Daming Grocer

Daming Grocer

Author: September Maple

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Introduction.

Content tags: The Proud Son of Heaven

Search keywords: Protagonist: Shen Qijian, Mu Haitang┃Supporting role:┃Others:

first time

The gavel slapped, all guests, just listen to me tell this story!

It is said that the origin of this story goes back to the Hongwu period.Everyone knows who Hong Wu's year name is, eh, yes, Ming□□Zhu Yuanzhang.It started with a strange case at that time, and this strange case was also called the Four Great Mysterious Cases of the Ming Dynasty together with the other three cases by later generations.

In February of the 26th year of Hongwu, the commander of Jin Yiwei, Jiang Yu, reported that Lanyu, the Duke of Liang, had rebelled against him. Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Hongwu, beheaded Lanyu and killed all three clans.The case was bloody, and in the end more than 5000 people were implicated and executed, ransacking their homes and exterminating their families.Huaixi nobles, most of the brave generals in the army were lost because of this case.Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang has firmly controlled the military power in his own hands.

It is a pity that there is a family involved in this case, and this family is Shen Wansan's descendants.According to the "Wujiang Chronicles" compiled by Mo Dan during the Hongzhi period and the "Wujiang County Chronicles" compiled by Xu Shizeng in the 40th year of Jiajing, No. 1 is Shen Wang, the son of Shen Wansan, and No. 2 is Shen Dequan, great-grandson of Shen Wansan.It was rumored in later generations that those of the Shen family who were not killed were exiled to Yunnan.

You don’t need to know too much about the history of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone knows that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang killed almost all the heroes of the founding of the country, and those who had made great achievements like Lan Yu were merciless. Even Zhu Di’s father-in-law Xu Da also rumored In the end, he was conspired to poison him to death.He killed countless heroes who followed him through thorns and thorns, but there was one person he left behind.This person is Mu Ying.

Most people know that Mu Wang's Mansion should be seen from Mr. Jin Yong's "The Deer and Ding Tale". Mu Jianping's brother Mu Tianbo is the last Duke of Qian.From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the country, Mu Wangfu has been in good faith with the Ming royal family for more than 200 years, guarding the land of Yunnan and Guizhou for it.But also because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, their family can be said to be at the level of "earth emperors" in the Yunnan and Guizhou regions. Some local people even only know who the Duke of Guizhou is but not who the emperor is.

Mu Ying is the adopted son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and his military achievements are no less than Lan Yu.In the 14th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang began to use troops in Yunnan. Mu Ying stayed in Yunnan after he went out to fight.

According to later generations of archaeology, the wealth of the Mu family is astonishing. Their family has granted land in Jiangnan, Gansu, Ningxia, and Shaanxi. By the time of Wanli, the total land area was said to have reached more than 8000 hectares.When Mu Ying's son Mu Sheng was guarding Yunnan, the wealth of the Mu Mansion was already treasures and gold coins filled the treasury.

Where does the Mu family's wealth come from?Later generations rumored that the wealth of the Mu family was related to Shen Wansan.

According to "Zhang Sanfeng Collected Works Biography of Yu's Father and Daughter", Shen Wansan and his son-in-law Yu Shishe were also implicated, and the whole family moved to Yunnan.When he arrived in Yunnan, Xiping Hou Muchun (Muying's son) came to comfort him, and saw that his daughter was "gentle and leisurely, like a fairy", so he took her as a concubine and became Muchun's virtuous helper.In the seventh year of Muchun Township in Yunnan, "the overhaul of the garrison administration is due to many of Mrs. Yu's strengths."

Scholars believe that Shen Wansan's family, which was destroyed, probably reached a tacit agreement with Mu Ying, the most trusted general in the court at that time: the former provided him with a steady stream of financial resources or at least wealth management ideas, while the latter Provided political blessings, so that the two tribes eventually married.

[All information comes from the Internet, if there is a research party interested in in-depth discussion, welcome to join the author's readership]

The background of the story is explained here.

Whether the descendants of the Shen family will make a comeback after being sent to Yunnan, and who among their descendants will embark on the road of revival step by step, and finally lead the clan to reproduce the wealth legend of their ancestors.How did the princess of the Mu Palace and the descendants of the Shen family meet.Please listen to the next breakdown!

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Does it look like the storyteller under the flyover?If you like it, you will be rewarded if you look like it!Ha ha!

Well, write out the background of the story so that everyone can have a rough outline when they read it.The time period of the story should be in the period of Ming Hui Emperor Zhu Yunqi and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di.At that time, Yunnan was still very turbulent. Tribal chiefs would rebel at every turn, exiled prisoners would gather there, and there would be earthquakes at every turn. In short, compared with other prefectures, it was indeed a place of suffering.

But it is that place of misery that produces tea, rice, salt, and porcelain clay.During the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan was the main supplier of tea for the tea-horse trade.In the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that it was a place with unlimited business opportunities.

The next chapter is the content of the main text. Although it is written in a serious manner, it is not an official history. It must be different from the official history, and it can be said that it is basically not related, just borrowing this background.Because I can imagine it, and if it is really written according to the official history, it is the world of men.Of course, this article is still about two girls, please feel free to read it.

second time

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Huidi of the Ming Dynasty, there was a large tea merchant in Yuxi County, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, who brought Yunnan tea into Sichuan and Tibet. In this Yuxi County, he opened a large tea shop and collected tea from rural tea farmers. His own tea mountains also reached hundreds of acres. .There are four rooms in front of the house, which is a big house, with a group of servants, and a group of mules and horses. It is not very rich, but it can be regarded as a well-to-do family in this Yuxi County.

The family head of this large household is named Cao, who donated the name of Yuanwai in his early years, and now everyone in the county calls him Yuanwai Cao.Mr. Cao’s family was not full of wives and children. His wives and concubines married the fourth wife.This only son was very favored, raised arrogantly, roaming the streets all day long, proficient in chess and cards, sleeping in flowers and willows outside at the age of 36, ignoring all family affairs, only taking money to go out and play.

It is said that if such a family gives birth to such a son, the family will only decline.Cao Yuanwai has always managed the family well, making profits but not losses.First of all, he has a very good relationship with the patriarchs of various ethnic groups here, and he often pays a little less principal than other families for tea collection. He also has an excellent accountant to manage the inside and outside for him. The shops, caravans, and his own tea growers are all in order.

Mr. Accountant is known as Mr. Steward, and he is in charge of all matters big and small in the Cao family.But he said that the steward was 45 years old and had never been married.He entered Cao's house at 25, and from then on, Yuanwai Cao asked matchmakers several times to introduce young ladies from various families to him, but he kept shaking his head and refusing.Repeat it several times, and let it go.

Everyone thought that he had to rely on the Cao family's pension to end his life, but they didn't expect things to change in his [-]s.It was said that during the rainy season of Qingming, the busiest time for picking tea, he resigned from his master's house early and went to the village to oversee tea picking.On the day of his birthday, he went into the mountain with the tea workers to inspect the growth of this season's tea. After walking for a long time, he found a crying baby among the ridges of the tea mountain.

After taking the baby back to the residence, someone helped to scrub it, only to find out that it was a baby girl.Everyone advised him to think twice before acting. It is extremely difficult for a man to raise a child alone, and he must be raised by someone from another family. If he is married well, his son-in-law's family can give him a grand funeral, but if he is not married, it is difficult to say.What's more, I will always get married in the future, so why worry about not having my own flesh and blood.He listened to the dissuasion of the three aunts and six wives for a long time, but he didn't say a word, waited for someone to help feed the milk, and rushed to the county with the baby in his arms.

I have been raised in this area for 15 years. The little girl is now at the age of [-]. She looks upright and handsome, with red lips and white teeth, or follows the steward to take care of various affairs all the year round. She has a pair of brows and eyes that are quite spirited, unlike ordinary daughters. The family has a more or less artificial attitude, walking is walking, standing is standing, and there is an upright posture everywhere.

When Mr. Steward picked her up, he found that there was a piece of silk handkerchief embroidered with the word Shen in her bag. It happened that Mr. Steward also had the surname Shen. This seemed to be a gift from heaven.When choosing the name, I asked a well-known private school teacher in the county for advice. The teacher thought for a long time and wrote the word "Qijian".The seven things of firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea are all frugal, which is a female virtue. Frugality is the same as picking up, and it can be regarded as making the child not forget his life experience, let alone the fostering grace of his adoptive father.

The servants of the Cao family called her "Little Mister" because of her role as the steward. This "Little Mister" is worthy of this title, and he is good at keeping accounts.During this year's tea picking season, she felt sorry for her father's health. The winner's family allowed the offspring to go there on behalf of her father.

On this day, in November, the auspicious snow fell in succession in the morning, and the front of the house was in front of the curtain of auspicious snow, like pieces of Qionghua dancing on the front eaves, dyeing the rivers and mountains in silver and connecting them. It is a world of silver makeup. Yu Run Qian Kun.

Manager Shen went to the shop in a warm sedan early in the morning, and told his daughter to buy good wine and food in the afternoon, and guests would arrive in the evening.

He made such an arrangement because he had one thing hidden in his heart recently. After seven years of frugality, he has grown into a beautiful figure, and now it is also the age of marriage, so someone is thinking about it.The well-known playboy of the Cao family flirted with Qijian behind his back several times in the shop, but he broke it. After that, Cao Yuanwai brought it up at a family banquet.

Mr. Cao married the daughter of Mr. Bo Wu, the owner of the county government, as his wife, and later married the daughter of a wealthy rice merchant in the south of the city as his concubine. Now he wants to marry Qijian as the third wife. The friendship between the servants did not break out on the spot, but he also refused verbally, saying that his daughter had already fallen in love with him and would get married soon.Cao Yuanwai was skeptical, but he could only congratulate him, and said that it was a pity that he could not form a family with his son and daughter.

The words have been said, and the only way to feel at ease is to marry Qijian as soon as possible.The guest at the dinner in the evening was Aunt Zhang San, a well-known matchmaker in Yuxi County, and the good deeds accomplished by her are countless.

Qijian is doing accounts at home in the morning. It’s almost the end of the year.