Daming Yinghua

Chapter 129
When Zheng Haizhu came to the south of the Yangtze River in the late Ming Dynasty, besides the Kunqu opera, he often heard Yiyang opera.

When he was in Songjiang, Zhang Dai, who studied opera intensively, predicted to Zheng Haizhu that Yiyang tune is a high tune, and several famous troupes are willing to adapt to the northern language, which will be more popular in the north than Kunqiang.

This time, Zheng Haizhu was quite pleasantly surprised to see that Lu Wangfu invited the Yiyang opera team.

As a person who has traveled around in two lifetimes, what she is most willing to appreciate is the integration of cultures and an open mind.

But now, she only heard Fang's head sang a few high-pitched lines, then interrupted him, and wanted to drag him with Zhu Yipai's entourage to General Yasukuni's mansion, to thank Zhu Yipai and his wife.

Wu Bangde understood that Zheng Haizhu wanted to take advantage of today's affairs, so he hurried to the little highness to get acquainted.

He immediately gave benefits to the two guards and asked them to lead the way to the Yanzhou official post so that Zheng Haizhu could pick up the gift.

After such a toss, when they arrived in front of Zhu Yipai's mansion, it was already dark.

But the woman who came out to take care of things soon brought the three big ones and one small one to the small warm pavilion in the atrium, and ordered the little maids to bring food boxes, which contained tofu skin wrapped pork filling pancakes, white flour buns, spicy soup, etc. Politely invite Zheng Haizhu and others to have dinner first.

The mother-in-law was very amiable, although she was dignified, she softly told Banzhu Fang to feed the baby slowly.

After everyone finished eating, the mother-in-law came out of the Nuan Pavilion. After a while, she led Zhu Yipai and Guo Shi over.

Behind Guo Shi was still following the nanny, holding a doll older than Xiaotang in her hand.

Zheng Haizhu saw that the girl's appearance was a Zhu Yipai who had shrunk several sizes.

"Yan'er," Zhu Yipai turned his head and said, "This is the little sister my father and mother met today, you will give her the cloth tiger."

Yan'er slid down from the nanny's arms, walked up to Xiaotang and said, "My mother and I picked a big one, and it's very comfortable for you to sleep with it at night. There is a tiger guarding you, so the bad guys dare not catch you. "

Leader Fang hurriedly grabbed Xiaotang and thanked her.

Zheng Haizhu and Wu Bangde stepped forward in due course and met Zhu Yipai and Guo Shi.

Zheng Haizhu will explain the relationship with Banzhu Fang and Xiaotang, and naturally introduce his own experience in Jiangnan. Then he opens the cage and presents a handkerchief embroidered with landscapes, flowers and birds in Song Dynasty paintings that best embodies the characteristics of Han Yuanxiu.

Shandong's Lu Embroidery is famous in the north, with unrestrained and gorgeous colors and magnificent patterns, which is also the painstaking effort of artisans of all ages.

But there is a law of "far fragrance and near smell" in everything. Guo has been used to Lu embroidery since he was a child, and he has nothing new. Qingwu Boyun's silk handkerchief suddenly felt novel and elegant, and he was full of praise for a moment. He picked up the handkerchief and gently mosuoed the thread, and asked some expert questions about how to thread the thread.

Zheng Haizhu gradually became more confident in her heart.

Don't think that Zhu Yipai has a strong personality and is prone to lose his temper in official affairs, but the class concept in his bones may not be too deep. From the fact that he took the initiative to invite himself and Wu Bangde to go to a banquet with Zhang Yaofang yesterday, and how he treated the servants in the mansion In terms of training, it can be seen how much.

However, socializing should be done step by step.

Zheng Haizhu stared at the beautiful red and bright copper basin in the house, and didn't intend to rush to mention the coal in Chaitan Mountain.

I and Wu Bangde, go to investigate first.

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"Miss Zheng, most of these fields and lakes belonged to the King of Lu, and some were rewarded by the King of Lu to the county king and the general of the town, or as a dowry for the county kings and counties. The land is very fertile. There is a lot of output.”

On the mule cart heading east from Yanzhou Fucheng to Chaitan Mountain, Mu Zaohua pointed to the scene on both sides and reported to Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu looked at the village and asked, "Who are the county kings?"

"There are King Taixing, King Ningde, and King Changtai. However, the one who manages the Zhuangzi the best is a general who is the king of Taixing. He is the son of King Taixing. It’s a big deer garden. The villagers said that when the antlers were cut, General Zhen Guo would come and see them in person. The antlers were not brought back to the mansion, but instead they were brought to a drug dealer to collect money. Several times when Lubei escaped The hungry people gave porridge to the disaster.”

Mu Zaohua answered fluently, it's hard for her to remember the names of several county kings so clearly.

While Zheng Haizhu was quite satisfied with the two intelligence agents, he couldn't help feeling again that the Zhu Yi faction was indeed a beautiful landscape among the princely disciples.

In this generation of Lao Zhu's family, no matter those who live in the Forbidden City or suzerains from various places, those who don't do nothing to eat and wait to die, are keen on diversification to earn money, and are able to treat the people generously are rare.

Wu Bangde, who was on the side, listened with a blank expression all the time.

Suddenly, he saw a large bluestone engraved with the words "Yunshan Camp" standing on the side of the road, and asked, "Is there a garrison nearby?"

Mu Zaohua said: "Daniu and I also went to explore. There are three forts with the word 'ying' on the way. They are all old and weak military households. They guarded the tombs of Lu kings in the past. They are as powerful as General Qi. The battalion is not the same thing."

Mu Zaohua's tone became cautious, and her eyes drooped.

After meeting the refugees that day and being severely reprimanded by Wu Bangde, when she was talking to this "bureaucrat", she no longer dared to look him in the eye.

Wu Bangde raised his eyebrows and said, "Why are you nervous? Your investigation this time is very meticulous. Didn't Miss Zheng nod in satisfaction?"

Mu Zaohua bit her lower lip, and the corners of her mouth quickly rose, revealing a joyful smile.

When the car arrived at Chaitan Mountain, there was a strong smell of charcoal in the air.

Another intelligence officer, Li Daniu, pointed to the countless oval cocoon-like earthen kilns on the west mountain and said: "Miss Zheng, the firewood cut from the mountain is transported into those fire kilns and burned into charcoal. Send it to the Lu Mansion. Because the charcoal used by the royal mansion is very particular, there should be no firewood and wooden mouths, so as not to burn out smoke, so a single kiln can only produce charcoal once every five or six days. But there are ten kilns in total, and the charcoal is produced in turn. In the afternoon of every day, there are big mule carts to transport charcoal to Yanzhou city."

Zheng Haizhu squinted at the terrain of Chaitan Mountain, and asked Wu Bangde: "How is it compared to the Western Mountain of the capital?"

Wu Bangde said: "If there is really coal in the bottom, it will be much luckier to dig it out than in Xishan Mountain. The mountain road here is gentle, but I don't know if the water is strong or not."

Zheng Haizhu said: "Let's go, according to what the guy at the Naboshan Inn said, go to the east to find the coal seedlings he said.

Going up along the small river in the east, I really saw the blue stone array and dense forest mentioned by the Boshan buddy.

Going further to the mountainside, large pieces of shale came into view one after another.

Wu Bangde took out the coal prospecting guy.

A few lumps of black bumps are magnetite.

He found thick branches on the ground, tied them with magnets, and distributed them to several people.

But Zheng Haizhu, as a modern person, doesn't really believe it.

How can coal be magnetic?

But since Wu Bangde said that he had seen this method before, and the innkeeper also said so, let's give it a try.

The four found a large piece of shale, and used a magnetic stick to detect the jagged stone.

After working hard for a long time, I tried a lot of rocks, but found no clues.

Zheng Haizhu thought for a while, and said to Wu Bangde: "Didn't the innkeeper say that their owner hired someone to dig coal secretly? We can try to find their coal cave. Although this mountain is big, it is not steep, and most of the places can be seen at a glance. , they must have drilled holes near shale that would obscure the view."

Wu Bangde felt reasonable, nodded and said: "Go, go to the highest place first, so you can see clearly."

Unexpectedly, the few people had just walked a short section of the mountain road when they heard shouts ahead.

Soon four or five men in dirty clothes came running down, each carrying a big basket covered with cotton cloth.

Wu Bangde went up to meet him, cupped his hands and said, "Brothers, what's the matter?"

As he asked, he took a good look at them. The palms of the men were black, and the clothes were also stained with black ash.

He was no stranger to this look.

Coal mining.

Among the men, looking at the more mature one, he glanced at the Confucian scarf on Wu Bangde's head, his expression slightly dodged, and he only said vaguely: "The people from Lu Wangfu drove us down the mountain."

After saying that, he greeted his partners and ran away in a hurry.

Zheng Haizhu is very sensitive to language, she could hear these people's pronunciation of "Lu Wang", which is different from the pronunciation of people inside and outside Yanzhou Prefecture, but somewhat similar to that of Naboshan folks.

She said without hesitation: "Go, have a look."

(End of this chapter)