"The old man has seen the martial arts officials!"

"The old man has seen the martial arts officials!"

As soon as he saw Wu Haogu coming out of the Houtang Dynasty, Chai Laowai and Ximen Mother-in-law, who were accompanied by Hua Manshan to drink tea, stood up and saluted respectfully.

Wu Haogu is now a dignified deputy envoy from Qipindong to the gate, and he is in charge of the official affairs of Jiehe City and the mayor of Jiehe Shang City. This kind of identity is nothing in the circle of elites in Kaifeng Mansion, but for the two "Jianghu figures" of Chai Laoyuanwai and Ximen's mother-in-law, they are definitely high.

And what Ximen Woman wants to seek now is only Wu Haogu's concubine instead of his wife, even if it is done, Ximen's mother-in-law is not Wu Haogu's elder. If he can't find the identity of a concubine, Ximen Qing can only be "bought as a concubine", which is Wu Haogu's property......

Wu Haogu was polite, and hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Don't be polite to the two old men, Qing'er is ...... now Are you alright? ”

Old Chai nodded heavily: "It's okay, it's good...... Lao Yu and this Ximen mother-in-law came to discuss with the military officials. ”

Wu Haogu hurriedly invited the two old men to sit down, and ordered the female envoy in the house to serve refreshments, and then said: "Outside the firewood, Ximen mother-in-law, I also know that the status of a concubine is indeed a loss to Qing'er...... But in other respects, I will treat her like a wife. In the future, she doesn't have to serve her wife in Kaifeng Mansion, she will go to live in Jiehe Commercial Market with me, and by the way, she can help me take care of some business market affairs. ”

Regarding Ximen Qing's future treatment, Wu Haogu had already thought about it. Can't let her meet Pan Qiaolian all day long in Kaifeng Mansion, you have to take her to "Lighthouse City" to be a "two-headed" wife - the so-called "two-headed big" is only in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, that is, capitalists or bureaucrats have wives in their hometowns, and at the same time buy a wife in a big city where they are doing business or being an official, and treat them as a main room.

However, Wu Haogu took Ximen Qing to "Lighthouse City" not all to avoid Pan Qiaolian, but to use Ximen Qing's ability and connections to manage the business market. Half of his acceptance of Ximen Qing as a concubine is a personal emotional need, and half of it is actually a fancy to the status of the Ximen family in the shopping mall and the rivers and lakes.

Although Wu Haogu himself is a big businessman, there are many generals and nobles who are also officials and businessmen in the circle of ordinary communication. But these people, including Wu Haogu himself, are actually "bureaucratic capitalists". They have easy money and a lot of money, and they are accustomed to using power to grab business interests, but their actual business management ability is not strong, and they do not have many powerful means.

They opened gold and silver silk silk shops, made real estate in Kaifeng Mansion, and opened singing and selling shops in Kaifeng Mansion. However, it is not possible to do maritime trade, to build a commercial city out of thin air, and to do large-scale handicraft industry.

If you want to do sea trade, you must raise hundreds of thugs, otherwise you will be robbed when you go to sea!

In order to build a city quickly, and not to use the servants of the imperial court, it is necessary to have slave labor—both indentured slaves and slaves! That's really calling the working people as livestock, but it's not a domestic slave who is favored and blessed like a golden bottle, and you can manage it without a thug to supervise the work?

Large-scale handicrafts also need oversight, and unless there are high gross margins like Christie's catalogue business, large-scale handicraft workshops must be built on the blood and tears of working people – sweatshops have not completely disappeared by the 21st century, and it is a dream to develop capitalism in the 11th and 12th centuries to avoid sweatshops.

Of course, if the working people do not work in sweatshops and stay in the countryside to rent the land of the landlord's old wealth, they will not have a happy life......

And to manage the maritime trade thugs, indentured slaves and slaves, and the overseers of sweatshops, it is not possible to rely on officials and businessmen like Wu Haogu and Pan Xiao'an, but to rely on the Ximen family, a "charlatan" with a strong fist.

Don't look at the Ximen Woman who meets the martial arts official is obedient, and she can do what she wants. But if it were replaced by those foremen who oppressed the working people of Song Liao, sailors who fought and killed at sea, and robbers who were rampant and domineering met Ximen Qing, then you would immediately know how powerful she was.

Simon Woman is very fierce!

And the reason why she is willing to wronged herself to serve Wu Haogu, in addition to emotional factors, is actually to regard Wu Haogu as the ladder of the Ximen family's ascent - contrary to the position that all kinds of heroes in later generations of martial arts disdain to be court eagle dogs, most of the heroes in reality dream of becoming court eagle dogs. Even if it can't be used by the imperial court, becoming a powerful eagle dog is a good way out.

In many cases, only by being a powerful eagle dog can you become an eagle dog of the imperial court!

Therefore, "Water Margin", which dreams of Zhao'an all day long, is a realistic martial arts, and the kind of martial arts in which all kinds of masters ignore the imperial power and beat up dog officials from time to time are all nonsense.

There is no court and magnates behind her, no matter how fierce Simon Woman is, she is a female bully, and she can't become a big climate......

Therefore, Wu Haogu, who became a buddy with His Royal Highness Duanwang and easily got the official position of ambassador, was regarded by Ximen Qing as an ascending ladder that could make the Ximen family become the eagle dog of the court - although Wu Haogu is not the head of the Jiangmen family now, but he has the potential to become the head of the Jiangmen family again!

Wu Haogu is only twenty-one years old and is an ambassador, and it is not out of reach from the starting price of the "Little General's Gate" to be the assassin (that is, the official is the assassin history of a certain place). In the future, as long as King Duan becomes the Son of Heaven, he will take care of one or two things a little.

Besides, those who are now the masters of the Jiangmen family, Ximen Qing can't reach them! So even if Wu Haogu wronged her a little, she was willing.

And the "dependency relationship" between the Ximen family and the martial family that is taking shape is very common in the entire Great Song Dynasty. Those who do business in Kaifeng Mansion have a family of doormen (retainers) who act as lackeys and eagle dogs under each family. If there are no such doormen and retainers, who will do the dirty work? Can a person like Pan Daguan still go to usury and collect debts in person? Impossible!

Therefore, if Wu Haogu wants to make a situation in Lighthouse City, he must turn the Ximen family into a vassal of the Wu family, an agent, a contractor, and the like.

Many of the businesses that need to be opened up with "fists" have to be taken care of by families like Simon, who can do the dirty work.

And the future lighthouse city will undoubtedly be a free city in the initial stage of capitalism with all kinds of evils, blood and tears, and dreams. It takes a ferocious eagle dog to rule there...... Maybe in a few decades or hundreds of years, an agent like the Simon family will overthrow the powerful families of the Wu family and the Pan family and become the real masters of Freedom City!

But now, talents like Wu Haogu are the masters.

“…… The official, my Qing'er wants to be a concubine, and it is also her duty to ask her to serve the eldest woman. I don't know if I can agree to this little request? ”

The old matchmaker of the Ximen family must have inquired about Wu Haogu's current status from Hua Manshan (he is a close friend of the Ximen family), so her posture was extremely low, and she didn't mention the matter of the guarantee - if Wu Haogu was not sent, the Ximen matchmaker would naturally negotiate the price of the guarantee.

But now, Wu Haogu has been sent to take charge of the official affairs of the city's ship, and there are a lot of sesame mung bean officials under a city's ship! Wu Haogu naturally has a number of places that can be guaranteed, if he doesn't protect the people of the Ximen family, who else can he protect? Although the martial family also has many relatives, they are all righteous scholars, what can they do?

Therefore, Ximen matchmaker was not worried that the people of the Ximen family had no official positions, so the focus of the negotiation was on the identity of Ximen Qing.

Wu Haogu just groaned, and the old man Chai couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Great official, is this matter ...... Isn't it difficult? ”

Wu Haogu's face was cloudy, and he said for a while: "Don't hide it from the two of you, in fact, I also want to fight for a better reputation for Qing'er." However, the decision to become a concubine is not in my hands...... Whether the Pan family can agree or not is the key. Naturally, I tried my best, but there may be those who can't do it. ”

The reason why the status of concubines is high is because concubines are married to their husbands as "spare parts" for their wives. When the wife cannot give birth to a son, if the concubine has a son, she is a son-in-law. In the event of the death of the main wife, the concubine can be substituted as the main wife.

These are all traditions handed down from the era of strict gate valves!

However, the Pan family is actually easy to deal with, it is nothing more than exchanging benefits with Pan Xiao'an...... Wu Haogu has already prepared a trump card, and he can't worry about impressing Pan Xiao'an, but Pan Qiaolian may not necessarily listen to her brother's words.

Once this girl makes trouble, it will be a headache.

"If you can't do it," Granny Simon frowned, "then you can only buy it and become a concubine...... It's easy to say how much this concubine is worth, and the problem is Qing'er's face. ”

"Face ......," Wu Haogu asked, "where does this begin?" ”

Mother-in-law Simon said: "There are procedures for buying a concubine, and you have to be guaranteed by Yayu, prepare the turtle book, sign a contract, and negotiate the price of the concubine...... If this is done in Kaifeng Mansion, I am afraid that Qing'er will not be able to hold it on her face. ”

In fact, to buy a concubine is to sell Ximen Qing as an object to Wu Haogu...... In addition, there is an alternative method, which is to hire a concubine and enter into an employment contract, which is a concubine with a term of service and a fee.

However, Ximen Qing is going to follow Wu Haogu for the rest of his life, so it is impossible to hire a concubine.

In addition, there is also the model of "giving away as a concubine". However, this model is generally used for concubines at the level of domestic servants, which is a few points cheaper than buying a concubine.

"Not in Kaifeng Mansion? So where do you do it? Wu Haogu asked.

"In Yanggu County." Ximen's mother-in-law said, "Don't hide it, the old body is a native of Yanggu County." ”

Human teeth are human traffickers! It's just legal, and it won't be caught by all kinds of Qingtian masters and put in prison to be killed. Moreover, the business of Renyazi in the Song Dynasty was not only to buy and sell people, but also to labor intermediaries - to hire laborers, servants, female envoys, contract slaves, etc., they generally had to find Renyazi to help.