Section 1741: Son of Long Yun
At the end of the meeting, what to do was finalized. According to Yunpeng, many people have doubts in their hearts. They all say that this place has a lot of money, but what about the money? We haven't seen anything from the beginning until now, so how can it be?
To make money is to see the money. Although these slaves will be very troublesome if they die under the mudslide, the empire stipulates that the life of a slave belongs to his master, but so many slaves who died all at once believe it The strength of these families is not an easy thing to solve. This is also the reason why many people are unwilling. But thinking that the money thrown out in the past may lose all their money, these people made up their minds. This person is actually like this Yes, if you go out to do business, if you get 1,000 yuan in, you have to go in 1,000 yuan at this time to get it back. Although there will still be a huge wind direction, there is also a chance of getting it back, isn’t it? , but if the money is not paid, there may be no chance at all, and that will be miserable.
Lord Suo knew about the meeting of the nobles. After the news was over, Long Wu also asked someone to notify him of all the news. Of course, this kid would not help in vain. The best way for such a person is Just give more money. In addition, Suo Ye also gave this guy a bottle of perfume worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins. Long Wu was dumbfounded by the rose-red liquid. Naturally, this thing is to be used to honor the queen. Damn, even though he is not the queen's own son, Long Wu also knows that the queen loves him very much. Although he can't keep up with the sons she gave birth to, he is already pretty good among the sons who are not his own sons. Why? It's because I respect something when I'm fine, and if something happens in the future, the queen can just say a word.
These people have also told Master Suo about his actions. Those people want to arrange someone to kill Suo Ye. They don't have the courage to kill Long Yun. After all, this is the prince of the court. Let alone a prince, even the death of a duke is a very big deal. There have been several such assassinations in history, and none of the murderers escaped punishment. These people don’t want to take such risks, but Although Suo Ye has a high social status, in the officialdom. This guy is just an ordinary person and has no role at all. So killing this guy is not difficult for them.
Master Suo smiled when he heard the news. He also encountered a more dangerous situation than this back then, and he didn't panic. Ordinary people, but with the help of boss Ling and the clothes Li Cong gave him, it is almost impossible to kill him, unless he walks up to these people stupidly and calls them kill yourself. But I'm not that stupid, and Suo Ye also has his own ideas, as long as I thwart their several assassinations, these people will become very honest, after all, they all know that killing themselves is an order that cannot be fulfilled At that time, these people will not send people here. Everyone knows that it is not easy to train a high-level killer.
As soon as Suo Ye put down what he was doing, he saw Long Yun coming back from the outside. Now Suo Ye can just nod to Long Yun. Of course, Long Yun can't call this guy Laozi in front of so many people.
Otherwise, it is estimated that the two of them will lose their heads. Long Yun has nothing to do in the imperial capital recently, so he just hangs up the position of a prince, which is different from Prince An and Prince Gong. Although he was also labeled as Li Cong, Li Cong is still very clear about his own abilities, and he must not put anything in this guy's hands, otherwise, this kid will be the one who ruined his own affairs, so Li Cong sent this guy two million gold coins every month, plus this guy's shares in Li Cong. With an income of 8 million gold coins a month, plus the other income of the palace, the palace can also have an income of more than 100 million gold coins a year, just spend the money, and do whatever you want in the imperial capital, no one dares to control of.
At the beginning, Long Yun had a very comfortable life with such things. In the past, this guy was a fool, but at that time there were still many restrictions. Naturally, he was the biggest in Kahuan County. You can play whatever you want, but in the imperial capital, every pork seller may be able to find a relative of the earl, so my official position is not of much use in the imperial capital, and can only be put away He came to play with his own tail, but after a few months passed, this guy became a prince, and he was also a prince who had a good relationship with Li Cong. Not many people in the imperial capital would dare to provoke him. In such an arrogant day, Long Yun The life is very comfortable, I go to the street for a while every day, and when I see any inequality, I stand up like a savior, and if I meet a beautiful lady in a hotel, I will go to have a flair Fan, if we have money, we are afraid of something, but even in such a happy life, we can’t keep playing after a long time. For a while, Long Yun felt that he didn’t seem to have much interest in these things, so he went out for a walk every day. Just came back, this guy is interested in some serious things, but it is a pity that there is no serious thing in his palace, so it is easy for Li Cong to explain some things, but it is a pity that he did not explain it to himself, but to him. Suo Ye, this guy is even more depressed.
"Where did the lord come back from? Why does he look a little unhappy?" Originally, Lord Suo was sitting on the upper seat. Now that the lord is back, Lord Suo can't just sit there carelessly. If that is the case, there will be no distinction between superiority and inferiority. Although Long Yun knows that this is his father, there is no difference between the two of them in private, but with so many servants in this room, Long Yun can only be Sitting on top of my father, I still feel a little uncomfortable watching my father serving tea and water for me, but if I don't let him do it, can I explain to the people below.
"You all go down, the king has something to talk to the housekeeper." Generally, when two people are together, Long Yun is unwilling to have so many people by his side, Suo Ye has said it many times, In this way, there are not so many people around the prince, so there will be no such ostentation, but Long Yun doesn't care about this. After these people are gone, Long Yun doesn't have to talk to Suo Ye with a straight face. Talking to my old man in that tone, maybe I will be struck by lightning when I go out. Such things are as fresh as exercises. After a long time, I feel very sorry in my heart.
"What else can I do? This morning I went to the mutton soup restaurant in Qianmen to drink mutton soup, and then I took a few people to Wanhualou to listen to an opera. It's just that there seem to be a lot of rich people in this imperial capital recently." , I couldn’t find a private room, but this storyteller is better than the opera singer before. If I hadn’t revealed my identity as a prince, a small official’s house would give me a place, maybe I would have to go down to listen. " Long Yun said depressingly. In the past, this kid also lived down there for too long, and the fees there were not as high as the imperial capital. I listened to the storyteller for a while, drank a pot of tea, and ate some snacks. Good guy, I went in with more than 400 gold coins. In the former Kahuan County, four gold coins might not be used, of course. At that time, there was no tea, and there was no such pleasant storytelling. Good guy, what the Romance of the Three Kingdoms said was really wonderful. These people said it as if they were on the battlefield. That lifelike appearance is definitely much better than watching those who sing big dramas. This Li Cong really can Fiddle with things.
The Wanhualou mentioned by Long Yun is Li Congxin's teahouse, which has branches in dozens of big cities throughout the empire. In the first phase, we invested millions of gold coins to open 150 rooms. Basically, in every city, there are three grades of high, high, and low. The ones that the prince went to were naturally high-end, and all of them were bought by Li Cong. Some short stories, many people have to rush there to listen to books without eating a meal, which sounds really immersive. It can be seen from Long Yun's face that Lord Suo was also a frequent visitor there before, so when Li Cong came here, he had to deal with serious things first.
"Hehe, it's not very peaceful outside now, and the imperial capital is pretty good. Naturally, people from all over the world have come to the imperial capital. Didn't you see that there are no vacancies in the major hotels in the imperial capital? Speaking of which, our palace also has several The restaurant in the room, the list has also been delivered in the past few days, it is still very good, and the business is much better than before." Suo Ye said while reading some news, he did not look up. Yun, at this moment, Long Yun is stretching his head to look at Suo Ye's injured things. This guy also wants to do his part. I really know my son too well. If you really teach him serious things, he can't do well for you. It's not that I don't believe him. I have left him my essence all my life, but it is a pity that this brat has no comprehension ability at all. It seems that he is very caring at the moment, but the real thing is not like this. Wait until a few days When the novelty of this kid is over, this kid has no interest at all, and he is still the best at eating, drinking and having fun.
"My lord, are you also interested in what I have in my hand?" Master Suo put down his work and said to this guy, with a bad tone in his tone.
"Uh... I, I can actually help a little. I see that you are all so busy, and I have nothing to do by myself. Why don't you find a few people from the younger generation to help? No matter what they say It should be okay to do something for your own people, right?" The prince hesitated, and only then did Master Suo know what was going on. It turned out that it was not for his own errand, but for his sons. When they came over from the county city, these sons were also dumbfounded. They never thought that a prince's hat would suddenly appear on the head of their old man. Such a thing is really rare in hundreds of millions of years, but They still have it now, and let their father meet, which means that their life will be much better in the future than before. When Long Yun is an earl, at most they will come to a viscount. , It's different now, one can become a duke, and the rest can become a marquis or earl. This kind of treatment has suddenly come up, and these people seem to be a bit unable to adapt.
But this was when they first arrived in the imperial capital, but after they learned about the relationship between their father and the regent, they changed one by one, but immediately became arrogant and domineering, as if they could walk sideways in the entire imperial capital, although Long Yun was not very Sensible, but this can still be seen. Although I grew up in the imperial capital, I am always an outsider to the imperial capital. My son is even more of an outsider. This imperial capital has its own rules. With Li Cong's help at this moment, I may have a good life, but without Li Cong's help, I may be alone. It's troublesome. My son has provoked so many people, and their lives will be even more troublesome in the future. Why not find some serious things for them to do while nothing is happening now. It is much better to have an errand to tie them up than to go to the street every day.
Suo Ye also nodded. Those young people don't know that the old butler in front of them is actually their grandfather. Although Long Yun has said many times that he will treat Mr. Suo well, those young masters still feel that Long Yun is a bit too fussy, isn't he just an old man? As a housekeeper, no matter how great your contribution to the family is, you can't climb over your master's head, can you? When Long Yun saw them speak badly, there were several times. After the boss was beaten thirty times last time, these youngsters in the family were considered to be honest, but after going out, they would still talk to some people of the third class in the imperial capital. come and go. In the long run, even if he is useless, Long Yun knows that he is actually a useless person, but his luck is better than these sons of his own. At the beginning, Master Suo helped him watch over him, and later he met Li Cong. This nobleman's good luck doesn't mean the luck of these sons is also good. So he wants to let them learn well.
"Li Cong's kindness to our father and son can be said to be great. Without Li Cong, maybe we would still be nesting in that small place in the countryside, or we might have died of the epidemic in the backyard of the palace. Anyway, I have to do well for him what he asked me to do, and now I don't even let you intervene in our affairs, so don't talk about them." Suo Ye said awkwardly. Long Yun also understands that the current situation really cannot be mixed up. The outside world has already received news that someone is going to kill Suo Ye, so come to ask about Lao Tzu's safety. This is also the reason why he wants to ask the younger generation to do things, not to say that he doesn't care about his son. . But there is only one Lao Tzu, but there are more than a dozen sons. How can I say that Lao Tzu is more precious.
"What you said is true, but if these boys don't do anything serious, I'm afraid they will be the same as me in the future. I still need your old man to watch over me, but they can just..." Speaking of his own sons, Long Yun also hates iron but not steel, so there is no one useful guy, and he wants to kill them when he sees them.
Suoye thought for a while, his current situation should be useless, but now there are only three ways out for bureaucrats' children, one is to become an official, which they definitely can't do, and the other is to go to the army, which will suffer, generally Speaking of which, the eldest sons of the family will all enter official careers, and the remaining sons will either go to the army or do business to support the family's financial expenses. Both rights and money are necessary things. The way to do business is in the imperial capital. Generally speaking, most of them don't agree with it, just like Wu Hai's cousin, although he has a wealth of money, he is not a member of the inner circle. It has also improved a lot. Now there is still a lot of money in the County King's Mansion. It is better to let them go out to do business. After that, no one will bully them by relying on the brand of the County King's Mansion. is allowed.
"You're right. In the past, no matter what happened in the county city, we could calm things down, but this is the capital of the empire. We can't let them hang around like this. You should talk to them Let’s talk about this issue carefully. I think it’s enough to let the boss go in alone when he enters the official career. Now Li is never in the imperial capital. If I use my previous connections, I can at most get him a fourth-rank and fifth-rank official. The boss is definitely not willing to go. I think it’s better to wait for Li Cong to come back, but he can’t be idle now. It’s also good for him to let him familiarize himself with official affairs at home. We can arrange for the other children now, and there are tens of millions of gold coins in the family, why don't we take some out and let them go out to do some small business, so that they don't have to go out and wander around every day." Suo Ye thought for a while and said , at present it can only be arranged in that way.
"Yes, that's what I thought too. I have already tidied up a small yard for him in the front yard. I have found a few masters to teach this guy well in the past few days. I will ask the rest of the children. As long as they are willing to be officials, we don't care what grade they are, as long as we can send them in. I think it's fine if they are willing to do business. Send them a few honest servants to watch them, Each person is given a principal of 500,000 gold coins, and the rest depends on their own abilities, how about it?" It seems that Long Yun also has this idea in his heart, but his language is not organized. What Suo Ye said is right. I nodded quickly, my sons really broke my heart. At this moment, I also understand how Lord Suo worried about him back then. As for the old prince, Long Yun didn't think about it at all. The old man didn't think about himself. The old guy had spoken, and he didn't say a few words until he went out to become the city lord. It was nothing more than not to cause trouble, to cause trouble for the palace, if something went wrong. Don't expect the palace to take care of you, as if you are not your son after leaving the house.
Five hundred thousand gold coins went out to do business, Suo Ye took a look at Long Yun, you as an old man really trust your sons, you must know that except for the young ones who can’t go out, there must be at least ten people who can go out to do business Yes, 500,000 gold coins per person. This is five million gold coins. These people don’t know anything. Tell them to take the money and go out. I guess they will come back in a few days and tell you that the money is gone. There are only one thousand gold coins a month, and their life is very nourishing. But when we arrived at the imperial capital, because the environment of this imperial capital was different from that there, one person became 20,000 gold coins, but these young masters still spent all their shares in less than ten days, and the rest was I started to search for money everywhere, and some of the decorations in this house were gone, no need to ask, they must have been sent to the pawn shop. Fortunately, it was still a pawn shop related to Li Cong. He didn't dare to ask for it, so he sent it back, but the money he said could not be taken away by others. In the end, it was Long Yun, the old man who paid the money. In fact, they were all alone. Each one needs to spend at least fifty thousand gold coins a month, and the pocket money for these sons alone has tens of millions of gold coins a year. If it weren't for the relationship between Long Yun and Li Cong, Suo Ye would have managed it. In terms of spending money, the general palace will go bankrupt.
In fact, their way of spending money is not the most compared to the young masters in other palaces in the imperial capital, but it is definitely not the least, but why do some poor princes in the palace also have money? How many times there will be a money-making business, this is not just reaching out to ask for money from the family, the few people in the palace here are all counting on the family and have no income of their own, so Long Yun has a name The idea of them going out and doing business.
"My lord, it only takes a while to spend the five hundred thousand gold coins, and it will probably be gone in a few months. The young masters in our mansion have never handled such a large amount of money, and their wives, little Young masters, if they are asked to hold the five hundred thousand gold coins, I don't think they will be able to work in a few days. Speaking of which, the serious masters in our mansion have one princess, three side concubines, and other servants of the prince. There are more than twenty concubines, the young master has nineteen, the young lady has twenty, the grandson has more than thirty, and the granddaughter also has twenty. If you count the grandson and granddaughter of the prince, there are one hundred and fifty-six Yes, there are some young masters and young ladies who are attached to the palace to live their lives. This is too much. Five hundred thousand gold coins per person is a lot, but if they all have a leg, the money is not so much, my lord. It would be better to have a charter, and the eldest grandson is almost twenty years old, and he is hanging out with their uncle, so should it be counted?" Suo Ye thought about things more than Long Yun After thinking about it a lot, in Long Yun's opinion, there are not many masters in the whole mansion, but now it seems that there are quite a few. Long Yun didn't know it before, but now he is really shocked.
"This... how come there are so many people in this palace? I said that our palace also earns a lot of money every year. How come there is no money at the end of the year." Long Yun said depressedly, he suddenly remembered that time During the Chinese New Year, it was also the first year I spent as a prince in the imperial capital. The good guy asked the warehouse at the end. In the end, there were less than 300,000 gold coins left. There is only a little money in the warehouse of a palace. It's a joke to say it, but it's the truth. Fortunately, Li Cong and his tea dividends were delivered in the third day of junior high school. Otherwise, the ceremony in the first month might not be able to keep up. This is going to be a joke, it seems that finding a way out for the children is not a small matter, and it is also a serious matter to take care of the mansion.
"Hehe. Our palace is considered very good. In fact, any palace in the imperial capital doesn't have to worry about money. It's just that some of them show it, and some don't. My idea is not to give them so much money at once. , These children still want to save face outside, if they are really given so much money, I guess the money will be gone before they start working." Suo Ye said, Long Yun also nodded. I really didn't expect that a royal mansion looks so glamorous now, and the inside is so sad. Long Yun also thought of reducing the expenditure of this mansion, but then thought that the most expensive person in this mansion is actually himself Well, if you want to reduce it, you have to start with yourself. Thinking about your leisurely life, is this going to disappear? The kid didn't say anything.
"What do you think they should do if they go out? Although there are a lot of businesses in this imperial capital, I think it's best to find someone who can make a steady profit without losing money. It doesn't matter if they earn a little less." Long Yun said Words of the madman. Mr. Suo glanced at this guy angrily. How can there be a business that can make a profit without losing money? It can only be said that it is a business with high risk or low risk. Speaking of which, the tea business should be a stable profit right now. No compensation, but this is the most important money-making business in the palace, and it must not be handed over to these people. Maybe these people have given away all the tea on the wine table. This tea is now a low-grade commodity in the imperial capital, and other things are incomparable with this.
"In my opinion, let's run some silk and satin business. Although there are many people in this business, but I haven't heard of them. As long as you find the source of goods in the south, silk and satin in the imperial capital can be regarded as a good business. Although the profit is not much, but a tenth of the interest is still no problem." Suo Ye thought for a while and said, although the business of this silk and satin shop is not much profit, it is still profitable, but this product must better.
The two discussed for a while, and Long Yun saw that Suo Ye still had a lot of serious things to do, so he came out. He was going to quickly summon his sons to discuss this matter, and asked the housekeeper to call, but none of the fifteen adult sons and two adult grandsons were in the mansion, so he immediately asked the housekeeper to go out and tell them to give Come back, no matter what happens, you have to come back within half an hour, and if you don't come back, you will immediately deduct three months of monthly money. Long Yun knows that he has ignored these boys for a long time, and said some other words to estimate these People don't take it seriously. This is the worst punishment. If you don't have money in your hands, see what these guys can do in the future. You must be honest.
Sure enough, after half an hour, these guys came back one after another. Except for two grandsons who went to school, the seventeen children and grandchildren were not doing serious things. The three sons were found from the casino. My son came back from the restaurant, and now he still smells like alcohol, and the others are naturally not a good place. Some of them didn't come back last night, and they just fell asleep on the side of Bada Hutong. It's not a trivial matter, everyone didn't do serious things, Long Yun immediately became angry.
"Bastards, none of them know how to do serious things, come here, and drag all the boys who follow them to play twenty big boards. Don't think that you have nothing to do, let me go under the sun Kneeling, not allowed to get up for two hours." This is the first time Long Yun punished these children and grandchildren, except for the two grandsons who were not punished, all these sons went to the yard to kneel under the sun listlessly I went, the sun today is very strong, and within five minutes, everyone's foreheads are sweating, and some of them are physically weak, and within five minutes, they start to shake, but each of them also I can tell that my father is very powerful today. If he doesn't treat him well, maybe he won't be his servant. Maybe he can't tell for sure. Under his anger, who knows that this old man What will happen?
The beating in the front yard was so severe, and the ladies in the back yard rushed over one by one after hearing the news. Long Yun was about to drink, when a lot of people kneeled down in the room, The one who interceded for his son, the one who spoke to his husband, this old lady and his wife are all in battle, Long Yun will give them some face and tell these bastards to go back, but thinking of these useless guys, if he is this If the time is not good, there may be no chance in the future. They are not young anymore, and their hearts hardened immediately.
"Shut up, all of you, do you think you are saving them now? Now look at what they have become. If they don't rein in their horses, they will all be trash in the future. Get rid of them all. Listen to me, all of you. I married you back as my daughter-in-law for what purpose. I told you to be husbands and teach your children. I didn’t ask you to depend on them one by one. Divide the account book, and I will teach you to keep their money in the future. If there is another item that goes out for me to eat, drink, and go to the brothel, your monthly money will be gone, and you, as mothers, your own monthly money You are not asked to save money for these children. You can do whatever you like. There are plenty of places to spend money in the imperial capital. If you give all your private money to these bastards one by one, I will take your money. Detained." Seeing the pleadings, Long Yun knew that he had to be stricter, Suo Ye in the next room heard Long Yun's words and nodded, in fact, Suo Ye wanted to discipline these unscrupulous people very early on. He has descendants, but he is not a serious old man, even if he is respecting himself. You can't go out and reprimand the little masters, there is no such thing as a job.
It may be that Long Yun has always been a good old man. The sons kneeling outside thought that this group of women would be done after a while. Who knew that my father was determined to punish them this time. It's not that simple to pass out anymore, and those who watched my old mother and wife went to the back with tears in their eyes. The front was quiet again, and only my own father was sitting in the main room, watching these guys being punished.
"Well, we won't have a good time in the future. I think it's not as good as when we were in Kahuan County. Anyway, we were the biggest there at that time. Now we are in the imperial capital. It's not as good as before. I feel here I’m not so comfortable with anything.” The boss said depressingly, when he was in Kahuan County, he was not welcome anywhere, but when he arrived in the imperial capital, his identity was not a little bit different, he himself Here is the heir of the palace, even if you are downgraded to a level in the future, you will be a duke, but the dukes in the imperial capital must have 80 if not a hundred. None of these men are easy to get along with, and I don’t have the privileges of the past Now, without the privilege, it can only be spent money, and my own father is not willing to spend some money.
"Okay, brother, you are still good, what about us? We are younger brothers who have no status. Who doesn't know that the hat of the palace will be on your head. We are at most an earl. This imperial capital How many counts are there in the Earl's Mansion? If someone really counts them, it may take a day or two to count. It seems that in the future, I have to be a city lord and Earl like me, although the imperial capital is fun. They eat more food than our small place, but I would rather be a chicken head than a queen.” These guys are still depressed here, what they don’t know is that soon they will be dragged by their devil father I went to do business everywhere. Although few of Long Yun's sons will be successful in the future, they will be much better than now, but Long Yun's grandchildren are very good. Under Suo Ye's recommendation, they came to Li Cong I went there to work as an errand, and I did a good job.
Just when Long Yun beat his children and grandchildren for a while because of the gold coins, the queen mother and Yunpeng in the palace were also worrying about money. The annual income of the queen mother is a lot, about one billion gold coins For the above, if all those good things are exchanged for money, the queen mother does not know how much money she will have. The hundreds of millions of gold coins thrown in last time are now nothing. If you want to restart work this time, you need to invest even more. There are too many, the queen mother must take out 500 million gold coins according to her own share, the queen mother doesn't have that much money for a while, the Ulanara family can take out 200 million gold coins, but it is already the limit, They have to keep some of the money. It's not easy to do things like this if a big family doesn't have money in their hands.
"Well, speaking of it, there were too many rewards for those slaves a few years ago, and I didn't expect that there is nothing left now." The queen mother is over eighty years old and her eyes are still very good, looking at her bills They are all those people from Jingxi Daying. One million people are rewarded with tens of millions of gold coins every year. Those ten years of effort were spent on Jingxi Daying with a total of 300 million gold coins. Unfortunately, now I have nothing. No more, all the cronies in the Jingxi camp were killed by Li Cong. Thinking of the Empress Dowager Situsheng, she hated her teeth so much. In the past, the Empress Dowager would definitely not talk nonsense. This matter is useless anyway. , co-authors who can’t ask Jingxi Daying to take out the money again, Yunpeng also feels that the Queen Mother is really a bit old, otherwise, he would never talk about such things in front of a junior like himself , In fact, one billion gold coins is nothing to the Ulanara family, but recently the expenditure has exceeded the income. When the Ulanara family did not make any money, it was because of that bastard Li Cong. So many times that Ulanara's face was taken down, and they didn't have any strong counterattacks against Li Cong, and the final result was to suffer from being dumb.
"Queen Mother, the time for our discussion is three days later. If we can't make up the money, we will sell part of the shares. I have already inquired a little in the imperial capital, and there are quite a few people who can take our shares. Yes, in fact, I have another idea, since this gold mine is already a hot yam, why don't we sell it directly, we have 30% of the shares, and I think we can reap a lot." Yunpeng's idea is already It has been brewing for a long time, and the queen mother looked at Yunpeng in surprise, and then she was full of admiration. This successor is good, and he knows how to choose. The gold mine is indeed very big. After mining it, he can get at least billions of gold coins. But now nearly 300 million gold coins have been thrown in, and I don’t know if they can come out. If they sell it, they can get at least 2 billion gold coins. There will still be many people like this in the imperial capital. More importantly, Li Cong In the rising period, my family is going downhill, but there is no need to compete with this guy, take a step back and see the sky. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)