"Qiuxiang can follow you during this period, but Mrs. Hua will give you three years! If you cannot live in a high position in three years, you will never be able to marry Qiuxiang's matchmaker."

The matchmaker is right, Tang Bohu also thought about this issue but he didn't know if the household registration in the Ming Dynasty was so strict.

Seeing Qiu Xiang in trouble, Tang Bohu said again: "Please rest assured, sister matchmaker, I will definitely let Mrs. Hua nod in three years. Qiu Xiang is bound to marry you! And it is a formal marriage!"

"Yeah!" The matchmaker nodded and said with relief: "You come with me."

The three of them came to a very hidden place in Taohua Village. If they didn’t look carefully, they wouldn’t have seen such a small path inside Taohua Village. After all, they would be a small garden. There was nothing else. There was only a very well-renovated lonely grave.

"This is the matchmaker's man." Qiuxiang said to Tang Bohu as she looked at the grave.

The matchmaker picked up a pot of peach blossoms and poured them in front of the grave and said, "My husband, Qiuxiang is here! Qiuxiang has found a good man this time."

Tang Bohu immediately knelt down to salute to the grave! He said solemnly: "Tang Bohu has met his elder brother!"

The matchmaker smiled and said, "Hello, from now on, you will be my brother-in-law. Since you are a family member, I need to explain something to you."

"I would like to ask my sister for advice."

The matchmaker smiled and said, "The situation in Jiangnan is very complicated. Zhang Lin, who you are familiar with, belongs to the Qingliu faction, but Zhang Lin is also very cunning, which also allows him to sit firmly in the prefectural position in Jiangnan. What you sent to Huafu at the beginning was not letters, but pictures were given one by one!"

"And this picture also has a lot to do with some prominent clans in Jiangnan. The officialdom in Jiangnan is complicated and complicated. Corrupt officials, honest officials and mutual understanding exist. This form has existed for hundreds of years! Over the past few hundred years, a very delicate chain of interests has been formed between officials. Everyone has a bottom line! The bottom line of the clean officials is that those corrupt officials give the people a meal. As long as there is no complaint among the people, the clean officials will not interfere in their big money. The corrupt officials will not deal with the clean officials as long as those honest officials do not interfere in their own interests. This is the current official situation in Jiangnan, the Ming Dynasty."

"Although these corrupt officials make money, the people's lives are not bad."

The matchmaker said that she stopped here and let Tang Bohu think about it herself.

"Sister means sea trade!" Tang Bohu immediately understood that the wealth of a place is limited. Officials eat more and the people eat less. Some officials are fat and they can take the people alive. There is only one possibility that these wealth flowed in from the Ming Dynasty.

The matchmaker continued: "The real purpose of King Ning's attempt to win over the prominent family in Jiangnan and the officialdom of Jiangnan is to focus on this wealth at sea! In order to protect this benefit, the entire officialdom of Jiangnan will naturally be together. The letter you sent by Tang Bohu seems to be blank, but this piece of paper has been processed. Only by passing through this piece of paper will reveal traces. The letter is not written, but a chart channel from Jiangnan to Japan!"

"With this chart, there is a way to trade with the Japanese! The Jiangnan officialdom handed over the chart to Huafu and hoped that Huafu would not interfere with the sea trade with King Ning. This huge benefit touched Master Hua, which led to the scene of burning the lantern festival. The reason why King Ning decided not to kill you was just the Jiangnan officialdom doing it."

"King Ning is determined to take advantage of Jiangnan's interests. With this one, there will be a next time. He will not give up. In order to calm the situation, the Jiangnan gentry and Jiangnan officialdom decided to share the Ning Wang's profit. This profit alone will have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in a year! The profit is so rich that it is outrageous!"

"Can King Ning overthrow the officialdom of Jiangnan? No! This circle of interests is not easy for the emperor to move easily! Because under the huge financial resources of Jiangnan, rebellion is not a pity. The ancestral system of the sea ban is just a piece of paper. Who cares about the huge wealth? Not to mention silk, salt, iron, tea, a musket from the Central Plains can be sold at a price of hundreds of taels in Goryeo and Japan. The island country has rich silver mines, but the materials are scarce. They are eager for the resources of the Central Plains and long for those Japanese pirates to repeatedly invade the Ming Dynasty's sea border."

The matchmaker continued, "Does your brother-in-law think that King Ning wants to win over the Jiangnan officialdom and do things that the world dare not do? You are wrong. The Jiangnan officialdom is staring at the fat piece of sea trade, naturally he doesn't care about anything else. Even if the world changes to an emperor, as long as it does not touch the interests of the Jiangnan gentry and the Jiangnan officialdom, they don't care who is surnamed in the world at all!"

"This time it seems that King Ning used all his skills to intervene in Jiangnan, but in fact, King Ning was used by the officialdom of Jiangnan. Whether you send a letter or burn the lantern festival, it is just to exercise for King Ning to show it, so that King Ning feels like Jiangnan keeping people from thousands of miles away. This attitude has also achieved this profit, otherwise King Ning might want 30% or even more."

"I understand." Tang Bohu said: "Just like I want to buy meat, only one of these meats can be sold, but the seller said he would not sell them! But I just wanted to buy them, and in the end I would be very happy with some of the meat mixed meat I bought at a high price."

"It's clear at a little bit." The matchmaker continued: "The Jiangnan officialdom gave King Ning this kind of trap, because the official who is an official knows that it's not a bad thing to have a backer like King Ning. If the emperor wants to ban Jiangnan, the Jiangnan officialdom can use his interests to make King Ning rebel! This will make the capital city be afraid of the enemy."

"What an amazing method!" Tang Bohu sighed.

"King Ning got the wealth he wanted, the officialdom got the backer he wanted, and who would care about your life, Tang Bohu's life? The game of big shots is not something you, a poor scholar, can be involved in, so your Tang Bohu's life is just a handy job in the Jiangnan officialdom, and a bowl of meat is just a soup."

"I understand." Tang Bohu nodded and said, "Sister, I understand! Before there was enough strength, some lines could not be touched. Now I am like an ant and they can step on me to death at any time!"

Tang Bohu's poem was carved in front of Taohua Village with a stone tablet. The matchmaker sent Tang Bohu and Qiuxiang to the entrance of Taohua Village and continued: "Tang Bohu, your poem is good, but you should not have the mentality of avoiding the world. The right to hold this world in your hands is the most real. If you can't become a big man, you will become the chess piece played by those big man. If you want to live freely, want to live better, and want to no longer be used by others, you can only climb up, climb step by step, and climb higher than anyone else."

"Before I become the owner of Peach Blossom Island, I will let everyone remember my name Tang Bohu." After Tang Bohu said that, he walked away step by step with Qiu Xiang. Looking at the back of this young man, Hongnian felt a dazed feeling again. Why did his temperament and expression be so similar to his husband in every word and action?

To stabilize his urge to palpitations, Hongnian persuaded himself, "That is Qiuxiang's man, how could I think so! That is Qiuxiang's man..."
Chapter completed!