If the business woman does not help the poor, the villain's dream of prosperity will be shatter

Nanny Chun frowned and hesitated for a long time before she said softly, "Then sell some shops with good locations, and buy some shops with bad locations and average harvests to fill in. If the young lady wants to deal with these shops and farms, the steward Chang said that he has some connections."

Qin Shu thought for a moment and said softly, "But it's not easy to falsify the income account books of these shops."

Nanny Chun said, "Young lady used to learn housekeeping from Madam, so you should know that when Madam keeps accounts, the income and expenditure are always kept in two separate books. Each store has its own account, and the shopkeeper will bring the account book to the mansion once a month to report, but the income is reported once a quarter."

If the payment is made once a quarter, a store will have forty records in ten years.

Now that the matter is imminent, it is difficult to fake it.

Qin Shu thought for a moment and asked Madam Chun, "Madam, did you bring the income books of these shops?"

Nanny Chun took out a booklet from her waist and handed it to Qin Shu.

Qin Shu took the account book and opened it, but found that the annual income from the dozen or so shops and several farms recorded in the account book was only more than 10,000 taels.

Of course, the fields and orchards mostly produce grain, fruits, vegetables and livestock.

These are all used in daily life in the mansion.

Every year, my mother would keep some of the harvest for her own use, and send some to the Jishan Hall in Jinzhou and to poor members of the clan.

For an ordinary family, this income of more than ten thousand taels is a huge fortune that they would not even dare to think about.

But in the Qin family, this amount of money is not enough to cover the family's expenses for a year.

Qin Shu remembered that her father funded the establishment of the Qin Clan School with his own money, and all the expenses of the school were borne by her father alone.

As well as the tribe’s ancestor worship, ancestral hall repairs, etc.

These items alone cost four thousand taels of silver a year.

Every year when there was a shortage of food, my mother would go outside the city to distribute porridge for relief, and this would cost about two to three thousand silver coins.

There were also three cousins ​​from my second uncle's family who paid tuition for private school and college, and their food, clothing, housing and transportation in the college were all paid for by my father.

Not only that, the East Palace also has to subsidize the West Palace with several thousand taels of silver every year for expenses.

Therefore, at the end of each year’s income in the account book, there was a large sum of money transferred from my mother’s private income.

My father and my second uncle separated in the second year after my second uncle got married.

My father is a businessman and my second uncle is taking the imperial examination.

Although my second uncle's family coveted the wealth of the East Mansion, they were very disdainful of my father's identity as a businessman.

In the past, my father invited my second uncle to invest and share the profits, but he flatly refused.

He looked so evasive, as if he was afraid that the smell of money on his father would tarnish his noble status as a scholar.

The irony is that although my second uncle looked down on my father, his status as a scholar was donated by my father.

The current West Mansion was also bought by my father and given to my second uncle's family.

All their family's expenses were supported by their father.

Now, decades later, my second uncle is still a scholar.

But my father became the richest man in Jinzhou.

Daddy treats his brothers with all his heart, but mom sees through it.

Perhaps the account that my mother kept was meant to protect my second uncle's family?

Qin Shu counted the silver bills in the box again. As it was almost the end of the year and the bills from the shops had not been collected yet, there were not many silver bills left, less than three thousand taels.

She tapped the account books with her fingers and said, "Don't touch these shops for now. Nanny Chun, Shu'er, the manager of the outer courtyard, is not available these two days. Please find Manager Chang tomorrow and ask him to take these contract books and ask the accountant in the mansion to calculate how much silver these shops and land are worth. Then bring people to collect the harvests from all the shops in Jinzhou City."

Nanny Chun quickly agreed.

"My mother's personal money and private property are all with me. Don't touch them. The funeral will require silver, and the public treasury doesn't have enough silver. Sell the public treasury's shops first."

As for other shops and properties...

Except for her mother's dowry, all other shops and properties are under Qin Shu's name.

That was at the beginning of this year. After the wedding date was set with the Cheng family, Qin Shu's parents transferred all the shops and farms they had purchased over the years to her name.

There were twelve shops in Jinzhou City alone, and more than a dozen in the capital.

Most of the farmland is in the Liangdi area, and all of it is first-class fertile land.

There are two villas outside Jinzhou City, four in Jin, two in Liang, and three in the suburbs of Beijing.

There is a warm spring in a mountain villa in the suburbs of Beijing.

But her mother told her not to spread these things, so now no one in the mansion knows about it except her, Nanny Chun, and Steward Chang, who are her trusted servants.

It turned out that her mother had already paved all the way out for her so early on.

In her previous life, she played a good hand badly...

Qin Jingyuan's wealth is known to everyone in the Great Zhou.

There is only a little property in the public account. Not only will my second uncle's family go crazy, but the elders in the clan will also make a fuss.

The nanny was right: money can move people's hearts.

This huge fortune is enough to make it worth their while to take risks.

Once I am controlled by them in the mansion and unable to move, won’t I be at their mercy?

Just like in the previous life, if someone was murdered and no one in the victim’s family complained, who would seek justice for them?

So what difference does it make who these shops and properties are under?

According to the course of events in the previous life, when the parents were buried, Second Aunt would "inadvertently" mention lighting a perpetual lamp for them in the Pudu Temple. As the only daughter of the East Mansion, Qin Shu would naturally take the lead.

Only after going to Pudu Temple did Second Aunt take action.

But at the same time, Qin Shu could only escape by going to Pudu Temple.

If things go well, she will need to hide her whereabouts for a while, and her mother and the owners of the shops under her name must be absolutely loyal!

Qin Shu knew that she was a weak woman, and although she had great ambition, she could not suppress those slippery and disobedient shopkeepers.

Without the support of their parents, I am afraid some people will change their minds.

But if so many stores were to take action at the same time, it would definitely alert my uncle and aunt.

Thinking of this, Qin Shu said, "Second uncle will definitely discuss with the clan leader to adopt a son to my parents. I will agree to second uncle's proposal, but I will try to postpone the adoption ceremony until after my parents have passed the 57th day of mourning."

"We have more than a month, which is enough time! In addition to collecting the harvests of the shops in the city this year, I also want to ask Manager Chang to check for me and see which shop owners have other ideas. These shops will be sold as soon as possible after receiving the harvest."

The best plan for now is to quickly sell the shop that he cannot control, turn it into silver in his own hands, and find an opportunity to escape as soon as possible.

I will deal with the remaining shops later.

As for the public property...

The harvest this year was running low, and the funeral required a lot of money. With no money in the account, the only option was to sell the shop.

And it was the end of the year, and most of the shops were being sold at the same time. I was afraid that the price would be very low, and my second uncle would definitely not agree to sell...

Qin Shu gently stroked the bracelet on her wrist and suddenly had an idea.