Chapter 311 Today is not what it used to be
He helped Master Chen and introduced a confidant close friend around Wu Lian to the side, and Wang Fulin left. To be fair, he was not very optimistic about Master Chen. After all, it takes sufficient wisdom to deal with this historical problem that has been fermented in the southeast for decades. Master Chen doesn't seem to be so capable, but Wu Lian told him that he found a local snake, which is enough. It's unnecessary to show off his ability. To put it bluntly, he whitewas a group of people on a small scale and gave them a serious career. People will praise him for his ability, ability and love, but if he recruits a thousand or eight hundred people, Wu Lian will be vigilant.
Even if he wants to do it, he has to wait until Mr. Chen has a result and then slowly try it out. Don't be impatient.
He came back late last night, and before he could even tell the rest of his family that he wanted to go to Ningbo Prefecture. Not long after the Yanyu Tower, he got out of the car and parted ways with Mr. Xu, and took people back to the inn. It happened that everyone in his family was there at this moment. When he told the matter, Jin Bao and Qiu Feng had no objection at all. Wang Erniang and Wang Xiaomei also felt tired of staying in Hangzhou and were willing to go to Ningbo with them. Mr. Fang and Mr. Ke were irresistible. Anyway, they had been wandering around the world in previous years, and had no place to live. Only Ye Xiaopang jumped three feet high and couldn't stop smiling.
"That's great. I haven't been back in a long time. I'm going back to see my grandmother!"
"Where are you going back, so happy?"
With this clear and clear sound of wind and writing, a maid outside the door said, "Miss Nine is here."
Without adding the prefix of the Xu family, Ye Mingyue had mentioned to everyone that Mr. Xu and Xu Wei’s grandparents and grandsons came to Hangzhou. Now everyone knows that Xu Wei is here. Xiaomei Wang is the first to go to the door and ticks up a curtain. She smiled and pulled Xu Wei in: "Sister Jiu. You are here just now. Brother said we are going to Ningbo! Sister Mingyue and Sister Xiaobei’s hometown are there. Are you going to go? Everyone is going to play together!"
Xu Wei was stunned for a moment, and her face suddenly became a little complicated. She learned that her grandfather was going to Hangzhou to work, so she had a lot of hard work and then successfully followed her. She met Wang Fulin at the Shou'an Night Market just after she arrived yesterday, which was undoubtedly an unexpected surprise. However, she was thinking about how to have fun in Hangzhou, which is known as paradise, with Wang Fulin. They were about to go to Ningbo. The most tangled thing is that the Ye family is in Ningbo. Is this Wang Fulin going to come to the door...
When Ye Mingyue saw Xu Wei's eyes and expression, she knew what the little girl was thinking. She quickly pulled the person over and sat down next to her, but she whispered: "It's the Ye family's division that has made a lot of trouble. We were worried that our mother would be alone there, so we planned to go back and take a look. Wang Xiaoguanren was enthusiastic, and the others were joining in the fun together. They were just going to play."
When it comes to the separation of the family, Xu Wei suddenly felt a sudden heart. The huge gap and conflict between the three families of the Xu family. After all, it was because her grandfather gave the dominance of the salt business to her uncle, so her father and third uncle were both uncomfortable. She only thought that this was the case for her family, but she was sad, but she didn't expect that the Ye family would be the same! She was hesitating, but Xiaobei, who was beside her, also came over.
"Originally, my sister and I just wanted to borrow a few people. Who knew that he was meddling in other people's business and wanted to join in the fun. He also brought so many people to go with him. He really was like a sister and I back to Ningbo to travel around. God knows what the chaos is there, so how can I have that leisure! Xiaowei, how long can you stay in Hangzhou? We might be able to solve the problem soon. Then we go to Sudi to have fun together!"
Xu Wei knew that Wang Fulin was indeed meddling in other people's business, or that he would come to the door for the rest of the business, and immediately burst into laughter. Seeing that everyone else was looking at her, she smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm not going to Ningbo. My grandfather came to meet Lord Shi, the salt transport envoy of Liangzhe. He should be lingering in Hangzhou for a while. We will live on Shuimen Street in the east of the city. When you come back, you must remember to send me a letter!"
She said, glaring at Wang Fulin with displeasure: "If you want to leave, don't say anything to your grandfather, as I'm still excited and plan to invite you to go to Sudi to see the peach blossoms tomorrow!"
Wang Fulin suddenly felt a little embarrassed, but thinking that he should have been going to Ningbo this time very quickly, he agreed readily.
Of course, before leaving, Wang Fulin helped Yang Wencai and others to find out clearly. Zhong Nanfeng got out of the way within ten days after the verdict was announced, and the other two were also together. Because there were more than ten soldiers who were originally from the Qi family army escorted them together, of course, there was no need to worry about any problems on the way, and it would definitely meet Zhong Nanfeng's request to look at Qi Jiguang from a distance.
Although the journey from Hangzhou to Ningbo Prefecture is both water and land, most people still choose to take a boat for comfort, and Wang Fulin and his party are no exception. Since some waterways on this journey have been canal waterways that have been dug for many years, it is okay for them to go with the water. If the boat is against the water and against the wind, the boat is heavily drifted and it is easy to get stranded, then you must hire a boatman to traction.
Because there were more people in this group than before and there were a lot of horses, Wang Fulin simply divided the two groups of people by water and land. One group of people was in charge of more than a dozen horses to stand in front, while the other group of people were on a boat. Xiaobei originally wanted to take the land, but under Ye Mingyue's solemn warning, she had to continue to take the boat in a bad mood.
Since the Tang and Song dynasties, Ningbo has been one of the famous ports in the southeast. In the early Ming Dynasty, the sea was forbidden by Hongwu. However, during the Yongle period, Zheng He was able to voyage to the West again and again, and the Maritime Warriors were reset here. Later, the huge ocean fleet gradually disappeared. The so-called Maritime Warriors only maintained the tribute trade that was ineffective, but it was the only channel for official exchanges with Japan. Until the early years of Jiajing, countless soldiers and civilians were killed and injured in that battle. Therefore, the court completely closed the trade channels and strictly banned the sea in anger. But because of this, it laid the groundwork for the later Japanese pirates.
After years of resistance to Japanese dynasties, with the complete destruction of several major maritime merchant groups that transported Japanese pirates, Ningbo, which was once the main battlefield in the southeast, naturally gradually recovered, but it was incomparable to the prosperity of Hangzhou. The reason is very simple. Although the Longqing switch and the maritime trade that had been closed for many years seemed to be lifted. However, the official trading channel Yuegang is in Zhangzhou, Fujian. It is extremely remote. There is even a saying that only merchants and civilians in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou are allowed to go to sea, and the ship attractions are extremely limited. Therefore, it was once more prosperous and developed than Yuegang and was sailing in Japan for many years. Although there were still smuggling under the eyes of the government in recent years, it was much more depressed than before.
These are all the situation in Ningbo that Mr. Fang and Mr. Ke who were well-informed on the way to Ningbo on the way to Ningbo. In the words of the two, the Ningbo big families were almost all connected with the Japanese. Of course, this Japanese connection was not about the real Japanese pirates, but about the exchange with Xu Dong and Li Ballott, a sea merchant entrenched in Shuangyu, and they took shares in their business. When the government was in trouble, they would inform them. This situation continued until the court fought hard against the Japanese. Hu Zongxian was soft and pressing on the Japanese tyrants, while Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou and others were even more victorious. Only then did they turn around.
"But, these big players in Ningbo are now much harder than before. After all, they have fewer large investments in maritime transactions, so the Ye family's big players in the past can now make such a big deal just to separate the family."
After Wang Fulin hesitated about Mr. Fang's feelings, he still took them to Ye Mingyue to verify. Of course, he just asked in a vague way whether the Ye family had also been involved in the Marine Trade.
Ye Mingyue smiled bitterly and shook her head and said, "I don't know very well when my family was at its peak, all the porcelain used was among the treasures of Jingdezhen. The seal stones my father kept privately, which were the ones left to him by my great-grandmother, were also accumulated at that time. Later, the family was not so abundant. Uncles and aunts quarreled every day, and they would snatch each other when they had nothing to do. Because my mother was good at managing, she could take care of both the farm and the shop, and even the thorns could be smoothed out. So even though she was the youngest daughter-in-law, her grandmother still valued her very much."
Xiaobei, the fake Ye family daughter, knew much more than Ye Mingyue: "I heard from the wet nurse that the Ye family seemed to have sponsored a large sea merchant in Shuangyu, but later they had a stumble. In addition, Wang Zhi died, and the battle was fought from Zhejiang to Fujian. Victory was won step by step. The remnants of the sea merchants fled without a trace, and the money was wasted. Someone complained to the Ye family in front of his father. The only time his mother had asked for love in his life, the matter was left unresolved. His father also said that the wealthy families in Ningbo, except for those poor scholarly families who had been in poverty for generations, almost all of the rich families were smuggled, in other words, everyone was in contact with the Japanese. After all, it was all caused by the ban on the sea."
The so-called father and mother are different from Ye Junyao and Mrs. Su today, of course, refer to the biological mother of Hu Zongxian and Xiaobei.
So, Wang Fulin couldn't help but imagine the background of Hu Zongxian's words. Although Hu Zongxian's personal ethics are not very good, he is also a good player in making money. When Qi Jiguang was alone in Jizhen, he was similar to his old boss, but this did not hinder the judgment and achievements of the two on the front line of the anti-Japanese war. He thought for a while, and then spread his hands and said, "So, even if Longqing opened the sea, all the sea merchants rushed to Yuegang. The smuggling news on Shuangyu was tight and the crackdown was severe. This cut off many people's ways to make money. The Ye family was also a little depressed, so this time, some people thought that they had too few of them?"
As soon as Xiaobei finished speaking, he realized that he was too quick. Of course, his father knew why the maritime merchants in Zhejiang and Fujian took risks. Although they were merchants pursuing profits, they were dissatisfied with the ban on sea. It is important to know which dynasty has been as conservative as this dynasty since the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties? But Wang Fulin may not be like his father. God knows whether he minded that the Ye family had also been involved in sea business. At this moment, she immediately glanced at Ye Mingyue and quickly remedyed: "Anyway, the Ye family has long been undone and has no connection with maritime merchants. The matter of dividing up is that someone takes advantage of the problem."
"It's not just taking advantage of the problem." At this moment, the mothers that Mrs. Su had been guarding her. Ye Mingyue was not afraid of anyone eavesdropping. After saying this, she hesitated for a long time before she spoke frankly, "My great-grandfather and great-grandmother have passed away for seven or eight years. My father was able to pass the imperial examination. Among them, they have been using their own financial support for many years, and they have made a name for their father and made friends with scholars to provide convenience. My mother is good at managing and is also loved by them. When my great-grandfather passed away, she finally asked her parents to speak alone. My mother told me that what she missed with was to restore the Maritime Bureau in Ningbo and restore trade with Japan. I guess, maybe my great-grandfather left a private financial account for her parents, hoping that they could do this."
Chapter completed!