Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the seventh year of Hongji.

Dongnuan Pavilion has not changed in any way as it did three years ago, the only difference is that there is an old man with a red face and a childish face next to the emperor.

In March, it is the time when everything recovers, but it is also the time when Zhu Youzhang's illness is most likely to attack. Although after three years of conditioning, as long as he does not get angry, his body will not be too repulsive, and Lao Li Tou is still very cautious to follow the emperor every day.

His identity is very special, except for the time spent with the emperor every day, he reads books in the palace collection of classics. Many classics that are not seen by the people at all can be seen in the Imperial Palace.

It's just that there will always be a few eunuchs from Dongchang who smell of urine around him.

This can only be regarded as a means of prevention, after all, he is also seventy or eighty, and if he really wants to do something to the ladies of the harem, he is also powerless.

In addition to not being free, Zhu Youzhu gave his life-saving benefactor great authority, and in the entire Da Nei, except for the emperor and empress, Lao Li Tou could send anyone at will. Etiquette such as seeing the king and not bowing was even more in place after Zhu Youzhu drank the first dose of decoction.

That is to say, Lao Li Tou is a doctor, and he does not have the habit of wearing a sword, otherwise maybe Zhu Youzhu will have to give him the honor of going to the palace with a sword.

was originally an idle cloud and wild crane, as long as Lao Li Tou could study the pharmacopoeia, he didn't care about these so-called things outside his body at all. However, those imperial doctors welcomed this traveling doctor who did not have any teacher, and many people were not Lao Litou's opponents in the competition of medical skills.

In three years, Lao Litou's guidance has also made great progress in many imperial doctors in incurable diseases.

The old and the young get along quite well, except for the occasional time when Zhu Youzhu is sad because of state affairs, the old man will blame everyone without scruples, and even reprimand the emperor in front of some ministers, the others are not bad.

In the southeast, after three years of tempering, Fuzhou has undergone earth-shaking changes, and what was once just a small seaport with withered people's livelihood has now become a prosperous metropolis.

There are literati who travel to study, and when they go to Fuzhou, they don't even know whether this place is Nanjing or Fuzhou.

In addition to not having the world-famous Fengyue places like the Qinhuai River, Fuzhou's prosperity is even more than Nanjing.

With the vigorous development of shipping, more and more people joined the ranks of maritime merchants, who needed to pay huge amounts of maritime silver and huge commercial taxes.

Even so, there are still too many people who want to join the ranks of maritime merchants.

You must know that a shipload of silk sent to the South Seas can almost be exchanged for an equal weight of silver taels. Tens or hundreds of times the profits, so that many businessmen rush to it.

The merchants of the Central Plains are very smart, and they have been implementing the trading program left by Zhang Ru from the beginning, and they have always been undeceived. Moreover, they also understand the truth that strange goods can live, and the porcelain and silk sent to the sea every year are rationed, and the most tea has become a relatively cheap product.

What's more, when they come back, they will exchange the silver for goods from the South Seas, and after these goods are shipped back, they can create several times the profit.

In three years, the maritime merchants who had been involved with Wenxuan from the beginning made a lot of money. The court's revenues also increased, and at this time, all those who had previously opposed the opening of the sea ban shut their mouths.

After all, the income brought by sea transportation has increased their income a lot.

It's just that no one is grateful to Zhang Ru, and their opponents are at most grateful to the emperor, and they have no feelings for Zhang Ru at all.

While shipping brought huge benefits, it also made Lei Yuan, the prefect of Fuzhou, have been promoted, and in three years, he successfully became the political envoy of the Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Department.

From a four-grade official to a party governor, this success made Lei Yuan very satisfied. Even with the rising tide, there is also a staff member who helps Lei Yuan deal with Fuzhou affairs.

A year ago, Lei Yuanyuan never took a single person from Fuzhou, and even in some policies, he was inclined to Fuzhou and Xiamen.

On the day of his promotion, someone asked Lei Yuan if he had anyone who was grateful.

This political envoy did not shy away from saying that if there was no former Dingbian Hou, Lei Yuan would only be a four-grade prefect in his life!

This sentence has been widely spread in the southeast coastal area of Fujian until now.

Those who once made countless sacrifices for the sake of shipping, and even ended up being dismissed as a citizen, are now living a very comfortable life.

In Gulangyu, Xiamen Port, there is a large flat that is very well trimmed in a higher place, and the ground is paved with bluestone slabs that I don't know where to collect them. A very quaint looking house on the outside, but actually a cave in the sky, stands on the island.

Not far from this ping, there are many houses scattered around, and the structure is basically similar to this house, but much smaller than this house.

If you look at it from a high altitude, you can see that these surrounding buildings are built around the most central house, and it seems that they are all designed to defend the most central building.

The fishing rod of the Divine Craftsman was tied to a hemp rope, and at the end of the hemp rope was a hook that was not too small, and the iron rod was in the hands of a young man with a short beard under his chin.

The young man sat on a chair, and two young women sat on the left and right, one of whom was holding a milk doll with a candy man. Both girls looked at the float floating with the waves very intently, and did not understand why their father-in-law was so happy to do this.

The young man's name is Zhang Ru, who retired from the court three years ago, and now, he is just a rich man.

"Daddy, hug!" The milk doll threw the ordinary candy man in the face of the old lady, and then stretched out her hand to Zhang Ru.

Zhang Ru didn't dislike the milk doll at all, wiped the child's mouth with his sleeve, and his face was full of doting: "Mu Yan is ashamed, he still needs to be hugged by his father when he is so big." ”

The little milk baby with a pair of bright big eyes in his arms pouted: "Daddy said, my daughter should be rich, Mu Yan is the treasure in the palm of my father's hand, so I naturally want my father to hug it." ”

This kid has a personality with Zhang Ru, don't look at people as small, but he has a lot of courage at all. Many of the children of the brothers are afraid of Wang Zhou, a hippie smiling but fierce uncle, but Mu Yan dares to pull Wang Zhou's beard to play.

In the past three years, many of the former brothers have lived in Gulangyu, and many of them have become biological children.

Wang Zhou completely abandoned the glory and wealth of the capital, and came to Gulangyu with a wife who was willing to endure hardships with him, and then became a demon in the hearts of all children.

Ever since he had a spark with a Franco-Robot beauty two and a half years ago and was discovered by his wife, he has been in a slump and has taken pleasure in scaring children every day. He doesn't care whether Zhang Muyan is Zhang Ru's daughter or not, as long as he is caught, he will definitely be scared.

Zhang Muyan, a small ghost, was not only not afraid, but also pulled a handful of beards and came back to show off.

Fan Tong is still not married, which is a big deal, and Fan Wuyi, who has always been looking forward to holding his grandson. The old man is still not serious, but in the past year, his favorite thing to do is to chant in front of Fan Tong.

Zhang Ru has always felt indebted to Fan Tong, but every time he gives Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law, this kid either claims to be sick or directly scares away the girl. The few who are not afraid of intimidation have been ruined when they are about to do something, and they are still ruined by rich sons from good families.

Zhang Ru knew who made this stroke with his knees. Except for Fan Tong, a silent guy, no one around him dared to be so bold.

After Jiang Wei took his relatives over, he was trained by Fuzhou Sailor Xinding, this is a natural soldier, and if he doesn't run 30 laps on the school field every day, he is not comfortable.

Basically, the people who could follow him followed one after another, and those who were unwilling to follow him also had a reliable home.

Three years of life completely separated from the Ming officialdom made Zhang Ru live a very comfortable life.

In the past three years, many people want to meddle in the shipping business of Fuzhou and Tianjin, and there are many high-ranking people among these people. But several times, they all came back with a feather.

Eight years ago, Li Min, the head of the household department, sent someone to forcibly take over the government affairs of Tianjin, and the White Lotus Rebellion broke out that night, and Li Min's henchmen were killed to the ground. Tianjin Wei launched a thunderbolt the next day to wipe out more than 390 White Lotus bandits in one fell swoop. When the head was sent back to the capital, Li Min, who had lived a stable life for several years, was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

Where is this White Lotus bandit, this is clearly a ninety people in the rivers and lakes that he secretly bought.

After this turmoil, no one dared to make a move against the two harbor cities on the surface, but secretly, there were still people who were unwilling to plan.

Regarding the affairs of the two places, Zhang Ru can basically shake off his hands and not ask, Tianjin has Xie Lun, and the head office of Wenxuan is in Tianjin. The vast majority of the people supervised by the sailor are people who ride the clouds. Fuzhou has the prefect Lei Yuan, Fan Tong, and the admiral Chen Guang, and he himself is in Gulangyu, Xiamen.

In several confrontations, the killing move of the civilian clique finally failed, and everyone returned home, even if there were still small actions, but they were harmless small actions.

Don't look at him now that he doesn't ask anything, but there are still a lot of letters exchanged every month, and the post station in Xiamen Port has basically become his private post station.

Even the post man didn't know who this Taoist was in contact with in the capital, let alone why this adult did all this.

The peaceful life made many of his brothers no longer want to go back to their previous lives, but there were people training every day, just like they used to train in the capital.

Many locals know that there is an extra group of people on Gulangyu Island, and these people live a life of isolation that ordinary people can't approach at all.

Three years is enough to make a sea change in a person, but no one knows whether the change is good or bad.

Zhang Ru has changed a lot, but the people around him have not noticed it.