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Zhuge Weidao originally had a carriage, so he did not need to drive it himself. Instead, 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. However, his reincarnation was not successful. He was not the "king" of Wencun, Guangdong (the Wang family in Zhennan), but the "king" of Langya, Shandong. Not only was he not the Eight Great

He was from a noble family, not even close to the Xunchen family. He was just a civilian who was born as an aspiring young man and entered the navy. As a result, he became the leader and scapegoat in the Java Incident, and became one of the few who was forced to retire or be demoted.

One of the officers.

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 could he do it?

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 hard 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, it would be a trivial matter to take the position of military advisor from the Zhuge family and arrange for him to return to the navy as an officer. By then, Wang Wen would be Zhuge Weidao's direct descendant in the army. Of course Zhuge Weidao would not remember this.

Yes, Guo Xiaobao and He Tianran told him word by word while they were still sitting in the carriage heading to the Wuxiang Marquis Mansion.

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 properties, real estate properties, and various income and expenditures under your name are all listed here." After talking about Wang Wen, He Tianran took care of what he had just done.

The good account book was given to Zhuge Weidao.

The original Zhuge Weidao of these accounts was naturally very clear, but hasn’t he lost his memory now? It’s so painful that he can’t even remember how much money he has!

And after he read the account book given to him by He Tianran, he felt even more painful - he seemed not 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 Xishan, Beijing, and outside Chaoyang Gate in the east city of Beijing.

One floor in the business district, a mansion in Borneo, and a mansion in Yanshan Mountain Resort. There are 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 annual property tax and maintenance fees alone cost five to six thousand!

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 risen very well, and there is another one every year.

Dividends of more than 10,000 silver yuan. But the latter is still losing money. He is looking for oil everywhere and keeps raising funds, but so far he has found nothing. 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 only look at these, Zhuge Weidao's financial situation seems to be okay. But Zhuge Weidao's income and expenditure accounts look 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 silver dollars!

The expenditure items are the expenditures of various properties, the expenditures of "retainers" including Yu De, He Tianran, Wang Wen, and Zhuge Weidao's own expenditures - 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 Sakhalin Oil Company, Zhuge Weidao has had to pay more every year in the past few years.

The "compensation" is 10,000 yuan less!

"Mu Ru," Zhuge Weidao put away the account book and looked at his "finance manager" with some confusion, "the account is losing 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 at 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 it!

"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, who 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 considered corruption and bribery?"

"This really cannot be considered corruption and bribery!" Zhuge Weidao said in his heart: "This is 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.

"You are wise," He Tianran said with a smile, "that was given by a rich widow."

Come on, this Zhuge Weidao is not just a fan of others!

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 what he heard from his stepmother? Did the soft rice go to his 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 are not born to the same mother. My aunt's 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 increase in value all went to my aunt, and my aunt took this money to marry your father.

, your father helped my aunt take the money and invest it in the Suez Canal. So now my aunt is rich, a rich woman!"

"But why does she want to give me money to spend?" Zhuge Weidao frowned. Although the Queen Mother's "rice" is very fragrant, you can't eat too much of this "rice", and besides, she is still a stepmother! I have to eat this, isn't it?

Are you cuckolding Zhuge's virtuous 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 been together since childhood.

We know each other.”

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 Shicha Sea in the north of the city. Zhuge Weidao opened the curtains and took a look. Well, the mansion was dark.

It is a large building with an extremely large front door. There are rows of horse-drawn posts at the door, all of which are polished. How can Zhuge Weidao's house in Goulan Hutong compare with that kind of wealth and aristocratic demeanor?

He hurriedly asked: "Is this the Wuxiang Marquis' Mansion?"

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, Wanlinghoufu, and Yangdu

Hou Mansion! These kings, two princes, and three princes are all members of your Zhuge family."
Chapter completed!