As the saying goes, the eldest sister is like a mother, although Lin Ling is now a noble concubine, but strictly speaking, as the only relative of the Yasukuni Gong today, it is still necessary for her to ask about Lin Yuan's marriage. Li Yuan seemed to have guessed something, and looked at Lin Yuan with a smile in his eyes.

"I'm young." Lin Yuan said helplessly.

"You're twenty years old, still young? I couldn't see you in the past, but now that you're back, is the house still deserted? Ling Guifei said unhappily.

"This has to be appropriate." Lin Yuan never expected that his catastrophe would come so quickly, and he was forced to marry Seeing that his sister's face was not very good, Lin Yuan had no choice but to smirk.

The emperor on the side didn't make any moves, "Duke Yasukuni, what is being played in the study today must be played as soon as possible." "Seeing that the emperor handed the ladder so stiffly. Lin Yuan didn't think much about it, and hurriedly said, "Weichen knows, let's do it." After speaking, the concubine arched her hand and escaped with a smoke.

"Hey!" Ling Guifei was angry and glared at Li Yuan fiercely: "Look at the good things you have done." ”

Li Yuan smiled and comforted: "Lin Yuan is older, he is no longer the child of the past, he has been boiling in the bitter cold land of the north for so long these years, he always has to have some ideas of his own." Now the burden of the entire Yasukuni Mansion is on his shoulders. Don't force him. ”

"But this marriage event, it doesn't matter which one is passed on."

"It's all important, it's all important." Li Yuan patted Concubine Ling's hand.

"I know it's going to be difficult, so let's not force him now." Ling Guifei sighed.

Li Yuan then remembered that Lin Yuan's recent big events made the concubine afraid that she hadn't heard of it, so she picked up a few and told him, and when she heard that her brother had earned tens of thousands of taels of silver in one day, her eyes were full of shock. "So, isn't the house as sad as it was in previous years?"

Seeing Li Yuan nodding, Concubine Ling breathed a sigh of relief and asked curiously: "When did he have this ability?" Li Yuan shook his head, he really didn't know about this, and guessed: "When he was a child, he had a lot of ideas. ”

"Father knows my uncle when I was a child?" Li Xun said curiously.

"Your father, when he was young, he often went to your uncle's house." Ling Guifei smiled. Before the emperor succeeded to the throne, he followed the art of war learned by Lin Tao, the Duke of Yasukuni, and lived in the Yasukuni Mansion for three days a month. That's when I met the young Lin Yuan.

"I'm going to my uncle's house too." Li Xun hurriedly said. Uncle is so interesting.

"Okay, go, I'll go when my uncle has time." Concubine Ling looked at her daughter dotingly. Li Yuan on the side did not object. The children of the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, when they were young, had to blame their teachers for learning, regardless of civil and military affairs, and there were not too many constraints on their children, and the Yasukuni Mansion had taught the art of war to two generations of emperors.

Lin Yuan had just returned to the mansion and just got out of the carriage, when he saw Lin Guangyuan directing the two people to move the boxes to the mansion with a smile on his face. "Uncle Lin, what is this?" Seeing his grandfather come back, Lin Guangyuan said with a smile: "Young master, this is sent by the West Sichuan Chamber of Commerce." ”

"West Sichuan Chamber of Commerce? What is this? Lin Yuan asked.

"The young master is really forgetful, and now it's the end of the month, and the West Sichuan Chamber of Commerce has sent dividends." Lin Guangyuan said with a smile.

Lin Yuan patted his head, he had indeed forgotten this stubble in the past few days, and it seemed that the iron furnace was selling well. "I'm afraid the young master doesn't know, now many people in Beijing have bought the iron furnace on our Zhuangzi, and many rich people have paid for customization."

"As long as the business is good, but this transaction is led by us, but the dividends are from Zhuangzi, why are they sent to the house?" Lin Yuan's original intention was to hand over this business to Zhuangzi to take care of himself.

"Young master, what President Zhang means is that he is worried about the unfair distribution, so he simply handed over the silver to the government and let us share it." Lin Guang said from afar.

"That's it, you can do it." Lin Yuan walked towards the study, but he didn't take a few steps and then stopped, turned around and said, "Uncle Lin, keep some of this money aside to build a academy for Zhuangzi." ”

Lin Guangyuan didn't know why Lin Yuan did this, but he thought that he had his own considerations, so he didn't say much. Some of them have been busy these days, but Lin Guangyuan has never been so happy, after all, he was busy in the past and was haggard, but now he is willing to do it.

Staring at the desk in a daze, Lin Yuan was thinking about today's affairs in the palace, and he couldn't figure it out for a while. The Great Zhou tax can be described as simple, and there are only two categories of agricultural tax and commercial tax, and there is no subdivision after that. Most of the country's major projects are completed through forced labor. It is salt and iron, and it is only attributed to commercial tax. So far, there has been no rebellion by a rich country, and it is really blessed by God.

In the past, the tax on salt and iron was as important as the agricultural tax. It has always been run by the state, and even so, the Jiangnan salt merchants casually brought out a family that was also a wealthy family. And today's Great Zhou, there is a responsibility for supervision, and salt and iron are indeed controlled by the family.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and then he suddenly realized that what the emperor was planning was not just tax reform, and he was afraid that he was going to attack the people behind him. Since the establishment of the dynasty, the family has always been a thorn in the side of the Great Zhou royal family. Now it looks like I'm going to start.

"The relationship between the families is complicated, and the forces are intertwined. I'm afraid it's the emperor's wishful thinking. Lin Yuan muttered, but now this recital really can't help but write, from the moment he stepped into the upper study, he was afraid that he would get on the thief ship.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan couldn't wait to slap himself a few times and make your mouth cheap. As soon as he was reborn, he fell into such a big pit for the first time, which really made Lin Yuan speechless. But thinking about the relationship between his family and the royal family, it seems that this is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. Sighing helplessly, Lin Yuan picked up his pen and began to fill in this big hole.

When he first joined the son, Yu Shi had already refilled Lin Yuan with tea five times, and since returning to Xijing, he had never seen Lin Yuan work so hard. Blowing on the ink that had not dried, Lin Yuan rubbed his sore wrist. It's finally done, but I'm really not very proficient in ancient Chinese, and what I write is all in the vernacular.

"What time is it?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Back to the young master, it's time for the son." After Yu Shi finished speaking, he heard Lin Yuan muttering about overtime pay. I thought to myself, it's really not easy for Grandpa Guo, so tired and still thinking about making money.

Stretching his waist, Lin Yuan looked at the world with some disgust, others are all red-sleeved and fragrant, and he is a dignified countryman, dealing with a group of big men in the house all day long, which is really difficult for Lin Yuan to accept.

"I'm afraid Uncle Lin has been busy these days, bring the silver tomorrow, let's go to the West Market." Lin Yuan gave an order, turned around and went to rest.

Many days later, I just arrived at Luoxian Tower today, but I saw that there were no diners, Lin Yuan just stepped into the store, but saw that the hall was empty, and got the news of Xiao Er, Li Xiandao hurriedly greeted him: "Grandpa atoned for his sins, I didn't know you were coming." ”

"Mr. Li, what are you doing here?" Lin Yuan was a little curious.

"Grandpa, the Luoxian Building has been closed for many days before, and the furnishings have been damaged a lot, and the doors have been reopened in the past few days, I think it's time to reinstall it, and the construction just started today." Li Xiandao explained.

Lin Yuan nodded: "I told you a few days ago that I wanted to expand, but now that I have started, I will simply do it once." I have come today to find you something. ”

"Grandpa commands."

"You go and post a notice, and it says that Luoxian Lou is going to hold the first folk chef competition." Li Xiandao was puzzled when he heard this, and asked carefully, "What is Grandpa going to do?" ”

"Luoxian Lou is going to expand, naturally I have to recruit chefs, it's too troublesome to find one by one, I plan to make a game, there will be potential, good technology to recruit, by the way to Luoxian Lou an advertisement."

"Advertising?" Seeing Li Xiandao's doubts, Lin Yuan explained: "It means to advertise widely." ”

"Oh, grandpa is such a brilliant plan." Li Xiandao still didn't quite understand, but there was always a reason for Yasukuni Gong to do this, and after praising it, he turned around and went to do Lin Yuan's explanation, not wanting to be stopped by Lin Yuan just after walking a few steps, "It was written in the notice that the winner will be awarded eight hundred taels of silver." There are also mystery prizes. ”

Li Xiandao felt a pain in his flesh, eight hundred taels of silver, so much money to find a cook, even when the old man was alive, it was only five hundred taels of silver a year. Li Xiandao could only reluctantly agree: "Yes, grandpa, I'll do it." ”

The news spread very quickly, but in the past two days, it has been rumored in the capital that Luoxianlou is going to hold a kitchen god competition, and the prize money is actually 800 taels of silver, even in the capital, it is a lot of money, and you can buy a small courtyard. After hearing the news, many chefs in Beijing were ready to participate.

A few days later, the news spread to the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi, and many chefs were also moved, and now no one cares about the prize money.