Seeing Zhao Hu kneeling in front of him, Zhu Hongsan asked, "Zhao Hu, what did you say?" ”

Zhao Hu blushed, and said hesitantly: "Lord Wang, the villain was with Zhu Luo when he was a child, and he fought with her every day. ”

Zhu Luo, who was standing on the side, saw that Zhao Hu couldn't get to the point, so he kicked Zhao Hu again and scolded: "What are you talking about, let's talk about the point!" ”

Zhao Hu agreed, and then said: "Since then, I have wanted to marry Luo'er as my wife, so the villain asked the prince to promise me." ”

Zhu Hongsan also smiled, and couldn't help but think of himself when he saw Zhao Hu like this. turned around and said to Zhu Hongyi: "Big brother, have you seen it, our children have grown up, can we not be old?" ”

Zhu Hongyi arched his hand and said, "What the King of Chu said is true. ”

Zhu Hongsan turned his head to look at Zhao Hu who was kneeling on the ground, and asked, "Zhao Hu, you want to marry my daughter, but you are only a private now, one tael of silver a month, how can you support my daughter?" ”

Zhao Hu scratched his head and said, "My father is rich." On the side, Zhu Luo kicked him again and said, "Idiot, say that you can work hard to make meritorious contributions and become an official as soon as possible." Zhao Hu hurriedly followed Zhu Luo's words and said again.

Zhu Hongsan glared at Zhu Luo and said to Zhao Hu: "Zhao Hu, your father's money is your father's money, is my daughter going to marry a rich second generation?" But I'll give you a chance, now the Vietnamese garrison is fighting against the local natives in Hongji, you go there and exchange your military exploits for my daughter. ”

Zhao Hu originally thought that Zhu Hongsan was going to give him some task, but he didn't expect to go to the front-line battlefield, and he was overjoyed. If Zhu Luo hadn't let him, he would have wanted to go a long time ago, and when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the villain will definitely come back to marry Zhu Luo." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "You get up, Zhu Luo will only wait for you for three years, and if you become the battalion commander after three years, then everything will not be discussed." ”

When Zhu Luo heard that Zhu Hongsan was going to let his lover go to the front line to fight, and was just about to make trouble, Zhu Hongsan's face sank and said, "Zhu Luo, don't speak." Zhu Luo knew Zhu Hongsan's temper and was too frightened to speak.

Zhu Hongsan continued: "Zhao Hu, you will go to Vietnam when you come back from Guangzhou this time, remember, you must have real military merits, and you must let this king know that you are cheating, but don't blame this king for being polite." After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he waved his hand and asked Zhao Hu to go down and continue his duties.

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhu Hongyi beside him: "Big brother, you won't feel distressed if you let your son go to the front line, right?" ”

Zhu Hongyi arched his hand and said: "Since he joined the army, he is a soldier, and life and death have their own destiny." Zhu Hongyi was also very worried about his son, when Zhao Hu wanted to go to the front line, it was Ma Chunhua who cried and made trouble, forcing himself to get into the guard company by trusting his relationship, but he didn't expect to go to the front line in the end.

Zhu Hongyi actually didn't agree with this marriage very much, he used to be in Huguang in the underworld* society, and he had a lot of social experience at a young age. Although Zhu Hongyi doesn't read, he has heard Han Xin's "Flying Birds and Good Bow Hide" when he listens to books, plus he has traveled south and north with Zhu Hongsan for more than ten years, and he knows this lord's shameless and ruthless character very well.

So Zhu Hongyi didn't want his son to have anything to do with the King of Chu's family, but now that the King of Chu had settled his family affairs, he couldn't help it.

As for what he said about going to the front line to make war exploits, it was a matter of lying to children. Zhu Hongyi is also a veteran on the battlefield, knowing that the Vietnamese natives have no combat effectiveness at all, and the king of Chu asked Zhao Hu to go to the front just to give him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, otherwise his daughter would not look good if she married a big-headed soldier.

Zhu Hongyi looked at his elated son, and said in his heart: "Hu'er, you have chosen this path by yourself, ask for more blessings for yourself." ”

Zhu Hongsan was also very happy to see that his daughter could marry the person he liked, and said to Ma Xiaofang: "Wife, are you satisfied with this?" ”

Now Ma Xiaofang's whole mind is on her son Zhu Hai, as long as her daughter can get married, it doesn't matter if she is happy or not, Ma Xiaofang said: "It's all up to the prince." ”

At this time, Zhu Yu, who was watching the excitement on the side, said: "Daddy, I also want to choose my own husband." ”

Zhu Hongsan was happy when he heard Zhu Yu's milky words, hugged Zhu Yu and asked, "Xiao Yu'er is also interested in someone?" ”

Zhu Yu nodded and said, "I want to marry Brother Zhu Hai." ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled: "Why? ”

"Brother Zhu Hai is good to me, the second brother always robs me of candy, and every time Brother Zhu Hai grabs it back for me, so I will marry him in the future."

Zhu Hongsan laughed and said, "Silly girl, you are brothers and sisters, you can't get married." ”

Zhu Yu is only three years old now, and with her intelligence, she can tell the difference. Hearing Zhu Hongsan say that brother and sister could not get married, Zhu Yu was very depressed and said: "Since I can't marry Brother Zhu Hai, then I have to choose a husband myself." ”

Zhu Hongsan heard Zhu Yu's firmness, kissed Zhu Yu's pink little face, and said, "Okay, Daddy promised you that you will let you choose your own husband in the future." ”

Zhu Yu was very happy, and went crazy with Zhu Hai and them.

Zhu Hongsan was also very happy to see a few children now and Hemeimei, but he knew that this kind of brotherhood and brother Gong could not last for a few years, and as the children grew up and their personal thoughts increased, this kind of warm family gathering may not be there anymore.

The city of Guangzhou is less than 50 miles away from the Dongguan waterway, and there are no major winds and waves in the Pearl River estuary, so Zhu Hongsan and his party arrived in Guangzhou before noon.

Since the Qin Dynasty began to set up Nanhai County, Guangzhou is the largest city in Lingnan. After more than 2,000 years of development, it is more densely populated, and now there are more than 500,000 permanent residents in the city, plus the mobile merchants, the Tanhu households on the river, and the laborers from the surrounding counties who come to Fucheng to work for a short time, the entire Guangzhou Fucheng has a population of almost 800,000.

The main city of Guangzhou is built in the Song Dynasty, after Jingkang crossed to the south, a large number of people came to the north, so in the Southern Song Dynasty, a new business district was formed along the Pearl River, so the south city was built, also called the Yanyi City, laid the foundation for the new city of Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty. In later generations, Gaodi Street, Zhuangyuan Street, and Maima Street roughly belonged to its scope.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the war spread to Lingnan, and the whole city of Guangzhou was destroyed in the war. After Zhu Yuanzhang unified China, the Guangzhou government of the past dynasties expanded north and south on the basis of the three cities of the Song Dynasty, reaching Yuexiu Mountain in the north, the Pearl River in the south, the Dadongmen in the east, and Xihao in the west.

In the Ming Dynasty, the street pattern of Guangzhou City was mostly east-west, north-south, and there were many T-shaped streets. The commercial area is mainly in the new urban area along the river, and the most merchants engaged in overseas trade are engaged in the Hao Pan Street. Because the sandy land along the Pearl River is getting wider and wider, so the wing city is added, because the commerce along the Pearl River is prosperous, the population has increased greatly, the wing city is built on the east and west sides of the Ming Dynasty, just like chicken wings, also known as the chicken wing city, and the Qing Dynasty also continued the urban planning of the Ming Dynasty.

The Pearl River in the Ming Dynasty was far wider than that of later generations, and the two banks were ten miles apart. It is recorded in the Guangzhou Prefecture Chronicles that in the Qin and Han dynasties, the Pearl River was five or six times wider than it is now, so the people of Guangzhou called the Pearl River in front of them "sea", and the river crossing was called "crossing the sea".

Zhu Hongsan stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the merchant ships coming and going, and the Dongguan wharf had undergone its own transformation, and the number of merchant ships had increased by ten times compared with the original. However, compared with the Guangzhou wharf, it is much worse in terms of the number of merchant ships and the scale.

Dongguan is now mainly exporting industrial products, while Guangzhou is mainly exporting a large number of silk, porcelain, tea, homespun cloth, gold and silver utensils, and importing mainly various treasures, spices, medicinal materials, woolen fabrics, cotton fabrics, cotton and various groceries.

Zhu Hongsan has also been to several megacities when he came to this era, Beijing, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, all of which have more population than Guangzhou, but Guangzhou has a taste that those big cities do not have, that is, the taste of commerce.

It may be related to the geographical location of Guangdong, which has always been a good businessman, even in later generations. The merchants of this place dressed in silk and sat in horse-drawn carriages, talking loudly about business with others. You must know that this is simply impossible in Beijing, and Hangzhou and Yangzhou in the south are better, but the merchants do not have such a high status as the Guangdong merchants.

Zhu Hongsan and his entourage were on the official ship of Dongguan County, so naturally they had to dock at the official wharf. At this time, a petty official from the city department got on the boat, looked around, and said, "You are an official ship, why are you all civilians?" Who told you to come up? ”