On the eighth day of May in the first year of Chunhua, the entire Huating County was still immersed in the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival. Before Zhao Weiji left Huating, he used the Dragon Boat Festival to hold a huge temple fair in Huating County. It is said to commemorate the sage Qu Yuan, but it is actually an advertising method for him.

Dragon boats, performances, and more importantly, all the small shops in the temple fairs throughout the main street. Zhao Weiji gathered all the commercial houses of the Chamber of Commerce to hold this temple fair. The small shops in the temple fair mainly sell the goods of the chamber of commerce, many of which are new products or old goods but the sales are average, and they all take this opportunity to carry out test sales or promotions under the pretext of festivals.

The whole temple fair lasted for four days, starting from the fourth day of the fifth month and ending on the seventh day of the fifth month. Due to the reasonable means of publicity and promotion, the event attracted many people from the prefectures and counties around Huating. This Huating's fame has been further enhanced.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, after the event, Zhao Weiji officially handed over some work in Huating County to his wife Chai Yu, and then went to Fuliang County, not far east of Poyang Lake, with Jiangyu Zhao Xin to see a place he had sent someone to look for. This place holds something that can change the world.

It was only today that Chai Yu sent Zhao Weiji away on the front foot, and when he returned to the palace on the back foot and saw the "Shilin Daily" the day before yesterday, he interpreted so many keywords from the column where he usually exchanged information: King Xu, private salt, official errand, be careful.

Sometimes intelligence will choose to use keywords to express when it can't be mixed into the article in a whole sentence, Chai Yu knows that there is such a time, but she didn't expect that it was her turn to be in charge today.

Due to the traffic problems of the Song Dynasty, the Shilin Daily, which was mainly distributed in the capital, often arrived at Huating two days late, which was already the limit.

"So this news should have been two days ago? King Xu refers to Zhao Yuanxi, private salt, officialdom, what does it mean to be careful? Be careful of Zhao Yuanxi's official mission to check for private salt? We don't have a private salt business. ”

At this time, Chai Yu didn't think that this was a possible action against people in the Chamber of Commerce, because in her image, the previous incident should be the matter of Wuyue Wangfu and Xu Wangfu.

Although he doesn't have a private salt business, he still can't rest assured that Chai Yu went to find it, and now he is Zhao Wu, who is the second housekeeper.

"Zhao Wu, let me ask you, our family doesn't have any private salt business, right?"

"Mrs. Hui, no, the prince has specifically instructed that any business that may break the law should not be touched, whether it is common or not, and whether there is a lot of money to be made."

"Oh, it's good if you don't." Hearing Zhao Wu's answer, Chai Yu nodded, and then his thoughts returned to the code word just now: "Then why is private salt mentioned in the intelligence?" ”

Just when Chai Yu's thoughts returned to the secret words, Zhao Wu added: "But the Chamber of Commerce has not restricted the business of private salt. ”

I don't know if Chai Yu listened to it, anyway, she nodded again and left.

……

Here, Zhao Weiji has been away from Huating for two hours, and they are taking the waterway for convenience. At this moment, Zhao Weiji walked out of the cabin and saw the river fish on the splint.

"What are you thinking?"

"I'm just wondering what is it that makes the prince so excited, I must go in person."

"Actually, it's not that place that excites me, it's something that is produced in that place that excites me."

"What's so mysterious?"

"A kind of soil."

"What soil? A kind of soil that can bring gold. ”

"Oh, it's so magical, I haven't heard of any earth that can bring gold."

"You'll know when you get there. It looks like it's going to rain, so let's go inside. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Weiji and Jiang Yu turned around and entered the cabin.

……

At the same time in Huating, Chai Yu was taking her daughter for a walk in the garden, and Zhao Ling'er, who was already two years old, was already able to walk completely independently.

Seeing her daughter's two little short legs moving non-stop, Chai Yu had a kind of joy from the bottom of her heart, but her stomach hadn't moved since two years.

In fact, it is not that her stomach is not angry, but that Zhao Weiji deliberately took contraceptive measures, such as counting days, or others.

At this time, Zhao Weiji didn't really want Chai Yu to be pregnant with a second child immediately, because he couldn't determine that it was still a daughter, and it would not be a good thing if a son was born at this time.

"Ling'er run slowly." Seeing that Zhao Ling'er ran away in the time she was distracted, Chai Yu shouted at her daughter.

"Mom...... This way....... But although she got Zhao Linger's milky answer, she didn't see her daughter's footsteps stop.

Soon, Zhao Ling'er ran around a corner, and seeing her daughter disappear from her field of vision, Chai Yu hurriedly followed. As soon as I turned the corner, I saw Li Nian and Zhao Ling'er who was held in her arms.

"The little county lord is not obedient, how can he run around?" Li Nianyi, who was teasing Zhao Ling'er, saw Chai Yu coming over, and hurriedly saluted: "I've seen Madame." ”

"Xiao Nian, it's been so many years, and I still treat myself as an outsider, and I call me Sister Yu." Seeing that it was Li Nian, Chai Yu was relieved.

At this time, Li Nian was eighteen years old, and because of the good life over the years, he had grown from a wilted bean sprout to a bright Chinese cabbage.

It was already the age when it was time to get married, but no one came to propose marriage, not because no one wanted to marry her, but because no one dared to marry her.

Her brother Li Jiguang already has some status in the army at this time, if he is ready to marry his sister, not to mention that the person who asks for marriage will break through the threshold, at least he can fill the hall.

But everyone, even Chai Yu, already regarded Li Nian as Zhao Weiji's woman. He has been in the Zhao Mansion since he was twelve years old, and no one believes him if he says that he has nothing to do with his master.

And Li Nian actually likes Zhao Weiji very much, after all, any woman will have a good impression of a man who has a life-saving grace for her, let alone staying by this man's side for so many years.

But I don't know if Zhao Weiji is stupid or if the idea of monogamy in modern society is deeply rooted in his mind, and Zhao Weiji has always been like Li Nian's sister.

Sometimes Chai Yu looks anxious, although a woman doesn't want anyone to share her husband, but in this era, it is normal for a man with power or money to have several concubines. So it's better to get this sister who has been with the family for many years than other strange women to enter the door. But even Chai Yu hinted several times that Zhao Weiji would marry Li Nian, but Zhao Weiji was like wood, and every time he found something different to prevaricate.

"Okay, Sister Yu, Mr. Lan asks to see him, he is already in the hall."

"Well, I'll go now, Ling'er, you can help me take a look."

After speaking, Chai Yu walked to the front hall.

When he arrived in the front hall, Lan Zhi was already sitting in the front hall drinking tea, and when he saw Chai Yu coming, he hurriedly stood up and saluted Chai Yu.

Chai Yu saw Lan Zhi get up and salute, so he returned a salute, and then said, "I don't know what happened to Mr. Lan?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just that the shipment has arrived, and I want to ask Madame for a permission to load the ship."

The goods Lan Zhi is talking about at the moment are the illegal salt, although Zhao Weiji did not prohibit the port from trafficking in illegal salt, but for the sake of insurance, every time if the amount of illegal salt is a little large, you must ask him for permission before loading.

"Oh, goods? What goods? Although Chai Yu still knows a lot about the operation of the entire Chamber of Commerce, she has not paid much attention to the part of the port trafficking in illicit salt, so she doesn't know that Zhao Weiji has such a rule on the trafficking of illicit salt.

"It's all salt."

At this moment, a family member hurriedly ran in, as if there was something important. But when he walked into the hall, he saw Chai Yu talking to someone else, and he didn't know whether to say the next thing for a while.

Chai Yu naturally also saw this family, and concluded from his expression that there must be something important about the family, but she couldn't tell outsiders, so she interrupted Lan Zhi: "Don't mean Mr. Lan, please let me be absent." ”

After seeing Lan Zhi nodding, Chai Yu and Jia Ding went out of the hall and came to the front yard.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Madam, we waited for news from Lao Ding of the City Shipping Division that there was someone trafficking in illicit salt at our wharf, and the Municipal Shipping Division is sending someone to arrest it."

The old Ding in the mouth of the family is naturally the official errand that Zhao Weiji bought in the city and used to provide information.

"Illegal salt? Our family doesn't touch private salt, huh? Wait......" At this time, Chai Yu suddenly reacted to what this private salt meant, combined with Lan Zhi's words just now, she could already determine that the private salt here refers to the salt that needs to be loaded into Lan Zhi's mouth.

"Oops!" After reacting to the whole thing, Chai Yu immediately turned around and walked back to the living room quickly, and then hurriedly said to Lan Zhi: "Mr. Lan, quickly send someone to the dock and ask your people to pour all the private salt on the dock into the sea, and not a single bag is allowed to be kept!" ”

At this time, Lan Zhi couldn't figure out the situation, he was still talking about the shipment just now, how could he pour all the salt into the sea now?

"Madame, what's going on?"

"I don't have time to explain to you now, anyway, let your people go quickly, and all your losses will be borne by Wuyue Palace. In short, be fast. ”

Although he couldn't figure out what the situation was, it must be an urgent matter, and besides, the loss was borne by the palace, so Lan Zhi immediately rushed out of the palace, and asked the entourage waiting outside the palace to immediately ride to the dock with his waist card.

At this time, the officials of the City Shipping Division also left the Yamen and went to the dock, but because the officials of the Municipal Shipping Division did not expect the existence of ghosts, they were not in a hurry, and the officials all walked to the dock.

At the same time, Chai Yu also ordered someone to prepare the carriage immediately, and then prepared to go to the dock with Lan Zhi, and explain everything to Lan Zhi on the way.