Daming: At the beginning, recognize Zhu Yuanzhang as grandfather!

Chapter 37 Gift!

In Fengtian Temple.

The royal case in front of Zhu Yuanzhang was full of memorials. He buried his head in looking at it and asked:
"Tell me, what has our grandson been doing recently?"

"Return to the emperor, Your Highness, he is making salt and wine recently!" Guo Zhen replied respectfully.

"Ah."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. This was not a surprise to him, because Huang Xiongying had told him about it before.

"So what's going on now?"

Guo Zhen replied: "His Royal Highness asked the humble staff to find some craftsmen, and some of the wine has been brewed. The batch of rough salt purchased from the government has also been cleaned of impurities and refined into refined salt."

Zhu Yuanzhang listened and read his memorial, but did not make any comments.

Guo Zhen continued: "The shop for selling wine has already been rented. It's at No. 58 Datong Street, and there's also the salt area. An agreement has been reached with Cao Guogong to sell it to the government. I'm going to inform him today. Go get salt..."

"Cao Guogong? Li Jinglong!"

Zhu Yuanzhang paused looking at the memorial's hand, and asked, "Why did this brat hook up with our grandson?"

Guo Zhen quickly told about Huang Xiongying's going to the Jiangxia Hou Mansion to ask for Fang Shan.

"Ah--"

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "That stinky boy Li Jinglong is quite ready to play with the wind. When he saw our grandson, he immediately hugged our grandson's lap!"

Guo Zhen and Guo Xuan sounded a little confused, so they didn't know what the emperor's attitude was towards Li Jinglong's contact with His Highness.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyelids and said, "Don't bother with this matter, remember, protect our grandson and report to us in time if you have anything!"

"Follow your orders!"

The Guo brothers quickly handed over their hands and took orders.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "Go, follow your master's orders!"

The Guo brothers withdrew from Fengtian Palace and went to Li Jinglong's mansion...

In fact, Li Jinglong can be regarded as half of Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson.

Li Jinglong's father is Li Wenzhong, who belonged to Zhu Yuanzhang's second sister, Zhu Fo girl. Zhu Fo girl died shortly after giving birth to Li Wenzhong. After that, Li Wenzhong followed his father Li Zhen through all kinds of hardships, and finally met his uncle Zhu Yuanzhang in Chuzhou .

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Li Wenzhong, he loved him very much, so he adopted him as his adopted son and took his surname Zhu.

In the 17th year of Hongwu, Li Wenzhong died of illness, and he was granted the posthumous title of King Qiyang. He was given the posthumous title of "Wujing" and was assigned to the Taimiao. His portrait was hung in the temple of meritorious officials.

It shows Zhu Yuanzhang's love for this nephew.

Love the house and the black, Zhu Yuanzhang regarded Li Jinglong as half of his grandson since he was a child, and loved him very much, but Li Jinglong was born tall, with sparse eyebrows, and his mind is exquisite, and he is very pleasing.

Whenever he talked about the military art with Zhu Yuanzhang, he was even more eloquent, which made Zhu Yuanzhang value it even more.

Now that Li Jinglong is taking the initiative to contact his grandson, Zhu Yuanzhang will naturally not object. He left a super-class team for the prince Zhu Biao, but with Zhu Biao's departure, this team is meaningless, and this team is also very important. The old is old, the dead is dead.

What Liu Sanwu said yesterday also reminded him.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to build a team for his grandson while he was still alive.

Li Jinglong is one of those who entered Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes...

……

At noon, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong came to the door as scheduled.

Li Jinglong was dressed in casual clothes, tall and handsome, holding a small gift box that looked ordinary in his hand, and gently knocked on the door of Huang Xiongying's small courtyard.

Guo Zhen came out to open the door and invited Li Jinglong in.

Li Jinglong entered the courtyard, looked at the small courtyard curiously, and couldn't help admiring: "Backed by the mountains and facing the water, the wind gathers the energy, the yin and yang are moderate, and the light and shade are mixed. It's a good house and a good courtyard!"

Huang Xiongying came out from the house and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Cao Guogong to have such knowledge of Fengshui, Xiongying admires it!"

Hearing the sound, Li Jinglong turned his head to look at Huang Xiongying, with a friendly smile on his face: "Mr. Huang, don't call us Cao Guogong from now on, just call us Jinglong!"

Huang Xiongying smiled: "Okay, Duke Cao!"

Li Jinglong no longer struggled, and handed over the small gift box in his hand: "First visit, a small gift, not a respect!"

Huang Xiongying glanced at Li Jinglong.

He could tell that Li Jinglong was not like Zhou Ji, the plot was not with him, but with the old man, but Li Jinglong's words and deeds really made people feel like spring breeze.

If Zhou Ji in front of Huang Xiongying had the attitude of the boss taking care of the younger brother, then Li Jinglong did not have the attitude of Cao Guogong, but treated him as an equal, even a little licking.

This really surprised Huang Xiongying, but thinking about it, if Li Jinglong hadn't been like this, he wouldn't have lost Zhu Yunqi's family fortune later, and Zhu Yunqi would have been kind to him.

Huang Xiongying smiled and said: "Duke Cao is too polite, Xiongying will not be rewarded for his merits, how can you be ashamed?"

"Hey, this isn't Lu!"

Li Jinglong smiled and said: "Since Mr. Huang and I are partners, we should of course treat each other honestly. To be honest, Mr. Li and Mr. Huang hit it off right away. This small gift is a little gift from Mr. Li as a friend. Mr. Huang If Young Master treats me, Li, as a friend, don't refuse!"

Hey, what an eloquent master!

Huang Xiongying felt a little funny, if he hadn't traveled from later generations, he would have known that Li Jinglong was just an embroidered pillow, and he would have been fooled by his elegant and easy-going, Gu Panweiran demeanor.

"Okay, I've made friend Cao Guogong!"

Huang Xiongying smiled and took the small gift box from Li Jinglong.

The gift box is not big, and it looks very simple, not ostentatious at all.

"Master Huang, open it and see if you like it." Li Jinglong said with a smile.

"Ah."

Huang Xiongying nodded, and then opened the seemingly ordinary box, which contained a small porcelain bowl.

The porcelain bowl is full of grip, simple and elegant in shape.

It starts with fine and moist, azure color, thick and bright glaze but not glaring.

"Ru Kiln?"

Huang Xiongying looked at Li Jinglong with a look of surprise in his eyes.

Li Jinglong smiled and said: "It's just a small thing. This is something we picked up in an antique shop not long ago. I don't know if it's true or not. You know, we are warriors, and it's not easy to study these things, so I brought them as gifts. Give it to Mr. Huang, I hope Mr. Huang will not dislike it!"

Ha ha--

You, Li Jinglong, are too talented to be a martial artist!

Huang Xiongying asked knowingly, "Isn't this thing cheap?"

The corner of Li Jinglong's mouth twitched slightly, and then he showed a surprised expression, and said: "To be honest, we saw that this thing is good, so we bought it for a few dozen taels of silver. Could it be that we were cheated?"

Great acting!

Huang Xiongying nodded secretly in his heart, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be Ru Kiln from the Song Dynasty!"

"what?"

Li Jinglong showed surprise again, and then said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if he is true or not, as long as Mr. Huang likes it!"

After all, I did not continue this topic, and changed the topic: "I heard from the Guo brothers that the son's salt has already been made into a thousand catties, and I have prepared a carriage outside, and I will also send it to the Salt Transport Department. Good hello, it can be loaded and transported there now!"

The management of salt affairs in the Ming Dynasty mainly implemented the "opening method" of the civil government to collect business, transport and sell it, and the "guide law" of the civil government to collect business and sell it.

But everything is still mainly in the hands of the government.

"Don't Mr. Cao take a look at the goods?"

Huang Xiongying asked with some doubts.

Even if it's because of the old man, Li Jinglong treats him well, but he can't be so blind, right?

In fact, Li Jinglong didn't have much interest in Huang Xiongying's salt.

Salt, can you still make flowers?

What he was really interested in was Huang Xiongying. You must know that this was the eldest grandson of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he was a man who had a very high probability of ascending to the supreme position.

If he bet right this time!

In the future, if the grandson of the emperor really ascends to the throne of God, then he, Li Jinglong, will just jump over the dragon gate with a carp.

You must know that he was the one who shared joys and sorrows with the emperor, and worked together to do things together when the emperor was in his infancy!
This alone is enough for Li Jinglong to brag about for a lifetime!
But since Huang Xiongying said he wanted to see the goods, let's take a look.

Anyway, it's just one word.

it is good!
Thinking about it in his heart, Li Jinglong smiled and said: "Young master reminded me very well, look at my wooden fish head, I almost forgot about this problem!"

"Then Cao Guogong please!"

Li Jinglong followed Huang Xiongying to the backyard.

There are also props for refining refined salt in the backyard, and the refined salt is stored in a small warehouse next to it.

Huang Xiongying opened the door of the warehouse, Li Jinglong walked in seriously, and what greeted his eyes was a pile of refined salt like snowflakes.

"This……"

Li Jinglong opened his mouth slightly, and his eyeballs also opened wider...

(End of this chapter)