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Chapter 236 People are not rich without windfall

Chapter 236 No one can be rich without windfall

Although Lu Zhaoshen's legs and feet were handicapped and his speech was unclear, he still knew in his heart that without Zhang Yuan's help this time, the Lu family in Qingpu would definitely not be able to save the 600 acres of mulberry forest in Sheshan.

The harassment will be dispersed, and the Lu family in Qingpu will never recover from this. But now, the second son Lu Yangfang has been acquitted, and although the land deed to the six hundred acres of mulberry forest has not been recovered, it is obviously impossible for the Dong family to come back to force the mulberry forest. Those

Mulberry forest land deeds can be reported lost to the county chief register, because all forest land deeds in the county are registered in the county household house register. The lost land deeds can be re-issued after being reviewed and secured by the county household house, and the transfer of land deeds except

In addition to having the endorsement of the head of the family and the eldest son, it is also necessary to report to the county household for registration. This is why the Dong family received the land deed brought by Chen Ming, the rebellious slave of the Lu family, but could not seize the mulberry forest based on it.

Using gambling debts to force Lu to hand over Sang Lin——

After this incident, Lu Zhaoshen also knew that his second son Lu Yangfang was a prodigal and could no longer be entrusted with family affairs. He himself was clearly unable to manage the affairs of the family in his current state, so he summoned the family's stewards, servants, and elders early this morning to announce the future.

All major affairs in the family were left to the eldest son Lu Tao, and matters in the house were also decided by the eldest daughter-in-law Zhang Ruoxi. Seeing the arrival of the three Zhang Yuan brothers, Lu Zhaoshen reiterated his words again. Zhang E smiled and said: "Uncle Lu is wise.

Brother-in-law Lu can't be better in charge of the family, and the Qingpu Lu family will prosper, but Brother Yangfang must stay on his own terms in the future, and we can't afford to deal with such a thing a second time."

Lu Yangfang was so ashamed that her body was as thin as a bamboo pole and was about to collapse.

That night, Lu Tao hosted a banquet for the three Zhang Yuan brothers, Yang Shixiang, Hong Daotai and more than 20 Qingpu students at a restaurant not far from his home. He thanked them for their help this time. Yang Shixiang smiled and said: "We are all comrades of Hanshe

, we should unite as one."

Lu Tao didn't know about Hanshe's affairs yet, but after hearing what Yang Shixiang said, he said happily: "I am the vice-president of the Qingpu branch of Hanshe. That's great. If anything happens in the society from now on, I will do my best."

Hong Daotai said: "The current members of the Han Society are all students. By the autumn of next year, there will be many successful candidates. By the spring of the next year, there will definitely be Jinshi. By then, our Han Society will have people in the court.

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Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "If there are many Chinese people in our Hanshe in next year's rural examination, the reputation of the Hanshe will be greatly enhanced, and more people will want to join the Hanshe. The leaders and deputy leaders of each county must be aware of it, be cautious, and try their best to

Avoid being mixed in by petty people, opportunists and treacherous people, and do not blindly pursue growth and cause the Han society to be mixed."

Yang Shixiang nodded and said: "What Brother Jiezi said is absolutely true. It is better to lack than to overdo it. We don't care about the power of many people, but we must have the knowledge to recognize people."

After the night banquet, Zhang Yuan invited Yang Shixiang to discuss matters alone. The bartender poured usne tea for the two of them and then left. Zhang Yuan explained to Yang Shixiang his idea of ​​establishing a Hanshe Bookstore. It would adopt a shareholding system, and the heads of society and the society in each county would be included.

The deputy can buy shares at ten taels of silver per share. Each person can purchase multiple shares. Ten thousand shares are tentatively set, which is ten thousand taels of principal. Yang Shixiang’s bookstore can buy shares at the exchange rate of silver. A contract can be made to clarify the rights and responsibilities of each person.

Dividends will be distributed based on shares for two years, and Hanshe Bookstore will be managed by Yang Shixiang - what do you think of Yang Shixiang?

It was very common after Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty for several people to jointly invest in a bank to open a store, sharing profits and risks. Therefore, Yang Shixiang understood this kind of dividends from shares, but as for him, he actually did not want to work with him.

A partner with others would rather be a chicken head than a cow queen, but he also knew that Zhang Yuan was the first to come to him to discuss the establishment of Hanshe Bookstore, which was a good intention. With Zhang Yuan's current reputation and the financial resources of the Qingpu Lu family, Zhang Yuan

It is not difficult to set up a bookstore. How could his Yang's Bookstore compete with Hanshe Bookstore at that time? Last year, Yang's Bookstore made more than 400 taels of silver. Most of it came from the volume "Selected Commentaries on Zhang Jiezi" compiled by Zhang Yuan.

"One Hundred and Twenty Articles of the Songjiang Period", while in previous years bookstores generally only made one or two hundred taels of profit——

Yang Shixiang has a good business vision. He knows the future of Hanshe Bookstore. The income from Yang's Bookstore's discounted shareholding will definitely be more than it is now. So after thinking about it for a while, he readily agreed that he would take the lead in establishing Hanshe Bookstore together with Xia Yunyi.

, Pan Ruofu and the others negotiated, looking at Huating, the six corporate leaders in Shanghai, and how many shares of silver the corporate vice-presidents were willing to give. Zhang Yuan said that the three brothers of the Zhang family would offer three thousand taels of silver. How much silver can the Yang's bookstore sell? Please have experience tomorrow.

The county housekeeper went to make an estimate——

At the end of the day, Zhang Yuan said goodbye to Yang Shixiang in the restaurant and returned to the Lu Mansion. He thought to himself: "It's time to open those ten wooden boxes of Dong's. I promised to pay 3,000 taels of silver to invest in Hanshe Bookstore.

All this money has to come out of this box."

A few days ago, Lu Dayou and Mu Jingyan sent these ten boxes to Qingpu and handed them over to Zhang Ruoxi. Lu Dayou secretly reported the origin of the boxes to his young mistress Zhang Ruoxi, and Zhang Ruoxi kept the ten boxes in his bedroom for safekeeping.

At this time, hearing that Zhang Yuan wanted to see the boxes, he asked people to move all ten wooden boxes to Zhang Yuan's room——

The small window was quiet, and the stars twinkled in the summer night sky. There were only Zhang Yuan, Lu Tao, Zhang Ruoxi and his wife in the room. Mu Zhenzhen was standing by the door. Zhang Yuan told his brother-in-law Lu Tao and sister Zhang Ruoxi about establishing Hanshe Bookstore. Lu Tao said

: "Well, I'm the vice-president of the Qingpu branch of the Han Society. I'll also contribute a thousand taels of silver."

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "I can only ask my brother-in-law to contribute one thousand taels. If I want to contribute more, I will tentatively decide on a principal bank of 10,000 taels, and leave some shares for other company leaders and vice-presidents to participate."

Zhang Ruoxi said: "If you want to make more money, it's not enough. Is this bookstore sure to make money?"

Zhang Yuandao: "Of course, Hanshe Bookstore will be the largest bookstore in Jiangnan and even the entire Ming Dynasty."

Zhang Yuan has great confidence in this, even more confident than he will pass the provincial examination next year. He is familiar with Ming and Qing dialect novels and is very aware of people's reading interests. If Hanshe Bookstore does not publish a book, it is necessary to publish a book.

big sale--

Zhang Ruoxi looked at her younger brother with a smile. He was confident, calm, and very contagious in his words. She believed that his younger brother could do it, but she said: "Xiaoyuan, you are only seventeen years old, and you are setting up a literary society and a bookstore.

Will it affect my studies?"

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "How dare you neglect your studies? I will leave for Nanjing Imperial College in two days to study hard. Brother Shi Xiang is mainly responsible for these matters. Also, now that the Lu family has no foreign troubles, Shengmei Silk and Cotton Trading Company should hurry up

It’s open.”

When Zhang Ruoxi heard the words "Shengmeihao", she said radiantly: "These days I have paid attention to the specialties from various places in Songjiang, the embroidery from Xiasha Town, the spinning from Jinshanwei, and the dyeing from Zhujing Town and Fengjing Town.

, Sanlintang's woven label cloth, Zhoupu Town is famous for its rice market, famous for its salt industry are Xinchang, Datuan, Batuan, Xingtou and other towns, and other sock shops, shoe shops, dyeing shops, tooth shops, merchants

There are countless others, but most of them are confined to the local area. There is no such thing as a big business like our Shengmei, which has to sail to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Nanjing——"

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Sister is also very ambitious. The Shengmei is not around yet, so why should we say it is unique?"

Zhang Ruoxi said, half ashamed and half annoyed: "Look at it, Xiaoyuan, within three years, Shengmei will be famous in the south of the Yangtze River."

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "I believe it, I believe it. My sister has always been capable. If my brother-in-law has a good wife like my sister, Shengmei Hao will be rich in wealth. I also want to take a share in Shengmei Hao."

Zhang Ruoxi smiled and asked, "How much money can you afford?"

Zhang Yuandao: "How much I can pay out depends on what kind of gift Mr. Dong from Huating has prepared for me——"

Mu Jingyan found an iron drill, pried off the copper locks on the ten wooden boxes, and then left.

Zhang Yuan opened a wooden box. The silver light was dazzling. The box was filled with ingots of fine grained silver. There were five layers of wooden shelves inside. Twenty ingots of silver were stacked on each layer of wooden shelves. They were all twenty-two ingots.

Five layers of silver are two thousand taels. There are six such silver boxes, with a total of twelve thousand taels of silver. Zhang Yuan knew that wealthy gentry households in the late Ming Dynasty liked to hoard gold and silver, and a lot of silver was melted down as soon as it entered these large households.

The large ingots were collected in order to be preserved for future generations and would no longer enter the circulation channels. This caused a shortage of silver in the market and seriously affected the development of the commodity economy. In a hurry, the Huating Dong family was able to collect nearly 15,000 taels of silver to take away.

It can be seen that the Dong family is rich and has a lot of land, shops, and cruise ships. This fifteen thousand taels of silver is probably less than one-tenth of his family property——

There were ten boxes in total. Zhang Yuan opened another one. This time, the golden light was dazzling. It was actually a box full of gold ingots. There were ten taels of gold ingots, and there were eighty ingots, which was one thousand six hundred taels of gold. In the late Ming Dynasty, gold

The silver exchange ratio is about one to eight, so these 1,600 taels of gold are worth 13,000 taels of silver——

Zhang Yuan could not calm down at this time. He held his breath and opened another wooden box. This box was full of jades, all wrapped in thick and soft cotton cloth. Zhang Yuan took out a few pieces and looked at them. A pair of purple jade cups, a pair of jade cups, and a pair of jade cups.

There were a pair of coral vases, a jade flower cup, two jade Buddhas, and many jade articles in the box. Zhang Yuan had no time to look at them one by one, so he asked Mu Zhenzhen to repackage the jade cups and vases he took out.

Returning to the box, he opened the eighth box. This box contained gold items, including a golden flying fish pot, a golden round cup, a golden phoenix flower plate, and other gold utensils. There were also a lot of jewelry, and there were probably more.

Thousand taels of gold——

Ninth, the tenth box is lighter, it should not be gold, silver or jade. Open one and it is full of books. They are all precious ancient books. There are two volumes of the Song version of "Customs" and one volume of the Song version of "Jingde Chuan Lu".

Six volumes, the Song edition of "Qianxu Yanyi" in four volumes, the Song edition of "Spring and Autumn Period" in five volumes...

In addition to the Song version of rare books, there are also many Yuan version books, such as the Yuan version of "The Doctrine of the Doctrine of the Mean", "Zhu Zicheng Shu", etc. In addition, there are also some manuscripts -

Zhang Yuan knew how precious these Song and Yuan editions of books were, especially in later generations, after wars and wars, Song and Yuan editions were as rare as morning stars, and the ones that survived were all single copies, so he must preserve these books and jades for future generations.

In future generations, the inheritance of culture is sometimes more important than life——

The tenth box also contained books and some precious stationery, including Weiyang Palace tile inkstone, Su Dongpo's Tiancheng inkstone, white jade inkstone, etc. There was also a rosewood box. When I opened the lid, I saw a thick stack of land deeds and house deeds.

, after a brief inspection, I found that the land deed for Lu's six hundred acres of mulberry forest was placed on the top floor...

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