It has been half a month since I was locked in a cage of happiness.

The days pass quickly, the hot summer has passed, and the autumn breeze has inadvertently enveloped Kaifeng City.

Wu Haogu has had a lot of things recently and is very busy.

First, he, Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing, jointly formulated the "Wu Jia Family Law".

After the "Family Law", the inner accounting was established immediately. Pan Qiaolian herself was in charge of the inner accounting. Although she was a woman from a noble family, she was also proficient in business and was fully qualified to manage the inner accounting.

While establishing the inner account, Pan Qiaolian's dowry of up to 380,000 yuan and Wu Haogu, and Ximen Qing's shares in Christie's Store (Ximen Qing also owns a small number of shares in Christie's Store), were all injected into it.

From now on, the internal accounting of the Wu family (referring to the small family jointly owned by Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing) has become an "investment fund" with huge assets. In the future, all major investments that Wu Haogu needs to make will be implemented through the internal accounting of the Wu family.

The second is that Wu Yanen, the patriarch of the Wu family in Haizhou, met and negotiated land purchases. This is not a transaction of hundreds or thousands of acres, but a transaction of 60,000 mu of paddy fields! And it is also a 60,000 mu of paddy fields located in Qushan County, Haizhou, connected into a piece of 60,000 mu of paddy fields.

Because the harvest of paddy fields far exceeds that of dry land, the price is relatively high. The price of 60,000 mu of paddy fields is 210,000 yuan, and the average amount of three scattered 3 335 cents per mu.

However, this price is actually cheap. If the Wu family had not urgently needed funds and had too much land to sell at one time, Wu Haogu would have difficulty purchasing so many paddy fields even if he had paid five acres.

Such a huge transaction is a great event even for the largest Wu family merchant in Haizhou, so it is not surprising that the head of the family took action personally.

Just in Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing, in the Lihua Villa in the west of the city where they lived after marriage, Wu Haogu met with the head of the Wu family in Haizhou and Wu Yanen, a major maritime merchant in the north of the Song Dynasty.

The Lihua Villa is one of Pan Qiaolian’s dowry. It is located next to Qionglin Garden. It does not count the surrounding attached land, but the area of ​​the house alone reaches nearly one hundred acres!

There is a huge back garden in the courtyard, with ponds, rockery, willow trees and a large area of ​​pear trees, as well as pavilions and pavilions. The scene in which Zhenzong and Renzong's famous minister Yan Shu mentioned in the poem "The moon is melting in the pear blossom courtyard, and the willow catkins pond is faintly breeze". You can probably see it in this pear blossom courtyard?

Because the courtyard is large enough, there is enough space for Wu Haogu to raise horses (Wu Haogu is now collecting various horses), the houses and pavilions are also very exquisite, and the house is equipped with servants whom Pan Qiaolian is used to. So shortly after the marriage, Wu Haogu regarded the Lihua Villa as his main residence, not to "father's residence". Wu Haogu is a filial son, so he arranged residences for Wu Chengzhi, Feng Erniang and Wu Haowen in the Lihua Villa.

Wu Yanen, a big sea merchant, is an elderly man, who looks about 60 years old and almost seventy years old. Although his hair and beard are all white, he is quite full of energy, his face is rosy and has a bit of a childish face. He is wearing a satin robe with flowers, a jade belt around his waist, and a big red embroidered sachet, exuding the unique fragrance of ambergris. Under his feet is a pair of black boots on his back, standing there with a demeanor. From a distance, you can tell that he is an amazing figure.

Wu Yanen was also following someone, who looked about 40 or 50 years old, with dark skin and rosy skin, short and strong figure, holding a Park knife in his hand, looking majestic.

This person is obviously the "head of the navy" of the Wu family in Haizhou...

According to Hua Manlou, all larger maritime merchants have raised naval troops!

That is a real naval army! It is not a merchant ship escort, and they are not on a merchant ship, but a real warship, which can sail at high speed at sea and is very strong and can be used to impact. The naval army on the warship is the real core competitiveness of the sea merchants.

These big maritime merchants, either alone or several companies, have joined forces to monopolize a route. If other small and medium-sized maritime merchants want to operate on this route, they must pay tribute to them, otherwise they will wait for them to steal all of them!

In other words, if Wu Haogu wants to enter the maritime business industry, he must have a strong naval army and warship. And as a rising star, he must be prepared to become popular with the old maritime businessmen.

The Wu family's navy leader in front of him is likely to become Wu Haogu's enemy on the water in the future.

Following Wu Yanen and the head of the Wu family's naval army, there were dozens of followers and a carriage convoy. Most of the followers also carried bows and arrows and pavilions. They were all black and strong men, and they might be in the same way as the Ximen family's thugs. These men came on foot, and no one was riding a car or riding a horse. I don't know if they didn't know how to ride a horse, or if the Wu family's naval army had any pretensions?

"The Grand Official, this is the Grand Official Wu who is Chengzhilang of the Wu family's boat trip."

Hua Manlou also came to the Lihua Villa with Wu Yanen. Seeing Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing coming out of the yard to greet him, he quickly spoke up.

Wu Yanen also had an official position, and was a civil servant. He was from the eighth-rank You Chengzhilang. Of course, this official was not obtained by taking the imperial examination, but was bought with money, so there was also a word "right" in front of Chengzhilang. However, when Hua Manshan introduced, he deliberately omitted the word "right".

Wu Haoguyi bowed and said with a smile: "I have met Wu Chengzhi for a long time, and I admire him for a long time."

Wu Yanen bowed to Wu Haoguyi in all directions: "I have heard of the name of Wu Dongmen in Haizhou for a long time. I am so lucky to see him today."

Ximen Qing gave a blessing: "Wu Shibo has been in trouble all the way. Why not go to the house first to cook it, drink a bowl of Yunwu Tea from Haizhou, and then try Kaifeng dishes from the Lihua Villa."

The Kaifeng cuisine in Lihua Villa is of course much better than the Kaifeng cuisine in Jingong Building, Yanggu County. After all, Panlou, one of the 72nd floors of Kaifeng, is the industry of the Pan Family Generals.

"Okay, I haven't eaten Kaifeng cuisine for one day." Old Man Wu smiled, followed Wu Haogu, and Ximen Qing walked into the Lihua Villa together.

Old man Wu, Wu Haogu, Ximen Qing and Huashan, entered the middle hall of the Lihua Villa. After sitting down, the man holding a Pu sword did not come with him.

Soon a female envoy from another courtyard served fragrant tea. The guest and host exchanged greetings while drinking tea. After a while, the old man introduced the conversation to the topic.

"Wudongmen, I heard that the court planned to build a market near the mouth of the border river and the sea?"

"This is indeed the case." Wu Haogu replied, "But this market must be jointly organized with the Liao Kingdom, and it is still in negotiations with the Liao people."

"This market...is a businessman bought a pony?"

"The Chamber of Commerce buys the pounce," Wu Haogu said, "The court set up a market warehouse department outside the market, which charges taxes and purchases goods from the market to the Song Dynasty, and checks whether there are any prohibited items. The rest of the market affairs will be ignored, and will be managed by the Chamber of Commerce."

"Who has the final say in this chamber of commerce?"

"Shareholder." Wu Haogu said, "Once the Liao people allow it, the Chamber of Commerce can issue shares, and merchants from the Liao and Song dynasties invest money. Currently, it plans to recruit 33 shares, 10,000 yuan per share. Each merchant is limited to one share and no more investments are allowed."

What Wu Haogu is talking about to Wu Yanen now is just the preliminary plan for the construction of the "Lighthouse Commercial City".

Thirty-three shares, 10,000 yuan per share, totaling 330,000 yuan! This money is mainly used to purchase land in the Shangcheng City, dig trenches surrounding the Shangcheng City, build dams that protect the Shangcheng City from flooding, and build the Shangcheng City wharf.

Because the land near the Border River in Cangzhou and the land belonging to Wuqing County in the Liao Kingdom are very low, and on average, less than one mu is less than one mu. If you extract 60,000 to 70,000 mu of land from the 330,000 capital, you can buy at least 60,000 mu of land, which is equivalent to more than 40 square kilometers. Even if you only focus on developing half of the land (the half of the land in the Song Dynasty), you can still have 20 square kilometers, which is only slightly smaller than Kaifeng Prefecture City.

Of course, it is impossible for such a large territory to be developed into a commercial city. Wu Haogu only plans to use one-third of it, that is, less than 7 square kilometers to build a commercial city, a port terminal and a residential area. The remaining 13-14 square kilometers will be used to build schools and pastures. The former will include Lighthouse Academy (Liuyi Academy), Lighthouse University Hall and Lighthouse Sea Academy (including the Military Academy), and the latter will be used to raise horses. Lighthouse University Hall will also include a series of experimental workshops, and Lighthouse Sea Academy will include a dock and a shipyard.

In addition, Lighthouse Academy, Lighthouse University Hall and Lighthouse Sea School will all have their own independent walls, ports and moats. If necessary, these three schools can be transformed into independent castles for persistence. If the two shopping malls in the north and south of Lighthouse City are added, there will be a total of five independent castles. These five castles can communicate with each other through the boundary river channel to form an integral part.

Of course, if Lighthouse City needs to shrink its defense in the future, then four of these five castles can be given up. As long as there is a castle, Lighthouse City is a nail stuck in the throat of the Jurchens!

"There are thirty-three shares?" Wu Yanen asked, "How many shares have you recruited now?"

"There are eleven waves." Wu Haogu replied.

These eleven stocks belong to the Wu family, Pan family, Ximen family, Murong family, Ma family, Zhao family (Zhao Zhongge family), Mi family Yi stock, Gao family (Gao Qiu), Wang family (Wang Fu), Duan Wang Mansion, Su family and Ji family. Although these eleven stocks have not paid their share capital, their intention to invest is very firm. In addition, many wealthy families in Kaifeng Mansion have expressed their willingness to invest and leave, and there is no problem in recruiting 33 stocks.

"That's even if our Haizhou Wu family is one," said Wu Yanen.
Chapter completed!