Li Chunfang's house is in Dashi Yongfang, a very ordinary courtyard courtyard, only a concubine and a son and a daughter live here, and his wife is in Yangzhou's hometown.

Looking at this ordinary house, it is not that Li Chunfang is deliberately low-key, but that the prices in the capital are not low in all aspects, and it can only be a fool's dream to live a life of fine clothes and food by relying on Yulu.

However, officials really want to make money, in fact, there are many ways. Like Yan Song and Xu Jie, their sons can directly accept the filial piety below, and they don't have to do it themselves at all.

Lin Haoran stayed in Yangzhou for a while, but he knew that Li Chunfang was completely different from Xu Jie, not only did the capital maintain a clean and honest style, but his hometown was also well-behaved.

Of course, Li Chunfang is now the official secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and his family is an authentic person from Yangzhou Prefecture. It is inevitable that the children of his clan will use his name to engage in the salt business, so as to grab a share of the salt profits.

It's just that compared with Xu Jie, Dong Fen and others, and the Li family did not directly refer to this salt profit, it is already out of sludge and not stained, and the family is actually only a middle-class family.

Lin Haoran took Tiezhu and Lin Fu into the courtyard, and after giving the gifts, they were led to the living room.

The living room is usually the façade of a mansion, but the tables and chairs here are very ordinary, and there are several calligraphy and paintings hanging to decorate the façade, one of which caught Lin Haoran's attention.

The calligraphy and painting is inscribed with a poem: The painting boat rides the smoke of the dawn of spring, and the city is full of silk pipes and elm money. Thousands of adopted daughters teach music first, and planting flowers for ten miles is considered farming...... which is resolutely his Yangzhou poem.

Lin Haoran has studied calligraphy quite a lot, looking at this upright regular script, the pen is strong, and at first glance it is the handwriting of a calligraphy master with superb skills, which is not inferior to Yan Song.

"Lingnan, make you smile! It's just that when I first heard this poem, the old man was itchy and unbearable, so he stole a poem! Li Chunfang's voice came from behind, and she said sincerely.

"Xia Guan has seen the main hall! It is a great honor for Xia Guan's clumsy work to receive the handwriting of the main hall! Lin Haoran turned around and saluted respectfully.

Li Chunfang was wearing ordinary home clothes, but her bearing was very incomparable, but she said seriously: "This is not a clumsy work, it is the façade of my Yangzhou people, and the old man has to thank you for the people of Yangzhou!" ”

Li Chunfang, who was born in Yangzhou, didn't know that with the rise of Nanjing, Yangzhou's prosperity was no longer what it used to be. Even the current scholars only know the famous prostitutes of Qinhuai, but do not know the Oiran of Yangzhou.

Lin Haoran's poem was published, but it made them Yangzhou people raise their eyebrows, publicized the poetry and painting of Yangzhou, and made the world can't help but put their eyes back on Yangzhou.

"The main hall is in love!" Lin Haoran knew that this was not the time to be modest, so he responded with a smile.

The servant came and said that the meal was ready.

Li Chunfang invited Lin Haoran to the table, and the food between the tables seemed rich, which was regarded as attaching importance to Lin Haoran, and Li Chunfang pointed to the food and explained: "This meal is several times better than the old man's usual days, and please ask Zuo Zongbo Mo to think that the old man intends to snub you!" ”

"Xiaguan was born in a peasant family, and he was still a skeleton when he was enrolled in the department in the past, so how can he dislike it!" Lin Haoran responded half-jokingly.

Li Chunfang listened to Lin Haoran's statement, and her hanging heart was slightly lowered, and she took the chopsticks and ate it.

Lin Haoran is a person who has seen the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and he can't say that he likes or hates this meal, but he seems to have an illusion that the people next to him are very similar to his father-in-law Wu Shan, which makes him eat a little depressed.

Most of the etiquette books in the world are like this, adhering to the principle of "eating without saying anything, not sleeping without speaking", not to mention having a good time with Lin Haoran, and not even saying a word.

Lin Haoran secretly made up his mind that he would never eat at the same table with this kind of person in the future. Just to maintain his bearing, he also eats his meal without squinting, and looks like no one else.

Li Chunfang's concubine and daughter came over and took a sneak look, but when they saw the two people at the dinner table, they couldn't help but look at each other, this scene was really weird.

After dinner, Li Chunfang invited Lin Haoran back to the living room. The tea brought by the maid was the spiced tea that Lin Haoran sent last time, which made the air diffuse with a fragrance.

With these days of getting along, the two have lost their original life. Li Chunfang was quite interested in Lin Haoran's trip to Yangzhou, Lin Haoran was a smart person, and even told some of what he had seen and heard in Yangzhou Mansion.

Li Chunfang's eyes looked at Lin Haoran complicatedly, but she suddenly said with emotion: "Lingnan, yesterday a clansman went to Beijing, I know that you have done a lot for my Yangzhou, the old man is really ashamed!" Although he has been an official for 16 years, when it comes to doing things, the old man is afraid that he is not as good as you. ”

The dignified Ministry of Rites Shangshu was able to say this, which shows that he is honest enough.

"The main hall is the way to cultivate the country and the country, how dare the lower officials talk to the main hall!" Lin Haoran responded with a humble style.

Li Chunfang picked up the teacup, but shook his head gently, and did not dare to have too much confidence in being able to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister, so he asked curiously: "Shandong Governor Zhang Jianshang's request for a ban on shipping in Liaodong has a good reason, and the famine in Liaodong has been resolved, why do you oppose it?" ”

"How does the main hall know that the lower officials are opposed?" Lin Haoran said with slight surprise.

Li Chunfang took a sip of tea and responded: "Yesterday I was on duty in Xiyuan, and Yuan Fu talked to me about it!" Yuanfu thinks that it was you who instigated you in the same year Wei Shiliang was sparse, so he wanted me to have a face-to-face interview with you, but only to talk to you in the yamen, for fear that you would mistakenly think that the old man was oppressing you with power, so he asked here! ”

"Yes, it's the lower officials who want to oppose this strategy!" Lin Haoran nodded seriously.

Li Chunfang held the tea lid and splashed the tea lightly, and asked quietly: "Why do you object?" ”

"Last year, seven southeastern prefectures were flooded, including Yangzhou. Zhengtang, do you know where this rice comes from? Lin Haoran took a sip of tea and asked solemnly.

Li Chunfang was naturally concerned about the affairs of her hometown, so she replied: "I am Cantonese rice!" ”

"No, it's Siammy!" Lin Haoran looked into his eyes and slowly shook his head.

When Li Chunfang heard this unexpected answer, she immediately asked: "Really? ”

"Lord Zhengtang, in the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing's famine in Guangdong, the price of rice was once speculated to four taels and one stone, which can be described as expensive as gold! Fortunately, Guangdong opened the sea, and Xiaguan brought Siam rice from the sea, which solved the famine in Guangdong, and then the famine in the southeast. Now the famine in Liaodong has been resolved, but Shandong's maritime affairs are unharmed, just because there are merchants with private goods to ask for an embargo, this move is no different from choking on food, Shandong to Liaodong waterway is easy to stay. ”

Li Chunfang nodded as if he had understood, originally wanted to help Xu Jie do the work of Tonglin Haoran, but at this time, he suddenly said: "You don't need to follow Shangshu in this matter, the old man will tell Yuanfu for you!" ”

"Then there is Lord Lao Zhengtang!" Lin Haoran found that Li Chunfang was a person who understood righteousness, and he should give it up.

After talking about the matter, and the two of them can often meet at the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, Lin Haoran took the initiative to leave after a while.

Seeing that the New Year is approaching, but Lin Haoran's butterfly has already had an effect, and a news that shocked the government and the opposition spread: more than 100 clansmen in the Han Wangfu made trouble in Xi'an.