diskusbooks Chapter 256 Purchase of New Property 1
Chapter 256 Purchase of New Property 1
Li and the others knew where the three naughty kids of their family had been. When they came back, Li asked her granddaughter with some curiosity, "Did you see anyone?"
Gu Wenxuan nodded, "Yes, she is indeed very beautiful, especially her eyes."
Li and the others thought that Gu Wenxuan was saying that the girl had beautiful eyes, but in fact, what Gu Wenxuan was saying was that her eyes were clear and it could be seen that she was not a calculating and greedy person.
Gu Wenxuan also took a look at the other members of the Liang family who came with her. Her first impression of them was pretty good, but she didn't tell her family about this.
On the night of the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month, Bai Jingzhou came to give Gu Wenxuan his mother's newly made brown sugar buns. "My third cousin's marriage has been decided. The two families have agreed to get married next autumn."
According to him, as soon as his third cousin and Liang Haitang met, the two young men stared at each other.
When they realized what was happening, their faces suddenly turned red with embarrassment.
For the next half of the morning, these two people acted like thieves, secretly glancing at each other, and the sticky, brushed atmosphere was obvious.
Fortunately, his second uncle's family and the Liang family were very satisfied with each other. Xiao Liu passed the message back and forth twice, and the marriage was settled very smoothly.
On the afternoon of the 17th day of the twelfth lunar month, Bai Jingzhou received a message from a broker saying that a batch of suitable properties had arrived for them to choose from. Coincidentally, the Peng family had also sent a message the day before, saying that they planned to send someone to the state capital on the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month to deliver New Year gifts to Mu Hanzhi's family. So the two of them took a carriage to the county town the next day to handle these two matters.
The New Year gifts they prepared for the Mu and Peng families included gift packs of green vegetables, gift packs of local specialties, gift packs of soy products, live sheep bought from the mountain people, cotton cloth that Lin Shuzhen tried to weave, lotus roots and wine that they had reserved in advance, and a half-grown wild boar that the two of them hunted in the mountains yesterday.
In order to transport these things, Fang Youfu, Fang Youliang and others drove another ox cart to follow them.
Everyone delivered the gifts to the back house of the county government office and handed them over to Peng Xuan'an, who came out to greet them personally, along with the gift list. After exchanging a few pleasantries, Bai Jingzhou gave the other party two letters he had written to Mu Hanzhi and Mu Jingzhi.
Peng Xuan'an was very sorry that he could not have a long talk with Bai Jingzhou, but Bai Jingzhou had already said that they had another important matter here - to see the ownerless properties that the government had put up for sale, so Peng Xuan'an didn't want to force him to stay.
He hurriedly called over his father's financial advisor, who knew the inside story best, and asked him to tell Bai Jingzhou in detail about the properties that the government had released.
This financial advisor has been working for County Magistrate Peng for more than ten years and is one of his closest confidants. Knowing that he himself has a special relationship with Bai Jingzhou and others, he frankly told Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan everything about those ownerless properties.
In his words, the ones with good quality and low price had already been seized in advance by the internal staff of the yamen who took advantage of their well-informed information, and those that leaked out were not valued by others.
He tactfully told Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan that these ownerless properties that ended up in the hands of brokers either had shortcomings of one kind or another, or were priced too high and people felt they would suffer a loss if they bought them, so they did not make a move to buy them.
It should be mentioned here that according to the laws of the new dynasty, the government can only sell such ownerless items at a price that is half a percent lower than the price at which they were last traded, otherwise the relevant personnel of the local government will be held accountable.
When a new dynasty was first established, it was the time to recruit people. It was also a special time when the government was vigorously developing people's livelihood and the administration was the most clear. At this time, anyone with a little bit of brains would not ruin their future and implicate their entire family for the sake of taking advantage of this. So everyone simply picked out those they thought were suitable, and those who were too expensive or had various shortcomings were released to generate income for the government.
The lawyer took out the booklet he brought with him, pointed at the ownerless properties in the booklet, and explained to Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan in a concise manner which properties the internal staff of the yamen thought were too expensive and therefore unwilling to buy, and which properties had what problems.
After listening to what he said, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan immediately had a general impression of the ownerless properties released by the government.
The two men thanked the master solemnly, and after he left, they thanked Peng Xuan'an in unison for helping them invite the master.
Peng Xuan waved his hand, "Why are you being so polite to me? Come on, I'll take you out of the house."
Knowing that good properties are not easy to grab, Peng Xuan'an simply didn't say any polite words to keep them.
After coming out of the county government office, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou went straight to the home of a familiar broker.
The broker had been waiting for them for a long time. As soon as the two groups met, the other party immediately took out a list of industries and began to introduce them to the details of each industry.
After a painstaking on-site investigation, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou combined the information provided by the financial advisor in the yamen and finally selected two houses, two shops and three farms that had no problems but were a bit high in price.
The two houses and two shops they chose were all high-quality properties in good locations. Compared with the people in the government office, they certainly made a loss, but from an investment perspective, they definitely made a profit by buying these properties.
Of the three farms they bought, two had disadvantages for the wealthy families in the county, but considering that the prices of these two farms were relatively cheap, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou finally bought them.
The farm with a lot of high-quality land suitable for growing crops has an awkward geographical location. It is located between the county town and the state capital, and is not very close to either of them, which makes it somewhat inconvenient to manage.
But Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou both felt that it would be nice to have a manor located right between the county and the state capital, where they could stay when traveling between the two places.
Apart from anything else, staying in your own farm is at least more secure and hygienic than staying in an inn.
Not to mention that the soil on this farm is good and the irrigation water is guaranteed. It is actually a good farm that can ensure income most of the time.
Another unpopular village had no problem with its geographical location, but it had more low-quality fields, fewer medium-quality fields, and almost no high-quality fields at all. The farmers were discouraged by the poor harvests every year.
Others must despise this village. After all, if the input and output are not always proportional, even a person with a good mentality will inevitably be discouraged.
But Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan were different. After Bai Jingzhou's field visit, he felt that this farm was very suitable for growing crops such as cotton, yam, and watermelon.
One just has a flaw in its geographical location, and the other just needs to be planted with sorghum, wheat, millet or the like. Considering the relatively low prices of these two farms, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou decided to buy them after a brief discussion.