This winter, Liu Ziguang is very happy, often with a pair of children in his arms, wandering around the house, Liu Qianqian is ten months old, wearing a small cotton jacket embroidered with five poisons, staring at a pair of big eyes, looking strangely at the strange thing that his father is holding in his other hand, the young Liu Qianqian naturally does not know that this little thing embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon in swaddling clothes and crying in his throat is his sister.

Zhao Jiao is the crown prince of the Song Dynasty, according to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, he can serve the five-clawed dragon on the side, so he is more advanced than her father in terms of clothing color, compared to Liu Qianqiang, he is slightly inferior, only the purple Temasek Domain's four-clawed python robe and the over-the-shoulder python robe of the Earl of Daming, usually do not wear much, only wear the clothes of ordinary people's children, because children often go back and forth between the Wuyi Lane in the south of the city where Zeng Cheng lives and the Zhenwu Marquis Mansion, and it is always troublesome to change clothes back and forth.

It's almost the New Year, and every time there is a festival, Liu Ziguang is very distressed, because he always has to take care of Zeng Cheng, there and the house, he has to take care of both ends, and he often shuttles like running at both ends, and he can't wait to break it in half, generally speaking, the official festivals are in Zeng Cheng's place, and the festival in the Hou Ye's mansion is delayed for one day before he is with the women, who makes Zeng Cheng's brain stimulated and needs to be taken care of, and everyone has no complaints about this, which makes Liu Ziguang still a little relieved.

Every time he hugged Liu Qianqian out, he couldn't come out for too long, so as not to worry Zeng Cheng, so Liu Ziguang took Liu Qianqian back to Wuyi Lane after the addiction of hugging his children in the house, and there were still a few days before the New Year, he always had to handle some New Year's goods, bacon, ham, duck, salted fish, fresh pork, as well as bags of rice noodles and all kinds of vegetables loaded in the carriage to rush home, these things at first glance look no different from ordinary people's New Year's goods, in fact, they are all produced in various places, just the Poria flower carved pig is several times more expensive than the general pork price, and those fresh vegetables, but they are all greenhouse-cultured out-of-season vegetables, the general princes and nobles are not easy to eat。

Liu Ziguang carried the child into the house, and saw Zeng Cheng commanding a few little maids to make croquettes and make sugar rice cakes, during the New Year, the people always have to prepare some food at home, entertain relatives and friends who come to visit the New Year, and do housework.

Seeing Xianggong coming back, Zeng Cheng hurriedly got up, wiped his hands, took the child over, and asked, "Mother and brother are all right, and when the rice cakes are ready, you can send some over." ”

Liu Ziguang nodded and agreed, the queen mother originally claimed to be working in someone else's house, so she couldn't go home often to visit her daughter, but now that the life of her daughter and son-in-law is well-off, it is not a good excuse to let the old lady work outside, so everyone thought of a way and said that the old lady had found her lost son- It was the young man who did business with Liu Ziguang, and now the old lady lived in a house in the east of the city with her son, so Liu Ziguang often took the child to visit the old man, and sometimes Zeng Cheng also went over to take a look, every time at this time, Zhu Youxiao and the queen mother put on the clothes of the people and reunited with the eldest princess, whenever this time Liu Ziguang could feel that there was actually the warmth of ordinary people among the royal members.

The carriage stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and the maids helped the coachman move things down, Liu Ziguang took out a silver ticket and gave it to Zeng Cheng and said: "This is the dividend income from doing business this year, a total of 1,000 taels of silver, you can collect it." ”

Zeng Cheng's eyes widened in shock: "There are so many, I don't dare to ask for a husband, you better keep it for yourself." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "Take it, I have already kept the capital, even if it is to supplement the family, you can do anything with it, the husband is running outside all the year round, isn't it just for the two of you to live a comfortable life." ”

Zeng Cheng took the silver ticket with a happy face, looked at it and looked at it, and said happily: "Then I'll take it." As he spoke, he ran into the house and hid the silver ticket somewhere, and then ran out and said: "Xianggong, the New Year is coming soon, do you see if this month's monthly money is given to Musk Yue Cuidai, a few of them are in advance, so simply give a few more taels of silver for the festival to beat them home to visit, what do you think?" ”

Liu Ziguang waved his hand: "You are in charge of these things inside and outside my lord, don't ask me how to make the silver, how to make us, we are also rich people, a little broken silver is nothing." ”

Zeng Cheng nodded seriously, gathered a few maids and nurses, each of them gave ten taels of silver, and picked some good colors from the New Year's goods and let them take them back, each of them had a holiday for half a month, and the maids were moved by tears, these people were actually the palace maids next to the eldest princess, Zeng Cheng, whether she was a princess or now a housewife, she was very kind to them, how could she not move them, one by one, pinching the silver, she couldn't bear to leave, or Zeng Chengxiang pretended to be angry and drove them away.

After a few maids and nurses left, there was only a family of three left in the family, and the small yard seemed empty, Zeng Cheng said to Liu Ziguang while quickly packing up his things: "Actually, I can be busy with these jobs alone, why let them be busy, and they are all children from poor families to come out to beg for a living, it's not easy, alas, who is easy, how can I let my daughter be a maid for others, by the way, I specially gave them double the monthly money, will it be too much?" ”

The maid and maid are very lowly in the manual business, in charge of food and housing, even if it is a rich family, they only give two or three taels of silver, and give ten taels of money to a well-off family like Zeng Cheng, which is indeed generous, but these palace maids who pretend to be maids secretly have a lot of allowances, how can they also draw a hundred and ten taels of silver every month, what they value is the affection of the eldest princess, not this mere silver.

Liu Ziguang knew that Zeng Cheng was bitter and kind, so how could he blame her, so he replied: "Well, it's okay to beat them back, the house is a lot quieter, and it reminds me of the days in the lake again." ”

Zeng Cheng said: "Yes, the days of living with the villagers are really nostalgic, there are mothers and so many little sisters, usually everyone goes to the lake to fish, the village is quiet, it is very New Year's Festival, everyone gets together and is lively, although the poor are also happy, but unfortunately there are no more such days. bsp; Liu Ziguang said: "It's simple, wait for me to work hard for another year, earn some silver, buy a big house, and bring those villagers to live together." ”

Zeng Chengxi said: "Really? ”

Liu Ziguang smiled: "Of course it's true, but you have to take care of your children and take care of your home, so that I can rest assured that I can make money outside." ”

Zeng Cheng said: "Xianggong, don't worry, I will definitely not hold you back." ”

With the arrival of the New Year, an exciting news also came from the western border, the news that the Western Route Army had finally recovered the lost territory of Shaanxi came, and the court was jubilant, and the western ticket soared again, almost to the point that it was difficult to find a vote.

Under these circumstances, the securities regulatory yamen wrote to the imperial court to request that the war be financed through the securities market, and this time the amount was relatively large, with a huge name of 10 million taels, and it was also very gimmicky, called the Western Regions Jie Bao Performance Fund, every two taels of silver was a unit, and it was said that it could be doubled in half a year.

As soon as the fund came out, it was sought after by the public, and on the first day of listing, it sold 4 million taels, and the securities trading sub-markets in various cities in the south of the Yangtze River were full of fund managers who peddled good news from the Western Regions.

Thirty years ago, when the Manchurians in eastern Liaodong were about to move, the imperial court collected the so-called "Liao salary", which led to the boiling of public resentment and the collapse of the imperial court's economy.

The financing function of the regime market is too powerful, as long as the imperial court draws a cake, the common people will send the silver over, you don't accept him, he doesn't rush with you, such a good thing is really hard to find through the ages, the court bigwigs all praised the wisdom of Zhang Fulin, the secretary of the Yamen of the Securities Regulatory Commission, and at the same time blamed the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which had successfully carried out war bonds and northern bills, saying that they were too timid to do things, and if they were as bold as Zhang Tisi, wouldn't it have already raised enough military salaries, and the war on the Western Front would not have lasted so long.

The imperial court only said that the stock fund came quickly, but it did not expect that a series of problems caused by this caused by the excessive volume of the Western Regions fund has affected the normal social and economic activities, many business buyers and sellers and owners of small factories have also disposed of the shop, and put all the silver into the fund, hoping to earn a huge difference, no wonder they are so, as long as they buy the fund, they can sit and wait for money, who still works hard.

Now the most famous in the capital is Zhang Tisi of the securities supervision yamen, Zhang Daren, as the emperor of the plaque of the Qing official and solve the border troubles of the military salary, he has become a political star in the DPRK and China, the cabinet unanimously agreed, Zhang Fulin from the fifth grade to the third grade, with the title of household servant, still in charge of the securities supervision yamen, at the same time leading the capital of the procuratorate, the right of the imperial history of the capital, can be described as a step to the sky. And Huang Xiaotian, the household servant who introduced Zhang Fulin's merits, officially replaced Hu Xuezhai, who had not made any achievements, and became the new household secretary.

Although Lord Zhang has been promoted, he has not forgotten his roots at all times, and he still sends heavy gifts to Huang Xiaotian's mansion during the New Year's holidays, and he is still respectful and respectful to his teacher, Huang Xiaotian is very satisfied with Zhang Fulin's performance, this subordinate is really too competitive, he raised a lot of money for the imperial court, not to mention, he also helped himself to the position of Shangshu, and he was so on the road, which not only preserved the official reputation, but also completed all the things assigned by the superiors, and completed it beautifully, such a good official really can't be found with a lantern. Huang Xiaotian gradually began to think about whether to formally pull Zhang Fulin into the decision-making level of the Donglin Party.