Although Yujiang is a place where literary and Confucian clans gather, in fact, trade is rampant here, and merchants occupy one-third of the area. After the death of King Yujiang, those who truly control the power of Yujiang are still these people who hold the real wealth.
One of the four major families in Yujiang.
On the surface, these are families that have passed down their legacy through Confucian scholars, but there are probably not many children in the family who are truly talented in literature. Just look at the Shen family.
Shen Haoran, the eldest son of the Shen family, is nothing but a fool! !
The reason why they went to the capital to take the examination was because of the "big pie" that Shen Li had drawn in advance, which is why the Shen family went to the capital.
Emperor Wenyuan wanted to recapture Yujiang.
It’s actually not easy.
Because Yujiang is not openly a traitor, and there are even government officials in Yujiang to control it. It's just that after the death of the King of Yujiang, the "people" of Yujiang are dissatisfied with the court.
This is not something that can be conquered by just soldiers.
Otherwise, Emperor Wenyuan would not have wanted to use the 'Shen Family', one of the four major families in Yujiang.
However, merchants like 'Duke Yang of Qi' who hold truly great wealth are very popular in Yujiang.
This can be seen from the current situation at the city gate.
No matter what these people were planning privately, they had already expressed their welcome publicly.
Yang Zhao got off the carriage.
Seeing this, Xiao Hong hurried forward before the maidservant Chengzi could help Yang Zhao, and whispered, "Miss, I know these people to some extent, so I can tell you about them in private so that you won't be deceived."
Yang Zhao glanced at her sideways and nodded.
Next.
Xiaohong is of some use.
After a brief encounter, Yang Zhao already knew the identities and names of these old men.
Seeing that it was almost done, Wang Mingren stepped forward with a smile: "I wonder if Duke Yang of Qi has found a place to stay? If not, you can come to my home..."
"Master Wang, your mansion is in West City. It's really too far to get to West City from here." The master of the Su family, one of the four major families, spoke.
He interrupted Wang Mingren with a smile, then said to Yang Zhao in a friendly manner, "How about Duke Yang of Qi come and stay at my Su family? My Su family is located in the east of the city, and the house is large enough."
"As if someone's house isn't big enough."
The head of the Song family stepped forward and said with a smile, "Mr. Qi Yang, although our Song family is not located in the east of the city, our house is not small. Moreover, most importantly, we have many female relatives in our Song family. Mr. Qi Yang will definitely not feel uncomfortable living in our Song family."
The old face of the head of the Su family turned black, thinking that the head of the Song family was deliberately competing with him.
He spoke again: "My Su family has quite a few female relatives, and besides, there is a separate large courtyard next to our Su family mansion. It is completely possible for Duke Yang of Qi to live there. He will definitely be as comfortable as if he were at home."
"My Song family also has a separate courtyard..."
"My Su family also has a large lotus pond..."
"My Song family also has..."
The heads of the Su and Song families started arguing with each other until their faces turned red and their necks became thick, and neither of them gave in.
Wang Mingren quickly said soothingly: "Alright, everyone, stop arguing."
"I'm afraid Duke Yang of Qi must be tired from all the traveling. How about this? Let him stay at the Jinlai Inn in the city. All expenses will be covered by our three families. If Duke Yang of Qi doesn't feel comfortable staying at the inn, he can choose whoever he wants to stay at!"
"OK."
"Can."
Several old men arranged Yang Zhao's next itinerary right in front of her, and then asked for her opinion.
Yang Zhao naturally agreed.
In this way, everyone entered the city happily.
Not long after, a thinner figure hurriedly arrived at the city gate in a carriage.
"Where are the people?"
Chen Pinglong looked at the empty city gate covered with petals and asked his followers with a frown.
The attendant immediately went to ask the soldiers standing guard at the edge of the city.
"Patriarch, it's said that Duke Yang of Qi's convoy entered the city with Patriarch Wang and his men a quarter of an hour ago. It seems they went to... the Jinlai Inn."
"Then what are you waiting for? Turn around and go to the Jinlai Inn."
Shen Pinglong said gloomily.
"yes."
The attendant immediately turned the carriage around and hurried to the Jinlai Inn.
But just as he arrived at the Jinlai Inn, he saw a figure getting off the carriage. When Shen Pinglong saw him, his brows suddenly frowned: "Why are you here?"
The person who got off the carriage was Shen Yingnan, who was dressed in an official robe.
Yes.
Shen Yingnan became an official.
The second place in the palace examination.
He should have stayed in Beijing, but on the second day after he became the runner-up, he was personally sent by the emperor back to Yujiang to take over the position of the previous chancellor who had retired.
This is a good job.
At least in Yujiang, there are countless people who are envious, and many have even already made arrangements with higher-ups and are just waiting to take over.
Who knew that Shen Yingnan would be airdropped.
This broke the apparent balance among the four major families, which is why today only three generations of the family appeared at the city gate with their people.
but.
Shen Yingnan broke not only the balance of the four major families, but also the peace of the Shen family.
Originally, I was going to Beijing this time.
The elders of each family in the Shen family selected their own grandsons and went to the capital with Shen Haoran. They had all agreed that their grandsons would all become officials, but when they came back this time, they got nothing.
Instead, their grandchildren came back skinny and bony.
This made the elders of the family very angry.
They immediately wanted to kill the clan leader Chen Pinglong, because according to their grandson, it was Chen Pinglong and his son who caused them to be like this, especially that time in the inn.
After Shen Pinglong had been with those women in the flower alley for half a month without stopping.
He was drained.
In order to make up for his mistake of not dying at the hands of the woman, he not only used his status as the head of the family to plunder all the money they had, but also almost took off their clothes and pawned them in order to rescue the captured Shen Haoran.
But the money is still not enough.
In the end, Shen Pinglong even planned to "marry off" the Shen family's daughter, who the Shen family was planning to use for a "marriage alliance", in order to raise money to redeem her.
In the end, Shen Yingnan stopped him.
Afterwards, it was Shen Yingnan who brought them all the way back. He suffered a lot along the way and saw enough of the "human nature". He actually corrected the three views of those Shen family playboys.
He has developed a 'young bird' brotherly affection towards Shen Yingnan.
This is not.
After they came back, those playboys cried and talked, and the Shen family was so angry that they almost pushed Shen Pinglong off the position of head of the family on the spot.
Shen Pinglong was simply furious.
But at the same time, he was also extremely worried because Shen Haoran died in the cell. He spent all his money, but in the end he only got back a corpse. He was so angry that he almost killed someone.
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