Du's shipping business is the ancestral business of Qin Rushuang's mother, Mrs. Qin's mother's family - the Du family.
Although Mrs. Qin was born a merchant, her status was well-established. She was the only daughter of Du Tao, the head of the largest chamber of commerce in Jiangnan at that time.
Mr. Du spent his whole life in shopping malls and accumulated countless wealth, but he was loyal to his first wife. After his first wife gave birth to Mrs. Qin, he never married again, leaving his huge family fortune to his only daughter, Mrs. Qin.
Mr. Du originally wanted to recruit a son-in-law for Mrs. Qin, but Mrs. Qin went to Beijing to play and unexpectedly met General Qin who was leading the troops back to the court. She secretly promised that she would not marry him unless he was the one.
Qin Rushuang is very similar to her mother in this way. She also saw Xie Xun come back from a great victory and was very high-spirited, so they fell in love...
At that time, Mr. Du had no choice but to force Mrs. Qin to die, so he could only let Mrs. Qin marry into the general's mansion with a huge dowry.
To be honest, General Qin was devoted to the army and his family was not wealthy. Most of the Qin family's property now was brought over by Mrs. Qin when she got married.
When Qin Rushuang got married, Mrs. Qin gave her half of the dowry, and the remaining half was to be left to her brother for his future wife.
And this Du's Shipping was once the largest and most profitable industry of the Du's Chamber of Commerce.
Therefore, Qin Rushuang never expected that Du's shipping account book would actually be in the red.
"What the hell is going on? Who is responsible for shipping now?!"
Qin Rushuang flipped through the account book and became more and more angry.
Du's Shipping has one hundred merchant ships, and her mother gave her fifty ships. However, half of these fifty ships were at a loss for more than a year, and the profits from other businesses need to be used to fill the hole!
The steward sighed: "It's your uncle."
Qin Rushuang was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then sneered.
Uncle? Her mother is the only daughter of the Du family. Where did her uncle come from?!
And this nominal uncle, needless to say, is naturally Aunt Liu’s down-and-out younger brother who appears out of nowhere!
This rice-stealing mouse actually stole it into the owner’s family’s bowl!
"What's going on? How could the Liu family take over our shipping business?!"
"This Mr. Liu came here after your wedding a year ago." The steward reminded me.
Qin Rushuang's hand holding the ledger suddenly tightened.
She remembered!
At that time, Aunt Liu cried to her father that she had stolen her concubine's sweetheart. Her mother was afraid of causing embarrassment, so she vaguely promised Aunt Liu something. She had lived a confused life in her previous life, but now she found out that she actually promised to let the Liu family intervene in Du's shipping!
Seeing that Qin Rushuang's expression was really bad, the steward explained: "Madam originally wanted Mr. Liu to take charge of the fifty ships in Madam's hands, but Mr. Liu was unwilling..."
Qin Rushuang sneered: "Of course he doesn't want to, he came for me in the first place!"
"Don't blame Madam, she is too..."
"I know Mom has no choice but to rush into trouble and do a lot of ridiculous things over the years. It's all up to Mom to clean up the mess for me..."
If she hadn't been obsessed with marrying Xie Xun, why would her mother have been forced to this point! She was obviously the head wife, but she gave in to a concubine at every turn!
Qin Rushuang suppressed the anger in her heart and quickly looked at the account book. The more she looked at it, the worse her face became: "The amount of this loss is not enough to cover the entire profit of other industries in my hands!"
The housekeeper sighed: "That's true."
In the shipping industry, if you do it well, you will make a lot of money; if you don't do it well, it will be a business that requires your life.
However, Du's Shipping is the foundation of Du's. Even if it loses money, the servants will not dare to make the decision to shut it down easily.
No wonder...no wonder!
No wonder Qingzhi couldn't even afford good medicine when she was terminally ill in her previous life!
At this rate, all of her dowry will have to go into it in a year at most!
Qin Rushuang took a deep breath: "In order to fill this hole, how much other industries have shrunk this year?"
The steward took out the account book: "It is estimated to be 30%."
This year it is 30%, next year it will be doubled!
"That is to say..." Qin Rushuang thought for a while: "These shops and fertile land have not been sold. When the accounts are paid out at the beginning of the year, are you going to sell them to fill the shipping hole?"
The butler smiled bitterly: "That's right."
"Not for sale."
The manager was surprised: "But if we don't sell other properties, are we going to start shipping?!"
Qin Rushuang said calmly: "I will figure out a way with the money."
Whoever eats the money, she will make him spit it out twice as much!
But the most urgent task is to find these moths, and there must be more than one place!
Qin Rushuang expressed her thoughts, and the manager actually came up with a list.
"The people circled are all from that person," the steward said.
"That one" is naturally Aunt Liu and Qin Fanghao.
Qin Rushuang looked over at a glance, and there were more than she thought. It seemed that the shipping could not fill up these blood-sucking locusts!
"By the way, is the remaining property on my mother's side safe? If I remember correctly, Uncle Lin should be taking care of the property on my mother's side, right?"
Uncle Lin is an old man of the Du family. He has been with Mr. Du since he was a child and works very safely.
"Yes, the old slave will take care of this half for the princess, and Brother Lin will take care of the other half for the madam, but..."
The steward hesitated for a while and took out another list.
"How is it possible?! How could Uncle Lin manage to sneak in so many of Aunt Liu's people?!" Qin Rushuang exclaimed, and then seemed to suddenly think of something: "Could it be that it's all my mother..."
The steward nodded: "It's all with Madam's tacit approval."
Qin Rushuang was silent.
Her mother was so tolerant because she probably just wanted to have a family and everything would be happy...
only……
A memory from a previous life flashed through her mind quickly. Her mother tolerated everything, but in exchange Aunt Liu was in trouble!
In her previous life, she had a miscarriage and was unable to get up. Something happened in the General's Mansion - her mother insisted on paying tribute to a deceased uncle with a different surname, regardless of General Qin's objections.
This uncle is Uncle Lin who has protected Mrs. Qin all her life.
"Uncle Lin...is he strong and strong?"
The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Of course! Although Brother Lin is more than a year older than me and is thirty-three this year, his body and bones are much better than mine!"
Right.
In his previous life, Uncle Lin had a strong body, but he suddenly had an accident and died at the age of fifty-three.
After Uncle Lin's death, my mother had no intention of taking care of the business, and the Du family property soon changed hands.
Later... before she died, her mother died of "excessive grief"...
When she learned about her mother's death, she lost her will to live and soon died of depression...
Now it seems that all this was premeditated!
She originally thought that the grudge between her and Liu's mother and daughter was nothing more than killing her son and seizing her husband, but now it seems that there is also a grudge of patricide!
The angrier she became, the clearer Qin Rushuang's thoughts became.
She was too ill in her previous life and could no longer remember the exact time of Uncle Lin's accident, but if she calculated based on the time of her miscarriage in her previous life...
