and a little envious looking at the Shanchuanjingxiu fan that was casually placed on the table.

He smiled and asked Shi Zhongkui, "Bo Qian, why don't you let a kid out and let me have a try?"

"Why not?"

Shi Zhongkui smiled and nodded to Jingxiu's fan, and the fan floated and opened automatically.

I saw two ghost guards holding a ghost with 200 years of cultivation and flying out of the fan.

(End of this chapter)