Youfang Street in the west of the city.

Not far from the Cui family grain store, there is a Kangping grain store.

Kangping Grain Store is small and seems a bit low-key. In terms of decoration style and business ostentation, it is naturally inferior to large grain merchants like the Cui family.

However, even if the Cui family is short of food occasionally, the Kangping Grain Store will not be short of food.

Although its store is small, its background is not small.

Of course, few people know that the forces behind it are the Kundang Party.

The owner of the grain shop is named Kang Baiwan, who is from Xin'an, Kunshan. He has been a servant in the Lu family's old house since his father's generation.

The accounts and expenses of the Kunming Party are managed by Bai Yizhang, and the one who has been specifically handling matters in recent years has been Kang Wanwan.

For two days in a row, Kang Baiwan stayed in the store waiting for someone.

He naturally knew that Bai Yizhang had handed over the account book now...

Over the years, Bai Shilang, known as the "Iron Abacus of the Ministry of Household Affairs", has taken care of the Kundang Party's finances in an orderly manner. Unfortunately, Bai Yizhang is still too greedy and is no longer suitable to manage the Kundang Party's accounts.

Mr. Lu was determined to find someone to replace him. After looking around, his eyes focused on the two brothers from Wang's Liquor Store.

The Wang family, Bai Yizhang, and the Cui family are all related by marriage. The two brothers have business talents and are reliable in character, so they are indeed suitable candidates.

As a result, the candidate finally fell on the quasi-horse-bearing Wang Xiao.

In fact, it's the same.

But Kang Baiwan waited all day yesterday, but didn't see Wang Xiao coming over, so he couldn't help but feel a little unsure.

Young people are still too lazy, can they do such an important thing well?

Just as he was thinking about this, Kang Wanwan looked up and saw a beautiful young man walking into the store with two followers.

coming?

Kang Baiwan's heart moved.

Looking at the person first, he looked at the entourage. He saw only two of Wang Xiao's entourage. One was quite strong, stupefied, and was carrying a baggage; the other was tall and thin, with scars on his face.

The appearance of these two followers is not very good.

Kang Baiwan shook his head in his heart, and his evaluation of Wang Xiao dropped even further.

"Boss Kang?" Wang smiled and said, "My uncle asked me to come."

"Uncle Ling's surname is Bai?"

"good."

Kang Baiwan hurriedly said respectfully: "Master Ma, just call me old Kangtou."

He quickly came out from behind the counter and said respectfully: "I'm going to take a look at your property? I'm ready."

Unexpectedly, Wang Xiao said calmly: "Don't be in a hurry to see it."

Then, he took out a few documents and said, "Take me to see these warehouses of materials first."

Kang Wanwan was stunned. He shook his head in his mind: If you don't do your business, what are you doing with these useless things?

He thought for a while before he remembered that these warehouses of materials were prepared by the late emperor when he was in power. They were piled up in the household department and no one paid attention to them. Bai Yizhang pulled them over. They must have been there for more than ten years...

The group walked through the busy long street and turned into Eggplant Alley, where they saw rows of large warehouses.

The lock outside the warehouse door is rusty.

After breaking open the rusty locks and opening the warehouse, the sky was filled with dust.

After the dust finally settled, Wang Xiao looked up and saw large beams and piles of square stones, so many that one could blink.

Kang Wanwan introduced: "These are intended to be used to expand the palace. Although they are not golden nanmu, they are also fine huanghuali. They have not rotted much after more than ten years..."

Wang Xiao sighed and cursed in his heart: Bai Yizhang is really like a wild goose, such a stupid thing will come out of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

He was too lazy to listen to Kang Wanwan's introduction and asked, "How much do these things cost?"

"How much is the price..." Kang Baiwan said: "The Household Department also spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to get these materials. Now if we want to sell them, we can't even sell them for 500 taels, otherwise Bai Shilang..."

"Otherwise, Mr. Bai would have sold it long ago." Wang Xiao said casually.

As he spoke, he asked Geng Dang to find someone to transport these things to the outskirts of Beijing.

Kang Wanwan was stunned and said quickly: "Is this what Mr. Ma is going to do?"

He just thought that the young boy in front of him was transporting things to build his own house. After thinking about it for a while, he persuaded in a low voice: "After all, these are the belongings of our Kunming Merchant Guild. I'm afraid it's not easy to take them privately."

Wang Xiao then smiled and said, "I know."

What kind of Kunming Commercial Guild is it, just a small treasury of the Kunming Party?

Return your things? These are the late emperor's things.

He turned to look at Kang Baiwan and said calmly: "You bought it for me, five hundred taels, right? I'll put it in the account later."

Kang Baiwan was so shocked that his mouth almost dropped, and he once again looked down upon Wang Xiao in his heart.

Five hundred taels is just an exaggeration. These are high-quality materials, and selling them as ordinary materials would be far more than this amount.

Wouldn’t it be better to double it?!

You don’t have any vision for doing business? Who did you find this time...

"This guy is here to take advantage of the Kundang Party!"

Kang Baanji became a little angry.

We still have to tell Mr. Lu to send this young boy away and let his two brothers come over.

But Wang Xiao said again: "This area, such a large row of houses, has been used by you to pile up useless things. Today I will clear it out, and you will sell the shops that should be sold and rent the shops that should be rented."

Kang Wanwan was stunned for a moment, and the voice of Wang Xiao reminded him again:

"I just did some calculations. The annual rent for a shop in this area is 30 taels. Isn't that high? It's 500 taels in seventeen years. For this long shop, you have already lost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Two silver coins, why should I pay it back to the Minister of Household Affairs? Scholars do business... Bah... this ashes is really heavy..."

"What's the point of a scholar doing business if he only knows how to keep accounts? Times have changed. You must remember in the future that no matter how small a fly is, it is still meat..."

~~

"Hey, let's go there to pick out an engagement gift for Xuance."

When Wang Xiao walked away with his two followers, Kang Baiwan looked at his background with mixed feelings in his heart.

The mocking tone of the phrase "scholars do business" stuck with him for a long time.

He is indeed the son of a merchant.

Businessmen are profit-heavy, bah...

----------------------------------------

Afternoon.

Qian Duoduo got on the carriage.

When she saw Zuo Mingxin in the carriage, her eyes turned red.

"Go to Snow Alley."

The carriage started to move slowly.

Zuo Mingxin asked outside, then took Qian Duoduo's hand and asked softly: "Are you okay?"

The Zuo family and the Qian family no longer interacted with each other. Qian Duoduo came out in the name of a boudoir party, so Zuo Mingxin secretly came to pick her up.

During the party, she felt that her close friends in the past treated her a little differently.

Although those people did not say it clearly in their words, they were vaguely mocking her father for being so cruel as to kill his own son.

The women in the boudoir do not know much about the affairs of the court, but since they are all daughters of officials, they naturally know that those who join the eunuchs are traitors.

Naturally, they are no longer as close to the treacherous concubines as they used to be.

When asked by Zuo Mingxin, Qian Duoduo couldn't help crying.

She actually didn't feel too sad when her brother, who was always so proud and proud in the past, died, but she was somewhat touched. That night, Tang Monk was frightened and she was still a little uneasy.
Chapter completed!