Crossing the Unknown Country

Chapter 417 Su He and the others go to Anqing Prefecture

The protection of the Ninth Prince also allowed the Su family's workshop to produce steadily. The Su family made a lot of money by taking advantage of the road paved by the Ninth Prince. Su He also gradually achieved financial freedom. He had his own mansions in Fengyu City and Fenggu City. They were courtyards with gardens and pavilions, not small courtyards.

The Su family was considered a wealthy family, as doing business would affect the brothers' path to the imperial examinations. Except for the teahouse in Fenggu City that used Su He's name, the rest were named after other people.

The house and land deeds were still theirs, but they hired a shopkeeper to run the business under the name of leasing. The Su He family now had a lot of servants, most of whom were managed by Su He's father, and each of the brothers also had their own servants.

They must start to cultivate useful people. When they enter officialdom in the future, people who have not been cultivated since childhood will easily be betrayed.

Finally, they held a family meeting and discussed that Su He should follow her father to Anqing Prefecture to buy a house, observe the local business, and see if there is any opportunity to open a store there.

Su He thought about whether she could do something else. The Ninth Prince had already opened a teahouse here. She could only look for other businesses. This was not a problem for Su He. The prosperity of business in the future was not comparable to that here.

Su He's father also discussed which masters to take with him, and Master Ye must go with him, so he needs to greet Wang Xiaohu. In principle, a criminal like Master Ye cannot leave Fenggu City, but as long as he keeps his name secret and does not walk around outside, it is not impossible.

Su He took the initiative to accept this, and she followed her master Feng Dayuan to find Wang Xiaohu. The rest was to see which master had less trouble and take that one with them. Now these masters have regarded the Su family as their own home, some of them have married and had children, and their whole family lives with the Su family.

The Su family also promised to provide for their masters until their old age, regardless of whether they had children or not. With such generous treatment, Su He's masters have completely identified with the Su family.

Finally, Su He and his companions took their four masters, Feng Dayuan, Qian Wanan, Zhu Longhai, and Hu Changxing, to Anqing Prefecture.

They drove four carriages for five days and arrived at Anqing Prefecture at 3 p.m. The towering city tower showed that it was a huge city. There were tea stalls and rest stations a few miles outside the city, and vehicles passed by from time to time on the road.

When we got to the outside of the city, along the city gate, there were stalls set up by small vendors. There were mostly food and small stalls, and people from the city also came out to buy things. This Fenggu City was completely different from Fengyu City.

Su He stuck her head out of the car and saw some vendors selling sesame cakes, tea, noodles, vegetables and firewood. She found that no one was in charge of this place, but these vendors were quite conscious and no one blocked the road.

They entered Anqing Prefecture. The soldiers guarding the gate did not collect the city fee. They just looked at their pass and let them in. The soldiers here were very comfortable and not so fierce. It seemed that Anqing Prefecture had good security.

As soon as you enter the city gate, you can feel the difference of the city. There are people everywhere, men and women in all kinds of clothes, young and old walking on the streets. The tic-tac-toe roads make the city full of shops, and you can get around in all directions.

Various shops are scattered all over the place, with various signs and banners of various styles hung at the shop doors, trying their best to tell passers-by what business they are doing.