Chapter 83 Industry
Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts are obvious, nothing more than to show the emperor's broad mind that does not remember past grudges, what can move the people of the world more than pardoning the orphans of criminal ministers? Xu Hao's intentions are the same, so many people are personally involved, and the pressure of Youyoukou, as the emperor, is bound to give an explanation to the relevant people afterwards.
Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang personally pardoned Zhang Yueyun's sister and brother as sinners, and promised to inherit his deceased father's marquis when Zhang Yu grew up, and sent someone to escort the sister and brother back home and drive the uncle's family to the countryside.
Xu Hao's oath was realized, and while he was gratified, he also felt sad for the deceased Zhang De. Since then, Zhang Yueyun's sisters and brothers have been grateful to Xu Hao, and the Zhang family of Heqinghou and the Xu family have close contacts, so they will not talk about it for the time being.
The four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty affected many people. The recent blue jade case has caused frequent marriages with each other in the past, and those surviving noble and wealthy families have deceased relatives, which can be described as mourning. Affected by this, the families gradually began to cut off contact with each other, and they did not dare to communicate easily.
The Xu family was not affected by a small number, first of all, the old lady in his generation was scattered, and the old people he knew became more and more rare, although there were not many exchanges over the years, it was enough to make the old lady feel hurt in her heart, and every time she missed the old woman and sighed, she smiled a lot less.
The old lady is in a similar situation, all of them have friends who died tragically in this case, especially Xu Yaozu and his wife, who are the closest to the capital, and most of the relatives and friends in the past are gone. This made the Xu family cloudy for half a year, and even the old lady's sixty-two-year-old birthday and the birthdays of several elders had no intention of arguing, and hastily arranged a few tables of wine banquets and finished eating.
As for Xu Hao's four brothers, all of them have passed away one after another. Among them, Xu Hao no longer wants to make friends with any people in the capital, the reason is simple, he doesn't want to see his friend die in front of him again, a few years later, Zhu Di led his troops into Beijing, and the history books record it very clearly, it was another large-scale killing.
Therefore, every time I enter Kyoto, I refuse to come to make friends, there are people of any status, rich and noble sons, talented scholars, guard officials and even peddlers and pawns. And all the young people near the house who came to the door almost all had the intention of clinging, and Xu Hao felt bored and simply disappeared. But he has no friends and feels lonely, so Xu Hao only contacts with the Zhu Gaochi brothers and the children of the royal family, although Xu Hao is not from a high background, but he has three aunts who are noble princesses, plus the prestige of Yan Wangfu in the royal family, which makes the dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren who are above the top of their eyes look up to him, but most of them are basically general friends.
Although Xu Hao did not have the intention of clinging to these nobles, he has gained a lot since he joined Zhu Shangbing's salt mine business. He decided to start the business of transporting goods from the south to the north, and with the local palaces as a reliance, he did not worry about the source of rare goods, and he was not afraid of Shili difficulties in marketing the world.
As a subordinate of the Yanwang Mansion, Xu Hao naturally told Zhu Gaochi about his intentions, of course, he couldn't point out his Laozi's ambitions, but said that Yanjing is located in the north, the population is not large, the taxes are insufficient, and it is also haode to add one more source of wealth, and the business names are all over the place, and maybe you can also receive some useful information, which is better than relying on the report of the government for everything, and the source of information is too single.
Zhu Gaochi has always been steady and cautious in doing things, and after thinking about it, he did not give a clear answer, but sent someone to the north to inform his father Zhu Di of the matter, so Xu Hao could only wait.
It's not that Xu Hao doesn't want to run his own business, but after establishing a business, sooner or later he will be used by Zhu Di, and when the news is blocked during the Battle of Jingjing, Zhu Di will not let go of anything that can be used, rather than being used at that time, it is better to say it at the beginning. Besides, the Xu family is short of manpower, and he still expects the Yan Wangfu to contribute, and then sit back and enjoy the results.
Since the purchase and sale of red leaves has obtained five hundred taels of gold from the Wang sisters, the restaurant has been built at the beginning of this month, and the location is located on a bustling street near the Qinhuai River. It's a pity that mahjong was affected by the general environment, and Momiji never sold a pair again.
The imperial court was very large, with three floors of the main building and other surrounding buildings, covering an area equivalent to a Tang Dynasty market, which could accommodate thousands of people to eat together.
At this time when the capital was in turmoil and there was no competition among the powerful, Xu Hao pawned all the valuable things in the house. Don't underestimate it, any antique treasure in his house is worth a lot of money, all of them are the trophies of Xu Da's conquest of the world, and then the good things that he appreciates every New Year. In addition, there are rare jade and other gadgets rewarded by the three aunts, and those engraved with the words of the palace dare not be sold, and the others are all at a good price.
Xu Hao borrowed some money from all over the world, and the children of the palace were as few as a few hundred taels or as many as one or two thousand, so unceremoniously sold 20,000 taels of silver, and with the help of the influence of the Yan Wangfu, he bullied the interested landlords and old wealth, and all the businessmen from the north and south were even intimidated, and exclusively bought ten shops on the street near a restaurant.
According to the agreement with the government, the restaurant occupies half of the main building in a grand manner, and the rest is for the common people and merchants to sign contracts freely, and no less than twenty or thirty wine shops are to be opened one after another.
Xu Hao happily welcomed this, economies of scale are necessary, not to mention that he has good ideas in his stomach and is not afraid of competing with others.
If it weren't for the impact of the Lanyu case, in the past, these ten shops on the street would have been worth at least more than 50,000 taels of silver, but unfortunately people inside and outside the capital were panicked at that time, and who would dare to act rashly in the rich family? The ministers of the wealthy families are too busy to take care of themselves, and there is the Yan Wangfu to come forward to say hello, who dares to compete with those who have poor family resources? In short, Xu Hao was cheaper, and within half a month, the price of the shop more than doubled.
These shops completely belong to Xu Hao, because they are all his own money, and nominally they still belong to the common property of the family, but in fact, the deed is in his own hands, no matter what time it is, even if it is useless to go to court.
The elders know this, the money is from his nephew Zhang Luo, and the road is also run out by himself, the government is still done by himself, and the deed is also written in his real name, and as an elder, he can't pull his face to occupy his nephew's property, and the income is good enough to go to the official, what else can you say about the cheapness of the white occupation?
Xu Hao is not a selfish person, he once told his family, and the uncle was dismissed from his post and had no source of income, and he was sick in bed, Wang had a lot of private rooms in his hands, but he was reluctant to take it out. Since the eldest brother Xu Wen took care of foreign affairs, he intended to buy one or two shops to increase his income, but the cash at home was not enough.
Although Xu Hao knew that it was natural for Xu Wen to be in charge, Xu Wen never consulted with him after taking charge, and he was a powerful jiashi, which made Xu Hao feel very uncomfortable, so he ignored Xu Wen's hint of borrowing money.
The second brother Xu Ji was dedicated to reading the books of sages, and these things were all lowly livelihoods for him, and he didn't pay attention to them at all.
The third wife, Liu, is not worried about money, and her mother's family casually opens her mouth for tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is a trivial matter, but since her husband was warned by Princess Yan and her son was beaten, she has a different identity from the second room of the long house, and as an official wife, she thinks it is better to keep a low profile.
On the contrary, Mu Ningxue overheard about it, and after thinking about it carefully, she discussed it with her mother, and also purchased a restaurant and four or five shops. Of course, this is inadvertently very learned.
In addition, Xu Yingxu, the second uncle of the house, quietly bought a lot of shops and a mansion, among which there were even two painting boats, most of which were the properties of the fallen wealthy families, which were confiscated by the government and sold cheaply
Xu Hao also intends to take the opportunity to buy some real estate, but there is no silver, now he owns the real estate, and has not yet figured out how to operate, first plans to open a silk shop branch, and the rest will be rented or sold slowly before making plans.
As for those mansions that occupy a vast area and are extremely luxurious, Xu Hao has no idea at all, because even if he buys them, he doesn't dare to live in them, and if he doesn't have a title or an official position, it's called a rite.
After finishing Zhang Yueyun's matter, Xu Hao became relaxed, planning to continue to study in the Mu family, and try his skills when he was in the township test, and if he was lucky, he would get back the qualification of a child, and also make the old lady happy.
Of course, he didn't mean to be drunk, although he hadn't met Mu Ningxue in the past half a year, but the gardens of the Mu family's inner house were open to him, and he could come and go at will, which was more effective than any hint.
Xu Wen's big appointment has been sent, and the date of marriage is set for August 16, and Xu Qingtang and Xu Wen have to worry about trivial matters.
It is said that the county lord Zhu Qiaoqiao disliked the coming of her future husband, and made trouble several times about it, but her arm couldn't twist her thigh.
Xu Hao could only help in this regard, and the marriage was not finalized by him at the beginning, but he helped to contact the relationship.
Anyway, husband and wife are the same thing, it depends on whether the west wind overwhelms the east wind, or the east wind conquers the west wind.
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