Accompanied by Ximen Qing, Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian, Mi Youren, Guo Jing, Liu Wuji, Lin Chong, Zhang Xizai, Hua Manshan and others soon arrived at the dock where the official ship was moored. At the dock, they met Lin Wancheng and Lu Qian who had unloaded the cargo and luggage from the ship and loaded the hired carriages and horses.

After leaving the pier, everyone followed the address given by Pan Qiaolian and went to Zhuangzi in Haizhou. Zhuangzi was outside Qushan County, beside Haizhou Bay, and you could also see Yuzhou Fairy Island on the other side of the sea.

The village covers an area of ​​about dozens of acres, with a width of more than ten rooms, with six in and six out of front and back. Although it is still not worthy of a mansion, it still opens the eyes of Wu Haogu, who has not lived in such a spacious life for both lives.

The gate of the village is facing south. When you enter, there is a row of bungalows for the patrons and servants to live in. Now most of them are empty, and then a yard full of willow trees. The second entry is the reception hall, with a small door on both sides leading to the second yard. The corridors on both sides of the yard were arranged by Pan Qiaolian to Lin Wancheng, Lin Chong, Lu Qian, Zhang Xizai and Hua Manshan. The third entry is the inner hall, used to receive close guests, with study rooms and warm pavilions on both sides. The two entry behind belong to the inner house, originally returned to Pan Xiao'an, and once entered, they returned to Pan Qiaolian (it was the first time Pan Qiaolian came). Now Pan Qiaolian and Xiao Ping'er have occupied her own entry, Wu Haogu, Mi Youren, Guo Jing and Liu Wuji, and they lived in the inner courtyard that originally belonged to Pan Xiao'an.

The last entry into the yard is a back garden, with a large area, including rockery, ponds, and storms, and the bells are complete. The poolside is full of peaches, apricots, plums, bamboos, orchids, chrysanthemums, roses, and smillions... all kinds of flowers and trees. There is a small building at each corner of the yard, all facing the sea, named "Guanhai Pavilion" and "Tingtaoxuan".

In addition to this large mansion, there are tens of thousands of acres of fields and woods around it, and a small pier, all belong to Pan Xiao'an.

Such a manor can be said to be everywhere in the Song Dynasty today!

The Song Dynasty did not suppress land annexation, and it did not prohibit the honorary officials from doing business and making money. Therefore, more than a hundred years after the founding of the country, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty became very significant (the high housing prices in Kaifeng Prefecture actually reflected the huge gap between the rich and the poor). Rich wealthy families like Pan Xiao'an invested their capital in land that was easier to manage while operating business.

After Wu Haogu settled in his bedroom, he came to the living room of the inner hall. A housekeeper of the Pan Family Manor was reporting the accounts to Pan Qiaolian - that is, to report how much rent can be collected this year and how much the manor costs.

Pan Qiaolian listened very seriously, and Wu Haogu did not interrupt and found a chair to sit on the side and listened.

In fact, the income is not large. The rent for more than 10,000 mu of land is less than 2,000 mu, and an average of only a few dozen copper coins per mu.

Moreover, the rent received cannot be fully exempted from tax. Pan Xiao'an is just an eighth-rank official and cannot cover so much land. Therefore, he had to take out hundreds of crates to the court. Of the remaining thousand crates, he had to take out hundreds of manors to maintain the manor, and only one thousand crates could be handed over to the hands of the Grand Official Pan.

The purchase cost of this manor and the surrounding land is more than 30,000 yuan. Such a return rate is really unpaid...

In fact, for nobles and wealthy merchants like the Pan family, these fields are just assets used to settle idle money.

After reporting the account, the housekeeper bowed and turned around and left.

Wu Haogu smiled and said to Pan Qiaolian: "Shibalang, I didn't expect things to go so well, and even Xiaomi was worshipped by me.

It seems that if you go back to Kaifeng Mansion, you can show off your fists and kicks."

Pan Qiaolian pursed her lips and smiled: "Brother Dawu has been showing off his strength for a long time. When he returns to Kaifeng, he should be an official and a famous scholar."

"Be a famous scholar?" Wu Haogu stared at Pan Qiaolian for a while, "Do you think I should go to Liao Kingdom?"

Pan Qiaolian nodded and thought, "Everyone knows that what I think about today is to pacify Liao and destroy Xia, and the ministers in the court are all in love with the official family. If they see Yan Yun's homeland map, they will definitely look up to Brother Dawu... Brother Dawu wants to be an official again, but he is not a skilled official, and he will not be a lucky villain in the future."

The "pie" of a guizhi official is the same as that of a guizhi. You can imagine the status... they both sell their skills but not their own!

Although he is also an official and a scholar-official, he is the least valuable among officials.

Wu Haogu became an official as a painter or a famous scholar, and his value was completely different.

Relying on his martial arts and ancient figure painting skills, he first made the painting title, and then gave the official family and the empress dowager to be happy and then gave him an official position. In fact, he was also a worthless craftsman.

But if Wu Haogu became a famous scholar first, he would not serve as the title of painting (you can still draw for the officials and the queen mother), and he would be directly awarded an official as a famous scholar. Although his value was not as good as that of a civil servant from the imperial examination, he was much higher than a skilled official, and even more advanced than the middle and lower-level officials who were brought to Yinpu.

In the Song Dynasty officialdom with a strict hierarchy, the gap between famous non-commissioned officers and wise officials is not a little bit... This gap may not matter to Wu Haogu. Anyway, he hugged Song Huizong's thighs sooner or later (in fact, hugging his thighs is also close to the difference between good fortune and famous scholars), but Pan Qiaolian had to care.

This is related to her future face in the famous circle of Kaifeng Prefecture, and also to whether her descendants can successfully enter the official career.

"Shiba is still thoughtful," Wu Haogu thought for a while, and felt that he should compete for the status of a famous scholar. "But the matter of entering Liao still needs to be discussed for a long time. There is no time at the moment, so we have to wait for our calligraphy and painting activities in Kaifeng Prefecture to be on the right track.

There is another thing I want to discuss with you. When we return to Kaifeng Prefecture, our family’s business will become bigger and we can no longer be the same as before. We must have a big company.”

"Company?" Pan Qiaolian had heard this word, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

Wu Haogu said: "The public means the wealth of several people, and the officials means the operation. The accumulated disadvantages are high, the combination of small but large, and the combination of public means the way is called the 'company'. This is what Confucius and Zhuangzi said, and the general meaning is to gather wealth of many people and jointly operate to generate profits."

Pan Qiaolian smiled and said, "I remembered that this is what happened in "Datong"... In fact, many businesses in Kaifeng Prefecture also started to collect several businesses."

"Yes, when you return to Kaifeng, you have to set up a company called Mi Xiangyang, Wang Fuma, Li Gongmian, Ji Yizhi, Su Dalang and others all come to buy a group of people."

Pan Qiaolian nodded: "Well, there are Brother Ximen, Brother Guo San, and Liu Xiaoyi."

"Yes, yes," said Wu Haogu, "and that Hua Manlou, Zhang Xizai, Lin's father and son, and Lu Xiaoyi can also earn a small share. Only in this way can we combine the wealth of everyone, gather the strength of everyone, and build the company together."

Wu Haogu has been thinking about establishing a company for a long time.

He is probably a self-employed person now, at most he is a self-employed person with a few partners. It is okay to create a few fake paintings to make a good dealer, but it is not possible to do big business and big business.

Therefore, it is necessary to organize an efficient business entity, and the business entity that Wu Haogu knows is the company.

He worked in a certain comic company and a certain game company for several years in his previous life, and knew how a small company operated and formed.

He also knew that in modern history, there have been some business projects including large companies that kill and set fire, such as East India Trading Company and Blackwater Company.

This shows that organizations like companies can not only be used to do ordinary business, but also to kill people and set fire to colonies... Well, didn't the descendants of the Jurchen barbarians (referring to the Qing Dynasty) be beaten up by the Asian fleet of the British East India Company?

Perhaps one or several companies with "widespread business projects" can become tools to save China's Tianqing in more than 20 years.
Chapter completed!