On that day, everyone spent the night on the boat and arrived in Yangzhou City the next morning.

Yangzhou is surrounded by the canal and the river. It has been the world's top commercial metropolis since ancient times. All merchants all live here, creating the prosperity of Yangzhou City for thousands of years.

In this dynasty, although Yangzhou's economic center was replaced by Jinling and Suzhou and Hangzhou, it was still the national salt transportation center.

Every year, more than one billion jin of sea salt is transported from Yangzhou along the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River to all parts of the country for sale and sale. It is no exaggeration to say that half of the people of the Ming Dynasty are eating Huai salt shipped from Yangzhou. There is no doubt that this is a city that is prosperous because of salt and prosperous because of salt. There are more than a hundred salt merchants in the city, among which Hui merchants are the most.

Hui merchants took charge of salt transportation in Yangzhou, and the amount of Lianghuai was 169 million. They were all managed by more than a dozen Hui merchants, and then distributed to the following small and medium-sized salt merchants.

These big salt merchants have made money by a huge amount of money. They have no business pain and naturally regard money as dirt. They have long lost the thrift and stinginess of traditional Hui merchants. They live in luxury and luxury in Yangzhou, competing to build gardens, raise horses, build opera troupes, and collect collections... Of course, in addition to these personal enjoyment, they will also actively build bridges, pave roads and build schools, and generously donate to public utilities.

Salt merchants also particularly like to help with their students. Not only will poor students in Yangzhou and Huizhou receive their funding, but any candidate who goes to Beijing to take the exam from the Grand Canal will definitely be treated with by salt merchants as long as they settle in Yangzhou. Before leaving, they will also give away a lot of Cheng Yi.

Therefore, the reputation of salt merchants in the Shilin City is not as unbearable as ordinary people imagine, but is loved by scholars. Among the students who traveled with Zhao Hao and others, there are many who have received funding from salt merchants.

Passengers with yellow flags arrived at Dongguan Wharf in Yangzhou one after another.

Whenever one ship arrived, the students were rushing to invite the gardens of each house, and the banquets were served by the salt merchants who had been waiting on the dock.

Zhao Hao and the others are naturally no exception.

Moreover, they had the most yellow flags on their ships, which caused the most fierce competition.

In the end, the Ye family, one of the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou, came forward and divided their ship into two, half of which were divided by the rest, and the other half was wrapped up by the Ye family.

Zhao Hao and the others sat in the luxurious and comfortable eight-carriage sedan chair, walked through the streets and alleys with the sound of the gongs, and were carried into Yangzhou City.

When everyone got off the sedan chair, they saw that they were already in a luxurious and beautiful garden, with brocade curtains and marten curtains everywhere, calligraphy and paintings and calligraphy, decorations with precious jade, and hidden in famous fragrance. Their use is superficial and the essence of the pool and platform are invincible.

At this time, the sun was shining at noon, and the host set up a banquet in the water pavilion. Zhao Hao and others came to the table and felt that the room was as warm as spring, with clear water and wood around them, swimming in brocade scales. There were also a beautiful female history, serving in the hall, warm and soft, and soft. There was also a Liyuan opera troupe, Chengying Garden, and the singing was responding with a shout from the hall, making the students feel as if they came to heaven from the earth, and they felt that the surroundings were shining with golden green light, five colors of light, and the shadows and flowers were blurred and messy.

Zhao Hao and his son were feeling like they were in pins and needles. For Zhao Hao, he was still young and could not see such messy scenes; for Zhao Shouzheng, he could not do such messy things in front of his son.

Fortunately, the owner was very understanding, and smiled slightly and whispered a few words to the concubine who seemed to be a fairy concubine. The concubine invited Zhao Hao and his son to follow her to a flower hall at the end of the corridor.

"Someone is waiting for you, please come in and meet." The concubine bowed slightly and made a gesture of inviting her into the position.

Zhao Hao was alert and held Zhao Shouzheng.

Seeing this, the concubine couldn't help but chuckled and said to her: "Young Master Zhao, the person you are waiting for is here."

While Zhao Hao and his son were stunned, they saw Zhao Xian, wearing a brocade robe, wearing a jade-covered head, dressed in a rich family, walking quickly to the door.

When Zhao Shouzheng saw that he was his eldest nephew, he was shocked. "Oh, Zhao Xian, have you been back to Xiuning? Why did you come here? Have you seen your grandpa?"

Zhao Xian hurriedly saluted to his second uncle, and then greeted Zhao Hao.

The concubine then gave up with a blessing and silently left.

"Second uncle, this is..." Zhao Xian was clumsy. When facing the second uncle's question like a cannon, he didn't know where to start for a moment, so he stomped his feet and said, "Let's talk about it when we go home."

"Go home?" Zhao Shouzheng couldn't help asking: "Return to Nanjing or Xiuning?"

"Next door." Zhao Xian smiled bitterly and led the way, saying to the two of them with a helpless look on their faces: "You will know when you arrive.

Zhao Shouzheng had no choice but to suppress his suspicion, and followed his eldest nephew through a white marble moon gate hole that was opened on the wall, and came to another luxurious garden.

When I entered the garden, I walked along the winding bluestone road, and saw thousands of green bamboos and flowers and trees beside the road.

When I turned around a Taihu stone called "Lights and Flowers", I saw that it suddenly became clear in front of me. A small lake with the remaining lotus reflected on the water was an extremely elegant curved corridor, a quiet pavilion, a flower hall and a study.

Although it is not as magnificent and luxurious as the next door, it seems more elegant and stylish, and more in line with the ideal aesthetics of scholars.

Zhao Shouzheng couldn't help but nodded repeatedly, and smiled at his son, "When we settle down, we will build such a garden, and then we will enjoy the flowers and fish every day, which will be so beautiful..."

"There is no future!" But Zhao Shouzheng was scared to death by hearing a familiar scolding.

The father and son hurriedly looked at Zhao Liben, who had been away from him for nearly a year, was wearing a black gauze and a lake silk robe with chestnut-colored dark flowers, and looked at his son with red face.

"Oh, father..."

Zhao Shouzheng's eyes were shallow, and when he saw Zhao Liben who was worried about day and night, he immediately burst into tears.

He pounced on him with tears in his eyes and was about to hug Zhao Liben. "Isn't my son dreaming, isn't he?"

Zhao Liben pushed him away with disgust and said in a bad mood: "You are a juren now, too big and small, so be careful of your ethics!"

"I am the prime minister and my father's son." Seeing that his father refused to hug him, Zhao Shouzheng pulled Zhao Hao and knelt on the ground to kowtow to Zhao Liben.

"Okay, okay, get up." Zhao Liben then reached out to support his grandson and said to his son: "Get into the house and talk."

The four grandparents and grandsons walked into the flower hall by the pond called "Tinghexuan".

I saw that there was no common Goryeo paper on the windows of the flower hall, but five-color glass embedded.

Looking inside from the outside, I couldn't see anything clearly. But when I went inside, I saw the outdoor scenery, clearly and colorful.

What surprised Zhao Hao even more was that there was a silver-framed glass mirror hanging on the wall of the study!

Looking at himself who was clearly visible in the mirror, he couldn't help but blurt out, "Is this a Thai product?"

"Good grandson is just knowledgeable," Zhao Liben nodded with gratitude: "This is a glass mirror smuggled in by the Folang machine, with 500 taels of silver on one side. In Yangzhou, if you don't have a few Western goods like this, you will be embarrassed to say hello to others."

Zhao Hao thought to himself, this business is really profitable...
Chapter completed!