In the hall, the wives all lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the prefect's wife. The prefect's wife scolded in her heart: It's all a bunch of useless things! But now that it's over, what else can she say? Although Xingzhong was unwilling, he could only praise Xie Wanjun's high righteousness with a smile, as well as Qin Tian's unique insights and delicate thoughts.

Hearing the prefect's wife say this, the rest of the wives also praised Xie Wanjun and Qin Tian. Then, in order to ease the atmosphere, the prefect's wife called the singing and dancing skills who had been prepared for a long time. As a result, this "Hong'men" banquet, which was brewed by the prefect's wife and supported by many wives, ended in this singing and dancing.

After the banquet, the wives were embarrassed to talk to Qin Tian more, but simply said goodbye to her, and left in a hurry after saying some polite words such as more exchanges in the future. When Qin Tian left the 'gate' of the mansion, there were no other vehicles outside the 'gate' except for his own carriage and the Xie family's Zhuying Eight Treasure Car.

Thinking of Mrs. Xie's previous attitude, Qin Tian didn't want to step forward anymore to make himself bored, so he walked towards his carriage with Zhuang Minglan. As soon as they took two steps, a well-dressed maid walked towards them with a smile on her face.

"Zhuang Shao's 'milk' and 'milk', please move, my wife asks you to go over and talk." The maid pointed to the beaded eight-treasure car that belonged to the Xie family behind her.

Qin Tian and Zhuang Minglan looked over together, but saw that the curtain of the carriage was lifted by a hand with a ruby ring, revealing Mrs. Xie's faint face. She looked at Qin Tian, as if she had a lot to say, but she couldn't see any malice in her expression.

"Sister-in-law" Zhuang Minglan grabbed Qin Tian's arm, and Mrs. Xie's aggressive 'force' appearance at the banquet made her feel uneasy.

"It's okay, you get in the carriage first, I'll come when I go!" Qin Tian said to Zhuang Minglan.

Zhuang Minglan got into the carriage as she said. Qin Tian walked to Mrs. Xie's carriage under the leadership of the maid, and with the support of the maid, he got into the carriage.

The carriage of the Xie family is much more gorgeous than the carriage of the Zhuang family. I saw that the curtain was hung with embroidered ribbons embroidered with colorful glass beads into a moire pattern, and the four corners were hung with big red woven gold sachets, azure 'colored' brocade pillows and round cushions embroidered with red plum figures.

Mrs. Tse sat on one of the cushions, her dress spread out like a blooming 'flower'. She pointed to the cushion opposite, and said in a flat tone: "Zhuang Shao's 'milk' and 'milk', please sit down!" ”

Qin Tian sat down opposite her.

Mrs. Xie looked at her and said slowly: "Zhuang Shao's 'milk' and 'milk', I know that you don't necessarily really admire my 'daughter' Wanjun's personality, and you don't necessarily really think about my 'daughter', but I am very 'excited' that you can say this in front of people." ”

Qin Tian smiled, didn't admit or deny it, just said: "It's a fact that I don't want my husband to have other 'female' people, it's a fact that Miss Xie saved my husband, and it's a fact that Miss Xie married my husband at a low marriage, instead of 'making everyone unhappy' at that time, it's better to find a way to achieve a win-win situation." Mrs. Xie, don't you say? ”

"Win-win?" Mrs. Xie thought for a while, then smiled, "No wonder whether it is my husband or my son, I always praise you in my words, Zhuang Shao's 'milk' and 'milk' not only have a seven-trick exquisite heart, but also have such a broad 'chest' bosom, the business in your hands is getting bigger and bigger, and it is not unreasonable!" ”

Compared with her, her 'daughter' is much more immature, if the other party really can't tolerate her 'daughter', and occupies the position of the wife, how can the 'daughter' be an opponent, so far, Mrs. Xie is even more convinced that the dealer is not a good destination for the 'daughter'.

"Mrs. Xie is ridiculous!"

"I wonder if Zhuang Shao's 'milk' and 'milk' really want to clarify for Wanjun? If that's the case, what can we do in the Xie family, please just ask! Mrs. Xie said with a smile.

On the other side, the prefect's study

Governor Hu invited Nicholas Tse to sit in the small side hall of the study, and let people serve high-quality tea.

Nicholas Tse gave Lin Yong a look, and Lin Yong took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms.

"Here are 50,000 taels of silver tickets, which are the dividends of adults in the past two months!" Nicholas Tse took the stack of silver tickets from Lin Yong's hand and presented them to Hu Zhifu with both hands.

Governor Hu took it with bright eyes, among the 50,000 taels, except for 30,000 taels to Governor Lin, 5,000 taels were used to deal with subordinates and relevant officials, and the remaining 15,000 taels could go into his own pocket! This salt business is really more profitable than ordinary business!

Hu Zhifu put the silver ticket into his arms without changing his face, and said with a smile: "The term of office of this year's general merchant has expired, I wonder if the Xie family is interested in competing for the general merchant?" ”

"Of all the salt merchants, who is not interested in the general merchant? It's just that my father has been bothered by some trivial matters recently......" Nicholas Tse suddenly frowned.

Hu Zhifu has been immersed in 'lewdness' officialdom for decades, where can I not hear the meaning of his words? I just received 50,000 taels of silver from others, and some things naturally can't be confused.

"What is Ling Zun bothered about?"

"Governor Hu doesn't know, now the 'private' salt is overflowing, just the Qiao Gang has to share at least forty percent of our business every year, and it is increasing year by year, if it goes on like this, it won't be long before these 'private' salt can completely replace our official salt!" Nicholas Tse's tone was heavy.

The salt tax has always been heavy, and the price of 'private' salt is much cheaper than that of official salt because it does not 'pay' the tax.

"'Private' salt is so arrogant!" Hu Zhifu lowered his eyes, his eyes kept flickering, he picked up the teacup on the small table next to him, covered it with tea and skimmed the tea leaves: "Actually, we have 'spent' a lot of effort to rectify the 'private' salt every year, but those salt lords are prevalent and cunning and ruthless, not to mention, they are also good at concealment, avoiding the important and light, and it is difficult to eliminate it for a while!" ”

Hearing this, Nicholas Tse snorted coldly, and said in his heart: Old fox, no matter how powerful the salt lord is, how can he compete with the government? It must be because you have received the benefits of the salt lord, you have opened your eyes and closed your eyes, and the yang is 'yin', so that today's 'private' salt is rampant!

It took him so much effort and money to get on the prefect's heaven and earth line, so he was close to them and took the opportunity to find out the evidence of their corruption and perversion of the law, not only to pull out the salt bags buried by the five princes in Jiangnan, but also to burn the fire to the five princes, and make this great contribution to the third master.

It's just that they are the head snakes here, and it is not easy to find out the evidence of their crimes, so Nicholas Tse came up with this method to lure the snake out of the 'hole'. The imperial court has always hated 'private' salt, and sent troops to pay it several times, if it was known that the magistrate was secretly colluding with 'private' salt, not only would the magistrate's official position be difficult to protect, but it was not even known whether he could keep his head!

"Lord Hu, now it is becoming more and more difficult for us to do official salt, if it weren't for the flood of 'private' salt, the dividends to adults would be at least half more!"

"Half?" Master Hu raised his head, his eyes shining.

"Yes, it's half there! Lord Hu, please also increase the punishment of 'private' salt, so that our official salt can live! Nicholas Tse stood up and begged, his words earnest.

Master Hu also stood up and said, "This matter is originally the responsibility of our government, don't worry, you won't be left without a way to live!" After speaking, he patted Nicholas Tse on the shoulder twice and laughed.

As soon as Nicholas Tse left, Governor Hu discussed the matter with his confidant Master Qin.

Master Qin said: "My lord, now that 'private' salt is rampant, it's time to restrain it, otherwise I'm afraid it will affect my lord's political achievements!" ”

Master Hu slapped the table and said angrily: "These eight lambs are really getting more and more rampant, thinking that if I give me so much benefit, I can be lawless!" ”

"My lord, compared to the dividends of the Xie family, the filial piety that the Qiao Gang gives you every year is insignificant......" Master Qin's triangular eyes rolled slightly.

The prefect turned to look at him, his face was 'pale' and gloomy: "What do you mean?" he said, comparing the movements of a knife hand.

"Adults, never!" Master Qin hurriedly said: "These people are all outlaws, if this makes them anxious, I am afraid that they can do everything and say anything, but it will be disadvantageous!" ”

Governor Hu nodded: "What you ask is reasonable!" He pondered for a while, and then said: "Ask someone to contact them, let them act more restrained, especially the Xie family's business, and they need to be polite!" Otherwise, it will be a situation where the fish is dead and the net is broken! ”

Master Qin praised: "This method is very good! Rest assured, the humble will help you get this done! ”

Thinking that the Xie family would have more dividends in the future, Hu Zhifu couldn't help laughing.

On the other side, after leaving the prefect's mansion, Nicholas Tse lowered his voice and instructed Lin Yong: "You have seen everything just now, do you know how to do it?" ”

Lin Yong immediately said: "Don't worry, master, the villain will definitely send someone to keep an eye on the prefect's side during this time." ”

Nicholas Tse hummed with a calm face, these people were deliberately given to him by the Third Highness before he came to the south, they were all the secret guards of the Third Highness, he deliberately sent them to do things for the Third Highness, whether it was ability or loyalty, there was no need to doubt it.

After the banquet, Qin Tian discussed with the eldest lady and began to plan to help Xie Wanjun clarify the matter of the ceremony.

She divided the matter into three levels.

The first is to publicize this matter in the official 'women' group, although it is difficult for Xie Wanjun to marry into an official family as a businessman's 'daughter', but these official wives have a high status in the hearts of the masses, as long as they think it is right, no one will dare to disagree with them. This matter naturally asked Mrs. Xie to seek Mrs. Zhifu. Even if the prefect's wife was unwilling, for the sake of the Xie family's face, she had to help arrange it, and mentioned the matter at the official's wife's party to clarify for Xie Wanjun.

Second, it is not difficult to do this in the circle of business women. It just needs Xie Wanjun's cooperation. Xie Wanjun must look up and 'chest' on the occasion of social 'sex', which will help clarify her reputation. Xie Wanjun actually didn't want to see such a result, she preferred to marry into the dealer in such a daze, but she couldn't bear the repeated strict demands of Mrs. Xie, who loved the 'girl', and she didn't dare to say her true intentions, so she had to give in.

The third is to promote it among the common people, which is inspired by the second aunt's wife. Qin Tian painted a gourd in the same way, found some 'women' like the yellow-shirted 'women', gave them silver, let them give full play to their strengths, and publicized Xie Wanjun's heroic deeds as widely as possible. On the other hand, he made up a story about Xie Wanjun and asked the storyteller to publicize it in various tea shops or lively occasions.

With such a three-pronged approach, in less than a month, Xie Wanjun's noble image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!

But before Qin Tian and Mrs. Xie could be happy, an unexpected thing happened again. Keep in mind the URL if you like "Shengshi Tea Fragrance" written by Shisan