101. Chapter 101

The matter of the prefect of Jiangzhou was resolved very smoothly. After all, Mu Hanzhang was not one of those fools who knew that there was danger but wanted to test the waters with his own body. He adhered to the strategy of moving first when the enemy did not move. Prefect, the maritime business can officially begin.

On the way back, it was already evening, and the sky was full of colorful clouds.

Mu Hanzhang leaned against Jing Shao's arms and looked at the colorful clouds in the sky: "Xiaoshao, I have something to discuss with you."

"What?" Jing Shao embraced the person in his arms and took care of the personal soldiers behind Zuo. He didn't rush Xiao Hei, but just let it go slowly.

"I want to build the Commercial Yamen on Luzhou," Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips, "After all, it's near the wharf, so it's more convenient for businessmen."

Jing Shao frowned upon hearing this. Although Luzhou is not far from Pingjiang, if you want to go to the yamen every day to do errands, you have to leave early and return late. Emperor Hongzheng gave him a death order before he set off, and he must not lose Pingjiang City, so Gu Huaiqing could not be allowed to invade Pingjiang anyway, he could only fight farther and farther away from Luzhou.

"I only take care of half a day's affairs every day, and I will go back at noon." Mu Hanzhang looked up at him, knowing that he did not want to be separated from himself, so he tried his best to coax him with nice sounds. In fact, there is nothing wrong with building the commercial yamen in Pingjiang. Small transactions and urgent matters can be handled by Qin Zhaoran on the spot in Luzhou. However, considering Jingshao and Gu Huaiqing's pretentious war, if the yamen is built in Ruoshui Garden, If there are many people coming and going, it is easy for people to see flaws.

"Junqing," Jing Shao hugged the person in his arms, "are you still angry?"

"Huh?" Mu Hanzhang was stunned, what does this have to do with him being angry?

"I won't doubt that you have anything with Qin Zhaoran, really," Jing Shao said firmly, "I just don't want you to work so hard every day."

When Mu Hanzhang heard him mention Qin Zhaoran, he couldn't help but give him a blank look, and he was distracted again when he was talking about serious business, so he closed his mouth and ignored it.

Jing Shao looked down at the person in his arms and saw that he seemed tired with his eyes closed, so he sullenly hugged the person in his arms again, so that he could sleep more comfortably.

When he returned to Ruoshui Garden in the evening, Mu Hanzhang was really tired. After taking a bath, he went to rest. Xiao Huang was also washed fragrantly and softly, and consciously followed his master to bed. Ever since Jing Shao hurt Mu Hanzhang recklessly, Xiao Huang has been carried to the bed every day as a dividing line, and for a month, he has become accustomed to it, and he refuses to go to sleep in the cold and hard garden again.

After taking a bath, Jing Shao saw the pile of black and yellow hairballs on the bed, and his face turned a little darker. He annoyed Jun Qing that night. Later, when he saw him let him in, he thought it was over. Put the tiger on the bed, look at it every day for a month, but don't eat it. God knows that he is about to become ill.

"Junqing, I have to drive Gu Huaiqing out of Pingjiang City in the next few days, and it may be later to go home." Jing Shao pushed the tiger in all directions and lay down on the bed.

"Yeah." Mu Hanzhang was lying on the inside, touching the tiger's head one by one, the big tiger squinting comfortably, and his long tail swaying leisurely.

Jing Shao looked at the jade-like hand pitifully, and moved his head to the tiger's back, hoping that the hand could touch him.

Mu Hanzhang glanced at Jing Shao, who was aggrieved, but he didn't know, patted Jing Shao's head, turned over and fell asleep.

Jing Shao tugged at the tiger's ears gloomily, Xiao Huang bared his teeth at him, put the meat pad on Mu Hanzhang's back in a show-off, rubbed his head on it, tilted his head and prepared to sleep.

Jing Shao stared at the hairy ball with his eyes open for a long time, until the breathing of the person on the side of the bed became even, then he reached out and took out a piece of jerky with spices from under the bed, and shook it in front of the tiger's nose. The tiger, who was snoring contentedly, suddenly opened a pair of large glass-colored eyes, staring at the jerky that swayed from side to side, opened his mouth to bite, and the jerky was thrown out.

The big tiger immediately chased the jerky and jumped out of the bed, Jing Shao glanced at it, quickly occupied the center of the big bed, carefully stretched out his hand to the inside of the bed, and slowly wrapped the sleeping man into his arms. The person in his arms moved, but he didn't wake up. The slender and flexible body had a faint fragrance, and there were a few strands of blue silk around his neck, and he slept warmly.

Jing Shao buried his nose into the warm neck, took a few greedy breaths, and muttered softly: "The battlefield leaves Pingjiang, if you go to Luzhou again, our time together will be shorter, why are you so cruel? "..." He chirped, hugged the person in his arms again, rubbed a few times on the blue silk, and fell asleep aggrieved.

And the person who was trapped in his arms slowly raised the corners of his lips.

The next day, Mu Hanzhang asked people to clean up the front yard of Ruoshui Garden, preparing to turn it into a commercial yamen. And Jing Shao took Xiao Huang to the Wading Garden, euphemistically called learning to hunt with lions.

In August of the 14th year of Dachen Hongzheng, King Cheng Jingshao led his own soldiers to Jiangnan to defend against the invasion of the King of Huainan. Originally, it was a battle to withdraw the vassal, but because of the mistake of the fourth prince Jing Yu, the King of Huainan invaded the hinterland of Jiangzhou. Emperor Hongzheng decreed to recall the fourth prince Jingyu, and publicly rebuked him in the courtroom for his great success, and ordered him to go to the ancestral temple to reflect on himself.

In September of the same year, Marquis Wenyuan investigated the case of Jiangzhou prefect for squeezing maritime merchants and privately raising soldiers.

"His Royal Highness, we are cousins, you can't ignore it!" The son of the prefect of Jiangzhou knelt in the first prince's mansion and cried bitterly.

"A idiot who can't get on the stage, even a scholar who can't hold a chicken!" Jing Rong looked coldly at his cousin who was kneeling in front of him, "Go back, this prince has his own measure on this matter. ."

When the noisy mother relatives left, the eldest prince Jing Rong picked up a pen and wrote at the end of the book: "My son is frightened, please behead the prefect of Jiangzhou." After writing, he slammed the jade pen in his hand. to the bluestone brick.

In October, the Luzhou Wharf was renovated, and Mu Hanzhang, the Marquis of Wenyuan, set up a commercial yamen in Ruoshuiyuan, Pingjiang, specializing in the purchase and sale of goods by overseas merchants and the collection of maritime taxes.

The war lasted until the twelfth lunar month, when it was worth taking back a city. King Cheng reported that Jiangnan soldiers had lost countless horses and weapons due to the consumption of the previous four princes.

In winter, Jiangnan is not warm. If the flowers in the water garden wither, only a few wax plums are in full bloom.

At the end of the year, the maritime merchants returned to their voyages one after another, and the maritime yamen also had a lot of leisure, so Mu Hanzhang felt at ease arranging for his servants to prepare things for the New Year in the house.

The city of Pingjiang was peaceful, the people were not affected by the war at all, and everyone was beaming with preparations for the New Year.

The King of Huainan is quite famous in the Jiangnan area. The people heard that the King of Huainan was attacking the city, and they were not very panic. On the contrary, when they heard that King Cheng came to lead the army, they were very nervous for a while.

"Tomorrow's Laba, you will arrange for someone to set up a porridge outside the city." Mu Hanzhang said to the housekeeper of Ruoshui Garden after checking the account book.

The housekeeper is a native of Pingjiang and knows a lot about things in Pingjiang City: "Yes, Lord Marquis. However, the wealthy businessmen in the city usually set up porridge sheds in front of their mansions. Why should our mansions be located outside the city?"

Mu Hanzhang glanced at him: "The people who fled to Pingjiang because of the war are all outside the city."

The housekeeper immediately understood what the princess meant, and turned around and went to do it. In the past six months, the common people of King Cheng's style have seen it, and with Mu Hanzhang's careful maintenance, people's views on King Cheng have changed a lot.

"I'll make porridge tomorrow, I'll go drink a bowl too." A clear and pleasant voice came from behind, and before he could finish, he was interrupted by another familiar voice.

"Give me money first if you want to drink." Jing Shao glared at the person who was wandering beside his princess without looking at him for a while.

The man smiled and sat down at Mu Hanzhang's table casually. It was the King of Huainan who should be fighting King Cheng.

"The grain and grass money allocated by Beijing has arrived. I don't know if it's enough to buy a bowl of porridge with my share?" Gu Huaiqing picked up an account book and flipped through it, and said with a half-smiling smile.

"It should be enough," Jing Shao took away the account book and said to his princess, "Send the account directly and refund him 10 taels of silver."

Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips and chuckled: "You stay here so blatantly, be careful to be seen by others."

"I'm here to pick this kid up and go to Wading Garden." Gu Huaiqing rubbed Xiao Huang, who was languid beside the heater. Since the weather turned cold, the cold tiger was reluctant to leave the heater for half a step.

When Xiao Huang arrived at the warm pavilion of the Wading Garden, he immediately regained his energy. He walked around the garden surrounded by hot spring water, and then jumped to find the little lion sleeping in the middle of the garden.

The lion grows slower than the tiger. Today's Xiao Huang is a circle bigger than the little lion. The whole tiger is lying on the lion, and the thick fur completely covers the short-haired lion. Xiao Huang couldn't stop chewing on it. In the autumn, he was sent here by Jing Shao every once in a while to learn how to hunt, but Xiao Huang didn't learn it in the end, but he became more and more fond of sleeping after learning from the lion.

Gu Huaiqing watched the two hairballs rolling around in the garden, but did not accept the silver note handed over by Mu Hanzhang: "I heard that my brother-in-law is planning to do business at sea in Kaichun?"

Mu Hanzhang and Jing Shao looked at each other and said slowly, "Not really, just open a Wanbao Pavilion to help those Fan people exchange goods." It has taken countless hours for the Fanren to travel through mountains and rivers. He is not familiar with the place of life and does not know how to exchange goods. Most of the people who do maritime business in Jiangnan are small merchants who cannot buy a boat in a short period of time, so he plans to invest in Luzhou. Open a Wanbao Pavilion, specifically to exchange large quantities of goods from Fanren, and then sell them to merchants in the Chen Dynasty at a higher price.

"I'll add one cent of this year's membership money, okay?" Gu Huaiqing said with a smile.

Mu Hanzhang was worried that Jingshao's share was not enough, thinking about taking out the 100,000 taels of silver given by his mother, Gu Huaiqing's move relieved his urgent need: "Big brother trusts me, so naturally he can't ask for it. "

"By the way, has Jingchen received a letter recently?" Gu Huaiqing said casually.

"Brother sends letters every ten days," Jing Shao glanced at him and asked his princess, "The latest one should arrive today, right?"

Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips and held back a smile: "I arrived early this morning." Saying this, he took out a letter from his sleeve.