Nanjing is backed by the Yangtze River, the tiger is in the dragon pan, as the place where Zhu Yuanzhang was founded, the Ming Dynasty has attached great importance to Nanjing for more than 200 years, not only the scale exceeds Beijing, the prosperity is still excessive, the Ming Dynasty has also set up six central departments in Beijing in this imitation, forming a situation of one country and two capitals, but the yamen of Nanjing has no real power, often as a place for officials to retire.

Zhu Hao's uncle Zhang Tingchun served as the political envoy of Nanzhili in Nanjing, and he was one of the few officials with real power. After Zhu Hao recovered his memory, he had already wanted to take a formal inspection in Nanjing, but he had never had the opportunity, so he took leave with his parents and brought Li Dong, Liu's uncle and nephew, Zhang Dacheng and others lightly.

"Dongzi, what interesting places did you go to last time you came to Nanjing?" On the bustling street, a young man in fancy clothes said to a young man next to him that it was Zhu Hao's master and servant. He had come to Nanjing a few times in the past few years, but after recovering his memory, his previous memories were a little blurry, and only some general ones remained.

"Young master, there are a lot of interesting places in Nanjing City, but last time I came in a hurry, I only went to the Qinhuai River once, which is really good-looking." Li Dong said happily.

"Well, Qinhuai River is our must-visit place this time, and the Qinhuai Bayan there are all talented and talented, so they should see it." Zhu Hao was full of longing, and his heart itched when he thought of the thunderous names of Chen Yuanyuan, Liu Ruyi, and Dong Xiaowan.

"Young master, the master has instructed that after arriving in Nanjing, I must first visit the Zhang family." Li Dong reminded.

"Got it, we'll go over tomorrow morning."

Zhang Tingchun's mansion Zhu Hao has been here many times, and it is not difficult to find. Early the next morning, Zhu Hao and the others arrived in front of Zhang's Mansion without much effort. After handing over the name post, the doorman saw that it was the young master of the Zhu family, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly welcomed them into the mansion.

After a while, an old man walked out quickly, about sixty years old, in good spirits, with the bearing of a superior person, a little similar to Zhang Jinyu, Zhu Hao knew that it was his eldest uncle at first sight.

"Nephew Zhu Hao visited his uncle, I haven't seen you for a long time, your old man has always been okay?" Zhu Hao saluted respectfully.

"Good, good, really good boy, come and let my uncle take a good look." It is said that the nephew saw his uncle's tears, and Zhang Tingchun couldn't help but be a little excited when he saw the nephew in front of him whose eyebrows and eyes resembled his sister's, and his eyes were red.

Zhu Hao is also a little emotional, although his thoughts are not the previous Zhu Hao, but this real family affection is constantly cut.

After being polite again, Zhang Tingchun carefully inquired about the recent situation of Zhu Shouyi and his wife, and the two sat down. Zhang Tingchun looked at Zhu Hao with satisfaction and said: "I have heard some of your deeds, you have trained the troops well, subdued the mountain bandits, and done some good things for the benefit of the country and the people, and my uncle's face is also bright!" ”

Zhang Tingchun likes Zhu Hao, originally just out of blood relationship, he was quite dissatisfied with Zhu Hao's previous behavior, since he heard about his various deeds in the past year, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and felt that he would definitely be able to glorify the lintel of the Zhu and Zhang families in the future.

After listening to his uncle's praise, Zhu Hao inevitably had another politeness, which made Zhang Tingchun very happy at his modesty, feeling that this nephew was pleasing to the eye everywhere, and secretly determined to cultivate it in his lifetime.

"Alas, I'm old, and there is no one to care about, although your eldest cousin is steady, but too pedantic, the second cousin is an official outside, and rarely comes back, the third cousin, alas, take the time to persuade him." Zhang Tingchun was a little depressed when he mentioned his son.

Zhu Hao's third cousin Zhang Zhen'an is only in his twenties, and he is a typical playboy, and Wang Zuo, the son of the Nanjing Criminal Department, Zhu Chenge, the son of Ningnanbo's mansion, and Han Jingxin, the righteous son of the Nanjing garrison eunuch, are in cahoots and called the four young men of Nanjing, Zhu Hao came to Nanjing to live for a long time when he was a playboy a few years ago, and he also had a hot fight with them, so Zhang Tingchun asked him to persuade.

However, Zhu Hao knew from his memory that the so-called Nanjing Four Young People were just some rebellious children from noble families who got together to mess around, they were born in famous families, had strict family rules, and did not have any evil deeds that harmed the people, so they didn't take it to heart.

The nephew and uncle chatted all over the world, from the parents to national events, Zhang Tingchun was more and more surprised by the insight of this nephew who had not met for a long time, and even decided that he was a manufacturable material.

Zhu Hao asked about the manufacturing bureau in Nanjing, and wanted to search for a batch of firearms production equipment, Zhang Tingchun asked his intentions clearly, and immediately agreed, and soon allocated him five sets of machines and two newly developed water drilling machines, which made Zhu Hao overjoyed, with these equipment, the manufacture of muskets will be greatly accelerated, Zhang Tingchun was afraid that his subordinates would not be enough, and specially approved fifty experienced craftsmen to him, Zhu Hao, who was happy, couldn't close his mouth, and secretly sighed that your old man is really my uncle!

That night, Zhu Hao and his entourage stayed in Zhang's house, and after Zhang Zhenan returned home, he heard that his cousin was also very happy, and dragged Zhu Hao to chat until midnight.

The weather was good the next day, and as soon as Zhang Tingchun went out to work, Zhang Zhenan couldn't help dragging Zhu Hao and the others out, and called the other two young men to go straight to the Qinhuai River.

They are acquaintances with each other, although Zhu Hao has not been to Nanjing for a few years, but he is still very enthusiastic with everyone, men, to have fun in time, this is the thought of the four young people in Beijing.

How many winds and snows have been carried by the Qinhuai River in ten miles, and the painting boats floating on the river surface seem to be full of flowers. Countless beautiful women and sons chanted poems on it, vassal elegance, and people on the shore were weaving, telling the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Hao and the others came to a relatively large green building, and Zhang Zhenan told him that this was the residence of Liu Ruyi, Li Xiangjun, and Dong Xiaowan in Qinhuai Bayan.

A few people entered the hall, which was already full of people, sitting at the head table were a few young scholars, Zhang Zhenan introduced in a low voice, Chen Zilong on the left, Fang Yizhi on the right, Hou Fangyu in the middle, among them, Chen Zilong was slightly older, about thirty years old.

Zhu Hao looked at these romantic characters in the late Ming Dynasty with some surprise, the appearance of several people seemed average in the eyes of his later generations, but the bookishness added a lot of points to them, talented and beautiful women have always been a good story that people pursue, that Chen Zilong's eyes flashed eagerly, Hou Fangyu was arrogant, Fang Yizhi was a little loyal, Zhu Hao secretly left a snack for them.

At this time, Chen Zilong and others also discovered Zhang Zhen'an and his party, Hou Fangyu snorted coldly, with a look of disdain, he didn't have a good impression of these rich children who didn't learn and didn't know how to learn, only Fang Yizhi noticed that Zhu Hao was looking at him, smiled and nodded.

Zhu Chenge saw that these people were very unfriendly to them, and he couldn't help but be angry, so he wanted to have a seizure, Zhu Hao stopped him and smiled: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, let's listen to the music, and we can't be as knowledgeable as them, so as not to spoil the mood of the beautiful woman." Zhu Chenge is also a generation younger than Zhu Hao, and when he said this, he was inconvenient and sat down stupidly.

After a while, the quyi performance began, and everyone knew that these performances were all hors d'oeuvres, and they didn't care, they all waited patiently for the finale of the last three famous prostitutes.

Less than half an hour later, a delicate maid came up to the stage and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, my eldest lady and third lady are slightly unwell and cannot come out to meet guests, but please act according to the old rules." ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, Zhu Hao didn't understand and asked Zhang Zhen'an next to him, and learned that this was the old rule of the Qinhuaihe brothel, the famous prostitutes raised their prices by virtue of physical discomfort, and then the guests called the price or wrote poems, and the one with the highest price or whose poems and essays were valued was invited into the inner hall to meet with the famous prostitutes alone, and the eldest lady and the third lady were Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan respectively, it seems that only Liu Ru is one person came out of the stage today.

Zhu Hao also learned that these famous prostitutes generally sell their art and not their bodies, and they are willing to serve unless they find a wishful husband, which makes him think a little highly of these women.