Jinghong Building

Chapter 433 Zhu Family

The information from Fuzhou was sent to the capital one after another, but because the journey was long, even if it was transmitted immediately, it was already lagging behind when the information was delivered to the capital.

However, this will not affect the overall situation, because from the beginning, there are two strategies for Fuzhou.

Either kill or fight.

Since Jing Chongguang cannot be killed for the time being, then he will take the head of his neck when he hits Fuzhou.

In the capital, the spies from the Jinyiwei would send information from the Ding family to Zhong Yi every day. It has been more than two months since Zeng Ziqi went to Ding's house to serve as a banquet. Everything is normal for the Ding family. Zeng Ziqi has entered the Ding family. Usually, he focused on teaching the four teenagers of the Ding family at home, but yesterday, Zeng Ziqi walked out of the Ding family for the first time. .

He went to the inn he had stayed in. The inn said that Zeng Ziqi came to the inn to find a book.

When Zhong Yi became interested, he prepared to go to the inn in person to take a look.

Just then Chunwang came to him and said that He Ran had something to ask him to come over.

Zhong Yi went to Laomofang Hutong, and He Ran came to him, just to ask about the Ding family.

The Ding family is the Han family's in-laws, and Zong Qi regards Mrs. Han as a relative. Last time I heard that the Ding family was a little strange. Now that Zong Qi is not in the capital, He Ran naturally wants to pay attention to him.

Seeing that He Ran was asking about the Ding family, Zhong Yi said, "It is related to Zeng Ziqi, who is working as a patron in the Ding family. My subordinates are preparing to investigate something. If the boss is interested, he can go to visit him in a private manner. ”

He Ran also wanted to go to the street market to take a look, so she changed into clothes, took Xiaoli with her, and followed Zhong Yi to the inn.

This inn is famous for its four Jinshis. Guests are like clouds. In the past, guests would leave things behind. The inn is also a time-honored brand in the capital. It will not be greedy for these small profits. Therefore, the inn always picks up the inn. Whenever the things left by the guests are placed, they will be placed separately. There are also cages in the inn, which are specially used to place these things.

Zeng Ziqi said that he checked out in a hurry that day, and a book was left in the inn, and he came to find that book.

The guy said, "That Zeng Jinshi said he left a book, so I asked him what the title was. He said it was Qingping's travel notes. The shopkeeper opened the box and checked it. He confirmed that there was no such book, so he told him truthfully. Zeng Jinshi, but Zeng Jinshi refused to give in and insisted that the book was in our inn.

The shopkeeper had no choice but to let him check in front of the cage. There were five or six books in the cage, but not the one he said.

But unexpectedly, Zeng Jinshi pointed to one of the books and said that this book was also what he left behind, and he must take it away.

His name is not in the book, and every time we pick up items left by the guest, we will mark the guest's room and the guest's name on the item.

But there was no mark on that book because we picked it up in a flower pot in the corridor, and we didn’t know who threw it away.

So Zeng Jinshi said that the book belonged to him, and the shopkeeper did not doubt it, so he asked him to take the book away. ”

He Ran asked, "What is the name of the book that Zeng Jinshi took away?"

The guy saw that she was a young girl, but he came with the Jinyiwei people. He didn't dare to underestimate it, so he hurriedly said, "That book was picked up by a villain. The villain remembers the title of the book, called Zhushan Mansion Records. .”

After leaving the inn, He Ran said she wanted to go to the bookstore to take a look.

I went to three bookstores in succession, but none of them did not have this book "Zhushan Mansion Record".

Fortunately, when I arrived at the fourth bookstore, my boss happened to be there, which was an old man with white hair and beard.

When they heard that they were looking for "Zhushan Mansion Records", the old man was stunned and asked, "Where did the guest official hear this book?"

He Ran asked with a smile, "What, is this book an isolated book of ancient books?"

The old man shook his head: "It is not an isolated ancient book, but a forbidden book."

He Ran glanced at Zhong Yi, and the latter looked confused.

He Ran winked and Zhong Yi showed off the waist card of the Jinyiwei. The old man was shocked and quickly bowed: "I don't know if the official is here, so I'll forgive me for my crime."

Zhong Yi was serious: "Then let's talk about this book. When was this banned book, and why did it be banned?"

The old man said, "This book was banned forty years ago. In fact, the old man had never seen this book with his own eyes before, and I think it was not engraved many times.

The young old man still remembers that one day, the official official from the Jinyiwei came to the shop and asked if there was this book. The young old man said no, but the official official did not believe it, so he searched the shop again and confirmed that there was no. So I went to the book shop next to me again.

By the way, forty years ago, there were two book shops on this street. The owner of another book shop was from the same hometown as Xiao Laoer. By chance, there was that book in his book shop, which was said to be one of them to participate. The scholar who was in the imperial examination wrote it and was sold in his bookstore.

Who would have thought that it was a forbidden book!

Just like that, the bookstore was sealed off, and the old man's fellow villager was even beaten with twenty boards, and later he went back to his hometown.

At that time, five book shops in the capital were seized because of this book, and the owners in the shops were each covered with twenty boards.

Later, the old man heard that the situation in the other four families was the same as my fellow countrymen. A scholar placed the books in their place to consign them. They were kind-hearted and asked the scholar to put them down. Unexpectedly, it was Disaster comes from the sky.

Afterwards, the old man recalled that the scholar had actually come to my shop. It happened that my mother and my wife were quarreling in those days. The old man was caught in the middle and was very upset. Someone wanted to come to consign, but the old man looked at it. He drove him out without even watching it, and he escaped the disaster.

Therefore, this incident and this book have a deep memory. ”

The old man remembered what happened back then, but he didn't know the content of the book, just because when he knew that the book was already a banned book, he naturally did not dare to inquire about the content of the book.

After coming out of the book shop, seeing He Ran silent, Zhong Yi asked, "What did the boss see?"

He Ran said, "Zeng Ziqi came to Beijing to take the exam. Do you think he had the leisure to read travel notes when he was staying in the inn?"

What Zeng Ziqi was looking for when she returned to the inn was a travel notes.

Zhong Yi shook his head: "It shouldn't be possible. So, the travel notes he mentioned are just excuses. What he really is looking for is this forbidden book."

He Ran nodded: "But the guy said that the book was picked up in the flower pot in the corridor. When I was in the inn, I paid attention to the flower pot he mentioned. The flower pot was very tall and very big, so I can indeed put down a book. The space. It may be that the book was not lost by Zeng Ziqi, but was hidden there specially, but unfortunately it was picked up by the guy."

For Jinghonglou, in addition to being used for academic purposes, books are also passwords.

Now the Jinyiwei is also using books as passwords to pass messages.

Therefore, whether it is He Ran or Zhong Yi, the first thing that comes to mind is the password.

He Ran said to Zhong Yi, "Go and check why this book became a banned book back then."

Although the previous files have been destroyed or lost when they moved the capital for forty years, it is not difficult for the Jinyiwei to find them.

Three days later, Zhong Yi found out what happened back then. Zhushan in "Zhushan Mansion Record" is not a place name, but the ancestral home of a clan.

This clan is the Zhu family in Fujian.

Many years ago, the Zhu family was a major family in Fujian, and his ancestor Zhu Shengyou was ranked among the top ten princes of the previous dynasty with Zhou Chi's grandfather.

But later, Zhu Shengyou's favorite eldest son suffered from incurable disease. At that time, chaos in the world had already emerged. Zhu Shengyou was wholeheartedly trying to find a famous doctor for his son. Without the intention of competing for the world, he simply sent off his disciples and returned to his ancestral home. After a few dozen In the year, the court was turbulent and stormy, but the Zhu family was gone.

Later, the world was in chaos and heroes competed for hegemony, but the area of ​​Fujian was not affected. After Zhou Chi established the dynasty, Fujian transitioned smoothly. Therefore, when Zhou Chi was alive, he had no idea that Zhu Shengyou's descendants were still in Fujian.

In fact, after Zhu Shengyou returned to his ancestral home, he built a Zhushan Building. All five houses of the Zhu family lived in Zhushan Building. After Zhu Shengyou died, his descendants followed his orders and did not do as other famous families. He rebelled, but took advantage of the chaos in the world and made a lot of money in the war. Until Zhou Chi became emperor, the unknown Zhu family was already rich enough to rival the country.

However, the Zhu family is still unknown, and on the surface it is just a gentry with some face to his ancestors.

However, just 40 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Taizong, a scholar who came to the capital to take the exam wrote a book called "Zhushan Mansion" and placed it in several bookstores for consignment.

Someone accidentally bought this book and went home and took a closer look. The more he read it, the more surprised he became, because he found something in this book, that is, the Zhu family living in Zhushan Tower is too rich and too Madam is rich!

This scholar who wrote books was the son of the Zhu family.

He was once the servant of the young master of the Zhu family. Because of his intelligence, he was attracted by the head of the Zhu family, so he asked him to study with the young master.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

The Zhu family only did business but did not take the imperial examination, but the Zhu family head returned all the contracts of his family, and from then on they were no longer slaves.

The Zhu family has been paying for the scholar to study, and has also let their family live in Zhushanlou. Even his servant was given by the Zhu family.

Of course, the Zhu family also had selfish intentions to support him in school. After all, the Zhu family no longer became an official. No matter how rich the merchants are, they cannot be without people in the officialdom.

If this book was not available, the scholar would be admitted to the Jinshi and then use the money given by the Zhu family to manage his connections. He might be promoted all the way, rise to the top, become the help of the Zhu family, or may have a mediocre career, and eventually become a six or seventh rank. but even so, he is still an official.

Unfortunately, all this is just a dream.

In that book, he showed the Zhu family's wealth that was comparable to that of the country to the world. Among the different wealth and honor, there were many beyond the rules.

The book was sent to the imperial front. Emperor Taizong, the extremely scheming Zhou Laoer, immediately ordered the book to be listed as a forbidden book after seeing this book. He did not want others to see this fortune. .

Jinyiwei traveled thousands of miles and headed straight to Fujian. They found Zhushan Tower, but they saw that the Zhushan Tower looked ordinary on the surface, without pavilions and towers, without flying eaves and brackets. It was just a round building. It was really impossible to see that it was How rich.

However, what they didn't expect was that the Zhushan Building was empty, and the Zhu family had obviously received the news and took the lead in getting clean.

The Jinyiwei could only see the legendary wealth from the furniture and utensils that could not be taken away.

The Zhu family disappeared from then on, and the Jinyiwei could find only the side branches of the Zhu family and some shops and land that the Zhu family placed on the surface.

Even so, the Jinyiwei brought 100,000 taels of silver back to the capital to pay the service.

One hundred thousand taels were already a big amount for Taizong, who was short of money at the time.

But in He Ran's view, this 100,000 taels is the money that the Zhu family bought for their own life.

With these 100,000 taels, the Jinyiwei could go back to pay the job, and the emperor would stop for a short time. When the emperor recovered and wanted to continue asking the Zhu family for money, the Zhu family had already transferred the remaining property, and the capital city The journey to Fujian is long, and it takes three or four months to go back and forth. With these three or four months, the Zhu family can escape thousands of miles away.

It has been forty years since this incident, because the book was originally only sold in a few book shops, so it did not cause much sensation at that time, and today I still remember this one There were very few people involved in the matter, and He Ran and Zhong Yi happened to meet the old man, otherwise they would have to investigate for a while.

He Ran remembered the four major families in Fuzhou. The four major families had an elite navy. Zong Qi trained day and night, and he was also the one who wanted to deal with this navy, not the navy of the Later Zhou.

He Ran knew better than anyone else how much money it would cost to build an army.

Over the years, He Ran has been rich from all directions.

The money and mines of the Cai family, the money and mines of the King of Jin, the money of the King of Kaizhou, the money of Liushanhe, the private property of the King of Qi and Qian family, and the offerings of merchants from all over the country, these silvers are probably a big deal. It's piled up into a mountain.

But all this money was put into the army and used for war.

The army is a bottomless pit.

However, the four major families have a navy division, a navy division that can take He Ran several years to prepare for a battle.

Seeing that He Ran was silent, Zhong Yi cleared his throat: "Is the boss also thinking about the Zhu family's money?"

He Ran smiled and said, "Yes, I think maybe the Zhu family didn't go far back then. They might have been in Fujian all the time, with people, and gold, silver and treasures. Only Zhou Laoer thought Zhu The family ran to the ends of the world."

When talking about Zhou Laoer, Zhong Yi's mouth twitched.

However, he immediately realized what He Ran wanted to express.

"You mean, four major families?"

He Ran nodded: "It would be fine if the four major families swallowed the Zhu family's money. I'm just worried now that there is an underground emperor in Fujian."

What does it mean to be rich enough to rival a country?

If you are not the richest man, you can be called rich and can compete with a country.

The Zhu family is rich enough to rival a country, so can the Zhu family also establish a country?

That navy is actually the navy of the Zhu family?

Are the four major families working for the Zhu family?

If so, Later Zhou, Jing Chongguang and Yonghe Emperor were just standing in front.

Zhong Yi said, "I'll check it!"

A few days later, I clearly received the news from the capital.

"Zhu family?"

She had a beautiful eyebrows slightly frowned. She had been in Fujian for a long time, but she knew a man named Zhu.