"What?!"

The expression of disapproval on Gao Jian’s face froze.

"Why is it so expensive?"

It wouldn't cost him more than five thousand taels to buy a large house with four courtyards in Tianjin.

“Guests, you may not know that all the furniture in this house was designed by our employer. The sofas and mattresses are filled with the finest cotton and silk, and are extremely expensive.

You won’t see such good furniture anywhere else outside of this area!

Moreover, the flush toilets and drainage pipes inside are also carefully built by craftsmen. Once you move in, there will be security patrols in the community and property management to clean the streets to ensure that you live comfortably.

Besides, look at the geographical location here. The commercial street is just a short walk away. The probability of running into dignitaries is not low on weekdays. Maybe the person living next to you is a noble person. After you settle down, you can walk around outside a few times. This is an opportunity to make friends with the powerful..."

Zhu Da's voice was full of temptation.

And Gao Jian just happened to fall for this trick.

So he gritted his teeth,

"Buy! I'll buy!"

Gao Jian immediately paid a deposit of four thousand taels of silver.

After signing the house handover deed with Zhu Da and going to the Shuntian Prefecture Yamen to get the official seal stamped, Gao Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Most of the money he brought was spent in just this morning. It would be a lie to say that he didn't feel bad, but when he thought of the exquisite and comfortable house, Gao Jian felt a little excited.

Zhu Da said that since he had signed the contract, he could choose the decoration style, and his set would be the style of the first set that Zhu Da took him to see.

As for the set given to Lord Wei, he would visit his cousin again in the afternoon to get the feel for it.

After Zhu Da bowed and nodded as he sent Gao Jian back to the commercial street, he turned around and went back to the sales office excitedly.

He should be the first among the five "sales consultants" to sell the house, and he would receive an additional bonus of fifty taels of silver.

On the first day of the sale of "Fu Shou Yuan Phase I", only five houses were sold and a deposit of 12,000 taels was collected.

Three of them were contributed by Gao Jian.

Why are there three sets? It all started with his cousin Huang Jinmin.

More than a dozen people liked the house's decoration style, but were dissatisfied with its land area and geographical location.

After all, no matter how good the outer city is, it doesn’t show your status as much as living in the inner city.

Whenever someone asked about the furniture in the house, the sales consultants would all say that they were specially made by "Yijiajia" for the owner.

However, no one knows who the "Yijia" family is.

Half a month later, Gao Jian, Huang Jinmin, and even Wei Zhang's second son became the first owners to move into Fushouyuan.

Wei Zhang was not young anymore, and to have been able to climb to the position of Vice Minister of Works was already a great honor for his ancestors. He accepted his fate and planned to retire and return home in a few years.

His residence was a four-courtyard house given to him by the emperor. When he retired, the house would be returned to the court.

His legitimate son had been sent away two years earlier, and only this second son gave him a headache.

The second son was not interested in official career and economics, and took exams for many years before he finally won the title of Juren.

However, he has profound attainments in calligraphy and painting, and has a certain status among the elite.

That simple-style house just hit the spot for Wei Chongling.

The reputation of Fushouyuan began to flourish after these three people moved in.

Moving has always been a happy event throughout history, and of course happy events require a dinner.

Wei Chongling, as the son of the Minister of Revenue, is extremely talented and his friends are all people like him who love art and have plenty of money.

After attending Wei Chongling's moving banquet, many people fell in love with the house at first sight.

That day, they went to the Fushouyuan property sales office together.

Compared with Wei Chongling, Huang Jinmin's colleagues have similar family backgrounds to him, and buying a house would cost them half of their family income.

Therefore, the effect of advertising is far inferior to Wei Chongling.

But even so, all the more than 100 houses in the first phase of Fushouyuan were sold out before the Chinese New Year.

When the ninth brother was busy selling his house, Yinsi also handed the confessions of Tong Haifu and others to Kangxi.

What surprised Kangxi was that Tong Haifu, Bao Li and others were well aware of the harm of opium. They used the addictive nature of opium to win people's hearts and make money.

Among the people that Poly recruited at the port in the past two years, more than half were addicted to opium.

He Cun was one of the people with the best background.

As for Fan Yuliang, he only provided a restaurant for Tong Haifu and Henry to sell opium, and was considered the one with the least serious offense among the others.

After reading the confessions of several people, Kangxi was furious.

The next day, during a grand court meeting, he dragged He Cun and others to the Golden Palace, allowing the court officials to see for themselves the consequences of smoking opium.

Then he announced the crimes of Bao Li, Tong Haifu and the other three. From beginning to end, he never mentioned Qingfu once.

But even so, Tong Guowei was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

He was not worried that the families behind He Cun and others would become his political enemies, but he was worried that the reputation of the Tong family would be completely ruined because of the stupidity of Tong Haifu and Qingfu.

Tong Haifu knowingly committed the crime, and if Qingfu was involved, even if Qingfu was truly unaware, who would believe it?

Fortunately, the emperor said he would not pursue the matter further...

Thinking of this, Tong Guowei looked at Kangxi, who was sitting high at the top, with gratitude.

Tong Haifu and Baoli were executed by order of Emperor Kangxi and their property was confiscated.

As for Fan Yuliang, Emperor Kangxi only deprived the Fan family of their authority over the grain route because of their contributions to the Qing Dynasty.

This one item alone is enough to severely damage the Fan family.

At that time, the Fan family provided some convenience for the Qing army to enter the pass. Since then, there have been basically no restrictions on the Fan family's business in the Qing Dynasty. Although the children of the Fan family cannot enter the officialdom, everyone can get a nominal position by donating money, and they can be regarded as officials. They can enjoy much more treatment than ordinary vendors.

However, after Kangxi issued this imperial edict, it was impossible for the Fan family to make efforts to provide military supplies and ask the court to owe them a favor.

This move can be said to have cut off one of the Fan family's arms, and it was the most useful one.

Fan Yuliang survived the disaster, but before he could be happy, he was stunned by the sudden news.

After dealing with these people, Kangxi issued another ban. From that day on, opium was strictly prohibited from entering the Qing territory. If anyone violated the ban, the entire family would be executed.

All the officials felt their throats tighten after hearing this.

You should know that in his early years, in order to show his benevolence, Kangxi issued an express order prohibiting the use of tortures from the previous dynasty. At the same time, he also abolished the practice of burying people alive with their dead and punishing nine generations of a clan.

It seems that the emperor really hates opium!

After the court meeting ended, before Tong Guowei went to the cabinet, he sent someone to bring the news back to the Tong family and asked the family to take in Tong Haifu's wife and children.

Tong Haifu is the only one left in his cousin's lineage. If he is left alone, he will have no face to face his ancestors in the underworld.