Enter Harbour City.

The rotating consul Yang Zhongyuan personally came forward to receive him and provided two options in terms of accommodation: one was to stay in the recently completed White Swan Hotel, which is a super five-star hotel, 33 stories high, and the internal facilities are comparable to those of the White Castle.

Second, there are more than 20 idle single-family villas in the high-end villa area in the west of the city, each of which can accommodate 40 or 50 people, and it can be completely resettled.

Of course, you can also consider living in the White Castle, but now there are only more than 30 empty rooms in the White Castle, which can accommodate more than 100 people at most, and only the core members of the royal family can be allowed to move in with a small number of palace maids and eunuchs, and the guards cannot be arranged.

"Let's live in a single-family villa, that white swan sprinkle shop is too high, you may not get used to it."

Queen Zhou thought for a while and said, although the prince shouted that he wanted to stay in the hotel, but the height was not cold, and the sea breeze was not small, living on the upper floor of the White Swan Hotel, would it be shaken by the wind?

In the villa area in the west of the city, the royal family's liaison representative to Harbour City, Father-in-law Feng Jiuying, also lives there, he has been in Harbour City for several years, and is very familiar with this place.

So it's best to stay in a villa!

"Okay, let's settle in right away." Yang Zhong said from afar.

……

Soon.

After living in the villa area in the west of the city, I got settled.

Yang Zhongyuan asked people to bring a large stack of checks, personally handed them to Queen Zhou, and said with a smile: "Harbour City is a developed and free city, in the next few days, His Royal Highness does not have to think about official affairs, enjoy the food here, buy the goods you want, these checks are taken and spent first, the reimbursement standard for royal family members is 1,000 silver dollars per person per day, and the palace maid and guard are 15 silver dollars per person per day, as long as the reimbursement amount is not exceeded, you can spend as much as you want." ”

In addition, 10 electric four-wheeled vehicles will be arranged for use as special vehicles.

The security personnel in charge of protection have all been converted to plainclothes protection, so as not to affect the visiting experience of the royal family.

A female guide and liaison will be arranged, so that you can report any situation at any time.

"Yang Zheng, may I ask why your owner is not here, and he didn't come to greet him, what does this mean?" Zhang Yan didn't have the intention of eating, drinking, and having fun, but asked questions quite unhappily, because it was reasonable, and Xu Yuan should greet him in person, which would be more in line with etiquette.

"The owner of the village has a business trip and can't come back for the time being."

"How long will he be back?"

"If it's short, ten days, if it's long, it may be half a month, it's like this every year, it's not a deliberate faux pas, don't be anxious, just relax and have fun for a few days, the owner will come back sooner or later." Yang Zhongyuan explained.

“…… All right. @*~~”

Zhang Yan felt helpless and very surprised, as the lord of Xujiazhuang, that Xu Yuan left for ten days and half a month in a row, this Yang ruling performance was so unexpected, as if it was just a trivial matter, if it was replaced by the Ming Emperor, it was secretly out of the palace for three days, and the civil officials were like the sky had fallen, and that Xu Yuan left for ten days and half a month, Xujiazhuang seemed to be as usual, and the interior was very stable.

Just from this point, you can feel a big difference, and I feel that this Xujiazhuang is extraordinary.

Forget it, since you can't see the main owner in a short time, then relax for a few days and observe and study this Xujiazhuang carefully.

……

The next few days.

For the core members of the royal family, such as Empress Zhou, Zhang Yan, Zhu Cihong, Zhu Yujiao, and Zhu Cijiong, even though it was quite cold on this side of Harbour City, they quickly appreciated the charm of the city.

Food, all kinds of food from all over the world, it is said that there are enough eight cuisines, and you can change three different restaurants a day to eat, but you can't eat a food street for a month.

Of course, the best seafood is crab, lobster, oysters and other seafood, and the price is very cheap.

The second is clothes, countless beautiful clothes, including dresses, down jackets, tweed windbreakers, knitted sweaters, tights, etc., with hundreds of styles, not to mention some embarrassing underwear and clothing.

Women, most of them wore new clothes, and after thinking about it, Queen Zhou also bought more than a dozen sets for herself.

There are also a lot of places to play, especially among children.

For example, in the cinema, animated films such as "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", "Nezha in the Sea", "Strange Tales from the Book of Heaven" and "The Legend of the White Snake" were screened, and the children watched attentively, and the adults were also attracted by the wonderful and interesting stories.

For example, the indoor amusement park has slides, trampolines, air cushion castles and other amusement facilities, so you don't feel bored for a day.

as well as Ocean Park, chess and card room, library, ice room, football field, basketball court, sand beach, fountain square, hot spring bathhouse...... There are countless leisure and entertainment that can be experienced, and you can experience one place every day, and you can play for more than half a year.

As for the things in the department store, they are much richer and more complete than the imperial store, and the styles are newer, the functions are stronger, and the specialties from all over the world are all-inclusive, and you can always find what you like and want to buy.

Then before you know it, you spend all your reimbursements.

That's right!

Especially Queen Zhou, she has become a shopaholic, not to mention spending her own quota, two sons and a daughter, as well as the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan, a total of 5,000 silver dollars / day of reimbursement, almost half of which she spent, but she still felt that it was not enough, and the money was not spent - you must know that at the beginning, she planned to spend up to two or three hundred silver dollars a day, and all the rest were saved up to solve the financial difficulties of the royal family, and it turned out to be a chopping party.

It can only be said that it is not distressing to spend other people's money, but in the palace, except for Emperor Zhu Youzhen, there are really few who are more frugal than her Empress Zhou.

Besides!

Zhou Yufeng, the queen of Zhou, in the past few days, also met a new best friend, not only the relationship is hot, it heats up rapidly, and the back is inseparable every day, even the children born to the two are also fighting together every day, and the relationship is rapidly developing towards childhood sweethearts, and they are happy to see it.

On the sixth day.

Because the relationship between the two was too warm, at the suggestion of the new best friend, Queen Zhou actually had a hot head, threw the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan aside, took two sons and a daughter, and several palace maids and eunuchs who followed and served, simply moved into the empty house of the White Castle and became very close neighbors, so that they could meet early in the morning every day, and the children could play together for the first time.

Who is this new girlfriend?

Unexpectedly, Queen Zhou left her best friend, the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan, and her reminders and advice, all behind, and resolutely took refuge beside her new best friend, shopping together, tasting food, and entertaining together every day.

Fang Qingyan.

This new best friend who has a relationship with Iron Porcelain can only be Fang Qingyan, the mistress of White Castle.

In fact, on the night when the royal family members visited the group, Fang Qingyan, as the hostess, held a grand banquet in the White Castle, inviting Queen Zhou and others to be guests in the White Castle, extremely warm and friendly, saying that this is the advice of the husband Xu Yuan, and he must do his best to entertain this group of royal family members, so that they can feel at home until they return happy.

After the feast, Fang Qingyan personally served as a guide and took Queen Zhou and others to visit many places, and there were countless topics to talk about in terms of children, so the relationship was a long time and there was nothing to talk about.

this day.

The 26th floor of the White Castle, indoor children's entertainment room.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong and the eldest son Xu Jiaguang are playing flying chess.

Princess Zhu Yujiao, and Xia Hesheng's daughter Xu Qingmei, played a game of braiding flower ropes.

The three-year-old prince, Zhu Cijiong, also played with Xu Jiayao, Xu Jiahua and other children, competing for toys, and the sound of them laughing and screaming sounded from time to time. @·error-free start~~

Standing by the floor-to-ceiling glass window, looking at the scenery in the distance and overlooking the crowd below, Fang Qingyan held her chest with her hands, and suddenly asked Queen Zhou, who was standing next to her, "Sister, what do you think of this world?" How is the world? ”

“……”

Suddenly faced with such a high-end question, Zhou Yufeng didn't know how to answer, you must know that they usually talk about children, eating, drinking and having fun, and talking about their respective husbands.

"The world is too big, and the world is infinitely vast, even the most majestic and strategic people can't firmly grasp it.

Establish the most stable rule. ”

Fang Qingyan asked and answered herself: "I have hinted many times before, suggesting that my husband take over this world, change to a new dynasty, establish a wiser and more perfect rule, and let our family become the master of this world and control the supreme authority." ”

Hear this.

Zhou Yufeng's heart suddenly pinched, and his face became ugly.

Ambition, naked ambition, just show it in front of herself, Sister Fang is doing this, is it appropriate?

"But then I figured it out, my husband convinced me, although the supreme authority is extremely tempting, but the greater the power, the greater the responsibility, that is by no means only the myth of scenery without price, once the responsibility is not fulfilled, the right will be weakened, lost, the legitimacy will be shaken, maybe two or three hundred years later, it will collapse with a bang, be replaced by other families, completely lose everything, no matter how great the wealth will be gone."

Fang Qingyan turned around, looked at Queen Zhou with a little sympathy in her eyes, and said: "In the past few days, with so much contact and understanding with my sister, I don't think I can live a life like my sister and you, I have to memorize so many etiquette rules, and I have to take care of the harem of thousands of people, and the monthly silver is less than three thousand taels, not even as much as I spend in a day, and I have to deal with such and such people, intrigue with concubines, and not much personal freedom...... It's like being trapped in a cage. ”

"So I don't envy my sister now, it's better to keep it like this, my husband didn't lie to me, this era has indeed changed, we should abandon some old and outdated concepts, and we must look at the problem with a long-term vision."

"Sister, you're laughing."

Empress Zhou smiled very reluctantly, and really felt a sense of being offended, and the other party was telling the truth and sincerity, which was even more unacceptable, so she said coldly: "Sister, if the royal family has such financial resources as Xu Jiazhuang, I can live as freely and freely as my sister, and I can spend three or five thousand silver dollars a day, and it is not a big problem to go out of the palace often...... Why should my sister be sarcastic, after all, it's just a matter of money. ”

"Is it enough for the royal family to have money?"

Fang Qingyan shook her head: "Even if the royal family has a billion or ten billion silver dollars in their hands, do you want relief for the victims from all over the Ming Dynasty?" Do you want to send the official's money? Should the salaries of hundreds of thousands of border soldiers be paid in full? Should the Yellow River embankment be rebuilt? How long will the money be spent after this and that? Can you solve all the problems? Can you guarantee that one or two hundred years later, Empress Daming's monthly rate will not drop to less than three thousand silver dollars per month or even less? ”

Face these problems with her.

Zhou Yufeng's face finally turned ugly, and he had to ask in a deep voice: "Sister, what do you mean by suddenly talking about this?" Are you trying to make fun of me? ”

She felt that this place was a bit unbearable, who could bear such an insult?

"Sister, you misunderstood, I was moved, and I didn't mean to laugh at you."

Fang Qingyan hurriedly explained: "I'm just thinking, how Xujiazhuang should cooperate with the royal family in order to maximize the interests of both parties, the royal family controls many rights, but lacks money and is subject to various restrictions, and Xujiazhuang has money, and in the future, he will try his best to earn most of the wealth of the whole Ming Dynasty and the world into the hands of Xujiazhuang, to achieve the ultimate in wealth, not to do things that will lead to losses, not to bear unbearable burdens, and then to give the royal family some support, in exchange for the endorsement of royal rights, long-term and stable protection of Xujiazhuang's wealth... … I think that this kind of structure in which money and power support each other is like two legs of people, which not only walks steadily, but also walks fast, and has greater sustainability. @*~~”

"The key to maintaining this strong partnership lies in these children."

Fang Qingyan's gaze swept over Zhu Cihong, Xu Qingmei, Zhu Yujiao, Xu Jiaguang and other children.

"Money and power support each other?"

Queen Zhou muttered, felt her eyes light up, and wanted to continue to discuss in depth, Fang Qingyan said that the time was not yet ripe, and suggested that she understand Xujiazhuang more, and the two sides would cultivate their feelings again, and talk about it when the time came.

"Isn't that appetizing?"

Empress Zhou was a little speechless, you must know that after these days of visiting, Xujiazhuang's advanced, rich and powerful has left an extremely deep impression on her, and her heart is already inclined to the idea that she must reach a comprehensive alliance with Xujiazhuang.