Chapter One Thousand and Eighty-Three

Prince Yong Yinzhen, born on October 30, 17th year of Kangxi, is now middle-aged, and he is not particularly keen on the things between the bed, except for when Erfu entered the mansion, he had pulled the tender-faced Erfu to mess around a few times, and he has always been very well-behaved, but just those few times he messed around, but it also made Erfu see a fourth master who was not quite the same as the cold-faced king in history, so she had an inexplicable defense against the fourth master who suddenly blasted the palace maids out of the door in broad daylight.

When Erfu was hesitating whether to refuse, the fourth master pointed behind Erfu and said with a smile: "What are these things, look at the stack of east and west, it has been almost half a year here, I haven't asked you, I happen to be free today, so let's talk about these things with the master!"

When Erfu heard this, she looked back a little confused.

There is a long case of black lacquer between the Luohan bed and the window, originally there was a pair of green jade amphorae on it, and the palace maid changed fresh flower branches from time to time to decorate the room, but because Erfu often asked the grandmother to bring the millet group to come to the room to play, Erfu saw that the millet group often leaned over to grab the flower branches in the vase, she was afraid that the rice group would be greedy for play, break the vase, and hurt herself, so she asked people to remove the vase on the long case, leaving only a bare black lacquer long table there, often put some gadgets to be used.

And the fourth master pointed to the stack of booklets that fell gray on the black lacquer table.

These booklets are stacks of records that are somewhat similar to account books, recording all the properties of the fourth master outside the country, including the land purchased in Beijing and various places. Shops, as well as the other courtyards purchased when driving out on patrol, Erfu let the account manager work for more than 20 days to sort it out, originally thinking about whether it was possible to connect some of the scattered land in the neighborhood into a piece through land replacement, or sell those leased out shops, and choose the right Wang Street downtown to buy a few relatively large shops, and the most important thing is that she also wants to sell those other courtyards that the fourth master may not live in for a few years.

In its modern terms, it is to integrate resources.

Those lands and shops are okay to say, no matter what, more or less, there is a share of income sent to the house, and among the belongings of the fourth master, the most helpless thing for Erfu is those other courtyards scattered all over the place.

These annexes were purchased by the fourth master when he went out on patrol with the holy driver, and more of them were confiscated from the public for official crimes, and they were rewarded from the hands of Emperor Kangxi. The rockery flowing water into the big house, the small one has four squares to live in a small courtyard house of five or six people, if they are all rented out, it is also a lot of income, but I don't know what the reason is, these courtyards are so empty there, the house not only has to pay for additional house repairs, but also to raise those servants who are on errands in the courtyard, clothes all year round, monthly money, daily eating, drinking and chewing, this amount of money is superimposed, it is definitely not a small amount.

In the past, these expenses were all taken from the front yard account room, not through the backyard of the public middle school ledger, Erfu did not know, nor did he care about this matter, nor did he think that there was this kind of pure waste of silver in the house to raise the furnishings outside, she suddenly wanted to check the property in the front yard in various places, the front yard of the account manager is also an upright, a brain, these pure waste of silver as decorations of the other courtyard are reported to Erf's side, her whole person collapsed!

The fourth master is so diligent and thrifty, how can he allow such a loser......

While she counted the properties in various parts of the house, she pondered these long-vacant courtyards, but she had a lot of things to do in her own backyard, and it was difficult to find time to discuss the details with the accounts in the front yard, and she didn't want to let these things be divided into four masters.

Today, it is rare for the fourth master to take the initiative to mention it, and it is a good opportunity to discuss with the fourth master, so ......

Erfu smiled and pointed to one of the stacks, and said softly: "You don't say, in fact, I also want to find a chance to talk to you about these things, this stack of books records your Yongwang Ye in various other courtyards, including Suzhou and Hangzhou alone, there are six other courtyards of your Yongwang Lord, those small, let's not talk about it, just say that the predecessor Suzhou Weaving spent a lot of money to build a landscape garden covering an area of more than 100 acres, which has rockeries piled up with Taihu Lake stones, stone arch bridges carved with white marble, There are also beautiful pavilions and buildings, but do you know how many silver taels are allocated in the mansion every year for repairs, do we have to discuss how to deal with these long-vacant villa manors!"

"This ...... I really haven't paid attention to it!" the fourth master took a copy and flipped through it with some embarrassment, and bowed his head.

This is the legendary low-key show-off, a landscape garden covering an area of more than 100 acres, it will be thrown behind by the fourth master, and sure enough, these royal heirs born with a golden spoon are diligent and thrifty, and they can't do it like ordinary people, Erfu was a little speechless and pointed to a blue number on the booklet, gritted his teeth and said: "The garden I said alone will allocate nearly seven thousand taels of silver every year to maintain and repair." ”

What does seven thousand taels of silver mean......

In this era, those solid families, a dozen or so people, eat, drink and chew a month, and only two taels of silver.

"It costs so much silver, why have I never heard the account room mention it, if the master had known that this garden costs so much silver, when the prince asked him for this garden, the master would have given it to him directly!"

"Hehe......" Regarding the fourth master's reaction, Erfu only had a few wry smiles.

What is the job of the account office of the fourth master's mansion, they are neither responsible for making money nor spending money, they don't even care about the silver, as long as they have Fu Nai's signature and drawing, Or the fourth master's seal is registered and registered, and then it is responsible for copying the gift sheets sent by the guests in the house, one is sent to Fu Nai, as a reference for the gift, one is handed over to Su Peisheng in front of the fourth master, and then Su Peisheng selects and transfers it to the fourth master, and one is sent to the special treasury father-in-law, to put it bluntly, they have no chance to talk to the fourth master face-to-face, where may remind the fourth master that there is such a huge amount of expenses in this house every month.

This is also due to the fact that the fourth master's family background is quite rich, and there are many industries that make money outside, otherwise the fourth master's mansion would have been empty a long time ago!

"These other courtyards, I think there are a few other courtyards that can be used often, and the others should be dealt with earlier!" Fortunately, Erfu didn't expect the fourth master to know about this, otherwise according to the fourth master's temperament, she would have already dealt with these expensive decorations, so she just rolled her eyes, expressing her helplessness, and directly put forward her own idea, selling, selling, and selling again......

The fourth master did not rush to agree, but seriously moved these brochures in front of him, looked through them carefully, and focused on picking out a few copies, and then pushed the rest of the brochures in front of Erfu, nodded heavily and said: "These other courtyards are other courtyards that the master has never been to, and it is estimated that they will not go in the future, and it is a waste to put them there, you arrange for someone to sell them, change the silver, and stay directly in the public middle school in the backyard. After speaking, he didn't forget to pull the pen and ink on the long table, study the ink by himself, lay the paper by himself, write a note, leave a seal at the cashier, and hand it to Su Peisheng to go to the front yard account room to enter the account.

"And what about the rest?" Erph smiled and put these booklets next to him, pointing to the small pile of booklets in front of the fourth master, and asked.

"These ...... They are all inconspicuous small courtyards, the largest is just two courtyards, and they are all in Beijing, the master wants to keep it for rewarding people, you also know that the lord does not like those corrupt officials who are favoritism and malpractice, corrupt officials who bend the law for bribes, these subordinates are all poor officials who live on their money, if they are released as officials, it is okay to live in the front and back, the family is old and young, and there is always a place to live, but like Li Wei, the Beijing official who was called back, he has the dowry house you gave to Yuqing to live, but there are many who have to rent a house to live. When the fourth master heard this, he raised his hand and took these brochures in front of him, and explained with a little embarrassment, after all, he said that his subordinates are all good officials who are honest and honest, and they are very self-selling and boasting!

But Erfu didn't think so, she nodded with admiration on her face, and picked out a few more booklets and put them on the top of the pile of booklets in front of the fourth master, this is a few Sanjin courtyards in Beijing, different from those empty courtyards, they have always been leased out to make money, so the fourth master did not stop Erfu from selling these, and he was even more embarrassed to keep them for reward, because in his opinion, these things in the hands of Erfu are part of the backyard public, that is, the things that belong to Erfu, although he really wants to keep these courtyards, but he is really embarrassed to fight with a woman for things, so...... He could only endure it, but Erfu was not a character who wanted money to death, she just didn't want to look at those empty courtyards and waste money, and she would be happy to give them to those honest and good officials.

The Qing Dynasty officials at all levels are not high, and when the Kangxi Dynasty, there was no such thing as raising incorruptible silver, a seven-grade county is only forty-five taels, and another Lu rice forty-five hundred, if it is placed in the ordinary people's homes, it is definitely a rich life, but a county is not only to support their own family of several people, at least to raise four sedan chair men and a master, a master is enough to share half of the county's annual salary, this has to be said not to look too good, The too well-known master, besides, in the backyard, also have to buy two little maids to do work and run errands, and the study must also be followed by a small servant, here and outside there are more than a dozen people, who can not eat, who can not dress, so Yulu is not enough to spend, which is why the incorruptible official in history Yu Jackie Chan can afford to eat green vegetables and tofu.

Ten years of hard study, once the title of the gold list, in the end is still poor, few people can bear not to be greedy, not everyone has the lofty ambition of prospering the country and the people, not everyone is an official just to be greedy and pervert the law, it is really sometimes helpless and unavoidable, so the house courtyard is given to such a good official who can keep his heart, Erfu is willing, and she is also willing to provide these people with houses and silver, as long as they can always work for the well-being of the people.

As the saying goes: if you are poor, you will be good to others, and if you are rich, you will help the world.

In Erf's opinion, she now belongs to the rich people, and she is still in a high position, in this case, since she has this ability, she must hope to provide some convenience to those good officials who live in poverty, but still insist on working for the people.

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--This is the experience of the fourth master and Erfu who have been together for many years and have explored it little by little.

Thinking of this, he cleared his throat, followed Erfu's words, nodded with a smile: "Ye also wants to stay with you for a while, but there is still a bunch of things waiting for Ye to deal with in the study in the front yard, so I have to wronged you." ”

After speaking, the fourth master showed off the jade pendant hanging on his waist, shook it lightly twice, and walked out.

Seeing his childish behavior, Erfu shook her head half sweetly and half helplessly, but in the end she still sent him to the gate of the courtyard, and watched the figures of him, Su Peisheng and others disappear at the end of the stone road, and then she turned around and went back to the upper room.

Compared with the fourth master, who is busy every day, Erfu is indeed a lot more leisurely, but he also has a lot of business to deal with.

For example, accounting accounts, counting the income of various industries, and checking the homework of the little grids in the backyard.

Because she wanted to take care of the matters related to Wu Yahehe's entry into the mansion, she didn't spare time to walk around the Tingfeng Building for a few days, and it was time to go over and take a look, lest Xiao Qi and Mo Yaqi have the idea of playing around, and it is not good to follow Grandma Sun to learn skills.

The women gathered in Tong Jia's room in the east courtyard were grounded in Wulana Meier, The matter of being lifted from the ban, there are many discussions, but they are all full of joy, the inner courtyard of the fourth master's mansion is a place without secrets, although the fourth master and Erfu discussed to carry Ula Nala Meier Gege to do the matter of Shu Fujin, there are no outsiders around to serve, but they did not hide it from the other women in the backyard, now Ula Nara Meier died by herself, a good hand of cards, she tossed only two or three kittens, these are still women in a Gege position, how can they not be happy!

Although Erfu was a little puzzled, she didn't continue to lose her temper, she was not a cannon that caught fire, she just had a temper, but she was not happy for a while, and she complained bluntly, and it was okay, so at this time, Shilan came forward to help her get up, she was only stunned for a moment, and then she sat up straight happily according to the strength of Shilan's support, and asked at the same time: "What's going on outside, why do you need me to get up so late, the sky is falling?"

"It's Piaoxue Garden's commotion!" Shi Lan replied with a slightly red face when she heard this.