- At the beginning of the Great Unification, the emperor used these groups of people as blades in the shadows to find out and kill several bad ministers who wanted to rebel. Later, in order to forcefully curb the mutual assassination of officials, these groups also played a powerful role.

In short, although the groups of people under the emperor are rumored to be extremely low-key, they are definitely good at visiting people and investigating cases, and they are a sharp sword that the emperor hides in his sleeve and never shows his handle.

Although these people have not been openly established in the administration of officials until now, it cannot be ruled out that they can temporarily participate in the investigation of cases in accordance with the emperor's dictation.

If this kind of person is eyeing the case of the murder of the county keeper of Xiahe County, as long as there is a trace of clues, it is very likely that he will do something to see the moon. And if Xiao Chung at this moment still holds on to yesterday's plan and is ready to abandon the knife and settle in Kyoto, he can completely avoid getting involved in this matter when he quickly thinks through something after seeing the dark horse.

But who told him to suddenly change his mind at this point?

If he wants to continue to be a charlatan in the future, he must dissociate himself from this matter. If he is entangled in this matter, even if he can finally get rid of the investigation of the government, it is likely that no one will be willing to be an intermediary for him in the future, and this matter will ruin his reputation.

So now he had to do something, not to help anyone, not to keep himself neutral, but to isolate himself from the matter completely.

This thing seems to be very simple, Xiao Chung has not done it before, but considering that the two parties he has to face today are not easy to mess with, one is the most powerful killer organization in the rivers and lakes, and the other is the killer weapon that the current emperor has collected in his sleeve, his hand to sharpen the knife can't help but start to tremble a little, I don't know if he is afraid, or because this knife has not been used for a long time. It's a bit hard to grind.

The sound of sharpening the knife lasted for a long time, and the more than one-foot-long bone cutting knife had completely sharpened off the rust on the knife body, and it was as smooth as a mirror, revealing the true color of high-quality iron. Xiao Chung glanced at the blade of the knife and felt satisfied, so he changed a whetstone and began to focus on sharpening the blade.

Generally speaking. A butcher does the slaughter. You should be able to carry a complete set of knives, and you will be able to bleed, shave, cut and chop the bones differently. Xiao Chung was a skilled butcher before practicing medicine, so of course he understands these common senses. But it is precisely because he is proficient in this way that he will not be satisfied with the status quo, think of pioneering and innovating, and have his current craft. Now he slaughters animals with just a knife. Even if a horse can be slaughtered and cooked into a pile of meat pieces that cannot be distinguished, it is a set of knives that can be used to treat the skin of a living person.

The set of knives used for healing is varied and exquisitely crafted. It is he, as a healer, who is responsible for the patients he treats, and cannot desecrate this work, and the points of treatment that have been tried and determined cannot be changed lightly because of his own preferences. And the slaughtering knife has now been reduced to a single one. It is not only that he does not like trouble, but also that he is confident in his slaughtering skills.

It's just that the workload he is facing today is a bit heavy, and he has to be prepared. Attack with fine weapons, so as not to make a mistake with the blade.

Because he has been sharpening his knives for too long. The two daughters, who were used to taking a nap in the afternoon, were finally so noisy that they couldn't sleep, so they walked out of the bedroom together, and followed the sound of rough sand grinding on the ear drums to Xiao Chung's side.

The two little girls, one tall and one short, who did not look much like each other in terms of their faces, stared at their father in unison, the younger daughter looked at her father with a blank look, and the older daughter looked at the black horse in the yard that was not tied to the reins but stood obediently.

Xiao Chung nominally has two daughters, but in fact the eldest daughter is not his own. When his wife gave birth to her little daughter, Xiao Chung was still serving a prison sentence in the county government prison because he had treated a wounded person.

When Xiao Chung came out of the cell, his wife was already sick and dying under the double pressure of the neighbor's rumors and accusations and the family's hardship. Even if Xiao Chung immediately began to recuperate for his wife after being released from prison, he could not keep her alive for a few more months.

It was also from that time that Xiao Chung's heart hardened in a cold place. A rough man lives with his immature daughter, and although he is often troubled by trivial things, he does not think about the continuation of the strings. In addition to raising his daughter, Xiao Chung focused most of his energy on the matter of fine skills and knife techniques, but he was determined not to treat injuries and illnesses for ordinary people.

Except for the fact that he can exude some life-saving temperament as a doctor when he is in the treatment matters, the rest of the time he only has the image of being greedy and greedy.

The eldest daughter is the child that Xiao Chung picked up when he was picking medicine in the mountains in the second year of becoming a "rich slave", hiding in Nanshan and waiting for a new business to come to the door. The eldest daughter was a homeless child whose parents died early, and was bitten by a snake while walking on a mountain road, but fortunately she met Xiao Chung that day. After being saved, she begged to stay, willing to be a slave to Xiao Song, only begging to have two meals during the day and a covered room to sleep in at night.

Xiao Chung didn't want to take her in, but in the process of allowing her to stay for a few days to recuperate, he found that although this girl was still just a child, she could take good care of his little daughter, who was only two years old at the time, so he was moved and agreed to her request.

It must be admitted that his eldest daughter, who was picked up, is very perceptive and has a very flexible brain, which may have something to do with her upbringing of losing her home at a young age and living a wandering life. Having lost a qiē to rely on, in order to survive, you have to fight for everything by yourself, and you need to be extra careful of the dangers around you. Three years ago, her eldest daughter, who was only six years old, was already so sharp-minded, and three years later, she was able to think about adult things at the age of nine.

Fortunately, this girl adheres to Xiao Chung's very pure loyalty and respect, otherwise her little adult's state of mind is really a few terrible factors.

Two years ago, in order to avoid trouble, Xiao Chung simply accepted the girl he picked up as his adopted daughter, as long as the adopted daughter didn't cause trouble for him, it wasn't that he couldn't get the spare money to raise an extra child.

In fact, this girl helped Xiao Chung a lot, that is, in the matter of raising her daughter, this girl did a very good and meticulous job everywhere. It's still easy for children to come into contact with! After being officially adopted by Xiao Song, the eldest daughter lived with the younger daughter and got along closely, and the eldest daughter gradually adapted to this kind of sojourn life and identity, and naturally settled down to be Xiao Song's father.

If the father and daughter can be directly spread out, it is much more open than the relationship between the master of the house and the slave. In addition to seeing the scene of Xiao Chung holding a knife to cut the skin of others to heal the disease, the eldest daughter has also seen his method of slaughtering livestock for a long time, but there are often cases of curing diseases, and the slaughter of animals has not been seen for a long time.

Otherwise, the butcher knife wouldn't have been covered with such a thick layer of rust.

But compared with being surprised to see her father-in-law suddenly pick up a butcher's knife, the eldest daughter was more surprised that her father-in-law Xiao Song seemed to be slaughtering a horse this time.

Xiao Chung has slaughtered chickens, sheep, pigs and cows, but it is the first time to slaughter a horse. Horses are bred for people to get around. Xiao Chung didn't have a horse himself. Even if the strangers who came to the medicine house were on horseback, they would definitely ride away when they left, but they left the horse in the medicine house to be slaughtered like today. The owner of the horse was nowhere to be found, and this was the first time the eldest daughter had seen it.

"Daddy......" The nine-year-old eldest daughter glanced at the machete in Xiao Song's hand, which was as smooth as a mirror, and her eyes showed a hint of hesitation, "What are you going to do?" ”

The word "sharpening" was missing from her question. The meaning has actually become very different, but these are two words missing. I'm afraid that only her stepfather, Xiao Song, can hear it.

The work in his hand slowed down slightly, Xiao Chung glanced at his biological youngest daughter who was next to his eldest daughter, and then his eyes were slightly off, and he only said, "Big girl." Take your sister to the side, and you two will just wait for the meat to be eaten. ”

The eldest daughter was about to speak, when a childish voice suddenly came from beside her: "Daddy." Beef is not tasty, it stinks! ”

Naturally, it was Xiao Song's youngest daughter who would turn five years old this year.

I have been running around with my father for a long time. Living a life that is roughly equivalent to hiding, the youngest daughter's cognitive surface is so lacking that she still stays at about a three-year-old child, there is no distinction between cattle and horses, and the smell is difficult to distinguish.

In the youngest daughter's opinion, although the sturdy animal in the yard looks a little different from a cow, as if something is missing, but the rope that ties it is also tied to its mouth, in fact, it is a cow, right? What other animal can grow so big?

As for the taste of beef, the youngest daughter pouted when she thought about it. Xiao Song's medical skills are not bad, but his cooking skills are not fine, at least he is definitely not good at taking care of children's tastes.

About a year ago, Xiao Chung treated the injuries of the first-class Kou Chief, and after the Kou Leader recovered from his injury, he couldn't pay the silver for his injuries, so he paid Xiao Chung the few cattle he had robbed. This move caused the family of three to eat beef offal for nearly half a year, and even Xiao Song, who was full of oil and relish at the beginning, was about to vomit in the end, not to mention how his two children would be uncomfortable.

And in his little daughter's cognitive concept, the kind of old beef that is several times lean and fishy than the pig is "stinky"! And she would immediately make a comment in a childish tone after seeing the horse in the yard, which to Xiao Song's ears, was obviously more disgusting than the feeling of taste.

"Xiaoxiao, Daddy didn't say he was going to kill a cow." Xiao Chung was in a hurry, too lazy to explain to his daughter the difference between cows and horses, as well as the difference between smell and smell, his eyes rolled half a circle, and he took advantage of the situation to lie again, "Daddy slaughters chickens and makes fried chicken thighs for Xiaoxiao to eat, okay?" ”

"Really? Is it really fried chicken thighs? The four-year-old daughter's eyes lit up slightly.

The nine-year-old eldest daughter also learned from the little sister's pouting just now, imagining that her father-in-law was cutting a huge roasted horse leg in the big urn, and then handed the cut horse leg meat to the small bowl in front of the little daughter with a very loving expression, and said with a smile: "Good daughter, this 'chicken leg' is the fattest, and it will be the first for you to eat." The eldest daughter couldn't help but sigh silently.

Faced with the completely different feelings of the two daughters, Xiao Chung only chose the idea of taking care of the younger daughter, and continued the lie with a smile: "Daddy already knows that Xiaoxiao doesn't like to eat beef, so how can he kill cows?" But you have to sharpen the knife to kill chickens, so you can save effort. ”

The youngest daughter didn't know the meaning of sharpening the knife, but she heard that her father was preparing to kill the chicken, and she suddenly became happy. In her cognition, she didn't know what "killing" meant, but she knew that she would be very happy when there was meat to eat later, or the kind that was delicious.

Looking at the little daughter who clapped her hands and jumped up, Xiao Song also smiled, then turned her eyes to the eldest daughter, and said with a slight smile: "Big girl, take the little sister to play, Dad is going to be busy." ”

The eldest daughter knew that her father-in-law protected his little daughter very well, and would never touch bloody things in front of her own little daughter, and she was used to this kind of treatment of her father-in-law.

But it didn't take long for the eldest daughter to come back alone.

……

At the beginning of the year, Nguyen Lok was crowned in April. It was also from the beginning of the year that Mo Ye really noticed the specific date of her brother-in-law's birthday.

The ninth day of the fourth month.

As soon as he knew this accurate date, Mo Ye suddenly realized that three years had passed since he met Ruan Luo and soon became brothers and sisters, and he lived in the same house with mutual support and mutual assistance.

In the past three years, because I practiced martial arts hard every day, sometimes I felt that life was very slow. But because he lives in the Song house. It is a very peaceful life process and gives people the illusion that three years are coming in a flash.

Mo Ye wrenched his fingers and roughly recalled all the things he had experienced in the past three years, the day he first met Ruan Luo should have been shortly after his birthday. So I didn't understand it at that time because I missed it.

As for the ninth day of the fourth month of the previous year, I was stepping up my steps to practice, and I insisted on it day after day, and rarely paid attention to the idle things in life. The days have been a little solidified and hardened. At that time, my martial arts achievements were beginning to be successful, and I was in an urgent mood of excitement and hope to continue to work hard every day. I don't have time to think about anything else.

And on the ninth day of April last year, Mo Ye remembered it very clearly, because it was the fifteenth day when Wu Shu began to teach her the kung fu of receiving hidden weapons. After half a month of hard training, she finally succeeded in catching a hidden weapon thrown by Wu Shu with her bare hands on that day. According to Wu Shu's evaluation at that time, her progress was great and fast.

Of course, she was excited and excited that day, and she practiced the successful move more than 100 times on her own in the small yard behind the grocery store. After tossing a little hard, she returned to the Song house.

That evening, a large table of sumptuous meals was cooked in the house. She thought that some news had leaked out, and specifically asked Ruan Luo if there was anything worth celebrating—there was only one thing worth celebrating in her mind at that time, and it was only related to herself—and he didn't say much, only that he saw that she had lost a little weight in recent days, and that he had specially asked the kitchen to make more dishes to nourish her body.

On that day, because of her high body consumption and good mood, after eliminating her only concerns, she suddenly had a great appetite, ate three bowls of rice in a row, and swept away two plates of meat dishes.

Other than that, she couldn't remember anything special going on that day. Ruan Luo was busy all day from morning to night, but this was his usual norm, so that day was also spent by her as an ordinary day.

For others, the ninth day of the fourth month is indeed just a very ordinary day, but now that Mo Ye learned the meaning of the ninth day of the fourth month for Ruan Luo, he couldn't help but sigh for a while.

She had ignored this day for three years, during which time she could have had more than a thousand days to think about it, but she continued to ignore it more than a thousand times.

Ruan Luo is also a weird person, he can be so sloppy about his birthday, he almost forgets it!

Mo Ye has also thought about it a lot in the past few days, and she realized that it is not only Ruan Luo's birthday, but she has missed too many birthdays. In addition to the people around her once and now, it seems that even her birthday has been forgotten for many years.

Aren't you a weirdo in the eyes of others?

When did you celebrate your birthday, you have drifted away from yourself? This was originally a unique festival that only belonged to oneself, but because of the chaos of one's own background, it was also blurred.

The preparation of the guest list for the crowning ceremony took only one day to complete. However, this is only the easiest and most relaxing part of the process before and after the coronation ceremony, because Ruan Luo does not have many relatives and friends, and most of the list is his friends who have interacted in the business world.

He only needs to glance at the payment of all the individual accounts in the account room, write down the names and sift through them.

However, the most troublesome and time-consuming task is to send out these invitations one by one.

Several of the most important guests in the business world were sent by Ruan Luo with Mo Ye, and most of the posts after that were delivered by Mo Ye on his behalf.

In her early years, Mo Ye often accompanied Ruan Luo around various businesses as a scholar maid, but soon this change of posture was abolished, and she stayed by his side directly as Ruan Luo's sister-in-law, walking in the negotiation activities of many merchants, and had accumulated a strong identity foundation in the past three years. For her to start this matter, it is not Ruan Luo's contempt for the guests, but being able to participate in his coronation ceremony invited by Ruan Luo must not be an ordinary friendship, and it should be understood that he is indeed a busy man.

However, Ruan Luo would hand over more than half of the posts to Mo Ye to deliver, except that he was a little too busy to take care of his own business that could not be suspended. Also because of the presence of this ceremony, there were several special characters among the guests. Mo Ye also learned that Ruan Luo was going to Xiaoliang Country to invite a few of his friends when the date of the coronation ceremony was approaching, and those people were the mentors and friends who helped him a lot when he was studying in Xiaoliang Country in his early years, and for Ruan Luo, they were equivalent to the storage of his brother.

When he first learned about this, Mo Ye's mood was a little complicated, and he remembered all kinds of expressions when Ruan Luo and Yan Yu met unexpectedly a few days ago. She felt that there was a lot of contradiction in it.

However, after thinking about it for a few days. Suddenly, she understood again.

Ruan Luo went to Xiaoliang Country to visit friends and entertain guests this time, and it is very likely that he will meet the people of the Yan family, although the help of the Yan family to him in the early years is a destination. Yan Yu and him are seniors in different periods, but the people of Nanzhao care about etiquette the most, and this love cannot be ignored, so Yan Yu will not be invited to come with him when the time comes. Seems to be a bit offended. Therefore, Ruan Luo had to express his attitude towards Yan Yu in advance on the matter of others in Dongfeng Tower and draw a clear line.

Distinguish each other first. If you run into it later, it's easy to say if you treat it differently.

Thinking about it this way, many problems were smoothed out, and what happened in Dongfeng Tower seemed to be a providence that gave Ruan Luo a chance to properly arrange this matter.

Today is the fourth day that Mo Ye has started handing posts alone. Most of the posts in my hand have been handed out, and of the remaining five, three are posts that I didn't meet the main owner yesterday and the day before yesterday and are waiting to go to the second time. If there are no accidents, it shouldn't take much time to send them all out.

Ruan Luo specially advised. These posts must be delivered to the host and cannot be forwarded by a servant in the host's home. Mo Ye did not question this, because in the cognition in her heart that had been cultivated by the Nanzhao Official Academy, the meaning of the crowning ceremony was almost on the same level as the marriage ceremony, and she could not be sloppy. And the main owner of the current gift is the righteous brother who has taken a lot of care of her in recent years, and she is fully willing to work for it.

Although there were dozens of servants in the Song Mansion to listen to the call, Ruan Luo did not use them, it was precisely because he attached great importance to this matter and believed in Mo Ye's attitude that he handed over this matter to Mo Ye completely.

Two posts were sent out in one morning, and the actions were quite smooth, and the remaining three posts were the households that were going to make a second trip to the three places. After lunch, Mo Ye rested for a while, looked at the three posts in his hand, and preferred the Yu family.

On the day of the Kyoto Spring Shipping Ceremony three years ago, Mo Ye was taken to the beach by Ye Nuono to join in the fun, although the process of the ceremony was indeed very lively, it can be said that Mo Ye was unforgettable in this life, but the sudden heavy rain at the end of the ceremony also made her unforgettable in this life, which is a bit of joy and sadness.

After that heavy rain, there was an outbreak of wind and cold in Kyoto, and more than 100 people fell ill, almost making people wonder if there was a plague from the sky. However, it seems that it is precisely because of the influence of this incident that it took only one month for Ye Nuono's father to establish a solid foundation of prestige in Kyoto, the second largest capital city of Nanzhao, and became the fastest and most stable medical center in the whole of Kyoto.

The rain also changed the fate of a businessman who had spent most of his life at the bottom of the business world.

Maybe it was just because the owner of the tea shop had a good intention to let his makeshift bunk stand on the rainy seashore for a while longer, so as to avoid the four little girls being drenched in the rain and falling into soup over and over again, and hand over good luck. Good people have good rewards, is the majority of the people most recognized by a truth, although not every good person can reap good rewards after doing good, but the teahouse owner Yu Yong probably embarked on this glorious and lucky road of development.

That day at the beach, Ruan Luo went to pick up Mo Ye and saw Boss Yu's kindness, and he said something on the spot that would be repaid, but he didn't lie half of it. Soon after, Ruan Luo came to the aid of Yujia Tea Shop, and this help was a dual role of funds and resources. The Yu family tea shop was quickly revitalized, not only because Ruan Luo's support was in place, but also because Boss Yu was a person who really loved tea.

Because of his love for tea, he knew and mastered a lot of tea ceremony routines, and on the day he accepted Ruan Luo's funding, he agreed with Ruan Luo's construction and began to study new tea products.

Under the command of a true swordsmith, a single scythe can create the spirit of a sword, and under the operation of a true master of the tea ceremony, a bowl of the most ordinary large-leaf tea can play several variations. There will always be buyers in the world who really know the goods, but as a seller, you must first compromise and solve the problem of survival before waiting for the real buyers. If you are willing to compromise, use the rest of your experience in the tea ceremony. It's not that hard.

Yu's tea shop has been in business for decades, and there has been no improvement in business, because the tea soup products that his family mainly sells are too thick and bitter to enter the throat, which is not widely acceptable. But it is also because Yu Yong has never given up on continuing this ancestral tea soup technology, so his tea shop will continue to be bitter after decades of hard work.

And after accepting Ruan Luo's choice of Jianyì. Yu Yong began to really consider the meaning of "change" and the specific operation of "change". After a year of painstaking research, the Yu family's tea making and selling business not only retained the ancestral tea of old tea soup, but also accepted several other famous teas. On this basis, several kinds of flower tea and milk tea are derived.

The most successful is the innovation of milk tea, adding the big bitter tea soup that made countless guests frown and make countless guests frown and make the old Yu family in boiling milk or goat's milk, and the effect of removing the fishy smell is quite good. If you add other teas, the effect is obviously not as good as the big bitter tea soup. It also increases costs. And after drinking the sweet and greasy milk tea a few times, many guests suddenly came to a bowl of pure bitter tea soup. The feeling is also inexplicably refreshing.

Nowadays, the most favored milk tea and the oldest Da Ku tea soup in Yujia Teahouse have become complementary products, and they are indispensable for daily sales, and their respective meanings are very special.

There are other teahouses in Kyoto that want to learn the technique of milk tea, but they don't know the secret of boiling the big bitter tea soup for a day. One day cannot be completely replaced. Taking advantage of the irreplaceable quality of this product, Yujia Teahouse has grown bigger in three years, and it is no longer the small shop it was three years ago. In addition to the main store, a branch library has also been opened.

The Yu family had already paid off Ruan Luo's initial support with interest a year ago, and Yu Yong's friendship with Ruan Luo was as strong as iron. About every 10 days, the teahouse purchases goat's milk products in bulk. It is the main ingredient for making the best-selling milk tea in the store, and although there are many merchants in Kyoto who now provide such supplies, the preferred merchant for the rest is definitely the supplier shop under Nguyen Luo's name.

The rise of the Yu family teahouse, on the surface, it seems that Yu Yong took the big boat of Ruan Luo and took good luck with the wind, but the slightly more senior businessmen in the Beijing merchant group may have also tasted a little difference contained in this matter: Why did Ruan Luo, a rising star in the business world, help Yu Yong, who is equivalent to a stranger, so quickly after accepting his uncle's family business? And Yu Yong, this old stubborn, it is not that there are no people who have chosen to change before, he has never listened, but three years ago, he didn't know which tendon in his brain, so he listened to Ruan Luo, the later Jianyi? And he seems to have opened the eyes of the unpredictable prophet, and he took the right boat?

Just because Ruan Luo's support funds are thick enough, Yu Yong is finally moved, and he finally decides to fight after middle age? How much money did Ruan Luo support, and what did he rely on, dare to support the surplus huge amount of money so confidently and boldly? What if the Yu family fails this time? Why did Yu Yong believe that Ruan Luo could bring him success?

These are the two main issues from Ruan Luoyu and the two sides, and some people are already questioning them, but I am afraid that as long as the two people involved do not say it, it is rare for someone to see through it.

The reason why Yu Yong is willing to believe Ruan Luo's Jianyì is mainly because Ruan Luo's true identity is extremely persuasive. Although Yu Yong was a little suspicious of Ruan Luo's motive for helping him at first, although Ruan Luo never took the initiative to explain the matter, his unclear motive had been indirectly explained in the three years since the rise of the Yu Family Teahouse.

Ruan's father died early, if it was just a little bit of the blessing of this person who had made meritorious contributions to the founding of the Nanzhao Dynasty, Ruan Luo would not have done much of these things.

In fact, all the resources that Nguyen Luo can control that are beneficial to the business world come from the current imperial power. What does he need, to be able to get the support of a huge amount of power in a very fast time. Because of such a backer, Ruan Luo believed that he had enough strength to make the Yu family rise.

-- As long as Yu Yong is willing to adopt his proposal, he will start to choose change.

As for Ruan Luo, of course, he was not passively accepting the support of the imperial power. Between the imperial power and the Yu family, Ruan Luo's role is no longer a simple one-way beneficiary. The emperor's side trusted him so much that he cut a corner of the treasury for him to use, and the shade left behind by Ruan's father after his death certainly played a certain role, but not all, the point was whether Ruan Luo had the same personal ability as borrowing the treasury.

The treasury was willing to lend cash for Ruan Luo to use at his own disposal, because the emperor gave his son face and trust because Ruan's father had made outstanding achievements in helping him fight the country in the past, but the money lent out still had to be repaid after all.

The Yujia Teahouse is the first flagship to sail out of the Kyoto Tea Shop, built by Ruan Luo on behalf of the emperor, and the owner of this flagship is still Yu Yong, but such a flagship that set off a wave of monetary gains once sailed out. Immediately attracted countless imitators.

If the whole country is only crammed into a few capital cities to make a living, it will not only slow down the development of the whole country, but also bring a heavy burden to the limited local resource allocation.

In the northwestern part of the country, where the soil structure was unsuitable for agriculture, it was previously uninhabited, and although it was large but always empty, the dairy products produced in this area have begun to form a more regular sales pattern, and the sales model has begun to expand to neighboring prefectures, following the example of Kyoto. Mature food processing technology has also made this special food more widely accepted.

The northwest and other land that could not be drilled before. Now there is a food production program that can be replaced anywhere else, and it is also very helpful in attracting immigrants.

It's not so much that Ruan Luo is helping Yu Yong make a fortune, it's better to be precise. It was the emperor who valued and determined that this industry could be tapped and expanded, and that this industry also had long-term benefits for the expansion of the assets of the dynasty, and Yu Yong was lucky to become the first pilot merchant, and then he was extremely lucky and succeeded smoothly.

Of course. Now, let's think about the purpose of helping the surplus three years ago. Ruan Luo didn't need to explain it thoroughly to Yu Yong.

In fact, after Ruan Luo nominally inherited his uncle's estate, he did many "good deeds", not only reflected in Yu Yong. But the purpose is like this, it is really appointed by Emperor Shi. Why did the first pilot merchant of the tea ceremony business fall on Yu Yong? It's not all because Yu Yong is starting to get lucky, and before this matter is finalized, there is naturally a team that conducts a comprehensive and mature assessment of the potential of Yu Jia's tea shop.

In fact, there are many similarities between business and politics.

Those who know that this evaluation team has zài should be tempted to sigh. His Majesty the Emperor Nanzhao can be said to be the most money-loving among those who have sat on the dragon chair for hundreds of years. However, the emperor's behavior out of his love of money seems to have nothing to do with the despicable nature of greed. He is making money conscientiously step by step, and he is making money diligently with the energy of governing the country, and almost thirty percent of the great social undertakings he runs are related to making money in business.

It's just that this is where the puzzling part is.

As the ruler of a country, he can call the wind and rain in his own territory, and he is almost omnipotent. Most kings didn't spend their days in a pile of silver, precisely because if they wanted money to spend, it seemed that all they had to do was open their mouths and say it.

What emperor has done so hard to pick up money like today?

What was he going to do with such a huge amount of silver stone?

His usual life does not seem to be extravagant, and the financial expenditure invested in the construction of the people's livelihood in the country is indeed very large, but it still does not account for sixty percent of the national fiscal revenue, where does the remaining half go? Could it be that he is now planning to build a mausoleum in a hundred years?

If such speculation and arguments leak out and spread among the people, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of criticism, but fortunately, there are only a few officials who know the proportion of revenue and expenditure between the state and the DPRK, and as long as they don't talk nonsense, they will be fine.

Of course, the few officials who had access to the core accounts of the dynasty were naturally subjected to the emperor's scrutiny from the very beginning. Now, whether it is their position in the court or the structure of their lives, they have faintly drawn a grid of activities for them. If anyone "owes" at this time, it is tantamount to making themselves uncomfortable.

However, no matter what you say about the Son of Heaven's big things to accumulate wealth, at least the current emperor's ability and character can be regarded as impeccable, and the advantages of doing things with such a monarch always outweigh the disadvantages, which is much better than the emperor of the old dynasty. As for how the direction of the situation will change in a few decades, it would be too idle for anyone to worry about this now. Those who really hold the real power prefer to do more and talk less, because no one is idle to talk about it right now, and even fewer people know about it.

It is also for this reason that Ruan Luo is almost wholly owned to help the rest of the people, even though some business veterans feel that something is wrong, they can't go one step further.

Strange is weird, that is, no one says why.

Merchants who do not have this awareness do not have these ill-conceived troubles, and they can only envy and envy the good fortune that remains. But there is no one who hates Yu Yong because of his eccentricity, because before the rise of the family industry, Yu Yong's hard life was too long, and in contrast to these experiences in the early stage, he finally improved a little in the second half of his life, and it had some logical meaning.

Although there are not a few people in this world who can succeed by opportunism, there is no need for preaching and publicity, that is, what can naturally gain the respect of others from the bottom of their hearts is still the achievements obtained by down-to-earth hardship and hard work.

Anyone with a clear mind knows that the signature tea of the Yu family teahouse can stand tall while carrying forward, and it has to rely on the Yu family's great bitter tea soup secret recipe, and if it were not for Yu Yong's decades of hard work in the first half of his life, this ancestral secret recipe may have been lost. Ruan Luo's help is of course to pour oil on the spark, but if this spark has long been extinguished, what effect can others pour more oil into the cold ashes afterwards? ――

(To be continued)