The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

Shengjia is still staying at Cao's house, and Cao's house has become noisy.

Divide the government, divide the family, and divide the clan.

After completing the trilogy, the Cao family who were separated from the sect were quite unhappy.

The property of the family was even more confiscated by people on the grounds of "repaying the money owed by the household department"!

The money owed by each of their families was repaid after their homes were ransacked, but they had no official positions and no fame, so it was impossible to borrow money from the treasury as before.

After confiscating their homes, they also had a barely-sufficient family property, a house for each family, and [-] to [-] acres of land.

The female relatives of the family were crying, and the expensive jewelry in the past was confiscated. Now it is a commoner Jingchai, where is the old gold and silver?

What's more, those delicate concubines were all sold off by the mistress, and the money from the sale was simply used as the family's property.

The fourteenth elder brother urged Kangxi to give Cao Jiatang the title.

What is the hall number?Simply put, the hall number is the name and title of the ancestral hall.

Ancestral halls, also known as family temples, are public places where Chinese people enshrine ancestor gods, offer sacrifices to ancestor gods, and hold clan affairs.

The Chinese are the nation with the most tradition of ancestor worship in the world.

In every family, there is often a place to enshrine the gods and tablets of deceased ancestors. Therefore, every family in the old days would have its own ancestral hall and give it a name. With the hall name of one's own family, one will know the origin of the family and remember the merits of the ancestors.

As the saying goes, a big tree branches.With the transmission and reproduction of life, the family will continue to expand.As a result of the expansion, some families moved from their ancestral homelands to other places, opened new businesses, and formed new branches and new clans.These newly formed clans and branches often build new ancestral halls to worship the closest ancestors.

Therefore, many new ancestral halls will be derived from one ancestral hall, and the hall name is like the title of the main ancestral hall, which is almost the same in fact.

Therefore, just like a genealogy has a general spectrum and a branch spectrum, the ancestral hall also has a general ancestral hall, branch ancestral halls, and branch ancestral halls, which are the so-called large hall ancestral halls and small ancestral halls.

Every surname, every clan, and every family has always had its own hall name.

The hall name has a long history and is widely used, and it has a very important meaning and role in the ancient patriarchal society.

From a functional point of view, the significance of hall names lies in distinguishing surnames and sects, encouraging good and punishing evil, and educating clan members.

If Junwang is a symbol of clan root-seeking that is one level higher, then the hall name is a clan symbol that is one level lower than Junwangtang.

County prestige can often be used as a church name, but most of the hall names cannot be used as county prestige.

There are many more church names with a surname than county prestige. There are only a few to dozens of county prestiges with a surname, but there are often hundreds or even thousands of hall names.

Take the Cao family for example. At the beginning, when I heard about the Jiangnan Cao family, oh, I already knew it, it was the Cao family!

Too general.

This time, after the division of the government and the division of the family, it is necessary to clarify.

I can't go on like this anymore, so the fourteenth elder brother asked for the Kangxi Citang number.

Others thought it was impossible, but Kangxi really gave the hall number, and it was an inscription written by himself, which was hung on the main entrance of the ancestral hall.

Cao Yin's branch is the "Jiangning Hall", which can be said to be the Jiangning Cao family.

Jiangnan is their prefect, but the hall name has to be separated!

For other families, hall names are given according to their location.

For example, the branch of Cao Yin's cousin moved to Suzhou, so they were given the name "Sun Wu Tang". It was the land of Sun Quan's Wu State during the Three Kingdoms period, so it was called Sun Wu Tang.

And his cousin moved to Zhenjiang Mansion, so he named it "Guankoutang". Their family settled in Guankou, Sanjiang Mansion, Zhenjiang, and named it after the area.

In this way, the Cao family was completely separated, and even the hall name was given by the Lord Long Live. It is wrong to want to stick to the Cao family of Jiang Ning Hall.

After Cheng Baylor found out about this incident, he was so angry that he lost his appetite and skipped a meal.

But after all, he is a prince elder brother who has been playing tricks for many years, so he sent someone to quietly contact the offshoots of the Cao family who settled nearby.

In the future, there will be the Jiangnan Cao family, but there will be no Jiangnan Cao family anymore.

The only person who can represent Lord Cao of Jiangning Weaving Mansion is the Jiangning Cao Family.

We've been together for a long time, we're used to it, and suddenly the family and government, even the clan, are not used to it, but Cao Yong is much more relaxed.

He hasn't entered an official yet, and he can still study, so Cao Yin asked him to represent their family with full authority, and no one else was suitable.

On behalf of their family, talk to Fourteen Baylor about making money.

Although the lifting of the sea ban needs to be done slowly, but other aspects can make money!

The Cao family in the south of the Yangtze River manages a lot of things. Ginseng harvesting in the northeast, pearl fishing in the north, and salt in the south are all profitable businesses for their family. Now that the family is divided, these are all owned by the Cao family in Jiangning Weaving Mansion.

Cao Yin was very busy, but found that things were much less. Without the "help" of his relatives and friends, no one would dare to disobey his orders.

And Cao Yong happily came to look for Brother Fourteen: "Without their noise, my mother's health is much better."

In fact, Li's health is very good, but this big family has a lot of things and cares about, and they are all elders.

The old lady likes to be lively, and a group of sisters-in-law are intriguing.

Can you not be sick!

Now that everyone else has been separated, it's finally my turn to be the master of my own family.

The two daughters are growing up gradually, and Mrs. Li wants to find a suitable husband's family for them.

I didn't dare to speak before because I was afraid that those aunts would introduce all the cats and dogs from my mother's family. The mother-in-law has soft ears. If she agrees, her daughter's life will be ruined!

Cao Yong complained to the fourteenth elder brother: "My uncle and grandmother are really whimsical, and they want my sisters to marry with a generous dowry, but the dowry is searched and searched. Fortunately, my grandmother didn't mean that, and my mother can feel at ease this time. I'm picking a son-in-law."

"Don't let your mother choose a son-in-law, let your father tell me Huang Ama, maybe we can have a good marriage!" Fourteenth brother remembers that Cao Yin's two daughters are both princesses , one is Manchu and the other is Mongolian.

"Okay, okay!" Cao Yong nodded cutely: "Then Fourteen Baylor, what are we going to do now?"

"Go and inspect the market first." Elder Fourteen said, "Just take me out for a stroll."

He didn't know what the ancient market was like, so he had to investigate it first.

"Okay, then I will take you to the market?" Cao Yong tilted his head: "Which one is going to, an ordinary market, or?"

"Just go to the ordinary market." Brother Fourteen said, "Take me to the place where the salt is sold."

He remembered that in the Qing Dynasty, the salt merchants were the richest.

"Salt...official salt or private salt?" Cao Yong said: "Official salt is expensive, but the quality is good, while private salt is cheap and a little sandy."

In fact, this official salt and private salt have always been like this, and there is no way to ban it.

Private salt dealers are everywhere, and they are impossible to catch, and they are all the result of collusion between officials and businessmen.

So that although Jiangnan is the best in the world in paying taxes, tax evasion is also the best in the world, okay?

"Go to both places." Brother Fourteen said, "Change your clothes."

So the two modified it, and Cao Yong asked a manager of their family to take the two of them to a place to buy private salt.

Although the place selling private salt was not openly open on the street, it also occupied a shop in the corner of a certain street, and there were many people coming in and out.

The official salt is the standard price, but the official salt is given less, eight taels per catty.

As for private salt, it is half the price of official salt, and the amount given is sufficient, but there may be a little sand in it.

The price of good private salt without sand is nearly one-third cheaper than official salt, and ordinary people will spend some money to buy good private salt.

When they went to buy salt, they did so generously, without any coercion.

The store was very busy, but the shopkeeper personally received the manager of the Cao family: "Manager Cao, is he here to buy salt? Here is a new arrival of good salt, as white as snow."

"Yes, order [-] refined salt and [-] coarse salt for the mansion, remember to order good ones, and settle the accounts at the mansion's accountant." The steward of the Cao family said again: "You can send them after Sheng Jia leaves."

Buying private salt in a grand manner, or when Sheng Jia is around, their Cao family will die?

Hearing this sentence, the shopkeeper heaved a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, I will install it for you."

He also looked at the two young men in Hougou: "Who are these two?"

"My nephew, I brought you here to see the world, mainly because I want to eat some good food for a while. We are tired because Sheng Jia is here recently." The steward of the Cao family said without changing his face: "I have to buy some official salt. no way."

"Oh, these two little brothers seem to be promising." The shopkeeper praised him.

The steward of the Cao family said a few words to him and took the people away. Elder Fourteen looked back a few times: "Is someone following us?"

"Come on, Fourteen Baylor, this slave will lead you to buy official salt. When they see that we have bought official salt, they know that we are indeed out to buy something. Everyone knows about private salt, but they are silent. Shang is not easy to mess with." The manager of the Cao family is a loyal person who has experienced great storms.

Those who had two intentions were dealt with by Cao Yin.

Cao Lishi is not a soft-hearted person either.

Those who can stay have been screened layer by layer, and those who are not good enough have been sent away or separated.

"Oh, that's right, just say it, this private salt seller is so blatant and has no means, how dare he be so bold?" Elder Fourteen laughed.

A group of them went to the place where official salt was sold.

There are quite a few people in this place, but they don't buy much salt, and the service attitude is not good, but the quality of the salt is good.

The steward of the Cao family was still invited in by the clerk here. There were plenty of snacks and tea, as well as fruits. Then he asked, "Are you here to buy salt? How much?"

"A hundred catties of good salt is for those who accompany you, so you have to be careful!" Cao's steward said in a pretentious manner, "Don't fool us."

"Then how dare you!" The clerk quickly ordered, weighed out a hundred catties of official salt, and then asked someone to load it into the car, and made a record, indicating that the hundred catties of salt was sent to Jiangning Weaving Mansion .

This is a serious record, they are going to pay the salt tax to the court.

After buying salt and going out, Elder Fourteen found that the person following them had disappeared: "It seems that they have gone back."

"They didn't dare to follow in front of Guanyan's shop." The manager of the Cao family said, "Take the two of you back?"

"No, let's change clothes in the car, let's go directly to lunch. I heard that Zuixianlou is good here?" It's rare that the fourteenth elder brother didn't become the king of the kids today, and the eighteenth elder brother is studying with Pan Wuyun today.

"That's right. The most famous ones there are Zuixian Duck, Weiwei Duck and Chaxiang Duck, as well as Squirrel Mandarin Fish and Anchovy Shrimp, and Jinling Meatball Stewed Vegetable Core." The [-]th elder brother's saliva flowed down: " Go, go, go now!"

This time I didn't leave Jinling City, so I'm not afraid of any trouble.

However, the steward of the Cao family drove back to Cao's house, asked the two to change their clothes, and brought more than 20 people with them.

Cao Yong took the money and led the fourteenth elder brother to Zuixianlou.

Zuixianlou is a well-known restaurant in Jinling City. It has been passed down for three generations and has a good reputation. Moreover, there are a lot of customers here, and they are all dignitaries. However, this restaurant has a stake in a certain important person, so no one dares to touch it.

The Drunken Immortal Building is three stories high, and there is a stage on the first floor, the kind where you can listen to operas.

The second floor is full of elegant seats, where talented scholars usually gather. Not to mention the large space, you can also enjoy opera.

The third floor is completely enclosed, and all are private rooms with good privacy performance, but the consumption is a bit high.

It takes 20 taels of silver to sit in a private room.

"Shall we go to the third floor?" Cao's steward asked the two masters.

"Listen to Lord Baylor!" Cao Yong looked at Brother Fourteen.

"Let's go to the second floor and listen to the opera!" Elder Fourteen is still very interested in the so-called Suzhou Minor. The opera here should be very rich, right?

"Excuse me, gentlemen, there is a literary meeting on the second floor. Well, if you want to go up to eat and drink, you need to compose a poem." The shopkeeper of this shop rubbed his hands and came over: "Today is the meeting of talented scholars in Jiangsu Province. For the Wenhui, Sanbeile has been invited."

Brother Fourteen blinked his eyes: "Cheng Baylor?"

"Yes, Cheng Baylor, but everyone calls it Sanbeile." The shopkeeper said: "He also brought half a couplet, and now everyone upstairs is matching the couplet."

As soon as he finished speaking, three or five young people came in at the door. When they saw Cao Yong, they greeted him: "Cousin!"

It turned out to be those cousins ​​who were separated from the Cao family. They still dressed as before, and they looked rich or expensive. Say hello to Cao Yong, and it is impossible for Cao Yong not to talk to them!

"Big cousin, third cousin, fifth cousin." Cao Yong called his brothers one by one: "Big cousin, sixth cousin, seventh cousin..."

"Cousin, since you're here, go up and pay a visit to Sanbeile. Let me tell you, Sanbeile is a pretty good person..." The hall brother couldn't wait to talk to him about Chengbeile.

Cao Yong is an old man and an only son. He doesn't even have a helper. He is the youngest among all the relatives' boys, so he is called Yiquaner's brother.

They talked for a long time, Cao Yong looked at the people next to him, and they noticed that there was someone behind the manager of the Cao family next to him.

After taking a look, his legs went limp in fright: "The servant has seen Fourteen Baylor!"