The powerful minister favors the small farmer's wife alone

Chapter 205 Cleaning Up Black-hearted Profits
Xu Zhixiang doesn't care where she lives, especially knowing that although she will not live in the son-in-law's house in the future, she will still be able to see her daughter every day, which makes her even happier.

Now that the children are grown up, this small place is hindering their development. It would be great if they could move to a more prosperous capital.

As for Xiangyifang, which just opened not long ago, it doesn't matter.

The big deal is that in the future, people will be hired to transport them back and forth from the capital. The clothes are not cheap, so the travel expenses are still affordable.

Even Xu Zhixiang was already thinking that Xiangyifang could be opened all over the land of Daze in the future, and even opened to other countries.

It’s just that I don’t know that the costumes of other countries are different from those of Daze, so don’t sell them because of different customs.

At the end of winter, when the common people were frowning, wondering whether to buy some new year's goods, or endure the pain to buy rice, a group of officers and soldiers from nowhere entered Liu'an County, and at the same time controlled several grain shops that sold rice at high prices.

The shopkeeper and the assistants of the owner were all put in prison, and cartloads of rice noodles were shipped out of their granaries.Although I had guessed that these unscrupulous merchants were hoarding grain and selling it at a high price, I still couldn't believe it when I saw it with my own eyes.

If it weren't for the officers and soldiers guarding them, the rice grains would have been robbed madly on the way out.

But even so, there were a few disturbances. Fortunately, Xiao Changan was well prepared and sent troops to suppress them without causing serious consequences.

And these grains are only a part, a larger part has already been sent to Su Xiaoye by Xiao Changan through the space of the red rope.

After the interrogation, all the little people who had nothing to do with the case were released. Those masterminds who committed serious crimes were directly beheaded, and the young and old were sent for distribution. For minor cases, some were fined for their family property, and some were fined for their entire family property.

After this incident, those unscrupulous businessmen in the previous life were completely cleaned up.

The same incident happened in other county towns. After the incident subsided, some of the rice grain shops in the city that did not follow the hoarding of grain to make the country rich were rewarded by Xiao Changan, and some of the collected rice grain was sold to them at the normal price. Rice noodles, which had originally risen to a hundred Wen a catty, returned to the five Wen a catty before the disaster this time.

Many farmers who did not sell their rice grains to the grain shops when grain prices were at their highest regretted it. If they had sold them at that time, and now they bought five cents a catty, they would have earned a few catties of grain money by changing hands.

But more common people are more grateful to Dade while scolding those unscrupulous businessmen for dying.

Seeing that it was the middle of the twelfth lunar month and the Chinese New Year was about to come, Su Xiaoye asked Xiao Changan, "Aren't you going back to the capital for the Chinese New Year this year?"

Xiao Changan shook his head, "I won't go back, I will spend the New Year with you here, and when the weather gets warmer after the New Year, you can go back to Beijing with me."

Naturally, Su Xiaoye would not object, she also wanted to see what the mansion in the capital city that Xiao Changan said was fair was like.

The matter of going to Beijing was also approved by the whole family, even Mrs. Ye, who was staying at home, also raised her hands in approval.

She has been eating and living with Su Xiaoye's family recently, and she has taken a lot of health pills. Her body is not what it used to be, even his son was not as strong as he is now when he went to Beijing. Old country ladies who are used to farm work may not be comparable.

Although he only rushed on the road when the weather was warm, he might not be able to catch up with his son Chunwei, but it would be good to celebrate for his son if he could catch up with the announcement of the palace examination.

As for whether her son will be qualified for the imperial examination, she just has that confidence. With her son's knowledge, as long as he takes the exam, there is no possibility of failing.

(End of this chapter)