Seeing Shi Zhongkui's firm attitude, King Zhongshun was naturally willing to get 1,500 kilograms of Babao wine for free.

Moreover, if these eight-treasure wine can be sold for a price higher than 200,000 silver when it is sent to the south, it will mean that I will make a fortune after being rescued, and I will feel very good instantly.

Of course, Shi Zhongkui was not at a loss. It was not easy to buy a mature farm with an area of ​​10,000 acres in the capital.

Land is the most stable and valuable wealth in ancient times.

Grain is a necessity. In addition to being used as a staple food, it is also the main ingredient for wine making, rice cakes, candies and other non-staple foods. There is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.

Therefore, whether the ancients were officials or ordinary people, when they had money, they bought houses first and land second.

Money left at home can only eat ashes, but if you put it in farmland, you can still earn a lot of income every year.

In the future, these fertile fields alone will be enough to maintain the family's inheritance.

Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong were equally happy.

After Shi Zhongkui purchased such a large area of ​​land in the capital, he would naturally do his best to prevent the grassland tribes who would inevitably go south this spring, which indirectly protected everyone's wealth in the capital.

Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong even thought that with his ability, it would be fine if the grassland tribesmen, let alone the Great Wall, were not counterattacked by Shi Zhongkui and led troops to invade the grassland.

King Zhongshun was so happy that he called his servant without haste and ordered him to go home and ask the palace chief to come with the land deed, and exchanged 1,500 kilograms of Babao wine on the spot.

Shi Zhongkui didn't stop him even after thinking about it. As long as it was not given away for free, the emperor had no right to interfere with this matter.

Besides, he exchanged it for wine instead of directly taking out 150,000 or 200,000 taels of silver, so the nature is different.

No matter how jealous the outside world is, they will only be jealous of their ability to brew Babao Liquor instead of spreading rumors that they have a shady collusion with the clan prince.

Even a discerning person can see that if 1,500 kilograms of Babao wine is sold to the south of the Yangtze River or the northwest, it will definitely cost more than 200,000 taels of silver.

This is not to take advantage of King Zhongshun, but to buy property at a high price and plan to settle down in the capital for generations.

In the inner house.

Baochai and Yingchun were woken up by Ying'er and Huhu. When they learned that their husband-in-law had bought ten thousand acres of fertile land for their family, they were so excited that they couldn't help themselves.

This is similar to modern society. If you buy an entire building to collect rent, a woman will go crazy with joy.

He quickly called Xiang Ling, Pearl and others in to help his sisters dress up.

It used to take half an hour to dress up, but it only took half a stick of incense to finish it.

Baochai and Yingchun each took their own warehouse keys and hurried to the warehouse between the back house and the middle courtyard.

Seeing that the housekeeper Yu Shun was already waiting outside the warehouse with his people, Baochai asked hurriedly, "Is the master still accompanying the prince and the two father-in-laws?"

Yu Shun nodded hurriedly.

After hearing about the purchase of the farm, their servants were also very happy.

Naturally, these ten thousand acres of farmland were left to be managed by domestic servants like them. Not to mention making money from corruption, just managing at least two to three hundred households, with a population of about a thousand, Yu Shun felt that he was finally getting ahead.

Otherwise, he would only be in charge of the front yard of the mansion and more than thirty servants, which would show his ability as a great butler.

In the future, when I get married, my children will be able to make a living on the farm.

But Shi Zhongkui was even happier with the twenty soldiers he found from the Duke of Tui's Mansion.

It doesn't take much thinking to know that the master's family will allocate 50 acres of farmland to each soldier for cultivation.

Moreover, land rent is definitely 10% lower than the normal 50% ratio, and even 20% lower after meritorious service is common.

If the owner spends money, provides food, hires labor, and transforms the ten thousand acres of farmland into a paddy field where rice and fish can be raised together.

After cultivating 50 acres of land in a year, after paying the rent, the family will be able to leave at least 70 to 80 dan, nearly 10,000 jins of rice, and 2,000 to 3,000 jins of rice fish.

At that time, not only can you easily marry a wife, but you can also easily support three or five children.

Ten or twenty years later, his son will be called a soldier of the master's family and will be assigned 50 acres of fertile land to cultivate. Then his life will not only be perfect, but also worthy of his ancestors.

Thanks to the contributions of his three or five sons and a dozen grandsons, when he went down to meet his ancestors, he felt more confident to speak.

Therefore, Shi Zhongkui just exchanged for himself the farmland that was passed down from his family, and united his family from top to bottom.

Even Ying'er, Amber, Xiangling and Pearl now dare to think about having several sons for Shi Zhongkui.

Not to mention competing for these 10,000 acres of farmland with the two ladies’ heirs, if the master purchases other scattered farmland in the future, his children will have the opportunity to be allocated these farmlands.

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In the middle courtyard, Hanmoxuanli.

Not long after Shi Zhongkui accompanied King Zhongshun, Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong to drink tea and chat, they saw Yu Shun and Ying'er walking in from the back door.

After first saluting King Zhongshun and the others, Ying'er walked up behind Shi Zhongkui and whispered in his ear, "Master, madam, someone has already brought out 30 50-pound bags of Babao wine from the warehouse.

altar.

But after exchanging these 1,500 kilograms of Babao wine, we only have two jars and one hundred kilograms of medicinal wine used to make the mother wine."

Shi Zhongkui nodded, "I will go to the warehouse later to put a thousand kilograms of medicinal wine. You tell the two ladies that the spirits used for mixing can only be better than the previous ones."

And the exchange ratio has been changed from the previous 1:10 to 1:9."

Ying'er was immediately unhappy. Previously, she could get 11,000 jins at 1:10, and the extra 1,000 jins would be one hundred thousand taels of silver.

But Baochai and Yingchun would not refute what Shi Zhongkui said, let alone Ying'er.

Fortunately, when she thought about buying all ten thousand kilograms of Babao wine, which would cost one million taels of silver, Ying'er's breathing became heavy.

The look in Shi Zhongkui's eyes was so full of affection that she wished she could immediately throw herself into his arms and rub her ears and temples together.

"It's the master, Nunu, go and report to the madam right now."

Shi Zhongkui turned his head and glanced at Ying'er, who called herself "Nu Nu", and immediately saw the love and restlessness in her eyes.

I couldn't help but chuckle to myself, this woman was worthy of being born in the dragon zodiac, and she felt lustful when she heard that her family was going to make a lot of money.

If they were to know, he had directly exchanged tens of thousands of kilograms of medicinal wine with Cheng Huang.

After deducting the thousand kilograms that have been used, sold and prepared to be taken out, there are still more than eight thousand kilograms. I wonder if Baochai and others will be frightened.

He winked at Ying'er and then waved her to go to the backyard.

Ying'er bit her lip, knelt down and saluted, and finally couldn't help but wink before leaving.

Shi Zhongkui felt itchy in his heart when he saw Ying'er's expression for the first time.

Fortunately, Ying'er kept her back to the others, otherwise, when she came to her senses, she would be embarrassed to see Shi Zhongkui for several days.

However, the desire that flashed in Shi Zhongkui's eyes just now could not escape the eyes of Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong.

These two eunuchs have served the old and new emperors all their lives, and their eyesight is second to none.

Not to mention that in the palace, there are really not too many concubines, nobles, and maids like Ying'er just now.

After watching too much, Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong could tell the problem at a glance from Ying'er's back and her legs that stuck together when walking.

Dai Quan laughed and said, "Liu Yuan Gong, he is a truly famous scholar."

Shi Zhongkui was stunned for a moment and then reacted.

This guy is saying that he is acting like a hooligan.

The romance of celebrities is a good story. In the eyes of the ancients, only scholars with great fame deserve to wear red sleeves.

Others can describe the same behavior as obscene by saying, "If you don't study hard, you only think about messy things."

But it was hard for Shi Zhongkui to say that Po Daiquan was laughing at him.

When people praise themselves as "celebrities" and make their words clear, the only one who loses face will be themselves.

I could only smile helplessly.

Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong immediately laughed.

Only then did King Zhongshun react. He couldn't help but think to himself that it seemed that the world-famous Liu Yuan Gong was not a flawless saint.

This, in fact, made King Zhongshun feel a lot more relaxed. Since everyone has the problem of being weak and weak, he would not be so cautious when facing Shi Zhongkui.

After waiting for about a stick of incense, the chief historian of the palace hurriedly entered Han Mo Pavilion with his people.

After saluting Shi Zhongkui, Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong, the chief historian asked in a low voice in King Zhongshun's ear, "My lord, it took you seven or eight years to build that farm in Tongzhou. Do you really want to sell it to Liu Yuan Gong?"

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"What do you know?" King Zhongshun immediately became dissatisfied and took the box containing the land deed from Chang Shi.

He stood up and walked to Shi Zhongkui with a smile, "Boqian, here's the land deed."

Prince Palace Chief Shi couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

My prince actually treated Liu Yuan Gong with such courtesy. No, this was not polite at all, it was simply flattery.

Then he guessed that there must be something he didn't know about, and his attitude towards Shi Zhongkui immediately changed 180 degrees.

Although the Palace Chief Shi is a fifth-rank official appointed by the imperial court and is responsible for monitoring the princes, the effectiveness depends on who the prince is and how holy he is.

For someone like King Zhongshun, Changshi was basically his butler.

And when necessary, he, a long history man, can also be used to take the blame.

Therefore, the long history of Prince Zhongshun was not only smiling all over his face, but when he saw Shi Zhongkui glance at him, he unconsciously bent down a lot.
To be continued...