I'm really not doing business

Chapter 603: The Rich Songjiang Prefecture
Yan Shixuan actually wanted to stay in Shanghai County and continue to serve as the county magistrate, because due to its location, Shanghai County was destined to be a strategic place for opening up the sea. All goods coming up the Yangtze River had to be transshipped in Shanghai County, and he could make meritorious deeds here.

But Yan Shixuan finally chose to leave. Let’s leave this place to the people in heaven to fight.

The reason why Sun Wukong could ask the monster he fought whose servant it was was because it was the reincarnation of the Monkey King's relic (Mani Pearl), and its origin was more important than Tang Monk's Golden Cicada.

"In the eighth year of Wanli, I came to Shanghai County to serve as the magistrate. I clearly remember that the day I took office at the Qujiawan County Government was August 14, and the next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival. I remember it very clearly." Yan Shixuan took Li Yougong to the streets of Shanghai County.

Shanghai County did not have a city wall, and the county government was moved from Shiliupu to Qujiawan in the first year of the Wanli period.

Standing on the busy street, Yan Shixuan looked at the busy streets with deep emotion and said, "When I took office, the population of Shanghai County had exceeded 800,000. I had a feeling at the time, is this a county? Jimo County has only 250,000 people. Jimo County is the pioneer of Mizhou's opening to the sea, and Shanghai County is the bridgehead of Songjiang's opening to the sea."

"I felt very strange at that time. Am I the father and mother of 20 people? But the annual income of Shanghai County, with a population of , was only taels of silver. For such a large county, it was just a drop in the bucket."

"I didn't understand why the tax revenue was so low, so I asked the clerk in the sixth room to take a look at the accounts. This was my first mistake. From then on, from the first day I took office, I knew why the court officials were also called floating officials."

"The grandfather of the sixth clerk's grandfather was a clerk. The same was true for the sixth clerk's registrar, the squad leader, the yamen runner, the jailer, the coroner, and even the vegetable farmers in Liancaihuying. This position was passed down from generation to generation without interruption."

"The clerk told me directly that there was no account, but all the money owed had to be repaid, otherwise it would be extortion of the rich and powerful and harsh criticism of the common people."

"Li Dayong, facing this situation, do you think I am the wise ruler or they are? To be more specific, who is in control of the power?"

"When itinerant officials govern local areas, they will all encounter this kind of dilemma. Even in Zhenping County of Nanyang Prefecture in Henan Province, there was a farce of killing officials." Li Yougong answered this question. In this case, the power was indeed not in the hands of the county magistrate.

Yan Shi stretched his hand forward and said, "The street under our feet is called Hudu. It is the oldest street in Shanghai County. It is so old that the locals don't know when it was built. I found out from the ancient records that it should be the Hudu Fort built by King Shoumeng of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period. Hudu is a very ancient fishing tool, a bit like a trap, used during high tide. Later, this place was called Hudu."

"During the Northern Song Dynasty, Hudulei was renamed Shanghaiwu, which means "supervision market". It was a big market run by the imperial court of the Northern Song Dynasty, mainly selling wine. After the imperial court built the market, Shanghaiwu quickly prospered. It took less than ten years to upgrade from a market to a town."

"At that time, people built the Maritime Customs Office, the Commercial Taxation Bureau, the Taiping Warehouse, the Liquor and Salt Bureau, the Inspection Office, the Water Post, the Express Delivery Shop, etc. along the Hudu Street under our feet. It can be said that it has everything. It is densely populated and many foreign merchants gather here."

"How much commercial tax do you think this street can collect?"

Li Yougong thought for a moment and said, "Traveling merchants are not taxed, but stationary merchants are taxed one in thirty. If the situation is good, it is not a problem to collect one hundred or two hundred thousand taels of tax a year."

Yan Shixuan sighed and said, "In the seventh year of the Wanli reign, only 1890 taels of silver were collected as business tax. The merchants did not get a cent. Only peddlers paid the tax. And they did not pay it to the government, but to business gangs like the Hailong Gang. In the eighth year of the Wanli reign, there were seven business gangs of different sizes on this street. They hired many vagrants as thugs and would fight each other at any time."

"Every year, the county government had to pay back a debt of more than 300,000 silver taels, and the annual revenue was only 200,000 silver taels. This was the situation in Shanghai County when I took office."

"How many people have advised me to blend in with the world. This is how the world works. You should blend in with the world, don't stand out, don't show off. If everyone does this, then you will appear special, and you will appear different."

Li Yougong said sincerely: "The magistrate Yan is a man of integrity and integrity. He won't go along with such a filthy person."

To blend in with the world? It is clearly to go along with the crowd and be corrupt. The bureaucrats from top to bottom in the Ming Dynasty all kneel down to serve as officials. The Ming Dynasty is probably not far from being destroyed.

"Hey, this Li Dayang thinks too highly of me." Yan Shixuan waved his hands and said, "How can I have the confidence not to go along with them? I would like to, but unfortunately, they don't give me this opportunity at all."

"Oh? I'd like to hear the details." Li Yougong frowned. There seemed to be another hidden story here. Yan Shixuan seemed to want to kneel, but it seemed that he failed.

Yan Shixuan walked forward step by step, sighing and saying, "This debt without reason has emptied the entire government office. The Shanghai County Office can't even pay the salaries of the yamen runners. This is Shanghai County, which has been open to the sea for several years. It is rich and makes people indulge in luxury. But I, a high-ranking official, don't even have money to pay the yamen runners."

"If that's the case, it's fine. It's not the first day that salaries have not been paid. It's been decades, and the yamen runners are used to it."

"But not only did they not give me money, they also wanted my life."

"General Hai repaired the embankments of the Wusong River and the Baimao River, dredged the rivers, and connected them to the sea, which led to the current basic structure of Shanghai County. The embankments built by General Hai and the people can be used for at least a dozen years."

"On August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the county magistrate found me and asked me to report to the court and repair the Wusong River embankment, with an estimated cost of 340,000 silver coins."

Building cities in the north and dredging in the south are all old stories. Repairing the Wusong River, which does not need to be repaired, will cost 340,000 silver coins. The court will allocate a part of it, and the rest will be solved. At this time, the Shanghai County Government is empty, and even a mouse will cry if it goes in, but those who eat meat will definitely not starve themselves.

At this time, it was natural for Yan Shixuan to submit a petition to the court to repair the river embankment.

Everyone was satisfied except Yan Shixuan. Given Your Majesty's decisive character, if Yan Shixuan really reported it as such, and the court and the emperor later discovered that their money had been wasted in this way, it would probably be another big case of implicating many people.

"I would like to be with Guang Tongchen, but you don't even give me a chance to survive." Yan Shixuan spoke with some hostility.

He wanted to kneel, but they didn't let him kneel! Isn't this bullying?
"Judging by deeds rather than heart, County Magistrate Yan did not go along with these people, which shows that he is a man of integrity and righteousness. He charged into battle and the first to reach the target was rewarded handsomely." Li Yougong gave a very positive evaluation. No matter how scared you are or how much you want to kneel, if you don't kneel, you are a loyal minister. In a war, chopping off the enemy's head is a merit.

Yan Shixuan walked in a square step on the long street beside the Huangpu River. This long street has a river bank and trees. He continued: "I will never do anything that will cost me my life. Later, in the spring of the ninth year of Wanli, the Grand Marshal returned to the capital and Governor Shen took office. I soon received a ticket and went to the government office, where I was scolded by the legal advisor Dong Wei."

"Although he is not an official, he scolded me like he was scolding his son. I couldn't say anything back because I didn't know if it was Shen Shixing's intention. After all, he is a member of the Chu Party and I am a member of the Jin Party."

"It doesn't have to be the Wusong River, it can also be the dock on the Huangpu River. After I was scolded, I returned to the county government and petitioned for permission to build it."

"For this construction project, the court gave 100,000 taels of silver to renovate the 16 markets along the Huangpu River in Shanghai County. But things fell out on the day of construction. I didn't use any locals at all. From the inside to the outside, they were all outsiders. I was afraid at that time. I was afraid of death. I was afraid that the silver given by the court would be embezzled by them. I couldn't bear it. I was afraid that the market would not be renovated well and I would not be able to hand it over."

"As I was repairing them, I realized that they were all a bunch of cowards! The shadows in the shadow play are just for show, to scare people."

Li Yougong raised his eyebrows: "Oh? I'd like to hear more about it."

Yan Shixuan raised his eyebrows and said with great joy, "They didn't dare to kill me because I am an official appointed by the court. If they killed me, even if Shen Shixing really instructed the advisor to take the money, he would not be able to do so. They didn't dare to destroy the construction site because it was an order from the court. On the one hand, the hired laborers wanted to enter the site, and on the other hand, the local powerful and wealthy people led the shops and merchants to oppose it. But in the end, the hired laborers still entered the site."

"I discovered their true nature. They are a bunch of cowards. They don't even dare to cause a big disturbance or cause a loss of life, because all cases involving human lives must be reported to the court. Once the court's eyes turn to Shanghai County, it will not be something that the locals can handle."

"I took advantage of the Sixteen Markets renovation to open up the situation. First, I drove out all the bandits in the Sixteen Markets and became a bandit myself. Later, I simply denied all my debts and showed up at their banquets and poetry gatherings without bringing anyone with me. I was just a vulgar person. They didn't let me do what I wanted. When I went to their banquets, they were all sarcastic and pointed fingers at me."

"We have taken drastic measures to clean up the corruption in the government offices and hire outsiders to be squad leaders, yamen runners, and clerks in the six rooms. There is not much else in the Ming Dynasty. Those who want to eat the emperor's food can line up in the west!"

"Kill me if you can!"

Yan Shixuan almost shouted out the last sentence, which gave off the illusion of a villain who had succeeded and was becoming arrogant.

Yan Shixuan was different from the traditional wise and good ministers. He became arrogant when he was successful. After he opened up the situation, he started to mess things up everywhere, which became his hobby. Forcing this group of cowardly soldiers to take risky moves was Yan Shixuan's plan.

Yan Shixuan spread his hands and said helplessly: "Alas, this proud life didn't last for half a year. Everything was fine at first, but then Hai Lao Si of the Hailong Gang hooked up with Master Dong Wei, and my life became difficult."

"I would go to the Songjiang government office once a month to get scolded. At first, Dong Wei was sarcastic, but later he became very angry. He wanted to grab me by the collar and scold me. But I found that Dong Wei was also a coward. He couldn't do anything to me, so he could only scold me. The angrier he got, the happier I was, and the more I disobeyed him."

"At the time, I was a bit desperate. I just wanted to wipe out the Hailong Gang. Nothing else mattered."

"That day, I suddenly received a note from the governor. I thought it was asking me to go to the government office to be scolded. I thought Shen Shixing couldn't hold it in anymore and wanted to personally reprimand me. But when I opened it, I saw that it was asking me to cooperate with the Huating County yamen runners to arrest Hai Lao Si and other criminals from the Hailong Gang!"

"Why do we need the Huating County Yamen runners? I can wipe them out completely with my own Yamen runners!"

"They are a bunch of cowards. They usually bully the common people and fight with them, but when faced with the yamen runners, they surrender without even daring to curse. Of course, this may be related to the fact that the Ming navy is in Songjiang Prefecture."

Yan Shixuan was unable to kneel down and serve as an official because he was relying on the power of the tiger. He then discovered that these people were not afraid of him but of the navy's elite soldiers.

The Hailong Gang really had a conflict with the yamen runners of Shanghai County, and even a fight broke out. The strong troops of the Ming navy would arrive in less than half a day. This was a rebellion, and suppressing a rebellion did not require so many reasons.

Before the operation, Zhang Cheng, the eunuch of Songjiang Town's admiral, went to Songjiang government office to communicate with Shen Shixing in order to tell him that the navy had sharpened their knives and he should act boldly.

Li Yougong just listened quietly to Yan Shixuan's incessant chatter. It turned out that Yan Shixuan was a chatterbox. Once he started talking, he kept talking.

The Sixteen Monopoly Cities were just the initial conflict. Over the past few years, Yan Shixuan picked out more than a dozen important things and shared them with Li Yougong endlessly.

For example, there were conflicts over the acreage of temple land during land surveys; there were conflicts over hidden persons during population censuses; there were conflicts over the ownership of land annexed by Xu Jie in Shanghai County; there were conflicts over land occupation during the construction of government factories, and so on.

Yan Shixuan straightened his back, looked at the ten-mile long street, and said proudly: "When the road surface of Shanghai County was hardened, thirteen official factories were built, including lime factories, brick factories, coke factories, iron factories, etc. Later, there were too many people here, so I moved the factories to the city. These factories have now become the three-story buildings we see. The ten-mile-long buildings along the entire Hudu Street are all official residences, belonging to the Shanghai County government!"

"I built the wharf, the school, the wine shop, the Confucian school, the Huimin Pharmacy, and the weaving bureau!"

Li Yougong thought of Wang Yi'e. When Wang Yi'e was the chancellor of Shuntian Prefecture, he also built a similar street along the Tonghui River. Now it is the most prosperous street in the capital, with people coming and going in an endless stream. More than 100,000 people gathered on that street alone.

Li Yougong, the emperor's sparring partner and the third ancestor in the palace, was very sure that Yan Shixuan was an honest official. The eunuchs didn't care about morals or anything like that. He just saw that Yan Shixuan was capable of getting things done, and that being able to get things done was already very, very remarkable!

"In fact, I didn't do a good job at all." Yan Shixuan went from being quite proud to being somewhat dejected. He looked at a street and said, "This street is the best proof of my incompetence."

"Isn't this street very prosperous?" Li Yougong didn't understand. How could this street, which had far more people coming and going and even more carriages than other places, become the best proof of Yan Shixuan's incompetence?

Yan Shixuan said with a particularly solemn expression: "This street sells all luxurious things. This street is three miles long, and there is no duplication of luxurious things. Agate and jade from the Western Regions, jade from Luchuan, gold and silver jewelry with kingfisher feathers, gold lacquer inlaid furniture, cloisonné enamel, Sichuan brocade and Sichuan satin, tea and fine wine from all over the country are all dazzling and overwhelming." "This place is extremely luxurious. One ounce of tea can be sold for dozens of silver coins, and the supply is still in short supply."

"Is there any problem?" Li Yougong didn't understand. Such a prosperous place, in Yan Shixuan's mouth, became the proof of his failure and incompetence.

"Those dressed in silk and satin are not silkworm farmers." Yan Shixuan whispered, "Poor laborers passing by here always hurried away without even looking at them."

Li Yougong said with great confidence: "County Magistrate Yan is a man of great integrity."

Wang Jiaping was not wrong. Yan Shixuan was actually not very courageous. He also wanted to kneel and was ready to surrender before the fight even started. If Wang Jiaping really accepted such a disciple, there was a high possibility that Wang Jiaping would be implicated in the trouble.

Yan Shixuan had no choice but to resist. If he didn't resist, he would die. At first, Yan Shixuan's resistance was more like a bid for better surrender conditions.

Later, the situation became irreconcilable. The enemy was weak and we were strong, so why should we surrender?
"I'm in the inner office, and I've seen all kinds of treasures. Let's go and have a look!" Li Yougong was full of confidence. The ambergris in the Daming Palace weighed 120 kilograms per piece! Jade was weighed by the kilogram, and there were million gold coins in the inner office alone! All of them were printed gold coins, specially used for rewards.

I dare to ask, who in the world can be as extravagant as the royal family?

Li Yougong still couldn't believe it. He thought that there were treasures he had never seen on this three-mile-long street!

Li Yougong walked past the archway on the street. On the archway was written Xiafei. This three-mile-long street was called Xiafei Street. Li Yougong was full of confidence. He walked nearly a hundred steps, turned into a store casually, and then walked out with a confused look on his face.

"How is it?" Yan Shixuan asked curiously. He wanted to know what the people in heaven thought of the extravagance here. Li Yougong was one of the most heavenly people among the heavenly people. After all, he was the sparring partner who grew up with His Majesty.

"Your Majesty is frugal. There is no such thing in the palace." Li Yougong said blankly.

He saw a type of ink that was sold for thirty silver taels and only accepted silver coins or acceptance bills from Huitongguanyi. Li Yougong almost cursed on the spot, "Your ink is made of gold, it can't be so expensive! One tael of gold can only be exchanged for sixteen taels of silver, and he sold this tael of ink for thirty taels!"
Why not grab it!
The shopkeeper politely sent Li Yougong out as if he was looking at a poor guy, telling him not to look at him if he couldn't afford it, as it would only delay business.

There were also wealthy families in Jiangnan who employed eunuch slaves, so it was not surprising that Li Yougong did not have a beard.

But this ink paste is indeed worth the price. Longquan ink paste is made of lotus root silk. Ten thousand kilograms of lotus root can produce two and a half taels of lotus root silk. The silk needs to be dried for a year, while tea oil needs to be dried for six years. The ink paste goes through more than thirty processes. It does not solidify in winter, does not lose oil in summer, does not rot when soaked in water, and does not leave marks when burned. It can be preserved for a hundred years without changing.

His Majesty the Emperor possesses the most silver in the world. Nearly 20 million taels of silver are piled up like a mountain in the treasury, a mountain of silver in the physical sense, but His Majesty never stays so extravagant.

It’s not that the ink that costs one pound of silver cannot be used, and it’s not that the paper that costs three hundred coins cannot be used.

"Isn't there any in the palace?" Yan Shixuan asked in surprise. In a flash, he knew something was wrong!
When Li Yougong came, he brought more than twenty guards with him, but Songjiang Prefecture had a tax inspection office with 120 tax inspectors, which was more than enough for them to raid Xiafei Street from beginning to end, and it was legitimate and aboveboard!

Because this is an act of usurpation. Even the emperor doesn't use these extravagant things, so how can ordinary people use them?
Xiafei Street, which had committed the crime of usurpation, was raided, which was in line with traditional Confucian etiquette. This matter became known to the world, and Li Yougong was also right. The sky is big and the earth is big, but the emperor is the greatest. No matter what the reality is, this is the case in name.

"Tsk tsk, so rich." Li Yougong's eyes were shining. He was thinking whether he should rob. This sum of money would be enough to enjoy the palace for at least a dozen years, and he wouldn't have to pay any money. He was the emperor's sparring partner. If he personally led people to search and confiscate the property, he could justify it by claiming the crime of usurpation.

Apart from Your Majesty, who can embarrass Li Yougong? Even Zhang Juzheng can't do it. Zhang Juzheng can only say a few words with the cabinet. If Your Majesty wants to protect him, it's easy.

"Forget it. His Majesty said that when we go to the place, we should not cause any trouble. Every penny of silver we bring back to the palace is earned with the reputation of His Majesty." Li Yougong finally decided not to do so. Although he was rich and legitimate, he had an imperial decree.

Li Yougong took two steps and suddenly saw a team of carriages decorated with flowers coming in front of him. These carriages looked familiar. After looking at them for a long time, Li Yougong was sure that they were all produced by the imperial farm, and they were high-end products of the new hydraulic shock-absorbing series. The price of a carriage ranged from five hundred taels of silver to five thousand taels of silver.

This series is called Yunnian, which symbolizes the vehicle that gods ride on, and comes from "Book of Wei·Biography of Cui Guang".

You get what you pay for. Huangzhuang's knife skills are extremely precise. Every car has different specifications, such as the transparency of the window glass, the steel of the carriage, the spring steel of the shock absorber, etc.

It’s not that there were no luxury items in the palace, but most of them were sold in the imperial farm for silver.

"One, two, three... twelve carriages." Li Yougong made a quick count and found that there were as many as twelve of the top-of-the-line luxury carriages. The carriages alone cost 60,000 silver coins. Add to that the horses pulling the carriages, all of which were fine horses. The price was simply incalculable.

"Which rich young man is traveling?" Li Yougong asked with some confusion.

Yan Shixuan said with emotion: "These twelve cars are all the cars of the courtesans in Songjiang Prefecture."

"Are the courtesans so rich?" Li Yougong was stunned. Songjiang Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty was indeed very wealthy, but was it so rich that even the courtesans could afford such expensive things?

Yan Shixuan said with mixed feelings: "No, how can this be explained? In short, it is just a competition of wealth. It is actually a bad custom brought from Japan. However, Japan is a small country. Even if Nagasaki is rich, what can it do? After this bad custom was introduced to the Ming Dynasty, it became worse and worse, and it has become what it is now."

Li Yougong learned about it in detail and realized the Japanese culture of competing for wealth. It was all because of Xu Fan and Sun Keyi. They issued treasure notes but did not issue them indiscriminately, which alleviated Japan's money shortage and stimulated the economy in the short term. The areas near several ports in Japan became rich, and this strange culture of competing for wealth and extravagance emerged.

Japan has a very strong culture of oiran, which is an industrial chain comparable to that of Goryeoji in Korea.

When these courtesans go out, there are six gentlemen.

One is the Benmingjun, who is the man you will marry in the future. You must find a Benmingjun of high status. The remaining five gentlemen are easy to deal with. These Benmingjuns are either direct descendants of famous landowners or descendants of court officials.

Now that you have your zodiac master, you can start looking for the six gentlemen when you go out.

The first one to be looked for is Chijunzi, who is actually the number one backup. Once Benmingjun abandons these courtesans, Chijunzi cannot take the position, because Chijunzi is just a backup who is looking for another one. Only when the courtesan really can't find Benmingjun will she give Chijunzi a chance.

Below the gentleman is the curtain gentleman. This curtain gentleman has no regard for family background at all. He has to be handsome and strong. He is responsible for helping the courtesans and solving all the troubles in life. However, the curtain gentleman cannot be a guest in the curtain. The meaning of curtain is that he can only go to the courtesan's boudoir and solve the trivial matters of life.

Mu Junzi is also a tool used by the courtesans to fight against each other. My Mu Junzi is taller and stronger than yours, so he is better than you.

In addition to the Benming Jun, Zhi Jun and Mu Jun, there are three more gentlemen. These three gentlemen are mainly the sons of wealthy merchants. The Zu Jun is responsible for running errands, the Tu Jun is responsible for providing vehicles for travel, and the Guan Jun is mainly responsible for pretending to be elegant and providing poems and songs to be sung.

Honmei-kun, Chi-kun, Baku-kun, Zu-kun, Tuo-kun and Guan-kun are the Roppongi flower crown gentlemen. In addition to them, there is another type called Gong-kun, who is specifically responsible for paying tribute. There are many of them, and these Gong-kun are the wallets of the oirans. They are responsible for providing all the expenses of the oirans, but it is extremely difficult to meet an oiran.

These tribute gentlemen may not be rich, but they are definitely willing to give everything for the courtesans, and the courtesans are too lazy to even look at these tribute gentlemen.

Gong Junzi is not among the Six Gentlemen because lickers are not allowed at the table.

Among these messy gentlemen, only the master of destiny can have sex with the beauty. Occasionally, the master of destiny will summon the courtesan to his house to play music and sing for him.

"Are you crazy?" Li Yougong was stunned after hearing this. He wanted to immediately bring out Zhu Xi and Cheng Yi's Neo-Confucianism! Isn't this nonsense?

Yan Shixuan exhaled heavily and said, "Competing for wealth and extravagance has become a trend in Songjiang Prefecture. This absurd way of Japan has spread to the Ming Dynasty. These wealthy and powerful young men flocked to it and immediately followed suit. They set up a Songjiang Oiran list, with twelve people on the list, named after the twelve months. In fact, it's not because they admire the Oirans, but just to show that they are rich."

Ta-ta-ta! The sound of footsteps came, and Li Yougong looked towards the end of the street with a solemn expression. There were many people running towards Xiafei Street.

Has the Hailong Gang come to seek revenge on Yan Shixuan?

The accompanying guards and Ti riders stretched out their hands to their hand guns and looked around, searching for a favorable terrain for the battle. A lightly equipped Ti rider took a running start and climbed over the wall, disappearing in the crowd. This Ti rider was Duntai Yuanhou, who was now out delivering a message.

If a fight breaks out, it only takes half a quarter of an hour for the bailiffs to arrive, and three hours for the naval elite to arrive.

A group of people dressed as servants, holding long wooden sticks as thick as fists, rushed into Xiafei Street. They did not beat anyone or rob people, but went straight to the courtesan convoy. A sedan chair carried by four people passed quickly in front of Li Yougong and others.

Li Yougong was ready for battle, but the servants didn't even look at him.

"Qu Daocheng! You bastard! Crawl over here!" An old man with white hair got out of the sedan chair, leaning on a cane in his hand. He looked very badly, with bloodshot eyes, and roared in anger.

"What is this?" Li Yougong then realized that it was not directed at him.

Yan Shixuan actually knew this person. He said concisely, "The old man of the Qu family is Qu Hexing, the Qu family in Qujia Bay. Originally, the county government was owned by others. Later, Qu Hexing sent the land deed to the county government. He was considered one of the most wealthy families in Songjiang Prefecture, second only to the Sun family in Songjiang. The family has more than 300 two-masted ships and more than 80 three-masted ships. Last year, they bought two five-masted ocean-going ships."

"Qu Hexing is Qu Daocheng's grandfather."

Li Yougong simply sorted out the relationship between them and said blankly: "No, Qu Hexing called his grandson a turtle grandson, then what is he?"

"I got so angry that I said something I didn't think right." Yan Shixuan said with a smile, "Qu Hexing is an old stubborn man with a bad temper. When the maritime ban was in place, he went to sea to make a living."

A man with sunken eye sockets, he seems to be in his twenties, but judging from his complexion, he seems to be dying soon, not as good as Qu Hexing.

"Grandpa! What are you going to do? I'm just out for fun." Qu Daocheng asked loudly.

Qu Hexing's face turned red and white, and he closed his eyes, waved his hand and said, "It's a misfortune for our family, it's a misfortune for our family! Beat him up! If he dies, the government will hold it accountable when they investigate!"

"Grandpa, I am your only grandson!" Qu Daocheng was terrified. He had no doubt that his grandfather was really going to beat him to death!
Qu Hexing was able to lead the Qu family to grab such a big piece of meat in the maritime affairs, and he naturally kept his word in front of so many people.

"It's okay. Your father has three illegitimate sons. No matter how embarrassing they are, they are not as shameful as you! Beat them!" Qu Hexing snatched a wooden stick as thick as a fist from the servant next to him and hit him out.

(End of this chapter)