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Chapter 69 The old lady of the ruined Hou Mansion (4)

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    Inside Wenxi Hall

    Qiao Mu was listening to the reply from Min Hai, the newly hired manager who was responsible for the house search. He looked up and saw Wen Qilian and the others walking in with anxious faces. He raised his hand to signal Min Hai to stop:

    "Here we come, please sit down.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? away out of the way.  "

    After saying this, he added: "Continue to tell me how many things were seized from them this time!"

    Min Hai immediately understood that the old lady wanted him to repeat in front of these people in the hall what the servants had copied during the search.

    He hurriedly cupped his hands and said:

    "Returning to the old lady, this inspection turned out a total of 200,000 taels of silver, 6,000 taels of gold, 21 shops in the capital, two in the third courtyard, eighteen in the second courtyard, and thirty-eight farms of five hectares.  , there are sixteen farms of ten hectares, four farms of twenty hectares, and one farm of fifty hectares.

    ¡°In addition, there are eight boxes of jewelry, six boxes of antiques, three boxes of calligraphy and paintings, and six items given by the emperor"

    When talking about the gift given by the emperor, Min Hai couldn't help but lower his voice, because this thing is really a very difficult thing. It is something that cannot be used or thrown away. It must be kept at home. If it is lost,  No matter who takes the gift given by the emperor, it is a serious crime for the owner.

    Fortunately, I got it back this time. If it hadn't been discovered, not found back, or even sold, once it was exposed, it would be a serious crime, ranging from demotion to banishment.

    Wen Qilian and the others, who were still wondering what happened just now, now opened their mouths and eyes wide in surprise, with disbelief on their faces. This can't be blamed for them being so surprised. When they got married that year,  , the legitimate son only spent more than 10,000 taels on the betrothal gift, and the dozen concubines only spent about 5,000 taels. Now, although they each have a lot of private money in their hands, even if Wen Qilian's private money is added up,  The total amount does not exceed 20,000 taels, let alone a shop and a village. His wife only has a shop and a village in her dowry, but he himself has none.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OUT out of the house.

    Good guy, it seems that in the whole house, only the masters like them are the poorest, and some of the slaves below may be richer than them.

    After being surprised, they naturally share the same hatred.

    After all, although those slaves are greedy for the money in the public treasury, the money in the public treasury must be distributed to them after all. No matter how much each person can share, the public treasury can only be divided as much as everyone has.  Point, if there is none, they will give it up.

    "Now, you should understand why I do these things. I don't want to hear you plead. These slaves must be sold. You can just pretend to be deaf and dumb and pretend nothing happened.  Don't leak the news to me. None of you can bear the sin of losing the royal gift. Fortunately, it was recovered.

    "Those servants really opened my eyes. They just embezzled money, but they even dared to touch the things given by the emperor. I saw that they all had very stiff necks. They all had iron necks.  Butler Min, you will sell all the servants who were tied up later. Those who copied out the royal gifts were drugged with dumb drugs and then sold. The price does not matter, just clean them out.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? "

    After all, Qiao Mu was still soft-hearted and unwilling to cause too many killings. If it were anyone else, all those who stole the family's royal gifts would have been killed on the spot, and maybe even the whole family would be implicated, because if this matter really broke out, then  But it is a very difficult thing to do. At the very least, it is a dereliction of duty; at the most serious, it can be said to be disrespectful, and disrespectful is one of the unpardonable sins.

    ¡°Yes!¡± Min Hai responded.

    And the eight concubines who came down below, including Wen Qilian, were all surprised and asked hurriedly: "Why did mother suddenly want to separate the family, but what did we do wrong?"

    "There's nothing wrong. I just feel that there are too many people in the family, noisy, and there are too many people to worry about. It's really tiring for Huiwen to do it all by herself. Originally, your father should have been divided when he died.  Home, but because the government really didn¡¯t have the money to help you buy a yard at that time, now they have copied a lot of yards from these servants, and it¡¯s enough to give you one each. Why don¡¯t you give it to you now while the government still has a little money?  You can't wait until you run out of money to divide a family, right?Do you think this is true?  "

    Qiao Mu's words really spoke to the hearts of those concubines. They all knew that the situation in the mansion was difficult, but they were also poor, so they stayed in the mansion and refused to move out. After all, they were officials.  The little salary they have is not enough to do anything, and the officials they hold are all Qingshui yamen, and there is no place for corruption. In addition, things in the capital are expensive, so they can only rely on working in the Hou Mansion for a few more years.  If possible, they also want to get their hands on all the betrothal gifts and dowries of their sons and daughters.

    But now that the house has such a large amount of income, if the family is really divided, although they will not get much, they will probably still have a few thousand taels of silver, plus the yard and the fields they may be allocated.  , if you are more frugal, your family can still live on, and you don't have to worry about it every time you ask for monthly money.

    If you can be the master of your own family, who wouldn't want to? In the past, there was nothing you could do. You knew that with the little assets you had, you couldn't be the master, and you couldn't be the master. Once you were the master, you might starve to death. But if you could really get a lot of things,  If you are also assigned to a courtyard, even if the biggest rent problem is solved, how much can you spend on daily food and drink?  They don't have to socialize with other princes.

    No matter which dynasty or generation, house prices and rents in the capital will never be low. This is the main reason why they were unwilling to leave the Hou Mansion. After all, there was no mortgage at this time, and a two-bedroom house cost at least two.  Three thousand taels, this is still a bit remote. If you want to be closer to the place where you serve as an official, you may not be able to do it without five or six thousand taels. But how many assets can these bastards have in their hands, and they have to sell everything  , I can only scrape together five or six thousand taels at most, and I have already bought a house. Why don¡¯t I go to drink the northwest wind?

    "Living in the capital, the saying "The Great Difficulty Is Not Easy" applies to many officials in the capital.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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