"Changbai, you are going out with me today to attend the funeral of Mr. Bai."

On the third day after Sheng Changbai arrived, Sheng Hong stopped working, but he needed to socialize with others.

The Bai family is a famous salt merchant in Yangzhou City. In a feudal society, they specialize in salt and iron.

A large part of the country's fiscal revenue depends on salt tax.

If the country wants to increase taxes and revenue, it doesn't need to add any other items, it can just raise the price of salt.

The low-cost salt has an inflated price and huge profits, so salt merchants in feudal society have always been wealthy.

As a big salt merchant and one of the richest families in Yangzhou, the Bai family, a large country gentry, still had the honor to let Sheng Hong, the general judge, attend the funeral of the family head.

Not only Sheng Hong, but also the famous people in the city will go there to participate.

These local squires are deeply entangled in the local area, and the petty officials who mainly work in the yamen are all related to these families.

These people are either big business bosses or big landowners.

There are a large number of people in the entire government who live by these squires.

In the early days of the dynasty, this proportion might be a little lower. By the end of the dynasty, most of the population had to rely on wealthy gentry households to make a living.

Officials like Sheng Hong who were transferred from the imperial court needed their money and efforts whether they wanted to encourage farmers to cultivate mulberry trees, check taxes, build schools, build bridges and pave roads, or provide relief to victims of disasters.

Therefore, local gentry was also a very important class in feudal society.

Sheng Hong took Sheng Changbai there, of course, wanting to teach Sheng Changbai by words and deeds, so that Sheng Changbai could learn about the ways of the world, including making some connections.

Civil servants in the Zhou Dynasty actually had quite a lot of holidays.

Normally, I shower once every ten days. If you listen to the superficial meaning, you will know that during the holidays, people are allowed to go home and take a shower.

Civil servants in the Zhou Dynasty seem to have three days off per month, but in fact it is much more than that.

There are many kinds of holidays, various traditional festivals, including the emperor's birthday, the emperor's wife's birthday, the emperor's wife's birthday, various religious festivals, in short, you can take a holiday for any reason.

After arriving at the Bai family, I paid homage to the deceased head of the Bai family.

Sheng Changbai stood aside, waiting for Gu Tingye to stage a "return of the dead".

"Throw down the tiles and raise the spirit!"

"Wait a minute!" shouted a loud voice, and saw Gu Tingye jumping out of nowhere.

After a heated exchange of words, Gu Tingye relied on a suicide note from Mr. Bai.

Of course, it was mainly through the power of the Prince of the Hou Mansion that he took back his grandfather's inheritance under the witness of all the officials, squires and elders in Yangzhou.

If it were not for the reason that he was born in a Hou family, it would not be so easy for Gu Tingye to inherit his grandfather's inheritance.

According to the default traditional customs of feudal families, although Mr. Bai is dead, there are still so many members of the Bai family. If Gu Tingye wants to inherit the inheritance, he must leave most of it to the Bai family.

Stealing people's wealth is like killing their parents. Gu Tingye leaves no room for his actions.

By using his identity, he stole such a large amount of inheritance and also gained a large group of enemies.

"You have just taken back your grandfather's property. You must be busy with a lot of things. Don't worry about me. You should be busy with your own affairs."

After watching Gu Tingye's operations, Sheng Changbai decided to distance himself from this troublemaker.

After causing trouble, if you don't deal with it cleanly, no matter how you look at it, this person is not considerate.

Gu Tingye took away such a large sum of money from the Bai family, and the Bai family sent killers to kill people. The two sides have formed a deadly feud.

He only causes trouble and refuses to get justice, but he doesn't even know how to understand. With this kind of behavior, Gu Tingye will suffer serious consequences no matter how he looks at it in the future.

After confirming that Gu Tingye was fine, not only the officials of Yangzhou City, but also Sheng Hong, finally felt relieved.

If something happens to Gu Tingye, the young master, on the border of Yangzhou, the incident will obviously spread to Tokyo. When the emperor finds out, these people will inevitably be reprimanded.

At the end of the year, during the evaluation of the tenure results, a mark will most likely be recorded.

With this stain, the court felt that under the management of these few people, if Yangzhou's public security was poor, it would be impossible to get a good evaluation.

Of course, those who are most responsible for Gu Tingye's life and safety are Yuan Wenchun and his wife who took Gu Tingye out of Beijing privately.

It was only after Gu Tingye was fine that the couple restarted their plans to visit Yangzhou.

In the next few days, Sheng Changbai had a lot of things to do. He wanted to show his kindness as a landlord and take Yuan Wenchun and his wife, who came to offer employment, to visit Yangzhou.

Although the two looked down on the Sheng family, and Sheng Changbai didn't like the couple, for the sake of Hualan, Sheng Changbai could only show courtesy and took the couple to various mountains, rivers, places of interest and historical sites in Yangzhou. .
Chapter completed!