The wife of the power minister's family

For a while, everyone in the court was talking about why the Xiao Yi couple and the Zhao family suddenly wanted to compete with the Jiang family for this spot. After all, many people knew that the Jiang family had been promoting Guangmingtang to replace the army as early as the beginning of the previous year. Regarding the matter of supplying medicine, there were other people who were covetous of this job and knew that the other party's backer was the Jiang family, so they all backed down and were ready to take action.

What a joke, in the entire Chu Dynasty, only the other three of the four major families can face the Jiang family!

There has been a delicate balance between the four major families since the founding of the Chu Kingdom. To put it simply, you don’t take the initiative to mess with me, and I won’t take the initiative to mess with you. No matter what the relationship is behind the scenes, they are all of the same faction on the surface. Peaceful.

Therefore, there is almost never such an obvious competition between the four major families!

It happened so suddenly that everyone was confused.

What confuses everyone the most is that the Holy One seems to be happy to see this matter come to fruition. He said that the army is a barrier to the country, and supplying medicine to the army is related to the health of the soldiers in the army and is a top priority. Naturally, we cannot decide casually. We need to investigate and compare with multiple parties. After that, we formally formed an inspection team and asked them to inspect all aspects of Guangming Hall and Xinglin Hall. Finally, we decided to make the decision. Who will be responsible for supplying medicine to the army?

Suddenly, not to mention the common people, the court also exploded.

Everyone is waiting to see who will win in this unprecedented melee between two and a half families.

Why do you say two and a half? Because of the relationship between Xiao Shilang and the Xiao family, most people in the court knew that Xiao Shilang himself was naturally not a member of the same family, at most half of it.

I heard from Zhao Shaohua that these powerful people even made a lot of bets in private, betting on which side would win in the end.

Seriously, no matter whether they are powerful people or ordinary people, their inner nature of watching the excitement and not taking things too seriously is still the same.

Thinking of this, Xu Jing smiled meaningfully and said: "Ignore him, this is just the beginning. If he can't stand it, what will he do in the future?"

What he thought was a sure thing was suddenly disrupted by him. It was normal for Lin Chengzhao to hate her so much that his teeth started to itch.

Zhao Shaohua became excited when he heard this, "Listen to what you said, you still have a lot of tricks to deal with him? Come on, come on, tell me to make me happy, the wife of the Minister of War, Lu Shilang, is also open We made a bet, and I spent a whole five hundred taels of silver on your Xinglin Hall!"

Xu Jing: "..."

No wonder this guy is so interested in the development of her Xinglin Hall!

Xu Jing said with a smile: "The next main task is to open a Xijing branch of Xinglin Hall. I plan to imitate what the Anping County store did when it reopened and let Xinglin Hall provide free clinics for three days. In addition, in early spring, It is the season when the plague is most common, and many new refugees have arrived outside Xijing City. I plan to ask Cheng Xianbai to take a few people to go outside the city to give porridge and distribute medicinal tea that can prevent the plague to the refugees."

It was only thirty-eight years since the founding of Da Chu. Although the country has achieved peace and prosperity on the whole, there is still the problem of unbalanced development between different regions. In some poor places, people cannot survive the severe winter and can only sell land and houses. In the end, it became Homeless refugees.

Therefore, early spring every year is a period of rapid growth in the number of refugees in various places.

Zhao Shaohua was extremely emotional when he heard this, "You are doing this for the sake of being famous forever, so I said, you are not annoying even if you are a profiteer, and I will help you when the time comes."

"I can't say it will last forever, but I just want to find a balance between medical ethics and interests."

Xu Jing smiled faintly and said: "This is also what I made an appointment with Doctor Yan. However, I may not be there when Xinglin Hall opens. If you want to come and help then, just ask Dr. Wei, and Dr. Wei is here Doctor Yan’s apprentice, I introduced you to him a few days ago.”

Zhao Shaohua was slightly startled, "You have to be absent from such a big event as the opening? But is there anything important to do?"

"Ah."

Xu Jing said quietly: "I have something to go back to Anping County."

Last time, after Zhou Qi told her about the suspicious plague twenty-four years ago, she immediately sent someone to investigate. Finally, it was found out that there were two stewards around Lin Chengzhao, who worked as doctors in Guangmingtang when it was just a small medical clinic.

The steward who Zhou Qi said committed suicide was named Su. He suddenly appeared next to Lin Chengzhao after the plague incident.

If there was really something fishy about the plague, besides Lin Chengzhao, the two stewards were the most likely to know.

Those two stewards can now be said to be the first and second in command around Lin Chengzhao. One is Yang and the other is Zhu. Lin Chengzhao values ​​them very much. Steward Yang even married Lin Chengzhao's biological sister, while Steward Zhu married Lin Chengzhao's cousin.

They are all in Anping County now. Manager Zhu manages Guangmingtang’s head office in Anping County and is the shopkeeper there. Manager Yang has been working beside Lin Chengzhao, equivalent to Lin Chengzhao’s chief manager. During Lin Chengzhao’s absence in Anping County, Guangmingtang’s manager He basically makes the decisions on big things.

Xu Jing planned to check out these two people in person before Lin Chengzhao discovered that they were investigating the plague twenty-four years ago.

Her original plan was to go to Anping County as late as possible, because Xinglin Hall was about to open and there were still many things to be busy with.

However, as soon as she returned home that afternoon, Cheng Xiao walked up to her with a sullen face and saluted: "Madam, the people we sent to Anping County just came back with an urgent message saying that when they followed shopkeeper Zhu today, It seems he discovered it."

Xu Jing's brows suddenly frowned.

The people she sent there first came back with news, saying that both Zhu Yang and Zhu Yang were extremely vigilant, and any slightest movement would attract their attention, so they had to be very careful when following and investigating them.

Unexpectedly, they still discovered it.

She pondered for a moment, sighed secretly and said, "Go and prepare. I will go to Anping County tomorrow. You will send someone to invite Cheng Langjun here later."

Cheng Xiao: "Yes!"

After Xu Jing told Cheng Xianbai what to do next, she took Chunyang to Anping County early the next morning.

This is the first time she has returned to Anping County since arriving in Xijing.

Thinking about it now, she couldn't help but sigh. Who would have thought that she just went to deliver medicine to the Song family and would stay in Xijing from then on?

Chunyang was very excited, "I didn't expect that we would have the opportunity to go back to Anping County. Young Master often talks about the snacks from Huachunyuan in Anping County. This time I can bring a box back to Young Master! And Chen Hu and Wu Xiangui, we haven't seen them since they returned to Anping County, they will be very surprised to know that Madam Xu is back."

After Chen Hu and Wu Xiangui ended their agreement to stay by Xu Jing's side for a month, they returned to Anping County for duty.

The corners of Xu Jing's mouth curved slightly, "Anping County is not far from Xijing, not to mention the head office of Xinglintang is here. We will have many opportunities to come back in the future."

Because she wanted to stay in Anping County for a few days, Xu Jing asked someone to rent a house here before returning to Anping County.

When Cheng Xiao brought her to the house they rented, Xu Jing couldn't help but be startled.