Going through the Red Mansions quickly means going against the system.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Yuanyang did not dare to hide the fact that she ordered people to secretly arrest Gao Peng for interrogation. After seeing that the arrangements were made at home, he immediately asked Lin Ruhai to surrender.

But after all, he felt guilty, and his words were no longer as sharp as before.

Lin Ruhai just returned home after meeting Zhen Yingjia. President Zhen has many fears, and it is difficult to get his support. Lin Ruhai spent the entire afternoon working with him, feeling really exhausted physically and mentally.

"Why are you here again?"

Lin Ruhai took off his official robe and was about to change into ordinary clothes, then he saw Yuanyang. Seeing her reaching out, he hurriedly hid, determined not to let the mandarin duck take over.

"You are a relative now, this is not what you should do."

Yuanyang was simply used to taking care of people, and since Lin Ruhai came to Jinling without her aunt in charge, the maids here were too dull to take care of them, so they simply took the initiative.

"Don't take it seriously. It's all the kindness of the old lady. They are just relatives. I am your junior, and I should serve you."

If a mandarin duck wants to plead guilty, his attitude should naturally be lowered. Lin Ruhai didn't know, he just felt that Yuanyang was too close to him. After thinking about the student he had just met, he accepted it calmly.

Yuanyang was used to taking care of the elderly, so she quickly finished the grooming without the need for Lin Ruhai's instructions. After knowing that Mr. Lin had not eaten dinner, he drank wine and thoughtfully arranged salty porridge.

By the time Lin Ruhai sat down safely behind the desk, it was already an hour later.

"Ugh!"

Lin Ruhai sighed comfortably, since Jia Min passed away, she has never felt so comfortable again.

Lin Ruhai also had several concubines, but after Jia Min's death, Lin Ruhai did not want to see them again.

Except for Aunt Bai, who helped him take care of the inner house, almost no one dared to say a few words to him.

Lin Ruhai suffered like this to relieve the hatred of his deceased wife. Now that I see that everything Yuanyang arranged is going smoothly, I can't help but think of my daughter Daiyu.

Daiyu once took care of him in this way. However, when he saw that Yu'er had a child whose mother had just died, he couldn't help but feel sad, so he asked Jia Mu to go to the capital.

"How is Daiyu? Is she in better health now?"

It's not that Lin Ruhai doesn't miss his daughter, it's just that he can't even take care of himself, so he lets himself be ruthless.

"The old lady and the madam love her, but the girl cries easily and misses adults too much."

Speaking of this, Yuanyang also got angry. In her previous life, Lin Ruhai was seriously ill before she called Daiyu home, but she died within half a year.

Who is right? Her mistake can still be made up for.

"Sir, I'm here with important news to tell you."

Yuanyang asked someone to guard the door, and then whispered about catching a fake Gao Peng.

Although Gao Peng's official position in Jinling is low, he is a local snake. Sometimes, such people are actually more capable than Jinling President Zhen Yingjia.

After all, there are three religions and nine streams, how many can Zhen Yingjia come into contact with?

"It won't happen again."

But Lin Ruhai knew that Yuanyang was behind the scenes. He also let the mandarin ducks take revenge and did not take Gao Peng as the priority.

Now I see Yuanyang talking about bandits, Japanese people and Jia's property, and all the problems are connected together at once.

"Jiang Ming said you also met water bandits?"

If there is another water bandit, then Gao Peng will be even more difficult.

"Yes!"

Yuanyang didn't think about Gao Peng at all, and was not sensitive to hearing his name. Lin Ruhai was immediately aware, and then suddenly realized that Jiang Ming didn't seem to have impressed the mandarin ducks yet!

However, the trivial matter of the girl's affair here only flashed through Lin Ruhai's mind. Now is not the time to think about that.

"I understand. The Japanese hide their heads and show their tails. They say they have superb assassination skills, but they are just taking advantage of people's unpreparedness."

Lin Ruhai thought of the assassinations he encountered and found that there were traces of Japanese assassination skills.

"I know, I'm on guard against this."

Lin Ruhai was not worried about the assassination. He just thought of what Zhen Yingjia was busy with recently from the bandits.

"General Zhen has been quelling the chaos recently, and I heard it was very effective... but I never thought about bandits."

Lin Ruhai couldn't help but get up and pace back and forth. He felt like something was missing.

But I just can’t think about it.

"Nowadays, the number of refugees is increasing, farmers have lost their land, and they have nothing else to do, so they naturally become thieves!"

In his previous life, Xue Pan would encounter three or five groups of bandits when doing business. At that time, bandits were a problem, and Jiangnan's finances were seriously damaged. Not only the Jia family's property was affected, but even the emperor could not pay monthly payments.

For such a small salary, I still have to write IOUs to hundreds of officials!

Because Yuanyang was serving the old lady at that time, her share was everywhere.

But she still remembered that the old men could not pay their salaries, and the eunuchs in the palace came to blackmail them. The second master Lian and the second mistress were so clever that they could not make a living without rice, so they came to borrow money from her.

Later I heard that many people starved to death in the south.

"Refugees, bandits. Japanese, city gate guards, Jia..."

Lin Ruhai murmured, suddenly startled, "Not good!"

Yuanyang was startled, "What's wrong?"

Lin Ruhai turned around and was about to say something, but suddenly saw Yuanyang's big eyes flickering, so she suppressed her words again.

Why ask the little girl to worry.

"Nothing... I just think about how difficult the people are and how difficult their life is. If we can't afford salt anymore, there is really no way to survive!"

Lin Ruhai originally thought that the assassination was because the private salt dealer didn't like him, so he got up to cause trouble.

Isn’t it said outside that it was Lin Ruhai who refused to give the salt merchants a way to survive, so he forced the people to buy expensive salt?

"It's really tough."

Yuanyang's eyes were opened only after he came into contact with Grandma Liu in his previous life. Grandma Liu’s family still has land! He also went around the corner to get married with the Wang family. A family like this has to borrow money to survive. Imagine how miserable the homes of ordinary people are.

"Ugh!"

Lin Ruhai sighed. He has been in charge of salt administration for many years, why would he want to be reviled by the people? He also wanted to let the people eat cheap salt, but the court was short of money, too short.

The Emperor's many years of extravagance have emptied his family's fortune, and now he wants to build an imperial mausoleum on a large scale.

The emperor was in dire straits. He had no money and no one. How could he confront the overlord?

If you don't make money from the salt class, you spend a lot of money elsewhere. How can you live your life?

Lin Ruhai always thought that it would be fine once he got over this hurdle. He could save some wealth for the emperor, and then he could give back to the people when the weather improved.

But I don’t know why, there are so many places to spend money, and I can’t even see the deadline!

"Since you control the price of salt, why don't you sell it at a lower price?"

Yuanyang doesn't understand Master Lin's difficulties. She just felt that since the official salt was so high that the people could not accept it, why not lower the price?

She often hears people say that official salt is sold privately, and she can't figure out whether the salt is too expensive and sold at a low price, or whether the salt price is too low and is resold by private salt dealers.

Anyway, since there are so many problems here, why not simplify them?

Divide official salt into high and low status and create a hierarchy. Let the rich eat expensive salt and the poor eat cheap salt. Or ask the government to throw this piece away and directly send out more salt dealers to wait for the cashiers?

"What did you say?"

Lin Ruhai laughed at Yuanyang's little daughter for her naivety at first. But after she said many whimsical words, her heart became brighter!