Biography of Ilha in Qing Chuan

Chapter 174

"In the previous dynasty, there was a saying called 'Qinqiang Sheyu is all over the world'. It said that most of the people doing business in Yangzhou were from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Anhui. Anhui merchants operating the salt industry gradually increased, and gradually Shanxi merchants were squeezed out by Huizhou merchants, which made Huizhou merchants the only one in Yangzhou.”

Compared with Shanxi merchants who are ordinary local tyrants, Huizhou merchants are much more elegant.Of course, Shanxi merchants are not ignorant, they are also particular, but what they pay attention to is how to make money.

Whenever you look at the houses of Shanxi merchants, most of them are imposing and sturdy, but they are not good-looking, gray and depressing.It is a world of difference from Huizhou merchants who pay attention to the correspondence between water and stone, pavilions, corridors and sills, with free layout and simple architecture.

Moreover, the lifestyles of the two are different. Shanxi merchants, no matter how rich they are, still live the life of an ascetic monk.Wearing old sheepskin robes, eating steamed buns, holding green onions and garlic, and leaving a large box of ingots in the cellar after death, but only willing to spend two taels of silver to buy a coffin for himself. Shanxi merchants talk about career economics.

Huizhou merchants are different. They enjoy themselves very much. They like exquisite and beautiful houses, go to theaters, go to teahouses, soak in bathhouses, and be arty. They have a large number of literati and clear customers.That's why there are so many brothels on both sides of the Qinhuai River.

The salt merchants are rich, and Yinzhen calculated an account, and the annual turnover of the Yangzhou salt merchants alone can be worth the total income of the state treasury for a year.But how they rose was naturally because of his Huang Ama, the master of the Qing Dynasty.Therefore, they who have tasted the sweetness, seeing that Huang Ama is getting older, the businessmen speculate naturally have to look for the opportunity to find a good next home.

Why does the prince attach so much importance to Jiangnan and would rather take such a big risk to stabilize the situation in Jiangnan? It's not because of the money of these salt merchants.Since ancient times, officials and businessmen have colluded, although Yinzhen hated it, there was nothing he could do about it.

"I've said so much, but I still haven't said what this has to do with Peng Dingqiu's death."

"Stupid, what did you not think of after I said so much?"

After Yi Erha was fine, he thought over what Yinzhen had said just now, and after a while he said uncertainly: "The Lord means that the death of Peng Dingqiu was really the crown prince's fault?"

"Lu Qi is the largest salt merchant in Yangzhou. He owns thousands of ships and sells more than half of Huai's salt. The prince has been operating in the south of the Yangtze River for so long. Every year, Lu Qi donates tens of thousands of taels of silver to the prince. Do you believe the prince's people?"

Yi Erha was asked by him, logically speaking, it should be, and the prince also had a motive to kill Peng Dingqiu, but the matter seemed to be not that simple, "Where is the master? Do you believe it?"

"It doesn't matter whether you believe me or not. The most important thing is that Huang Ama believed me." This is what Yinzhen said to Kangxi when he entered the palace that night. Brother saved his life.

Most of the people who went to Lanting Book House were famous officials, literati and courtiers, and it was the best place to inquire about news.Its boss behind the scenes is Lu Qi, a great salt merchant, and Lu Qi has an unusual relationship with the prince.It's hard for Kangxi not to doubt the prince.

As for Peng Dingqiu, it can only be said that he was unlucky and became a knife in the hands of others.

The matter involved the crown prince of the country. No one else knew what Kangxi thought, but naturally he couldn't investigate it with any fanfare.That's why there was the scene where Kangxi summoned Chen Tingjing, Kai Yinbu and San Age to enter the palace.

"My brain hurts from what I said, who killed this person, you can tell me directly." Yierha lay on the bed, clutching his head and pretending to have a headache.

Yinzhen was speechless, and glared at her, "Who said you were bored just now and begged you to tell me?"

"Master, just tell me that I am stupid." Yi Erha saw that it was useless to pretend to be pitiful, so he acted coquettishly with him.

Yinzhen had no choice but to tell Yierha the news he got from Jiangnan in detail.

Yinzhen accompanied Yi Erha on the couch for a day, and told her many interesting things.It wasn't until evening that she ordered Nanny Hai to pass meals in the kitchen.

The servants in the main courtyard, seeing that they either stayed in Fujin's house these few days and did not show up, or showed up as the master with a dark face, finally got a good face, they were all relieved.Finally, I don't have to live in fear.

Su Peisheng is the one who has had the hardest time these days.He was served by Yin Zhen personally, so he naturally knew that the reason for his master's anomaly was that Fujin was ill.But what surprised him was that since Fujin was ill, he didn't see the imperial doctor passed on by his grandfather.It's just that I am alone in the house guarding Fujin, and I don't let my slaves go in to serve him.

Su Peisheng felt that since his grandpa got married, he had become more and more weird.

After Ilha got well, Yinzhen naturally sold the leave to Kangxi, and went to court on time every day.But what happened next only made Yinzhen regret why he didn't rest for a few more days, and let him have such a bad luck.

(End of this chapter)