Accompanied by Ximen Qing, Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian, Mi Youren, Guo Jing, Liu Wuji, Lin Chong, Zhang Xizai, Hua Manshan and others soon arrived at the wharf where the official ship was moored. At the docks, they met Lin Wancheng and Lu Qian, who had unloaded their cargo and luggage from the ship and loaded them onto the hired carriages and horses.

After leaving the dock, everyone followed the address given by Pan Qiaolian and looked for Pan Xiao'an's Zhuangzi in Haizhou. Zhuangzi is just outside the county seat of Qishan, on the edge of Haizhou Bay, and you can also see Yuzhou Xiandao on the other side of the sea.

Zhuangzi covers an area of about dozens of acres, with a width of more than ten rooms, and there are six entrances and six exits before and after. Although it can't be called a mansion, it still opened the eyes of Wu Haogu, who lived not so spacious in his two lives.

The gate of the Zhuangzi was open to the south, and when you entered, there was a row of bungalows for the guests and servants, most of which were now empty, and then a courtyard full of willow trees. The second entrance is the reception hall, with a small door on each side that leads to the second courtyard. The corridors on both sides of this courtyard were arranged by Pan Qiaolian to Lin Wancheng, Lin Chong, Lu Qian, Zhang Xizai and Hua Manshan. The third entrance is the inner hall, which is used to receive close guests, and there are study rooms and warm pavilions on both sides. The two entrances in the back belong to the inner house, originally one was inhabited by Pan Xiao'an, and the other was inhabited by Pan Qiaolian (Pan Qiaolian was still the first time to come). Now Pan Qiaolian and Xiao Bottler occupy her own entrance, and Wu Haogu, Mi Youren, Guo Jing and Liu Wuji live in the courtyard that originally belonged to Pan Xiao'an.

The last courtyard is a back garden, the area is not small, the rockery pond, the curved bridge pavilion are complete, the pondside is planted with peach, apricot, plum, bamboo, orchid, chrysanthemum, rose, Tumi...... Flower trees of all colors. There is a small building at each corner of the courtyard, both facing the sea, named "Guanhai Pavilion" and "Tingtao Xuan".

In addition to this mansion, tens of thousands of acres of fields and forests around it, as well as a small wharf, all belong to Pan Xiao'an.

Such manors can be said to be everywhere in today's Song Dynasty!

The Song Dynasty did not inhibit land annexation, nor did it prohibit officials from engaging in business and collecting money. Therefore, more than 100 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty became very significant (the high housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion actually reflected the huge gap between the rich and the poor).

After Wu Haogu settled in his bedroom, he came to the living room of the inner hall. A housekeeper of the Pan family's manor is reporting to Pan Qiaolian - that is, to report how much rent can be collected this year and how much the manor will spend.

Pan Qiaolian listened very carefully, so Wu Haogu didn't interrupt, just found a chair to sit and listen.

In fact, the income is not much, more than 10,000 acres of land, the rent is less than 2,000 yuan, and the average acre is only a few dozen coppers.

And the rent received cannot be fully tax-exempt, Pan Xiao'an is just an official from the eighth grade, and he can't cover so much land. Therefore, you have to take out a few hundred taels and hand them over to the imperial court, and among the remaining more than a thousand, you have to take out a few hundred to maintain the manor, and what can be handed over to Pan Daguan is only a thousand yuan.

And the purchase cost of this manor and the surrounding land is more than 30,000 yuan, and such a rate of return is really a bit unworthy......

In fact, for a noble + wealthy businessman like the Pan family, these properties are just assets used to settle idle money.

The butler finished the account, bowed, and turned away.

Wu Haogu smiled and said to Pan Qiaolian: "Eighteen Lang, I didn't expect things to go so smoothly, even Xiaomi worshiped under my door."

It seems that if you go back to Kaifeng Mansion, you can show your strength. ”

Pan Qiaolian pursed her lips and smiled: "Brother Dawu has been showing his strength for a long time, and when he returns to Kaifeng, he should find an official body and become a celebrity." ”

"Be a celebrity?" Wu Haogu stared at Pan Qiaolian for a while, "Do you think I should go to Liaoguo?" ”

Pan Qiaolian nodded, thought about it and said: "Everyone knows that what they are thinking about today day and night is that Pingliao will destroy Xia, and all the ministers and princes in the court and China are also of the same heart as the official family. If you see the map of Yanyun's homeland, you will definitely look at Brother Dawu...... Brother Dawu wants to be an official again, but he will not be a trick official, and he will not be a lucky villain in the future. ”

The "trick" of the sorcerer is the same as that of the kabuki, and the status can be imagined...... It's all about performing arts, not selling yourself!

Although he is also an official and a scholar, he is the least valuable among officials.

Wu Haogu became an official as a painter, or as a celebrity, and his worth was completely different.

Relying on Wu Haogu's character painting skills, he first made paintings to praise the purpose, and then coaxed the official family and the queen mother to be happy and then awarded an official, which is actually a worthless trick official.

However, if Wu Hao Gu first became a celebrity, did not serve as a painting (he could still paint for the official family and the queen mother), and directly awarded the official as a celebrity, although his value was not as good as that of a civil official from the imperial examination, he was much higher than the trick official, and even higher than the middle and lower-level officials who came from Yin Bu.

In the hierarchical officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, the gap between the famous non-commissioned officer and the trick officer is not a little bit...... This kind of gap may not matter in Wu Haogu's opinion, anyway, he will hug Song Huizong's thigh sooner or later (in fact, hugging his thigh is also the difference between Xing Xing and a celebrity), but Pan Qiaolian can't help but care.

This is related to her face in the circle of famous families in Kaifeng Mansion in the future, and it is also related to whether her descendants can smoothly enter the official career.

"It's still eighteen thoughtful," Wu Haogu thought for a while, and also felt that he should fight for the status of a celebrity, "But the matter of entering Liao still needs to be considered in the long run, and there is no time at the moment, so we have to wait for our calligraphy and painting in Kaifeng Mansion to be on the right track."

There is another thing I want to discuss with you, when we go back to Kaifeng Mansion, the family's business will be bigger, and it can't be the same as in the past, there must be a big company. ”

"Company?" Where did Pan Qiaolian hear this word, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

Wu Haogu said: "The public, the wealth of the people, the secretary, the meaning of operation." Accumulating disadvantages and becoming high, merging small and big, merging and becoming public, is called 'company'. This is what Confucius and Zhuangzi said, to the effect that it is to gather the wealth of many people and operate together to generate profits. ”

Pan Qiaolian smiled: "I remember, these are the words in "Datong"...... In fact, there are many businesses in Kaifeng Mansion that have also been opened with the wealth of several families. ”

"Yes, when I go back to Kaifeng, I have to set up a company, and call Mi Xiangyang, Wang Juma, Li Gongmian, Ji Yizhi, and Su Dalang to join the shares."

Pan Qiaolian nodded: "Well, there are also Brother Ximen, Third Brother Guo, and Liu Xiaoyi." ”

"Yes, yes," Wu Haogu said, "and that Hua Manlou, Zhang Xizai, Lin family father and son, and Lu Xiaoyi can also join a small share." In this way, we can combine the wealth of all people, gather the strength of everyone, and do a good job of the company together. ”

The establishment of the company, Wu Haogu has been pondering for a long time.

He is now more or less self-employed, at most a few partners. It's okay to make a few fake paintings to make a good deed, but it's not okay to make a big deal and a big business.

Therefore, it is necessary to organize an efficient business entity, and the kind of business entity that Wu Haogu understands is the company.

In his previous life, he worked for a certain comic company and such a game company for several years, and he knows how a small company works and is formed.

And he also knew that in recent history, there were also some large companies whose business activities included murder and arson, such as the East India Trading Company and the Blackwater Company, and so on.

This shows that the company can not only be used for ordinary business, but also for killing people and setting fire to colonies...... Uh, didn't the descendants of the Jurchen barbarians (referring to the Manchus) also let the British East India Company Asian fleet be beaten?

Perhaps one or a few companies with "extensive business projects" can become a tool to save China Tiantian after more than 20 years.

Anyway, the mercenaries of the East India Company and the Blackwater Company must be much more powerful than the forbidden army in Kaifeng Mansion......