On the eighth day of May in the first year of Chunhua, the entire Huating County was still immersed in the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival. Before leaving Huating, Zhao Weiji used the Dragon Boat Festival to hold a huge temple fair in Huating County. It was said to be in memory of the sage Qu Yuan.

In fact, it is one of his advertising methods.

Dragon boats, performances, and more importantly, the various small shops in the temple fair throughout the main street. Zhao Weiji gathered all the merchants from the chamber of commerce to hold this temple fair. The small shops at the temple fair mainly sold goods from the merchants in the chamber of commerce, and many of them were

Whether it is a newly launched product or an old product with average sales, we take this opportunity to conduct trial sales or promotions under the pretext of holiday.

The entire temple fair lasted for four days, starting on the fourth day of May and ending on the seventh day of May. Due to the reasonable publicity and promotion methods, the event attracted people from many prefectures and counties around Huating. This further enhanced Huating's reputation.

On the eighth day of May, after the event, Zhao Weiji officially handed over some work in Huating County to his wife Chai Yu, and then went with Jiangyu Zhao Xin to Fuliang County, not far east of Poyang Lake, to see what he had sent before

A place. This place contains something that can change the world.

It was just today that Chai Yu sent Zhao Weiji away and returned to the palace. When he saw the "Shilin Daily" the day before yesterday, he read several keywords from the column where he usually exchanged information: King Xu,

Private salt, official errand, be careful.

Sometimes when the information cannot be spread into the article in a whole sentence, it will be expressed with keywords. Chai Yu knew that such a time would happen, but he did not expect to encounter it just when it was her turn to take charge today.

Due to traffic problems in the Song Dynasty, "Shilin Daily", which was mainly published in the capital, often arrived at Huating two days late, which was already the limit.

"So this news should have been from two days ago? King Xu refers to Zhao Yuanxi, private salt, officialdom, what does it mean to be careful? Be careful of Zhao Yuanxi's officials checking for private salt? Our family does not have a private salt business."

At this time, Chai Yu did not think that this might be an action against people in the Chamber of Commerce, because in her mind, the previous incident should have been a matter between the Wuyue Prince's Palace and the Xu Prince's Palace.

Although his family did not have a private salt business, Chai Yu was still worried and went to find Zhao Wu, who was now the second housekeeper.

"Zhao Wu, let me ask you, our family doesn't do any private salt business, right?"

"Madam, no, the prince has specifically ordered that you do not touch any business that may be illegal, regardless of whether it is common or not, and regardless of whether you can make a lot of money."

"Oh, that's fine if not." Chai Yu nodded after hearing Zhao Wu's answer, and then his thoughts returned to the code word just now: "Then why is private salt mentioned in the intelligence?"

Just when Chai Yu's thoughts returned to the code word, Zhao Wu added: "But the Chamber of Commerce has not restricted the private salt business."

I don’t know if Chai Yu heard it or not, but she nodded again and left.

…

Zhao Weiji had already left Huating for two hours. For the sake of convenience, they took the waterway. At this moment, Zhao Weiji walked out of the cabin and saw the river fish on the plywood.

"What are you thinking about?"

"I was just wondering what place made the prince so excited. I must go there in person."

"Actually, it's not the place that excites me, but something produced in that place that excites me."

"What is so mysterious?"

"A kind of soil."

"What kind of soil? A kind of soil that can bring gold."

"Oh, it's so magical. I have never heard of any soil that can bring gold."

"You'll know when you get there. It looks like it's going to rain. Let's go in."

After saying that, Zhao Weiji and Jiang Yu turned around and entered the cabin.

…

At the same time in Huating, Chai Yu was taking his daughter for a walk in the garden. Zhao Ling'er, who was already two years old, was able to walk completely independently.

Seeing his daughter's two short legs moving constantly, Chai Yu felt happy from the bottom of his heart, but his belly had been silent for two years.

In fact, it's not that her belly is not up to par, but that Zhao Weiji deliberately took birth control measures, such as counting the days, or other things.

At this time, Zhao Weiji didn't really want Chai Yu to be pregnant with a second child immediately, because he couldn't tell whether it was still a daughter, and it wouldn't be a good thing if a son was born at this time.

"Ling'er, run slower." Seeing Zhao Ling'er running away as soon as she was distracted, Chai Yu shouted to his daughter.

"Mom... this way..." But although she received Zhao Ling'er's milky voice in response, she did not see her daughter's footsteps stop.

Soon Zhao Ling'er ran around a corner and saw her daughter disappearing from his sight. Chai Yu hurriedly followed. As soon as he turned the corner, he saw Li Nian and Zhao Ling'er who was held in her arms.

"The little princess is not good, how can she run around?" Li Nian, who was teasing Zhao Ling'er, saw Chai Yu coming over and quickly saluted: "I've met Madam."

"Xiao Nian, after all these years, you still regard yourself as an outsider and call me Sister Yu." Chai Yu felt relieved when he saw it was Li Nian.

At this time, Li Nian was already eighteen years old. Since his life had been pretty good over the years, the bean sprouts that were once a little wilted had grown into a juicy cabbage.

She had already reached the age where she should get married, but no one came to propose marriage. It was not that no one wanted to marry her, but that no one dared to marry her.

Her brother Li Jiguang already had some status in the army at this time. If he was going to marry his sister, not only would there be a lot of suitors, but at least the hall would be filled with suitors.

But everyone, even Chai Yu, had already regarded Li Nian as Zhao Weiji's woman. She had been in Zhao's house since she was twelve years old. No one would believe her if she had nothing to do with her master.

And Li Nian actually likes Zhao Weiji very much. After all, any woman will have a good impression of a man who has saved her life, let alone stayed with this man for so many years.

But I don’t know whether Zhao Weiji was dumb or because the idea of ​​monogamy in modern society was deeply ingrained in his mind. Zhao Weiji always treated Li Nian as his own sister.

Sometimes Chai Yu looks anxious. Although a woman does not want anyone to share her husband, in this era, it is normal for a powerful or wealthy man to have several concubines. So it is strange to him.

It's better for a woman to get in than to have a sister who has been with the family for many years. But even Chai Yu hinted Zhao Weiji several times that he would marry Li Nian, but Zhao Weiji was like a piece of wood, finding something different every time to excuse him.

"Okay, Sister Yu, Mr. Lan wants to see you. He is already in the hall."

"Well, I'm going now, Ling'er, please help me take a look."

After speaking, Chai Yu walked towards the front hall.

When they arrived at the front hall, Lan Zhi was already sitting in the front hall, drinking tea. When he saw Chai Yu coming, he quickly stood up and saluted Chai Yu.

When Chai Yu saw Lan Zhi standing up and saluting, he returned the salute and then said, "I wonder why Mr. Lan is here?"

"Nothing, it's just that the batch of goods has arrived, and I wanted to ask Madam for permission to ship."

The cargo Lan Zhi was referring to at this moment was illicit salt. Although Zhao Weiji did not prohibit the trafficking of illicit salt at the port, for the sake of safety, if the quantity of illicit salt was large, he would have to ask for permission before loading it onto the ship.

"Oh, goods? What goods?" Although Chai Yu is relatively familiar with the operation of the entire chamber of commerce, she has not paid much attention to the trafficking of illegal salt at the port, so she does not know what Zhao Weiji has to do with the trafficking of illegal salt.

A rule.

"That's the salt."

At this moment, a servant hurriedly ran in, as if he had something important to do. But when he walked into the hall, he saw Chai Yu talking to someone about something, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should say what he was going to say next.

explain.

Chai Yu naturally saw the servant, and judged from his expression that the servant must have something important to do, but he couldn't tell outsiders, so she interrupted Lan Zhi: "Don't bother Mr. Lan, please excuse me."

After seeing Lan Zhi nod, Chai Yu and his servants left the hall and came to the front yard.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Madam, we received news from Lao Ding from the Shipping Department that someone at our dock is trafficking in illegal salt, and the Shipping Department is sending people to arrest him."

The Lao Ding in the servant's mouth was naturally the official whom Zhao Weiji bribed in the Shipping Department to provide information.

"Private salt? We don't touch private salt in our family? Wait..." At this moment, Chai Yu suddenly realized what the private salt refers to. Combined with Lan Zhi's words just now, she can already confirm that the private salt here refers to

This is the salt that Lan Zhi said needs to be shipped.

"Oops!" After realizing the whole thing, Chai Yu immediately turned around and hurried back to the living room, and then hurriedly said to Lan Zhi: "Mr. Lan, send someone to the pier quickly and ask your people to remove all the private items on the pier.

Pour all the salt into the sea, not a single bag left!"

At this time, Lan Zhi was confused about the situation. Just now we were talking about loading the ship. How can we pour all the salt into the sea now?

"Ma'am, what's going on?"

"I don't have time to explain to you now. Anyway, let your people go quickly. All your losses will be borne by the Wuyue Palace. Anyway, hurry up."

Although he couldn't figure out what the situation was, it must be something urgent. Besides, the loss would be borne by the palace, so Lan Zhi immediately rushed out of the palace and asked the entourage waiting outside the palace to take his badge and ride to the dock immediately.

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At this time, the officials of the Municipal Shipping Department also left the Yamen and headed for the dock. However, because the officials of the Municipal Shipping Division did not expect the existence of a mole, they were not in a hurry. The officials all walked to the dock.

At the same time, Chai Yu also ordered people to prepare the carriage immediately, and then prepared to go to the dock with Lan Zhi, explaining everything to Lan Zhi on the way.
Chapter completed!