What does Zhang Shen mean, his granddaughters are sixteen years old, and they have reached the age of talking about marriage, but he has been delaying and delaying his family.

He did this as if he was waiting for the price to be sold!

That's right, since Zhang Yue was admitted to the Jinshi, he wanted to use this granddaughter to get the greatest benefit.

He first dragged the Yang family of Hui'an, who came to ask for marriage, and put down his figure, made friends, and introduced Yang Rong, the old lady of the Yang family, as a "close friend", so as to obtain the financial support of the Yang family.

After Zhang Yue was promoted to the right of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace, he took the initiative to release the news, which attracted many official eunuchs to move.

As a result, he accidentally attracted the maritime tycoon Longxi Chen!

He was unwilling to marry a wealthy maritime merchant like the Longxi Chen family, which damaged the reputation of the Zhang family, so he took the opportunity of his birthday to attract the largest official family in Fujian, the Chen family in Fuzhou.

Even, he deliberately let his granddaughter Zhang Zhen appear in front of others on the occasion of his birthday, so as to stimulate Chen Neng and make him not hesitate to offend the Longxi Chen family to snatch this family business.

He uses his own granddaughter like this, just for profit, completely ignoring the feelings of his relatives, isn't it very cold-blooded and despicable?

In fact, he had no choice but to do it.

In these years, it is not easy for everyone, and every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

For example, the merchant's house, although it is said that doing business can get rich, but it is more difficult for the merchant to keep the money earned than to make money, because the status of the merchant is too low, and if you are not careful, you will be eaten by the official eunuch and even the gentry until there is nothing left.

The so-called "breaking the county order and destroying the door and the government Yin", in these years, local officials have gathered civil affairs, justice, taxation and other powers, and it is too simple to clean up the common people under their rule.

And the merchants, especially the wealthy merchants who have made a fortune in business, are the favorite of these magistrates, because the merchants have a low status and a lot of wealth, and it is too easy to clean up, and the benefits are the greatest.

Shen Wansan, a huge rich man in Jiangnan, is an obvious example, he himself was too rich, he was hated by Zhu Yuanzhang, he was sent to Yunnan, and he died in a foreign country, and his son, his grandson, and even his great-grandson were all guilty because of their wealth, and in the end they were all ruined by officials at all levels.

Another example is the family of military households, although the military households have tuntian, and do not have to pay taxes, but the military households have to face the oppression of officers at all levels and even local tyrants and gentry, such as Li Jianjiang and Li Jianlin brothers are obvious examples, they are okay, the thousands of households and hundreds of households above have not oppressed them, but once they encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, it is also difficult for them to keep the tuntian in their hands, once they lose the tuntian, in addition to being forced into exile, they can only be tenant farmers.

This is the fundamental reason why a large number of military households fled in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, because the land annexation was too serious, officials at all levels and even local tyrants and squires dared to swallow Tuntian, and military households had no way to live without Tuntian, so they could only live in various places and eat with food.

The same is true for peasant households, who cannot escape the fate of becoming tenant farmers or even displaced people due to the increasing land annexation.

This gentry class and even the official family seem to be high, but they are not lying there without worrying about food and clothing, because they also have to eat, get married and have children, and they also have birth, old age, sickness and death.

The Ming Dynasty officials' salaries were notoriously low, and if the eunuchs were not corrupt, it was basically difficult to maintain the consumption of a large family.

Zhang Shen is facing this problem, he is very short of money, because the children of the Zhang family are all clean and clean, not greedy or corrupt, and the Zhang family has long been unable to make ends meet!

Not to mention that he can't afford the money for this birthday, he can't maintain the daily expenses of the Zhang family alone.

On the surface, the official eunuch family is a ruling class that is out of the category of ordinary people, but in fact they are a group of unproductive readers.

This is not to say that they are lazy, there are also diligent officials in the family, but the direction of their diligence is to study rather than farm.

Although "there is a golden house in the book, there is Yan Ruyu in the book." But that's also the treatment that only after reading it, and even the title of the gold list, there was no golden house and Yan Ruyu at the beginning, and only the cold window accompanied the reader.

The so-called "ten years of cold windows no one asked, in one fell swoop became famous all over the world." It is not easy to train a group of scholars, they need to spend money to read and learn calligraphy, they need to spend money to eat, drink and Lazar, they still have to spend money to marry a wife and have children, and they need a lot of money to go to the provincial capital to participate in the hospital examination, go to Nanjing to participate in the township examination, go to the capital to participate in the examination, etc., all need a lot of silver.

Where did the silver come from, and did it depend on the two thousand acres of tax-free land?

Not enough, far from enough, the Zhang family has been developing for more than 100 years, there are dozens of direct children alone, plus their families, as well as family members, nurses, maids, old mothers and other subordinates, at least three or four hundred, two thousand taels a year just to maintain these people's eating, drinking and Lazar are a little stretched, not to mention others.

Therefore, when Yang Rong, the richest man in Hui'an, took the initiative to post it, Zhang Shen did not refuse, and even he quickly cited it as a "close friend", because the Yang family is rich!

However, it is impossible for the Yang family to marry Zhang Yue's daughter if they want to spend some money, and he still has to consider his son's career, if he recruits a low-status merchant as a son-in-law for his son, it is not to help his son, but to harm his son.

The Longxi Chen family is also not advisable, because the maritime tycoon has made it clear that he is violating the ban of the imperial court, and sooner or later something will happen, which is the same as Xu Jie's thoughts, he doesn't want to be implicated later.

Therefore, he thought of the Chen family in Fuzhou, if he could marry the Chen family in Fuzhou, his son's career would definitely be smooth, because the Chen family has almost never been broken in the past hundred years, and the contacts accumulated in the court are not a star and a half, and Chen Da himself is also a feudal official, if he can be close to the Chen family in Fuzhou, then his Zhang family will be developed.

He believed that as long as he gave the Yang family a little favor and ensured that they were not bullied by local officials, Yang Rong would definitely be willing to pay money to buy this "talisman".

He even thought about letting Yang Rong marry a granddaughter to be a concubine for one of his grandsons, so as to improve the relationship between the two families, and he believed that Yang Rong would gladly accept this proposal.

It's a pity that at this time, Xu Jie, who was sentenced by the government government, suddenly inserted a lever and disrupted his plan.

Xu Jie seems to have a good relationship with Yang Cong, the eldest son and grandson of the Yang family, and he strongly recommends it to Zhang Shen, wanting Zhang Shen to marry his eldest granddaughter to Yang Cong.

Zhang Shen was really embarrassed at this time, he knew quite well that this Xu Jie was not an ordinary person.

This is a tanhualang, and he has the means, the ability, and the official reputation is good, if he can really return to the court and enter the cabinet, it is only a matter of time, and it is not impossible to even become the first assistant of the cabinet.

Such a big man who is very likely to control the power of the court in the future strongly recommends to himself, if he loses face, the consequences are simply unimaginable!

Therefore, he simply deduced that he wanted to ask Zhang Yue's opinion to delay.

So, what does Xu Jie mean, why did he try his best to promote the marriage between the Zhang family and the Yang family, was he really just doing his brother a favor?