With a family background like the Chen family now, it is extremely difficult to manage the family and do a good job.

Of course, although the princess is a golden branch and a jade leaf, the princess has the advantage of being a princess. After all, she has a noble status. Once she wants to do it herself, the people below will certainly not dare to disobey.

On the other hand, there are many eunuchs and palace maids who dowed the princess's house. When it comes to management, there will be no unpleasant things when it comes to help.

Princess Sui'an knew that Chen Zhengtai was busy and that he might not be able to take care of the family affairs. The business of this family became bigger and bigger, and it expanded instantly. The Chen family's original strength could no longer manage the family, so he had to recruit some distant relatives and newly defected servants to manage it.

However, these are of different quality. When the Chen family is booming, there will naturally be some mistakes occasionally, and it is nothing. Under this trend, no one will pay attention to these small details.

At this time, Princess Sui'an felt that since she had become the mistress of the family, she naturally could not ignore the affairs of the family and would not allow any mistakes.

She first cleared the accounts and punished some evil servants who had tampered with them, thus giving the Chen family a deterrent. Then she began to clean up the personnel. Some people who were not suitable for their duties were transferred to other places to supplement new personnel. Some people who were not in a regular manner were directly purged. There was no need for Princess An to come forward, but only the female official could deal with these matters.

Seeing Chen Zhengtai come back, Princess Sui'an hurriedly greeted her. She is a person with a calm personality. Although she had some accidents when she got married, she never mentioned it. When she saw Chen Zhengtai, she looked at Chen Zhengtai gently and smiled: "It's very hard for you to come back."

Chen Zhengtai shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, I just take a look. I went to see my father in the morning, and went to the labor camp at noon and afternoon."

"There is nothing to blame the husband for his father." Princess Sui'an, like an ordinary woman, first put on the coat of Chen Zhengtai, and the female official next to him brought tea to Chen Zhengtai!

Chen Zhengtai took off his clothes and sat down. He felt a little relaxed. He then held the teacup and sipped the warm tea, and said, "There is nothing to blame, it's just that I'm quite worried about the Turks. But you know the temperament of my father. Although he also had a premonition that the Turks were going to rebel, he wouldn't take it too seriously."

Princess Sui'an nodded: "As soon as the father arrives, he will be a enemy of thousands of people. He may have troubles in other matters, but if it is a matter of marching and formation, he is clear and confident."

Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but sigh: "A good swimmer drowns in water..."

Princess Sui'an couldn't help but thrust: "You can't say this nonsense."

Chen Zhengtai smiled and said calmly: "Don't be nervous, I'll just tell you."

Princess Sui'an was a wife at first, but she was still a little shy after all. She hurriedly moved away from the topic: "There is another thing, that is, the other accounts have been sorted out recently, but there is one thing, the labor camp built by wooden tracks, which has a little abnormal expense. Not only is the daily money and grain expenses, but the daily expenses of these more than 3,000 people are actually more than the daily expenses of chicken, duck, fish and meat. In addition, there is also a gunpowder money and maintenance expenses, but I don't know what the name is, and the expenses are also quite large. Wood tracks are not small projects, and they spend a lot of money. If there is no restraint in this regard, I am only worried..."

Chen Zhengtai naturally knew that she could not understand this group of workers, so she was directly taken to practice like a recruit by Chen Zhengye, and the training was particularly harsh. Even the imperial guards were not as good as them!

Although Chen Zhengtai felt that it was a bit too far, there was nothing wrong with maintaining such a state. Anyway, the work had not started yet, so it was considered as pre-job training.

At this time, a female official sent ginseng soup. Princess Sui'an took it and said with concern: "Your husband is very hard outside. Let's take some ginseng soup to nourish your body first."

Chen Zhengtai was very excited. He should make up for it. Now countless Chen family members are looking forward to it, just waiting for the birth of the Chen family’s legitimate grandson!

Chen Zhengtai said in a warm voice: "This ginseng soup smells good, where is the ginseng?"

I asked casually, Princess Sui'an said, "Actually, my father gave me some ginseng, but the ginseng given by my father always felt that it was not very refreshing. I thought to myself that my husband was a person who didn't like to suffer. I heard from my third uncle that there are Fuyu ginseng on the market, which is nourishing and tastes good, so I bought some. It turns out that the quality and appearance are excellent..."

The so-called Fuyu ginseng is actually Goguryeo ginseng, but Fuyu has been destroyed by Goguryeo, so to a certain extent, this Fuyu ginseng should be called Goguryeo ginseng.

Chen Zhengtai looked surprised: "Goguryeo and my Tang Dynasty have cut off trade, so this ginseng is probably fake."

He said, took the silver spoon and took a few bites.

He was rough, but he actually couldn't feel any difference.

Princess Sui'an said, "I have tasted it. It's indeed Goguryeo ginseng. How could I not taste it when I was a child?"

Chen Zhengtai sighed in his heart that he had eaten ginseng since he was a child, no wonder he grew up so big.

But... a new doubt arose: "If so, then this Goguryeo ginseng is very expensive and is a good thing. I need to eat it carefully. Now that I have started a family and started a business, I should think about being more frugal. Our Chen family is thrifty."

Princess Sui'an chuckled: "This is not. Speaking of which, Goguryeo... No, the price of Fuyu ginseng is not expensive, it is just a little higher than the ordinary ginseng, and there are many on the market."

As she said this, Chen Zhengtai's suspicion became even worse.

In fact, since the Sui Dynasty, due to military hostility with Goguryeo and trade with Goguryeo continued until the early Tang Dynasty. Although Li Shimin wanted to start a trade with each other several times, it was just an intention!

The entire Goguryeo, and even Baekje, Silla and other countries on the Liaodong Peninsula, were cut off due to traffic stagnation.

If some ginseng occasionally flows in, it is a waste of time.

But the question is, why does it mean that a large number of ginseng flow in now?

After eating ginseng soup, Chen Zhengtai accompanied Princess Sui'an for a long time and waited for the third uncle to return to the mansion. He asked Princess Sui'an to wait for a while. Then he went to the hall and asked someone to invite the third uncle to come.

The third uncle is still in a state of terror. He is still worried about whether His Majesty will settle the score with the Chen family, so he is extremely attentive to Princess Sui'an!

So when he saw Chen Zhengtai, he criticized with a stern face: "It's time, why don't you accompany Your Highness here? It's really outrageous. Who is Your Highness? She married our Chen family. It's a blessing for our Chen family. You should treat Your Highness well... Humph..."

He deliberately shouted loudly, looking hysterical, fearing that the wall would not have ears. After all, there are many female officials who dowry in the Chen family.

Chen Zhengtai smiled bitterly. Now, whenever the third uncle does something, he will know what his third uncle is making!

However, the third uncle still felt a little embarrassed when he made him whisper: "Uncle, don't be like this. Your Highness is not as stingy as you think. You don't have to deliberately want people to hear anything. She has a very good temperament..."

The third uncle blushed, as if his thoughts were guessed, and hurriedly concealed: "Where do you, don't guess my thoughts randomly, you...you are the kindness of a villain who judges a gentleman."

Then he thought about calling Chen Zhengtai a villain, but he felt that it was not very good, so he scrambled to describe it in another word, but he was anxious for a moment and couldn't think of it, so he had to vent his anger and pinch his beard.

Seeing his strange appearance, Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but laugh and cry, and was too lazy to care about these things with him. Thinking that there was something serious about it, he said straight to the point: "I heard that there are many Goguryeo ginseng on the market?"

The topic changed a little quickly. Uncle San frowned and thought, "Goguryeo ginseng is common, what's wrong?"

Chen Zhengtai said annoyedly: "This is strange. The Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo banned the trade between them. How did such a large number of ginseng come in?"

"This?" The third uncle couldn't help but say, "Why are you worried about so much? Alas, our Chen family is really worried about life, just like me..." He loudened his voice again and said, "Isn't this the same thing? This princess married into our Chen family. I am worried that your highness will be cold and that she will be hot, and I am even more afraid that you are busy on weekdays and can't accompany the princess day and night. Alas... Our Chen family is really human, I don't know how to coax a woman..."

Chen Zhengtai looked at the third uncle jumping up and down again, and couldn't feel him. He was not there. He was asking the third uncle to talk about serious matters, so he hurriedly said, "San uncle, stop making trouble. I saw it when I came, and there was no one outside."

The third uncle was stunned, then glared at him and lowered his voice, "How did you know that there is no one outside? This is dark, what if there is someone hidden? If the king is not secret, he will lose his ministers; if the minister is not secret, he will lose his virginity. If the prince consort is not secret, what would he lose?"

Chen Zhengtai felt that if he continued to go to this topic, he probably kept saying that these unnutritious ones were said, so he deliberately raised his face: "Continue to talk about serious matters. What channel did you take for so many ginseng? Who has such ability? They purchased a large amount of ginseng, so what would they use to trade with Goguryeo? The Goguryeo people took out so many specialties and sent ginseng into the Tang Dynasty continuously. Are they just willing to collect copper coins?"

Chen Zhengtai said a series of questions, and the third uncle frowned: "What do you think is the exchange?"

"If you want to exchange, it must be the thing that the Goguryeo people lack the most. For example, for them now, the Tang Dynasty was eyeing them, so they naturally needed a lot of armor, a lot of bows and arrows, and other iron tools."

The third uncle nodded thoughtfully: "What do you mean is someone who knows Goguryeo?"

Chen Zhengtai sighed, finally... Uncle San made his secret public.

Chen Zhengtai said: "Think about it, someone can have an affair with Goguryeo and exchange a large amount of goods. Such a person will definitely not have a small net worth, and may even... have an extraordinary status in the court. Otherwise, how could he open up so many joints and sell goods from enemy countries under the noses of so many people? How can he exchange so many iron tools with Goguryeo people? This is definitely not something that ordinary people can do."

Chen Zhengtai paused and continued, "Of course, the matter of Goguryeo has nothing to do with our Chen family, but have you ever thought that since they can send a large number of things that are not allowed to trade out of the customs, they can have an affair with the Goguryeo people. Could it be... wouldn't they collude with the Baekje people? Even collude with the Turks... in this desert, there are so many Hu people, their smuggling trade must also be involved. And this... is what my nephew is most worried about, uncle... Now our Chen family has started to operate outside the customs, but they know nothing about these people, and these people... are hidden in the secret, who are they, how much energy, and how many Hu people they have, will they collude with? Once the Chen family is outside the customs, will it hinder their interests? Will they hurt people with hidden arrows? All such things need to be careful."

Interested in foreign countries...

Such a thing is not new at all.

The more you cut off trade, to some extent, the more profitable it is, because you can do house transactions that others cannot do, so you can naturally sell them at high prices.

It is not surprising that he took risks because of this huge benefit.

Chen Zhengtai didn't think of this possibility at first. He simply believed that the Chen family should have a foothold outside the pass. At this time, after drinking ginseng soup, he realized that... some things may not be as simple as he imagined.

Chen Zhengtai thought about it and said, "If you take another ten thousand steps, will these people have any involvement with Tuli Khan? Tuli Khan is outside the pass and must have no idea about the news about the Tang Dynasty. However, I see that he frequently harasses the situation, but he controls the situation within a controllable range. Is there any guidance from experts behind him? The enemy is the best to guard against, but the most difficult thing to guard against is the 'our own people'. They may be in the court, chatting with you, but behind their backs, they may have sharpened the knife."

After hearing this, the third uncle became cautious and his expression became a little solemn: "Then... Zhengtai means..."

"We cannot look at this matter in a confused manner, so we must thoroughly investigate and find out the person. No matter how much money we spend, we must also find out the other party's background. Moreover, you must leave this matter to someone who can trust."

"A person who can trust..." Uncle San thought for a while and said, "There are a few people in the Chen family who are cautious, but... I have to think about it again..."

Chen Zhengtai said seriously: "You should be as soon as possible."

The third uncle nodded: "Don't worry, oh, yes, go and accompany Your Highness. In the middle of the night, what are you talking about here with my half-legged person in the coffin? If there is news, I will come to tell you. Zhengtai, I have been thinking about it. Our Chen family... must hold His Highness the Princess's legs, otherwise, I will be uneasy."
Chapter completed!