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

Chapter 22: Setting Up a New Sect
In the end, Gu Hua acted like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. It was up to her to take it or not. She would only give this much money anyway.

My third uncle and his group thought they were too few.

Gu Hua simply threatened that they could refuse the money if it was too little, but she would find someone to look after their ancestral grave, and when she found a good Feng Shui site here, she would bring people to move the grave regardless of whether they agreed or not.

Seeing that the two sides were in a stalemate, the old uncle, who was old and shrewd, looked at the fifth uncle's still bleeding palm and knew that Gu Hua was not as easy to control as they said.

So the deal was made that as long as Gu Hua paid 50,000 taels as compensation for nominally destroying the feng shui of the Gu family, he would agree to let them move out of the ancestral tomb belonging to their branch smoothly.

The matter was settled. Looking at Fourth Grandpa's relieved expression, Gu Hua felt that the 50,000 taels of silver were well spent.

In order to avoid any further complications, Gu Hua spent a large sum of money to hire a Feng Shui master, and his worried fourth grandfather and eldest son Gu Jiqing followed him personally.

Within ten days, they found a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers, chose a good day, and invited monks from the temple on Qingshan Peak outside Jiangzhou City to chant sutras for the deceased.

The ancestral tombs belonging to the fourth and sixth branches were moved to a new Feng Shui site for burial in a grand manner.

From then on, people in Jiangzhou City also learned that the Gu family was officially divided into two branches.

Many people who knew the inside story could not help but sigh that Gu Hua, the only son of the sixth branch of the Gu family, was so courageous. Facing a group of jackals and tigers in the Gu clan who wanted to swallow up the family property at any time, he actually mustered the courage to fight to the death.

He left his family and set up his own household with his grandfather, brothers and four other families.

At the same time, the Gu family was in turmoil over the 50,000 taels of silver that the third uncle and his friends had extorted from Gu Hua.

When Gu Hua and the people from the fourth house heard that someone in the Gu family had a fight over uneven distribution of wealth, they just treated it as a joke and no longer paid attention to those people who had nothing to do with them.

.........

After everything is done.

Gu Hua sat in the study room and stared at Su Fuying.

"Young Master, there is no money in the account."

Gu Hua scratched his head.

How could she not know that the money withdrawn from those shops, together with the silver from selling the shops, had been used by her during this period of time.

After observation, Gu Hua felt that Su Fuying was a trustworthy person. She took out the account book given to her by Yan Minghua, which showed the collusion with Ma Cunde to steal the money from the shop from the fifth branch of the Gu family.

"Do you think I can get back the money they took away if I report this to the authorities now?"

In fact, Gu Hua already had the answer in his heart.

But she still wanted to hear from Su Fuying if she had any other ideas to make these people return the stolen money as soon as possible to solve the Gu family's current urgent problem.

Su Fuying shook her head after reading it. "Based on the account book alone, as long as Ma Cunde doesn't admit that he has colluded with the Fifth House, and the Fifth House is willing to spend money to bribe him, it will be difficult for you to even put Fifth Uncle in jail."

Gu Hua smiled bitterly, this was the same result she had expected.

That's why when she got the account book, she didn't report to the police immediately.

The most important thing at the moment is to solve the problem of capital shortage in Gu’s business.

Gu Hua put this matter aside for the time being and would settle accounts with those who secretly harmed the Gu family when he had the chance.

When he first came here, because he was missing a section of his memory, Gu Hua had no idea about the Gu family business. He had been almost bankrupted by the easy-going and gullible original owner.

In order to make the remaining shopkeepers have a positive attitude, she tied the interests of the Gu family to them, so that the more profits the store made, the more generous their year-end bonuses would be. Moreover, she had decided to rise with the shopkeepers in the shop, and she would never let them be laughed at by the shopkeepers who left. Gu Hua was a very protective person.

Since those shopkeepers did not choose to leave when the Gu family was on the verge of collapse, Gu Hua wanted to give them a good result, at least not let them end up worse off than those shopkeepers who left.

Gu Hua held his chin and thought about how winters in ancient times were very cold, but there were few things to keep warm.

"Su Fuying, I heard that furs in the north are cheap. If they are shipped to Jiangzhou, the price can be several times higher. What do you think of this business?"

"That's right." Su Fuying's eyes lit up, then dimmed again, "But even if the leather there is cheaper, plus the shipping cost, it's not a small amount.

Given our current economic situation, it is still somewhat difficult to do this business.”

Gu Hua paused for a moment, then sat up straight and said, "Su Fuying, you and your cousin have five days to pack up and send me all the mid-range and below goods from the silk and cloth shop and the tea shop."

Su Fuying asked doubtfully, "What does the young master mean by this?"

"These mid-range and lower-end cloths and tea are worthless inside the Great Wall. If they are transported to the pastoral areas outside the Great Wall near the border, how about exchanging them for furs?"

"Good idea!" Su Fuying exclaimed.

Now he doesn't obey the wall, but his little boss. It's not difficult to come up with a barter, but few people have the courage to do so.

.........

Because all the goods below mid-range in the shops had to be taken to the pastoral areas in the northern border to be exchanged for furs, the goods in the shops were seriously insufficient.

This is what must be done to purchase new goods.

And purchasing goods requires money.

Faced with the mess in the Gu family, Gu Hua really wanted to quit, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't return this body after using it.

Gu Hua, who had been trying for a long time but couldn't come up with any silver, went to visit his third and fifth uncles' homes on a dark and windy night.

She felt psychologically burdened to do this in other people's homes, but she had no burden at all to do this to these two black-hearted elders who had cheated the original owner of money in the past.

But maybe she didn't look in the right place. Gu Hua searched every corner of the two houses several times and only found 20,000 taels. The 50,000 taels of silver note she gave was not found.

Before one problem is solved, another one arises, and the money for purchasing goods has not yet been fully resolved.

The chief steward of Tianfu came to report, "The head of the Wan family sent someone to ask if we are selling the shops in Jiangzhou City and other counties?"

Gu Hua was confused for a moment at first, but suddenly realized that the Wan family didn't come to ask whether she wanted to sell the shop, but they heard that she had left the Gu family and wanted to force her to buy out the Gu family's business.

Gu Hua briefly reminisced.

There are four major families in Jiangzhou City, the Jiang family, the Chen family, and the Song family. The Wan family is one of the four major families in Jiangzhou City.

However, because its wealth and power are not as good as the other three, it is ranked last among the four major families.

In order to increase his wealth and power, Wan Chunliang, the current head of the Wan family, has used despicable means to acquire the weak small family businesses in Jiangzhou City at low prices over the years.

"It seems that the Wan family is now eyeing our Gu Mansion." Gu Hua stood up, "Let's go and take a look..."

(End of this chapter)