Chapter 1: Spring Comes (I)

This year, Zhu Chongjiu had a very moist life!

Huaiyang Firm is like a monster that can pull money, bringing him huge dividends at the end of the year. Except for the part that is given to the backbone at all levels as a "year-end bonus", the rest is still an extremely happy number. In the previous year, with the vigorous development of industry and commerce and the implementation of the integrated tax payment policy of the gentry and the common people, the tax figures in the Huai'an military-controlled area also increased. In addition to maintaining the daily expenses of the government and the army, there can be a lot of surplus. There is no longer any need for him, the chief manager, to squat in the master craftsman's courtyard all day long, pondering what other "new inventions" can make money.

Along with the increase in the tax surplus, the Governor's Office also had a significant decrease in its spending on the war effort. According to the idea of stabilizing one place after the next place, the Huaiyang Department has no idea of continuing to expand significantly for the time being. Therefore, in the Qizhou battlefield, only three brigades were always invested. With this alone, it is obviously impossible to drive away the two of Badulu and Ni Wenjun, but it is not a problem to maintain the stability of the battle line. Especially when the Military Intelligence Department and the Huaiyang Firm jointly attacked, the counterattack of the Yuan army became more and more weak. Some Xizuo even sent back news that Aya Badulu was now very disappointed in the imperial court. is secretly plotting with his subordinates to lead the soldiers and horses back to Sichuan, and behind closed doors to tear the soil and become king.

There was no trouble in the treasury and the battlefield, and Zhu Chongjiu had more time to celebrate the New Year with his humerus. On the morning of the first day of the new year, he was dressed in the robe of Wu Guogong given by Han Lin'er by Su Mingzhe and Lu Luzeng like monkeys, and accepted the congratulations of all the civil and military officers under his command in the council room. At noon, he ordered someone to charter a restaurant under the name of Huaiyang firm outside, and took everyone to eat the "Zhengdan Banquet". In the evening, the ministers went back to their homes, and the generals stayed very tacitly, and continued to talk to their governors about the old days, until someone accidentally overturned the table, and then ended up laughing.

On the morning of the second day of junior high school, he had to change into coarse cloth clothes and go to the village festival with Lu Shuang'er. On behalf of more than 8 million people in the entire Huaiyang Xusui area, they offered six sacrifices to heaven and earth, burned incense and prayed. Please God bless all parts of the country, and this year will be smooth and rainy, and the five grains will be abundant.

In the third year of junior high school, it was the time for Wu Gong and his wife to perform a "people-friendly" show in public. Under Lu Luzeng's arrangement, the Governor's Office selected 100 old men over the age of 70 from all over the country to have lunch with Zhu Chongjiu and Lu Shuang'er. At the same time, they listened to the reactions of the elders on the gains and losses of the previous year's administration and the reactions of the officials in various places under the administration of the Great Governor's Office, adopted the useful advice, and selected the most dissatisfied with the people to make adjustments.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, it was set aside to meet with the local civil and military officials who returned from outside Yangzhou Road to the chief administrator to pay New Year's greetings, as well as their messengers. On the fifth day of junior high school, he spent the whole day on the school grounds, inspecting the recruits and comforting the veterans who retired due to injuries. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he made a special trip to Jiangwan New Town to inspect hundreds of workshops and important places for military aircraft such as coinage, cannon casting and gun making.

It wasn't until the seventh day of the new year that I finally got busy. In the morning, in the conference hall, he explained to the chief officer of the Second Division and the First Court of the Eighth Bureau, as well as the backbone of the staff headquarters, the matters that need to be focused on recently, and when it was time for lunch, he fled back to the back house with his lazy muscles.

There was still a chill in the air, but the plum blossoms on both sides of the corridor were already in full bloom. Whenever there is a breeze blowing, the petals will fly down like snow, so that people walking on the road feel like they are in a sea of petals, the dark fragrance is fragrant, and the warmth is also full of faces.

In Zhu Chongjiu's memory, the plum blossoms in another time and space should not be what they look like in front of them. A plant like this that blooms all over the trees and blooms like snow should be cherry blossoms. But his botanical level in his previous life was as bad as his level of chasing girls, so he didn't dare to be ugly in this life, and just followed the flow to see the falling cherry blossoms in the garden as plum blossoms.

Thinking that he was just an otaku in another time and space, he didn't even pull a girl's hand a few times. In his life, he married nine ladies at one time, and he felt that the scene in front of him was like a dream. I think that when he was reading novels on the Internet, he married seventeen or eighteen wives to others, and he made a big harem drool. When it was my turn, I realized that unless my heart was strong enough, it might not be a blessing to have too many wives.

At least, whenever he saw the resentment in the other eight pairs of eyes, his heart always seemed to be secretly poked by someone's needle. However, when the eight concubines were sent home, they didn't dare to mention it again. Because when he discussed it with Lu Shuang'er for the first time, the answer he got was, "The husband wants to put the concubine in the name of jealousy?" Or do you want to force them to death? Now that they have entered the door of the Zhu family, whether you like them or not, it is their life. If they are let out, no one dares to take them in, and just the rumors of the world can force them to find their own way! ”

"This" When he first heard Lu Shuang'er's words, Zhu Chongjiu was still a little skeptical. But with the adaptation to life and the understanding of folk customs, he found that his wife did not say a word. A perfect woman in this time and space not only requires to be beautiful, gentle, and dabbled in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also requires that she can quench her jealousy and know how to recommend a suitable little wife to her husband. The more princely it is, the more so. Otherwise, they will be shrews and jealous women, and they will be detained with all kinds of notoriety during their lifetime, and they will still be counted down for hundreds of years after death.

"It seems that men and women are equal, I'm afraid I don't want to mention it in my life!" Zhu Chongjiu is not a straight man, and of course he will not take the initiative to promote feminism. So he had to take a resigned attitude. For the affairs of the backyard, it has always been left to Lu Shuang'er to be in charge, and he has ignored it.

And Nalu Shuang'er is a rare smart woman. knows her husband's temperament, so she doesn't worry about her own status. On the contrary, he became more and more kind and respectful to the other eight dowors. In this way, Zhu Chongjiu's harem is also peaceful, there has never been any messy wives and concubines fighting, and there has never been a lot of housework to annoy him.

It's just that today, the atmosphere in the backyard is clearly something wrong. Hearing his footsteps, his wife, who used to meet him quickly, disappeared, and the other eight concubines were also silent. The whole back house was quiet, and even the birdsong was rare. Only the parrot hanging on the branch at the entrance of the second hall saw Zhu Chongjiu's figure passing through the sea of flowers, and suddenly opened his throat and shouted: "The husband is back, the husband is back, the husband is back!" "Every time I scream, I change my voice, and it sounds extremely coquettish.