Wang Naizeng chatted with Huang Zhongyin's student Jiang Zhengxin in the guild, and waited for a whole afternoon without waiting for Han Xiufeng. Because Han Xiufeng finished buying the outfit, he bought a bunch of snacks such as peanuts, persimmon cakes, candied fruits, etc. Qin'er and Goudan'er liked to eat. Under Zhuzi and Yu Tiesuo, he met on the road, he went back to his new home in Dazhi Hutong.

The official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty were purchased by officials themselves, and even some of the items rewarded by the emperor were like this. For example, the emperor rewarded officials with flower feathers as a reward. But in fact, they were only given the qualification to wear flower feathers. The officials who were rewarded with flower feathers paid for them to buy them out of their own pockets, and the price was not cheap, ranging from dozens to hundreds of taels depending on the number of eyes.

In addition, the court stipulates that whenever the cold bean is used, use a cold crown and a clamped wardrobe every year, and use a warm crown and a leather wardrobe in autumn. In the third and September months, the fifth day, the fifteenth day, or the twenty-fiveth day, the draft will be made one day. The Ministry of Rites requested the order one month before, and obtained the order, and passed through the various wards to follow...

In other words, what official uniforms to wear on a day are not chosen by civil and military officials themselves, but are unified by the court, and civil and military officials can only follow the implementation. So much so that for most officials, purchasing official uniforms at the beginning of being an official is a very heavy burden, and some poor officials have to borrow them for many years. Even after many officials are promoted, the first thing they consider is not celebration, but anxious about how to buy a new outfit!

Now that we are working as a "small military aircraft", we will often go in and out of the palace in the future and we must wear decent clothes. Otherwise, it will not only not conform to the court system, but also make the emperor look disgraceful. Therefore, Han Xiufeng, who has never cared about his clothes, decided that he must not be vague in the future when it comes to dressing that concerns the prestige of the court's official orders.

I bought a big-wool winter hat, a small-wool winter hat, a big-wool hood, a small-wool hood, and a leather hood. I bought a fifth-grade Ning silk official uniform with white squid patch, a round blue thread crepe sheepskin wrapped in round blue silk fox leather, a round gown, a gray silk sheepskin wrapped in round gown, a sky-blue satin beaded horse jacket, a face skirt shawl, a blue tweed slit gown, a thread crepe outer jacket, a treasure bottom tweed patch jacket, a fragrant crepe lambskin military vest, etc., all of which should be purchased. I bought three pairs of pointed boots, and the small basket with crystal on the top of the gemstone was replaced with a new one...

There are ready-made ones that are ready-made, but there are no ready-made ones that can only be customized. The materials and wages add up to 580 taels. This is still a familiar person, a wild way and can bargain for Fugui. If it weren't for Fugui, I would have to 700 taels!

However, Han Xiufeng didn't care how much it cost to buy a stock now, because when he arrived at Yongxiang's introduction, the new home that Manager Wen helped rent was rented, he found that the house was not small, with three insides and outside, but there were no stables. Since there was no place to park the car and no place to keep the horse, what should I buy a carriage and hire a groom to do?

Feng Xiaobian, who just started working today, was anxious and helped to deliver the things he bought into the inner house. He walked around inside and out, and returned to Han Xiufeng, who was enjoying the calligraphy and paintings in the flower hall with his hands behind his back, and said with a sad face: "Second Master, there is really no parking space and no horse circle. It looks quite big inside, but it is not easy to build a horse shed!"

Han Xiufeng also felt that this matter was a bit tricky and turned around and asked, "Where are you going to the yard to see it?"

Before Feng Xiaobian could speak, he was not only familiar with this area, but even once sent Qin'er. The youngest girl and Goudan came here and said with a wry smile: "Fourth brother, don't let him go out and see, there is no place to build a horse shed. The houses in this area are built so crowded that they are one by one. Each one is next to each other. The yard has only a gate, and the side door has no back door. The alley on the side door is so narrow that it can only be passed by one person. If two people meet, they can only squeeze in like this."

After Zhuzi finished speaking, he looked sideways and gestured.

Han Xiufeng laughed in silence, thought about it and asked again: "Where is someone else's home?"

"Fourth brother, you mean..."

"I mean there are many Beijing officials who rent this area. How do they travel?"

"There are many Beijing officials who rent this area, but most of them do not bring their own carriages. The rich hire carriages, mule carriages or sedan chairs to the yamen, and those who don't have money walk to the inner city." Zhuzi scratched his head and added: "The houses rented by real officials are also large. Not only can they have horse pens to raise horses, but they can even move the thresholds. They can be removed and let the groom directly lead the carriage to the yard."

Yu Tiesuo couldn't help but suggest, "Second brother, why don't you live in another place and rent a house with a horse wing."

"It's light to say that every inch of land in Xuannan is worth every inch of land, so how can the house be rented so easily? Besides, I have already agreed to rent it for a year with the landlord, and even the rent is paid by Manager Wen."

"Shopkeeper Wen is really, it's not that he hasn't been here. He clearly knows that there is no place to raise horses here, so what kind of car to buy!"

"We can't blame Manager Wen, he has a kind heart, but he didn't expect this."

"What should I do?"

Han Xiufeng pointed to the inner sect and asked, "Zhuzi, you said just now that there is no back door. Is there anyone behind the inner sect?"

Zhuzi said without thinking: "There is a row of houses behind, but it seems that most of them are shops, because there is a small street not far behind, and there are several small guild halls on the street."

"Second Master, I'll go and have a look." Feng Xiaobian didn't want to lose the errand that he had just asked Director Zhang to find, and ran out of the flower hall without looking back.

Yu Tiesuo subconsciously turned around and reminded: "If you can't get through the alley in the west, you have to go around from the front and have to go around it very far!"

Feng Xiaobian obviously didn't hear it. Zhuzi couldn't help but ask, "Fourth Brother, where did you find this live treasure? You're so whispering, and you ran away before you finished speaking."

Han Xiufeng was about to speak, and someone outside asked if there was anyone at home and if he could move the car parked at the door. Yu Tiesuo hurriedly ran out and led the carriage to the intersection of the street. Thinking that if he was led in again, he would block the road, and maybe he would have to move the car again later, so he simply asked the shopkeeper of the street store to help watch for a while.

After settling the carriage and returning to the yard for a while, Feng Xiaobian ran back sweating. When he saw Han Xiufeng, he said breathlessly: "Second Master, behind him is a shop selling books and four treasures of the study. I don't know if it's difficult to buy or sell. The shopkeeper doesn't plan to do it anymore. He is discussing with the landlord until the end of the month to move."

There are many guild halls in Xuannan, and there are many Beijing officials who rent a house. There are more juren and students who have taken the exam in the imperial examination and Zhili provincial examination. In addition, the "Siku Quanshu" compiled during the Qianlong Dynasty, and he once conquered books from all over the country. Books from all over the country were sent to the capital, and they were sent to this area, so there are also many bookstores in this area.

No matter what business it is, it will become more and more difficult to do as there are more people doing it.

It will open today and close in a few days. It's normal.

Thinking that there was nothing wrong in the afternoon, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile and said, "Let's go and have a look together."

"Second brother, what's the best thing to see in the bookstore?" Zhuzi asked in confusion.

Han Xiufeng smiled while walking, "I never thought about buying someone's bookstore into a horse circle. After all, it's a shop on the street, and the rent will definitely not be cheap. Besides, even if I'm willing to spend that money, the landlord will not agree. Isn't that the bookstore that can't continue to work and close the door? I want to see if I can buy some good books."

"When the second master and sister-in-law come, there will be books? When I was in Gu'an, I saw you have more than a dozen boxes of books, why do you still have to buy them?" Zhuzi muttered.

"What's more than a dozen boxes? If you want to become a scholarly family, you have to hide 8,000 books."

"Can you read so many books?"

"I can't see it and read it slowly. Although we are not a literate person, we must also pretend to be a little gentle. We cannot always be looked down upon as we are now because we have not read a few books."

Zhuzi and Tiesuo didn't know that Han Xiufeng was inspired, so they asked Feng Xiaobian to take care of the house. Then they accompanied Han Xiufeng around and came to a bookstore with the plaque "Houyi Hall".

There were two book stalls on both sides of the gate, and some yellowed old books were piled up. A guy sat on the bamboo chair behind the book stall and was listless. Han Xiufeng leaned over and picked up a few books and flipped through them. He found that they were all big street goods, so he gently put them down again.

The shopkeeper and the two people who looked like they wanted to buy a shop obviously did not reach an agreement. They sent the person away and came back with sighs. Seeing Zhuzi and Tiesuo one holding the knife in their hands and the other looking at them with their arms in their arms, they hurriedly bowed and said, "Do you dare to ask what advice are you going to give?"

Tiexu said impatiently: "It's okay, you're busy with yours."

The shopkeeper didn't dare to offend the people from the police camp, and forced a smile and asked, "Do you want to go in and have a tea?"

Before the pillar and iron lock could be opened, Han Xiufeng turned around and bowed and asked, "The shopkeeper who heard the accent should be from Yangzhou, right?"

The shopkeeper knew that Han Xiufeng was wearing a dress and knew that he was a scholar. When he thought of the chief officer of the police camp guarding both sides, he realized that Han Xiufeng should be an official, so he hurriedly bowed and said, "Reply to the master, I am from Yangzhou."

"The shopkeeper's surname?"

"I am here to dismiss your surname Yang and your name is Qinghe. I wish you respect me."

"My surname is Han," Han Xiufeng smiled slightly, walked into the store at the invitation of Manager Yang, and asked with a smile while flipping through the books on the shelf with great interest: "Shopkeeper Yang, Yangzhou Prefecture is big, and the accents of the prefectures and counties under Yangzhou Prefecture are also different. I am sorry that I can't tell whether you are from Jiangdu or from Ganquan."

Manager Yang realized that the official in front of him must have been to Yangzhou, so he hurriedly said, "Report to Mr. Han, you are from Xiajiangdu. You must have heard of Yangzhou's troublesome furry, and even Yangzhou City was occupied by Changmao, so I haven't returned for several years."

Han Xiufeng was not interested in talking to him about Yangzhou, but was only interested in his collection of books. He put down the book in his hand and asked: "Shopkeeper Yang, why do you have done a good job in this business?"

Thinking that there was nothing to hide, Manager Yang said helplessly: "Mr. Han, I'm not to hide it. Although the store I'm in is open in the capital, it's actually still doing business in my hometown in Yangzhou. I could live a few years ago, but since the fall of Yangzhou, I can't do this business. I just maintained it for two years and couldn't maintain it anymore, so I had to close the door."

Han Xiufeng was stunned and immediately reacted: "So you used to do business with salt merchants in Yangzhou City, and specifically helped them buy books in Beijing?"

"We also help them sell books and sell books to the capital." Recalling the days when the business was booming, Manager Yang sighed: "Those salt merchants are really rich and are willing to spend money. Not only do they hire their own children from the great scholars, but every family even competes with etiquette and cultivates scholars, and provides more to more than a dozen or twenty literati and poets. Not only do they want to buy books in the capital, but they also write books that they want to sell books to the capital to become famous, and if no one buys them, they will give them away. The business at that time was really profitable, and they could make money even if they were lying down!"

If Manager Yang said this to others, others may not believe it.

But Han Xiufeng has been to Yangzhou, seen the prosperity of Yangzhou, and experienced the luxury of Yangzhou salt merchants. He not only believed it without those salt merchants who were rich and spent money like soil, there would be no famous "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". At least nine of the ten famous literati and poets in Yangzhou were raised by those artful salt merchants.

Thinking that buying so many books seems to be a sensation, Han Xiufeng subconsciously changed the topic: "Shopkeeper Yang, you don't look big from the outside, but you never thought it was not small inside."

Manager Yang was stunned and hurriedly bowed: "As Mr. Han said, the door is not big, but the place inside is not small. There is a door behind you, and there is a small courtyard when you go in. In the past, I asked the craftsmen and the guys to carve and print books. There was another one inside, and there were more than a dozen rooms. It used to be where the craftsmen and the guys lived. Now, the business is not good, and the books cannot be sold. The more you accumulate, the more you have all the craftsmen were disbanded, leaving only one guy, so I just treat the inside as a warehouse."

"Don't you usually live here?"

"I used to be a good deal, but I rented a yard nearby. Now I'm not a good deal, so I dare not rent the yard anymore. I can only let Jian Nei and the dog come to live in it." Manager Yang said helplessly, "It's because the door is small and the inside is big, and it's really small to use it for business, so it's not easy to sublease it."

Han Xiufeng thought for a while and suddenly asked, "Shopkeeper Yang, isn't it convenient for Fang to take me in and have a look?"

"Convenient, please come here by Mr. Han."

After going in and walking around, I found that as he said the place inside was really not small. Han Xiufeng weighed it and stopped walking: "Shopkeeper Yang, I have bought your store. The price is easy to negotiate. The rent for the landlord is easy to say, but there is one condition!"

Not only did Manager Yang really couldn't hold on, but he also owed a lot of debts outside. Seeing that Han Xiufeng didn't seem to be joking, he asked anxiously: "Master Han, what are your conditions?"

"After the store was put on, the font size remained unchanged, and it was still called 'Houyitang'. You then became the shopkeeper, and then did business. If you make a profit, it was mine, but if you lose money, it was mine. But this shopkeeper cannot let you do it in vain. Zhang Guard Yang, how much salary do you think I will give you every year is appropriate?"

Manager Yang couldn't believe that there was such a good thing in the world. It was seen that Ding Zhu and Yu Tiesuo followed in and guarded the side like guards. He felt that the young official in front of him didn't seem to be joking with him. After weighing the pros and cons, he asked carefully: "Two hundred taels, two hundred taels a year, and you can support your wife, children, and children."
Chapter completed!