Chapter 37 The Devil's Disaster 2
I think that although I think so, it is impossible to do this!
Just as Zheng Xiaoming said at the beginning, favors are not so easy to owe!
If the court can be used, then it will not be used!
Of course, Zheng Xiaoming would not refuse anyone who came to the door on his own initiative.
Don't take the initiative, don't refuse!
"Okay, prepare for it. In a few days, I'll set off."
Zheng Xiaoming said: "Prepare my carriage and bring more. I will take the opportunity to promote it this time..."
Now this carriage can only be bought in the surrounding area of the capital. The Great Chu is so big that the richest place is in the south.
Zhongjing is close to the south. If you have the opportunity to go over and sell it, and sell dozens or hundreds of luxury carriages, it is all money!
An ordinary new carriage costs only a hundred taels of silver. But the luxury version of the luxury carriage is more than one thousand taels.
There are also exclusive versions above the luxury version, and there are limited editions above the exclusive version...
Anyway, as long as you are willing to give money, it’s fine to help you tailor it!
This kind of carriage is the most profitable!
Several housekeepers looked at Zheng Xiaoming with a look of money and smiled bitterly.
More than ten days later, the team set off.
In addition to Zheng Xiaoming, the highest-ranking envoy, the palace also sent an eunuch to Zhongjing to worship his ancestors on behalf of the emperor. The Ministry of Rites also photographed a small official as the deputy envoy.
However, these two people are irrelevant little people, otherwise they would not have been sent out to do such things.
Originally, he could take a boat trip from the capital to Zhongjing, but Zheng Xiaoming was abnormal and actually had to take the land.
After reporting to the emperor, a group of more than 200 people set off.
Among so many people, there were the Jinyiwei sent by the emperor to escort, the Beijing camp soldiers sent by the Ministry of War, and of course the family generals of the Xiayang Marquis Mansion.
A group of people crossed the prefectures and counties in a vast way. The local officials along the way had to hold a banquet to receive them, and delivered more or less Cheng Yi.
This is also the opportunity for those sent envoys to make money in the past. Although each family didn't give much, only about one or two hundred taels. But as long as there were more places passed by, the more money they collected would naturally be.
If you take a boat, you can only receive money from the local officials who dock on both sides of the canal.
However, every prefecture and county have to pass by this trip by land, so naturally everyone has to collect money.
I'm afraid I'll have to charge tens of thousands of taels of money back and forth.
However, Zheng Xiaoming was abnormal and did not charge any money, but just promoted the carriage.
The prefecture market sold ten or eight vehicles, and the county town sold three or two vehicles.
Anyway, they are all under the name of official vehicles... The sedan chair is made of human beings. You are a local official, and you are a Confucian disciple, and you also let the sedan chair bear you away like a livestock. Do you still have Confucian compassion? Do you understand the way of benevolence and forgiveness?
Believe it or not and drive you out of the Scholars?
So don’t sit in the sedan chair, just change to a luxury carriage to sit.
Before we reached Zhongjing, hundreds of carriages have been sold.
Although most of them are ordinary carriages used as official vehicles, dozens of luxury carriages have been sold.
Along the way, Zheng Xiaoming was worried. Looking at the official road of Da Chu, he couldn't help but sigh: "The quality of this road is not good, you have to have a good rest... I don't know when cement can be produced!"
In other words, Dachu lacks volcanic geothermal heat and does not have a natural asphalt lake, otherwise Zheng Xiaoming would have wanted to use asphalt to build roads.
Zheng Xiaoming walked slowly and promoted the sales all the way. Perhaps because of this ugly face, even the emperor couldn't stand it anymore... Although he wanted to make money, he had to pay attention to his appearance, right?
So an order was passed on, and Zheng Xiaoming was scolded. It was almost a month ago and he had not walked five hundred miles. Various censors in the palace impeached Xia Yanghou to harass the place and asked for goods and other memorials.
However, Zheng Xiaoming didn't care at all, so he just sent someone to send a secret letter to the emperor. The letter just calculated how many carriages he had sold along the way and how much money he could make...
Then the emperor pinched his nose and stopped talking, thinking even more about whether he should ask Zheng Xiaoming not to rush back after he arrived in Zhongjing, and to go to Nanjing again. There are more rich people in Nanjing!
It was just a sudden news that made the emperor change his mind and sent a 600-mile-rush messenger to send a message to Zheng Xiaoming, asking him to arrive at Zhongjing as quickly as possible.
However, there was another drought around Zhongjing this year, and some people even found traces of monsters.
Once there are natural disasters and man-made disasters in Dachu, and the yin and yang are not in harmony, demon disasters will easily occur.
This is a first-class event for the entire court!
The emperor ordered Zheng Xiaoming to rush to Zhongjing as fast as possible, open warehouses and release grain, stabilize the situation, and ensure that no magic disasters occur no matter what.
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be relied on Zheng Xiaoming, the Xiayang Marquis!
As a noble relative, Xiayang Hou has a noble status and can take charge of the situation.
The specific matter must be done by the court sending civil servants and envoys.
The honorary and relatives are just the general manager, and they are just responsible in name!
This is also because Zheng Xiaoming is close to Zhongjing. Otherwise, he would not have been allowed to go for such an important matter. He would definitely send a mature and polite Duke or something else.
I'm really worried about Zheng Xiaoming, a scattered guy!
Especially in the place, new news is coming at the fastest speed every day, all of which are bad news. Either monsters appear here or monsters are found elsewhere.
Seeing that the demon disaster could not be extinguished in advance, it is very likely that it will be time to explode...
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"Marquis... Everyone in the village ahead was dead. There were only blood and no corpses. According to various circumstances, a demon disaster should have occurred!"
The Hou Fu family generals who were sent out to investigate the situation came back and reported bad news, which made the atmosphere of the entire team tense.
Although there are quite a few people in the entire team, they can't play much.
It’s just going out to inspect the mountains and forests, which is not an important task. Naturally, it is impossible to send out any elite soldiers and generals.
Whether it is the Jinyiwei sent or the Beijing camp sent by the Ministry of War, the troops sent by the Ministry of War are not considered old, weak, sick and disabled, but they have absolutely nothing to do with the elite.
The one who is truly considered elite is the more than twenty generals of the Hou Mansion family!
These are all masters of family and generals trained by the residences of various princes and marquis from generation to generation. Basically, everyone is a master of martial arts, and there are many who have cultivated acquired true energy.
These people are one of the most powerful foundations in each family of honor, lord and marquis...
Even if Zheng Xiaoming put all the money and resources in the mansion on his own practice, he did not forget to cultivate these people.
At this moment, when both the Jinyiwei and the soldiers in the Beijing camp were in panic, the generals of the Houfu family remained calm and had begun to check the bow and arrow weapons one by one.
Chapter completed!