Tong Jia anecdote

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"Today, our Han family is highly respected, and the heads of all the houses are here. As for me, I am old, and I will no longer care about the business of the Han family in the future. I will leave it to the dog Tong Jiu to take care of it. I hope everyone Help her more." Han Xiannian said, and solemnly handed the key to the treasury, which symbolized the financial power of the Han family, to Tong Jiu.

He also said some words of encouragement symbolically, and Tong Jiu nodded again and again, looking very teachable.

Although on the surface it is a plain and unremarkable family inheritance, it is actually the end of one family era and the beginning of another.

"Brother Jiu, it's cold in the spring." Hong Xiao came back from the grandmother's side, and saw Tong Jiu wearing only a jacket, sitting cross-legged on the warm kang.

Holding the brush in one hand and calculating in the other, the ledgers on the small table are piled up so high that I can't see his expression clearly.

Hong Xiao put on a gown for her and brought a cup of hot tea. Ever since she took over the business, the sound of the abacus in the room was crackling day and night. , rest."

Tong Jiu put down her pen, rubbed her face in annoyance, and took a few sips of tea quietly.

Sighing for a long time, "The Han family's deficit is so huge. The treasury is empty. According to the book, the loose silver taels that can be moved are only one hundred thousand taels." He looked up at the beams of the house, "There is still this house. But what is owed Foreign debt is much more than that."

"This is what to do. Let me just say, donating Wanguan's family property, there is no such cheap thing in the world. It can be seen that this Han Xiannian also has his own selfish intentions." Hong Xiao also frowned, "Is the business not good?"

Tong Jiu nodded, "They are mainly engaged in the business of silk, satin, tea and grain. Silk and satin farms are everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. The competition can be imagined, and the profit is only mediocre. Tea, in the past, was mainly sent to the north, but now It can’t be delivered, and the market is cut off. Although the grain store is still profitable, it can’t afford other losses.”

After finishing speaking, he drank the tea, "However, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Han family has been losing money all the year round, they still have business shops in various places. As long as they raise some silver, they will open up the sales of tea and silk from the north and the south. A good entry."

"Brother Jiu, I think your complexion is a little hot inside." Hong Xiao is proficient in the technique of qi and yellow, and looked at Tong Jiu's face and said, "the old saying goes, spring covers autumn, and you must not be so greedy for cold again." .”

Tong Jiu put on her shoes, put her braids behind her back, and buttoned them up, "I'm going out for a walk on the street, and I'll be back later." After saying that, she went out.Hearing that she was going out, Hongxiao hurriedly took the hat and handed it to her, gave her some instructions, and sent her out.

Tong Jiu grew up outside the Great Wall and was used to riding horses, so now when she comes to Jiangnan, she never rides in a sedan chair. She wanders around the streets where the horses are free to rein, saying that she is just strolling, but in fact she is looking at the shops and businesses on the street.

But in his heart, he was really worried. According to the current situation of the Han family, even if they sold all the shopfronts and mansions in various places, they might not be able to pay off the huge shortfall in their accounts.If you continue to take a few more steps without breaking the boat, there may be some turning points.

I walked around to my shop to have a look, the business was okay, I took off the citrine sunglasses on the bridge of my nose, thinking to myself, Lama stood there for a long time.Thoughts went around, the clearest thing was that she now wanted to get 50 taels of silver, and the sooner the better.

"Brother Jiu, I heard that you are going to mortgage this old house? Does the third master know about this?" In recent days, there have been more and more creditors in the foyer of the house, and their words have become more and more unpleasant.This even prompted Tong Jiu's idea of ​​mortgaging the Han family to borrow money.

"Auntie, it's not like you don't know about the family's business. If the family continues to make ends meet like this, it will take less than half a year to sell the garden and pay off the creditors." Tong Jiu said from his waist Pulling down the key to the vault, "there is neither gold nor silver in the vault, how can I take care of this house?"

After getting in touch with him for a while, the grandma also knew a little about Tong Jiu, and knew that he was a man of courage, but she never expected that he would be scrambling to mortgage the mansion in just a few days.

"Regardless of whether the Han family was driven out of the garden by the creditors, or I was mortgaged and the garden was confiscated, this is something I don't want to see. But in the current situation, I can only do this." Tong Jiu furrowed her eyebrows angrily, and threw the vault key on the table.

Ever since she was blocked in front of the door by several creditors last time, and she spoke rudely, a smoldering fire was smoldering in her heart. In addition to the previous internal heat, she has recently become ill.

Grandma persuaded him not to stop, and hurried to Han Xiannian's courtyard.

"Drink the medicine." Hong Xiao sent away the grandma and also brought the fried medicine. The fire in Tong Jiu's heart had been caused when Tong Jia's family was exterminated. Now, if she is a little anxious, she can't help it. Headache and brain fever.

"They're all short-sighted." Tong Jiu drank the medicine awkwardly, Hong Xiao brought her candied fruit and plums, and she picked one that was pleasing to the eye and put it in her mouth. , covering the bitterness in his mouth before.

"You! My colleague is an enemy, how could someone lend you a lot of money to develop business." Hong Xiao shook her head helplessly. What the hell, I have never seen such a cruel world.

Seeing that she was looking at Sheng Meizi's kraft paper curiously at this time, she smiled and said, "Why, do you like this? It was given by Yang Zhengtang's buddy when he was collecting medicine, and it is said that they made it secretly."

"Yangzhengtang——." Tong Jiu pinched a plum in his hand and looked at it, thinking about the drugstores he saw on the street a few days ago, there were no less than a dozen of them under the name of "Yangzhengtang".

The so-called "Meng Yi Yang Zheng", she thinks this name is very good, so the impression is also very deep.Hastily put the plums in his mouth, his eyes lit up.

"Since it is said that a colleague is an enemy. It is not a colleague, can we make a match?" He said and called the shopkeeper in front to find out whose business Yangzhengtang was in and where the mansion was.

See if you can entrust some connections, and hand over a post to meet their boss.

"Boss, since you grew up in the capital, you must have thought that any business that can supply imperial medicine must be related to the palace. If you want to say that the business of Yangzhengtang is actually from Prince Yi's family." Shopkeeper Lu Tell the truth.

"Prince Yi——Hong Xiao?" Tong Jiu pondered for a while, "He opened Yangzhengtang?" She herself didn't believe it when she said it, how could a majestic royal family member open a pharmacy?

"My lord, the prince's name is not something we dare to call out! Let's put it this way, this Yangzhengtang is a business in the family of Prince Xianyi and his concubine." The treasurer Lu said carefully in a low voice, "It's Hong Xiao's third brother Hong Xiao. Tun's widow, the business of Fucha's natal family."

Tong Jiu said to Hong Xiao, who was pouring tea, "I was impressed only because the name of Prince Yi was similar to yours. But Hong Tun didn't know about it."

"Thinking that he passed away in the sixth year of Yongzheng's double tenth year, how do you know his name?" Hong Xiao chuckled lightly.

"That's not surprising. I was born in Yongzheng eight years ago." Tong Jiu nodded. Hong Xiao knew the past of these clans and families best. Hearing what she said, she must have known about it. of.

Hongxiao really said like a few treasures: "Back then, it was the marriage that the sage ordered, but unfortunately the bridegroom died first when he was unmarried. After hearing about it, Mrs. Fucha insisted on wearing hemp and filial piety for her deceased husband, but the previous king refused. She cried and knelt outside the mansion until night, The late king still didn’t answer. But she insisted on keeping the filial piety after returning home. Until two years later, the late king passed away, and asked to be filial piety for the late king.”

"This kind of chaste woman, don't you want to set up a memorial arch to show her loyalty?" Tong Jiu couldn't help curling her lips when she heard this.

"That's natural. After the Holy Majesty learned about it, he ordered Wang Fujin to recognize her as his daughter-in-law. Not only did he give her a title, but he also adopted a child from another house to her. As the saying goes, 'the Fucha family has no sons but has sons to show respect What a reward for a woman.'”

Tong Jiu took a sip of water regretfully, and then asked, "Butler Lu, who is the head of Yangzhengtang now, this Fucha family?"

"It's her sister. It's strange to say that their Fucha family's house is strange. Her sister was also engaged and unmarried, and her husband died for the country. After that, it was rumored that their Fucha family's house, Kefu, So now the second young lady of the Fucha family is in her twenties, and she is still a widow in her natal family. Instead, she has a nephew who was adopted from another house, and he is still young. Therefore, the owner of the Yangzhengtang is this second aunt."

Sending off shopkeeper Lu, Tong Jiu said with emotion, "Although Fucha was not as good as my Tong Jia family in the early years, the empresses and concubines of the Holy Majesty are all from Fucha's lineage. In the palace, my Tong Jia family's temperament can be regarded as It's all over."

Presumably, this is also the reason why her father insisted on sending her into the palace that day.It's a pity that she was used to running on the grassland since she was a child, and she couldn't bear the shackles of the deep palace.

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