A month was fleeting, and within a few days of Yun Ji being sent to various places, the stewards from all over the king returned to Bianjing, which was not slow at all than sending someone to notify him, and saved a lot of manpower; In the intervening days, the king was busy visiting his elders and colleagues; In the last few days, the imperial court has prepared the congratulatory gifts prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and at the same time, it has also sent escort guards, and the official document has notified the prefectures and counties to be responsible for the safety of the congratulatory gift escort, and now they are waiting for the king to lead the team to set off.

The most reassuring thing for Wang is the body of his father-in-law Bao Zheng, who has been sick intermittently for most of the year, but fortunately Bao Zheng feels much better in the past few days, thinking that Wang Pang is going to leave Bianjing again, he just has nothing to do today, and he used to change into civilian clothes to go out for a walk, but now he is much lazy, he called the old housekeeper: "Old brother, we haven't gone out for a few days." "Bao Zheng has a deep friendship with the old housekeeper in private,

Bao Zheng and the housekeeper are now nearly sixty or seventy years old, and the two of them walked down the street to Mayer's house, Bao Zheng looked at the plaque on it and asked Bao Xing: "It's here, you see, except for this kid next to the king, who can have a strange name." ”

Bao Xing smiled, the two of them helped each other on the pedestal in front of the gate of Meyer's Mansion, the gate of Meyer's Mansion was open, and there were two housekeepers standing at the door, chatting and laughing, and the housekeeper saw Bao Zheng and the two, and greeted him with a smile: "These two old gentlemen, my son-in-law will be in the hall to discuss matters, and I will take you two to the lobby to rest and wait." ”

He said that he was about to lead the way, Bao Zheng thought it was interesting, although Wang was also a four-grade official, the door of the mansion was not guarded like other officials, and it was easy to enter and exit, he smiled and asked Ding Jia of the Langxia family: "If I didn't come to see the son." ”

The family still smiled and was happy: "This lord, you see that the son is in the capital these days, and he is here to see the son, I have said it is smooth, if you are looking for a few other masters in charge, I will also take you to the hall later, and when the son is finished discussing with those masters, I will invite you to come and see you." ”

Bao Zheng and Bao Xing glanced at each other, showing an appreciative look, most of the people in the house can see the master's character, and some of the people in the house want to see the master's family is like a roadblock, and most of them are also connived at by the owner of the house.

Now that the king is deliberating, and he is not in a hurry, Bao Zheng continued to ask the family: "If I don't want to see anyone, I just want to wander around the house." Bao Xing snickered, Bao Zheng was interested,

The family was stunned for a moment, this old man is a little interesting, but the son usually has an explanation, and he is polite to everyone, and it is not for nothing that people who usually come to Meyer Mansion to see how Mayer Mansion operates, but there is no such age, he still smiled and said: "If you want to wander around the house, I will not accompany you around, you see that this front yard is the place where the house does business, and the east and west courtyards are our Jinxiang Mansion and Yunxuan Tea Farm to entertain guests and talk about things, and the hall is where we entertain guests; There is a corner gate over there, do you see, it used to be the garden of the house, you two can sit in the garden, and the prince and they are in the hall at the back, as for the cross-courtyard of the garden, and then the back is where the son and the next person live, then it is inconvenient for the two of you to go. ”

After Jia Dingjia introduced it in one breath, Bao Zheng laughed, this kid next to the king really has a set, he said: "Old brother, then let's hang out." Bao Xing shook his head while laughing, it was rare that Bao Zheng was in a good mood today, the two of them walked inside with their front feet, and the family Ding Jia at the door turned his head to look at Jia Ding Yi and said: "You look stupid, open your mouth and talk to that, and don't say a word for me." ”

Jia Ding Yi will come to his senses and say: "Oh, you don't know, you talk a lot, if I want to call my son a long time ago." ”

Jia Dingjia asked inexplicably, "What's wrong?" ”

Jia Ding Yi pointed to Bao Zheng's back and said: "Do you know who this is, this is the Yushi Zhongcheng who is in charge of the three divisions and sits in Kaifeng Mansion, and the father-in-law of our son, Bao Chengcheng."

Jia Ding Jia angrily pointed at Jia Ding Yi and said: "You, don't say it earlier, you say go, you should go." He turned around to chase after him, but Jia Ding Yi grabbed him: "You are stupid, didn't Prime Minister Bao say that he wanted to wander around by himself, you dare to interrupt the child's deliberations." ”

The two of them discussed, Bao Zheng and Bao Xing had already walked into the mansion, seeing that people everywhere were busy, it seemed that strangers in the house were commonplace, and no one asked them more, the two came to the mansion garden, the garden was not very big, but the layout was exquisite, I heard someone talking in the hall in the garden, and when I approached Bao Zheng heard the voice of the king,

He looked out of the window, and although these people were all around the table, the long table was made up of several square tables, and the king sat in the first place, and arranged it there with great care: "I congratulate the shopkeeper on this matter for your hard work." "Bao Zheng came to say that it is not a coincidence, Wang Fang has just finished explaining that the shopkeeper He went to Xixia to supervise the salt field and the pharmaceutical factory, this matter Bao Zheng does not know the best,

"Wu Ling supervised the production of lime; Lu Shenyan supervised the affairs of the tea farms in Yanzhou and Lanzhou on the border of the Xia and Song Dynasties; Cai Jing is in charge of the Beijing Tea Farm; In the past two years, the affairs of the coal yard have been cooked, and in addition, Yin Shijie has to worry more about Jinxiang Mansion, and the coal in the capital will be taken over first; The transportation will be handed over to Jiao Deyou, and as for the splendid building, Cui Fu will take care of it more...... What else do you have to ask? ”

Bao Zheng turned sideways to see that this was very interesting, and he couldn't do anything to eavesdrop and turned around to leave, and heard a sullen voice in the room and asked in a somewhat embarrassed tone: "The lime produced before has been used in Jincheng to expand the city according to what Gongzi said, and the surrounding prefectures and counties have come to rush to ask for this lime, and who will not give it to whom." ”

"I don't give any." Wang said resolutely, and after speaking, he looked at Lu Shenyan: "Since there is a deal, when you go to Yanzhou, you will visit the prefect of the lower prefecture, and we will use it in Jincheng to expand the city, just for trial, after verification, I will transport the lime to the border and strengthen the border city." ”

This kid is really loyal to the court, Bao Zheng heard this and praised it in his heart, and just about to praise Bao Xing Wang Bei, he heard Wang Bei continue: "These infrastructure construction has to be paid by the imperial court, and we have to make a lot of money if we want to make it." ”

Hey, this kid, every day I want to make money from the court, I have to educate him, I just want to enter the house to make money, and I heard the king say: "However, no matter what you do, you remember our signboard, especially this lime must ensure the quality, and you must not make it into a black-hearted project of tofu scum, if something happens, it is a matter of human life." ”

The king has a conscience, after listening to Bao Zheng turned around and wanted to leave, Bao Xing watched him turn around, he didn't know that he wanted to leave and wanted to stay, this time he turned back and forth two or three times, and even Bao Zheng himself was dizzy,

Just hesitating, he saw a person walk in front of him and saluted respectfully: "I saw Prime Minister Bao Cheng in Xia He Libo, how did you get to the house." ”

Bao Zheng has always been generous, he didn't mean to listen, and it was not a shy thing to listen to his son's deliberations, he said with a smile: "I have never been to the next house, and I miss the child today, so come and see, He Libo, where are you from, why don't you discuss matters inside." ”

He Libo was recommended by Di Qing to do an errand in Kaifeng Mansion for a few days, Bao Zheng had a good impression of He Libo, and knew that he was the king's right-hand man.

"Oh, I'm traveling with Childe this time, and I'm just going to see if I'm going to prepare some ...... for the road."

Next to the king in the hall, he seemed to hear someone talking outside, as if there was a mention of Prime Minister Bao, Cai Jing got up and looked: "Son, your father-in-law Prime Minister Bao Cheng has come to the mansion in person." ”

Wang next to the hearing hurriedly out of the hall, everyone behind also followed, Wang next to see Bao Zheng coming, very happy, I didn't expect the father-in-law to come to see himself, he took everyone to Bao Zheng hurriedly saluted, Bao Cheng looked at Wang with a smile, said in his heart that this kid has a bit of a climate, followed by seven or eight people, men, women and children are all shrewd and capable, he laughed and greeted everyone: "You guys are busy with yours first, I'll walk everywhere." ”

Wang saw that the major matter had been decided, so he personally accompanied Bao Zheng to visit the house, the father and son talked and laughed, and after a while, Lord Bao looked at the whole house.

Bao Zheng saw that the front yard of the Wang's mansion was busy with business, but it could be seen that it was in order; The second into the courtyard is quiet, there is a study, there are four or five children of the same age are reading, Bao Zheng pointed to a round head, holding the book and snoozing with a smile and asked: "This, it must be your righteous son to do children's Xiao." ”

Wang replied with a smile, "Yes, just look at the words that don't like to read, the one over there is He Xingyuan's son He Zhu, and the others are the children of the Ding mothers-in-law of the Fushang family." ”

Bao Zheng understood why the people in the house were doing their best, and now he was more at ease with his godson, "Side, I came here today to tell you that going to Liaoguo to celebrate your birthday is not a big deal, and you should go early and return early." ”

Wang Jian listened and said this, could it be that his father-in-law already knew about He Libo, but it didn't feel like it, if Bao Zheng knew, he would definitely not write a letter to He Libo, and just tell himself to go back.

"The child must follow the teachings of the righteous father, I know that the righteous father also made Liao, and the righteous father said this to mean that the Hu people have a deep grudge with the Han people, and they are afraid that my trip will not be safe."

Bao Zheng looked at Wang Bei: This child is shrewd and capable, he always feels that Wang Bei is different from ordinary people: "My son is too nosy, now I heard that Yelu Hongji of Liao State ignores the government and the government, and the officials and people in the court are full of complaints, I am afraid that you will go like in Western Xia, and you will not be able to manage the injustice, even if you can't manage it." ”

Hearing this, Wang Jian understood that the situation of the Liao Dynasty that He Libo's letter said was true, but was it true that Yelu Chongyuan wanted to rebel?

Bao Zheng looked around again, he felt that something was wrong from the time he entered the mansion, and now he finally understood, he asked like a king, "Who is the chief butler in your mansion?" ”

The king ordered someone to call Lu Shenyan, and Bao Zheng said to Lu Shenyan: "You follow Bao Xing to my mansion, find your wife to pay a thousand taels of silver, hurry up, I said that it is so awkward to enter, this mansion is too small." ”