Chu Fan, on the other hand, swaggered with his daughter-in-law and children and embarked on the road back to Nanjing.

On this day, we walked to Shanhaiguan.

Zha Dashou and Chu Fan said goodbye, after all, a deputy chief soldier still has some future, Chu Fan can be taken away by others to do business with him, but Cha Dashou is still better in the army.

Yes, as a farewell, Cha Dashou led his troops to send Chu Fan all the way here, but he couldn't go any further, because after the Shanhaiguan, it was the Guannei, and the troops stationed abroad were not allowed to enter the Guannai at will, which was the rule of the imperial court.

Chu Fan, who was saying goodbye to Cha Dashou, found a person in the crowd - Ran Xingrang.

Ran Yushi was finally found by the Koreans in prison through the note of the Ming Dynasty, and Ran Xingrang, who had been tortured for more than half a year, had been lame, and was being escorted to the capital by a secretary of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry at this time.

One after the other, after entering the city, Chu Fan found an inn and arranged Zhang Yutong and the child, and then quietly disappeared.

On this day, the sea breeze was howling, the weather was gloomy, Ran Xingrang sat in the carriage, and was thinking: "Chu Fan must have agreed to the request of Cibo Country, although he knows the inside story of this matter, but Zhu Yiling went to Cibo Country, and I didn't go, how should I explain this matter when I returned to Beijing?" ”

In fact, this problem has plagued Ran Xingrang for a long time, how to skillfully solve this contradiction, not to let the imperial court know that he did not go to the second wave country, but also to put the responsibility of the second wave country to send troops to attack North Korea again to others.

Soon, someone told him the answer.

In the middle of the road, a group of war horses blocked the middle of the road, and immediately one person, holding a three-eyed eye-prickle.

The soldiers escorting Ran Xingrang saw that someone was blocking the road and immediately became vigilant, but when they saw the three-eyed god gun and the person on the horse, they immediately knelt down on one knee and shouted: "General Soldier Chu." ”。

Although Chu Fan served as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong for a short time, during his tenure, he led the soldiers of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to perform miraculous feats, not only rarely suffered casualties, but also received a lot of rewards, and Chu Fan's prestige was extremely high in the army, even if he was no longer the chief soldier, but when the soldiers saw him, they were still used to calling the general soldier of Chu.

Chu Fan waved his hand and motioned for them to avoid it, and several soldiers walked away obediently, leaving only Ran Xingrang in the car.

Chu Fan lifted the curtain, and Ran Xingrang was trembling in the car, because he had quietly lifted the curtain just now and saw Chu Fan holding a firecracker.

"Lord Ran, I haven't seen you for a long time."

"Chu, Chu Fan, what do you want to do?"

Chu Fan smiled evilly: "Lord Ran, I haven't seen you for so long, why are you so polite when you meet?" ”

"I'm an official of the court, when you dare to come here, the emperor can't spare you."

Chu Fan stepped on the wheel with one foot and said with a smile: "I don't know if the emperor will spare me, but I definitely can't spare you." ”

"Hmph, you don't know what you have done, you deceived the king, and also designed to send me and the prince to the second wave country, you see how I go back to play the emperor."

"Okay, Lord Ran, Ran Yuma, Ran Yushi, you still have to think about your old man's escape from the battle and send the prince to Cibo Country alone, how to explain it to the emperor."

"The surname is Chu, I can tell you, I am not easy to provoke, you deceived the emperor, almost sent the horse into the tiger's mouth, the emperor will not spare you."

Chu Fan shook his head helplessly: "Oh, the life of the horse is life, but the life of the prince is not life?" Whether it is a big sin to die a horse or a prince is too big, you can weigh it yourself. ”

"What the hell do you want?"

"I don't want anything, I just heard that you and the prince went to the country of Cibo, and the negotiations were very smooth, but the prince made a lascivious mistake again, and molested the mother of the country of the second wave, and the prince was killed by the people of the country of the second wave, and you were driven out and lived in Korea, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi of the country of the second wave was furious and ordered a large army to attack Korea. Is there such a thing? ”

"You, you, you are shameless."

In fact, what Ran Xingrang wants to say is you, you, and you are right.

Ran Xingrang, ah Ran Xingrang, you are really blind to your Tanhua background, such a perfect story, why can't you think of it?

Chu Fan saw that Ran Xingrang fell into deep thought, smiled, and walked away without looking back.

Ran Xingrang looked at Chu Fan, who was gradually moving away, and sighed silently - hooligans are not terrible, but they are afraid that hooligans are educated.

Returning to the capital, Chu Fan took Zhang Yutong to meet his father-in-law Zhang Sixiu, and when he saw his granddaughter, Zhang Sixiu smiled happily and brought a longevity lock for the child with his own hands.

When parting, Chu Fan invited Master Yuezhang into the study and talked secretly for a long time.

When he returned to Nanjing, there was already a busy scene on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and according to Chu Fan's arrangement when he left, Qiao Feng and the others were busy working on the construction site.

Seeing that Chu Fan was back, Qiao Feng trotted all the way to take the luggage and reported to work: "My lord, the stone and mud you instructed have been adjusted, and it is about to be poured in the next few days, come and see, but this?" ”

I saw a large water tank, a mass of viscous gray liquid, and a strong man was stirring with a wooden stick.

Chu Fan twisted a little out of the vat and asked, "Where did the limestone raw materials come from?" ”

"Back to my lord, I found it from Xiaotangshan."

"Well, there is a hot spring in Xiaotangshan, so this kind of limestone should be fine. What color is the smoke when fired? ”

"The smoke is white and very choking."

"That's right, okay, find a mold, pour some in, I want to see the test block."

The next morning, Chu Fan came to the construction site again, took out the test block, ordered someone to lift the test block, and then suddenly loosened the rope, "Bang." With a bang, the test block fell heavily to the ground, except for a little bit of a corner shattered.

Largely intact.

Chu Fan picked up the broken corner, checked it carefully, and said to Qiao Feng: "It's not bad, it's just that the temperature is not high enough when firing, and the quicklime is added a little more when the clinker is mixed, so you can find a way to improve it."

temperature, and then reduce the quicklime ratio a little and you can mass production. ”

"My lord, the temperature can't be raised, no matter how much charcoal there is, no matter how big the furnace is, no matter how big the damper, the fire is still at that temperature."

Chu Fan smiled: "You transform the boiler, seal the surroundings to death, and add some water to the fire." ”

"What? Add water? ”

"Yes, add water."

Soon, after Qiao Feng's painstaking research, the stone mud test block that passed Chu Fan's personal test was born, and the test block after air drying was very strong, and it was thrown down from a height of several meters without being damaged.

Today is the day of foundation pouring, and all shareholders came to the scene to watch the groundbreaking ceremony.

I saw Chu Fan put the seven ingots of gold in the center of the foundation according to the direction of the Big Dipper, and shouted: "Pour." ”

Dozens of strong men lifted the vat and poured the stone mud into the mud guide pipe, and the gray stone mud slowly rolled into the mold.

Wait until the craftsman smooths out the clay, lays a layer of iron tendons, and pours another layer of clay.

For the sake of building quality, Chu Fan used the overall pouring foundation, which is equivalent to digging a big pit in the ground, and then placing the mold in it according to the required shape, and then pouring cement and steel bars, the foundation of the world's first frame structure, was born.

In fact, if you just build a house on ten acres of land and support some facilities, it won't cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at all, but whether it is grinding limestone, firing cement, or purchasing iron bars, it costs a lot of labor and materials, but in order to do a good job in this high-end project, Chu Fan thinks that everything is worth it.

Fortunately, Nanjing City has thousands of years of commercial accumulation, coolies, materials are very easy to procure, the construction speed is very fast, less than three months, a periphery square, hollow interior, seven-storey large building frame, has been presented in front of Ying Tianren.

In ancient times, the ancients could only use wood to build the building frame, due to the limited strength of the main body, the foundation is not strong, the highest is only three floors, and the construction speed is very slow, the craftsman needs to constantly correct the wood, according to the design of the falcon buckle, little by little.

The overall frame structure adopted by Chu Fan only needs to lay the formwork layer by layer, and then pour the stone and mud, so the main frame has been completed in only three months.

At this time, the seven-story building, which is simply a skyscraper for people, stands on the bank of the Qinhuai River, which is very eye-catching. When the people passed by, they had to point and comment.

On this day, Chu Fan saw a lot of people, standing outside the construction site, pointing to the building, commenting, and calling Liu Dali and saying: "Tell Qiao Feng and let him draw up an advertisement according to what I said, and post it on the major city gates of Yingtian." ”

"Advertising?"

"Heaven and Earth Life Hall, the largest leisure and entertainment hall in Daming. The museum has a Chinese restaurant, barbecue leisure area, hot pot area, entertainment performance hall, health bathing center, foot massage center, beauty salon, boutique clothing store, cloth shop, boot shop, carriage shop, sedan car shop, children's shop, etc., which can meet all your needs, will be opened after March, looking forward to your visit.

An advertisement appeared at the gates of Nanjing and surrounding cities.

"Boss Chu, we haven't opened yet, why did you start posting notices everywhere?" Shen Wenlin, who was puzzled, expressed his doubts.

Chu Fan picked up the tea bowl, blew the tea foam, and said: "This is called preheating, such a tall building, everyone must be very curious, and then you tell him what this is for, he will be even more curious, if he is curious, he will look forward to it, and when it opens, he will definitely come to take a look, as long as the flow of people comes up, the business will not be bad."

"Warm up?" Since the beginning of the shareholding, Chu Fan's new terms and new inventions have emerged in an endless stream, Shen Wenlin has been used to it, and he generally doesn't dare to ask, so he really can't understand it before asking.

On this day, Chu Fan, Shen Wenlin, Boss Liu, Li Guangjin, and Qiao Feng, dressed in saffron, stood in front of the door of the Heaven and Earth Comprehensive Life Museum, welcoming the guests.

Not to mention Nanjing, I am afraid that there is no such comprehensive leisure and entertainment place with complete projects, large scale, perfect functions, and a collection of eating, drinking, playing and having fun.

The whole building is square, with a patio in the middle, a large stage at the bottom of the patio, the surrounding podium is on the patio side, and each floor has a platform about ten zhang wide, which is both a passage and a balcony. On the first floor are all kinds of carriage shops, sedan cars, and money houses, and there is a customer service station at the gate. On the second floor, there are various cloth shops, ready-to-wear shops, shoe stores, and hat shops. The third floor is a children's shop, a pen and paper shop, and a musical instrument shop. On the fourth floor, there is a bathing center and a foot bath center, as well as a beauty salon. On the fifth floor are shabu-shabu shops, Heshun restaurants, and Soho wine shops. The sixth floor is the shareholders' meeting hall and the office rooms of Speaker Chu, Vice Speaker Shen, Qiao Handling, Deputy Shen Handling, Minister Liu, Minister Zhang and Minister Sun and the company's account room. The seventh floor is a semi-open floor, which is dedicated to the barbecue area and the teaching workshop.

Chu Fan took a step forward, arched his hand to the customers, and said: "Thanks to your love, the Heaven and Earth Complex, after nearly half a year of preparation, will open today to welcome guests, here, Chu assures you that the purpose of the store is customer first, service first, product first, but all customers who come to our store to consume, if they are not satisfied with any service, they can complain at the customer service center on the first floor, and we will deal with it immediately. In addition, the store launched consumption gift certificates, ten taels of silver gift certificates are only sold for nine taels, fifty taels of silver gift certificates are only sold for forty taels, one hundred taels of silver gift certificates are only sold for seventy-five taels, all gift certificates are used at will in the store,

It has the same effect as cash. Okay, let's start cutting the ribbon and opening the opening. ”

"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock." With the sound of gongs and drums.

Thousands of customers rushed in, blocking the front of the door.

"Wow, that's too high."

"Good boy, this is so beautiful."

"Come on, come on, there's a show here."

"Look, what's that?"

"What is this for? I haven't seen it. ”

Gongs and drums are noisy, lively and extraordinary, not only the people of Nanjing City came, even the people of several nearby cities have rushed to come, such a brilliant building, the first time the Ming Dynasty people have seen, so many life and entertainment projects, the Ming Dynasty people are also the first time to see, the model who walked the catwalk, the Ming Dynasty people saw for the first time, the door stood a row of beautiful girls to greet the guests, the Ming Dynasty people saw for the first time, in short, entering here is like walking into the Grand View Garden, which is also fresh, that is also fun, let people go shopping for a day is not enough.

Shen Wenlin looked at this lively scene and breathed a long sigh of relief, finally he didn't follow the wrong person.

No need to ask, since the opening of the Heaven and Earth Complex, Nanjing people will not go anywhere.

Eating, shopping, watching shows, fireworks and dancing in Willow Lane, foot washing and bathing face spray, beauty and food, flower spinning.

Whatever you want, you can have here, and you can eat what you want. What are you doing somewhere else? Where to visit in Nanjing? Of course, it's the Qinhuai River, where to go to the Qinhuai River? Heaven and earth, of course. Since then, Nanjing people have invited guests to drink and go to heaven and earth, spend the moon before going to heaven and earth, girlfriends get together to go to heaven and earth, listen to drama and dance to heaven and earth, and relax and go to heaven and earth.

New Year's gifts with heavenly and earthly consumption vouchers, officials welfare to send heavenly and earthly consumption vouchers, bribe officials to send heavenly and earthly consumption vouchers, in short, heaven and earth has become the center of Nanjing, the center of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The silver flowed to the company's accounting office.

When Chu Fan was counting a lot of silver, he received a secret order from Wanli.

"The war in Magui is unfavorable, and the Japanese slaves are close to Wangjing."

In just one sentence, it only described the war situation in North Korea, and did not say what to let Chu Fan do. What does it mean? The war is unfavorable, what does it have to do with me, a Nanjing household?

Of course, this is Chu Fan's angry words, of course he knows what the emperor meant, obviously, half a year has passed, and the imperial court has not issued an edict to deal with Chu Fan, which shows that Ran Xingrang did not dare to say nonsense after returning to Beijing, and the black cauldron where the second wave country sent troops again, it is obvious that Chu Fan and Ran Xingrang tacitly threw it to Lord Zhu, poor Lord Zhu's life and death are uncertain until now, and he has to carry a huge black cauldron.

The emperor's meaning is obvious, the war in the second wave country is tight, do you want to take the initiative to ask for war and block the second wave army for me? But I am the emperor, I personally demoted you to Nanjing, and now I want you to come back to help, I took the initiative to say that I will definitely not be able to come down, you have to ask for your own help.

But Chu Fan is not a fool, because the imperial court is very short of money now, and it is no longer possible to raise a large army to fight in Korea, so he only sent 5,000 iron cavalry and let Magui take it to North Korea to fight guerrillas.

When Magui arrived in North Korea, when he saw that the second wave army came to 400,000, Ma Gui was not stupid, avoided without fighting, and kept retreating, and now it has withdrawn to Wangjing, and the second wave army has been divided into four roads and began to approach Wangjing.

If you say that the front retreats, it is okay to explain, but Wang Jing is Chu Fan with the Liaodong Iron Cavalry just fought down not long ago, if the second wave army is captured again, the face of the Ming Dynasty court is unbearable, if Wang Jing falls into the hands of the second wave again, it will inevitably make the Korean king doubt the sincerity of the Ming Dynasty, if it completely falls to the second wave country, Liaodong will be directly exposed to the people of the second wave country, which is a huge threat to the Ming Dynasty.

If you let me go to North Korea now, and you refuse to increase the budget, you still have those 5,000 people, and let me Chu Fan be an immortal, and I can't fight against the 400,000 army.

However, the emperor's face still has to be given, you can't say, Ang, I know, you can figure it out yourself, I make a lot of money in Nanjing.

You won't go to North Korea, but I can do you a favor, Your Majesty.

So, Chu Fan gave the emperor a note, which probably meant this: since the minister worked in Nanjing, in order to stimulate the local economy, he tried to set up a joint-stock company, and now the company is operating well, because many people have invested in shares, and now the company has excess funds, and needs to seek additional investment, and it is recommended that the imperial court issue treasury bonds, which will be bought by the company in Nanjing to help the company increase its income.

Speaking of which, he asked the emperor to issue treasury bonds to help the grassroots increase their income, but in fact, he wanted to borrow money from the emperor. But you can't say: Your Majesty, I heard that you have been short of money recently, so I will lend you a little, right? When Wanli received this note, he threw the note on the ground in anger.

But after thinking about it, it is really not the reason for the generals to fight the country now, although Magui is not as scheming and clever as Chu Fan, but he is also the chief soldier of Shanxi for many years, and he has rich experience in fighting against Mongolia, in the final analysis, the biggest problem now is money.

But you asked me Wanli to borrow money from you Chu Fan? Got you back? If you make me angry again, I will arrest you with a piece of paper and confiscate all your property.

But Wanli is not a brainless emperor, not only is he not stupid, but he is also very smart.