Chapter 19 Hu's Courtyard is the first luxury

The Hu family compound is the first in luxury.

Many items in the compound are extremely expensive high-quality mahogany, mainly red acid branches, black acid branches and rosewood. There are also many red sandalwood, incense branches, chicken branches and grain ebony. Each piece is a piece of furniture that can be used for hundreds of years. The longer the era is, the harder and thicker it is. The golden silk nanmu in the Nanmu hall is not bad for thousands of years.

Yinglianyuan has a mahogany hall completely made of chicken wings and mahogany. The wood alone costs 140,000 taels of silver, which is not cheaper than the Nanmu Hall.

There are 100 lions carved in the Hundred Lions Tower. Each lion's eyes are made of a pair of fingernail-sized golden balls, which are simply 200 golden beans, which are worth more than 30,000 taels of silver.

In the middle of the pool in front of Heletang Gate, there is a two-person-tall Lingbi stone, which is known as the first Lingbi in Zhejiang and the treasure of the Hu family. When it was bought from a rich businessman in Yangzhou, it cost Hu Xueyan 100,000 taels of silver.

This piece of land in the Hu family compound is more worth paying attention to, especially the pattern of the West Garden, which was left in the Southern Song Dynasty. At the beginning, it was the back garden of the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Southern Song Dynasty. A two-person-high Taihu stone in it is still inherited in the Song Huizong era.

Think about it, how much price He Jing has opened.

Hu Chuyuan seemed to be born to be a big business person. He agreed, and he also wanted to see how much He Jing could do and whether he could be worthy of this bribe and bride price.

After talking about some miscellaneous things with several ladies, Hu Chuyuan estimated that it was almost time, so he was ready to get up and leave. The seventh lady suddenly coughed and said with a delicate smile, "Oh, several sisters, Chu Yuan, you are all here. Let's talk about the separation of families...!"

Hu Chuyuan raised his eyes coldly and asked, "Why, the seventh aunt feels that she has the confidence to talk about this kind of thing now?"

Mrs. Luo also sneered and said, "Chu Yuan, since someone has said it, let's talk about it. You are the head of the family. Why don't you tell me what you think first?

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and said, "Property and real estate are not included. Dad's actual family property is almost more than 2,100 taels of silver. I think that when my little sister gets married, the dowry will be made by me. When Pinyuan and Yanyuan start a family and a career, they can also take 8 million taels of silver from me. If they want to start their own business, I support it. If they want to do things with me, I support them more. As for my little sister, I will keep two million taels of silver for her in the bank, and give it to her when she needs it, so that her mother-in-law will not blackmail her money.

The seventh aunt was happy to hear it. She thought that Hu Chuyuan, a shrewd ghost, would not be so polite, but she could get eight million taels of silver.

Mrs. Luo Si shook her head.

The first lady is Hu Xueyan's wife. Although her status is high, she has no real power. Hu Xueyan was able to make a fortune in her early years. Mrs. Luo Si and the Luo family have made a lot of efforts, so she is the real "lady" at home.

She said, "Chu Yuan, what about the assets left by your father? After deducting this big house, the real estate and the business name, you can only discount 4 million taels of silver, and there are also 3 million taels of descendants, 8 million taels of silver, and 10 million taels of Xiangjun's of silver. As the eldest son, you have to take the property of the house and the business, and the two brothers will share 4 million taels of silver each. The money was left in the hands of me and the eldest lady, one for emergency preparedness, and for the marriage of two younger brothers and younger sisters. As for the debts of the Xiang army, if they can be repaid, each of the three brothers will share 3.3 million taels equally. If they can't pay them back, then everyone will admit their bad luck and can't argue with the court, otherwise they can't even save the last bit of their family!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and said, "What the third aunt said."

Mrs. Luo Si added, "If the eldest sister and the seventh sister have no problem, the family will be divided like this, but we are not in a hurry to divide it. Let's wait for Pinyuan and Qiyuan to get a family up. The family's property and outside affairs are in the management of Chu Yuan. Even if the money of the two brothers is lent to Chu Yuan, if Chu Yuan makes money, it will be calculated at the interest of 5% per year. If he doesn't earn it, then don't count the interest. However, Chu Yuan, if you are your home outside, the things in this compound have to be handled by me and my elder sister, especially those women's families. Chu Yuan, don't ask too much.

Hu Chuyuan said yes.

This separation plan can be regarded as the best way at present.

In the case that Hu Chuyuan was already in charge of the overall situation, Mrs. Luo Si tried her best not to be fair and try her best not to turn against him in advance, and fought for a good enough separation conditions for her son. At the same time, she also did not allow the seventh aunt to blackmail her son's marriage.

Her calculation is to take out the money of her children and grandchildren to buy the betrothal gifts and marriage of her sons. Even if she gives two million taels, there will still be one million taels left, and she will continue to hold it in her hands, which has nothing to do with the seventh aunt.

If the family is divided into a business, the money that should be given to the third brother can almost be given to the third brother. Otherwise, he will stay in Hu Chuyuan's hands to make discount shares, which still has nothing to do with the seventh aunt.

Although the seventh aunt is not happy, she can't resist Mrs. Luo's Fourth. In addition, Hu Chuyuan and the eldest lady have agreed. She can only hold back this tone and think that she will talk to you carefully when my son marries the governor's daughter.

Hu Chuyuan was not so patient to participate in the struggle of their wives. Since he had reached an agreement to separate the family and maintained the situation of not being, he got up and left and went back to discuss with Wang Baotian about buying land by the West Lake.

Surprised Hu Chuyuan. The next day, Mrs. Luo Si couldn't wait to start driving away the concubines at home.

If it hadn't been for Auntie Jiu and a little daughter, she would have driven away even Aunt Jiu.

The most arrogant fourteenth aunt in Ping said that she was the most unlucky. Other aunts could still take away her jewelry and private money. Only she was directly driven away and only gave dozens of taels of silver.

Aunt Fourteen wanted to transfer these jewelry and private money for a long time, but who was Mrs. Luo Si? She had been staring at her for a long time, and even a gold earring was buttoned off.

This is the so-called rich family, the so-called glory and wealth.

Hu Chuyuan watched all this, but he couldn't speak.

This is the era. For men, three wives and four concubines are normal, but for women, it is not normal, especially for concubines without children, who are simply not human beings.

When the master died, the concubine suffered.

I have never missed this!

After the fourteenth aunt left home, Hu Chuyuan asked the second housekeeper Hu Rong to quietly give her 600 taels of silver, and bought a yard in the suburbs outside Hangzhou, so that several aunts who could neither go back to their mother's house nor could not find other support to live temporarily.

For them, love is a very luxurious thing, far less than the reality of wealth and glory.

Or, they have no choice in the first place.

As for the situation to be faced today, they have known it since the day they became concubines, because countless examples are like this.

With their departure, the news of the division of the Hu family spread quickly.

People said, laughed, teased, and continued to wait for the Hu family to stage a good show in the decline of the rich family.

People predict that the upstarts will die like this, or those who read the books of sages can spread for a long time, and the business will not last for a long time!