"Dad, don't worry, I will arrange for people to keep them from starving and freezing in the last time, and I won't mention this to Jing Huai, Steward Huang is a strict mouthful, and he won't talk nonsense, don't tell Lin Muqiu, she didn't keep her mouth open."

This is already the limit that Shen Yuerong can do to take into account Shen Dashan's mood, don't think about a good life or anything, although it is pitiful, but it is always self-inflicted, Shen Yuerong didn't want to help them bear these consequences.

Shen Dashan nodded solemnly, this matter must be rotten in the stomach, the fewer people who know, the better.

"Well, no one can say anything about it."

Shen Yuerong wrote a letter to Zhou Cheng when she went back, and also wrote a letter to Wang Xiucai, and suddenly remembered that Liu praised her as a prosperous husband, and after a change of thought, she entrusted Zhou to the shopkeeper to handle an old matter.

"Jinghuai, I heard that the bid was opened today, which businessman got the official salt this year?" Although Shen Yuerong did not participate, she was still very concerned about the things in the Qingzhou shopping mall.

Gu Jinghuai replied: "It's the Liu family, the Liu family who does the grain and oil business, a few of us were selected from the three with the most reasonable bids, this Liu family is in the grain and oil business, there are a lot of shops, and the official salt shop can be very fast, and I have checked their means of doing business, but there are not too many profiteers, and the reputation is good." ”

That's what they've been doing today.

"What about the Zhou family, where is the price they offer?" Shen Yuerong still remembered the Zhou Mansion, so scheming, I was afraid that this road would not work, and she would still think of other roads.

"The price offered by the Zhou government is the highest, and the premium is very high, and it also gave expensive gifts to several subordinate officials, but fortunately, I am a new official, and I am a cold person on weekdays, so they don't dare to make a mistake, so they handed over those expensive gifts."

This is in line with the style of the Zhou government, but shouldn't this bid be the highest and should not be won? Isn't it different?

Shen Yuerong said suspiciously: "Then why didn't the Zhou Mansion win the highest bid?" They have been selling official salt for five years, and their ability to distribute goods will not be bad, why is this? ”

Gu Jinghuai shook his head with a smile: "Normally, the bid should be won if the bid is high, but in the end, the prefect has the final say." ”

"Oh, I see, did you mean to take revenge on them?" Shen Yuerong said with a smile, I understand what it means.

Gu Jinghuai pinched her nose dissatisfiedly: "How unbearable is your husband and I in your heart?" The price is high, the selling price is naturally high, salt is a must for every household, which is naturally not conducive to the stability of the market, and their style of playing relationships in advance and giving gifts has seriously violated the rules of bidding, and I can naturally refuse to choose them with reasonable evidence. ”

The former prefect has always chosen a high price, because this can increase local fiscal revenue, and the report at the end of the year will naturally look good, where to care about the lives of the people, but Qingzhou is so big, and there is no shortage of poor people in the township, so Gu Jinghuai did not choose the highest price, but chose the most suitable.

Wow, our family Jinghuai is two meters eight today, why is it so powerful, if the price of this salt is high, the cost of Shen Yuerong's full house of incense will have to follow.

Shen Yuerong looked at Gu Jinghuai like an idol, and suddenly thought of something wrong.

"No, as far as I know, the price of salt sold by the Zhou family in the past five years is not particularly high, but they would rather pay a high price to give expensive gifts than want to get the right to circulate this official salt, Jinghuai, don't you think something is wrong? Businessmen are naturally profit-oriented, is their family doing charity? ”

Who is the Zhou family, they can be regarded as knowing a thing or two, and it is definitely impossible to do charity.

Gu Jinghuai had just finished this matter today, and he really didn't think about it, but now when he heard Shen Yuerong remind him, he couldn't help frowning, and he also felt that something was wrong, didn't he get the official salt just to make money, otherwise how could those businessmen carefully give a price that they could accept, but this is not the case with Zhoufu, giving such a high premium.

Gu Jinghuai had some thoughts in his heart, but he still raised his eyebrows and asked Shen Yuerong: "Then why do you think it is?" ”

Shen Yuerong thought for a while and said: "Selling salt can also bring some goods and increase some turnover, but it is always limited, when it comes to taking the right to circulate official salt, as a businessman, if I am a profiteer and do everything to make money, I may choose to sell illicit salt, which is a huge profit." ”

Shen Yuerong can also think of this possibility, after all, big cities use a lot of salt, and Yiguo prohibits illegal salt, and it is also forbidden to sell salt across state capitals, she has also seen others sell illegal salt in the countryside before, and secretly make a little money, if you take the right to circulate official salt, you can't blatantly sell illegal salt.

Gu Jinghuai nodded, the two actually coincided, the more they looked at it this month, the smarter they became, and they could perform very well in any field.

"I think so too, I'm afraid that this Zhou Mansion is not a good person, maybe there is any backer, I must check it out."

Selling illicit salt is a serious crime, if according to Gu Jinghuai and Shen Yuerong's guesses, if the Zhou family really sold it for five years and made a lot of money, it must be a large amount, and if they are caught, they will be beheaded.

On this day, Yufu sent an invitation post, inviting Shen Yuerong to participate in Miss Yufu's ceremony.

Shen Yuerong was quite speculative with the lady of Yu Mansion, and thought that there must be many famous ladies and ladies on this occasion, they were all rich masters, so they regarded it as a reputation for their flower and moon appearance, so she carefully dressed up and prepared a gift.

Originally, the first few ladies who came to visit Shen Yuerong had thought of inviting Shen Yuerong to the party, but the affairs of the Zhou family were simply a slap in the face for them.

At that time, Mrs. Zhou just felt that it was inconvenient to come to the door alone, so she invited those people to go with her, and they all went tacitly, but they didn't expect the Zhou family to be alienated by Shen Yuerong so quickly, and I heard that the Gu Governor's Mansion was investigating the Zhou family's business.

A few of the people who do business in Qingzhou are clean, it's just a matter of how much, tax evasion and tax evasion in two account books are very common, and they didn't dare to contact Shen Yuerong again for fear of getting on fire.

"Xiang'er, come and see the prefect's wife." When Mrs. Yu saw Shen Yuerong coming, she hurriedly beckoned her daughter over.

I saw that the girl who was called Xiang'er was very delicate, with big watery eyes on a standard melon seed face, and the cherry peach mouth was even more cute, Shen Yuerong felt that if she was a man, she would immediately bow down under Xiang'er's pomegranate skirt.

It's just that with this innocent face, Shen Yuerong had to be clever, as if Shen Wan was the way she was at the beginning, she still had to be careful.