Shenjing, Shanggang Pier.

The Jinnomaru slowly approached the dock, and the captain stood on the deck to maintain order. This was a cruise ship with hundreds of passengers on the ship. At this time of docking, people who were eager to return home were often too impatient. If the boat was unstable and problems were prone to occur, the captain was still shouting that the passengers should not stand aside, a figure had already rushed out and jumped onto the shore regardless of everything.

"Damn, aren't you afraid of death? Are you robbing the filial hat?" The captain said angrily, and the sailors in the cabin rushed out and shouted, "Guest, you didn't get your salute!"

"I've given it all for you!" The man responded loudly without looking back.

The sailor held a bag and muttered, "It must be all things like shabby stockings and shirts!" While fiddling, the purse fell down with a bang. The sailor shouted and picked it up and saw that there were seven or eight silver dollars in it, as well as a large handful of Japanese copper coins. The seven or eight silver dollars alone could make the sailor make a small fortune. The colleagues around him were envious, but the sailor had a bitter face.

"What a shame you are? I have given you such a big reward, so you should be happy!" A guy came up and said.

The sailor said, "That guy ran so fast that he didn't even need a wallet anymore. There must be greater benefits waiting for him."

The sailor said and took out another identity sign with the word Zhu Tao on it. It was supposed to be the name of the man.

"I am Zhu Tao, hurry up and arrange someone to take me to see the head of the family." Zhu Tao ran to a silk shop, saw the sign hanging on it, and said without hesitation.

"You are crazy and crazy. Knowing what this is, you dare to yell here and get out of here!" The shopkeeper who saw the shopkeeper drove him away with a feather duster. Zhu Tao cursed: "I am Zhu Tao, the business manager sent by the master's family to Edo. I just came back and I have big news to tell the master. My father is Zhu Zhengliang, the boss of the Zhu family."

The shopkeeper is in Shen Jing and has also been to the master's house. He thought that there is indeed such a housekeeper Zhu Zhengliang. Seeing that this boy's clothes are quite luxurious and high-quality silk, even a liar has invested a lot. He was afraid that he would miss something big, so he said, "Okay, come with me. If you are a liar, you have to peel off your skin. Our Zhu family's reputation in Shen Jing, you can also inquire about it."

Zhu Tao was naturally not a liar, so he followed the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper also called two friends to get in the car and watched him. The three of them took them to the city and went to Zhu Yu's mansion. It happened that the butler Zhu Zhengliang was coming to see him off. Zhu Tao shouted: "Dad, it's a child."

"Taoer, why are you back? Are you not in Japan?" Zhu Zhengliang was surprised and went up to him and asked, "Is something wrong? Have you done something extraordinary?"

"What a big deal happened, something big happened!" Zhu Tao shouted.

Zhu Zhengliang cursed: "Shut up, how can you scream here?"

After sending the shopkeeper, Zhu Zhengliang took his son to the Second Hospital and asked on the way: "What trouble have you caused again? Tell my father first, you don't know, the master is in a bad mood these two months. If he knows that you are causing trouble, it's as simple as hitting a board."

"Dad, it's not that I'm wrong, it's that something big happened in Japan. Take me to see the master." Zhu Tao said quickly.

"What are you shouting, there's no purity!" Zhu Yu came out of the study room and saw Zhu Tao, asking, "Why are you back?"

Zhu Tao hurried over and said, "Master, Japan is fighting."

"What's the fight? Who are you fighting again?" Zhu Yu also knew Zhu Tao's virtue, but he was a brother of the same clan. Zhu Zhengliang was also an old man in the family. He still had to give him face. He was so annoyed that Zhu Yu sent him to Japan and threw him far away, not feeling annoyed.

"It was the shogunate and the western daimyo fought." Zhu Tao said.

"Nothing nonsense. If the fight starts, the Congress will know it long ago and the military will report it." Zhu Yu said.

Zhu Tao took a breath and said, "It's not that the fight starts now, but that the fight starts immediately. Maybe it's already."

"You straighten your tongue, what are you selling here?" Zhu Yu hated him even more.

Zhu Tao said: "Seven days ago, in Edo Castle, I saw with my own eyes that General Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was attacked. Oops were shot directly into the body. It was so big that he was bloody. He must have died. Once he died, how could Japan not have civil strife? Now it is said that the Shimazu family wants to become a general with the support of the empire. It must have been Shimazu Kokusa who assassinated Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Once Tsunayoshi dies, he will definitely have to fight."

Zhu Yu realized that Zhu Tao was not talking nonsense, and pulled him into the study, listening to him say what he saw and heard. After listening to him, Zhu Yu let out a long sigh and murmured: "Japan is going to be in chaos, it is going to be in chaos."

Suddenly, Zhu Yu thought that a chaos in Japan was a good opportunity to make a fortune. With the sound of cannons, a hundred taels of gold was a country with extremely lack of resources. Food, horses, iron, gunpowder and weapons could all make money. Suddenly, he remembered something and immediately started rummaging in the study. It was a mess. Zhu Zhengliang saw him impatient and asked, "Master, what's wrong? What are you looking for? Tell me to the younger one, and the younger one can help you find it."

"Newspaper, newspaper, newspaper five days ago!" Zhu Yu said while looking.

Zhu Zhengliang asked: "What newspaper is it? Which newspaper is from?"

"As it like you, as long as it is not gossip," said Zhu Yu.

Zhu Zhengliang said: "Don't worry, Lao Zhang from the stable likes to read newspapers, and he put away his cigarette after reading it. He must have it there."

"Then I won't go get it!" Zhu Yu cursed.

Zhu Zhengliang ran away and soon ran back with a few points of Shen Jing's mainstream newspaper. Zhu Yu picked it up and read it again and again, and finally found the news he wanted. It was the newspaper that investigated the corruption case. It said that the cabinet and the parliament jointly investigated the corruption problems in a number of state-owned enterprises, and the focus was on the ordnance manufacturing industry. The leaders of several important military enterprises, especially artillery and firearm manufacturing units, all changed. Zhu Yu pronounced the names of several leaders reported in the newspaper and sat directly on the ground. These people were children of nobles, and without exception, they were graduates from the Royal Academy, or seniors of the prince or classmates of the King Cheng, and could almost be considered princelings.

"Dad, the master of the Shen family sent a message saying that the prince's ceremonial guard has crossed the Yangtze River and is celebrating Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing. I asked if you have decided to go or welcome him." When Zhu Yu's son walked in, Zhu Yu had already stood up. Seeing his father's indignation, he asked carefully.

Zhu Yu's face was covered in dust and seemed to have not heard it. Zhu Yu's son said, "I know my father is unwilling to get involved in such a thing, and I will not cling to the royal family like Shen Tingshu. I will refuse Shen Tingshu now."

"Fart, fart, Your Highness the Crown Prince arrives, how can you not welcome him? Go and tell Chen Tingshu that we are going out of the city to welcome him. No, we should go to Suzhou to welcome him. No, no, I want to tell Chen Tingshu in person." Zhu Yu said incongruently.

Yuyao old house.

This is just a small courtyard that is second-hand, but it is the ancestral home of Han Zhiwei's family. When Han Zhiwei was born, Jiuzhou had already become the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and her father and grandfather also raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty. She had never been here for a day, but she had seen the jujube trees, lions and bluestone steps in front of the ancestral home in her paintings. Now that she can see it with her own eyes, she realized the longing of her father and grandfather. Thinking of her father and grandfather who died in the Qing Dynasty and her mother who died of hunger and cold, Han Zhiwei couldn't help crying.

"Young Master, why are you crying? You can't find your family? This family has moved away." An old man walked out of the neighbor's house, and he said to Han Zhiwei.

Han Zhiwei asked: "Old man, what is this family's name?"

"The surname is Xie, and he is a silk merchant in Yuyao City. It has been only five or six years since he moved here." The old man said.

Han Zhiwei understood that it must have been after liquidation and sold the house. Han Zhiwei asked, "Where did the Xie family before, who lived in this family?"

"When the Tartars came in the early years, it was the house of Mr. Shang's family. Later, when the Tartars came, Mr. Shang went out to sea, and a horse santhem general from the Tartars green camp was returned. Later, the Tartars disappeared. Mr. Shang's house came back for a while and was captured again." The old man lived in this street for most of his life and was very familiar with this family. He said: "Later, the Xie family bought it, but two months ago, the house was bought by another person. Mr. Xie seemed unwilling to sell it, either."

Han Zhiwei became alert and looked around for fear of someone who had jumped out of the security bureau. The old man said, "Hehe, I see that the Beijing master who bought a house is a kind person. He gave me two silver dollars and told me to watch it, just don't let someone smash the door and window."

"Who is the Shang family? I heard it was a righteous man in the Anti-Qing Dynasty." Han Zhiwei asked about her father and grandfather.

"It is indeed a righteous man in the anti-Qing Dynasty. I heard that he was fighting with Lu Jianguo first and then Zheng, and he was fighting in Zhoushan. What do you mean? As long as you run to Zhoushan without shaving your hair, they are all righteous men. But Lu Jianguo and Zheng have not made any name, so what can the Shang family have achieved? Anyway, the old man has never heard of it. The only thing I remember is that his family loves to raise dogs and collects rent every year. Whoever can't pay it all will let the dog bite. Look, the old man's leg has been bitten by his evil dog.

The two sons of the Shang family, the younger son, Shang Rong, can still study, and the eldest son, Shang Xing, is idle. He usually causes trouble with a group of friends. But how to say it? The plays do not say that Emperor Gaozu of Han was like this when he was young. Perhaps because of this, Shang Xing had the courage to not shave his head." When the old man talked about the incident back then, he spitted everywhere.

Han Zhiwei only knew that her father was a righteous man in the Anti-Qing Dynasty, but she never thought that he had a ridiculous time. Her adoptive father Han Junyi and her father had a relationship since childhood. I think she was also a member of what the old man called a friend.

"Then isn't there any people in this family now? Who is not here to live in the capital?" Han Zhiwei asked again.

"I haven't lived there after I bought it. The master said that people may come to live in the future, or they may not live there. By the way, I came here once last month and told the old man that the jujube tree in front of the door bears fruit this year. I will take it down and keep it for him, and he will send someone to pick it up." The old man said again.

"Thank you, my father, you can accept the money." Han Zhiwei took two silver dollars and put them in the old man's hand.

"Young Master, what do you mean?"

"Nothing interesting."

"What do you want me to do with money?"

"Just do what the capital man said and protect this yard well."

"But they have already given me money."

"It's different. You used to protect him, but now you ask for my money, just protect me and my family." Han Zhiwei left a sentence and walked slowly.

"Hey, it's such a weird person, the people in the city are so weird." The old man said.

On the surface of the Yangtze River, the ships rose and fell with the waves. Li Junhua's heart was also volatile. Whenever he calmed down, he always remembered the little things he had with Han Zhiwei in the past. He thought he had let go, but after Han Zhiwei disappeared from the clouds, he found that he could not let go.

The ship is sailing at night, and lighthouses will appear on both sides of the strait from time to time. The reason why we chose the waterway was to inspect the golden waterway on behalf of the emperor. In a few years, the empire invested tens of millions of taels of renovation, building embankments, lighthouses, and blew up reefs. As the nominal master of the empire, the royal family should also send people to take a look.

"Your Highness, you have to stop in Suzhou. More than a dozen members of Congress thought you were on land and were waiting in Suzhou." The chief guard came in and reported the news he had just received.

Li Junhua was awakened and turned around and asked, "Is there any news in Japan? Zhao Rui hasn't sent a letter yet?"

"The prince is indeed not informed." The chief guard whispered.

"Oh, no need for his news. The members of Congress are willing to come to Suzhou to welcome him, which means that what I want to do in Japan has done." Li Junhua said.

"That's great, that's great." The chief guard was happy.

At dawn, the ship was docked, and the chief guard walked in again and said, "Your Highness, a girl dressed in a man's clothing broke in at the pier. She said that her name was Juliet, and she was your classmate. I don't remember that you had such a classmate."

Li Junhua stood up, and he immediately remembered that it was Han Zhiwei and said, "Let her come in quickly and don't let others see it."

"Your Highness, the MPs are still waiting."

"They have been waiting for one night, so it's okay to wait for a while!" Li Junhua said angrily.

It was indeed Han Zhiwei who came in. When she saw Li Junhua, she asked: "Did you buy Yuyao's house? You have known my background information for a long time, right?"

"What house, what did you say?" Li Junhua asked in confusion.

"You are lying!"

Li Junhua raised his finger: "I swear, I have never bought any house. If I lie, I will be hit by five thunders!"

He even made such a joke-like oath when he called Li Hua many times. Every time he said that Han Zhiwei would always stop him when he said that he would hit him with thunder.

"It's really not you?" Han Zhiwei asked again.

"It's really not me, why did I lie to you?" Li Junhua still answered firmly.
Chapter completed!