The Purchasing Steward wants to rely on the Jiang Family to buy things and also to get goods from them. He knows that the Jiang Family is making a loss by doing business for the General's Mansion, and has some grievances, so he dares not strain relations.
It is rare for Jiang's younger brother to have someone he's interested in, so naturally, he is willing to help. What's difficult for him is that Zheng Mingzhu was once the Great General's concubine and had been favored.
Jiang's younger brother put a money pouch into his hand and whispered, "The Great General has thirty or forty concubines, one for each day of the month, let alone one who has been punished as a maid. The maids we procured for the mansion have numbered in the hundreds, haven't they? I've heard that there are nearly a thousand maids in the mansion now."
The Purchasing Steward replied, "Not nearly a thousand, but over a thousand."
