Zhang Yaofang's age is there, and he has been a staff member for many years, so he is no longer stupid and angry.

He understands that businessmen can't afford to be early, Zheng Haizhu specially sent a congratulatory gift for the Zhang family, not just because Zhang Dai and Zhang Yanke's brothers gave her money for the school, she must also want to make friends with members of the palace.

Fortunately, I met Zhu Yipai.

Since His Royal Highness has spoken, he, the head of the palace, will be able to bring people inside.

So, after inviting Zheng Haizhu and the three of them to drink a cup of hot tea in their own duty room, Zhang Yaofang took the initiative to open his mouth and offered to lead them to the Cunxin Hall to see how the thirty or forty Shanyin lanterns in the post station were hung.

The palace of the heart is not a harem of the inner court, and the ministers of the palace can enter.

Zhang Yaofang came to the door and pointed to a peacock lantern with a net flower in Xu San's hand, indicating that this was a distinguished guest from Jiangnan who came to deliver the lamp, and His Royal Highness had seen it.

The guards inspected Zhang Yaofang's waist card, searched Wu Bangde and Xu San's bodies carefully, and then let them go.

Thousands of clothes are worn, and Zheng Haizhu immediately complimented: "Uncle Zhang is really unhindered in the palace."

Zhang Yaofang also didn't pretend to be modest in front of the juniors: "Hehe, on weekdays, in addition to the political affairs in the southern public office, King Lu often summons me to discuss the doctor's health preservation method, and sometimes tries some medical prescriptions, I am really diligent when I come to the north."

Zheng Haiguaner: "That's great, the younger generation still thinks that our "Haoming Trading Company" is going to set up a shop by the canal in Jining, mainly dealing in medicinal materials. I will definitely come to consult Uncle Zhang often."

Zhang Yaofang's face was full of kindness: "The old man is busy with official business, so I will introduce a few students to you and help in the store."

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, I understand, arrange for your protégé to receive the money.

What's wrong with this, bring capital into the group, bring connections into the group, add chicken legs to the lunch box, and try to arrange it to appear in the subtitles.

"Xu San," Zheng Haizhu turned around and admonished, "After returning to Hangzhou, prepare a batch of fine Zhejiang Bawei and present it to Uncle Zhang."

Zhejiang eight flavors, is Hangzhou chrysanthemum, atractylodes, Zhejiang fritillary and other eight kinds of medicinal materials grown in Zhejiang, since the Han Dynasty, the master of the apricot forest is often mentioned in the medical scriptures.

Zhang Yaofang smiled and said, "Okay."

Zhang Yaofang did not enter the Jinshi, because his younger brother Zhang Lianfang studied and collected antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and befriended the chief officials of the Ministry of Officials in Beijing, so Zhang Yaofang, who was only famous, came to Lu Wangfu as a subordinate official.

Zhang Changshi, who has the talent of Shaoxing master, was smart and clever when he was young, and now he also likes smart children who have understanding and understand the meaning of the other party when they hear it.

I met Zheng Haizhu today, and after a few rounds, he had a good impression of this self-combing girl who was praised by his son and nephew.

When I arrived at the front of the Decun Palace, I saw many small firefighters sent out by the inner court, who were placing silk flowers and making colored silk.

Zhang Yaofang called a steward, led Xu San to try to hang the peacock lantern, and pointed to the Xinxin Palace, and said to Zheng Haizhu and Wu Bangde: "At that time, King Lu, the princess and the county kings, as well as the prefect of Yanzhou, will sit in the inner hall, and the officials of our eight divisions will all hold a banquet under the corridor of the hall. The two of them sat with the old man and watched the lights and fireworks. The fireworks in Lufu are a must in Shandong."

……

Out of the Delu King City, Zheng Haizhu instructed Xu San: "According to Zhang Changshi and the little fireman, you go to the servant's shop at the west end of the royal street to hire three or four people, and tomorrow we will hang our lanterns in the Cunxin Palace. No matter how expensive it is, it must be opened by the relatives of the palace, and only those who are there can enter the palace to work."

Xu San responded and left.

Wu Bangde and Zheng Haizhu walked a few steps side by side, and suddenly said, "If there is really coal in Yanzhou, don't you want to find Zhang Changshi to intervene?"

Zheng Haizhu stopped and asked him with interest, "How do you see it?"

Wu Bangde said: "I just secretly asked Xu San, and he said that he didn't know that Haoming Trading Company was going to open a medicinal herb store in Jining. Your promise to Zhang Changshi is a temporary intention, with your temperament, you will not and dare not eat hollow soup dumplings for Changshi, and yesterday you told me that you wanted to pull him to open a mine, but today, you asked him about Yanzhou scenery, and did not mention the coal mine. So I guess, you changed your mind halfway, you took a fancy to others, and you were afraid that if you really did it, Zhang Changshi wouldn't be able to get a piece of the soup, and he would complain about you, so he would shop the medicinal herbs

The benefits of the son, give it to him first, and it can be regarded as a return to his son and nephew to take care of your Songjiang school.

Zheng Haizhu listened to his speculation and was very satisfied.

When dealing with people by himself, Wu Bangde can figure it out so attentively on the side, which shows that he is in a working state and has not gone to work to fish.

It's good, I like partners who are saturated with workload.

Zheng Haizhu then stared at Wu Bangde and asked with a smile, "Who do you think I have my eye on?"

"Your Highness."

"yes, there's thicker thighs, why don't you hug them."

The corners of Wu Bangde's mouth tugged. He was an ancient, and it was the first time he had heard this slang that modern people were accustomed to, and he felt that it was a little vulgar to come out of a woman's mouth.

Zheng Haizhu continued: "Do you also notice that your Royal Highness is not like a carefree prince who only knows how to walk dogs and fight cocks? He even wanted to save money for the birthday banquet lanterns. When you listen to what he said from Gongzheng, it is also surrounded by one word: money. People say that if you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, in the eyes of many wealthy families, there is no difference between a thousand taels of silver and ten taels of silver."

Wu Bangde nodded: "Well, there is a word money in his eyes, which means that he wants to be in charge, or rather, he wants to do something."

But he muttered again: "However, the dignified prince of the county, the little highness favored by the prince today, even if he is kind to you, and really found the mine, can't he just mine it himself, why are you tied up with us?" At most, when you ask him to buy coal, his steward will give you a few copper plates per catty."

Zheng Haizhu said seriously: "He needs people to open a mine, and I can just get people this time."

"What do you mean by that?"

"The kings of the past generations were based on agriculture and hated mining and business, because they were afraid that they would not farm the land because they were strong and strong. Once the mines in Yanzhou were opened, if the clan hired a large number of peasants, they would be told to go to Beijing by the governor of Shandong. And among the homeless people, there are quite a lot of people who make trouble and smell incense, and they dare not hire them. So Bond, where do you think we can get hundreds or thousands of safe miners for His Highness?"

Wu Bangde stared at Zheng Haizhu.

He liked to guess her mind because it was a little hard, but not very hard.

Her ideas, like the formation, have routines, neither romantic nor old-fashioned, neither restrained nor crazy, and you can see the guidance signs when you walk through the routines.

Wu Bangde then rubbed his hands in the wind, warmed his breath, and said suddenly: "Do you want to go to Mao Wenlong in Liaodong and recruit Liao people to Lu Fan?"

Zheng Haizhu patted Wu Bangde on the shoulder: "Confidant."

……

The next day, Xu San went to the palace to hang up the lanterns, and Zheng Haizhu asked the post chief about it clearly, and then called Wu Bangde to visit the major private post stations in Yanzhou City, especially the guilds of various merchant gangs, to see how these places were warmed.

The hard work paid off, and most of the day ran down, on the side of the Si River in the southeast of Fucheng, there was a post station of no small scale, and the two saw cinders and obvious ruts.

After a moment's hold, a guy came out and swept the cinders with a broom.

Wu Bangde stepped forward and arched his hand: "Little brother, where can I buy coal?"

The guy stared at the two warily, "What are you doing?"

Wu Bangde scratched his head: "We just moved from Shuntianfu, and our family originally burned coal, but I didn't expect that we couldn't buy coal here."

When Zheng Haizhu spoke, he smiled and stuffed the guy with a penny of silver.

When the guy got this "consulting fee", his face immediately turned cloudy, and he looked at the door of the backyard, and saw that there was no one else, so he politely said, "Our host, I came from Boshan, and I also know how to burn coal. This year, I looked for a coal worker from my hometown to come over, and I didn't find a mine seedling in Chai Tan Mountain. Because of the charcoal mountain, where the Nalu king's palace sent people to cut wood and burn charcoal, my family secretly dug a little."

Wu Bangde pretended to frown and said, "It's so troublesome, let's buy firewood."

Zheng Haizhu pretended to think that her husband was unproductive, and gave him a blank look, but still pulled the guy to ask enthusiastically: "Little brother, I will pay you more silver, how about you take us to the place where there is coal in the charcoal mountain?"

The man waved his hand again and again: "Hey, you can't help it, go by yourself."

See Zheng Haizhu noodles again

Slightly heavy, his eyes turned from the sleeve he put into the silver money to the inn compound behind him, somehow, a little afraid that this woman changed her face and shouted, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Sister, brother, in fact, it is not difficult to find, when you arrive at Chai Tan Mountain, you will see a river on the southern slope, go upstream, pass through the sand and gravel stalls and green rocks, the east side of the forest, there are several stones, look for the black ink-like potholes, take a magnetic stick to probe, most of them will be explored."

Zheng Haizhu didn't know what "counting stones" and "magnetic sticks" were, but she only felt that Wu Bangde, who was also listening attentively, was gently pulling her sleeve, and estimated that Wu Gongzi, who had seen the Xishan Coal Mine in Beijing, should understand it very well.

Zheng Haizhu's face relaxed: "Okay, thank you little brother."

Walking back to the avenue, Wu Bangde told Zheng Haizhu that counting stones is layers of flake rock formations, and the magnetic stick is tied to the end of the wooden stick with a magnet mine, and the pulse explorers in the suburbs of Beijing use it to find coal seedlings exposed on the surface.

"Sure enough, it's about the same as you estimated," Wu Bangde said, "The coal in Yanzhou is in Chai Tan Mountain, because it is the forbidden garden of King Lu's mansion, Yanzhou City is not too cold, and the charcoal used by the people to make fires and cook is not expensive, so the coal here has not been mined like Boshan."

Zheng Haizhu was also very happy: "When Zaohua and Da Niu come back from exploring the way, let's go again in person."

It was still early, the sun was only slightly westerly, and it was still a little warm. The blue sky is like a wash, reflected in the Surabaya River, and the blue is particularly beautiful.

The two of them saw that on the river in the distance, there was a long bridge like a white line across the sky, and a row of beautiful arched piers were dyed golden by the sun, which was very spectacular.

Zheng Haizhu said: "That should be the Surabaya Bridge that the post steward said, let's go and see the exploits of King Lu Fanxian."

Arrive at the head of the bridge, but see a big monument erected next to the stone lion, engraved with the words "Lu Changhong".

Look at the bridge body carefully, the bluestone slab is wide and thick, the fifteen holes are beautiful in arc, the grinding can be meticulous, the vault is also extremely high from the river surface, the stone pillar of each bridge pier is unified in shape, thick and solid like the foundation of a century-old arbor.

Zheng Haizhu walked onto the bridge and smacked his tongue: "No wonder it will take several years to repair and spend 300,000 taels of silver."

Wu Bangde also patted the railing on the bridge and said, "I didn't expect that the first prince of the Lu Domain would be so dumb and immoral, cruel to the people, and the descendants of the future generations will be sages."

Zheng Haizhu sighed lightly: "Don't say that between generations, it is the same person, and after a while, the mind will be different."

After she expressed this emotion, she suddenly remembered something, looked at Wu Bangde and said, "What do you think, how is Mu Zaohua?"

Wu Bangde's face was unwavering: "He is a man-making material, not inferior to a man." You're right, the informants should recruit some women."

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips meaningfully.

Wu Bangde's eyes flashed: "What's wrong? Do you think that on the way that day, she sent compassion to save the homeless mother and child, and I reprimanded her too harshly?"

Zheng Haizhu shook her head: "Your subordinates, how to discipline is your business. However, let me be straight, this girl seems to be tempted by you."

Wu Bangde frowned, and sneered, "You've read too much of the playbook."

Zheng Haizhu put away the banter on his face, and said, "If you don't believe it now, it's okay. If time goes by, and you get along day and night and have feelings for each other, I can place her in a trading company."

Wu Bond was slightly apprehensive.

Zheng Haizhu added, "I mean, I don't want the work of the intelligence bureau to delay you from liking a good girl. Even if you are a soldier who has to fight hard from time to time, you have to have a home, right?"

A hint of ridicule appeared on Wu Bangde's face: "Miss Zheng, Zheng Dongjia, since I left Zhenjiang, I have also gotten along with you day and night, do you think we have feelings for each other?" If you talk about starting a family, why don't you become a family and become a self-combing girl?"

Zheng Haizhu was choked for a while.

She was a little annoyed in her heart, annoyed that Wu Bond had robbed her of her kindness, and annoyed that she still had that kind of mother-in-law's matchmaking instinct after all, so that she seemed to offend her partner.

Soon, she caught a trace of strange sorrow in Wu Bangde's eyes.

Zheng Haizhu realized that there was a reason for Wu Bangde's sudden offensive white-snatching words.

She guessed that Wu Bond had previously moved his fiancée to him

The feelings are by no means as shallow and traceless as he described at the time.

Wu Bangde saw Zheng Haizhu's stunned appearance, and also regretted that he had a blade in his words, so he looked away, looked at the surging river, and sighed heavily after a moment.

"Azhu, I don't want to start a family because I've already met the best woman."

Zheng Haizhu said softly, "I'm sorry."

Wu Bangde waved his hand: "Let's go back."

The two walked in silence for a while, and suddenly heard the cry of a child behind them, mixed with the shouting and scolding of adults.

When they looked back, they saw a man and a woman walking over to the bridge.

The woman was holding a child in her hands.

The child cried heartbreakingly.

Zheng Haizhu and Wu Bangde couldn't help but slow down.

When the family approached and staggered, the two saw clearly, the man was in his twenties, with a hooked nose and a lump of horizontal flesh under his cheekbones, and the woman holding the baby was a fat woman, who must have been over forty, and the gray hair in the bun was obvious.

The doll in her hand is a girl in her early years old with pigtails.

The girl spoke early, and this one was too, crying and babbling "Kegui, Kegui".

The fat woman raised her face and said, "Cry, cry!"

Zheng Haizhu suddenly became suspicious.

She went north from Fujian to Jiangnan and crossed Jiangxi, and she understood that "Kegui" means "to return" and "go home".

And what the mother-in-law said was clearly in the Lu dialect.