Shandong Dengzhou Prefecture, Lu Family, Hospitality Flower Hall

The Lu family is not actually known as a prominent family in Dengzhou Prefecture, because they only came to Dengzhou for two generations. Including the third generation who had just changed their baby teeth, the total number of Lu's surname is no more than a dozen. As many as the sons, he has made no achievements in the imperial examinations. Not to mention the juren, there are no scholars, and all the children are doing business, so they are considered rich businessmen.

Although it was just a merchant, no one dared to look down on them in Dengzhou Prefecture. At least, he was leaning against the Lu family in Songjiang. Moreover, the head of the family, Mr. Lu Qi, was very good at being a human being. The government handled the whole government with a refreshing care, and somehow he even hooked up. Several garrisons took over some sea livelihoods and made a fortune, and became the leader of Dengzhou merchants.

Especially in recent years, I heard that they have entered the wealthy families in Beijing, and their business has grown bigger and bigger, but they can handle the construction of sea boats. If this happens, local governments will not dare to underestimate them. he.

When the Lu family's nephew Chen Li Chen became the right-sponsor of Shandong governor, Dengzhou Prefecture became more and more polite to the Lu family. (Chen Li's mother is a daughter of the Lu family, although she is not the Master Lu Qi's branch. , No five servers were released)

Now, Shen Ruichen, the yamen in Beijing who had always been friends with the Lu family, has been sent to the prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture, and Dengzhou immediately offered the Lu family.

It is said that county officials are better to be in charge now. At this moment, in the Lu family’s hospitality hall, the well-known rich and gentry from Penglai County, which is attached to the Guoguo, have all come, and they are grinning at Mr. Lu Qi and try to show their kindness.

There is only one issue today. Lord Shen took office. Everyone was overjoyed and wanted to be filial. They didn't know what to give or how much it was appropriate...

The old rules for each shop are all the same, and they must be given. Everyone has it, and they all have it, which means they won’t sell anything in front of the new magistrate. You still have to rely on some special gifts. Leave a good impression to the prefect.

It is said that "if you don't build a county in your previous life, the magistrate will be attached to Guo Guo." In fact, the businessmen in the county attached to Guo Fucheng are also average. Since we look forward to the prosperity of the capital, we have to serve two levels of "mother-in-law" magistrates and magistrates. No level of the level can be offended.

Now, we all came to Mr. Lu Qi to find the scriptures.

Mr. Lu Qi is over fifty years old, and his hair and beard are all white, but he is energetic, with a strong body and bronze skin no longer show the appearance of Jiangnan people. Just a mouth opens, it is inevitable that he will bring out a bit of local accent.

He was originally a common branch of the Lu family in Songjiang, but compared with other large families in Songjiang, the Lu family was too small, so their children were still quite together. Mr. Lu Qi did not suffer much trouble when he was a teenager. He did business all depend on himself. Hobby.

The ancestor of the Lu family, Dehenggong, started studying after saving a lot of money in business, so he was unable to resist his descendants, scholars, farmers, industry and businessmen. Mr. Lu Qi's father was a businessman and helped his brother manage his family's industries.

Mr. Lu Qi has not liked reading since his enlightenment, but he often slipped to the shop. He couldn't recite the three-character scripture. The prices of various goods in the shop were memorable. His handwriting was erroneous, but his abacus was quickly , In this way, his father was very happy and cultivated his business.

By chance, Mr. Lu Qi and his fellow villagers rode a boat on the Caohe River. When they arrived in Shandong, they met some friends with wild ways. They found a way to make money, so they simply stopped leaving. They stayed in Shandong to have children and their business grew stronger. The bigger it is.

Mr. Lu Qi had a good relationship with the clan and Zhong. After settling in Shandong, he also knew that it was not easy to have no family protection, so he contacted the Songjiang clan and Zhong to buy and sell together.

The Songjiang Lu family has not been short-sighted and has invested happily.

Especially the sea trade business, Songjiang has been repeatedly invaded by Japanese turmoil and has strict control over the sea. The court also attached great importance to it. The raw silk, cotton and other short-term goods from the Lu family in Songjiang were all shipped to Shandong quietly and were sent by Mr. Lu Qi.

Sell ​​for high profits.

Over the years, the relationship between the Shandong Lu family and the Songjiang Lu family has been very close.

Mr. Lu Qi smiled, touched his gray beard, and spoke in a not-so-authentic Shandong dialect: "I am so old, how can I know the feelings of the young man? I am also the yamen in the capital, and the chanting Duke,

I haven't seen any good things before..."

Everyone scolded the old fox in their hearts and said, "Isn't that what I said? I don't know what to be filial to in this remote place, so I came to ask you to give me some advice."

Mr. Lu Qi was humble again, and Fang Yizi sat beside Lu Sanlang, who was smiling and pretending to be a puppet, and said, "San Gong'er, you said! You have some friendship with Lord Xiao Shen, please give it to all your uncles and brothers.

Let’s talk about Mr. Xiao Shen’s preferences.”

Everyone knows that this old guy is showing off his family's friendship with the new magistrate, but everyone knows that Lu Sanlang is one of the most famous people in the Lu family in Songjiang, and has traveled through Beijing many times, Shandong Lu family and Beijing.

It's what he is holding on to.

The news of the new magistrate taking office has only been a few days since he caught up from Songjiang. What else can he do?!

Therefore, no one wants to miss this opportunity now, and they all listen with their smiles and their ears.

Lu Sanlang bowed his hand to the crowd and said politely. His Nanyin Mandarin sounded particularly pleasant, but he said: "Songjiang Mansion was also hit by a disaster last year. Do you all know about it?"

They are all old fairies who are rolling around in the business world, and they know the elegance when they hear the string sounds.

Last year, when Su Song was famine, the aristocratic families led by the Shen and Lu family actively cooperated with the court and bought food at a low price. They also took the lead in organizing wealthy families to donate cloth, quilts and other goods to the government office, which were distributed to each county by the government office.

Helping the victims to spend the winter, etc.

Now that the new magistrate has come down, he is facing a famine everywhere in Shandong. Although Dengzhou has not reported the disaster, it is not undefeated. It is not as serious as Jinan Prefecture, and there are still some disaster victims there who have fled.

When the new magistrate takes office, the main priority is to provide disaster relief. The new magistrate is from Songjiang, so how can he not use Songjiang's trick?

Lu Sanlang's words meant to remind everyone. If he wanted to please the new magistrate, he would help the new magistrate to handle the matter of comforting the victims.

When everyone looked at each other, two older ones coughed and sighed, "There have been natural disasters all over the past two years, and God has not helped everyone, what can I do? I am also suffering from Shandong."

However, after a change of tone, he said, "I am not as good as Susong in Shandong. Susong produces grain and cloth, Shandong... Alas, this famine is really helpless..."

Shandong is indeed not as rich as Su Song, and the disaster situation is even more serious. The food in each company's hands is not to stock up on goods and save its lives for crossing the river. How can it be easily given up?

How much can I give a gift to a prefect? ​​It’s over, and food is priceless in such a year. Who can’t calculate this?

No one has any eyes on him. Who knows how many years the famine can cause trouble, and who knows how many years the prefect can stay? Dengzhou has changed five prefects in the past seven or eight years!

How come Lu Sanlang doesn't know what these people think? In Songjiang Prefecture, not all the rich families cooperate with the government and buy, and who doesn't know the value of food? It's the Shen family, the Lu family, and Chen Lian and Lu Sanlang go to talk about it from house to house. In addition, the Zhang family and He family were searched before, which scared the Songjiang clan, which made He Mai smoothly.

Lu Sanlang did not continue talking about food, and instead smiled lightly: "Songjiang has passed this deserted year with great grace. The boy has also been lucky enough to be the ancestor of his family. Taizu has found a sixth-rank official position."

Sure enough, some people's eyes became different.

At that time, the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture handed over the letter and received great praise from the emperor. I heard that many families received the plaque "Jishan Family" given by the emperor, and many ancestors were given the title of the sixth and seventh rank officials.

However, someone still said sarcastically: "Congratulations, it's really a bright family lintel. But I don't have such a blessing."

Someone also said: "The Lu family's home of calligraphy is a beautiful thing to add icing on the cake. But my ancestors have been digging food from the soil for generations, and everyone in the village knows that they are asking for this blessing, and they can't ask for it, but they can also provoke the villagers. joke."

Although Shandong also pays attention to family status and matches a good match, it is much worse than Su Song. Especially in Dengzhou, there are not many families who can be called officials, so they donate an official position to their ancestors. It's just that it looks better on the face, and it's all empty.

These wealthy families in Dengzhou are all the masters who do not show off their rabbits and do not show off their eagles. They will only be allowed to take action unless there are real interests in front of them. It is useless to use some false reputations.

Lu Sanlang then changed the topic quietly and said: "Now the coastal areas in the north are peaceful, and Shandong has been calm for decades. It is a great blessing for Shandong."

Haimao! All of a sudden, the whole room was full of energy. This is a rabbit! It is a big fat rabbit!

Everyone is watching the Lu family's wealth expand due to sea trade. How many people are jealous of this way of making money, and they want to replace it. However, since the first year of Zhengde, the shipyard in Dengzhou has been going to Liaodong. They were all held tightly in the hands of the Lu family, and there were people in the governor's office, and even the rich merchants were jealous of them.

Now that the Lu family put forward this sentence, it obviously means to let go, how can it not make people feel moved!

At this moment, one or two of them didn't hold the airs and went around the corners. They tore open the skin and asked bluntly: "I wonder how Lord Shen wants to manage the sea border?"

"Is the shipyard today going to be expanded?"

"The time to sail to Liaodong is limited. If these many ships are not used, wouldn't they be wasted?"

"That's right! The shipping is still convenient. It's recommended that Lord Shen open a few more routes..."

Lu Sanlang finally showed a bright smile as he heard everyone talking.

When everyone's voices came to an end, Fang slowly said: "At the beginning, Lord Shen was the only one who insisted on opening the sea route, so there was a shipyard in Dengzhou."

Everyone only knew that the Lu family had left Beijing-China relations, but they didn't know that it was related to the new magistrate, so they all looked happy.

"Mr. Shen said, "Where can the people be separated from the merchants in food, clothing, housing and transportation. It depends on the merchants to sell the food, fruits, vegetables, and silk cotton cloth grown by the people, so that the people can have money in their hands and keep a whole family alive. Small, only with the remaining money can life be successful..."

As soon as Lu Sanlang finished speaking, everyone agreed with Lord Shen’s wiseness.

In the eyes of scholars, farmers, industry and businessmen, in the eyes of scholars, merchants are the cheapest. It is a blessing to meet an official who looks down on merchants now.

Lu Sanlang looked around at everyone who was happy and looked at him, and smiled and said, "You are the seniors who understand the way of breeding better than the boy. It is of course a top-notch good thing to do if the business road is open, but if there is no goods, hey, you guys say, what can you sell

Woolen cloth?"

He gradually curled his smile, "Now the people's food and clothing are still a problem, so where can we get the opportunity to farm and weave cloth? Everyone, with a boat and a road, should we transport the grain and cloth in our warehouse to sell, or should we

What population transactions should be sold for ready-made ones?"

A needle can be heard inside for a moment.

What to sell? Can you still wait for the people of Dengzhou to grow and weave it out?!

Of course, you sell it from other places and then sell it overseas to get several times or dozens of times more profits.

Is your Lu family selling local cloth? It’s different from Songjiang cotton cloth that comes from Songjiang!

But no one dared to say this.

Now sea routes are only in the hands of the Lu family, and there are no written rules for sea trade.

Now, if the prefect is the rule of maritime trade.

If the prefect said that a certain cargo from other places could not be on board the ship, then all the things shipped by Baba would be useless, so just wait for the goods to be rotten in the warehouse.

This kind of thing is common even on canals with regular rules. Whether you can pass by or not is a matter of one word from the officials and men in the locations of various checkpoints.

Everyone was silent and exchanged eyes with each other. Although the person sitting here was probably the leader of a clan and the head of a family, the food was expensive now and the sea was rare, and it was not possible to make a decision in a short while.

Mr. Lu Qi stopped when he saw it, and did not force him too much. He smiled and said that he was not boring to sit here and chatting. He had already set up a banquet at home, so it was better to have a chat while eating.

Everyone was thinking about asking for more information from the Lu family, but now they wanted to discuss the maritime trade with each other, so they all complained and stayed for a banquet.

During the meal, we looked like the guests and hosts were having fun, but they were just having their own ulterior motives.

After the banquet, Mr. Lu Qi, who was already leaving the table on the grounds of being unable to drink, sat happily in the study room, with a pot of soybean wine and four plates of side dishes on the small table. He was carrying a small wine cup, "spicy"

, "Zi Liu" slowly pursed happily.

Seeing Lu Sanlang coming in to salute, he smiled and said to Changsui on the side: "Give him a pair of chopsticks."

Lu Sanlang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Uncle Qi is so excited, my nephew can't drink it anymore." So he took the teacup in Changsui's hand and raised it to pay tribute.

All the servants retreated, and the two of them met a cup. Master Lu Qi sighed, "San Gong'er, this place is not as good as Songjiang, nor is it comparable to Jinan Prefecture. There are many local rich people who can't see the long term and work hard.

Knock. Don't be anxious."

Lu Sanlang shook his head and said, "I heard a few words during the meal. They said that Lord Shen has such a background, but after I have to wait for some qualifications, Shandong is not a good place. If there is a shortage in the future, I will leave. Now I will drag it out.

Once the previous delay is over, it will be summer and autumn. He is thinking about leaving for the New Year, so he will not keep an eye on it."

When Mr. Lu Qi heard this, he glared at his eyes, spat, and sniffed, saying, "What are these words! A bunch of idiots."

Lu Sanlang sighed, "But there are also Taos. There are three fires when a new official takes office. These three fires can burn me. Since Taos are here to accumulate qualifications, how can we not do some political achievements.

!'Soon't

Mr. Lu Qi pulled the small dish hard and said, "If it weren't for the plate that Lord Shen's this time, our family wouldn't be able to take it, so how could this group of things be mixed up? I was still thinking about seeing which one was

It's sensible, worth pulling, but one or two are all elm-heads, which are useless and useless…”
To be continued...