Chapter 1124: What’s Mine Is Still Mine
The boss’s original idea of trying to retrieve some losses vanished completely, as he dared not ask the Duke Mansion for silver.
He lowered his head and cupped his hands, his attitude becoming respectful, "I will strictly follow Madam’s instructions and vacate the shop within three days."
Yun Jiao turned and left with her people.
Then she first went to the house she had previously purchased, which was also within the Imperial City, and was now occupied by a family of four.
This household was also from Jin Country and had come from Yilan a few years ago to open a rice shop here.
Yun Jiao did not speak much with them, only took out the house deed and asked them to move out soon.
Nowadays, the people from Jin Country in Dingjing City were all living in fear, afraid that the people of Chu Country would come to settle scores with them. This family did not dare to say much and agreed obediently to move out soon.
After reclaiming the house, Yun Jiao went to reclaim her perfume workshop and White Medicine Workshop.
The perfume workshop was in the Inner City and had already ceased operations, though from the state of things inside, it hadn’t been closed for long.
Upon inquiring, she found out that Prince Liang had taken over the perfume workshop long ago. He hired workers to produce and used distillation equipment to extract essential oils from flowers. Despite not having the formulas or knowing the ratios, they were indifferent, selling the diluted essential oil as perfume.
They actually made a considerable amount of money.
After Prince Liang was killed by the Duke, the steward Prince Liang had sent to the workshop fled, and the workshop workers, without management, naturally took off with the previous items.
Yun Jiao looked around and, fortunately, the large equipment hadn’t been dismantled and damaged; with a bit of tidying and hiring some workers, she could resume operations.
Next, she went to look at the White Medicine Workshop in the Outer City.
The White Medicine Workshop was completely abandoned.
Even the compacted ground inside had weeds growing.
The White Medicine formula Yun Jiao previously gave to Wanyan Zhang seemed flawless, so he started preparing the White Medicine Workshop. After his death, Doctor Chen took over the formula and the workshop.
However, the White Medicine’s sales were very poor.
It turned out Yun Jiao had changed one ingredient and added another, making the medicine appear to have the same hemostatic effect at first glance. However, when the powder was applied to a wound, it caused unbearable pain, discouraging anyone from wanting to use it.
Even the soldiers preferred to use ordinary hemostatic medicine over White Medicine.
After all, few could endure the feeling of salt being rubbed on a wound.
Later, Doctor Chen, seeing no profit, closed the workshop.
The White Medicine purchased in Jin Country was still sold by merchants with the Renxin Hall imprint on the bottles.
The Capital City was now underpopulated, and there was a manpower shortage.
Yun Jiao couldn’t find workers for the moment, so the White Medicine Workshop had to remain abandoned.
Many commoners actually came back with her on this return to the capital.
Because the Emperor had declared that upon returning to the capital, land would be distributed to the people.
It wasn’t only around Dingjing; large stretches of unclaimed land in the entire north had originally belonged to officials above third rank from the capital, each having thousands to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of acres?
As those third-rank officials were captured and taken to Huining, large tracts of land fell into the hands of Jin Country’s nobility.
Now, these lands have returned to Great Chu.
Some officials are still alive in Yilan and may still hold the land deeds of the past, but the Emperor has long decided that for those with little land, the government will return their land.
Yet, for those with tens of thousands of acres, or hundreds of thousands of acres, should you return it to them? Impossible!