Facing Shen Honglian's questioning, Zhang Ru said very frankly: "Honglian, things are not as unbearable as you imagined. This woman's surname is Jiang Caiwei, and I only had a relationship with her in Datong.

That time the Datong White Lotus bandits were rampant, Jiang Wei was seriously injured, and it was this girl who rescued Jiang Wei and survived.

Lao Jiang has been with me for a long time, although he has done some unhappy things, he is a good brother after all. Naturally, I can't turn people away from people who have saved his life.

She came to the capital and happened to live in the Hou Mansion for a while, but within a few days I asked her to be invited out. After all, I am a widower, and it is not good to leave an unmarried woman in the mansion of Yunying.

But who would have thought that this girl would keep saying that she had taken a fancy to me, and after Jiang Wei asked me about my whereabouts, she ran to Fuzhou without face or skin.

Although she has martial arts, she is a woman after all, and the boundary of Fuzhou is not very peaceful, even I was almost left behind by those desperate maritime merchants, not to mention that she has a daughter's family.

It's also an acquaintance, and you can't let her go alone. I had no choice but to let her go all the way.

I have never had anything to do with her all along, not before, not now, and not in the future. ”

Shen Honglian said coquettishly: "Don't tell me these useless things, you men always like to find excuses, always like to make excuses, don't forget how Sister Qiqi died." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Ru was also angry, and said in a deep voice: "Shen Honglian, don't forget what your identity is. Ben Hou explained a few more words to you because you had taken care of Qiqi, don't be embarrassed. ”

There are no girlfriends to speak of in this era, and if there is, Shen Honglian is not Su Qiqi's best friend, so there is no need for Zhang Ru to be too polite to Shen Honglian.

He is a person who values love and righteousness in his bones, Su Qiqi is gone, and he doesn't want to make any fierce appearance to Shen Honglian, who took care of Su Qiqi in the past.

Shen Honglian stood up and said: "Don't think that you are a great master, I will put my words here today, if I see you take this fox surnamed Jiang into the door, even if you try to scatter your wealth, I will not let you have a good time." ”

Zhang Ru clasped his hands to his chest and snorted coldly: "Okay! Lao Tzu waited! ”

This woman, sometimes can't be too nice to her, especially the kind of woman who is not herself, especially not too indulgent. Once indulged, they will be unscrupulous.

In the same scene, if Su Qiqi was here, her approach would definitely be different from Shen Honglian's.

Shen Honglian left in a huff, and after Zhang Ru breathed a long sigh of relief, his mood calmed down.

Early the next morning, Shen Honglian seemed to have completely forgotten the unpleasantness of last night, and ran over to greet Zhang Ru very early, until she got an exact answer that Zhang Ru was missing, and then left unhappily.

No one noticed at all that when Shen Honglian came to greet Zhang Ru, Jiang Caiwei also appeared outside Zhang Ru's tent at the same time.

The team set off again, and after ten years of rushing around neither fast nor slow, they finally arrived in Nanjing.

At the gate of Nanjing City, a group of Nanjing nobles led by Xu Huaiyuan were waiting at the door, and after seeing Zhang Ru's frame, Xu Huaiyuan left by himself.

Fortunately, these nobles also knew the contradiction between Zhang Ru and Xu Huaiyuan, and as soon as he left, someone immediately ran over to take his place.

Xu Li's identity is naturally impossible to appear at the door to greet him, and with Zhang Ru's title, he is not qualified to let a hereditary grandfather greet him in person.

While greeting and entering the city, Xu Li had ordered someone to prepare for the reception, and the old man gave Zhang Ru a hug with a smile and pulled Zhang Ru to the main seat.

On the long table, there was a row of nobles according to their status, and Xu Liang and the maritime merchants Chen Dafu and Qin Luo could only accompany the last seat. The nobles sitting in the middle, whether they have real power or not, can completely suppress them by taking out any one of them.

After all, this is not the Fuzhou with Guo Hansheng.

A few people accompanied and watched the first few people talk and laugh happily, and even the number of times they picked up vegetables was only a handful. Being able to participate in a banquet of such specifications this time, both of them know very well that it is not for eating.

You can eat at any time, but you can't talk about things all the time.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, all the Hou Ye said goodbye and left after expressing his attitude, and this time he came over just to meet, and there was nothing else to do.

As for the benefits that should belong to them, when the sea ban is really opened, the first income will go to Zhang Ru, and they will naturally be indispensable.

These upper-class characters are accustomed to vanity and grievances, and some things don't need to be said thoroughly, they only need to click to know them.

Xu Li, who was seven points drunk, put a pair of sturdy hands on Zhang Ru's shoulders, smiling, and his body swayed.

Seeing the last noble leave, there were only five people left in the huge room: Xu Li, Zhang Ru, Xu Liang, Qin Luo, and Chen Dafu.

There are Fan Tong and Wang Zhou guarding at the door, and there are even more guards from the Wei State Mansion, and without the permission of Zhang Ru and Xu Li, flies can't fly in.

Others can go, but Qin Luo and Chen Dafu can't, those nobles are here to get benefits, they are here to find a way to make money. It can't be that after Guo Hansheng fell off the horse, they completely disappeared from the maritime business. In that case, even if there are tens of thousands of family wealth, as long as the government says a word, they can scatter their family wealth at any time.

Besides, it must be useful for Zhang Ru to keep them, otherwise they would not have received preferential treatment for eating at the same table with Wei Guogong in Nanjing.

Zhang Ru didn't treat a few people as outsiders, picked up the wine glass and touched Xu Li sincerely: "Brother, I really want to thank you this time, if it weren't for your support, this trip to the south, I really don't know what to do." ”

Xu Li burped: "You kid is polite to me, you give you enough things, and someone will help you." You gave me what I wanted, I want to get what I want, and naturally I have to pay the corresponding price. If you are not happy, the cooperation between us will not be pleasant. The price is too high, I am not happy, and the communication between us will increase the barrier. ”

"It is said that money can make ghosts grind, it seems that this money can also make the nobles of the Ming Dynasty bow their heads!" Zhang Ru sighed.

"You can't say that, but that's what reason. No one will talk to you about feelings, and in fact, the relationship between you and me has not reached that point. In real terms, money works. When the money arrives in Lao Tzu's pocket, it is Lao Tzu's own, no one can take it, and if anyone takes it, Lao Tzu will beat him. If the money is in someone else's pocket, and you reach for it, they will beat you. Xu Li said drunkly.

Zhang Ru took a sip of the liquor in the cup: "Brother believes me like that?" ”

Xu Liman said indifferently: "Believe! How could you not believe it! What did you Zhang Wenxuan do in the capital and why did those things, Lao Tzu still has a certain understanding. Don't look at Grandpa Cheng giving our Xu family the name of Yongzhen Nanjing, but in fact, my Xu family has been walking on thin ice all these years.

Any official in Beijing has to be addressed, His Majesty is easy to say, and the first emperor is easy to say, but those courtiers are the most difficult to speak.

In recent years, officials have been spending money everywhere. Otherwise, I will be the Duke of Wei in Nanjing, and how can there be a pickled incident to protect the maritime merchants.

Money, without money, it's hard to do anything. Those small people in the market can send a day's food to your family in the face of your grandfather, can they send food to your family for a lifetime?

No!

The grandfather opened the town, and Zhu Yunwen was ignorant and did something to his uncles.

Grandpa Cheng took advantage of the situation and launched the battle of Jingjing, and it was so difficult to win the world in one battle.

After that, the life of the honorable became more and more difficult, and the honorable who was taken down every year, and more and more people became honorable. Each family has to feed the family in different ways.

Open the sea ban, there is no harm in it, although Xu Li is old, he is not a person who does not know how to measure, since it is a good thing, why stop it.

You, a little person who can take down Wang Zhi and make His Majesty successfully ascend the throne today, not only can I trust, but also the nobles of the entire Nanjing. ”

Xu Li did not hesitate to praise rhetorically, maybe it was really as he said, all he cared about was those yellow and white things, maybe he still had other unknown thoughts in his heart.

But Zhang Ru was really useful for these words.

The best way to evaluate a dynasty is not to say that a certain Qing official is loved by the people, or that some of the actions of a certain emperor make the people celebrate with their hearts. The most important thing is that the people's own living standards have risen, and at this time, the cohesion of the country can be strengthened, and only when there is an invasion from other places can it be twisted into a rope.

Zhang Ru also learned this from the development of the republic in his previous life, so he opened the sea ban and did not hesitate to make the entire Shuntian Mansion civil officials the enemy, just to make the Ming Dynasty make some changes from the root.

There was no China after Yashan, and there were no Han people after the death of the Ming Dynasty, what a bleak period of history. Now that he has come to this era, he has to use his own efforts to do something for this era.

As for whether history will continue to move forward with the tide after his changes, that is what he will do.

Perhaps, there will be no such person as Zhang Ru in the history books in the future, and even his grave will not be found. But at the moment, he has no regrets.

Xu Li stood up and slapped Zhang Ru back to reality: "Brother, talk to these people!" There are really few maritime merchants in the southeast who can compare to the two of them now. ”

Zhang Ru nodded, stood up and staggered towards Chen Dafu and Qin Luo, walked to the two of them, he pushed Xu Liang away with his buttocks, and sat in his place with his buttocks. The left and right hands were dispatched at the same time, holding the two maritime merchants one by one: "Come, let's talk about the future development of this southeast area." ”

Chen Dafu trembled and said: "The grass people obey the orders of the Hou Ye. ”

Qin Luo didn't say anything, obviously having different thoughts in his heart than Chen Dafu.