Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

The prefect of Dongping Prefecture is particularly happy today.

He caught the prefect of Xiping Prefecture red-handed because he released the arsonist even though the evidence was solid.

God knows how much he hates the prefect of Xiping Prefecture. This time he happened to catch the other party's weakness, and he must make good use of it.

Without saying a word, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture wrote a memorial and personally went to the palace to hand it to Emperor Tianyuan.

Emperor Tianyuan was in a bad mood today. He became furious when he saw the contents of the memorial and ordered the eunuch to summon the prefect of Xiping Prefecture into the palace.

*

The prefect of Xiping Prefecture already knew that the arsonist had been taken away by the official Mo of Dongping Prefecture, and he had a bad feeling.

But the eunuchs in the palace were there and he could not leave, so he had to wink at the servant and ask him to go and report to King Hui immediately.

"Then what?" Li Yu asked Mr. Xiang.

Mr. Xiang picked up a piece of dessert and put it in his mouth. He chewed a few bites and swallowed it. "The prefect of Xiping Prefecture came into the palace and told Your Majesty that he had no knowledge of the matter and put all the blame on the officials."

"Your Majesty believes this?"

"I don't believe it." Mr. Xiang said, "So the emperor fined him one year's salary and also took away Xiping Prefecture's power to manage the people in the inner city."

Li Yu: "Didn't King Hui help?"

Mr. Xiang: "Prince Hui did go, but the emperor was in a bad mood today, so Prince Hui didn't dare to speak."

Li Yu: "… Minister Huang and Ji Shuo are having a hard time today."

The incident was caused by them, and King Hui could not let them go.

Mr. Xiang smiled and said, "This is what they deserve. But the prefect of Dongping Prefecture is also a cunning old man. This time he clearly caught the arsonists and knew their ultimate goal. He also knew that those people were working for Ji Shuo and Minister Huang, but he didn't mention a word and only pointed the finger at the prefect of Xiping Prefecture."

"He is giving Shangshu Huang a favor." Li Yu said, "Ji Shuo is Shangshu Huang's son-in-law anyway. There is no need for him to make enemies with Shangshu Huang. Anyway, his goal of suppressing the prefect of Xiping Prefecture has been achieved."

The milk tea shop has no official owner, and the wine shop owner whose floor was splashed with water by the arsonists and his family also died in public. He wouldn't get any benefits, so naturally he wouldn't stand up for the milk tea shop and the wine shop.

However, Li Yu had psychological expectations from the beginning, so he was quite satisfied with the result.

"Minister Huang and his men have repeatedly suffered losses in the milk tea shop. Next, they will either give up or gather strength to launch a fierce "attack". We have to pay more attention to the milk tea shop."

Mr. Xiang: "I have arranged everything. There will be no mistakes."

*

at the same time.

Prince Hui's Palace.

The atmosphere in the huge study was so tense that you could hear a pin drop.

Minister Huang was standing and Ji Shuo was kneeling with sweat on his forehead.

King Hui turned around a few times in annoyance, and finally sat down on the chair with gritted teeth, "I asked you to restore the teahouse business, but you didn't do a good job in the teahouse business, and you kept looking for trouble in a milk tea shop all day. Now it's really good. The prefect of Xiping Prefecture was disliked by my father, and I was also scolded."

Minister Huang raised his head quickly, then lowered it quickly, "Your Highness, calm down. I am also anxious. You don't know that after the milk tea shop opened, the teahouse basically had no business. I thought about destroying the milk tea shop. As long as there is no milk tea shop, the dignitaries in the capital will still regard my teahouse as their first choice."

This idea is fine, but...

"But your people are all idiots!" King Hui said, "They can't cook or brew tea better than others. So you ask them to light the fire, but they can't even tell the difference between wine and water. They keep wasting time and finally get caught."

Huang Shangshu did not dare to refute King Hui, and could only question Ji Shuo condescendingly, "How did you find this person? He can't even do such a small thing..."

In front of King Hui, Ji Shuo had no chance to defend himself and could only say that he was wrong.

King Hui was annoyed when he saw the two of them, and said, "You should be more careful in what you do next, and don't worry about the milk tea shop."

Huang Shangshu raised his head suddenly, "Your Highness, that milk tea shop has been stealing the teahouse's business. As long as it doesn't go bankrupt, there won't be many people in the teahouse. You know, having a teahouse is convenient for collecting information."

King Hui: "Even without your teahouse, I still know all the officials in the capital."

Huang Shangshu had a bad feeling in his heart and asked hesitantly, "Does the prince have a new place?"

King Hui glanced at him and said, "Of course there is. If you only rely on your teahouse, by the time I receive the message, the throne will have already belonged to the prince."

Minister Huang: “…”

King Hui didn't care about his feelings at all, but ordered: "It's the end of the year, you should be more careful. If anyone makes me suffer punishment at the end of the year, I will make sure that person can't celebrate the New Year."

King Hui's staff and several other officials were in the study. When they heard this, they all responded.

*

King Hui had cursed enough and asked them to leave.

The moment he walked out of Prince Hui's palace, Minister Huang's face darkened.

When he got on the sedan chair and went home, the anger that had been accumulating in his heart completely erupted.

Ji Shuo and the teahouse owner who had been waiting in the Shangshu Mansion were scolded by him.

The teahouse owner knew he had done a bad job, so he kept his head down and let himself be scolded the whole time.

Ji Shuo didn't dare to say much.

He kept failing, and Shangshu Huang disliked him very much. He had no other backing, so he could only endure it.

but……

When Huang Shangshu had scolded enough, he said, "Father-in-law, are we really going to just leave that milk tea shop alone?"

Huang Shangshu: "The prince doesn't allow you to manage it, so why are you managing it?"

Ji Shuo: "But we were scolded because of the milk tea shop..."

"You're being scolded because you're a waste!" Huang Shangshu: "Don't do anything recently, be honest, and don't get me scolded again!"

Ji Shuo: "I'll remember this."

Huang Shangshu turned to the teahouse owner and said, "Go back and find a good chef for me. You can't even beat an ordinary milk tea shop. What do you cook on weekdays?"

The teahouse owner said it was a good idea again and again.

*

Time flies and it is already the twelfth lunar month.

The year is coming to an end.

Li Yu learned that King Hui asked Shangshu Huang to stop targeting the milk tea shop.

This was what an official from King Hui's party said to a colleague when they went to Jinyu Tower for dinner. The waiter heard it and reported it to the shopkeeper.

Li Yu: "King Hui made the right choice. Otherwise, if something happened again, and he was implicated, and was confined, his year would be wasted. You know, at the end of the year, some officials will come to the capital to report on their work, and this is a good opportunity to collect money and people.

But Ji Shuo gave me a bad impression, and I don’t think he will give up.”

Mr. Xiang: "The Ji guy is just a small fry, he can't cause any big trouble, but just in case, I have sent someone to keep an eye on him, Madam Li, you can rest assured."

Li Yu nodded.

*

Because Yue Ji seemed to still be keeping an eye on Li Yu, Li Yu still rarely went to Jinyu Tower.

This also gave Li Yu more time to arrange things.

This year they still did not return to Qingshui Village, so she wrote letters to Aunt Wu, the village chief's wife, the second great grandfather, He Mengyan and the county magistrate's wife. Because things could be kept for the winter, she also asked the escort agency heading south to bring some things back to her.

It took two days to complete the task, and Li Yu found Mr. Xiang and asked him to get dozens of pigs during the New Year.