So, it went very smoothly, except for the cemetery fields reserved for the two unlucky gentry, Zhang Xunfu posted notices on the grounds of paying taxes.
However, Zhang Xunfu's inspector seemed to think that his field was like a golden hen, and requested that the silk output tax be assessed and collected at the beginning of the year according to the court tax rate for that year. This tax is voluntarily borne by the buyer. The starting price is 50 taels per mu, and the specific price will be determined by the Anchashi Yamen auction in five days. You are welcome to come to the Ancha Shi Yamen in advance to inquire. Free tea and everything are easy to discuss.
Just such a heartless notice about voluntary buying and selling was plastered all over the city’s main streets, alleys, city gates and buildings.
Although there was a lot of discussion on the street and it seemed lively, no one was willing to attend the auction at Chasushi Yamen.
The gentry are not stupid either. Anyone who buys must promise to pay taxes in advance at the beginning of the year. Isn’t this an open rebellion against their own class? This kind of thing that does not care about appearance is only possible for the nouveau riche who are eager for quick success and instant profit. Take the risk of offending the whole city to earn this one-time gain.
As a last resort, five days later, Zhang Xunfu amused himself by announcing that the auction had failed, and then started a second auction three days later. This time, due to the failure of the first auction, he simply canceled the minimum transaction price. .
Because of the first failed shoot, Zhang Xunfu basically became a joke in Hangzhou. What a joke. In the eyes of normal Confucian scholars, Gao Hanwen, a Western scholar, looks more like a normal Confucian scholar than him. Because of this, no one really paid attention to his second auction. Zheng and He usually stayed at the Yamen and rarely returned to their respective homes. I didn't come back specifically to give instructions now. After all, I told my family not to get involved in the first auction.
The fact that the head of the family does not participate does not mean that the veteran bureaucrat Zhang Xunfu has no options.
This time he decided to take the butler route and build a plank road to visit Chen Cang secretly.
On the day when the second notice was posted, the Zhang family’s housekeeper was specially asked to stay at Xiaolian Tea House. Those squatting there are the children of the Zheng and He families who love to listen to storytelling stories. This group of people can't inherit the family business, so they can only share some of their wealth and live in peace. Now they are the eldest brother of Yu and Guo, looking for some fun and entertainment all day long.
Listening to books is much better than imitating the Northern Song Dynasty’s Gao Taiwei who bullied men and dominated women. Through storytelling, a group of street gangsters are gathered together to avoid causing trouble. This is also the historical origin of the closing poem of later generations: "Storytellers, singers and operas persuade people, and the three avenues take the center. Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life."
The housekeeper is so busy that he doesn’t dare to contact people directly, but instead recommends servants.
After listening to the storytelling, several people went to Shopkeeper Feng and asked for a private room.
The two young talents from the Zheng He family also quickly determined the identity of the visitor through shopkeeper Feng.
Since the visitor was from Zhang Xunfu’s house, the two young men felt that the old man was unreliable from the beginning. Just as they were about to leave, the housekeeper fell to his knees with a clang.
I recently learned to be kind by listening to books. I saw that he was an old man and he knelt down and couldn't save his face, so he asked for a private room. I heard a thing or two.
The story is quite true anyway.
The carelessness is oldThe housekeeper saw that no one was buying such a good land, so he directly canceled the reserve price this time, which meant that it was possible to lower the price by 10 taels of silver or even 5 taels of silver per acre.
Outsiders are afraid of paying taxes, but the old housekeeper just wants to make stable money, so even paying taxes is cost-effective.
But, unfortunately, everything has buts. To avoid suspicion in the future, the Zhang family and its interested parties will not be able to participate in the auction, and the auctioneer must prove that his family property is sufficient to pay.
The old housekeeper is an adopted son of the Zhang family, and is a domestic slave. He has his own independent legal property. As for illegal independent property, this is also a mistake that men make, but the outside wife does not want the children and grandchildren of the Zhang family to be slaves and maids, so they can only raise their sons outside.
My son is getting married recently, and I need to raise money to buy property so that my children and grandchildren can have an inheritance.
After going around for a long time, the old butler came up with his plan, which was to let the two young masters anonymously help with the bidding, and the old butler would pay the handling fee. You can even advance an additional 1,000 taels of silver as a deposit.
After the two young masters finish their bidding, they will transfer it to the old housekeeper at the bidding price one month later.
The whole process is equivalent to letting the two young men earn 1,000 taels of silver in bridge tolls in vain.
Of course the two young masters immediately became alert to such a pie-in-the-sky thing. How can your brothers be so smart that you, an old man, can be fooled?
As a result, the three of them argued for a while about whether the old housekeeper should give the bidding price in advance.
The two of them were mainly worried about what to do if the old housekeeper couldn’t get the money afterwards
The old housekeeper was worried about what to do if the two people didn’t admit the debt after taking the money first
Without saying a word, the two of them realized that this game was not a loss. Even if the old man doesn't buy it, he can still make a profit by reselling it at the market price. After realizing this, the two of them agreed immediately for fear that the old housekeeper would regret it.
A young man’s first business is his first pot of gold. Who says a concubine is inferior to a legitimate son?
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