The boss really reminded Zhu Di of the truth, yes, your credit is too great, your status is too high, and there is really no reward for you, so reward it to your wife and side room, so that it can also show the emperor's grace and it will not be considered a loss to you.

"Just according to what you mean, Princess Jin Han is the third-grade lady, and Concubine Zhao is the sixth-grade lady! Give silk and satin treasure money, reward 100,000 silver, and wait until your 20th uncle brings back the salt tax of Lianghuai, and this holy decree will be issued immediately. ”

"I have to seize this opportunity now, and find a way to transfer some powerful eunuchs and let them set up the Dongji Factory, I have to seize this opportunity and give it with grace and might!"

……

A few days later, Zhu Song's ship finally arrived in Yangzhou.

When I arrived at the wharf in Yangzhou, it was not far from the shipyard that Zhu Di had taken down in a flash, but Zhu Song did not have a good habit of revisiting the old place, after all, the local officials on the wharf in Yangzhou had been waiting for a long time.

Zhu Song got off the boat, and there were officials over there who hurriedly came up, this Yangzhou is subordinate to Yingtian Zhili, so Jiangsu does not have a political envoy, an envoy, and a commander, and the biggest official in Yangzhou is the prefect of Yangzhou.

The prefect of Yangzhou has already changed officials, and Sun Chenghai and Chen Dajiang were also beheaded for public display because they were unwilling to return to the Yongle Dynasty.

Today's Yangzhou prefect is a man named Yang Xiao, who is not a native of Yangzhou, and his hometown is from Fujian.

In the past, when the Wen Dynasty was not very important, because there was no one in the court, and later in Yingtian, because of the report Fang Xiaoru's meritorious service, so he was directly arranged to Yangzhou as the prefect, and after he arrived in Yangzhou, he quickly stabilized the situation in Yangzhou, and there has been no major chaos.

Yang Xiao came to Zhu Song and knelt down to salute.

"Yang Xiao, the capital of Yangzhou, meet His Royal Highness King Han."

Zhu Song stretched out his hand and helped Yang Xiao up.

"Lord Yang, please hurry up, this king has come all the way, and his stomach is a little hungry, or Lord Yang, let's not be on this dock, let's gossip a lot, find a warm and windy place, how about a good drink with this king?"

Yang Xiao was also very surprised, she didn't expect His Royal Highness King Han to be so straightforward and happy, and immediately made a gesture of please.

"The banquet has already been prepared by His Highness, and now it is the time for the crabs to be fat, please invite Your Highness into the city, and the lower officials have already prepared a banquet for Your Highness!"

"Please!"

Before Zhu Song left, he had already used his peripheral vision to see a few people coming down from the boat, a total of three people, the white-clothed handsome boy, and two girls, those two girls were obviously Yu'er and Jin'er from the perspective of height and figure, as for Ye Biqing, Zhu Song didn't see it.

Zhu Song thought that Ye Biqing was grinding in the boat and hadn't come down yet, so he didn't think about it anymore, and followed Yang Xiao into Yangzhou City to eat the delicious food and wine in Yangzhou.

Let's say where did Ye Biqing go? In fact, Ye Biqing didn't go anywhere, what Zhu Song saw at the stern of the boat that night was Ye Biqing, and Ye Biqing stood at the bow of the small boat and also saw Zhu Song at the stern of the big boat.

Ye Biqing is dressed as a man, what a must!

Her face was only slightly sketched with cigarette paper, and her full and stylish figure was also hidden under her clothes, and no one could see it from the outside, this was really a woman.

I just think this is a handsome son, just looking at this face, I'm afraid I don't know how many big girls and little daughters-in-law will be fascinated.

Ye Jin'er followed Ye Biqing's side with the pipa, and Ye Biqing looked at Ye Jin'er and frowned.

"Jin'er, what are you always doing with a pipa? This pipa will be handed over to others for the time being, and the two of you will go with me to meet the relative of Shen Zhengcong. ”

Ye Jin'er pouted and shook her head.

"Sister, I don't want it, I've never been so far away when I'm so old, I hold the pipa in my heart, and I don't feel at ease if the pipa is handed over to someone else."

Ye Biqing smiled bitterly after hearing this, and touched Ye Jin'er's head.

"Okay, okay, since you're willing to hold it, then you can hold it."

At this moment, the twenty brocade guards assigned to Ye Biqing had also arrived, and in this small boat before, the two brocade guards who had been protecting Ye Biqing were all pretending to be ordinary people, and they were all guarding the bow and stern of the boat.

The remaining eighteen brocade guards had already changed into their regular clothes according to Ye Biqing's instructions.

Ye Biqing said to them.

"The eighteen of you are scattered, inquire about Zhang Mao all over Yangzhou City, and report it to this official in the evening!"

The eighteen brocade guards nodded in unison, they couldn't make a fist clenching action, because if they did, it would make so many people on the dock instantly notice, and it would also make people guess Ye Biqing's identity.

Ye Biqing nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, the eighteen brocade guards took a step forward and entered Yangzhou City, while the two who were responsible for protecting Ye Biqing continued to protect.

Ye Biqing took Jin'er Yu'er and two Jinyi guards into Yangzhou City, according to the memory described by Shen Zhengcong to Ye Biqing, Ye Biqing found an alley in Yangzhou City, this alley is called Mochiyue Lane.

All the merchants living in this alley are merchants, and if you want to say who is the richest and most powerful businessman in the whole Yangzhou, it is Zhang Mao, a salt merchant in Yangzhou.

This person is not like Shen Zhengcong, who has the name of the No. 1 salt merchant in Yangzhou, but almost all the salt in Huainan and Huaibei have his field, he is the real boss compared to Shen Zhengcong, and Shen Zhengcong is just a slightly inferior little brother in front of him, and all his assets are at least more than one and a half Shen Zhengcong combined.

Therefore, it is not said that the salt merchant is the most powerful merchant in the Ming Dynasty, and the salt merchant is rich enough to rival the country.

Ye Biqing came to the door of Zhang Mao's house, this Zhang Mao is much more low-key than Shen Zhengcong, the Shen Mansion still has a decent lintel, and his Zhang Mansion only has a small door for two people to enter and exit, which is really a little shabby compared to Shen Zhengcong.

Yu'er stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, a subordinate's head poked out of the crack in the door.

"How many of you are?"

Ye Biqing looked at this subordinate and smiled slightly, took it out of his arms, five taels of silver, and threw it to the subordinate.

"We are friends of your master, we came to Yangzhou today, we came to visit, please go to your lord, and say that my surname is Cheng, Cheng bites the gold of Cheng, from Hangzhou."

As the saying goes, it's easy to do things with people's money, and after the next person weighed the silver and felt the weight, he immediately said with a smile.

"Understood, this son, wait a minute, I'll go!"

The man hurriedly went in to report, and at this time Zhang Mao was sitting in his study, worried.

Accompanying Zhang Mao was Zhang Mao's eldest son, Zhang Hua.