"Oh, yes." After the two of them finished chatting about Zhao Jin, Zhao Shouzheng suddenly patted his head and said to Xiwa, who was sitting on the side and eating melon seeds: "Your father's letter also said that because of his contribution to the construction of Guiyang, the imperial court promised that Qiyin's son would be a hundred households in Jinyi, and your father was ready to let you go." ”

"Oh." Xiwa continued to eat his watermelon seeds without any waves, and then spit out a bunch of melon seed skins and said, "Forget it, uncle, I still want to live for two more years, let my eldest brother be it." ”

"Your eldest brother is going to study and take the imperial examination." Zhao Liben rolled his eyes and said, "After the New Year, I will come to the academy to go to school, so I don't need your father to worry about it." ”

"Anyway, I won't go, whoever likes to go, and I won't leave my uncle if I am killed." Xiwa pursed her lips and said unwaveringly: "Only by my uncle's side can I avoid bad luck." If I leave my uncle, I'll be finished before I get to Beijing......"

"You're superstitious." Zhao Shouzheng glared and said: "You must believe in science and oppose superstition!" ”

"Isn't science what my uncle says?" Shiva muttered.

"Tell me something." Zhao Shouzheng glanced at Zhao Hao: "He is the son of Da Jiuqing, how can he run errands for you all day long?" ”

"The governor's son can run errands, why can't Siqing's son?" Xiwa said depressedly: "Besides, no one believes that my father is Zhao Jin......"

"Forget it, let him be." couldn't screw his father, Zhao Hao had no choice but to speak: "But Xiwa, you can't always wander around me." The Coast Guard School will open next year, and I'm going to send you to exercise. ”

"Uncle, are you doing this by me?" Xiwa cried and said, "Then I'd better go to Beijing......"

"I didn't force you, did I?" Zhao Hao smiled and asked, "If you don't force it, you can laugh." ”

"No, I volunteered." Xiva smiled more ugly than crying.

"Uh......" Second Master Zhao couldn't help but be dumbfounded, why didn't he persuade him for a long time, as soon as Zhao Hao said that he was going to send him to some coast guard school, this kid immediately coaxed?" Why, you're not afraid of bad luck again? ”

"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid, but I'm even more afraid of Director Tong......" Thinking of the thick stick, Xiwa couldn't help but tighten the chrysanthemum, and the two trembled.

~~

Zhao Gongzi was happy at home for a few days and arched cabbage. On the 14th day of the lunar month, finally under the urging of the cabbages, I reluctantly got up and went to Suzhou to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the Jiangnan Group headquarters on the 15th of the lunar month.

This sensational event in the south of the Yangtze River attracted ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as Huizhou, Guangdezhou, Chizhou, Ningguo and other Nanzhizhou prefectures, and even Shaoxing, Ningbo, Taizhou and other prefectures in Zhejiang.

Two days in advance, there were no vacant rooms in the high-end inns in Suzhou City, and many later guests could not find a place to stay, so they had to make do with the Qinglou flower boat.

It is no exaggeration to say that this winter, the entire Jiangnan gentry and wealthy businessmen are looking forward to an invitation letter from Jiangnan Group.

If you don't receive the dark blue satin invitation embroidered with a gold anchor, it means that in the eyes of Jiangnan Group, your rank is not enough. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to those big dog owners who are on their own one-third of an acre of land all day long, boasting that their hands and eyes are up to the sky, and they can shake their feet three times in Jiangnan.

Think about it, if you brag about it in the future, people will throw out a sentence, 'You are so capable, why doesn't Jiangnan Group invite you?' ’

Direct lore......

It was because Jiangnan Group originally planned to invite only two or three hundred more important guests, but the big dog family in Wuyang and Wuyang sent people to inquire, can they also invite their own masters to participate? They could even pay a thousand taels of silver for an invitation.

The directors of the group are even more disturbed, and there is an endless stream of pleasing requests. Even Yu Boying, the protégé of Kunshan County, has become a sought-after sweetheart, and the office ...... That is, the concierge room is full of people begging for invitations all day long.

Yu is depressed, you say I'm a gatekeeper, where can I get an invitation for you?

But when people heard that his brother was the secretary of the board of directors of Jiangnan Group, they thought that he would definitely be able to get it. lined up to invite him to eat flower wine and go to the Qinglou to cruise the flower boat, Yu Borten refused movingly, very moved, and then all the people who came did not refuse. As for the aftermath, he told his brother that he didn't say anything, and that if it didn't work, he didn't dare to pack the ticket......

Otherwise, no matter what people say, no matter how good a person is, he will be dirty and rotten after being a disciple for a few years. But then again, if you don't have a dirty heart and lungs, you can't be this political uncle.

As a result, with the joint efforts of all parties, the number of invitations swelled again and again, and finally by the deadline of Laba, more than 2,300 copies were sent out.

There are still many people who haven't gotten it, so they can only rub the red carpet with a thick face and pretend to be guests.

In addition to the gentry, wealthy businessmen and celebrities, the governors of various provinces and counties also received invitations from the Jiangnan Group. Although due to the rules, they could not leave their posts without permission, but they all sent Zuo Er as a representative of the government, and the master as a personal representative, carefully prepared a generous gift to come to congratulate.

The officials of Suzhou Prefecture did not have so many scruples, because they were going to report to the city at the end of the year, and if they walked around by the way, naturally all of them would be present.

The governor also came to Songjiang Mansion, and Zhen Zhenji was able to keep the position of prefect, all thanks to the help of the Jiangnan Group, so he naturally had to come to the platform at this time. Besides, there are only two counties under his command, and the two counties are the same year as Zhao Erye, and the three of them found an excuse to negotiate the Huangpu project and came to Suzhou City together.

~~

On the fifteenth day, the heavens are beautiful. The sky is clear, there is no wind and no clouds.

Suzhou City is empty today, and the common people all run to the outside of the gate to see the excitement, squeezing the Qili Shantang Street into a flood, and even the other side of the Shantang River and the roofs are densely packed with people.

Fortunately, Yang Chenglin, the magistrate of Wu County, had expected that a fence was set up outside the ceremony venue, and only the guests with invitations were allowed to enter, otherwise the flowers outside the group building and the red carpet among the flowers would have to be trampled on by the people who watched the excitement.

The Shantang River was also restricted in advance, and the officials of the Suzhou Prefecture set up cards at both ends of the river to block all the boats that were not invited, and the ceremony was over before they were released.

Because there are so many guests, there is no boat on the pier, so even if there is an invitation, you can't take your own boat into Shantang Street. I could only board the ferry arranged by Jiangnan Group with a post, and it took ten people to start the boat.

This has inadvertently interrupted the possibility of some people rubbing the red carpet.

Fortunately, the whole black ship is luxuriously decorated, with glass on all sides, a stove and a private seat in the cabin, fragrant tea and fruits on the table, and a simple blue uniform and a black warm hat.

There were hundreds of servants in the guests' homes, and they soon realized that these fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys were not ordinary subordinates. Compared with the low-eyed and obedient people, they are obviously very energetic, and what is even more incredible is that they still have a little bit of the vitality of a scholar.

When I asked, I found out that they were all interns trained by Jiangnan Education Group. At present, the group has built a total of 10 primary schools in Jinling, Suzhou, Kunshan, Taicang, Wuxi and other places, of which eight schools will graduate at the end of the year. A total of more than 2,000 graduates from all over the country gathered at the Suzhou headquarters for a three-month induction training.

Only after passing the induction training and passing the examination can they sign up to become a regular employee of the group. Before they became regulars, they were 'interns'.

However, on each boat, there is a regular employee who is responsible for leading the interns. Among them, the foreman on the No. 09 ship is Cai Yimu, an outstanding graduate of the first school 'Caijiaxiang Primary School' built by Zhao Gongzi, and the first crash course.

Yimu has always felt that he is very lucky, because his graduation certificate was issued by Zhao Gongzi himself, and when he came to the group for internship last year, it was just in time for the construction of the headquarters, and the number of interns in their group was small, so most of them were retained and became a part of the group headquarters.

And this year, more than 2,000 juniors and disciples, more than eighty percent of them will leave the company......

Kazuki-san's temperament is down-to-earth.,Not like some people.,On the contrary, he takes his errands more seriously.。

Well, some people say that he is too fastidious, and he is nicknamed 'Kamekai Kazuki' in Japanese......

~~

Seeing that there were ten people on the 09 boat, Ichiki-san-san immediately ordered the boat to start. Then use this short few minutes to tell the guests about the process of today's celebration.

“…… After luncheon, please return to the docks, and our boat will take you back to your entourage. Wearing a straight smoky blue Songjiang cotton uniform, Ichiki bowed slightly to everyone after speaking: "Now please get off the boat with your guide, in today's celebration, they will accompany you throughout the whole process, answer your questions, provide guidance, and wholeheartedly create a good memory for your guests." ”

When the guests disembarked, they saw a straight red carpet full of flowers on both sides, leading to the main entrance of the Jiangnan Building across the street.

In the middle of winter, even if it is Jiangnan, you can only see plum blossoms, but there are thousands of pots and hundreds of flowers in front of the Jiangnan Building, competing for beauty, making people think that the season called 'spring' has arrived......

What is even more amazing than the flowers, is the 'Jiangnan Building' itself, which is a patchwork of three-storey buildings with traditional Suzhou white stucco walls, black tile roofs, and sloping roofs, which are integrated with the surrounding environment.

But it is so different, the whole building completely jumps out of the traditional and complicated French style, boldly simplifying, abstracting the pavilions and pavilions into clear outlines, strong lines of triangles, squares, diamonds and other geometric patterns, causing a strong visual impact on people.

There will certainly be people who will find it unacceptable to such a bold style, but no one will openly say that it is ugly.

When they learned that the shape of this building was designed by Zhao Gongzi himself, they immediately felt that the appearance of this building was really very chic, very individual, and very simple and beautiful that was most admired by the great doctors...... Zhao Gongzi is the founder of a new generation!

There are also people who write poems and lyrics on the spot to praise this unique and great building.

No way, who made Jiangnan Group too rich. Zhao Gongzi is the God of Wealth?

Ps. Obviously, this is a tribute to Master Pei's Suzhou Museum, which I think is the best combination of classical and modern.