Difficult for a son-in-law

Princess Wei attended several banquets, and occasionally met girls from the Ruan family. People could see that Princess Wei liked Ruan Chensi.

No, I gave the Ruan family another emerald and pearl bonsai.

Mrs. Ruan was worried about Bei Weihou, "Which one does Princess Zhennan like, anyone with a discerning eye knows, both of them are my darlings, and they are close relatives of my aunt and nephew, what should I do?"

The Marquis of Beiwei twisted his three-inch beard under his jaw, "It depends on what the emperor wants. There is no reason for the woman to mention the marriage first. The king of Zhennan and his concubine are still in the imperial capital. Before the marriage, the emperor must ask Zhennan about the matter. Nan Wang's meaning."

"That's the only way to go." Madam Ruan was secretly happy, but she still put on a sad expression.

The relationship between Princess Wei and Mrs. Ruan has become increasingly close, and she has also met Ruan Hongyan, and she praised it with a smile, "When I read books, people would use the word 'zhilanyushu' to describe it. It's the most suitable."

Ruan Hongyan was a little shy and blushed slightly.

Concubine Wei ordered someone to present a table gift, Ruan Hongyan thanked her and withdrew according to the ceremony.

Girls' feelings are always spring, and Ming Fei has heard people talk about Ruan Tanhua's reputation in the imperial capital these days, so she took a few glances behind the screen.

Ming Fei's face turned red, and after Ruan Hongyan went out, they came out to talk with her again.

Princess Wei asked with a smile, "Why didn't girl Chen come, and I have something good for her?"

"That girl was interested in painting last night, and she caught a cold. She was afraid that she would bump into the princess when she came, so she didn't call her." Mrs. Ruan said.

Ruan Chensi was sick, but Ruan Jiarui must be fine, and Mrs. Ruan didn't bring it with her, which is interesting.Concubine Wei had a heart, and said in a gentle voice, "I happen to have a high-quality bird's nest that the Queen Mother rewarded here, take some to make up for Miss Chen, Madam, you don't have to refuse, it's rare that I fall in love with this girl."

Mrs. Ruan thanked her with a smile.Although the empress mentioned the matter of Princess Ningguo, Mrs. Ruan still prefers her daughter, not her son.

It's really that Princess Ningguo is too majestic, with that unsmiling dignity, that cold and sharp eyes, and that status that cannot be offended. After marrying such a daughter-in-law back home, is she serving you or you serving her?

On the huanghuali book table are the ten cold inks specially made by the ten cold laymen of the former dynasty, which are not changed in purple and gold, and the dragon tail inkstone of "its stone is firm and moist, touching it like muscle", with a jade tube Langhao brush hanging beside the inkstone.

Ming Zhan sat beside the desk, burning a furnace of faint and fragrant ambergris in his hand.

When Feng Jingnan entered the door, Ming Zhan's eyes were slightly closed, his sitting posture was upright, his face was unpredictable, and he was dressed in a moon white robe.

Feng Jingnan wondered, his daughter-in-law had already fulfilled her filial piety, so why was she still dressed so plainly.

Feng Jingnan coughed, Lao Tzu came in, why don't you even fart, it's getting more and more unruly.

"Father? Why are you here?" Ming Zhan's meditation was interrupted, he got up in surprise, and helped Feng Jingnan across the desk to sit on the couch.Feng Jingnan glanced carefully, spread out the snow-white rice paper, and hadn't finished the book yet.

Feng Jingnan ignored Ming Zhan's words, this is my home, where can I come from?Asked him, "What are you talking about?"

"Isn't it coming to the emperor's uncle's longevity? Although the emperor's uncle said that there is no need to do anything, the family will naturally prepare some gold, jade and antiques to present, but I want to write a picture of a hundred years to give to the emperor's uncle as a birthday gift, and I am also a nephew. Your filial piety." Ming Zhan never liked the crowds in the room, so he poured a cup of warm tea and handed it to Feng Jingnan, saying, "I want to burn an incense burner and write in peace."

Heh, bathing, burning incense and praying.Feng Jingnan thought, Lao Tzu's birthday is coming up, why didn't I see you express it.

Ming Zhan saw that Feng Jingnan's face turned darker, and said, "My handwriting is not very good. I wrote an article and wanted to dedicate it to my father, but I was afraid that my father would dislike it."

"What are you talking about, who am I and who is the emperor? You are afraid that I will dislike you, but you are not afraid that the emperor will dislike you. No wonder you always hear the emperor say that your uncle and nephew are deeply in love." Feng Jingnan satirized Ming Zhan and sipped his tea. , "Bring it to me to see."

Ming Zhan had already written a dozen, handed it to Feng Jingnan, and said with a smile, "Father, let me have a look. Uncle Huang said that you can be called a master with willow body."

Wearing thousands of clothes, not flattering, Feng Jingnan's face softened slightly, "That's the polite words of the emperor, don't take it seriously." Ming Zhan has one bad thing, he can't help but praise, others politely praise him, and immediately take it seriously , can be happy for a long time.In the future, I will be fooled by some deceitful villains. Isn't it accurate to be fooled?

After taking Ming Zhan's handwriting and spreading it out, Feng Jingnan's expression that had just eased back into a serious expression, and a layer of black paint was brushed on, his long eyebrows twisted tightly to form the word "Chuan", and he smacked his lips. , looked critically at Ming Zhan, pointed at Ming Zhan's post, and asked, "Is this also written by a human?"

"Look at what you said, maybe I'm not human." Ming Zhan went over to pick up the posts, he thought they were pretty good, Feng Jingnan's deadly mean mouth cursed him to be dumb in his next life.

Feng Jingnan was really not very good at dealing with Ming Zhan's mouth, and taught him a lesson, "If you say you are not good, you should practice more, why are you so talkative."

"You never praised me once." Ming Zhan refused to accept, "My calligraphy is very good, you have never seen that bad."

Feng Jingnan was angry, "Why don't you compare yourself with the good ones, and only learn from the bad ones. Zimin could write better than you when he was six years old."

Ming Zhan rolled a volume and shook hands and muttered, "Taizu's calligraphy is not as good as mine."

Feng Jingnan jumped up, slapped him twice on the head, and asked, "Do you have the skills of the great grandfather? Dare to compare with the great grandfather, it's against you."

Ming Zhan shrunk his neck and shut up.

"I'll say one thing, you top ten." Feng Jingnan said, "Which family's rule is this?"

"Ask you something? Why don't you say it again?"

"I'm afraid of facing you, my father."

Feng Jingnan was outraged.

Feng Jingnan didn't get angry in vain, he whipped Ming Zhan with a feather duster.

Ming Zhan jumped like a dog, holding Feng Jingnan's arm with both hands and begging himself, "Father, you have something to do, let's talk about the business first, and after finishing the business, if you want to beat and punish, my son will be here." Here, I can’t escape.”

Feng Jingnan frowned. From the bottom of his heart, he didn't like Ming Zhan's playful, faceless and skinless appearance. However, he was too lazy to do it. Such a boneless guy didn't have much energy to beat, so he was persuaded to sit on the couch again. Ming Zhan Hastily turned over a jade cup, poured warm tea, and said with a smile, "My father drinks tea."

Leaning over, she placed one hand on Feng Jingnan's chest softly, persuading, "I'm just joking with my father, you take it seriously. You see, I'm not polite when I talk to someone, because Father is not an outsider, so he is a little casual. As the old saying goes, father and son are enemies, be like me. When you don’t see father, don’t mention you. Once you meet, you don’t know what to do. There seems to be no place to put it. People, the more you like it, the more nervous you are. Father, you didn’t even look at me before, but now you treat me like a human being, how can I not be happy? I am a stupid person Yes, I don’t know how to rejoice, but I was self-defeating and offended my father, thanks to your magnanimity, kindness and nobleness, your father tolerated me with your sky-like heart.”

God, lend me a place to throw up.

Feng Jingnan's stomach was churning up, how could there be such a glib, shameless kid in the world.Taking a sip of cold tea and pressing it down, Feng Jingnan said, "Stop talking nonsense, you are also quiet here, let me tell you something. That's right, this year's Jiangnan Salt Class has a huge deficit, and Shen Dongshu asked for an increase in salt prices. Yunnan also has Yanjing, we trade salt, tea, horses, jewelry and jade with Burmese Tibetans, moreover, people cannot live without salt for a day. The emperor must ask, now that you are getting older, you should know something."

Ming Zhan spontaneously pulled up a chair and sat down. He didn't know much about the ancient system, so he asked, "Why did you lose money? I heard that salt merchants are very rich?" In the ancient Fucha rankings, salt merchants always ranked high three?

Ming Zhan had no political experience before, but Feng Jingnan could bear his temper and explained in detail, "The salt merchant got the salt and then sold the salt. The salt can't be sold, there is no money in the account, and the state can't collect taxes. If there is no silver, there is no money to raise soldiers, generals and officials, so it is a deficit.”

"Then why can't it be sold? The quality of the salt is not good, or it's still expensive? There must be a reason." Ming Zhan put his hands on his lap and played with his fingers. "If you don't know the reason, you raise the price. Just like prescribing medicine randomly, prescribing the wrong medicine will kill you.”

Feng Jingnan suddenly had an idea, and said with a smile, "Okay, you can go to Neishuge with me to discuss matters tomorrow." His salt sales are not bad, and there is also border trade. Feng Jingnan has soldiers and money. Life is comfortable, and the price has increased for no reason. This matter needs to be clarified before we can nod.Although he is a minister to the emperor, the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou have always taken care of their own military and government affairs, so they can't be the emperor's capital, and the Zhennan Palace should follow suit.

Feng Jingnan's status was noble, he didn't bother to greet those courtiers verbally, but Ming Zhan was quite capable of choking people to death.

Good steel has to be used on the cutting edge.

Feng Jingnan suddenly found that Ming Zhan was quite useful.

Sure enough, in the inner study room, when Ming Zhan said the theory of "prescribing the wrong medicine and drinking the dead", Shen Dongshu's face was not very good-looking. Tens of millions of silver, where is the loss? If it is corrupted by others, it is useless to increase the price of salt? If it is because salt is expensive, if the price is raised again, no one will buy it.”

Shen Dongshu looked constipated, and replied, "Your Majesty, I don't know. Nowadays, private salt is rampant, making it difficult to sell official salt. Jiangsu salt farms have almost [-]% of the salt that cannot be sold. Salt merchants are also complaining every day."

"Then why private salt is selling well, but the official salt of Zheng Er Ba Jing can't be sold?" Ming Zhan asked.

If someone asked, Shen Dongshu would definitely not be able to pay attention to him, but Ming Zhan's status was in place, and his father was still watching, so he had to explain, "Official salt is sold by salt merchants who bought salt for a huge sum of money. Illegal salt is higher, because it is cheap, so everyone steals it, and it is banned repeatedly. There are also salt lords paired with private thugs, and the smuggling of smuggled salt is really a moth of the country.”

"It's all swaggering. What do the local officials eat? It's like a thief, stealing something from your house swaggeringly, swaying in front of you, and swaggering out from the gate, as the owner of the stolen house." , Could it be that you don’t even dare to fart.” Ming Zhan asked curiously, “I don’t know much about this, but I know that larger state capitals must have garrisons, and smaller county government offices also have arrest blocks. Could it be The state spends money on raising them for fun, why not arrest these salt lords? Those people, even if they have one or two subordinates, can they still be compared with the national army?"

Shen Dongshu started to sweat, you, you don't know shit, why are you so difficult.

Feng Jingnan glanced at Ming Zhan in relief, he really didn't bring you here in vain.

Feng Jingqian is also pleased, sharp, sharp enough, I have long wanted to solve these two Huai salt classes, but I am short of an introduction.

Feng Mingrui took a step forward and said loudly, "I report to my father, my son is willing to go to Lianghuai to investigate the salt department."

Alas, the gong has just sounded and the play has just started, so why are you in a hurry.

What a dumbass you are.Feng Jingqian wished he could push Feng Mingrui's head down.