"Nonsense!"

When Zong Han heard Zong Ben's request, he was stunned at first, and then he was furious and slapped his palm on the coffee table.

The previous good mood was gone, and Zong Han's thin face was full of anger at the moment. Stretching out two fingers and pointing at his brother-in-law, Zong Han turned his face on the spot: "Daydreaming, never mention this matter again!" ”

The matter of the tomb of the mother is a long story.

Thinking about Zongben's birth back then, it was originally a reserved program often staged by large families: the old man was lucky to be a maid after drinking, and he didn't want to fall into the soul at once, so the maid became pregnant.

The old man who mentioned the pants naturally regretted it for about five ...... afterwards Hours? After all, it's not a good thing to make a girl's belly bigger.

However, the matter has come to this point, and the sect father, that is, the second master of the sect mansion, did not plan to repay the debt back then. According to the meaning of the master himself, he planned to promote her from a maid to the level of a concubine after the mother gave birth smoothly.

I don't want the world to be impermanent, just when Zong's mother was pregnant in October and was about to give birth, the second master of Zong's second master had a stroke after drinking, and he died within two days.

In this way, the sect born after the fact becomes a standard posthumous child.

Since the master has braided hair, the maid of the sect mother is not a maid, the concubine is not a concubine, and the embarrassing character who seduces the lord who is hated by the eldest woman, life will naturally not be too good.

However, in the eyes of everyone, under the bullying and exclusion of various forces, Zong Yawei finally dragged Zong Ben to the age of fifteen. After that, this hard-working woman who had been a subordinater all her life fell ill and died in the laundry room.

After that, the young Zongben couldn't bear the atmosphere in the house, and often went out to mix between the three sects and the nine streams. Later, Zong Ben got a sum of money that was originally intended to send him out of the mansion and went to Hao Jing Ao.

If it weren't for Zongben's successful career in Ho Jing O, he would now bring back income to the government every year, in fact, his qualifications to enter the gate of the Zongfu today are up for debate......

Seeing that Zong Han, who was the concubine of the long house, was angry, although the second concubine Zong Ben was depressed, this was not unexpected, in fact, he had already foreseen this kind of outcome.

When he returned home this time, he originally came with the mentality of ending everything. Among them, the status and treatment of the soul of the biological mother in the yin house of the clan after the death of the biological mother is the core issue today.

As the saying goes, mothers are more precious than children. In Zongben's opinion, the dividends he has distributed to the merchants in the clan over the years are enough to elevate his current status. Because the value of these dividends has exceeded the price of his use of the "banner" of the sect. On the other hand, doesn't that just prove his importance?

This is also the first time in many years that Zongben has the audacity to propose the matter of the tomb of the Virgin Mary to the clan. Of course, the most crucial reason for this is that a certain force that should not appear in this plane gave him courage.

So although he guessed the end, Zongben still made a final effort - a little reminder to the eldest brother that he is actually a successful person now: "Eldest brother, is this matter not negotiable?" The younger brother is willing to pay money to repair the ancestral tomb and ancestral hall, and hopes that the eldest brother will raise his hand. ”

"Shaft, dare to talk nonsense again!"

After discovering that Zongben did not give up, but that "the thief's heart does not die", Zong Han, the son of the Zong family, felt that his clan authority was seriously provoked, so his face was hideous, and he trembled and hissed: "How dare you be so arrogant? Do you want to rebel? ”

With a "bang", Zong Han slapped the coffee table again, this time the tea bowl jumped up, and the tea splashed: "A cheap maid, the things bought for eight taels of silver are also worthy of my ancestral grave?" I didn't have to humiliate my ancestors and fathers! And you, a prodigal son, after the, what kind of face dare to ignore the clan rules and regulations, and make a big fuss here! Can't you really be ruled by the clan? ”

Zongben's face was ashen, and he bowed his head deeply. At this moment, he finally realized that the little achievement he regarded as proud was nothing in front of the clan etiquette.

"That's it, brother."

Zongben, who was in despair, looked up after a moment and got up, and walked out of the door with dejected steps. At this time, the words from behind him stopped his footsteps: "My father named you 'Ben' back then, just to hope that you will be an open-minded person in your duty. Now it seems that his old man's kindness has been ruined by your unscrupulous son. ”

"The Zongfu is a place of Taoism, and there is no room for fanatics without fathers and kings." Zong Han's cold words continued to float: "Zong Ben, you can do it yourself. Don't wait until the day when I am in the right family style and kill my relatives in righteousness, you must know that no one can save you! ”

Perhaps because of the bottoming out, Zongben, who had already left his anger and was disheartened by the family, turned his back on his brother at this moment, and listened to a series of vicious and threatening words in his ears, and his thoughts drifted to other places...... What suddenly flashed in front of his eyes was the steel and iron flow in the Yizhou factory, the thousands of acres of fertile fields intertwined with silver threads, the young private soldiers with resolute faces, and the silver yuan like the sea.

"Hahaha, big brother is right."

Zong Ben suddenly raised his head and laughed twice, facing him with his back to Zong Han, his face was full of smiles at the moment, but his eyes were full of determination: "Yes, at that time, no one can save ...... Who. ”

After spitting out the last word in a vague voice, Zong Ben held his head high for the first time in his life and strode out of the sect's mansion.

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That night, Zongben took his companion to stay in his own courtyard in the city. When he got rich, he bought a property in the city as soon as possible, and even arranged for his family to be here - anyway, there was no place for him in the Zongfu.

In the early morning of the second day, Zong Ben went out and went straight to Nancheng Shuiguan. As soon as the water gate opened, he had already got on the private boat of his own trading house, mixed in the flow of boats out of the city together, and went down the Pearl River and headed straight for Macao.

In 1630, Macao Island did not have the taste of every inch of land and gold in later generations, and the original style was rich, and there were natural scenery everywhere. During this period, the Macao Peninsula, Taipa Island and Coloane Island were still three separate islands, and the latter two were not connected by later land reclamation.

Of course, the artificial islands facing the Pearl River, the airport, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and even the Friendship and Sai Wan Bridges are definitely invisible.

Due to the arrival of the traverser, Zongben's voyage from Guangzhou to Macao was smooth sailing. The most dangerous light and dark reefs on the Pearl River have been cleared by divers. The rest of the shoal sandbars, including the fairways, are marked with buoys.

In addition to these infrastructure improvements, there were many bandits along the Pearl River in the past, but now they are either sent down to the bottom of the river by high-speed patrol boats to feed the fish, or they have changed their minds and put down their butcher's knives to carry their lives.

In short, the route from the mouth of the Pearl River to Guangzhou, in addition to the wider water surface and the more rapid river flow, has reached the order of crossing the memory of the public.

The Ming-style wooden boat goes down the river, and the speed is still very fast when you don't have to worry about bandits and reefs. Zong Ben and his entourage set off at 5 o'clock in the morning, and by the evening, the wooden boat had already arrived at the outer harbor of Macao.

Macao Island is divided into two ports. Zong Ben returned to Macao this time, and because he was in a hurry, he got off the ship from the outer port.

After disembarking, he hired a sliding rod and passed through the city gate before dark, and returned to his trading house in Macau.

Macau City in this time period, if you look at the scale alone, is just a small city of the Ming Kingdom with a circumference of five or six miles. However, due to the relationship of trade, after entering the city, the Chinese and foreign countries are mixed, the flow of people is crowded, and the prosperity is far more than that of the Ming city.

The name of the business is "Kwong Yu Hong", which is located in the southeast corner of Grand Cross in Macau. The main business in the industry is silk porcelain, which is a specialty of the Ming Kingdom, and it seems that there are few customers, but in fact, the business is very large, because Yizheng Xing specializes in wholesale.

Seeing his master, the shopkeeper and the guys in the store all came forward.

It is said that Zongben has no status in the sect's mansion, but it does not mean that he has no status in Macau City. After all, Zongben's banner of Zongfu on weekdays is hard enough, and other idlers don't know the pile of bad things in Zongfu.

In addition, because Zongben was mixed in the market when he was young, he was very smooth and spicy, and he also had a few loyal brothers under him, and he could eat well. So out of the gate of the sect, he is a veritable sect master in society.

After entering the trading house, Zong Ben first checked the inventory and accounts, and then he successively gave orders, sent several of his subordinates out, and sent messages to several houses in the city of Macau.

It is unknown what kind of message was sent, but early the next morning, people who looked like merchants came to visit Master Zong.

After receiving two groups of visitors, Zongben continued to organize the inventory, in addition to sending out people to inquire around. It wasn't until noon that the men who watched the wind outside ran in and whispered to him. Zong Ben laughed when he heard this: "Okay, the main lord is here, and he is waiting for this person." ”

Naturally, the Lord is extraordinary. This time, the group of visitors who stopped outside the Guangyu Gate was not only Akito sitting on a pole, but also foreigners on horses.

Among the guests, except for seven or eight entourages, dressed as a wealthy businessman, sitting with a pole and smoking a copper pipe, it was a middle-aged man with a white face. The other two foreigners on horseback, one wearing a black priest's robe, looked like a Jesuit monk who was a missionary in Macao. Another middle-aged black-haired man with a full beard and a gorgeous sailor's suit should not be able to escape the Iberian Peninsula race.

Soon, the old man of Zong Benzong came out with the shopkeeper and his subordinates laughing.

After welcoming the distinguished guests into the backyard of the trading house and sitting down to watch the tea, Master Zong first exchanged a few words with the wealthy businessman. This wealthy businessman's surname is Niu, his name is Niu Xijian, and he is a merchant in the city of Macau. In addition to his daily business of various commodities and groceries, he also has a well-known profession: a foreign broker, which was later called a fat translator.

However, today here in Zongben, Master Niu's translation skills are not used. After saying a few words to him in Cantonese, Zongben immediately turned his head and said to the two foreign guests in fluent Spanish: "Brother Garcia, Captain Martinez, welcome to my firm. Of course, if our negotiations go well today, you will soon be the masters here. ”