Aren't you dead? When Kong Dejing said this, she felt mixed emotions. Her eyes were red and swollen, her voice was slightly trembling, 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 in the village, 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 He was left to die an untimely death. To put it simply, it means that he saved his life. To put it more complicatedly, it means that a string in his heart was shaken, and he played a piece of music called "Love is like a gust of wind".
Shen Linfeng looked at the two of them with great interest and asked in a gossipy tone: "You two seem to have a story?"
In the Confucius mansion.
Mr. Kong Da is sitting upright, with Shen Dejing's parents sitting on the left hand side from him down, and Shen Linfeng's father, Shen Tianchang, sitting on the right.
The people of the Confucius family have always had eyes higher than the top. They have the halo of a thousand-year-old family, and the children of the Confucius family are spread all over the world. When looking at people, they usually look at people with their nostrils upward and their eyes lowered forty-five degrees. But in When facing Shen Tianchang, a seemingly ordinary middle-aged man, he had to lower his head and maintain an equal and peaceful posture, and did not dare to raise his attitude too high.
The Shen family is more than a thousand years behind the Confucius family in terms of heritage and history, with several generations of dynasty changes in between. However, there is a saying that latecomers prevail, and the Shen family falls into this category.
Shen Tianchang's ancestor was named Shen Fu, whose courtesy name was Zhongrong. He was born in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Wan San was a nickname for him at that time.
The richest man in Jiangnan during the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan.
There are two most famous wealthy people in Chinese history, one is He Shen, a corrupt official during the Qianlong period, and the other is Shen Wansan, a great businessman of the early Ming Dynasty.
How rich is Shen Wansan? In addition to being named the richest man in Jiangnan, the most pertinent evaluation of him is that he has "a huge amount of money and properties all over the world." Shen Wansan was also the first to do overseas business. Traders were engaged in import and export business, and wealth began to accumulate rapidly.
Legend has it that half of the fields in Jiangnan at that time belonged to Shen Wansan. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne and the treasury was empty, he asked Shen Wansan, the richest man at the time, to come over and ask him to finance the treasury. As the king of a country asked for money, Shen Wansan naturally had nothing to do. He refused, so the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was half filled by Shen Wansan. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Shen Wansan was too rich. If he had any ideas, he would probably shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, because in that era, if he wanted to rebel, he would first Two conditions must be met, one is to have soldiers under his command, and the other is to have money under his command. Shen Wansan is one of those extremely rich people.
Such people are too dangerous.
Since Zhu Yuanzhang was pleased with Shen Wansan's moves, he began to find trouble and asked Shen Wansan to help him build the city wall. Zhu Yuanzhang asked the court to build the northwest city wall, while Shen Wansan built the southeast wall.
The saying "If you don't seek death, you won't die" could not have been more suitable for Shen Wansan at that time. He had so much money that he could do anything. Zhu Yuanzhang asked the entire court to build the northwest city wall faster than Shen Wansan built the southeast wall with his own strength. The city wall was completed several days faster than Zhu Yuanzhang.
This guy is so capable. You can pull the emperor's tiger beard casually. You can build the city wall faster than the emperor. Doesn't that make it clear that you said you are richer than the emperor and more powerful than the emperor? So Shen Wansan may He must be regarded as the first person in history who is most capable of seeking death.
So, Zhu Yuanzhang found trouble and sent the entire Shen family to the border to serve as an army conscript, which is now Yunnan. At this point, everyone thought that the richest man in Jiangnan was already in decline, but in fact it was not the case.
To become the richest man in the world, Shen Wansan can do what he can, but he is definitely not stupid, and he is also very smart. In fact, Shen Wansan had already dispersed his family's wealth all over the country before Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne. He also ordered several important direct descendants of the Shen family to secretly leave Zhouzhuang at that time. Some of them went overseas directly from Zhejiang, while others stayed in the country.
Later, people said that Shen Wansan's family was in decline and the richest man in Jiangnan was ruined. But that was just an appearance. The Shen family's wealth was only reduced by one-third, and most of the rest was given away. , because Shen Wansan gradually showed his taste after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, the Taizu Emperor might want to capture him, so Shen Wansan stayed in Zhouzhuang and used a blind trick to hide Zhu Yuanzhang.
Since Shen Wansan was the first to trade overseas at that time, he shipped silk, jade, grain and handicrafts from the south of the Yangtze River overseas, and then shipped jewelry, ivory, rhino horns, spices and medicinal materials to the country. During this period, he was A stronghold was established overseas and began to take root. Therefore, the Shen family disciples quickly began to develop after they fled overseas, and some of them stayed in the country.
Later, after the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, the children of the Shen family at home and abroad began to merge together. The Shen family quickly recovered its vitality, even faster than in the Shen Wansan era, just because they always remembered their ancestors. Due to the mistakes Shen Wansan made at that time, the Shen family became extremely low-key. Their wealth was always in the hands of the Shen children and was not consolidated. It was not until the domestic situation stabilized decades ago that the Shen family began to take control of the family. The flag was raised.
No matter how rich the current Shen Wansan descendants are, they cannot be as rich as the rest of the country. In fact, no one knows how rich they can be, just like no one knows how big the Rothschild family is in the world. The same influence has become a mystery.
This time, what Shen Tianchang came to Kong's house to ask for was a marriage with Kong Linfeng and Kong Dejing. Marriage is the most common and effective method for maintaining interests and long-term development between two big families. It is the union of important children of the two families. , which means that the development of the Kong family and the Shen family will enter a positive stage after the next generation, so marriage is crucial.
Mr. Kong Da and Shen Tianchang discussed the marriage of Kong Dejing and Shen Linfeng in detail during this meeting, and it was scheduled after New Year's Day, because the basic tone had been discussed by the older generations of the two families before. This time The betrothal gift is nothing more than a normal procedure.
In a few months, the combination of Kong and Shen's families will usher in two prosperous families with a long history.
However, today's young people no longer pay much attention to the orders of their parents and the words of matchmakers. Shen Linfeng's wings are hardened, and Kong Dejing is not a submissive woman. Regarding their life-long events, these two young people will really choose whatever they want. Manipulated?
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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