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Chapter 343 I Bet Your Knife Is Not as Fast as a Firearm
When Shen Qiancheng came in, seeing His Highness the Crown Prince looked straight at him, and immediately bowed to Zhu Biao.

Shen Qiancheng said: "... I heard that His Highness summoned me and told me about the business of the shop, so I rushed over immediately. What is His Highness the Crown Prince's order?"

Zhu Biao didn't speak, just looked at him like this.

Shen Qiancheng felt a little nervous.

One breath, two breaths.Shen Qiancheng still stood quietly, not flustered.

"Gu found her." Zhu Biao said this suddenly.

"Ah, it's the Shen family who can't discipline their daughter properly."

Shen Qiancheng was a little surprised.

"She has a child."

Now Shen Qiancheng was paralyzed, seeing Zhu Biao's unchanging expression, all kinds of thoughts came out.He knew that the prince was interested in his daughter.

It's been more than a year and a half since I left, why did a child appear, he must have been tricked by some scholar to elope, what should I do.

Will the crown prince cut him up or divide him into five horses, whether his family property is enough to redeem the Shen family's life.How much silver can be converted into those shops.And his other daughters just got married, how could this be good.

But in his first reaction, he didn't blame Shen Zhiwu, but thought it was his daughter, and she had a child.I hope that she can take care of my family business, and when the time comes, I will find a son-in-law to join the Shen family, and the Shen family will be considered a successor.

...Shen Qiancheng didn't dare to think about it any longer. If he didn't want this old bone, he would just let it go. The children are still young.

He decided to confess his guilt first: "The grassroots are guilty, do you know that you are young and ignorant, please forgive me for this matter... Your Highness, Your Highness, please forgive me."

Seeing him kneeling on the ground trembling, Zhu Biao couldn't continue acting, he couldn't laugh or cry, he waved his hand to signal Shen Qiancheng to get up: "That child...has...died."

"He died!" Shen Qiancheng was suddenly disappointed.

"Gu Duo ordered his guards to go to Yunnan a few days ago. Counting the days, he will travel day and night, and he will be able to reach the capital at the end of the month." Zhu Biao put the account book aside as he spoke.

Brought back by the guards... Shen Qiancheng's face was pale. He had lived through storms and was calm about many things, but when it came to his daughter, he was deeply touched, after all, it was born to his wife who had married hair back then.

It's just that for many years, his mother has disciplined him, and the relationship between the father and daughter has been somewhat estranged.

Zhu Biao couldn't laugh or cry, but suddenly he became playful, looked at Shen Qiancheng and said, "How much money are you going to use to redeem the Shen family's life?"

Shen Qiancheng looked at Zhu Biao, and after confirming that Zhu Biao was not joking again, he gritted his teeth and knelt down and said, "Everything!"

"How much do you have, and I don't know how much property your family has. Besides, there are so many lives in the Shen family." Zhu Biao said solemnly: "You, just sit down and talk first."

Seeing Zhu Biao's sudden smile, Shen Qiancheng was puzzled, so he told him the matter, and then said: "Don't worry, I won't treat her badly, that child is an orphan."

After Shen Qiancheng digested the news, Zhu Biao took out the blueprint of the spinning machine from the table and said, "There is one more important thing to ask you, and that is this."

Zhu Biao asked the National Academy of Scholars to build it according to the drawing of the spinning machine, but the effect was not good, and it is still under study.

"To build this kind of spinning machine, someone alone has calculated the cost, and the price of at least two cows is needed to build one." Zhu Biao showed the blueprint to Shen Qiancheng.

Shen Qiancheng looked at it for a long time, but he didn't know what was so special about it. They were all using Huang Daopo's improved spinning wheel now. Now it was a three-person agitator, a single-person agitator, and the pedal four-spindle spinning wheel.

Seeing that he didn't understand, Zhu Biao pointed to the drawing of the spinning machine and said, "It is eight or nine times the loom of the current Weaving Bureau."

Then Zhu Biao pointed to the drawing and introduced it to Shen Qiancheng in detail: ...it is a thin rod with a hook on the top.The spindle bar is assembled on the small runner, and the hand-operated big runner drives the small runner through the rope sleeve.

When spinning, a small piece of cotton yarn is hooked to the hook on the spindle rod, and then a piece of cotton sliver is caught with the cotton yarn, and twisted in the hand.The sliver is fixed by the spindle bar hook and hands like this.It is called holding both ends, and the hand-cranked big wheel drives the spindle on the small wheel to rotate, which is called twisting..."

Then Zhu Biao explained his meaning and ideas, and asked him and the Ministry of Industry to start rebuilding the structure of the Weaving Bureau.

The spinning machine of the National Academy of Scholars will soon be tested again, and he will not be satisfied until it can achieve the same effect as the Jenny spinning machine.

"The grass people lead the way."

"It's not that you were made the president of the Nanzhili Chamber of Commerce in the Ming Dynasty Commercial Bureau. Why do you still call him a grassroots grasslander? Is it because you feel lonely and give it to you as a small official?"

"No, no." Shen Qiancheng was very grateful, he really experienced great joy and great sorrow today.

"Remember to go back and make arrangements. It would be good for her to find an excuse to cover up the year she left."

Shen Qiancheng was very smart, nodded and said that he would handle it well.

Afterwards, Zhu Biao returned to the East Palace for a few days and told Chang Meirong about Zhu Yunchi's selection of future teachers.

Chang Meirong thought that Song Lian and those literati and scholars should be invited, but Zhu Biao resolutely refused, only saying that he would train two of this year's new champions, and told her not to tell others about it.

Zhu Biao is determined not to throw his own cubs to those Confucian scholars to teach, so that he has worked so hard to make the Academy of National Scholars useless, and make reforms useless.

It is necessary to remove the hidden dangers from the source, choose the most suitable son of the emperor's thinking, and it is best to prepare several alternatives.

After all, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty really had a lot of problems. He hoped that he could live as long as Lao Zhu.

At the beginning of February, Lu Zhong had already arrived at the official post not far from Nanjing with his troops.Sanbao told Zhu Biao calmly.

Chang looked at Zhu Biao curiously, Zhu Biao only said that he was going to the Ming Commercial Bureau to deal with matters, and he would not be back for the next few nights.

When Xu Miaowei came to Xu Miaowei for this reason, she would inevitably be asked a few more questions. The same excuse was that the Weaving Bureau was being remodeled these days.He is very busy.

Old Zhu and his wife knew exactly what Zhu Biao was doing, but the two princesses never dared to ask them.

After driving out of the city gate, Sanbao went straight to the inn where Lu Zhong and the others stayed.

Jiangdong Mayi, one of the eighteen gates of Nanjing Waiguo City, Jiangdongmen, is named after the location near the east of the Yangtze River.

Getting closer and closer to the East Station, Zhu Biao opened the curtain to look, it was dusk, and a cold wind blew outside.

The car stopped at the gate of the official post, and a guard immediately came out of the gate to salute Zhu Biao. Lu Zhong led Zhu Biao through the two courtyard dogs, and pointed to the backyard: "Return to Your Highness, we are here."

"You guys stay on guard outside." After Zhu Biao finished speaking, he walked towards the courtyard and came to the courtyard behind.

Only one room was lit. Seeing a familiar figure, Zhu Biao wanted to surprise her, so he hesitated in front of the door.

Suddenly, a knife flashed out of the darkness under the eaves, Zhu Biao suddenly turned sideways, leaned against the pillar with a bang, and took out a short firecracker from the leather case at his waist.

The knife was only a few steps away from Zhu Biao, the man said: "Stop."

Zhu Biao is holding a firecracker, and everyone in the posthouse is outside. Who is this person?

The woman in the room heard the noise outside the door, and asked Qingqian: "Changsheng, what's the matter."

"Don't come out."

Hearing the voice, Zhu Biao's breathing became a little short. He suppressed the fluctuations in his heart, held up the firecracker and asked, "Who are you, and what is your relationship with her?"

"Stop talking nonsense." The man named Changsheng said in a low voice.

"Guess whether I will blow your head off first, or you will stab my heart first!" Zhu Biao said loudly.

Does this Shen know that he called this man so intimately?

The woman stood in the room, holding her breath and listening to the voice outside. Hearing these words, a trace of joy appeared on her cold face.

"Your Highness!" She rushed to open the door.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and Zhu Biao looked at her: "Who is he!"

Shen Zhishi took a look and stood in front of Zhu Biao: "Changsheng, put down the knife, don't hurt His Highness."

The knife in the man's hand fell to the ground with a bang, alarming Lu Zhong outside, and they immediately followed in: "Your Highness."

Zhu Biao held up the firecracker: "You are the first one who dares to point a knife at Gu."

The man was stunned. He didn't expect the person in front of him to be the current prince, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Please forgive me, Your Highness. The grass-roots mistakenly took His Highness as the Prince..."

Lu Zhong then came up to explain that Li Changsheng was Xiaobai's sweetheart, and it was all a misunderstanding about drawing the sword.

Zhu Biao glanced at Xiaobai behind her. This girl has grown a lot taller. She is the girl he brought back from Gansu.

"Lu Zhong, take it down first."

Sanbao winked, and left the yard with Lu Zhong and the others.

Zhu Biao stood at the door, pulling him into the room with white hands, and the two closed the door tacitly.

The room was lit with candles, and it was a little dark.Zhu Biao looked at her, and Shen Zhifu turned around and hugged him, biting his red lips tightly, tears all over his face.

Zhu Biao took a deep breath, and hugged her with his backhand, feeling tender and soft in his arms.In his eyes, she was tough and strong, but there were moments when she did things that were really daring.

In August of the third year of Hongwu, he escaped Lu Yin's investigation... Zhu Biao leaned against the wall, planning to settle accounts with her.

Shen Zhiwu is now thinner and looks taller. At this moment, she is holding him and weeping quietly, and her eyes look more like the end of the tormenting days, and the end of all hardships.

Zhu Biao hugged her waist, felt her crying body, and finally understood the reason for supporting her for so long...it was that child.

Regarding why she left and the matter of the child, he could only frighten her with a tiger's face.But how could she be scared.

Seeing that she was like a quiet cat, clinging to him greedily and happily, Zhu Biao picked her up and sat on the stool, let her sit on his lap, and stroked her hair.

The two were silent for a long time, Zhu Biao asked her with a cold face: "You are so courageous, do you think Gu will not punish you?"

She just curled up in his arms.

Zhu Biao changed his gentle tone, looked down at her and asked, "Why did you leave without saying goodbye? Gu has been looking for you for a long time, and if you don't speak again, Gu will kill that Li Changsheng."

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