I became an exiled convict after we got married

Chapter 33
The king of Qi came to Yangzhou quietly. After the plaque of the patrolling Yan Yushi's mansion was hung up, the officials and merchants in Yangzhou knew that such a person had come to the boundary of Yangzhou.

Many people wanted to come to visit, but were rejected.

Within two days, I heard that King Guangling had brought his concubine to Beijing.

Officials of all sizes in Yangzhou are in a delicate mood.

"Yangzhou salt merchants are the most extravagant in the world, and those with less than one million are called small merchants"

This sentence can describe the wealth of the salt merchants.

But in the past few years, the tax collected by the imperial court has been reduced by nearly half compared to before.

Salt tax is an important way of national fiscal revenue, accounting for more than half of the national taxation.

Xiao Feng didn't see the officials who came to visit, and he has been investigating the intricate relationship between the officials and merchants in private, and also made people stare at the major salt farms.

After this investigation, it was discovered that the relationship between the government and businessmen in Yangzhou is connected into a network, which is simply an airtight network.

This place is not like the capital city, where the marriages of various families in the capital are basically official to official, and there are very few official families who marry merchants.The aristocratic families in Kyoto pay more attention to being well-matched.

But here, the combination of government and business is common.

Yangzhou is a typical representative of the Huaihe River, and most of the big salt merchants are here.Xiao Feng understood that it might not be easy to find out something from it.

Moreover, after staring at the salt field for half a month, I didn't find anything unusual.

We have to find a breakthrough.

When Xiao Feng was sitting in the Nuan Pavilion checking the account books of the salt factory, Butler Wang reported, "My lord, Miss Wan is here, and she wants to take a look."

Yes, that sled dog cub has a name, and it was named Diandian by Xiao Feng.

Xiao Feng seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked, "I heard that Wan Jinlan's grandfather is about to celebrate his birthday?"

Butler Wang nodded: "Recently, many people in the city are buying birthday gifts."

The two daughters of Uncle Yongchang are married well. One is the side concubine of King Guangling, and the other is the eldest wife of the Duke of Jingdu. In Yangzhou, they are also very respectable families. Whether they are officials or merchants, they are very active. Who wouldn't want to take this opportunity to show their faces and start a relationship.

Xiao Feng felt that Uncle Yongchang should be a good breakthrough.

"You have someone carry Jiang Diandian here, and bring Miss Wan here as well."

Butler Wang glanced at their lord, and immediately went out to lead them.

It was cold today, and Wan Jinlan was wearing thick clothes when she came out.

The top is a peach pink cross-collar jacket, the lower body is a slightly lighter water red skirt embroidered with winter jasmine flowers, and a white rabbit fur cape is wrapped outside.

As soon as I entered the warm pavilion, I felt a little hot.

Vaguely, there seems to be someone sitting there behind the plum blossom screen.

She poked her head around and saw that it was Xiao Feng.The sunlight fell on him through the window, and the whole person looked cold and safe.

The little chubby dog ​​was spinning around her feet, leaning over and barking at the pearls on her shoe, wagging its stubby tail.

Wan Jinlan picked up the son of a bitch, jumped over the screen and entered.

Steward Wang opened his mouth to stop him, but finally he didn't know what to think, and closed his mouth again. Seeing Chuntao standing beside him, Steward Wang asked, "Do you want to drink some hot tea with me?"

Chuntao hesitated, Wan Jinlan answered for her: "Go, Chuntao, just come back soon."

"My lord, does it have a name?" Wan Jinlan rubbed the little chubby dog's head, her eyes fell on his slender and slender fingers holding the pen.

Wan Jinlan still had a sense of propriety, she was not close to the table case, and could not clearly see the contents of the books spread out on the table case.

Xiao Feng's voice was clear and serious, "Call me a little bit."

Wan Jinlan had a good time, and poked Gouzi's fleshy body, "This name is interesting, but it doesn't seem like the name married by a prince."

"I thought the lord would have some kind of wind, step on the snow and so on."

Xiao Feng was disturbed by her chatter, looked up, and saw that she was squatting sideways, his eyes fell on her forehead, the fine hair on her forehead was plated with gold, her cheeks were rosy and transparent, He can see very clearly the very fine fluff on the side.

Wan Jinlan turned her head and smiled, "My lord must think I'm annoying. But I guess you have something to do with me, otherwise you can't let me come here to tease the dog."

"The prince has something to say, for the sake of a little bit, I will definitely help you if you have something to do."

Xiao Feng coughed lightly, remembering his business.

"I heard that your grandfather is celebrating his birthday?"

Wan Jinlan nodded, "My lord still cares about such things?"

Xiao Feng drooped his eyelashes and said, "Remind your grandparents, don't forget to send me a message."

Wan Jinlan thought she had heard it wrong, and she was asking her for this matter today?
"If you go to the uncle's mansion, you can just go directly, and no one will stop you even if you don't show courtesy." Why do you have to stick to that one invitation card?

Xiao Feng said succinctly: "Courtesy cannot be discarded."

It is different in the eyes of officials and wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou for him to come to the door on his own initiative and to be invited to the door with an invitation card.

But there was no need to tell her.

Wan Jinlan's thoughts turned, and she suddenly understood.

Xiao Feng is currently holding the post of inspector of salt and censor, and he is here for the salt administration issue in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River.

Yangzhou officials and wealthy businessmen are all in groups. He wanted to find out what the problem was, but there was no local person to lead the way, and he couldn't even find a breakthrough for a while.

He came to her and wanted to visit Shen's house on her grandfather's birthday. This matter seemed ordinary, but it was actually unusual.

These days, the Yushi's Mansion has not allowed other irrelevant officials or wealthy businessmen who want to give benefits to enter the mansion, but King Qi was invited to the door of the Bo's Mansion, so what would others think?
Wan Jinlan suddenly turned to look at Xiao Feng.

This person wanted to drag her grandfather into a boat with him to deal with others.

But it's okay to give an invitation, it's a normal human relationship, it's okay, but when she goes back, she still has to tell her grandfather.

Wan Jinlan knew that she would accept it as soon as it was good, and didn't bother Xiao Feng for too long, so she ordered a few rooms with her arms in her arms.

"It's too hot in the room, I'll take a little out for a run."

She said a word and went to the garden.

Diandian's hair is white with gray in it, and her ears flicker when she runs, she is so cute, the kind of cuteness she wants to steal back home.

After the room was empty, Xiao Feng felt a little hot, got up and opened the window, and saw Wan Jinlan smiling and running after her.

The next day, the Shen family sent someone to deliver an invitation to Xiao Feng.

Wan Jinlan reminded her grandfather, but his grandfather said that the invitation card is a courtesy, it doesn't mean anything.

Since it was not in the way, Wan Jinlan also put the matter aside.

Today, I wanted to continue to leave the mansion, but I haven't acted yet. The second aunt, Concubine Shen, came.

Concubine Shen's face was all red when she came today, as if she had a happy event.

After chatting for a while, Wan Jinlan found out that before King Guangling took Princess Guangling to Beijing, he handed over the marriage between Xiao Mingyi and the governor of Youzhou to Concubine Shen.

(End of this chapter)