Are you not dead? When Kong Dejing said this, she felt mixed feelings, her eyes were red and swollen, her voice trembled slightly, she clenched her fists and bit her lips, looking like a wronged little daughter-in-law.
Indeed, Kong Dejing felt aggrieved. Ever since she came out of the old man's cave, she would always unconsciously think of the moment when she was forced out of the cave by Xiang Que. This man gave her a way out, but he To put it simply, he saved his life. To put it more complicated, a string in my heart was shaken, and a piece of love like a gust of wind was played.
Shen Linfeng looked at the two of them with great interest, and asked very gossip: "You two seem to have a story?"
In the Confucian mansion.
Mr. Kong Da sat on the front seat, Shen Dejing's parents sat on the left from him, and Shen Linfeng's father, Shen Tianchang, sat on the right.
Confucian people who have always had their eyes above the top, with the aura of a thousand-year-old family on their heads, and the children of the Confucian family spreading branches and leaves all over the world, when looking at people, they usually look at people with their nostrils up and their eyes at forty-five degrees, but in When facing Shen Tianchang, a seemingly ordinary middle-aged man, he had to lower his head, maintaining an equal and peaceful attitude, not daring to raise his attitude too high.
The Shen family, in terms of background and history, is more than a thousand years behind the Confucian family, and there have been several generations of dynasties in the middle, but there is a saying that latecomers come first, and the Shen family belongs to this category.
Shen Tianchang's ancestor was named Shen Fu, whose style name was Zhongrong. He was born at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. Wansan was another name for him at that time.
Shen Wansan, the richest man in Jiangnan in Ming Dynasty.
There are two most famous wealthy people in Chinese history, one is He Shen, a corrupt official in the Qianlong period, and the other is Shen Wansan, a great merchant in the early Ming Dynasty.
How rich is Shen Wansan? Apart from being named the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, the most pertinent evaluation of him is that "he has a lot of money and property all over the world". Shen Wansan is also the first person to do overseas trade. It was in the import and export business that wealth began to accumulate rapidly.
It is said that at that time, half of the fields in Jiangnan belonged to Shen Wansan. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, the treasury was empty, so he asked Shen Wansan, the richest man at that time, to subsidize the treasury. The national treasury was half filled by Shen Wansan. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Shen Wansan was too rich. If he thought about it, he might shake the foundation of Ming Dynasty, because in that era, if you want to rebel, you must first meet two conditions. There are soldiers, and the second is that they have money. Shen Wansan belongs to the kind of extremely rich people.
Such a person is too dangerous.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Shen Wansan's steps were pleasing to the eye, he began to find fault and asked Shen Wansan to help him build the city wall. Zhu Yuanzhang asked the court to build the northwest city wall, and Shen Wansan built the southeast city wall.
The saying that if you don¡¯t die, you will not die is the most suitable for Shen Wansan at that time. He has a lot of money and can do it. Zhu Yuanzhang made the entire court build the northwest city wall faster than Shen Wansan built the southeast city wall by himself. It was completed several days faster than Zhu Yuanzhang.
This guy is too capable. You can easily stroke the emperor's tiger beard. You can repair the city wall faster than the emperor. Doesn't that make it clear that you say that you are richer than the emperor and more powerful than the emperor, so Shen Wansan may be counted. The most deadly person in history.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang found fault and dispatched the entire Shen family to the border to serve as an army, which is now Yunnan. So far, people thought that the richest man in Jiangnan was already in decline, but it was not.
To become the richest man in the wealthy party, Shen Wansan can do it, but he must not be stupid, and he is also extremely smart. Long before Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Shen Wansan had already scattered his family's wealth all over the place, and let him Several important direct descendants of the Shen family secretly left Zhouzhuang at that time, some of them went overseas directly from Zhejiang, and some of them stayed in China.
Later, it was said that Shen Wansan's family was in decline, and the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River was ruined, but that was just a superficial appearance. The wealth of the Shen family's Wanguan family was only lost by one-third, and most of the rest were given away. Because Shen Wansan gradually came out after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, the Taizu emperor might want to take him down, so Shen Wansan stayed in Zhouzhuang by himself and used a blindfold to hide it from Zhu Yuanzhang.
Since Shen Wansan was the earliest and most overseas trader at that time, he shipped silk, jade, grain and handicrafts from Jiangnan to overseas, and then shipped jewelry, ivory, rhino horn, spices and medicinal materials to China. During this period, he established overseas. They established a stronghold and began to take root, so the disciples of the Shen family started to develop soon after they fled overseas, and some of them stayed in the country.
Later, after the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, the Shen family at home and abroadThe younger brothers began to merge together, and the Shen family recovered quickly, even faster than Shen Wansan's time at that time, but because they kept remembering the mistakes made by their ancestor Shen Wansan at that time, the Shen family became extremely low-key. The wealth of the Shen family has always been in the hands of the children of the Shen family and has not been combined. It was not until the domestic situation stabilized decades ago that the Shen family began to raise the banner.
No matter how rich Shen Wansan's descendants are now, they can't be as rich as a country. In fact, no one knows how rich they are, just like no one knows how much influence the Rothschild family has in the world. Like the force, it became a mystery.
This time, what Shen Tianchang came to the Confucian Mansion to ask for was a marriage with Kong Linfeng and Kong Dejing. Marriage is the most common and effective way to maintain interests and long-term development between two big families. The combination of important children of two families , which means that the development of the Kong family and the Shen family after the next generation will enter a positive stage, so marriage is very important.
Mr. Kong Da and Shen Tianchang discussed the marriage of Kong Dejing and Shen Linfeng in detail when they met this time, and it was scheduled after New Year's Day, because the basic tone was already discussed by the older generations of the two families. The dowry gift is nothing more than a normal procedure.
A few months later, the combination of the Kong and Shen families will open up two long-standing families.
However, today's young people don't pay much attention to their parents' orders and matchmaker's words. Shen Linfeng's wings are hardened, and Kong Dejing is not a submissive woman. Regarding their lifelong events, the two young people will really choose to be at the mercy of others what?
On the hill in the backyard of the Kong family, Xiang Que said to Kong Dejing with a headache: "It's a long story"
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