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Fu Tinghan looked at Ren Hui and said, "Are there any difficulties?"

Ren Hui thought for a while, and the current dilemma of Princess Hongnong was only interpersonal relationships and money. As for family conflicts such as quarrels with the consort, didn't they always exist?

As a son, it was difficult for Lang Jun to distinguish between right and wrong. Forget it, let's leave it at that, so Ren Hui smiled and shook his head, saying no more.

Fu Tinghan asked Fu An to send Ren Hui out.

When Fu An came back, Fu Tinghan was writing a list of his monthly income.

Although his salary is quite large, a considerable part of it depends on the income from the job fields. But now, the job fields have just been sown, so how can there be any benefits?

He is getting married again, and the Fu family's properties are not very profitable at the moment. With Princess Hongnong's character, she will definitely not see the family's poverty, so this little money is definitely not enough for her to spend.

He divided each income according to a certain proportion, calculated it, and thought it should be enough, so he handed the paper to Fu An, "In the future, when each workshop gives you its income, you can take it out and send it back to Fu An according to this proportion." Princess."

After looking at it carefully, Fu An agreed and asked in a low voice: "Then the rest should be sent to Sanniang?"

Fu Tinghan nodded, and halfway through, he felt that he had to save some just in case, so he said: "You take out a handful of money from the income given by the seventh uncle for expenses, and save any excess."

Fu An thought about it seriously and said happily: "Langjun spends very little. He can save at least 800 yuan a month for a small amount of money. If you gather a small amount, you can make a lot, and you can save a lot in a year."

Fu Tinghan thinks so too.

Because he really didn't have any extra expenses. For food, he was either at the Yamen, at Zhao's house, or outside. It was Fu An who collected the money from Ting He;

Wang and Tinghe basically had to worry about what to wear;

The exchange of favors is also arranged by Ting Heyi;

When he occasionally buys something outside, it is recorded in the Zhao family's account and settled by the Zhao family's father-in-law.

Princess Hongnong didn't know that her son's accounts had been mixed with Zhao Hanzhang's since a long time ago. The income and expenses were the same, and they couldn't be distinguished at all.

So when she got Fu Tinghan's money box early the next morning, Princess Hongnong was still very happy. She felt that this son was not in vain and was much better than the prince-in-law. As expected, men are not as good as sons.

She closed the box and looked at Ren Hui: "Did the Zhao family reply to the letter?"

"Yes, the Zhao family has arranged for His Highness and the Consort to have lunch together at noon today."

Princess Hongnong was satisfied, "Go and tell the consort to pack up and go out. Where is Da Lang?"

Ren Hui: "Lang Jun went out early in the morning, saying that there was something going on at the Ministry of Industry."

Princess Hongnong frowned, "Why are they so busy in Shangshu Province? I haven't had a moment to rest since I came back. That's all. Send someone to tell him that at noon today, he has to go to Zhao's house no matter what. This is to discuss his wedding. , no one can be missing without him.”

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Fu Tinghan was really busy, and so was Zhao Hanzhang. The two invited Li Xiang and Li Ban to see the salt they had posted.

Li Xiang rubbed the fine salt in his hands, put it in his mouth and tasted it. He found that the astringency was less than the well salt on the market, but a little worse than their fine salt, so he asked, "I don't know the price of this salt." geometry?"

Zhao Hanzhang said: "One stone costs a thousand dollars."

Li Xiang's eyes flickered and he looked at Li Ban.

Li Ban was very surprised and quickly bowed and saluted, "Please also ask the general to give salt to the land of Shu!"

Li Xiang, whose thoughts were still at the buying stage, looked at Li Ban in surprise. He did not expect that his innocent and kind prince could think of this. He immediately turned around and bowed to Zhao Hanzhang, "Please give salt to the land of Shu, general."

Zhao Hanzhang burst into laughter and stretched out his hand to help the two of them up. "I know that it is difficult for Shu to eat salt now. Since I brought you to see it, I naturally want to relieve the difficulties of Shu."

Zhao Hanzhang generously gave them two hundred rock salt, and then took them out of the city to see the water mill.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and the water mill is very busy, with people queuing up everywhere waiting to pound rice and grind flour.

Water mills are cheap and fast, grinding rice cleanly and grinding flour finely, but they require a long journey, but this is not worth mentioning to the hard-working people.

People from nearby villages also come together to grind flour and pound rice.

When they saw Fu Tinghan, they greeted him warmly. When they saw Zhao Hanzhang riding a horse and walking beside him, their eyes widened. They immediately dropped their baskets, ran a few steps quickly towards this side, and then knelt down and kowtowed. , shouted loudly: "I wish the girl a happy new year, peace and joy!"

Zhao Hanzhang was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked Zeng Yue, "Is today a small year?"

After getting the answer, she immediately got off her horse and helped the person up, and waved to the kneeling person: "Everyone has a happy New Year, get up quickly!"

She looked down and saw that he was wearing straw sandals and his toes were red and swollen from the cold. She couldn't help but feel heartbroken. Then she touched his shoulder and felt that the clothes were thin. She said distressedly: "Don't you have money to buy cloth clothes and shoes and socks?"

His face was red from the cold, but his eyes were full of life, with a bright smile on his face, "Girl, if you don't have it this year, you will have it next year."

He pointed to the basket he brought and said, "I can grind a basket of beans this year, and a basket of wheat can last until March next year."

Zhao Hanzhang praised, "Yes, it seems that you have served a lot for the imperial court this year. Can you plant your own land?"

"It's been planted. All the wheat seeds distributed by the Yamen have been planted."

Zhao Hanzhang smiled even deeper and asked: "How many acres have you planted? Is the land good?"

Zhao Hanzhang asked carefully, and then said: "There is a shortage of cloth in the Central Plains now. You will plant some mulberry and hemp next year. Is there any suitable dry land?"

He became distressed and said: "The land allocated to me by the Yamen is good, but it is a waste to use it to grow hemp. Now beans can also be ground into powder. The military men also said that they should use beans to feed horses. I want to grow more beans. When the time comes, Sell ​​it and use the money to buy cloth.”

He smiled sheepishly and naively, "Girl, I don't have a wife this year. There's no weaver at home, so it's useless to grow mulberry and hemp."

"How can it be useless?" Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "When the time comes, you collect the mulberry seeds and sell them to the girl you like. Once you get to know her, maybe she will like you?"

"You only know how to grow wheat, rice and beans. If you don't have a chance to talk to the girls next year, how can you get a wife?"

The young man suddenly realized that what the general said was reasonable, so he became entangled, "Well, how much should I plant?"

Zhao Hanzhang smiled and said: "There are ridges, right? If you don't want to use a whole piece of dry land for planting, then plant it next to the ridge, the one close to your home. You can leave three inches to plant mulberry and hemp. You can still sit on it in the summer." Let’s enjoy the cool down below.”

The young man thought about it and realized that it was true. He nodded repeatedly, "I'll ask who has the seeds when I get back."

There may be few mulberry seeds, but there should be a lot of hemp seeds. Zhao Hanzhang turned to Zhao Yunxin and said, "Write this down and ask the counties to add mulberry and hemp seeds later."

Zhao Yunxin agreed.