Smuggling Daming

Since the other party claimed to be his old friend, Zhou Zhong didn't dare to be negligent. He hurriedly put on his clothes, and then came to the front door with an umbrella and braved the wind and snow, only to find that there was a carriage parked outside the door. Standing in front of the carriage was a young man holding an umbrella, looking at him with a smile.

"Brother Shrike, why are you here?" Seeing the young man standing outside the door, Zhou Zhong immediately greeted him with a face of surprise. He didn't expect that it was his good friend Li Zheng who was in Songjiang who came to find him.

"Haha~, you are the governor of our Ming Dynasty now, and you are usually busy with government affairs, so I don't dare to disturb you. Today, it happened that the road was blocked by heavy snow, and I was also trapped in Shuangyu Port, so I came to disturb you!" Li Zheng also said. Laughing and joking with Zhou Zhong, he and Zhou Zhong are friends since childhood, although Zhou Zhong's identity is quite different now, but a few jokes are harmless.

"This is Brother Shrike's fault. You didn't come to see me first when you came to Shuangyu Port. You have to wait until the door is closed by heavy snow. You are really not enough friends. This time, you must be punished for three drinks!" Zhou Zhong also laughed when he heard this, stepped forward to hold Li Zheng's hand, and walked towards the mansion, saying that it was a coincidence that he came, he was just about to eat hot pot to enjoy the snow scene, but you came before the hot pot .

At that moment, Zhou Zhong dragged Li Zheng to his study room. The soup in the hot pot under the window was already boiling, and it was bubbling, and the air was filled with a fresh and spicy smell. Only Zhou Zhong is still growing, and the annual output is not high. The peppers on the market are more expensive than gold, except for Zhou Zhong.It is rare for him to put so many chili peppers like him. At the same time, this made Li Zheng very happy, exclaiming that he did not come in vain. It seems that he also likes chili peppers very much.

This year's winter was extremely cold, and Li Zheng came from outside with cold hands and feet. At that moment, Zhou Zhong poured him a few glasses of wine, and then invited Li Zheng to eat a few mouthfuls of hot dishes. This made Li Zheng exhale a few breaths.Shout out so comfortable.

After Li Zheng got rid of the cold, Zhou Zhong asked Li Zheng why he came to Shuangyu Port. In the end, Li Zheng told him that his family had a batch of goods to be shipped to Taiwan. He felt that this winter was too cold. It is said that the weather in Taiwan is warm.Moreover, it was the place where the disaster victims moved, so I wanted to see it with my own eyes, but I didn't expect that Shuangyu Port was frozen. Not only would he not be able to go to Taiwan, but the goods prepared by the family would not be transported away for a while.

"Haha, your uncle is very discerning. Taiwan is one of the key development points of the Governor's Mansion in the future, so if your family has spare money in the north, you might as well invest more money in Taiwan. It will definitely pay off in the future!" Zhou Zhong He said with a smile, originally immigrating to Taiwan was just an expedient measure for him, but he didn't expect that Taiwan's great development has now been formed. Many businessmen from Ming Dynasty are also optimistic about Taiwan, and they go there to do business one after another. It probably won't take many years.Taiwan will become a prosperous place.

"Oh, this sentence from your mouth is too valuable. I will let my uncle arrange it when I go back. I heard that several counties in Taiwan are trying to build ports. Unfortunately, the government has no money, so businessmen are allowed to invest in it. If Taiwan really develops in the future, maybe our whole family will move to Taiwan.” Li Zheng was also very pleasantly surprised, and he believed that Zhou Zhong would not lie to himself. Most of them are still barren, but as the victims continue to move in, they will definitely prosper in the future, and now is a good time to seize the opportunity.

Zhou Zhong was also very excited when he heard Li Zheng mentioning the construction of a port in Taiwan, because he was the one who proposed this matter. Taiwan is originally an island, and its geographical location is very important. It can be said that it is very suitable for the development of maritime trade, so the port is a must. Indispensably, merchants are now allowed to build a port once, and then own the port for a period of income. After the period expires, the port will be taken back by the government. In this way, the merchants have made money, and the government has also obtained a well-equipped port.

After chatting a few words about Taiwan, Zhou Zhong suddenly remembered something, and asked immediately, "Brother Shrike, did you all take the last provincial examination? How was the result of the examination? Did you pass the exam?"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's question about the provincial examination, Li Zheng sighed and said, "Don't mention it, I went to the local examination last time with Brother Minglun and Brother Fangshi, and it turned out that Brother Minglun and Brother Fangshi passed the exam, but my younger brother I didn't pass the exam, and in the end I didn't even have the qualification to enter Beijing with them, so I had to wait another three years!"

"Brother Shrike, don't be discouraged. You are already much younger than Brother Ming Lun and Brother Fang Shi. As long as you work harder in the past three years, you will definitely be able to pass the exam with your talents!" Zhou Zhong heard Zheng Jing and Zhang Kuang passed the exam, but Li Zheng was the only one who failed the exam, so he could only comfort him with a good essay.

"By the way, since Brother Ming Lun and Brother Fang Shi have already won the exam, how are they doing in the capital? I have been busy with the Governor's Mansion during this period, and I really have no time to pay attention to the imperial examination." Zhou Zhong said again at this time Some concerns, if Zhang Rui and Zheng Jing can both go to high school, then he can ask Zhengde for someone to serve in his Governor's Mansion, so that not only will he have two more good helpers, but also for Zheng Jing and Zhang It is also good for the career development of Rui in the future.

Hearing Zhou Zhong ask about the situation of Zheng Jing and Zhang Rui, Li Zheng smiled wryly again and said: "The three-year general examination gathers the most talented applicants in the world, but each time only a hundred or ten candidates are selected. Brother Ming Lun and Brother Fang Shi are good at learning, but their other exams are also full of poetry and books, so this time they both failed the rankings, and now they have returned to Songjiang to study behind closed doors."

Zhou Zhong also sighed when he heard this. Compared with the college entrance examination in later generations, the imperial examination is the real single-plank bridge. Only one or two hundred people are selected every three years, but there are millions of scholars in the world, so failing the exam has become a big problem. The fate of most scholars, and even some scholars have failed in the exam for a lifetime, which shows how difficult the imperial examination is.

Since the three of Li Zheng failed to go to high school, Zhou Zhong stopped talking about these unhappy things, but began to ask about Li Zheng's life in the past few years. For example, he knew that Li Zheng was married last summer, but Zhou Zhong was in Malacca , I can't come back at all, so I can only send some congratulatory gifts.

Speaking of his marriage, Li Zheng was also very excited, because according to him, his wife is now pregnant, and this time he was going to take his wife to Taiwan to escape the cold, but he did not expect that Shuangyu Port was frozen, So his wife is now stuck here with him too.

Zhou Zhong immediately stood up when he heard this, and ordered someone to prepare a residence for Li Zheng and his wife. You don't need to ask, you know that Li Zheng and his wife must live in their Li family's commercial warehouse in Shuangyu Port. Okay, but in this kind of extremely cold weather, it is really not a good place to live. I guess this is one of the reasons why Li Zheng came to visit Zhou Zhong.

Li Zheng didn't refuse at this time, and immediately asked people to go back to his shop to pick up his wife. Zhou Zhong specially asked Jinxuan and Lingyun to receive Li Zheng's wife in the living room. It is estimated that the pregnant women stayed together. , there must be endless things to say.

After arranging for Li Zheng's wife, Zhou Zhong and the two returned to the study room again, and when they talked about the past and some acquaintances in Songjiang, they laughed again and again. Finally, Li Zheng suddenly said mysteriously: "Wenda, Do you know what happened to the Song family some time ago?"

"Song family, what's the matter?" Zhou Zhong's face darkened when he heard this. When the Song family returned the marriage, Zhou Zhong was extremely angry. He vowed to make the Song family look good, but after going through so many things, His identity is also very different, and his desire for revenge against the Song family has faded away. After all, with his identity, there is really no need to be as knowledgeable as people like the Song family, not to mention that Bracelet has long forgotten what happened back then. , who is not an official family who proposes marriage to her every day?

"Hey, it's retribution. The second son of the Song family also got married last year, a month earlier than me, and he married a lady from an official family. Although the other party's family background is good, but his looks are not flattering. Yes, but in order to curry favor with his family background, Mr. Song didn't care about it at all, and finally forced Second Young Master Song to marry that ugly lady..."

According to Li Zheng, although the ugly lady was not good looking, she was from an official family after all, her family education was also very good, and she was also very virtuous. merchant.But even so, that ugly lady didn't dislike her. She has always abided by women's morals since she got married, and she also respects the elders of the Song family very much. She even knows how to manage the house very well, and is deeply loved by Master Song.

Although Mr. Song is very satisfied with this daughter-in-law, Second Young Master Song dislikes his ugly wife very much. No matter how virtuous she is, she is just an ugly monster in the eyes of Second Young Master Song. It is even heard that he has sex with his wife except on the wedding night. After one time, he slept with his concubine for the rest of the time, and he didn't even see his ugly wife, but even so, his wife didn't have any complaints. It was smoking.

But what everyone didn't expect was that shortly after the second son of Song's ugly wife got married, her belly grew bigger day by day. This should have been a very happy thing, but the second son of Song felt that this child was not His own, because he only had intercourse with his wife once when he was newly married, how could he have made her pregnant by such a coincidence, you must know that he had already had two concubines by his side, and he had worked hard for two years but failed to get them pregnant .

It is precisely because of the above reasons that the second son of Song insisted that his wife was not a woman, and this child was not his own, but in the end, he caused a catastrophe. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)