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There are mountains in Nanjing...

Zhang Jing was in a passionate heart.

He suddenly felt a little reluctant to work hard again. The accumulation of more than ten generations is so terrible.

Even if the Fang family does not have a shop or tea mountain, only those three thousand acres of land will be enough to laugh at the king and prince.

This is not because Nanhe Bo Mansion has a lot of land, the problem lies in the income.

For example, the land granted to the vassal kings now is very large and there is no need to pay taxes, but in fact the income is very small. Because these grants of land do not allow the vassal kings to directly manage it!

After all, the court has always been guarding against the vassal kings, allowing them to directly control their large tracts of land, and they have certain guards themselves. Isn’t this clearly instigating the vassal kings to rebel?

Therefore, the income from these fields was actually controlled and collected by local officials and officials such as the chief officials who were stationed by the court to the vassal kings.

Therefore, the vassal kings only have property rights for the land, but have no power to govern. Even if they are under the supervision of the royal palace, these vassal officials are still serious imperial examinations and the appointment of the Ministry of Personnel has little to do with the vassal kings.

This led to an interesting phenomenon. According to some calculations in later generations, local officials generally collected 0.3-0.5 taels of silver per mu of land for the vassal kings, but only handed over to the vassal kings 0.015-0.03 taels, and the ones they received... were less than one tenth.

So in the late Ming Dynasty, the emperor rewarded more and more land for his sons who were about to settle for the vassal. If it were to be said that at the beginning, he would only give dozens or hundreds of hectares of land, but soon everyone discovered that if only give these land, if it was to ordinary gentry, it would certainly be considered a major landlord, enough to live the most luxurious life.

But after giving these benefits to the vassal kings, they could only eat braised vegetables and could not live a life at all.

So during the Wanli period, the land was given more and more. For example, the third son of Emperor Wanli, Zhu Changxun, had a fiefdom of 20,000 hectares (2 million acres), but in fact, he could only get 40,000 taels of silver transferred every year. Emperor Wanli's younger brother, King Lu, had 40,000 hectares (4 million acres), the largest among all the vassal kings, but he could only get 60,000 taels of silver a year.

This is millions of acres of land, and the income is extremely low. Even if you hand over this land to any stupid son of a landlord family to operate, the income will never be so low.

The Nanhe Bo family and Fang family have accumulated a serious 3,000 hectares of land. Compared with those vassal kings, the 300,000 acres may be just a fraction of the land, but the income here is probably only much higher than that of King Fu and Lu Wang families.

Besides, the vassal kings have to support a family, maintain the dignity of a vassal king, and maintain a certain guard. Although this guard has been controlled by the court, the military officers selected are also from the court, but you have to pay for the money, after all... this guard belongs to you.

Zhang Jingyi never expected that Nanhe Bo’s Mansion would be so rich.

He worked hard to sell shops, and the first period said he had received tens of thousands of taels of silver, but if he lost the expenses, although it would be huge profits, it was far less than that of eating while lying down.

What's more, Nan Hebo has other industries.

Farewell to Nan and Bo.

Zhang Jing returned to the public housing in a flash.

At this time, he became busy and searched for the clerk and said, "Go and find out how the lady from the Nanhe Bo family was born and how she was."

The clerk took the order and left.

Lu Xiangsheng stood aside and licked his mouth, and he was shocked.

Only then did Zhang Jingyi notice Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Mr. Lu, why are you still here?"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly and said, "Students congratulate Zhang Baihu."

Zhang Jing raised her eyebrows and said, "Congratulations on what I did?"

Lu Xiangsheng said seriously: "Of course it's because Zhang Baihu may... want..."

"I haven't even said the eight characters yet." Zhang Jing said seriously: "Even if I look down on others, they may not look down on me. You are the one who is forced to be a fool! Besides... if he wants to recruit me as his son-in-law, will I endure humiliation and bear the burden? I, Zhang Jing, a seven-foot man... Hey, do you think, will the women in the Nanhe Bofu like the tone of scholars? If I write a poem and have someone send the poem list to others, will I be secretly convinced? Oh, it's still not good, not good..."

When Zhang Jing said this, he shook his head and said, "Nanhe Bo Mansion is a noble family. It is only through merit that today. Children of such a family will definitely look down on scholars. Mr. Lu, don't get me wrong, it's not you. Alas... I'm for the sake of the country and the people..."

Zhang Jing raised her head and looked at Fang Liang, looking like she would not let her tears fall.

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it in annoyance and then said, "This... the student doesn't understand either."

Zhang Jingyi sighed: "Okay, let go of the matters of children first. But I think that Fang Shiwang is generous and speaks very straightforward. When dealing with him, he always feels that the spring breeze blows on his face. Oh, let's talk about the treasure first. Then I will draw a picture for you. If you take your confidants out of the city to practice, find the place, and then start digging. In addition... I need to find my father and ask him to come forward..."

"Proposal?" Lu Xiangsheng looked shocked.

Zhang Jing glared at him speechlessly, then shook his head and said, "No, I want to ask him to collect the food on his behalf. In addition..."

Zhang Jing wandered, then thought of something, but looked at Lu Xiangsheng with a little hesitation, and finally said, "I have to prepare a sum of silver, but I'm afraid the amount will not be reduced. Three or five thousand taels are needed. I said, don't mind, I have to send it to Eunuch Wei."

"Wei Zhongxian?" Lu Xiangsheng suddenly tensed his face and frowned and said, "What is Zhang Baihu's intention?"

Zhang Jingyi said, "These two exercises have hurt the East Factory, but who in the world doesn't know that this is the face of Eunuch Wei? We have taken such a big advantage, it's almost enough. Slapping twice in the face requires a sweet date, at least... it's better to ease the relationship for the time being, otherwise... we really annoyed people in this big place in Qingpingfang, and I'm afraid that I won't know how to die."

Zhang Jingyi still has this judgment.

No matter how arrogant you are, you cannot make people anxious. It is one thing to have an emperor behind you as your backer, but it is easy to block open guns, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent.

Zhang Jingyi looked at Lu Xiangsheng sincerely and continued to say with great thoughts: "After all, we want to do big things. Those who accomplish big things are not careful. Please ask Mr. Lu to be considerate."

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and then said, "Students are going to see you off?"

It seems that Lu Xiangsheng is not a pedantic person. Since Zhang Jingyi told him frankly, he naturally had nothing to say.

His reaction made Zhang Jing breathe a sigh of relief.

However, Zhang Jingyi shook his head and said, "I'll go, I'm better at this, so you'll be responsible for digging the treasure."

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said no more.

…………

At this time, in the Sili Supervisory Office.

Wei Zhongxian sighed, he was in a bad mood.

Of course, it is not for the Dongchang business.

After all, Wei Zhongxian has many part-time jobs, and Dongchang is just a dog under his head. This dog is useless. Will it make the dog owner angry to death?

For some reason, Ke Shi has become sick and has become sick after being sick in the past two days. Is there any disease to cure the disease?

So, after hearing the news, Huo Weihua, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, volunteered to offer a "immortal medicine" called "Linglu Drink".

Speaking of this, Huo Weihua was just a small military officer in the Ministry of War. Since he joined Wei Zhongxian, he immediately rose to prominence.

This elixir tastes sweet, and the imperial doctors had not judged any disease before, so Wei Zhongxian used it for Keshi.

Who knew... not only did the condition not improve, but instead worsened.

At this moment, Wei Zhongxian felt a little panicked.

He married Keshi in the palace. To a certain extent, Wei Zhongxian has made great contributions to Keshi today!

After all, Keshi is the emperor's wet nurse, and Emperor Tianqi valued feelings the most. When he was young, Emperor Tianqi lost his mother, he always regarded Keshi as his own mother.

Once Keshi makes any mistakes, not only the relationship between husband and wife, even the status in the palace may be shaken.

Wei Zhongxian was holding the pen absent-mindedly, but he stared at the bills in a daze, and he didn't move for a long time. He was really in a mood today.

At this moment, a little eunuch came hurriedly: "Nine Thousand Years..."

"What's the matter?" Wei Zhongxian raised his head weakly and glanced at the little eunuch.

The little eunuch said: "Zhang Jingyi, a hundred households, ran to the nine thousand-year-old house and prepared a generous gift..."

"Good gift?" At this time, Wei Zhongxian suddenly felt relieved, and his spirit improved a little suddenly, and he said, "How thick is it?"

"There are a few calligraphy and paintings, which seem to be genuine, and they are of great value. People over there say that the value is probably more than three thousand taels of silver."

"The word "女子" Wei Zhongxian fell down his pen when he heard this.

The little eunuch was so scared that his face looked like a mortal.

Wei Zhongxian said: "Send calligraphy and painting? Learn the same trick of scholars? Zhang Jing is so heartless when he gives a gift, and he doesn't ask about our hobbies, which shows that he is not sincere."

"Yes, yes, or send it back?"

Wei Zhongxian gradually calmed down, but said, "No, he was already very surprised to give gifts. What else can we say? We happened to leave the palace tonight, so we had to help our wife seek medical treatment and ask for medicine. You ask him to sit in our outer house. They are all people who serve His Majesty, so the relationship should not be too stiff."

After hearing this, the eunuch hurriedly said, "Yes."

After watching the eunuchs leave, Wei Zhongxian, who was upset, leaned on the back of the official hat and chair at this time, sighed, and couldn't help but mutter: "We have been waiting for this gift for too long. Now we remember us..."

As he said that, he thought of the story of Madam Fengsheng Keshi again, and he couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

After a long time of doubt, he finally got up and said to the eunuch who was serving him: "Let's go out of the palace, yes, I'll order someone to ask for the imperial physician again and take good care of his wife. Did Your Majesty go this morning?"

The eunuch hurriedly said, "I'm going, Your Majesty sees that his wife is in bad health and has a bad temper today."

"oh."

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