The princess was busy asking people to come in. Ma Mingsong greeted everyone and began to say: "As soon as I heard that Wen Lin and Wen Hui were coming, I hurriedly put down what I was doing and came over. ”

Princess Lichuan smiled and asked, "Hey, do you know each other?" ”

Ma Mingsong introduced the process of their acquaintance. Chen Wenhui smiled and said: "Yes, sister princess, we have long heard that the Ma family's garden is very beautiful, because we went to see it with the second brother, it is really worthy of the reputation, and my sister should go to see it another day if she has time." ”

Princess Lichuan joked: "Oh, Brother Ma, why didn't you invite us to take a look, are you afraid that me and the horse will eat too much?" ”

Ma Mingsong hurriedly said: "Where? If the princess and the pony could come to the humble house, it would be a bright bloom. But we are so busy now, where do we have this time, but a little longer, when the plum blossoms bloom, I want to invite everyone to my house to play, at that time it is estimated that the matter at hand has come to an end. ”

Princess Lichuan was very interested: "Okay, I like to see plum blossoms the most, do you have good varieties at home?" ”

The horse said, "Don't worry, princess, there are varieties that are not available in the imperial garden, and they are all available in the horse house." The garden in Mafu is exquisite, and the varieties of flowers and trees are precious, which I heard about in the capital. ”

Princess Lichuan laughed and said, "Then say so, Brother Ma, you have to remember that you must invite us when the time comes." ”

Ma Mingsong hurriedly agreed. The room was laughing and laughing for a while. Princess Lichuan said that the Chen brothers and sisters had come from afar, and it was time to work hard, so they had prepared a courtyard for them and invited them to rest.

When the Chen brothers and sisters arrived in their yard, there were naturally housekeepers, maids, mothers-in-law, and wet nurses to clean up their things. The three brothers and sisters sat and drank tea, and Chen Wenhui said: "The princess is really a cheerful person. There's no shelf at all.,It's a big beauty.,I like it very much.。 ”

Chen Wenjun smiled and said, "Have you found it?" The relationship between the princess and Ma Mingsong is even better than that of serious cousins like us. ”

Chen Wenlin said: "The princess is fine. can make friends with the Ma family, but the fourth brother can't be relied on at all. Ordinary princes and princesses, the Ma family really doesn't care about it. It is Princess Lichuan who is the most favored princess by the emperor who is qualified to be called a brother and sister to the Ma family. ”

Chen Wenjun said: "No wonder, in the clan land, those elders all say that Ma Jingren is the emperor's right-hand man and the emperor's trust. I think the Ma family is not just about making money for the emperor. It should be the responsibility of monitoring Jiangnan. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Yes, we found out about this last time we were in disaster relief, and we came into contact with the Ma family at that time. By the way, it was Zhao Chongyi who came into contact with the Ma family. Wrong. It was the Ma family who first showed favor to Zhao Chongyi. In the later disaster relief, the Ma family gave a lot of help to the four princes. If it weren't for Ma Jingren's suppression, how could Suzhou Thorn Shi Lu Shangyi be so cooperative. Later, when the four princes left, Sister Mingzhu and I stayed and bought many shops in Suzhou City. It was also Ma Jingren who asked Lu Shangyi to help. I think Ma Jingren is very optimistic about the four princes. I don't know why, as the emperor's henchman, he should be inclined to the three princes or the two don't help each other. ”

Chen Wenlin said: "During the disaster relief, the fourth brother had a secret conversation with Ma Jingren. The fourth brother didn't say anything, and then Ma Jingren helped us all the time. ”

Chen Wenjun thought for a while and said: "The Ma family is the representative of the emperor, no matter what the Ma family's own attitude is, we must try to have a good relationship with the Ma family." ”

Chen Wenhui and Chen Wenlin hurriedly agreed. After speaking, the three of them went back to their rooms to rest.

Chen Wenhui has been on the boat for a few days, and she feels dizzy, who is still comfortable in bed. This bedroom, cleaned up very exquisitely, the bed is a carved bed, with a heavy brocade tent, is a hundred butterflies wear patterns, fine embroidery, this should be the princess let people clean up, these things should be the princess's things, really hearted.

Chen Wenhui fell asleep groggily while thinking. The next day, early in the morning, Chen Wenhui boxed with her master Wu Lixia refreshed, and after the fight, she freshened up, finished her meal, and appeared in the princess's meeting hall in a hundred times more spirit.

When the princess saw Chen Wenhui's energetic appearance, she was very strange and said, "I used to hear that my sister was born weak, but today it is not like this." In the past few days, you have been tired of traveling, and after a night's rest, you are actually so refreshed, where is your body weak? ”

Wen Hui said with a smile: "When I was a child, I was weak and always sick, and the doctor said that it was not good several times, and later, my parents invited me a female master to teach me martial arts." As a result, I didn't learn martial arts, but my body was well trained. ”

The princess was amazed: "My sister is still learning martial arts, it's really amazing." ”

Wen Hui was busy and humble. was chatting here, and the rest, Ma Mingsong, the two Chen brothers, and the concubine all came over. When everyone arrived, they started to get down to business.

Here in Shanghai City, the emperor ordered the head of the horses, as the lord of Shanghai City, and the rest of these people were all helping the horses, and they were regarded as subordinate officials. Therefore, I will introduce the construction of Shanghai City.

"We've been here for almost three months, and we're mainly building the city, repairing the docks, and building docks. Now that the dockyard has been built, the shipbuilders have been found, the Chen family's drawings have arrived, our ship is already under construction, and it is estimated that it will be launched for sea trials next spring. At the same time, we recruited a number of retired sailors, some as sailors, some as escorts. First, I used the ordinary sea boat provided by the Ma family for training, and I have been practicing for almost two months. In the middle, our Xu family invested two million taels of silver, the Ma family invested three million taels of silver, the Chen family invested three million taels of silver, and finally, the fourth child also invested two million taels of silver. But it's still not enough to spend. The main reason is that it costs too much money to build a city, there is no foundation here, and it is really expensive to build a city from scratch. And the majority of the sailors and sailors who were kept in their possession were also raised. Training, monthly money, weapons, it's really burning money. I'm afraid that if this continues, the money will not be enough. But the emperor said that he was already very tight to be able to come up with this money, and he could no longer invest in it. Let's think for ourselves. You all help come up with ideas. ”

Everyone began to think about it, Ma Mingsong said: "During this period of time, the accounts have always been in charge of me, and I have brought the general ledger over, let's see, is there any way to open up sources and reduce expenditure." ”

As he spoke, he took out a thick account book and put it on the table. When Chen Wenjun saw it, he said: "Our brother is not good at reading accounts, so let my sister read it." ”

After speaking, he gave Wen Hui a look. Wen Hui didn't want to read the accounts as soon as she came, as if she didn't trust the princess and Ma Mingsong. Seeing my brother say this, and receiving my brother's eyes, I immediately figured out that the eldest brother represents the Chen family, which is a big family that can compete with the emperor, of course, you have to look at the account book. Thinking of this, Chen Wenhui didn't postpone it, and opened the account book to read it. Qiubi, the maid who was waiting on the side, came over with a small pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Wen Hui memorized some symbols while watching. At this time, another maid, Green Sprout, took out a delicate little abacus. Chen Wenhui watched while planning to plate and remembered. Look fast.

Princess Lichuan looked at it interestingly and said: "I didn't expect Wen Hui to be so capable, and she can settle accounts and plan to make a deal." ”

Chen Wenlin said: "Sister Princess, you don't know, my sister not only knows how to settle accounts and plan to make plans, but also is a good hand, even the account office of our family from the Yuan family admires it, and I think I am not as good as it." ”

Princess Lichuan smiled, when Chen Wenlin exaggerated, she knew about the Yuan family, in fact, she invited the Yuan family's account office in her house, which was a professional.

Taking advantage of Chen Wenhui's accounting, Ma Mingsong and Yu Ma and Chen Wenlin, Chen Wenjun introduced the current progress of the project, what are the problems, in fact, the most important thing is the lack of craftsmen, because there are too many places to build, and the existing craftsmen are not enough. There is a shortage of craftsmen, carpentry, stonemasonry, and blacksmiths. However, it can be relieved now, because the Chen brothers have brought many craftsmen, which should be able to alleviate the needs for a while.

While everyone was talking, Chen Wenhui raised his head and said, "I took a general look at the general ledger, and there is no detail in this account, so I can only see that a total of four million eight hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight two hundred and twenty dollars and twelve wen were spent. But we still owe an account and have not paid. If it had been paid, it would have been eight million nine hundred and seventy-three thousand four hundred and sixty-two taels and eighty-nine dollars. We only have 10,000,000 taels of silver, and there are at least seven or eight months left before the fleet can sail and come back, and we will have to pay monthly money in these months, and we will have to continue to build and build ships. It's really financially tight. ”

The princess and Ma Mingsong were dumbfounded, in fact, they had known this number for a long time. After all, the accounting office around them is not for nothing. But this was calculated by several accounting offices for a whole day. Wen Hui, it was actually calculated after a while, this is too godly. The princess and Ma Mingsong couldn't help but wonder if the other party had leaked secrets to the Chen family brothers and sisters.

Chen Wenhui ignored the shock she brought to them, and continued: "We are going to hurry up and think about making money." ”

"Of course, I have to think about making money." But the city is being built, except for the craftsmen who are us, there are no people, where is the tax, there are still ships still being built, and we can't go to sea, where does the money come from? ”

That's a big problem. Wen Hui said with a smile: "Actually, the money is in front of us, and we are guarding the gold mountain to ask for silver." ”

The princess and Ma Mingsong glanced at each other, and thought in unison, this Chen Wenhui is really powerful, such a fast accounting speed is already very against the sky, and she actually found a way to make money by looking at the accounts, no wonder Chen Wenlin said that her sister was the boy who sat down with the God of Wealth.

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