Gu Xuesong told Ningxia Qing that the matter of the Chamber of Commerce this time was far bigger than Ningxia Qing imagined.

This time, the matter started from the account books of the Chamber of Commerce, but in the process of searching, Gu Xuesong actually found the fact that the Chamber of Commerce offered bribes, and followed the clues to find the heads of some officials.

In this way, it is not that the chamber of commerce in Meigong County will have a bloody storm, but that the entire Meigong County will be turned upside down.

Because of the importance of the matter, Gu Xuesong could only stand still, detain this matter for the time being, and immediately go to Beijing to resume his life, and report the matter directly to the above.

This wind and rain was far bigger than Ning Xia Qing imagined, and she never thought that she was just asking Gu Xuesong to help bring down Qi Plateau, and in the end things would get out of control and become what they are today.

However, perhaps because of her identity as a member of the Ning family, since the day she was reincarnated into the Ning family, she was destined to be involved in this turmoil.

This big game of chess is finally about to start gradually.

A few years ago, Mrs. Ning took her two granddaughters to visit Mrs. Gu.

Since Zi'er went to Gu's Academy to study, she has often been taken care of by Mrs. Gu, Zi'er is born with ice and snow cuteness, and her temperament is delicate and sensible, so she is especially favored by Mrs. Gu, and Mrs. Gu is now almost as painful as her own granddaughter.

For Mrs. Gu's care of Zi'er in the past day, Mrs. Ning and Ning Xia Qing brought generous gifts to thank Mrs. Gu.

Mrs. Gu did not lack this courtesy, but she also understood the affection contained here, smiled and hugged Zi'er in her arms, and said a few polite words to Mrs. Ning, and then sighed that Zi'er has grown extremely fast in the past few days, although she has not grown much flesh, she has grown a lot taller, and she is becoming more and more like a big child.

Old Lady Gu hugged Zi'er and didn't let go, and asked with a smile: "Zi'er is the birthday of the first month, and I see that I am going to be a year older!" ”

Mrs. Ning and Ning Xia Qing glanced at each other and smiled, all because Mrs. Gu cherished Zi'er and didn't let go, but seemed to be Zi'er's grandmother, which made Mrs. Ning and Ning Xia Qing amused and relieved.

"That's right." Mrs. Gu suddenly asked, "When is Qing'er's birthday?" Did I ask before? Look, I'm so confused, I forgot about it! ”

As Mrs. Gu spoke, her eyes still kept on Zi'er, and Zi'er replied casually: "My sister was born in the spring." ”

Old Lady Ning and Ning Xia Qing glanced at each other again, although Ning Xia Qing was nothing, Old Lady Ning was full of gloom.

Although Ningxia Qing's birthday is not big, it is not small, and when the birthday passes, the virtual age is nineteen years old, and after Ning Yongda's mourning period, Ningxia Qingke is an old girl.

How can there be a girl in the world who is so old and unmarried? What's more, Ningxia Qing is now running a family, going in and out all day long, she doesn't look like a girl at all, and she has to recruit a lot of money, how difficult is it to find such a son-in-law?

Old Madam Gu naturally understood the worries in Old Madam Ning's heart, so she smiled and said, "No wonder Qing'er is so good-looking. In that spring, a hundred flowers bloomed, and the green children born in spring were really like flowers. ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled politely at Old Lady Gu and said, "I heard that the third grandmother just gave birth to a little son, but I haven't seen it yet." I heard that the third grandmother is now out of confinement, and I want to take Zi'er to see the little son. ”

Old Madam Gu nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Go ahead, it just so happens that I want to say something intimate to your grandmother, but you are sensible." ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled and nodded, and then took Zi'er to the third grandmother's side.

Watching the two fairy-like girls, one big and one small, go out, Mrs. Gu couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that Qing'er looks like a flower, I don't have the blessing to let her be the daughter-in-law of the Gu family." ”

Old Lady Ning said with a gloomy expression: "It's that this child is not blessed." Since Yongda's death, this child has been busy all day long, although I can't say anything about her, but I have been worried about her in my heart. Now that Qing'er is getting thinner and thinner, and the marriage has not been settled, in the final analysis, this child is a hard life, and there is no such blessing as pampering. ”

Mrs. Gu said with emotion: "Actually, this kid is a good match for Cedar, and I always hoped that they could become a couple." But Cedar is not too young, and Jingli can't wait, so he actually told Cedar about marriage. These two kids missed ......"

As soon as the matter between Gu Xuesong and Ningxia Qing was mentioned, Mrs. Gu sighed with emotion.

Ningxia Qing took Ningxia Zi to Gu San's grandmother's yard, and as soon as she arrived at the door, she happened to meet Gu Huailang coming out of it. Gu Huailang is now over the general corner, and it is the time when he is jumping up like spring shoots, and he is almost catching up with Ningxia Qing, and the little Ningxia Zi can't even reach Gu Huailang's chest.

As soon as Gu Huailang saw the two sisters, a happy smile immediately appeared on his face, and he greeted warmly: "Sister Ning is bringing Sister Zi'er over?" I haven't seen Sister Ning for a long time. ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled and said kindly: "I heard that the third grandmother just added a little brother to the eighth son, so I specially prepared some gifts and brought Zi'er over to see the little son." Is the third grandmother recovering well now? ”

Gu Huailang hurriedly made a gesture and said politely: "Sister Ning has a heart, my mother is in good health." Sister Ning doesn't need to be polite to me, she keeps saying that the eighth prince is too outward, and Sister Ning just calls me Brother Lang. Sister Ning and Sister Zi'er, please come in. ”

While Ning Xia Qing took Zi'er and followed Gu Huailang inside, she thought about Gu Huailang's future in her heart, so she naturally called: "Brother Lang." ”

She knew that Gu Huailang would go to participate in the Autumn Festival in a while, and if she could be selected, she would have the qualifications to be elected officials. With Gu's ability and means, Gu Huailang's future is bound to be very good.

In fact, at Gu Huailang's current age, it is still a little early to participate in the Autumn Festival. However, this matter should not be delayed, if the family can help arrange it, it is okay to let Gu Huailang try it as soon as possible.

However, since it was to try, maybe Gu didn't plan to let Gu Huailang win this time, after all, if Gu Huailang was lifted at this time, it would be too conspicuous, and it was not Gu's consistent style of acting.

Based on Ning Ningqing's guess, the Gu family may just plan to let Gu Huailang go through the motions first, maybe they will wait for Gu Huailang to get older before arranging for Gu Huailang to enter the officialdom.

In short, no matter what kind of result Gu Huailang will get this autumn, his future after that is definitely beyond the reach of those poor children in their lifetime.

Ningxia Qing is willing to be close to Gu Huailang, and in a few years, Gu Huailang will also be a rare help to her.

Years later, Ning Xia Qing took Zi'er to Ning's mansion.

Since Ning Wangping set up her own door, her family has almost completely cut off contact with the clan. However, time has changed, and in her generation, she finally took Zi'er to step into the threshold of the Ning family mansion again.

The closer she got to her own family, the more it proved that the more pressure the Xiao family brought to the Ning family, and it was already so great that the Ning family was united to the ground. And the greater the pressure that Xiao brings to Ning, the more it proves that the situation will become more and more severe day by day.

The next few months are the most idle months since Ning Xia Qing took over the family business, and they are also the months when she is most worried-

Shortly after the year, in the capital, Gu Xuesong submitted the evidence of the Chamber of Commerce's bribery.

The crown prince went to meet the saint with all kinds of evidence, and on the surface of the evidence, many officials were involved, and those officials have always been friendly with the five princes, which can be regarded as the wings of the five princes, and the prince's trip is to point the finger at the five princes.

The five princes pushed all the matter on the head of the Chamber of Commerce. The Five Princes defended that the collusion of these non-governmental organizations with each other in the local area, and even with officials, was always a threat to the rule of the local government, and more importantly, to the imperial power.

According to the five princes, the bribery of officials is caused by human greed, and it has not been completely curbed by successive dynasties. Therefore, it is better to cure the symptoms than the root cause of bribery, and as long as we crack down on such non-governmental organizations, we can eradicate bribery at the root.

In addition, if you want to check, I am afraid that no official is completely clean. As long as those officials are still loyal to the emperor, it is better to let them go this time, strictly investigate the Chamber of Commerce and let those officials go at the same time, and relax and relax, which makes it seem that the emperor has a degree of behavior.

The crown prince naturally disagreed with the opinions of the five princes. For a while, the officials of the two factions stood up one after another, each holding their own words, and there was chaos in the court for a while.

Xiao Shi had already heard the wind. As a result, Tan Wenshi and other Xiao clans withdrew from the Chamber of Commerce to protect themselves, and took the lead in establishing a public office similar to the Chamber of Commerce.

And the organization established by Tan Wenshi and others naturally excluded the Ning clan from joining. Therefore, the Ning family could only stay in the Chamber of Commerce for the time being. If the Chamber of Commerce really falls, the Ning clan will have to bear the consequences independently.

The battle between the crown prince and the five princes was in full swing, and the emperor finally made up his mind and planned to host the Chamber of Commerce.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a major event happened in the north-

The Tien Shan corridor has been breached!

The breach of the Tien Shan Corridor means that the Tien Shan trade routes, which have been blocked for hundreds of years, will be reopened, and the passage between the Northern and Western Regions will no longer be blocked by the Lesh, and trade between the two places will be more frequent than before.

The Western Regions trade route, which had been shelved for many years, was reopened, and porcelain and materials produced in the Central Plains were finally able to flow to the Western Regions again. At this time, the porcelain and Piliu of the Central Plains became very hot.

So, the prince wrote a book, mentioning the matter of private trade.

If the Meigong County Horse Chamber of Commerce is dissolved at this time, the merchants of Meigong County will lose their leader, the horse industry will fall into chaos, and the merchants will be in chaos, and the merchants will easily lose this good opportunity to expand the market to the Western Regions.

Meigongjun pays a lot of taxes to the imperial court every year, and if Meigongjun misses this opportunity, it will be a big loss for the imperial court.

Therefore, the battle of the Tianshan Corridor, thousands of miles away, has preserved the Horse Chamber of Commerce in Meigong County.

When Gu Xuesong returned to Meigongjun City from Jingli, it was already summer. At this time, in Meigong County, the contradiction between the chamber of commerce represented by the Ning family and the office backed by the Xiao family also entered a white-hot stage.

The passage of the Tianshan Corridor means that many merchants from the north will turn to trade with the Western Regions, and the north will definitely import more materials from the Central Plains. At this time, among the chambers of commerce and public offices in Meigong County, whoever can negotiate long-term cooperation with Beidi will be able to occupy the opportunity in the shopping mall.

——For Ning Xia Qing and the others of the Ning family, in the previous half a year, they could only wait for the news from above without doing anything, but now it is time for them businessmen to appear. As representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, they must try their best to secure a long-term cooperation with the Northland before the public is acquired.

However, this is not an easy task.

The Xiao family, as a big clan with intricate roots in the territory, has long been infiltrated into the blood of the royal family. Within the Xiao family, there are no less than ten Xiao women who have been honored as the lord of the Xiao family, and there are many princesses with the blood of the Xiao family.

In the past hundred years, the relationship between the Central Plains and the Northland has been relatively good, and the Central Plains often sends princesses to the Northland to make peace, and many of these princesses who were sent to the Northland are related to the Xiao family.

Therefore, whether it is the Central Plains royal family or the Northland Imperial Court, they have already been infiltrated by the Xiao family.

Nowadays, the chamber of commerce and the public office want to win long-term orders from the Northland, and compared with the Ning's Chamber of Commerce, the Northland will naturally be more inclined to the Xiao family's office.

The people of the Ning clan, led by the patriarch of the Ning clan and others, were all worried about this matter, including Ning Xia Qing. At this moment, Ning Xia Qing was called by Gu Xuesong to meet him.

It turned out that the situation in Jingli was too tense and inseparable from Gu Xuesong's planning, so Gu Xuesong had just returned and was about to leave again.

Gu Xuesong hurriedly saw Ning Xia Qing before leaving. At this meeting, Gu Xuesong mainly wanted to ask the Chamber of Commerce how it planned to win the list of Northland.

Ning Xia Qing told Gu Xuesong that the Ning family planned to send Ning San Master over. Master Ning San has been taking care of Ning's shops for many years, crisscrossing the shopping mall, and Ning's wants to send people to the Northland, and no one is more suitable than him. It's just that Master Ning San's status in the Ning clan is not low, and sending Master Ning San on this trip this time almost proves that the Ning clan has been forced to the bottom line.

Gu Xuesong smiled when he heard this, and said, "That's really a coincidence, the two people, Master Ning San and Tan Wenshi, it seems that it is not possible to distinguish between high and low." ”

Ningxia Qing understood that the public office was going to send Tan Wenshi over.

Ning Ningqing couldn't help but feel a sudden feeling in his heart, he was simply afraid of something.

Who Tan Wenshi is, she couldn't be clearer. Although Master Ning San used to be Tan Wenshi's master, the current Master Ning San is not Tan Wenshi's opponent in terms of physical strength, energy, scheming, and wrist.

She has always been worried that Tan Wenshi will go to the public office in person. It seems that the Xiao family is also bound to win, so he will let Tan Wenshi go on this trip in person.

That's not good.