Chapter 20: The Second Room
Cheng Ziyu's expression changed abruptly, and she stood behind the tree gently.
"Sister, you just said that my uncle found the Gao family's ship...... Which Gao family is it? ”
"Which else? Yangzhou Gaojiabei! A few of their ships just went south to deliver the goods, and the second master meant that our goods were loaded onto the empty ship first, and their ship went to Yangzhou, and when they loaded the next batch of goods, they happened to go west with them. The Gao family is going to Wuchang Mansion, and after they finish unloading, they will go west for a while, just to bring the goods to Shudi! ”
It sounds logical, but the thoughts in Cheng Ziyu's heart are getting stronger and stronger. A bad premonition began to rise.
"The goods of the Gao family...... Is it salt? Cheng Ziyu's hands trembled a little.
"That's right! The goods of the Gao family are naturally official salt! ”
Cheng Ziyu's eyes suddenly flashed with stars, and her legs softened.
Wen Wen didn't quite understand, what was Gao Jiayun's fortune and what did it have to do with them?
It stands to reason that it is good to be an official salt, not to mention that there is no obstacle along the way, and it is not easy to go wrong! After all, no one has the courage to get along with the court, and even bandits can be avoided. What's more, the ship is big, stable, and absolutely safe!
Even if it was her, she felt that the second master's ship was very well chosen! As long as the purple jade is inspected and sealed, everything will be fine! But why does Ziyu look like this?
"What? Ziyu, are you uncomfortable? Or is there something wrong? ”
Cheng Ziyu couldn't help but swallow her saliva.
How is it no problem!
Big problem!
Salt!
She panicked when she heard the word salt!
In the previous life, one of the crimes of the Cheng family's destruction was to resell illicit salt!
This is a capital offense! Absolute capital offense!
At that time, the Cheng family was punished for several crimes, and all of them were unpardonable crimes.
Cheng Ziyu in her previous life naturally thought that the family was slandered! At that time, she knelt in front of the emperor to bear the wrath of thunder, and she kowtowed to indicate that this was a trumped-up charge!
The Emperor smashed a large pile of folds on her head.
But she insisted that the Cheng family was framed and slandered!
At that time, she swore to the emperor that the Cheng family was innocent and innocent. She knelt hard outside the imperial study for a day and a night before she had a chance to argue.
She swore that she promised that she guaranteed that the Cheng family had never resold illicit salt, or formed a party for personal gain, or controlled Cao Yun, and all the charges were absolutely unjust......
At that time, she was so determined, but the emperor was so angry.
She touched the emperor's scales, and the emperor directly kicked her over, telling her to go back and wait for her to fall! The emperor said very clearly, if it weren't for her kindness to the Queen Mother, if it weren't for the Queen Mother's requirements, if it weren't for the justifiable Princess An, if it weren't for the face and future of the fourth child, she would have been in a different place! ……
Thinking of that scene at this moment, Cheng Ziyu's ribs seemed to start hurting hotly again. The emperor's kick broke her two ribs, which shows how angry the emperor was at that time.
So, will it ...... Was she wrong?
Cheng Ziyu's back spine was a little cold.
The Gao family is a salt merchant and the Cheng family is a potter, will the two of them be too close?
Yangzhou, the confluence of the river and the canal, this special geographical location makes it one of the busiest port trading cities in the Great Zhou.
The canal twists and turns, connecting the thirteen major salt farms in Yancheng, passing through the main irrigation canal of Suzhou and Hangzhou, arriving at the Yangzhou wharf, entering the Yangtze River channel, or transporting Huidi northward through Huai'an, going west to the land of Hunan and Jiangxi, or spreading from the Grand Canal and dense rivers.
Because of this, Yangzhou has become the gathering place of salt merchants in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty and the largest salt distribution port. And the Gao family is one of the small salt merchants.
Although Cheng Ziyu didn't remember whether her goods were the Gao family's ship in her previous life, she knew that the Gao family's business was the salt industry!
And in the previous life, it finally fell to the Cheng family, and the crime of "reselling illicit salt" was "colluding" with the Yangzhou Gao family! The Gao family in the previous life also fell apart......
The ancestors of the Gao family were very courageous, and during the war many years ago, under the call of the imperial court, they poured all their family wealth and risked their lives to escort a large amount of grain to the border pass where there was a shortage of grain.
Therefore, the Gao family is transporting official salt!
But on the contrary, they and the Cheng family are accused of colluding with the sale of illicit salt!
Is it that the Cheng family and the Gao family are too close, so they are made a fuss by someone with a heart?
Or, is it possible that the charge of the Cheng family in the previous life is true?
Is it possible that the Gao family used the Cheng family to actually transport more than the specified amount of salt in the process of transporting the Cheng family's goods to make a profit?
Is it possible that the Cheng family, such as Erfang, deliberately used the name of the Gao family's official salt to use the name of the Cheng family's delivery, and the fact was that they were unknowingly reselling illicit salt?
Selling private salt is a million profits, which is much more profitable than making pottery!
After all, this money is easy to come by, and it can all flow into the pockets of the second room......
There may also be a possibility that someone from the Cheng family is cooperating with the Gao family!
The Gao family is a small salt merchant, and although the salt primer made them rich, the amount was too small to satisfy their appetite!
As a result, the Gao family found the second room of the Cheng family, which was in the same situation as them and longed for development.
The old lady has already given instructions, the future of the Cheng family is here in the long house, and the second room will not be in production, even if it is in charge of sales, but if the second room is afraid that the long house will cross the river and tear down the bridge after the old lady dies...... So will the second room already start to prepare for the backhand?
They want to be able to stand on their own even if they break away from the Cheng family! So they need silver!
They want to stand tall even if the Cheng family is planted! So even when they had clearly stood behind Zhu Si early in their previous life, they still quickly locked on the Seven Princes!
If it's true, then this second room is really terrible!
Maybe his father, who doesn't care about production and likes to follow his uncle in the second room, was invited into the bureau by the second room early, and he can be discarded and defeated!
And the "evidence" in the emperor's hand could it be sent out by the second room? …… Maybe this is the real reason why the second room was able to get out in the end? ……
The more Cheng Ziyu thought about it, the more frightened she became, and the more scared she became.
If she continued to guess so boldly, then her previous doubts might be solved.
This time, in order to collude with the Gao family to transport salt, the second room has put the idea on the batch of goods that he transported to Shudi! The salt number of the Gao family plus the name of the Cheng family, this batch of goods is absolutely safe!
Therefore, they must think of staggering the ships that the Cheng family has already set. But they weren't ready, and the merchant ship had docked five days earlier.
As soon as the second room is in a hurry, there is no choice but to make a move! They aimed at themselves!
It's a good way, my sister and myself have taken the bait.
Lay down on your own for a few days, enough is enough!
This is the real reason why they forced Sister Gentle to load the goods quickly! This was the case in the previous life, they became, in this life, how should they deal with it?
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