Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 19 Misunderstanding
Wu Yangchun was indeed in big trouble. The richer a merchant like them was, the easier it was to cause trouble, because others were jealous of their money!
Merchants don't have much status these days. Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and gentry are the superior ruling class, while merchants have the lowest status among ordinary people, even lower than craftsmen.

As the saying goes, "Every man is innocent, but he is guilty." The status of the merchants is so low, if they really make a fortune, then troubles will definitely follow.

At this time, merchants who have made a fortune will generally join a larger official family to seek shelter. This is one of the reasons why the official family is rich. It is generally not refused to take effect.

However, in this way, most of the profits earned by the merchants went to the official family.

Of course, if the merchant has enough money, there is another way, which is to donate to the imperial court in exchange for official status.

The Ming court has relevant laws and regulations. If the merchants donate more than 10 taels, they can be exchanged for an official status of about seven ranks.

However, having an official status does not mean that merchants who receive donations have become nobles since then. This official status is only a personal identity. Once this person dies, the official status is gone, and the merchants are still merchants.

After the old man of the Wu family made a fortune, he chose to donate to the imperial court in exchange for his official status, and in exchange for five regular and seventh-rank Zhongshu Scheeren at a time.

Wu Yangchun is the eldest son of Mr. Wu and the current head of the Wu family. He naturally has the official status of a member of Zhongshushe.

Originally, the Wu family thought that with the protection of so many officials, troubles should not come to them.

It's a pity that his family is so rich and so enviable, the seventh-rank Zhongshu Sheren can't stop the greed of those officials and aristocratic families, as long as they have a chance, they will pounce on them and bite like crazy!

Wu Yangchun accidentally offended a family of local officials in Huizhou, and then all kinds of corrupt officials swarmed in like flies finding rotten meat.

Now he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Fortunately, Mr. Bi Maoliang was here.

He couldn't wait to lead everyone to the main hall where the guests were received, and then greeted them courteously: "Young Master Zhu, Lord Bi, and all the adults, please sit down quickly, please sit down quickly, Laifu, and serve tea quickly."

At this time, strange things appeared again.

Except for Mr. Zhu who didn't know who's family was sitting in the guest seat on the left with a smile, everyone else stood there like a wooden stake, showing no intention of sitting down at all.

What is going on here?
He was wondering there, but that Mr. Zhu looked around majestically, then smiled and said: "Why are you standing, sit down quickly."

"Wow", Bi Maoliang hurriedly sat down on his lower head, Zhang Zhiji, Xu Yunzhen and Luo Yangxing took the guest seats on the right one by one, while Cao Huachun and Liu Shiyou stood upright behind Taichang, like guards .

Seeing this, Wu Yangchun couldn't help being dumbfounded.

The positions these people were sitting in were too bizarre. Mr. Bi Maoliang was the household servant of the third rank, and he actually sat under Mr. Zhu. How old is Mr. Zhu?
Also, in terms of position, the young man sitting on the right should have a higher status than Mr. Bi. People in official circles are very particular about respect and inferiority. There is absolutely no mistake about this.

Question, why did Master Bi not introduce this young man?
He was really dumbfounded, who are these people?
However, under Taichang's instruction, Bi Maoliang asked: "Master Wu, I heard that you have visited the humble house, but what's the matter?"

Uh, almost forgot the business.

Where does this start?

Wu Yangchun's face darkened when he heard the words, he pondered for a while, and then murmured: "Master Bi, you should know about the things about the bitch, right?"

Could it be that something happened to his wife?
Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but be puzzled.

Seeing this, Bi Maoliang hurriedly whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, this matter is a long story, and I will let my minister tell you slowly."

It's really a long story to say about this matter, if you want to talk about Wu Yangchun's wife He, you have to start with the Jiajing Dynasty.

During the Jiajing Dynasty, the richest man in Huizhou was not Wu Yangchun's family, but another Wu Tianxing named Wu, and the twelfth floor of the Wu family was also built by Wu Tianxing.

This Wu Tianxing may have a terminal illness, he desperately married hundreds of concubines but failed to give birth to a single child, as a result, he also got the nickname of "Master of Hundred Concubines" because of this.

During the same period, there was also a peerless beauty in Huizhou, surnamed He, and her boudoir name Suosuo.

Although this He Suosuo was said to be the most beautiful woman in Huizhou, his life was not very good. He married a poor scholar, and as a result, the poor scholar died of illness as soon as he became pregnant.

Then Wu Tianxing didn't know whether he was coveting He Suosuo's beauty or what, he married He Shi back with his mother and cubs, and since then he has only doted on Suosuo's mother.

It's a pity that He's posthumous son was a daughter, and after Wu Tianxing's death, the family property was also taken away by other relatives of the Wu family. Only the twelfth floor was left for He's daughter and Wu Tianxing's other surviving concubines to live in it. .

Naturally, it was impossible for the Wu family to allow He's daughter to marry with such a large dowry. He's daughter had no choice but to recruit a son-in-law.

In the end, He's daughter gave birth to a daughter, and the son-in-law he recruited was also an embroidered pillow.

Later, the life of the He family became more and more difficult, and those of the Wu family also lost their family property. It happened that Wu Yangchun's family became the new richest man in Huizhou at this time.

Wu Yangchun didn't know how he did it, but married He's daughter's daughter and took the twelfth floor into his hands.

After hearing this story, Taichang was still bewildered.

Wu Yangchun's wife is the granddaughter of He Suosuo, the former number one beauty in Huizhou. He understands this. The problem, Wu Yangchun's wife seems to be fine at the end of the story!

He couldn't help asking: "Is it gone?"

Bi Maokang quickly shook his head and said, "It's gone."

That's all he knew, and he didn't know why Wu Yangchun mentioned his wife.

Seeing Bi Maoliang's performance, Wu Yangchun's eyes were full of splendor.

It seems that this Mr. Zhu is definitely not an ordinary person, otherwise Mr. Bi would not be so respectful to him.

So who is this Mr. Zhu?

It seems that there is no surname Zhu among the cabinet scholars in the court, and even the six ministers have no surname Zhu. The surname Zhu, with such a noble status, can only be the son of the Duke of Cheng!
His eyes flickered for a while, and he simply gritted his teeth and asked, "Dare to ask Mr. Zhu, is he after Cheng Guogong?"

Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen?
His eldest son is only six years old!
There are the princes of England and Dingguo here. As for the prince of Chengguo, I don't have the leisure to play with him!
Taichang looked at Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen, smiled and said nothing.

Seeing that the emperor didn't speak, everyone naturally didn't dare to say anything.

Is this the default?
Seeing this, Wu Yangchun couldn't help but flushed with excitement.

Great opportunity!

If they can climb up to Cheng Guogong's relatives, the Wu family can rest easy.

Take a gamble!
He turned his heart and said loudly to the door: "Quickly, go and call Wan'er over, and greet Mr. Zhu."

(End of this chapter)