Xiao Fusong was in Anping Town at this time, watching the busy construction site of the new house, with Zheng Hongkui next to him and a group of entourages behind him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zheng Hongkui looked at this nephew and asked puzzledly: "Ah Song, why don't you go and read the Analects with Mr., what are you going to see here?" ”

Zheng Fusong sighed: "Fourth uncle, I saw a truth from the book, 'The wood show in the forest wind will destroy it, and the pile above the shore will be turbulent', if a tree is higher than the entire forest, then when the wind comes, it will be destroyed, and if the accumulation is higher than the embankment, it must be washed away first." ”

Zheng Hongkui frowned and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

"The Zheng family's power and prestige in Fujian have reached their peak, and what my father should do should be to keep his head up, not to build a large number of buildings. I heard that this mansion has exceeded the system, and even exceeded the scale of some feudal kings, and there are voices of criticism throughout Anping and even all parts of Fujian......"

Zheng Hongkui looked at this ten-year-old nephew in surprise, such profound words should not come out of the mouth of a young man of this age, only the old pedant hired by the Zheng family would say so.

Without waiting for him to ask, Zheng Fusong continued: "My father is still buying properties in various places, and his hand has reached out to Guangdong, and I heard that there is a Zheng family's grange under the city of Guangzhou, and he has left a comment in Guangdong that is 'extremely paradoxical'......"

Zheng Hongkui interrupted him: "Who are you listening to when you say these words?" Who dares to chew the root of the tongue, the fourth uncle breaks his dog's leg! ”

"Fourth uncle, it doesn't matter who told me, the important thing is that although my father is now in unlimited scenery, he is also on the cusp, many people gather under his command, and more people hate him, it's okay to have a smooth ride, once he encounters a setback, it must be the wall that everyone pushes."

Zheng Hongkui remembered the experience of being left out in the cold for the Zheng family, to say that there is no resentment towards the eldest brother, it is false, listening to Zheng Fusong's words, there is a faint feeling of schadenfreude in his heart at the moment when the eldest brother is unlucky. Immediately woke up, the person in front of him was the eldest brother's biological son, surrounded by the eyes and ears of the eldest brother, and could not show the slightest emotion to make people perceive.

He coughed a few times, straightened his face and said, "At a young age, what to do if you want to do this, your father has his own reasons for doing things." You study hard by yourself, and it is only serious to gain fame and glory for your ancestors. A house is being built here, it's dusty, there's nothing to see, and the fourth uncle will send someone to send you back. ”

Zheng Fusong glanced at him, didn't speak again, turned around and walked slowly, his steps were steady, like an adult.

Zheng Hongkui looked at his nephew's back and shook his head, it may not be a good thing for children to be too smart and sensible too early.

At this time, a middle-aged man who looked like an account room walked over lightly with an account book, and said respectfully: "Fourth master, a batch of new timber has arrived yesterday, do you want to count it yourself?" ”

Zheng Hongkui said casually: "No need, you just count it, just read the types and numbers to me." ”

The bookkeeper opened the ledger and read, "...... Eighty roots of Rosewood microphylla, 60 roots of Qiongzhou Huanghuali, 100 roots of Luzon striped ebony, and 5 roots of Sichuan golden silk nanmu ......"

Zheng Hongkui listened while slandering the extravagance of the furniture materials in the new house, and when he heard the golden silk nanmu, he shuddered and interrupted the other party's words: "Wait, golden silk nanmu? Can you see clearly whether it is ordinary nanmu or golden silk nanmu? ”

The account room was stunned, looked through the account book carefully, looked up and said: "It was confirmed during the counting, and there is no mistake in the account book, it is indeed the golden silk nanmu ......"

Zheng Hongkui broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, no wonder even Fu Song said that his father exceeded the system, and the specifications exceeded the mansion of the vassal king, even if he still used golden silk nanmu, this is not a trivial matter.

Golden silk nanmu is one of the most valuable in nanmu, because its color is light yellow like gold, the cross-section can refract the golden light in the sun, so it is called golden silk nanmu, buried in the ground for thousands of years will not rot, the insects do not invade, the price is comparable to gold, it has always been the precious wood used by the royal family, and it is forbidden to use it among the people. He Shen of the Qing Dynasty was executed for building a mansion for himself with gold silk nanmu without authorization, which became one of the crimes executed: "Nanmu houses are extravagant and over-the-top, imitating the system of Ningshou Palace, and the garden is no different from Pengdao and Yaotai in the Old Summer Palace." ”

He calmly instructed: "Bring the Nanmu into the old mansion and put it away, and let someone guard it." ”

The attendant next to him should go down and go to pass the word.

After reading the accounts, he was about to leave, but was stopped by Zheng Hongkui: "You are a new account room, right?" I think you seem to be Cantonese......"

The bookkeeper nodded and said, "The fourth master has a good memory, and the little one is indeed Cantonese." ”

"Since you're from Guangdong, tell me, do you know the Qiongzhou camp, and what is Guangdong's perception of the Qiongzhou camp?"

The account room raised his head in some surprise and looked at Zheng Hongkui: "Fourth master, this is ......"

Zheng Hongkui said lightly: "Chat casually, don't be restrained, just say what you know." He didn't suddenly inquire about the news of the Qiongzhou camp on a whim, but he had been pondering since the Battle of Luowan: Why was the center-left suddenly attacked, and the Hongmao "left" flag logo was just right? Why did the Qiongzhou battalion, which was supposed to be an ally, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and did not make a move until the eldest brother pleaded? Why did he not fight for merit after making meritorious contributions and quietly returned to Qiongzhou Mansion? Judging from the sky-high price of 3,000 taels of short and heavy artillery, Xia Nan, the general of the Qiongzhou battalion, is a snobbish character, and his performance before and after the war does not match his character, and there must be something wrong with it.

I didn't have time to think about it when I was busy before, these thoughts just flashed in my mind, but now I am idle in the old house, and I have a lot of time, so I want to talk to someone. And most of the people around him are the direct subordinates of the eldest brother, so it is not suitable to talk about these things, so it is better to find an unrelated person casually.

The bookkeeper stared at Zheng Hongkui for a few moments, and concluded that he was really just chatting, not for other purposes, thought about it, and said slowly: "What the little one knows is only a scale and half a claw, and the fourth master should have fun......

The account office started from the sudden rise of the Qiongzhou battalion and defeated the encirclement and suppression of the Qiongzhou Mansion, and then to the defeat of tens of thousands of Guangdong battalion soldiers, and then to the brazen attack on the city of Guangzhou, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were helpless, and made an alliance under the city, forcing the governor of Liangguang to resign and leave, and finally accepted the appeasement on the condition of listening to the seal and not listening to the tune.

"Since then, for the Qiongzhou battalion, the Guangdong military and civilians are all fearless like tigers, the governor is unwilling to care, the governor tries his best to win over, I heard that the officials of the Qiongzhou Mansion are even more obedient to the ......."