At that time, Jiangnan had enjoyed the peaceful season for more than 200 years, and the prosperity of Jiangnan had almost reached the top of the small-scale peasant economy.

These famous families have nothing to pursue in other aspects besides the imperial examination. As long as you win the imperial examination, whether it is wealth, marriage, or status, you don't need to do it yourself, and the clan and fellow villagers will automatically offer it. Therefore, these children from famous families, in addition to competing for the ranking of the imperial examination, if they want to compare the level of a person's background, they can only look at the background of their family from the way they spend money.

Poetry and writing are a personal talent, if you don't have it in your head, even Zhong Mingding's food family will not be able to produce talents. But food, clothing, housing and transportation, all leisure and good things, since ancient times, there have been elegant and vulgar. This kind of useless skill that only the sons of families who have no worries about food and clothing can have time to study, but it can isolate those nouveau riche and low-level scholars from their circle of friends.

Although famous prostitutes in Jiangnan like to associate with famous and talented people, these famous prostitutes also have to eat after all, and the mothers and servants who eat with famous prostitutes also have to rely on the money earned by famous prostitutes to feed. Therefore, the so-called famous prostitutes in Jiangnan love talents, in the final analysis, they are also touted by the children of these families, so if you want to become a famous prostitute, you must vote for the likes of these sons of the family.

Ten miles of Qinhuai River, everywhere is the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, during which there are few stunning women, but there are very few women who can really come out and control their own destiny. But whenever one appears, it must have its own uniqueness.

Gu Mei was able to emerge from the ten-mile Qinhuai River and build his own eyebrow tower, in addition to his long sleeves and good at dancing, good at communicating between the children of these families, the exquisite diet of the Meilou is also indispensable.

For the children of these families, although they failed to read the benevolence and righteousness advocated by Confucius and Mencius sages, they never got tired of eating, and they never got tired of being fine. But it really did. Just by eating, they can also make a "twelve products", which refers to rice, cooking, food, vegetables, repair, soup, tea, time, utensils, land, and couples.

Gu Mei knew that the Funing Hou who was invited today was not an ordinary magnate, but a top Ming dignitary who could really control the life and death of Meilou, although there were many literati and celebrities in Meilou, but they might not be able to fight against this Nanjing garrison for her, a woman in the Qinglou. Therefore, since the day before, she has carefully prepared all kinds of food and drink materials, and invited the Kou sisters from Chaoku Street to help her, trying to make the banquet perfect tonight.

Funing Hou, who has a good reputation among the literati in Jiangnan, although he is a garrison in Nanjing, is very comfortable in front of Gong Dingyu and other famous literati, so tonight's banquet can be said to be very smooth.

Of course, Gu Mei also knew that this was mainly because Gong Dingyu, the guest of Funinghou's banquet tonight, frequently showed favor to himself, so that the guests and hosts of tonight's banquet were happy, and no one came out to embarrass himself.

Gu Mei, who entered the Qinglou at the age of 10 to learn art, naturally knew what the intention behind Gong Dingxiao's overtures was, but she did not dislike this Jiangzuo celebrity who was extremely enthusiastic when she met for the first time, after all, this person's appearance, family background and future seem to be the best choice. The only flaw is that this family already has a wife.

Although Gu Mei already had a lover, he still sang and sang poems with Gong Dingyu during the banquet, and he looked amorous in wanting to welcome and refuse, which made the guests a little stunned for a while. This made Yu Huai, another Jiangnan celebrity during the banquet, very apprehensive, and Gu Mei didn't want to hate the old man, so he excused himself to go downstairs to see if the last chicken porridge was boiled well, and went down the stairs to avoid the seat.

When Gu Mei walked down the stairs, he also heard Fu Ninghou quipping to Gong Dingyu: "... It is said that Meilou has three uniques. The pattern of this eyebrow tower has unique hills and ravines, which is a must; The ingenuity of Meilou's diet is in Qinhuai, which is a second unique; Meisheng's Nanqu Jinling is the first, and it is the first of the three uniques.

But after today, I see that Meilou has to add another must, Meisheng's low eyebrows and shallow smile, it is really moving, if Zhilu doesn't start, I will be moved..."

Gu Mei smiled slightly, and when she was about to continue to go downstairs, she saw several burly men in strange military uniforms walking towards her, she hurriedly stepped forward and stopped: "Several military masters, Meilou has been taken down today, please don't bump into the nobles upstairs..."

"You're the Gu Mei of the eyebrow tower?" A young voice came from behind the soldier, and as this voice came out, the two soldiers who were walking in front suddenly stood on both sides of the stairs, giving way to a young man with a horsewhip behind him.

Although the staircase of the eyebrow tower is a few points larger than the general embroidery floor, it can accommodate two people at most. Therefore, although the military man in front of him gave way to the side, Gu Mei only saw half of the young man's face.

Looking at the other party's childish face and the military uniform that was not very conspicuous, Gu Mei couldn't help but subconsciously whispered: "The guest invited upstairs for today's banquet is Mr. Gong Xiaosheng of Jiangzuo, and the banquet is Nanjing Garrison Funing Hou, if this younger brother wants to taste the dishes of our Meilou, it is better to come back another day, don't disturb the distinguished guests upstairs." ”

Mu Tianbo looked at Gu Mei with some surprise, Gu Mei who was standing in the backlight of the stairs, he couldn't see the other party's appearance clearly, but he could just judge that the other party was an extremely slender woman.

He also heard the kindness in the woman's words, so he said in a slightly polite tone: "Well, for the sake of your kindness." Ah Hu, go and invite Master Hou downstairs to talk..."

When Mu Tianbo was about to turn around and go downstairs, the upstairs seemed to have noticed the noise in the stairwell, and Fu Ninghou, who was only listening, suddenly roared loudly: "That bastard thing ran to Meilou to make trouble, and he didn't let Benhou roll up." ”

Mu Tianbo, who had already turned around, suddenly became angry, and he smiled at the generals around him and said: "This Funing Hou is really a great official, yes, let's go up and meet this Zhu Guobi and see how many taels of yellow soup he poured today." ”

Listening to the young man's tone before, Gu Mei felt that something was wrong. But she really couldn't figure it out, there was a noble son in this Nanjing City who dared to say this about Funing Hou.

Before she could figure it out, the young man opposite had already said to her, "This girl, please let us go, don't hinder us from going upstairs."

Gu Mei didn't dare to stop these soldiers from going upstairs anymore, she could only turn around and go upstairs again, but she was already up and down in her heart, and she felt that the next scene might be very bad.

Seeing Gu Mei walk upstairs with a blue face and white lips, Gong Dingxiao, who was sitting next to Funing Hou, suddenly felt a pain in his heart, but considering his identity, he still didn't get up to comfort Gu Mei for a few words. Yu Huai, who was on the side, immediately got up to greet him, and helped Gu Mei, who was a little frightened, to the side and sat down.

Following Gu Mei upstairs were two sergeants wearing peculiar military uniforms. Gu Mei didn't know the origin of this military uniform, but Zhu Guobi recognized it at a glance as the military uniform of the new army, and he immediately reprimanded angrily: "It's Liu Zhaoji, or Yi Bangcai, without a military order, how dare you leave the camp without permission, is it really that this garrison can't enforce military law..."

Zhu Guobi's roar suddenly stopped after seeing the young man emerging from the staircase, as if a crowing rooster had broken its neck. After he paused for a moment, he quickly got up and bowed to the young man and said, "Zhu Guobi has seen the little grandfather, but I don't know that the little grandfather has arrived in Nanjing, and the lower official has no way to say anything, and he asks the little grandfather to forgive his sins." ”

Hearing Zhu Guobi's words, several people present naturally understood the identity of the other party in an instant, and they dared to continue to sit there, so they all avoided the table and saluted Zhu Guobi.

Gong Dingyu was a little surprised and whispered to Zhu Guobi beside him: "It's the British Mansion..." ”

Gong Dingyu was a little relieved in his heart, in his heart, the Qianguo Mansion in Yunnan was not as powerful as the British Mansion after all.

The guests upstairs all wanted Mu Tianbo to bow their heads, but this Qianguo Duke stood very rudely in front of the Marquis of Funing, and refused to return the salute for a long time. This made Zhu Guobi feel shocked and angry in his heart, if he didn't know that this Duke of Qianguo came to Nanjing on business, even if the other party was a duke, he wouldn't be able to control him, the Nanjing garrison, so he wouldn't have to be so polite.

But seeing that the other party came to Meilou menacingly, he was worried that he had provoked this grumpy little bastard somewhere. Among the nobles, the reputation of this young Qianguo Gong is really not very good.

Mu Tianbo originally entered the Army Military Academy to study, but he participated in and organized a group brawl in the school, and almost opened the scoop for another noble son, which once made Sun Chuanting angry and wanted to expel him.

In the end, under the mediation of the emperor, he was transferred to the naval officer academy, and he barely completed his studies. This also made Mu Tianbo, who was supposed to serve in the Army General Staff, eventually become a naval staff officer.

It is said that this person has the reputation of being the first emperor and the second emperor in the capital. Except for Chongzhen, almost no one can control him. Once you are impulsive, even if you are also a noble, you have nothing to talk about.

With such a notoriety, Zhu Guobi is naturally a little scared of this Qianguo Gong. He was trying to think about where he had offended the other party.

Mu Tianbo finally said in a thick nasal voice: "Funing Hou, do you still know what military law is?" As a garrison of Nanjing, do you know that the General Staff Headquarters issued a circular in May, demanding that the Nanjing Garrison and all armies and garrisons in Nanjing should arrange personnel to be on duty for combat readiness every day to prevent the occurrence of special conditions?

During the combat readiness duty, they are not allowed to leave the barracks without incident, let alone enter and exit the fireworks and willow lane. Funinghou, what do you think of military law? Everyone else is excused. ”

Zhu Guobi was suddenly a little flustered, he didn't know what Mu Tianbo meant by this. Although there is a circular from the General Staff, isn't this a constraint on the officers and men below? When will I be able to manage them and these Xun families?

What's more, Nanjing, as the heart of the Ming Dynasty, has always been very peaceful, and what special conditions will happen there. Even if there is any special situation, will the servants of their own family still not know where they are? Not to mention, it's not that when did the nobles of the Ming Dynasty live in the big camp.

Zhu Guobi decided almost instantly that the other party was here to trouble him. But even so, Zhu Guobi didn't want to tear his face with the other party here, if this reached the emperor's ears, it would not be a good thing.

So Zhu Guobi gave Gong Dingyu beside him a look, hoping that he would come out and say a few words. Among the few people present, only his identity can say a few words in front of the Duke of Qianguo.