Yun Shang stood at the window and watched for a while, then turned around and told Pei Lan: "Go and summon Wang Wanzhi."
Perrin stepped back in response.
Seeing that Yunshang didn't intend to close the window, Hua'er quickly took a cloak and put it on Yunshang: "Although there is no wind outside, it is still very cold. The lady is not in good health, so don't stand by the window." ?”
"It's okay." Yun Chang laughed: "I'm probably feeling better recently, I'm not as afraid of the cold as usual, and I don't feel cold just standing here."
"That can't be like this." Hua'er quickly persuaded: "Your Majesty's body has just recovered, and you should take good care of it. You should go in, Your Majesty. If His Majesty sees it, I'm afraid he will be angry."
Yun Shang was a little funny: "Why are you so afraid of him?"
Hua'er stuck out her tongue, naturally she was afraid.
His Majesty is amiable in front of the empress, but his face is frighteningly cold in front of everyone else. He doesn't need to say or do anything. Just standing there is already frightening. How can she not be afraid.
Yun Chang didn't make things difficult for her, she just went back to the hall and sat on the chair.
Hua'er hurried to the window, glanced outside, and then closed the window: "Miss Wang is here."
Yun Shang nodded: "Let's pass it on."
Wang Wanzhi was quickly brought in: "Greetings to the empress."
Yun Chang waved her hand and asked her to stand up before she said, "Has Cao Han ever looked for you recently?"
"I've looked for it." Wang Wanzhi lowered her eyes: "After your Majesty Qiushou returned to the palace, the one who pretended to be a concubine kept saying that she was sick and stayed in the deep palace without seeing anyone. So Mr. Cao came to look for this minister in private and asked him , is that one in the palace the real empress?"
"He said that he wanted to report something to the empress, but the empress did not summon him after sending the message to the palace for a long time. This kind of situation is not common, so I feel a little strange."
Yun Shang raised her eyebrows: "Whether the one in the palace was someone else pretending to be, he knows better than anyone else, yet he still came to ask you?"
Wang Wanzhi hooked the corners of her mouth, with a somewhat mocking expression: "I probably want to see if I am loyal enough to your empress, right?"
"The minister only told him that there must be a reason why the empress didn't summon him, maybe it was because she was busy, or maybe it was because of other reasons. It's just that the empress is the master, and we are just obedient, and the empress will summon us when she wants to see us. , there is no need to worry when you don’t see her, it’s best to do less in private, so as not to be discovered by the empress and anger her for nothing.”
"Maybe it's because Wei Chen said these words, but after that, Cao Han never came to see Wei Chen again."
Yun Chang nodded: "After the court tomorrow morning, you can tell him that I have something to call him, and let him wait at the gate of the Tai Chi Hall."
"yes."
Just after the morning of the second day, Pei Lan hurried in: "Your Majesty, Mr. Cao is already waiting outside the door."
Yun Chang nodded: "Are you ready for the soup I asked you to prepare in the imperial dining room?"
"Ready, prepared mutton soup."
Yun Chang nodded: "Put that mutton soup into a food box, put it on the food box, and go to the meeting hall with me for a walk."
Peilan responded, and asked someone to bring the mutton soup off the stove, put it into a food box, and followed Yunshang out the door.
Cao Han turned around at the corner of the corridor of the Taiji Hall, and when he saw Yunshang coming out, he retreated to the side: "I pay my respects to the empress."
Yun Chang nodded and glanced at Cao Han: "I heard that you have something to see me?"
"Hey..." Cao Han responded, and then said: "It's already a month ago. I wanted to report to my mother, but there was some movement from my second uncle."
"Your second uncle?" Yun Shang recalled it carefully, but she had some impressions: "Your second uncle, his name is Cao Zhou, right?"
"Yes." Cao Han nodded. He had handed over the family tree of the Cao family to Yunshang before, and he didn't find it too strange that she knew Cao Zhou's name: "Weichen's second uncle and my father's second uncle Before, when my father was still alive, he was the co-owner of the entire Cao Mansion. It’s just that Weichen’s father was an official, and my second uncle was in business.”
"Most of the shops in Cao's house are managed by the second uncle. The second uncle is a rare business genius. Before that, the shops in the family didn't make much money, and they could barely maintain the daily expenses. Later, the business of the family It was handed over to him, and it started to prosper in his hands. But in the past twenty years, the Cao family's business has spread all over the country, and they have made a lot of money."
Yun Shang smiled, Cao Zhou is a business wizard, it is true.
It's just that the Cao family's business can develop to this point, but they can't do without the support of Cao Wenxi.
"Well, I have also heard about it. I heard that it is because of your second uncle's financial support that your father was able to be promoted so quickly..."
This is alluding to the meaning of the Cao family's bribery and buying of officials.
Cao Han hurriedly knelt down: "When my father was an official, I was not favored very much, and I didn't participate in those things in the family. I really don't know about these things."
Yun Shang laughed: "What is this for? I'm just talking casually. I heard some rumors before, and there is no evidence. Besides, even if your father's promotion and your second uncle earned The money is related, now that your father is dead, you can’t pursue it, can you?”
Cao Han bit his lip, he didn't know whether he was cold or frightened, his face turned pale.
Yun Chang casually glanced at the fluttering snow outside: "You just said that there was some movement at your second uncle's side? What movement?"
Only then did Cao Han respond quickly: "Weichen's second uncle is always out on business on weekdays, and is rarely in the mansion. It was only a few months ago that Weichen's second uncle returned to the mansion and never left Jinan again. city."
"On the way back to Jincheng from the Xinggong, Weichen needed money urgently to buy something, so I wanted to advance some money from the Cao family's business. Only then did I find that most of the Cao family's business has closed their doors."
"Weichen found an old shopkeeper who had worked in Cao's shop before and asked about the situation. The old shopkeeper said that the second uncle said that the Cao family had other plans and closed many shops all over the country, and all of them were sold in cash. The silver, all the silver is now in the hands of the second uncle."
Cao Han lowered his eyes: "Weichen is a little strange. After inquiring carefully, I found out that there are not a few shops closed by the second uncle. The cash discounted by these shops is really a lot of money. Wei Wei I don't know what the second uncle wants to do, the second uncle is alert, and it is not easy for me to inquire, but I always feel that something is wrong, so I want to report it to the empress."