Yang Huairen thought about it, in this way, Zhao Xianqiu should not have much to do with the internal guard, otherwise he would have thought about what was going on with Cen Xiaonian, let alone thinking about trying to use Yang Huairen's hand to suppress Cen Xiaonian.

Yang Huairen originally thought that he could mediate and maybe ease the relationship between Zhao Xianqiu and Cen Xiaonian, as long as the two of them didn't make trouble, Yang Huairen could stay in Jiangnan quietly for a few years.

But at the moment, it seems that these two people will tear their faces and make trouble sooner or later, after all, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, maybe that's the truth.

This makes Yang Huairen a little embarrassed, his principle of doing things is naturally to take care of the affairs of the common people, and to manage harmless idle things.

But if it is anything that involves rights, then it is less managed, or even ignored, and even if it is managed, it is to be reconciled in line with the principle of family and prosperity, rather than dealing with it in a drastic way.

Now he has to make a choice, either Zhao Xianqiu or Cen Xiaonian. In the long run, Cen Xiaonian will be of greater use to him and easier to be controlled by him, Zhao Xianqiu is difficult to say, not to mention that Zhao Xianqiu's city is too deep, and he can't see through him until now.

However, to suppress Zhao Xianqiu, with Zhao Xianqiu's foundation in Jiangnan, it is not so easy to move him, and he can't find some trumped-up charges to forcibly attack him, and in the future, when things spread to Beijing, Yang Huairen will also be embarrassed.

Yang Huairen thought clearly about the stakes, and then asked, "What handle do you have in Zhao Xianqiu's hands?" ”

Cen Xiaonian replied, "Back to the prince, as far as his subordinates know, there shouldn't be, if there is, it's not a big deal, otherwise he would have done it a long time ago, and he wouldn't have been so polite to me until now." ”

Yang Huairen said with a smile, "That's right, when I was in Yangzhou, Zhao Xianqiu said something to me about your yin and yang weirdness, I still think it's strange, now I hear you say this, it seems that this is indeed the case." ”

Cen Xiaonian also smiled, "The prince has already noticed everything, and his subordinates have only reminded the prince slightly." ”

"You don't need to pat my ass, let me ask you again, do you have the handle of Zhao Xianqiu in your hand?"

Cen Xiaonian hesitated, "I said yes, but I didn't." ”

Yang Huairen was confused, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Cen Xiaonian said seriously, "The prince is not strange, it's not that his subordinates are perfunctory to the prince, but his subordinates know one thing, but they can't be too sure...... There is just no conclusive evidence. ”

Yang Huairen thought about it, and there was no evidence to find, so he ordered, "Well, let's hear it." ”

When Cen Xiaonian heard Yang Huairen clear his throat, he immediately stood up and stepped forward to pour tea for Yang Huairen, and then knelt back respectfully.

Yang Huairen smiled, "Cen Geling, sit down and talk." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

He got up and hunched back to the edge of the chair, and then straightened up and sat half of his ass against the edge of the chair, and then he told what he knew.

"Two months ago, there was an interesting thing in Yangzhou, the two local billionaires Huang Million and Baiyinhai, in order to compete for the position of the richest man in Yangzhou, conducted a rich competition.

Huang Million's original name is Huang Wansheng, is a generation of rice merchants in Yangzhou, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the Huang family has been doing the business of trafficking and selling grain, the business has become bigger and bigger in the past hundred years, and hundreds of rice shops have been opened in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty, claiming that the family wealth is more than one million, so people give the nickname Huang Million.

Another Baiyinhai, formerly known as Bai Sanhai, was a salt merchant......"

Yang Huairen interrupted him, "Salt merchant? Isn't salt a monopoly system implemented in our Great Song Dynasty? ”

Cen Xiaonian explained, "The prince doesn't know that the finished salt is naturally transported and sold by the imperial court, but the salt farm where the salt is made is controlled by the family of Bai Yinhai.

The Bai family also has a long history of salt making, and nine out of ten of the salt farms along the Huainan East Road are owned by the Bai family, and the imperial court is only responsible for transportation and sales, but does not control the salt.

Sea salt is dug from the seashore to bring seawater to the salt works, and then the salt is extracted from the seawater by drying the seawater.

The dried salt has impurities, and it needs to be further processed and sieved before it becomes the salt of the white flowers we eat.

The imperial court bought sea salt directly from the salt works at a fixed price, and then shipped and sold it. The specific price, when the imperial court purchased it, was actually not high, only one-quarter to one-fifth of the usual retail price of salt.

It sounds like the imperial court has made a profit, and the Bai family has suffered a lot, but in fact, the salt farms of the coastal generation here are basically dominated by the Bai family, and almost all the sea salt is sold to the imperial court from his family every year.

Although the price of salt collected by the imperial court is not high, this amount is large, and the Bai family does not have any cost in the salt field business.

Seawater doesn't cost money, and the saline-alkali land by the sea is not worth a few dollars, the only main cost is labor, but compared to the profit from selling salt, that labor is nothing at all, and the Bai family's salt farm business can be said to be a million profits.

The common people have been to the salt farm of Bai Sanhai's house, and they looked at a large salt sea by the sea, just like the silver of white flowers, so they gave him a nickname, called Baiyinhai. ”

Yang Huairen nodded and smiled, "Interesting." ”

In fact, he had heard the story of Huang Million and Bai Yinhai, the two richest men in Yangzhou during the Northern Song Dynasty Zhezong, and he just thought that the rich businessmen of the Song Dynasty had nothing to do, so they did such boring things.

But now when I hear Cen Xiaonian talk about it, I feel that something is wrong, the key is, what does this kind of fighting for wealth of the folk rich have to do with Zhao Xianqiu?

Cen Xiaonian said anxiously, "Huang Million and Bai Yinhai are well-known wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou and even the entire Jiangnan, and their ancestors have accumulated a lot of wealth for them, and it is not an exaggeration to say that their family wealth is million, and the number of millions will only be more, not less."

The two families were originally world friends, but it was only in the generation of Huang Baiwai and Bai Yinhai that there were some suspicions, and neither of them was convinced, so they came up with a way to fight for wealth to decide the level.

Two months ago, the two agreed to put silver on Dongguan Street in Yangzhou, and in order to show fairness, the two also invited celebrities and officials of the Jiangnan generation to be judges.

When his subordinates learned the news, they felt that something was not ordinary, so they secretly sent someone to investigate.

Originally, there was nothing to do with this kind of thing, but Dongguan Street in Yangzhou City is the main road in the city, and the two Yangzhou Mansion Yamen are on this street.

The people in the city also knew about the Huang and Bai families' fight for wealth, and they all wanted to join in the fun, Yangzhou Mansion saw that there were too many people gathered on the street, and they were afraid that something would make a mess, so they sent Wang Wenju, the general judge of Yangzhou Prefecture, to bring dozens of officials to maintain order.

Huang Million and Bai Yinhai saw that the government had sent people, so they just asked Wang Wenju to give them a witness. ”