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Chapter 152 Yangzhou

No matter how Qian Qianyi struggled in the officialdom, our Zhu Hongsan returned to Suzhou with the stolen Qian Yuting. The three wives on the boat didn't say anything when they saw Zhu Hongsan and many other women. In addition, Qian Yuting had a weak personality and had a good relationship with the three of them.

After the incident ended, Zhu Hongsan led the fleet to set off, passed Wujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture, and entered Zhejiang Province.

Here, the canal is divided into three routes, one to Jiaxing, one to Huzhou Prefecture, and one to Hangzhou Prefecture.

Since the reform of Zhang Juzheng, no physical tax was collected to cash out. In the past, Zhejiang had grown a large number of cash crops in the grain production area, so now Zhejiang's grain output has been surpassed by Huguang.

But in this way, Zhejiang is also a famous fish and rice town in the country. Along the way, Zhu Hongsan saw that most people had no problem with food and clothing, and it was also very common for them to wear silk and satin.

Zhu Hongsan thought to himself: "This Nanzhili and Huguang are so rich. Who owns this place when the world is in chaos is really an imperial place."

After leaving Suzhou, I arrived at the end of the Grand Canal, which is Hangzhou Prefecture. In fact, the Grand Canal is farthest to Shangyu County, Shaoxing Prefecture, but the canal there is mainly a grain transport river, and there is no big ship.

Zhu Hongsan decided to leave the boat from Hangzhou and go ashore to Guangdong by Jiangxi. In order to avoid Zheng Zhilong, Fujian.

Zhu Hongsan also asked Yan Qingshan about this, and he agreed to leave like this. After all, Yan Siqi has only been dead for nineteen years, so Zheng Zhilong’s subordinates must have known Yan Qingshan. It is better to take the land route on the safe side.

When he arrived in Yangzhou, Zhu Hongsan asked someone to sell the boat and exchange it for thousands of taels of silver. More than a hundred boatmen caught on the boat wanted to return to the north, but were all left behind by Zhu Hongsan's coercion and inducement. Although these guys were canal boatmen, they had some experience in making a living on the water.

Next, it’s simple, prepare the carriage and horses, and wait for Feng Ruoshu to arrive in Yangzhou.

On June 12th, the eighth day after Zhu Hongsan arrived in Yangzhou, Old Man Feng arrived late.

Now this old guy is not a messy person who escaped from Beijing. In Nanjing, all his servants and masters have been allocated to all his servants. The Donglin Party is not stingy with Zhu Hongsan, but is generous to Old Man Feng. He allocated him 5,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue to use for activities.

In addition, the bribes received by Old Man Feng in Nanjing cost 10,000 taels of silver. In addition, he hired three large ships, and it was a huge crowd.

Zhu Hongsan greeted him on the dock. Old Man Feng saw Zhu Hongsan step forward and asked, "Your Highness the King of Chu did a great thing!"

Zhu Hongsan was stunned and asked, "What's wrong? What's the change in the Nanjing court?"

Feng Ruoshu said, "That's not the case, but you snatched Qian Qianyi's silver and daughter, which shocked the capital."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Why am I thinking? It's all small scenes."

At this moment, an eunuch came down from the boat and saw Zhu Hongsan saying, "The King of Chu knelt down and received the order!"

When Zhu Hongsan heard that he had his own imperial edict, he quickly knelt down and said, "My minister Zhu Hongsan received the imperial edict."

When the eunuch saw that Zhu Hongsan knelt down and scolded, Zhu Hongsan patiently listened and got up and received the imperial eunuch and gave it ten taels of silver.

Zhu Hongsan asked Feng Ruoshu: "Uncle, what are you talking about here?"

Feng Ruoshu smiled and said, "The above said that you robbed Qian Qianyi's money and asked you to return it to him. Also, it was not right to rob Qian Qianyi's daughter, but there was no way, and you couldn't take it back. I would give you the princess, and I also gave you the title of Ma Xiaofang as the princess, Ma Ruyan as the princess. Your eldest son Zhu Hai* is the princess."

In fact, Feng Ruoshu was named Zhu Hai* as the prince and added it to Ma Shiying. After all, Zhu Hongsan has a lot of messy wives now, so it is hard to say if he doesn't settle the position in the future.

Zhu Hongsan didn't think deeply about this kind of dirty thing. It was too early to decide in his heart that his son would take over. After all, he would have to see what he had after he was twenty-five years old.

After Feng Ruoshu said that, he took out another letter from his arms and said, "You go and send it to her daughter at this time." After that, he called three people from behind, two little maids, a man, and said, "At this time, Qian Qianyi's wife sent it from Changshu, a servant prepared for her daughter."

Zhu Hongsanyi saw that the cheap mother-in-law was well prepared, and all the servants prepared three.

At this time, everyone on the boat came down. Zhu Hongsan saw that there were more than 100 people. He asked, "Who is there so many family members? Are you from Beijing?" He thought to himself, "Aren't everyone in your hometown killed by Zhang Xianzhong?"

Feng Ruoshu introduced to Zhu Hongsan: "These two above are the masters I hired in Nanjing. This one is Mr. Huang and Mr. Liang."

After saying that, he called the two middle-aged men behind him and said, "You know this, the prefect of Wang Yunchang of Dongchang Prefecture, my disciple. The one behind him is Zhang Jiayu, the top scholar in Chongzhen for 16 years. He just went south from Beijing, and this time he went home with me. His family is in Dongguan County."

Zhu Hongsan nodded. The Zhang family is a big family in Dongguan, and Zhang Jiayu's brother is also a director of the board of directors of Dongguan Development Zone.

Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and said, "Why did Lord Zhang go home if he is not an official in Nanjing?"

Zhang Jiayu sighed and said nothing.

Feng Ruoshu said: "I have time to explain this matter to you. Have you arranged it in the city?"

Zhu Hongsan originally thought that Feng Ruoshu had only a dozen people, but he didn't expect that the four families had a total of more than 100 people. It seemed that he was going to book an inn.

Zhu Hongsan said, "I have booked three inns in the city, let's go into the city." After that, he led everyone into the city.

When he arrived at the inn, he had no choice but to drive the guards out of the city and live in the tent outside the city with the pirates, pour out the room and arrange for the family members of several people to live there.

Zhu Hongsan took the imperial edict and Qian Qianyi's letter and led the two servants of the Qian family to his yard to find Qian Yuting.

Qian Yuting was learning to play the piano with Bian Yujing. When he saw Zhu Hongsan coming, the two girls stood up and said, "The master is here."

Qian Yuting saw the three people behind Zhu Hongsan and said happily: "Uncle Gui, Xiaoyu, why are you here?"

The three of them came to Qian Yuting to salute, and Qian Gui said, "Miss, Madam, let us support you. I also brought a letter from Madam to Madam."

Qian Yuting took the letter from her mother and opened it. It said that Qian Qianyi had already cut off relations with her daughter in order to become an official. However, Chen could not forget her daughter and reassured Qian Yuting. Chen would let Qian Qianyi change her mind when he had the chance.

Also, since you marry Zhu Hongsan, you must be a wife, take care of your husband and children, be filial to your parents-in-law, and don’t act like a lady like you are at home.

Zhu Hongsan said on the side: "Tingting, long live the marriage, even if you and I are husband and wife, don't be sad in the future."

After saying that, he took out Qian Qianyi's letter and said, "This is given to you by your father, please take it."

Qian Yuting took the letter, finished the gift to Zhu Hongsan, and took the three servants down.

Seeing Qian Yuting leaving, Bian Yujing next to him said sourly: "Now your husband is satisfied? Another beauty has fallen into your hands."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "I took her back from Qian Qianyi. How can she be compared with Saisai? Saisai is my favorite."

Bian Yujing said: "My husband is best at sweet talk. Did you say the same to the princess?"

Zhu Hongsan said: "I picked her up, how can she be compared with Saisai?"

After saying that, Zhu Hongsan stood up and hugged Bian Yujing with his hands and said, "Today I will devote myself to the death for Sai Sai." After that, he hugged Bian Yujing and came to the bed.

After working hard for an hour, Bian Yujing was satisfied. Zhu Hongsan got up to find Qian Yuting.

Zhu Hongsan said that he didn't care about Qian Yuting, but after all, he was his own woman, so it was unreasonable to not give him any condolences.

When I came to Qian Yuting's room, I saw her crying with two maids.

The two maids were scared to death by Zhu Hongsan that day. When they saw the demon king coming, they said, "Son-in-law is here." After that, they escaped from the house.

Zhu Hongsan ignored the two maids, came to Qian Yuting, picked up Qian Yuting and put it on his legs. Zhu Hongsan found that the beauty who conformed to the aesthetic views of the Ming Dynasty was also good, and the light weight could be placed on his legs.

Zhu Hongsan touched Qian Yuting's little face and said, "Madam, what's wrong?"

Qian Yuting stopped crying and said, "My father's letter to me said that he and I have no grace."

Zhu Hongsan cursed: "It would be great if I burned all the books of this old guy at that time."

Qian Yuting said: "Don't scold my father, he is helpless. The letter said that Ruan Dacheng said that the royal father-in-law could not be controlled, and my father had no choice."
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