Eastern Jin Dynasty: Starting from the son of the refugee commander who returned from the north

Chapter 21 Joining the Army Li Xia
"Young master, why do you want to ask about the family's property? Normally, you don't care about it."

Zhao Zhong ran to Zhao Yue with a large stack of account books in his hand.

"Such a large foundation will be taken over by me in the future. If I don't know anything about it, wouldn't it be fooled by you slaves?"

Wang Sheng hit Zhao Zhong on the head with a feather fan, and the latter touched the back of his head in aggrieved manner, and said in a bewildered way: "Young master, the mistress of this family's property is very clear, and there is Tian steward watching over it, even if it is I have the heart, but I don't have the ability!"

"You really want to lie, don't you?"

Zhao Yue made a gesture to fight, but the latter rushed behind Xixiang.

"Lang Jun, don't make fun of him, he won't be scared."

Xi Xiang covered her mouth and snickered.

Since Zhao Yue opened the seal for her yesterday, her mood has been completely smoothed out, and she has devoted herself even more to serving Zhao Yue.

As for the taste of yesterday, Zhao Yue originally wanted to savor it carefully.

Unfortunately.
Things like this in the room are too much to go too far.

Zhao Yue is now in the stage of growing his body, just play for fun, if he is addicted to it, this person will really be crippled.

"Show me the account book."

There were already thick books and books piled up in front of Zhao Yue.

Some of them are ledgers, while others are hard currencies such as land deeds and body deeds.

Especially the body deed, which can be said to be a thick stack.

Zhao Yue also took a closer look at his family business in Jiankang.

There are [-] hectares of fine rice fields, [-] hectares of mulberry fields, and as many as eight mountain and forest manors.

More than five hundred servants and tenants
This land, slaves.
But there are too many.

More than 100 hectares of land, a total of more than 1 mu of land!

Such a large-scale land is still a drop in the ocean of Zhao Xun.

Zhao Yue knew that his family's base camp was in Huainan.

Jiankang's industry is so rich, how about Huainan?

"This is my family's field, isn't it too much?"

Rao is Zhao Yue who claims to be a person who has seen the big world. Seeing such a scene, he is still cautious and can't help but tremble.

"Most of this field is the dowry of the mistress, and it is cultivated by the tenants every day. In fact, the income is only enough to cover the expenses of the family for a year, and the expenses of the field steward in Jiankang. The real big head, It’s still a winery beside Qingxi, which can be described as making money every day.”

Zhao Yue opened the account book and looked at the dense content on it, his scalp tingled.

Good guy!
My father has traveled so much, he didn't invent a single ledger form.

Zhao Yue endured his headache and carefully read the income and expenditure of the account book for the past year.

"This winery is indeed a cornucopia."

The spirits sold by the winery are extremely popular in Jiankang, and even need to be ordered.

As for the reason is very simple.

There are many people in Jiang Zuo's family who are addicted to alcohol, and some people are almost addicted to alcohol.

And the most important point is that the popular Wushi Powder needs to be dissipated with spirits after taking it.

Where there is demand, there is sales!
In addition, Zhao Xun adopted the sales method of hunger marketing, so it's strange that it didn't sell well.

of course
The wine produced by the winery is not all sold, and it is often used as a gift by him to manage relationships.

According to the account book, the winery sent fifty altars of fine wine to the palace last year, and the amount of fine wine sent to Bird Clothes Lane was not a small amount.

But even so, after a year, a winery can actually earn thousands of gold.

This is really a rooster that can lay eggs!
"Besides the winery, are there other businesses?"

Is it impossible that Zhao Xun only set up a winery and nothing else?

As a traveler, there are so many profitable transactions!
Especially now that the social atmosphere is all about extravagance, and the rich have so much money that they can spend it by fighting for wealth.

Don't you want to make some perfume and the like, and harvest the wallets of the noble ladies of Jiankang's family?

"A few years ago, I heard that the master bought other businesses, which seemed to be called 'perfume' and 'soap', but in the end the business was very little, so I didn't continue."

Zhao Yue touched his chin.

It seems that his father hadn't thought of other ways to make money, he had actually done it, but due to limited conditions, he didn't make it.

Plus
Making money is just an auxiliary means to raise soldiers and dredge the court.

If the money is enough, his father's thoughts may be put elsewhere.

After figuring out the details of his own family in Jiankang, Zhao Yue felt much more at ease.

On the first floor of the living room of the manor, there is a thin middle-aged man who is seven feet tall and dressed in a black shirt. Standing in the hall, although his figure is thin, he is like a sword, showing his sharpness.

He bowed to Mrs. Zhou who was in the curtain in front of him, and then took out a letter from his pocket.

"Li Xia pays her respects to Madam. This is a letter written by the Marshal. I want my subordinates to bring it to Madam."

"Join the army and sit down."

The maid Qiu Ju stepped forward to take the letter and brought it into the curtain.

Inside the curtain, Zhou couldn't wait to open the contents of the letter, but after a while, he let out a cold snort of disappointment.

"He still won't come back?"

"The commander-in-chief said that now is not the time." Li Xia, who joined the army, knelt in the hall and answered blankly.

"Since it's not the right time, what are you doing here?"

"One is that there is going to be a change in the court. When the subordinates come back, they can do something in advance for the commander in chief. Second, the commander in chief also asked his subordinates to come back because of the young commander in chief."

"There have been changes in the court? I don't think so. Now that the Zhongshu Ling is in charge of Tai Province, and there is Empress Dowager Yu Wenjun in the palace, how can the Langya Wang family compete with the Yu family because of Wang Dun's incident?"

"The commander-in-chief said that Yu Liang is not someone who can accomplish great things. He will cause chaos sooner or later in the court."

Mrs. Zhou took a sip of the chilled sour plum soup on the table in front of her, and said to Qiu Ju, "Go and serve Li Canjun a bowl."

"promise."

"I don't see things in court as clearly as he does, but in this mansion, I still have some right to speak. Zhou's fate comes first. I don't want Lin'er to be a martial artist. The Zhao family in Tianshui is the home of classics and poems, why not let Lin'er manage the scriptures and become a great Confucian?"

Li Xia, who joined the army, was still expressionless.

"The Marshal originally wanted to follow Madam's wishes, but a few days ago, he received a letter from Tian Qi, saying that the Marshal wanted to learn the art of killing and conquering battle formations. He was overjoyed and let me enter Jiankang first."

After Li Xia finished speaking, Mrs. Zhou fell silent.

"Ah~"

She sighed deeply, and said: "I can't control both of them, but Lin'er is not young anymore, and the matter of marriage should be put on the agenda. You have to talk to him about it." stop."

"Ma'am, you can write the letter to the commander yourself, and you don't need to leave it in the hands of an outsider like me."

"You don't want to."

Li Xia:.
"Madam, the commander-in-chief also sent a gift, please accept it, Madam."

"Gift?" Zhou pretended not to care, but his eyes kept drifting outside the curtain.

Qiu Ju stepped forward and took the gift box in Li Xia's hand into the curtain, and waited for Mrs. Zhou to open the gift box before Li Xia began to speak.

"This item is a pearl produced by a century-old mussel that is rare by the Huai River. It is round and huge. The commander remembered that Madam likes this kind of item the most, so he asked his subordinate Xingye to deliver it."

Baby Zhou's fist-sized round pearl was playing with it in his hand, and a smile finally appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Forget it, even if he still has some conscience, join the army, don't waste time with this woman like me, go see Lin'er."

"promise!"

Li Xia immediately got up and saluted and said goodbye.

A set of operations, smooth and smooth.

(End of this chapter)