Here is ancient.
Don't look at the peaceful and prosperous appearance of Hexing Mansion, there have always been wars in other places.
In a place like this, not having enough power in your hands is always disturbing.
Jiang Zhen and Wen Ming went to the sea to trade together. After Wen Ming made money, he either kept the money at home or bought land, but he was different. He has been gathering manpower to train manpower.
Up to now, there are thousands of adults under Jiang Zhen's hands who have a little bit of martial arts. Some of them work as escorts in the Jin Zhen escort bureau, and some will follow him to sea.
After he returned from overseas, he gave those who followed him a few days off, and now, it was time to start training again.
In the mountains near Yabian Village, there is a special training ground where Jiang Zhen trained his subordinates, and today, he went there early.
In the training ground, hundreds of men, led by Zhu Erlin, were already waiting.
It was still early, and they sat lazily on the ground or on stakes and wiped the knives in their hands.
When he was with Jiang Zhen, he was only seventeen or eighteen years old. Jiang Ming, who was very out of the way, has a big waist and a very stable body. He is not holding a knife, but a spear.
In the beginning, Jiang Zhen didn't have any money, so he let his subordinates take bamboo poles to train them as weapons. Jiang Ming liked the feeling of stabbing people with bamboo poles. Later, when he had a big knife made of stainless steel, he was unwilling to do so. Change weapons, and there are several like him.
Then, Jiang Zhen asked someone to get them some spears.
"Jiang Ming, I heard that you are going to marry a daughter-in-law?" Zhu Erlin looked at Jiang Ming: "Have you seen your daughter-in-law?"
"You're stupid!" Jiang Ming glanced at Zhu Erlin. His daughter-in-law was told to him by his parents. He was from Hecheng County. He got the news no earlier than Zhu Erlin and the others. Did he possibly meet them
Zhu Erlin looked at Jiang Ming with a sincere look: "Xiao Ming, you must be nice to your daughter-in-law, otherwise we will go out for several months, and if the daughter-in-law runs away, there is no place to cry."
"Do you think my daughter-in-law is willing to run with my appearance?" Jiang Ming looked at Zhu Erlin: "However, you should be careful."
"I want to beat you!" Zhu Erlin kicked Jiang Ming with a sweep.
Seeing that the two of them were about to fight, someone suddenly ran in from outside: "Everyone stop and stop making trouble, put your clothes in order, hurry up!"
"What's wrong?" Zhu Erlin and Jiang Ming let go of each other and looked over in confusion.
"The boss is here!" the man said.
"The boss will come when he comes." Zhu Erlin said, their boss is even less careful than them. After the last time they went to sea, they even cut their hair short... If it wasn't for their long time at sea, they had been raised for five months. Come back, their boss will come back with such a head of hair, he will definitely be scolded!
"Take Miss!" the man said again.
"Miss?!" Zhu Erlin was startled, stood up quickly, and tidied up his clothes.
When Jiang Zhen was at sea, he told people how cute his daughter Zhao Mingzhu was all day long, so that although they hadn't seen Zhao Mingzhu very much, they couldn't help but love this child.
Under such circumstances, they naturally did not want to show their sloppy side in front of Zhao Mingzhu.
Zhu Erlin and others just packed up when Jiang Zhen brought Zhao Mingzhu over.
Zhao Mingzhu, who is more than four years old, is no longer as fat as she was when she was a child, but her face is still a little round, her eyes are big, and she looks very cute.
"Boss, why did you bring the young lady here?" Jiang Ming looked at Jiang Zhen puzzled.
"She will come every day in the future." Jiang Zhen said.
Jiang Ming and others are a little dumbfounded, let Zhao Mingzhu come every day? !
Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge, now they can be regarded as rich people. Their daughter should be raised in a deep boudoir, and there is a group of maids to serve. Then, they are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and embroidery. Are they here
Isn't their boss afraid of tanning the young lady
These people are extremely helpless, but Zhao Mingzhu is very interested in everything here.
Wooden towers that can be climbed up and down, high and low wooden stakes, meandering across the river, bridges made of ropes…
"Mingzhu, Dad will take you here to play today!" Jiang Zhen said to Zhao Mingzhu.
In fact, he wanted to bring Zhao Chengyu with him, but Zhao Chengyu was less than three years old, so he was too young.
Zhao Mingzhu nodded vigorously.
Some Zhao Mingzhu can "play", and some can't. Jiang Zhen who can play takes her to play. When encountering something that cannot be played, Jiang Zhen ties her to his chest and "plays" by himself.
Zhao Mingzhu leaned against Jiang Zhen's chest and laughed "giggling", very happy.
But when Wen Ming came over to see this scene, he was frightened into a cold sweat.
Jiang Zhen actually took his daughter and climbed to such a high wooden stake!
Although he often goes out to sea with the ship, he rarely does what the crew members do. He has never climbed the mast or anything, and is a little afraid of heights, but this Jiang Zhen...
"Wen Ming, what's the matter?" Jiang Zhen climbed down from a height when he saw Wen Ming brought someone over, and urged his subordinates to continue practicing.
"It's something." Wen Ming said.
Jiang Zhen hugged Zhao Mingzhu, and Wen Ming came to a nearby place where they could rest for a while, and then looked at Wen Ming: "What's the matter?"
"There are two things. One is the Wen family's boat. If we want to buy it in the future, I'm afraid it won't be so easy." Wen Ming said. Many things cannot involve interests. The Wen family originally loved Wen Yingniang very much, but now...
Wen's father, Wen's mother, as well as several brothers of Wen Yingniang, still have feelings for Wen Yingniang at the moment, but not others. If the former's feelings are to be maintained, it is best not to involve them anymore. Benefit.
In the future, Jiang Zhen might not be able to buy a boat with the Wen family. Jiang Zhen had already anticipated it and even made some preparations, so now he nodded and agreed: "I know, what else?"
"Also, Cheng Yongzhen from Pingzhou Prefecture has done a big job." Wen Ming said: "I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse."
Wen Ming talked about it in detail.
This matter has not yet spread outside, but it was told to him by a sea merchant who he knew before.
There is a sea ban in Daqi, which stipulates that slabs cannot go into the sea.
But the sea merchants are too profitable. Daqi can sell an ordinary kitchen knife for a hundred times the price when he sends it to Dongyang!
As a result, the local government on the southern side of the Yangtze River has been secretly condoning it, and finally gave birth to many sea merchants.
And this has a lot to do with the increasing population and serious land acquisitions in the south of the Yangtze River - many people cannot rely on farming for a living, so they can only seek a life at sea.
The Hexing Mansion is even better, and further south, the maritime merchants there are really powerful.
The Wen family is very good at shipbuilding, but that's all. He is not the most powerful among the maritime merchants. The most powerful among the maritime merchants is Cheng Yongzhen.
Cheng Yongzhen is a native of Pingzhou Prefecture. He has assembled a group of fellow villagers to do maritime trade. After 20 years, he has become the largest maritime trader. The fact that he can do this is related to the support of local officials.
"Cheng Yongzhen is very capable, and he still wants to be an official. It is precisely because of this that at the beginning of the Pingzhou Prefecture in southern Fujian, many officials became friends with him and gave him some support, allowing him to gather some burning, killing and robbery. The pirates who plundered, so that those pirates would not be in trouble along the coast, but in recent years, he had become suspicious of the officials of the state government. The king is now, and he calls himself the king of Ping." Wen Ming said.
After Jiang Zhen started working as a maritime businessman, he naturally paid attention to other maritime businessmen, including Cheng Yongzhen.
And according to his understanding of Cheng Yongzhen... Cheng Yongzhen and the people under Cheng Yongzhen's hands are somewhat similar to the Liangshan heroes in "Water Margin".
The court has a sea ban, they are doing illegal business, but they want to get the recognition of the court, and hope that the court can recruit them... Of course, this is also the inevitable idea of people in this era.
At this time, people always feel that being an official is the best way out.
"He actually did this?" Jiang Zhen was a little surprised.
"Yes." Wen Ming said: "If he is like this, the court has to pay attention to him. I don't know if the court will recruit him as he wishes."
"It's difficult." Jiang Zhen said: "In the future, we have to be more careful."
Jiang Zhen's business as a seaman is not just to make money, in fact... he wants to find a way out for himself overseas.
He has Jin Zhen's escort bureau, a sea boat, and if he can find a place to live overseas, then there will be wars in Daqi in the future, and he will be able to run away with his family...
Because of this, when he first heard about what Cheng Yongzhen did, he was thinking that Cheng Yongzhen might want to do the same thing as himself, but soon, he realized that it was not the case.
"We won't be sailing far away for the time being, and we only do business with Dongyang, which is fine." Wen Ming said.
Jiang Zhen nodded, thinking that it would be better for him to find more people and train him.
It is said that under Cheng Yongzhen's hands, there are 100,000 people. Compared with others, he is still insignificant.
Cheng Yongzhen's incident did not affect Jiang Zhen and Wen Ming's business. After all the merchants who were supposed to arrive, they sold all the goods in their hands and made a lot of money.
When all the goods were released, Jiang Zhen and Wen Ming packed up and took their family back to Hexing Mansion.
In modern times, I haven't been home for a few months. Maybe when I go back, I will find a new building somewhere, but this time is different.
Hexing Mansion is still the same, with the word "Zheng" on the pier, much more than before.
Jiang Zhen got off the boat with his two children, and immediately several carriages came.
"In the past, when I went out to visit a relative, I had to suffer a crime, but now everything has changed." Zhao Liu used to live with Zhao Jinge and his children by the sea. This time they returned to the city together. Live exclaimed.
How much has I suffered when I traveled far away before! But now, everything has changed, it is a boat and a carriage, and it is very easy.
Jiang Zhen smiled and helped Zhao Liu to the carriage, but he got on a horse next to him.
He prefers riding a horse to a carriage.
And when he was riding, he took Zhao Mingzhu with him. Zhao Mingzhu has been led by him to climb up and down and wander around these days. Not only is he not afraid of horseback riding, but he is not happy about it.
Everyone on the dock saw the pomp here, and at this time someone asked, "Who are these people?"
"You don't even know them? Did you see the one on the horse? That's the head of Jin Zhen's escort!"
"The head of the Jin Zhen Escort? So young?"
"Yeah, he's so young! Besides Jin Zhen Escort, he is also a maritime businessman. I heard that he has made a lot of money."
"It's amazing!"
…
There was a lot of discussion. In the crowd, a young man in his thirties, dressed in a somewhat old robe and dressed as a scholar, looked at the pier in a trance.
This person is Liao Qinghe.
Liao Qinghe was not looking at Jiang Zhen, but the Wen family who came back with Jiang Zhen.
Wen Yingniang, pregnant again...
After learning that Wen Yingniang was pregnant, he suspected that it was fake and felt that it was impossible for him to give birth. For this reason, he deliberately accepted two maids.
However, for three years, the two maids have not been pregnant, but Wen Yingniang, she and her husband have been together less often, but they are pregnant again.
Looking at Wen Yingniang with a big belly from a distance, Liao Qinghe felt extremely bitter.
Sometimes, when you have something, you can only see its shortcomings, but when you lose it, you can't help but miss its goodness, and even beautify it again and again in memory.
In the past, Liao Qinghe disliked Wen Yingniang very much and felt that she had embarrassed herself, but now I will reminisce...
When they were newly married, Wen Yingniang also treated him tenderly.
Later, although the two often quarreled and he came home drunk, Wen Yingniang always prepared sober tea for him.
For so many years, Wen Yingniang has been his closest person, but now, he has lost him.
Liao Qinghe stumbled towards the house, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard quarrels coming from the house.
"You scold! If you have the ability, continue to scold! If you scold again, I will go out and shout, saying that my child is not yours!" Lu Luan's voice was the loudest.
Mother Liao muttered, but did not dare to continue scolding.
Even though they had already lost face, they were still reluctant to tear off the fig leaf on their faces, so much so that they had to keep Lu Luan at home, even her children.
"You better be nice to my daughter in the future, she is the only blood in your family!" Lu Luan said again, still not giving up.
Mother Liao's expression froze.
Seeing Lu Luan's complacent look, Liao Qinghe wanted to go up and slap her twice, but thinking of her threats, he didn't dare to move.
He didn't want people to know that he couldn't give birth.
For this, he even made an appearance of being infatuated with Wen Yingniang, self-cultivation, and never married again.
Mother Liao always had nothing to do with Lu Luan. In the end, she could only scold Liao Qing and the other two concubines to work.
These two used to be the maids next to Wen Yingniang. They always liked Liao Qinghe very much. When Lu Luan appeared, they also protected Lu Luan, so Wen Yingniang did not take them away.
Later, they got into Liao Qinghe's bed as they wished, but their lives were not comparable to being a maid for Wen Yingniang.
The Liao family is now impoverished, and they have driven all the servants away. They not only do rough work like pouring Yexiang, but also spinning and weaving to support the family, and they will grow old soon.
If I knew today, why was it in the first place