"I would like...to ask you to join me, help me, and sell tea together with my wife."
Hearing this, Hu Guang fell silent, and Chang Le fell silent as well.
Because they couldn't guess what happened, they didn't know what Qin Wenyuan was thinking.
Hu Guang narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Qin Wenyuan's serious expression, and said calmly: "Boy Qin, are you serious?"
Qin Wenyuan nodded.
"Stop talking about it, are you the only one still doing business?"
Hu Guang smiled faintly, "You can't even pay off your debts, but you still go into business? Don't laugh so hard, I'm afraid you'll lose your pants..."
"Bang!"
Before Hu Guang finished speaking, Qin Wenyuan took out the package of 500 taels of silver that he had just picked up from the Ministry of Industry Yamen this morning and threw it on the table.
The heavy sound immediately made Hu Guang unable to ignore it.
He quickly opened it and saw rows of white silver!
"Hiss! This..." Hu Guang was stunned!
He never imagined that Qin Wenyuan had so much money.
You know, a month ago, if he hadn't happened to meet him, Qin Wenyuan would still be sleeping on the street!
But a month later, I actually had so much money!!
Hu Guang was shocked.
Sure enough, no one in the Qin family is stupid!
He looked at Qin Wenyuan with complicated eyes. To be fair, because his eldest brother was a warrior, he had wanted to train Qin Wenyuan to be a warrior since he was a child.
But there is no way, Qin Wenyuan is too salty!
Although he was a prodigy in martial arts, he spent three days fishing and two days drying nets, and he couldn't calm down at all!
So over time, Hu Guang just left it to himself.
Now times have changed, and I never expected that the direction of growth would be so skewed that I would even start a business!
Hu Guang was very helpless.
You know, in their day, fighting and killing were commonplace.
Therefore, both him and Qin Wenyuan's father looked down upon the businessman, thinking that he was too weak, had a slippery character, and could be broken into pieces if he was pinched.
However, I didn't expect that Qin Wenyuan would now become a businessman, which is really disappointing.
"Uncle Hu, what do you think?"
"Also, your twelve disciples, it's too hard to travel around with you to escort the escorts. Why don't you come with me?"
Qin Wenyuan chuckled lightly, already having Xiao Jiujiu in his heart.
Hu Guang quietly picked up his five taels of silver and snorted coldly: "I can help you, but the wages for me and my apprentice are very high."
"Boy Qin, you have to think carefully!"
"That's natural!" Qin Wenyuan was ecstatic and continued: "Every month, Uncle Hu, you get ten taels of silver, and your apprentices get eight taels of silver! How about that?"
After the words fell, Chang Le was shocked and pale.
"Husband!"
Not only was she shocked, Hu Guang was also frowning.
"Boy Qin, are you sure? This is not low."
"You know, I led my disciples through life and death every month, and at the highest point I only earned one tael of silver."
Qin Wenyuan chuckled lightly and patted the back of his wife's hand, "Uncle Hu, a man's words are hard to follow, I'm sure."
During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, one tael of silver was equivalent to approximately one thousand Wen.
According to records, a bucket of rice (12.5 kilograms) only costs 5 Wen.
In addition, during the Zhenguan period, the salary of even a first-rank official was only eighty-one taels of silver a year.
The second grade is seventy-two taels of silver.
Genuine third grade, sixty-one taels of silver.
By analogy, the annual salary of a ninth-grade official is only fifteen taels of silver.
Remember, it’s all one year!
But now, Qin Wenyuan gave him 11 taels of silver per month.
In other words, even for Hu Guang's apprentice, eight taels of silver per month is higher than the annual salary of a second-grade official!
How can this keep Hu Guang from being surprised!
Qin Wenyuan's move was too generous!
This is not making money, even robbing money is not so fast!!
Changle's heart was bleeding at the moment. She felt that her husband was too wasteful.
Even an elder should not give this kind of price!
My heart hurts so much that I can’t breathe!
Hu Guang nodded and took a deep look at Qin Wenyuan, "Okay, in that case, I'll call them all over later."
"Then, please, Uncle Hu." Qin Wenyuan still had the same calm expression.
Later, the couple kept asking Hu Guang to stay for dinner, but he refused because he said he needed to contact his apprentice.
After he left, Changle, the only miser in the family, was completely furious!
"Husband, you are so squandering, we are going to die of poverty."
Chang Lela crossed her face and counted with her fingers very cutely, "Let me calculate it for you. Uncle Hu's salary is ten taels per month, which is one hundred and twenty taels per year."
"Each of his twelve apprentices is ninety-six taels a year. If there are twelve... my God... I don't dare to continue counting!"
"Husband, we haven't determined whether we can make money yet, but you are so squandering, woo woo woo..."
At the end of the story, Changle almost cried.
Qin Wenyuan was so shocked that he supported the crumbling Changle and explained: "Ahem, Madam, if you can't bear the child, you can't trap the wolf."
"My Uncle Hu and his friends are very capable, and..."
Qin Wenyuan turned toward Chang'an and said meaningfully: "Do you think I gave them this money for free?"
"this……"
Changle was slightly startled, "Could it be that we are in a very difficult situation now?"
Qin Wenyuan nodded, "Yes, according to my investigation, behind [Ruyi] Tea Cake is the Cui family of Qinghe."
"[Fenghua] Tea Cake, behind you is Fan Yanglu."
"[Changfu] Tea Cake, I haven't found out which family it is behind yet, but thinking about it, it's very extraordinary, so it can stand alongside the Five Surnames and Qiwang Family."
"Madam, think about it carefully, why after so many years, there are still only three tea cakes."
Hearing this, Changle raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that they are suppressing us?"
Qin Wenyuan nodded.
Changle said again: "But...but we are not sure whether our tea can make money..."
"can."
Qin Wenyuan replied confidently: "The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and the five surnames and the Seven Watchers have very vicious eyes. They all know the huge profits behind tea cakes."
"So, the three of them do not allow anyone to set foot in this field."
"I'm afraid that other tea cakes that have appeared over the years have basically been suppressed by them, so there are only three old signatures."
The voice fell.
Changle now understood completely.
She learned that her husband was determined to enter the tea field!
That's why you spend a lot of money on military affairs without even making any money!
"That's all, since you understand my husband, I won't say anything more." Chang Le breathed out.
"Yeah." Qin Wenyuan smiled and nodded.
In fact, he had another reason why he had to tie Hu Guang up in Chang'an.
Only Hu Guang can accomplish what he has in mind!
And he believed that as long as he was near Chang'an, Hu Guang would definitely do that on his own.
But he didn't want to tell his wife, Chang Le, about this matter because he was afraid that she would be too worried.