When Lian Shengfeng and Wei Shi heard that each room was asking for five thousand taels, they were immediately embarrassed.
Webster is in charge of the inner courtyard of this house, and all other house expenses are paid for by her, except for the fixed amount of monthly silver.xdw8
It would be difficult for them to save five thousand taels.
As for her main house, it's better. After all, she has always been in charge of these general affairs, so how can she not have some oil and water on hand.
In addition, she also owns a dowry shop, and has made a lot of money with Lian Fu over the years.
Mrs. Lian personally lit the oil lamp. Seeing that the two of them were silent, she said somewhat displeasedly: "Why, is this so difficult?"
It's so difficult for a large family, especially one like their Lianfu family, to support a family.
Even though he is the number one imperial businessman, he earns a lot of money, but why should he not be filial?
During the holidays, everything needs to be taken care of, not to mention that even in the homes of those people you meet, generous gifts must be given to anyone celebrating a birthday or having a baby.
In recent years, it has been better to have a concubine in the palace. On the surface, it seems that there is no need to take care of so much, but there are more gifts to the palace.
Home, how can it be so good!
"no!"
Lian Shengfeng heard his mother's displeasure and hurriedly lowered his head to deny it.
Webster was a courageous man. Hearing this, he said: "Mom, if it is our big room, it will be fine, but other rooms may be a little difficult."
"Haha, what's the problem? They have lived in the house for these years, and they don't have to worry about food, clothing, and everything else. Now they need some money. Just go ahead and give the order. I want to see who is in trouble. Three
If you don’t take it out during the day, write it down and share it out later.”
Anyway, they are all concubines and concubines. In the past, for the sake of the master, they turned a blind eye and just let it go.
But if the Lian family is in trouble and they are still so reluctant to give up, then don't blame her for giving up on them.
What's the use of keeping such borers?
When Webster heard this, his eyes lit up.
Over the years, she has become extremely tired of those people in her house who eat and drink for free and do nothing to produce. It would be best if she could kick them away because of this.
"yes!"
This heavy rainstorm lasted for a whole day before gradually tapering off. Half of the entire west side of the capital was flooded.
In the capital, everyone looked up at the sky, which was still dark despite the drizzle, and felt increasingly uncertain.
Just as Mrs. Lian had guessed, Qi Lie immediately arranged for people to be relocated after seeing the people affected by the disaster, and went to visit and greet them in person in a wheelchair.
After it rained heavily again on the second day, I learned that in addition to the capital, several surrounding towns had also been affected by the disaster, so I brought up the topic of digging canals again.
It's just that when it was mentioned this time, a solution was provided incidentally. In addition to collecting the missing money from wealthy businessmen, the officials in Beijing also had to make some contributions to the people. As for whether to give more or less, that was their own wish.
While talking about this, I also sent a picture of digging a canal.
He got this picture from Yan Shiqing, but after getting it, he discussed it with Feng Boyi and his staff before finalizing it.
The current emperor of Hongwu Kingdom is Emperor Dexuan. When he saw the fine lines on the layout map, he couldn't help but nodded.
After hearing the origin of the silver, I was even more satisfied, and immediately agreed that the matter could be carried out after the disaster in the capital.
However, he hopes to see results within three days. At that time, the Ministry of Rites will cooperate to register the first two families with the most donations and give them plaques of the Charity House and the House of Charity.
When Qi Lie heard this, he couldn't help but smile and narrowed his eyes.
His father is obviously supporting him. I believe many people will donate more for these two plaques, even if they don't think so.
This move by the imperial court quickly spread throughout the capital.
Mrs. Lian, who originally only wanted to donate 150,000 yuan, suddenly mentioned 200,000 taels.
She believed that as long as there was that plaque, Lian Mansion would be completely on its feet, and no one would dare to do anything behind his back in the future. Even if it was disrespectful, no one would dare to say anything.
But in this case, where did the extra fifty thousand taels come from?
When the bastards in the house learned that they wanted five thousand taels, they didn't say anything, but their faces looked ugly.
What can be given out is already the limit.
As for her own personal money, she only paid tens of thousands taels, and there wasn't much left over. Even if she put all the money in, she would still be short of 20,000 taels.
At this moment, Webster took out his dowry and the 10,000 taels he had earned over the years, and said apologetically: "Mother, this is what I have earned during my dowry and over the years. I believe that with that plaque, our house will
You can go to the next level."
After Mrs. Lian took the money, she sighed softly and said, "If I put all the money together, I'm afraid it won't be enough for 200,000 yuan."
"How much more is left?"
"Ten thousand taels!"
Ten thousand taels, if I hadn't bothered to collect seawater beads from everywhere, I'm afraid it would have been enough.
Seawater beads, yes, there are seawater beads. Others cannot be moved, but seawater beads can.
Isn't the owner of Jishitang busy collecting these? She can sell them to him, even if it's cheaper than when she bought them, it doesn't matter. She needs to raise enough money first.
As far as she knew, two families had already collected 150,000 taels, and she could not take it lightly.
As the number one imperial merchant, their Lianfu didn't care whether they could lose face or not, but the plaque had to be decided.
This is only three days, otherwise they can go to other cities to collect some money and come back.
Two hundred thousand taels really wiped out her entire savings, but it wasn't enough.
I hope I can get a plaque, otherwise Lianfu will be unable to breathe for the next few years.
"You go and call the boss of Jishitang to come over. We have something important to discuss. Forget it, it's better for me to go there in person."
Mrs. Lian couldn't sit still, so she decided to go there in person to show her sincerity.
After all, in order not to attract the attention of the Jiangdong family, the seawater beads she had people collect were all in other cities, but not in this capital city.
She wants to ask people to talk to her now, but it feels like she's just talking nonsense, and people may not be willing to do it.
"Mother, I will accompany you!"
At the Jiang Mansion, Jiang Hongxuan has not been out since the heavy rain. He stayed in the mansion all day long, and he and Chu Ximo were planning on digging canals with Da Chu's map.
After all, he is in business, has been to many places, and knows more details.
Suddenly I heard that the old lady of Lianfu was coming to visit me, which made me a little confused for a moment.
"She came to see me?"
Shouldn't I be looking for a poetic sister?
Chu Ximo knew the news and knew what was going on in the Lian Mansion. He turned his eyes and knew why, and said: "Go and have a look, maybe they will send you sea water beads!"
When Jiang Hongxuan heard what he said, he understood everything after thinking about it, and then a sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
I promised not to do it, but it turned out that I collected it secretly, haha!
The negotiation between Mrs. Lian and Jiang Hongxuan did not go smoothly. Jiang Hongxuan insisted that they did not have seawater beads, and said that seawater beads were cheap, and even if they had them, they would not be worth anything.
When you can't see anything, it costs 10,000 taels, so there's no need to talk about it.