Tea Merchants of the Song Dynasty

In his previous life, Zhang Yuanzhi took advantage of the fact that he was Jiang Yin's only elder to gradually take over the Jiang Tea Farm. Then, for his own benefit, he destroyed it completely.

In this life, Jiang Yin was reborn, and she wanted to see how shameless her good second uncle could be.

"You!" Zhang Yuanzhi pointed at Jiang Yin with a trembling hand, and then he said angrily, "It's time now, why are you still distinguishing between the Zhang family and the Jiang family? We all come from the same family tree, we are one family, there is no distinction between you and me."

"Uncle, what you said is not true." Jiang Yin raised his eyes and said calmly, "When did Uncle's name appear in the Jiang family tree? How come I didn't know about it? Or did Uncle change his surname without my knowledge and enter the Jiang family tree?"

Speaking of family tree, she suddenly remembered something. She remembered that in her previous life, Zhang Yuanzhi had taken out the Zhang family tree, and she, her parents and their family of three were all on it.

Logically speaking, someone like her father who marries into the family would be separated from the family tree.

But the Zhang family thought that they could make money in the Jiang family, so they asked her family of three to be included in the Zhang family tree in addition to the Jiang family tree. But the Zhang family tree was not what her family wanted.

Jiang Yin lowered his eyes and thought, since he wanted to sever ties with the Zhang family, then the issue of the family tree must be resolved first.

Zhang Yuanyi choked, then took out a slightly old book from his arms and raised it, saying with some pride: "Your father didn't tell you that you are a real member of the Zhang family. It's written in our Zhang family tree, Zhang Yin."

"Zhang Yin?" Jiang Yin narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "What Zhang Yin? I don't understand what my second uncle is saying."

It's ridiculous. How come she didn't know she had changed her name? The Zhang family is so shameless.

"Come, let me show you." Zhang Yuanzhi snorted coldly, opened the family tree, pointed at the name of Jiang Yin's family and said, "Look for yourself, is it Zhang Yin?"

A smug smile appeared on his lips, as if everything in the Jiang family was under his control.

Jiang Yin glanced at him and said coldly, "Second Uncle must be dazzled. Our names are nowhere to be found."

"Am I dazzled? You won't cry until you see the coffin. Look carefully, is it on it?" Zhang Yuanzhi directly put the family tree in front of her and said earnestly, "People should not forget their roots. You are a member of the Zhang family. As the head of the family, I have the right to manage your affairs. Little girl, be careful not to be sold without an adult to check."

Jiang Yin didn't take Zhang Yuanzhi's mumbling to heart.

She just stared at the family tree in Zhang Yuanzhi's hand, narrowed her eyes and said, "Really? Let me take a closer look."

Then, she quickly took the family tree in her hands, tore off her own page, stuffed it into her mouth and ate it.

She looked carefully and saw her name and her parents' name on it. Not only that, but just as Zhang Yuanzhi said, her name in the Zhang family tree was Zhang Yin.

If there were no Jiang family tree, others might really think she was Zhang Yin.

Jiang Yin had some doubts in her heart. Perhaps her parents were not aware of the Zhang family tree. If they knew, they would not allow the Zhang family to change their surname.

In short, she couldn't let her name appear in the Zhang family's genealogy again.

In addition to destroying the family tree, she also had to take time to go to the government office to see how registration was done there.

"You, you, how dare you!" Zhang Yuanzhi was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and immediately tried to pinch Jiang Yin's mouth to make her spit out what was in her mouth.

My God, what if the family tree is gone? He still wants to use it to control the Jiang family.

Jiang Yin threw the family tree at Zhang Yuanzhi, then took several steps back to avoid Zhang Yuanzhi's clutches.

Zhang Yuanzhi hurriedly took the family tree she threw over and wanted to reach out to Jiang Yin again, but was blocked by Xiao Luo who came over after hearing the sound.

"Second Master, what are you going to do?" Xiao Luo blocked Jiang Yin behind her and stared at Zhang Yuanzhi viciously, "Second Master, are you bullying my wife because she is alone and helpless after seeing the death of my eldest wife and her husband?"

"Get out of here!" Zhang Yuanzhi waved his hand and was about to push Xiao Luo aside. He was wary of Jiang Yin, but he was not so polite to a maid.

However, as Jiang Yin's personal maid, Xiao Luo is no pushover.

She raised her hand and grabbed Zhang Yuanzhi's wrist, saying viciously, "Second Master, are you forcing me to report this to the police?"

"Someone, go to the government office and report to the authorities." Xiao Luo shouted loudly at the door, asking the servant to go and report to the authorities.

However, when he heard the call to the police, Zhang Yuanzhi's face changed immediately. He struggled to free his wrist and took two steps back.

He glared at Xiao Luo, then stared at Jiang Yin behind her, pointed at her and said angrily: "Good! Very good! Don't come to me for begging for mercy someday!"

Jiang Yin said quietly, "No need for you, Second Uncle."

She didn't dare to do that. Whoever made Zhang Yuanzhi worry would have his entire clan exterminated.

"Hmph!" Zhang Yuanzhi snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, and hurried away holding the family tree.

Jiang Yin stared at his back as he left, lost in thought. She thought that if she broke up with her second uncle this time, the Zhang family's affairs would not implicate the Jiang family in the future.

When she came to her senses, Xiao Luo was still standing in front of her with a cautious look on her face.

She felt a little warm in her heart, because Xiaoluo was her personal maid, and they grew up together and had a deep relationship.

On weekdays, they would practice some simple boxing and kicking skills together, and because Xiao Luo was very strong, she was able to intimidate Zhang Yuanzhi.

Unfortunately, neither she nor Xiao Luo had a good ending in their previous lives.

In the previous life, after today's meeting, Zhang Yuanzhi secretly reached an agreement with other family heads to invade and divide the Jiang's tea plantation.

Before the upcoming tea picking season, the Mengshan issue still hadn't been resolved. If she couldn't hand over the tea to the court, Jiang would be finished.

In desperation, in her previous life, she followed Zhang Yuanzhi's suggestion and became the concubine of Li Ji, the new Censor of the court.

She didn't want to do this at first, but after meeting Li Ji, who was young, handsome and steady, she was attracted to him despite being young and ignorant of the world.

In addition, Li Ji's purpose of going to Sichuan was to supervise the Tea and Horse Bureau and improve the tea monopoly system.

Therefore, she believed that Li Ji could solve the difficulties faced by Jiang's tea farm and help her save Jiang, so she agreed to the proposal.

I don't know what method my second uncle used in my previous life, but Li Ji didn't refuse her, but he didn't give her a name. He just locked her up in the backyard and didn't allow her to go out again.

Afterwards, Jiang Yin discovered that she had been deceived by her second uncle and also by Li Ji.

Li Ji was ostensibly here to monitor the Tea and Horse Bureau, but in reality he was secretly investigating those who privately participated in the tea-horse trade and exchanged tea for horses.

This matter implicated Sheng Guang, and what was related to the Jiang family was that Zhang Yuanzhi was actually involved.

Zhang Yuanzhi not only split up Jiang's two tea mountains in Mengshan, but also gave them to the other three families in Mengshan for their own benefit.

He also joined the rebel army that intended to emulate the Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun uprising, and secretly recruited soldiers for the rebel army.