Not long after Qin Tai and his wife returned to their hometown, they learned of the accident in the imperial court. Although Qin Tai and his wife, Feng Bao, had already noticed in advance, and secretly had plans or preparations, they were still caught off guard by the sudden incident. Qin Tai was deeply afraid in his heart, no wonder the little emperor could allow the queen to make such trouble, no wonder the little emperor was able to acquiesce to Qin Tai's investigation of the case, no wonder the little emperor made the decision to make concessions so quickly, it turned out that all this was to paralyze the opponent, for such a powerful counterattack now. The little emperor has not only grown up, but has also become an emperor who is even more powerful than his father, and even almost as ruthless as his imperial grandfather, Emperor Jiajing. The reason why Emperor Jiajing is so vicious and ruthless is because of years of palace struggle, coupled with the accumulation of life experience, but the little emperor is only seventeen or eighteen years old now, but he already has the ruthless methods of middle-aged and elderly emperors, which really has to make Qin Tai feel afraid for a while.

Although Qin Tai was an official who was suspended from work at home for reflection, he was not qualified to go to the yamen to read the report. The county officials who saw the wind and steered were originally hot and cold to Qin Tai. Now that Zhang Juzheng has an accident, of course, he will keep a certain distance from people like Qin Tai. He would never approve Qin Tai to read the report, at least not let Qin Tai read the report in the yamen. However, it is not difficult for Qin Tai to see the preliminaries, without him coming forward in person, Qiu Xiaoqiu or Zhan Xiaoxiao can find him all the prelimations or more and more accurate news. Because here, whether it is the people of the Yamen or the people in the rivers and lakes, there are too many benefits from Qin Tai's family, and everyone is willing to reach out to help Qin Tai without affecting their future.

The first news Qin Tai heard was not from the rivers and lakes or the yamen, but from a passing merchant. This merchant who came to Shanxi with Qin Tai's family almost front and back is a sitting businessman, so the news he came from was not only the freshest but also the fastest. In ancient times, merchants were divided into two kinds, one was sitting merchants and the other was traveling merchants, who had their own shops and territories, which were relatively fixed and had an economic basis. Merchants travel all over the world to do the goods from the south to the north, and the goods from the north to the south are sold, and the scale can be large or small, and the business type can also cover all industries. Because the reputation of the merchants is not as good as that of the merchants, coupled with the relative strangeness and distrust, most of the ordinary people believe in the merchants or the merchants who are relatively familiar.

People who do business know that opportunities and risks coexist, and they have a good reputation, but their economic resources are relatively fixed, and there is no possibility of getting rich overnight. Moreover, the business is limited by geography and industry, and it is impossible to do all kinds of business, and it is not as flexible as the businessman. According to their own economic strength and development direction, they will choose one or several industries to develop and develop on their own territory, and the source of goods can be purchased from merchants, craftsmen or farmers. Merchants do not have so many restrictions, ordinary merchants do almost all kinds of business, buy whatever goods are cheap from the south to the north, and then sell them to scarce places, sell them for money or exchange local products, and then sell them to other places to earn the difference.

Of course, when the business grows big and has its own reputation, it can also be very promising. Before the ban on the sea, there were several merchant groups in the country, and they were all big traders from merchants. Qin Tai is also half a businessman, so he knows a lot about businessmen. In these business groups, everyone exists with their own characteristics and has their own development direction. There are two merchant groups engaged in the medicinal herb business, the Bai merchant group from the northeast in the north specializes in ginseng, deer antler velvet and other valuable medicinal materials, which are sold to the Central Plains and even small Southeast Asian countries further south. The Southern Merchant Group was headed by a group called the Bashu Merchant Group, which specialized in collecting and selling commonly used medicinal materials to the north or other places. As soon as they heard their names, they knew that they were from the Si|Chuanyun|Nan area. Most of the salt merchants come from southern Yunnan or coastal areas, but if you want to do big business or get a large number of salt orders, you must go to Yangzhou, and most of the salt merchants are in Yangzhou. The silk business is also divided into north and south, the shippers are in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Suzhou and Hangzhou business groups almost exclusively do cloth and silk business. The supplier or seller is in the capital, and ordinary people can't afford this kind of valuable things, so they have to sell them to officials or the royal family, so this business must be taken over by the imperial merchant group. The Shanxi merchant group contracted the vast majority of the vinegar business. The Fujian Business Group is engaged in seafood and tea business, and Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Jiangsu and other places are also engaged in tea business. They bought goods on their own territory and sold them to other places, or directly to the most powerful imperial merchants. These merchant groups were not achieved overnight, they were bought by their ancestors with blood and tears, and more with sweat.

This merchant is in a small town in western Shaanxi, and he is actually a doctor in the medicinal herb business. Because their family has an ancestral craft of midwifery, their family's food and clothing are not a problem. Because it involves the issue of women's childbirth, it is inconvenient and embarrassed for men to go directly to the delivery room to deliver babies, so the family's business is all men do medicinal herb business, and women specialize in delivering babies. His wife has many years of clinical experience, coupled with their family's ancestral recipes, it can almost be said that the vast majority of them have successfully completed the production. But there are also a few things that don't go well, and at this time it will be necessary for their fake men to use the ultimate weapons and means. This is their fake secret, so Qin Tai will not know about it, let alone inquire carefully. This pharmacist just talked about it in a general way, as if it was the result of some special means and special drugs. Because this herb is not common and is not commonly used, the pharmacy does not have much inventory, and it will not be sold in the medicine store at home. So after each use, he needs to make a new one, and then hide it for the next use. This is the biggest secret of their husband and wife, and it is also a family heirloom that can only be passed on to their son.

In order to keep it secret and save money, the pharmacist personally went to the Northeast to collect medicinal materials, and at the same time purchased a batch of commonly used medicinal materials as a cover, anyway, these medicinal materials are needed by their own medicinal herb stores all year round. On the way back, he learned about the news of the capital, and he was worried that this information would affect his family's business, so he sold all the general medicinal materials in his hand, as long as he didn't lose money. After selling the herbs, I rushed back to my hometown as soon as possible and prepared for the relevant matters.

Unexpectedly, he was targeted by a group of gangsters in the western part of the mountain, and they seemed to see that the medicine merchant was not only not a local but was in a hurry, so they deliberately found trouble to drag the medicine dealer. It just so happened that Qin Tai's family returned to their hometown, and the young and vigorous Qiu Xiaoqiu couldn't get used to seeing the gangsters treating outsiders like this, so he taught the gangsters a lesson. The gangsters knew Qiu Xiaoqiu's origins, and they knew Qin Tai's skills even more, so they didn't dare to offend Qiu Xiaoqiu, so they had to let go of the fat sheep of the pharmacist. In order to thank Qiu Xiaoqiu, the latest news that the bar knew told Qiu Xiaoqiu's cousin Qin Tai.