Chapter 16 The Origin of Jingjiazhuang
Qin Bai left for a while before Yun Xi and the others appeared at the door of the silk shop. With a satisfied expression, they asked the servants to carry the purchased goods onto the carriage behind, and then they returned to their carriage.
He Wenxian had already been waiting in the carriage. Under the command of Uncle Lai, the convoy drove towards the direction of He's mansion. Yun Xi put down the veil, her face was as beautiful as flowers, and Nian Fang Erjiu was the best age.
While walking in the convoy, Uncle Lai reported what had just happened outside the carriage. As long as it was related to the seventh master of the mansion, Uncle Lai did not dare to neglect it. He knew that although the third grandmother was a woman, she could never get sand in her eyes when she was doing things.
"Oh? You said that man had good fists and feet? He fought with Zhenwei's Iron Brother?"
"Third Grandma, not only that." Uncle Lai agreed with a smile, "He can also draw and read, and he knows how to advance and retreat, and is very sensible."
Yun Xi chuckled: "What does Uncle Lai mean..."
Uncle Lai smiled with her: "I can't hide my little thoughts from you, Grandma. I thought that it was time to use people in Jingjiazhuang and was preparing to open a new iron furnace. If that person is innocent, he can receive it for use in the mansion."
Qin Bai lowered his figure just now and it still worked. At least Uncle Lai and the others no longer felt bad. Moreover, the force in the He Mansion could not rely solely on Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall, and would never let a certain family grow bigger. There are also many outlaws and veterans who do dirty work, but the most trusted is the guards composed of children from the mansion. The family gave birth to children is a slave who has been slaves in the He Mansion for generations, and they share the honor and disgrace with the master's family, and they also win the trust of the master's family. In addition, among the disciples of Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall, there are also many children from the He Mansion's family, which is planned infiltration and control by the He Mansion.
Of course, the most threatening one is definitely He Guanzhang's identity as a court official. If you really offend me, just one post, the imperial army may have arrived.
So Uncle Lai's idea is that if Qin Bai and his burly brother are innocent, then sign a contract to take them to have children; of course, it doesn't matter if they are not innocent, they can also do dirty work. He didn't think about whether Qin Bai would agree. It is definitely a good way out to be a rich family's family. How many people can't get it while crying? I didn't see Feng Suo, the senior brother of Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall, who is one of Zhenwei's three heroes, and the eldest son of the owner Feng Sihai, happily signed for the He family's family to be a personal follower next to the second master He Guanzhang?
Yun Xi thought a little, suddenly looked up and asked He Wenxian with a smile: "Seventh brother, what do you think?"
He Wenxian thought of the album that had just been bored in the carriage and curled his lips disdainfully: "There are many other words, a vulgar person." He still resented Qin Bai to underestimate him, and had a good impression of Tang Dong. Moreover, there were many simplified characters in the album, and He Wenxian, who had received orthodox education, was very disliked.
Yun Xi smiled and ordered, "I dare to scare my seventh brother and dislike him." For the He family, there are many people who are flattering, and it doesn't matter if there are more or less or less.
"That's it." Yuting, who was next to her, responded with a small fist, "That person was scaring the lady just now."
"Yes, Grandma Three."
Seeing Uncle Lai leave, Yun Xi smiled and joked: "Yes, he actually dares to scare my Ting'er?"
"No!" Yuting twisted her body and refused to support her.
He Wenxian said: "But that man is very good at it. Everyone said that Zhenwei's martial arts are excellent, but that man fought with Zhenwei's Tie Brothers for a long time. Sister Ping'er, Sister Tinger, I tell you, at that time..."
He Wenxian thought that experience was quite interesting, and he was talking about dancing and Yu Ping and Yuting also listened to it with relish. When they finished joking, Yun Xi looked at He Wenxian with care: "Seventh brother, you study hard at home every day, so you should relax. Let's do this. In a few days, I will take you with you and play there for a few days."
"Sister-in-law!" He Wenxian's face was delighted, but hesitated.
Yun Xi smiled and said, "It's okay! After you come back, you study hard behind closed doors before taking the exam. I don't want to go out. Don't worry, I'll go and say, "Mrs. I'll carry you if there is any scolding, my sister-in-law." Yun Xi still loves her brother-in-law very much.
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Yun Xi leaned quietly against the wall of the car, quietly thinking about what to do.
In fact, there is no family named Jing in Jingjiazhuang at all. Everyone knows that more than a hundred years ago, Yun Xi's great-grandfather Yun Feihu led twenty-two heroes to unify the local private mines in Laizhou and signed an alliance to establish twenty-two families in Jingjiazhuang. The twenty-two is the word "jing", so it was named Jingjiazhuang.
When the Ming Dynasty was first established, the court strictly implemented the monopoly of salt and iron, so only the government's iron smelting was severely cracked down on all kinds of private mining. However, as time passed, the rules and regulations became more and more decadent, and corruption became more and more rampant. By the reign of Emperor Yingzong, there were large-scale losses in various places, which was speechless. You should know that the mining of the official smelting was made of prisoners and corvee labor, and there was no wages at all. Even the iron smelting was craftsmen and craftsmen, and they had no wages at all. They even had bad intentions. They had to bring their own food to the corvee labor and craftsmen. Therefore, there was no cost at all, and they would even suffer a large-scale loss? It can only be said that they were all embezzled by the officials who were working on the move.
The court was also overwhelmed, so it simply let go of private smelting and only charged one or five cents of mine tax per 100 kilograms of pig iron. So heroes and heroes from all over the country flocked to grab mineral resources, and the first chaos in the mining industry in the Ming Dynasty occurred.
Yun Feihu was one of them back then. After nearly twenty years of fighting, intrigue, alliance and rebellion, he finally wiped out all opponents and unified the private smelting industry in Laizhou. He also used his relationship to become the inspector of Jingjiazhuang. Although the inspection was a ninth rank, he at least became an official in the court. Moreover, the inspection is similar to the current police station director, with patrol officers under his command, and he was in charge of formal force, and had great power in the local area. If you can't understand it, just think about the pavilion chief of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, which was similar to the nature of the inspection in the Ming Dynasty, and could completely cover the sky in the local countryside.
So after the twenty-two alliances, the local area in Laizhou finally restored peace and entered a period of rapid development of private smelting. Especially at this time, there were only three types of people left: one was working for Yun Feihu; the other was trying to work for Yun Feihu; the third was one - Yun Feihu!
What a desirable passion that is that? What a nostalgic history that is that?
However, with generations of inheritance, most of these twenty-two families have been destroyed in the long river of history. Some people have spent their time, some people have sought out land, some people have suffered disasters, and some have been eliminated. In Yun Xi's father's generation, only ten families have been left.
Thinking of this, Yun Xi couldn't help but sigh in his heart...
Chapter completed!