He rested very early the night before, and on the new day, Zhu Yuan still slept until more than nine o'clock before getting up.

Too tired.

Zhu Yuan was constantly pulled by Lao Zhu to talk about various things, Zhu Yuan was not easy at all, not only many things are related to the future of the country, but also one point, even if Lao Zhu treated him as a close relative, Zhu Yuan did not forget to introspect from time to time to avoid getting carried away.

Keeping one's duty is the long-term way to get along with the emperor.

Therefore, many words, which seem casual on the surface, are actually spoken only after deliberation.

Burn too many brain cells and be physically and mentally exhausted.

Jinling City, which is about to start winter, is still a not very good cloudy weather in the morning, the north wind is rising, and the temperature is not very high.

At breakfast, he mentioned that some court officials such as Shan Anren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Qian Yongren, and Sun Shouzhen, the left envoy of the Tai Hospital, sent people over early to ask when Zhu Yuan was free, hoping to visit and discuss some things.

Zhu Yuan knew that one was about the placement of craftsmen, the other was about the upcoming imperial examination, and the other was related to Houhu Medical College.

In addition to these officials, there are other people of all colors, etc.

For example, some old people of the freehand and blank families, some elders of the Qingniang family, as well as several masters of Zhiyongzhai, and even Lao Zhu initially rewarded Zhu Yuan, but Zhu Yuan took the initiative to return to the field and insisted on recognizing Zhu Yuan as the tenant of the owner's family, and so on, I hope to come and see it.

These are all people who are attached to Zhu Yuan.

Moreover, many scholars who rushed to Jinling to prepare for the imperial examination learned the practice of the previous dynasty and came to Zhu Yuan to submit papers, hoping to be appreciated in advance.

For these, Freehand specifically mentioned one, Gu Zhongren from the ancient family of Zhangzhou, Fujian, who had visited Zhu Yuan when he was in Dinghai before, and was now already in Jinling, bringing a group of juniors to participate in the imperial examination.

After listening to the freehand after roughly speaking, Zhu Yuan thought of a certain picture, if he let go of communication, it would definitely be a good place.

In this regard, Zhu Yuan thought of blue jade.

In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, before the outbreak of Lan Yu, the general who had been training in other places was recalled, and for a time, the Liangguo Mansion was full of people, and there were thousands of people coming and going every day, which also became a criminal evidence of Lan Yu's attempt to rebel.

This is, of course,.

In the feudal era, it achieved the position of Lanyu, not to mention the others, with the scale of thousands of false servants in the Liangguo Mansion itself, the daily flow of people in and out exceeded 1,000, which is normal.

Extending the association, the other heroes who were able to die well and continue during the same period, Li Wenzhong, Duke of Cao, Xu Da, Duke of Wei, Guo Ying, Marquis of Wuding, and other princely families, will definitely not be much more shabby than Lan Yu, Duke of Liangguo, not to mention Lao Zhu's group of sons who were divided into various places.

Therefore, the root of the matter is obviously not in that place.

However, let's understand that before you get the title of a certain county king, you still have to keep a low profile.

What's more, there is a long time to come.

It's long.

It's just Lao Zhu's side...... According to the calculations, there are still 30 years.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuan even felt that it was quite boring to live too long. Because, if you are here in Lao Zhu, as long as you don't confess something, everything else will definitely be fine, but in the future, it may not be.

Zhu Biao is not a good person.

Well.

This was ever.

This time...... It depends on the situation.

Thinking about the past, Zhu Yuan even felt that in the future, it would actually be a good choice for the fourth child to ascend the throne, at least, someone was very good to the clan and the heroes.

Thinking so wildly, after eating, I don't think about it anymore.

Pushed down all the requests for visits, freehand on some arrangements at home, and didn't want to listen to it for the time being, so I planned to visit the yard and activities.

How big is a house covering an area of 130 acres?

Zhu Yuan looked at the picture before, but he didn't feel too much, but when he walked up, he felt it, it was really ...... Not small.

It is more than half a mile from east to west, north and south, and it cannot be compared with the university he once had, but it is much larger than the high school that accommodated more than 2,000 students in his previous life, and he vaguely remembers that the total area of that high school is only 100 acres.

Let's talk about the present.

On both sides of the inner house, there are two gardens equivalent to occupying four side courtyards on both sides, both of which are about 15 acres, which happens to be equivalent to the garden of the annex in the southeast corner earlier.

This time, there are two.

Well.

Counting the previous ones, it is three.

Left garden, right garden and front garden.

This time it wasn't much better, Zhu Yuan walked around the right garden on the west side for half a circle, and when he came to the long two-story study building built against the wall by the west wall, he didn't want to leave again.

The north and south of the study building are two-storey courtyards, similar to the northernmost row of rooms in the mansion, however, it is much shorter than the room, the same is two floors, the room is completely paved with the back wall, reaching 88 zhang, only 27 zhang here, and there are 16 rooms of different sizes separated from the top and bottom.

To the east, there is the same one.

Went in and walked around, freehand They had already collected a lot of books in advance, as well as all kinds of handwriting of Zhu Yuan and the women around him, but it was far from being filled, which made a certain obsessive-compulsive disorder very uncomfortable, so he came out again.

I don't have the idea of reading a book today.

His thoughts drifted away again.

I thought of the Heshen Treasure Building that I saw when I visited Prince Gong's Mansion.

Yourself this ...... The books in the west and the treasures in the east seem to be good.

Well.

Wrong.

Why don't you think of Lan Yu or He Shen today?

It's a dangerous thought.

Be reflective!

Come to the small pavilion on the top of the rockery in the garden, which is only more than a foot high, and reflect on the results.

It's time to eat.

Freehand instructed a maid to pass lunch over, while squatting down to help his little official rub his calf, remembered one thing, and said: "Little official, Wutong...... The trench coat is ready, and there are new boots, do you want to see it? ”

At this time, when I mentioned the bearded girl of Wutong, I noticed that my petty officials were not very interested, and I was worried that my appetite would not be good. Freehand thinks that calling someone who is very edible may also make his petty officials a little more appetizing.

Zhu Yuan nodded: "There are others, call me to take a look?" ”

Freehand agreed, signaling to squat on the other side of the blank space.

Blank blinked as he pretended not to understand.

Don't go.

Freehand was helpless, so he could only turn his head and instruct a beautiful maid next to him who had been changed from 'poppy' to 'ugly slave': "Slave, you go to the front yard and call Wutong to come over after changing their clothes." ”

The maid agreed to leave again.

Zhu Yuan and the others said freely, and waved his legs: "Okay, no need to rub it." ”

The two girls stood up.

At the moment, he happened to be sitting facing south, Zhu Yuan propped his chin on the stone table, looked condescendingly at the layers of courtyards in front of him, and suddenly smiled: "It's too big, it's a little deserted." ”

Freehand listened, paused, and said, "That...... Slaves shout more people around petty officials every day? ”

There was no way to be in Dinghai before, but when I returned here, almost instinctively, freehand, blank, Qingniang and Luoshui, I arranged the other groups of warblers, swallows, flowers and plants in the courtyard far away from the inner house of their own petty officials.

In fact, it is the front few courtyards that Zhu Yuan is looking at at the moment.

After all, it was used by his own petty officials, and it couldn't be arranged too far.

Zhu Yuan nodded: "I like to be lively." ”

Talking and looking around, freehand, blank, and, the other two girls, probably distinguished, this is Magnolia and Qing Pingle, and just left two, one is a little lip, and the other is an ugly slave.

Qing Niang and Luo Shui were in the kitchen.

Well.

So he asked, "What about the sack and the warm mother?" ”

Freehand said: "Yu'er went home to visit her father, warm mother...... The petty official ordered her to go back to Jinling, continue to be a gentleman, and go to the medical school in the north early this morning. ”

"Yu'er ......" Zhu Yuan remembered: "...... The family used to live on this island, right? ”

"On the island ahead, there are also some courtyards built there, and the lake people who have been rewarded by His Majesty are arranged there, and there are some housekeepers and guards, as well as the family's mules, horses, and boats, which are also taken care of there." ”

After finishing speaking, I saw my little official nodding again, and the blank next to him interjected: "Little official, there are two islands on this lake, east and southeast, and it stands to reason that they are also our family, do you want to take the time to place them?" ”

Zhu Yuan looked east, it was not high enough, and his vision was blocked by layers, so he didn't see it, but just asked with a smile: "How do you get it?" ”

Liubai obviously thought about it, and said: "In the east, the slave thinks that a larger garden can be built, but these are too small in the house." Southeast...... The glass workshop is very important, and it may be possible to build the workshop there without being spied on by outsiders. ”

"You are thoughtful," Zhu Yuan smiled, but shook his head: "Don't toss, it's just that someone is already impeaching me in this house." ”

Leaving a blank to hear the words, what else to say, noticing the freehand eyes, he stopped, hummed softly, and didn't mention it again.

Qing Niang and Luo Shui and a group of maids came here with various food boxes.

When the meal was spread out, Zhu Yuan picked up the fast child, but continued: "However, these islands should also have a serious name, and this lake, I have always felt that Houhu Lake is not good, and it should be called Xuanwu Lake." In addition, the plaques in each hall of the family took the time to ask the ancestors to inscribe some names. ”

Zhu Yuan also likes to come up with names.

However, there are some things that are better to ask for from Lao Zhu than to get them yourself.

Emperor's Imperial Pen.

There can also be another name, called amulet.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuan remembered another one and said to Luo Shui: "Tomorrow is the birthday of my ancestors, you can help me with my staff in the afternoon, what are the etiquettes." ”

This matter, before returning from Dinghai, Zhu Yuan had considered it.

I was also prepared all the way back.

However, it still needs to be perfected.

Luo Shui said cautiously: "Little official, why don't you ask an official of the Ministry of Rites, I'm afraid that I won't think it through." ”

Zhu Yuan thinks about it.

That's the big deal.

The birthday of the ancient emperor was called 'Tianshou Festival', which is consistent with the importance of festivals such as 'New Year's Day', 'Chongyang', and 'Winter Solstice'.

No room for sloppiness.

So he said: "After dinner, let He Xuan and Zhao Xu go to the Ministry of Rites and ask, it is best to invite someone to come back and talk to me carefully." ”

While talking here, the ugly slave who had left before brought a group of girls who were very out of tune with this classical Chinese garden, different skin tones, different appearances, and, the biggest difference, different clothes.

Not only the sycamores, drizzles and a few others from Northern Europe, but also a few others, Zhu Yuan signaled the girls around him to help them make the corresponding costumes, whether it was the ones he had given, or the original national costumes of these girls, anyway, just look good.

It doesn't matter how much money you spend and how much material you spend to do this.

It's not bad for these.

At the moment, in addition to the ugly slave and a few Loulan who came with him, the other line, dozens of girls in Hulala, Zhu Yuan remembered, it was 38, 22 from 'looking for and seeking' to 'Diandian', and there were 16 'Didi' behind, too much, so they lined up along the rockery path to the ground corridor.

Not to mention the International Exhibition, it is also varied.

It's really hilarious.

Among them, the tall sycamore that was deliberately brought to the front was the most conspicuous, not to mention anything else, just a slim camel-colored windbreaker, with a figure of more than one meter eight, and this time there was an extra cowboy hat, as well as a hard-core black boots on the feet, and suddenly a heroic foreign girl jumped in front of her.

If you carry a double-barreled shotgun at this time, it will be perfect.

Well.

Take the time to give it a try.

As soon as he finished sketching this, before Zhu Yuan could nod in satisfaction, a big girl had already come to him, knelt down obediently, raised her face hidden by her cowboy hat, and called out with a whimsical clumsiness: "Your Excellency, ......"

Zhu Yuan: "......"

You're ...... I swallowed my saliva before I opened my mouth, and it all flowed out of the corners of my mouth.

Flowed out.

It's out.

Here it comes......

Again, shattered in an instant.

Zhu Yuan almost blurted out, feeling taken away and sent to grinding.

All right.

Exhaling helplessly, Zhu Yuan took off the cowboy hat on the head of the girl who was kneeling next to him and almost caught up with the height he was sitting on, and handed it to the side, then looked at the table in front of him and pointed to one of the pancakes.

Luo Shui couldn't help but smile and put it on the stone bench on the side.

A wish-winning girl instantly forgot the 'adult' in front of her, turned around, lowered her head and began to eat.

Ahh

Huh-

How can this still protect food?

Zhu Yuan wanted to reach over and probe it, but he was afraid of being bitten, so he could only start eating, while motioning to the girls lined up next to him to the bottom of the mountain: "Come over and let me take a look." ”

Freehand they began to arrange.

With the sound of 'ah-woo' on the side, and the beautiful and delicious girls of different races, Zhu Yuan quickly ate lunch, asked them to divide the rest, and without staying long, he got up and returned to the main courtyard.

There are so many things.

Relax a little in the morning and get busy in the afternoon.

In addition to preparing for Lao Zhu's birthday tomorrow, others are also one after another, and if you want to do it, you will never be able to finish it.

If you don't want to, you can't.

A small study on the west side of the main house in the main courtyard.

When Zhu Yuan arrived, a stack of documents had been accumulated here, all of which were sent from yesterday afternoon to this morning.

First noticed a copy from Dinghai.

On the side of Mingzhou, Zhu Yuan had instructed before, and Yinghai Si quickly found a guano island, and along with the documents, there was also a field map, which was probably an island cliffside, densely packed, full of seabirds.

Estimates are also given in the instrument.

That island cliff has accumulated a lot of guano, and you can collect five or six boats at a time, well, it's about the specifications of a standard 500-material sea boat.

Zhu Yuan calculated slightly.

Or according to 100 catties per load, a boat of 500 quintals, counting six boats, you can have 300,000 catties.

At first glance, quite a lot.

However, it can't be counted that way.

In other words, according to the calculation of fertilizing 100 catties of guano per acre of land, the 300,000 catties can only meet 3,000 acres of land.

Suddenly another drop in the bucket.

However, although there are a few less. But it's a good start. Zhu Yuan thought about it for a while, then wrote back and asked Yinghai Si to collect all the guano on the island and send it to Jinling.

I'm going to do experiments.

Although I have talked to Lao Zhu before, after all, seeing is believing.

If Lao Zhu and the courtiers don't see the effect, it will be difficult for Yinghai Division and the court to spare no effort to invest. You know, this project is more than just collecting guano. Confirmed to be effective, Zhu Yuan also planned to artificially build guano island. And, this matter will also involve the duck industry chain.

All of this requires a lot of investment.