I want to be emperor

Chapter 257

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Wang Chuanxiong, whose name is Xian'an, is 40 years old, a man from Xiangyanghua, who was in the Tianqi period. Because he was in his [-]s when he passed the examination, and he was in poor health, he stopped thinking about continuing to take the imperial examination for the Jinshi examination. .

Living at home to teach his children and grandchildren, he once hoped that his son could inherit or even surpass his imperial examination career, and win another Jinshi for the old Wang family.

However, my only child son still did not do well in the imperial examination. He is nearly 40 years old and is still just a student. It is thrown into his face.

On the contrary, his grandson has more potential in career. He was admitted as a student when he was just 16 years old the year before last, and he is expected to make further progress in the future.

In this way, they lived up to the name of their royal family's scholarly family.

Their Wang family is a relatively well-known scholarly family in Xiangyang Mansion. Although the population is small, there are three males in one of them now, all of whom are well-known.

And their ancestors also produced one Jinshi and two Juren.

In the old home, when it comes to the Wang family, who doesn't know that their Wang family has a Jinshi archway and three Juren archways.

If such a traditional scholarly family follows the rhythm of the early years, then their Wang family will continue to accumulate strength in the local area, and try their best to train Wang's parents and grandchildren to participate in the imperial examination, so as to win the honor of the imperial examinations and even Jinshi, and let the Wang family's name resound once again. Xiangyang Prefecture.

But all of this has gradually changed since the previous year.

The year before last, rogues broke into Xiangyang Mansion and Yunyang Mansion area, a large number of rogues and officers and soldiers fought in this area repeatedly, and their Wang family also suffered great misfortune.

Several farms under his name were looted and suffered heavy losses.

Even many tenants of the Wang family were kidnapped or killed, or fled, so that some of the land of the Wang family was abandoned last year.

Because there are not enough people to rent these lands.

Of course, just these things are nothing, the most important thing is that their Wang Family Manor was breached once by thieves. Living and living, and successively repairing it for hundreds of years, the already magnificent mansions were burned down by those thieves.

This wave completely caused the Wang family to bleed heavily, and decades of accumulation were wiped out, because the house in their hometown was burned down, and the Wang family spent a large sum of money to rebuild the house.

In the end, in order to avoid the flames of war, the members of the Wang family simply moved to Xiangyang city and bought a house to live in.

I plan to avoid the chaos of the past few years before returning to my hometown. Anyway, it will take time to rebuild the house in my hometown.

After moving to Xiangyang City, the members of the Wang family were still unlucky. They just bought a luxurious house worthy of their Wang family's dignity at a price below the market price. However, within a few days after entering, someone came to the door and said that the house belonged to their family. ...

If it was an ordinary person, Wang Chuanxiong would have his servants beat him out on the spot, but he is from Xiangyang Mansion...

As a result, after reporting to the official, after investigation, well, this yard is really the property of Prince Xiang’s Mansion. It was secretly sold by a steward of the Wang’s Mansion who managed the property in collusion with a steward of the Wang family who came to Xiangyang Daqian Station to purchase the house.

It is said that the steward of the palace not only sold this luxurious mansion secretly, but also took a concubine whom King Xiang had just married to a long distance away...

These are not the key point, the key point is that when the royal family purchased the house, because there were internal agents who colluded with the stewards of the royal house, the documents signed later were also fake...

After all, following the normal procedures, this house cannot be delivered and transferred at all...

To put it simply, the Wang family spent a lot of money and finally bought a fake house deed... and lived in this yard for a few days...

That is to say, the Wang family, which can cause an earthquake by stomping their feet in Guanghua County, was put together as soon as they moved to Xiangyang...

After all, the members of the Wang family did not expect that someone would be so bold as to deceive them into the Wang family.

In desperation, he had no choice but to move out of the newly purchased house and borrowed it from a friend's house for a period of time before selling another house to live in.

Later, when I was living in Xiangyang, all kinds of bad luck happened, and my eldest grandson was seriously ill for a time.

In February and March of this year, Wang Chuanxiong's son started to do saltpeter business with others...

The partner said that this business is very simple, the capital is paid by others, and the customers also come to contact. Their Wang family only needs to clear up the official relationship in Xiangyang City, get the source of goods smoothly, and ensure that the goods can leave Xiangyang.

After all, the Wang family is a scholarly family, and the master of the Wang family is still a scholar, so he still has a bit of face in Xiangyang.

That's why people came to seek cooperation.

As a result, it didn't take long for Wang Chuanxiong to discover that his son had raised his waist and brought back a lot of money to the family. After asking curiously, he discovered that his son was actually engaged in the business of contraband such as saltpeter.

Immediately, he became angry, wanting to let his son quit to avoid getting into trouble.

It turned out to be good. Just as the Wang family said they were going to quit, the partner reported himself: We are from the Commercial Department of the Baoxiang Army...

This saltpeter business is not something the Wang family can just quit if they want to...

If you dare to withdraw from the front foot, I dare to send someone to keep it on the back foot. It will be difficult to say what will happen to your Wang family.

After all, this is the great crime of colluding with a thief!
This made Wang Chuanxiong terrified. After questioning carefully, he found out that his stupid son and that idiot, as scholars, went straight to the business and let the housekeeper deal with it if they didn't understand... Even if they wanted to get away, they couldn't get away.

In the end, in desperation, he could only bite the bullet and continue to do business.

But as he was doing it, he discovered that the rural protection army had already reached Xiangyang City!
When the Xiangyang Army conquered Xiangyang, their Wang family also received preferential treatment as a supplier with a "good" cooperative relationship with the Xiangyang Army. A large number of materials seized by the Xiangyang Army were sold through the Wang family's business. ...

The Township Protection Army even confiscated the house that had robbed the Wang family before, and then gave it to the Wang family to show that the Township Protection Army was kind to their friends.

So, it didn't take long for the entire gentry circle in Xiangyang Mansion to know that the Wang family and the Township Protection Army had colluded with each other!

By this time, the Wang family had actually been completely helped into the bandit ship by the rural protection army, the kind that they couldn't get off even if they wanted to.

Faced with this situation, after several days of hard thinking, Wang Chuanxiong simply gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and leaned directly towards the Township Protection Army. Materials, real estate, etc. were confiscated.

His son even went directly to become an official in the Xiangyang Army, and now he is the director of a sixth rank in Xiangyang Mansion.

After Luo Zhixue won a complete victory in the Battle of Yuzhou and returned to Xiangyang in June, the Department of Internal Affairs began to select beautiful women from good families to enter the General's Mansion.

And the range of selection is naturally from the gentry class and middle and low-level officials who are related to the rural protection army. Although the Wang family is thin in males, there are still many female relatives.

Wang Chuanxiong happened to have a granddaughter of the right age because she was beautiful and dignified, and she was not married, so she was selected as a matter of course.

In fact, the Wang family was unwilling, but the officials of the family's internal affairs department went to investigate and inquire about the well-cooperative gentry families one by one.

When the officials of the Internal Affairs Department saw the queen of the Wang family, they were astonished, and they were going to give the Wang family daughter a place as a show girl on the spot. At that time, it is possible that their Wang family dared to say a word...

Ever since, the daughter of the Wang family entered the General's Mansion smoothly, and soon after entering the General's Mansion, she was favored and valued by Luo Zhixue.

After Luo Zhixue officially proclaimed himself emperor in Hanyang, he conferred low-level titles on group girls. This time, there were more than 100 women, except for Hou Yunmeng and Wang Qiaoer, because of their pure looks and the fact that they were with Luo Zhixue a little earlier. He was awarded the title of talent outsider.

The other women who came up in the draft, the highest honored nobleman, are just three women.

The Queen's Daughter is one of them.

Up to this time, the overall rhythm is actually quite normal, but not long ago, an official from the Imperial Academy arrived in Xiangyang to meet Wang Chuanxiong...

When Wang Chuanxiong heard that his grandson, the Queen, had been selected by His Majesty Luo Zhixue to be named Queen.

He's all bad...

At that time, he felt very strange, both pleasantly surprised and a little terrified...

Well, now that the Great Chu Empire has gained momentum, it is naturally a good thing for their daughters of the Wang family to become the mother of the Great Chu Empire, bringing prosperity and wealth to the Wang family.

But Wang Chuanxiong is also worried that if the Great Chu Empire is wiped out by the court in the future, other gentry families who have defected to the Great Chu Empire, even if they have already served in the Great Chu Empire, may turn around and defect to the Zhu Ming Dynasty or something else new dynasty.

After all, the gentry families who defected to the Great Chu Empire now have more scholars. Even if the Great Chu Empire is over in the future, it is impossible for the Zhu Ming court or other new dynasties to kill so many people cleanly.

But his royal family?
If the natal family of the empress of the Great Chu Empire wants to switch to Zhu Ming or the new dynasty, it may be extremely difficult.

In the past, the Wang family could still be said to have been kidnapped and boarded this thief ship of the Great Chu Empire.

But once the daughter of the royal family becomes the empress, their royal family will all become part of the bandit army.

This feeling of surprise and fear has been tormenting Wang Chuanxiong, even on the way to the south, Wang Chuanxiong's mood is rather gloomy.

However, this feeling disappeared immediately after he arrived in Wuchang City!

For some reason, when he saw the clean and tidy streets in Wuchang City, he was stunned, and then many thoughts appeared in his mind.

It's not that he has never been to Wuchang City, in fact he has been here several times.

But the current Wuchang City is completely different from the Wuchang City he knew!
Clean, tidy and orderly, even the shops on both sides of the street look pleasing to the eye.

The current Wuchang City seems to have changed for the better.

Since the Great Chu Empire can make Wuchang City better, maybe it can also make the whole world better.

And the Great Chu Empire, which can make the world better, has a high probability that it will not be a short-lived dynasty, and may even unify Kyushu.

In this way, their royal family, as the family of the founding emperor's relatives, is not to mention the prosperity and wealth!
After many thoughts flashed through his mind, a smile began to appear on Wang Chuanxiong's face, and he immediately said to the eldest son who was dumbfounded looking at the street: "What are you doing, let's go, I'm still waiting ahead!"

(End of this chapter)