Chapter One Hundred and One

The drenched light rain was falling, and Ning Zhong stood in front of the window and looked at the slightest rain line outside, and there was a foggy feeling in the trance, and the ground was not as splashed with bubbles as it was when there was a lot of rain in summer.

"The New Year is in a month, so it should still be so lively this year, right?"

Ning Zhong muttered to himself, and the wind blew in from outside, with a hint of coolness, hitting him, shivering slightly.

Propping up the window wider, Ning Zhong returned to the chair and sat down, stroking the delicate and smooth armrests of the chair with his hand, and couldn't tell what it felt like.

"Master, it's time to eat." With a knock on the door, the butler stood in the hallway outside and reminded.

"Don't worry, let them eat first, you come in and ask you something." Ning Zhong had no idea of eating, as if he was not hungry.

"What do you want to know, sir?" The butler pushed open the door and came in, stood respectfully beside Ning Zhongze, and asked softly.

"What has Zhang Zhong from Luzhou done recently? I'm talking about whether to send someone over and persuade the local people to go to Luzhou. Ning Zhong stroked the broken hair in front of his forehead that was messed up by feng shui just now with his hand and asked.

"Back to the master, no, since more than 10,000 people have passed, only 5,000 people have followed, and the rest of the people are still stable."

The housekeeper replied carefully, deliberately saying that the matter of the more than 5,000 people who went later was more insipid, he knew that the lord was in a bad mood now, and the impeachment had an effect, and the court did not continue to pursue responsibility, and the Ning family escaped once, but this effect was only like this, Zhang Zhong had nothing to do, the court did not send anyone to investigate, and he did not even see the will of the reprimand.

Who said that the emperor was far away, it seems that the imperial court has long known about this side of the matter, Zhang Zhong is unharmed, and the news bought with money from the capital is that the emperor has suppressed all the excerpts for impeaching Zhang Zhong, or it is said that he will not send it in Zhongshu Province, and it will stop directly in Zhongshu Province, and no one in Menxia Province can see it.

This is the bias, in the usual situation, Zhongshu Province should have a proposal, Menxia Province should make a decision, the emperor will approve it, and Shangshu Province will send relevant people here to verify it, as if the entire court has recognized what Zhang Zhong is doing here, and the reply to the master is not corrected.

I also mentioned the matter of the gale, but the meaning of the two words is more, I feel that the losses caused by the gale are not investigated, but it is written in the front, the emperor wrote, after the Shangshu Province sent it out, the words of Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province were added to it, that is, it said that the gale is not human to resist.

This emperor's reply is not so simple, if you don't correct the hurricane in Qinzhou, it makes sense, and if you don't correct Zhang Zhong's affairs, what I'm most afraid of is another meaning, this time I won't pursue the master's malicious impeachment.

If you really want to know what it means, you can write another impeachment excerpt and send it, and it will be clear which kind of the emperor's approval belongs to, but does anyone dare to do this? In case it is the last meaning, if you impeach, it will be corrected.

Ning Zhong was extremely depressed because he thought of the last possibility, more than 15,000 people were gone, and they went to Luzhou to help repair things, really calculated, the current Ning family is richer than Zhang Zhong's family, and the power is greater than Zhang Zhong's family, mainly because the Ning family's money is paved.

This is the most unacceptable, the Ning family has come to shop this stall for several generations, and it will be spent a little bit to make a little money, and the stall is bigger than the Zhang family, the problem is that the stalls of the Zhang family are not as good as the Ning family, but the money earned by those stalls is dozens of times more than that of the Ning family, and it can even be said that it is hundreds of times.

Zhang Zhong can always draw out a large amount of money, and even have money to build post roads for the Guangzhou Mansion, and money to build canals for the imperial court.

Ordinary people don't know, don't the court know either? The emperor doesn't know? 110,000 yuan, the Zhang family took it out without asking for anything, and it is no wonder that the emperor will put down the impeachment of Zhang Zhong, and the taxes paid by Luzhou last year only add up to more than 10,000 yuan and less than 20,000 yuan.

Benzhou paid less than 30,000 yuan here, and the conversion of Tugong was also counted, and those who dared to spend money did have someone to protect, and the emperor got the benefit this time, so naturally the emperor had to protect it.

This makes people wonder, what benefits can Zhang Zhong get from the canal? What benefits can make him 110,000 yuan? Traitorous minister, Zhang Zhong is a traitor, he sent something called a sofa to some ministers over there, and also sent them something called cement to repair pavilions and flower beds.

is clearly a villain, which gentleman can do such a bad thing? Bah! Isn't it just some piece of furniture? Tomorrow I won't need it here, I won't need a chair, I won't need a folding table, I don't see anything good.

Ning Zhongze's hand was still touching back and forth on the armrest of the chair, and he depreciated this set of furniture sent by Luzhou *** again and again, what a broken thing, just sitting under the chair's buttocks for a long time, it was damp and wet, and a cotton pad was added, and it was the same for sitting on a futon.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, Ning Zhong patted the armrest with his hand and said to the housekeeper: "Tomorrow, I will send all these things from Luzhou...... Put all in the living room, use it for a long time to make people lazy, and don't use it in the study. ”

"Yes, sir, the two-story bed that the little boy usually sleeps on is also going to be sent to the living room?" The butler asked again in agreement.

He was afraid that the master would let all the people put the things sent by Lu Zhou into the living room, and he also received one, a riveted table, I don't know how to get it, it looks very comfortable, especially the drawer, please pull it out, and the chair that matches the table, can be rotated back and forth, the deerskin surface, the mahogany shelf, and the cotton and bamboo two kinds of cushions, it is really distressing to take it out.

Ning Zhong also knew that these things were comfortable to use, but he felt uncomfortable in his heart, and hesitated, "Just move the study over, don't move the others, after all, it is something sent by Lu Zhou, even if it is awkward to use, you have to give Zhang Zhong a face." ”

"Yes, the old man is benevolent and righteous, and give Zhang Zhong a face." The housekeeper was relieved.

"Well, let's go eat if there's nothing else to do." Ning Zhong knew very well what the people who got these pieces of furniture thought in their hearts, who doesn't like to use good things, and this thing is also very valuable, so the chair sitting under him doesn't want to buy it without eighty guan.

These things are all included, you can't just buy one, right? According to the same level, I bought a set of the study, I don't even think about it if I don't have five hundred guan, I bought this, and there is a supplementary matching tea set, I bought a tea set and tea leaves, I want to be decent, and I want to arrange a study room with a thousand guan, almost.

How much does it cost? How much money can the Zhang family make from it?

Even if Ning Zhong is full of hostility to the Zhang family, he has to admire other people's means of making money, there are people in thatched huts, but there are not many, why live in such a house, it's not that he doesn't have the ability to make money?

His own family can do this, not to mention those who have no conflict with Zhang Zhong.

The housekeeper didn't care what the master thought, as long as he didn't let him take out what he had gotten, he agreed and withdrew.

Ning Zhong touched the armrest of this chair very reluctantly, the longer the mahogany was used, the darker the color, and the better it looked, listening to the sound of rain outside, taking a deep breath, and before he could spit it out, the housekeeper who had just left came back with a letter in his hand.

"Master, there is news from the capital again, master, please take a look." The butler lowered his head slightly, his waist was not as straight as just now, and he raised his eyes to look at the master, for fear that the master would suddenly change his mind again, and continue to let him send things to the living room.

Ning Zhong didn't think so much, took the letter, took a closer look, there was no trace of it being dismantled, and it was opened little by little, from top to bottom, from right to left.

Seeing that he had lost his spirit just now, he leaned back on the back of the chair in a gloomy manner, threw the letter to the butler, and asked, "Do you know what cement is?" ”

The housekeeper finally caught the letter before it fell to the ground, and without waiting to see it, he heard the old man ask, and immediately said: "I heard that it is made by Luzhou, and it seems that it can be used to build roads and seawalls. ”

"Just look at what is written in the letter, another profitable business has come out, send someone to investigate, no matter what, you have to know how the cement is made, with this Ning family, you don't have to shrink in Qinzhou to survive."

Ning Zhong gasped for a few breaths in a row, and said as he looked at the rain outside the window.