Although the country women were fierce, they were afraid of being in charge of the official position. Therefore, when they were in Hai'an, the big girl and daughter-in-law always stayed away when they saw big heads with big heads, and only Cuihua was not afraid. Not only were they not afraid, they also helped Datou wash clothes and sew clothes, and even made several pairs of shoes for Datou.

Although the big head is not good at using it, it is not unfair to know that it is easy to be dependent. Moreover, he also wants to marry a wife, and when he is in Hai'an, he likes to get close to Cuihua. Every time he has a drink with Ji Dajier and the others and talks about marrying a wife, he always says shamelessly that if he wants to marry Cuihua, he will marry Cuihua.

Cuihua came from Hai'an. He didn't know how happy he was, so he gave all the foreign goods that Zhang Guangcheng gave to him when he first arrived in Shanghai to Cuihua. This morning, he accompanied Cuihua to buy vegetables. After buying them back, he started to work for Cuihua in the kitchen. He just circled around Cuihua and didn't even do serious things.

Han Xiufeng saw off Zhou Xingyuan and Liang Liu and other brothers, and when he returned to the study, he suddenly found Ren Yuer was helping to clean up. Seeing her busy appearance, he couldn't help asking: "Yuer, you must be very tired after taking the boat for a few days, why don't you sleep for a while?"

"I'm not tired," Ren Yuer sorted out the letter and turned around and said, "The foreigners' beds are too soft, they are not used to sleeping, and they can't fall asleep even if they want to."

"So you didn't sleep all night?"

"I slept for a while in the second half of the night," Ren Yuer's pretty face turned red, and she lowered her head and said awkwardly: "I slept on the floor later, but I didn't sleep in the bed."

"It's good to get used to it." Han Xiufeng smiled, and then changed the subject: "Help me write a letter to Dean Gu and tell him peace. It's Cuihua's business, and I'll make the decision. From today on, she is no longer a maid, but my brother and sister-in-law of Han Xiufeng."

Ren Yuer suddenly envied Cuihua and said quietly: "She can watch the clouds open and see the moon bright."

"Cuihua is a good woman. It is a blessing for Datou to marry a woman like Cuihua," Han Xiufeng was happy from his heart. He sat at the desk and smiled: "Don't Cuihua's father want a bride price of 1,000 taels? One thousand taels is 1,000 taels. After a few days, someone will return to Taizhou, I will ask someone to bring the money and the letter back."

"Fourth brother, you are so nice to Mr. Datouqian." Ren Yuer sighed.

"He is a big brother with me. Not only do I want to help him get married, but I also want to build a yard and buy dozens of acres of land when I go back to my hometown in the future." Looking at Ren Yuer's thoughtful look, Han Xiufeng smiled again: "Don't envy you, Datou is my brother, you are my sister. When you get married in the future, I will still buy you a dowry."

"I'm not getting married."

"Men are married when they are old and women are married when they are old. How can women not marry? When I meet Qiao Futai again, I will ask him and his classmates who are of the same age as their classmates and have not married yet. I, Han Xiufeng, are now a fifth-ranked co-minister and supervisor of Jiang Customs. My pampering sister is not a good match for marrying the son of the Jinshi family."

"Fourth brother, I really don't want to get married..."

"Okay, stop talking stupid things, talk about serious business." Han Xiufeng didn't have time to touch the love of his children and pondered: "Xiao Wuzi heard the foreign company in front of him say that there was a boat to Tianjin the day after tomorrow. He planned to take that boat to Tianjin and then go back to the capital by land from Tianjin. I wrote them a letter last night, which was the one that was just put on the table. Please help me see, polish it, and re-print it."

"Okay, I'll take it upstairs and look."

...

After sending Ren Yu'er away, Han Xiufeng suddenly felt that there was a shortage of a clerk and was thinking about whether to hire one. Wu Jianzhang, who hadn't seen him for two days, came back.

While signaling Xiao Wuzi to make tea, Han Xiufeng asked curiously: "Brother Daopu, what did Lord Xu say? Why did you come back until today?"

"I'm not afraid of laughing at me. After you left that day, I knelt for an afternoon and was not summoned until the sun set. Lord Xu said very seriously. Not only did he take charge of my loss of land, but he also suspected that I was bound to entangle. He also said that someone sued Akdan and they were killed by the person I ordered."

"What happened later?"

Wu Jianzhang became more and more frustrated as he thought about it. He said hatefully: "I just want to pay the money by saying a thousand words and ten thousand. In the end, I asked me to donate 200,000 taels of salary first and take the blame in the camp first."

Han Xiufeng asked knowingly: "Isn't this over yet?"

"It's not so easy to pass this level," Wu Jianzhang sighed and looked at Han Xiufeng with anticipation: "Whether Xu Naizhao or Jierhanga, they can only take my post and cannot kill my head. But the emperor is different. The emperor wants to kill my head in one sentence, and now it can only rely on Xiang Shuai."

"Mr. Huang has returned from Jiangbei Camp. Xiang Shuai has already known this matter and will definitely not sit idly by."

"It's about your life and life, I'm still worried."

"If you are not worried, please hurry up and do the errands assigned by Xiang Shuai. Zhou Xingyuan has just arrived. He doesn't know how long it will take to set up the silk tea shop. Xiang Shuai can't wait. You can think of a way to ask the foreign company in front to credit a batch of foreign guns and gunpowder and other military funds to Xiang Shuai. When you receive two entries of silk tea, Zhou Xingyuan will naturally return the money for purchasing foreign guns."

"Brother Han, I'm not intimidated by it. I came because of this."

"Brother Daopu has already thought of it."

"How dare I not take what Xiang Shuai assigned to me? So I would like to ask you how many foreign guns should I give you first?"

"Brother Daopu, can you get a foreign gun now?" Han Xiufeng asked subconsciously.

Wu Jianzhang smiled bitterly and said, "It is related to your wealth and life. Even if you can't get it, you have to find ways to do it."

"How many can I do, what kind of foreign gun can I do?"

"The flintlock rifle can't be used for a while. If you think of a way to get a hundred poles, you can get a hundred poles, and if you think of a way to get a way to get a seven or eight thousand pounds of gunpowder."

Han Xiufeng weighed the pros and contemplated, "Do as much as you can, and do it without delay. If you get it, send someone to send it. However, you must be cautious when doing this and never give someone a handle."

Wu Jianzhang asked sadly: "Master Han, I will send you a hundred and ten convex guns and seven or eight thousand kilograms of gunpowder over there. Isn't it a little too little?"

"Although it's a little less, it's the first batch, and Xiang Shuai is urgently used." Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said, "When you help Xiang Shuai order a batch of goods with foreigners, please help me order two hundred firebull guns and corresponding gunpowder leads, which are the kind in paper shells. After the goods arrive, you can help me send them to Taizhou and purchase silver for the bird gun and gunpowder leads. The current Lianghuai Salt Transportation Commander and Lord Guo will give it to you, and you will never let you pay it over."

Thinking that the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Commissioner could reach the heavenly listening like Xu Naizhao, Wu Jianzhang suddenly realized that the present is different from before. He really had more friends to have more roads, so he hurriedly said: "It is a blessing for Wu to help Mr. Guo to get the job done, and it is not a problem."

"By the way, there is a tax difference between Jiang Customs. Zhou Xingyuan wants to start a tax difference. If the peace and prosperity of those servants, they will have a few water and fire sticks and a few iron chains, which will shock those merchants, and no one dares to resist taxes and donations. But today, it is not peaceful, and it is not enough to rely on water and fire sticks and machetes alone. Please trouble Brother Daopu to order another 100 more poles to give the tax difference difference. As for the money, the silk tea house that Youjiang Customs and Zhou Xingyuan are planning to set up respectively."

Wu Jianzhang knew very well that Zhou Xingyuan's silk tea shop would not be less money as soon as it was opened. Although Jiang Customs could not classify the tariffs on English and French commercial goods for a while, the tariffs on Citi commercial goods were still levied according to the old rules, and buying foreign guns was also for customs duties. He, the person in charge, did not have to worry about losing money, and said without thinking: "Okay, I will ask Mr. Huang to do it later."

"Brother Daopu, now ordering, probably when will it arrive?"

"It will take three months at the earliest."

"Three months is three months. I'll help you write a letter to Xiang Shuai to explain."

"This is my duty."

"What kind of friendship do you and me have? There is no need to be so disgusted."

With Wu Jianzhang, a talented person with an extraordinary relationship with foreigners, he naturally no longer has to worry about what Guo Peilin assigned to him, but he has another thought. Han Xiufeng's previous depressed mood was suddenly improved. When he saw Wu Jianzhang away, he walked to the kitchen door by a tragic act. Looking at Cuihua, who was busy, he asked: "Cuihua, it's the first time he went so far away, do you miss home?"

Cuihua was startled and hurriedly turned around and said, "Second Master, why are you here in the kitchen?"

"Why can't I come?"

"You are the official master. Datou said that you are now a fifth-rank official and your identity is more noble than before. How can you come to a place like a kitchen?"

"You can't come to the kitchen if you are a fifth-ranked person. What's the reason?" Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile, and then changed his mind: "Cuihua, don't call me the Fourth Master again in the future."

Cuihua was extremely nervous and asked sadly: "Why, Fourth Master, you...you shouldn't think I'm stupid, you are planning to rush me back!"

"Where do you want to go? I'm asking you to call me fourth brother in the future."

"I'm not Miss Ren, how can I call you fourth brother?"

"I said you can do it," Han Xiufeng turned around and looked at Datou who was standing at the door but not on duty. He occasionally peeked at this side, and asked with a smile: "Cuihua, men are married as soon as they are married as they are married as they are young. I plan to help your father and betroth you to Datou. Would you like to?"

Cuihua didn't expect happiness to come so quickly, and she felt like she was dreaming, and she became stupid for a moment.

"I didn't joke with you. As long as you want, I will choose an auspicious day to help you do it."

"Fourth Master, I...I..."

"Don't you want to? Don't worry, if you don't want to, I naturally can't force others to do anything. After all, a forced melon is not sweet."

Cuihua recovered from her senses, blushed and said in a mosquito-like voice: "Fourth Master, my father said before coming, let me listen to you in everything I have here."

Han Xiufeng realized that it was a big deal to ask a girl to say she was willing, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Since your father told you to listen to me in everything, I will help you make this decision. I will give him an explanation on your father."

"Fourth Master, I..."

"Why are you still calling the Fourth Master?"

Cuihua was so excited that she didn't know how to thank her. In a hurry, she imitated Ren Yuer to pay homage to those officials and said clumsyly, "Cuihua greets the fourth brother."
Chapter completed!