Going against the county magistrate was doomed to fail. Wang Quansheng tried to persuade his two younger brothers to help, but they refused to cooperate.
Hai County Magistrate yelled at the yamen runners, "Are you all dead? Take them to jail!"
The bailiffs went forward to arrest them, but Wang Quancai and Wang Quanli refused to surrender and kept shouting.
Suddenly, the lobby of the yamen was busier than a vegetable market.
When the Hai County Magistrate saw that he could no longer control the situation, he left the court after saying "adjourn the court".
Kang Yueran smiled helplessly. It is said that a higher-ranking official can crush people to death. It turns out to be true!
Wang Wenqing found the chief clerk of the yamen. The chief clerk didn't dare to waste time and directly transferred the property to Wang Wenqing's name according to the property details provided by Wang Wenqing. Of course, the Wang family kiln and five shops were transferred to Kang Yueran.
After the property was sold, the indentures of the shopkeeper and his employees were sold.
Kang Yueran asked, "You gave us a new contract, but what about the contract you gave to Wang Quancai and the other two? You can't have two owners for the same property, right?"
The chief clerk smiled and said, "I will send the yamen runners to the homes of Wang Quancai and the other two to get the deeds back."
Kang Yueran nodded and said, "Since I have nothing to do, I will accompany the yamen runners for a walk."
"Yes, yes, I'll go get someone right now, go to the Wang family and ask for it!"
Yamen runners were officials, representing the government, and Kang Yueran had the power of force, so he would beat anyone who dared to move. With both sides working together, they quickly found and destroyed all the deeds.
Kang Yueran accompanied Wang Wenqing back to the Wang family. On the way, she asked, "I suddenly remembered that there was a cloth merchant named Wang Quanfu in Mingzhou. Are you related to him?"
Wang Wenqing nodded. "Our ancestral home is Mingzhou. Wang Quanfu's father and my great-grandfather were cousins. Because of a disagreement between the two, our family never interacted with the Wang family in Mingzhou."
"Oh!" After Chai Shijing returned to Beijing, he didn't know what method he used, but the prefect of Mingzhou was replaced, Qiu Zhi lost his official position, and Wang Quanfu's family fell into poverty.
Arriving at the Wang family's door, she said, "I believe that Hai County Magistrate's term as an official has come to an end, and Wang Quansheng and the other two will have to spend a few years in prison. This period of time is enough for you to take back the shop.
If Wang Quansheng and his descendants come to trouble you, send someone to Qingpingzhuang to find me."
Wang Wenqing smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Sister Kang!"
Kang Yueran took out a silver note from his sleeve and said, "This is a 20,000 tael silver note. Keep it."
"I don't want it. I said I wanted to give it to my sister."
"Be good and take it! Two kilns, a mountain of porcelain, the deeds to five shops, and the indentures of over forty people. I'm only giving you twenty thousand taels, which is a great bargain."
Wang Wenqing put his hands behind his back and shook his head like a rattle. "I don't want it. If it weren't for Sister Kang, I wouldn't be able to get my family's property back. Those cloth shops are much more valuable than the kiln and the shop."
After saying that, he ran more than ten meters away, turned around and waved to Kang Yueran, "Sister Kang, please go back to Qingping Village as soon as possible. I will definitely visit you when I have time."
Kang Yueran stuffed the banknote back into his sleeve and said, "Okay! Then take care of yourself and come to Anzhou to find me when you have time."
Wang Wenqing nodded heavily with tears in her eyes, "I will definitely go, take care, sister!"
Kang Yueran and the other two found a restaurant to have lunch, then drove their donkey cart back to Anzhou.
She went to see He Zeng and told him about the matter of Hai County Magistrate. He Zeng nodded and said he would handle it.
After returning to Qingpingzhuang, she called Yu Honghuo and told him that the Wang family kiln and five shops were now hers.
Yu Honghuo was very surprised. "That's great! Does the girl plan to continue to have the Wang family kiln produce white porcelain?"
"Of course it's for firing colored porcelain. You used to call it Wangjia Kiln, oh no, it can't be called Wangjia Kiln anymore. That porcelain mountain is called Beigu Mountain, so from now on, just call it Beigu Kiln.
You are very familiar with Beigu Kiln, so take Wang Hai with you to go there and reorganize Beigu Kiln.
The two sides need to coordinate well, so that neither the kiln construction here nor the porcelain firing there will be delayed."
Yu Honghuo asked, "The kilns are being built very quickly here. I also know some kiln workers who were fired by Wang Quancai. They are all experienced workers. Can we invite them back?"
"Sure! Give me a clear list of everyone working at Beigu Kiln, including their name, age, job, years worked, monthly salary, etc. Also, bring me all the account books!"
Yu Honghuo nodded quickly, "Okay! Then I'll go find Manager Wang Hai right away."
After seeing Yu Honghuo off, Kang Yueran sent someone to her home to find He Zhengchu, asking He Zhengchu to notify the porcelain painting masters she had contacted and ask them to come to Qingpingzhuang in three days.
The porcelain painting masters are all around twenty years old. They were originally students of the academy. Because of the disaster in Anzhou, their families could no longer afford to support their studies, so they came out to find work.
Kang Yueran handed them over to Yu Qing, who took them to Beigu Kiln and taught them how to paint on porcelain.
Everyone in the kiln and the shops knew that the master had changed, so Zhang Zhong, the manager of the Gubei Kiln, called the owners of the five shops to come and meet the new master Kang Yueran.
The five shopkeepers consciously took their own account books with them. Kang Yue flipped through them and found that the accounts were recorded in great detail, but there was no money in the accounts. All the money had been taken away by Wang Quancai.
Kang Yueran instructed one by one: "Remake the signboards and change them all to Caicifang. Do this as soon as you get back."
Zhang Zhong was Mr. Wang's servant and was very trusted by Mr. Wang. He was always above the five shopkeepers.
Hearing that Kang Yueran wanted to change her name, he looked heartbroken and said, "Master Kang, isn't the Wang family porcelain workshop good? If the name is changed, Master Wang would be very sad if he knew it."
Kang Yueran's face was full of displeasure. "Now the kiln and the shop are all mine. You can call them whatever I want."
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