"Quick, move all the pots of flowers on the other side of the conservatory to the inside of the courtyard gate. Also, take out the blood peaches I have chosen that I have hidden in the cellar. Liu San, you go to the house to guard, if there is anything wrong, change it quickly, don't let His Highness see anything bad. ”

Yu Xian walked out of the splendid city, looked back, and saw a few low houses next to him, and he regretted it again. It's long overdue to buy it and renovate it.

When Zhu Zhanji came over last year, he didn't even come to Ningbo because he wanted to encircle and suppress the Japanese invaders, but just had a tour in Dinghai. When I returned to the capital before the Mid-Autumn Festival, I didn't stop.

But this time, he had to stay in Ningbo for a few days and would not leave until he met with the local governor and representatives of merchants.

Since he arrived in Ningbo, Zhu Zhanji naturally had to live in the city, which was his personal sphere of influence. As for the Ningbo Mansion, it was not within Zhu Zhanji's consideration at all.

Yu Xian knew that Zhu Zhanji had Jinyiwei and Tongzheng as his eyes and ears, and he liked luxury in Ningbo, and he couldn't hide his liking for women.

He didn't want to hide it, he didn't dare to hide it. As long as he works hard, these are not problems, and in the past two years, he thinks he has done a good job.

Thinking of the little beauty in the backyard, although he was a little pity, but he thought that it was possible to exchange for Zhu Zhanji's liking, so he looked forward to it again.

As soon as he got into the car, he saw a group of officials holding signs that read "Avoid" and "Silence" at the corner of the street. As they walked, there were people next to them who sounded gongs, playing nine sticks and sounding a gong, which means "officials, soldiers, and civilians are all avoiding."

Seeing this style, and then seeing the sedan chair in the crowd, Yu Xian sneered and got out of the car again.

Dong Yuan, the prefect of Ningbo, was originally the prefect of Jinhua Mansion, and he didn't know if His Royal Highness liked or disliked, but it was impossible for the entire Ningbo Mansion to not understand people, and now Dong Yuan is still doing this, I'm afraid that someone deliberately framed him.

Although this Dong Yuan has average ability, he is a person who follows the rules and regulations, and he does not oppress the people, so he can be regarded as a clean official.

What's more, he is now his ally, and if His Highness does him badly, then he will have less help. Without the support of this magistrate, he, the five-grade city guard, would have no honor guard.

He turned his head to look at Zhang Chong, who was at the end of his ranks, and wondered if this bastard was messing around.

Although the town guard of the City Ship Division is one level higher than the chief official of the City Ship Promotion Division, it is a relationship of mutual supervision and mutual restraint, and he and Zhang Chong naturally have a tense relationship.

He has the support of His Royal Highness the Taisun and the support of the prefect Dong Yuan, which is naturally not comparable to Zhang Chong. So if he wants to frame Dong Yuan, it is very possible.

Waiting for Dong Yuan's string of sedan chairs in their mansion to stop, Dong Yuan lifted the sedan curtain and said to Yu Xianchang: "I've seen Yu Zhenshou." ”

Yu Xian returned the salute and said: "Dong Fuzun, it is rare to see you in a sedan chair on weekdays, why do everyone come by sedan chair today?" ”

Dong Yuan is a really good man, and he is also a clean official, but his ability is not very good. He was able to rise to the prefect of Ningbo, completely because of the lack of talents in the early Ming Dynasty, he became an official early, just a prefect of Jinhua worked for nine years, and then he was promoted to the prefect of Ningbo.

It is precisely because of his character that he is an alternative in officialdom, no matter what kind of person will not like him, and he lacks help in officialdom.

However, he is old and not too self-motivated, so he has to get by. He knew very well that Yu Xian was a close confidant of his grandson, so he had been cooperating with Yu Xian's work in Ningbo.

"I have heard for a long time that His Royal Highness the Taisun does not like luxury and hustle and bustle, so he let people change the sedan chair to save those livestock from shocking His Highness."

Yu Xian sneered and said: "I'm afraid that Fuzun doesn't know, His Royal Highness once suggested at last year's Great Court Meeting that below the third grade and below sixty, except for the sick, the bride, whether old or young, male or female, all those who ride in the sedan chair will be dismissed from office, right?" ”

Dong Yuan was shocked: "Although the Ming Law stipulates that you are not allowed to take a sedan chair below the third grade, this is too strict, right?" Moreover, this sedan chair is comparable to an ox cart, and the carriage is more than silver. ”

"People are not as good as animals." Yu Xian shook his head and said: "This is the original words of His Royal Highness, and it is also because of His Royal Highness's words, although His Majesty has not canceled the sedan chair, but his own travel is mainly based on carriages, and the shoulder chariot has also been canceled in the palace." Now in the entire Yingtianfu, except for the wedding of the people, there is almost no minister of civil and military affairs sitting in a sedan chair,...... Think about it! ”

This sentence is not difficult to understand, if you use people as animals, it means that you yourself are not even as good as animals. Hearing Yu Xian say this, Dong Yuan's face changed greatly, and he said, "Dong Haoran misunderstood me!" ”

He hurriedly said to his subordinates and entourage: "Hurry up and send the sedan chair back, change the carriage and come over, there must be no mistake!" ”

Those palanquin drivers were stunned, and looked at the faces of the group of people who had changed

Yu Xian asked, "Who is Dong Haoran?" ”

"It's a distant nephew of my clan, and he asked him to go to the capital to take care of it in the winter, but what he didn't want to bring back was hearsay news."

Yu Xian quickly glanced at his fellow acquaintance Wu Zhongfu, and said with a smile: "Maybe someone deliberately confuses the public and lures Fuzun astray!" The house cannot be ignored......"

Dong Yuan smiled and said without squinting: "It's not worth using his talents, I'll expel him back when I turn around,...... Yu Zhenshou, it's not far from the pier, let's walk over here......"

"Fuzun, Wu Tongzhi, please get in the car, there are more than a mile away, it's better to take the car faster."

The two were no longer humble, and sat in the luxurious carriage that Yu Xian had just built in order to welcome Zhu Zhanji.

This Wu Zhongfu is a son of the Changzhou Wang family, and the Wu family is a Changzhou Wang family, with a huge industry in the clan, and has a deep collusion with the Wang clan in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

He failed to compete with Dong Yuan for the position of Fuzun, and has always regarded Dong Yuan as a thorn in his side.

Although he was also quite polite to himself, His Highness had instructed him to avoid collusion with the noble clans and to prevent them from colluding.

Therefore, he did not dare to have a deep friendship with the wang clans in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because everything he had was given by His Royal Highness.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji has set up a large number of eyes and ears in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and has carried out comprehensive monitoring in business and politics, and he does not dare to go beyond half a point.

The city is not far from the Ningbo Sanjiangkou wharf, which is the confluence of the Yongjiang River, the Fenghua River and the Yaojiang River, and is also the most important trade port after Mingzhou was changed to Ningbo.

It is also the largest foreign trade port in Daming, no matter which country's envoys, the first stop to arrive in Daming is here.

Compared with Yingtianfu, although there is less of a simple and elegant atmosphere here, it has more of a market atmosphere and hustle and bustle.

Yu Xian especially likes this kind of living atmosphere, if possible, he is willing to guard this place for His Royal Highness for the rest of his life, and is not willing to return to the intrigue and oppressive palace.

The fleet arrived at Dinghai in Ningbo in the early hours of the morning, but because of Zhu Zhanji's order, everyone should do their own duties, not be extravagant and wasteful, and welcome each other from afar, otherwise they will be dealt with as dereliction of duty.

Zhejiang Cheng announced that the political envoy Sibu political envoy Wang Weixin was the former household servant, and Ge Cheng, the criminal envoy who had accompanied Zhu Zhanji on his northern expedition, were all people who were familiar with Zhu Zhanji's character, so they could only stand still, but sent his subordinates to Ningbo to greet him.

The above did not move, Dong Yuan was not familiar with Zhu Zhanji, and when he saw that Zhu Zhanji's henchmen Yu Xian did not dare to greet him, he did not dare to greet him in advance. On the Ningbo side, only Dinghai County Commander and the local garrison of the Third Fleet greeted Zhu Zhanji and his party.

In Dinghai, Zhu Zhanji summoned all the clans and strictly ordered them not to disturb the people during their stay in Ningbo, so they replaced the 2,000-stone fortune boat and went up the Yongjiang River to Ningbo Mansion.

In addition to carrying 3,000 people from one of the four guards of Yulin as an escort, the First Fleet and the Third Fleet each sent 3,000 people.

"That is His Royal Highness's youngest concubine Ma, her brother is quite valued by His Royal Highness, and the telescope we use is produced in the glazed kiln at her home. The taller one is Liu, who is said to be a female doctor, and she was taken with her on the Eastern Expedition and this trip to the West, and it is obvious that His Royal Highness is very fond of her. ”

Zhu Zhanji chose the battleship of southern Jiangsu as the flagship to enter Ningbo, and Duan Renzhi and Ma Dezhong also relied on their relationship with southern Jiangsu to get into this flagship, wanting to get close to Zhu Zhanji.

Duan Renzhi has been familiar with Xiamaqiao Farm these days, and he has a clear understanding of Zhu Zhanji's side affairs, so he acts as an ear to report God at this time.

Ma Dezhong saw Liu Chenghui's size and sighed: "Such a height is even taller than me, how can His Highness like such a giant!" ”

Sunan's eyes were fixed on the flags on the mast, observing the direction of the wind and the distance from the ships on both sides, and giving instructions from time to time. Hearing Ma Dezhong's words, he reprimanded softly: "How can we evaluate His Highness's preferences? Be careful! ”

Duan Renzhi said with a smile: "If His Royal Highness likes petite and exquisite, can your Feng family fall into your hands?" ”

Ma Dezhong glanced at him, and also lowered his voice and said: "Your Highness likes to be tall, but he didn't attack your family's Fang clan, it seems that he still doesn't fall into His Highness's eyes." ”

Duan Renzhi said angrily: "You bastard, give me the money I lost last night when I played the grain card!" ”

People in this era have not yet had the habit of defaulting on their debts, Ma Dezhong was a little embarrassed, and replied: "If you fight again tonight, maybe I will win it back." ”

"With your skills, you will only be defeated by my subordinates when playing code cards!"

Sunan commanded the hard sail in front of the right and lowered it to one side, turned around and whispered: "You are not ashamed, I still have to lose face, if I let the ship's chamberlain, Yu Linwei, hear it, and reach the ears of His Highness, see if I don't clean up the two of you." ”

Ma Dezhong was silent, and Duan Renzhi couldn't help but say: "The grain card was invented by Director Zheng, and the code card was invented by His Royal Highness, just to let us pass the time on the voyage, maybe they are more obsessed than us!" ”

A little eunuch passed by, heard Duan Renzhi's words, and laughed. Leaned over and whispered, "Your Highness taught us another way to play the code card yesterday, and we also play it when we are fine." ”

After saying that, he ran over quickly, leaving Sunan and the three of them feeling a little surprised, so that Sunan glared at the two of them fiercely.

The so-called grain brand is actually the mahjong of later generations.

Mahjong originated from the Jiangsu Taicang grain protection card, which is used to record the rewards of the granary bird catcher, which is divided into three types: cylinder, rope and ten thousand.

The pattern of the barrel is derived from the cross-section of the powder gun, and the barrels represent several powder guns; The rope refers to the bird strung with a string, indicating how many birds have been eliminated, so the pattern of a rope is represented by a bird, and a few ropes are a few bunches of birds, and the bonus is calculated according to the number of birds. Ten thousand is the unit of reward, and tens of thousands is the number of rewards received.

Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, at least a few months at sea, the soldiers were bored at sea, Zheng He improved this kind of food protection card, and formed the mahjong of later generations.

The name mahjong is derived from the sparrow in Taicang dialect.

However, it was inconvenient to play bamboo mahjong at sea, and after Zhu Zhanji knew about it, he asked the printing house of the internal supervisor to print mahjong in the format of mahjong with pieces of hard paper according to the format of mahjong, and printed 100,000 sets.

When traveling, almost one card for every ten people was distributed, so that the soldiers could have fun at leisure.

Since even mahjong has been printed, Zhu Zhanji will certainly not forget the playing cards, and there are only fifty-four playing cards, which is lower than the cost of mahjong and has more ways to play.

The black and red plum side was interpreted by Zhu Zhanji as spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the three suits of JQK are of course inappropriate to be replaced by English letters in this era, so J becomes a samurai, Q becomes a general, K becomes a marshal, and then there are kings.

Because when printing poker, the suit will be printed on the back, blocking the other side, not allowing light, so the poker has become a code card, meaning that it is a code card.

He doesn't know if the current Western playing cards have been invented, anyway, in the East, it will be called code cards in the future.

Life at sea was boring, and the soldiers' love for mahjong and poker exploded from the beginning. It's only been three days since I went out, and most of them are about to become gamblers, and most of them quickly accepted poker, and in addition to the several ways to play that Zhu Zhanji marked, they quickly derived other ways to play.

Every ten people have a deck of mahjong tiles and a deck of playing cards, and Zhu Zhanji did not want an unlimited supply. Therefore, the soldiers also cherished playing cards, for fear that if they were damaged, they would not have to play in the future.

Not far after entering the Yongjiang River, you can see the city outline of Ningbo. In order to welcome Zhu Zhanji's arrival, today's Ningbo port was closed, and all the merchant ships were parked on the wharf and berthed, vacating the busy river surface on weekdays.

When Zhu Zhanji's fortune boat flying the royal dragon flag docked at the Shibosi Wharf at the mouth of the Sanjiang River, Zhu Zhanji took the lead in stepping down from the boat.

The ministers of civil and military affairs who greeted them on the shore, including the people watching the excitement from a distance, all knelt down one by one.

Each of their faces was filled with happiness and honor, and countless people cried excitedly because they could see the grandson with their own eyes. This kind of worship from the heart, this kind of simple emotion, in this era, is the most normal expression.

Hundreds of years later, those ordinary people are still so simple that they will be moved by the pity of the big people.

It's not about equality, it's just about whether there's inner support. For the common people of Ningbo, the elimination of the Japanese and the protection of Ningbo's prosperity and development are a happy life

(Ningbo and Quanzhou are the two nodes of going to sea, and today I feel that my brain is wasted, and I am not satisfied with the plot conceived.) I'm stuck. ）