Twenty days later, Hanjing Weaving Shop. At the beginning of the founding of the Dashun Kingdom, Shizu Gao Yigong and Taizong Li Jin were both born in the grassroots. After hardships, they achieved great achievements. They knew the sufferings of the people and were extremely meager to serve themselves. Especially Shizu Gao Yigong, given the severe eunuchs in the previous dynasty, ordered the abolition of the eunuch system and established the ancestral teachings, limiting the number of palace maids in the harem of their descendants to less than 100. Later, although this restriction was gradually broken, the scale of the Dashun Palace was much smaller than that of previous dynasties. The reason was very simple: the earliest planning was only considered for the needs of the harem of the scale at that time. When the emperors wanted to expand, they found that the surrounding land had long been occupied by private houses.

The impact of large-scale construction was too great, so we had to adopt small pieces to purchase and expand the construction method, which was very expensive. Therefore, the Hanjing Imperial City is not only much smaller than that of the imperial cities of all dynasties, but its shape is not symmetrical and regular along a central axis like the imperial cities of other dynasties in history, but it is an irregular polygon. If you look down from the air, the entire imperial city seems to be an enlarged paramecium. The Weaving Shop, named after the Hanjing Weaving Shop, is a market near the expanded imperial city. Since the residences of many middle and senior female officials are located nearby, it has also become the location of the best silk, clothing, and powder jewelry stores in Hanjing and even the country.

A light two-seater four-wheeled carriage passed through the street, immediately arousing the praise of idle people on both sides of the road! The exquisite structure, beautiful decoration, the agile skills of the coachman, and the four arrogant horses all proved that this carriage was worth at least 15,000 taels of silver! Which palace pen or other noble people inside? This itchy feeling almost brought out the hearts of those idle people.

"Damn it, look at the bridles, reins, and saddles, which are all first-class and good goods. These are worth hundreds of taels of silver alone!" A leisure man leaning against the stone pillar outside Rongbaozhai looked at the carriage parked by the road and couldn't help but be amazed. It's no wonder that he was like this. The four horses' harnesses were not only exquisitely made, but also mixed with gold and silver threads. The white manes of the four horses looked gorgeous.

Another idle man next to him sneered and said, "Bah! Hua Wu, your eyes are really white. The four horses are really valuable. If my tricks are not broken, the four horses are all first-class good horses. No matter how many silver you don't have a thousand taels of white money, it would be useless to use them to pull a cart! I don't know what kind of wealthy people are sitting inside!"

While these idle men were talking, a man in a brocade robe jumped off the carriage. He was about 34 or 35 years old, with a slightly dark skin and a majestic weapon. Behind him was a servant in green clothes. It was Chen Zaiqi. The clerk outside Rongbaozhai hurriedly came up, reached out to take Chen Zaiqi's cane, and smiled and said, "Please, Master!" While rushing forward, he opened the curtain for Chen Zaixing.

Chen Zaixing came in and a friend had already brought him a hot towel. Chen Zaixing had washed it and took two more sips of hot tea. A shopkeeper who was on the side of the prime minister smiled and said, "I wonder if you come to the trumpet today. I wonder what trumpet can do?"

Chen Zaixing glanced over the hall and saw that the hall of Rongbaozhai was not big, but the layout was very elegant, without the magnificent feeling of ordinary jewelry stores. He couldn't help but nodded secretly and smiled at the shopkeeper: "I heard that Rongbaozhai is a first-class shop in Hanjing. It is said that as long as you can afford the price, there is no product that you can't buy. It's really extraordinary when you see it today!"

"I dare not, it's all for everyone to love. The small account is just a living!" The shopkeeper smiled slightly, and then his tone became higher: "However, since the opening of the Wanli period of the previous dynasty, my account has been around for four hundred years. I dare not say that there is no product that I can't buy. But if the goods that I can't be produced in the Hanjing are not available, I'm afraid that only the palace can take out! If you say something taboo, even the palace queen will always visit my account with her pen!"

"Okay, okay!" Chen Zaixing smiled and said, "I have a few rough stones here. I want to make a few toys, but I don't have the right craftsmen, but I have to bother with the expensive craftsmen. As long as I'm doing it well, I can't bargain with the price tag, and I will never bargain!"

The shopkeeper took the cloth bag and carefully placed it on several tables aside. As soon as he opened the cloth bag, the shopkeeper's movement stopped, and he froze there, his eyes showing a feverish look. More than a dozen rubies and emeralds of different sizes were revealed in the opened cloth bag. Chen Zaixing looked at the shopkeeper's expression and showed a satisfied smile on his face.

"how?"

Chen Zaixing's words woke the shopkeeper up. He hurriedly smiled at Chen Zaixing: "It's rude. These gems of guest officials are too expensive. The villain is afraid that they can't make the decision. It's true that the guest officials will wait in the inner room. Can the shopkeeper of my number come to deal with it?"

"Then please take the lead!" Chen Zaixing stood up, and the shopkeeper hurriedly led the way. Chen Zaixing looked around and saw that there were many courtyards in Rongbaozhai. It was not like a jewelry shop, but it looked like a family of officials who had been passed down for hundreds of years. He couldn't help but be surprised.

The shopkeeper brought Chen Zaixing and his group to a elegant room, asked the servants to bring tea, and said with a smile: "Please wait a moment, my boss will arrive soon!"

"Let's go!" Chen Zaixing took a sip of tea, pointed to the tea in the cup and asked, smiling: "Is this the Longjing in Hangzhou before the rain?"

"The guest officer has good eyesight!" The shopkeeper's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he smiled with his thumb up: "Yes, this is the first new tea this year. Longjing, the Queen of Rain Fortune, is from Zhejiang now. She likes this one the most and is the most fashionable in the palace. This kind of Longjing, the Yuqian, is placed on the market, and there is no need to sell a single tael of silver or a liang of tea!"

Chen Zaixing smiled slightly and said, "Forget it, let's change my black tea. A family has lived in a foreign land for many years and is no longer used to drinking this!"

The shopkeeper was slightly stunned when he heard this. He was about to order his subordinates to change tea as ordered, but he heard someone outside laughing, "So that's it, but I don't know where the guest officer came from? You can also ask my account to prepare some delicious refreshments!" As he spoke, a figure walked in from outside the door and saw that he was wearing blue clothes, white skin, handsome face and petite figure. When he looked closely, he turned out to be a woman dressed in men's clothes.

"I am from a rude person, and I have no requirements in this regard. I dare not work for Guidong anymore!" Chen Zaixing stood up and bowed to salute the woman. When the woman saw Chen Zaixing's face, her face suddenly changed drastically and asked in surprise: "It's you! Mr. Chen, it's you!"

"Yes, it's just right! I haven't seen you for many years, and Zhou Weixian's style is better than the past!" Chen Zaixing stood up straight and smiled at the Rong Baozhai owner in front of him.

Only Chen Zaixing and the boss were left in the elegant room. The dozen dazzling red and sapphires were scattered on several tables, but the two seemed to have not seen it.

"Scholar Chen, when you resigned from office and returned home, I thought it was just a momentary inspiration, and it would be back in the years. I could not have imagined, I could not have imagined..." When he said this, the woman surnamed Zhou couldn't help but lower her head, and her face showed a slight sadness. It turned out that this man's surname was Zhou and was also a female official in the palace back then. He was close friends with Jiang Qingyue. He also knew that Chen Zaiqi had failed to pursue Jiang Qingyue and abandoned his official position and returned home. Now seeing that the handsome and handsome Hongwenguan scholar at that time had now become dark and rough, he obviously suffered a lot, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Seeing this, Chen Zaixing hurriedly smiled and said, "Zhou Weixian, I didn't expect that you would become a wealthy man after all these years and have a great family business! It's really amazing. Why didn't I see you that you have such skills back then!"

"Bah!" Zhou Jin spat and smiled, "What kind of guard is not guarding immortals? I'm no longer in the palace. I was not selected to choose a pen and I came out to be a small weaving official. Thanks to the sisters in the palace, I opened this Rongbaozhai. Why? Mr. Chen came to my small trumpet today, why is it?"

Chen Zaixing did not answer Zhou Jin's question, and pushed the dozen or so gems in front of Zhou Jin, and smiled and said, "What do you think of these guys?"

Zhou Jin glanced at Chen Zaixing, and just picked up a raw stone from several tables. After carefully looking at it for a while, he put it down, and then took another one. After looking at four or five, he looked up and said, "These are all top-notch goods, but you shouldn't really come for these gems today!"

Chen Zaixing smiled slightly, wrapped the dozen or so raw stones on the table again, pushed them in front of Zhou Jin, and said, "If you like it, just take it!"

Zhou Jin was slightly stunned, but did not take the small cloth bag. Surong asked, "What are you doing this time?"

"I have some industries in Myanmar over the years, and these gems come from where!" Chen Zaixing whispered: "You should know what happened in Myanmar recently?" Chen Zaixing saw Zhou Jin shook his head blankly and said in a deep voice: "The British have started a coup. If possible, can you help me go to the palace and ask if Dashun will send troops? I'd better make plans!"

"Then why don't you ask her directly?" Zhou Jin realized that he had said the wrong thing as soon as he spoke, and hurriedly said, "What's the problem? I'll ask someone to send a letter to the palace later to ask you. Where are you living in Hanjing? I'll ask for news and send a message for you!"

Chen Zaixing pushed the cloth bag containing gems and whispered: "You can take these first, and the palace will still be necessary in the future. When I was in Hanjing, I lived in Lumingting, and your people will know it when asked!"

Lumingting is located on the shore of Donghu Lake in Hanjing, across the lake from the imperial palace, and only six or seven miles away from the central part of the imperial court. There are no houses around it. It is a quiet place. Due to the convenient transportation, beautiful scenery, good dishes, and not far from the north and south yamen, many young officials of the imperial court often come here to party and eat. Over time, this place has become a gathering place for the upper class in the Hanjing. Even many wealthy businessmen and merchants who have important things often come here to be arty.

This Luming Pavilion is different from an ordinary restaurant. Since the visitors are either rich and powerful or powerful in the court, many people come and go in secret and do not want others to see their whereabouts. Therefore, this Luming Pavilion is composed of dozens of relatively high-end courtyards, each courtyard has its own different access paths. These noble people may not be hit by others when they enter and exit. As for the increased expenses, it is not something they care about. Each courtyard is named after the words and sentences in the Book of Songs, which are very elegant, and Fatanyuan is one of them.

Chen Zaixing stood at the gate of the courtyard, as if waiting for someone. It was already dark and it was already dinner time, but Chen Zaixing was still standing at the gate of the courtyard, motionless, without any rushing and bored on his face, as if he was enjoying the beautiful scenery of East Lake in the distance.

Finally, with the sound of horse hooves, two carriages appeared in the distance. The two carriages were painted black and had similar shapes. From a distance, they looked like a mold poured out, and came in one in a row. In a blink of an eye, the two cars arrived near Chen Zaixing, and then stopped and got down. Chen Zaixing hurriedly met them, bowed and smiled, "Today, the two distinguished guests came here. I am really glorious in this thin face!"

When they got off the carriage, they replied in unison: "Why would the villain dare not come when they see the tricks?" As soon as they finished speaking, the two noticed each other's existence. After looking at each other with disgust, they snorted coldly, turned their heads and looked at the lawn on one side.

.The two of them were tall, short, thin, fat, white, and black, as if they were born to be opponents, but the clothes they wore were all curly silk robes, which were exactly the same. Seeing their performance, Chen Zaixing couldn't help but laugh in his heart, but there were smiles on his face. He walked between them, grabbed their arms, and smiled, "Brother Kong, Brother Liu, I invite you two today, but for a business, I bought you some face. Is it okay to give up all the past grudges?"

The short and fat man turned his head, snorted coldly, bowed to the tall and thin man, and said, "Well, for the sake of the second-tier man, I will not be able to see such cotton, human meat dealers, scums under saints, and hypocrites."
Chapter completed!