Ru Taisu was eventually deported from Beijing. The official reason is that he will soon go to Suzhou to serve as the censor of the river patrol in order to alleviate the floods in Taihu Lake. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is to punish him for impeaching the King of Wu while His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not in the court, and it is suspected of instigating the relationship between the Crown Prince and the King of Wu brothers.
After all, it is now late autumn, and the floods in Taihu Lake have just subsided. The next flood will not happen until the spring floods in February or March. Why rush someone to take office in such a hurry?
What surprised all the officials the most was that this resolution was drafted by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself and approved by His Majesty Zhu Pi himself. It is said that just after leaving court that day, His Royal Highness rushed into the palace from outside the city, and then drafted a resolution in front of the cabinet. Although many officials interceded for Ru Taisu, the prince remained unmoved.
This was the first time that His Highness the Crown Prince was so decisive, and all the officials in the East Palace were surprised. The courtier, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, has a very close relationship with the King of Wu, so he is standing up for his younger brother. So I didn't dare to talk to each other anymore.
This time the storm subsided.
Zhu Su returned to Bifeng Imperial Manor, closed the door and focused on building the village and scientific research projects. After the cement road dried up, Shen Wang and the Shen family craftsmen's eyes almost fell off. With just a little water and sand, it turned out to be such a smooth and smooth road? The whole body is as hard as rock, as if a long strip of boulder had been dug into the ground!
This thing has a lot of potential! Shen Wang's eyes lit up when he looked at the cement road, and he wished he could lie down on the ground and lick it twice to get the satisfaction he wanted. Judging from the way Zhu Su poured cement while building the road without feeling any distress, the cost of this thing is definitely not expensive.
But it can have such an effect!
What kind of cement is this? This damn thing is gold!
The Shen family craftsmen worked even harder. This golden thigh of His Majesty the Fifth Highness must be hugged tightly.
The cement road was built twenty miles away from the village, and the village was like a spider web extending in all directions. The craftsmen of the Shen family built a magnificent restaurant and an elegant theater in the planned place. Suzhou architecture is the leader of southern architecture. These gardens, pavilions and well-established roads are even more beautiful than Fule Yuan by the Qinhuai River. This area located to the east of Zhuangzi has a vague appearance of a market.
In addition to the pavilions, the Shen family craftsmen also built an academy for Zhu Su. Half of the academy is at the foot of the mountain, extending towards Bifeng Mountain. Higher up is Bifeng Temple. Li Wenzhong found a strange antique stone from nowhere and erected it at the foot of the mountain as the facade of the academy. There are not many buildings in the academy, just a large cafeteria, a large playground, and a horizontal building on the mountainside that serves as a teaching building. Although it is just a scratch, it looks quiet and peaceful at sunset, with a sense of leisure.
"How does Fifth Uncle want to gain popularity?" Li Jinglong looked at the clean and spacious cement street in front of him and couldn't help but ask Zhu Sudao.
Although the road is spacious and the theater and restaurant have been completed, not many people pass by on this road. Except for the clerks, shopkeepers and theater troupes borrowed from the Shen family, only Zhu Su and Li Jinglong came to visit this street occasionally. At night, there wasn't even a shadow of a ghost, and it was so eerie and scary.
Isn't it a waste of money to build a tavern and theater in such a wilderness?
"The mountain man has his own clever plan." Zhu Su held out his folding fan and held his head high, looking confident. The words "Guangyuan Guangjin" written on the folding fan made Li Jinglong's eyes twitch a few times.
Prince Wu building a building and doing business in such a deserted suburb has long become a laughing stock among the dandies in Yingtian Mansion. The Li family is also a member of this place, and they have a long-standing relationship with Zhu Su that both prosper and suffer. Even if Zhu Su becomes the laughing stock, Li Jinglong is determined to be no better.
In these second-generation circles, all they care about is face, and Li Jinglong felt panicked.
"When we open for business in a few days, why not post in my nephew's name and invite noble men from various families to come and support the business..." Li Jinglong gritted his teeth. Everyone has to lose face. If you really can't take the initiative, at least create some prosperity on the opening day, so as to save some dignity for Uncle Wu.
"You are thoughtful." Zhu Su patted Li Jinglong on the shoulder. Li Jinglong shortened his height slightly so that Zhu Su could shoot more easily. "If you want to find some friends, you can go find them. Just remember to inform Shen Wang in advance about how many friends will come."
"If there are too many people and we can't arrange seats, it will be a shame on your Duke Cao's mansion." With that, he left while waving his folding fan and humming a tune.
"There are... too many people?" Li Jinglong was like a confused monk Zhang Er. Could it be that Fifth Uncle is planning to join forces with His Majesty to forcibly kidnap the people in Yingtian Mansion?
The opening day arrived in a blink of an eye. On this day, Li Jinglong was startled by the noise outside. After washing up, I went out to take a look, and my eyes almost fell off: I saw that the usually deserted cement road was actually bustling with people today. Countless horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians were crowding on it, and there was an endless stream of young men in fine clothes and fat-bellied businessmen!
"Brother Gong, are you dreaming?" Li Jinglong asked Xu Yungong next to him with a shocked look on his face.
"I don't think so." Xu Yungong was also shocked. After several days of military training, his complexion was no longer as fair as before. The moon-white gown made his face as dark as the bottom of a pot. He held out his folding fan and said, "It must be His Highness the Fifth, who has done something unexpected again."
During these days in Zhuangzi, Xu Yungong had long admired Zhu Su's knowledge. Turning water into ice, using ice to make fire, all kinds of things that were previously unimaginable were as simple as raising a hand for the Fifth Prince. I thought that all the knowledge in the world is in books, and my sister must be one of the most knowledgeable people in the world because of her talent. After meeting Zhu Su, I realized that there is a world outside the world. Learning knowledge only from those piles of old papers is nothing more than a frog in the well.
Rumor has it that His Highness's talents and knowledge were taught by gods. Xu Yungong didn't know whether others believed it or not, but he believed it himself.
It is a pity that the book "Primary School Mathematics" written by His Highness is too obscure. His Highness also stated that only after explaining this book can one be qualified to learn his study of objects. It took a lot of effort to understand twenty-three of them. Even someone as solid in talent and learning as Fang Xiaoru can only understand four to five tenths of it now. Even today, he is still studying hard in his small room!
The two of them followed the direction of the traffic and arrived at the recently completed theater. I saw a huge wooden sign in front of the garden with four characters: Auction Venue. Most of the people got off the bus here. There were a few tables at the front gate to register names, and there were people maintaining order. There was already a long queue in front of the garden.
"You two, are you here to participate in the auction?" A skinny man with a sinister look came out of nowhere, opening his shirt to reveal several wooden cards hanging inside. "I'm afraid you two junior officers are late. The queue is so long. If you queue up at the back, I'm afraid you won't get your number."
"There just happen to be a few more number plates here. If the officer wants to, I will transfer them to you! I won't take advantage of you. I only charge you 20 taels for a pair of number plates!" The thin man held out two fingers.
(End of chapter)
