Chapter 96

They all exploded.

They all wanted to plead with Jia Hui, and didn't want to leave at all.

Jia Yun cooled his face:

"Leave now, and you can get 5 taels of silver as severance pay ｀ ‖."

"If you refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, then you get nothing, and you will all be beaten out with sticks!"

This was the first thing Jia Hui entrusted to him as the new steward.

He had to do it well.

Lin Gui and the others were afraid when they saw Wei Xu and the others who were murderous and carrying knives and sticks.

They didn't dare to make trouble.

Obediently, one by one, they took the money.

Then they left the Jia Fu dejectedly!

No one feels good about being driven out of their home in the middle of winter.

Fortunately, five taels of silver warmed their bodies and hearts a little.

And up to this point.

After Lin Gui and the others left.

Except for Jia Yun.

Basically, there were no outsiders in the Jia family.

Xiren and Hearing Qingwen were Jia Hui's slaves.

Plus they had already returned their hearts.

And Jia Yun was also loyal to Jia Hui.

Others were all die-hard loyalists.

Up to this point, the inner and outer courtyards were all Jia Hui's confidants.

Not afraid of what he said.

Even how many times he did things with women was not heard by others.

Like the Rong and Ning prefectures, it was completely like a sieve.

Their every word and action.

Who they met.

What they said.

Time, place, person, process!

It was all in the hands of the two emperors and the Retired Emperor.

After dismissing the people.

Looking at Jia Yun who was reporting back, Jia Hui nodded with satisfaction: "Very good."

"Now let's go and do some shopping."

He told Jia Yun about the need to purchase a large amount of materials, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc., for the Jia Fu.

And the matter of purchasing betrothal gifts for the Qin family.

Jia Yun was mentally prepared for this.

He agreed immediately.

Then a large group of people went out majestically.

Wei Xu took 100 personal guards to stay at home.

Jia Hui, Jia Yun, Xiren, Hearing Qingwen, plus 50 servants and 10 Bingzhou Wolf Riders left the Jia Fu majestically.

To the commercial street in the East City.

As for Gao Shun, early in the morning, at dawn, he quietly took 50 soldiers of the Trapping Formation to the Flying Wolf Camp to take over the work, holding Jia Hui's order.

It was very cold in winter, and the snow was more than a foot thick.

Fortunately, the weather was very sunny today, and the sun was hanging high above everyone's heads.

Jia Hui rode a horse.

Xiren and Hearing Qingwen sat in a sedan chair.

It was another high-standard treatment.

Making the two girls very happy.

When they arrived at the market to shop.

They were very lively.

Jia Yun was mainly responsible for purchasing firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, quilts, and various other things needed for the home.

Jia Hui asked him to purchase based on the standard of 300 people first.

100 personal guards, 50 servants.

This certainly wasn't the total for the Jia family in the future.

Later, he would buy and recruit a large wave of cooks, nannies, and maids.

For example, Yan Shi, how could she be his concubine? At least one or two maids to serve her?

Plus Qin Keqing had to bring a few when she married over.

Plus these women were definitely not all of them.

The future is promising!

So Jia Hui's estimate of 300 people was conservative.

Jia Yun, Xiren, and Hearing Qingwen were secretly shocked when they heard this!

"Xiren, our Jia Fu is almost catching up with the Rong and Ning prefectures."

Hearing Qingwen whispered to Xiren in the back.

Xiren thought for a while and nodded: "In the layers of courtyards of the Rongguo Prefecture, there are nannies, great-nannies, grandsons, great-grandsons, brothers, sisters-in-law, children, legitimate and illegitimate, totaling twenty or thirty masters, three or four hundred servants, it is indeed catching up with the scale of the two prefectures."

Although it hadn't reached the scale of the two prefectures yet!

But it was already very exaggerated!

You have to know.

The Rong and Ning prefectures had this scale after several generations!

And Jia Hui was only the first generation.

One master, just starting a Viscount's mansion, had this scale.

It was truly shocking!

"¨｀ This must cost a lot of money."

The beautiful Hearing Qingwen felt that white silver and yellow gold were flying away from Jia Hui.

Xiren hesitated for a moment.

"Roughly calculating, about 300 people, the annual expenses for food, drink, and clothing for our mansion would be about 1,100 taels of silver."

"And that's just the expenses for our servants."

"Not counting the masters'!"

"Adding the monthly wages, according to the standards of the Rongguo Prefecture, the mansion issues pocket money to everyone every month, from the old lady down to the smallest maid. The highest is 20 taels per month, which is for the old lady, the mistress, and Li Wan. Baoyu, Jia Huan, and Jia Lan get 2 taels per month. Head maids get 1 tael, and junior maids get 500 coins per month."

"Adding it up is an astronomical figure."

"As far as I know, just the monthly wages for everyone in the mansion, year-end bonuses, food, and clothing expenses. Take Sister-in-law Wan as an example, she has an income of 400 or 500 taels of silver a year, not just monthly wages, but also year-end bonuses, powder money, school snacks, pen and ink money, and other expenses!"

"The entire Rongguo Prefecture, just the normal necessary expenses total about 10,000 taels a year."

"Adding gifts, filial piety to superiors, engineering repairs, planting flowers and trees, raising horses... summing it up, it's an even bigger number."

"For the whole mansion in a year, the expenses are at least about 20,000 taels of silver!"

The more she thought, the more shocked she was.

She only felt her scalp tingling!

He only felt his scalp tingle!