The day before Wu Haogu was about to leave Kaifeng Mansion, it rained lightly.

Wu Haogu stayed in the Pear Blossom Courtyard, quite reluctant.

After playing with a pair of babbling children for a long time, and staying warm with his wife Pan Qiaolian for a while, he sat in his study and looked through the letter from Ximen Qing that had just been delivered.

Now he is a man who has sons and daughters, wives and concubines. But for half of the year, I was an official outside, and I had to endure the pain of parting with my wife, concubines, and children, and I would shed tears when I thought about it.

On the contrary, Pan Qiaolian is quite suitable for this kind of husband's long-term life outside, at least she did not wipe her tears in front of Wu Haogu. also took the initiative to help him prepare his luggage, Zhang Luo's life in the next few months - in fact, officials of the Song Dynasty rarely took their wives on the road when they were on duty, and they were all accompanied by concubines. Pan Qiaolian, who was born in a wealthy family, of course, has known this rule for a long time.

Just when Wu Haogu was sad, she was pulling Yan Po'er and Du Wenyu, two women, to watch the rain, drink tea, and talk in the small pavilion in the back garden.

I don't know what was said? provoked Du Wenyu's face to turn red, but she just hung her head and didn't say a word.

Yan Po'er on the side giggled, "Sister Xiaoyu, Madame has personally agreed, what else do you have to worry about?" The good things you and the master have to be wrapped up in the slave. This time, it was the slave who accompanied the master to the north, so he must be careful not to let other vixens get close to the master...... When the time comes, the master will only be looking for a slave in addition to you. ”

The purpose of Yan Po'er and Wu Haogu going north together was, of course, not to act as bed companions, but to go to Jiehe Shang City to preside over her nephrite Wenxiang Building.

Nephrite Wenxianglou is of course a brothel, the first brothel in Jiehe Commercial City! Preparing to open this spring, the main "talented woman route". Yan Po'er has been preparing for this for more than a year, recruiting or buying more than a dozen female actors who can disguise talented women, and this time she will go on the road with her and Wu Haogu to go to the Liao Kingdom to pay for the money.

This way, it's really a little fragrant!

However, these women are not Wu Haogu's dishes, and only the good apprentice Du Wenyu belongs to him. Du Wenyu's painting skills have improved rapidly in the past year, and he has already gained the skill of Wu Hao Gu in figure painting. Maybe in another year or two, Wu Haogu will be able to ask her to ghostwrite for herself.

Now that the officials of Wu Haogu are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more things, the time for practicing painting is naturally less, and the painting skills have stopped, and even some have regressed.

So in the future, we can only let Mi Youren, Du Wenyu and Zhang Zeduan carry the banner of "samurai realism"!

In addition, Wu Haogu also planned to let Mi Youren, Du Wenyu and Zhang Zeduan recruit disciples respectively to spread the painting technique of "samurai realism".

In the Yuntai School Palace, which has already opened, and the Jiehe Branch of the Yuntai School Palace, which is about to open, art majors will be opened in the future, which will be presided over by Mi Youren and Du Wenyu respectively.

At the same time, Wu Haogu's residence in Jiehe Commercial City will also be handed over to Du Wenyu to preside over - in the past few months, the construction of Jiehe Commercial Market is still progressing as planned. Not only have the trenches on the outskirts of the city been excavated, but the main roads inside the city have also been compacted and paved with gravel, making them quite durable gravel roads. On both sides of the wide road, ditches were also dug for drainage and drinking water.

The city's administrative buildings, such as the Senate, the Municipal Office, the Police Patrol Office, the Water Patrol Office, the Metropolitan Security Office, the Inquisitorial Office, the Finance and Taxation Office, the Construction Office, and so on, are also stepping up construction, and all of them can be completed before Wu Haogu leaves Jiehe Commercial City in the autumn.

In addition, many commercial buildings are under construction or have already been built. Wanda Wazi, where Nephrite Wenxiang Pavilion is located, is the first commercial building to be built, and it is now being renovated.

The port area of Jiehe Commercial Market has also begun to take shape, with wharves, warehouses, and exchanges.

The residential houses built by the Wangbeilou Commercial Bank have now also risen from the ground. Of course, it is not a "shikumen", but a more spacious courtyard, and there are also some "three in and three out", "four in and four out" or "five in and five out" mansions. The largest of them is, of course, the mansion where Wu Haogu and Du Wenyu live together...... In the future, Du Wenyu will live there all the year round and take care of the third home for Wu Haogu, who is the "Three Nests of Profiteers".

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Ximen Qing's letter to Wu Haogu, except for some words about the love of children, mainly reported the situation of the Haizhou martial arts.

The settlement of the Haizhou martial arts family was basically completed, and most of the families of the Haizhou martial arts family were placed in Zhuangzi, which was less than 20 miles away from the county seat of Qishan, and the original name of the Zhuangzi was Wujiazhuang, but now it has been changed to Wujiazhuang. However, it is no longer a righteous gate that cultivates and lives together, but divides the land and works alone—only the right to use the land, not the ownership.

However, the men of the samurai family who did not have adults did not live in the martial arts village, but concentrated in the Linhai Village, where the Haizhou martial arts main hall is located, to study. Of course, I studied at the Six Arts Academy, and the Six Arts Education was implemented from the beginning of the Mongolian School, and the Six Arts Primary School was above the Six Arts Mongolian School.

In fact, Mengxue in the Song Dynasty was equivalent to the primary school in later generations, and the primary school was equivalent to the middle school.

The name "Elementary School" is taken from official schools such as Guozijian Elementary School. Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen read the name of the "primary school" is Chengnan Academy, both of them entered the school at the age of eight and "graduated" at the age of fourteen.

Of course, Wu Haogu can also continue his studies at Chengnan Academy, but the citizens of Kaifeng Mansion rarely do this. If you read it and read it, you really can't cry - Kaifeng Mansion is high-income, high-consumption, and ordinary men are trapped by the house, and the pressure is great! You can't be like those village Xiucai who have read the Confucian Five Classics all their lives.

The Six Arts Academy of the Haizhou Martial Arts will not let its children receive "lifelong education", after completing three years of Mongolian school (five, six, seven years old) and seven years of primary school (eight to fourteen years old), they will be divided, either entering the Yuntai Academy, or entering various trick schools, or going to study military science to prepare for the martial arts examination......

Closing the letter, Wu Haogu took another letter raft and unfolded it on the bookcase, preparing to write a reply letter to Ximen Qing.

At this moment, Pan Qiaolian's voice suddenly came: "Da Lang, Brother Eleven and Brother Gao are here." ”

Wu Haogu immediately put down the brush, and just got up and was about to go out to greet him, when he saw Pan Xiao'an and Gao Yu walking in one after another, and Pan Qiaolian followed them and came in.

Wu Haogu hurriedly said to Pan Qiaolian: "Eighteen sister, go and tell the kitchen to prepare wine and food, and order a pot of good cloud tea to send it." ”

"Got it."

Pan Qiaolian answered, and there were only three people left in the study: Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an, and Gao Yu.

Pan Xiao'an and Gao Yu were too familiar with Wu Haogu, so they were not polite at the moment, so they each pulled a chair and sat down.

"Brother Eleven, Brother Gao, how do you reply from Taiwei Cao?"

Cao Taiwei refers to the current commander of the former palace commander Cao Yu, who is a descendant of Cao Bin and the cousin-in-law of Pan Xiao'an and Pan Qiaolian.

Wu Haogu asked Pan Xiao'an and Gao Yu to come forward, and sent a painting of Yan Liben's authentic work "Cheng Zhijie Riding a Horse", and asked this Cao Taiwei to do a favor - that is, in the matter of demolishing the barracks, dig a big pit for Lu Jiawen!

"I agreed!" Pan Xiao'an said with a smile, "Even if there is no painting of Yan Liben, Taiwei Cao will not ask Lu Jia for that good fruit to eat." ”

Gao Yu also gloated and said: "When that guy was in charge of the city, he didn't rectify our brothers in the Kaifeng Forbidden Army...... Before and after, there are tens of millions of frauds! This time it was his turn to beg the forbidden army, how could the forbidden army spare him? ”

There is a deep hatred between Lu Jiawen and the Kaifeng Forbidden Army! The life of the Fourth Army of the Northern Song Dynasty has always been relatively good, except for the years when Wang Anshi made a new deal. And Lu Jiawen was the number one cool official under Wang Anshi at that time, and he was engaged in market affairs in Kaifeng Mansion, which made many forbidden army businessmen bankrupt.

Speaking of Lu Jia now, there are still many old people in the forbidden army who hate it so much that the roots of their teeth itch - that's tens of millions of hard-earned money! Moreover, this is still the money put into the official treasury for the city change service, excluding the loss caused by the private embezzlement of the public officials and the monopoly of the city change service.

If you want to be more serious, the businessmen in the Kaifeng Forbidden Army hate Lu Jiawen more than they hate Li Yuanhao.

And this time Lu Jia asked again, if he didn't seize the opportunity of demolition and relocation to knock him down, and when he won the favor of the official family in the future, the life of the big guy would not be over?

"What is Taiwei Cao going to do?" Wu Haogu hurriedly lowered his voice and asked.

"Taiwei Cao is going to let him go to the old camp in the north of the state." Pan Xiao'an smiled wickedly, "That is the oldest military camp in Kaifeng Mansion, which was built by Zhu Wen when he was the emperor. ”

Gao Yu also smiled: "It is said that it is a military camp, but seventy or eighty percent of the people who live in it are non-active soldiers and military dependents. Many of them are still descendants of the officers and soldiers of the forbidden army who died in the northwest...... If it is not handled well, they carry the ancestral martyr's tablet to beat the Dengwen drum, and Lu Jia will have to go to Haizhou to retire! ”

The Northern Song Dynasty engaged in professional mercenaries, which allowed family members to follow the camp (this soldier is a lifelong soldier, and he will not become a monk soldier without his wife and children), and the children of the military camp can also be given priority to enlist. So over time, a de facto world soldier system was formed.

At the same time, due to the high housing prices in Kaifeng Prefecture, many veterans who had been soldiers all their lives did everything possible to stay in the barracks and not move after they were discharged, and even after their deaths, their families refused to move out, turning the barracks into cheap public rental housing. Some of the families of the deceased soldiers who were in the barracks were still "loyal martyrs", that is, their ancestors died in battle with the Western Xia. Of course, the three officials in charge of the army couldn't pull their faces to drive them away, and they were afraid that they would chill the hearts of the soldiers because of this, and if they wanted to provoke a rebellion, everyone would not end well.

And the older and dilapidated the barracks, the more serious the situation is - because the three officials of the forbidden army sometimes deliberately move the families of retired veterans and deceased soldiers to the dilapidated old barracks, and vacate new barracks for the living officers and soldiers on duty.

The front secretary of the palace presided over by Cao Yu took it out for the demolition of the store's house, and it was such an old camp that was the most difficult to demolish!