Xue Jiazi

There has been a major incident in Jinling recently. As long as there are people walking on the street, almost everyone knows that the masters of the Zhen family are in trouble. I heard that the old lady of the family is so angry that she directly lay on the bed. Didn't it make a big fuss!

What is the trouble?That said, there are many things. Some people heard that it was a few concubine masters who tossed about, saying that the dowry stewards of several sister-in-laws embezzled the property of the Zhen family, and some said that it was the daughter-in-law of the Zhen family who moved things to her mother’s house. They emptied half of the Zhen family's warehouse, and some said that it was the old lady's steward who helped the old lady hide her private house. After hiding for decades, they moved [-]% of the Zhen family's property, but they were caught.Some people say that the master of the Zhen family concubine deliberately set up a bureau, thinking of turning himself into the master of the house. The most bizarre theory is that a few wives earned the housekeeping power, and finally sealed the old treasury at home. They don't want to find them The house was burglarized, and a lot of money was lost. Anyway, I have everything!Just not a good one.The Zhen family lost face this time.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, all of them are correct, and they are all different. It can be said to be the result of a chain reaction. First of all, only the third master from the Zhen family really knew about it at the beginning, and he can I know, because Xue Xun found a suitable person to say, this person is well chosen!That's Xue Pan's little servant Fushou's cousin's uncle's uncle's cousin's cousin's cousin, his name is Shunzi, let's go far, it's true that he has turned seventeen or eight corners, even if he wants to find the source, he may not be able to find it Got it, the most important thing is that this guy also has a cousin who married a girl from the Zhen family, and that girl was originally a cousin of the third master's mother's niece, tell me, this relationship can make the third master suspicious ?That's impossible!He can directly draw this kid to his sphere of influence, so what doubts can there be!

Not to mention, this kid said it in an unintentional way, and he deliberately let the third master overhear it when he walked by. Tell me, how cautious is the source of the news.

Shunzi said at the time:

"These stewards are really amazing! Look, the eldest wife is married to steward Yu, and he has only been in the Zhen family for a few years! About ten years, how long have you been this steward? Five years? Six years? He is really capable, that's all. After a few years of hard work, I have managed to create such a family business, 4000 acres of land! There is also the grocery store in the west, and a small courtyard with a second entry. The family property of the two is gone, hey, your Zhen family is really powerful, even the manager is so rich."

As soon as he started speaking, his partner immediately followed up, looked at him with a look of shame, and said in a spirited voice:

"What do you know, what is that of Guanshi Yu? You haven't seen the others. Does Fang Guanshi know? He's amazing! There are thousands of acres of fertile land, three houses, several shops, and the old man in his family. The wife has maids to serve, the cook cooks, and the servants follow when they go out. The carriage ride is very beautiful! Not to mention the housekeeper of our Zhen family, no matter whether it is the first housekeeper or the second housekeeper, everyone will be there when they go out. It's called Lord, his family's kid restaurant can spend five or sixty taels for a meal, and his daughter buys jewelry from Zhenbaolou. There is no one in the family who can afford such a decent amount of one or two hundred thousand? "

Don't even need to listen, the face of the third master has changed. With a family property of 20 or [-], he, as a master, doesn't have such a family business, but a slave is richer than him, can he not change his face?He didn't even have such a ostentation when he went out!When did a slave have more face than a master?

But these two boys haven't finished talking yet!Shunzi continued to light the fire and said:

"Tell me, how did they get this business? It seems that they don't have so much money just to buy gifts and so on! No matter how I think about it, I can't think that they can make such a share."

"What else can I do? The Zhen family has a big business and a big warehouse, do you understand?"

"No way, this is the master's house, can they reach in? Even if they have the guts, they don't have the ability!"

"Stupid, isn't it! The owner of the family has the key to the warehouse. It can't be said that they just got some cover money, understand?"

"Hey, I'm going to die. So, if the family were separated that day, wouldn't these other masters have nothing? Are they capable?"

"Hehe, the concubine can think about how much to share. Besides, can they know how many things are in this warehouse? Apart from the old lady, there are also the housekeeper's wife. I'm afraid few people know this stuff."

Fire!The third master is really popular, he is honest, stays at home peacefully, and is angry with the old lady from time to time, submissively listens to the assignments of his brothers, and runs errands, what is the reason for this?Don't you think that you can share more things when the family is separated, so that you can continue to live a comfortable life then?Now that he heard it, there was no hope at all, the storeroom was about to be emptied by them, so what else could he expect?The slaves who followed his elder brother and sister-in-law were all more prestigious than him, he was so aggrieved!The top of his head was full of smoke.

However, the three masters have stayed in this house for a long time, and they know how to bear things very well, and they know not to do anything recklessly, otherwise, if it is not what those slaves said, wouldn't it be easy for others to leave tongues?If the old lady is cruel and says that she is not satisfied and wants to make trouble or something, she will just give a few coins and send it out, then she will really lose money.

So, the third master immediately went back to his yard, and then began to inquire secretly. Of course, he could not use those in the mansion who were attached to the big house, but naturally he could only use people from his own mother's side. Well, naturally, these people are all uninterested people in the mansion, and they have been gnashing their teeth with envy for a long time when they are in charge of all kinds of things. Seeing the third master asked to check, I just feel that this is the day when my family is in the early days. For those few, my family can be assigned the position of managing one by one to do it, and I will work hard immediately.

You can't bear to inquire about everything, let alone those in charge, apart from hiding the truth from their masters, they also ostentatiously, so they immediately inquired clearly when they bought land and shops. Shops, all Zhuangzi are clear.The news has been sent to the third master, how can the third master not believe it?

Now that he has believed and understood, then he will naturally take action. Of course, he also knows that he is alone and can't do anything alone, so he simply called out all the concubines in the family, and put As soon as the matter was said, an interest group was formed directly, and all the people were divided out to check the matter. If you don’t check, you don’t know. The eldest wife even discovered that many of the properties that originally belonged to the family have become the private houses of these two women, or the family property of the stewards, which makes these concubine gentlemen unable to sit still. They are all belonging to the Zhen family, maybe they will be distributed to them in the future, can they not be in a hurry?Thinking about what Shunzi said about the warehouse, they were even more worried. The warehouse was also empty that day. After that, the family would be separated, what would they have to live on?

Although they are all descended from concubines, they are still the masters of the Zhen family, so when they found the elders of the Zhen family with evidence and asked to investigate the property of the Zhen family, none of the elders of the Zhen family could shirk. In addition, she looked a little ugly, so she naturally went to the Zhen family's mansion to help ask for an explanation.

When he got to the old lady, he presented the evidence, not to mention how the two parties were tossing and arguing, anyway, in the end, it was inevitable that the storehouse would be poor.This Mrs. Zhen's family is not a fool either. She also cheated when she took things from the Zhen's family. There are many mice in it!

Waiting to open the warehouse, looking at the things that did not match the book, her complexion also changed, and those in charge were also picked out one by one, either to beat the board, or to send to the government, these people are used to being pampered There are people who can afford this kind of training. After a few times the board went down, some soft-tempered people started to talk about everything, from stealing when the old lady was housekeeping, to a few wives using the method of purchasing and keeping accounts. I have everything in cash at home!

Speaking of this set of money, it is even more exciting. I really don’t know how to make them come up with it. The men of the Zhen family usually don’t bring any money when they go out. When they spend money there, they just let people go to the house to pay the bill. This was originally just for convenience, but I didn’t want to, it was a loophole for people to take advantage of, the store came to pick up 100 taels, they said it was 150 taels, and asked the store to give 150 taels, it seemed that it was more expensive than usual , excuses are easy to find, things are good!Then what!The extra 50 taels will be divided into 30 taels for the store, [-] taels for the accountant, and the remaining [-] taels will be for the wife in charge of the accountant. Look, one-stop service, how thoughtful, everyone benefits, right?

With such a way to get money, the people below will naturally work harder to lure the masters, uncles, and elder brothers of the family to go out to spend, and everyone will dig out the warehouse together. It will be replaced in two or three years, there is no way, people are under a lot of pressure!I was afraid that something would happen one day, I waited to accumulate some money, and then I left immediately when I saw that I could buy a good family business, and the wives were also satisfied, so that they would not be afraid to spread the news about their money making.

Every family, even the elders of the clan were stunned to hear such a weird story of digging their own walls, it's really weird!In this way, it is a miracle that the Zhen family has not been defeated!The look in the eyes of those women who used to manage the house is wrong, who are these people!Do they still think of themselves as the Zhen family?

Of course, if one side made a move, the other side would not fail to fight back. Immediately, some people began to bite these gentlemen who came to find trouble, what a lie!Why use the public account to buy things, and then go to other shops to pawn money, and how much money you put in when you are in charge of the house. Anyway, there is one purpose. I am not clean, so don't you think about it. The wife of the concubine's master also had a problem, either she used the name of the Zhen family to take over the lawsuit outside, or her mother's family used the name of the Zhen family to buy and sell by force.

What is dog bite dog hair?That's it!In the end, the clan elders had nothing to do. Anyway, the family ugliness should not be publicized. This matter must be resolved at home, so the masters did not touch any of them in the end, but ransacked the houses of the dug out stewards one by one. , put all these copied things into the public account, sold them all, and re-counted the warehouse, ordered the big house wife and the old lady to make up the things in the warehouse, and those things that were classified into these women's private houses However, the property that originally belonged to the Zhen family's public account must also be returned to the Zhen family. Before the family is divided, it cannot be bought, sold, or renamed at will.If something like this happens again, the clan elders will come and separate them directly.

I have to say that the elders of the Zhen family are much more reliable than those of the Jia family, and what they do is a bit fair. At least these concubines are still a little dissatisfied after hearing this, thinking that these shops, farms, etc. The output of the year still made these people take advantage of it, and some of the good things they had seen when they were young disappeared. They might have kept them private, but at least they could live with it.Besides, there are indeed a lot of things copied back by these managers, a total of 60 million. No matter how you look at it, how to make people happy. In one place, these people are their powerful arms. A few people can be stuffed in, and they will be more comfortable in the future.There are also a few wives who came from concubine masters, and they calculated a few times in their hearts, and calculated how much they would get after dividing the family. After several calculations, they were close to their expectations, so they stopped talking too much.

After all, as long as the families are not separated, they are all the concubine's brother and sister-in-law, and the second prince's maternal uncle and aunt. Even if the second prince fails to become the emperor, they are still relatives of the emperor, right?Clinging to that identity, they are always good for it.

This matter is over in the Zhen family, at least it is over on the surface. I don’t know how the people in the next few rooms will fight each other. Anyway, this is their family’s business. Keeping an eye on their family is not enough, of course, their family ugliness is still not covered, there is no way, so many people have been sold, plus the fact that the houses have been ransacked, such a big movement, there is really no way to hide it.

True or false, the more you don't talk about some things, the more powerful the rumors will be. Anyway, this matter of the Zhen family has become a joke after dinner.

Xue Xun has also been waiting for the news from this side, and heard the live broadcast inside, thinking that they have tossed like this, and the few rooms are still not separated. It is interesting to think about it. The most incredible thing is that there is no one in the Zhen family. Thinking of going out to find out where these missing things went, he didn't know whether to thank the wives of the Zhen family for their high level of accounting, or to laugh at himself for being too careful.

But at this time, Xue Xun didn't have the time to take care of the Zhen family's affairs. Anyway, he had touched all the traces that he should have touched, so he didn't have to worry about anything. Now he was more concerned about his own affairs. Speaking of which, Xue Xun Pan took several clan brothers to Zhuangzi for several days, and it's time to come back!He should think about how to deal with these things at home.

Before he could figure it out, Xue Xun received the news that the owners of the houses had come to him for a meeting. When he heard the news, Xue Xun's expression immediately improved, and a smile appeared on his face. Can he stop smiling? I just received a letter from my son, saying that it was a good thing to say to the clan brothers, and the houses started looking for it. They must have noticed the problem on the farm!

That's great, there's no need for him to come forward, I think this time I can successfully deal with those greedy and greedy relatives.

When Xue Xun arrived at the main hall where the guests were received, the people in each room were cursing angrily!

"It's really shameless. I said why other people can rely on the fields to eat, but we can't! I also think that our own fields are too little, and it is impossible to rely on the fields. Who knows if it's not impossible, it's because the money has been fed to the wolves. Fortunately, we still thought that we were relatives at any rate, and given an errand with status and real power, we were all fools."

"Aren't we just fools! Only now do we know that we only got one-third of what we got, and the bulk of it was given to these people to raise concubines and girls."

"It's a top-class field, and it's thanks to them saying that it only produces more than a stone, and they say that water conservancy costs a lot of money. I was blind in vain, and I still took a fancy to him."

"Hey, third child, your steward said that you can produce more than one stone? Hey, this is good for you. In my place, last year, I said that wild boars went down the mountain and destroyed all the fields. There is not even an acre or a stone. The one who killed a thousand knives came to show me with his arm tied, and coaxed me to spend ten taels of silver for soup and medicine."

"Okay, let's not talk about it, let's wait for the Patriarch to come. No matter how you say it, this time we have to make this matter clear. To be honest, if it wasn't for Pan'er's words, practice would bring true knowledge. Go see the fields and learn something, we are all in the dark, we don't know anything!"

"That's right. I don't know if the boss knows it. His family has the most land, so the loss is also the biggest. This is not a small amount of money."

"I reckon I know something. Otherwise, you suddenly mentioned the farm? How many children from our family are you taking with you?"

"Too..."

Hearing this, Xue Xun came out immediately, but they couldn't let the discussion go on, otherwise he thought he was playing tricks!As soon as Xue Xun came out, he immediately put on a tiger face, walked angrily and said:

"You guys are here, I think you also know about the farm, damn it, it's still true, I'm so mad."

He was so blunt and showed that he knew something in advance, and the people in the other rooms couldn't say anything for a while, but the uncle from the third room looked at him suspiciously, and then asked as an elder:

"Boss, tell me, what's going on, I'm listening, you seem to know something from the beginning?"

As soon as the elder spoke, everyone's eyes turned to Xue Xun, and Xue Xun frowned and sighed, then said helplessly:

"I think everyone has heard about the Zhen family."

Well, what does it have to do with the Zhen family?Everyone was a little puzzled, looked at each other, and then continued to turn their heads to listen to Xue Xun's words.

"I also heard about the Zhen family, and wanted to find out if some of my housekeepers were out of tune, digging up my master's warehouse. However, our house is a merchant, and many things are very cheap. What? Buying fabrics and so on, they are all directly from their own shop. I think there is no loophole, even if someone wants to reach out, it can’t escape our eyes, isn’t it! I feel more at ease! Later, I thought about checking that we are not very familiar with it. Yes, I've searched it all over and thought about it for a long time, that is to say, people in our family are not very familiar with the farm, after all, few of our family are farming for a living, so what can we know?"

Hearing what Xue Xun said, everyone nodded. Indeed, in terms of cleanliness, their Xue's house is much cleaner than other people's houses, and there is no possibility of servants being greedy. Most of them are delivered directly from our own shop, so the consumption is indeed much less.

"I don't understand the affairs of the farm, so I wanted to inquire about it. I didn't want Pan'er to buy an ancient book in the Song Dynasty. It was an agricultural book. I simply took it and looked at it. I saw the problem after reading it. Well, the book says that in the land in the south of the Yangtze River, the yield of ordinary seeds is about two stones. If you don't believe me, none of our Xue family grew up with abacus from childhood. If it is really two stones, then no one needs to say how much rent our family should have. We can tell immediately in our hearts One, two, three, but I have never received so many rents here!"

Everyone nodded again, but no, as long as they know the output and the price of a catty of grain outside, the Xue family can immediately know what they should have as long as they calculate with their fingers. This is the skill of the Xue family.Thinking about what they have received over the years, everyone's heart hurts, mother!How much they undercharged, which businessman knows how to calculate, even if they wholeheartedly turn to the pile of scholars, it can't change the inertial thinking formed by generations, and everyone feels distressed.

"I was afraid that I had made a mistake, so I thought about going to Zhuangzi to have a look and ask. It happened that Pan'er knew about it. This kid is also a caring one. He said that I am the head of the family anyway. If I go, wouldn't it be obvious? Tell them, have you seen the problem? Can you still ask the truth? He wanted to go for me, but he was still a child! Don't look at him because he is only 11 years old. How can I feel relieved? It’s still Pan’er who said, simply take the clan brothers to go together, under the pretext of studying, they are a group of children, no one else will take precautions, if something goes wrong, there are so many people, don’t worry about it. Bullying, in one, I think this kind of thing is not something that our family has. If these managers are really allowed to be coaxed by the head of the village, it will make all the houses have a count in their hearts, and there will be a countermeasure. Listen to it False, seeing is believing, everyone has seen it, so it’s good to have a witness!"

Xue Xun was very eloquent, saying one, two, three, turned the matter of taking the clan brothers to their good intentions, and even not forgetting the clan's intentions. Praise Xue Xun and Xue Pan father and son for their thoughtfulness.

"It's true to say that. Indeed, if Pan'er goes alone, if those black-hearted people see things exposed and jump over the wall in a hurry, we won't have to cry. By the way, boss, tell me, this is now We've made it clear in our hearts and understood the matter, how shall we deal with this matter! This is not a trivial matter, but if we follow the Zhen family's example, wouldn't it be a bit too ostentatious? That would have a bad reputation!"

Xue Xun's uncle also hated him, it ate him up and used him a lot, but he valued his reputation more. After all, his house, speaking of it, was only more than 1000 mu of land. Not many of them, and nearly half of them have just been bought not long ago, and have not been embezzled. The majority of his family is in the shop, and the loss is less than that of other families.

But what he said, the other families are not willing, especially those who have children and scholars now. For the sake of their children, these families have not bought less land in the past few years, and some have already acquired three or four thousand dollars. Mu, some almost have tens of thousands of mu of fertile land, and this is not a small number that has been corrupted.

"Uncle, you can't say that. It doesn't sound good to be greedy for ink by a slave, but our family is the victim after all. It's the sufferer. How can a sufferer be afraid of a slave."

"Yeah, the money belongs to our family, so we can't make it cheaper for them."

"That's right, if we are soft-hearted, what will the servants do in the future? If they don't climb on top of us? Then how will we manage things in the future!"

"It is necessary to be ruthless, otherwise we will not be able to suppress it. In the future, we will always send someone to manage Zhuangzi again. We will always kill chickens and scare monkeys, so that there will be a vigilant in the back."

After hearing what they said, Xue Xun saw that most of the people were looking for heavy punishment, and brought a deterrent by the way, he thought for a while, then stretched out his hand to press down, and waited for everyone to stop, then said:

"Reputation is also important. We always have to think about the children, but this matter can't be covered up if we want to. In this case, we can simply spread it out and ask the government to do it. Let's say that the slaves are greedy for money, or even borrowed from the master. Raise the rent in the name of the people and punish the common people."

"Isn't this made bigger?"

"What's the deal?"

"Okay, listen to me."

Xue Xun looked at all the people, with serious faces and sincerity,

"There are so many rumors about the Zhen family, no one knows whether it is true or not, and it even gets worse and worse. To put it bluntly, people don't know much about the truth, so naturally they guess more, and in the end it becomes more and more troublesome. Well, this time we're not covering up, and spreading the whole thing out, I thought it would be better, let everyone see it clearly, so as to avoid more rumors that are not good for our Xue family, the most important thing is, think about it, everyone, For so many years, it is impossible for the Xue family to have no enemies, and it is impossible to guarantee that everything is right. It is impossible to say how kind they are to those tenants. There are always farmers who feel that the Xue family is not very good. It's like that, but if we put this matter in the yamen, it will be different immediately. This bad thing was not done by our Xue family master, but by those stewards who deceived us and did it behind our backs. What is our master? I don’t even know, but let the servants be greedy for ink so much. In this way, the Xue family is the same victim as those common people, and they are innocent. The reputation of the Xue family can only be good, not bad, just wait. It's over, in front of all the tenants, set the rent clearly, and set a ratio for the annual water conservancy money. At that time, no matter what kind of head or manager is assigned, I'm afraid there is no way to be greedy. The people below are also facing us. As long as they have something bad, the tenants will not do it if they want to come. They will tell us that this is not good? The most important thing is to let everyone see that our Xue family is law-abiding , It’s such a scandal, and I know that the government was invited to handle it, there was no private punishment hall, and no human life was taken lightly, if you say this, what will the Xue family lose?”

I have to say, what Xue Xun said is very reasonable!Not only is it unreasonable, but everyone who said it moved their hearts. Even people who are all black and look like crows, in their hearts, they hope that others will think that they are as white as tofu!Especially the members of the Xue family usually like to use some tricks to get some cheap ones, and they feel good in their hearts. Anyone who can clean themselves up for nothing is willing to do it!

"Yes, this is a good idea."

"Our Xue family has a clean reputation, that's very important."

"Our family didn't have a good reputation before, it was all corrupted by these people, what kind of family are we, how can we care about ordinary people, it's all bad things from these slaves!"

"No, our injustice should be known to others."

"It's not easy for the common people! We can't let those rumors fool us, we invite the government to come out, and let's give them a regulation, so they won't be deceived again in the future."

Very good, Xue Xun looked at the benevolent faces of the members of the Xue family, and smiled in his heart, they are all smart people!This time he can rest easy.