Traveling through the Qin Dynasty, I seized the throne of Ying Zheng's father

Chapter 276 Doubting Life

General Chen was aware of this matter, so when Lord Zhou came, he avoided him and did not want to have any interaction with him.

General Chen is now starting to doubt his judgment of people. He never expected that the first person he thought was good would turn out to be such a scoundrel.

If it weren't for the young master's reminder, he would probably still be in the dark, and might even have done something wrong because of it.

Thinking of this, General Chen was extremely unhappy, even somewhat indignant.

He never imagined that his judgment was so poor, nor that he would be so cautious as to not be as careful as he had been while standing by the young master's side.

He needs to do even better.

Thinking of this, General Chen silently encouraged himself.

He then said, "This General Zhou is really good at pretending to be insightful. I never expected him to act so innocent all the time, but do such things behind the scenes. Doesn't he know how many people his actions have caused disaster?"

“If it weren’t for you, young master, coming here to help with disaster relief, I’m afraid even someone else wouldn’t have been able to protect these supplies. They still have some sense; they know that these supplies are something they absolutely cannot touch, and they also know that you, young master, would never compromise like those officials before.”

"That's probably why they didn't dare to take it. Otherwise, they probably would have already made their move. We may not care about these supplies, but we can sell them for money. If we take advantage of this snow disaster, we can stockpile these supplies and then sell them at a high price later, wouldn't we make a fortune?"

Although General Chen had not studied the methods of those merchants in depth, he had heard a lot about them.

Especially after following Fusu, he witnessed even more strange and unusual things.

Whenever there were important matters in the court, Ying Zheng preferred to let Fusu handle them. This not only saved him some trouble but also allowed him to cultivate Fusu as the crown prince.

Therefore, General Chen was someone who followed Fusu, and he was not familiar with the things Fusu had experienced.

General Chen knew even more; having followed Fusu closely, he had witnessed numerous cases of corruption.

Some wealthy businessmen also got involved. Although they were rich, they lacked power and had no one to protect them, so they liked to give gifts to officials.

This is how they gain protection and prevent other powerful individuals from targeting them.

Merchants have such a low social status that even if they have money, it's difficult for them to keep it.

This became a game between officials and businessmen, and whoever won would gain that wealth.

9. Judging from the meager salaries of officials, they cannot support their families with that salary alone. They must obtain income from other sources in order to support their large families.

Some officials, in order to obtain more silver, targeted those merchants.

Some officials, on the other hand, target ordinary people. Regardless of the method, it is extremely shameless.

General Chen also despised such people. His family were just ordinary people who couldn't even kill a chicken. The reason he had gotten to where he was today was because of Fusu's help.

Therefore, he was the same as Fusu, and he also disliked those officials who did not do their job.

Unfortunately, even if he hated it, he couldn't do anything about it, especially after he followed Fusu. Everything he did meant that Fusu was the one who did it.

So he didn't dare to act rashly.

Upon hearing Chen Xiangzui's words, Fusu couldn't help but shake his head. This Lord Zhou was indeed insatiable.

He provided protection for the lower-ranking officials and the big businessmen.