CH 31.1

However, due to the wrong environment, Ji Yunxi has not expanded externally for many years, so she can only keep operating her pawnshops, auction houses, as well as the fertile farms and commercial houses she bought earlier.

After all, ancient times are no better than modern times. If the business is too big and the money earned is too much, it will easily make the Emperor afraid.

In fact, Ji Yunxi has made many compromises for the safety of the Ji family over the years.

For example, she has not bought farmland and homesteads for three years, and just let the money pile up in the warehouse, or just let the auction houses collect more and better treasures.

For example, for the collected treasures, she will definitely ask her Eldest Brother to give a part of it as a tribute to the Emperor on her behalf. She also donates a lot of money for disaster relief every year.

But what’s the use?

According to the plot in the book, the Ji family is the first target.

What does this mean? It means that the Fifth Prince, or the one sitting on the throne now, has long been unhappy with her Ji family.

Not because of her Ji family’s business, but because they belonged to the Crown Prince’s party.

The current Emperor actually does not want the Crown Prince to succeed to the throne.

No matter how big or small her Ji family’s business is, as long as the Emperor is not replaced, the Ji family will not last long.

In that case, Ji Yunxi thought about it and felt that there were only two things she could do.

One, replace the Emperor and ensure that the Crown Prince will ascend the throne. As long as the Crown Prince sits firmly on the throne, their Ji family will be fine. Ji Yunxi is confident about this.

Two, simply expand the business and find someone to be deeply rooted in the court. The officialdom and the businesses is a two-pronged approach. No matter who the future Emperor is, as long as they want to touch her Ji family, they have to weigh whether they can touch it or not.

This road is difficult, but it is the only road for the Ji family.

Since they were born with the surname ‘Ji’, they have no more way out.

Either get stronger or die.

Pretending to be weak will only make them die easier and in a worse way.

After making the decision, Ji Yunxi began to buy farmland again.

The owner of the field’s ancestor used to be an official that was neither too big nor too small. The former Emperor rewarded this field to them.

But after the death of the ancestor, there were no descendants in the family who could take over the position, and their living situation gradually declined.

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The entire big family only rely on this field alone to continue their living, and their life is really hard.

They plan to sell the field and move back to their hometown. After all, their hometown is in a remote place and it won’t cost too much money to live their daily life there. Their life will be more comfortable than how they are now in the capital.

Ji Yunxi roughly takes a look around. Without much hesitation, she directly signed the land deed with the owner of the field.

In these past few days, she has learned almost everything about it. She knows about the field situation and the annual harvest in the field like the back of her hand.

Her purpose for coming here is just to sign the land deed.

Next to Ji Yunxi is Tang Hu.

Tang Hu was not very old and he was only a year younger than Ji Yunxi. Only fourteen years old.

But Ji Yunxi is going to hand over the farm to Tang Hu and let him manage it.

If it was put into someone else’s perspective, it was an absolutely impossible thing to do. Which manager is not thirty or forty years old?

But Ji Yunxi quite likes to use young people. She prefers to cultivate them by herself rather than recruiting older and more experienced managers from outside.

And to cultivate people, there must be an opportunity to let the newcomer try first.

Ji Yunxi felt that Tang Hu is very smart, and the candied haws caught her heart.

Ji Yunxi turned her head to the side and instructed Tang Hu: “I will hand over this field to you. Next, you will have to recruit workers and also build a courtyard around here, and then arrange a series of affairs too. For the specific tasks, you can go to other farms I own and let the manager there show you around and teach you.”

Tang Hu, who thought he was just coming to see the field with Third Miss, was stunned: “Hand over…to me??”