During this time, Zhang You was very busy, the construction of the Maritime Governor's Mansion had started, and the Zhenhai had reached the most critical juncture, so he did not leave Chongming to go to other places to wander around, running back and forth between the two places every day, but instead of feeling tired, he was happy to do it, and he had a sense of achievement.

Of course, Shen Wan'er has been taken over, everyone lives in the back house of the prefect's yamen, Ruyan knows that she, like Li Yan, is the closest person to Zhang You, and she is very flattering, and she gets along with the second daughter very tacitly.

When he got up this morning, Zhang You trotted into the door before Zhang Yunxiu had washed up: "Fifth brother and fifth brother, something is wrong, but it's amazing......"

"What's wrong?" Zhang You took a big jump and hurriedly interrupted him and asked.

Zhang Yunxiu's prank succeeded, his serious expression suddenly disappeared, and he smiled hesitantly: "Great joy, there is a letter from the capital, the old lady of Cisheng and the queen are coming to participate in the inaugural ceremony of the Zhenhai, and they are scheduled to leave on the eighteenth of this month......"

"Won't Your Majesty come?" Zhang You saw Zhang Yunxiu holding a letter in his hand, grabbed it in his hand, and kept in his mouth: "It's twenty-two today, so to speak, they have been on their way for four days, and they should have passed Texas, right?" ”

"Well, the letter said that the old lady of Cisheng originally meant to take the sea route, and she didn't want to make trouble for the local people, but the sea was unstable, and in order to ensure safety, His Majesty strongly requested that she must take the canal."

The dredging of the Grand Canal has long been completed, but now that there is more shipping, there is no longer the grand occasion of thousands of sails crossing the border, but there are more cruise ships and passenger ships.

Zhang You had already opened the envelope and looked at it, and said while reading it: "Actually, Your Majesty has not walked the sea route, so I am worried about this, of course, the sea route is indeed not as safe as the canal, but our Zhenhai is not the same after it is built, such a big guy, unless it is a storm, it is not easy to overturn it, right?" ”

Zhang Yunxiu nodded: "Yes, in the future, we will build one hundred and eighty ships and fight all the way to Europa." Saying that, he was also amused, and then his smile flickered, and he said solemnly: "By the way, Fifth Brother, don't you really see those people?" ”

He was referring to those who had made a fortune by transport, and when they heard that Zhang You was in Chongming, they rushed over one after another, hoping that he would persuade the emperor to return to the old way of transporting grain by canal, and more hoping to get a piece of the pie by sea.

Most of these people are the forces supported by the real power and important positions along the canal, and those businessmen who rely on the foreign trade of the four great families are still different, conservative thinking, rigid thinking, most of them have been unable to keep up with Zhang You's rhythm, and sooner or later will be replaced by the emerging aristocratic class.

Because of this, Zhang You has been closed to customers and does not want to see them.

Seeing him shake his head, Zhang Yunxiu said: "Okay, I know that you don't look down on them, if you don't see them, you won't see them, but if you don't come to the south overnight, you can't stop seeing him, right?" ”

"Nonsense, why didn't you say it earlier?" Zhang You glared at Zhang Yunxiu: "Hurry up and let him in, I'll wash my face first, and I'll go see him right away." ”

Zhang Yunxiu smiled and agreed.

Ye Xiangnan took Ye Shilang alone, and as soon as the two saw Zhang You, they hurriedly got up to greet each other and paid a big salute.

"Okay, old night, I haven't seen you for a few months, why have you seen outside? Hurry up and speak. Zhang You stretched out his hand to help Ye Xiangnan up, and patted Ye Shilang's shoulder: "Okay, boy, the longer you get, the stronger you get, it's time to talk about your daughter-in-law, right?" ”

Ye Shilang scratched his head a little shyly: "The master just helped him ask for a ...... a few days ago."

"Oh? Why didn't you notify me? ”

"Governor Dadu, you weren't busy, so I didn't tell you."

"Busy is busy, people can't get the ceremony, right?" Zhang You glared at him unhappily, took out a silver ticket from his arms, and stuffed it into his hand without looking at the amount: "Take it, I wish you an early birth to a noble son, if not, I have a secret recipe." He laughed as he spoke.

Ye Shilang pushed back: "Don't, it's all over, don't be so polite." ”

"Huh? Am I being polite? Old night? ”

"Okay Shilang, the governor of Dadu has a heart, you can put it away, and you will have to use it more when you go back to supervise the affairs of Dadu."

Yajuro put away the silver ticket at this time, and he had already seen the denomination in his eyes, and he couldn't help but be secretly speechless.

"Old night, you are a busy person, you must have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, say, don't go around the bend with me." After the episode, the two sides sat down, and Zhang You said straight to the point.

"The Metropolitan Governor is still so happy," Ye Xiangnan gave a thumbs up: "I really want to talk to you here, now the business of our car dealership is getting more and more prosperous, and the gang has saved a lot of spare money, I think I want to do something else, I can't put all my eggs in one basket, I want to ask you to help me think of a living." ”

Zhang You smiled and said, "You just say that you want to participate in shipping, isn't it worth taking such a big detour?" ”

Ye Xiangnan smiled and scratched his sideburns a little embarrassedly: "I can't hide anything from you." ”

Zhang You hesitated for a moment: "In fact, I don't want to fake outsiders when it comes to shipping, there are enough officers and soldiers in the naval division base...... In this way, I can't let you open your mouth in vain, in the future, I will let them give priority to hiring you for the grain transported to this place from all over the world, and I will not mix this matter, and it is your Hanako Gang who earns more and less money. ”

Zhang You's current status, just a word, who dares not to buy it? So it's definitely a reward.

Ye Xiangnan was overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed and thanked: "Thank you to the Governor of Dadu for your support, and according to the original appearance, I must not swallow this silver alone." ”

"Whatever you want," Zhang You didn't argue with him, "As long as you don't delay the errand of inquiring about the news, it's done...... Uh, by the way, I suddenly remembered one thing, you are also the head snake in the south of the Yangtze River, have you ever heard of Biyunguan? ”

"I've heard of the Metropolitan Governor, just in Huating, it is said that the Taishan grandmother there is particularly effective in asking for a child, and I went to my wife a while ago, why, the Metropolitan Governor is also ......" Ye Shilang hurriedly said, but then he suddenly stopped talking, obviously afraid that Zhang You would be heartfelt.

"I've been there once, I actually want to ask, are you familiar with this Taoist temple, the Taoist priests in it are all skillful, I suspect that they are related to the Taoist priests who assassinated me in Taicang Ziyang Temple last time."

They have no news without leaving travelers, Zhang You is a little unsteady.

Yajuro's eyes widened: "And this is the case?" I don't think those Taoist priests are very powerful, I just think they are all very beautiful, as if they are picking. ”

Zhang You Huoran was moved, yes, it seems to have been selected, if you really recruit a Taoist, you shouldn't care so much about your appearance, right?

Then he suddenly felt that he had overlooked a problem, but he couldn't remember what it was.

What exactly is being overlooked? His brow furrowed.