On the way back from watching the lanterns, Wang Yuan couldn't help but ask, "What do you think?" ”

"What do you think?" Song Ling'er pretended not to understand.

Wang Yuan said depressedly: "Marriage." If you don't marry me, who else do you want to marry? Is it because it has an impact on my career, you won't marry in this life, or find someone to marry at random? ”

Song Ling'er was silent for a moment and replied, "I haven't thought about it clearly, let's think about it slowly in the future." By the way, thank you for your ideas for the Song family. ”

Things are so nonsense, Wang Yuan offered suggestions to weaken the Song family's territory, and Song Ling'er had to thank him in turn.

Because while weakening the Tusi, the imperial court generally wanted to exempt the Tusi from this crime in order to avoid forcing the Tusi to rebel. This is a political exchange, just like weakening the An family, An Guirong wants to save the dog's life, and the price is that the An family's territory is divided into three.

Who made the two toasts commit a capital crime?

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival holiday ended, and Song Linger immediately went to go through the entry procedures.

Gu Yingxiang had already prepared the relevant documents, personally handed over the waist card to Song Ling'er, and said with a smile: "Senior sister, you can be regarded as the first female brocade guard since the founding of the Ming Dynasty." If this matter spreads, it will inevitably attract criticism from the ministers. ”

"I care about them, Your Majesty has said that Jinyiwei is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, but there is no part of those civil officials who talk too much," Song Ling'er said with a smile, "By the way, don't call me senior sister, I should call you senior brother." ”

"It's all the same." Gu Yingxiang said.

Gu Yingxiang is not yet thirty years old this year, but he has followed Wang Yangming more than ten years ago, and the history records "the young man from his travel", a proper senior brother of the royal family. At that time, Wang Yangming studied the art of war and martial arts all day long, and Gu Yingxiang also followed suit, and also applied the Tianyuan technique solution method of arithmetic to the changes in the military formation.

Gu Yingxiang said again: "I am going to Guizhou for thousands of miles, Your Majesty is worried about the inconvenience of your journey, so I transferred ten Jinyi guards to you as subordinates. ”

"That's great." Song Ling'er said happily.

At the beginning of the establishment of Jinyiwei, it was nothing more than guarding the emperor, inspecting criminals, and supervising hundreds of officials, and now it seems that he can do anything. The emperor often sent Jinyiwei out of Beijing to escort those important figures, such as the widow of the Duke of Qianguo in history, who felt that the little uncle was going to murder his mother and son, and the emperor also sent Jinyiwei to protect him.

As for Gu Yingxiang's position, he is in charge of all documents, files and document discrepancies in Jinyiwei, and he has very great power in the Jinyiwei system.

The North and South Zhenfu Divisions also have Jinyiwei experience, but those experiences are only from the seventh grade. And Gu Yingxiang, the leader of the experience department, is the sixth grade, and it is basically a civil official from Jinshi.

Gu Yingxiang handed Song Ling'er a list and said, "This is what I personally selected for you, all of them are innocent, upright, and depressed. You just need to treat them well, and these ten brocade guards will naturally be loyal to you. ”

"Thank you, senior brother!" Song Linger hugged her fists and said.

This is the advantage of someone in the court, if it is someone else, how can you check the files of Jinyiwei at will?

Seeing that he was about to get off work, Gu Yingxiang said: "Let's go together, I am just going to study arithmetic with Brother Ruoxu." ”

Song Ling'er couldn't figure out what was so fun about arithmetic, and it actually made Senior Brother Gu so obsessed. But I also feel very proud that my lover can attract these real scholars by making anything casually.

When the two of them were in Jinyiwei, Wang Yuan was chatting with the merchant who sold lanterns that day.

The rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang are that unless there is a special occasion, the people do not need to kneel. When Shang Jia saw Wang Yuan, he bowed his hand and said: "The contemptible surname is Li, Li Fengzhong, I don't know what Bachelor Wang is doing?" ”

"Please sit down," Wang Yuan asked with a smile, "Listen to the accent, Li Yuanwai is from Beizhili?" ”

Li Fengzhong replied: "The ancestral home of the contemptible people is Jiangnan, and Emperor Taizong built Beijing, and the whole family of the contemptible people moved here. ”

That's the indigenous merchants, not the Huai merchants or the Jin merchants. After Zhu Di built the city of Beijing, due to the lack of population, he did forcibly relocate a number of wealthy families from the south of the Yangtze River.

Wang Yuan exchanged a few words with Li Fengzhong, and then asked, "Where did Li Yuanwai's roasted beads come from?" ”

Li Fengzhong didn't understand what Wang Yuan wanted to do, and replied honestly: "Yan Shenzhen." ”

"Where is Yan Shenzhen?" Wang Yuan had never heard of it. This name is quite easy to remember, and the residents of the town may all be very good-looking.

Li Fengzhong explained in detail: "There is Yanshen Town in the north and Jingdezhen in the south. Yanshen Town belongs to Qingzhou Mansion in Shandong Province and is rich in porcelain and glass. Roasting beads is only one of them, there are countless glazed objects in Yanshen Town, if Master Wang is interested in this, he can go to the contemptible shop to choose it personally. ”

"Oh, what other glassware?" Wang Yuan's interest increased.

Li Fengzhong said: "There are hairpins, necklaces, bracelets, cups and bowls, bottles and jars...... All of them are made of imitation jade, which is called medicinal jade. ”

"Then go check it out." Wang Yuan got up and said.

Li Fengzhong opened a jewelry store, located in Jintaifang in the north of the city, and the two-storey building was full of stores. Most of these goods are attached to a certain noble, and a certain will not stand in Beijing for a hundred years, after all, it is difficult to be a businessman, and it is even more difficult to be a businessman in the capital.

To Wang Yuan's surprise, the glass products of the Ming Dynasty did not seem to be very precious, and the glass jewelry was all placed in the corner.

It sells cheaper than jade and gold jewelry, but it is much more expensive than silver and copper jewelry.

Li Fengzhong pointed to the glass objects and said, "Master Wang, here are all medicinal jade (glass)." ”

"I'll see." Wang Yuan nodded.

Wang Yuan only glanced at it casually, and knew that the glass in front of him obviously contained a lot of impurities, mainly yellow, blue and green glass, and there was no transparent glass product from beginning to end.

Obviously, the ancient Chinese glass-making technology and skill tree have been completely distorted. What craftsmen think about all day long is not how to remove impurities and make the glass more pure and transparent; Instead, find ways to add impurities and make the glass look colorful.

Wang Yuan asked, "Are there many people who buy medicinal jade (glass)?" ”

Li Fengzhong said: "When my grandfather was alive, medicinal jade was quite popular among dignitaries and nobles, and now few nobles wear medicinal jade. ”

The subtext is that rare things are expensive, glass used to be precious, but now glass is rotten.

Li Fengzhong pointed to a few belt plates (belt ornaments) and said: "There are only belt plates, nobles must buy them, civil and military officials like to be similar to green jade, and nobles and internal officials like colorful ones." ”

"Why is Yaoyu (glass) belt plate selling well?" Wang Yuan asked.

Li Fengzhong said: "Because of the officials above the fourth grade, the belt plate must use medicinal jade." Bachelor Wang's champion suit, the jade pendant is not a real jade, but a medicinal jade. ”

Wang Yuan was stunned and was speechless for a moment.

The champion clothes and accessories were all brought from the Guozijian, and they were worn for a few days and then returned. The jade pendant was too realistic, Wang Yuan didn't look at it carefully, and thought it was a jade pendant, but he didn't expect that he had been wearing a glass pendant for a few days.

This is the rule set by Zhu Yuanzhang, at that time glass was still very scarce, only officials above the fourth grade and champions, belt plates and waist wear can use glass products.

Completely beyond Wang Yuan's expectations, he still wanted to make glass to make a fortune, but it had been flooded to the point that nobles disdained to buy it.

If Wang Yuan travels back and sees that in history, someone wore to the Ming Dynasty to sell glass and made a fortune, he would definitely crawl over along the network cable and beat the author: You fucking cheat!

Picking up a glass hairpin with no bubbles, Wang Yuan asked, "This is also made by Yan Shenzhen?" ”

Li Fengzhong said with a smile: "This is similar to the medicine hosta bubbles are small and invisible, and only Yan Shenzhen can make them." The medicinal jade belt plates of officials above the fourth grade are also made by Yan Shenzhen, and the craftsmen there are unique in the world. ”

Wang Yuan said: "Please Li Yuanwai for one thing." ”

Li Fengzhong said: "Bachelor Wang, please speak." ”

Wang Yuan said: "Help me hire a medicinal jade craftsman from Yanshen Town, and I can give him three times his salary!" If you want the kind of top-level medicine jade craftsman who knows everything, I can give a promise, if this person does well, I can help him get rid of the craftsman's status! ”