Seeing Qiao Yuyan's worried look, Mrs. Xu smiled and touched her head, "Okay, don't think too much about it. Your mother-in-law has been in this mall for so many years. Doesn't she have the ability to protect herself at all?"
What?"
Hearing this, Qiao Yuyan looked at her with hope again, "Then... what is it? Do you... have anything to do with him?"
Mrs. Xu smiled and said: "Otherwise, why do you think I would remove all the properties in the capital?"
Seeing her confusion, Mrs. Xu patiently explained: "The matter with your eldest cousin has made me very passive, but if I remain passive, something will really happen, so I acted panicked,
On the one hand, industries in the north will be withdrawn step by step.
On the one hand, it will not arouse too much alarm to others, and on the other hand, it will also make people think that I am scared out of my wits and just want to get money out quickly to prepare for the future.”
Qiao Yuyan did not expect that the withdrawal of these industries was actually the result of Mrs. Xu's own initiative, "Isn't it because money is really needed?"
"It is false that after so many years of accumulation, it is not that difficult," Mrs. Xu waved her hand, "What I just told you about the relationship between merchants and the government, there is actually another one, which is the same for us merchants.
The important thing is, no matter what time, don't get too closely involved with people in the government.
When it comes to business, just deal with business and finance. If you go one step further, you will not be able to clearly recognize your own position and your role. Sooner or later, you will be killed by your own wrong judgment.
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"Mother-in-law, what do you mean..."
"For the south, the most important thing is the current situation in the capital. Every move is very important. But the emperor at the moment is an extremely cautious person. As far as I know, there has been almost no change in the new emperor's one year since he took office.
No matter what serious things you do, you can get involved with the courtiers for more than half a year over the posthumous title of the late emperor."
"So what?" Somehow it got involved in the current attitude towards government affairs, and Qiao Yuyan was a little confused.
Old Mrs. Xu then continued: "What can we do? You don't understand because you are not in the court, but your husband Wen Tingyuan must know that for the past six months, it seems that His Majesty has only been familiar with the government and the people standing in the court.
officials.
But in fact, through those little things, I eliminated so many spies in the south, and so many spies in the capital died silently in the water prison of Jinyiwei.
They need news from the capital, and the best way is through the business chain. Businessmen travel all over the country. It is the best way to deliver news and the least likely to be noticed. At this time, our family's advantage comes to the fore, so...
Do you understand?"
Qiao Yuyan nodded. She had never thought about this matter before. Now her grandmother had broken it into pieces and explained it clearly to herself. Is there anything she still didn't understand?
It was because Mrs. Xu was worried that her property would become an intelligence agency used by the Seventh Prince to transmit information, so she voluntarily disbanded it.
If that is really the case, when one day the power of the Seventh Prince is pulled out by the current Holy Emperor, the Xu family, as a person involved in the work of the Seventh Prince's intelligence agency, will really be in catastrophe.
The great crime of annihilating the nine clans, it can be said that the legendary Xu family, the majestic Jiang Youshang, was destroyed in an instant.
Qiao Yuyan couldn't help but shudder, and then she remembered, "Then...do uncle and aunt know what's going on here?"
In fact, Qiao Yuyan only asked this question. Nowadays, it can be seen that the two uncles are mainly in charge of the affairs of the Xu family. How could they not know what is going on here.
But what surprised her was that the old lady of the Xu family actually shook her head, "The two of them have pretty good minds and can do things neatly, but... their decision-making ability is not enough, and their vision is even more limited.
Now it is helpless to let them take care of the family business. With the current situation in the south, it really takes a lot of thinking to make money. If they can make money, then it will be good. If
It doesn't matter if they can't make any money, or even if they lose some property, the key is to let them learn something and know that everything is hard-earned now.
In this way, if the family really collapses in the future, as long as their business acumen is still there, they will be able to make a comeback sooner or later."
Having said this, Mrs. Xu seemed to be relieved. She looked at Qiao Yuyan and said lovingly: "Actually, when you said you were coming to Jiangzhou, I was still a little hesitant. You are the child I love the most.
Your husband is a member of the Holy Spirit. In fact, there is no need for you to explain what he came here to do. I know it clearly in my heart. His arrival is just a matter of time. Sooner or later, he will find out about the Xu family.
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So I am in a dilemma, knowing that you will definitely ask about this matter. If I tell you, I will be irresponsible to these people in the Xu family, but if I don't tell you, I feel that I don't trust you enough."
After she finished speaking, she smiled, looked at Qiao Yuyan and said, "Ya'er, do you understand what grandma means?"
Qiao Yuyan looked at the old man in front of her, and her heart ached with pain.
She knew very well how much hard work her grandmother had put into bringing the Xu family to its current position.
Now that she is over 60 years old, she still has to build herself up mentally and prepare herself to lose everything. How painful it is!
She didn't know how her grandmother endured that period of time, let alone how she managed to arrange the following things in an orderly manner in such a mental state.
She just felt sad and a little regretful at the same time. Why did she think that she could not let down Wen Tingyuan and the new emperor, so she didn't reveal a word to Jiangzhou about what she knew about the new emperor's ascension to the throne.
If, when she was reborn, she had immediately told her grandmother the news that she knew that the third prince would most likely inherit the throne, would the Xu family not have become like this?
But right now...
She bit her lip, and finally raised her eyes to look at Mrs. Xu, "Mother-in-law, I will never be able to repay you for your great kindness to Ya'er, even in my lifetime.
Don't worry, I won't tell Zingyuan about the Xu family. I just pretend that I didn't hear these words today. But mother-in-law, I must also make it clear to you. Likewise, I will not stop Zingyuan from checking Xu.
Everything about home.
This is his job, something he has to do, and I can't stop him from doing anything, even if it involves the Xu family." Her expression was very serious, but in fact,