Chapter 195: Those who receive salary should not compete with the people for business
My eldest brother has tried it. This is undoubtedly great news for the Su family. In the entire Jin State, he stood out among so many students and even won the first place. No wonder he was highly regarded by the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.
When Su's mother came back from the workshop and heard the good news about her eldest son, she was so happy that she almost fainted, crying and laughing.
After she came to her senses, she ran to the small room where the jade statue of Guanyin was enshrined, and kowtowed and burned incense.
After Su Jing went to Kyoto, this jade Guanyin statue was given by Jiang Yu. Su's mother worshipped it almost every day, hoping that it could bless her son to have a safe and smooth life in Kyoto and to get a good academic title.
Now, they have finally got what they wanted. They got the first place in the provincial examination, so being in the top ten in the palace examination will not be a problem. In the future, their Su family will have a Jinshi.
Moreover, Su Jing is only 21 years old this year, young and promising.
Su Chen was asked to call Su Yun back, and the family prepared a sumptuous meal at home to celebrate Su Jing's success in the imperial examination.
Su Yi wrote a reply letter, in which he wrote down everything his family had said to him.
Su Wan also took out two hundred taels of silver notes and stuffed them in it. His elder brother had been gone for so long, and he probably had almost spent all the silver, so he had to send him some money.
However, since there were banknotes inside, he couldn't use an ordinary messenger. Jiang Yu asked his men to send it to Kyoto as fast as possible.
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Kyoto, Furong Xiaozhu:
After the results of the imperial examination came out, Su Jing received more and more posts.
The prominent families in Kyoto found out his address and sent invitations to him, inviting him to drink, appreciate flowers, and drink tea. They almost broke down his door.
Most of these people want to catch the son-in-law of the new number one scholar. This person is very likely to become the new number one scholar. Who doesn't want the number one scholar to be their son-in-law?
There are also some who truly appreciate his talent.
A small number of them are forming cliques and factions. These people serve their own masters in the court and want to recruit people to their own camp.
After looking through these visiting cards, the old servant in Jiang Yu's courtyard selected a few for him. He said that these families were all worth making friends with and were rare clean officials in the court.
He had already met the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and Jiang Yu had specifically instructed him to keep a close eye on him and not accidentally get on a boat he shouldn't be on.
After all, the eldest brother is not familiar with the court, and he doesn’t know whether those officials are good or bad, or what their personalities are.
When he first enters the court in the future, it would be better for him to deal more with the clean officials. However, there are also a few people who claim to be clean officials but are not good people in private. They are corrupt and they are corrupt.
Although Jiang Yu was not in the court, he had a clear understanding of the complicated relationships in the court.
Fengyue Villa has such a large intelligence network, so it would be easy to get hold of something against them.
Some people who are not vigilant enough have been caught by others without realizing it.
There are also some who are very cautious and it is difficult to get hold of any evidence against them, but he is also very clear about what they do behind the scenes.
There are only a few things that can cause you to lose your official position, such as forming a clique for personal gain, corruption and bribery, and using other people's names to do business for profit.
There is a saying in the court that those who receive salaries should not compete with the people for jobs, and officials are not allowed to do business. However, those high-ranking officials have such large families to support, and their wives are all so decent. Do you think that their salaries are enough for them?
Who doesn’t have any property hidden behind the scenes?
Shops, fields, everything.
They do not use their own names, but the names of their family branches, and the actual beneficiaries are themselves.
However, it is not something particularly excessive, and the emperor just turns a blind eye. There is no one available in the court, and some of them have a solid foundation. A single move will affect the entire body, and they cannot be easily moved.
There are also those whose ancestors made great contributions, and if they take advantage of others' misfortunes, they will be criticized by the people.
Officials’ immediate family members are not allowed to do business, which means that the eldest brother’s future descendants, children, and spouse are not allowed to do business.
However, it would be a hidden danger if she and her fourth brother both did business in the future. As her eldest brother's position got higher and higher, there would be more jealous people, who would definitely use this matter to talk about it.
In the original novel, the fourth brother's restaurant was making so much profit that it was becoming enviable. Some officials who were hostile to the eldest brother took advantage of the situation and wanted to bring down the No. 1 Restaurant in the World.
A family with high-ranking officials, military generals, great scholars, and miracle doctors is already very prominent. If they do business well and make a lot of money, the Su family will become an iron bucket that no one can shake. Taking any one of them out is enough to shock the world.
Those people took advantage of the situation and said that in order to prevent the Su family from becoming too ambitious, they demanded an order to close down the restaurant.
Later, Su Yun took the initiative to propose that 50% of the annual profits of all the restaurants he opened should be handed over to the national treasury as a sign of loyalty.
Only then did he receive the reward of being the best building in the world, bestowed personally by the emperor.
But despite this, those people were still not satisfied and continued to refuse to give in.
So, Su Wan is unwilling to sell the recipe of goat milk soap. Why is it said that it can save lives?
It will be a trump card in the future, at least it can ensure the safety and prosperity of this generation of the Su family.
Therefore, Su Wan now has a new idea. Yuyan Cream should go it alone. No one knows who is the boss behind the Yuyan Cream. Yuyantang will only do the business of goat milk soap in the future.
As for the Yuyan Cream, she changed its name and opened a separate shop to sell it together with lip balm and other skin care products. Moreover, she wanted to keep it very secret so that people would have no idea that the Yuyan Cream was also her business.
This cannot be confused with goat milk soap. This is the real code to wealth.
Now, we just have to wait for the palace examination to be held in early June. We will know the final result of the palace examination in early July. We are waiting for even better news from my eldest brother.
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Su Wan took out the recipe of Yuyan Cream and looked at it. She was now going to set up a shop and start developing Yuyan Cream.
Yuyan Cream requires dozens of medicinal herbs and pearl powder.
This medicinal herb is easy to find, but nucleusless pearls are not easy to find. After all, I have never heard of cultured pearls in Xiangzhou.
Moreover, this pearl powder must be made with seedless pearls. We do not pursue the quality of the pearls. Even if they are crooked or cracked, it does not matter as long as they can be ground into powder.
Su Wan knew that Jiang Yu must have a way. Their Fengyue Villa’s shipping routes had seen all kinds of new things.
They have their own sea pearl breeding base in the South China Sea, and every year they receive a large number of colorful pearls and rare oriental pearls.
That guy made me really angry a few days ago. If I ask him about it, there should be no reason for him to refuse.
Jiang Yu had been waiting for a long time. He had also read the recipe of the Jade Face Cream. There was an ingredient in it called pearl powder which was very hard to find. He knew that Su Wan would come to find him.
Sure enough, she came.
Su Wan ignored him for several days. Every time she saw him, she didn't give him a chance to speak, which made him very distressed.
Although the two of them have not confirmed their relationship, he knows that Su Wan cannot have no feelings for him at all.
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