Zhang Zhaohua sat behind the screen, and the Wang family and the granddaughter brought by the Wang family had a meal, this girl named Jingjing is the daughter of her eldest brother Zhang Sheng, but it is not from the Zheng family, but a slave maid who was bought, and this woman has not been raised as a concubine, and she has not yet had a name. Zhang Zhaohua didn't know what Jingjing, who was only two months old and one year old, should eat, or Wang ordered the steamed minced meat and egg custard on the stove, and the bowl was a lot of portions, and it was eaten quickly.

"Jingjing is so easy to bring," Zhang Zhaohua saw that the child didn't cry or make trouble, opened his mouth wide and chirped and ate sweetly: "Let the kitchen make a rice porridge again." ”

"It's enough, I'm going to vomit out if I'm too full at a time," Wang handed over the child to the nanny, and said, "She eats several meals a day, and her intestines are straight, and she can pull three or five bubbles out a day." ”

Zhang Zhaohua laughed, Wang glanced at her, and said: "You were not all like this when you were young, what's ridiculous, I pulled the three of you brothers up, and now I pull my grandchildren, I am waiting for the grandson in your belly, and when you are born, I will go into the yard and bring it to you." ”

"How is that possible," Zhang Zhaohua added a few chopsticks to steam the anchovy, and said: "He hasn't landed yet, he has already been equipped with three nursing mothers, and seven or eight palace people have served him, which is more expensive than the original prince of the world. ”

"I originally said," Zhang Zhaohua brushed his chopsticks: "I am strong, if I feed the milk myself, wouldn't it be better than the wet nurse?" But it is not allowed, my own milk is not given to the child, and the child is allowed to eat other people's milk, what is the reason!"

Zhang Zhaohua doesn't understand the ancient wet nurse system, as if she didn't let the nurse breastfeed was depriving her of a professional way of survival, she saw that the princess didn't seem to like the nurse very much, and she didn't want to give the child an extra role that was said to be a nurse, but it was actually a burden, but the rules are the rules, no matter how unhappy Zhang Zhaohua was, ** The house was also selected for seven or eight people to be selected for her to choose, but since this nurse was selected by Zhang Zhaohua, she was naturally beaten one by one, and Zhang Zhaohua also secretly made a decision to wean the child when he was half a year old, and then drive out this group of people, of course, not to rush to the garden, but to go back to their respective homes, and no one should mention the words of milk and grandchildren in the future.

Zhang Zhaohua looked at the table full of roasted chicken, sugar steamed eggplant, white meat, milk boiled lamb gizzard, and golden silk belly soup, and only used a few things, but he sandwiched some green vegetables, especially mixed chrysanthemum, which is considered to be used up, and it has something to do with the vinegar in this chrysanthemum, which smells fragrant - Wang saw that she liked to eat such sour food, so he said happily: "I see that you have a sharp belly and love to eat sour, this baby must be a brother!"

If this was before, Zhang Zhaohua must have sneered, since she was pregnant, her taste has changed three times a day, maybe she likes to eat spicy food today, but Ming'er changed it to sweet, even her small kitchen can't figure out what she wants to eat next, the princess also said that the taste of this thing can't be done accurately, then look at the stomach can't be accurate, but Wang said that the ground is mysterious, what to say when crossing the threshold, look at which foot is stepping in, the left foot is designated to give birth to a son, and the right foot is to give birth to a girl, so there is no scientific basis for inference. Originally, Zhang Zhaohua was impatient to listen, and said that she had a son, what happened to giving birth to a girl, she thought that the girl was good, Gao Chi also thought that the girl was good, and even the princess said that she had been a husband in Yong'an at the beginning, and she was happier than Gao Chi later.

It's just that she can't help but change her mind now, thinking that having a brother may really be better than a sister, and she doesn't want to delve into where she started to change this idea, but if she gives birth to a son, even if she is a grandson in the actual sense, and if she gives birth to a daughter, she will be the county lord. But there is a big difference in this, because according to the ancestral system, the eldest son of the prince, ten years old, is awarded the golden book treasure, established as the king's son, and the grandson is the same, but before that, the treatment has been the same as the grandson of the world, but it is just a lack of name;

"I remember that the delivery date is February," Wang chatted with her without a match: "It would be nice if it was a month earlier, I heard that the child born in the first month of the year is noble." ”

Zhang Zhaohua came back to his senses and said: "That's all nonsense, the emperor was born in September, who in the whole world can honor the emperor?"

If you believe these nonsense, then the children born in the first month should die, the emperor was born in September, you dare to be born in the first month? Thousands of people born in the first month, there are always rich and poor, expensive and cheap, Cao Xueqin wrote "Dream of Red Mansions", wrote a Jia Yuanchun, the reason why it was named Yuanchun, because he was born on the first day of the first month, but he really had "nobility" and became the emperor's concubine, but what happened in the end, it was not "the dream of the tiger and the tiger meeting in a big dream".

"You've watched too much drama," Zhang Zhaohua took the clothes of the child sent by Wang, shook his head and said, "What's the matter, now I heard that the family has invited a troupe to sing?"

"What's the matter," Wang said, "The previous child just gave Jingjing a full moon, and then made a birthday for your father." ”

"Tell me about your second brother," Wang was unhappy: "Your father's birthday, I have said it a long time ago, and I have not seen him for half a year, and I want him to rush back to take a look, I and your father are still secretly discussing, he will come in a while, we will catch him, not let him go, stay at home for a year or two, and when he is married and has children, we will let him go." ”

As a result, Zhang Sheng did not enter the set at all, and the people went to Shanxi to sell salt, and when Zhang Qi was on his birthday, the filial piety was delivered, and there were a lot of gold jewelry shells brought back, but people couldn't see the shadow at all, and I heard that they wanted to run farther away, and they didn't know whether they were going south or going to Shaanxi and Gansu this year.

"Forget it," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Brother Sheng'er has his own ideas, you are in a hurry now, he is not happy, wait for two years, maybe he will bring his wife and children back." ”

Besides, now, Zhang Sheng is really busy, he takes the caravan, and also takes the guests of honor Yuan Rong and Li Rang's subordinates, which is also a benefit to share together, because after all, the market is vast, and the family cannot be dominant, and people buy goods by themselves, borrowing his channels, it is also a lot of expenses, of course, after making more money, in short, it is a virtuous circle, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

You say Zhang Sheng's heart is big, Zhang Zhaohua's heart is bigger, when she asked Zhang Sheng to go to business, think about whether she can set up a stronghold, this kind of stronghold is to buy or lease places in the city or countryside, of course, it is best to be in the city, because the big city has purchasing power - for the sale of goods, because Zhang Sheng They can't get rid of the form of business, with a large number of goods city by city, selling and buying, when they meet a place where they can eat, they will dump in one fell swoop, if they can't, they have to go.

Zhang Sheng's several shops were opened in Beiping and several cities around Beiping, mainly to deliver goods for him, and often could not be delivered to the place, also because of the problem of communication. And Zhang Zhaohua's idea is actually a bit risky, everyone knows to get their own base, but this thing is not something that can be done, at most buy a few shops as a turnover place. Because the calculation is actually not worth it, and unless the scale is bigger, there is this ability to open on several often taken business routes, this kind of stronghold, but also different from the branch of later generations, also different from the office, in short, it is not easy to do, and it takes time and manpower, you try to get a point, people may have gone three times to do business.

But this thing is very good in the end, once you grit your teeth and succeed, it's like the blood is opened, and the time and manpower you paid before can be recovered, and you will benefit for life. Zhang Zhaohua originally had some ideas that he had obtained from later generations, but now he can't use them. Because first of all, this trade route cannot be extended to the south, and when the war disaster comes, no matter what it looks like, it will be able to destroy the land and have nothing. If you go east to the canal waterway, you can, at most to Linqing, because the canal of the Yuan Dynasty has been silted up to today, and now the people are digging in the canal, but the number of people is small, and the project is large.

There is also the possibility of transshipment, sea freight.

Maritime transport -- Didn't the emperor strictly prohibit going to the sea? It is true that it is strictly forbidden to go to the sea, and the problem of sea thieves and coastal cohabitants has always existed, so it is natural to pay attention to it. It's just that the matter of shipping is a channel for the official delivery of grain.

Although some guards carried out tuntian, each army was 50 mu and collected 15 stone in rent, but it was far from meeting the needs. Then we can only rely on the grain week in the southeast, the canal can not be transported, the Yellow River can not be reached, so it relies on shipping, and this shipping route is from Suzhou to Liaodong, all the way to the water transport is convenient, the turmoil is not done, it is extremely fast, but the number of sea ships is small, and the shipment is only five or six hundred thousand stones per year. And there is no yamen consul, things are not one, and the sea ships go to sea, which is very inconvenient to transfer.

This made Zhang Zhaohua see the benefits of shipping, of course, she has always been aware of the benefits of shipping, but she just heard the emperor's edict on the 10th day of October, saying that Liaodong shipping has been under the jurisdiction of the whole year, and she has heard that there is a surplus in military salaries there, and there is no need to transfer it in the future. Only the soldiers of this department are ordered to give it. So a sea line was canceled as a matter of course.

First, shipping is a temporary urgency in the government and the opposition, and against the background of the closed customs, this will not last long at all; second, shipping only sends grain to Liaodong, which is a coming-and-going exchange of official ships, and it is absolutely impossible for merchant ships to go to sea; third, shipping can go directly from Suzhou to Liaodong, because there is a big port in Liaodong where ships can be stopped, but there is no place to stop ships in Beiping.

Because the Tianjin Port in later generations is now just a small town named Zhigu and Haijin Town, and it has no ability to berth large ships, which is the most important thing, Zhang Zhaohua knows that once Tianjin opens a port, the traffic of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Minyue is a major event with thousands of profits, but now in this context, even the canal cannot be trafficked, let alone by sea.

But it doesn't matter, it can't now, it doesn't mean that it can't in the future, in the future, King Yan will ascend the throne, Zhang Zhaohua is sa splash and roll and also ask to come to Tianjin to Suzhou and Hangzhou transportation routes, even if the official ship has doubts, Zhang Zhaohua will let the Zhang family's private ship open up this route, and then in the future it will be such a major event as going to the Western Ocean, which is brilliant and profitable, why not participate!

But at the moment, the Zhang family does not have the strength to build a big ship, Zhang Sheng has not thought about shipping, river transportation such a thing, he is still used to walking with two legs, this is the instinct of Shanxi people, his direction is still Shanxi, Shandong, Henan these places, this is not wrong, in short, Zhang Sheng is a person who can accept new things and has a far-sighted vision, and will see the benefits of shipping in the future, naturally know what to do.

After a while, Gao Chi came back, and when Wang saw him, he became cramped, and happened to hear Jingjing urinating again, so she hurriedly stood up and went to manage the child.