Zhao Hao's next stop was Wuxi Huajia, one hundred and fifty miles away.

The so-called "those who count the giants in the south of the Yangtze River must be the first to recommend Fahrenheit".

The Hua family is no less than the Langya Wang family, and the wealth is far above the Wang Shizhen family, and even the Wang Xijue family is firmly suppressed.

The biggest characteristic of their family is that they are good at business. And not only limited to science and shopping malls, but also pay great attention to the management of their own contacts and fame, almost all Jiangnan geniuses are the financiers.

Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, Qiu Ying and others often went to Hua's house to eat and drink.

Even the dignified Wang Yangming was not exempt from vulgarity, and he also went to fight the autumn breeze a few times.

That is, Wang Shizhen's own family is rich, otherwise it is indispensable to reach out to his teacher.

Yes, Hua Shuyang's father, Hua Cha, is Wang Shizhen's teacher.

The old man is a five-year jinshi in Jiajing, born in Hanlin, presided over the township examination, the meeting examination, and served as a paper reader for the palace examination, and admitted a large number of famous people in the world. Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen, the two leaders of the literary world, are his protégés.

Therefore, Huacha has an excellent reputation in Shilin, and he is almost a sure candidate for a bachelor's degree.

It's a pity that he didn't deal with Yan Song, and was impeached by the official for being unfair in admission, and Jiajing resigned and went home in the twenty-fourth year, and never went out of the mountain again.

But Hua Taishi's protégés are all over the world. He is also kind and charitable, and likes to help after studying, and almost all the poor scholars in Wuxi and Zhenjiang have received the favor of the Hua family.

In the past 20 years, he has exerted his banknote ability to the extreme, making the prestige of the Hua family undiminished but increasing, and he is the most respected Jiangnan family.

Well, Hua Taishi is the direction of Zhao Erye's efforts......

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The passenger ship traveled through a network of water for a day and a night. The next day, we arrived in Wuxi.

Zhao Hao slept for a day, regained his spirit at this time, and stood on the bow of the boat and looked at the prosperous scene of Wuxi City like a forest and thousands of sails in the distance.

couldn't help but praise Hua Shuyang, who gave him an umbrella: "I didn't expect your hometown to be so prosperous." ”

"Although Wuxi is not the capital of the state, it is close to Taihu Lake, and the canal passes through the city, which is indeed much more prosperous than the capital city of Wujin." Hua Shuyang explained, looking a little hesitant.

"To be able to compare the Fucheng down, your Hua family's contribution is not small." Zhao Hao said with a smile, glanced at Hua Shuyang and said, "Why is this expression, the hometown is timid?" ”

"It's a little." Hua Shuyang smiled, and finally made up his mind: "There is one thing, the apprentice must confess to the master. ”

"Speak." Zhao Hao smiled and was not surprised.

"Our family is actually not the kind of good family that the legend says." Hua Shuyang lowered his head and spoke like a gnat.

"The scholarly family that has been hairpinned for generations, and the rich family who is kind and charitable, is not a good family?" Zhao Hao couldn't help laughing and said, "What is a good person?" ”

"In addition to these surfaces," Hua Shuyang sighed, "My family is actually the same as the Xu family, secretly supplying maritime merchants. ”

After realizing that the seventh junior brother might have to confront the Xu family or even the Wang family, he didn't sleep all night tormented by this problem.

Thinking that the master would know the truth sooner or later, Hua Shuyang finally decided to tell the truth.

"It's nothing, the sea ban is not right in the first place." Zhao Hao shook his head and smiled: "It's not harmful, how can there be a reason to put money and not let people make money?" ”

Your teacher, I still want to drill my head into it.

"But my family is doing it on a larger scale." Seeing that the master was open to this, Hua Shuyang was half relieved, and said a little uneasy: "Along the canal to the north, the entire Wuxi, Wujin to Zhenjiang, more than seventy percent of the textile factories are supplied to my family. ”

"Then your family is rich enough." Zhao Hao gasped. "I'm afraid this scale is not much worse than the Xu family, right?"

"Those factories don't belong to our family." Hua Shuyang hurriedly waved his hand and said: "My father often said, 'The benefits of the world belong to the people of the world, and it is not appropriate to monopolize them. ’”

Zhao Hao nodded, worthy of being Hua Taishi, an old Caigen Tan.

So more than ten years ago, my father took the initiative to return the land to the tenant farmers and burned the land deeds. Only 20,000 acres of paddy fields remained......" and listened to Hua Shuyang continue.

"Only the ...... remained" Zhao Hao smacked his lips, not knowing what it was like.

With Hua Shuyang's sensitivity to numbers, I believe that 20,000 mu is really small compared to back then.

"Half of these 20,000 acres are used to supply the Yizhuang of the ethnic group, help the poor families tide over the difficulties, and provide all the tuition fees for the students. The other half is for the family's food, or for future needs. I heard Hua Shuyang continue: "Later, I sold other industries and turned them around, and now I only have a small amount of business left, so that the descendants of the clan who don't study will not be too idle." ”

It's a clear arrangement.

Thinking that the two kings of Taicang also spared no effort to donate money to support education, and the salt merchants in Yangzhou did not even let go of the crossing, Zhao Hao suddenly felt that the competition was fierce, and there were more wolves and less meat.

It is necessary to build a strong brand in order to grab high-quality students!

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"If you don't produce it yourself, how can you guarantee that people will sell you the goods?" Zhao Hao came back to his senses and asked knowingly, purely to confirm his speculation.

"Like my family, there are at least eight more in Jiangnan." Hua Shuyang broke the news again: "These nine families got together and monopolized the sales of silk, cotton cloth, tea, and porcelain in Jiangnan. Therefore, the wealthy households in the entire Jiangnan had to sell their goods to these nine families first, and then they resold them to the maritime merchants. ”

"Then just by being a middleman to make the difference, you can make a lot of money." Zhao Hao said with envy and hatred: "How much money does your family have." ”

"Just one or two million taels of silver." Hua Shuyang was a little uncertain and said, "Not much more than Master." ”

"One or two million taels ......" Zhao Hao rolled his eyes in anger and kicked him in the ass. Isn't that much more? ”

"How many generations have my family saved? Master has only been starting out for a year. Hua Shuyang twisted his ass and didn't dare to dodge.

"That's pretty much it." Zhao Hao nodded with satisfaction, he liked to hear this.

"Master, is this really true?" Hua Shuyang looked at Zhao Hao with some confusion, and then looked at his hometown that was about to come to him.

"Of course it's wrong, and it's very wrong!" Zhao Hao said squarely: "In this world, the more you get, the more you have to bear." A person who is only willing to take advantage of the benefits, but is unwilling to take responsibility, we can usually call him a 'moth'. ”

"Moths?" Hua Shuyang's expression darkened. "What Master said is that the ship of the Ming Dynasty has been riddled with holes. These large families...... Of course, including my family, they actually tried their best to evade taxes, not a group of moths? ”

"Since both sides are at fault, we have to try to correct it." Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "We want Daming to really let go of the sea ban, not just open a small crack." We need to make all those involved in maritime trade, including the Nine Great Families, take their responsibilities. The first step is to start paying taxes! ”

As he spoke, he also moved his gaze to the dock that was getting closer and closer, and educated his disciple categorically:

"No matter what happens in the future, our country should not become a jungle of the jungle. The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency. A country that can maintain long-term peace and stability must make it impossible for the strong to escape their obligations. Keeping the weak from hunger safe and respected! ”

"Yes, I understand Master!" Hua Shuyang nodded heavily, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "This is in everyone's interests, and the apprentice is willing to accompany the master and correct the wrong things." ”

"You take care of your body first." Zhao Hao glanced at the thin second disciple. Hua Shuyang will try to get sick after the test, and he has not recovered yet. "Being able to do math well is the greatest contribution, and it is the mother of science."

"Yes, Master." Hua Shuyang hurriedly responded.

ps. The first update, ask for a monthly pass, a recommended ticket~~