The Jingwangfu line of Qizhou originated from the grandson of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, the sixth son of Ming Renzong Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Zhanqi, the king of Jingxian.

In the twenty-second year of Yongle, Zhu Zhan was named the king of Jing Xian, first in Jianchang, Jiangxi, and then because there was a giant snake in the palace, Zhan Yan was afraid, please migrate, orthodox ten years, King Jing Xian moved to build the palace and Qizhou Qilin Mountain South, this is the origin of the Jingwang Mansion in Qizhou City.

Jing Wangfu in the Ming Dynasty royal family, can be regarded as one of the highest status of several vassal kings, their children are not hereditary as Jing Wang, men will be divided into county kings, women will be divided into county lords, these county kings, county lords are just food and land, there is nothing to do all day long, but they enjoy the same preferential treatment as the main line of King Jingxian, and even their palace configuration and attendants are the same as Jing Wangfu.

King Jingxian has been hereditary in Qizhou for ten generations, one hundred and ninety-eight years, during this period, I don't know how many county kings and county lords were born, for a time, "the first floor of the house rises from the ground, towering and other times than the imperial capital", there are dozens of county kings and county lords in Qizhou City, these county kings and county lords' mansions are all magnificent, beautiful, so that the whole Qizhou city businessmen gather, prosperous and incomparable.

King Jing in the past dynasties are relatively famous virtuous kings, sex likes to attract the world's, drink wine and chant poems, like the great writer Wu Chengen and medicine saint Li Shizhen have been guests in Jing Wangfu, and Jingwang Mansion has a great relationship.

Wu Chengen once wrote a very famous poem "Banquet Phoenix Terrace":

Plum blossoms melt Xueli incense platform, and the fairy travel opens with a high brocade seat.

Mountains and rivers are surrounded by dragons and tigers, and colorful phoenixes are coming.

The guest country is happy with the sun and waiting, and the wine is respected.

Leaning on the east wind alone, drunk ink, all over the topic of spring to Penglai.

This poem describes the grand occasion of King Jing's Mansion and Qizhou City.

So, to what extent is the relationship between the Li family in Qizhou and the Jingwang Mansion in Qizhou City?

The relationship between the Li family in Qizhou and the Jing Wangfu originated from Li Shizhen's grandfather Li Yanwen, when the princess Liu of Jing and Wang Zhu Youyu suddenly suffered a stroke, unconscious, trismus, and the medicine stone could not be poured in, it was Li Yanwen who came up with a way to knock out a tooth of the princess Liu, and poured the medicinal juice into it, so that the princess Liu was able to survive, and since then the Li family of Qizhou has become a guest of the Jing Palace.

Later, Li Shizhen helped several descendants of Jingwangfu cure some strange diseases, and the relationship between the Li family of Qizhou and Jingwangfu is closer, like Li Shuben, the son of Li Jianyuan, who was the ceremonial officer of Jingwangfu when he was young, and Li Shuchu, the son of Li Jianmu, is the grandson of Zhu Yiyi, the grandson of the king of Jingwangfu, the dragon fast son-in-law!

What Li Jianmu said was relishing, but Zhang Bin was shocked when he heard it, dozens of palaces, how much did it cost to consume people's fat and people's cream, even if the kings of Jing in the past dynasties were virtuous, it was estimated that the peasant army would not let them go.

The disaster of extermination is just around the corner, Li Jianmu is still complacent here, the emperor's relatives are indeed the capital to show off at other times, but at this time, it is the post of the king of Hades, which is terrible!

Zhang Bin didn't want the Li clan in Qizhou to be wiped out by the peasant army, of course, this was also a good excuse, an excuse to pull the Li clan from Qizhou to Fujian.

He thought about it for a while, and simply said bluntly: "Old gentleman, you know the anti-thieves who are rampant in the northwest, right? ”

Li Jianmu didn't know what he meant, so he shook his head and said: "This old man has heard of it, it is rumored that they recently suffered a big defeat in the Northern Zhili Daimyo's Mansion, and they were killed by the three governors, leaving most of them and fleeing in a hurry. ”

Zhang Bin nodded and said, "Yes, this official is one of the three governors, and the people from the northwest who migrated over are actually civilians who are coerced by thieves." ”

Li Jianmu admired: "It turns out that you also participated in that encirclement and suppression!" ”

Zhang Bin sighed and said: "Yes, this official has also arrested many anti-thief leaders and tried many evil deeds of anti-thieves, one of which is related to you, old man." ”

Li Jianmu said in surprise: "Dare to ask the Governor, what vices do the anti-thieves have to do with old decay?" ”

Zhang Bin said gloomily: "There are three people who are hated by thieves, one is the emperor's relatives, the second is the corrupt officials, and the third is the local tyrant and squire. These three, they don't kill those who are honest and honest, and they don't kill the local tyrants and squires who do good deeds and accumulate virtues, but the emperor's relatives and relatives, whether you are a good person or a bad person, no matter how many good deeds you have done, if you fall into their hands, there will be one end, that is, death! ”

When Li Jianmu heard this, his frightened chopsticks almost fell off, and he couldn't help but be frightened: "The anti-thief really doesn't matter if it's good or bad, don't ask the reason?" ”

Zhang Bin nodded heavily and said: "As long as you are a relative of the emperor, no matter whether it is good or bad, no matter the reason, the chicken and dog will not stay!" ”

With a "snap", Li Jianmu was really scared and couldn't hold the chopsticks steadily, and he asked in disbelief: "Why?" ”

Zhang Bin said leisurely: "Why? Think about it, how many fiefs did the Jingwang Mansion have, how did they get the dozens of palaces in Qizhou City, where did the gold and silver they squander come from, how many tenant farmers did they squeeze to maintain their luxurious life, why did the thieves rebel, and is there room for reconciliation between them? ”

After a series of rhetorical questions, Li Jianmu's cold sweat broke out, and he said incoherently in fright: "Why is this happening, why is this happening?" ”

Zhang Bin continued: "This official also wants to tell you a very unfortunate news, the main force of the anti-thieves is fleeing south, if the imperial army continues to pursue, they are likely to continue to flee south, because Shanxi and Shaanxi they can't go back, they can only continue to go south, flee to Kaifeng, flee to Nanyang, flee to Huguang!" ”

When Li Jianmu heard this, his face changed with fright, and he hurriedly asked, "Your Excellency, how is this good?" ”

Zhang Bin smiled secretly in his heart, but on the surface, he said solemnly: "The only way to do this is to move the clan, while the anti-thieves have not yet hit Huguang, move out, and move to Fujian, Fujian is high and far away, and there is a Xiongguan to guard, the anti-thieves will never be able to beat it, and Ling Lang will also come to Jianning to serve as the prefect, you might as well move the family to Jianning Mansion, so it will be fine." ”

When Li Jianmu heard this, he couldn't help but be moved, but he immediately sighed again: "It's easy to talk about peace with the relocation of the family, my Li family in Qizhou has multiplied in Qizhou for several generations, and the population is large, and there is no mansion covering an area of dozens of acres, so we can't live at all, and we have so much money from there to rebuild a mansion in Jianning Mansion!" ”

This kind of trivial matter is simply not worth it to Zhang Bin, and he said arrogantly: "This official will build a mansion covering an area of 1,000 acres in Jianning Mansion City, do you see enough?" ”

"Ahh Li Jianmu was taken aback by Zhang Bin's arrogance, you must know that their Qizhou Li family has multiplied in Qizhou for several generations, and it took decades to save money to build a mansion of less than 100 acres, and this governor actually wants to build them a mansion covering an area of 1,000 acres!

He shuddered and said, "Your Excellency the Governor, this is not good, the so-called merit is not rewarded, and you are afraid that rewarding us with such a large mansion for no reason will attract criticism." ”

Zhang Bin said indifferently: "This is simple, just build it in the name of Dongshengtang, build a thousand acres of Dongshengtang Jianning Pharmaceutical Factory in front of it, use it to produce all kinds of pills and powders, and your mansion can directly build a pharmaceutical factory behind it." ”

It's another thousand acres, how much does it cost, Li Jianmu said in shock: "It takes at least dozens of taels to build a mansion covering an area of one acre, and tens of thousands of taels to build a mansion of thousands of acres, Lord Governor, we can't afford this money, and we can't let you break the bank so much!" ”

Zhang Bin smiled dumbly and said, "I've told you so many times about Dongshengtang, haven't you heard of Dongshengtang?" ”

How could he not have heard of Dongshengtang, yesterday he seemed to ask Zhang Bin to come, but later he talked about making pills and powders, he couldn't help but ask again: "Your Excellency, is Dongshengtang also under your control?" ”

Zhang Bin shook his head and said: "Dongshengtang is not a government-run house, how can it be under my control, but Dongshengtang was opened by my grandfather's family, and our Zhang family has some management rights." ”

Li Jianmu was stunned again, for a long time, this governor is the big proprietor of Dongshengtang, what is a little bit of management right that is fake, he is quite clear about this, once there is a jinshi in the family, it is the head of the family, can others not listen to this official master!

He didn't know that the shareholders of Dongshengtang were all big scary officials, and if he knew it now, he had to be shocked to stare out.

However, since he knows that the Governor is the big proprietor of Dongshengtang, there is nothing to worry about, he still doesn't know how big Dongshengtang is, but he knows quite well that tens of thousands of taels are nothing to Dongshengtang, he hurriedly poured himself a glass of wine, raised his glass and said gratefully: "Then thank you Governor, I don't know how long it will take for the mansion to be ready, I can also repair the book for the family, so that they can prepare early." ”

I don't know how long it will take for ordinary people to build a mansion covering an area of 1,000 acres, but it will be different if Zhang Bin wants to repair it, because he can recruit laborers, craftsmen, and even tunwei, there are a lot of guards in Jianning Mansion, and it shouldn't take much time to build an ordinary mansion, Zhang Bin said lightly: "It should be about the same in a month or two, you hurry up and write a letter to home, it takes time to come back and forth, it takes time to prepare for migration, and it takes time to move over, I don't know when the imperial army will attack the thieves, but the sooner the migration happens, the better. ”

Li Jianmu nodded again and again and said, "Okay, okay, I'll write a letter at the guest house next time, and I'll have to trouble the governor to send someone to help me send the letter back to Qizhou tomorrow." ”

This little thing is naturally not enough to worry about, Zhang Bin raised his wine glass again, and continued to persuade him to drink, but Li Jianmu didn't have much heart to drink, he only had his family in his heart at this time, and he was always worried that something would happen to them, so after drinking hastily for a while, he took his leave and went back to write a letter.

Early the next morning, Li Jianmu continued to fire and boil medicine outside the gate of the Governor's Palace, while Zhang Bin took a group of guards to go straight to Yuegang on wheels, picked up Huang Peng, the big treasurer of Dongshengtang Fujian and Jiangxi, and then rushed to Jianning Mansion City by water.

Although Jianning City is a government city, the area is not large, because most of the land here is mountainous, there is very little flat land, plus there is a Jianxi next to it, the whole Jianning City is a long and narrow strip, the length is about eight or nine miles, and the width is only about two miles.

In this way, to build a thousand-acre mansion will almost occupy one-fifth of the area of Jianning City, and then build a thousand-acre pharmaceutical factory, one-fifth of the area is gone, that is to say, the Li family's mansion and pharmaceutical factory alone will occupy a small half of the entire Jianning City, which is naturally not good, a bit too exaggerated.

Zhang Bin made a field investigation and found that the back of Jianning City can actually be expanded, because behind Jianning City is a hillside, there is no city wall at all, and those hillsides are not very steep, a little smooth, it is still good to build houses and pharmaceutical factories.

The pharmaceutical factory at this time was not full of production lines like in later generations, and it was necessary to build a large number of flat land to build factories, and the pharmaceutical factories at this time only needed a lot of places to dry the drugs, and other crushing, stirring, and finished drugs were almost all done by hand, and they did not need much space, and it didn't matter much if they were built next to the hillside.

Zhang Bin took Huang Peng to a gentle mountain behind Jianning City, and waved his big hand and said: "Uncle, let's build a Dongshengtang branch here, build a mansion of about 1,000 acres in the north, build a pharmaceutical factory of about 1,000 acres in the middle, and build a warehouse of about 1,000 acres in the south. ”

Although he said it in a consultative tone, no one would open his mouth to refute it, even if Huang Peng was his uncle, he didn't dare, Huang Peng was just curious: "Build such a big warehouse, what is it used to store?" ”

Zhang Bin looked at the north and said leisurely: "The thieves have fled to Henan, Huguang and even Jiangxi are going to be in chaos, when the time comes, no one is engaged in production, there are homeless people everywhere, you see what they will lack, just prepare what, there is no need to prepare grain, Jianning Cang is nearby, and millions of stone grains can be stored in the past few years." ”

Huang Peng was surprised: "You mean to hoard Juqi?" ”

Zhang Bin shook his head and said: "No, these things are ready to be given to the victims, you try to pick up cheap hoards, as long as you can use them." ”

Huang Peng nodded thoughtfully and didn't say anything more.

Zhang Bin continued: "I will summon 10,000 guards, 10,000 young and strong and 1,000 craftsmen to come and build, when the time comes, you will give them the start of construction at the price of ordinary labor, how to build the house, let those craftsmen decide, you just need to coordinate in the middle, I don't have time to stay here, you work hard, keep an eye on it, build a big mansion first, build as fast as you can, the people of the Li family in Qizhou may come over at any time, don't come when the time comes, there is no place to live, it will be bad." ”

Huang Peng had already heard about the Li family in Qizhou all the way, and he couldn't help but be a little curious: "Shuangquan, why are you so good to the Li family in Qizhou, if you start the construction money, a mansion of more than 1,000 acres will cost at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, and there is also a pharmaceutical factory, which also needs so much silver, is it necessary?" ”

He is afraid that the pharmaceutical factory will not be able to produce benefits and will cause a burden, and now Dongshengtang implements a regional responsibility system, and if he is burdened with such a big burden in Fujian and Jiangxi, it will definitely affect his performance, so he has this question.

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Uncle, you're still afraid that I will cheat you, if the pills and medicine powder are promoted, it will be a great business." However, you can't afford this business, because the investment is too large, at least four or five million taels need to be invested at the beginning, and these are still calculated into the cost of the entire Dongshengtang, I will tell my grandfather about it. ”

Four or five million taels! Huang Peng was taken aback, is it worth throwing so much silver into it?

However, Zhang Bin's decision-making has not been missed, like last time, he did not hesitate to invest heavily in the development of steam looms, those two years, invested in millions of taels, everyone thought that the business was lost, but never thought that the speed of the cloth in the past two years was simply scared to death, Shengsheng reduced the cost of various fabrics in Dongshengtang by more than sixty percent, just that weaving factory, a year of profits are more than one million taels!

I don't know how much profit this pill and medicine powder will generate, but this time it will cost four or five million taels!