Chapter 164: The Beginning of the Fifteenth Year of Chenghua
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the envoy of the Northern Captives, Po Huluo, has come and gone several times in Yulin City, and some news has been revealed as if there is nothing and looming. The news that the imperial court will open a border market here in Yulin next year has gradually spread amid the half-belief of some people.
Most people hear it and hear it, just as an anecdote, but businesses with a keen sense of smell perceive new business opportunities. The Central Plains is rich in products, and the oil and water of foreign trade are quite abundant, who does not want a piece of the pie with strength? What's more, the border market is likely to become the norm, which is a rare long-term big deal.
Don't think that the northwestern border provinces are far behind Jiangnan in terms of economy, so commerce is not developed enough. On the contrary, the Shanxi merchants from the northwest are able to compete with the Hui merchants, and even suppress the Hui merchants today.
Later generations were familiar with the strength of Yangzhou salt merchants, and even equated Yangzhou salt merchants with Hui merchants. However, in this era, the salt merchants in Yangzhou are mainly from Shaanxi, and the Huizhou merchants have not yet become a big climate.
However, the rise of Shanxi merchants is also because of policy reasons, at this time also implemented the "open the middle law", only to the border garrison to import grain, in order to get the corresponding salt, with salt to go to the salt field salt. Under this policy, Shaanxi people who are close to the border will of course be the first to get the moon near the water.
Gossip aside, time has entered the zuihou month of the year, and every family has begun to prepare for the New Year. However, there were many outsiders in Yulin City who came in to inquire about all kinds of news.
In the past, these people might have been wiped out as a fine work. But these people all have their own doorways, each has their own guarantor, and what they are inquiring about is not a military secret. So the defenders turned a blind eye, and the literate people muttered a few words, "Merchants value profit over parting".
As one of the decision-making cores of the Governor's Metropolitan Procuratorate. Fang Yingwu, who is known as the "Second Governor" behind his back, has also been harassed, and all kinds of invitations with money and color have been rejected for half a month.
But he lived in seclusion. Never promises any entertainment, nor does he accept any benefits. This makes the merchants sigh in vain, they do business, especially big business, and they don't like to meet a moral gentleman with a pure heart and few desires.
It's also hard for them to imagine that Fang Xiaoxiang really doesn't touch the big fat meat concocted by his own hands? This is too clean, and now is not the era of Taizu who peels the skin and grass! Besides, Fang Xiaoxianggong is not an official, and he can't talk about corruption and perverting the law.
Time flickered again, and it was a lively New Year's Day. It has now officially entered Chenghua for fifteen years. But the number of out-of-town businesses in Yulin City is increasing unabated, and they know that the most definite news is about to come out.
Fang Xiucai, who was talked about by everyone, was writing seriously in the house, very distracted and concentrated. Suddenly, there was a "bang" sound outside, which made Fang Yingwu's eyebrows twitch, and the brush under his hand also drew an ethereal arc.
In the middle of the curtain flashed the beautiful head of Sun Xiaoniang, the little face made a very embarrassed expression, stuck out her tongue and said, "I was careless when washing the dishes"
Fang Yingwu pressed his forehead. Is this the third or fourth time?
Sun Xiaoniang's father, Sun Jing, and Sun Daddy were sent to other places by Fang Yingwu before the Chinese New Year, which was secretly interpreted by Sun Lin as "transferring the tiger from the mountain".
Before Father Sun left, Fang Yingwu said casually that there was no one around him. Ask the idle little lady Sun to help clean up the housekeeping.
For this request, Daddy Sun did not refuse. As for the worry of sending a beautiful daughter to the young lord, whether she will be insulted and innocent. Daddy Sun is not worried. First of all, in his eyes, Fang Xiucai's character is not so bad, unlike a person who can overlord a hard bow.
Secondly. With his daughter's fists and feet, how could he be used by Fang Yingwu, a powerless scholar in his eyes, it would be good to use a strong prescription to respond to things, and not to be used strongly;
zuihou。 If you really lose your innocence, it is also the will of God, so the achievement is done, and it is difficult to choose all day in the province, and I don't know what to do.
Father Sun is gone, and Little Lady Sun is here, but Fang Yingwu never expected that Little Lady Sun is not the material for housework at all.
In her hands, there is not much difference between the swept floor and the unswept floor, the number of broken bowls is about the same as the number of washed haode bowls, and the tables and chairs that have been wiped are all traces of art.
But Fang Yingwu endured it, the beauty is at least pleasing to the eye, and it is better than a big man dangling around. And Sun Xiaoniang's words and deeds are more cheerful and refreshing, not like most women in this time and space, but more like women in the previous life and era, so that Fang Daxiu has a plausible sense of familiarity from time to time.
"You are really born into a big family, and the young grandmother is dying!" Fang Yingwu gave a thumbs up, and Little Lady Sun finally shrank her head back from the curtain in shame.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the atmosphere of the New Year gradually faded. Another flying horse broke into Yulin City to report the news that the imperial envoys were about to arrive in Yulin City.
In fact, it is not necessary to go to Mandu Lubu from Yulin, but from Shanxi Town, it is closer to the pass. But one guest did not bother the two masters, and the envoy also took over the angel who announced the reward and announced a number of matters, so he still had to come to Yulin.
For a time, the officials of Yulin City were full of joy. Governor Yang didn't need to say anything, he sat on the ground and rose to a higher level, becoming one of the top 20 governors in the world. Although the others did not get as many benefits as Governor Yang, each of them had a first-level increase in salary, which was also a very good happy event.
This time, there was only one envoy, Fang Qingzhi, and no deputy envoy. In addition, there are fifty guards and soldiers, in addition to the subordinates and a number of their own servants drawn from the pedestrian department.
When he arrived in Yulin City, Fang Qing stayed in the mansion, which also made Fang Yingwu feel more at ease. If the mansion is under the control of the governor's battalion, of course, there will be no problems.
This is also Fang Yingwu's suspicions, my father is going to a foreign country on behalf of the Son of Heaven this time, and his identity is different. If anything goes wrong in Yulin, no matter whether it is Commander Peng's fault or not, Yulinwei will not be able to escape responsibility, and no one will do thankless and stupid things.
Governor Yang was very considerate, and on the day of the arrival of the envoys, he did not arrange a banquet to receive the wind and wash the dust. Instead, he asked Fang Yingwu to go to the mansion to meet him, giving a chance for father and son to meet.
To be honest, this is a very strange relationship between father and son. Needless to say, the people who came through half of the time were certainly not too familiar with this physical father. What's more, I don't get together with my father much and leave more, and I haven't seen each other a few times in total, and when I meet, I talk in a hurry in a depressing atmosphere.
As for Fang Qingzhi's feelings, they were also still unfamiliar. What his son did really made him an incredible father, and he had a huge sense of strangeness, is this still the son in his impression?
Although he has been focusing on struggle in the past few years, he has always paid attention to his son's failure, but he is old at the age of three, and he also knows what his son has been like since he was a child. But I really didn't expect my son to call for wind and rain like this, could it be that the male university also has eighteen changes?
Fang Yingwu saw the salute and stood next to his father, and after the greeting, he didn't know what to say for a while, he could talk casually to others, but he had to be cautious in front of his father. Do you want to be concerned about saying "happy newlyweds and careful body"?
Fang Qingzhi is also a gentleman who is quiet and silent, pursues the cautious words of a gentleman, and is not good at breaking the silent atmosphere.
After thinking about it, Fang Yingwu found a conversation and decided to take the initiative, he coughed, and gestured to the servant standing behind his father. What he meant by this was: Our father and son want to talk heart-to-heart, and you, an outsider, go out first.
If Fang Yingshi was next to his father, Fang Yingwu would not be so outside, but the person in front of him made Fang Yingwu rush to the strange, so he had no sense of trust.
But this servant stood there without moving, which made Fang Yingwu extremely dissatisfied. He could be sure that the servant had received his own look, and that his refusal to leave was deliberate.
Fang Yingwu would not be polite to this kind of eyeless person, and softly pointed at the servant and shouted: "Get out!" But the man remained motionless, ignoring him.
Fang Qingzhi looked back, and the other party Yingwu introduced: "You don't know, this is Wang Tong, the housekeeper of the family, who came from the Wang family with your stepmother." ”
Fang Yingwu was dissatisfied: "At the beginning, I left my brother Fang Yingshi in Beijing and followed my father for a long time, why is this surnamed Wang here today?" ”
At this time, Wang Tong said lightly: "Fang Yingshi stayed in Beijing to take care of the family, and it is not a grievance against him. ”
Can the caretaker compare with the owner? Fang Yingwu was not a fool, and at the same time, he felt inexplicable hostility from Wang Tong's tone. Then he reprimanded: "When will I talk to my father, when will I have you as a dog slave?" Don't get out yet! ”
Wang Tong bowed slightly and said: "The little one goes and stays, and the old man, the old man and the lady are in charge, and the young master doesn't count when he speaks." ”
The old man in his mouth is Wang Shu, and his wife is Wang Liuniang, Fang Yingwu can be considered to hear it, this slut must be a loyal servant, so he deliberately tried every means to exclude himself, the son of Fang Qingzhi's ex-wife. Probably in his eyes, he is only afraid that the son born by the Wang family is worthy of being a genuine heir.
And compared with the Fang family, which is surrounded by four walls, the Wang family from the Sanyuan clan in Shaanxi is definitely rich, and the servants from the Wang family are of course arrogant when they arrive at the Fang family.
is worthy of being a loyal dog slave from a big family, Fang Yingwu sneered a few times, Wang Liuniang, who married his father, is not a flamboyant person, this slave is quite arrogant. He was about to have a seizure, but he saw his father come out first and said to Wang Tong, "You go outside and wait." ”
Wang Tong was reluctant, and walked out slowly, not wanting to leave, and seeing that it became more and more unbearable in Fang Yingwu's eyes.
Do you want to go back and find a few sergeants to clean up this Wang Tong and let him know that it is a little powerful? Fang Yingwu thought.
At this moment, someone suddenly reported: "Wang Chengyi's son of the Sanyuan royal family has arrived!" ”
Wang Tong was overjoyed, and the other party Qingzhi said: "Wang Chengyi's son is the eldest son of the head of the Sanyuan Wang family, and he is also the nephew of the princess, please go out to greet him now." ”
Fang Yingwu sneered a few times, looking at Wang Tong as if he were looking at a dead man. (To be continued......)