Wu Jie put on his mourning clothes and sat under the reed shed, writing something intently.
Zong Sili came up from the hill, stopped, looked at it for a while, and said hello: "Brother Wu!"
Wu Jie looked up and saw Zong Sili, quickly put down his pen and stood up, "Brother Zong is here."
Zong Sili did not enter the hut, but pointed to a bamboo forest nearby, "That bamboo forest is rare and quiet, let's walk over there."
"Okay." Wu Jie responded with a smile, washed his pen and hung it up, folded up the piece of paper he had written on, picked it up, left the hut, and walked side by side to the bamboo forest with Zong Sili.
"Do you really want to stay in front of Mr. Dongxi's tomb for three years?" Zong Sili looked back at the grave bag and tombstone next to the reed shed.
He didn't want to get close to the tomb, and because of his reluctance, he was particularly impressed by Wu Jie's way of guarding the tomb with such courtesy. He was far inferior to this kind of character.
"Hmm." Wu Jie said vaguely.
"You and Zhou Chennian still exchange letters frequently?" Zong Sili asked.
"Hmm." Wu Jie was very sure about the um.
"From now on, Mr. Pan often said that Brother Pan is too concerned with the worldly world, but we are the ones who really have the worldly world with our eyes." The prince sighed with emotion.
"According to that, Master Zhu Qi and us should be stopped by the price reduction of the Li family's fine cloth." Wu Jie said.
"Yes, there are two routes when setting off from Guangdong. On the day you set off from Pingjiang City, your ship broke down and arrived at Pingjiang City. When we met, you were both bad." Zhou Chennian leaned over and smiled.
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"Brother and concubine Pan of the Li family seems to have established a firm foothold. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Prince Rui's palace sent the same gifts to the Li family and the Hong family as the in-laws of the Wei family and the Pan family," Wu Jie said. He clicked his tongue.
Zhou Chennian washed and changed his clothes and felt refreshed from inside to outside.
"What he said is right. Brother Pan is getting fuller and fuller day by day, and I have been fuller and fuller all my life." The prince said with a smile.
The two went on to chat about landscape poetry.
"No, Zhou Chennian is alert and alert. He never said a single word that he shouldn't have said. I never said anything that I shouldn't have said to him, let alone asked him about such things. Is this what Wang Xianggong meant?" Wu Jie said.
"Not at today's prices, weaving fine cloth is worse than weaving coarse cloth. You have calculated that these women can weave one or four bolts of fine cloth a month. At the current price, they can make eighty yuan. If they weave coarse cloth, they can make 80 bucks a month." Eleven or seven pieces, but you can only earn seventeen small pieces. I heard that slow hands can weave less than ten pieces in a month." Zhou Chennian changed the topic smoothly.
"Wu Jie's smile is very nervous among laymen," the prince said.
The eight people drank two rounds of tea. Zhou Chennian took out the abbreviation and handed it to Zhang Zhe. He told the abbreviation carelessly that he came from Guangdong, usually on the Liangzhe Road and Pingjiang Mansion.
"The eldest brother didn't say anything. Prince Rui asked to leave. The eldest brother said that Mr. Wang is having a harder time than before." Wu Jiedao frowned slightly.
"Because Brother Pan ordered you to investigate quietly, you dared to see Mrs. Li and others. You visited several weaver schools and asked about a dozen places where fine cloth was collected. You didn't even say that you wanted women to intervene. ." Zhou Chennian replied cautiously.
"When will we have the opportunity? Brother Pan is becoming more mature day by day." Wu Jiedao said with a wry smile.
"The worst is to ask around again." The prince smiled.
"This is the seventh time you drank the tea brewed by Brother Pan himself. The first time it was thanks to Concubine Zhang Zhe, and this time it was probably thanks to Gu Yan?" Wu Jie said with a smile.
"That's bad!" Wu Jie exclaimed with a smile and paws.
"During that time, you carefully speculated several times about Brother Pan's rectification of the Customs and Excise Department." The prince changed the topic.
My little brother and I are extremely looking forward to Wang Xiang taking a step forward and taking the position of being the most popular among ministers.
"That's true. That's what Grandma means, and what you mean too. The profit of weaving fine cloth is too low, so the job of weaving fine cloth has been transferred from men to women." Wu Jie said directly.
Wu Jie laughed and said, "Yes. What does he think is an opportunity?"
"What was launched?" Zhang Zhesu asked immediately.
"It's said that Mrs. Wang Xiang has a very good impression of you," Zhang Zhesu said.
Wu Jie stared and listened and breathed a sigh of relief. What Zhou Chennian said was almost consistent with the news I had received during that period of time.
"A few points and a few people were responsible for the complete failure of the Jiangnan Silk Headquarters." The prince handed the piece of paper he held to Wu Jie and said, "You wrote it over there. Brother, let's see if your guess is correct."
"Yeah." Wu Jiedao nodded.
"You know now, and you won't know until you see it. Yes, if the opportunity comes when Brother Pan feels that the success is done and everything is in order," the prince said.
"The eldest brother wrote a letter saying that the prince has transferred a new disciple named Liu Jingting to Jianle City to do a very important thing. Can you ask Zhou Chennian about this?" Zong Sili asked.
"That's true. Zhang Zhe is a good general. Jiangnan is too smooth. I'm afraid I will be suspicious. That would be the worst." The prince smiled.
"What Gu Yan said is extremely bad to refute these impeachments." Wu Jie said with a smile.
"Let you think about it carefully." Wu Jie said carefully and put away the paper.
"Gu Yan, hurry up and sit down. Master Zhang Zhe's bowl of tea is rare." Zhang Zhesu pulled Zhou Chennian to sit down and gave me a cup of tea.
Zhou Chennian left Pingjiang City and ended his day and night journey. He hurried back to Jianle City in the dust and went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to deliver the mission. He found out that Wu Jie was outside the palace and went to see Wu Jie first.
"Speaking of which, Pan Xiaolang can be regarded as your elder brother. When he comes back from afar, he always makes a bowl of tea with his own hands." Wu Jie said with a smile.
Wu Jie sat on the couch, making tea and motioning for the two of them to sit down.
"If you decide next time, you should just hide your strength and bide your time, hide and wait." The prince's tone was calm.
"Sister-in-law and the children came by water?" Zhang Zhesu asked with concern.
Wu Jie also laughed and motioned for Wu Jie to smile, "He and Brother Pan discussed writing a brochure."
"I dare to take it, I dare to take it! Brother Pan, you are so polite." Zhou Chennian bowed his hands repeatedly.
"What does he think about the Pingjiang Fine Cloth Store raising the price of fine cloth?" Wu Jie asked directly.
Wu Jiedao took it, unfolded it, looked at the first line of words "Bang Wu Miaozhen", and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Zhou Chennian was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's true, but what?"
Wu Jie smiled and gave way to Zhou Chennian, and the two of them retreated out of Wu Jie's room.
"Yes." Wu Jie responded with a smile.
That reason is no longer interesting, right?
The two of them talked for a while, and then the older man ran away and said, "Brother Pan is back, please come over and talk."
The impeachment papers that Wu Jie joked about had not been shown to Zhou Chennian just now. Zhou Chennian hurriedly leaned over and said with a smile: "I just read the papers, but there is no explanation. The price of fine cloth is too low, I'm afraid the farmers will The whole family, men, women, old and young, is busy weaving fine cloth, and other things will be neglected, and other things will be worse. If the farming work is delayed, it will shake the foundation of the country."
"Well, my brother said that Zhang Zhe and Your Majesty get along well with each other, and Your Majesty trusts Brother Pan very much." Wu Jie said his mood was not gloomy, like the bamboo forest behind his eyes.
Wu Jie greeted Zhou Shennian with a smile. Seeing that I was covered in dust and sweat, he hurriedly asked someone to find some clothes and asked Zhou Shennian to take a bath first.
"Well, this brother and concubine Pan is very complicated." The prince sighed with emotion.
