If you go back in time for a year and a half, Wei Zhongxian estimates that when Concubine Li Guifei hears the name of "Zheng Haizhu", she will definitely blurt out: "What is this slut who does not marry, but who is stuck in the pile of men, what is going to do?" ”

After all, after Ke Yinyue pleaded Wei Zhongxian to put the Songjiang ring velvet handkerchief to the Qianqing Palace, when the Xili Niangniang in front of her turned out the handkerchief, she made a fuss and scolded.

But now it's different from the past, Xi Li has become a concubine, and the pleasure of winning the female competition briefly covers up a little bit of her shallowness and brutality.

When she saw that the surname Zheng really only liked to run around, her sense of resistance faded a little.

Zheng Haizhu returned to Beijing from Lu last year and sent a set of ruby heads, saying that when his family was running overseas, he received high goods from Burma, and asked the craftsmen of Lu Wangfu to carefully make them to congratulate Niangniang on her concubine.

At this point, Li Guifei didn't say that in her mouth, she also forgot the word "cheap" in her heart.

At this moment, Concubine Li Guifei looked at Wei Zhongxian: "Huh? How could she care about my father's grave? ”

Wei Zhongxian laughed: "The slave maid told her that she has a capable person in her hands, why don't we use it." She is also sensible and takes the initiative to ask for help. ”

Li Guifei rolled her eyelids: "Then call her in." ”

Zheng Haizhu walked into Yikun Palace, and after saluting, he first took off the makeup box he was carrying on his forearm: "Niangniang, a few days ago, the overseas shopkeeper sent back the gems, and this time the canal from Songjiang was directly sent to my shop in Beijing." As soon as I saw it, there was a Burmese ruby, the color was matching the one on the picky hairpin, and I hurriedly sent it to the palace, so that the craftsman of the inner manufacturing institute could make a ring for the mother. ”

Concubine Li's eyes lit up: "I'll take a look at it first." ”

The palace maid took the box and opened it in front of the concubine.

Li Guifei plucked the hairpin on her head, compared it, and smiled happily: "It's really like a pair of twins, Mrs. Zheng, you bother." ”

Suddenly, he was excited again, and said to Zheng Haizhu in a mocking tone: "I heard that you are in Beijing and have a little white face?" Yo, I really didn't see it in this palace before, you are always serious, worried about the country and the people, it turns out, in your heart, will you still arch the fire? ”

If the status is high, the quality may not follow.

Zheng Haizhu has seen enough of this kind of person in modern society, and now she wants to borrow this lady's hand to get rid of Ke Yinyue, so after listening to Li Guifei's vulgar and shallow words, Zheng Haizhu has no sense of stress.

She pretended to be sarcastic and said: "Niangniang said that she laughed, what kind of little white face, one or two years older than the minister, and her temper is also weird, learning the style of Wei and Jin celebrities." There's no way, the minister just eats this set. ”

Li Guifei snorted disdainfully: "There are so many complements on the chest, you don't like it, it's strange." Okay, let's not talk about your affair, let's talk about Changping. ”

Changping is the place where Li Guifei chose "auspicious soil" for her father.

Zhu Changluo, the Son of Heaven, is a dragon robe that people only wear when they are middle-aged, so after ascending the throne, the Ministry of Rites and the Qin Tianjian followed the rules and chose a mausoleum for him.

A ventilation of water looked down, set Changping near the "Jingtai Valley".

After Li Guifei heard about it, she also clamored to change her father's auspicious soil from Cangzhou, which was originally set, to Jingtaiwa, saying that she would definitely enter Jingtaiwa after her death, and she could go to see her father at any time, like going back to her parents' home, and the title of the national abbot was "Changping Bo".

Zhu Changluo was already annoyed when she saw this concubine, she said everything was "good", so as not to make trouble again.

Unexpectedly, after the excavation of Changping Bo's grave, water continued to seep into the ground. The officials in charge of Jiyang reported that not only would the drainage manpower be increased, but the drawings of the mausoleum itself would also have to be changed, and the cost would have to go up.

Li Guifei asked the Ministry of Industry for silver, and the Ministry of Industry came back, saying that the Ministry of Household would not agree, and said that even if Wanli's biological mother, Li Guifei, her father spent this amount on repairing Jiyang, and had never heard that the reign of a countl in the Ming Dynasty would dig a grave more expensive than the real Guogong.

"Eat our Zhu family's money, don't do good things for the people of the Zhu family, if this is when Jiajing Ye, let alone the black gauze hat, his life will be lost by the rod!" Li Guifei said hatefully.

Zheng Haizhu held back the disgust that welled up in her chest, and told Li Guifei that after listening to Wei Zhongxian's explanation of her mother's difficulties, she immediately sent a letter to let her former subordinate, Mr. Song, who was now employed by King Lu's mansion, come to Beijing and go to Changping to conduct field surveys, and he would definitely be able to think of a good way to solve the current pumping and future drainage.

Seeing that this woman said sincerely, Concubine Li thought for a moment, and couldn't think of anything where she suffered from here, so she said happily: "Cheng, you have made up for the mistakes you made when you offended our Li family in Tongzhou." ”

Wei Zhongxian smiled: "Niangniang, that time in Tongzhou, it was the slave maid who followed Niangniang's head to do things together, at that time, Mrs. Zheng spoke to a few villagers, but she was actually deceived by Zuo Guangdou. ”

As soon as she said this, Li Guifei made a sudden realization, stared at Zheng Haizhu and said: "I said how do you understand more than before, you must think that those civil officials don't have a few good things, so it's better to be close to us." ”

Zheng Haizhu put on a "wise" expression.

After the first step was completed, Wei Zhongxian continued to stay and listen to Li Guifei's score, while Zheng Haizhu went south out of Yikun Palace to Wenhua Hall to see his two proud protégés.

At the beginning of the year, Zhu Youxiao was awarded the title of prince, and Zhu Youzhen was awarded the title of king.

Zhu Youzhen was only twelve years old, and although he became a prince, he could still live in the Forbidden City for a few years before he became a vassal, so he still went to study in the Wenhua Hall with his imperial brother.

Sun Chengzong, who was in charge of the prince's education, according to the will of the imperial court, will soon go to Xuanda Town to serve as the governor to fill the vacancy left by Cui Jingrong's resignation.

It happened that Lu Xiang was promoted to the second-class jinshi, and he was going to be awarded an official position in other states, and Sun Chengzong especially liked this Donglin rookie who was not just talking about it, so he operated a little and asked the officials to arrange for Lu Xiangsheng to go to Datong as a pusher.

When Zheng Haizhu heard about it, she was overjoyed.

Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Mingshi, Ma Xianglin, Man Gui...... In this way, Xuanda Town, from literature to martial arts, is a capable general, and through his own middleman, he can further integrate resources.

When Ma Xianglin and Man Gui went east, they went to Daning Town to meet Huang Zunsu and Huang Zude, built Daning, and stationed the army that dared to fight with the Tartars in a solid manner.

Lu Xiangsheng was also very satisfied with this place of appointment - he, a military fan, could finally go to one of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, just like Mrs. Zheng did in Fushun in Liaodong and Mongolia outside the Saiwai, practicing the method of fighting with firearms to resist the enemy and kill the enemy.

Only Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen were not very happy.

They like to talk too much about the Four Books and the Five Classics, which is not boring, and Master Lu, who is more fun to make all kinds of warships.

Zhu Youzhen even came up with an idea with his brother, or simply report to the father of the Son of Heaven and let Master Lu marry their sister Zhu Huiyan, the sixth princess. As soon as the scholars of the Ming Dynasty became a concubine, they could no longer be officials.

Zhu Youxiao really listened to this in his heart, just because he was closer to Zheng Haizhu, he went to tell Master Zheng this idea first, but Zheng Haizhu reprimanded him directly, saying that if they really respect Master Lu, how could they hinder Master Lu's ambition to serve the country.

Today, before Lu Xiangsheng went to Xuanda to take office, he gave the last lecture to the two princes, and Zheng Haizhu naturally wanted to go and see it.

She had just passed Wenzhao Pavilion when she suddenly heard someone shouting behind her: "Ahead, but Mrs. Zheng?" ”

Zheng Haizhu turned around and saw a man dressed in a brown and green five-grade Hanlin official robe, although he looked forty years old, the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were quite obvious, but his facial features were still handsome.

It's just that gaze, which not only wants to express the etiquette of an elegant gentleman, but also clearly reveals the pride and research implications that can't be hidden, which makes Zheng Haizhu's first impression not very comfortable.

"Honorable driver?"

"Oh, this official is Zhongyun in Chunfang, Qian Qianyi."