The rotating governor Yang Zhongyuan personally received the reception and provided two options for accommodation: one is to stay in the recently completed White Swan Hotel, which is a super five-star hotel with thirty-three floors.
It is so high that the internal facilities are comparable to those of White Castle.
The second is to live in the high-end villa area in the west of the city. There are more than 20 free single-family villas, each of which can accommodate forty or fifty people, and they can be fully accommodated.
Of course, you can also consider staying in the White Castle, but now there are only more than 30 vacant rooms in the White Castle, which can accommodate more than a hundred people at most. Only core members of the royal family, along with a small number of maids and eunuchs, are allowed to stay. Guards cannot be arranged.
"Let's live in a single-family villa. The white swan shop is too high and you might not be used to it."
Empress Zhou thought for a while and said, although the prince clamored to stay in a hotel, it was very cold at high places, and the sea breeze was not strong. If he stayed on the high floor of the White Swan Hotel, would he be shaken by the wind?
In the villa area in the west of the city, Feng Jiuying, the liaison representative of the royal family stationed in Harbor City, also lives there. He has been in Harbor City for several years and is very familiar with it. Among the people receiving the reception at this moment, there is Feng Jiuying.
As a guide, my father-in-law can help introduce the situation and avoid many problems.
So it’s best to live in a villa!
"Okay, we'll make arrangements to settle in immediately." Yang Zhongyuan said.
…
soon.
After moving into the villa area in the west of the city and getting settled.
Yang Zhongyuan asked someone to bring a large stack of checks and handed it to Queen Zhou in person. He smiled and said: "Haigang City is a developed and free city. In the next few days, His Highness does not need to think about official matters. He can enjoy the delicious food here and buy
You can just buy the goods you want, and spend these checks first. The reimbursement standard for the royal family is 1,000 silver dollars per person per day, and 15 silver dollars per person per day for the palace maids and eunuchs. As long as the reimbursement limit is not exceeded, you can spend it however you want."
In addition, ten electric four-wheel vehicles have been arranged for use as special vehicles.
The security personnel responsible for protection have all switched to plainclothes protection status to try not to affect the visiting experience of the royal family members.
And arrange a female guide and liaison person, who can report any situation at any time.
"Zhi Yang, may I ask why your village owner is not here and did not come to greet you? What does this mean?" Zhang Yan did not have any intention of eating, drinking and having fun, but asked rather unhappily, because because of emotions and reasons, that Xu
It would be more etiquette to welcome him in person.
"The owner of the village has gone on a business trip and won't be able to come back for the time being."
"How long will it take for him to come back?"
"The short term is ten days, the long term may be half a month. It is like this every year. This is not intentionally rude. Don't be impatient. Just relax and have fun for a few days. The owner of the village will come back sooner or later." Yang Zhongyuan explained.
"...Okay.@*~~"
Zhang Yan felt helpless and very surprised. As the head of Xujiazhuang, Xu Yuan was away for ten days and a half in a row. Yang's performance in power was so indifferent, as if it was just a trivial matter. If it were the Ming Emperor, he would sneak out of the palace secretly.
For three days, the civil servants felt as if the sky had fallen. However, after Xu Yuan had been away for ten days and a half, everything in Xujiazhuang seemed to be normal and the internal situation was very stable.
Just from this point, you can feel a big difference, and feel that Xujiazhuang is extraordinary.
Forget it, since we won't be able to see the real owner in a short time, let's just relax for a few days and observe and study this Xujiazhuang.
…
Next few days.
For Queen Zhou, Zhang Yan, Zhu Cixiang, Zhu Yuyao, Zhu Cijiong and other core members of the royal family, both large and small, even the harbor city was quite cold, but they quickly appreciated the charm of this city.
Food, there are all kinds of food from all over the world, it is said that there are eight major cuisines. You eat at three different restaurants a day, but you can't eat in one food street in a month.
Of course, the most delicious food is seafood such as crabs, lobsters, and oysters, and the prices are very cheap.
Next is clothes, there are countless beautiful clothes, including dresses, down jackets, woolen windbreakers, knitted sweaters, sexy pantyhose, etc., with hundreds of styles, not to mention some shameful underwear and clothing, which can be seen by grown men.
Nosebleed makes people just want to describe it as "shameless", but after trying it on, it is not only close-fitting and warm, but also very comfortable. I also noticed the Harbor City.
Most of the women were wearing new clothes. After thinking about it, Queen Zhou also bought a dozen sets for herself.
There are also many places to play, which are especially popular with children.
For example, in a movie theater, animated movies such as "Havoc in Heaven", "Nezha Haohai", "Tales from the Heavenly Book" and "White Snake" are shown. Children watch with concentration, and adults are also attracted by the wonderful and interesting stories.
For example, in an indoor amusement park, there are slides, trampolines, air-cushion castles and other play facilities, so you won’t feel bored all day long.
There are also ocean parks, chess and card rooms, libraries, ice rooms, football fields, basketball courts, sandy beaches, fountain squares, hot spring bathhouses... There are countless leisure and entertainment options to experience. If you experience one place every day, you can play for more than half a year.
.
As for the items in department stores, they are much richer and more complete than those in the imperial stores. The styles are newer, the functions are stronger, and specialties from various places are all included. You can always find what you like and want to buy.
Then without realizing it, he spent all his reimbursement quota.
That’s right!
Especially Empress Zhou, she has become a shopaholic, spending all her own quota, her two sons and one daughter, and the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan, the total reimbursement quota of 5,000 silver dollars/day has been almost spent by her.
Most of it, but she still felt that it was not enough and the money was not spent. You must know that at the beginning, she planned to spend at most two to three hundred silver dollars a day, and the rest was saved to solve the financial difficulties of the royal family. The result was
A chopping party.
I can only say that I don’t feel bad spending other people’s money, and in the palace, except for Emperor Zhu Youjian, there are really few people who are more frugal than Empress Zhou.
besides!
Queen Zhou Yufeng, Zhou Yufeng, also met a new best friend in the past few days. Not only did the relationship become passionate and heated up quickly, but they became inseparable every day. Even the children they gave birth to were playing with each other every day.
They quickly developed into childhood sweethearts, and they were happy to see it happen.
On the sixth day.
Because the relationship between the two was too warm, under the advice of her new best friend, Queen Zhou actually got excited and threw the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan aside, taking her two sons and a daughter with her, as well as several palace maids and eunuchs.
, simply moved into the vacant house in White Castle and became very close neighbors, so that they could meet each other early every morning, and the children could also play together immediately.
By the way, who is this new bestie?
She actually asked Queen Zhou to forget all her best friend, the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan, and her reminders and advice, and resolutely join her new best friend. They go shopping together every day, taste delicious food, and have fun together.
Recreation and entertainment, etc., are like weighing without leaving the weight, and the weight never leaving the scale. The good relationship is surprising.
Fang Qingyan.
This new best friend with a strong relationship can only be Fang Qingyan, the mistress of White Castle.
In fact, on the night when the visiting group of royal family members arrived, Fang Qingyan, as the hostess, held a grand reception and cleansing banquet in the White Castle, and invited Queen Zhou and others to be guests of the White Castle. She was extremely warm and friendly, expressing this
It was my husband Xu Yuan's instruction that we must do our best to entertain the royal family members and make them feel at home until they return home happily.
After the wedding banquet, Fang Qingyan personally acted as a guide and took Queen Zhou and others to visit many places. In addition, there were countless topics to talk about regarding their children, so the relationship kept improving day by day, and they talked about everything.
This day.
On the 26th floor of White Castle, indoor children's entertainment room.
Prince Zhu Cihong and his eldest son Xu Jiaguang are playing flying chess.
Princess Zhu Ailao and Xia Hesheng's daughter Xu Qingmei played the game of weaving flower ropes.
The prince Zhu Cijiong, who is only three years old, also fights with Xu Jiayao, Xu Jiahua and other children, fighting for toys, and their voices of laughter and shouting can be heard from time to time.
Standing by the floor-to-ceiling glass window, looking at the scenery in the distance through the window and overlooking all the living beings below, Fang Qingyan crossed her chest with her hands and suddenly asked Queen Zhou who was standing next to her: "Sister, what do you think of this world?
How is this world?"
"..."
Suddenly faced with such a high-end question, Zhou Yufeng didn't know how to answer. You should know that they usually talk about their children, food, drink, fun, and their husbands.
“The world is so big, and the world is infinitely vast, that even the most talented and strategic people cannot firmly grasp it.
Establish the most stable rule."
Fang Qingyan asked and answered her own questions: "I have made clear hints many times before, suggesting that my husband seizes this world, changes to a new dynasty, establishes a wiser and more perfect rule, and allows our family to become the master of this world and control that world."
Supreme authority."
Hear this.
Zhou Yufeng's heart suddenly tightened, and her face became ugly.
Ambition, naked ambition, is displayed in front of her like this. Is it appropriate for Sister Fang to do this?
"But then I figured it out. My husband convinced me that although supreme authority is extremely tempting, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. It is by no means a myth that only glory has no price. Once the responsibility is not fulfilled, the power will be weakened.
, if it loses, its legitimacy will be shaken, and maybe after two or three hundred years, it will collapse and be replaced by other families, completely losing everything, and no matter how great the wealth is, it will disappear."
Fang Qingyan turned around, looked at Queen Zhou with a little sympathy in her eyes, and said: "In the past few days, I have had so many contacts and understandings with my sister. I feel that I can't live a life like you, sister, having to memorize so much.
There are so many etiquette and rules to take care of, a harem of thousands of people, and the monthly salary is less than 3,000 taels, which is not even as much as I spend in a day. I still have to deal with all kinds of people and scheming with the concubines.
, not to mention not much personal freedom...it's like being trapped in a cage."
"So I don't envy my sister now. It's better to keep it like this. My husband didn't lie to me. Times have indeed changed. We should abandon some old and outdated concepts and we must look at the problem from a long-term perspective."
"Sister, you are joking."
Empress Zhou smiled very reluctantly, feeling really offended, and the other person told the truth, the truth, which was even more unacceptable, so she said calmly: "Sister, if the royal family has Xujiazhuang
With such financial resources, I can live as freely and freely as my sister. I can spend three to five thousand silver dollars every day, and traveling out of the palace frequently is not a big problem... Why should my sister be sarcastic? After all, it is just a matter of money."
"Is it enough for the royal family to have money?"
Fang Qingyan shook her head: "Even if the royal family has one billion or tens of billions of silver dollars in hand, should the victims of the Ming Dynasty be provided with relief? Should the officials' salaries be paid? Should the food and salaries of hundreds of thousands of border officers be paid in full? The embankments of the Yellow River should be
Don’t rebuild? After spending this and that, how long will the money be used? Can all problems be solved? Can it be guaranteed that in one or two hundred years, the monthly salary of the Empress of the Ming Dynasty will not drop to less than three thousand silver dollars per month or even less?
"
Face her problems.
Zhou Yufeng's face finally turned ugly, and she had to ask in a deep voice: "Sister, what do you mean by suddenly talking about these things? Do you want to make fun of me?"
She felt that this place was unbearable. Who could endure such an insult?
"Sister, you misunderstood. I was speaking out of my feelings. I didn't mean to make fun of you."
Fang Qingyan quickly explained: "I was just thinking about how Xujiazhuang should cooperate with the royal family to maximize the interests of both parties. The royal family controls many rights, but is short of money and subject to various restrictions. Xujiazhuang has plenty of money. In the future
He will also try his best to get the entire Ming Dynasty and most of the world's wealth into the hands of Xu Jiazhuang, reaching the ultimate level of wealth, not doing anything that will lead to losses, not taking on unbearable burdens, and then giving the royal family a certain amount of support, in exchange for
With the endorsement of royal power, we can protect the wealth of Xujiazhuang in a long-term and stable manner... I think that this structure of money and power supporting each other is like two legs of a human being, which not only can walk steadily, but also can walk fast, and has a larger
Sustainability.@*~~”
"The key to maintaining this strong cooperative relationship should be these children."
Fang Qingyan's eyes swept over the children such as Zhu Cihong, Xu Qingmei, Zhu Ayao, and Xu Jiaguang.
“Money and power support each other?”
Queen Zhou muttered, her eyes lit up, and she wanted to continue to discuss it in depth. Fang Qingyan said that the time was not yet ripe, and suggested that she get to know Xujiazhuang better, and that the two sides could cultivate their relationship and talk about it when the time came.
"Isn't this appetizing?"
Queen Zhou was a little speechless. After these days of visiting, Xujiazhuang's advancement, wealth and power had left an extremely deep impression on her. Her heart was already leaning towards the idea of reaching a comprehensive alliance with Xujiazhuang. This chapter has been completed!