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Chapter 23 The Xue Family's Third Household's Jealousy (Christmas Eve Addition)
If this last sentence had been spoken by another person, Xue Yi might be offended on the spot, and it would be a light order to kill him.But the person who said this was Xue Ping.

How Xue Ping came to be in this life, no one knows better than him.

Now Xue Ping is indeed a group of wives and concubines, his children are spared, and his life is considered prosperous.But if Mr. Xue refused to reach out back then, he might not even have a way out.

Xue Yi and Xue Ping grew up together since they were young. Although there are differences in the identities of master and servant, others don't know what Xue Ping is like. Doesn't it mean he doesn't?This is what Xue Ping dared to say, and only Xue Ping can make Xue Yi take it to heart.

Xue Yi was troubled in his heart, and said that it was not unreasonable to train his son to inherit his family's caravan. Could it be possible to hide adultery from his own son?

And before going out, Mr. Xue Wang said the same thing, asking him to train Xue Pan more so that he could have a skill besides studying.But Xue Pan's qualifications were there, and Xue Yi was really unwilling to do something that was twice the result with half the effort.

But on second thought, Xue Ping's words made sense.I only discipline myself, and what I can learn depends on Xue Pan's own good fortune.Even if he learns the skills of a peddler in the future, this idiot will not starve to death when he is a hundred years old.

Forget it, the palms and backs of his hands are full of flesh, even if he is not smart, he is still his own son, so he should accept his fate.

Xue Yi made up his mind, and immediately asked someone to call for the uncle, and decided to take Xue Pan with him.This also corresponds to the saying: the master leads the door, and the practice is up to the individual.

This time, the task of Xue's caravan leader was to go to the south of the Yangtze River to buy building materials, and then transfer to Shengjing to buy medicinal materials and leather goods.

One is Jiangnan and the other is Shengjing. There is a distance of more than 2000 miles between these two places, the south and the north, but the purchasing task falls on the shoulders of the Xue family at the same time.Could it be that Xue's family was played by someone when he took the task?

Naturally not.

It turned out that Xue Yi got the news early that there might not be enough building materials for the palace in Jiangnan this year.Everything else is okay, but the output of this wood has dropped sharply compared to previous years.

Because of the flood last year, many of the wood stored in the warehouse were soaked. Even if it is cut now, the wood itself needs to be processed and air-dried before it can be used as building materials.It's just that if these several processes are delayed, I'm afraid it will not be enough to hand in the quantity.

Because the rare woods such as mahogany and nanmu specially used by the royal family are specially provided by the imperial court, what the Xue family is going to hand over this time is only commonly available types such as fir and elm, but the quality should be superior. There are also many requirements, so only buying wood in the south of the Yangtze River will not be able to complete the task assigned by the emperor.

Or how can I say that the Xue family caravan cannot succeed without Xue Yi? As soon as the task of purchasing wood was announced, all the imperial merchants stayed away, and only Xue Yi took it.

There are also people watching from the other side and deciding that the Xue family will be punished if they fail to complete the task. They are laughing at the Xue family for accepting the most deceitful task. Other merchants laughed out loud.

One is that the number is not enough, and the other is that the conditions are extremely difficult. The two tasks are hot potatoes, and Xue Yi also took them together. I really don't know what to do.

And among all the laughter, there were some old foxes who saw the trick and just kept silent waiting for Xue Yi to come back and show his face in front of the emperor to receive the reward.

Just because buying timber in the south of the Yangtze River is definitely not enough in terms of quantity or quality to turn in the task, but Xue Yi can also go to Shengjing to buy all kinds of pine, cypress, Birch, camphor, Fraxinus mandshurica and other high-quality wood are at their best. Anyway, the two tasks of one south and one north fall on Xue's family, and the time limit for handing them in is very generous.In this way, Xue Yi even has the confidence to overfulfill the task.

In fact, it's no wonder that other imperial merchants couldn't think of this.The forest farms in the Northeast are piling up high-quality timber all year round. Because of the cold weather, more than half of the year is covered with ice and snow, which is not suitable for mass transportation.Not to mention that ordinary caravans do not have the ability to transport, and when the weather in the northeast is warm and the river water thaws, they cannot dispatch a large number of cargo ships in time, so those good logs in the northeast are always thrown into the warehouse of the forest farm to collect ashes.

As far as the Xue family caravan was concerned, although it had to go through twists and turns and suffer some hardships to transport wood to the northeast, as long as it was well planned and carefully planned, it was not a difficult task.Who made the Xue family ship more?To put it bluntly, the Xue family is still rich and powerful.

The merchant ships of Xue's family traveled south along the canal to Yangzhou. Xue Yixian took Xue Pan to the Jiangnan quarry. Their purchase target was the strange stone with Jiangnan characteristics.For Jiangnan, where gardens are popular, the most indispensable thing is the skilled craftsman who carves strange stones. It is not troublesome to buy this thing. The father and son wandered around for three or four days and they were able to buy almost everything.Xue Yi led people to transport the first batch of strange stones back to Beijing first, and the next step is to buy wood.

Then continue to board the boat and follow the canal to Changzhou Prefecture, where there is the largest forest farm under the name of the Xue family.There are not only the whole dry wood here, but also a large number of woodcarving craftsmen. Most of the furniture of the Xue family caravan is produced here.

However, last year's flood was so severe that even the warehouses here were damaged, and the amount of timber was as insufficient as Xue Yi expected.

The situation in other timber markets is also not optimistic.The total number of wood itself has been reduced a lot, and there are very few of them with good appearance.After five days, Xue Yi probably settled on two or three out of ten timbers, and stopped looking at the timber market, which was a waste of time.

And Xue Yi had already calculated the time. The few forest farms he was familiar with near Shengjing were all in bitter cold areas. Only after March could the snow stop there and the river thaw, so that a large number of cargo ships could be transported. Xue Ping went into battle lightly, and went to investigate the situation first. It was useless for the merchant ship to go early.He simply stayed in the south of the Yangtze River to buy some spices, cloth, antiques, porcelain, etc., which were prepared for his Xue family's shop in the capital.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the property of the Xue family.

The Xue family originated in the south of the Yangtze River and is known as one of the four major families in Jinling, with numerous properties under their name.

But when Xue Yi's father passed away, the property of the Xue family was divided into three shares by Xue Yi's brothers. Some industries have been transferred to the capital.In addition to a few old houses, land properties, time-honored shops and money houses in Jinling area, more industries are warehouses for turnover, and the prosperous shops are all in the capital.

The one who manages the huge warehouse is the third master of Xue Ying, the first room of Xue Ying.Xue Ying was the old lady's favorite back then, so she was allocated this housekeeper and earned a considerable fortune.

So what did the second master's family get?
The Xue family's business includes clothing, rouge powder, jewelry, antiques, pawnshops, and money shops. There are many other small items, and they are distributed in various provinces around the south of the Yangtze River. business, and concentrate all the shops and factories.

But Xue Sheng, the second master Xue who loves to play by nature, took over all kinds of business in other provinces at once, and he didn't think the distance was too far, and he walked on the road of inspecting shops all his life.

So this time when he came to Jiangnan, in addition to completing the tasks given by the royal family, Xue Yi also arranged for the goods to be transported to the capital, and sent ships to transport them back to Beijing.

So I took Xue Pan to the Xue family's old house and visited his third uncle.

The third master, Xue Ying, has a son named Xue Qiu, and two daughters, one Xue Baoqi and one Xue Baoqiong. All three children are descendants.

Baoqi is the eldest daughter, older, and has already set a marriage date with the son of the prefect of Jiangning.Baoqiong is the second young lady, the same age as Xue Pan.

Xue Qiu is a male and a young son, so he is naturally pampered in every way, and now he is not as good as Xue Pan in the original book.I love colors the most. I followed others to go to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion at a young age, and my reputation has long been ruined.

Master Xue San warmly treated his elder brother and nephew when he saw him, so this time Xue Yi returned to the south without bringing any female relatives, so only Ying and Qiu father and son entertained him during the dinner.

Xue Yi was afraid that Xue Pan, who had just learned a little bit, and Xue Qiu, a non-progressive thing, would learn badly after mixing together for a long time, so during the days when he lived in Xue Ying's residence, he kept Xue Pan by his side every day, not allowing him to take a step. leave.

I happened to take this opportunity to take Xue Pan from the warehouse to the store, from the inspection of the goods to the loading of the goods, and took care of the caravan's purchases in detail, up and down. teach mr.

Those who knew that Xue Yi did this to show his son how the Xue family caravan was actually operating, those who didn’t know thought that there was something wrong with the Jiangnan property of the Xue family, so that Xue Yi, the elder of the Xue family, had to be dispatched to personally supervise it.

Let's not go into details about what kind of operation Xue Pan has seen during this time, but let's just say that at the third master's mansion, Xue Qiu went to Xue Pan's residence to find his brother to play with, and once again missed the opportunity.

It was because Xue Qiu was an only son, had no playmates, and was always lonely. After finally getting an older brother, he was detained by his uncle every day, and he couldn't even speak a word on weekdays.He was so angry that he went back and told his mother, but Naqu cursed in front of her husband and son: "If you want me to say, your brother, the father and the son are hiding treachery in their hearts! It’s not that the deadline is coming, why do you rush to teach him how to do business? Make the child not like a child, and the adult not like an adult, what is he? But he tied his son by his side, and he couldn't even see him. How can there be so many business things to learn? Isn't this deliberately showing off their status as a big family and imperial merchant? If it weren't for the flattery he had when the grandfather was still there Flattery, this penny sign can make him hold it in his hand..."

"Shut up!" Just now when Qu Shi said to Xue Yi that "the deadline is coming", Xue Ying didn't even get angry, but when he heard the word "internal money", our third master's anger was aroused, and he stared at Qu Shi fiercely, and then Don't let her go on.

(End of this chapter)