If the business woman does not help the poor, the villain's dream of prosperity will be shatter

Fu Ying hurriedly read the letter and whispered, "It seems that the emperor is planning to take action against the Shen family."

Qin Shu shook her head gently. "The Shen family has guarded the border for generations, and they have worked hard and made great contributions. And General Shen played a great role in suppressing the Ning Wang Rebellion."

"The emperor has only been on the throne for a few years. If the Shen family is eliminated now, it will inevitably make the old officials in the court feel sad."

After all, the Shen family army did not appear in Hedong Road, and Sang Ju, Du He and others who had contact with the Shen family had also been executed.

The entire Sang family collapsed and turned into ashes in an instant.

The governors of Ji, Yan and Long prefectures, as well as officials in Hedong Road who were involved in the smuggling of salt, were either executed or exiled.

The emperor allowed Princess Anyang to return home out of consideration for the princess's love for his daughter, but Sang Sheng and his son were sent to the guillotine.

No one can prove that the Shen family was involved in Sang Yu's rebellion, and the emperor cannot kill innocent people indiscriminately.

Although the Shen family did not succeed, they touched the emperor's reverse scale twice by winning over Fu Rong and contacting Sang Ju.

Shen Miao entered the palace as a minor noble lady. After only one year, she was canonized as Concubine Shen, the head of a palace.

As long as she gives birth to a prince successfully, she will be promoted to concubine.

General Shen was conferred the title of marquis, and Second Master Shen took over as General of the Left Guard.

The Shen family was once very popular.

If there were anyone smart in the Shen family, they would have understood the emperor's hidden intention of praising first and then killing.

The eldest master of the Shen family died to protect the emperor. With such a bond, if the Shen family can retreat bravely, they can still save Shen Miao's life.

Pity.

The death of Shen Miao this time can be regarded as a small warning from the emperor to the Shen family.

Military generals are different from civil officials.

The civil officials in the court were either classmates or came from prominent families.

The relationships among the major families are intricately intertwined, and often one move can affect the entire body.

Even if the emperor wants to take action against a certain family, he has to think carefully about it.

Ji Wei had served as the Hedong Dao official for so many years, but he had not been able to shake up the officialdom of Hedong Dao.

Just by using the Qin Jingyuan case, he defeated the insignificant Cheng Mao.

If Qin Shu had not started from Linbei Road this time and torn a hole in the two officialdoms, even Zhou Min would have been helpless against these two officialdoms.

As soon as we took action, the nail that we had finally planted was destroyed.

Military generals are different.

Once General Wu's power was seized, much of his own power was cut off.

Such as the Shen family.

Without military power, the emperor would naturally be in control.

The reason why Zhou Min believed Qin Shu was because neither Qin Shu nor Fu Rong came from aristocratic families.

No matter how capable or powerful they are, they are just isolated and cannot achieve anything great.

That’s why people often say, “Serving the king is like serving a tiger.”

The supreme honor and great power are given to you.

But if you touch the tiger's reverse scale, you will be killed in the tiger's mouth and crushed to pieces in an instant!

Qin Shu and Fu Ying didn't say anything, both felt sad.

Fortunately, they are not that ambitious.

After Qin Shu took over the salt wells and iron mines in Linbei Road, they all became property of the imperial court.

These two items alone could bring the imperial court several million taels of silver in revenue every year.

It alleviated the financial pressure of the court to a great extent.

So Zhou Min was very generous to Qin Shu.

Fu Yu felt something was wrong, and said to Qin Shu thoughtfully, "Don't you think that His Majesty's move is a little too hasty?"

Logically speaking, General Shen has already handed over his military power.

Even if they wanted to suppress the Shen family, they only needed to ignore Shen Miao for some time, and then find a fault for Shen Miao and demote her status.

With Shen Miao's impulsive personality, there are plenty of things that Zhou Min can use to catch him.

But why was Zhou Min so anxious that he wanted to take Shen Miao's life directly?

Qin Shu's heart moved, and she quickly asked: "Let's see, what else did my brother say?"

She only took a quick look and grasped the information from Shen Miao.

The rest were just family matters, maybe there was something hidden, some important news that she had missed.

Fu Ying read it to her word by word.

The Empress Dowager's birthday is on the sixth day of the first lunar month. In order to congratulate the Empress Dowager on her longevity, the princes from all over the country returned to Beijing in advance.

Shen Yi's period of self-reflection was over, but he accidentally fell off his horse while on duty, injuring his leg and had to stay at home unemployed.

The Left Guard is temporarily commanded by General Fan Ao of the Right Guard.

Shen Miao did nothing wrong during her lifetime, and she died giving birth to a child, but the emperor did not posthumously confer a posthumous title on her, and buried her with the rites for a "concubine."

General Shen stayed indoors, citing a recurrence of his old injury...

Qin Shu suddenly asked: "Whose man is this Fan Ao?"

Fu Ying thought for a moment and said, "Fan Ao was a martial arts student. His master and Lu Fei's master are brothers."

Although Lu Fei was the commander of the guards in Prince Yu's Palace at that time, he was Prince Ning's man.

After Zhou Min ascended the throne, Prince Ning's party was almost completely wiped out.

After the Ning Wang Rebellion, Fan Ao was actually promoted to a higher rank.

Qin Shu was sure that Fan Ao was definitely not Zhou Min's man.

Then he must be Prince Yu Zhou Chang's man.

On the occasion of the Empress Dowager's passing, Prince Yu will also return to the capital to celebrate the Empress Dowager's birthday.

Qin Shu's eyebrows shone, "Your Majesty's sword is pointing at Prince Yu."

When the previous emperor was alive, Prince Yu’s mother was a concubine of the lowest rank. Later, after Prince Yu was crowned king, the previous emperor promoted her to a concubine.

Prince Yu has always been very low-key in his actions.

He often follows Prince Ning, but he rarely interferes in what Prince Ning does.

Qin Shu was ordered to promote grain planting in Jin, and Prince Yu helped a lot.

Later, the struggle between Prince Ning and Prince Jin gradually intensified. Prince Yu also contributed to Prince Jin's escape from the trap set by Prince Ning.

The only time that the interests of King Jin might have been harmed was the murder of Qin Jingyuan.

Qin Shu suddenly had a bold guess in her mind, "Tell me, what kind of business did my father run back then?"

Her father is the King of Jin's man.

There is no doubt about it.

What kind of business did her father run that made so much money, yet also brought him disaster?

Qin Shu stood up in panic and shouted, "Zhu Zhi!"

Zhu Zhi soon appeared at the door, bowed and said, "Jiezhen?"

Qin Shu ordered in a cold voice: "Tell Feng San to come see me immediately."

Zhu Zhi quickly responded.

Seeing that Qin Shu looked unhappy, Fu Ying hurried forward, picked up Chun Ge'er, and handed him to the wet nurse outside the door.

After returning, he whispered, "Do you suspect your father-in-law is engaged in the private salt business?"

Qin Shu rubbed her brows, "Isn't this obvious?"

She sighed and said, "I still have a question. Just call Feng San over and ask him."

Feng San's residence was not far from the Jiedu Mansion, so he arrived quickly.

Qin Shu drove everyone out of the hall, leaving only the three of them.

Then he asked, "After my father was killed, did those people take anything away?"

Feng San was so frightened that his face turned pale. He didn't know why the young lady suddenly remembered that.

I don’t even know whether it is good or bad.

But he still stammered, "It's small, very small, far away, I didn't see it clearly. It seems that I did search on the Marquis."

Qin Shu felt her scalp tingling and her whole body cold, "That's right. The reason why Prince Yu spared Lu Fei's life was because Lu Fei gave Prince Yu the small seal he got from my father."

It seems that King Ning wanted to recruit her father to his side, but was rejected by her father.

So King Ning simply killed her father.

One was to cut off King Jin's source of income; the other was to take away the private seal in her father's hand.

Unfortunately, after Qin Jingyuan's death, his share of the private salt route fell into the hands of Prince Yu.

This is also the reason why Prince Yu chose to ignore the fact that Lu Fei and Sheng Li conspired with Zhang Cheng to murder Qin Jingyuan behind his back, but ultimately did not pursue the two!

Qin Shu once suspected that Prince Yu had gained great benefits from it.

She didn't know it then, but now it seems that this benefit is most likely contraband salt!

If her father had not been killed back then, after so many years, they should have had most of the clues about the smuggled salt.

If Zhou Min wanted to take full control of the salt tax in his own hands, he had to completely eliminate the private salt business.

After Sang Ju was defeated and captured, Zhou Min did not pursue the victory.

There is no news about the other two small seals.

Qin Shu once thought that as long as Zhou Min had the salt well in his hands, he would give up tracking down the whereabouts of the remaining two small seals.

I didn't expect the rain to come so soon!

After letting the uneasy Feng San leave, Qin Shu sat softly on the chair and said with a wry smile: "No wonder Qin Jingchang had evil intentions towards my parents, no wonder my father is so rich."

No wonder when I came to Lin Beidao and asked Zhou Min for money, Zhou Min refused to give me a penny.

It is possible that Zhou Min actually has a share of the money she has.

When Sang Yu wanted to commit regicide and rebel, he wanted to support Prince Yu as emperor.

Zhou Min used Shen Miao's death to warn the Shen family. In addition to the fact that the Shen family had secretly contacted Sang Ju before...

It is also possible that Shen Yi was unwilling to see the Shen family decline like this, and did something that Zhou Min could not tolerate.

It was obvious that General Shen was aware of the crisis of the Shen family, so he simply broke Shen Yi's legs and trapped him in the mansion.

Qin Shu thought for a long time, then picked up her pen and wrote a letter to Zhou Min to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday.

Together with a black brocade box, Ma Lai sent it back to the capital at full speed.

When Ma Lai returned to Linbei Road, it was Laba Festival.

He brought back a reply letter from Zhou Min to Qin Shu.

There was only one word on the letter: "Humph!"

In the box that she asked Ma Lai to send back contained the deeds to all her shops and land in the capital, as well as two million taels of silver notes.

Qin Shu looked at the word "hum" written in a flamboyant style and breathed a sigh of relief.