"Madam, do you think this wine is expensive?"

Wu Xian waved his hand to signal the messenger to leave.

Madam Zheng was speechless: "Forty-six taels per altar is not expensive?"

She has been in charge of the middle class for so many years, and she is in control of the house's incoming and outgoing accounts. She knows the price and quality of an item. Even the best wine stored in the house's wine cellar only costs more than 20 yuan per jar.

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The more expensive wines are either very old or extremely rare, or they are tribute wines used to pay tribute to the king.

There is nowhere to buy a jar of this kind of wine for a hundred taels!

Wu Xian smiled and said: "It's not expensive, not expensive at all."

"What kind of wine is this?"

The principal lady became a little more curious after hearing this.

"Of course it's a good wine that all the scholars and warriors in the world can't resist." Wu Xian took the cloth handed over by the Madam, wiped his feet, put on the new socks, walked to sit down next to the Madam, and said as usual.

, "I thought that when this thing got into Wen Zhu's hands, it wouldn't stop selling it for a hundred and eighty taels, but I didn't expect that it would end up hastily at just forty-six taels. It was unexpected."

Madam Zheng didn’t understand Wu Xian’s attitude.

A jar of wine sells for a sky-high price. Isn't this something Wu Xian is very taboo about? How do you think he meant it, but it makes him regretful?

She asked: "Isn't this a good thing?"

Wu Xian leaned on the table with a lazy expression: "How can this be a good thing? If Wenzhu sells a jar, he has to pay high city tax and liquor tax... He sells it for a low price, so he pays less. Wenzhu

The price of the fifty jars of wine that was delivered has also dropped..."

The wife was said to be speechless.

I didn't expect that my husband had this idea.

Most of the wine is brewed from grain, and the common people are still unable to have enough food and clothing. How can there be excess grain to satisfy the addiction to wine? Whether it is Tianhai or other places, wine is a "light luxury" that is strictly controlled.

It doesn't matter if people make small-scale wine in private, but if they want to buy and sell it, they must pay high city tax and special liquor tax. To put it simply, if Shen Tang's wine is bought and sold here, he has to pay tax to Tianhai!

Well, there is still no tax refund in March every year.

Wu Xian was willing to sell Xu Jie to save face, and he did not interfere in this matter for this reason. Why should he kill a good thing that can generate income? This is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone! Wu Xian also has another plan in his belly.

An abacus.

Tianhai and other aristocratic families live a prosperous life, and secretly engage in some secretive ways of amassing money, but they jump back and forth to test the bottom line allowed by the law. He can't beat these people openly, but he can make their money bags slim down in roundabout ways!

Naturally, you cannot express these ideas directly to your wife.

Madam is not only his first wife.

She is also his brother-in-law and sister-in-law.

The daughter of my father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Wu Xian could not say as much to Mrs. Zheng as he did to Mrs. Mi. Most of the time, he could only say so much.

He sneered: "I wonder what Shen Youli's face would be like if he knew about Tianhai City Tax and Liquor Tax? Wen Zhu is doing business like this. Next time, he should send more people to protect him to avoid being chased by Shen Youli with a sword in anger.

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To be fair, it's not that he doesn't value Qin Li's proposal.

Shen Tang's team is indeed a Caotai team.

But Shen Tang fought against Gong Xiqiu alone, which shows how strong his ability is in individual combat. If he listened to Qin Li's suggestion and destroyed someone else's stall, and someone came to assassinate him with a sword - when Wu Xian thought of this scene, My neck feels a little chilly.

When trouble is diverted to the east, killing someone with a borrowed knife is the best strategy.

The wife saw her husband habitually squinting his eyes and pretending to take a nap. He hesitated to speak. After a while, the air was so quiet that only the breathing of the couple was left. Wu Xian asked: "Madam, is there something on your mind?"

Madam Zheng took the opportunity to mention: "This morning my brother and sister suddenly sent an invitation, inviting me to the plum blossom banquet..."

Wu Xian: "... Prepare the congratulations, so no one needs to go."

The lady moved her lips.

Wu Xian added: "The wine sent by Wen Zhu tastes good. Let's add five more jars. You can take care of the rest."

Madam Zheng said softly: "Yes."

The brother-in-law gave it to the brother-in-law, but the brother-in-law couldn't treat one favorably. He simply asked the wife to send it to another family. After lying down for a while, Wu Xian didn't feel sleepy, so he got up.

"Remember that there are still some things to deal with, Madam, go to bed first."

Without waiting for the Madam to say anything, he put on his clothes and left. The Madam looked at her husband's retreating back, her eyes almost turned red with anger, she held the handkerchief with her fingers and silently endured the astringent feeling on the tip of her nose.

The dowry maid whispered: "Madam..."

After a long while, Mrs. Zheng said quietly: "He finally came here, but he got angry and left again..."

Outsiders say that Wu Xian and his wife are a loving couple. This evaluation was true in the past, but it has been very different in recent years. One of the root causes that affects their relationship as a couple is her two unsatisfactory brothers and younger brother.

Six out of ten of the family property is in their hands.

Later, Wu Xian discovered that the two brothers secretly instigated Wu Xian's two legitimate sons to fight and treated the younger brother harshly. This happened to be Wu Xian's taboo. What's even more bizarre is that the two brothers made another plan when their plan failed. Xian and other brothers came closer.

There are also some other naughty operations...

The relationship between the two families is very tense.

The wife felt sorry for her eldest brother and younger brother, and the relationship between her and Wu Xian also became tense. After being assassinated during an impromptu hunting trip, Wu Xian rarely came to the wife's house.

I rarely come to the backyard and sleep in other people's houses.

It's not that Wu Xian suspected that Mrs. Zheng had assassinated him and married his wife, but he still knew about it - as a married woman, her brothers were unreliable, and when her natal family was declining year by year, her husband was her, and she was the eldest of the children she gave birth to. rely.

But it is very possible to trust Wu Xian's current situation too much and inadvertently reveal Wu Xian's current situation.

Wu Xian couldn't force her to break off with her mother's family or completely give up her two ineffective brothers. It was impossible for her to do it because of her temperament, so she remained rigid.

In fact, as long as the wife doesn't mention the bad brothers from her mother's family, the couple still has a lot to talk about.

Wu Xian braved the wind and snow to go to the study.

The attendant asked: "My parents are really going to spend the night here?"

Wu Xian said angrily: "Is it possible to spend the night in another lady's room, and then the next day everyone in the house will know that we had a quarrel? Stop talking nonsense and find out if there is anything else we can do."

Attendant: "..."

But when the parents came out of the wife's room, they ended up pitifully spending the night in the cold study room. It would not be nice to hear about it.

Unlike Shen Tang, the hard-working involution king, Wu Xian has a complete team. Even if he can finish today's work today, he can still get paid leave every once in a while. After searching around, he couldn't find anything that Wu Xian needs to deal with. secular affairs.

This is the difference between people.

Wu Xian could only read the local dialect books to pass the time.

Seeing this, the attendants could only sigh - the parents were having a hard time, and the wife was also having difficulties. The two unsatisfactory brothers did not want to correct themselves and revitalize the family, but instead made a wrong idea and forced the married sister to cry. Two made trouble and three hanged themselves.

After ten years of hard work...

Even couples whose love is stronger than gold will be broken up.

The first batch of ten jars of wine was an unexpected hit.

The second batch exceeded the five hundred and two mark.

After several batches, the height gradually increased.

But the total price is not too outrageous.

After deducting the city tax and liquor tax, as well as costs such as labor, share sharing, and transportation, Xu Jie fiddled with his abacus and calculated the accounts, converting them into similar seedlings, farm tools, and cattle.

Of course, this matter must be approved by Wu Xian.

After all, we can't leave any excuse for Qin Li.

Wu Xian just glanced at it and agreed.

For the sake of Shen Tang paying so much tax to himself.

Wu Xian's gentle smile these days makes people feel like a spring breeze. People who don't know about it might think that his family has added another child.

He handed the order back and told Xu Jie: "You can also ask Brother Shen later if Heyin is short of food. If so, Tianhai can offer cheaper prices. The two families should help each other. Yes. Just tell me what difficulties you have, and you're welcome."

He fully interprets the four words "Tangdi's deep love", and several brothers will have doubts about who is his brother.

The corners of Xu Jie's mouth twitched slightly.

He said: "Wei."

"As the saying goes, 'Everyone is not guilty of having a jade in his possession.' Naturally, no one from the Tianhai, Heyin, and Heyin families will covet the brewing recipe in the hand of Brother Shen. But if it is spread, there is no guarantee that other people with good intentions will have inappropriate thoughts. We are not the only ones. We have to keep it a secret, and Brother Shen should also carefully choose the people to cooperate with. Brother Shen is young and makes many mistakes in his actions. Remember to remind him when you go there this time."

Xu Jie replied: "Wei."

Wu Xian gave many more nagging instructions.

Xu Jie wrote them down one by one.

After he left, Wu Xian recruited his confidants to accompany him.
To be continued...