Datong, the place where the White Lotus Sect is the most troublesome, and the place where the Ming Dynasty is most poisoned by the flames of war, at this moment, Jiang Wei is nodding to a girl with a bitter face.

The person in front of him is very beautiful, so beautiful that Jiang Wei, who has passed the age of not being confused, is a little uncontrollable, if it weren't for the fact that this woman nominally has a life-saving grace for him, and seems to be pestering someone who has kindness to him, he will definitely come to the old man to talk about juvenile madness.

"Where did he go, do you say it or not, if you don't say it, don't blame this girl for turning your thousand households upside down." The woman who made Jiang Wei bow his head was none other than Jiang Caiwei, who saved Jiang Wei's life.

At this moment, Yun Ying's unmarried eldest girl was like a shrew, with one foot on the stool, and she pointed at Jiang Wei's nose with a horsewhip and roared angrily.

Jiang Wei said with a bitter face: "My little aunt and grandmother, don't embarrass me, Master Hou and you are both grandparents and grandmothers, and no one is a person I can afford to offend." Where did Master Hou go, he was not allowed to say by the old man, and I couldn't say it. If you say that, Master Hou won't let me go, my life was given by Master Hou, but I don't dare to offend his old man. ”

Jiang Caiwei wrinkled her small nose and said disdainfully: "Don't fight with this girl, since I came to your door today, I won't leave without asking for news." ”

"We don't bring this." Jiang Wei looked left and right, and found that there was no chance to escape the other party's whip at all, so he had to give up.

Jiang Caiwei snorted: "If you say it or not, if you don't say it, I will really turn over your thousand households, anyway, it will be you who are unlucky at that time, not me." ”

Jiang Wei lowered his voice and said: "I said aunt, what is good about my lord, it is worth you to wronged yourself like this?" Besides, I have told you more than once that Master Hou has someone in his heart, and he will not start a second relationship until he completely forgets that person. ”

Jiang Caiwei's face flashed with a touch of red, and she said quite proudly: "Your marquis is good, how can you know about it." Besides, what grievances does this girl have, he is the marquis of the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for the fact that this girl thinks she has a bit of grace, she wouldn't dare to climb him! What's wrong with someone in his heart, you also said that person is dead, this girl doesn't believe that I am a living person is no better than a dead person. ”

Jiang Wei's face changed slightly: "My aunt, if you really like Hou Ye, I can tell you where Hou Ye went, but you have to be careful, but don't die in front of Hou Ye." Although the Hou Ye is magnanimous, the only reverse scale is the deceased lady. ”

Seeing that he was solemn when he spoke, Jiang Caiwei put away her playful expression and said seriously: "I don't know why I'm so stubborn, I don't even want the most basic face of the girl's family." He was like a magnet that drew me in, and I couldn't help myself. ”

Jiang Wei sighed when he heard this: "Forget it, who made you my life-saving benefactor!" Hou Ye is now in the coastal area of the south of the Yangtze River, and it should be either in Nanjing or Fuzhou. I don't know exactly where it is, but if you really want to go to him, go south! ”

Jiang Caiwei stared at her beautiful big eyes with some suspicion: "Really? You didn't lie to me! ”

Jiang Wei said: "Grandma, I didn't say that you said that you were going to turn over my thousand households, and you suspected me of lying when I said it, what do you want me to do." ”

Jiang Caiwei's face turned red, and she said in disbelief: "Okay, I'll go to Jiangnan tomorrow, if I can't find him in Jiangnan, hum!" ”

As she spoke, she raised her snow-white fist as if threatening.

Jiang Wei shook his head and sighed, saying that he was willing to accept punishment if he told a lie.

Finally sent this plague god away, Jiang Wei immediately went into the study and wrote a letter to Zhang Ru, the content of the letter was naturally to inform Jiang Caiwei that he was going to Fuzhou to find him, and by the way, he reported the situation in Datong.

After writing the letter, the letter was dried and the envelope was painted, and Jiang Wei wrote the address on the envelope, which was the yamen of the Fuzhou prefect where Zhang Ru was now.

It's not that he doesn't know where Zhang Ru is, but in order to give Zhang Ru a buffer time, at least so that Zhang Ru can prepare. Don't go when Jiang Caiwei really goes, if you accidentally say that you leaked your mouth, it will be that he leaked his whereabouts, and then he won't be able to eat and walk away.

The next day, Jiang Caiwei really left Datong with someone, which made Jiang Wei breathe a sigh of relief and couldn't help but secretly lift his heart.

Jiang Caiwei set off at almost the same time as the capital Qincha, and Zhang Ru was still rectifying the large and small maritime merchants in Fuzhou non-stop.

It has not been a day or two since the maritime merchants headed by Guo Hansheng have been entrenched in Fuzhou and other places, and they can be said to be deeply rooted here, and many people rely on them for their lives.

Now that the imperial court has suddenly taken down Guo Hansheng and others, and has begun to rectify the Fujian area, this will inevitably touch the interests of a large part of the people.

Ordinary people have always been like this, if they are not forced to the point where they can't live at all, ordinary people basically choose to get by. Once they reach the point where they can't live, there will be restless people among them.

Now many people in Fuzhou are waiting and watching, waiting for the next move of the imperial court, once the imperial court represented by Zhang Ru has too many radical reactions, I am afraid that many ordinary people in Fuzhou will stand on the side of the thief and oppose the imperial court.

On this issue, Zhang Ru had to be cautious.

The first step he chose was to appease the released maritime merchants, not only supporting them in building ships in the name of the imperial court, but also increasing the government's support for private maritime merchants. To put it simply, if someone wants to be a maritime businessman, even if they don't have the strength, they can receive a sum of money from the government as a start-up fund.

This move has made many people think carefully about being able to take money from the imperial court, and the amount of repayment will be in two years. There are unlimited business opportunities on the sea, as long as it does not encounter any natural and man-made disasters, this is a job that is sure to make money without losing money.

The silk, porcelain, and tea of the Ming Dynasty are very popular abroad.

The release of the first initiative has allowed the second initiative to be quickly implemented in the coastal area, that is, to support folk crafts and support the expansion of workshops.

After all, he can have the final say in taking money from the Fuzhou Mansion, but to really support the development of the handicraft industry, you need the support of the people of the imperial court.

Before his recital arrived in the capital, Zhu Youjiao's praise decree had already arrived in Fuzhou, and after receiving the decree, he gave Xiao Jing, the eunuch of rice paper, twenty taels of silver, and sent him away without saying a few words to him.

It's not that he looks down on Xiao Jing, it's that he can't be busy.

The common people gradually believed in the imperial court, and many people had already registered in the prefect's yamen, and he was required to be present on such occasions. Once someone raises an objection, it is not something that Lei Yuan, the prefect of Fuzhou, can reply.

After a few days, there were a lot fewer people who came to the prefect's yamen, and all those who were careful had already come to the prefect's yamen, and the rest of them either had no ideas at all, or they had ideas and were still waiting.

After a few days of busy survival, what made Zhang Ru most pleased was not the more than 320 ordinary people who had registered in the prefect's yamen, nor the three newly built ships of 1,000 materials, but that some people in the market had already begun to say that the imperial court was good.

It's a good start.

However, things were just beginning, and in the next few days, he decided to gather the owners of the handicraft workshops and put some of them together appropriately.

Now the workshops in the south of the Yangtze River are basically scattered, take silk as an example, basically a family of looms, the woven cloth is collected by the merchants, and then through a few or even a dozen resale to the hands of the maritime merchants.

The huge profits generated by this made the maritime merchants make a lot of money, and at the same time fed many people, but it suffered the weavers who worked hard to weave the cloth.

He decided to merge the workshops first, let the powerful people control the operation of the workshops, increase the personal income of the weavers, and then divide some of the people to grow mulberry and silkworms.

The second-tier dealers in the middle, he plans to put them all aside and let them do other things.

The craftsmen in the south of the Yangtze River are much stronger in divergent thinking than the craftsmen in the capital, and Zhang Ru only gave a hint of boiling water to lift the lid of the kettle, and some people thought of using steam as power.

A large number of craftsmen, with the support of Zhang Ru and Lei Yuan, gathered together and began to discuss how to develop a new power using steam as power. Anyway, the road Zhang Ru has already been paved, and whether people can study it in the end is not a question for him to consider.

As a traverser, that's all he can do, after all, he's not a science student.

The news of the summoning of the weavers and workshop owners had already been put out, and before the time was due, someone came to the door with the list of texts.

When Lei Yuan reported to Zhang Ru with a sad face, Zhang Ru still felt a little puzzled: "It's just a weaver, you can receive it yourself or ask the people below to receive it, this little thing is to bother Benhou, is it that you, the prefect of Fuzhou, don't want to do it?" ”

"Master Hou, this person thinks it's better for you to meet in person, she brought a lot of people and asked to see Master Hou by name." Lei Yuan said with a sad face.

He was cursing Wang Zhou's ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart, regretting listening to this grandson's words and running to report to Zhang Ru.

Zhang Ru said: "What kind of person has such a big breath, leading the way, Ben Hou wants to see who it is." ”

He thought that the leader of a certain weaver ran over and asked him, the marquis, to make some promises on behalf of the imperial court, but he didn't expect to walk out of the prefect's yamen to take a look, but found that things were not what he imagined.

Where is that fat and strong man, who looks like a weaver? The first pretty figure made him feel a big headache.