Wu Xin looked up at Su Chenyu's face and replied cautiously: "Or, let's let those tenants come back. It's only twenty taels of silver a month. Compared with the loss of Yueqiu, it's a drop in the bucket."
"Ha!" Su Chenyu laughed, "Wu Xin, you really do your best for the Yao family."
Wu Xin lowered his head quickly: "I don't understand what the princess means."
"Wu Xin, you have been the manager of the medicine shop for 20 years, but you can't even solve the problem of tenant farmers. This princess doesn't want to keep idle people, so I will remove you from your position as the manager of the medicine shop." Su Chenyu looked at Yanyu, "Yanyu, pay Wu Xin a monthly salary and send him away!"
Wu Xin didn't expect Su Chenyu to change her expression so quickly: "Princess, I really have no other choice. Even if I change to someone else, it is impossible to do it. You are too heartless to drive me out like this, isn't it?"
Su Chenyu smiled and said, "Wu Xin, you are incompetent yourself, so why do you have to involve others? Besides, can you really not find other tenants?"
Before Wu Xin could react to Su Chenyu's intention, Aunt Xu came in and said, "Princess, I have sent people to invite the tenants from the surrounding villages to come here. They are paid one tael of silver per night. They are working hard in the medicinal fields now, and I asked them to take a break but they refused."
Wu Xin was dumbfounded. Su Chenyu and his group had never been to the pharmacy before, so how could they know so much about the situation around the pharmacy?
Nanny Xu continued, "The soldiers who have retreated from the battlefield in the general's mansion have also come here, and are now in the medicine field. Princess, don't worry, there are more than enough people."
After hearing this, Wu Xin was fully aware of what was going on. He was fooled by Su Chenyu: "Princess, have you never believed me since you saw the account book?"
"If you can invite the tenant farmers from the surrounding villages here, I will give you a way to survive. But you only have the Yao family in your heart. What can I do?" Su Chenyu picked up the account book on the table, turned a page, and asked Aunt Xu to put it in front of Wu Xin.
"When I was looking at the account book, I found that every time I harvested medicinal herbs, there would be an extra expenditure. It wasn't much, but it was very regular." Su Chenyu looked at Wu Xin's increasingly pale face and said slowly, "If you think about it carefully, you can understand that with the tenants of the Yao family, one acre of good land might not even yield five stones, right? So every time you harvested medicinal herbs, you would invite tenants from the surrounding area. But since you paid them too little, how could these tenants try their best? Therefore, the harvest will become less and less every day."
Aunt He looked at Su Chenyu in disbelief. Just based on the account book, Su Chenyu actually guessed the truth. How could there be such a scary person?
At this moment, Aunt He was convinced that Su Chenyu was in disguise before, and that the step she just took was wrong.
"The princess is so smart. She even acted with me before. She was really interested." At this point, Wu Xin no longer concealed it.
"Wu Xin, you are a smart man. You are so generous to the Yao family, but you are so stingy to the tenants in the surrounding villages. If you pay a little more, those tenants will do their best to harvest medicinal herbs, and the manor will make more money. Don't you understand this account?"
Wu Xin smiled bitterly, "Of course I know, but the one who checked the accounts is the Second Madam, she can't stand others saying bad things about the tenants on the farm. These are the silvers from the tenants from the surrounding villages, and they were obtained by me with other excuses. How dare I ask for more?"
"You choose your own master, so you have to bear the hardship yourself." Su Chenyu did not sympathize with Wu Xin. He was also a member of the Yao family's gang. With so many slaves acting arrogantly in the medicine store, they might have forgotten that they were also slaves.
Aunt He also saw through Su Chenyu's plan. She wanted to drive away all the tenants of the medicine shop from the beginning, but she was afraid of leaving a bad reputation, so she deliberately lowered the price.
But when she arrived, she pretended to be innocent and gullible, so Wu Xin and those tenant farmers became bolder. They thought of using the fact that the moon potatoes were to be harvested to force Su Chenyu to make concessions, but they fell into Su Chenyu's trap instead.
In this way, Su Chenyu not only drove away those tenants, but also did not leave a bad reputation. Outsiders would only think that those tenants were ungrateful and that the Yao family had treated their employees poorly.
This game is not that brilliant.
But Su Chenyu was just a newcomer, yet she was able to figure out the underlying relationship and make arrangements in the shortest possible time. How deep must her scheming be?
Thinking of this, Aunt He felt as if she had been hit by a roar. Then what role did she play in Su Chenyu's plan?
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