"Get up, how are you going along the way?" Zhang Rui spoke kindly, as casually as he would when talking to his own family, "Sit down and talk, don't be formal."
Yuan Ye stood up, sat down, and replied with a smile: "Everything is fine. Thanks to you, everything goes smoothly."
Although I haven't seen him for many years, he is the anchor of the Zhang family on Liangguang Road. No matter how officials are dismissed, he will not be able to avoid it.
Zhang Xuling did not sit down, walked to Zhang Rui, peeled off two rice dumplings from the plate, and asked the servant to take the plate and chopsticks and put them on the small table next to Yuan Ye.
While wiping his hands with a handkerchief, he smiled and said, "Master, try it. My grandma made it."
Zhang Ruidao: "It's time to try it. The taste in Kyoto is very different from that in the south."
Yuan Ye picked up his chopsticks and ate half of it, then said another good word.
Zhang Xuling then smiled and said, "I'll ask the kitchen to carry a bunch for you, and you can come to our house to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival."
Zhang Rui held the teacup and suddenly asked: "Which one is better, the one in Kyoto or the one on Guangnan East Road?"
Yuan Ye put down his chopsticks and said seriously: "It's hard to leave your hometown, so it's better to stay in your hometown."
Zhang Rui was very satisfied with his answer: "You are right, home is the root. If the root is there, we cannot fail."
Zhang Rui asked Yuan Ye again about the ledger of Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road, and looked carefully at the ledger he brought.
These two broad roads, unknowingly, are already connected to his Zhang family.
"Okay," Zhang Rui smiled and patted the table, showing a rare joy, "It's a good time at home. It's good that you take care of the house for me!"
Family world, the world today belongs to the Li family, the Zhang family also has a world of its own, Liang-Guang Road is the Zhang family’s family world, even if the Zhang family is defeated, no matter how hard they move, it cannot shake the power of the Zhang family here.
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They have been operating in these two places for so many years, and their intricate relationship can be broken down by just one or two officials who are not theirs.
As long as this "home" remains, they will have a way out.
As for the garrison on the Liang-Guang Road, not to mention, it has long been in the possession of the Zhang family. Even Yue Zhongtai has delegated power to these two roads.
When he was happy, the housekeeper hurriedly reported that King Yan was here.
Zhang Rui quickly stood up with Zhang Xuling and Yuan Ye, straightened their robes, and strode out to greet them at the door. However, King Yan walked faster and more hurriedly than them, and the servants following him were all the way.
He followed me at a trot.
"No need to be polite!" King Yan couldn't wait for the chamberlain to come forward, so he took off his cloak and threw it to Zhang Xuling. Zhang Xuling quickly took it and put it on the screen.
When King Yan came, the house could no longer be like this. The housekeeper and the chamberlain worked together to quietly remove all the rice dumplings for tea. The chairs and the small table gently changed their positions, allowing King Yan to sit at the top.
Zhang Rui led Zhang Xuling and Yuan Ye to bow to King Yan with folded hands. King Yan was impatient and raised his hand for them to sit down. Before Zhang Rui could sit firmly, he asked: "It will be Dad's Tianning Festival in a short time.
Has the stuff been delivered?”
Zhang Rui nodded and said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty came at the right time. This Master Yuan came with the birthday plan in mind."
His voice was like a gurgling stream, which made the restless King Yan slowly calm down and look at Yuan Ye, who was sitting at the end.
He is a very ordinary-looking person, and he will soon become blurred if he is thrown into a crowd. At this moment, he is sitting at the bottom, and he is also very respectful. He has his head lowered from beginning to end, and his eyes are only staring at the uppers of his shoes.
There was nothing to see. King Yan's eyes slid over this honest man and landed on Zhang Rui again.
These days, he has been putting a lot of pressure on King Jin. Seeing that Tianning Festival is coming, he has not found out what King Jin is going to give him, and he is even more anxious.
Last year, for his mother's birthday, the boat on Liangguang Road wanted to send Gang Yin and a jade Guanyin, but the ship was robbed without even leaving Lianghu Road.
This time, he was so nervous that he finally arrived in Kyoto with something to look forward to, but he still didn't know what Zhang Rui had prepared for him.
"Where's the stuff?"
Zhang Rui said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't be impatient. Your Majesty has been very satisfied with the things you have sent every year on Tianning Festival for so many years. Besides, you are His Majesty's beloved son. Even if you only send a blessing, it is a hundred times better than others."
, a thousand times more, and the empress Hui Zhilan is by your side with your heart, and your Majesty will never find fault with you."
After he finished speaking, he saw King Yan's frown gradually unfurling and sighed in his heart.
The King of Jin had been dormant in Tanzhou for ten years, and he had already experienced and trained himself to be airtight. During these ten years, King Yan had everything going smoothly in Kyoto, but he was somewhat unable to withstand the storm.
It went so smoothly that King Jin's random moves could throw him into disarray.
He didn't wait for King Yan to speak, then continued: "Yuan Ye, have you brought anything?"
Yuan Ye quickly stood up and replied: "Replying to my husband, in order to prevent things from being lost, it was separated from the boat I was on. However, there were many boats on the pier, and the small boat lacked the official flag and could not squeeze in. I had to wait to dock.
Shore, it will be delivered immediately."
King Yan asked Zhang Rui to stroke his hair, and the suffocation in his heart dissipated. He was not in a hurry to look at it now, but instead asked Zhang Rui: "Should the account book of Liang-Guang Road also be sent to the Third Division?"
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Zhang Rui said with a smile: "Exactly, this time Yuan Ye came and brought his account book with him so that the prince could pay his respects."
Yuan Ye took out three more account books from his sleeves and respectfully handed them to the chamberlain who came to him. The chamberlain took the account books and presented them to King Yan.
King Yan took it in his hand and turned it over without looking at it carefully. He just asked: "Will you be rich this year?"
Yuan Ye replied: "Rich."
After he finished speaking, he didn't hear King Yan continue to ask questions, so he quietly raised his eyes and took a look. He saw that King Yan was still flipping through the book. He didn't know whether he had nothing to ask or was waiting for him to continue talking.
Unsure of King Yan's character, he glanced at Zhang Rui quietly.
Zhang Rui nodded, and then he continued: "Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Qiongzhou, Wan'anjun, Qinzhou and other docks are connected in all directions, not only going inward, but also going out. Almost all the Dafu ships entering the sea are built by Guangzhou Shipyard.
The ships that go out to sea always come back fully loaded, and with the large number of foreign businessmen, tax money naturally rolls in. Now there are more than 200,000 taels on Guangnan East Road alone."
After hearing this, King Yan looked at the cover of the ledger, pushed the ledger from Liangguang Road aside, opened the half of the cover that had nothing written on it, and looked back at the total.
Two hundred and eighty thousand taels.
Seeing this number, he smiled: "Okay, it's time to use money. Although the money is not much, it comes in time."
Seeing that King Yan was happy, Zhang Rui made him happy for a while, but kept silent until King Yan put down the account book.
, much less than the year before."
Zhang Xuling glanced at his father and knew that his father still had many words that he could not say, so he spoke on behalf of his father: "This morning, I said that we should make up for the deficiencies with surplus and open up the river. Besides, there are so few
There are so many, I’m afraid some of them are unjustifiable..."
Before he finished speaking, King Yan looked over with a cold look, making him swallow the rest of his words.