Chapter 22 The Benefiter

When she returned to the east wing, Su Niang had been waiting in the yard for a long time.

What's wrong?

Nothing happened.

Ji Moshu shook his head, and although his mind was full of confusion, he still tried hard to squeeze out a relaxed smile.Tonight, Su Niang is going to go to the Lantern Festival with her, and she doesn't want to ruin this hard-won interest.

The lady looks like nothing, so she might as well tell Su Niang if there is anything. Although Su Niang is just a wild woman in the village, her early experience is also considered to be exposed to a lot of human relationships and worldly ways, and she might have different opinions from merchant families.Su Niang led Ji Moshu, who was slightly depressed, to sit down at the stone table in the yard, and did not rush to take Ji Moshu out of the mansion.

Su Niang, you said that if you know that you can’t keep it, you must keep it, even if your family will be destroyed in the end, you will be willing to die. Why is this?Ji Moshu couldn't hold back his troubles, and Mr. Ji's choice really shocked her.

In her opinion, abandoning the car to protect the coach is actually considered a self-protection. Why did Mr. Ji directly reject this choice that sounds smart people can make, and even stupidly choose to hold on to the salt order. This gave her more like the children of Yuzhou are all working hard for that salt order.

If the Henan merchants are said to be rich and think about their source of wealth, and guarding the salt order is to comfort their descendants, but this kind of guard will undoubtedly send their descendants to a dead end.

This is contrary to the education she has received over the past decade and does not conform to the business rules of Henan businessmen.

If she doesn't become a salt merchant, she believes that she will open up new business opportunities in the future. Although salt is profitable, it will become the target of public criticism. If she is not careful, her family will be destroyed.

She has been ill for many years and does not value profits so much, but only cares about safety.

oh?Miss’s idea is strange.Surprisingly, Su Niang said the same.

strange?

Of course, it is said that pursuing interests is easy to control. As long as you give enough profits, they would rather risk Lingchi and continue to do so. Although this is often used to describe merchants, Su Niang believes that this is the same in the eyes of those in power, but the profit has become something in another situation.It can be territory or political achievements. In historical materials, there are countless countries that have opened up wars in order to compete for favorable terrain. Even if the blood flows into a river, the people are willing to live without any worries. From this we can see that this law is actually not unique to merchants, but applies to the whole people. The lady’s idea is actually an unusual person.

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Ji Moshu lowered his head in a bad mood. Indeed, this world praises people with lofty ambitions and ideals. This is the case with the four conveniences of the good man in the proverb.

It seems that most people can only see the successful person, but they cannot see the unknown bones under the successful person.

She acquiesced to sacrifice, very numb and cold-blooded, and she was frightened by it.

Whether it is cowardly or incompetent, she wants to keep her family business more than anyone else when she crawled from the gates of hell. In fact, for her, what she is guarding is not the family business, but people.

In her eyes, people are more important than anything else, and she is afraid that when will this acquiescent sacrifice be her relatives' turn.

She has been touching the line of death for many years and is extremely scared and dare not face it. She is even more afraid of watching her relatives in danger in the end.

Perhaps, a person like her cannot be regarded as the head of the Ji family at all, which is too inferior.

Miss?

Alas, maybe it’s just that everyone has their own ambitions. In my opinion, it’s enough to be able to have a peaceful life.But unfortunately, I am not me. I was born to be Ji Moshu, so Ji Moshu's demands should not be like this.

This cannot be blamed on the lady, it is just human nature to live a relaxed life.Miss is so troubled tonight, but because of the salt order?Su Niang took the opportunity to ask.

How did Su Niang know?

The streets and alleys of Yuzhou City have spread everywhere, but the master is unwilling to return the salt order?

It's just that there's only one thing I can't figure out.

What's the matter?

The salt order is related to the profits of Henan merchants, and it is reasonable to not want to return it, but why is the emperor so anxious to recover the salt order?As far as I know, the Salt Order was issued by the Emperor's clear text to the Henan Shang, and he also wrote an inscription for the Henan Shang himself. Now the Emperor's death has only been three years, and the new emperor ascended the throne for only three years. Perhaps the foundation is unstable. Why don't he settle the court first and instead make such a big move to deal with a merchant gang and change the former emperor's original government orders?Ji Moshu felt his head hurt. If Uncle Su was saying it was true, then the rightist slander would be nonsense. Everything was directed and acted by the emperor today, which would be difficult to deal with.

Well...you have to make profits when doing things, right? From the perspective of interests, the emperor cannot sell salt himself. Naturally, he needs salt merchants. Now that he is not allowed to sell salt in Henan, there may be people who replace it?

Then who will it be?Henan businessmen are a century-old business group, with roots all over the country. What kind of people are qualified to replace them as vested profiters?

Su Niang took off her cheeks and pondered for a moment, and suddenly said when Ji Moshu was confused.

Maybe the one who gained money is the current emperor himself?

Ah？

Ji Moshu looked at Su Niang in shock, but saw Su Niang being proud of her, her eyebrows were curved, as if she was just an unintentional act.

Although Su Niang's performance was irrelevant, Ji Moshu listened.

If the one who gains the benefits is now himself, this can indeed explain why he went through a lot of trouble and got involved in this matter.

Salt merchants have been poor since ancient times, and it has been commonplace to make money.

Therefore, every emperor would choose to appoint salt officials to supervise salt merchants, but this also has a disadvantage. Salt officials will also be bribed by salt merchants, and officials and businessmen colluded with each other to deceive their superiors and subordinates, but this is the safest and safest way that rulers can think of.

In an officialdom where there are many bad rules for deceiving the superiors and concealing the subordinates, it is actually very clever to hand over the power of salt to a merchant. A merchant without power and power needs to go through the inspection of the government before he can trade salt. If the emperor, as an intermediary, notices something is wrong, he only needs to change a salt official to get the salt merchant back to his original form.

But if the government was allowed to sell salt, the emperor might have to uproot the entire officialdom to solve the problem, which would inevitably damage the country's bureaucratic system.

Logically speaking, the emperor felt that salt merchants would choose to punish salt officials and forgive the major salt merchants, which played a role in both kindness and power, but now the emperor got involved in it himself, and there might be a big fame.

Su Niang, that is the lord of the world sitting in the Golden Palace. This profit is his, why is there any saying that profit is profit?

The lady is very smart. Maybe Su Niang was wrong, but there must be another mystery in it. This requires the lady to find it by herself. Even if it is the secret of the Ji family, the lady may not know it.Su Niang said playfully.

Speaking of this, Ji Moshu could only smile helplessly, then spread his hands and admitted generously.

Yes, I lived like a puppet in the past seventeen years. It was neither human nor ghost. It only made people feel pale and terrifying when they looked at it, but in the end it turned out to be a joke.

Then I won’t be the puppet that makes people feel pale and terrifying tonight. Let’s go, this Lantern Festival is probably just when it’s lively, and I’ll visit the lake to watch the lanterns, all of which will be tonight.

Su Niang suddenly laughed. She quickly got back to the room, took out her casual clothes prepared in advance, and handed them to Ji Moshu.

Ji Moshu also smiled cleverly. Yes, things in the future come one after another. The only thing she can do is to be a happy person first and travel to the lake with her sweetheart to enjoy the lanterns.

In fact, she has lived for so long and has never seen Taihu Lake or lanterns. The eldest lady of the Ji family is like a bird in a cage, and she is extremely ashamed when she speaks it out.

When the two were excitedly preparing to sneak out of the mansion, at this moment, in the backyard of the mansion.

The backyard of Ji Mansion is as lively as the front yard. In the secular concept of adhering to the great defense of Tianyuan Kunze, Tianyuan and Kunze have different tables. Tianyuan and Kunze discuss national affairs in the front yard, while Kunze recite poems and couples in the back yard.

It's true that he is a high-ranking official and noble, and he is very happy.

Zi Su avoided the crowd and quickly came to Mrs. Ji.

Madam, the lady has returned to her room, maybe there is an arrangement tonight.

Follow them.Mrs. Ji's face darkened and she said coldly.

yes.