Zhuge Weidao originally had a carriage, so instead of driving it himself, he hired a Shandong man named Wang Wen to be the driver.
This Wang Wen was originally a low-level naval officer and Zhuge Weidao's classmate at the Naval Academy. But the reincarnation was not done well. He was not the "king" of Wencun, Guangdong (the Wang family in Zhennan), but the "king" of Langya, Shandong. Not only was he not from one of the eight great aristocratic families, he was not even a member of the Xunchen family. He was just an aspiring young man who was born a commoner and entered the navy. As a result, he became the standout and scapegoat during the Java Incident, and became one of the few officers who was forced to retire or be demoted.
The person who arranged Wang Wen's retirement was Zhuge Weidao - he was an investigator for the Navy Department at the time and was directly responsible for investigating the truth of the incident. Although he protected many people, he still had to hand over a few unlucky people. Otherwise, how can we communicate?
Those who have a backing can't make friends, and those who don't have a backing but are relatively well-behaved can't be wronged. This Wang Wen, who has no backing and is in the spotlight, is of course unlucky.
However, Zhuge worked for the Tao. Although he retired Wang Wen, he also recruited him as his disciple and made him a highly paid driver. The driver was only temporary. One day, Zhuge would become a Taoist. For example, if he takes the position of military advisor of the Zhuge family, it is just a trivial matter to arrange for him to return to the navy as an officer. By that time, Wang Wen was Zhuge Weidao's direct descendant in the army... Of course Zhuge Weidao didn't remember this. When he was still sitting in the carriage heading to the Wuxiang Marquis Mansion, Guo Xiaobao and He Tianran, you told him word by word.
After listening to what they said, Zhuge Weidao also admired himself a little - look at this skill, he was obviously using others as a scapegoat, but in the end he became his confidant!
This emotional intelligence is at least 180!
"Brother Daozi, this is the account book I compiled for you overnight...the movable and immovable properties under your name, as well as various income and expenditures, are all listed here." After talking about Wang Wen, He Naturally, he handed the account book he had just sorted out to Zhuge Weidao.
The original Zhuge Weidao of these accounts was naturally very clear, but hasn't he lost his memory now? I can’t even remember how much money I have…it’s so painful!
And after he read the account book given to him by He Tianran, he felt even more painful - he didn't seem to be as rich as he originally thought, and he had a lot of expenses!
Of course, Zhuge Weidao must be a rich man. The real estate under his name includes the house in Goulan Hutong, a pasture outside the entrance, a mansion in Nanjing, a villa in the West Mountain of Beijing, and outside Chaoyang Gate in the East City of Beijing. A one-story building in the business district, a mansion in Borneo, a mansion in Yanshan Mountain Resort... seven real estate properties in total!
However, except for the one floor in the business district outside Chaoyangmen, which can receive some rent, the rest of these properties are properties with only expenses and no income. The property taxes and maintenance fees alone have to support 5,000 to 6,000 yuan each year!
Zhuge Weidao also owns shares in two companies, one is the Suez Canal Company and the other is the Sakhalin Oil Company. The former is a company listed in London, Shanghai, and Paris. Its stock price has increased very well, and it also has a dividend of more than 10,000 silver dollars every year. And the latter is still a loser... looking for oil everywhere and constantly raising funds, but so far nothing has been found, while Zhuge Weidao has continued to invest more for several years.
In addition, Zhuge Weidao still has more than 40,000 to 50,000 yuan in deposits in the Yangtze River Bank account to meet daily turnover.
If you just look at these, Zhuge Weidao's financial situation seems to be okay. But Zhuge Weidao's income and expenditure account looks very bad!
The income items in the income and expenditure account are salaries, dividends from Suez Company, rent from the property outside Chaoyang Gate and some bank interest. The annual "recurring item income" is almost 23,000 to 20,000 to 20,000 silver dollars!
The expenditure items are the expenditures of various real estates, the expenditures of "retainers" including Yu De, He Tianran, and Wang Wen, as well as the expenditures of Zhuge Weidao himself - Zhuge Weidao's own expenditures seem to be not small, and he has good food. Good food, good drinks, and all kinds of social expenses... Spending money like water probably means a person like him!
And these various expenses together are actually thousands more than Zhuge Weidao's regular project income. If we include the additional investment in the Sakhalin Oil Company, Zhuge Weidao has had to pay more every year in the past few years. "Compensate" for a small amount of 10,000 yuan!
"Mu Ru," Zhuge Weidao put away the account book and looked at his "finance manager" with some confusion, "the account will lose tens of thousands of silver yuan every year...will it go bankrupt if this continues? ?”
He Tianran was stunned, "Bankrupt? Dong Weng, how could you be bankrupt? Take a closer look... In your account at Yangtze River Bank, there will be two large amounts of income every year, which is enough to offset all your expenses.”
"How many large amounts of income?" Zhuge Weidao picked up the account book and looked carefully, and there was indeed one!
"This is..." His expression changed, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Isn't this corruption and bribery?"
"No, no, you are an upright official!" Guo Xiaobao said with a smile, "Brother Daozi, don't worry, although you will have two huge incomes of unknown origin every year, you are definitely an upright official, I can guarantee it!"
It turns out that Zhuge Weidao was an upright official with a huge amount of property of unknown origin!
He was still a little worried and looked at He Tianran again. He Tianran smiled and said: "Dong Weng... the larger of the two incomes was given to you by the Queen Mother! How can the money given to you by the Queen Mother be counted?" What about corruption and bribery?”
"This really cannot be considered corruption and bribery!" Zhuge Weidao said in his heart: "This belongs to... eating soft rice, right? Isn't it illegal to eat the Queen Mother's soft rice? But then again, the Queen Mother's soft rice is really delicious! "
Zhuge Weidao asked again: "Then who gave the other sum? Isn't it also a rich widow?"
After hearing this, Guo Xiaobao and He Tianran both had strange smiles on their faces, and they even provoked Brother Thumb.
"Sage," He Tianran said with a smile, "that was given by a rich widow..."
Come on, this Zhuge Weidao's soft rice eats more than just one family!
What Guo Xiaobao said next went beyond Zhuge Weidao's imagination.
"Brother Daozi, that widow is my aunt, your...stepmother!"
Zhuge Weidao couldn't believe his ears... Stepmother? Did the spoiled meal fall on the stepmother? Isn’t this too bottomless?
Zhuge Weidao thought about it and felt something was wrong, "Baozhi, I, my stepmother is very rich?"
"Of course!" Guo Xiaobao nodded and smiled bitterly, "Daozi, don't think I have much money, but my aunt is very rich! My aunt and my father were born to the same mother, and her mother is a Japanese child of the Zheng family. The eldest daughter of the Zheng family in Zongqianzuo was given two million silver dollars as a dowry when she married my grandfather... This money and the subsequent appreciation went to my aunt, and my aunt took this money with her. After marrying your father, your father helped my aunt use the money to invest in the Suez Canal. So now my aunt is rich, a rich woman!"
"But why does she want to give me money?" Zhuge Weidao frowned... Although the Queen Mother's "rice" is very fragrant, you can't eat too much of this "rice", besides, she is still a stepmother! If you eat this, aren't you cuckolding Zhuge Youde's spirit in heaven?
"I don't know about this," Guo Xiaobao shook his head, and then added, "Although my aunt is a generation older than you, she is only seven or eight years older than you... .You two have known each other since childhood."
Zhuge Weidao heard beads of sweat on his forehead. Where had he heard this story before?
When he was thinking about asking more, the carriage he was riding in had already stopped outside the door of a mansion on the Shichahai Sea in the north of the city. Zhuge Weidao picked up the curtains and took a look. Well, the mansion was a dark area. The front door was extremely wide. The horse posts at the door were lined up in rows, and they were all polished. How could Zhuge Weidao's house in Goulan Hutong compare with that kind of wealth and dignity?
He hurriedly asked: "Is this... the Marquis' Mansion in Wuxiang?"
Guo Xiaobao nodded: "Yes, this is the Wuxiang Houfu... Opposite Shichahai is the Wuwangfu, which is bigger than the Wuxianghoufu! To the west of Wuxianghou are Lingwu Gongfu, Xingwu Gongfu and Wanling Hou Mansion, Yangdu Hou Mansion! These kings, two princes, and three princes are all members of your Zhuge family."
