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At the intersection of Xiwan Cross Street, this location is an excellent location, with a very spacious building. This house is extremely large and has three floors, three large shops on the front of the first floor, a cooked butcher shop on the left, a pawn shop on the right, and an inn hall in the middle. The second floor is a restaurant private room, the third floor is a guest room. The back is a kitchen and a large workshop.

The entire building is in front and behind the restaurant, inn, cooked butcher shop and pawn house are all the industries of the Zhang family. On the surface, it is the industry of the butcher Zhang, but secretly his son-in-law Zhao County Chief, also accounts for 20% of the shares. In addition, the history, chief clerk, clerk, clerk, clerk, and head arrestee in the county government also accounts for 10%.

Butcher Zhang rarely kills pigs himself now. Although he still monopolizes the slaughter and transactions in Xiwan, the transaction still brings him a steady stream of investments, but now he is still focused on this building at the intersection.

Compared to the inputs for slaughtering pigs and selling meat, this place has made a lot of money.

Zhang Butcher Zhang stepped into the backyard of the building with a proud look on his face. There was a busy workshop there. It was also a secret workshop specializing in the production of fake silver. Zhang Butcher Zhang's workshop had several very powerful masters of fake silver. He melted some of the better silver and mixed them with a lot of copper, lead and other things to make fake silver with very low silver content, and finally sent it to the pawn counter for use.

Due to the superb skills of silversmith, he did a very good job in this business. Through this counterfeiting technology, Zhang's butcher's speed of making money has increased greatly. Now three fake masters and more than a dozen apprentices are constantly making pseudo-silver in the black workshop.

The exquisite and exquisite production of fake silver in the black workshop is no different from real silver, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity. Making fake silver and then using fake silver through pawn shops is very easy to use. Zhang Butcher now has cramps in his hands counting money every day.

On the other hand, Zhang Tu also secretly leveraged high-interest loans through the pawnshop, doing these illegal things, but because of the son-in-law of the county magistrate and colluding with a group of officials in the county government, there was no trouble.

"Master, I will report to you the accounts of shops in various places yesterday." As usual, every day, Zhang butcher has to go around the shops in various places every day, and then report to him yesterday's accounts.

"Yes." Zhang Tu sat in the rattan chair, and a friend had already brewed a cup of strong tea.

The account room reported one by one. Butcher Zhang couldn't read and could not do the account, but he was still very smart. He could immediately hear some mistakes in the account room, and then interrupted the account room and pointed it out with a cold snorkeling.

The accountant quickly corrected while wiping his sweat.

Zhang Butuhu heard it very clearly that the industries in various places are very good, but the most profitable one is to make fake silver, which is really huge profits. If you use the silver to make fake silver, you will make a profit of several percent, and sometimes even reach multiple profits. It is faster than his loan. Although the profits of lending are higher, you have to have capital. There is still a turnover period. How can fake silver be made quickly? Now his fake silver is not only used as a pawn shop for himself, but has even been sold to Wuchang and even Nanzhili.

However, although the serious transactions have always had good returns, they are not worth mentioning compared to the fictitious banking and lending.

Zhang Laosan walked in from outside and leaned against Zhang Butcher Guard and said, "Dad, I just saw Liu Erlenzi coming back, riding a tall horse and wearing a green robe."

"What green robe?" Zhang Tu's eyes didn't open. Since the last time he suffered that big loss at the Liu family, Zhang Tu's first reaction when he heard that Liu Erlangzi of the Liu family was not anger and resentment, but a little fear.

The arm cannot resist his thighs. He, butcher Zhang, has also brought down a large family business over the years and has established a stable strength in the Xiwan area. However, the Liu family has joined the Mei family and the Li family, but he dare not fight head-on. It is to touch the stone with an egg.

He gave the Liu family 1,600 taels of silver, which cost a lot of blood, but for Zhang Tu, this amount of silver could not hurt his muscles. After decades of being in trouble, Zhang Tu knew very well who could provoke who could not provoke. He bullied the weak and feared the strong. It was not a derogatory term for Zhang Tu, but rather a very correct rule of dealing with the world.

Zhang Laosan curled his lips, "With a seahorse patch on his chest, you can get from the green robe of the ninth-rank military officer!"

My son didn't care about this, but just used it as a topic of conversation. But in Zhang Tu's heart, he was a little bit taller. Liu Jun became an official? He has become a ninth-rank military officer?

Zhang Tu couldn't sit still, so he stood up suddenly and looked serious.

Zhang San felt that his father was overreacting, "It was just a ninth-rank military officer. I heard that he seemed to have been a inspector of Hutou Pass."

"You know, you're an official, you're a rank," Zhang Tu cursed with dissatisfaction with his son's slow reaction.

He suffered a great loss at Liu Jun's hands and offended Liu Jun, but he felt that he had spent more than a thousand taels of silver to the Liu family, and this matter should have been over. After all, the Liu family was just borrowing the power of the Li family and Mei family, and there was nothing to do with it.

But now it’s different. Liu Jun has become an official. With the appreciation of the Li family and Mei family, Liu Jun was promoted to the ninth rank so quickly. Who knows what else he will be promoted in the future?

"Go home."

After walking two steps outside, butcher Zhang stopped again and called the clerk, "Get one hundred taels of silver, no, five hundred taels. Then wrap the dead jade Ruyi I received in the pawn shop a few days ago. Well, ask the restaurant to prepare ten jars of good wine, then get two roasted suckling pigs from the cooked food shop, and then put a few boxes of good cooked food."

Zhang San looked at his father in surprise, "Dad, don't you take these to the Liu family, right? As for it, it's just a small inspection, what are you afraid of him doing?"

Zhang Tu was too lazy to pay attention to his son. Since Liu Jun has become an official, it is different from the previous one. The two families had conflicts before. Zhang Tu's husband had to try his best to repair his relationship with the Liu family. In the future, if his Zhang family wants to maintain this situation in Xiwan, he must have a good relationship with the Liu family. After all, the Liu family has such a close relationship with the Mei family and the Li family.

If Liu Erlangzi becomes an official and becomes shaky, he will make things difficult for him to make things difficult for him in the Zhang family when he arrives.

It's just a few hundred taels of silver. If he can establish a good relationship with the Liu family, or even borrow the Liu family to establish a relationship with the Mei family, then Zhang Tu no longer has to be tightly attached to Xiwan. He can do a wider and bigger business by then.

If this is true, even if it costs 1,000 taels, 2,000 taels are worth it.

The guy quickly prepared various gifts as required. Zhang Tu specially asked the guy to put the gifts into eight rows. He also tied red silk flowers on them, and then asked the eight guys to carry the load and headed to the Liu family in a high profile.

Liu Jun was really surprised when he saw Zhang Tu with a smile on his face and the whole selection of gifts behind him.

After taking the gift list, Liu Jun glanced at it and found that there were quite a lot of things, including fifty taels of red gold, five hundred taels of gold and silver, a pair of jade Ruyi, two pairs of jade bracelets, and four golden hairpins. In addition, eight pieces of high-quality silk, ten red jars of Shaoxing daughter, two roasted suckling pigs, and two tables of high-quality tables.

"Uncle Zhang's gift is so great, how dare the Liu family accept it?" Liu Jun said with a smile.

"I just heard that my nephew has been promoted. I am now a inspector of Hutouguan, Taiping Township. I am not allowed to be a senior official. To be honest, our two neighbors have been around for many years, so I am very happy for you. A little gift is nothing else. I just congratulate Gaosheng and express my feelings. My nephew must accept it, otherwise I will look down on me, Zhang Tu."

Mr. Liu was not very enthusiastic about Zhang Tu, who was completely different from his personal appearance, and did not want to accept his gifts. However, Liu Jun just smiled and said, "Then it's better to obey your destiny than respect. Thank you for your kindness." He could guess some of his mentality about Zhang Tu's husband. Such people have always bullied the weak and were afraid of the strong. They bullied the weak when they saw the strong and depended on the strong. This gift cost a lot. Zhang Tu really put some money in it. Since it was delivered to him, it would be useless to accept it.

"Brother, you have given birth to a good son." Zhang Tu said to Dad Liu as he entered the hall of the Liu family. Dad just nodded casually to Zhang Tu, who was two-faced and three-sword.

Zhang Tu came to give gifts and even brought the banquet. Liu Jun directly asked someone to set up the banquet, and then kept Zhang Tu for a meal. By the way, he called over to his neighbors and several gentlemen from the private school, and invited the village chiefs and the head security chiefs to come over. Everyone knew that Liu Erlenzi had become a ninth-rank official, and they were very surprised. After receiving the invitation, they all brought gifts to the door to congratulate him.

At the banquet, Liu Jun deliberately wore that green robe and kept urging everyone to drink, giving everyone a great deal of face and everyone had a great time drinking.

Lu Mansion.

Two carriages were parked in front of the mansion, and one person jumped out of the carriage in front of the Lu family. However, the servant who was guarding the door at first recognized the person as the lady's personal maid Yaoyao, and hurriedly said, "Miss Yaoyao, you are back, are you back too?"

"Laifu, go and report to the master and wife, and then say that the lady is back."

The servant Lai Fu, who was guarding the gate, ran back to the mansion but reported, "Master, the lady is back, the lady is back."

When Lu Weizhang, who was sitting in the house to reconcile the accounts, stood up and hurriedly walked out of the house. But after walking a few steps, he stopped again, turned back to the study table and sat down, picked up the account book and read it.

Lu's mother took her maid and ran into the study and shouted loudly, "Oh, master, why are you still sitting here? Didn't you hear Lai Fu report saying that Qiqi is back? Come on, welcome her."

Lu Weizhang sat there motionless, "She still remembers this family. Didn't she have to leave here even if she climbed over the wall before? She climbed over the wall in front of so many people and ran away with the man. Has she thought about my feeling as a father? Why are she back now?"

"What are you saying? No matter what, Qiqi is also our daughter. We are just such a daughter. Do you want her?" Lu's mother said unhappily, "I didn't know who was looking forward to her daughter coming back every day before. Now that I'm back, you're still picking it up. Old man, if you don't go, I'll go."

Lu's mother left Lu Weizhang and took the servants at home to welcome her daughter home.

Lu Weizhang sat in the study, picked up the account book and looked at it for a long time but didn't turn a page, and he didn't realize that his account book was actually wrong!
Chapter completed!