was imprisoned in the cage of happiness, and it has been half a month in the blink of an eye.

The days fly by, the scorching summer has passed, the autumn breeze is blowing, and inadvertently, it has shrouded Kaifeng City.

Wu Haogu has a lot of things to do recently, and he is also very busy.

First of all, he and Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing formulated the "Martial Family Law" together.

After the enactment of the "Family Law", the inner account room was also established, and the person in charge of the inner account room was Pan Qiaolian herself, although she was a woman from the noble family, but she was also proficient in business, and she was fully qualified to manage the work of the inner account room.

At the same time as the establishment of the internal account office, Pan Qiaolian's dowry of as much as 380,000 yuan and Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing's shares in Christie's (Ximen Qing also has a small number of shares in Christie's Bank) were also injected into it.

From now on, the internal account office of the Wu family (referring to the small family jointly owned by Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing) has become an "investment fund" with huge assets. In the future, all the major investments that Wu Haogu needs to make will be carried out through the internal account office of the Wu family.

The second is that Wu Yanen, the patriarch of the Wu family in Haizhou, met to negotiate the sale and purchase of land. This is not a transaction of hundreds of acres or thousands of acres, but a purchase and sale of 60,000 acres of paddy fields! Moreover, it is located in the territory of Qishan County, Haizhou, and is connected with 60,000 acres of paddy fields.

Because the harvest of paddy fields far exceeds that of dry fields, the price is relatively high, and the price of 60,000 mu of paddy fields is 210,000 yuan, with an average of 335 yuan per mu.

However, this price is actually cheap, if it weren't for the Wu family's urgent need for funds, and there would be too much land to sell at one time, Wu Haogu would be out of five acres of land, and it would be difficult to acquire as many paddy fields as possible.

Such a huge transaction, even the largest Wu family maritime merchant in Haizhou, is a great deal, so it is not surprising that the head of the family personally stepped out.

In the Lihua Courtyard in the west of the city where Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing lived after marriage, Wu Haogu met with Wu Yanen, the head of the Wu family in Haizhou and a large number of sea merchants in the north of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Pear Flower Courtyard is one of Pan Qiaolian's dowries, located next to Qionglin Garden, not counting the surrounding attached land, the area of the house alone reaches nearly 100 acres!

There is a huge back garden with ponds, rockeries, willow trees and a large pear tree, as well as pavilions. Yan Shu, a famous minister of Zhenzong and Renzong, said in the poem that "the pear blossom courtyard dissolves the moon, and the catkins pond has a faint breeze", which can probably be seen in this pear blossom courtyard, right?

Because the area of this mansion is large enough, there is enough space for Wu Haogu to raise horses (Wu Haogu is now collecting all kinds of horses), the houses and pavilions are also very exquisite, and the house is also equipped with the servants that Pan Qiaolian is used to. So soon after marriage, Wu Haogu took the Pear Flower Courtyard as his main residence - not to "live separately from his father", Wu Haogu was a filial son, and arranged a residence for Wu Chengzhi, Feng Erniang and Wu Haowen in the Pear Blossom Courtyard.

Wu Yanen, a sea merchant, is an old man, about sixty years old and almost seventy years old, although his beard and hair are white, but his spirit is quite full, his face is ruddy, quite a little crane hair and childish face, a satin robe full of flowers, a jade belt around his waist, and a big red embroidered sachet is tied, exuding the unique fragrance of ambergris. Under his feet was a pair of white boots, standing there with a lot of grace, and he knew from a distance that he was a great man.

Wu Yanen was accompanied by a person, who looked to be about forty or fifty years old, with dark skin and ruddy skin, short and sturdy stature, holding a simple knife in his hand, looking majestic.

This person is obviously the "head of the water army" of the Wu family in Haizhou......

According to Hua Manlou, all the larger maritime merchants have raised a naval army!

That's a real trolls! Not merchant ship escorts, and they were not on merchant ships, but real warships, which could sail at high speed at sea and were very strong enough to ram. The navy on the warship is the real core competitiveness of the maritime merchants.

These maritime merchants, either individually or in combination, monopolize a shipping route. If other small and medium-sized maritime merchants want to operate on this route, they must pay tribute, otherwise they will wait to be robbed of it!

In other words, if Wu Haogu wants to enter the maritime industry, he must have a strong naval army and warships. And as a rising star, you must be ready to merge with the old maritime merchants.

And the head of the Wu family's water army in front of him is likely to become Wu Haogu's enemy on the water in the future.

Along with Wu Yanen and the head of the Wu family's navy, there were dozens of followers and a fleet of horses, most of whom also carried bows and arrows and swords, all of them were black and strong men, and they might have a fight with the thug group of the Ximen family. These men all came on foot, and no one was in a car or on horseback. I don't know if they don't know how to ride horses, or if the Wu family's navy has something to pay attention to?

"Great official, this is Cheng Zhilang Wu Daguan of the Wu family's ship line."

Hua Manlou also followed Wu Yanen to the Pear Blossom Courtyard, and saw Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing coming out of the courtyard to greet him, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to introduce.

Wu Yanen also turned out to be an official, and he was still a civil official, and he was the right Cheng Zhilang from the eighth grade. Of course, this official was not taken by the examination, but bought with money, so there is a "right" in front of Cheng Zhilang. However, when Hua Manshan introduced, he deliberately omitted the word "right".

Wu Haogu arched his hand and said with a smile: "I've seen Wu Chengzhi, I have been looking up for a long time, I have been looking up for a long time." ”

Wu Yanen bowed his hand to Wu Haogu in Haitian: "The old man has heard the name of Wudongmen in Haizhou for a long time, and it is really fortunate to see him today." ”

Ximen Qing gave a blessing gift: "Wu Shibo has been fortunate all the way, why don't you go to the house to do it first, drink a bowl of Haizhou's cloud tea, and then taste the Kaifeng dishes of the Pear Blossom Courtyard." ”

Of course, the Kaifeng dishes of the Pear Flower Courtyard are much stronger than the Kaifeng dishes of the Golden Arch Building in Yanggu County, after all, the Pan Building, one of the seventy-two floors of Kaifeng, is the industry of the Pan family.

"Okay, the old man hasn't eaten Kaifeng vegetables for a few days." Old man Wu smiled, and followed Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing to the Pear Blossom Courtyard.

Old man Wu and Wu Haogu, Ximen Qing and Hua Manshan entered the central hall of the Pear Blossom Courtyard together, and after they sat down, the man with the Pu knife did not follow.

Soon the female envoy of the other courtyard served fragrant tea, and the guests and hosts exchanged pleasantries while drinking tea, and after a while, the old man introduced the conversation into the theme.

"Wu Dongmen, the old man heard that the imperial court plans to build a Shidi commercial market near the mouth of the boundary river into the sea?"

"It is true." Wu Haogu replied, "However, this commercial market must be co-organized with the Liao State, and it is still being negotiated with the Liao people." ”

"This business market...... Bought by a merchant? ”

"The chamber of commerce buys and buys," said Wu Haogu, "the imperial court has set up a city outside the merchant market to collect taxes and buy goods from the merchant market into the Song Dynasty, and at the same time check whether there are any prohibited items in and out, and the rest of the business market is managed by the chamber of commerce." ”

"This chamber of commerce...... Who has the final say? ”

"Shareholders." Wu Haogu said, "Once the Liao people agree, the Chamber of Commerce can raise shares, and the merchants of the Liao and Song dynasties will invest money into the shares, and currently plan to raise 33 shares, each with 10,000 yuan." Each merchant is limited to one share, and no more investment is allowed. ”

What Wu Haogu and Wu Yanen are talking about now is only a preliminary plan for the construction of a "lighthouse commercial market".

Thirty-three shares, 10,000 taels per share, a total of 330,000 shares! The money was mainly used to purchase land in the market, dig ditches around the market, build a dam to protect the city from flooding, and build a wharf in the market.

Because the land in Cangzhou is close to the boundary river, and the land price of the land belonging to Wuqing County in Liaoguo is very low, and the average is less than one mu. From the 330,000 to 70,000 yuan of share capital, you can buy at least 60,000 mu of land, equivalent to more than 40 square kilometers, even if you only focus on the development of half of it (the half of the land in the Song Dynasty), it can be 20 square kilometers, only slightly smaller than Kaifeng Fucheng.

Of course, it is impossible for such a large area to be developed into a commercial market, and Wuhaogu only plans to use one-third of it, that is, less than 7 square kilometers, to build a commercial market, a port and a wharf, as well as residential areas. The remaining 13-14 square kilometres are used for schools and pastures. The former will include the Lighthouse Academy (Six Arts Academy), the Lighthouse University Hall, and the Lighthouse Sea Academy (including the Military Academy), while the latter will be used to raise horses. The Lighthouse University Hall will also include a series of experimental workshops, while the Lighthouse Sea Academy will include a wharf and a shipyard.

In addition, the Lighthouse Academy, the Lighthouse University Hall, and the Lighthouse Sea Academy will all have their own separate walls, harbors, and moats. If necessary, these three schools can be transformed into independent castles to hold onto, and if you add the two commercial markets to the north and south of Lighthouse City, it is a total of five independent castles. These five castles can communicate with each other through the boundary river waterway, forming a whole.

Of course, if Lightcity needs to shrink its defenses in the future, then four of the five castles can be abandoned. As long as a castle exists, Lighthouse City is a nail stuck in the throat of the Jurchens!

"Thirty-three?" Wu Yanen asked, "How many shares have you raised now?" ”

"There are eleven shares." Wu Haogu replied.

These eleven shares belong to the Wu family, the Pan family, the Ximen family, the Murong family, the Ma family, the Zhao family (Zhao Zhongge's family), the Mi family, the Gao family (Gao Yu), the Wang family (Wang Juma), the Duan Wangfu, the Su family and the Ji family. Although these eleven companies have not yet paid their share capital, their intention to buy shares is very firm. In addition, there are many wealthy families in Kaifeng Mansion who have expressed their willingness to buy shares, and there is no problem in recruiting 33 shares.

"Then even if we have a share of the Wu family in Haizhou." Wu Yanen said.

"Okay, it's a deal." Wu Haogu looked at Wu Yanen with a smile and said, "Wu Chengzhi, can we talk about your big deal of 60,000 mu of paddy fields?" ”