A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 445
Xiudefang.

Wu's other courtyard, in the cherry orchard.

"Little Mrs. Kang pays a visit to Duke Wu."

Wu Huaiyu sized up this well-known wealthy businessman, with a face like a mountain of meat. Although this Sogdian family moved to the Central Plains for a hundred years, he still retained a strong appearance of a barbarian.

This posture reminded him even more of a man, An Lushan who was plump into a ball.

Kang Po is very respectful to Wu Huaiyu. Although this was once a top rich man who was once known as the richest man along with the warriors of Hedong and Liu Shilong, the current status of Kang Po in Hebei Boling cannot be compared with those two rich men in Hedong who were named dukes earlier.

At the end of the day, it was also supporting different people during the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty.The warriors Xun and Liu Shilong supported Li Yuan, so they became heroes of Yuanmou and the founder of the country.Kang Po Hebei natives either voluntarily or were forced to support many anti-kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but none of them succeeded.

In the end, he took refuge in the Prime Minister Pei Ji, which was regarded as keeping the family business, but it was only a seventh-rank farmer in Pei's mansion.

Po Kang was very sensible, and took out a list of filial piety.

"Three thousand bolts of silk, one million yuan in money, two thousand stones of millet, 100 servants, one mill for each of the eight waters of Chang'an, one thousand mu of land, and one garden."

Eight waters surround Chang'an,
It is also an important hydraulic resource in Chang'an. There are more than [-] water mill houses built at the drop of the Zhengbai Canal with the Jinghe River as its source.

Water milling is the most lucrative industry. Being able to own a water mill in Gyeonggi is a symbol of power. Water milling requires water conservancy and will affect agricultural irrigation, but it can be done day and night.

There are eight water mills presented by Kang Po, all of which are large mill houses that turn five wheels in parallel and can grind wheat three hundred stones a day.

The milling room grinds rice and flour, and the profit is extremely high, and the sale after processing makes a profit of [-]%.

In the past, water mills were franchised, and ordinary people were not qualified to build them, and even had to pay a special water mill. Of course, the rich and powerful had a way to exempt them.

At each water mill, it can often become an important center of the village, with grass markets, wharves, etc.

Kang Po directly gave eight water mill houses, which are not only very valuable, but ordinary people can't buy them if they have money.

The Wu family used to live in Qinghe, Sanyuan. Before the development of Huaiyu, even if a small officer of the Imperial Army like Lao Wu lived by the river, he was not qualified to build a water mill. Firstly, it cost a lot, and secondly, he did not have the qualification. After he became a marquis, Just started to repair a three-wheeled water mill.

There are thousands of pieces in a family, so it's better to have a turn around.

The water mill is a lively place, every day there is a queue to process rice noodles, and the profits are huge. Generally, some rice and wheat are directly paid per stone as the processing fee, and some people pay directly, or use bran to cover the processing fee, but no matter what Which one, its income is much stronger than that of tenant recruitment and rent collection.

If there are not many water mills in Chang'an, it would be embarrassing to call yourself a powerful person. The more water mills, it can even show that the strength is stronger and the foundation is deeper.

Huaiyu looked at the list.

Po Kang knows what official business is, and she also knows what gift giving is.

This gift is enough to make people feel excited.

The value is nearly [-] guan.

In particular, the thousand acres of land in Gyeonggi and the eight water mills are scarce resources that can be obtained, and good things that are hard to buy with money.

Say it and send it.

This knocking brick is a good choice.

"What does Kang Alang mean?" Huaiyu smiled and pushed the gift slip back.

If it was people like Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, and Yu Chigong, they would have accepted it without hesitation.

"Let's talk about why Kang Alang is looking for me first."

"The little one heard that Yiguo's company still lacks a big farmer, and the little one was overwhelmed and wanted to recommend himself."

The prince's state secretary has one state decree and two big farmers, while the Duke has only one big farmer.

The big farmer before Wu Huaiyu performed quite well and was good at economics and financial management. After working for a year, Huaiyu recommended him as an official and became an eighth-rank chief of the Guanzhong Dao Zhidu Division.

The rank is not high, but he has become an official official of the court, which is different from the official of the Duke.

Wu Huaiyu has done a good job in this aspect. As long as those subordinate officials recruited by him, no matter the state officials or government officials, as long as they perform well, he will not say that they will keep them for use on purpose, but will find a way to recommend them to serve as officials. Give them a future.

He didn't mind that some of his staff regarded the Wu family as an advancement stone, and he even believed that this was a good thing for mutual achievement and mutual benefit, so those who left the Wu family were very grateful to Wu Huaiyu.

But the only downside is that there is a big change in the personnel of the samurai family's squad, people come in and out, and people often have to be recruited.

Kang Po has been a big farmer for Pei Ji for ten years, and she is the general secretary of the Wei State. She is still very conscientious. Under his management, Pei Ji's wealth has grown rapidly.

Wu Huaiyu smiled, but didn't immediately agree.

Po Kang didn't take back the gift list, but took out another booklet.

This is the account book of Pei Ji's family business that he has been working as a big farmer for ten years, serving as the general secretary of Wei Guogong's mansion, and managing financial affairs for Pei Ji's housekeeper.

The above are just some simple summary figures, but the figures are astonishing.

With Wu Huaiyu's current net worth, he feels that he is very rich, but compared with Pei Ji, he looks like a fool. In [-], the Pei family also frantically annexed fields, and many people fled from their hometowns to join them and sent them under the name of the fields.

In addition to owning a large amount of land, the Pei family is also engaged in lending and collecting interest in addition to planting and rent collection. Basically, the Pei family does all the money-making things that the rich and powerful do today, and the scale is far stronger than others.

Before Pei Ji Conglong, he was just a little palace eunuch. Although he came from a famous family, his family was in decline, but in just ten years, he was sitting on hundreds of millions of money and tens of thousands of hectares of land. The most important thing was power, and his behavior was still typical. Comprador route.

Plug a share everywhere without paying any capital. He provides convenience for businessmen, and businessmen give him some shares, government-business cooperation, and equity exchange.

It was not for nothing that Li Shimin called Pei Ji useless in the hall, but Pei Ji was deeply favored by Li Yuan.

The notebook that Po Kang took out sold all of Pei Ji's old background.

The copper coins hoarded by the Pei family are quite astonishing.

Pei Ji was the only courtier in the Tang Dynasty who had been given a coin furnace by Li Yuan, and the other two were Li Shimin and Li Yuanji.

Pei Ji can make money by himself.

A normal official furnace casts [-] guan coins a year, but in fact this is limited by the influence of craftsmen and copper materials. If you really need enough manpower and copper materials, let alone [-] guan, you can cast five Eight thousand or even ten thousand guan is no problem.

Of course, there was a shortage of copper materials in Wude, and there was no profit in casting Kaiyuan Tongbao.

But Pei Ji casts private money. Through his legal identity as a money casting furnace, he buys copper materials, secretly buys, collects, and even sells money, and then mints Pei's private money.

Pei's private money always makes at least three hundred profits.

The Pei family has private coin casting workshops in Chang'an, Puzhou, and even Jianghuai, Shannan, Lingzhou, Lingnan, Yizhou and other places. On the surface, he only has one imperial coin casting furnace. The dragon head in the casting, the privately minted money of their family, and even the privately minted money in different places have different marks.

However, compared to many shoddy and bad money on the market, Pei's privately minted money is quite exquisite, and its fineness is not bad, so it is called green and white money.

Just forging this illegal business privately, the Pei family can make tens of thousands of profits a year.

Moreover, while the Pei family was frantically minting green and white money in various places, they were desperately hoarding Kaiyuan Tongbao from the imperial court.

Mrs. Kang is quite dishonest.

Pei Ji treats him well and trusts him very much. Even when he manages finances for Pei Ji's housekeeper, Pei Ji also provides him with a lot of convenience, allowing Po Kang to use Pei Ji's power over the years to seek a lot of personal gain for herself.

All the losses suffered during the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty were recovered, and even his wealth was doubled several times, but now when Pei Ji fell, he did not hesitate to add insult to injury.

Such villains of sellers should be kept away.

However, although Pei Ji was driven back to his hometown in Puzhou by the emperor, the liquidation of him has not yet ended. A confidant of Pei Ji like Mrs. Kang is exactly what the court needs now.

(End of this chapter)