Daming Super Daddy

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In Zhu Song's residence, Huang San and Han Qingshan were all waiting here.

"My lord, as you expected before, all the civil and military officials in Jiaozhi Mansion, except for a few people, are all connected with powerful and evil bandits."

Holding a roll of pamphlets in his hand, Han Qingshan lowered his head and muttered, "Especially the prefect Luo Dong and fellow prefect Pang Hao have secret deals with the top five forces in Jiaozhi."

"Where's Zhang Zhanpeng, Zhizhou?" Zhu Song asked with his eyes closed.

"This person is very strange!" Han Qingshan shook his head, and said: "Although this person has connections with all kinds of powerful and villainous gangsters in Jiaozhi, no one has anything to do with him."

"The last general has also heard about it." Huang San said, "This Zhanpeng is very powerful in Jiaozhi, not only the prefect Luo Dong respects him three points, but also all the powerful and vicious bandits in Jiaozhi do not dare to offend him easily. .”

"Is it so scary?" Zhu Song opened his eyes and said, "In the end, he is just an old man, and at most he can add the title of Zhizhou, can he turn the world upside down?"

This time, Han Qingshan and the others stopped talking. His Royal Highness King Han clearly expressed his dissatisfaction with their work efficiency!

"Check it out for me!" Zhu Song said, "I want you to find out how many steamed buns this old guy eats a day! This king really doesn't believe it, he's just a magistrate of Jiaozhi. Those tyrannical bandits even dare to kill the magistrate, yet they respect him three points!"

"Yes, the general will immediately arrange for someone to go to the magistrate's mansion to investigate!" Huang San nodded.

After a pause, Zhu Song continued: "I have lived in Jiaozhi for the past few days. Although all kinds of information are collected to me every day, I only have a general idea of ​​the whole Jiaozhi. When I think about tomorrow, Take a good turn in Jiaozhi."

"My lord, before leaving the government office, the general told them that tomorrow he will take a walk in Jiaozhi territory, take a look, and presumably someone from the government office will arrange for the general to go with the general, otherwise, please feel wronged , just follow the team of the last general?"

Hearing Zhu Song's words, Han Qingshan said: "Although there are some things you can't see when you go with the people from their government office, but it's better to be safe, what do you think, my lord?"

"No problem!" Zhu Song waved his hand and said, "It's been seven or eight days since I came to Cochin, I just want to go around Cochin, I don't have any other intentions."

If Zhu Mengcan said these words, Han Qingshan might believe them, but these words came from Zhu Song's mouth. Even if Han Qingshan was killed, he would not believe what Zhu Song said at this moment.

……

The next day, Zhu Song dressed up as a personal guard, and was brought by Han Qingshan. Accompanied by Pang Hao, the co-prefect of Jiaozhi Mansion, he led a group of people to walk around Jiaozhi City and even several hills near Jiaozhi. Cochin has some more intuitive understanding.

Jiaozhi is actually not big, at best it is not as small as a county, and there are many dense forests and deep mountains in Jiaozhi. If Jiaozhi was not directly under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing court, it might not be set at the same level as the government.

In addition to the environment of Cochin, Zhu Song also learned that the main merchants in Cochin City are actually Annan people. They choose their own agents in Cochin City, and then let them set up grain stores and leather goods stores. Exchange ironware and salt with merchants of Ming Dynasty.

As an official merchant of the Ming Dynasty, salt is not allowed to be sold privately in theory, but one reason is that Annan lacks salt. If there is no salt needed for life, many people in Annan will die.

As for the second one, the Annan people exchanged their own grain for salt, which could meet the needs of the people of Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Di just turned a blind eye.

Besides, gold, silver and jewels may be treasures for the powerful and villains in Cochin, but for the people of Cochin, salt is the treasure they need in life

Therefore, under the circumstances that official salt can be sold privately, and ironware does not sell weapons, these seemingly primitive forms of bartering are actually the most in line with the current trading situation of Jiaozhi.

Zhu Song agrees with this situation. After all, this is a mutually beneficial relationship. Annan gets the salt, and Daming gets the food, and both parties benefit.

On the first day, I just learned about this situation. For the next four or five days, Han Qingshan led his bodyguards and wandered around the territory of Jiaozhi. The Jiaozhi government office has already greeted those guys.

Just as Zhu Song was wandering around the territory of Jiaozhi, Huang San's personal guards finally dispersed.

Different from when they first came to Cochin, these three hundred guards were broken into parts and mixed into the vast territory of Cochin. According to Huang San's arrangement, almost everyone of these guards of the Han Palace can have a mouthful of authentic Guangxi , Cochin local language, those with language talent, can even speak some simple Annan dialect.

These 300 people used various means, or turned into Cochin merchants, or became beggars from outside, or became businessmen from Annan, or became Cochin people, broke into teahouses, restaurants, or became some tyrants. The subordinates of the bandit forces.

The three hundred personal guards of the palace, because of Huang San's arrangements, lurked, like roosters waiting for the dawn, wanting to greet the sun to announce the dawn!

However, to prepare for a long-term battle, it is naturally not enough to arrange only [-] people to inquire about the news. After all, this is not a task that can be completed immediately. It will take several months or even half a year or a year. Can be foolproof.

Therefore, in the name of a rich businessman in Beiping, Zhu Song bought a restaurant with a huge area in Jiaozhi City with great fanfare, and named it 'Sun Moon Tower'.

The Sun Moon Restaurant is scheduled to open on the eighth day of August, and the post inviting people to attend the restaurant's opening wedding banquet has naturally been sent out:

Invitations were sent to the high-level civil and military officials in Jiaozhi, prominent merchants and nobles in the city, and even the civil and military officials of Guangxi Chengxuan Political Commissioner.

Zhu Song's mansion was already decorated with lights and festoons. After all, the whole Jiaozhi had already spread. The restaurant in the city was bought by Mr. Zhu from the east of the city. In recent days, the sign was wrapped in a big red cloth. It was converted into a restaurant.

In the front yard, in the reception hall, Zhu Song looked at Huang San in front of him, and said, "Huang San, have all the invitations been delivered?"

"Returning to the prince, I have delivered it." Huang San nodded, "It's just that according to my opinion, few officials in Guangxi can get there. Except for Zhang Zhanpeng, the others who are in Jiaozhi may not be able to come. come over."

"It doesn't matter, the reason why I sent invitations to the opening of the restaurant this time is because they are the parents and officials of Jiaozhi City." Zhu Song nodded, obviously he had already expected this situation, "As for Guangxi? Of course none of the officials on the side will come.”

"Ah?" Huang San asked a little strangely: "My lord, how do you know they won't come?"

"Of course the king knows." Zhu Song laughed and said: "The people I sent to Guangxi to send wedding invitations all told the masters of each mansion that they only need to send gifts and don't need to show up."

"What's the meaning of this?" Huang San felt even more strange now.

"You will understand after three days." Zhu Song shook his head and said, "After three days, you can just wait and see a good show!"

……

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and when the 'Sun Moon Building' officially opened, all kinds of carriages were already parked outside the Sun Moon Building.

Zhu Song was wearing a red wedding dress, just like a married bridegroom official, with a cheerful smile on his face, clasping his hands together: "Hey, brother Wang, welcome, welcome inside! Hey, shopkeeper Li, the first few days Little brother Ri went to your house, and the people in your house said that you went to Guangxi and came back today? Please come inside..."

A shopkeeper of various shops in a famous city, all with gifts, came to Sun Moon Tower to cheer for Zhu Song.

It's a pity that none of the high-level officials in Cochin that Zhu Song was looking forward to showed up.

Seeing that the auspicious time is approaching, Zhu Song has put his mind at ease. If he doesn’t come or not, it means that these guys have at least not discovered the identity of Zhu Song as King Han of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, even if Zhu Song doesn’t invite them Come on, these senior executives of Cochin will also come over to send congratulations.

"Master Zhang!"

Just when Zhu Song was about to turn around and enter the restaurant, a loud voice sounded, and then he saw a very ordinary carriage, pulled by two old horses, coming slowly.

The carriage stopped in front of the Sun Moon Building, and Zhang Zhanpeng, the magistrate of Jiaozhi Prefecture, opened the curtain and walked down.

"Shopkeeper Zhu, congratulations on the opening of your restaurant. I wish you a wealth of wealth and wealth every day!" Zhang Zhanpeng arched his back, holding two gift boxes in his hand, and said, "If you want a little gift, don't be disgusted by the shopkeeper Zhu." yes."

Zhu Song laughed, stepped forward to support Zhang Zhanpeng's arms, took the congratulatory instrument, and said: "Mr. Zhang is very polite. I am very happy that Mr. Zhang can come today. Mr. Zhang, please come inside! "

While saying this, Zhu Song mixed Zhang Zhanpeng into the restaurant.

The restaurant is divided into three floors, the first floor is the hall, in the hall are ordinary congratulators at the moment, the middle floor is the merchants of those shops in Jiaozhi City, and the private room on the top is reserved for Zhu Song. Zhang Zhanpeng and the others are "distinguished guests".

Zhu Song and the others accompanied Zhang Zhanpeng on the third floor, and the seemingly exquisite dishes were brought up by the guards of the palace dressed as Xiaoer, and the fine wines naturally continued.

As Zhu Song had imagined, none of the high-level members of Jiaozhi appeared except Zhang Zhanpeng.

However, during this period, the congratulatory gifts sent by the high-ranking civil and military officials of the Guangxi Chengxuan Political Commissioner made Zhang Zhanpeng wonder at the same time: what is the origin of Zhu Song? Why did you adults send congratulations?

Seeing Zhu Song with a surprised and uncertain expression on his face, he didn't show the slightest joy, because he hadn't successfully integrated into the big circle of Jiaozhi yet.

Now that Zhang Zhanpeng can see this, Zhu Song is quite satisfied.

More than half an hour passed quickly. When Zhu Song went downstairs to see how many people had come, the situation that Zhu Song had envisioned before but was not realized finally came.