Win the Ding 1617

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Things in the world are so fickle.

A few hours ago, the leaders who slaughtered the people of Xin'an County under the majestic headquarters under the city were now sitting in front of him, handing over a sum of silver dollars, and adding money to themselves in the upcoming business activities. This made Mr. Wu Wenming feel so good!

After the calculation, as soon as we met, I gave two thousand silver dollars to apologize for the fright that Mr. Wu had caused by the massacre in the city during the day, and then planned to spend five thousand silver dollars to buy land. The land in Da Po is worth it. Five thousand silver dollars?What's more, there is the [-] silver dollars used to open up the joints?

Lord Wu was thinking like this, "Do I have to be transferred? It would be good to stay here in Xin'an County!"

"Tianhua still has some mundane affairs to deal with. When Tianhua returns from Huizhou and Chaoshan, he will have tea and chat with his old parents."

The matter was done, and he showed his thoughts and cards to the little official in front of him. Chen Tianhua felt that there was no need to stay here and talk about these useless things with him, so he got up and left.

After a few false words of persuasion, Mr. Wu arranged for his family to send Chen Tianhua and his party out of the city with lanterns from the Xin'an County Yamen.

In front of the gate of the mansion, I watched Chen Tianhua and his party gallop away in the night. The hooves of more than a dozen horses knocked out sparks on the bluestone slabs in the streets and alleys, and then disappeared into the vast night.

Looking at the endless night, think about the ups and downs of today's day.Master Wu couldn't help but sigh, feeling that the world is impermanent.

"Dong Weng, Dong Weng?" The master Gao Chang on the side asked his employer in a low voice.

"Students need to ask Dong Weng for instructions."

Gao Chang asked Wu Wenming very respectfully and respectfully.

Back in the study, Master Wu Wenming generously ordered someone to inform his wife, and brought over five hundred silver dollars.

"Old master, this is the silver that Chen Tianhua sent just now. I gave five hundred silver dollars to the old master. I heard that there will be a happy event to be favored in the near future? This is like I bought some jewelry for Mrs. Ru sister-in-law."

Wu Wenming is not the kind of scholar who is born in the imperial examination, but because of this, he bought an engong with money.I am more familiar with the official world, morals and people's hearts.Know how to share the spoils with others.No, share.

"The students are ashamed to accept it!" Gao Chang was not polite, he was an official for thousands of miles only for money, and they couldn't study well.Go and learn from the screen.Be this famous master of money and food punishment.Isn't it just for money?

"However, students are a little concerned."

The area south of the Shenzhen River has always been the territory of the five major families.Yuen Long (including Ping Shan, Ha Tsuen, Shiba Heung and San Tin, etc.), Kam Tin (including Kam Tin and Pat Heung), Fanling Sheung Shui (including Tai Po, Fanling, Sheung Shui, Sha Tau Kok and Ta Kwu Ling, etc. ) and the coastal valleys (including Sha Tin, Tsuen Wan and Tuen Mun) are the settlements of the five major clans Tang, Hou, Peng, Liao and Man.

"And as far as the students know, the Deng family has long regarded Tai Po as a forbidden property. For many years, they have been trying to acquire Tai Po, but unfortunately due to insufficient money, they failed to do so. However, some of the descendants of his family have already lived in Tai Po. In the area, there are market houses for rent, business operations, and tax collection. There are already hundreds of market houses there, and it is said that they can collect more than a hundred taels of silver every day. This Dapu has already become the happy forest of his Deng family. If you want to sell this big pu to someone Chen, if he steps in, he will inevitably clash with the Deng family. Once there is a conflict, it will inevitably be a fight of thousands of people. If the other four families of my relatives jointly deal with it, this Xin'an County will become a big Shura field! Countless people will die because of this, and their farms, houses, and property will all be lost. I hope the old parents will be clear about it!"

"It doesn't matter! Did the Deng family's behavior in Dapu have been recorded in our county government? No! Since there is no record, then Dapu is a land of no owner. If someone is willing to buy land of no owner, I follow the rules of Ming Dynasty. What is there to be afraid of doing things according to the law? The old master can just take the money and prepare some jewelry with Mrs. Rusao!"

The two of him, the guest and the host, had finished their secret discussion in the study, and seeing that Mr. Wu had made up his mind, naturally Master Gao, who was an aide, couldn't say anything more, got up, took his leave and left.

The bookboy who waits in the study.His eyes were red and swollen and he came to clean up the teacups. Seeing Mr. Wu sitting on the grand teacher's chair, he just looked up and immediately lowered his head, his eyes were full of sorrow. Feeling pity, he stepped forward and hugged the book boy.

"Little boy, what, who bullied you? Tell the master, the master will vent your anger on you!"

"No one dares to bully me. It's just that some people have no conscience. When they want someone, they kiss and yell non-stop. When they are annoyed, they are kidnappers with fists and hearts. We are destined to be slaves. How dare we Are you angry with the master?!"

Looking at the book boy's coquettish and idiotic face, Mr. Wu couldn't help being drunk, "I blame the master, I blame the master! In this way, after a few years, the master will promise you the maid in the room, Jinxiu, to be your wife? At that time, the two of you, husband and wife, will serve the master together."

When Master Wu was flirting with his molester, Chen Tianhua and others had already left the city gate.Under the guidance of the footman with the lantern written on Xin'an County Yamen, the city gate officials very cooperatively opened the north gate and lowered the suspension bridge, sending Chen Tianhua and others out of the city.Of course, the moment Chen Tianhua rode his horse out of the city gate, he still dropped a money bag containing thirty silver dollars, "Brothers, please drink tea!"

Looking at the residents who were looking for the bones of their relatives on the daytime battlefield with torches, and listening to the faint wails blowing in the wind, Liang Kuan, the team officer who followed Chen Tianhua into the city, couldn't bear it, "My lord, do we have some Is the killing too heavy? These people don't seem to deserve to die?!"

"The kindness of a woman!" Chen Tianhua added a whip to the horse, and urged the horse away without looking back.Liang Kuan could only shake his head, shook his teeth towards the faintly visible flames in the distance, and urged his horse to chase after him.

Just an hour after they left the city, another fast horse rushed out of the city, and the rider on the horse gave two fierce glances in the direction they were going away.Clamping the horse's belly with both legs, he whipped the horse's buttocks fiercely, and rushed towards the south of the county into the night.

Kam Tin Kat Hing Wai is one of the six walled villages of the Deng family in Kam Tin. It was first built by the ancestor Deng Bojing during the Chenghua period. .From the first year of Chongzhen, in order to strengthen the defense function, the old and young of the clan began to reinforce the walled village.

Since the Wanli period, the Deng family has been a wealthy figure in Xin'an County. Among other things, the patriarch Deng Yuanxun alone owns tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.certainly.All without paying taxes.

The entire Deng clan not only owns the rich land in Jintian area, but also owns a lot of land in other areas in Xin'an County. It can be said that it is the most prominent family in Xin'an County.Due to the multiplication of the clan population, many offshoots of the Tang family also migrated from the Kam Tin area to Long Yeuk Tau and other places in Fanling to settle down.The 5 circles and 6 villages in Longyuetou are all the places where descendants of the Deng family lived.

And this Jiqingwei.As the location of Deng's ancestral hall.It can be said that he is the leader of this prosperous family.The entire Jiqing circle is rectangular.Covering an area of ​​45 mu (about 100 meters long and 90 meters wide), the design is neat and symmetrical about the central axis.It is a typical walled village building.The green brick wall is 6 meters high and more than 5 meters thick. The base of the wall is made of stone. There are gun ports on the wall, and gun towers are built at the four corners of the wall.There are houses and small alleys in the enclosure, and in the middle is a street extending from the main entrance to the Shenting Hall at the end of the village.There was originally a moat more than 10 meters wide outside the wall, and there was only one entrance and exit for the whole walled village, with a series of iron gates.

This is the Jiqing Wall in history. However, today’s Jiqing Wall began to be re-reinforced in the first year of Chongzhen. The wrought iron bars are rebuilt with green bricks.Compared with the original fort, it is stronger, and at the same time, in terms of layout, it is slightly more prominent than the original fort. The guns on the fort, such as the general bronze cannon and the French machine, have a wider range of fire, and can support each other with artillery fire.

On the wall, from time to time, there are young and strong members of the clan carrying spears, led by the leader wearing a long knife, patrolling along the wall.Although the festival has passed, I will soon start busy with spring plowing.However, there are bandits everywhere, and people have to be more careful.

Entering from the main entrance of Jiqingwei, along the road in the village, you will soon arrive at the ancestral hall of Deng's ancestors. On the right side of the ancestral hall, a house with three entrances and three exits stands here, as if a respectful child stands there. In front of the elders.

The house looks ordinary on the outside, but inside it is unique. The whole house is supported by beams and pillars made of huge huanghuali.Needless to say, the interior of the room is gorgeously decorated. You can see the style of Suzhou admired by people in the Ming Dynasty. The table is decorated with sacred porcelain from Nanzhong. Cotton gowns made of imported cotton cloth, and experienced Tongfang maids and mother-in-law are all dressed in new-style clothes made of Suzhou silk.A few huge pots of kumquats are being served extremely luxuriantly, and the densely packed small kumquats on the branches are like small lanterns.

In the hall, guests gathered, and a banquet was being held.

Handsome maidservants stood behind everyone with wine jugs in their hands, ready to fill the wine glasses for the guests at any time.Needless to say, what is placed in front of the guests, the dishes, cups, plates, spoons and other items on this table are all made of gold by expert craftsmen.And under the buttocks of the guests, there are also huanghuali official hat chairs, huanghuali octagonal round stools, etc.

This scene is said to be in the remote countryside of the South China Sea, even in Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other places, it is not at all inferior.Although he has the rustic air of a wealthy countryman, it is unavoidable to be ridiculed, but the level of luxury is no less than that of a prince.

On the main seat, sitting at this time is an old man who is too old. His face is full of ravines and wrinkles, which are full of vicissitudes of life. The pig knife has already harvested the best part of his skin, leaving only the loose part.

The banquet had been going on for quite a while, and the host and the guests had a lot of excitement. The old man seemed to be a little impatient, and he closed his old eyes slightly to take a nap to refresh himself, watching his children and grandchildren drink with the guests Compose poems.However, the occasional flashes of light in the cloudy eyeballs let people know that this person is not simple, just like a beast that seems to have entered the late stage of life, looks old and ugly, but if someone tries to trick this beast, I don't even know when it became the food in the belly of this beast.

Those who are drinking.They didn't dare to despise him because of his old age, and everyone looked respectful or respectful. This person is now the patriarch of the Deng family in Kam Tin, Deng Yuanxun.The de facto leader of the five major families, the Emperor of Earth in Xin'an County.

"Everyone! We were invited to Jiqingwei to eat the famous Deng's Poon Choi today, to celebrate the addition of a male to the Deng's family, and the four generations of the Deng family's family live together. Let's respect the old man of the Deng's family again!"

A disciple of Shangshuihou's family raised his wine glass high to make a proposal, which immediately resonated with everyone in the hall, and a group of people stood up one after another.A toast to Deng Yuanxun.

Trembling, he drank half a glass of wine.Deng Yuanxun sat back in his seat, "Everyone, how is the wine today?"

"Excellent wine!"

"How's the food?!"

"This pot choy made with radish, bamboo sticks, squid, pig skin, mushrooms, chicken, dace balls and braised pork can be found all over Xin'an County. I'm afraid I won't be able to find a better one!"

Deng Yuanxun scanned the crowd with his old eyes.People who are within his sight.I couldn't help feeling a chill in my heart.

He said sullenly: "If I tell my nephews, this wine, this food, and this house, furniture, and women, I am afraid that they will all be gone in the future. What will you think?"

For a moment, the entire hall immediately became silent, and the place that was still very lively just now seemed to turn into a barren mountain and a ruined temple in a blink of an eye.

"Old man, why did you say such an ominous thing about today's event?"

The Patriarch of the Wen family was a little puzzled, and he shook his fat body to ask the elders in front of him for advice.

Deng Yuanxun glanced at Young Master Wen, "Nephew, the pair of thumbs in your hand are green and green. I think they are good materials. I don't know how much money they spent? Also, your new house is even worse than the old man's small house." It is several times stronger, and it is said that it costs a lot. Also, how much money did you spend to redeem the opera singers in your outer house in the provincial capital? Feeding these beauties costs another month. How many?"

He ignored the embarrassment on Young Master Wen's face, and turned his head to ask everyone: "My dear nephews, I know that your family has quite a lot of land, and there are also shops in the market. We have also made a lot of money in the past few years. But, let me ask you, do you know that Guangdong is now full of wars and riots, but why? Why does Xin'an County have a unique peace and prosperity?"

"Also, why is the price of food in the four townships so cheap, but you can earn a lot of money?!"

A series of questions, like a cannonball hit everyone's heart.In the past few years, everyone has been busy earning money, but they have never thought about why they can earn this money.

"If one day, the trading shops of all of you can't make any money, and you even have to lose money in it, just relying on the grain from the fields in your hands, my nephews, do you think we can still eat like this? dishes?!"

Maybe it was because of his emotional excitement, Mr. Deng's eyes seemed to burst into flames, and his wrinkled old face was suddenly covered with a sickly bright red.

"A group of idiots who don't know that death is coming!"

He waved the cane beside the seat towards the huge golden basin placed in the center of the table. With a loud clang, the golden basin was overturned on the table, and the pork, chicken, prawns, fish balls and other items inside were accompanied by The oily soup was sprinkled everywhere.Several prominent figures jumped up screaming, shaking off the oil on their bodies.

Seeing Deng Yuanxun go crazy like this, the younger generations of the five families fell to their knees and bowed their heads to apologize.

After a short pause, Deng Yuanxun adjusted his breath and ordered people to remove the leftovers, clean up the remaining soup and water in the hall, and make tea for the guests again. "My dear nephews, let me ask, how much money can you exchange for the rice harvested in the field today? Can a year's harvest be as much as a month's profit in your shop?"

Some people curled their lips disapprovingly in their seats, "Grandpa, you can't hold back even half a month! Sun'er's shop sells some hardware products from Nanzhong. Now that Guangdong is in chaos, people everywhere are forming villages to protect themselves." Every day, gentry from nearby counties come to buy knives, guns and other things in Sun'er's shop to protect themselves. How can the profits of these things be compared with farming?!"

Since the first year of Chongzhen, due to the geographical advantages of being close to the city of Guangdong Province, adjacent to the cape, and the change of Hong Kong Island, families of all sizes in Xin'an County have discovered a new way of making money, that is, becoming a family on Hong Kong Island. Distributor and agent of the Hanyuan firm that has set up warehouse warehouses.

A large number of iron utensils, from needles, iron pans, kitchen knives, shovels, shovels, hoes, to nine-turn steel plowshares, including those funeral guns and extinct knives, as much cotton cloth, white sugar, porcelain, rice, and meat porcelain Cans, edible oil, etc. were sold to all parts of eastern Guangdong through the stores of Wujia and other Xin'an families.The five major families have made huge profits through this kind of trade. It can be said that new houses are being built in surrounding villages, and the wages of masons are also rising.

As for the fact that the rice in their fields cannot be sold at a price, they didn't consider it. Anyway, there are shops in the street market to make money, and the rice at home will be piled there.

"If I tell all my nephews that such a good time will come to an end soon, we will lose all the money we made in the past few years. The rice produced in the field can't be sold for money, everyone We are used to such a good life again, are we going to rob neighbors in all directions like Changle, Meixian, Chaozhou, and Shantou?!"

Two eyebrows that almost fell out were beating angrily on Deng Yuanxun's forehead. (to be continued..)