As the saying goes: If you don’t return home without wealth, it is like walking in a brocade dress at night. In other words, this person has achieved success and fame. If you don’t return to your hometown to show off and show off your ancestors, it will undoubtedly be like wearing beautiful and precious clothes to walk on the road at night. Who knows?

Haven’t you seen a real estate tycoon and a big shot performer who will pay a lot of cash when he returns to his hometown to meet people? This is the case today, let alone the ancients. Moreover, the etiquette of the ancients returning to their hometown to worship ancestors is much more complicated than that of modern times. The higher the status, the more complex the etiquette and the greater the pomp.

Xu Jin's current identity is indecent. The marquis who had a salary of 3,000 stones, a third-rank court official, was wearing the honors of the special Guanglu doctor and the prince's Shaobao on his head. This time, Xu Jin returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors and brought a lot of imperial gifts, which was even more amazing. For example, there was a Xuande furnace and a plaque of the "Xu Clan Ancestral Hall" written by Emperor Jiajing.

The incense burner and plaque given by the emperor! Who dares to neglect?

The old clan leader, who was over 80, personally led all men of Xujia Village to burn incense and pray, prayed for three or nine times, and performed enough etiquette. Finally, he carefully invited the priceless Xuande furnace to the Xujia Ancestral Hall to worship, and the plaque given by the imperial family was also precious and valuable.

When the weather is about to dark, all the rituals will be completed, but this is just an appetizer. The day of formal worship of ancestors will be the day for the ritual to be worshipped, and the etiquette will be even more cumbersome.

When Xu Jin returned to his residence, he was so tired that his back was sore, and the little guy Xu Kang was so sleepy that he fell asleep in the arms of Xu Fu, which made Xiaowan, the girl, feel very distressed.

Speaking of which, the courtyard where Xu Jin and others are now living is the original Xu family's old house. However, the old house has been demolished and rebuilt, and the area has been expanded by nearly ten times. It is a courtyard-style mansion with three in and three out. Of course, the money for building a house was paid out of Xu Jin's own pocket. Construction started two years ago and was just completed at the end of last year. It is really not expensive to build a house in the countryside. Such a large house of six or seven hundred square meters costs less than a thousand taels of silver.

However, it was not surprising that Xu Jin bought a store worth hundreds of square meters in Shangrao County and spent fifty taels of silver. The houses in the Ming Dynasty were really cheap, and they were not fed to the sky like they are now.

Let’s stop talking. Let’s talk about it. On February 18th, Xujia Village held a grand ancestor worship ceremony and held a three-day steak, and anyone could come to eat. So, villagers from all over the country rushed to Xujia Village, and the lively atmosphere was imagined. The Shangrao County Magistrate, who received the news, also hurried to meet Xu Jin, and even many mountain leaders, teachers and scholars of Xinjiang Academy came.

This is amazing. Xu Deming, the old slut, has been so excited that his face is blushing for days. He feels that his life has been showing up less than these days. He is walking back and forth with his head held high under the imperial plaque in front of the ancestral hall with his head held high.

The old patriarch Xu Deming was happy, but Xu Jin was in great pain and just hoped that everything would end soon. As the protagonist, the rituals and social events in the past few days made him almost tired and could fall asleep as soon as he touched the bed every night.

Fortunately, after the three-day flowing mat was put on, he finally got up slowly. Xu Jin could finally spend a few days of leisurely pastoral life with his wife and children. He went out for a walk in the fields every day. When he became interested, he took his son to the fields to experience farming life, fishing, catching eels, and digging bird nests, which made Xu Kang so happy.

After staying in the village for three days, on February 13, Xu Jin bid farewell to his tribe and set off for Yugan County to attend the wedding of his second brother-in-law Xie Erjian. On the way, he passed Qianshan County and inevitably returned to the Fei family's old house for two days. He couldn't favor one or the other. Therefore, when Xu Jin and his party arrived at Hongya Town, Yugan County, it was already February 29, and Xie Erjian's wedding will be held on the first day of March.

After many years, the Xie family reunited again, and the sorrows and joys of the Xie family will not be repeated. Let’s talk about the day of March, Xie Erjian and Cen Lan held a grand wedding. Almost everyone in the town came to attend. Many civil and military officials from Nanchang also came to congratulate him. It was really lively.

After attending the wedding of Xie Erjian and Cen Lan, Xu Jin was conquered in Hongya for another half a month. Then, Xu Jin planned to set off and return to Beijing. Returning to Beijing in Yugan County is naturally the most comfortable and fastest way to go. Enter Poyang Lake, go down to Jiujiang, and then flow down the Yangtze River. You can reach Nanjing within a few days.

However, on March 15, 2018, when Xu Jin was about to set off, a cavalry expedited official letter was sent from Hangzhou to Xu Jin.

It turned out that it was the Westerners who came. To be precise, Clark Cable, the governor of the Portuguese Indian colony, came in person. He came to negotiate with Xu Jin!

Speaking of which, when Xu Jin left Manlaga last year, he reminded Yu Dayou to take precautions and prepare to welcome the counterattack of the Western fleet, and asked him to defeat the Westerners first, so he let them pass through the Strait of Malacca and come to the Ming Dynasty to negotiate with him.

Xu Jin was full of confidence in Yu Dayou's ability, so he had expected that the Westerners would eventually compromise and ran to the Ming Dynasty with their butts to talk to him. However, the Westerners came a few months earlier than he expected, because it was only mid-March and the southwest monsoon had just begun to blow.

By the way, why did this Portuguese governor arrive in Hangzhou in mid-March?

It turned out that about two months after Xu Jin left Manlaga last year, the Governor of Kabul led the fleet to the outside of the Malacca royal city with murderous aura and launched a fierce attack without saying a word.

Unfortunately, this Governor Kabul, known as the "Great Conqueror", met his opponent this time, and "Yu Long and Qi Hu" were not worthy of fame. After more than ten days of fierce fighting, Yu Dayou finally made a trick of defeat and forced the main force of the Western fleet into the Malacca King City, and then gathered and wiped out more than half of the opponent's troops in one fell swoop. Immediately afterwards, the Ming army took the initiative to fight out of the city to engage in a naval battle. The Westerners were defeated again, and even Governor Kabul's ship was captured by the Ming army.

In the end, Kapur had to admit defeat and seek peace and proposed to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty. Since it was already mid-to-late August and the northeast monsoon was about to blow, Yu Dayou planned to wait until the southwest monsoon blows next year before sending people to escort Kapur to the Ming Dynasty to negotiate with Xu Jin. However, Kapur did not want to waste half a year waiting for the monsoon and strongly demanded to go to the Ming Dynasty immediately.

Yu Dayou finally agreed. In early September of the third year of Jiajing, two Ming army warships carried a Western negotiating delegation led by Kabul to set out from the Strait of Malacca to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the ship turned into a monsoon halfway through the journey. Under the whistling north wind, the ocean current began to flow from northeast to southwest. The two Ming warships stood in trouble and finally could only stay in the Luzon (Philippines) area for a few months. In the first month of the fourth year of Jiajing, the north wind weakened and set off again. Finally, they arrived in Guangzhou Prefecture in mid-February. Then it took more than a month to arrive in Hangzhou a few days ago. It happened that the local officials in Hangzhou knew that Xu Jin was in Jiangxi, so they quickly sent an urgent report to notify Xu Jin.
Chapter completed!