Win the Ding 1617

The Li family and the Zheng family once again entered the honeymoon period.

However, this honeymoon period was very different from the last time. The Zheng family completely regarded themselves as a member of Li Shouhan's system, or reduced their status to a subordinate level.

Zheng Zhilong's wife, Tian Chuan, led several concubines of Zheng Zhilong, accompanied by Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and many other wives and concubines of the Zheng family brothers, to the inner house of Uncle Ningyuan's mansion in Guangzhou to visit Mrs. Yan Meier, Mrs. Ningyuan , unfolding the wife diplomacy that is common in Ming Dynasty official circles.Incidentally, the purpose is also to show the son his future daughter-in-law.

Although this Ningyuan uncle's mansion was built hastily, it is far less magnificent than the royal mansion that has been in operation for many years in Hue, but if it is seen in the eyes of the censor, it can make a big fuss, at least impeachment Li Shouhan's daily life is beyond the standard, and the house is beyond the system.

In a five-bay nanmu boat hall that was just completed not long ago, the female relatives of the two families were all sitting in full bloom.In this building full of nanmu smell and shaped like a huge ship, the female family members of the Zheng family looked at the structure and decoration of the house with some curiosity.

The huge glass windows were pushed open by the maids with long poles, and the warm south wind came in from the skylight, making the room very moist and soft with the bursts of sunlight.

At first glance, those window lattices that are not very exquisitely carved at first glance, after being pushed away, people are surprised to find that there is a layer of glass windows inside, which is different from the glass eyes made of glass on the windows in the inner houses of ordinary rich families. Blocks of glass are embedded in the window frames.Melted with tin and sealed.

Yan Meier led Li Muhua, Aolei Yilan and Shouhan's two concubines in Shandong, and the five women, surrounded by a group of maids, entered the boat hall like stars holding the moon.

"Mrs. Uncle is here!"

A woman shouted at the door full of anger, and dozens of female relatives in the hall knelt down to welcome this Mrs. Ning Yuan as a salute to the superior.

The countess's crown dress is the same as that of first-rank officials according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty. They are all red shirts with large sleeves, and they can wear gold crowns.If you wear casual clothes, you should wear a round neck shirt.Yan Meier was dressed in a round neck shirt and walked into the hall gracefully surrounded by Ao Lei Yilan and Li Muhua.

He and Yan Meier are dressed in ordinary clothes.Easy and comfortable style is different.On the other hand, Li Muhua was wearing a phoenix coronet and a full robe belt, walking beside Ao Lei Yilan who was wearing a narrow-sleeved short-sleeve gown, it was quite embarrassing.

but.Mrs. Tian Chuan was dressed in the official attire of a second-rank married woman.Wearing a golden crown.With a calm smile on his face.Leading a group of women from the Zheng family to kneel down and welcome the arrival of the wives.

Zheng Zhihu's two Japanese concubines took a peek at the uncle's grandeur, and hastily lowered their eyes again.According to Japanese rules.The emperor cannot be seen, otherwise he will be blinded by the light of the descendants of the gods.Generals cannot face each other.This uncle's strength is enough to determine the political changes in Japan, so we must pay more attention to it.The two Japanese concubines just peeked at the Ji warriors behind the wives, and they couldn't help being speechless.

The personal soldiers of the wives all have a strong personal character of the master.Most of the soldiers around Yan Meier are unpretentious Nanzhong women. Their husbands or sons are all working in the Nanzhong Army or in the firm. Mother is loyal.

The soldiers around Li Muhua are selected women from Tianzhu, Siam, etc. They may not be good-looking, but they are all tall and tall, which sets off Li Muhua's petite and exquisite figure. There are a few butterfly spots common to pregnant women on the face, which is undoubtedly a middle-aged beautiful woman.

And the most eye-catching ones are those Ji warriors beside Seventh Madam Aolei Yilan.The tall and strong Sauron women, in the eyes of these Fusang concubines, even famous Japanese daimyos and generals may not have their height.Daur women in Nanzhong armor with long knives hanging from their waists are in contrast to the short but strong Gaoshan women. One is tall and the other is short, one is south and the other is north.The same armor and the same long knife, although they look different, bring a powerful murderous aura.

"The Ji warriors of the Seventh Madam are probably all at the level of Master Banner?" A Fusang woman thought to herself.

Tian Chuan led Zheng Zhilong's concubine Zhuang, Lin, Shi, Cai, Zeng, Cai Zhushi and dozens of sisters-in-law to Mrs. Ning Yuan. After sitting down, ordering someone to prepare a banquet and serving refreshments, the female relatives began to talk among women.It is imperative to invite several brothers and sisters in the mansion to come out to see the ceremony. The sons of the Zheng Zhilong brothers, Tagawa Qizaemon, Zheng Du, Zheng En, Zheng Yin, Zheng Xi, Zheng Shimo and other brothers have stepped forward to meet their in-laws. The wife kowtowed and thanked the uncle for his profound kindness.

After Yan Meier comforted her with kind words, she ordered someone to go to the front to call Li Huabao back, and ordered him to accompany a few brothers from the Zheng family to sit down in the flower hall to talk and drink.

"Why don't you ask the lady from the house to come out and meet?"

Li Huaying, Shi Lin's daughter, knew that she had been betrothed by her father to Zheng Sen, the eldest son of the Zheng family. Today, the female family members of the Zheng family came to visit, but the purpose was actually to see her.At that moment, under the call of her mother, Yan Meier, she timidly walked out from behind Qi Yiniang Ao Lei Yilan like a weak wind blowing willows.

"It's okay. Remember what I taught you. Don't be afraid!" When passing by Ao Lei Yilan, Ao Lei Yilan told the coquettish and timid second lady in a low voice.

Li Huaying, who inherited her mother Shi Lin's beautiful appearance and figure, has a nickname since she was a child named Ah Liang. Both her figure and appearance will make people who meet her for the first time have a bright feeling.Coupled with her gentle and weak appearance, Tian Chuan immediately felt that this was the best candidate for her daughter-in-law, no matter in terms of family, appearance, or personality, she was worthy of her son.

However, she was deceived by Li Huaying's appearance.

Hua Ying inherited her mother's appearance. Although she is weak on the outside, her personality is exactly like her father's sternness, and she is tough and strong.He grew up in the inner house from a young age, under the conscious training of Shou Han.Both siblings have received an education that would never be recognized.In addition to school courses such as reading, literacy, accounting, drawing pictures, driving and shooting, it is also necessary to learn the art of martial arts.Hua Ying then learned some muay thai from the dowry around her biological mother.Muay Thai's fierceness, agility and sharpness further tempered Li Huaying's character.

If it was Li Huamei who walked back and forth amidst the gunfire and smoke like walking on flat ground, then Li Huaying was fierce and fierce with her fists and feet.Especially after Aolei Yilan entered the mansion, this concubine and Li Huaying and others hit it off right away.Her character like a poplar tree under the sun has a strange attraction to everyone in the Li family. Soon, Li Huaying and Ao Lei Yilan went to learn swordsmanship and fists together.

Mrs. Tian Chuan saw this delicate little girl kowtowed to him with strict etiquette in front of him.At the moment, my heart is full of joy.Order someone to take out a box of jewelry as a gift.

"I came in a hurry, I didn't prepare any gifts, some small things, the girl must not make fun of it."

Li Huaying is the daughter-in-law.Tagawa agreed.

but.A few years later, Zheng Sen was in bad luck.

"Oh! Husband Gang is weak!" Zheng Sen vomited his bitterness to another dear friend with sleepy eyes.

"Come on! Brother-in-law. Compared with me, you are in a nest of blessings! Although your wife is just as violent, she still saved you enough face in front of outsiders! Look at me! In front of the navy .Did your sister-in-law ever save me some face? Don’t make any mistakes. Once you make a mistake, you will have to march in front of everyone!”

The man picked up the wine bowl and drank it down in one gulp.

(Everyone can guess, who is Admiral Li's husband-in-law?)

This is something to say for the time being.

The things to be done have been done, and the housekeeper's wife came in to report that the banquet was ready. At that moment, nearly a hundred women held a dozen tables of banquets in the back garden of Ningyuan Bo's mansion, and ordered the theater troupe in the mansion to sing a few excerpts on the waterside pavilion Add to the fun.

At the moment, watching the actors babbling and singing Kunqu opera on the waterside pavilion across the spring water, Li Huabao accompanied Tian Chuan Qizaemon and others to drink and listen to the opera at the other end of the courtyard.

However, soon there was a storm.

Yan Meier asked Mrs. Tian Chuan to order a play, and after a little humility, Mrs. Zheng ordered a full bed wat, which means that the marriage of your two families will be harmonious in the future, and the full bed wat will be indispensable.

As soon as the excerpt was over, the young masters over there were very bored with this kind of play where happiness and longevity returned. If it weren't for the presence of many women and elders, I'm afraid these few would loudly order the steward of the troupe to change it. Si Fan came to listen, and listened to the actor who played the role of the little nun Sekong winking at the nobles in the audience, while singing, "The little nun is only twenty-eight years old, and she is just young, and her hair is cut by the master. Every During the day, when I was burning incense and changing water in the Buddha Hall, I saw a few children playing games under the mountain gate. He looked at us, and we looked at him. He was with us, and we shared him, and we were so worried. Enemies, why? If you can achieve a marriage, let him die in front of the palace of the king of hell. Grind the ground, saw it, grind it, put it in an oil pan and fry it, ah, let him! Then you will see the living person suffer, how can you ever Seeing the dead ghost carry the shackles? Ah, let him!"

Seeing her son Li Huabao chatting enthusiastically with a dozen members of Zheng's family over there, Yanmei'er's eyes twitched a few times, she nodded and called her confidant woman beside her, and ordered her to go and tell the troupe manager that this place is full of bed wats. After the performance, exchange orders for a play.It's also good to hit my son who is a little carried away!

""Zheng Dan Da Zi"!"

The steward of the theater troupe wrote four large characters on the water sign, which made all the young masters present a little dazed. How can you sing this play on such a good day?

This play tells the story of Zheng Dan, the governor of Changzhou, who enforced the law impartially.Zheng Dan's son broke the law. As the governor, Zheng Dan did not use his official position to protect his son, but personally enforced the law and beat his son.If it wasn't for Tagawa Shichizaemon and others eating together and getting drunk, Li Huabao would have immediately understood what his mother meant, but with the hot wine on top, the young man was out of control.

On the waterside stage, the actors playing Zheng Dan have clear and precise moves.The tunes and accents sung are correct and round, which vividly plays an official who is in power and fair.

In the eyes of Tian Chuan and others, this play undoubtedly told them that the conflict between the Li family and the Zheng family was the same as Zheng Dan beating his son on the stage. After the beating, the family is still a family.With this understanding, Tian Chuan, who came with Zheng Zhilong's mission, couldn't help applauding and cheering.

"Good singing! Reward!"

Someone at the side had already packed a hundred silver dollars in a bamboo basket, following the orders of his wife.The two women who were standing in front of the promenade of the waterside pavilion picked up the bamboo basket vigorously and sprinkled it towards the waterside pavilion. The silver stars fell on the stage and in the water, splashing a little bit of water.

"Good! Good!"

Here, the sons of the Zheng family saw that Mrs. Tian Chuan had rewarded them with money, so they naturally wanted to follow up, and immediately ordered the servants beside them to throw silver dollars on the water pavilion together.The actor on the waterside pavilion saw that the wives and young masters on both sides showed so much love, and immediately worked harder.He took out the countless figures and unique skills that he had figured out on weekdays, and interspersed them in it.Make the whole play full of flowers and flowers.

The whole play was performed vigorously.The actor who played Zheng Dan was originally a bit of an out-of-the-ordinary guy, and he could make a few jokes on serious occasions.today.See the atmosphere is so warm.He was a little out of proportion.Because he played the role of the governor of Changzhou.So he improvised a sentence when he reprimanded his son on stage, "Do you know who the governor of Changzhou is now?"

This is nothing in itself, but Li Huabao, who was watching the play in the audience, replied by a strange coincidence. "I don't know who the governor of Changzhou is! However, from Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi to Nanzhong, they all belong to my Li family! My eldest brother is the prefect of Taiwan!"

"Is it the king's land in the whole world! You evil! How dare you be so rebellious and disrespectful!"

A loud shout came from the moon gate that separated the garden from the front yamen.

Everyone hastily put down the things in their hands and followed the prestige, only to see the guard standing there with a face full of anger, behind him, Zheng Zhibao and several officials accompanied by a panic-looking face.

Zheng Zhibao was invited by Shou Han to Ning Yuanbo's mansion to discuss matters today, intending to entrust him with important tasks.

"The land of Fujian and Fujian has many mountains and few fields, and there are thousands of miles of coastline. Although Guangdong and Guangxi are slightly better, they also have thousands of miles of coastline, and a large area of ​​land is abandoned there. And the Southern Guangdong Army has many coastal areas. Brothers today. When you come, you have something to ask."

In Shou Han's impression, the Huanghuaihai Plain, Haizhou, Lianghuai, Lianyungang and other places in those days were mostly tidal flats and saline-alkali land.After the reform of the salt service system in the late Qing Dynasty, some people provided waste stoves for reclamation in the Lianghuai River and Huaihe River, and made great efforts to reclaim tidal flats. After occupying a large number of tidal flats, they carried out planting and breeding activities.Tea can be produced in three years in the reclamation area, and cotton can be planted in a few years. The growth is astonishing.It provides a large amount of high-quality raw materials for spinning for the textile industry in various places. Under such circumstances, several large-scale reclamation companies have emerged from Haizhou to Lianghuai, employing tens of thousands of employees, and countless people have made a fortune as a result.

"Brother Yue Wen, think about it, if these tens of thousands of miles of deserted land by the sea are reclaimed, how many people will be fed and how many people will be rich! This is an act of kindness!"

Although these saline-alkali tidal flats may not necessarily be able to grow food, but who said that the land must grow food?Now Nanzhong's grain is still worrying about the market for external sales. If there are economic crop planting areas to earn money from the outside, and to provide the market demand for grain and its products internally, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?

"What the commander-in-chief said is naturally a great cause for the benefit of the country and the people, but Zhibao is also a little doubtful."

"speak!"

"For one thing, these tidal flats are located in barren grasslands. If they are reclaimed, I dare not say what the effect will be. They will definitely need to invest a lot of money and food. I wonder if the commander-in-chief has a plan?"

"Yes! You can choose a place to experiment in the coastal areas of Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi. I will allocate 200 million yuan to you every year, and another 50 stone grains of rice will be used as rations. You can experiment in the Nanzhong area. I will no longer allocate money and food to you separately, but just list it in the various treasuries or the internal treasury of the government."

"Thank you, Marshal, for trusting in cultivation. Then I will talk about the second thing. I wonder what crops Marshal plans to plant, and what to breed?"

Speaking of this, Shouhan scratched his head a little bit. In his impression, Zhang Jian, the number one industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty, developed Haizhou tidal land, which greatly improved the economy and people's livelihood in northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong, but he was a little confused about how to do it. mind off.

"The matter of land reclamation is nothing more than building embankments and opening canals, and gradually reclaiming land." He slowly organized his sentences, recalling his experience in organizing land reclamation over the years, especially those reports submitted by farms in the Chao Phraya River Basin. the lessons learned.There is also farming by the river, and some experience can be used in the tidal flats. "We can plant some tea trees, tung oil trees, camellia oleifera, and cypress trees. After a few years, when the trees grow up, we can open tea factories and oil factories to produce tea oil, tung oil, tar, etc. Put them in baskets and ship them for our own use, or It can be exported for profit.”

Zheng Zhibao couldn't help but nodded frequently, and couldn't help praising Shou Han for not sparing money.But it never occurred to him that Shou Han was so willing to take charge of the tidal flats of the Fuzhou Reclamation Bureau regardless of the cost, not only for the purpose of utilizing tens of thousands of miles of tidal flats, but also for the purpose of making Zhengzhou The family brothers are scattered everywhere.

Seeing that the purpose of the conversation was achieved, the two led a few officials to walk around to relax, but they didn't want to bump into this scene.

"Punish the actor to copy the order two hundred times!"

Shou Han spoke harshly to Li Huabao who was kneeling on the ground.

The so-called "Biography of Actors" is the story of Li Cunxu, Emperor Zhuangzong of the later Tang Dynasty, who loved musicians and actors so much that the country was ruined and died. The benefits of the periodic law.As long as a group begins with one mind, they must be united in their efforts to do things well. When things go smoothly, everyone must only plan for themselves. Luxurious and lustful, beauties and mansions are all indispensable. This group is Nature went downhill.

There are several Li Huabao brothers and sisters, who have read these classics since childhood.Regarding what Shou Han said just now, although he was a little frightened and afraid, he still didn't take it seriously in his heart.

"Have you ever recited this text?"

Shou Han's words poured down his head like a bucket of ice water, which made Li Huabao wake up involuntarily.

He read aloud: "therefore, in its prosperity, all the heroes in the world can't compete with it; in its decline, dozens of actors and actresses were trapped in it, and they died and the country was destroyed, making the world laugh. Husbands and woe often accumulate in the slightest, and Zhiyong is trapped and drowned, how can he be pitiful to others!"

"It's good to know!" Shou Han reprimanded his second son sharply.

"I was not as old as you back then. In order to save my head, I led hundreds of soldiers and horses to deal with powerful enemies from all directions. I fought hard to the death and tried my best! What did you rely on to destroy several countries? I was still a young man with a strong spirit. , coupled with one mind, this achievement is the result! You just said that your elder brother is the magistrate of Taiwan, but did you know how hard your elder brother worked in the mountains and forests? Facing the rain of cannons and the forest of arrows Do you ever know this kind of courage in such a scene, where you swing your troops and fight fiercely?"

When Shou Han said something, Li Huabao shuddered all over, and after speaking, he fell to the ground and cried loudly.

After hearing the sound, Yan Meier gently tugged on La Shouhan's sleeve, signaling to him that there are still guests from the Zheng family.

"It doesn't matter! The in-law's wife is one of my own, and there is no such thing as family ugliness!" Shou Han was still relatively gentle with Yan Meier, turned his head to face the troublemaker, and sang Zheng Dan's play.

"You fellow! You are the one who advocates excellence! It's nothing more than performing in robes and belts on weekdays. It's understandable to get some rewards for your own skills and enjoy them back home. But how dare you ask about state officials?"

The actor was already trembling with fright, he could no longer utter the words to beg for mercy.Just keep kowtow.

"Come here! Drag it down! Beat it! Let the entire theater troupe watch the punishment! Thinking that in the future we will advocate the precepts of the superior generation!"

Deep down in his heart, Shou Han looked down on these actors who relied on playing roles to earn food, clothing and wealth.He stubbornly believes that these people can't create value, can't make meritorious deeds, they are just for others to play, and they are not worthy of respect.Therefore, in his opinion, there must be no singing generals or high-ranking officials who acted in the Southern Guangdong Army. (To be continued..)