Zhang Zhaohua prepared the gift list and hurried to Kunning Palace.

The marriage of the third prince Gao Sui is almost decided, although it is handled by officials of the Ministry of Etiquette, but Zhang Zhaohua naturally has to intervene, and the 70,000 taels of silver issued by the imperial court will be used to buy dowry in addition to the wedding ceremony. Just like the dowries of Yong'an and Yongping back then, they were all wood and craftsmanship from Jiangnan, and this time the emperor also sent eunuchs to Jiangnan to buy.

"The workmanship of these things is the style of Suzhou and Hangzhou. The south is different from the north, the clothing of women in the north changes every seven or eight years, while the women in the south of the Yangtze River change every two or three years. The size of the bun, the width of the garment, the style of the flowers, the color of the rendering, the ornaments of the sideburns, and the work of the silk are all in line with the wind from the south. Jewelry hairpins like this have long been in vogue in Jiangnan. Zhang Zhaohua pointed to the hairpin on his head and said.

"Why is the sister-in-law still wearing it," Xianning was also beside Queen Xu, and said, "This hairpin is very old." ”

"That's not because your eldest brother bought it for me," Zhang Zhaohua said happily: "In the first month of the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, it was ordered in the Qinhuai River Laomendong Jewelry Store. ”

Empress Xu summoned her to the closer, looked at it carefully, and said, "This hairpin is too old, melt it and let the silver bureau make you a few again." ”

"Sister-in-law's mother's house, isn't there a silver building," Xianning said: "This time, why don't you hand over the dowry of the third sister-in-law to your mother's family?"

"My second brother," Zhang Zhaohua said: "The main business is grain, salt, and timber, and the silver building is a side business that relies on these main businesses, and does not expect to make much money, so it is in the six mansions of Beiping, and opens three or two houses, all of which are every time they hit the south and come up, bringing new styles and drawings and the like, which are a little better than other sales. ”

Zhang Sheng did not open a silver building in Jiangnan, but tried to develop a money store, the name is Qingyuan, he is very smart, first gathered a group of Jing Nanxun Gui to cooperate with him, the money is stored in his money store, the turnover is very effective, now I heard that some rich people also began to pay attention to his money store, because Zhang Sheng's money store is now very stable, this is because he himself is a relative, and is a relative of the prince, this is a attention-grabbing and coveted identity.

But this time the dowry Zhang Zhaohua did not ask him to take it, of course, he could make a lot of money from it, but he offended the eunuchs in the palace The road to fortune, now these eunuchs are not as good as Emperor Gao, they are holding their breath and concentrating on nothing, but they began to be sent out to complete important tasks, and it is light to exchange tea for horses, and now the eunuchs can follow the general army out of Guizhou, Guangxi, Ningxia and other places, and even give them the power to go straight to the express shop.

When the intention of the palace to buy jewelry reaches the boundary of Jiangnan, these eunuchs will go to the big families in Jiangnan. These men had silversmiths, tricks, and smuggled gems - the sea was repeatedly forbidden and of little use to the family. Give this big order to these people, among which the eunuchs can get two points of return, and the remaining three points of interest are obtained by these big families. The original price of the jewelry handed over to the palace was only half of the opening price.

Zhang Zhaohua saw these ways at first sight when she saw the dowry list, but she would not be stupid enough to pursue it layer by layer, catch a large number of people, and then let herself be hated everywhere. These eunuchs, a large part of the land are from the hidden mansion, the caution at that time has passed, and now they can enjoy the dividends of the emperor's reward for them, why not be greedy, the emperor means this, otherwise how to repay these people, will there be people to follow him in the future.

Even Zhang Zhaohua fell in love with an agricultural and forestry orchard on the outskirts of Beijing, this place was originally the garden of the county lord of Jiangdu, Zhang Zhaohua gave it to Zhang Chang without saying a word, and everyone pretended not to see it.

Most of the things that drive people forward are interests, and the generals and eunuchs follow the king of Yan with their heads up, and they win the world, but there is no return, it is impossible - as long as this division of interests, on a certain basis, has not threatened the interests of the people and the foundation of the dynasty.

"You haven't seen them yet," Empress Xu pointed to the two people sitting on her lower left, and introduced Zhang Zhaohua: "This is the Yang family, this is the Yang family's husband Jiang Tingqi, and it is Gao Chi's nurse and nurse." ”

Zhang Zhaohua had seen the two of them a long time ago, but he didn't know the identity and didn't want to talk rashly, this time he knew, and immediately stood up to avoid their big gift, but gave them a blessing: "It turned out to be Mother Yang, who was a son of Ju back then, and was very kind, please accept my worship." ”

Where did the Yang family dare to let the crown princess worship her, she was almost so anxious that she couldn't speak, Zhang Zhaohua looked at her, she was completely different from the Jin family, but she was a sincere person, and her heart was much more relaxed, if there was another one who looked like the Jin family, wouldn't she be tormented to death.

The two were in Shandong, and the Xu family originally sent someone to find them, but at that time, Jiang Tingjue's mother happened to die, and she had to keep filial piety for three years. When it was time for Jingnan, these two people originally planned to defect to King Yan, but Tie Xuan guarded Jinan to the death and did not allow people to enter and leave, and they had no choice but to come to Nanjing until Jingnan succeeded.

"Shandong is now taxed heavily," Jiang Tingqi was embarrassed: "We just want to move to Beijing, I also have some small business to do, that is, the old woman, can also wash people's clothes." ”

Zhang Zhaohua immediately said: "The prince's nurse, she still washes people's clothes? If this is said, I am afraid that the faces of the prince and I will be scolded! You two will enjoy the happiness, anyway, it is the prince's filial piety, and he has not been filial piety for more than ten years, and this time, we can't make us feel uneasy anymore." ”

Zhang Zhaohua doesn't really care about and cares about the nurses, just because these people have an unusual status in the hearts of men, so they have to give them face. Gao Chi is not an isolated example, on November 13 of the fourth year of Jianwen, the emperor made the queen and was in the middle palace. Ten days later, the emperor sent the eunuch Zheng He to sacrifice his nurse Feng. It can be seen from this that the commemoration of the wet nurse has reached an important point in the emperor's mind.

However, the matter was not over, because Empress Xu said that the emperor planned to posthumously crown the nurse Feng as the wife of Baosheng Xianshun, and at the same time in the Xishan of Beiping, he sent Gao Sui, the king of Zhao, to sacrifice with a pearl crown and fragrant wat real clothes.

When Zhang Zhaohua heard this, he was twice as heavy as the gift he originally planned to give to the Yang family, and at the same time, he also paid for it himself and bought them a fairly spacious courtyard, which was the former residence of Jianwen's relics.

Gao Chi there, because Zhang Zhaohua and the Jin family have a disagreement, so the rewards are all privately rewarded, Zhang Zhaohua knows it in his heart, but he is too lazy to point it out. This time the Yang family was rewarded, and the Jin family was also rewarded. On the surface, it looks similar, but in fact, it is much worse, but Zhang Zhaohua is a veteran of doing this kind of list of things on the books, Gao Chi really can't see anything, but is so happy that he praises her generosity.

Zhang Zhaohua sent to Xu Zhang's house to send the grandmother back, these people were ordered by her, saying that they were sending a dowry list, but in fact, they looked at Xu's appearance, all of them were dignified and beautiful, gentle and amiable, and even more angry was Yongping and Yong'an, I don't know what kind of heart An's heart was, they all sent things to Xu Zhang's mansion, and they were like this before they entered the door, it seems that they will definitely pull Xu's to deal with her in the future - Yongping is like this, Yong'an is the same, she thinks about it and doesn't know where to be sorry for people.

If you want to say that Zhang Zhaohua is not afraid of them, it is not. It's just that no one wants to set up a few enemies for themselves, surrounding them day and night. Yongping's heart and Yong'an's methods are indeed troublesome, but they are not too much trouble, with Queen Xu blocking herself, these two people can't make big waves at all.