Ru Taisu was finally deported from Beijing. The official reason was that he would soon go to Suzhou to serve as the censor of the river patrol to quell the floods in Taihu Lake. Everyone with a discerning eye knew that this was to punish him for impeaching the King of Wu in the court while His Highness the Crown Prince was away. It is suspected of instigating a relationship between the prince and the King of Wu brothers.
After all, it is late autumn now, and the floods in Taihu Lake have just subsided. The next flood will not happen until the spring floods in February or March. Why rush someone to take office in such a hurry?
What surprised all the officials the most was that this resolution was drafted by His Majesty the Crown Prince himself and approved by His Majesty Zhu Pi. It is said that just after leaving the court that day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rushed into the palace from outside the city, and then drafted it in front of the cabinet. Resolution. Although many officials interceded for Ru Taisu, the prince remained unmoved.
This was the first time that His Highness the Crown Prince was so decisive, and all the officials in the East Palace were surprised. The courtiers all thought that His Highness the Crown Prince had a close relationship with the King of Wu, and that he was standing up for his younger brother, so they did not dare to speak to each other again.
This time the storm subsided.
Zhu Su returned to Bifeng Imperial Villa, closed the door, and focused on the Zhuang Jianhe scientific research project. After the cement road dried up, Shen Wang and the Shen family craftsmen's eyes almost fell off. They just lived a little better. Water and sand actually condensed into such a smooth and smooth road? It was as hard as rock, as if a long strip of boulder had been dug into the ground!
This thing has a lot of potential! Shen Wang's eyes lit up when he looked at the cement road, and he wished he could lie down on the ground and lick it for a few times. Judging from the way Zhu Su poured cement while building the road without feeling any distress, the cost of this thing is definitely not expensive.
But it can have such an effect!
What kind of cement is this? This damn thing is gold!
The craftsmen of the Shen family worked even harder. This golden thigh of His Highness, the Fifth Highness, must be hugged tightly.
The cement road was built twenty miles away from the village, and the village was like a spider web extending in all directions. The Shen family craftsmen built a magnificent restaurant and an elegant theater in the planned place. Suzhou architecture is the leader of southern architecture. These The gardens, pavilions, and roads built by them are even more beautiful than the Fule Yuan on the Qinhuai River. This area located to the east of Zhuangzi has a vague appearance of a market.
In addition to the pavilions, the Shen family craftsmen also built an academy for Zhu Su. Half of the academy is at the foot of the mountain, extending towards Bifeng Mountain, and higher up is the Bifeng Temple. Li Wenzhong found an antique stone from somewhere and stood it at the foot of the mountain. It is used as the facade of the academy. There are not many buildings in the academy, only a large cafeteria, a large playground, and a horizontal building on the mountainside that serves as a teaching building. Although it is just a rough start, it looks quiet, peaceful and somewhat leisurely at sunset. feeling.
"How does Fifth Uncle want to gain popularity?" Li Jinglong looked at the clean and spacious cement street in front of him and couldn't help but ask Zhu Sudao.
Although the road is spacious and the theater and restaurant have been completed, not many people pass by on this road. Except for the clerks, shopkeepers and theater troupes borrowed from the Shen family, only Zhu Su and Li Jinglong come to visit this street occasionally. .At night, there wasn’t even a shadow of a ghost. It was so eerie and scary.
Isn't it a waste of money to build a tavern and theater in such a wilderness?
"Mountain people have their own clever ideas." Zhu Su displayed his folding fan, held his head high and looked confident. The four words "Guangyuan Guangjin" written on the folding fan made Li Jinglong's eyelids jump a few times.
Prince Wu building buildings and doing business in such a deserted suburb has long been a laughing stock among the dandies in Yingtian Mansion. The Li family is also a member of this place, and they have a long-standing relationship with Zhu Su, where both prosper and lose. Zhu Su Li Jinglong is determined not to be much better even if he becomes a laughing stock.
In these second-generation circles, all they care about is face, and Li Jinglong felt very panicked.
"When we open for business in a few days, why don't we post in my name as my nephew and invite noble men from various families to support the business..." Li Jinglong gritted his teeth. Everyone would have to lose face, so he really couldn't take the initiative on his own, at least on the day of opening. Creating some prosperous scenes can also save some dignity for Uncle Wu.
"You are interested." Zhu Su patted Li Jinglong on the shoulder. Li Jinglong was slightly shorter, so that Zhu Su could take the photo more easily. "If you want to find some friends, you can go find them. I just guess how many will come." Remember to inform Shen Wang in advance."
"If there are too many people and we can't arrange seats, it will be a disgrace to your Duke Cao's mansion." He said, waving his folding fan and humming a tune before leaving.
"There...are too many people?" Li Jinglong was like a confused monk Zhang Er. Could it be that the fifth uncle was planning to join forces with His Majesty to forcibly tie up the people in Yingtian Mansion?
The opening day arrived in a blink of an eye. On this day, Li Jinglong was startled by the noise outside. After washing up, he went out to take a look, and his eyes almost dropped: he saw only the deserted concrete road on weekdays. There was a huge crowd today. Countless horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians were crowding the place. Young men in fine clothes and fat-bellied businessmen were flocking there in an endless stream!
"Brother Gong, are you dreaming?" Li Jinglong asked Xu Yungong next to him with a shocked look on his face.
"I don't think so." Xu Yungong was also shocked. After several days of military training, his complexion was no longer as fair as before. The moon-white gown made his face as dark as the bottom of a pot. He showed his folding fan and said, "Definitely." It was His Majesty the Fifth Highness who did something unexpected again."
During these days in Zhuangzi, Xu Yungong had long admired Zhu Su's knowledge. Turning water into ice, using ice to make fire, all kinds of things that were previously unimaginable were as simple as raising a hand for the fifth prince. It turns out that I thought that all the knowledge in the world is in books, and my sister must be one of the most knowledgeable people in the world because of her talent. After meeting Zhu Su, I realized that there is a world outside the world. I only studied knowledge in those piles of old papers, which was just a frog in the well.
It is rumored that His Highness's talents and knowledge were taught by gods. Xu Yungong doesn't know whether others believe it, but he believes it himself.
It's a pity that the "Primary School Mathematics" written by His Highness is too obscure, and His Highness also stated that only after explaining this book can he be qualified to learn his study of objects. After a lot of effort, he was able to explain twenty-three out of ten of them. That's it. A person as solid in talent and learning as Fang Xiaoru can only understand four to five tenths of the answers. Even today, he is still studying hard in his small side room!
The two followed the direction of the traffic and arrived in front of the recently completed theater. They saw a huge wooden sign in front of the garden with four characters: Auction Venue. Most of the people got off the car here, and there was a sign at the gate. Several tables were set up in front to register names, and there were people maintaining order. There was already a long queue in front of the garden.
"You two, are you here to participate in the auction?" A thin man with a sly eyebrow came out of nowhere and opened his coat to reveal several wooden cards hanging inside. "I'm afraid you two little officials are late. The queue is so long, if the junior officials line up at the back, they may not be able to get their turn."
"There just happen to be a few more number plates here. If the official wants to, I will transfer them to you! I won't take advantage of you. I only charge you 20 taels for a set of number plates!" The thin man held out two fingers.