There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 367 Liu Ju Arrives

That Mrs. Lin looked very grand, but Jin Yiwei still sat there and asked her lazily: "Business? What kind of business?"

"It's inconvenient to tell adults about this, it's a woman's job." Mrs. Lin was neither humble nor overbearing.

Another civil servant in charge of registration said: "My lord, Mrs. Lin is eligible."

For a big family, the business is definitely not small, and it is a woman who comes forward, which means can you not embarrass everyone?

There are still many people in line behind.

"Women's livelihood is nothing more than that." Jin Yiwei ignored the civil servant and said to himself: "Is it a brothel? Or a Chu Pavilion?"

This is the same business that can be run by women these days, or is it a secret door?

Or some kind of poetry club or painting gallery that sells dog meat with a sheep's head, but I dare not call it an "academy" because it will be criticized by scholars.

The corner of Mrs. Lin's mouth twitched...it was Wanyue Tower.

"Well, one of the largest brothels in the south of the Yangtze River, Chu House, it is said that the girls in it are all as beautiful as flowers, and there are countless people!" Jin Yiwei glanced at her lazily: "Are you the old bustard there?"

"Yes." Mrs. Lin couldn't hold back her arrogance: "My family is also affected by the boss...

Hello, Shanghai County!

Moreover, Shanghai County has Shanghai Wei, excellent firearms, and tall and majestic city walls, which are better than Songjiang Mansion.

The most important thing is that I heard that there are no women in Haiwei, and military women do not exist!

If the Brothel and Chu Pavilion were opened in the county town of Shanghai, wouldn't those people have to flock to them to find women?

"Go away, let your boss send some gifts to make amends, so people don't have to step into the boundaries of Shanghai County." Jin Yiwei said: "If the officials here don't allow private revenge, your boss can clean his ass and wait to go to jail."

When this Mrs. Lin came, she was graceful and luxurious like a grandma, and when she left, she panicked like a bereaved dog.

The civil servants in charge were stunned!

Then they swarmed over, and the young man who spoke just now asked Jin Yiwei curiously: "How did you see that she was wrong?"

They didn't see it!

And I admire her very much, such a woman is quite courageous!

"Everyone says you are still young and inexperienced!" Jin Yiwei shook his head: "She looks like the head of the family, but who's mistress will show up to handle the household registration? It's all done by the family's chief steward; Besides, there is a problem with the demographic composition of her family."

Everyone looked at each other.

Jin Yiwei pointed to the declaration materials and said: "Look, there are twenty men, not headed family members, but healthy servants; there are 130 women's family members, thirty servants, and the remaining one hundred are family members. , Whose family has a hundred relatives and all of them are women, and no men? Only the girls in the brothel Chu Guan, who are said to be relatives of the family, are they actually the mothers and girls of the old bustards?

The students that Wu Youwei brought were all young boys. They had never held a girl's hand, and they had never been to the brothel Chu Guan, so they didn't know the people there.

And I haven't seen any mistresses, grandmas and other family members, so I haven't been shaken by anyone.

Now, they have no objection to Wu Youwei arranging an old fritter-like Jin Yiwei to sit in court for them, and even ask for advice on some uncertain things.

I learned a lot from it, and my impression of Jin Yiwei changed a lot.

In addition, the common people also know that Jin Yiwei's eyes are as bright as torches, and they don't want to have a good county, where there are many brothels, Chu houses, and gambling houses everywhere.

In that case, no matter how good a place is, there will be darkness.

A few people get together on the street, stuff a few copper coins for vegetables, or leak a little money from the fingers of the mother-in-law, and gamble twice. As the saying goes, small bets are fun.

Wu Youwei doesn't care about this kind of thing, but he can't open a casino or gambling house.

There is also the brothel Chu Guan, regardless of whether it is a female branch girl or a young man, it doesn't work.

On this kind of matter, Wu Youwei was very persistent. Wantong was puzzled by this, but he knew that his thinking was different from theirs. Anyway, he had a sense of propriety in doing things, so he gave his full support.

With Wantong around, who would dare not listen to Wu Youwei?At this time, Wu Youwei was too able to appreciate the benefits of force.

Even if the clan in the south has great power, they are afraid of being exterminated!

So don't look at the four villages where people from one village and one surname live, but no one dares to disobey Wu Youwei's words.

Half of the vacant courtyards and houses in Shanghai County were sold by the county government, but they were asked not to build them privately. The land deeds have what kind of courtyards. If anyone wants to rebuild, don’t blame the government for not giving face. How much do you build, the government will dismantle it for you.

Wu Youwei counted the money, and the funds he invested in Shanghai County have finally returned. At least half of the properties have not been sold because there is no suitable person.

But it was already a lot of money.

Wu Youwei took half of his own funds and returned them, and the remaining half was divided into three shares.

One was given to Wantong as military expenses.

Wantong's soldiers are relatively expensive, and there is a newly built shipyard on a huge island near Wusongkou. The people on it have all moved away, and it is now a military control area.

A copy was given to Shanghai County as salary expenses.

High salaries are not empty words. Salaries are paid on time and bonuses can mobilize everyone's enthusiasm for work. Now Shanghai County must lay a solid foundation for this.

One copy was deposited in the money bank of Shanghai County.

In ancient times, man-made disasters were all natural disasters, so Wu Youwei needed to guard against various natural disasters, such as floods, droughts, typhoons, tsunamis...

He had to defend.

With the money returned, Wu Youwei lamented to Vantone: "Real estate is really profitable!"

Vantone did not expect that those empty houses could make so much money: "There are still half of them that have not been sold... If they are all sold, I really have everything."

A huge sum of money.

As early as when Wu Youwei paid for the construction of Shanghai County at his own expense, Vantone disagreed. He felt that Wu Youwei did not need to work so hard for his political achievements. You must know that from the dilapidated to the current scale, Wu Youwei spent all his efforts and money. There are too many.

He thought that there was no return. What Wu Youwei wanted was political achievements, and only with political achievements could he be promoted and transferred back to Beijing.

Even if I bought the way back to Beijing with money.

He even planned that if Wu Youwei ran out of money, he could send some from Beijing. Unexpectedly, before he could raise money, Wu Youwei's funds returned.

"Don't worry, it's still a three-thirds share with you if you sell it. We must speed up the construction of various factories, and the arsenal and shipyard are the top priorities." Wu Youwei said: "Taking advantage of the tax exemption for the past few years, quickly develop , When the time comes to pay taxes, scare them to death!" Wantong was amused by him: "Well, scare them to death.

In fact, it is enough to scare them to death now, because the news of the great victory has spread all over the country.

During the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony, Luo Lun sent a letter to Wu Youwei, telling him that the salt fields along the coast were damaged. Fortunately, they had not lost salt in those years, and there was no delay in repairing the salt fields.

Ask Wu Youwei to buy salt after the beginning of autumn, when there is little rain, and he will give him a preferential price. I heard that Shanghai County is developing well.

Wu Youwei was also polite, and when he replied, he brought him a Japanese sword captured on the battlefield, and he didn't care whether Luo Lun, a civil servant, could use it.

Then the lion opened his mouth wide and told Lauren to prepare half a million shi of salt and half a million shi of sugar.

I don't know how Luo Lun felt when he read the gift and letter. He and Wantong received visitors from Beijing in mid-June.

Liu Ju came with 50 people, and the army was stationed outside the city.

Liu Ju and Wantong are considered to be acquainted, but they can't talk deeply, but they have similar backgrounds, Liu Yongcheng is an eunuch, and Wan Zhen'er is a concubine.

To put it bluntly, it was all hung up by Emperor Xianzong. Now that Emperor Xianzong has become emperor and has great power, he began to use his own people wantonly.

In the past, I was afraid of the courtiers, but since Wantong's coastal victory, the courtiers have become as honest as quails.

Liu Ju brought new family letters and news: Ji Gui gave birth to a little prince.

"Oh?" Wantong raised his eyebrows.

Wu Youwei also became nervous. Has history not changed?

Was Emperor Xiaozong Hongzhi still born?

"My old father heard from an old friend in the palace that the little prince is quite inappropriate." Liu Ju sat there with a gossip-like face, and drew a circle on his head with his big hand: "It is said that the top of the head is hairless."

The hair he said is lanugo. Once a child is born, the soft hair that grows on the head is lanugo. Generally, people will cut off the lanugo hair of boys to make brushes, which are used by boys when they first practice writing. It is my own fetal hair brush.Girls cut lanugo hair and put it in a special purse, and leave it to their parents as a souvenir when they get married.But the little prince's lanugo is too little, and the middle is still bald.

Wu Youwei was taken aback. It was indeed said in history that Emperor Hongzhi had a bald spot on his head. It is said that it was because Concubine Wan Gui was jealous of Ji and gave her abortion drugs, but Ji vomited afterwards, but the medicine was still effective. It hurt the dragon child in the abdomen, so when Emperor Xiaozong was born, a piece of fetal hair was missing on his head.

Did not expect it to be true!

"It is said that it is the masterpiece of Concubine Bai Xian. When the child was born, his head was flushed with blood. If there is a little more effect of the medicine, the child must be stillborn." Liu Judao: "Thanks to the imperial concubine who knows the general , persuaded the emperor to take pity on the little prince, I heard that the Empress Empress has already mentioned Ji's role as a concubine, as long as the little prince can stand firm, after the first year of life, I am afraid that the Ji family should be named a concubine."

Now there are only two concubines in the harem, one raised a son, became a prince and died.

The other is the noble concubine, with two daughters and one son, alive and kicking. After the absence of a crown prince, everyone's eyes turned to Zhaode Palace again.

As a result, another prince was born.

Those inside and outside the palace are all muttering again now.

"It's really salty to eat radish and worry about it." Wantong calmly criticized: "Can't they think about other things?"

"Brother Wan, not everyone is as normal-minded as your family." Liu Ju said with a smile: "It's just that they are shooting themselves in the foot, and Ji's family background is not high."

The only thing better than Concubine Wan Gui is that she is younger, but compared with Concubine Wan Gui, she has no sacred heart.

"Is this Mrs. Ji...is he allowed?" Wantong was more curious about Mrs. Ji himself.

There are not many people who can give birth to Emperor Xianzong's son. Over the years, there have been more than a dozen princesses, and the prince only has three melons and two dates.

"Speaking of Ji, his status is really too low." Liu Ju shook his head.

Ji's family name is not even this.

She is from the Yao nationality!

Wu Youwei's eyes widened: "What?"

Minority people?Not Han Chinese?

Well, it turned out to be Li Tangmei. "Liu Ju told them about Ji's identity.

As a court lady serving the emperor at close range, according to the rules, Dongchang will investigate her identity and family members, within three generations, all five clans.

Li Tangmei, a Yao nationality, lost her parents when she was young, and was adopted by a relative in Guiling, He County (now Hezhou), Guangxi when she was young.In the second year of Chenghua, he was "captured into Yeting" by the Ming army.

"And her father, a local native official, was killed by rebel Yao during the rebellion." Liu Ju shook his head: "You say, with such an identity, even if the son born is healthy, what's the use?"

Wu Youwei was in a daze!

The famous Emperor Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty was of mixed Han-Yao blood?

However, I can better understand the helplessness of history. If he hadn't had no son, Emperor Xianzong probably wouldn't have appointed a son born by a Yao girl as the prince.

It's no wonder that when Emperor Hongzhi became the prince, countless rising stars wanted to overthrow him. His foundation was simply too shallow.