When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 18: The Man behind the Situation

Gu Huaqing's dark eyes were calm, but his tone was sincere as he said, "Today, as the young master of the Gu family, I want to announce something to you."

Everyone looked at her strangely. Even Su Fuying and Gu Chen, who were sitting on both sides of her table, looked at each other, not knowing what she was going to say.

"After careful consideration by the boss, from now on, each of your shop owners will receive a 10% annual bonus from the profits of the shop they manage in addition to their fixed monthly salary.

As for how much year-end bonus you can get, it depends on your own ability and how much profit your store makes."

As soon as Gu Hua finished speaking, there was an uproar in the hall.

"This...this...this...is such a good thing!!!"

"That's right! Did I hear it wrong?"

"If every 100 taels of profit is 10%, that's a bonus of 10 taels. If we calculate based on the years when Gu's business was at its peak, the silk and satin shop I manage makes about 8,000 to 10,000 taels of profit each year.

That means in addition to the fixed monthly interest, I can at least get 500 to 1,000 taels, which is what the young master calls a year-end bonus."

"Oh my god! What's the point of corruption?" One of the shopkeepers jumped up excitedly. "If that's the case, as long as I manage the shop well for my boss, I can live a good life with plenty of food and drink."

Gu Dagui, the eldest son of the butler who came from Jiangzhou City to attend the party and grew up in the Gu family, is of course more loyal to the master's family than these shopkeepers.

He said loudly: "Instead of harming the boss like those people, as long as we follow the young boss well, the boss will definitely not treat us unfairly."

Everyone thought of the shopkeepers they once knew who chose to leave or were sent to jail because of their greed and embezzlement.

Most of the people sitting here are very grateful that they did not have any inappropriate thoughts just because the boss is young. This is why they got the year-end share. Such a good thing fell on their heads.

Although the Gu family is in a difficult period now, who can guarantee that the young master cannot turn the tide?

The dozen or so shopkeepers who stayed behind all sighed that it was better for people to be upright and honest.

On the surface, Gu Hua's reorganization saw the Gu family's assets shrink a lot. In addition to the managers who embezzled money and were thrown into jail, many others left on their own initiative.

Gu Hua felt that those shop owners and shops that only operated their businesses by asking for money from their bosses would only drag the Gu family business into the abyss if they stayed, so it would be better for them to separate as soon as possible.

.........

It took more than a month.

Gu Huacai returned to Jiangzhou City and sat in the study room looking at the several account books Yan Minghua, a lame horse feeder at the Guangning County grocery store, had given her before she left.
The accounts recorded in it made Gu Hua narrow his eyes and a cold light flashed across them.

“It turns out that Ma Cunde actually colluded with the fifth branch of the Gu family and embezzled the money from the Gu family shop. Does that mean that there are other shopkeepers who are connected with other people in the Gu family?

In fact, some of the shopkeepers might have been those people originally, and were arranged to be the insiders of the Sixth Branch of the Gu Family a long time ago."

Gu Hua learned that Yan Minghua had received education and originally came to the grocery store to learn to be an accountant. He was first arranged to work as a clerk in the store lobby.

Unexpectedly, one day his sister came to the store and was seen by the lustful Ma Cunde. He tricked her into the backyard and forcibly insulted her... and then she went crazy.

Yan Minghua endured the humiliation and vowed to avenge his sister. It was only after long-term observation that he discovered the account books hidden by Ma Cunde. His legs were also broken by Ma Cunde's anger when he was looking for the account books.

Gu Huaqu tapped his fingers on the desk, staring at the account book.

She went back home and checked the account books sent by various stores three years ago. Although she did not read all of them, Gu Hua still found that the Gu family's stores had been suffering from financial losses since then.

Gu Hua frowned slightly. She thought about the death of the original owner's parents again and wondered if it was related to the discovery of something.

For example, they discovered that some people from the Gu family had already stretched their hands into their family's shop, and the two of them were about to resist them, but were hired to kill them, creating the illusion of a robbery and murder by bandits.

Therefore, no matter how many soldiers the government sent to look for, they could not find the murderous bandits.

Gu Hua had no choice but to think that the person in the Gu family who had such a scheming mind could be none other than his third uncle, who was good at calculating, vicious and scheming.

From the account book in his hand, which was a collusion between the fifth uncle and Ma Cunde, it can be seen that most of the shortfall in the shop was handed over to the fifth room. Gu Hua wondered if nearly 100,000 taels of silver calculated over the years really went into the pocket of the fifth room?
There is no hidden mastermind behind the scenes, taking away more money.

Before Gu Hua could figure out how to deal with the matter, the fifth branch of the Gu family colluded with the owner of his own shop and secretly transferred and stole the shop's funds.

Just as she guessed, some shopkeepers who were imprisoned in jail were also contacting the people behind the scenes who secretly sent them to Gu's shop.

When some people got the news, they could no longer sit still.

He secretly summoned his close friends and prepared to deal a heavy blow to the crumbling Sixth Branch of the Gu Family, making it completely his own.

Gu Hua's drastic changes to his own store still caused rumors to spread from outside. With the instigation of Gu's business rivals, rumors spread that the Gu family's business was going to go bankrupt.

Gu Hua doesn't care what others say.

She sold the remote and meaningless shops to collect funds. She also reorganized and renovated the remaining 32 shops in the inner and outer counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou City, and continued to operate them.

For those shops that were suffering from serious losses, Gu Hua planned to wait until she had unloaded the goods in her warehouse before thinking about what business to do with those shops.

Gu Hua was a little worried because her belly was already slightly bulging due to her pregnancy which had lasted nearly three months. Fortunately, this body was about 1.68 meters tall, with a tall and slender figure, and now it could be completely concealed by wearing loose clothes.

Gu Hua was thinking about how to give birth to the little ones safely, whether to reveal her true gender and give birth to the children calmly.

It’s better to find a place to give birth to the child and then come back.

If you reveal your gender and give birth to a child, you will have no way to explain who the child's biological father is.

After all, it was a single person giving birth to a child in ancient times. Not to mention whether the spit would drown the mother and child, if there were neighbors who couldn't stand it, they would send her to the government for violating moral standards.

Thinking of those torture devices like riding a wooden horse, Gu Hua decisively chose the latter.

However, before she could finish dealing with the matters of the shop and find a place to give birth quietly, her third uncle and fifth uncle came to her house with some clansmen in a grand manner.

When Gu Hua heard the report from the servant and walked out, he was met by a group of people who were looking at him covetously. There was also an octogenarian with white hair and beard, who was being helped out of the crowd by his third uncle's eldest son Gu Jitang and his fifth uncle's grandson Gu Yuming.

(End of this chapter)