Mrs. Shen carefully selected, screened in many ways, and spent countless efforts to select the dozen or so people who helped Meng Zhen manage the fields and shops, and Meng Zhen could use each of them very easily.

However, as those family members who were sent over by Mrs. Shen, Meng Zhen was not all of them.

Not every one of these people can see their situation clearly and correct their identity.

Even if Meng Hao had the deed of sale of all of them in her hand, there were still people among these people who didn't take her seriously.

Meng Hao didn't bother to take them one by one, and when she had that time, she might as well buy some new subordinates to come back and teach herself.

So among these people, those who are not convinced and angry with her, those who have the intention of kicking their noses in the face and bullying their masters, and those who are careful to deceive their superiors and subordinates and harm the public and private interests, Meng Zhen will immediately abandon them whenever she sees the slightest sign.

In addition, Meng Zhen will also focus on examining who these people who lack a sense of professionalism are and whether the influence on the dozen or so stewards she intends to focus on cultivating is strong or weak.

But as long as there are family members who keep dragging their feet, and their ears are soft and they can't stand the nagging of their families, Meng Zhen will not let them leave under his nose.

Only those whose family members are also sensible and know how to measure things will Meng Zhen send them to the four Zhuangzi in Tianjin, Jinling, Changzhou, and Jiaxing.

Of course, even if these people had already undergone her initial screening, Meng Hao would not give them full trust.

In the four Zhuangzi of Tianjin, Jinling, Changzhou, and Jiaxing, Meng Zhen all sent people to "go undercover" in advance.

These people are all little beggars that Meng Zhen has cultivated over the years, these children are either working in Meng Zhen's Zhuangzi or Meng Zhen's shop, because they are studious and smart, Meng Zhen plans to train them to be his and Su Shen's right-hand men.

Before being sent to other places, not only did they all learn boxing and foot kung fu with Yan Zhenwu, Shunzi and others, but they also read books, practiced calligraphy, played abacus, and learned to make accounts at the request of Meng Hao.

Although they basically focused on these skills when they learned them, and what they learned could not be said to be profound, what they had mastered now was enough for them to carry out the "undercover" mission arranged by Meng Hao.

In order to ensure the personal safety of these little beggars to the greatest extent, Meng Zhen asked them to work in groups of four or five to take care of each other.

In addition, Meng Zhen also entrusted the shopkeeper Xu, who had inherited Yan Zhenwu's life-saving grace, to take care of these hands that he had scattered.

The shopkeeper Xu has been cooperating with Meng Ji for many years, and with the continuous change of Su Shen and Meng Zhen's status, he also attaches more importance to this little couple year by year.

When Meng Hao entrusted him to him, he immediately responded without saying a word.

The Xu family is one of the largest merchants in the dynasty, and what they do is the trading of goods from the south to the north and from the north to the south.

They all had clansmen and strongholds from Huguang in the far south to Guanwai in the far north.

This is also why Meng Zhen will find the shopkeeper Xu.

With him in the middle, no matter where these hands Meng Zhen went to Tianjin, Jinling, Changzhou, or Jiaxing, Meng Zhen didn't have to worry about them being isolated.

As for the remaining few Shen family members who were sent by Meng Hao to the capital or Liaodong Mansion to help her manage the shop and Zhuangzi, it would be very convenient for Meng Hao to monitor them.

These people can basically be said to be living under Meng Hao's nose now, and if they want to make something funny, Meng Zhen can definitely detect it as soon as possible.

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Almost all of her mother-in-law's private property was left in the Shen family, and she was not greatly discounted by her sister-in-law, which made Shen Weide's wife very happy.

Although neither Shen Weide nor General Shen told her that Mrs. Shen wanted to leave all her private property to Meng Zhen, but from the degree of guilt and affection that General Shen and his wife felt for Meng Zhen, Shen Weide's wife also guessed the possibility that her mother-in-law would spend a lot of money to make up for her sister-in-law.

She didn't say it, but in her heart she was very reluctant for her mother-in-law to give that property to Meng Hao.

Not to mention that it was all given as Mrs. Shen originally intended, even if it was only half of it, Shen Weide's wife felt that someone was cutting her heart with a knife.

General Shen and Mrs. Shen only have one son, Shen Weide, and their lost daughter has never been recovered, which makes Shen Weide's wife have long been accustomed to her family's absolute sovereignty over the Dingbei Hou Mansion.

is that even if emotionally, she can understand the heart of her parents-in-law to make up for her own daughter, but deep down she will still be uncontrollably depressed and dissatisfied.

After all, it is really difficult to implement such things as reason and reason in practice.

More often than not, people are following their instincts and being controlled by their feelings.

Shen Weide's wife hopes that her children can inherit everything in the Dingbei Hou Mansion.

The ideal state for her is that her eldest son inherits the title of the Hou Mansion and seventy percent of the family property according to the rules, and her second son and other children she may have in the future will divide the remaining thirty percent of the Dingbei Hou Mansion and Mrs. Shen's large private wealth.

Of course, such a greedy idea, Shen Weide's wife would never dare to appeal directly.

Not to mention knocking on the side with Mrs. Shen, she didn't even dare to mention it in front of her husband.

Even if the news that General Shen and his family had found their biological daughter came back to Kyoto, Shen Weide's wife only dared to suffer in private.

It's not that she doesn't want her husband's support, but she knows very well what kind of person Shen Weide is.

If she dared to mention Mrs. Shen's private property to Shen Weide, if she dared to show her exclusive thoughts, Shen Weide would definitely turn her face immediately.

In Shen Weide's heart, although Meng Hao is not more important than his two sons, General Shen and his family are the absolute first priority for him.

If they had the intention of giving Meng Zhen a large sum of family wealth, Shen Weide would definitely not raise objections.

It is precisely because she knows that she and her son are tied together, and they are definitely not comparable to the supremacy of her father-in-law and mother-in-law in her husband's heart, that Shen Weide's wife will directly give up testing Shen Weide's mind.

I have to say that Shen Weide's wife is indeed very smart and rational.

If it weren't for that, she would really touch a nose from Shen Weide.

What she didn't know was that just before Mrs. Shen returned to Beijing, Shen Weide had mentioned asking Mrs. Shen to make up a dowry for Meng Zhen generously.

And the reason why Shen Weide intervened in this matter was because Shen Weide saw the dowry book that Mrs. Shen finally finalized at General Shen's place.