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Chapter 155: The Vanishing Dowry

Su Muwan's idea was to prepare a place for these refugees to live in first, and then provide them with food for a period of time.

During this period, if people who are not lazy, they will definitely go out to find work. Gradually, their lives will not need their own help and can get on the right track. This should be the ultimate goal of rescue.

If they only help them survive this winter, they will not have a good life for the rest of their lives.

The real way is to let them live with their own hands, so that they can be guaranteed.

As for those who want to rely on their own support for the rest of their lives, then think about it as beautiful.

I will only help for a while, but will not support them for the rest of my life.

So Su Muwan's attitude is also very clear about this kind of person who wants to rely on her for the rest of her life:

Sorry! No!

Su Muwan thought that the amount of money she brought back with the escort agency was huge, more than 100,000 taels, so she could not be too arrogant for a while.

If you make too broad a move and make people feel that you are not from the right place, wouldn’t it be bad?

So the money has to be spent, but it has to be spent slowly in the name of legitimate reason. The money needs to be spent so that people can't see the strangeness.

After thinking for a while, Su Muwan looked at the butler and asked.

"Uncle Fu, I ask if your prince has a lot of private property outside, how much profit can he make every year?"

In the last life, Su Muwan had already discovered a problem before she was taken away from the power of the housekeeper.

The salary of the prince of the Dazhou Dynasty is only more than 10,000 taels a year, which is not enough for the expenses of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the masters in the mansion, not to mention the various birthday gifts, weddings, and full moon gifts given to others all year round.

So at that time, Su Muwan realized that Shangguan Yu should have a lot of profitable private property outside, so he used it as a expense in the mansion.

In fact, this is not a shameful thing. Apart from Shangguan Yu, the other princes are afraid that they all have many private property, Zhuangzi, etc. in private.

Otherwise, how could it be enough to expect more than 10,000 taels of silver?

In addition to these princes, even the officials in the capital have many such private property in private.

After all, not only does the salaries of officials have to support a family, but they even have to raise some beautiful concubines and maids, so how can they take care of them?

In the past, Su Muwan had heard Su Qingyun tease all the officials in the Hanlin Academy who were "poor Hanlin", because most of the officials there were a little stubborn, believing that doing these things in private was to be ashamed of his official uniform.

So they may be the last group of people in the capital who only rely on their salary to live, and of course they lived a very difficult life.

Why is it difficult to get financially?

First of all, the place in this capital can be said to be worth every inch of land, and a small courtyard house has been sold for thousands of taels of silver.

What is the concept of a few thousand taels?

Let me put it this way, a fourth-rank official in the capital has an annual salary of only 3,000 taels, so a fourth-rank official can own his own mansion if he is with his family and young people without eating or drinking for a year.

In addition, there are clothes and food prices, so most officials can only do some business in private to supplement their household expenses, so that they can live a little more generous life.

"this,……"

When Su Muwan asked about this, the butler didn't know how to speak, so hesitated.

He naturally knew all the private property of Shangguan Yu, but there were two types of private property, one of which could be obtained on the table and asked people to know.

The remaining one is that it cannot be taken to the counter, or even hidden, and the mouth must be tighter on these things.

So the butler hesitated whether he should say these secret things together. After all, without Shangguan Yu's order, he felt that he could not say them casually.

The person who asked him this question was not someone else, but the princess they had identified, which was called the butler. He didn't know how to make a decision.

Seeing him hesitated so much, Su Muwan felt a little clear.

But she didn't have any thoughts in her mind. After all, Shangguan Yu has not come back yet, and the housekeeper has not heard his orders in person, so he naturally cannot act at will.

Moreover, Uncle Fu's mouth is so tight that people trust him a little more. After all, there may be many smart people, but few are loyal people.

It is a blessing for Shangguan Yu to have such a capable and loyal butler.

"Uncle Fu, you just need to tell me how much money the private property can make on the surface. I just want to see how much profit our mansion can make in the past year. It is better to pay attention to the amount of money when doing good deeds, otherwise it will exceed the annual income of our mansion. Wouldn't it be doubtful?"

Su Muwan spoke and explained her intention clearly.

She guessed that Shangguan Yu should have many private property in private, such as the kind of business he did in Yiwei Teahouse in Dingzhou before.

Money is fast, and it can be said to be a huge profit, but this is really not easy to know.

Moreover, judging from the news that Mo Yan and Mo Yu and the others were unintentionally leaked, in addition to Yiwei Tea House, there should also be such a connection point in the capital, but I don’t know what kind of business it will be.

But even if he makes a lot of money, in the secret guard camp under Shangguan Yu, he may have to spend a lot of money in it every year in order to train newcomers.

Thinking of this, Su Muwan even felt a little worried about Shangguan Yu. She was now the mistress of the royal palace, so sooner or later she would have to seek some better livelihoods for the royal palace.

But she had never done business in her previous life, so she didn't know anything about these things.

Wait, do business!

Su Muwan suddenly remembered something!

When she got married, the marriage slip said that Su Qingyun gave her several dowry houses and several shops in the capital.

At that time, the dowry sent by Shangguan Yu was brought back to the palace as usual, but these dowry contracts were not brought.

In the last life, I had no sign of these things until I died. What happened?

Su Muwan's heart suddenly stirred up a huge wave. She had never been interested in this money matter in her previous life.

Even the housekeeper's affairs were deceived by Shen Yun and his daughter and handed over Daquan. Their usual expenses were relied on the monthly salary paid by the mansion, so how could he think of his dowry?

Think about it, because Su Xinai is the concubine, her monthly salary is lower than that of her, the concubine, but she is not ruthless when she goes out to buy things on the street on weekdays.

She must have held her own dowry in her hand, and all the profits she used were subsidized by herself.

However, all of them are girls married from the Su family, why is Su Xinai the only one who can take the dowry, but his dowry disappears.

Su Muwan felt that all this was done by Chen Yun behind the scenes, and Su Xinai must have something to do.

Thinking of this, Su Muwan curled her lips and sneered.

Since you have the courage to touch my things, I must fight back. After eating mine, you must spit it out!

The housekeeper didn't know what Su Muwan was thinking at this moment, so he thought about it and gave all the private property he could tell in his mansion.

"Princess, the prince has four or five farms outside the capital, each of which brings more than one or two hundred acres of land. Together, these farms can have more than ten thousand taels of savings per year."

"In addition, in the East City, there are antique shops, two restaurants, a jewelry shop, a silk shop, and a bookstore, which can produce 70,000 to 80,000 yuan a year."

"These pieces add up to nearly 100,000 taels a year."

The butler just told Qi Ling a rough idea, but that was enough.

Qi Ling thought that since the royal mansion can have almost so much income every year, he can take half of this amount to do good deeds.

When others ask, there is a legitimate reason, "This is saved by the money we earn from our mansion." It will not cause any suspicion.

Half of more than 100,000 taels, that is, more than 50,000 taels of silver. Although this amount seems to be very large, it cannot be considered too much if it is actually used to rescue these refugees.

So Su Muwan thought about what reputation would she have to borrow to find some excuses for spending money.

But there is no need to consider these things now. With 50,000 taels of silver, just spend it according to the 50,000 taels.

After solving this problem of the amount of money, Su Muwan couldn't help but return to the dowry he had just considered.

She first asked Madam Ying, after all, she had been taking care of these things over the days.

"Madam, I want to ask you, have you ever seen the dowry I brought with me when I came here?"

Madam Ying didn't know why she asked this question, but she still answered honestly.

"Of course I've seen it, and the dowry brought to the princess's mansion was recorded by us two days before entering the house and placed it in the warehouse. Why is the princess looking for something?"

It's better to record it!

"I wonder if the nanny has seen some of the dowry I got here?"

Madam Ying thought about it and shook her head.

"No, the list is almost all the dowry sent by the prince at that time. As for the princess dowry, we have never seen it. Why didn't the princess take care of those things personally?"

The reason why Madam Ying didn't mention this matter at first was because she thought that the dowry was released by Su Muwan alone and wanted to take care of it alone.
Chapter completed!
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