business lady

Chapter 74
In Bowenzhai, Xia Zhi was sitting at the table with an unhappy expression, Jiu Yuan was holding ginseng tea, put it in front of him with a smile, and said, "Don't be angry, let's have a sip of tea first!"

Xia Zhi picked up the tea in front of him, put it back as soon as it was brought to his mouth, and said impatiently: "These people are really hateful! They just open their mouths to ask the treasury for money. Now I want to rectify the salt industry and increase taxes." , they all came out to oppose it!"

After hearing this, Jiuyuan thought about it, and smiled knowingly, "It's not unexpected, and it's my fault that I didn't think about it before!"

"How do you say this?!" Xia Zhi asked, he didn't understand these things, why they all objected to improving the management of salt administration and increasing the revenue of the treasury.

Jiu Yuan sighed: "My lord is a person who does great things, and he pretends to be the world's great cause in his heart, so how can he notice the twists and turns in the hearts of these villains!"

After speaking, he picked up the teacup, brushed the water surface, and took a sip. Xia Zhi watched her movements and didn't rush her. He only waited for her to finish this, and continued: "My lord only knows that the merchant is the biggest salt merchant. The annual income of the salt industry accounts for one-third of the total income of the merchants, but I don’t know that I, the largest salt merchant, accounts for less than four shares of the world’s salt industry. There are huge profits in the salt industry. The big families can be so beautiful, but they don’t just have the power, they also need to squander their money to maintain this brilliance! But this money can’t be born by themselves!”

Jiu Yuan stopped talking here, just as he was about to reach out for the teacup, he saw a hand holding tea in front of him, looking sideways along the hand holding the tea, he saw Xia Zhi looking at him with a smile , Jiu Yuan's face turned red when he looked at him, took the tea, and said shamelessly: "Thank you, my lord!"

Xia Zhi looked at her drinking tea, and said softly, "You and I, husband and wife, don't be so polite!" It's a fun thing for Hongxiu Tianxiangsu to hold tea in his hand, but it has become polite to her!Having such an ignorant wife sometimes makes him love and hate at the same time!

After drinking tea, Jiu Yuan said solemnly: "The several big families in this capital are somewhat involved in the salt industry, or they are directly involved in the salt business, or they provide some convenience for some salt merchants. Dry stocks, like the salt business of the uncle of Zhiyonghou’s family! Now you want to close the whole salt industry and not allow private sales of salt, which is like taking out the meat they ate. Objected!"

Xia Zhi nodded his head. He could think of what she said. I'm afraid that the salt officials set up in various counties and counties to collect salt tax would be in vain. But there are not many!
Seeing that the flood season is coming again, if the Zhanghe River breaks its embankment this year, and the treasury has no money to spend right now, what will the people do!He originally wanted to use the merchant's private money to fill the shortfall of the national treasury, and return it to Jiuyuan after the autumn harvest, but the treasury has never received any money, and it is not a problem to eat more than the grain every year!If the bank of the Zhang River breaks, not only will there be a huge bill, but there will also be no hope for the autumn harvest, and there will be no more food at that time!Every year, the Ministry of Industry submits to Zhezi the matter of repairing the embankment for the Zhanghe River, but this matter is always pushed and pushed, and finally it is ignored. In the end, there is still no money to repair the embankment. This has become a vicious circle!
It is imperative for him to reform the salt administration now, and no one can stop him!
"I understand! No matter how unwilling they are, they have to spit it out!" Xia Zhi said firmly!

Looking at Jiuyuan after speaking, the conversation changed, and said: "In the past two days, you have released Wan Yingjiao's restraint, and let her go back to Wanfu!"

After hearing this, Jiu Yuan gave him a slight look, and said in a sarcastic tone: "Why! I pinned her feet, you feel bad!" He knew that he didn't mean it, but hearing him say that made him feel a little angry!

"How could it be! My heart for you can be learned from the sun and the moon! Not to mention one, even if ten Wan Yingjiao are in front of me, I won't take a second look!" Xia Zhi took her hand and held her hand. How could you misunderstand my expression like this?

Jiuyuan couldn't hold back his face because of him, so he laughed, and said angrily, "I'll bluff people!" The gloom just now had long since disappeared, even if he was bluffing herself with good words, she would feel the same in her heart when she heard it. Can't stop being happy!

"I'm telling you the truth, how could I just bluff you!" Xia Zhi said seriously, and then changed his tone of joke, "Could it be that Jiuyuan is jealous! This is the first time I've seen you jealous for me !" He was very happy when he saw it, and he was jealous of his few words, which showed that she cared about herself.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Jiu Yuan denied it hastily, feeling a little bit of embarrassment in his heart, and then hurriedly said: "Now you want to let Wan Yingjiao go back to the Duke Hu's mansion, but what is your intention!"

Seeing that she had guessed this, Xia Zhi replied, "I suspect that the Wan family is hiding a big secret, and this secret may be related to me. You betrayed me. That's right! Miss Niangui's father died because of this secret!"

Jiu Yuan listened and nodded, no wonder Nian Gui didn't want to stay at the Prime Minister's Mansion, but went to the Huguo Duke's Mansion, it turned out that her enemy was Wan Jia!
"You want Wan Yingjiao to go back to Wan's house and make this muddy water even muddier, so you are fishing in muddy water!" Jiu Yuan guessed.

Xia Zhi nodded slightly, and said appreciatively, "That's right! That's exactly what I mean!"

(End of this chapter)