It was 4 p.m. when the luncheon ended.

Zhu Daolin invited the guests back to the main hall to drink tea, and then called Yan Yihe, who was drinking red, and asked him and Yuhu to go to the iron workshop in front of him.

The dozens of carpenters and blacksmiths in the blacksmith workshop have already created more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages, and will then switch to more practical and less expensive two-wheeled carriages.

The four-wheeled luxury carriage is only customized, and will not be manufactured in batches, so Zhu Daolin instructed the two to select the five best decorated ones, and asked the chief manager Zhao Xunting to borrow ten pack horses to use first, and then lead them to the gate of the compound for later use.

Yan Yihe just got a grandfather clock, and finally found that Zhu Daolin sincerely treated him as his brother, and the gratitude in his heart could not be expressed in words, what could he do for Zhu Daolin, where was there any reason to be unhappy?

At the moment, Yan Yihe didn't say a word, he pulled the jade tiger and went out, who knew that one of the five four-wheeled carriages was specially given by Zhu Daolin to his old man.

Two of the four major grain merchants in Jinling are the agents supported by the nobles of Jinling, such as the Duke of Wei and the Marquis of Longping, who have tens of thousands of fields, and the Yan family, which has been inherited for more than 100 years, has no obvious position, but has close contacts with the nobles and has a good friendship.

Therefore, the Yan family, which has mastered the important material of grain, has naturally become the main object of Zhu Daolin's wooing, as long as he befriends these three major grain merchants, the remaining family is a member of the southeast Haoqiang, and Zhu Daolin has a way to slowly clean him up.

Five brand-new four-wheeled carriages soon arrived outside the gate of the compound.

Zhu Daolin instructed Ying Changpei and Zhang Deyi to accompany the guests to the gate, stay and pack up the goods on display, and personally lead the servants and two junior brothers to the left and right wings of the front yard with Gu Da Butler, and send the 5 sturdy mahogany bells, 5 boxes of 56 Chinese enamel colored bone china tableware and 5 large grinding mirrors presented by Boss Yu of Jiangxi to Ying Changpei, Zhang Deyi and Yan Yihe's carriage respectively, and only one piece of each carriage was loaded.

Zhang Deyi and Yan Yihe, who received many expensive gifts and four-wheeled carriages, were so moved. Holding Zhu Daolin's hand, he couldn't say a word.

Only Ying Changpei, who had two sets of gifts in the car, was very dissatisfied, because one of them was given to his old man by Zhu Daolin, and the other set had to be sent to the Wei State Mansion, so that he didn't get anything in the end, so he asked Zhu Daolin who the set on the car was given to?

Zhu Daolin saw that his insatiable stinky virtue was committed again. Immediately asked for the sapphire bracelet that he had taken away, and the guy immediately got into his car and couldn't get out of it, which made everyone laugh.

Lao Shi, who is about to return to the army, has been watching the excitement on the side with a spring breeze on his face, Zhu Daolin had already told him when they moved things together just now, and when he married his daughter-in-law and held a banquet, he would give him the east cross courtyard of Zizhuyuan, and all the furniture was also covered by Zhu Daolin, so he was not in a hurry at all.

A long convoy drove into the Jinchuan Gate.

Zhang Deyi, who took the lead, specially instructed the coachman to turn onto the west street, and the other carriages also followed closely. Driving all the way to the gate of Guozijian, the literati and scholars on the side of the road hurriedly avoided, looking at a long luxury four-wheeled carriage roaring away, the scholars gathered in groups of three or five to point and point, and several of them ran into the gate of Guozijian in a panic, not knowing whether they were afraid of being beaten or going back to report the news.

Zhu Daolin felt something wrong and asked Yuhu, and learned that these two days were the days when Guozijian started school after the Spring Festival, and immediately understood what Zhang Deyi wanted to express. It didn't attract his special attention, and after thinking about it for a while, he whispered to the jade dragon and jade tiger in the car: "Those literati scholars are just ignorant Leng Touqing. It's not worthy of being our opponent at all, and when I go back, I will recruit a group of readers who have a grudge against the Donglin Party to come back, and let these readers slowly play with them. ”

"At present, our main task is to make all the workshops good and bigger as soon as possible, bring the disciples in the martial arts hall well, earn more money, and let more people stand with us. Instead of going to those insignificant scholars for revenge, see what I mean? ”

"Got it! Senior brother, don't worry, we won't touch those literati and scholars. ”

Yulong and Yuhu solemnly expressed their positions one after another, and finally saw the sinister and ruthless side of their senior brother, and the grievances and unwillingness in their hearts were finally able to let go.

The convoy arrived at the bridgehead outside the Xihua Gate of the Imperial Palace. Zhu Daolin instructed the younger brother Dading who was driving to pull over and stop the car, wave goodbye to the other guests in the carriage through the window, and then took out an ivory plate and handed it to Yuhu: "You take it to the little father-in-law on duty at the bridgehead and tell him that Zhu Daolin of Ziyangguan is going to visit his uncle Wu's father-in-law." ”

"Understood."

Yuhu took the tooth card, tidied up his clothes and strode forward, and soon arrived at the jade belt bridge guarded by the officers and soldiers, and saw the two guards striding towards the handle of the knife, and immediately took out the tooth card and raised it.

The guards who wanted to come up to stop the interrogation immediately stopped, politely asked Yuhu to wait, and then loudly reported to the little eunuch sitting inside reading a book.

The little eunuch immediately raised his head when he heard the call, saw the shape and color of the tooth card from a distance, immediately threw down the book and hurried to meet it, checked the authenticity of the tooth card, turned around and ran to the east of the jade belt bridge, caught a few words of advice from the father-in-law in the same costume, ran back again, followed the jade tiger to the carriage, saluted Zhu Daolin, and then led the carriage directly onto the jade belt bridge, crossed the bridge and went south along the bank of the Taiye Pond, and smoothly arrived at the small courtyard where Wu Gonggong lived.

Gonggong Wu, who got the urgent report, had just returned from the silver bureau across the wall, and when he saw Zhu Daolin standing at the gate of the courtyard waiting with a smile, he immediately showed a friendly smile: "Don't go in yet, why are you standing here and smirking?" ”

"Aren't you waiting for your old man? There are a few gifts and a box of special Longjing in the car, which takes up a lot of space, where to put it? Zhu Daolin asked in a low voice.

Gonggong Wu knew that Zhu Daolin's gift was unusual, and pulled him into the courtyard door with a slight smile: "Let your junior brother and a few little cubs move in, go in and have a cup of tea...... By the way, where have you been these days? I sent someone to look for you a few times, but I didn't see a shadow. ”

"I went downstream to pick up the goods, and I just came back in the early hours of this morning." Zhu Daolin replied casually.

Gonggong Wu immediately stopped: "You haven't encountered any trouble, have you?" ”

Zhu Daolin said with a smile: "During this period of time, the weather is warmer, the sun sets, and the entire river is foggy. Only the steam clippers and nautical compasses made by the Heavenly Shuge could sail day and night without any scruples, so it was very smooth. ”

"This ...... Is there really such a steam clipper that travels 500 miles a day? Gonggong Wu asked.

Zhu Daolin nodded honestly: "There really is, there are bigger and faster than this, if you don't believe it, wait for the steamboat I ordered in two years to be launched, and the two of us will go to the mouth of the Yangtze River for a walk and come back, then you just need to look up and down, and you won't feel strange anymore." ”

Gonggong Wu believed it at this time, and took Zhu Daolin's arm and walked into the main hall, and the two little fathers-in-law had already made fragrant tea and respectfully sent it to the square table next to the Taishi chair.

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