Huo Xi was a little surprised. There were also people selling dried fruits, cotton and linen on the street. Small merchants, hawkers, villagers and farmers were also selling many things on the street, and various shops were also selling them.
But she had seen the business of collecting mushrooms and flowers, and it was her only business.
Why is it that everyone is opening workshops to make sauces and pancakes?
After I went out and strolled down the street, wow, there were indeed many shops with signs showing they were accepting goods.
Huo Xi frowned and sat in the backyard of Sihai Bank. The account books were so dense with money transfers that they no longer interested her. She was waiting for the results of the investigations from all parties.
"Madam, we've found out! It's all Jun family's shops and business dealings with good merchants, colluding together to receive goods. They spread the word to squeeze out madam's business and make life difficult for madam and the prince in Yunnan."
Gen Qi secretly hated the Jun family for being unkind.
"Jun's family?" Huo Xi sat up straight, "Aunt Jun's property?"
"No, it is the property of the Jun family, Aunt Jun's natal family."
"Aunt Jun's natal family? Attacking my property?" Huo Xi was a little surprised.
"I didn't offend them, did I? Or did the Jun family give their grandson to Mu Zhan to make him angry? Can't stand your young master becoming the heir apparent?"
"It's not Madam's problem. It should be aimed at the Young Master. The Madam and the Young Master are one, and the Jun family doesn't like the Young Master, so they attack her everywhere."
"Just because your young master became the heir apparent? My grandfather's family is having a hard time, so they are going to use all their strength to suppress it?"
Gen Qi shook his head, "This is just one of them. Madam doesn't know about the grievances between the young master and Mr. Jun. The two of them have a life-or-death relationship..."
The Jun family is considered a wealthy family in the local area. They are from a business background and have money, but little power or status.
Mr. Jun had many wives and concubines. For the sake of power, he gave his sisters and daughters to various chieftains and major families for marriage. And because the Jun family was favored by the Duke of Guizhou, the Jun family gradually became one of the largest families in the local area.
Jun Mingzhang, the eldest brother of the Jun family, was a compatriot from the same mother as the Jun family. He obeyed this girl and helped Aunt Jun a lot.
It was this elder brother who took action when Aunt Jun was unable to come forward. When Mu Yan was young, he was hunted down, and the arrow in his chest that almost killed him was also done by someone sent by Jun Mingzhang.
It was impossible for Mu Yan not to pay it back.
They sent people to chase Jun Mingzhang, but failed to kill him. They only broke two of Jun Mingzhang's legs, turning Jun Mingzhang into a useless person who could only lie in bed all day long.
The two were constantly fighting openly and secretly.
Jun Mingzhang secretly eliminated the manpower left by the old marquis to Mu Yan, and Mu Yan sent people to suppress Jun's industry. Wherever there was Mu Yan's industry, Jun Mingzhang would always find someone to destroy it.
"Jun Mingzhang is the eldest son. He was originally supposed to inherit the position of head of the Jun clan. However, since he broke his legs, his status in the family has changed. He has to be helped even when he gets up or down, and he doesn't even open the door for a while.
Since then, people have become more and more sinister and unpredictable. The things they have done in recent years are quite... perverted. I heard that they are not taboo on meat and vegetables. They like young men and women aged thirteen or fourteen the most. They also say that their flesh is so tender that they always have to be cut.
He took a few bites of the tenderest parts and said their blood was sweet..."
Huo Xiji shivered.
I had goosebumps all over my body. I rubbed them for a long time before they calmed down.
"No wonder I said your young master's property didn't even have a plaque on it. I thought he became the heir and didn't want to compete with the people for profit."
Gen Qi chuckled, "Who thinks there is a lot of money? If we don't earn it, others will earn it. However, although the young master is not afraid of trouble and is not afraid of Jun Mingzhang and the Jun family, they are just like leeches, they are also annoying to be sucked up.
Very. So the young master’s property is all tampered with. Even if they investigate it with the government, they can’t find out who is behind it.”
Huo Xi nodded, she believed in Mu Yan's ability.
In the capital, under the eyes of the emperor, Sihai Bank and Langguang Pavilion were opened in a grand manner, but no one has ever found out the owner behind them.
"So now we are being targeted by Jun Mingzhang?"
Huo Xi was a little distressed. This was because he didn't understand it thoroughly enough at the beginning and something went wrong.
"The young master just told us at first that he could do whatever the madam wanted, and we were behind her to protect her. We just thought that Jun Mingzhang was calming down, but we didn't expect that he was dormant in the dark, and suddenly he took action again.
Already."
This leech cannot be pulled off after being sucked up, which is very annoying.
Huo Xi tapped her fingers on the table, frowning in thought.
When Gen Qi saw it, she secretly sighed, why does the madam have the same habits as the young master? She likes to knock on the table when she is thinking about something. Looking at the serious look on the madam's face and frowning, she looks very much like the young master.
Gen Qi didn't bother him and just stood aside.
"If we can't receive anything, the craftsmen in the workshop can't start working. I invested so much before, and it took a lot of effort to find the masters in the workshop. Now that I stopped, the family members of the military households who were working in Caiyun Xiaoyuan
I’m afraid I’ll have no more work to do.”
It might be chaotic again.
Gen Qi was also troubled and suggested: "Madam, how about I write a letter and ask the military relatives from the guard station near Kunming City to help pick mushrooms and dried fruit petals, and then go to other counties and counties to collect cotton and linen silkworm cocoons?"
"It is feasible to collect things from other states and counties. Unless you open a local workshop, it will also cost a lot to transport it." When Jun Mingzhang goes to other states and counties to cause trouble, won't she end up with the same result?
Giving others hope but leaving them with nothing to do?
"This Jun Mingzhang is really hateful!" Gen Qi kept cursing several times.
"He also told the outside world that the Jun family has plenty of money, and no one can suffer the people. The price of receiving the goods is much higher than us! They are clearly targeting us, not letting us receive the goods, and asking us to stop working.
.hateful!"
Huo Xi suddenly paused after hearing this: "What prices do they charge for various goods?"
"Like those mushrooms, we charge eight cents per catty for miscellaneous mushrooms, but they charge ten cents. For other rare mushrooms, like the chicken fat fir, we charge twenty-three cents, but they charge twenty-five cents. They are all higher than our price.
Literary."
"Two extra words? Is it the same for cotton, linen, and silkworm cocoons?"
"No! It's only two cents higher! It's obviously disgusting to us. Why don't you add every cent? To show off how rich you are?" Gen Qi was very angry.
After adding two words, Huo Xi tapped again with his fingers.
After a while, a smile appeared on his face, and he waved to Gen Qi to come over, and gave these instructions.
"Yes, I will tell you now." Gen Qi said with a smile on his face, but Madam had an idea.
So, as various properties in the Jun family imitated Huo Xi's imitation of receiving the goods, the prices of all the goods on the sign in front of Huo Xi's shop were raised, one penny higher than before.
The people sent by Jun Mingzhang to find out the information returned home to report to Jun Mingzhang.
Jun Mingzhang laughed loudly after hearing this.
His upper body was propped on the bedside, he patted his unconscious thighs, and smiled heartily, "What can I do to be the wife of an heir apparent who was born in a merchant family? Add one article?"
Hahaha... "Is there anyone selling goods to them?"
The boy shook his head and said, "People are not stupid. If you are offered a higher price, you won't sell it. How about selling it to someone with less money?"
"Hahaha, that's not the case. If Zhang's price goes up by one penny, we will also go up by one penny! Just one penny!"
"Yes. I will tell the shopkeepers now."
"Go, go, go. I don't see what she wants to do to me! I'm just waiting to see the Zhang family shut down. Fight with me? I think this is the capital!" Jun Mingzhang looked ferocious, and he beat his broken leg hard.