If you want to compare Xizi with Mo Chou, it is difficult to judge right and wrong to Yanbo;

But Jue Xihu lost, and Jiang Fanyun shot Yunfei outside.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Duanyang Festival, this year, Jinling is popular in Jinling's first scenic spot "Mochou Smoke and Rain" in Mochou Lake.

Mochou Lake is located in the west of the Qinhuai River, the embankment is green willows, the begonias are intertwined, the lake is rippling, the blue waves shine on the people, since ancient times, it is no less than the famous spot of the Six Dynasties of the West Lake of Hangzhou. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang liked the natural scenery of Mochou Lake very much, built more than ten pavilions and pavilions along the lakeside, all kinds of gardens, water pavilions, winding paths, corridors, etc., were reflected in the mountain caryophyllum pine, among the green shade of flowers and trees, and the pleasant scenery was beautiful.

In the early years, Zhu Yuanzhang often played against Xu Da in the Shengqi Building on the island in the middle of the lake, and according to legend, he gave this building and the entire garden to Xu Da, of course, it was just a joke, but the annex of the island was indeed a royal garden that visitors were not allowed to set foot in, but the rest of the island allowed visitors to come here, and it was to forget to return every day with red men and green women by boat, which added a lot of color to Mochou Lake.

Xu Hao chose the royal courtyard of Huxin Island as the place where his wife was confined, and when summer came, the ten-tilted lotus flowers in the inner lake gradually bloomed, and the red flowers were covered everywhere, and the fragrant wind was gusting, just like the peerless Lingbo fairy, out of the mud and not stained.

The inner lake is rich in lotus roots, and hundreds of boat girls operate small boats to shuttle back and forth in the lotus flowers, singing beautiful and soft southern songs from time to time. All kinds of waterfowl soar freely, and the begonia trees bloom with red, white, and pink flowers, making the most famous poetry societies in Beijing come to hold the annual begonia flower party.

Every day has attracted an endless stream of tourists, in order to see the face of the wealthy ladies, the sassy ink is sandwiched in it, hundreds of various painting boats come to the Qinhuai River, competing on the lake.

Such a lively scene is indispensable to the son of a powerful man who has nothing to do, Zhu Yong, the eldest son of Zhu Neng, the prince of Chengguo. Zhang Fu's second brother Zhang Hui intended to part with Li Jinglong and other local snakes in the capital, so that his family formed a dragon boat team. Li Zengzhi, who received the news, was not to be outdone, and informed several children of wealthy families who liked dragon boat racing in previous years, in addition to the young master of the princess's family and the son of the minister's family, each with a team to kill, and the training team that was in full swing on the lake every day attracted countless people to watch.

Xu Hao is not interested in this, and he is not good at favoring anyone between the two groups of brothers, so he can't stand this gang of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods lingering here all day long. ate and drank in the courtyard for nothing, and didn't want to disturb his wife, so he had to accompany them to the other side to chat and fart.

Zhu Qiaoqiao looked interesting, so he sat on a royal painting boat to watch the excitement, and the girls of the Xu family got on the boat when they were free. At noon on this day, it is time to rest. Xu Hao took the time to run to the boat.

Walking into the cabin, there are more than a dozen pots of pearl orchids and jasmine flowers on both sides. All are blue and white porcelain pots. On the shelf of vermilion oil, two parrots were hung on the colored red beam, and when he saw Xu Hao coming in, he flapped his wings and shouted: "The third master is here, the third master is here." ”

The girls who were sitting and frolicking rushed over to say goodbye, and Xiangling lifted the Hunan curtain. Qingwen and other big girls sat in the hollow outer room eating tea and gossiping.

Across the bead curtain, Zhu Qiaoqiao was half-lying on a small red sandalwood with carved cloud bats, with a Jiawen mat, and two eleven or twelve-year-old girls gently fanned themselves. Sanxi sat on the chair by the window, and Sixi and the two housekeeper women sat on the small stool behind them, and stood up at the same time.

"Let's all go down." Zhu Qiaoqiao smiled and commanded.

Xu Hao walked closer, and Zhu Qiaoqiao smiled: "I can see a lot of stunning beauties in the painting boat every day, princesses, county lords and even princesses, none of you are excited?" Needless to say, with your identity, even if you learn by appearance, you can easily hook up, I don't believe you are not impressed? ”

"Beauty is beautiful, but I already have a wife, son, and daughter, and I can't bear it."

Xu Hao said casually, to be honest, it's fake not to be attracted, but so what? He will never provoke women outside for this, this is the bottom line of his life, and there are too many women around him, and he should be a man.

Today, Zhu Qiaoqiao is wearing a translucent blue gauze shirt, a green gauze skirt as thin as a cicada's wings, a light grease powder on her gorgeous face, a few gold hairpins inserted in her sideburns, a slender figure and a lazy posture, and a pair of leather high-heeled shoes embroidered with royal blue beads on her feet, from the workshop under the name of the eldest sister, this pair of high-heeled sandals are sold for more than fifty taels of silver in the capital.

The most expensive is as high as hundreds of gold, and there are special people who come to the door to measure the size of the wealthy women, each pair is unique, and together with bras and underwear, etc., are popular with rich women as luxury goods, and are in short supply.

Nowadays, there are already shrewd businessmen who smell business opportunities, and have successively launched relatively low-priced women's shoes and other goods, and production from Liaodong has also begun to enter the south, so it can be said that the status of Hong Xichao for merchants is gradually loosened, and commercial prosperity seems to be just around the corner.

Xu Hao is looking forward to the arrival of the budding capitalism, but he is also a little reluctant, because capitalism is really not a good thing, naked and bloody exploitation. Even with the introduction of the yeoman farming law, a large number of wealthy merchants and traditional landlords and aristocrats would still try their best to buy land, forcing countless peasants and commoners to give up farming and live in the cities.

I only hope that the rise of the capitalist class will change many people's concepts, and eventually there will be an industrial revolution similar to Europe, whether it is a republic or a constitutional monarchy, just don't come out with a Li Zicheng, you have to be an emperor.

But this is all hundreds of years later, at least in Xu Hao's lifetime, at most it would be good to see capitalism rise slightly, and a few decades of time does not mean anything, and it is impossible to say that the emperor and ministers will sacrifice the ancestral system of the Hongwu Dynasty to oppose the emerging class.

The consequence of being too mercantilist is that it will definitely lead to a collective boycott of conservative literati such as scholars.

Zhu Qiaoqiao pulled Xu Hao to sit beside him, and said: "When I came, the cousins in the countryside of Liaodong were planting rice in the field with two bare feet, I hope you let the rice seeds sent by the household department work, otherwise the grain transported by sea this year will have to increase by three percent, this sea ship must continue to improve, there are too many shipwrecks, and there must be dredged as soon as possible to increase the number of Cao soldiers, there are too many thieves, and one out of ten percent of the grain has to be fed to those kings." ”

Xu Hao nodded, due to the canal's disrepair, flood disasters and four years of war, the north-south canal became more and more overwhelmed, often blocked, and most of the grain to the north was changed to the sea route, so there were more and more shipwrecks in the corresponding way.

In history, as soon as Zhu Di ascended the throne, he ordered to move the capital to Beijing, in addition to starting to build the Forbidden City and relocate the rich people to the north, it was to re-excavate the North-South Grand Canal, not to mention the safety of inland rivers, which also greatly shortened the time.

"The Ministry of Industry has already sent officials, and it will organize manpower soon."

There is no need for Xu Hao to worry about this, the importance of Beijing is undoubted, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will not block the excavation of the canal, and because of the disappearance of many major projects such as the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Yongle Bell, the court is not short of money today.

Xu Hao began to miss the north and said: "Talk more about Liaodong, I'm afraid I won't have time to go over this year." ”

At this time, Qingwen brought in four small plates, lychees, longans, pomegranates and grapes, as well as fresh lotus seeds on a red agate plate. Xiangling brought over a small mahogany painted gold incense table, and the two of them sat obediently while peeling off the peel.

Zhu Qiaoqiao shook his head slightly and refused, motioned for the two of them to eat lotus seeds by themselves, and said: "Maybe because I grew up in the northwest since I was a child, I prefer Liaodong, which is regarded as a cold place, and I feel like I have returned to my hometown." Dalian has four distinct seasons, and even the winter of nearly half a year I don't think it's so scary. Every house burns a coal stove and sleeps on the kang at night, and there are trees everywhere without worrying about the lack of fire. This year, let the people plant cabbage in every household, pickle it and store it, as long as they are not lazy, they will not starve to death.

It is that whenever the heavy snow closes the mountains, the villages around the world become isolated, the most afraid of robbers or those damned Mongolian Jurchens to come to rob, even if they do not kill people, they can rob all the food and other things, and the whole family will starve to death and freeze to death on a cold day, and when they receive the news, it is already the spring of the next year, so they must build roads, even if it snows heavily, at least they can send people, and the exchange of news is more convenient. ”

"Build roads?" Xu Hao's brows furrowed, with only a few hundred thousand Liaodong soldiers and civilians, he really did not have the ability to build criss-crossing roads.

Just as he was groaning, Zhu Qiaoqiao raised his eyebrows and said: "I was reluctant to let the Han people build roads, so I ordered Mu Yi to send the 20,000 Koreans on the island. According to your instructions, thousands of Jurchens were recruited to move to the island, and they promised to go to sea to capture a person and give three taels of silver, but the Jurchens have not moved, but Mu Yi and they have captured three hundred pirates and their families, Hehe! ”

Xu Hao was a little dumbfounded, and said in his heart, isn't this the slave trade? Shaking his head, he said: "Your is at most an expedient measure, sooner or later it will cause protests from Korea and the Japanese state, don't think about the large-scale and continuous acquisition of slaves, the imperial court will definitely interfere and stop it." Besides, the two countries are close at hand, and I don't want the Korean Japanese to have the upper hand in terms of population ratio, but by the way, I can capture some Nanyang natives to build bridges and roads. ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao said without a trace of pity: "Every year, a maximum of twenty or thirty thousand slaves are bought, and the emperor does not send hungry soldiers, or gives silver or land, and the soldiers who keep it are overjoyed." Besides, I can't afford to raise more slaves, and when a road is repaired, about half of them die of illness due to exhaustion and escape, and the remaining half will choose some docile rewards for meritorious people, and choose some smart and clever ones to give Han people status, let them be slave stewards, and women can be sold to the people as slaves. The rest of the strong and unruly men have been killed, and the rest have been castrated and rushed to mine, how can the old lady let the alien race thrive in Liaodong? I won't trade at a loss. ”

Qingwen and Xiangling were stunned, looking at the hard-hearted grandmother with a look of awe, but Xu Hao listened to it with joy, good people want to colonize, to be a capitalist and a powerful person, you have to have the quality of not taking human life seriously, it seems that handing over Liaodong to the sister-in-law to run it is really the right person! (To be continued......)