Chapter 823: Settle accounts and kill pigs
"Lai Da spent 10,000 taels of silver to donate an official position for his son, and then spent almost the same amount of money on donating an official position to clear the vacancy. Well, donating an official position and clearing the vacancies do not allow outsiders to say anything. I just don't understand. Why is it that the chief steward of your Rongguo Mansion has such a rich income that he can easily spend one to two thousand taels of silver to donate officials to fill vacancies? Then how rich is your family? I’m afraid even one hundred thousand taels of silver can’t be found out, right?”
Feng Ziying smiled and patted Wang Xifeng's round and plump legs with her hands, but what she said made Wang Xifeng and Ping'er stunned. Twenty thousand taels of silver?
What a huge number is this? ! You must know that twenty taels of silver these days can allow an ordinary farmer to live in peace and contentment for a year, and the monthly payment for an ordinary maid in the house is only five hundred copper coins!
Even the most prestigious maids, such as Yuanyang, Amber, Caiyun, Caixia, Meiren, etc., only have one tael of silver, such as Baoyu's Purple Silk, Qixi, Qiu Wen, Musk Moon, and several other maids. The rhododendrons of Daiyu, the chess players welcoming the spring, the servant books exploring the spring, the green wisps of the Xiangyun, and the paintings celebrating the spring are just a drop of money.
Xiren and Ping'er are an exception. Xiren originally only had one tael of silver, but because he was combed with precious jade, it increased to two taels of silver. This is the standard for Tongfang's girl, and Ping'er also bears the reputation of Tongfang's girl. Taking two taels of silver was the reason why Jia Lian was very dissatisfied at the beginning. He kept talking about Ping'er's monthly practice of taking two taels of silver, but he failed to get his hands on it.
"How many years has Lai Da worked as a housekeeper in your Rongguo Mansion? He is a son of the family, and Aunt Lai started with the old lady. How much is his monthly salary? Is it twenty taels? Plus the year-end bonus, Can Lai Da get three or four hundred taels a year?" Seeing that Wang Xifeng and Heping'er were so shocked that they dared not speak out, Feng Ziying asked again.
For example, Jin Chuan'er received one tael of silver per month from Jia's house, but it doubled to two taels of silver when he arrived at Feng's house. Two and a half taels of silver, but later after both Jin Chuan'er and Xiang Ling were combed by Feng Ziying, Feng Ziying gave them both a monthly salary of five taels of silver, which was the monthly standard for the girls who were married to Feng Mansion.
According to the money exchange of this era, one tael of silver can be exchanged for one thousand, two hundred copper coins, and two hundred copper coins is the difference between a big girl with a card and an ordinary big girl.
Of course, in addition to these monthly payments, there will definitely be bonuses at the end of the year, and the amount is not small. Basically, it is distributed according to about half of the monthly payments each year. Depending on the generosity of the host, of course there are also some red envelope rewards, which are the host single Individual rewards for single pairs.
"How is that possible?!" Ping'er couldn't help but sneered and shook his head repeatedly, "My ancestors and my wife only had twenty taels per month. Although I don't know, Master Lian's monthly income was only fifty taels." Sales, the eldest master and the second master only have eighty taels at most. Although Lai Da is a housekeeper, he is not a master. How can he surpass the masters? However, eighteen taels is already considered the limit, so we still have to watch. His hard work over the years has paid off."
Fifteen taels is indeed not too little. One hundred and eighty taels a year, plus bonuses and rewards, means that the annual income is at least three hundred taels. But compared with 20,000 taels of silver, there is really a big difference. Yes, this means that Lai Da used his sixty or seventy years of income to donate an official position for his son. But how many years has Lai Da been working as a housekeeper?
Even the food and clothing expenses in Jia's house are under the control of the house. In addition, Lai's family can probably earn one hundred taels of silver a year. Four hundred taels of silver a year, it takes no more than a cent of the master's savings. Forty or fifty years, is this possible?
And Lai Dan can spend nearly 20,000 taels of silver to donate his son's official position. The family's wealth will definitely not be limited to this. According to Feng Ziying's estimate, it will at least quadruple. In other words, the family's wealth will be at least More than seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver.
“Ping’er, where do you think this rich family background comes from?” Feng Ziying looked at Ping’er with a smile and asked.
Ping'er glanced sideways at Wang Xifeng, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Guan Lai's annual income must be more than three hundred taels of silver, but..."
"But what? Isn't it just that he is in charge of various daily chores in the house? Although Sister Feng is in charge of distributing money, she can only listen to the reports of people below on how to do it and how much it costs. Come on, as long as it's not too outrageous, she doesn't have much energy to worry about it, right?" Feng Ziying smiled faintly, "With Lai Da's hands, I guess I can make a fortune of ten thousand or eight thousand taels this year, right?"
Ping'er was startled and lowered his voice subconsciously: "Master, it's impossible, right? How can he be so bold?"
"Huh, how could he be so bold? I'm afraid he is as brave as the sky. He didn't pay attention to the masters in the house at all. He thought that he could fool you casually. It seems that he has fooled you for decades. If you don't just come here, how else can you explain that you took out these 20,000 silver coins so casually? As far as I know, Lai Shangrong seems to have been raised outside the house like a young master since he was a child. This 20,000 silver coins Don’t you need to spend money every year?” Feng Ziying snorted coldly.
While Feng Ziying was talking to Ping'er, Wang Xifeng was already pondering the mystery behind it. She was much more calculating than Ping'er.
I didn’t say it before, Grandma Lai has her ancestors to rely on, and the Rongguo Mansion is getting along well. Even if she is a little greedy, everyone doesn’t care about it for the sake of their ancestors, but this time the situation is different.
The Jia family spent all their money building this garden, and they still owe a lot of debt. They will have to live a tight life for a long time in the future. Moreover, the Lai family also robbed Jia She and Jia Zhen of the meat in their mouths. It's evil. With Jia She and Jia Zhen, the two leading figures in Rong Ning's second house, it can be said that the right time, the right place and the right people are no longer with the Lai family.
This man made so much money from repairing the garden, and secretly spent 10,000 to 20,000 yuan to donate an official position to fill the vacancy for his son. If this matter were to be spread, I'm afraid the whole house would explode.
Wang Xifeng has been the head of the Rongguo Mansion for so many years, and she still has some calculations in her heart.
Even if the Rongguo Mansion is tighter on food, clothing, and favors, it would be impossible to live without 25,000 taels of silver a year, especially after the garden is repaired, and these expenses will still have to go Go up, so if you throw it a little bit, you have to go to more than 27,800 taels.
Now, in order to build the garden, the Duke of Rongguo has to borrow money from relatives such as the Lin family and the Xue family, and has to repay the external debts of 30,000 to 40,000 taels. Even if the repayment is divided into three years, at least one year has to be arranged. Twelve thousand taels of silver.
In other words, according to a rough estimate, starting from the eighth year of Yonglong, in the next three years, the Rongguo Mansion would not be able to survive without forty thousand taels of silver each year.
But what about the current income of Rongguo Mansion? The combined salary of the two gentlemen is only less than one thousand taels and less than two thousand taels, which is a drop in the bucket. The annual income of the Zhuangzi shop in the mansion is about 21,200 taels, depending on the harvest, but for garden repairs After selling some Zhuangzi shops, this income may have dropped sharply to only about 17,000 taels.
Calculated in this way, the deficit in the past three years will be 70,000 taels. Where can we get these 70,000 taels of silver? This does not include the fact that if Jia Yuanchun needs to take care of things in the palace, the amount will be inconsequential.
As for the money Wang Xifeng borrowed from relatives, he didn't dare to include it. No one knew how to pay it back.
It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Wang Xifeng was reluctant to give up the power she had in her hands. She also knew that her tens of thousands of taels of private money could not withstand much trouble. She also had to make plans for her future.
What are your plans? Now Feng Ziying singled out the Lai family's affairs and asked Wang Xifeng whether he understood that it was time to kill the pig, otherwise the master's family would have nothing to eat.
"Brother Keng, the Lai family is not that restless. Not to mention that Aunt Lai is very affectionate to our ancestors, and Lai Da is not an easy person to get along with. The relationship is deep-rooted in the house, and even the two masters are not willing to do it easily. Provoke him.”
Wang Xifeng's focused expression when thinking about the problem made Feng Ziying very eye-catching, especially the pair of bare feet that unknowingly stretched out from the skirt. The toes smeared with impatiens juice were white and red, which was really confusing and made him a little bit confused. Trance.
Didn't hear Feng Ziying's reply. When Wang Xifeng saw it, he quickly took back his foot in embarrassment and kicked Feng Ziying again, almost knocking Feng Ziying out of bed. "Death! I'm talking to you about business."
“Huh?” Feng Ziying staggered and quickly sat down.
Ping'er also quickly turned her face away. The scene between grandma and Uncle Feng was so shocking that she didn't dare to look at it.
"It is true that the Lai family is not easy to move, but do you, the Jia family, have any good choices?" Feng Ziying sneered, "A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist, Sister Feng, please first tell the two aunts about the current situation in your house. As soon as they heard this, they knew what to do. If they want to ask you what to do, just tell them about Lai Shangrong's donation. I think they will understand. For the time being, let's not make it clear for the time being. Let's move first. If the ancestor asks, , and then explain, all she can understand is nothing more than leaving the Lai family with dignity in the end,..."
Seeing that Wang Xifeng was silent, Feng Ziying smiled again and said, "Don't worry, as long as you tell the aunt, I think Uncle Shi Shi will take the initiative to come to you to discuss it. Well, you might as well let him take the lead. The old lady will also You can let him take the lead first, he is the most serious head of the family..."
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