Chapter 14 Yan Shen Shijiao

Hui Niang thought as she walked, "My father was still worried about handing over all the salt to Zhiyuan, so he ran on both sides of Zhenjiang and the capital. But this is not a bad thing. At least my father has begun to let go slowly. In this way, Zhiyuan is not very worrying. It's just about Pingyu. I don't know how she is doing? If she is really divorced and she is so arrogant, how can she deal with herself? Thinking of her boudoir friend, Hui Niang had a lot of worries in her heart.

The Miss Pingyu that Hui Niang thinks of is surnamed Shen. The Shen family and the Yan family are friends in the world. When it comes to the generation of Hui Niang and Zhiyuan, they are already the fourth generation.

The first generation of Master Shen and Master Yan are both poor. At that time, they were salt farmers who dried salt together. The two ancestors thought that both families would be subordinates for the rest of their lives. Unexpectedly, after years of war, the government had no time to manage the salt industry, and private salt was rampant for a while. Seeing that it was profitable to sell private salt, the two ancestors accompanied them to sell private salt.

In the past few months, there was no difference, and the two of them made a lot of money. So they went home together, and half of each of them shared the money from licking blood on the back of these knives and renovated their houses one after another. After choosing an auspicious day of the zodiac, the two became heterosexual brothers.

These two ancestors must have been favored by God. The private salt business is getting bigger and bigger, and it has only been more than half a year. It has its own salt number, which controls the annual output of more than a dozen salt farmers. At this time, two people only need to deal with and mediation some of the affairs in the salt number at home, and thousands of taels of silver can be recorded in the account every month. Shen and Yan have always had a harmonious relationship and have never had a gap in money.

After more than ten years of success, Yan and Shen have become one of the best merchants in Zhenjiang. Simply, both of them are prosperous, and they have handed over the business to the second generation one after another.

In the first year of Hongwu, a salt account in that year had developed into a salt bank with a total of three salt accounts in the north and south. The newly ascended emperor was amnesty to the world, and the salt of the two families also became a company licensed by officials, and began to operate official salt in a just way. In addition, Huang Wensheng, a distant relative who was funded by the Yan family in the early years, changed his dynasty and took the transfer agent of the salt envoy. At dusk on the first day of taking office, as soon as he got off his job, Huang Wensheng changed his casual clothes and went to Yanxing to thank him in person. With the protection of this Lord Huang, the salt business has become more prosperous.

The Shen family passed down to the third generation, that is, Pingyu's father. Because he likes antiques and jade, he has gone crazy. After discussing with Yan Shengrui, he withdrew from the salt business. Yan Shengrui gave half of the silver to the Shen family according to the market price at that time. Pingyu's father took out half of the silver and opened the largest antique shop in Zhenjiang next to the salt number. The master of the Shen family is indeed suitable for the antique business. In just 20 years, the Shen family's antique shops have opened more than ten branches in Jiangnan. The financial resources are comparable to those of the Yan family.

Hui Niang and Miss Shen have been inseparable since childhood. The two of them play in one place, eat in one place, and live in the same place. The two of them are close friends who talk about nothing. In order to have a more stable relationship, Shen and Yan signed a marriage contract for Zhiyuan and Pingyu in the year of Zhiyuan's weak crown. It was originally planned to get married next spring.