win the hairpin

Chapter 227 The Wealthy Liangguang Road
"Get up, how's your journey going?" Zhang Rui spoke kindly, as casually as he would when talking to his own family, "Sit down and talk, don't be restrained."

Yuan Ye got up, sat down, and replied with a smile: "Everything is fine, thanks to you, everything is going smoothly."

Although I haven't seen him for many years, he is the magic needle of the Zhang family on Liangguang Road, and no official can dismiss him.

Zhang Xuling didn't sit down, walked to Zhang Rui's side, peeled out two zongzi from the plate, and asked the servants to take the plate and chopsticks and send them to the small table next to Yuan Ye.

While wiping his hands with a handkerchief, he smiled and said, "Master, try it, my aunt made it."

Zhang Ruidao: "You should try it, the taste of Kyoto is very different from our south."

Yuan Ye picked up the chopsticks and ate half of it, and said another good word.

Zhang Xuling smiled and said, "I'll ask the kitchen to carry a bunch for you, and you will come to our house for the Dragon Boat Festival."

Holding the teacup, Zhang Rui suddenly asked, "Is the one in Kyoto better, or the one on Guangnan East Road?"

Yuan Ye put down his chopsticks, and said seriously: "It's hard to leave the homeland, it's better to stay in my hometown."

Zhang Rui was very satisfied with his answer: "You are right, home is the root, and if the root is there, we can't fall."

Zhang Rui asked Yuan Ye about the account book of Guangnan East Road, and even Guangnan West Road, and carefully looked at the account book he brought.

Unknowingly, these two broad roads are already connected with his Zhang family.

"Okay," Zhang Rui patted the table with a smile, he was very happy, "Hello at home, you are taking care of the house for me, it's also very good!"

The family world, the world today is the world of the Li family, and his Zhang family also has its own world. Liangguang Road is their home world. .

They have been operating in these two places for so many years, and the intertwined relationship can actually be disintegrated by one or two officials who are not theirs.

As long as this "home" is still there, they have a way out.

As for the garrisons on the Liangguang Road, let alone the Zhang family's possessions, even Yue Zhongtai delegated power to these two roads.

When he was happy, the steward hurriedly reported that King Yan was coming.

Zhang Rui hurriedly got up with Zhang Xuling and Yuan Ye, straightened their robes each, and strode out to meet him at the door, but King Yan walked faster and more anxiously than them, and the servants following him were all the way Trot to follow.

"You don't need to be too polite!" King Yan couldn't wait for his servant to step forward, so he took off his cloak and threw it to Zhang Xuling. Zhang Xuling quickly took it and put it on the screen.

When King Yan came, the layout of the room could no longer be the same. The housekeeper and the servants worked together to remove all the refreshment rice dumplings quietly, and gently switched the chairs and tables, so that King Yan could sit on top.

Zhang Rui led Zhang Xuling and Yuan Ye to cross hands to salute King Yan. Impatient, King Yan waved his hand to let them sit down. Before Zhang Rui could sit still, he asked, "It will be Father's Tianning Festival in a short time. Is something delivered?"

Zhang Rui nodded, and said in an unhurried manner: "The prince came at the right time, and this former master came here with his birthday outline."

His voice was like a gurgling stream, which made the restless King Yan slowly calm down, and looked at Yuan Ye who was sitting at the very end.

He is a very ordinary person, who will soon become blurred when thrown in the crowd, sitting at the bottom of the seat at this time, is also very respectful, with his head lowered from beginning to end, eyes only on his shoe upper.

There was nothing to see, King Yan's eyes slid past this honest man, and fell on Zhang Rui again.

These days, he was very stressed by the King of Jin. Seeing that the Tianning Festival was coming, he didn't know what the King of Jin wanted to give, and he was even more anxious.

Last year on his mother's birthday, the boat on Liangguang Road wanted to give Gangyin and a Jade Guanyin statue, but the things didn't even go out on Lianghu Road, so they were robbed.

This time, he was worried, and finally he had something to look forward to in the capital, but he still didn't know what Zhang Rui had prepared for him.

"What about things?"

Zhang Rui said with a smile: "Your Majesty, there is no need to be impatient. For so many years, His Majesty is very satisfied with the things you send every year. Besides, you are His Majesty's beloved son. Even if you only send a blessing, it is a hundred times better than others , Thousand times, and the empress Hui Zhilan Xin is by your side, your majesty will never find fault with you."

After he finished speaking, seeing King Yan's tightly locked brows gradually unfolding, he sighed in his heart.

King Jin has been dormant in Tanzhou for ten years, and he has already experienced the airtightness of training. In the past ten years, King Yan's affairs in the capital have been going well, but he can't stand the storm.

It went so smoothly that King Jin's random moves could throw him off course.

Without waiting for King Yan to speak, he continued, "Yuan Ye, did you bring something?"

Yuan Ye quickly stood up and replied: "Mr. Hui, in case something gets lost, it was separated from the boat I was on, but there were too many boats on the pier, and that boat didn't have an official flag, so it couldn't get in. It just waited to get in." Shore, it will be delivered immediately."

King Yan asked Zhang Rui to stroke his hair for a while, and the suffocation in his heart dissipated. He was not in a hurry to read it now, but asked Zhang Rui: "Should the account book of Liangguang Road be sent to the third division?" ?”

Zhang Rui said with a smile: "That's right, this time Yuan Ye came here, and he also brought the account book, the prince has a look."

Yuan Ye took out three more account books from his sleeve and handed them respectfully to the servant who walked up to him. The servant took the account books and handed them to King Yan.

King Yan took it in his hand, flipped through it, and didn't look at it carefully, but asked: "Are you rich this year?"

Yuan Ye replied, "Wealthy."

After he finished speaking, he didn't hear King Yan continue to ask questions, so he quietly raised his eyes and saw that King Yan was still flipping through the book. He didn't know if he had nothing to ask, or he was waiting for him to continue.

Unsure of King Yan's temperament, he quietly glanced at Zhang Rui.

Zhang Rui nodded, and then he continued: "Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Qiongzhou, Wan'anjun, Qinzhou and other docks extend in all directions, not only going in, but also going out. Almost all the big blessing ships that enter the sea are built by Guangzhou Shipyard. All the ships that go out to sea come back with a full load, plus there are many foreign businessmen, so the tax money is naturally coming in. Now there are more than [-] taels on Guangnan East Road alone."

After hearing this, King Yan looked at the cover of the account book, pushed away the account book of Liangguang Road, and only opened the half that had nothing written on the cover, and looked back at the total.

Two hundred and eighty thousand taels.

Seeing this number, he smiled: "Okay, it's time to spend money. Although the money is not much, it is timely."

Seeing that King Yan was happy, Zhang Rui made him happy for a while, but he didn't say anything until King Yan put down the account book, and then he said: "My lord, the tax money on Liangguang Road last year was only [-] taels, which is inappropriate. , compared to the previous year, much less."

Zhang Xuling glanced at his father, and knew that his father still had a lot to say, so he said on behalf of his father, "I said at the morning court this morning that we should make up for the deficiency with surplus, and connect the river, and less so. Too much, I’m afraid it’s a bit unreasonable to go there today.”

Before he finished speaking, King Yan looked over with cold eyes and made him swallow the rest of the words.

(End of this chapter)