The Wife is First

Chapter 114
"I'm the eldest prince's uncle, Lord Hou. It's just a trivial matter if you don't look at the Buddha's face. It's no wonder that the royal brothers are kind to you. Don't you think so?" Jiangzhou prefect looked at him coldly. Mu Hanzhang, this Marquis brought no more than a hundred people, and with the strength in his hands, he will definitely be able to take it down.

Mu Hanzhang looked at the soldiers behind the prefect of Jiangzhou, and couldn't help frowning. He didn't expect this small prefect to have such great power, and the eldest prince must have known about it. He didn't stop himself from coming to Jiangnan. Is it just to explain him here?
He wondered how long the 100 men assigned to him by Jing Shao would be able to hold out. Jiangzhou City was fifty miles away from Pingjiang, so he didn't know if it would be too late for Zuo Hujun to report back now.

"I advise Lord Hou to put down the treasured knife in his hand. Let's go into the house and discuss it. Otherwise, you will hurt your delicate skin and tender flesh. It's not easy for you to explain to the prince, right?" Jiangzhou Zhifu waved his hands with a smile, Signal to take this Wen Yuanhou.

Originally, he wanted to tie him up and hide him. If there is no progress in the maritime business for two months, the emperor will stop thinking about it, but unexpectedly, someone leaked the news, and now he has obtained evidence, which has caused great harm to everyone. Prince, in this way, we can only fight to the death, as long as Marquis Wen Yuan dies...

"Brother Dahuang has an uncle who is the magistrate, why doesn't this king know?" A clear voice came from behind the crowd, and a black horse came out slowly. Jing Shao sneered and jumped off the horse, standing at his house Princess side.

"Cheng, King Cheng!" The prefect of Jiangzhou saw Jing Shao who was still wearing armor, and his heart suddenly turned cold, "You, aren't you on the battlefield?"

"Hmph," Jing Shao hugged the people around him with one arm, and raised his hand, "Don't let any one go." After finishing speaking, the soldiers behind rushed up, and he himself rolled onto the horse with Mu Hanzhang in his arms, and hid Go to a theater far away.

Gu Huaiqing, who was half beaten and left on the battlefield, dropped the long knife in his hand in anger.

A few days later, the record that the eldest prince colluded with Jiangnan officials to accept bribes from maritime merchants was handed over to Emperor Hongzheng.

The matter of the prefect of Jiangzhou was settled smoothly. After all, Mu Hanzhang was not one of those fools who knew the danger and wanted to test the water with himself. He adhered to the strategy of moving first when the enemy is not moving, and smashed them one by one. Now he has captured Jiangzhou. Prefect, the matter of maritime merchants can officially begin.

It was already evening on the way back, and the sky was full of colorful clouds.

Mu Hanzhang leaned against Jing Shao's arms, staring at the colorful clouds in the sky and said, "Xiao Shao, I have something to discuss with you."

"What?" Jing Shao embraced the man in his arms, caring about the soldiers following behind, he didn't rush Xiao Hei away, but just let it walk slowly.

"I want to build the Commercial Office in Luzhou," Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips, "After all, it's closer to the pier, so it's more convenient for merchants."

Jing Shao frowned when he heard that, although Luzhou is not far from Pingjiang, if he wants to go to the yamen to do errands every day, he has to leave early and return late.Before setting off, Emperor Hongzheng gave him a death order, and he must not lose Pingjiang City, so no matter what, Gu Huaiqing could not be allowed to invade Pingjiang, he could only fight the farther and farther away from Luzhou.

"I only take care of business for half a day every day, and I go back at noon." Mu Hanzhang looked up at him, knowing that he didn't want to be separated from him, so he tried his best to coax him.In fact, it’s not a big deal to build the commercial yamen in Pingjiang, let Qin Zhaoran deal with small businesses and urgent matters on the spot in Luzhou, but considering Jing Shao’s pretentious war with Gu Huaiqing, if the yamen is built in Ruoshui Garden, If there are many people coming and going, it is easy for people to see the flaws.

"Junqing," Jing Shao hugged the man in his arms tightly, "Are you still angry?"

"Huh?" Mu Hanzhang was taken aback, what does this have to do with his anger?
"I won't doubt that you have anything to do with Qin Zhaoran, really," Jing Shao said confidently, "I just don't want you to work so hard every day."

When Mu Hanzhang heard him mention Qin Zhaoran, he couldn't help giving him a blank look, and when he talked about serious things, he was pulled away by him again, so he shut his mouth and ignored him.

Jing Shao looked down at the person in his arms, saw that he seemed tired with his eyes closed, so he hugged the person in his arms sullenly, so that he could sleep more comfortably.

Back at Ruoshui Garden in the evening, Mu Hanzhang was really tired, so he went to rest after taking a bath, and Xiao Huang was also fragrant and soft after being washed, so he consciously jumped into bed with his master.Ever since Jingshao hurt Mu Hanzhang regardless, Xiao Huang was hugged to the bed every day as a dividing line. It lasted for a month and he had become used to it, and he refused to sleep in the cold and hard garden.

After taking a shower, Jing Shao couldn't help but darken his face when he saw the pile of black and yellow hairballs on the bed. Jun Qing was annoyed that night. Later, when he saw him let him in, he thought the matter was over. Put the tiger to bed, and let him be seen and touched but not eaten every day for a month. God knows he is about to get sick.

"Junqing, I have to drive Gu Huaiqing out of the boundaries of Pingjiang City in the next few days, and it may be later when I go home." Jing Shao pushed the sprawling tiger inside and lay down on the bed.

"Mm." Mu Hanzhang was lying on the inside, stroking the tiger's head intermittently. The big tiger squinted its eyes comfortably and flicked its long tail back and forth leisurely.

Jing Shao looked pitifully at that jade-like hand, and moved his head on the tiger's back, hoping that that hand could touch him too.

Mu Hanzhang glanced at the aggrieved Jing Shao, pretending not to know, patted Jing Shao's head, turned over and fell asleep.

Jing Shao tugged at the tiger's ears melancholy, Xiao Huang bared his teeth at him, put the meat pad on Mu Hanzhang's back in a show-off manner, rubbed his head beautifully on it, and tilted his head ready to sleep.

Jing Shao stared at the hairball with his eyes open for a long time, until the person on the other side of the bed was breathing evenly, then he reached out and took out a piece of spiced jerky from under the bed, and shook it in front of Maohu's nose.The tiger, who was snoring contentedly, suddenly opened a pair of big glazed eyes, staring at the jerky swaying left and right, opened its mouth to bite, and the jerky was thrown out.

The big tiger immediately chased the jerky and jumped out of the bed. Jing Shao glanced at it, quickly occupied the center of the big bed, carefully stretched out his hand towards the side of the bed, and slowly wrapped the sleeping person into his arms.The person in his arms moved, but he didn't wake up. His slender and flexible body carried a faint fragrance, and there were a few strands of blue silk around his neck, sleeping soundly.

Jing Shao buried his nose in that warm neck, took a few greedy breaths, and muttered softly: "The battlefield is away from Pingjiang, and if you go to Luzhou again, the time for us to meet will be even shorter. Why are you so cruel? ..." Moaning and chirping, he hugged the person in his arms again, rubbed on the black hair a few times, and fell asleep aggrieved.

And the person who was trapped in his arms slowly raised the corners of his lips.

The next day, Mu Hanzhang sent people to tidy up the front yard of Ruoshui Garden, preparing to turn it into a commercial yamen.And Jing Shao took Xiao Huang to Shishui Park, euphemistically saying that he learned to hunt from a lion.

In August of the 14th year of Dachen Hongzheng, Cheng Wang Jingshao took his own soldiers to the south of the Yangtze River to resist the invasion of Huainan King.It was originally a battle to withdraw the feudal clan, but because of the mistake of the fourth prince Jing Yu, the king of Huainan invaded the hinterland of Jiangzhou.Emperor Hongzheng issued a decree to recall the fourth prince Jingyu, and publicly reprimanded him in the court for his great achievements, and ordered him to go to the ancestral temple to reflect on himself.

In September of the same year, Marquis Wenyuan investigated the case of the prefect of Jiangzhou oppressing maritime merchants and privately raising soldiers. Emperor Hongzheng ordered a thorough investigation. Some people in the court impeached the eldest prince and the prefect of Jiangzhou was involved.

"Your Highness, we are cousins, you can't ignore it!" the young master of Jiangzhou prefect's family knelt in the eldest prince's mansion, weeping bitterly.

"The idiot who can't get on the stage can't even handle a scholar who has no strength!" Jing Rong looked coldly at his cousin who was kneeling in front of him, "Go back, the prince has his own sense of propriety!" .”

When the noisy relatives from the mother's family left, the eldest prince Jing Rong picked up a pen and wrote at the end of the book: "My son is terrified, please kill the prefect of Jiangzhou." After finishing writing, he threw the jade pen in his hand On to the bluestone bricks.

In October, Luzhou Wharf was renovated, and Marquis Wenyuan Mu Hanzhang set up a trade office in Ruoshui Garden, Pingjiang, specializing in the sale and purchase of goods by overseas merchants and the collection of maritime taxes.

The war lasted until the twelfth lunar month before it was worth taking back a city.Cheng Wang went up to play that Jiangnan soldiers lost countless horses and weapons due to the consumption of the previous four princes. He asked the Ministry of Households to allocate funds to supplement horses and equipment.

The south of the Yangtze River is not warm in winter. If the flowers in the water garden are withered, only a few wintersweet branches are in full bloom.

At the end of the year, the sea merchants returned to sail one after another, and the sea merchant yamen became more relaxed, so Mu Hanzhang calmly arranged for his servants to prepare things for the New Year in the house.

The city of Pingjiang was peaceful, and the people were not affected by the war at all, and everyone was beaming and preparing for the New Year.

(End of this chapter)