"Childe is the favorite candidate for the eldest lady, and he is not the only one-"

Seeing that she was smiling and silent, noncommittal, it seemed that she had already seen through what the reason Wang Shiqiang sent him here, Zuo Ping had already prepared, and hurriedly took out the second candidate prepared by Wang Shiqiang, and said carefully,

"In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and maritime businessmen, in addition to Wang and Xie, where are there people who can be worthy of the eldest lady? Even if there is a real shortage of court officials, as long as the eldest lady takes a fancy to it, there is no son who can't say it, and it can't be arranged. A few years ago, among the nine talents funded by Siming Academy, one of them has passed the provincial examination and won the lift, and there is a son who has done a little up and down for him, although he can't be a promotion official in front of the official palace, but he has also found a clerk in the Imperial City Division of the capital to do errands, and now there are also eight grades of Yulu ......",

"Imperial City Division?"

Rao is Ji Qingchen had already prepared, and he was also secretly taken aback in his heart, Wang Shiqiang's second blind date selection was of course more surprising to her than the Jinguo businessman just now.

"You Wang Gangshou are really thoughtful, and people have to admire ......"

She either listened to others about the position of the Imperial City Division, or listened to Wang Shiqiang's sue for him.

The Imperial City Division belongs to one of the imperial guards of the Southern Song Dynasty Zhao Guan's family, and it was also founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, she listened carefully to the scope of the Imperial City Division's duties, although it was not as notorious as the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei she had seen in history textbooks, and she could arrest the court officials and go to prison at will, but it was almost the eyes and ears of the Zhao Guan's family, the predecessor of the Jinyi Guard.

"If the eldest lady doesn't believe it, just write to ask Mrs. Huang, whether it is the character, appearance, background, and family assets of these two people, Mrs. Huang has seen it with her own eyes——"

Zuo Ping knew that what he said was not true. also knows that she and Mrs. Huang Da are also doing some business in partnership, and the correspondence is extremely frequent.

"There is another candidate, that is, Mrs. Huang asked Huang Da Dong to mention it to his son, surnamed Cheng, who was the friend of life and death when Huang Da Dong was a water ghost in the Yellow River Gang in the northwest, and he also ate the bowl of rice on the Yellow River waterway. Today's family lady only asks Mrs. Huang. He has a younger brother in his family, and he is the same age as the eldest lady-"

Zuo Ping knew that in addition to the candidates mentioned by Mrs. Huang. There is also this time that he came to ask to see the eldest lady, and the two candidates mentioned and the matter of kissing now are all improvised when the prince left Dazaifu just now, in order not to let the Chen family's courtship in Quanzhou succeed.

This is also to listen to the persuasion of Huang Da Proprietor:

It's not so much about old feelings that she doesn't want to hear anymore. It's better to pick a serious family affair for her in a down-to-earth manner, and get through the current crisis.

"That's right. Since the relatives have put their hearts into it, it seems unreasonable for me to push it back, and this matter is not impossible-"

Of course, Ji Qingchen knew Wang Shiqiang's intentions, and Huang Qilang's wife also mentioned to her the family affairs of the Cheng family in a letter. said that the Cheng family was an old acquaintance that her mother's family had also interacted with, and it could be regarded as knowing the roots.

Northerners marry mostly people of mixed ethnic groups, and they don't care about her identity when she returns from abroad.

She pondered in her heart. His eyes fell on Zuo Ping's face and looked at his expression. Laughed:

"It's just that, why don't you persuade Wang Gangshou, since you are in a hurry to win over these three people, why don't you marry off your Zuo family's sisters and girls? In the end, it's still his mother's family, isn't it more convenient to be a favor? ”

Zuo Ping seemed to know that she would be so sarcastic, and said calmly:

"I'm not afraid to say that I listen to the eldest lady, if you want to talk about blood, of course, our family and the son are closer, but if you want to talk about like-mindedness and conspiracy, or Huang Dongzhu and the eldest lady, you are the heart and soul of the son, and the son treats the heart of the eldest lady——"

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, if you want your son to get your wish, I'll ask you one thing-"

She laughed, slowly reached out behind the curtain, held Ji Ruiniang and quietly stretched out, tugging at the corner of her clothes and asking her not to agree to this little hand, so that she could be a little anxious.

"Let me ask you, among the 2,846 maritime merchants under the first name of the six maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which one has a fifteen-year-old underage boy and girl who is not engaged? Which of them have a simple family style, a broad vision, and don't mind being engaged to foreign men and women who returned to the Song Dynasty? Regardless of whether I have a family fortune of 100,000 yuan, or whether I have a few sea boats, I just want your son to pick out these diligent and motivated families with harmonious husbands and wives for me-"

She took a breath, Zuo Ping was already stunned, so she continued,

"People who like to buy concubines don't need to mention it, and people who are dedicated to being officials don't need to mention it, I know that you have followed your son-in-law for many years, and you have an account in your heart, and you are now honestly in my store-" She looked at Ji's store behind the car,

"You write down the surnames, family backgrounds, and in-laws of these people, and when I come back from Zhuma Temple and am satisfied, you can go back and tell your son-in-law, I don't have to worry about my marriage, but his original agreement to let Tang Fang participate in the Northern Expedition is not impossible-"

"The meaning of the big lady, the villain understands."

Zuo Ping quickly calmed down, knowing that this was the only chance to turn around.

No matter how the Ezo slaves she bought were used in the civil strife in Fusang, and whether she could protect Tangfang or not, her most trusted were still the hundreds of craftsmen on Henan and Hedong Road in the north of the Jin Kingdom who moved to Tangfang for Huang Qilang for her.

And the eldest lady had promised when she took them into the workshop that sooner or later she would arrange for these northern Han craftsmen, including more than a dozen of the old Liao Khitan families, to return to Middle Earth, and she, as the owner of the workshop, would of course arrange their future life for them.

He also saw a lot of reformers in Fanfang and Han people who fled back from the north in Mingzhou, and knew that for the Waiyi people who moved to the Great Song Dynasty, there was no more feasible and easier way to take root than to marry the locals.

Moreover, now that the civil strife in Fusang has arrived, the people who are willing to follow the eldest lady back to the Great Song Dynasty are not only those craftsmen under her name......

His eyes couldn't help but roll, and from the side of the lifted curtain, he landed on the half-exposed face of Xiao Rui'er.

He had already seen that this girl should be born with intelligence, and she was the most outstanding among the young men and women in the workshop.

At this time, this little girl should have understood the meaning of Ji Qingchen's words, and understood why she didn't agree to marry Wang Shiqiang, but she wanted to collect a large amount of news about the young children of the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants.

Although Ji Ruiniang is only less than ten years old, she is already sensible after all, and she has a cheerful and generous temperament. But her mind was extremely delicate, and at this time, her face gradually blushed behind the curtain, and she lowered her head and pondered, she already understood:

The eldest lady wants all underage boys and girls under the age of fifteen in Tangfang to marry the Song people in the future.

Of course, she still remembers the quarrel between Third Brother Ji and the eldest lady half a year ago.

Except that the third brother Ji wants to set up his own door. Half of the proceeds of the river are required. wants to go to the interior of Fusang to grab a few pieces of land, and Third Brother Ji is still anxious that the marriage of the two thousand square people in Nanfang has not been settled.

Although she was not raised in the Ji family's courtyard at that time, she was often called over to play by the eldest lady. Do some chores for Ji's mother, that day she hid in the corner gate behind the melon shed to pick up shrimp, and heard Ji Sange yelling at the eldest lady in the yard, saying a bunch of things that she later quietly asked Ji's mother to understand.

The men's and women's rosters in the workshop are all in the hands of the matchmaker Wang's mother. The old custom in the village of South Kyushu Island is also that the Wang clan suzerain designates their marriage, so Third Brother Ji knows better about the marriage of men and women in Nanfang than the eldest lady.

There are only about 1,000 adult unmarried women in the workshop. There are 3,000 unmarried men in the prime of life, which means that at least half of the brothers in the workshop cannot find wives now, and they grow up year after year. My favorite thing to do is to drink and fight, and make trouble in the workshop, and Second Brother Ji and Third Brother Ji can't hold it down at all.

Third Brother Ji was shouting in the courtyard at the time. Don't let them go into the interior of Fusang and marry a Fuso woman as a wife. Sooner or later, something will happen in the workshop.

"I know you can't make up your mind, and I won't embarrass you today—"

The voice of Ji Qingchen and Zuo Ping talking came, Xiao Ruiniang hurriedly retracted her thoughts, listened carefully, and saw that she no longer mentioned that she wanted Zuo Ping to go to Ji's warehouse to write a list.

"You go back today and tell your son-in-law, I have also read the history books of the Central Plains, since ancient times, marriage, hostages were originally the meaning of the alliance to seek peace, across the sea, he doesn't believe me, he wants to book a marriage for me that he can rest assured, I really don't have a second heart to believe in him again, and he doesn't have to worry about my family affairs-"

Zuo Ping also knew in his heart that with the hydraulic hoisting machine made in the Tang Fang, his son-in-law would never let the eldest lady marry at will, but her Tang Fang was far away from the Great Song Dynasty, but everything to be done in the Great Song Dynasty, how could it really be done without familiar connections?

Compared with the Fujian maritime merchants who are unknown to friends and foes, and it takes several years to get acquainted with each other, the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who have been friends for ten years, are her real reliable allies.

Or what Huang Da proprietor said well, human friendships are piled up in the days of coming and going, even if the eldest lady is really married to Chen Wenchang, who can say for sure what will happen to her and the Chen family in the future?

The eldest lady will never cut off her own retreat.

What's more, as long as she is still the owner of the shop for a day, she has to worry about the 30,000 people waiting to eat behind her.

- Thinking of this, he hurriedly wanted to say a few words, but she looked at him and couldn't speak.

Ji Qingchen looked directly at Zuo Ping, with a smile on the corner of his lips, but his eyes were condensed, and said:

"How to move the people back to the Great Song Dynasty and get household registration and land to live for them is my own business, and I don't bother him, but if he is willing to arrange it for me, the marriage between the people of Tangfang and the Song Dynasty will be completed, not only will he have the hostage - the future Northern Expedition, and ask me to go to the soup for him."

Zuo Ping's figure stretched out on Zhongfang Street for a long time, and gradually walked out of the square.

She looked up at the bright moon in the sky, and listened to the sea breeze not only came the short fish whistle in the orchestral moon banquet, the dense and soft plucking of the strings of the Quanzhou musicians, but also the familiar sound of the old street in the fangzhong.

Poignantly, bit by bit.

Maybe it's because I just heard the song "Wangjiang Tide" in the Moon Banquet of the Great Song Dynasty, and heard the visitors from the distant homeland blowing the folk song of the Song Dynasty in the lonely waves of the deep sea......

Pai Xiao in the fishing village of South Kyushu Island is an ancient Central Plains witch music instrument handed down among the remnants of Middle-earth......

“…… Big lady, Fuso...... Is the civil unrest in Fuso scary? Couldn't Third Brother Ji protect us either? So the eldest lady wants everyone to move back to the Great Song Dynasty? ”

The ox cart was staggering through the workshop, and Xiao Ruiniang was holding her cheeks, and she didn't need to ask any more questions, she was already thinking hard.

“…… Your third brother Ji is an extremely smart person, what he likes to do most is to rely on his natural brute strength, bully the weak, bully the small with the big, and will never do some thankless things - he usually goes to the Seto Inland Sea to grab a few votes of business, and he can fill the account in Nanfang, why did he suddenly go to the East China Sea this time? ”

She sighed in the car, "Why do you think about that?" ”

While talking, she gradually became a little tired, she couldn't help but close her eyes slightly, but her back was still used to straightening, and she didn't rest against the car wall, Ji Ruiniang obediently stepped forward to rub her shoulders for her, thought hard and thought about it, and could only come up with one answer, saying:

"Because...... Because he knew that the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty was coming-? ”

After finishing speaking, she herself thought it was nonsense, and sure enough, Ji Qingchen laughed, raised his hand to stroke her head, and said: "San Lang is short of money in his hands, where is there such an unpredictable prophet's ability, the reason why he suddenly went to the East China Sea to rob should have seen the sea fight of the Fuso people in the Seto Inland Sea-"

"Huh? Big lady, the Fuso people have already started fighting? We don't know anything about—" Xiao Ruiniang looked at her in surprise.

The Seto Inland Sea came out of the northernmost lower pass of Kitakyushu, and the location of the Fuso people's final rounds of decisive battles to Tangfang was only a sea route of hundreds of miles, otherwise how could the Shikibu Cheng go out of the East China Sea so appropriately to meet the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty? The torches outside the car swayed and shone in through the green curtain, Ji Qingchen stared at the Tangfang streets and alleys that flashed vaguely outside the curtain, and looked at the rows of banwu doors in the fang.

This is the shelter that she and 30,000 people have worked hard to build in the past ten years.

But how easy is it to burn the flames of war...... (To be continued) R655