Originally, Wang Xian had nothing to do during the busy New Year, and his only task was to stay in the study to endorse, but who knew that there would be an almost endless stream of people coming to visit to send New Year gifts...
The first person to come was Wang Gui, his father-in-law. It was partly to see his in-laws, but mainly he came to represent the Fuyang Tea Chamber of Commerce to give Wang Xian some New Year gifts.
At the end of the year, Wang Xingye was even more busy, so he had no choice but to let Wang Xian entertain the marquis, and specially ordered a banquet from Zuiyue Tower to have wine with him.
Hou Yuanwai is now one of the vice-presidents of the Fuyang Tea Chamber of Commerce, but he has also benefited a lot from this. The tea is not worried about sales, and he also has a few good tea gardens. What makes him even more happy is the improvement of his status. It turned out that
The Hou family was just one of the few wealthy families in Fuyang, but now he has become a respectable country squire. Everyone who sees him calls him President Hou. No amount of money can buy that kind of pride.
All of this was brought to him by Wang Xian, not to mention drinking water and remembering the source, in short, he is very grateful, so in addition to the gifts from the Chamber of Commerce, the Hou Yuan also prepared a thick annual gift to thank him...
Although he didn't read what was written on the gift list, Wang Xian knew everything when he saw that he had used twenty men to pick out gifts. His smile became more friendly and his tone became more kind: "It's time for me to go see the old man.
That's right, it's really a sin to let the old man come in person."
"Your Majesty, you are out of touch when you say that," Hou Yuanwai said with a bright smile: "If you go back to the county, you will definitely be shocked. It is better for me to come here."
"Just ask an uncle to come."
"I know you don't want to see them, so how can I bother you during the Chinese New Year?" Hou Yuan said with a smile.
"What the old man said, how can I be so generous?" Wang Xian shook his head and smiled: "The things in the past have long since passed. If we invite them over during the New Year, I will treat them to a drink."
"That's a good relationship. It's true that the adults have a lot of love, but I have a villain's heart." Hou Yuanwai said happily. He knew that this was Wang Xian giving him face.
After drinking, Wang Xian took the waiter to the dock and watched him get on the boat before returning home. He saw that his wife was very happy.
Wang Xian couldn't help but sigh to himself, this is how I see money. However, when he picked up the gift sheet and looked at it, he was really surprised. He saw that the Hou Yuan had given away twenty pairs of chickens, twenty pairs of ducks, one hundred catties of fresh pork, and each of beef and mutton.
Fifty catties, twenty each of anchovies, saury, and yellow croaker, a hundred catties of various miscellaneous fish, and twenty catties each of various vegetables and fruits.
These are almost worth a hundred taels of silver, Lao Hou really spent a lot of money. But compared to the New Year gifts sent by the Tea Chamber of Commerce, they pale into insignificance. The number of New Year gifts from the Chamber of Commerce is not large, but everything is valuable... Fifty large prawns
Yes, fifty abalones, twenty pounds of sea cucumbers, ten pairs of shark's fins, five pairs of bear paws, twenty deer tongues, two bags each of hazelnuts, pine, and almonds. In addition, there are also five altars of thirty-year-old daughter Hong
, twenty jars of red wine for my twenty-year-old daughter, and twenty jars of various famous wines
"My good son," I said with a smile from ear to ear: "How come those guys you trained are so... repaying your kindness?"
"Haha, that's what I'm good at..." Wang Xian smiled and then murmured. It couldn't be that simple. As the saying goes, everything happens for a reason. Naturally, they had something to ask for.
Even more exaggeration is yet to come.
The next day, Li Yuanwai, the president of the Silk Industry Chamber of Commerce, and his nephew... the rich and handsome Li Yu and Li Xiucai also came to visit the Wang family. They brought not many new year's gifts, only two cars of high-quality silk, but
The attitude of the uncle and nephew was extremely respectful, and they kept reflecting on themselves throughout the meeting, especially member Li, who scolded himself to death and said that he was obsessed with you and was always against you. Now that I have woken up, I really want to strangle myself to death...
"Let bygones be bygones." Wang Xian, who was previously aloof and aloof, spoke to him in such a humble manner. Wang Xian was really... feeling happy. In addition to being secretly happy, he also made a gesture and said magnanimously: "Leave Fuyang.
Only then did I realize that we are all fellow villagers with broken bones and connected tendons. What’s the point of fighting among ourselves? We should work together to conquer the world and make a name for ourselves in the Ming Dynasty."
"Yes, yes, yes." Li Yuanwai nodded repeatedly and said: "Before, we were really looking at the sky from a well, and there was no other place in our eyes except Fuyang. It was the adults who established the Chamber of Commerce and let us start to look at the world. Only then did we realize that we were really narrow-minded in the future.
Change your past mistakes and change your past mistakes bitterly.”
"Same change, same change"
Wang Xian stayed with them to have a meal. When they were leaving, Mr. Li stuffed an envelope into his sleeve and said, "You must accept it if you are kind to me."
When he returned home and opened the envelope, Wang Xian opened his mouth. It turned out to be 100 acres of paddy fields in Hangzhou, and his name was clearly written on the field deed... Only then did Wang Xian realize that the silk was just a cover, and sending the fields was the real seal.
The cheapest paddy field in Zhejiang is twenty taels of silver, and one hundred acres is two thousand taels. In order to gain his understanding, the Li family really spent a lot of money...
The next day, Wang Gui came again, but he was accompanied by his original employer, now the president of the Fuyang Paper Chamber of Commerce, to give Wang Xian a New Year gift. The paper industry is the pillar industry of Fuyang, and the financial resources of the Chamber of Commerce are not as strong as those of the first two companies.
Even though he has never offended Wang Xian before, he is still generous with his actions.
Obviously knowing that the Silk Industry Chamber of Commerce has delivered all the New Year's goods, they can only put more effort into preparing gifts... One cart each of embroidery, woolen feathers, silk and leather, as well as Duan inkstone, Hui ink, Hu pen, chicken blood stone, Hetian jade and other colors.
Wenwan. Of course, Fuyang Yuanshu Paper is indispensable.
This was a gift for Wang Xian and his son to pay New Year's greetings to their boss's house. The satin and leather sheets were for the boss's female relatives, and the stationery and toys were for the boss's children. The reason why so many were prepared was naturally because there were so many yamen in Hangzhou.
This is really considerate. Last year, Wang Xian followed Weizhi County to Hangzhou to pay New Year's greetings. People knew that they were from Fuyang, so they said: "Fuyang Paper, the number one scholar in Kyoto, and ten pieces of Yuan Shu to pass the Jinshi. When will you help us buy some, so that we can't use it at home?"
The puppy is also lucky?
As a result, Wei Zhixian didn't prepare any gifts at all, so he walked around empty-handed, and everyone laughed at him, which made him very embarrassed. Wang Xian returned to the county and quickly bought five cars, and made a special trip to Hangzhou to settle the matter.
Already.
With these, Mr. Wang Xian and his wife no longer need to prepare gifts for the Chinese New Year, and the Yuan Shu paper they bought last year is not tribute grade for no other reason than that things are rare and valuable. Yuan Shu paper is used for official documents of the imperial court and for imperial examinations.
The tribute grade is for the emperor to use when writing and painting, and the price can be imagined. This time, the Paper Chamber of Commerce spared no expense and specially produced a cart of tribute grade paper for the Wang family, as well as four carts of high-grade paper. Needless to say, its intentions
.I believe that in the hands of Wang Xingye, a gift-giving madman, these treasures will definitely play a powerful role.
After Wang Gui returned to Fuyang, he came back for the third time within two days. This time he represented the Fuyang County Salt Company. At first, Wang Xian obtained permission from Fuyang County's cheap brother Yang Tongzhi to buy silver.
This is actually very ridiculous, because although the imperial court sympathized with the people and stipulated that "in the remote towns of Zhejiang and Zhejiang, where officials and merchants could not do it, they allowed" mountain merchants to pay eight cents of silver for every hundred catties and give them salt in exchange for tickets. Although Fuyang did
It is a mountainous area, but it is only thirty miles away from the provincial capital and connected to the Fuchun River, so it cannot be considered a remote town.
But the bosses of the two Zhejiang Salt Transportation Departments said hello, and Fuyang was included... Unsupervised power will inevitably lead to all kinds of ridiculous things, and there is really no need to make a fuss. Moreover, Wang Xian did not want to make money at the beginning, he just wanted to
Just try to get as much as possible from the cheap guy to relieve my anger.
As soon as the Fuyang County Salt Account was established, the price of salt was immediately reduced by half, and the private salt dealers were immediately helpless. However, the people did get benefits and could eat cheap official salt without worrying about being caught buying private salt.
After the people got benefits, the county and the salt dealers also made a lot of money. In less than a year, the salt company made nearly ten thousand taels of silver. The county took 40% of the money, and the remaining owners shared it. Wang Gui was in it.
I also have a share...
Of course, the annual gifts of Yanhao cannot be compared with those of the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce is a group of dozens or even dozens of merchants, such as preparing gifts for Wang Xian. The Chamber of Commerce will have a showdown. The burden on each family is not too heavy. However, there is only one Yanhao. Sincerely
I tried my best to only take out five hundred taels of silver. Well, this is just what I said. Aunt Wang has already been whetted by the previous few people, so five hundred taels of silver doesn't even feel like much.
However, Yanhao also put a lot of thought into it. They ordered a batch of gold and silver ingots from a gold and silver shop in Hangzhou early. For five hundred taels of silver, they bought a hundred gold and silver ingots, including plum blossom style and crabapple style.
There are those with Ruyi pen ingots and those with eight treasures and couplets. The level of goldsmiths in Hangzhou is no less than that in the capital. They make each zither into a realistic and lifelike shape, which makes people put it down.
The original intention of the store in giving this gift was to let the Wang family use it as lucky money during the Chinese New Year. It would be high-end and classy, giving it a lot of face.
But they overestimated Aunt Wang's generosity. In the end, she only gave two of the hundred New Year's taels to her granddaughter, and the other 98 were sent back to the shop and beaten into gold and silver cakes...
On the other hand, Lu Yuanwai and Zhou Liangshang also came. Naturally, they came on behalf of the county grain company. Although there was only one difference, the county grain company was much stronger than the salt company... Because during the disaster relief,
Thanks to his contribution, the province handed over the task of transporting grain from Huguang to Fuyang County's grain account. In the year of the disaster, the province imported more than two million shi of grain from Huguang, and the grain account's net profit exceeded 200,000 taels.
Although Wang Xian has no shares here, Zhou Liangshang and Lu Yuan are considered his loyal supporters. It is said that when you are in trouble, you should not forget the well digger, and when you get rich, you should not forget the leader. How can you lose to Wang Xian? But they only brought one bag.
When Dongzhu came over, it was only worth a thousand taels of silver... Although it was a lot, it was only a drop in the bucket compared to what they earned.
But Wang Xian invited the two of them to the study to talk. This was a treatment that the previous wave of people could not enjoy. My mother secretly scolded this boy for making friends accidentally and not repenting...