I Have 100,000 Dead Warriors

In order to find a job for himself, Jia Yun spent money to buy borneol and musk to bribe Wang Xifeng.

After accepting the gift, Wang Xifeng used her power as a housekeeper to put him in charge of the flower and plant project in the Grand View Garden, and approved two hundred taels of silver for him.

The project budget was two hundred taels of silver, but Jia Yun actually only spent fifty taels to get the job done.

The remaining one hundred and fifty taels went into his pocket.

There is so much money to be made just from flowers and plants.

It is not difficult to imagine how terrible the interests behind the Grand View Garden, which cost millions of taels of silver to build, were.

This also explains why Lai Ma's family was so rich that they could afford to build a luxurious garden half the size of the Grand View Garden.

As the housekeeper, Wang Xifeng had to get the approval of her servants no matter what they wanted to do or how much money they wanted to get from the account office. Naturally, the amount of money given to her as a tribute was always more than enough.

Because of this, the power of the housekeeper has become so popular.

Someone may ask again, the wife is the mistress of the house, and everything in the house belongs to her and her husband, so why should she fight for the right to be the housekeeper?

Ultimately, it’s all about interests.

It is true that the wife is nominally the mistress, but as the saying goes, in a feudal patriarchal society, women are merely vassals of men, and the husband is the real master.

Sheng Hong is the real owner of everything the Sheng family owns.

If a man has one wife and multiple concubines, it means he will have many illegitimate children.

The more illegitimate children a person has, the more property will be divided up.

Especially in an era when the title was inherited by the eldest son and the property was divided equally among all the sons, the eldest son would get one less share of the property with each additional illegitimate son.

Therefore, many wives would make use of their housekeeping power as much as possible, and by falsely reporting the items when purchasing materials, they would gradually transfer the public money into their own private coffers.

In short, the money in the public treasury belongs to everyone, and the money in the small treasury is your own.

Through the power of stewardship, one can make great changes and turn public property into private property.

After years of transfers, the money in the small treasury became more and more. It would either be left to the son or given as a dowry to the daughter. No matter what, it would not be given to the illegitimate son or concubine.

This is also the reason why Lin Qinshuang wants to compete with Wang Ruofu for the right to be the housekeeper.

In the world of "Do You Know?", the three views of the legitimate wife are seriously distorted, and illegitimate sons and daughters are despised.

Children born to concubines are in an extremely disadvantageous position when it comes to dividing property and dowries.

Lin Qinshuang loves her children so much that she must have found a way to make money and obtain the greatest possible benefit for her children.

In the feudal era, a large family with a large population was like a large company.

Among them, the one responsible for purchasing and project contracting undoubtedly has the most lucrative business.

Molan knew this very well, so she instructed Lin Qinshuang to design this plan, in order to gain control of the compradors and kitchen supplies in the mansion, and throw all the other unprofitable things to Wang Ruofu.

He kept the delicious food for himself and gave away the unpalatable ones, and he called it respecting his wife, being gentle and considerate and not greedy for power.

Seeing Lin Qinshuang calculating the accounts beautifully.

Molan thought to herself, it’s not easy for you to get money, so I’ll rob Old Madam Sheng’s dowry and give it to you, wouldn’t that be great?

But Molan understood that this was Lin Qinshuang's motherly love for her children. Only by letting her participate personally would she feel a sense of accomplishment and be happy.

She doesn't care how much money she can make in the end, as long as her mother is happy.