Chapter 23: Spending Money Like Water
"I would like to ask you to join me and help me sell tea with my wife."
Hearing this, Hu Guang fell silent, and Changle also fell silent.
Because they couldn't guess what would happen, they didn't know what Qin Wenyuan was thinking.
Hu Guang narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Qin Wenyuan's serious expression, and said lightly: "Qin boy, are you serious?"
Qin Wenyuan nodded.
"Stop talking nonsense. Are you still doing business?"
Hu Guang smiled faintly, "You can't even pay off your debts, and you're still doing business? Don't laugh your teeth off, I'm afraid you'll lose your pants..."
“Bang!”
Before Hu Guang finished speaking, Qin Wenyuan took out the package of five hundred taels of silver that he had just retrieved from the Ministry of Works this morning and threw it on the table.
The heavy sound made Hu Guang unable to ignore it.
He quickly opened it and saw rows of white silver!
"Hiss! This..." Hu Guang was stunned!
He could never have imagined that Qin Wenyuan had so much silver.
You know, a month ago, if he hadn't met Qin Wenyuan by chance, he would still be sleeping on the street!
But a month later, there was so much money! !
Hu Guang was deeply shocked.
As expected, no one in the Qin family is a fool!
He looked at Qin Wenyuan with complicated eyes. To be fair, because his eldest brother was a warrior, he had wanted to train Qin Wenyuan to be a warrior since he was a child.
But there is no way, Qin Wenyuan is too lazy!
Even though he was a genius in martial arts, he was only able to work for three days and rest for two days, and he simply couldn't calm down!
So after a while, Hu Guang just let it happen on his own.
Now that times have changed, I didn’t expect that the direction of growth would go so awry that they are actually going into business!
Hu Guang was helpless.
You know, in their era, fighting and killing were commonplace.
Therefore, no matter whether it was him or Qin Wenyuan's father, they all looked down on businessmen, thinking that they were too weak, cunning and slippery, and would break at the slightest touch.
However, no one expected that Qin Wenyuan would become a businessman now, which is really shocking.
"Uncle Hu, what do you think?"
"Also, your twelve disciples have been traveling around with you as escorts, and it's too hard. How about they come with me?"
Qin Wenyuan chuckled, and already had a plan in mind.
Hu Guang quietly picked up his five taels of silver and snorted, "I can help you, but my apprentice and I will be paid very high wages."
"Qin boy, you need to think carefully!"
"Of course!" Qin Wenyuan was overjoyed and continued, "Uncle Hu, you get ten taels of silver every month, and your disciples get eight taels of silver! How about that?"
As soon as the words fell, Changle was shocked.
"Husband!"
Not only was she shocked, but Hu Guang also frowned.
"Qin boy, are you sure? This is not low."
"You know, I lead my disciples through life and death every month, and at the best, I only earn one or two taels of silver."
Qin Wenyuan chuckled and patted the back of his wife's hand, "Uncle Hu, a man's words are as good as his words. I'm sure of that."
During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, one tael of silver was approximately equal to one thousand coins.
According to records, one dou of rice (12.5 jin) only cost 5 wen.
In addition, during the Zhenguan period, even the first-rank official received only eighty-one taels of silver a year.
For the second rank, the reward is seventy-two taels of silver.
Third rank, sixty-one taels of silver.
By analogy, the annual salary of a ninth-rank official was only fifteen taels of silver.
Remember, it’s all one year!
But now, Qin Wenyuan gave ten taels of silver per month.
In other words, even for Hu Guang's apprentice, eight taels of silver a month was higher than the annual salary of a second-rank official!
How could Hu Guang and Changle not be shocked by this!
Qin Wenyuan is so generous!
This is not making money, it's not even this fast to rob money!!
Changle's heart was bleeding at this moment. She felt that her husband was such a spendthrift.
Even if you are an elder, you shouldn't offer such a price!
I feel so heartbroken that I can’t breathe!
Hu Guang nodded and looked at Qin Wenyuan deeply, "Okay, in that case, I 'll call them all over later."
"Then, thank you, Uncle Hu." Qin Wenyuan still had that calm and composed expression.
Afterwards, the couple tried to persuade Hu Guang to stay for dinner, but he refused, saying that he needed to contact his apprentice.
After he left, Changle, the only miser in the family, was completely furious!
"My husband, if you squander like this, we're going to be poor."
Changle pulled a frown on his face and counted on his fingers in a very cute way, "Let me calculate for you. Uncle Hu's salary is ten taels a month, which is one hundred and twenty taels a year."
"He has twelve disciples, and each of them earns ninety-six taels a year. If there are twelve of them... my God... I don't dare to continue calculating!"
"Husband, we haven't even confirmed whether we can make money yet, and you're squandering it like this, wuwuwu..."
At the end, Changle almost burst into tears.
Qin Wenyuan was shocked. He supported the staggering Changle and explained, "Ahem, Madam, if you don't want to sacrifice your child, you can't catch the wolf."
"My uncle Hu and his friends are very capable, and..."
Qin Wenyuan turned his head towards Chang'an and said meaningfully, "Do you think I gave them this money for free?"
"this……"
Changle was slightly startled, "Could it be that we are in a difficult situation now?"
Qin Wenyuan nodded, "Yes, according to my investigation, the one behind [Ruyi] Tea Cake is the Cui family of Qinghe."
"【Fenghua】Chabing, behind him is Fanyang Lu."
"I have not yet learned which family the Changfu tea cake belongs to, but I think it must be very extraordinary, so it can stand on the same level as the Five Surnames and Seven Famous Families."
"Ma'am, think carefully, after so many years, why are there still only three tea cake shops?"
Hearing this, Changle raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that they are suppressing us?"
Qin Wenyuan nodded.
Changle continued: "But...but we are not sure whether our tea can make money..."
"can."
Qin Wenyuan replied confidently: "The business world is like a battlefield. The Five Surnames and Seven Wangs are very sharp-sighted and they all know the huge profits behind tea cakes."
"So, the three of them don't allow anyone to set foot in this field."
"I'm afraid that all the other tea cakes that have appeared over the years have been suppressed by them, so there are only three old brands."
The words fell.
Changle now understood everything completely.
She learned that her husband was determined to enter the tea industry!
That's why they spend so much money on military force before they even earn any money!
"Forget it, forget it. Since you, my husband, already know everything, I won't say anything more." Changle let out a breath.
"Yeah." Qin Wenyuan nodded with a smile.
In fact, he had another reason, so he had to tie up Hu Guang in Chang'an.
Only Hu Guang can accomplish what he wants!
Moreover, he believed that as long as he was near Chang'an, Hu Guang would definitely do that on his own initiative.
However, he did not want to tell his wife Changle more about this matter, for fear that she would worry too much.
