Chapter 12: Two Flowers?
Zhang Zhou was puzzled when he heard it.
He has been in business for a few days, and his reputation has gone out before he has earned a penny? Even if there were really people who knew him before, why were they waiting to see him in front of Qu Mingren's house?
"Who is the young master of your family?" Zhang Zhou understands that boys are easy to suffer outside, and they must learn to protect themselves.
The coachman said: "You have been to the rice shop opened by the young master of my house before, so I have heard of you, if you go back late, the young master will definitely blame, please." ”
Zhang Zhou heard that he had been to Mihang, and he probably knew it in his heart, no wonder the other party would come to him.
Private car transfers are also available.
It's rare to sit in such a gorgeous carriage......
After entering, the feeling is very different, even when I used to be a gentleman, the carriage I used to travel was far less than this.
In Daming, "you have to take a sedan chair in Beijing above the third grade." ”
It also stipulated: "Civil and military officials should ride in a sedan chair in four people." The five government stewards, internal and external town guards, garrisons, and dukes, marquis, uncles, governors, etc., regardless of age, are not allowed to take a sedan chair, and those who violate the rules and use eight people without permission will be heard. ”
The people of the Ming Dynasty are not qualified to ride in a sedan chair, and the carriage also talks about specifications, Zhang Zhou judged from the coachman's mouth that this "young master" should not be an official, and it is likely that he is the son of a family with a title in Nanjing.
It's comfortable.
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The carriage stopped in front of a public pavilion with a high platform next to it, which overlooked Nanjing's iconic Bell Tower.
Although the water pavilion is not fenced, it is equivalent to being open, but it is a private park and ordinary people are not allowed to enter it.
Zhang Zhou went up to the high platform under the guidance of the coachman, but there was a layer of gauze tent inside and outside, and the wind-blown gauze tent looked very ethereal, and it was vaguely visible that there were two people inside, but I didn't know whether they were playing chess or drinking tea, giving people a sense of mystery.
"Childe, Zhang Gongzi brought it."
"Oh. Let's go down. ”
It was the voice of a man speaking, and the voice was only twenty years old, and it was crepe.
Inside, he said: "Zhang Gongzi, is it?" Have a seat. ”
Zhang Zhou looked around, there was not even a chair, where to sit? Looking inside, it seems that they are all sitting on the ground, but there are futon cushions inside, and they are not even on the floor, the cold ground, so you have to get sick if you sit like this.
Zhang Zhou touched it and found that he still had a booklet in his arms that he had to give to Qu Mingren before, which happened to be cushioned and lowered on his buttocks, and sat on the spot.
A voice came from inside: "I heard that Zhang Gongzi has been borrowing grain from all over the world recently, and said that the price of grain in Nanjing City will rise, I don't know why there is such a judgment?" ”
Zhang Zhou didn't answer, sitting cross-legged like this, only his buttocks were not cold, and his posture was not elegant, he directly supported his neck with his hands and asked, "Dare to ask, which is the Governor's Mansion?" ”
"The Zhu family." The other party came up and reported a big name.
But Zhang Zhou disagreed: "Chengguo Mansion? ”
The other party was curious: "How do you know?" ”
Zhang Zhouxin said, you have reported your family's surname Zhu, which family in Nanjing Chengxungui is surnamed Zhu? You don't want me to think you're from some royal house, are you?
"Which son of the Chengguo Mansion is that?" Zhang Zhou continued to get to the bottom of it.
The other party said: "In the second line of the line, there is another brother above." ”
"Oh."
At present, Cheng Guogong is Zhu Fu.
Zhu Fu is the heir of the ninth year of Hongzhi, and now he is not in Nanjing, as we all know, the position of the Nanjing garrison has always been the old Xu family of Wei Guogong and the old Zhu family of Chengguo Gong take turns to sit in the village, and now it is Xu Li, the Duke of Wei.
Zhu Fu's two sons, one Zhu Lin and one Zhu Feng, are the same age, and later Zhu Lin inherited the position of Chengguo Gong during the Jiajing period, but he died and had no descendants, that is, the second Zhu Feng was the lord.
According to the insiders, he should be Zhu Fu's second son Zhu Feng.
Generally speaking, the children of the Guogong family should also be self-reliant, especially those who cannot attack the lord, after all, only one person can attack the lord in the past dynasties, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, and just a branch of the Guogong has blossomed everywhere in Nanjing.
Zhang Zhoudeng had some good feelings about this person.
At least this baby speaks quite honestly, and it doesn't seem that there is too much of the gentleman's child's anger, in this case, if you want to know something, you can also tell it calmly, anyway, what he predicted will be fulfilled soon.
Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "Your Excellency is asking me about my judgment on the price of grain in Nanjing?" I have calculated that this year's Huanghuai will definitely cause a disaster, and there will be a typhoon disaster in the southwest, and after a series of disasters, the grain price in Nanjing will rise by two or three times, but in a few months, the grain price will be calmed down. ”
"Smack!"
The person inside suddenly slapped the table, as if he was very excited: "I also have the same idea as you, may Daming be smooth every year?" This year, I have been waiting for the big rivers and the Yellow River to flood and for the grain prices to rise, so that the grain I harvested at the beginning of the year will be able to make a windfall. ”
Zhang Zhou listened, it is very compatible with my temperament, both are opportunists.
Waiting to make a fortune.
But I came to pick up money after knowing the history, what are you doing? What about gambling? Now that the gamblers are gone, and you still have food in your hands that you can't realize, what about finding comfort in me?
Didn't you think that I might be lying to you with nonsense?
"Hula!"
The people inside suddenly stood up and walked out, and opened the gauze tent, so that Zhang Zhou could see the two people inside, one was Zhu Feng, who was really beautiful and dignified, and those who didn't know thought it was a big girl, and the other ...... It's just a big girl.
Zhang Zhou had a question in his heart.
Are you two sisters?
Zhang Zhou got up from the ground, Zhu Feng came over, grabbed Zhang Zhou's arm and said, "Zhang Gongzi, you said that someone helped you calculate, which master did it?" I want to find out with him, too. ”
Zhang Zhou's eyes were not on Zhu Feng, he was looking at the woman who was still sitting upright.
The woman turned her head directly to the side by the window, and it was not uncommon to look at Zhang Zhou.
Zhang Zhou suddenly thought of the word "snow skin", which is really called a white, and they all say that this white covers the three ugliness, if it is a beautiful embryo......
Zhu Feng also noticed Zhang Zhou's gaze, and introduced with a smile: "Neiko." ”
Zhang Zhou was instantly disappointed.
Such a beautiful woman, it turned out to be your mother-in-law? What a flower...... Stuck in another flower?
Zhang Zhou really wanted to say, you two don't look like husband and wife.
"Your Excellency...... Little grandfather, please respect yourself, respect yourself. Zhang Zhou hurriedly shook off the other party's hand.
Zhu Feng said: "Don't see me like this, you can call me Zhu Gongzi." ”
Zhang Zhou was also very awkward in the face of such a strange person, and said with emotion: "The person who gave me the news was just a wandering Taoist, and he saw that my family was in the middle of the road, so he instructed me to do some rice and grain business." ”
Zhu Feng said with a smile: "I heard that you borrowed more than 200 stones from outside with the fifty stone rice that your father-in-law gave you, and I have never seen you do this business." ”
"Uh......" Zhang Zhou was confused, how could you be so clear about my affairs?
Also, now I'm still thinking about posting to the outside world to accumulate fame for myself, so am I already so famous in the city?
Zhu Feng said: "The wine of the Jiang family has been supplied to the lords of Nanjing, and I listened to the people of the Jiang family. Now everyone outside is talking about you, saying that you are a tribute, but you are doing business regardless of the world's eyes, they say that you don't know how to advance or retreat, and they say that you are a loser...... But I think you are very knowledgeable, and the loss of your previous fortune may be due to bad luck. You should be back on the rise soon. ”
No way.
It turns out that there are rumors about me outside, it's not a good reputation, it's a joke about me.
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.
But......
This second son of Chengguo, do you look down on me so much? Although looking at you like this, it's not a business material, let's call it sympathy?
This can't be called a hero cherishing a hero, shouldn't it be called a ...... Bear cherishes bear?
But I have to say, you, Corporal Lixian, have a very high ability to compliment people.
Zhang Zhougong arched his hand and said: "Little grandfather, I have told you everything I know, can I go?" ”
"Oh, no hurry, I have a gift here." Zhu Feng turned around and walked behind the gauze tent.
Zhang Zhou listened to it, and his mood was slightly soothed.
Call me for questioning, the special car should just pick up or not send it, and when I go back, I have to cross most of the city on my own two legs, but if you give me some gifts, my heart will be more balanced.
But when he saw the famous thorn handed over by Zhu Feng, the expectant look on Zhang Zhou's face disappeared.
Sure enough......
Tar someone with the same brush.
I send a business card to Lao Qu's family, and you send me a famous thorn? It's just that this bronzing famous thorn, at first glance, is designed by a special person, which seems to be time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly, but I can't take it out and sell it for cash.
Is this fundamentally different from my shoddy business card?
"Something, come to me, let's discuss the business again, if this rice business is profitable, I will also cooperate with you again, it is rare to meet a person who is so good at doing business, I am so happy, I should drink a few more glasses when I go back." Tong'er, you said yes, right? ”
The woman inside rolled her eyes at Zhu Feng.
This not only brought your own woman out to a strange man, but even said in front of outsiders, you are really lacking in heart.