Chapter 248: Going to Ping Official and Commercial
At the small celebration banquet of the Zun family in Ye County that day, Wang Fulin's idea of Luye Book Garden and Xiyuan Yashe did not immediately spread.⊥, but, after he and Cheng Naixuan immediately began to hire a large number of people to repair the Xiyuan and Luye Garden. At the same time, Wang Fulin personally went to Jixi County to pay the summer tax and autumn grain owed by the Hu family before, the matter of Luye Book Garden and Xiyuan Yashe immediately swept away the news that Wang Ruzheng left Huizhou in shame, like a whirlwind, swept across the prefecture and six counties in Huizhou.
After the sacrifice of Hu Zongxian on Hu Zongxian's death day, Wang Ruzheng came to attack, and then the battlefield was transferred to the She County Preparatory Warehouse. Then a verbal battle was launched at the door of Yidian. In the end, Wang Ruzheng was defeated and this series of scenes was overwhelming. But after hearing that the court returned the Hu family's property, many people still believed that Hu Songqi might have any ideas about the two former residences of Hu Zongxian that he had betrayed before. At that time, the charity shop that originally did good things might be a bit flirting. But Wang Fulin did not regard the two gardens as private houses, but used them to commemorate Hu Zongxian, and immediately put Hu Songqi who might have jumped out in an extremely embarrassing situation.
Not only that, when Wang Fulin went to Jixi County to pay the 1,500 taels of silver for summer tax and autumn grain, he also made the news open, intending to inspire the people to go to the county government to seek justice. After all, although the Hu family did not pay the more than 800 acres of summer tax and autumn grain, the money was sent to others. It is said that Jixi County Government suddenly did not know how many people flocked to the door. Jixi County Magistrate Shu Bangru was said to be almost collapsed. Most people did not know that Wang Ruzheng was urging him behind the scenes. Otherwise, this magistrate Jixi County, who was against the people under the rule, would not have thought of becoming the parent-official officer again.
But now the newly hired master Cheng Wenlie ran away without a trace. Shubangru could not make a name for himself. He had to go on the fight against these people himself. The cover of the former two county magistrates who kept protecting the Hu family was lifted, involving many clerks and servants in Jixi County. If Shubangru had strong courage enough, of course, he could use a similar method as Ye Dapao to dispose of these people and replace them with his confidants. But the problem is that Ye Dapao could at least win the side of the Junping Sect, and the surrender of the veteran household house Liu Hui, but everyone knows that Jixi County magistrate Shubangru is a person disliked by Duan Fuzun. Who would surrender to him, and where would he get his confidant?
"It is difficult to be a county lord, especially if you will face the problem of collecting autumn grain in the future. The Shuxian Zun may be able to deeply understand it immediately."
This is what Wang Fulin said to Cheng Naixuan when he swaggered from Jixi. He Xinyin kept his word and pulled Shen Mingchen and Mao Kun to the old house of Hu family in Longchuan Village. Hu Songqi, who was about to repent, finally had to stop and accept that even if Xiyuan and Luyeyuan were returned, they would no longer belong to his own reality. He had no choice but to accept that his family had no money and no one. The most terrible thing was that his reputation has fallen to the bottom now. How dare he take the blame for the world and fight? Even Xiaobei, who was vaguely acquainted, he was no longer in the mood to pursue it. He just hoped that the court could rehabilitate Hu Zongxian faster.
It is best to let him enjoy his grace or hereditary!
This was Hu Songqi's idea, and Wang Fulin didn't care at all. At this moment, he was taking the craftsman who was best at repairing garden houses recommended to him by Mr. Xu. He walked all the way through the West Garden to discuss how to repair the old man as before. The craftsman was named Wu Sanqi. Sanqi was the nickname that people later added to him. First, he had a strange memory. The garden he built ten years ago could still clearly know every pattern. Second, he had a strange craft, especially the design and stonemason craftsmanship. No matter how he dared to say the second, no one dared to say the first; as for the third, he had a strange temper. No matter what kind of gentry and civil servants were, he would never accept any work he didn't like.
Because the group of craftsmen under him are the best in Huizhou City and the wages are fair, many people are polite to him. Although those who were rejected have no face, they can only find others.
As for Wang Fulin's business, Wu Sanqi not only agreed without asking how to repair it, but also refused to other families. In his words, even if Hu Butang had a bit of a corruption or something back then, his merit was greater than his fault, so he would not end like that. Now the West Garden Yashe needs to be repaired for others to visit and pay tribute to me. He would take such a job without any money. Moreover, he proudly stated that he was the one who secretly repaired the West Garden and the Green Field Garden from the hands of several investors including the Xu family.
"Repair the old as before, try to restore the original appearance of Xiyuan and Luye Garden... Little official, I really believe now. You are not for yourself, but for Mr. Hu, and for us Huizhou people, so I have eaten these two gardens!" Wu Sanqi said while rubbing a towering tree, then turned around and smiled, "These two gardens cost more than 1,500 taels of silver, but they were all small repairs at the beginning. After so many years of waste, they had to be able to live in people. At least thousands or tens of thousands of silver were invested."
"I also know that I can't afford that much money right now, so what I mean is to repair and open up in different parts." Wang Fulin bluntly expressed his financial situation, and then said, "And, please trouble Master Wu to renovate two yards for me first. Mr. Shen, the former Mubin and Mr. Hu, wanted to live in the old place for a few days."
Wu Sanqi naturally agreed to this. When Wang Fulin left, he stood in the empty West Garden under the cold winter, suddenly rolled up his sleeves, raised his solid arms and waved them hard.
Hubutang, let me let your former residence shine again!
Wang Fulin did have a lot of things to be busy with and promised the grain merchants to count the amount of grain collection. The price of the 10,000 shi of grain he sold to Hangzhou was as high as 120 shi of rice. According to the usual ratio of silver to money, rather than the ratio of tax collection, the selling price was as high as one stone of rice and more than one tael of rice! Now, it is said that the rice price there has fallen back to eighty shi and one third of the price.
Although the price he collected grain for those grain merchants now is to use his own profit to subsidize others, and the price he collected is much higher than the price he sells on the market, in his opinion, this is not just a thousand gold to buy horse bones, further consolidating the grain merchants' cohesion with the rice industry union. Moreover, the autumn grain collection is imminent, and a large amount of grain will be launched. After the grain is collected, the Xiuning grain merchants will also unanimously pass it. He will be the representative of the unified operation of the foreign market. Although Huizhou is not a grain-producing area or a major grain consumption area, as a whole, Wang Fulin naturally pays great attention to this right of voice.
More importantly, he can control the price of grain collected this year to a certain extent, so as not to hurt farmers due to low grain.
"I finally made nearly seven or eight thousand taels of silver, and this one was poured out three thousand!" Cheng Naixuan now turned into a second-rate miser, and was very excited when he made a payment. But when he heard that he was going to take out money from his pocket, he immediately looked sad. Although the rice coupons were issued for two more periods and there was no shortage of money on the books, he was still a little scared when he saw Wang Fulin's spending money was like water.
"If you save too much money, you can't be buried under the ground, and you can't make money like planting trees. Only by spending it can you make money and benefit from it." Wang Fulin sarcastically sarcastically said to this guy, and then said with a smile. "Don't worry, you won't lose the betrothal gift you will marry the eldest lady of the Xu family at that time."
When talking about his fiancée, Cheng Naixuan was speechless. You know, when he went to Xucun Yue's house last time, his future mother-in-law congratulated him on his first exam, but his future brother-in-law sneered at his slap in the end of the list, obviously very dissatisfied with his messy tossing about him in the past. He was a juren, but he was just a scholar, so he could only swallow his anger. But no matter who he was, he had a high evaluation of his relationship with Wang Xiaoshao. Now he is one of the young business heroes in She County and even Huizhou, and he is the second youngest.
"For this year's autumn grain, that old man Wang really won't make any trouble again?"
"This time on Hubutang's death day, you see, he just sent a grandson to show off his usual manners and did not jump out and jump around. Moreover, Wang Ruzheng's embarrassment, Shu Bangru's dilemma, and the troubles that had happened in the previous year's exams, if he didn't remember these lessons, he would have lived in vain at such an old age. We seek stability in this autumn grain, which is what Duan Mansion and Ye County Zun and even most people want to see. Whoever destroys it will be the public enemy."
This time, he collected six or seven thousand stones of grain from Xiuning grain merchants. When he learned that Wang Ruzheng had taken the initiative to go, so as not to be dismissed, Wang Fulin was so at ease that he stored the grain in the reserve warehouse in She County. He then threw the next grain collection matter to Ye Qinglong, and Yu Wen, the young man who drove an inn at home who came to his house, moved to the West Garden where two courtyards had been packed out with peace of mind. Shen Mingchen and Mao Kun were both people with families, students and their own living circles, so the year was approaching. Although they returned to their old places, they finally lived for less than ten days and left.
Needless to say, Wang Fulin left an extremely deep impression on them. Even if he didn't know that one of the real promoters of Hu Zongxian's death date was this little scholar, and what they had was enough to surprise and talk about it. Although they were not people in court, they were not just talking about it. Therefore, He Xinyin, who left at the same time in name, and then sneaked back to the West Garden quietly, was actually a joke.
"In the future, the people who push your reputation to Jiangnan and even Huguang, Fujian will have to rely on them."
While joking, He Xinyin hit Wang Fulin's thigh steadily and ruthlessly, and the smile on his face disappeared: "If you want to avoid being attacked in the future, you have to suffer a little now. You must know that no matter how rich and powerful you are, it is a taboo to hire hundreds or eighty guards, even if you become a cabinet master, the same is true for all the officials. Therefore, what I admire most in my life is Yangming Gong. Although it cannot be said that it has never been before or after the past, it has already shook the past and the present. If you are in martial arts, you can do everything to pull the bow, archery, and fencing the sword. You have also suppressed the Zhu Chenhao Rebellion, and you are really a role model for us!"
Wang Fulin had long experienced the simplicity and rudeness from Qi Liang, the riding teacher. Now that he has experienced it again, he heard He Xinyin directly take out Wang Shouren to make an analogy, and he felt amused and crying.
How many years has it been before a Mr. Yangming appeared in the world? His academic and martial arts are all shocking. He can't do it. As long as he can walk on both the paths of official and business, he will be satisfied!
Chapter completed!